Controlled by the Chinese Government? Or by freelance hackers? Or a set-up by Western Intelligence Agencies? Report from the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. There doesnt seem to be a link to it in the New york Times article.

Phew. What a relief. Sometimes I begin to think that it’s my eyes that are beginning to swivel. Seumas Milne’s article in the Guardian [yeah I know. All you swivel-eyed UKIP supporters out there think the Guardian is evil] restore a sense of proportion. hazel Blear’s decision to cut links with the Muslim Council of … THIS COUNTER-TERROISM PLAN IS IN RUIN. TRY ONE THAT WORKS

This is one of the great headlines. As Jacqui Smith creates her army of 60,000 to fight terrorism, presumably they will all have these powers too. OK, swivel-eyers, I do quote the Torygraph in this blog as well as the Antichrist Gazette [Guardian]. These powers must go! But will the Tories promise to abolish them? … COUNCILS LAUNCH 20,000 SPYING MISSIONS ON FAIRY LIGHT THIEVES AND ILLEGAL CRAB SELLERS

From the New York Times, and the article is widely quoted in the US Press today. Alleges proof from electronic surveillance and trusted informants. The only dispute is as to whether the connections reach right to the top of the ISI or stop in the middle levels. A direct quote from the article: “Little is … OFFICCIALS LAY OUT DETAILS OF HOW PAKISTAN’S SPY AGENCY SUPPORT MILITANT GROUPS

German police may have been hunting a non-existent woman for 15 years. Hmmm…and DNA is “infallible”? Identical female DNA found at 40 crime scenes. If they had had a DNA database of everybody, some poor cotton bud manufacturer might have gone down for a very long time. Of course not! the innocent have nothing to … DNA “BUNGLE” HAUNTS GERMAN POLICE

This is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accepting US responsibility for Mexico’s problems. The beauty of this particular piece is the map at the bottom showing the influence ares of individual drug cartels.

Oh God. They’ve got personnel departments in Russia. Even the Ministry of the Interior…Why? Flower arranging classes next and group hugs with their clients. You will love their new code of behaviour. Only a personnel department could have vreated it…ah well, here comes the Human Resource Management Department, careering down the road in a VW … MINISTRY TRIES TO MAKE GENTLEMEN OF COPS

Lovely phrase! This raid was mentioned last year, when the raid occured, somewhere around June. Operation Rize was its name. 40 arrested, 11 charged and 700 referred to HMRC for tax evasion involving £15 million. More than half the over 3,500 boxes suspected of connections to criminality.

Lord Guthrie, former Chief of Defence Staff comments on the Government’s counter-terrorist strategy. I find his argument and his conclusions somewhat at odds with each other. I thought he was going to argue one set of lessons from Northern Ireland, but he argues exactly the opposite. For that very reason, it deserves to be in … THIS IS NO WAY TO COUNTER ISLAMIC TERROR

David Aaronovitch, another man who seems terribly confused. He is right, however, to question the objectivity of a Report drawn up by people who all think the same way. He is incorrect on the reasons the European Court of Human Rights declared the DNA database illegal. The problem was that once your DNA has been … STAND UP FOR CONVICTS, IF YOU WANT TO BE FAIR