[…] Steamshovel and shares much of its subject matter with Thomas’ magazine. That subject matter being UFOs; what I would call consciousness politics – drugs, mysticism, the paranormal, mind control, remote viewing; secrecy and conspiracy theories; the secret state; and the interfaces between many of these. As a 52-year old who took acid, read Leary, […]
When I commented on the lack of supporting material for the Operation Splinter Factor thesis (in issue 22), I somehow managed to omit the account of it in William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history (Zed, London 1986) pp. 59-61. But that is taken entirely from Stewart Steven’s book and his sources. To the latter’s … Read more
[…] even more in her determination to demonstrate the “persistence of illusions about Britain’s place in the world.” (1) This version of events is attractive to the liberal mind because it looks like an exemplary demonstration of the cockup theory of history, and it is that which passes for political sophistication in most of respectable […]
[…] Daniel Brandt continues to produce some of the best writing in the fields Lobster covers in NameBase Newsline. Issue 12 has a long essay by Brandt, ‘ Mind Control and the Secret State’, about as good a short survey of the subject as exists. Back issues of Newsline in printed form are $3.00 each; […]
[…] the British intelligence and security services – far more interesting and surprising to me than the details of operations given here. The expression mind-boggling idiocy comes to mind. And this nonsense had the same consequences in SIS as it has elsewhere in the public sector: faced with career-breaking targets and quotas, people fake them […]
Parapolitics/Intelligence November 1984 – February 1985 The usual invaluable mixture of precis of stories from the world’s press plus reprints of some entire articles and the occasional original piece. November’s includes a long and excellent piece by Jonathan Marshall on the Strange career of Ronald Hedley Stark. PP/Intelligence subscriptions $20 payable to ADI at ADI, […]
[…] that the authorities in Nottingham would use their own police officers to resolve what was a civil law situation, but that’s Thatcher for you.’(24) All in the mind? A series of experiments ‘tested whether lacking control increases illusory pattern perception… …as the identification of a coherent and meaningful interrelationship among a set of random […]
[…] the mid 1990s, going to 66 countries. Given that we know of a great deal of research by the US military into means of influencing the human mind using electronics, microwaves and ultrasound, for example, it thus possible in my view that the experience of being abducted reported by thousands of Americans (and others […]
[…] These are facts: what people think they saw or heard is inherently, and demonstrably, unreliable. Hence the centrality of the wounds on the body in the legal mind — and hence, in Lifton’s view, the centrality to the assassination of the same ‘best evidence’. For Fonzi the moment of illumination was the realisation that […]
[…] appeared this year on the CBS News website(2) and in The Times.(3) Has the Bilderberg meeting stopped asking for media silence? That would be my guess. Never mind that the CBS story inevitably framed the subject matter – Bilderbergers in the Obama administration – as the ‘crazy’ concerns of ‘conspiracy theorists’,(4) this is a […]
