Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] is impossible not to wonder if Jim Jones knew of Smith’s precedent. Because, if he did know, and if his politics were, as seems very likely, a fraud, then the Jonestown massacre is revealed to have been a ghastly practical joke – the ultimate psychopathic prank. According to Kathleen Adams, the anthropologist who first […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
Thanks to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Contributions comments are always welcome. E-mail me on 101521.3515 @compuserve.com Electronic Privacy and Encryption Privacy and Human Rights http://www.gilc.org/privacy/survey/ New GILC/EPIC/PI report details the state of privacy in 50 countries. Includes Threats to Privacy; The Right to Privacy; Technologies of Privacy Invasion. The report was written by Privacy International; … Read more
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] in October, after the Iraq Survey Group had officially declared Iraq innocent of WMDs, that certain intelligence to the contrary, which had been known to be a fraud for at least a year, had been ‘withdrawn’ by MI6.(2) The American-British-Australian relationship Michael Moore’s film Fahrenheit-9/11 is great propaganda but, like all propaganda, it isn’t […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] investigation to such pan-European investigators or national investigators with trans-national powers not only organised crime, terrorism and human rights cases but also those covering tax evasion, fraud, money-laundering, anti-competitive practices and corruption. This will mean that not only national security and human rights but regulation of the international capitalist system will gradually fall […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] of £1.89 million. Two years later, a judge dismissed all the charges against him. But like Kevin Taylor in the Stalker case, the long and expensive bank fraud case had knocked him out of public life during the years before his acquittal. PII In the early stages of the case, McGrath and his defence […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] of Cunningham Snr, Poulson and T. Dan Smith (a Councillor on Newcastle City Council 1950-1966 and Chair of the Northern Economic Planning Council 1965-1970) on corruption and fraud charges in April 1974. (2) Enter Eddie Eddie Milne (Labour MP for Blyth Valley 1960-1974), who had criticised Cunningham et al for many years, found himself […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] boxes near the window…’ . On p.375 we are given a page and a half on Billy Sol Estes, Johnson’s involvement, the murders of witnesses to Estes’ fraud and an account of the 1984 exchange of letters between Estes’ lawyer and the Justice Department in which Estes named Wallace as the perpetrator of eight […]