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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] piece on the subject in Nexus (October/ November 2001). Free Hagar extracts One of the most influential books of recent years has been Nicky Hagar’s book on Echelon which triggered the on-going Echelon controversy. Extracts from it are at http://mediafilter.org/echelon/ Spooks down under Dr David Turner writes: the story of how the Australian security […]

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Secret Power: New Zealand’s Role in the International Spy Network

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] in New Zealand, or, indeed, the geo-politics of that part of the Pacific, will find something of value here. His central discovery is a system known as Echelon, a bunch of super computers which scan the world’s communications – phones, telex, e-mail – for key-words and filter out the messages in which they appear. […]

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] ‘…to get quick access to all the information available – classified and unclassified – about virtually anyone’. Meanwhile, Kevin J. Lawner ruminates on the impact that the Echelon interception system might have on the right to privacy, concluding that the National Security Agency’s ‘…… surveillance activities in Europe must be subject to rigorous oversight, […]

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Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] Internal Affairs Committee, and prepared by the Omega Foundation in March 1997, the report comprehensively examines all aspects of political control, including surveillance technologies, telecommunications interception (including ECHELON – see elsewhere in this issue); crowd control and ‘less than lethal’ weapons including MW and accoustic disabling systems; prisoner control and torture and interrrogation techniques. […]

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Plot elements in the Colosio Murder Mystery

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] friend of the Salinas family, trigger massive capital flight when they suddenly begin buying up huge amounts of short-term, dollar-based tesobonos. Proceso magazine alleges that certain high- echelon PRI insiders were given privileged information about the impending peso devaluation. (Anderson Valley Advertiser, 5 April 1995) 21 December The peso is devalued by almost 50%. […]

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Policing the Future

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

Preface This paper was written for the History Workshop 20 in Leeds, during November 1986. In the workshop which I gave, I introduced the paper by pointing out that the arguments within it were very general and the paper itself entirely polemical. I explained that each of my last three books contain detailed case histories … Read more

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Who Really Runs the World? and, Who’s Watching You?

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] a critical analysis of globalisation. Who’s Watching You? seems pretty current as of mid-2007 – and pretty comprehensive, encompassing the entire range, from big hardware stuff, like Echelon and Carnivore, and satellites hoovering up the world’s babble, to the big private data collection agencies, such as Choicepoint; recent developments such as RFID chips and […]

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More Notes on the Right

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

Critique, mentioned in these columns before (Lobster 8), is a California-based “Journal of Conspiracies and Metaphysics”. It’s editor, Bob Banner, has had the good taste to reprint pieces from Lobster. Critique’s slogan – now available on T-shirts! – is; Question consensus reality. Well, amen to that. However, the bit of “consensus reality” – and Banner … Read more

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Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] her at all. In February 2000 former NSA employee Wayne Madsen stated that ‘undisclosed material held in US government files on Princess Diana was collected via the Echelon system because of her work with the international campaign to ban landmines ……Anybody who is politically active will eventually end up on the NSA’s radar screen.’ […]

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Thinking about the Falklands

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Thinking about the Falklands Paul Johnson recently sneered in The Times at the ‘conspiracy theories’ about the Falklands War held by the likes of Tam Dalyell MP. Reading this, what struck me was just how few conspiracy theories about that war have emerged in the past 3 years. So, here are a couple. Mine is … Read more

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