I have always told my family that should I ever end up in a vegetative state living only on life support, I would rather have them pull the plug. But this new law the Mental Capacity Act is not about pulling the plug. This law is about individuals who have non recoverable or diminished mental capability, and instructs doctors to stop feeding them so that they will die of starvation, and/or to stop providing them with liquids so that they will die of thirst (from dehydration).   more »

So the UNELECTED morons in the European Commission have done it again. Broken the rules, given away your private data, and nobody gives a shit. What are we?, us the citizens, just masses to be ignored, shat on and taken for granted other than a money machine to milk.   more »

As a commenter, I rarely resort to using gutter language, but tonight as I watch news items come in from around the world, I am fucking angry and I have had enough. I am not militant, I am not politically motivated in any way, but the actions of you and your moronic government are driving me and many other people in this land to the point of revolt.   more »

With the Break-up of the Home Office, dividing duties between a newly named Ministry of Justice and for all intents and purposes a Ministry of the Interior the UK Cabinet now mimics exactly the key Cabinet posts as Hitler had his at the time he took control of Germany. It also fits in very comfortably with the Common European model as outlined by the European Commission, and the confusion caused during this ‘reorganisation’ presents an opportunity for a budding Dictator.   more »

Is Sir Ian Blair a gung ho Walter Mitty or a pathological liar. It would certainly appear that he has tendencies in both directions after reading the account given for his ‘alleged’ involvement in Balcombe Street siege.   more »

Checks will be made on all children to identify potential criminals under an extension of the "surveillance state" announced by Tony Blair. A Downing Street review of law and order also foreshadowed greater use of sophisticated CCTV, an expanded DNA database and "instant justice" powers for police....   more »

The NUJ (National Union of Journalists) have exposed the workings of a ‘journalist’ who appears to have based his career on rehashing stories and disinformation fed to him from MI6. The Press Complaints Commission have launched their third investigation of Daily Telegraph political editor, Con Coughlin, in as many months, after a number of high level complaints about his latest article on Iran.   more »

The Home Office has been accused of railroading controversial EU laws on the movement of prison inmates between member states through Parliament.MPs were not given a chance to debate the plan, which will become UK law, the EU scrutiny committee has claimed. Labour MP Lindsay Hoyle accused the minister of having "total disregard" for Parliament's right to scrutiny.   more »

I don’t think that anyone disputes the fact that Global Warming is a fact. What is in dispute is why the Global Warming is occurring. Is it CO2 driven or is it Solar driven. The debate is still ongoing, the jury is still out, but the Man Made Global Warming faction seem to be in an awful hurry to get new laws and taxes in place, and that sets alarm bells ringing. But Al Gore gave the game away today as the big swindle over global warming came to light, in his heated exchange whilst giving evidence to US House and Senate panels   more »

Home Office Minister Tony McNulty has signed Statutory Instrument 2007 No. 930 - The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Designated Sites under Section 128) Order 2007 which comes into force on 1st June 2007. This "designates" some more sites, under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 Section 128   more »

New analysis exposes how Gordon Brown has used creative accounting to disguise the true extent of the cash crisis in the National Health Service, and has also introduced new rules to force through cuts in vital frontline services. Declared Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley: "This startling revelation puts responsibility for the crisis currently engulfing the NHS firmly at the Chancellor's door. We now know that it is his rules that are squeezing £2.7 billion out of the NHS this year and next." If this was your business, you would face a massive fine and prison.   more »

In the UK, the Conservative Party have published what they call a new Ministerial Code as a starting point to tackle the glut of lies and deceit coming out of Whitehall. Meanwhile, in the US, opposition groups have put together a much more specific Agenda, which they are asking the 2008 presidential candidates to sign up to.   more »

Henry Porter writes in the Guardian, One of the things about British society that is very hard to understand is the almost complete lack of popular concern about the imminence of the surveillance society.But there can be no mistake after the report by the Royal Academy of Engineering, Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance - Challenges of Technological Change, that we ignore what is happening at our peril and that we have a very short time to act. "There is a choice," say the authors of the report, "between a Big Brother world where individual privacy is almost extinct and a world where the data being kept by individual organisations or services are protected and kept secret."   more »

TONY Blair is secretly backing plans to create a permanent President of Europe. It is now being discussed as part of negotiations in Berlin aimed at reviving the Constitution without sparking more referendums.   more »

