[…] the tone and central theme of this book. Some of the book’s content will be familiar to readers of this magazine, Private Eye’s coverage of the PFI fraud, or Elliot’s column in The Guardian. What may not be so familiar is a section near the end, in which in a couple of pages they […]
[…] remaining British. These are that Republicanism is a barrier to working-class and socialist politics and that Sinn Fein’s claim to be a socially radical party is a fraud. When was the last time that any of these writers called for the establishment of a Labour Party in Northern Ireland? Harris and Myers don’t. And […]
[…] children find ways to fake them. An absolute classic of the genre was reported by AP on 6 June 2001: ‘The Pentagon agency charged with rooting out fraud destroyed documents and substituted fakes to win a passing grade in an audit of its own operations, according to an internal inquiry.’ Inspired by this I […]
[…] passing money to the Contras. More damaging to the Foundation, as a result of the investigation, the Foundation’s president, ‘Spitz’ Channell, was accused of, and admitted, tax fraud. Guell immediately left the Foundation to become Director of the Larry McDonald Trust. When Western Goals (UK) was challenged about its links with Channell, through the […]
[…] huge army of government lawyers, knowing that I have virtually no legal resources to defend myself against them.’ British state lies! Hold the front page! US election fraud A study of the last US congressional and senate elections has concluded: ‘A major undercount of Democratic votes and an overcount of Republican votes in U.S. […]
[…] ‘heretical’ or unconventional — is best exemplified by the amount of support he has garnered from mainstream church spokesmen in the wake of his prosecution for tax fraud. Even liberal and left-leaning ministers, as well as certain American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) officials, have adopted his view that his incarceration for illegal financial activities […]
[…] target appeared just seconds before TWA 800 blows up. Several controllers actually reported that it was a missile.’ (23) Initially the Russell tape was discounted as a fraud but when it was authenticated the FBI immediately confiscated it. (24) An APA investigator described an extraordinary scene to Russell when he arrived at the TWA […]
[…] laws appear to have ended in failure. The fate of an Australian broker, Peter Johnston, is dealt with in some detail. Johnston was arrested by the Serious Fraud Squad, tried and jailed for twelve months whilst acting on the behalf of an Indonesian lawyer who was trying to sell a number of gold certificates. […]
[…] Here it is. There is a long chapter on the way the Republicans stole the 2004 election. But he isn’t interested in the claims of computer voting fraud in the 2004 election. Palast believes he has shown that the election was stolen using ‘traditional’ methods – rigging the voting lists, discouraging Democrat voters etc. […]
[…] article in Sir James Goldsmith’s magazine NOW!. This dealt in depth with an allegation made in Der Spiegel (June 1963) that Strauss had been involved in a fraud when he was a Minister. Strauss was later exonerated but as a result of the notorious ‘Spiegel Affair’ Strauss’ hopes of becoming Chancellor were dashed. Crozier’s […]
