Policing the Future

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] thereby to draw some very general conclusions about the nature and meaning of police power. I suggested that the audience might bear one very simple criterion in mind when considering the changing nature of police power, namely the high level of arrests over the last few years: 10,000 during the miners’ strike; 200-400 during […]

Agreement! The State, Conflict and Change in Northern Ireland

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] we have been given of it over the years has purposely been made more complex than the reality deserves and the above statement should be held in mind whenever reading this book. It is quite fair to say that everything I read or see about developments in Northern Ireland has been given a new […]

Iraq misc.

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] head of PSYOPS in the Operations Division at NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium, had a think about the ‘perception management operations’ in ‘ Mind Games’ on the NATO Web site. (1) ‘Perception management includes all actions used to influence the attitudes and objective reasoning of foreign audiences and consists of […]

When David met Stella

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] the following exchange took place.   Turner (presenting book for signing after queuing briefly behind several people, including a woman wearing an Anarchist badge) ‘Hello. Do you mind a lengthy inscription?’ Rimington (smiling, flanked by several suited goons and book shop staff) ‘That depends what it is. If it’s a long one, I’ll put […]

Loose cuts and short ends

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] practitioners of government. We are relatively free of the problems of status, of precedence, departmental attitudes and evasions of personal responsibility, which create the official cast of mind. We do not have to develop, like the Parliamentarians conditioned by a lifetime, the ability to produce the ready phrase, the smart reply and the flashing […]

The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] after Suez is a good time for Britons to reflect on empire. Our military is again deployed in regions of the world more associated in the national mind with the 19th century than the 21st, while the children of the poorer regions of Britain are still losing their lives defending the overseas interests on […]

Remote Viewing and the US intelligence community

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] This is discussed in Lobster 30 ‘The Emergence of Project SCANATE; The First Espionage-worthy Remote Viewing Experiment – Summer 1973’. Ingo Swann, Dec. 29, 1995, InterNet. See Mind to Mind, Rene Warcollier, Creative Age Press, NY 1946. See Exploring the Ultra-Perceptive Faculty, J. Hittinger, Rider & Co., London, 1941. Ingo Swann interview on ‘Dreamland’ […]

‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] rightist kuromako, see Nakamura, pp. 16-19; Halloran, p. 2; Roberts (1973), p. 14. Dixon, pp. 211-212. Anderson and Anderson, p. 125. There is some question in my mind as to whether he was a ‘lieutenant’ of Kodama’s as early as 1962, or whether he only became one later. The precise dating could have explanatory […]

Wake Up Down There! The Excluded Middle Collection

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] 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, […]

Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] that’ on occasions. Newsnight didn’t say ‘Protheroe isn’t a spook’; or, ‘We’ll check it out’; nor even ‘It sounds unlikely to us, but we’ll bear that in mind’, all of which would have been rational responses. Instead they dismissed what we had said because we were perceived to be offering them something from that […]

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