[…] in New Zealand, or, indeed, the geo-politics of that part of the Pacific, will find something of value here. His central discovery is a system known as Echelon, a bunch of super computers which scan the world’s communications – phones, telex, e-mail – for key-words and filter out the messages in which they appear. […]
During the current farcical trial of Ali Agca a most interesting snippet appeared in the press which looks like finally seeing off the alleged ‘Bulgarian connection.’ Signor Giovanni Pandico, a jailed former member of the upper echelons of the Naples-based Camorra, claimed that it had played a part in convincing Agca to accept the role … Read more
[…] Internal Affairs Committee, and prepared by the Omega Foundation in March 1997, the report comprehensively examines all aspects of political control, including surveillance technologies, telecommunications interception (including ECHELON – see elsewhere in this issue); crowd control and ‘less than lethal’ weapons including MW and accoustic disabling systems; prisoner control and torture and interrrogation techniques. […]
[…] friend of the Salinas family, trigger massive capital flight when they suddenly begin buying up huge amounts of short-term, dollar-based tesobonos. Proceso magazine alleges that certain high- echelon PRI insiders were given privileged information about the impending peso devaluation. (Anderson Valley Advertiser, 5 April 1995) 21 December The peso is devalued by almost 50%. […]
[…] ‘…to get quick access to all the information available classified and unclassified about virtually anyone’. Meanwhile, Kevin J. Lawner ruminates on the impact that the Echelon interception system might have on the right to privacy, concluding that the National Security Agency’s ‘…… surveillance activities in Europe must be subject to rigorous oversight, […]
[…] calls between Britain and Ireland, including legally privileged material confidential to the complainants, were routinely intercepted by an MoD installation at Capenhurst, Cheshire, and later by the Echelon system. The rights groups say that the RIP act fails to provide adequate safeguards to protect individual privacy, a right established by the HRA and ECHR. […]
In this essay I offer some informed speculation on the assassination of John Kennedy. I have called this a new hypothesis, but in fact it is the elaboration of a hunch about the case – but an interesting hunch, I think. I take as proven that there was a conspiracy to murder Kennedy and a … Read more
Peter Dale Scott Talk in Palo Alto, October 27, 2006 If I had an hour, I would talk to you about how the 9/11 Report failed to reconcile Dick Cheney’s conflicting accounts, which cannot all be true, of what he did on the morning of 9/11 in the bunker beneath the White House. But that … Read more
Fijian politics, which has been made increasingly chaotic by various coups and counter-coups over the last 14 years, is dominated by racial identity interests. On the one side are the native Fijians, the original Polynesian inhabitants of the island, and on the other, the Indian Fijians. The native Fijians, though still comprising 51% of the … Read more
[…] upon criminals licensed to operate by police forces in return for the parcelling-up of other criminals (or ‘criminals’) for conviction, guilty or otherwise; net snooping at work; Echelon and its cousins; the origins of the surveillance society in 19th century use of private detectives to break labour organisations; the history of so-called ‘red squads’; […]
