Ross & Brand V Sachs…

WHO GIVES A FUCK. REALLY?!

Apparently there are a lot of people out there (at least 30,000 odd so far if you believe a word in the papers) who feel this `event` is worthy of some kind of attention. These are the same people who seem to be remarkably silent over anything which is truly worthy of outrage, like, oh I don’t know, our Government and Banking institutions thieving from us of late in what amounts to the largest transfer of wealth from the (already) poor to the rich, or say, murdering foreign women and children (almost a million last count) in their own country, all to make a quick couple of billion. These simpletons don’t have an opinion when it comes to that. Too much to process.

 

Are your lives that fucking empty you need to whip yourselves into a frenzy over a couple of nobodies leaving a message on a nobodies answerphone? Apparently so.  Mind you, papers like the Guardian (and to be fair, all the others) don’t help when they chip into the group wank with preciously retarded shit like “Timeline: ‘Sachsgate’ “…and “Full coverage of the Brand-Ross affair ” - RREEEEEEEEEEETARDS…

Edit: Also people commenting on how their “license fee” is being used to facilitate “this kind of thing”. Fuck…. I don’t hear many of you bitching about (considerably larger amounts) of your money (stolen in the form of taxes) being spunked on the military to rape and pillage foreign lands, resulting in streams of the most horrific injuries and deaths, so some asshat can get a backhander from some other asshat so he can afford more private jets, cocaine and whores to abuse… (mind you I expect thost last two things would upset – drugs and sex – holy fucking mother of god no…) 

Also, I don’t hear anyone denying that Brand fucked that Georgie. So did he? Are there pictures? Can I see them?

Centuries of British freedoms being ‘broken’ by security state, says Sir Ken Macdonald

Centuries of British civil liberties risk being broken by the relentless pressure from the ‘security state’, the country’s top prosecutor has warned.

Outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald warned that the expansion of technology by the state into everyday life could create a world future generations “can’t bear”.

In his wide-ranging speech, Sir Ken appeared to condemn a series of key Government policies, attacking terrorism proposals – including 42 day detention – identity card plans and the “paraphernalia of paranoia”.

Instead, he said, the Government should insist that “our rights are priceless” and that: “The best way to face down those threats is to strengthen our institutions rather than to degrade them.”

The intervention will be seen as a significant setback to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith who last week saw her plans to lock up terror suspects for 42 days before being charged thrown out by the House of Lords.

It is also a blow to Miss Smith’s plans for a super-database to record the details of millions of people’s online presence, including emails, SMS messages and Facebook profiles as well as the controversial identity card programme.

Cambridgeshire, ID Cards and Chocolate Teapots…

Plans to introduce ID cards have been attacked by Cambridgeshire County Council.

Councillors said the scheme – which the Government claims will boost national security – would be as much use for protecting Cambridgeshire residents from terrorism as “chocolate teapots”.

The council resolved to make representations “at every possible stage” reiterating its opposition and will not require ID cards to be produced when residents access services.

Cambridgeshire County Conuncil in the latest in a long list of councils to pass such a motion; a partial list is available here.

THE STALKER STATE

From www.no2id.net comment

 

The mainstream media has finally begun to pick up on the appalling Communications Data Bill, which NO2ID has been warning people about since the summer, and before.

As usual, the government is misdirecting the argument. It says it won’t be storing the content of your telephone or internet use, as if that makes it all right. It is proposing to record – for life – the details of everyone you call or write to and what websites you visit.

Monitoring your communications is more intrusive than searching your home. It should only ever be done under warrant, with good reason. The general convenience of the Home Office is a very bad reason indeed.

Do you want the state (and anyone who can gain access to the system) to have a record of your religious and political beliefs, your sexual interests and relationships, your financial and medical worries – “just in case” they ever become of interest to the authorities? Were an individual to spy on you like this, it would be called stalking. It is a crime.

You wouldn’t tolerate someone creeping into your home at any time, night and day, to go through your and your family’s private things. You shouldn’t put up with this.

Write NOW to your MP, expressing your disgust at the British government moving to spying on its people continually, and ask what he or she intends to do about it. (N.B. Please write in your own words – it is much more effective.)

Woohoo! Jörg Haider dies in horrific car smash…

Jörg Haider who was Governor of Carinthia on two separate occasions, and an incredibly smug looking twat, not to mention being a complete cunt – has died in a car accident. It would appear the monkey was pissed and speeding (1) - ahahaha – what a cunt!.

