Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes

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[PDF file]: […] but by ‘the perception that the Afghan government was “irrevocably corrupt”’. The 2009 Presidential election gave public notice of the extent of the corruption with the electoral fraud ‘so egregious and widespread as to stun even seasoned election monitors’. Subsequently, Karzai pacified international opinion by promising to curb corruption. When he made the public […]

Angles Morts

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[PDF file]: […] transported to north Manchester’s tahara house.4 Misaskim then asked Rabbi Yossi Jacobs and the chairman of John F. Wilson, Ferranti. a History: Volume 3: Management, mergers and fraud 1987-1993 (Manchester University Press, 2013). 3 4 A building where Jewish bodies are ritually cleansed. 2 Birmingham’s Singers Hill Synagogue to arrange the burial. Rabbi Jacobs […]

Deception in High Places: a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade by Nicholas Gilby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] bribery which culminated in national legislation and international agreements. Has the legislation worked? The author shows the British dragging their feet at every opportunity until the Serious Fraud Office began digging into the 1985 BAE–Saudi Al Yamamah deal while Blair was in office.4 The author shows the British state in full obstruction and evasion […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] security of the United States. While we have had some presidents who have failed miserably in office, we never had one that had a long career of fraud and deceit before being elected. We elected a crime boss who has no common decency.’ (p. xii) What he has trouble comprehending is that millions of […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

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[PDF file]: […] an alleged hijacker’s paper passport found in the burning debris and handed to the New York Police Department whose head on 9/11 was subsequently jailed for conspiracy, fraud and lying under oath.11 More recently we have seen film of President Obama and his top team apparently watching the capture of Bin Laden and then […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] were not a secret;3 4 and Germany (after reunification) and France had already themselves broken the Maastricht rules. The system knew the Greek debt figures were a fraud and, in pursuit of the political project of ever closer (and expanding) union, turned a blind eye, even while the EU’s own statisticians were dealing with […]

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England by Sebastian Payne

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[PDF file]: […] at the taxpayers’ expense at the height of a painful recession while some of their colleagues in the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) were being jailed for expenses fraud. Imagine the impact of that behaviour on trusting Labour voters where the economic guts of your community have been ripped out, the train line has long […]

Suddenly in September?

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[PDF file]: […] of a hijacker in the burning Twin Towers wreckage in which the 9/11 Commission said the black boxes of two aircraft were never found, was jailed for fraud nine years later.28 He was presidentially pardoned by Trump in 202029 after serving Bush as Minister of Interior of Iraq following the 2003 invasion. With Kerik […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of a tiny handful of people employed by the American state who did not accept the official verdict that Oswald dunnit alone. In a recent essay on fraud in the medical evidence he wrote this: the details except I know there were two bodies at Bethesda and at least ten pictures were taken of […]

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