Here is a selection of sites on the Internet that may interest Lobsterreaders. The usenet newsgroups are for discussion of issues and anyone can contribute; some of the contributions are pretty far-out, or just plain abusive, and much of the material is US-oriented. The content of newsgroups is continually changing, and the examples I have given are of topics listed recently.
Government and politics: USA
- Fedworld http://www.fedworld.gov/
- Central access point for locating and acquiring US government information on-line. Provides links to US government web servers and other US government information sources, sorted into subject categories. For example, under ‘military’, it provides links to sites on the CIA, US Army, Air Force, Navy, ARPA.
- Federal Web Locator http://www.law.vill.edu/FedAgency/fedwebloc.html
- ‘One-stop shopping point for [US] federal government information on the world wide web’. A lot of information, with links to federal agencies and other organisations; also a search facility. Here are examples of some of the links:
Legislative Branch: Federal Judiciary Branch: US Supreme Court, US Courts of Appeals; Federal Executive Branch: Federal Executive Agencies. Federal Independent Establishments: eg CIA, EPA, FEMA, NASA, NRC. Federal Government Consortium and Quasi Official Agencies: including National Academy of Sciences, Smithsonian Institute, Financenet (federal finance information network). Selected Multilateral Organisations and International Sites: European Commission, Inter-American Development Bank, OECD, UN, World Bank.
- US Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov
- Initial menu includes; general information and publications, government, Congress and law, research and collections services, copyright, Library of Congress (LoC) on-line services.
To search LoC publications in print, from LoC homepage, select general information and publications, then ‘publications’, then ‘LoC publications’ from LC Marvel. Gopher menu includes LoC publications in print, which gets you to a search facility ‘search LC publications in print’.
- Supreme Court Rulings http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/
- US Supreme Court decisions and information on US law-making.
- US Government Printing Office http://www.gpo.gov
- Links to US Congress, General Accounting Office, and to GPO Access.
The Federal Register, Congressional Record, Congressional Bills and other Federal Government information are available on-line via GPO Access. Address: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces001.html
The initial menu of GPO Access includes a facility to search for GPO reports (‘Search monthly catalog of US Government Publications (MOCAT)’)
- US General Accounting Office http://www.gao.gov
- Includes a facility to search for GAO reports
- US Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov
- Initial menu includes: FDA news, animal drugs, human drugs, cosmetics, foods, toxicology, medical devices and radiological health.
The site also includes how to make a Freedom of Information Act request to the FDA, how to obtain written FDA regulations and how to comment on proposed regulations and submit petitions.
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) http://www.epa.gov
- Extensive information about the EPA, including a facility to search the EPA publications catalogue.
- CIA http://www.odci.gov/cia
- Includes general information about the CIA (its history, mission, and a virtual tour), publications (including World Factbook and Factbook on Intelligence, Chiefs of State and cabinet members of foreign governments, handbook of economic statistics and CIA maps).
- US Intelligence Community http://www.odci.gov/ic
- A group of 13 US government agencies that carry out intelligence activities of the US government. There is background information only (eg mission and authority) on these agencies, including CIA, DIA, NSA NRO, Army Navy and Air force Intelligence, depts of State and Energy, FBI.
- National Security Agency http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ Information about NSA, mission statement, Venona Project, cryptologic museum.
- Defense Intelligence Agency http://www.dia.mil/
- National Reconnaissance Office http://www.odci.gov/ic/usic/nro.html
- Background information only. NRO’s existence was declassified in 1992, and describes its mission as to ensure the US has the technology and spaceborne assets needed to acquire intelligence worldwide.
- Dept of Defense. Defenselink http://www.dtic.dla.mil/defenselink/
- Menu includes links to Army, Navy, Air Force, also publications, and a search facility (database of defence information sources). Also link to Gulflink (see below).
- FBI http://www.fbi.gov/
- Menu includes overview of the FBI, FAQs, and FBI investigations including the unabomber, Oklahoma City and DECA programme (espionage, counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism awareness)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory http://www.lanl.gov/
- Details of some of the extensive range of research work undertaken at LANL, eg nuclear weapons, computer simulation, environmental technology, explosives technology, human genome project, HIV sequence database, military systems analysis and simulation.
