[…] working in the parapolitical catalogue business complaining about the kind of garbage they have to sell to make a living. (For example, the wilder end of the UFO thing.) The second reason is that there simply isn’t enough material around of that quality. It’s axiomatic: if there was, Steamshovel wouldn’t be printing rubbish about […]
Spectre In the last Lobster 35 I reported on the new anti-EU magazine Spectre and wondered about its political orientation. In response, the editor, Steve McGiffen, sent an exemplary piece of candour from which here are some extracts. ‘….. Our original statement, sent out very widely, made it clear that we are minimalist to a … Read more
[…] first examined, a nineteen-year-old US Marine arrived in Moscow declaring that he wishes to defect.’ Significant? No. Interesting? Yes. The most striking material to me is the UFO contactee stories of the early 1950s. I hadn’t grasped how widespread this was, how many guru-contactees there were (in California in particular), how much ink it […]
Iraq – fallout continues ‘Five years on from Hutton and we still haven’t been told the truth about the war based on lies’, fulminated Peter Oborne earlier this year. (1) Also less than happy was barrister Michael Shrimpton who unsuccessfully complained to Ofcom about an interview he gave for David Kelly: the conspiracy files, (2) […]
Portland Free Press Portland Free Press, edited by Ace R. Hayes, with the legend ‘Tell the Truth and Run’ on its masthead, contains to produce important parapolitical material. The January/February issue had an extract from the 1991 deposition of Richard Brenneke, a pilot who claims to have flown missions for the Contras (which has not … Read more
[…] from something Henry/Armen wrote for Lobster 36 and then gives a very partial account of Henry/Armen’s career, focusing on his conviction for orchid smuggling and mentioning a UFO story which he was interested in about 25 years ago. McCoy also makes one of the more unfortunate typos I have seen, referring to Henry/ Armen’s […]
[…] piece called ‘Thieves of Knowledge: The Vanishing of the Place of Muses’ about the destruction of the library at Alexandria circa 400 A.D.; Jim Keith on a UFO book; and a piece about Carroll Quigley. OK, not all the issues have quite this kind of subject spread, but you might get the drift. The […]
Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith Feral House, PO Box 3466, Portland, OR 97208 (), 1996, $19.95 Of all the current parapolitical ‘biggies’ floating around, the one I would not have enjoyed trying to piece together is this one; and I am grateful to Thomas and Keith for doing so. Casolaro was, on this account, a … Read more
[…] Steamshovel’s Kenn Thomas contributes an amusing and non-committal introduction which, in twelve pages, manages to encompass Timothy Leary, Wilhelm Reich, fake moon landings, Charles Willoughby and a UFO flap over Winnipeg, Canada in 1969 – on the day that Giesbrecht went to tell New Orleans DA Garrison about what he’d overheard in Winnipeg airport. […]
Electromagnetics & VDU News Subtitled ‘a News Report on Non-ionising Radiation’, this is now up to volume 6, and is now extremely impressive – and pretty alarming. Vol. 6 nos 1-2, for example, includes: Dramatic cuts in EMF exposure demanded by US draft report; biggest EMF lawsuit launched by top attorney – then dropped; breast […]
