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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] researchers do not take this theory seriously is due, in large part, to their not taking Estes seriously, because he was a convicted fraudster. Precisely what his fraud was has been difficult to grasp until recently. But Amy Reading has researched it in detail and has published an intelligible account.2 7 Via Robert Caro’s […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] demonstrated his absolute dominance to his domestic enemies. He was also confident that his Western allies would not be the slightest bit concerned about such blatant electoral fraud – fraud that was accompanied by widespread repression and intimidation. Indeed, in 2010, he gave himself 93.8% of the Presidential election vote and in 2017 no […]