Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] Jan 2002. Entitlement Cards unit http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/dob/ecu.htm Responsible for running the consultation exercise on the entitlement card scheme and for policy on ID cards Entitlement Cards and Identity Fraud http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/cpd/entitlement_cards.pdf A consultation paper on ID cards, July 2002. Consultation period runs until Jan 10 2003. Privacy International: ID cards http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/idcard/uk/ Launched July 2002, PI’s UK […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] Sol Estes scandals which threatened to finish his political career and put him in prison? The important one is Estes. He was running a classic agricultural subsidies fraud in Texas, getting public money for crops that weren’t being grown. In 1962 money it was producing $20 million a year – we are talking serious […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] of exculpating the establishment at all costs. In the Jeremy Thorpe trial, Mr Justice Cantley described alleged potential murder victim Norman Scott as follows: ‘He is a fraud. He is a sponger. He is a whiner. He is a parasite. But, of course, he could still be telling the truth. It is a question […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] back over.’ Back over? On 4 July the Observer ran a third of a page on the political situation in Nigeria, ‘New rules, new date, same old fraud on Babangida’s election.’ Roughly; for the first time the Northerners lost control in an election, so the army promptly ruled the election null and void. The […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] Service, which had nothing if not an active imagination, began working closely with telco cops. The federal effort started years earlier after Congress passed the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, but in May 1990 it culminated in Operation Sundevil, by far the largest series of high-profile raids ever conducted against hackers. About 42 […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] the intellectual incompetents they appear. Whatever the explanation, CSICOP has done an effective job persuading the media (who, in turn, persuade the public) that Geller is a fraud — a stage magician. That Randi and his collegues can replicate a few of Geller’s simpler feats should tell us nothing. But the journalists who report […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] the tone and central theme of this book. Some of the book’s content will be familiar to readers of this magazine, Private Eye’s coverage of the PFI fraud, or Elliot’s column in The Guardian. What may not be so familiar is a section near the end, in which in a couple of pages they […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] remaining British. These are that Republicanism is a barrier to working-class and socialist politics and that Sinn Fein’s claim to be a socially radical party is a fraud. When was the last time that any of these writers called for the establishment of a Labour Party in Northern Ireland? Harris and Myers don’t. And […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] children find ways to fake them. An absolute classic of the genre was reported by AP on 6 June 2001: ‘The Pentagon agency charged with rooting out fraud destroyed documents and substituted fakes to win a passing grade in an audit of its own operations, according to an internal inquiry.’ Inspired by this I […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] passing money to the Contras. More damaging to the Foundation, as a result of the investigation, the Foundation’s president, ‘Spitz’ Channell, was accused of, and admitted, tax fraud. Guell immediately left the Foundation to become Director of the Larry McDonald Trust. When Western Goals (UK) was challenged about its links with Channell, through the […]
