The view from the bridge

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[…] our environment, with the risk of adverse impacts on flora and fauna. 5. 5G will increase energy consumption. 6. 5G will usher in a regime of total surveillance. 7. 5G will create an insatiable need for rare earth elements and more toxic e-waste. 8. 5G from space is a tragedy of the cosmic commons. […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] wearing plain clothes, and shot dead in highly controversial circumstances. This is wrong on at least two levels. Firstly, it was a combination of MI5 and Spanish surveillance that followed them across the border.13 Secondly, Taylor’s use of ‘confronted’ might imply that a clear warning had been given before each killing; but that certainly […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] wearing plain clothes, and shot dead in highly controversial circumstances. This is wrong on at least two levels. Firstly, it was a combination of MI5 and Spanish surveillance that followed them across the border.13 Secondly, Taylor’s use of ‘confronted’ might imply that a clear warning had been given before each killing; but that certainly […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] one story caught my eye. In the Daily Express (12 April) James Fielding began his story, headlined ‘MI6 covered up historic child sex abuse ring discovered during surveillance operation’, with this: ‘MI6 infiltrated the Kincora boys’ home in east Belfast to spy on William McGrath’.1 He continued: ‘The ex-intelligence officer said MI6 was ordered […]

View from Bridge

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[…] pro Russia? https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/07/31/without-integrity-the-debunking-ofthe-metadata-debunkers/ Duncan Campbell William Binney and the whole DNC hacked thing. Boy this is complex – beyond my ken. ……… Barton Gellman on Snowden and surveillance https://www.theatlantic.com/ magazine/archive/2020/06/edward-snowden-operation-firstfruits/610573/? utm_source=digg The Channel 4 News chief who sparked an impartiality row with No 10 by calling Boris John a “known liar” is to step […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Hank Greenspun at the Las Vegas Sun. (Kalmbach testimony, 3 HJC 615-617). O’Brien later observed, ‘As the target of Watergate, I was at various times placed under surveillance, my telephones were wiretapped, my files were ransacked. But for me the stunning manipulation of the power of the IRS can be considered the most shocking […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] controllers but they tell him to keep it for himself. It can be safely assumed that British intelligence had the environs of the Soviet Embassy under photographic surveillance and MI6 could have used that as evidence to show Wynne taking money from the Russians. *new* Slating Slate ‘We Cracked the Redactions in the Ghislaine […]

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation around the World by Antony Loewenstein

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with active measure to reduce the impacts of surging temperatures but instead ghettoize themselves, Israel-style. What this means in practice is higher walls and tighter borders, greater surveillance of refugees, facial recognition, drones, smart fences, and biometric databases. By 2025, the border surveillance industrial complex is estimated to be worth US$68 billion, and Israeli […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] even denied a solicitor until she pointed out legal requirements. In the aftermath, she noticed putty all over the floor and believes her home was bugged, i.e. surveillance devices were implanted in the walls and concealed with wall putty. Sarah says her passport was confiscated without any police acknowledgement. As part of her bail […]

Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] related diseases. Its diagnostic relevance has not been lessened by advances in haematology automation and molecular techniques.’105 The blood count was ordered as part of intensified medical surveillance as Hess became aged. That Coulter count showed anemia and the blood smear was performed in accordance with standards of care.106 Even if a blood smear […]

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