Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] nearly a week before the USSR owned up to its deed. When it did, its spokesmen were adamant that KAL 007 had been on a deliberate ‘ spy mission’, one which included a ten minute ‘rendezvous’ with one of our RC-135 (Cobra Ball) spy planes. The alleged rendezvous occurred as the airliner approached the […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
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, first granted in 2000, on an ultrasound device which in the words of CNN’s … Read more
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
Matthew R. Simmons London: Wiley, 2005, h/b Ironic, perhaps, that I finished reviewing this book in Calgary, just south of the largest land-based oil project in the American hemisphere, the Athabasca shale tar sands oil recovery projects. Collectively these will realise investment between 50 and 100 billion dollars over the next ten years. Pipelines … Read more
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] make interception more difficult; and to provide ever increasing surveillance capabilities for, in the main, the intelligence community. In Secret Power: New Zealand’s role in the International Spy Network, Nicky Hager describes the ECHELON system: ‘Designed and co-ordinated by the NSA, the ECHELON system is used to intercept ordinary e-mail, fax, telex and telephone […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
The origins of Civil Assistance? In the UK in 1974-75 a number of ‘private armies’ appeared, linked to retired senior military and intelligence figures. There were General Sir Walter Walker’s Civil Assistance, Colonel David Stirling’s GB75, and George Young’s Unison. (1) These groups formed in order to frustrate the impact of strike action in the … Read more