In the future, extremists could construct bombs which would only be detonated when a certain passport or ID Card was nearby. It could even go so far as to pick out a particular nationality. A bomb which incorporated an RFID reader device could sit and wait to be activated by information stored on a passport's or ID Card’s electronic RFID chip, which gives out a radio signal.   more »

In the future, extremists could construct bombs which would only be detonated when a certain passport or ID Card was nearby. It could even go so far as to pick out a particular nationality. A bomb which incorporated an RFID reader device could sit and wait to be activated by information stored on the passport or ID Card’s electronic RFID chip, which gives out a radio signal. We have always said that ID Cards would not protect us against terrorists, fraudsters and criminals, and now it seems that the technology chosen by the government could prove to be the terrorists best friend.   more »

Thousands of prisoners are being given keys to their cells in the latest farce to hit the criminal justice system. They can roam in and out virtually at will under a scheme designed to give them more "respect and decency".   more »

On Tuesday 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day marked the end of the Second World War and in particular the War with Germany. Six years long, 60 million soldiers and civilians around the globe dead. The end of a totalitarian regime that had engulfed Europe and much of the civilised world, was finally defeated. Or was it? On Saturday 24th March 2007, all the heads of Government from 27 countries have been shipped to Berlin to watch three people sign a ‘worthless’ piece of paper, two of them German, as a precursor to another attempt to force a European Constitution upon us all without referendum.   more »

We asked whether this Government should resign and call a General Election You said.   more »

Is there no end to the Nepotism displayed by the NuLab money grabbers. Following the scandal of the ongoing Cash for Peerages enquiry and the Golden Arrow lobby debacle, we now find that David Blunkett is acting as an advisor to the company that wants to run the UK ID card scheme.   more »

Entrust (Europe) Ltd is the company that wants to run the ID card scheme in the UK. If successful it would manage the security of personal data of up to 65 million citizens, and potentially 600 million European citizens. This company ‘specialises’ in data security and security systems.It is therefore rather strange that it allows personal data about its employees to be published on the Web.   more »

You know the arguments made by the Government and other proponents of ID Cards. They will secure our borders, stop immigration, stop benefit cheats, stop terrorism and so on. If anybody dare suggest they will ever be used to regulate our behaviour they are denounced by the powers that be as scare mongers and so on. So imagine my surprise when in the lobby of a Berlin hotel there is THIS.   more »

A spokesperson confirmed a report published in Computing magazine on 22 March 2007 that cabinet secretary Gus O'Donnell has written to smaller departments encouraging adoption of the systems used by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) or HM Revenue and Customs.The Cabinet Office declined to comment on the expected influence of O'Donnell's letter or the timetable for departments to make decisions. The Cabinet Office has reportedly already begun to transfer staff records to the DWP system.   more »

Alan Johnson has lost the plot! In a very big way. He wants to make it a criminal offence for any child to leave school before 18. Now, that really will help someone get a job won't it!?! The man is insane even thinking about this.We should all be very afraid at how this goverment views us. Big Brother Labour is coming, and they want to track every move we make or brand us criminals, so much for civil liberties.   more »

The European Council is now discussing at what age the finger-prints of children can be compulsory taken for EU passports. EU states will be free to fingerprint children from day one of their life as soon as it is technologically possible The issue will not be decided by parliaments - national or European - but by a "comitology" committee meeting in secret: this "Article 6" committee is composed of representatives of the 25 governments and is chaired by the European Commission. The "line" to be taken by the governments is being discussed in Council Working Parties and the documents are secret.   more »

The Government LIED to you about the Card and its use. They LIED to you about the Datasharing. The UK used its Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2005 to push for the adoption of biometric ID cards and associated standards across the whole of the EU. THE UK GOVERNMENT WANT TO STEAL YOUR IDENTITY. YOUR IDENTITY BELONGS TO YOU, IT IS YOURS, IT IS NOT THE GOVERNMENT’S TO GIVE AWAY.   more »

A police force will be set up to issue £1,000 fines to anyone who fails to update their personal details on the Government's new database, it has emerged in the Daily Mail. The unit, part of the Identity and Passport Service, is expected to send the penalties by post, after snooping through computer records.   more »

