The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] But as I have discussed ad nauseam in these columns, the JFK researchers ignore Holt because they have persuaded themselves – wrongly – that he was a fraud. The JFK researchers should start taking Holt seriously and follow the leads he provided. Never mind CIA files which may or may not actually exist; and […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] right when he described him as ‘a dumb son of a bitch’. (p. 240) After the election, Navarro prepared his own report The Immaculate Deception3 ‘proving’ massive fraud. This, of course, made it unequivocably true; but anyone who pointed out that the election was being stolen found themselves facing ‘the Cancel Culture wrath of […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] was doing and had probably been asked to run by a third party. Sedgemore denounced Betts and his actions in a House of Commons debate on electoral fraud on 21 May 1997.1 3 But who asked Betts to run? It looked like an inside job: but was it just another manifestation of chaotic Hackney […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] anything! While I was expecting that to be the overall motif, I was not prepared to have it spelled out so bluntly.’44 Former City of London Police Fraud Squad officer, Rowan Bosworth-Davis: ‘Your children cannot buy a house in London because the criminal banks prefer Russian dirty money . . . Property prices have […]

‘To Stand against Israel is to Stand against God’: Zionism, Trump and the US Christian Right

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] wealth by the pastors who advocated the doctrine. They generally extracted their personal wealth from their congregations by the exploitation of the crudest superstition and by straightforward fraud. And, while the superstition might look back to the Middle Ages, the methods used to exploit it were very up to date – with the various […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] were deterred from serving under Trump by his lying and bullying, nor by his his racism and misogyny. They completely overlooked his well-known reputation for dishonesty and fraud. They were blind to his rallying of the Tea Party, the Christian Right and the US Far Right which brought along neo-Nazi, white supremacist, KKK and […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] producer David 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 […]

GArrick part one best copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – derived […]

Garrick part one trial

Lobster Issue

[…] Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – derived […]

GArrick part one trial

Lobster Issue

[…] Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – derived […]

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