Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] and though it is generally regarded as bad form to speak ill of the dead, this is a very poor book. This is Keith’s survey of the mind control story: Cameron, Delgado, Esterbrook, Persinger, West, HAARP – all the usual names are here and given cursory treatments in short chapters. But there is also […]

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 […]

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 […]

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] subsequently informed me that the full report on Srebrenica, commissioned by the Dutch government, including the material which made up his book, is on-line, in English, at Mind control At is a large 1986 ‘Bibliography on the psychoactivity of electro-magnetic fields’ by two of the well known names in the field, Robert Beck and […]

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’ […]

Spook PR

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] a mosque as a fixture in her Golden Jubilee Year. Instead, they could have countered with an alternative T-shirt that challenged al-Qaida. One, in particular, comes to mind i.e. one imprinted with the image of a dead Roman Catholic priest, his dog-collar grimy, carried from the wreckage of the Twin Towers by the surviving […]

‘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 […]

The Real Gemstone File

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

Introduction In early January the American writer Martin Cannon, whose ‘ Mind Control and the American Government’, was published in Lobster 23, and who has a very interesting letter in this issue, offered me a big piece of his on the so-called Gemstone File. Cannon had got access to some of the original documents […]

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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