Article really says that intelligence chiefs have to plan how to cope with a similar attack on a city for which they are responsible. It isnt yet clear how many gunmen there were, after all.

Another feud that will run and run. Its important to try and understand motivation and history here. Then the economics, which are massively important for motorcycle gangs elsewhere in the world.

Given that all UK politicians seem capable of doing is copying US madness, here’s a vision of our future. If you pay $100 a day for each suspected illegal immigrant locked up, everyone gets locked up. “In a sinking economy, immigration detention is a rare growth industry.” Just make sure you have papers and they’re … THE RESULTS OF THE PRIVATISATION OF IMMIGRATION DETENTION

I wonder if anyone has worked out the economic consequences of that? Risk-profiling? It all sounds good as an attack on human trafficking, and on class A drug taking, but there are other impacts to assess.

End of a particularly unpleasant campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences and its suppliers?

Winter a common time for burglaries from boats. Leave a note saying all valuables have been removed. Not sure how many boatowners read this blog, but thefts up 20% in 2008

i assume George Monbiot is OK? This from “the Truth Seeker”, which sounds a bit swively-eyed and green inky: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/ But fits with today’s other posts: end of the animal rights militia, so the cops need a new enemy!

Aim of carabinieri to prevent the rebuilding of the Sicilian Mafia. Other papers say that those arrested were trying to set up a Supreme Council to resolve disputes

Neo Nazi skinhead gangs being blamed, but for the first time, political demands have been made and an unknown group has claimed responsibility for a beheading.

More beheadings, this time in Mexico. Article effectively argues that this is criminal terrorism the work of “terrorist mafias”, trying to intimidate the government into stopping its crackdown.