- Freeedom of Information
- A Citizens Guide to using the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 to request government records. This is an invaluable guide for anyone wanting to use FOIA to access information in the US.
FTP: Address: ftp.spies.com
- Path: /Gov/foia.cit
- NASA http://www.nasa.gov
- Aeronautics, human spaceflight, space science, technology
- NASA spacelink http://spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov
- Educational information system. NASA news and projects, eg aeronautics, human spaceflight, planetary probes, satellites etc
FTP Address: ftp.spies.com
- Path: gov/us-docs
Includes original charter of NASA
- Gulflink Persian Gulf War Veterans Illnesses homepage http://www.dtic.dla.mil/gulflink/
- Gulf War Illness reports, background information and research and analysis of the issues related to illnesses affecting Gulf War veterans. Also declassified Gulf War documents relevant to this issue.
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Government and politics: UK
- CCTA Government Information Service http://www.open.gov.uk/
- Gateway to government depts etc: go via ‘information locator’ and ‘organisational index’ to alphabetical list of departments and agencies.
- Parliament http://www.parliament.uk
- First menu includes public information office services, weekly information bulletin, list of members, HoC business, parliamentary publications. Not a great deal of information at present, but there are plans for expansion.
- HMSO http://www.hmso.gov.uk
- Unable to do comprehensive search of publications. Useful summaries of recent Acts of Parliament (1987 onwards). Plans to publish Acts of Parliament in full from 1996 onwards.
- Newsgroups
- alt.desert-storm
- Subjects include chemical/ biological weapons used in Iraq, depleted uranium, Iraq sanctions, Gulf War Syndrome, birth defects in babies born to Gulf War veterans, US export of CBW-related materials to Iraq.
- alt.politics.org.cia
- Mena – drugs and arms smuggling, claimed to be CIA-sponsored, co-operation with GCHQ over interception of electronic communications, and CIA press manipulation, CIA covert ops against China, mindnet journal.
- alt.politics.org.fbi
- A ‘mind reading machine’, said to be able to receive subjects’ brainwaves (by satellite) and decode (by neural programming) to read thoughts, and also transmit messages to subjects; also cryptography debate and the ‘unabomber’.
- alt.politics.org.nsa
- Subjects include the dropping of the Zimmerman prosecution relating to PGP encryption, CIA/NSA battle over roles and budget, and NSA monitoring of internet traffic by ‘sniffing’ for particular keywords and phrases. Also remote viewing, Oklahoma City bombing.
- alt.politics.media
- eg remote viewing, far right, Mena, McLibel legal action
- alt.freedom.of.information.act
- Items on US Communications Decency Act, concerned with online censorship
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CONSPIRACY
- Web Conspiracy Page http://www.nova.cioe.com/html/politics.html
- Lists conspiracy-related net sites and newsgroups. Under ‘top secret files’ the menu includes Bilderbergers, EMP Weapons, FEMA, HAARP, Mind Control, Nazis and Occult, New World Orders, Opal Files, October Surprise. (Had difficulty down-loading – info may be zipped). Online discussion forum contains articles on conspiracy issues and Non Lethal Weapons – MW, laser and HPM weapons, and a Russian accoustic device said to be capable of implanting thoughts into someone’s mind. FTP: Address: ftp.spies.com
Path: /Library/Fringe/Conspiry/*
- The threat to civil liberties posed by nuclear power and weapons (‘plutonium’), a reading list on intelligence (‘intellig.bib’), Waco, and ‘Russia’s Star Wars Defense System’
FTP: Address: ftp.spies.com
Path: /Library/Fringe/Ufo/*Psychiatric evaluation of ufo abductions, area 51,US Air Force’s Blue Book investigations, alleged US government cover-up of alien activity, crop circles, etc
- Earthlight homepage http://www.xyz.net/~nohaarp/earthlight.html
- HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Reseach Project) article by Nick Begich and Jeane Manning claiming that manipulating the ionosphere could alter the atmosphere and weather, and that HAARP technology could be used to manipulate human mental processes; replace the EM
- pulse effect of atmospheric nuclear devices; wipe out communications over a very large area, replace the ELF submarine communication system.
