The paedophilia enterprise is huge. Operation Fairplay provides tracking software now used by 18 countries. Article incoherent in places. A quick google search shows that the last Operation Fairplay was Zia ul Haq’a coupd’etat against Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Pakistan. Hmmmm. There appear to be issues here: http://www.protect.org/newswire/pdf/deconflictionwp.pdf The link is to a white paper … OFFICIALS FIND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ON 20,000 VIRGINIA COMPUTERS

Now let’s watch the DPP shuffle out of the case anyway. Ive used the Guardian’s post, as it’s likely to be the most disgustingly partisan. Will see if the BBC is more restrained. Then will giggle at the Murdoch “press”.

If you know the white collar crime literature, you wont be surprised, but this seems to be a shift towards the City of London approach. El Presidente and his henchmen prepare their corporate niches for retirement? Wonder what Wolfowitz made of it all? One of the cases cited here by the Washington Post rather undermines … IN JUSTICE SHIFT, CORPORATE DEALS REPLACE TRIALS

This seems to follow on seamlessly from the two previous posts. Clare Longrigg analyses the letters of Bernardo Provenzano, jailed Cosa Nostra boss, from prison. Discussion of a convergence between licit and illicit businesses and their methods. The article is really a book promotion: Boss of Bosses: How Bernardo Provenzano saved the Mafia. Since it … HOW TO DO BUSINESS LIKE THE MAFIA

Several unprosecuted shootings have happened over the last couple of years. This piece int eh EU Observer follows on an earlier post about problems in Romania and Bulgaria. Not clear what the solution is going to be, if the governments concerned aren’t going to be proactive. Having visited one of the countries concerned, the problem … BRUSSELS CALLS FOR “URGENT ACTION” AGAINST ORGANISED CRIME IN BULGARIA

Sordid story about a fellow planted on a bunch of airport activists called “Plane Stupid”. Allegedly behaved like an agent provocateur and planted his own wilder suggestions in the Evening Standard. Will Plod be investigating him? Or has no law been broken?

Yippee! This is the lead article today in Le Monde. Thank goodness someone wants to control video surveillance of public places, somewhere! CNIL is the National Commission for Information and Freedom [loose translation!] Theyve noticed the move from analog to digital storing of pictures and the consequences of this for searching. Bad news is that … LE CNIL VEUT COTROLER LA VIDEOSURVEILLANCE DE LIEUX PUBLIQUES

Nope. Not what you think at all. Number of detained Muslim extremists dropped from 257 in 2006 to 201 in 2007, so headline is misleading. 89% of all terrorist attacks linked to separatism on Spain or France. EU nationals being recruited for activity in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. Now, children…are we perhaps overreacting? Compare what … HOMEGROWN TERORISM RISING IN EU, EUROPOL SAYS

Interesting article by John Zdanowicz with lots of data in it for Klaus von Lampe to discuss.ALso a plug for the site: moneylaundering.com

Given the amount of EU terrorism that is ETA related, maybe this is a mistake. Its certainly an unreasonably long headline! Lead Story on today’s Cambio Siglo XXI. The Gen Sec of the Spanish Socialists, Mr. White [Sr. Blanco] is telling the “Popular Party” [the right wing] that there is no way they will return … BLANCO PIDE AL PP QUE CREA EL PSOE CUANDO DICE QUE NO HAY POSIBILIDAD DE DIALOGO CON ETA