Who Really Runs the World? and, Who’s Watching You?

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] a critical analysis of globalisation. Who’s Watching You? seems pretty current as of mid-2007 – and pretty comprehensive, encompassing the entire range, from big hardware stuff, like Echelon and Carnivore, and satellites hoovering up the world’s babble, to the big private data collection agencies, such as Choicepoint; recent developments such as RFID chips and […]

More Notes on the Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

Critique, mentioned in these columns before (Lobster 8), is a California-based “Journal of Conspiracies and Metaphysics”. It’s editor, Bob Banner, has had the good taste to reprint pieces from Lobster. Critique’s slogan – now available on T-shirts! – is; Question consensus reality. Well, amen to that. However, the bit of “consensus reality” – and Banner … Read more

Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] her at all. In February 2000 former NSA employee Wayne Madsen stated that ‘undisclosed material held in US government files on Princess Diana was collected via the Echelon system because of her work with the international campaign to ban landmines ……Anybody who is politically active will eventually end up on the NSA’s radar screen.’ […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] The HSCA, however, concluded that Oswald never went to Taiwan and remained at NAS (Naval Air Station) Atsugi as part of the MAG-11 (Marine Aircraft Group) rear echelon unit. From page 220 of the HSCA report: ‘It has been stated that Oswald claimed to have served in Taiwan. The committee’s review of his military […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Technologies is the data analytics company that was founded by PayPal creator and venture capitalist Peter Thiel. Their software uses the same principle as the ‘Five Eyes’ Echelon system of keywords to trigger flags.32 Palantir software looks at, amongst other things, ‘emails and browser histories, GPS locations from company-issued smartphones, printer and download activity, […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] while manipulatory cunts using actors such as party organisers, mass organisation leaders, propagandists and covert operators — in short academics — would appear in the elite upper echelon gaining prestige and influence: taking on the appearance and vocabulary of top cunts. Here we need only drop hints that academic cuntologists, like Hayek, could be […]

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