Ah well, one down, several more to go.

 

(1) news.ORF.at – Jörg Haider tödlich verunglückt” (in German). Österreichischer Rundfunk (2008-10-12). Retrieved on 2008-10-13

Special Farces…”Special” indeed…

See previous story about how this bunch of jumped up retards manged to kill 4 kids out of a total of 8 “targets”. Or did they just think, fuck them, foreign cunts anyway? Eh? I wonder… still I suppose it stops them growing up into “terrorists”. Or anything at all.  

I guess when they say these guys were “Special” Forces, it was in the same way we have “Special” needs and “Special” schools.

What a bunch of prize fucking morons. Still, job well done eh lads?

Coz 4 out of 8 ain’t bad…

Thank Holy fucking God for the US military protecting our freedoms! Go Team America…

KILL THE KIDS – Before they grow up and become Terrorists! HELL YEA! …

” US helicopters flying from Iraq landed inside Syria yesterday and dropped special forces who killed eight people, including four children, the Damascus government said today as Washington admitted it had targeted “foreign fighters”.

Syria warned it held the US “wholly responsible for this act of aggression and all its repercussions”.

It described the dead as Syrian civilians, five of them members of the same family. Syrian state television said the attack was against a farm near Abu Kamal, five miles from the Iraqi border. Doctors in nearby al-Sukkariya said another seven people were taken to hospital with bullet wounds.

The attack threatened to unleash a new wave of anti-US feeling in Syria and across the Middle East. The country’s president, Bashar al-Assad, is being courted by Europe and had been looking forward to improved relations with Washington after the November 4 presidential election.

News of the attack has led news bulletins across the Arab world. The Syrian newspaper Tishin called it a “US war crime”.

Syria summoned the US charge d’affaires in Damascus to explain the attack. It called on the Iraqi government to prevent its airspace being used in such a way in future.

“This is an outrageous raid which is against international law,” the Syrian ambassador to London, Sami al-Khiyami, told Reuters. “It is a terrible crime. We are expecting clarifications from the Americans.”

Eyewitnesses said eight US soldiers landed in two helicopters and the dead were building workers. A senior Syrian source, quoted by the official Sana news agency, said four helicopters violated Syrian airspace. The source described the target as a “civilian building under construction”.

In Washington, an unnamed military official told the Associated Press news agency the raid targeted elements of a “foreign fighter logistics network”. It was because of Syrian inaction, the official said, that the US was “taking matters into our own hands”. It is the first known US attack on Syrian soil.

An Iraqi government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, told Reuters: “The attacked area was the scene of activities of terrorist groups operating from Syria against Iraq.”

Farhan al-Mahalawi, the mayor of the Iraqi border town of Qaim, told Reuters the targeted village had been surrounded by Syrian troops.

In Israel, a security official said the country was not involved. Last year, Israel destroyed an alleged nuclear site in northern Syria.

Qaim has been a significant crossing point for foreign fighters, weapons and money entering Iraq to fuel the Sunni insurgency. Last Thursday, the commander of US forces in western Iraq told reporters US troops were redoubling efforts to secure the Syrian border. Major General John Kelly said Iraq’s western borders with Saudi Arabia and Jordan were fairly tight as a result of good policing by security forces in those countries, but Syria was “a different story”.

Thabet Salem, a political analyst, told the Arabic-language TV news channel al-Jazeera the US appeared to have mistaken building workers for infiltrators. “It will raise questions as to why this is happening towards the end of the current US administration,” he said.

Last year the then US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, praised Syria’s cooperation in reducing violence in Iraq. But Syria has since refused to restart intelligence-sharing with the US until Washington recognises its assistance by returning an ambassador to Damascus.

Joshua Landis, a US expert on Syria, said last night: “The Bush administration must assume that an Obama victory will force Syria to behave nicely in order to win favour with the new administration. Thus White House analysts may assume that it can have a freebie – taking a bit of personal revenge on Syria without the US paying a price.”

Syria is due to take a step in from the cold today when its foreign minister, Walid al-Mualim, visits London to hear praise for its newly conciliatory policies in Lebanon. Officials are expected to urge him to distance his nation from Iran.

