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LOWEST OF THE LOW; Charity rat walks free
Byline: By ROB KENNEDY A BOGUS charity worker who conned elderly people has narrowly evaded jail. Former nurse Lynn Chambers pretended to be collecting for the Red Cross and targeted old folk. She used a Red Cross collection box which she had stolen to pose a volunteer....
Tags: deception, lady, Red Cross
Research articles 2008-04-07
DOD worries that China is faking itself out
China is modernizing every aspect of its military, save perhaps for one important area: its military doctrine, according to the Pentagon in its annual assessment of China's military might. But applying ancient Chinese history to shape modern thinking might not be such a great idea. "Recent decades have witnessed...
Tags: China, deception, leader, Leadership, Pentagon, U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2008-03-31
French literati put brave face on faked Belgian book
PARIS AFP — The duped French book-editor and film-producer of a faked Belgian Holocaust memoir scrambled Friday to put a brave face on the deception, which saw the best-selling book made into the movie "Surviving With Wolves." The book of the same name recounted the incredible tale of a...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Brussels, deception, memoir, movie
Research articles 2008-02-29
Happy New Year everyone.. even if it's not for 2 WEEKS
UTV's New Year's Eve show was recorded weeks in advance despite screening a "live" countdown to midnight, TV bosses confessed yesterday. Following complaints from furious BBC viewers about Jool's Holland's New Year countdown, UTV has also come clean about its event. Some viewers who...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., deception, TVs
Research articles 2008-01-06
Ratings can never be worth losing the trust of the public THE BBC
WHEN the BBC's coat of arms was formally adopted in 1927 its governors took very seriously what was contained in its design. Two eagles standing either side of the shield have bugles suspended from their necks to represent the "public service" element of the BBC's remit. The motto on the...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., deception, Quality, Thompson
Research articles 2007-07-22
BBC suspends phone shows; Decision follows competition deceptions
Byline: By JOHN BROPHY THE BBC today suspended all its phone-in competitions after a string of viewer deceptions involving Children In Need, Comic Relief and Sports Relief. Announcing the move, Director-General Mark Thompson described the problem as totally unacceptable. All three of the charity appeal programmes featured...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., deception, phone
Research articles 2007-07-19
Tactical level PSYOP and MILDEC information operations: how to smartly and lawfully prime the battlefield
"All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe that we are near. Hold...
Tags: Air Force, civilian, Deception, Leadership, Practitioner, U.S., U.S. Department of Defense
Research articles 2007-07-01
Pianist's spouse admits to hoax
LONDON -- The husband of the late British pianist Joyce Hatto has admitted passing off recordings by other artists as those of his wife, who had been hailed as a neglected keyboard genius, a Swedish record producer said Tuesday. In a letter to the Stockholm-based BIS label, William...
Tags: Associated Press, deception, HARDWARE, Keyboards
Research articles 2007-03-04
Norm-based behavior and corporate malpractice
Jeffrey Skilling held high-level posts in Enron until a few months before it filed for bankruptcy at the end of 2001. When he was a master's degree student at Harvard, one of his professors asked him what he would do if he knew the company he worked for were selling...
Tags: accounting, agent, auditing, deception, Enron Corp., equity, FINANCE, financial, investor, liberalization, M., Miller, SEC, shareholder, Skilling, stock
Research articles 2007-03-01
Good Spy vs. Bad Spy
Things are not always as they seem. That was certainly the case with Robert Hanssen, the devout, graceless, buttoned-down FBI agent who, after 22 years of deception, was revealed to be one of the most treacherous spies working for the Soviets in U.S. history. It's also the case with "Breach,"...
Tags: Cooper, deception, FBI, Government, movie
Research articles 2007-02-19
Real World Ethics for Writing Your Resume
The Find: Practical, expert guidance on how to stay on the right side of the ethical divide when polishing your resume. The Source: Harvard Business Online's Conversation Starter. The Takeaway: When you're applying for that dream "reach" job the temptation is always there to,...
Tags: Boss, Deception, Ethics, Temptation, Conversation Starter, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2008-06-26
Taking delight in deception: former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan admits deception, but Big Media embraces his "purposeful obfuscation" and continues gushing adoration
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Tags: Alan Greenspan, deception, Federal Reserve Board
Research articles 2007-10-29
Mokbel link claimed.
Byline: Craig Binnie Oct 09, 2006 (Herald Sun - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Renate Mokbel was a business partner with a Melbourne man charged recently over an alleged money-laundering ring. Mokbel, the sister-in-law of missing drug lord Tony Mokbel, was a partner with...
Tags: deception, Ferrari, FINANCE, financial, Melbourne
Research articles 2006-10-09
Dangers of deception
WEVE been working journalists for more than 40 years, and like most of our professional colleagues, we believe our job is to clarify not confuse, to play straight with our readers and listeners, not deceive them. But every mainstream media outlet is under enormous pressure these days...
Tags: deception, INTERNET, NBC Universal Inc.
Research articles 2006-05-08
Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception
SAMMY KEYES AND THE ART OF DECEPTION. Wendelin van Draanen. 2003/2005. Read by Tara Sands. 4 tapes. 7 hrs. BBC Audiobooks America. 1-5951-9000-7. $31.95. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. J From the KLIATT review of the book, March 2003: "This is the eighth book about Sammy ... the middle-school...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., CAREER, deception, TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Research articles 2006-01-01
Taxpayer money wasted on cheap politicians
I don't make $1 million a year, but I think every member of Congress should be paid at least that much. It's not because those turkeys in Washington deserve it. It's because we deserve a lot better people than we have in Congress. The cost of paying every...
Tags: CAREER, deception, re-election, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2005-12-29
"The newly declassified information provides additional dramatic evidence that the [Bush] administration's prewar statements regarding links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda represents [sic] an incredible deception."
"The newly declassified information provides additional dramatic evidence that the [Bush] administration's prewar statements regarding links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda represents [sic] an incredible deception." Thus quoth Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat and Defender of Truth. The "newly declassified information" is a document from the Defense Intelligence Agency DIA...
Tags: administration, al-Qaeda, Bush, deception, Democrat, Saddam
Research articles 2005-12-05
The great deception; a secret history of the European Union
JN30 0-8264-7652-X The great deception; a secret history of the European Union. (reprint, 2003) Booker, Christopher and Richard North. Continuum Publishing Group, [c]2005 474 p. $16.95 pa This is a paperbound reprint of a 2003 book. Booker a writer with the Sunday Telegraph...
Tags: deception, European Parliament, Leadership
Research articles 2005-08-01
540,000 Petitions Delivered to President Bush Demanding Truth About Iraq War; Downing Street Memos Trigger Public Outrage Over Deception
News Advisory: Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) today will hand-deliver to the White House a petition signed by 105 members of Congress and more than 540,000 Americans demanding that President Bush provide a detailed response to the smoking gun evidence in the Downing Street memos of deceptions about the war in...
Tags: Bush, deception, FINANCE, Iraq, petition, president, Rep., White House
Research articles 2005-06-16
Felt was no hero but could have been one
The letters have come in all week. Watergate may have happened way back when gas was cheap and color televisions were expensive (the break-in at the Watergate apartment complex happened 33 years ago this Friday), but emotions concerning the scandal that felled a United States president are clearly still very...
Tags: deception, FBI, Government, Litigation, president
Research articles 2005-06-12
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