Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] Nikola Tesla has been one you bump against whilst navigating a mire of (often) unreliable books churned out on the unified field, free energy, HAARP electro-magnetics, and mind control. Defining (a) what Nikola Tesla actually did, and (b) if he can be rescued from the cranks, is one of the great Everests of historical […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] to PO Box 8345, Berkeley, CA 94707, or e-mail should suffice. Spotlight on Girard Harlan Girard, the American who turned me onto the electro-magnetic weaponry and mind control fields, and who has continued to organise and proselytize on these issues ever since, was the subject of an interview published in the American magazine […]

The aliens on the grassy knoll

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] on the latter ground alone is too often simply irrational, usually made for defensive reasons. (Just about the hardest thing most people can do is change their mind.) The Kennedy assassination and the UFO story are both examples of no-go areas for most respectable intellectuals. (When Scott Newton sent me the review essay on […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] which was attributed to ‘reports received by Western intelligence’. Crazy wavies, right? Meanwhile, out there in the wonderful world of commercial science, the ability to do what mind control victims have been complaining of for nearly 20 years, is coming into view. On 8 April CNN reported that a Sony scientist has a patent, […]

Some examples of corporate, cultural and state PR

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] climate change dominated British media, a subject he ignored. The President seemed unaware that Pope Benedict, the week before – doubtless with the upcoming Presidential speech in mind – gave his first as pontiff, priming global audiences about love, which coincides with China’s ‘Harmony’ PR , discussed below. Pope Benedict similarly outflanked the President […]

Value Wars: The Global Market versus the Life Economy

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

John McMurtry London: Pluto Press, 2002, pb £15.99   I shouldn’t be reviewing this. I haven’t digested it properly and it is going to take some time to do so. But I don’t want to leave this for six months without promoting it. I used to try and preserve books in good condition, didn’t write […]

After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] produced, as if by magic, chatty grenades, exploding first in central Europe and then the UK, disturbing the smooth efficiency of the schedules and the peace of mind of the broadcasters with happy regularity. After Dark turned out to be some kind of anti-television experiment, a programme which, despite the careful plans and preparations […]

Mrs Thatcher, North Sea oil and the hegemony of the City

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] she could have gone down fighting. Instead, she gave in and quit — just as she had done in 198081 over Monetary Base Control. Notes A Single Mind, MacMillan, 1989. This distinction is all the more interesting for in Joseph’s case, as Halcrow’s biography is honest enough to point out, Joseph’s conversion to monetarism […]

The Euro: The Battle for British Hearts and Minds

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

Brian Burkitt and Andy Mullen Congress for Democracy (www.congressfordemocracy.org.uk) 38 pages, £5 in UK This is a useful companion piece to Andy Mullen’s essay in this issue. The authors believe that whatever this government says its policy towards the euro is, it has decided to enter the euro and is ‘playing a long game…. preparing … Read more

Mind Controllers

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

Armen Victorian Vision Paperbacks, London, 1999, £9.99 With the addition of a four new essays, this books contains the writing of Armen Victorian published in Lobster since his first essay appeared in Lobster 23 in 1992 (and issues 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 30, 31, 32, 32, 34 and 36). Most welcome of the … Read more

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