[…] a variety of systems. In part this is a result of the traditional autonomy of the individual police force; in part the consequence of learning to apply new technology. The police (and the software companies) have spent the last few years learning how to do it. (2) But now the Home Office (which pays […]
[…] Telecom can monitor thousands of calls per day overseas calls are sent to GCHQ which runs them through a ‘voice print’ library to identify the speaker. ( New Scientist 28 February 1985) Interesting background support to this in Andreas Whittam Smith in Telegraph (16 February 1985) who quotes on history of British tapping. Claims […]
[…] for the US neo-cons being legendary – is: a) supporting France and Germany’s bid to build an EU defence force outside of NATO; and b) has appointed new cardinals, who, mirroring the Anglicans, are likely to reinforce Roman Catholicism as the global friend of all faiths. Meantime, long-established non-spiritual Christian groups/charities are moving in […]
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, New York University Press, 1998, £l7.95 Savitri Devi – real name Maximiani Portas; she was part Greek, part French – is an odd subject for a biography. This is someone of little importance to anyone other than extreme environmentalists and/or the ultra-right. Even the title is misleading. She never met Hitler (so […]
[…] former engineering union leader Lord Bill Jordan, and former Labour party chairman Lord Clarke of Hampstead. Eric Joyce MP, the former Army officer wheeled out to defend New Labours military interventions when no minister is available, serves on the MPs executive committee of LFI. Mea culpas from some…. Chairing LFI these days is Jon […]
[…] to kill Hitler), Martin Borman convened and chaired a conference at Strassburg to supervise the mass shifting of capital overseas: ‘……so that after the defeat a strong new Reich can be built.’ The routes selected for this ran via Switzerland. (3) Estimates for the actual amounts shifted by Borman et al vary but a […]
[…] in the American world of dreams, dream interpretation, dream therapy, shamen etc. Check out or the many clips of Moss qua dream expert on and wonder a new at the strangeness of the world. PPPiffle In a piece in The Evening Standard of 13 March Chris Blackhurst reminded Londoners that the Metronet PPP deal, […]
[…] a very specific formula. The writer first notes with shock and disappointment the growing popularity of conspiracy theories and then goes on to provide explanations for this new popularity. This explanation almost always assumes that these theories about the ‘true’ nature of social reality exist to satisfy some psychological need in their audience. Perhaps […]
A new royalty? A few weeks before former BBC political editor Andrew Marr received two Broadcasting Press Guild awards – one as ‘best TV performer in a non-acting role’ – his journalistic colleagues were quietly made aware of a little drama in his own life. Typical of the message from editorial lawyers circulated among […]
[…] that Labour could not be trusted to run the economy competently, a view frequently promoted thereafter by the Conservative Party and then, in the 1990s, by ‘ new’ Labour. The criticisms from the right were reinforced from the left by arguments that Wilson, his Chancellor Jim Callaghan and George Brown, the Secretary of State […]
