Evidence fiddling by both sides.

Irish research on cigarette packets

Interesting that the BBC can criticise propaganda from Egypt, but failed to do the same for some of the equally invented images from Libya and syria. Surely it’s not all about taking sides? Emoticon with Groucho Marx eyebrows…

Nice piece with several links to related articles.

Press getting worked up about this issue as the Leveson inquiry has concentrated on their invasions of privacy. It is turning out that SOCA knew about other companies in the commercial world doing exactly the same thing. They don’t want to tell M.Ps too much about it. Wonder if they discussed it with the Director … LIST OF 100 HACKING FIRMS GIVEN TO MPS IS ‘THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG’

Whimsical piece on organised crime, politics and the FBI in Boston…with a stress on all this being in the past

Repeat after me: “you have nothing to fear if you are innocent”. Complete abuse of power by police officers, preventing a young woman from getting a job as a result of them harassing her and putting their harassment on the databases such that she turns up as a problem on a CRB check…and they STILL … POLICE APOLOGISE FOR ‘HARASSMENT’ OF FORENSIC GRADUATE

The BBC report is absolutely shocking. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-23341818 especially when you read it in conjunction with the later report from the Independent that I posted earlier.

Hints of all sort of fraud and related criminality here…but the full story isn’t told…presumably laws of slander and libel keep stuff quiet?

Included primarily because of the map provided and the brief discussion of whether a decapitation strategy against drug gangs might actually make the situation worse.