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UK-News« Previous EntriesBoris Johnson pulls out of Mayors for PeaceTuesday, August 12th, 2008By Kate Hudson | Last month, Boris Johnson announced the withdrawal of London’s membership of the global ‘Mayors for Peace’ initiative. This was founded by the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1982, in an effort to prevent any other city going through similar suffering. In 1945, atom bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US air force, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths, ... tagged UK-NewsHOO U GONNA COAL?Saturday, August 9th, 2008SchNews | It's another mediocre summer and we’re back at the Camp for Climate Action. First there was Drax, then Heathrow and now the sequel... Climate Camp III has been set on the east coast of Kent three miles or so from Kingsnorth - already home to a power station that pumps out as much carbon dioxide as the 30 least-polluting countries in the world combined – and ... tagged UK-NewsClass War Reply To The New StatesmanFriday, August 8th, 2008Class War | The 7 August issue of the New Statesman has a lengthy piece by Stephan Armstrong on "The New Spies". Amongst an analysis of the private security industry targeting protesters at events like the Kent climate camp, Armstrong makes the curious claim that Class War was run by the security services in the 1990s. News to us. Below is a reply from a member of London Class War ... tagged UK-NewsCloned e-passports fiasco renews calls for £4.7bn ID card scheme to be axedThursday, August 7th, 2008Opposition MPs accused the Government last night of being naive in believing that new microchipped passports would be foolproof against criminals involved in identity theft. After The Times disclosed that new passports could be cloned and manipulated in minutes and would then be accepted as genuine, MPs also gave warning of serious implications for the security of the Government's £4.7 billion identity card scheme. The identity card project, which starts this year ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsInfosecurity adviser says there are greater intrusions to fear than the DNA databaseThursday, August 7th, 2008Mike Barwise, from Infosecurity Adviser, the online forum run by the Infosecurity Europe team, has revealed he is less concerned about the privacy issues that the National DNA Database creates than other planned government files. "The media seems preoccupied at the moment about people's DNA being stored centrally, but the reality is that the database is really a one-dimensional invasion of citizen's privacy," he said. "Two-dimensional databases, such as the planned telecommunications ... tagged Database-State and UK-NewsUnmanned spy planes to police BritainThursday, August 7th, 2008By Kim Sengupta | The Government is drawing up plans to use unmanned "drone" aircraft currently deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan to counter terrorism and aid police operations in Britain. The MoD is carrying out research and development to enable the spy planes, which are equipped with highly sophisticated monitoring equipment that allows them to secretly track and photograph suspects without their knowledge, to be deployed within three years. The plans ... tagged UK-NewsSecret EU security draft risks uproar with call to pool policing and give US personal dataThursday, August 7th, 2008Europe should consider sharing vast amounts of intelligence and information on its citizens with the US to establish a "Euro-Atlantic area of cooperation" to combat terrorism, according to a high-level confidential report on future security. The 27 members of the EU should also pool intelligence on terrorism, develop joint video-surveillance and unmanned drone aircraft, start networks of anti-terrorism centres, and boost the role and powers of an intelligence-coordinating body in Brussels, ... tagged EU and UK-NewsE-Passports ‘can be cloned’Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Microchipped passports the Government claim are foolproof can be cloned in minutes, it has been reported. By Jon Swaine Test results suggest that criminals could copy innocent travellers' passports and manipulate their data, replacing the photograph or other information with their own. The apparent flaws cast doubt on the Government's insistence that 3,000 blank passports stolen from a vehicle last week are worthless and could not be used. The security of ... tagged UK-News and UNWhite House ‘buried British intelligence on Iraq WMDs’Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Tim Reid in Washington and Sam Coates in London | MI6 told Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq that a high-placed Iraqi source said that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence was passed to the US but was buried by the White House, according to a new book. The book claimed that the former Prime Minister sent a top British spy to the Middle ... tagged UK-News and White-HouseClimate change protesters deny they are armedTuesday, August 5th, 2008guardian.co.uk | Climate change protesters today accused police of conducting a smear campaign after officers said they had recovered knives and makeshift weapons during searches of the protest camp at Kingsnorth power station in Kent. Police said the confiscated items "strongly indicated" that a hardcore group of protesters intended to break the law. Gary Beautridge, the assistant chief constable of Kent police, said that while most of the ... tagged Climate-Change and UK-NewsDiego Garcia: the UK’s shameTuesday, August 5th, 2008By Andy Worthington | The ancient Greek dramatist Aeschylus wrote: "In war, truth is the first casualty." These words are particularly apt in relation to the British Overseas Territory of Diego Garcia, leased to the United States in 1971, where the truth – that a secret "War on Terror" prison existed from 2002 until as recently as 2006 – has been persistently denied by both the British and ... tagged UK-NewsSecret deal kept British Army out of battle for BasraTuesday, August 5th, 2008By Deborah Haynes in Baquba and Michael Evans | A secret deal between Britain and the notorious al-Mahdi militia prevented British Forces from coming to the aid of their US and Iraqi allies for nearly a week during the battle for Basra this year, The Times has learnt. Four thousand British troops – including elements of the SAS and an entire mechanised brigade – watched from the sidelines ... tagged UK-NewsUK government spends 2 million on TV documentaries promoting their policiesMonday, August 4th, 2008The government's Orwellian-named "Central Office of Information" has been funding a series of ITV documentaries which paint their policies in a positive light. The programmes were made to look like regular documentaries, and most viewers would not have known that they were government-funded. Back in 2006, the Times was reporting that the government were ploughing an estimated 200,000 pounds into a fly-on-the-wall ITV documentary, ... tagged UK-NewsPolice get £160m of bonuses in one yearMonday, August 4th, 2008By Christopher Hope | The payments were condemned by frontline officers and even a police chief who benefited personally from them. Taxpayer groups said the payments raised "serious questions" about why so much was paid out. Officers of all ranks can earn thousands in bonuses for extra duties on top of their salaries and overtime allowances. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act showed that police pocketed £157million last ... tagged UK-NewsFirst UK ID card contract with Thales worth £18mMonday, August 4th, 2008By Jeremy Kirk | Thales has won a four-year contract worth £18 million for the UK's national ID card programme, which aims to keep closer track of its citizens to cut down on crime and fraud. The contract is the first to be awarded, according to the UK Identity and Passport Service (IPS). Thales will design and test the National Identity Register, a database that will hold peoples' personal ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-News« Previous Entries |
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