- Hugh’s HAARP information page http://www.primenet.com/~rfwatts/haarp/haarp.html
- Article on HAARP.
- JFK Assassination http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/humanities/history/american_history/people
- A lot of information relating to President Kennedy’s assassination, and links to related sites.
- JFK http://heiwww.unige.ch/jfk/
- Includes JFK declassified documents (eg Zapata operation, memoranda, etc).
- alt.conspiracy.jfk
- Items on Kennedy Assassination eg LHW as ‘Manchurian Candidate’, discussion of ballistic evidence and the Zapruder film, the ‘magic bullet’.
- Mother Jonesmagazine http://www.mojones.com/
- also at FTP: Address: mojones.com
Path: /pub/*US investigative magazine. Can look at current issue or search archive for articles in previous issues.
- Conspiracy Books http://www.yahoo.com/business.and.economy/companies/books/titles
- Whitewater Scandal http://www.yahoo.com/government/politics/political_opinion/ issues/clinton
- Elite groups http://www.ld.centuryinter.net/ct.html/dhome/rie/
- Bilderbergs, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, etc
- Greg’s UFO and Conspiracy Page http://www.tripod.com/~grega/ufos.html
- Links to pages on UfOs and conspiracy, eg SETI, contactees, alien mutilation etc
- alt.conspiracy
- HAARP, alien abductions and implants, mind control, FEMA, Oklahoma City, Gulf War chemical and biological agents, denied by the Pentagon, UFO sightings, and alleged government knowledge of UFOs, militias, mad cow disease, anti-cult activities.
- alt.illuminati
- Items on implants, conspiracies, the ‘UFO uncoverup’ (claims of future government revelations).
- alt.freemasonry
- Pro and anti freemasonry. Bilderberg, CFR and Trilateral Commission
- sci.skeptic
- ‘Alien autopsy’, remote viewing, CSICOPS, Randi and debunking, Geller, firewalking.
- MOSSAD Israeli secret intelligence organisation http://www.phoenix.ca:80/mossad/
- Site set up by an ex-Mossad case officer Victor Ostrovsky. Menu includes organisation, recruitment methods, liaison (covert and overt) and spycraft.
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Censorship/Civil liberties
- Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org
- ‘Non profit civil liberties organisation. Censorship, civil liberties etc, legislation and regulation, privacy, surveillance, cryptography, Scientology and the Net; Communications Decency Act, journalism and media, computers and academic freedom.
FTP address: ftp.eff.org
path: /pub/EFF/* - Civil Rights and Liberties
- address: ftp.spies.com
path: /Library/Article/Rights/*Censorship, banned computer material, banned books (in US academic institutions), copyright law, FBI attempts to facilitate wiretapping.
- Online censorship: http://www.vex.net/~brian/censored
- Black Thursday Machine, created by Electronic Frontier Canada Asks viewer to imagine what would happen if cyberspace was challenged by strict government regulation. Allows you to look at a web page and see what it would look like if censored – eg on a safe sex discussion group, all words connected with sex are replaced by ‘censored’.
- alt.society.civil-liberties
- eg fascism on the net, racism, FBI access to credit files.
- alt.censorship
- More on the CDA, which affects US internet providers and users and will make it illegal to transmit or receive pornographic materials over the net (currently being challenged), drugs legality.
- lt.news-media
- ‘Big Brother’, smart cards in Canada
- alt.privacy
- eg US social security info being bought by crooks
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Mind control
- Government Research into ESP and Mind Control http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/T_Porter/
- US government research into ESP, and mind control using drugs, hypnosis and abuse. Bibliography on mind control, and offers support to veterans of the US intelligence community’s research and operational programmes.
- Freedom of Thought Foundation, Mind Control Forum homepage http://members.gnn.com/fivestring/index.htm
- Set up by, and for, people who believe they are being subjected to mind control techniques, with links to other related sites. Initial menu includes archives, news, resources and victim’s stories, including ‘downloadable MRI scans of implanted devices’.
