“The country’s biggest force, the Metropolitan police, is to lobby the attorney general… because officers believe that large sections of the population have become increasingly politicised”
The deadliest terrorists
The real trade of the CIA and Mossad
By Paul J. Balles*
Paul J. Balles argues that intelligence agencies, like the CIA in America and Mossad in Israel, “should have been prize winners as terrorists” because “in dozens of situations around the world, they have indulged their love of instilling fear in innocent people”.
The USA and Israel both have bad habits of labelling anyone they don’t like as terrorists, when the governments of both countries are the greatest terrorists on the planet.
If the bombing, invasion and occupation of Iraq weren’t terrorism at its worst, it’s only because the deaths of 4098 Americans is a more important statistic than the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians…
The designation of resistance groups in occupied Iraq as terrorists and then calling a murder campaign a surge for the good of Iraq is nothing more than continuing acts of terrorism…
Intelligence agencies, like the CIA in America and Mossad in Israel, should have been prize winners as terrorists. In dozens of situations around the world, they have indulged their love of instilling fear in innocent people, especially if those people have little support or know too much…
Let’s get this straight: resistance to occupation or bullying is not terrorism. It’s resistance. Resistance doesn’t become terrorism because the real terrorists continue their brutal attacks and propaganda campaigns against the resistance. Resistance is resistance. Thank God that some people have the courage to resist.
I really should have made some mention here of the recent Carnival Against the Arms Trade last week, but I ran out of time. At least I managed to get something posted to TawNews though…
“Recently smashEDO have been holding “noise demonstrations” outside EDO’s site at Home Farm Road in Brighton every Wednesday afternoon.
But this past Wednesday (4th June) the regular local effort was supplemented by something much larger… the Carnival Against the Arms Trade…
With everyone in high spirits and numbers reaching an estimated 600+, folk having turned up for the event from all over the country and being joined by Critical Mass cyclists, the Carnival set off up the Lewes Road toward EDO’s offices…
…people adopting the fitwatch approach seemed to be all over the place, photographing the cops photographing the Carnival, waving flags in front of the cameras of FIT and local “intelligence-gatherers”, and generally giving the snoop cops a bit of a hard time…
And how many times do we need to witness a largely peaceful (although perhaps noisy) demonstration quickly turn into something potentially quite unpleasant by the provocative over-reactions of the cops?”
The authorities in the illegal Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit, which is built on stolen Palestinian land, regularly open their sewage tanks on to the farmlands of the Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen, ruining crops, contaminating the water table and posing a serious health threat to villagers.
ISRAELI LAW PREVENTS ME FROM CALLING THE EXTERMINATION OF AN ENTIRE PALESTINIAN FAMILY A ‘NAZI ACT’ OF AGGRESSION « Desertpeace
It is forbidden by law in Israel to call somebody a nazi or call any government action a nazi action. Is there any other way to describe the brutal elimination of an entire family in occupied Palestine by the Israeli Air Force…. as they slept in their beds at home? Rather than stopping such crimes against humanity, they make it a crime to compare it to a war crime of the nazis…Forbidden as I am, as an Israeli citizen, to use such words, I will allow my friend Khalid Amayreh, who is a Palestinian, describe the situation and use the ‘n’ word that I’m not allowed to use…..
Since I’ve got involved in this photography lark I’ve posted quite a few bits and pieces here about my escapades, which is not really what I’d intended for this blog in the beginning.
So, as it doesn’t appear that my photographic exploits are stopping anytime soon, and as its therefore likely that I’ll have more photo-related stuff to post, it seemed the most sensible thing would be to set up a dedicated photo-related blog.
Pinching a few of the posts from here just to get it off the ground, I’ve also borrowed one of this blog’s category labels as its name…
Adventures of an Idiot. Please do check it out if you have a few moments, you’re so inclined, and you fancy a bit of a giggle.
(However, the present intention is for it not to be all humour and self-deprecation… hoping to include a few kit reviews, think pieces, and stuff like that over time.)
…to all my regular visitors (all three of them!) for the laggardley way in which I’ve completely failed to blog anything recently.
Reason (excuse) is, I’ve become increasingly preoccupied with all this photography lark.
Best of all possible motives of course. The theory being that the more pics I take the greater the likelihood that I may eventually get my head around how the whole photography thing works. So that when I’m on one of my “jaunts” (at a demo, protest, or whatever) I’m increasing the chances that I’ll return with more usable pics.
Well, that was the theory anyway. In practise, I’ve made the rather disturbing discovery that both taking pics and frequenting Flickr (where I upload most of my output) are actually quite addictive, hence the absence of posts here.
Investors details stay in the post - Yahoo News UK
Confidential information on millions of investors is regularly being sent through the post to HM Revenue and Customs without proper security.
publicitéInvestment managers in the City are required to mail personal data on their clients to HMRC on unencrypted computer disks in spite of the recent outcry over the disappearance of two disks containing information on 25 million child benefit claimants.
HMRC said encrypting the data would be a “recipe for chaos”, as it would not be practical to decrypt information from thousands of different financial institutions using different coding programs.
But the body representing individual savings account ISA and personal equity plan PEP managers said the current situation was putting savers at risk of identity fraud.
Richard Saunders, the chief executive of the Investment Management Association IMA has written to HMRC, saying in the light of the child benefit data scandal, the sending of unsecured data could not be allowed to continue.
“We wrote to David Hartnett, the acting head of HMRC, to bring to his attention that our members were sending data in a form that we thought raised concerns about security,” IMA spokeswoman Mona Patel said.
“If they are not very careful with how they handle that data, investors are at risk of identity theft. Were asking HMRC to come up with new ways of sending the data so the individuals details are not compromised. There must be ways of doing this that are not onerous on the Revenue.”
Fund managers, who handle over 8 million accounts with a total value of billions of pounds, are required to send the HMRC the name, address, date of birth and National Insurance number of every one of their investors, along with how much each individual has saved in PEPs and ISAs.
The intention is to stop people exceeding tax allowances on their investment accounts.
A spokeswoman for HMRC said it would be impractical to ask investment managers to encrypt the data before they sent it. “Its not a question of cost, but practicality. You cant have one side having one encoding system and one having another - its a recipe for chaos.”
