[…] 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 […]
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
[…] 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.’ […]
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
Nick Kochan London: Thomson, 2005, £19.99, h/b/b Nick Kochan is one of a small band of writers who try to bring together business and politics in an effort to understand a world often rendered incomprehensible by narrow specialists in these fields. He moves from the safe places think of the cosy world of … Read more
Parapolitics: “Generally, covert politics, the conduct of public affairs not by rational debate and responsible decision-making but by indirection, collusion and deceit.” – Peter Dale Scott The Watergate tag is appropriate to Kincora because, like that epic affair, an initial minor offence was the key that unlocked many secret doors. As James Angleton noted: “A … Read more
As Steve Dorril shows in his essay on Permindex, the lack of a satisfactory resolution to the assassination of Kennedy allowed Soviet intelligence to use the event to their own ends. The French also had a go with the pseudonymous book Farewell America which made public considerable information about the CIA’s activities while pretending to … Read more
[…] the security and intelligence services. Communications between Britain and Ireland were intercepted via an MOD installation at Capenhurst in Cheshire and later, it is claimed, by the Echelon system. The rights groups say that RIPA fails to provide adequate safeguards to protect individual privacy, a principle enshrined in the HRA and ECHR. (3) In […]
In this essay I offer some informed speculation on the assassination of John Kennedy. I have called this a new hypothesis, but in fact it is the elaboration of a hunch about the case – but an interesting hunch, I think. I take as proven that there was a conspiracy to murder Kennedy and a … Read more
[…] Published 7/14/21 Sept 2002. ‘Uncovering the extent to which our daily lives are watched, recorded and analysed by others’. Articles cover many different aspects of privacy; surveillance; Echelon, GCHQ; workplace surveillance; Freedom of Information Act; data collection; data privacy, eg financial and medical confidentiality; using the Data Protection Act; Observer Libertywatch campaign http://www.observer.co.uk/libertywatch ‘These […]