The World Trade Centre was still smoking when US lawmakers hastily passed the PATRIOT Act, and in the UK, it wasn't much longer before Parliament enacted the comparable Anti-Terrorism, Crime, and Security Act). Many countries, including the UK, are shifting to biometric passports (if not ID cards) and putting in the infrastructure for a global surveillance system. The much-maligned Total Information Awareness programme that proposed to mine commercial and government databases never really went away.   more »

The Irish Information Commissioner's Office has come down on the notion of school fingerprinting and taken early action to prevent the technology being deployed arbitrarily. It has told the first handful of Irish schools known to be establishing biometric systems that they ought to have a good reason for doing so and has said it will use its powers to order schools to rip out systems it considers excessive.   more »

Lord Falconer admitted that the government believes that it is the body who should decide what is printed in the Press. The Government knows full well that the majority of people receive their news via the Press and TV, and to control the flow of information through those outlets is indeed state control, with a propaganda machine to match.   more »

This site along with many other bog sites have been dissecting what we believe to be the truth in much of the Government spin, its ideology, its legislation and its longer term plans. We read, we watch, we analyse what is being fed to the public at large and then provide a critical view of the propaganda that is thrown at the public on a daily basis, warn of the dangers written into new legislation and of the failure to take any notice.   more »

Two stories here about Council abuse and Big Brother wasting your tax money, both from the South Wales Argus. Apparently there is not enough money to run a weekly collection service, but there is enough money to do this !! The lunatics are definitely running the asylum!!   more »

Following on from the story of Joe Soap, the man who did nothing but still ended up with a criminal record under NuLab and the ID card and Database society, comes this story from Cobbett Rides Again, called An Ill Wind…   more »

In the months leading up to the takeover of No.10 by Stalinist Gordon Brown, the major UK banking groups are beginning to find ways to move their headquarters out of his reach. Barclays Bank is the latest, and has announced that it is thinking of moving its Headquarters to Amsterdam to help smooth its £80bn takeover of Dutch rival ABN Amro.   more »

Soon our prisons will hold more people in such preventive detention than murderers.Almost unnoticed, a fundamental change in penal policy is gathering pace. The main factor in the length of a sentence is, increasingly, not the severity of a crime, but the supposed risk that an offender will do something worse if released. That’s what the Gestapo did.   more »

I wrote some time ago about how Gordon Brown had already taken over government, how every department of state reported not to No.10 but to Gordon Brown, and that it was he who was setting policy, budgets and the government agenda. Now that has been confirmed by Lord Turnbull, who was Mr Brown's permanent secretary for four years, He said enhanced Treasury control came "at the expense of any government cohesion and any assessment of strategy" and “sheer Stalinist ruthlessness”.   more »

The Government is working on plan for ‘marking’ people attending demonstrations or protest marches using the latest in RFID technology. The RFID chips are so small that they would get into the hair and clothing, and possibly be breathed in by every individual present and be virtually impossible to remove.   more »

'The Great Global Warming Swindle', broadcast by Channel 4, put the case for scepticism about man-made climate change. The programme sparked a heated debate and charges of scientific inaccuracy. Here, its director, Martin Durkin, responds to the critics, here in the Telegraph. Until this debate is over, we have to ensure that our politicians are not allowed to use only one side of this story as an excuse to tax the hell out of us.   more »

This story by Christopher Booker in the Sunday Telegraph serves as a chilling warning to us all, because one day, when we are all in possession of our ID cards and ePassports, chipped and catalogued, and if the unelected European Commission gets its way that will be very soon, this story wont be about the cattle on a farm, it will be about when they come to check which people are living in your street, or on your estate.   more »

In June 2002 former Tory Minister Peter Lilley, Secretary for Social Security, 1992-97, wrote an article for the Observer. He gave his reasons for why, as a minister, he had rejected the idea of ID cards when in office. The words that he wrote 5 years ago sound almost prophetic now, but the reasoning he used then and from most of the thinking civilised population of the UK has not changed. His thoughts then about ID cards being akin to quack medicines claiming to cure ailments before they are diagnosed ring even truer, as the present government tries to find new and novel reasons for having such a card, whilst at the same time creating the environment where their argument neatly fits.   more »

