Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] at all what to do; they had no directives or slogans as to how they should act’. Surely, if there had been some sort of all pervasive hidden conspiracy then ‘these people could have been saved by the millions; but instead they were taken completely by surprise’. (p. 38) The people he was murdering […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] served with a subpoena. This proves to be the key to understanding a substantial part of this episode. The FBI’s mail interception program had to be kept hidden (in fact it did not come to light until the 1970s); and doing so meant that the fact that the mis-addressed Nixie parcel had almost been […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] MI6 was monitoring Howard Marks and James McCann. In November 1973, Marks was arrested by the Dutch police for his part in smuggling cannabis to the US, hidden in loud speakers for rock concerts. Shortly before this, (according to the prosecution at his later trial in the UK) MI6 had severed contact with him. […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia — with ‘collateral damage’ in the US itself. Much more needs to be said about this war since it remains largely hidden in the swamp of deniability. Finally there was the fourth Vietnam War: the unrelenting hostility combined with all the available systemic weapons deployed since 1975 in […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] word. Using it was an open invitation for curious readers to consult an encyclopedia and check what it meant. Anyone who did so would have spotted the hidden connection at once. The received wisdom about the Kennedy administration’s nickname ‘Camelot’ is that it was all the doing of his bereaved wife, Jackie, in an […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] that aren’t connected to the internet using radio waves. (Update: Clarification — the NSA can access offline computers through radio waves on which it has already installed hidden devices.) It can intercept phone calls by setting up fake base stations. It can remotely access a computer by setting up a fake wireless connection. It […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] his former colleagues follow the same pattern of omerta, former Home Secretary Charles Clarke aggressively so. The Blairs’ financial interests seem to be arranged to defy scrutiny, hidden in part behind the pious façade of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation (TBBF). In its own self-description, ‘TBBF is a “think-do” tank, meaning that all of […]