In recent months, Syria has established diplomatic relations with Lebanon and held several rounds of indirect talks with Israel, with Turkey acting as broker. In July, President Assad was invited to an EU summit in Paris. “

Organized crime tampers with European card swipe devices

Wow, couldn’t see this coming…

Hundreds of card swipers used by retail stores across Europe are believed to have been tampered by organized crime syndicates in China and Pakistan, according to US National Counterintelligence Executive Joel Brenner (described as the “US top cyber security official”).

Brenner told The Daily Telegraph that criminals have doctored chip and PIN machines either during manufacturing in China or shortly after leaving the production line in order to send shopper credit card account details overseas. The devices were then expertly resealed and exported to Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Belgium.

“Previously only a nation state’s intelligence service would have been capable of pulling off this type of operation,” Brenner told the publication. “It’s scary.”

Hundreds of devices have been copying credit and debit card details over the past nine months and sending the data by way of mobile phone networks to tech-savvy criminals in Lahore, Pakistan, The Telegraph reports.

MasterCard International has alerted stores in affected areas and determined doctored devices can most easily be revealed by virtue of weighing an extra three to four ounces due to the additional parts they contain. MasterCard first uncovered the plot at the start of the year after detecting suspicious charges to British and other European accounts.

The scam is believed to have resulted in the loss of tens of millions of pounds by criminals creating cloned cards, making phone or internet transactions, or withdrawing cash from the account. The Telegraph reports the thieves usually wait at least two months before using the stolen data in order to make it harder for investigators to determine what happened.

Brenner said the scam should motivate card swipe device makers to not only do more testing, but guard their supply chain in the same way jewelry suppliers do.

The European Central Bank played a shockingly destructive role

Photo: REUTERS

Europe falls into the abyss…

We face extreme danger. Unless there is immediate intervention on every front by all the major powers acting in concert, we risk a disintegration of global finance within days. Nobody will be spared, unless they own gold bars.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Last Updated: 8:37PM BST 06 Oct 2008

Investors will learn today whether the Paulson bail-out – fattened to $850bn (£480bn) by Congress – can begin to halt the death spiral in the credit system. So far, the response looks terrible.

Germany is now in the hot seat. The collapse of a rescue deal for Hypo Real Estate on Saturday threatens a €400bn (£311bn) bankruptcy that nearly matches the Lehman Brothers debacle for sheer scale.

Chancellor Angela Merkel has been forced to pull her head out of the sand, guaranteeing all German savings, a day after she rebuked Ireland for doing much the same thing. Reality intrudes.

During the past week, we have tipped over the edge, into the middle of the abyss. Systemic collapse is in full train. The Netherlands has just rushed through a second, more sweeping nationalisation of Fortis. Ireland and Greece have had to rescue all their banks. Iceland is facing an Argentine denouement.

The US commercial paper market is closed. It shrank $95bn last week, and has lost $208bn in three weeks. The interbank lending market has seized up. There are almost no bids. It is a ghost market. Healthy companies cannot roll over debt. Some will have to sack staff today to stave off default.

As the unflappable Warren Buffett puts it, the credit freeze is “sucking blood” out of the economy. “In my adult lifetime, I don’t think I’ve ever seen people as fearful,” he said.

We are fast approaching the point of no return. The only way out of this calamitous descent is “shock and awe” on a global scale, and even that may not be enough.

Drastic rate cuts would be a good start. Central bankers still paralysed by a misplaced fear of inflation – whether in Europe, Britain, or the US – have become a public menace and should be held to severe account by our democracies. The imminent and massive danger is now self-feeding debt deflation.

The lesson of the 1930s is that any country trying to reflate in isolation will be punished. The crisis will ricochet from one economy to another until every one is crippled. We are seeing it play again in this drama as our leaders fail to rise above their narrow, parochial agendas.

The European Central Bank – which raised rates into the teeth of the crisis in July – has played a shockingly destructive role in this enveloping slump. Its growth predictions this year have been, and still are, delusional. Neglecting its global role, it has vastly complicated the fire-fighting efforts of Washington.

It could have offered “cover” to the US Federal Reserve this spring when Ben Bernanke was forced by events to slash rates to 2pc. It could at least have signalled an end to monetary tightening. That is how an ally ought to behave.

Instead, it stuck maniacally to its Gothic script, with equally unhappy consequences for both sides of the Atlantic, as well as for China, Japan, and India. The euro rocketed yet further, which it turn set off an oil shock as crude metamorphosed into an anti-dollar with leverage.

Continues here… http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/3141428/Germany-takes-hot-seat-as-Europe-falls-into-the-abyss.html