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The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

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[PDF file]: […] B. Charnay was indicted (and separately sued by the SEC) with Robert Maheu, Howard Hughes, and a top Hughes lawyer on charges of stock manipulation, fraud and conspiracy in connection with the 1968 purchase of Air West, though the indictment was subsequently dismissed by a federal judge who called the alleged behavior ‘reprehensible and […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

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[PDF file]: […] a country within a country run by whoever owns the GBPA company. Groves was a US investor who was indicted by the US Treasury of charges of conspiracy to defraud in 1939, convicted in 1941, and served time in a Federal penitentiary. After his release he moved to the Bahamas where he pursued the […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

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[PDF file]: […] by addressing Ukraine via Facebook. Zelensky warned: ‘On Hallowe’en all the political demons show their faces, and you know who they are.’76 He denounced an imaginary ‘ conspiracy against the President and the country’ which supposedly involved ‘oligarchs and members of the old elite’.77 On 31 October, the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, which […]

Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

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[PDF file]: […] main title of Eagleton’s book could also be altered, since in the light of Get In it may be more accurate to call what happened ‘The Starmer Conspiracy.’ One shouldn’t use the c-word loosely, but Get In provides plenty of evidence of clandestine activity, with the aim of deceiving the membership of the Labour […]

Haters, Baiters and Would-be Dictators: Anti-Semitism and UK Far Right by Nick Toczek

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[PDF file]: […] Alfred Milner – one of the key figures in the British ‘establishment’ for 30 years – could believe the Russian revolution was the work of a Jewish conspiracy (p. 25). And if Milner could contemplate this, could write of himself as a ‘race patriot’ (p. 26), perhaps the issue isn’t why Beamish et al […]

Hess DNA: Round 14

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[PDF file]: […] Reach Tower, Stamford Street, London SE1 9LS March 20, 2020 Questions Arising from the New Scientist article of January 22, 2019: ‘Exclusive: DNA solves Rudolf Hess doppelgänger conspiracy theory’ Dear Ms Wilson, I would like to bring to your attention an article published recently by one of the authors of the research paper that […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Lobster was and remains a very small publication, the articles published in its early years provide us with a clear sense of the marginal concerns that preoccupied conspiracy theorists . . . .’ 19 A conspiracy theorist, moi? It’s all in the mind There’s a new book about Sweden by a Swede living in […]

Making America Great

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[PDF file]: […] thinking is not official briefings, but ‘Fox News and Sean Hannity’. As they put it: ‘Fox’s fierce ideological angle, its lack of factual fidelity, its sympathy for conspiracy theories and the style in which it covers news and politics combine with Trump’s reluctance to absorb expert advice, meaning the president does not receive a […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

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[PDF file]: […] danger of television companies employing convicted criminals as researchers.’ Raven was in prison when police used evidence from his spy cameras to help convict four people of conspiracy to counterfeit currency. A BBC News bulletin announced the screening of the corporation’s investigative programme Funny Money: Two years ago a BBC current affairs undercover team […]

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