Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] the Bush family should be gift-wrapped in the crap he bequeathed. Some of the entanglements of the Bush family have been presented as a conspiracy – a hidden and mysterious plot at the apparent centre of which lies the Bush alma mater Yale University’s Skull and Bones society – a variation on the Masonic […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] denied that the Movement had received any funds from foreign sources and in particular not from the CIA. The Movement’s accounts were properly audited and contained no hidden accounts. Will you please put the record straight and inform Mr. Mullen accordingly. Andy Mullen responds: Dear Mr Wistrich, In response to your letter, I would […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] we had nothing to with it”.’ (10) Weapons? Which weapons? The British ‘plagiarised’ text of February 2002 was prepared to bolster the notion that the Iraqis had hidden weapons of mass destruction. This had been asserted ad nauseam but not proved. Why hadn’t it been demonstrated? On 24 February the American magazine Newsday reported […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] executive led by his or her party. This was a quiet revolution – with echoes of Germany in 1934 – but the accretion of executive power was hidden in the folds of a party reform scarcely noticed by the press or wider public. The next consequence was that the powerful elements in the party […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] run. < http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-germany-us-radar-victims10 09oct08,0,6890601.story > The Sun 8 October 2002 devoted its front page and two inside pages to the discovery that mobile phone transmitters are being hidden in the price signs of garage forecourts. Having screamed ‘Hidden phone masts shock’ on the front, on p. 13 there was a little paragraph giving the […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] have demanded curbs on privacy and the banning of encryption.’ But there is so far no evidence that encryption or steganography (a technique whereby a message is hidden inside a picture or music file transmitted over the internet) were used in planning the 11 Sept. attacks: ‘According to the FBI, the conspirators had not […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] the KGB when running agents in the UK. These two aspects of the trial were held in camera, which meant about half the eight week trial was hidden from public scrutiny. The phone call A useful starting point is the phone call made to my home in Kingston-upon-Thames on the morning of 8 August […]