[…] the USA against Venezuela in March – terrorists and drugs and nukes – reported straight by most of the major media, has been deconstructed into the crude fraud it always looked like.(12) Reading the original stories you can almost hear the dialogue in some office in Washington: ‘Hey, our media bought it in Iraq, […]
[…] “the road-kill of history”‘. That from a descendent of slaves! Beyond parody A story in The Daily Telegraph, 15 August 2002, ‘Bush Anti-Corruption Chief Accused of Account Fraud’ began: ‘President Bush’s efforts to clean up corporate America were dealt an embarrassing blow last night when the man charged with leading his new anti-corruption task […]
[…] I distrust any and all stories and conclusions that have been conveyed. I hope you will entertain no further doubts about my views.’ Shapiro says Oeschler a fraud I had already contacted retired RADM Shapiro, former head of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) on 3 August 1991. Asked if he had ever met […]
[…] reasonable doubt, every lingering question as to what happened in Dallas and who was responsible….Every detail and nuance are accounted for, every conspiracy theory revealed as a fraud on the American public. Bugliosi’s irresistible logic, command of the evidence, and ability to draw startling inferences shed fresh light on this American nightmare. At last […]
[…] a rigged sample evidently intended to provide support for a larger campaign – the floundering ‘War on Drugs’). Labour figures moved to distance themselves from the attempted fraud. Campaign manager Peter Mandelson announced that ‘I have made clear……. that nothing of the kind should ever happen again.’ Blair himself was at pains to add: […]
[…] coterie. The values they espouse and their conduct reflect the world that New Labour inhabits and has, in part, created. Mills has been investigated by the Serious Fraud Office; and his sister-in-law Dame Barbara Mills was head of this office until just prior to his investigation. Mills was for many years an adviser to […]
[…] in a British inner city. This is not so far-fetched. No-go areas between Muslim, Sikh and poor white gangster enclaves are a real security concern because drugs, fraud and people trafficking creates an economic base for a black economy dominated by gangsters, supported by electoral fraud and the will to violence necessary to enforce […]
[…] policy making. In short, he’s into politics for grown-ups: collecting and then connecting details to form big pictures. His 1991 book with Bob Whittington on the BCCI fraud remains one of the best guides to that financial and political scandal 14 years later, as the Bank of England’s regulatory role is finally being examined […]
[…] in things Nazi in this part of the world (Barbie et al), this might be of some interest. The author argues that the ‘Fourth Reich’ was a fraud, a device used to clobber German economic interests in Argentina, replacing them with US interests. His article only deals with the war-time and immediate post-war years, […]
[…] to Data Protection Bill to prevent confidential files being disclosed. Guardian 6 June Right on cue, BMA reports widespread claims of police seizure of medical files in fraud investigations of doctors’ expenses claims. Now we know why they are so keen to get their records exempt! (or is that unduly cynical?) Guardian and Times […]