- Brian’s Government Psychiatric Torture Web Site http://members.gnn.com/fivestring/mw3/brian.htm
- Includes Alan Frey’s paper on Human Auditory system Response to Modulated EM Energy. Victim’s stories and MRI scans apparently showing foreign objects in Brian’s head.
- Brainwashing: FTP address: ftp.spies.com
- path: /Library/Article/Misc.brainwa.txt
Interesting article on brainwashing and manipulation - alt.mindcontrol
- More about the possibility of beaming thoughts/words into the subconscious brain.
- alt.government.abuse
- HAARP, MRI scans of implants, US military/ intelligence in abductions, mind control, mindnet journal, hypnosis, ‘new world order’.
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Cryptography/surveillance
- Counterintelligence and Technical Surveillance Counter-measures homepage http://www.tscm.com/
- Site set up by James M Atkinson, Communications Engineer. A lot of information about TSCM and bugging, wiretapping activities, including photos, how to tell if you’re being bugged, and what to do about it. Links to other intelligence sites, including NSA, CIA, FBI, and suppliers of intelligence equipment (Raytheon, Boeing, Rockwell, etc), plus a lot of other useful information related to surveillance.
- NSA and Internet Privacy.
- Two small but interesting sites.
- http://gnn.com/gnn/wr/96/01/12/features/nsa/conclude.html
NSA attempts to subvert internet privacy, eg to influence/enforce the use of those encryption systems it can decode. - http://gnn.com/gnn/wr/96/01/12/features/nsa/sniff.html
‘The NSA is actively “sniffing” key internet router and gateway hosts’, and claims that the NSA has contracted with a private company to develop the software needed to capture internet data of interest to the agency.
- http://gnn.com/gnn/wr/96/01/12/features/nsa/conclude.html
- Clipper Chip
- FTP Address:ftp.spies.com
Path: /library/article/crypto/*(1993/4) Discussion on clipper chip, including NSA influence, also wiretapping, cryptography, key escrow.
- Talk.politics.crypto
- Newsgroup about political issues relating to cryptography, for example PGP, damage to software exporters caused by encryption restrictions, and whether the NSA is violating its charter (which prohibits it spying in the US) by spying on the internet.
- alt.security.pgp
- Includes the Zimmerman case, the legality of PGP outside the US, and the legality of employers obtaining employee’s private key to decrypt e-mail.
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Environment
- Econet http://www.econet.apc.org/econet/
- Huge amount of information on wide range of environmental issues and organisations.
- Envirolink http://www.envirolink.org
- Claimed largest on-line environmental information source. First menu includes envirolink library, subjects listed alphabetically from agriculture to wildlife. Many links, e.g. to a searchable index for toxics and disease, the Citizen’s Guide to using FOIA and ‘prisoners of ecological conscience’.
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Organisations and campaigns
- Statewatch http://www.poptel.org.uk/statewatch/
- Statewatch database: the State and civil liberties in the UK and Europe. Policing and Europol, security and intelligence agencies, the law, ECHR, prisons, immigration and asylum, racism and fascism, N Ireland, civil liberties.
- Privacy International http:// privacy.org/pi OR http://washofc.epic.org/pi/
- PI was formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations. It campaigns about the dangers of infringements on privacy such as ID card systems, military surveillance, data matching, police information systems. It is administered by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington DC. Sites include newsletter, conferences, reports (surveillance technologies, wire tapping, the trade in surveillance equipment with repressive regimes, listing companies involved and equipment).
- Greenpeace International Homepage http://www.greenpeace.org/
- First menu includes toxic pages, nuclear, atmosphere, bio-diversity, marine etc. Can also search for subjects by keywords.
- Friends of the Earth http://www.foe.co.uk/
- Includes Newbury by-pass, Chemical Release Inventory (how to find out about chemicals released from sites near you) and FOE’s campaigns.
- Scientists for Global Responsibility http://www.gn.apc.org/sgr/
- Site gives info and how to join.
Jane Affleck is at .