This is the story of the unexpected explosion in an Exeter restaurant. Leaves many unanswered questions, which appears to be the way the authorities want it.

Well actually they’ve seized the assets of an alleged couple of members of the HerbalKing gang who are responsible for all the sex drug messages you get each day. It wont immediately reduce the amount of spam in our inboxes. The gang controls a botnet of 30,000 zombie computers. This sends out 10 billion messages … US SHUTS DOWN GLOBAL SPAM GANG

Full report available at: http://www.shift4.com/pdf/s4-wp0806_terrorism-and-credit-card-information-theft.pdf

Seems like a good idea. As long as it isnt just an excuse for big dinners masquerading as cooperation. Drugs and cigarettes the prime targets, but trafficking in human beings also a problem.

Ah me! Once we used to say that the continental police were surveillance agents of the state and our police were servants of the public. Remember how recently the state was supposed to be reducing its role and even withering away? Another victory for the enemies of democracy, or the unholy alliance of spooks and … SECURITY SERVICES WANT PERSONAL DATA FROM SITES LIKE FACEBOOK

Chief Inspector of Prisons singles out Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire as having a particular problem with an extremist group pressurising othe Muslims, but also non-Muslims.

Article also mentions banned gas refrigerants…presumably CFCs? Report from the Environmental Investigation Agency. http://www.eia-international.org/ This is a UK-based charity.

Makes sense. So many people with no clue as to what’s going on, or who they bank with are all going to be easier to convince to send their details and passwords in response to an email.

This had to come from the Telegraph. Part of a campaign to warn Ukrainian women of the dangers of seeking black market employment in the West

I missed this in last week’s news. This is the Northern Bank robbery in Belfast of which the IRA have been accused and Sinn Fein have denied involvement. Evidence against an individual alleged by prosecutors to be the “inside man” turns out to have been circumstantial and open to a totally different interpretation, so prosecution … MAN CLEARED OF £26.5 MILLION BANK ROBBERY