The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in search of the files detailing the payments but their plan failed – and he leaves it there. To MI5 in 1958 the proof of the ‘Moscow gold’ must have had something of the status of the Holy Grail and Wright apparently wanted us to believe that, aware that the CPGB were getting actual […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] mirrored wraparounds because Tom Cruise wears them too. This identifies them among young people, especially overseas, as ‘cool’ – the same group SIS is targeting with the gold Kalashnikov photo. Celebrity PR: the reason why so much is expected of Prince William and his wife is because of the potential pulling power of their […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] * Aiding and abetting money laundering for violent drug cartels * Violations of rogue-regime sanctions * Manipulation of Euribor * Manipulation of FX markets * Manipulation of gold fixing (London) * Manipulation of commodity markets via metals warehousing practices * Manipulation of electricity markets (California/JPMorgan) * Manipulation of the swaps market benchmark index (ISDAfix) […]

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

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] European Union – which were real-life political ambitions for Ukraine in the post-Soviet era. Even the absurdist touch of President Holoborodko supposedly having created a mountain of gold in the centre of Kyiv had resonance with voters, given the nationalistic legend of ‘Polubotok’s Gold’.23 The final episode of this third series of Servant of […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] European Union – which were real-life political ambitions for Ukraine in the post-Soviet era. Even the absurdist touch of President Holoborodko supposedly having created a mountain of gold in the centre of Kyiv had resonance with voters, given the nationalistic legend of ‘Polubotok’s Gold’.23 The final episode of this third series of Servant of […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] European Union – which were real-life political ambitions for Ukraine in the post-Soviet era. Even the absurdist touch of President Holoborodko supposedly having created a mountain of gold in the centre of Kyiv had resonance with voters, given the nationalistic legend of ‘Polubotok’s Gold’.23 The final episode of this third series of Servant of […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] European Union – which were real-life political ambitions for Ukraine in the post-Soviet era. Even the absurdist touch of President Holoborodko supposedly having created a mountain of gold in the centre of Kyiv had resonance with voters, given the nationalistic legend of ‘Polubotok’s Gold’.23 The final episode of this third series of Servant of […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] tight grip on public spending commitments. It was accompanied by a financial strategy which saw sterling’s value throughout the world stabilised and guaranteed through its convertibility into gold at a fixed rate of exchange (the gold standard). This measure, along with buoyant international demand for British goods, enhanced sterling’s attractiveness to governments, traders and […]

Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] today’s vested interests no different to the slave owners and slave traders of yesteryear. As a result of the speech, SIS is now able to offer a gold standard choice distinguishing it from others. As a competitor pitch it was a clear, targeted invitation to the honourable and the best to join Britain in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] touched on. In response to that, Simon Matthews sent this. A 1979 UK film known variously as The Great Riviera Bank Robbery,20 Dirty Money or Sewers of Gold, is about ‘the Catena, a loose alliance of political units in various countries’. They are ultra-right and protected by the legitimate state. In this instance they […]

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