EU BANKS NAMED IN DIRTY MONEY REPORT

Ah. Back to business as usual. Global Witness has brought out a report detailing the business done between EU banks and corrupt regimes.Undue Diligence-Banks: Helping the poor to get poorer: http://www.undue-diligence.org/I havent had a chance to read it yet, but it sounds excellent.

STASI HQ UK…WHERE DETAILS OF YOUR JOURNEY ARE SECRETLY LOGGED AND KEPT

I’m having a right-wing day clearly. This one appears to be from the Daily Mail, but its actually a Facebook group too, called “Eating lentils doesnt make me a terrorist suspect” Now, the Mail seems to go berserk about “profiling” which is in fact a perfectly respectable technique, designed to minimise the number of people STASI HQ UK…WHERE DETAILS OF YOUR JOURNEY ARE SECRETLY LOGGED AND KEPT

FINANCIAL FRAUD IS FOCUS OF ATTACK BY PROSECUTORS

Pity they didnt start sooner. I suppose the difference is that juries want blood. Defendants will know that conviction is more than likely and will plea bargain. But the article suggests they will either plead stupidity, or “everyone else was doing it”. Only obeying orders, eh? This all happening in the US.

HOW RISKY IS THAT DRINK?

Nothing to do with crime…yet! But I know many of my readers have been hiding behind the red wine alibi for years. As your blogger completes three months of abstinence, he just thought a cautionary word would be timely…Mind you, it’s British research, all of which seems to be done by a combination of the HOW RISKY IS THAT DRINK?