Over many years the IT contractor has been assaulted by various chancellors, not least by Gordon Brown with the introduction of IR35 and other suplimentary regulations which has already decimated the UK IT contractor market. Now, in a Green Paper from the European Commission on Labour Laws, the EC want to ban IT contractors working as freelancers completely.   more »

In February, participants in the forum were asked what they thought of the government sharing data between departments in order to better deliver public services.After the forum, participants took home sheets asking them to consider the pros and cons of government data sharing, as well as other policy matters.What would the Citizen's Forum have made of data sharing if they had been made more aware of the arguments against the idea, or told why the DCA suspected government data sharing might require the peeling back of laws designed to protect their liberties?   more »

Labour's ruling National Executive Committee is expected to agree a timetable next week for the leadership election to replace Tony Blair. The BBC understands Labour officials have settled on a seven-week campaign for both the leader and deputy leader to run simultaneously. If, as widely predicted, it is after the Scottish and Welsh elections on 4 May, the country could have a new prime minister by 22 June.   more »

The Times has finally seen the proposals highlighted in this blog for a centralised database of fingerprints from across the Continent, fuelling fears on all sides of a Big Brother Europe. The Times only explains the scheme for a computerised collection of personal details drawn from all 27 countries in the EU is the latest in a raft of anticrime measures in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in the United States. Britain would be expected to contribute all the details held by police. These include fingerprints of suspects and people released without charge, as well as those convicted of crimes. The plan coincides with the Home Office preparing to expand the range of people fingerprinted to include those caught speeding or dropping litter.   more »

I have been arguing the point that it is not just the UK which is under threat from the invasive ID cards and ePassports, the proposed eID cards and the sharing across Europe of all our private data, including our medical records. I have suggested that people look at the bigger picture, see where one campaign fits into that, and then decide how to best apply their dissent.   more »

The Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, has used a gagging order against former MI6 agent, Richard Tomlinson, to stop him from giving evidence by video link to the Diana inquest. It is the second time in the past ten days Lord Goldsmith has become involved in a gagging order controversy. Like his attempt to silence the BBC over its report on the cash-for-honours scandal, the order against Tomlinson is also surrounded by secrecy.   more »

This item seen on Postman Patel’s excellent and historically very well advised blog, could be seen as Israel preparing to launch a strike against Iran, or it may just be Israel’s security services showing some caution. Israel's National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Division has issued updated travel warnings for Israelis travelling abroad.   more »

High street banks have been dumping customer details in bins outside their branches, it was revealed yesterday. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said 13 firms "carelessly" threw away customer information. Why have the ICO not prosecuted these firms, why are the ICO not protecting your data.   more »

Accused of corruption, sleaze and cronyism, inept Ministers, Health and Education falling apart, Police handcuffed in PC rules, failure to protect or support our military, wasting billions on ID cards and ePassports, destroying our national institutions, creating the Database state, removing our ancient rights with draconian legislation, we say:

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A new petition on the No.10 e-petitions website calls for signatories opposed to the Private Member’s Bill that would exempt the Westminster Parliament from its own FoI Act. The petition is sponsored by Barry Winetrobe at the Centre for Law at Napier University and he’s hoping that with enough supporters, this bill will be rejected.   more »

I don’t normally like video’s, they normally tend to smack of conspiracy, but this one amusingly sums up the Britain of Britain today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whiOj5Oc_qw 

My hats off to the originators.

 

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I wrote a few weeks ago about how Gordon Brown was consolidating his hold on Government. How the whole of Government will be centred around the Treasury and the non ministerial executive agency the HMRC, which now has the most far reaching draconian powers ever seen in British history. Gordon has now revealed how he will take that further.   more »

The Daily Mail today reported that Britain has become so dependent on taxpayer-funded jobs that nearly one worker in four is on the state payroll. The high level of public sector employment revealed in official figures Monday has been compared with that in the former Soviet bloc. We all know what happened to the Soviet Union, the only way that they were able to retain power was the totalitarian route.   more »

The ethical, legal and societal implications of ICTs are one of the three main priorities of UNESCO’s Information for All Programme and UNESCO was recently designated as the Facilitator for the implementation of Action Line C10 “Ethical Dimensions of the Information Society” of the Geneva Action Plan adopted by the World Summit on the Information Society.   more »

While the UK is fighting hard to keep the government from squeezing every last penny out of its citizenry for putting a car on the road, Germans are sticking two fingers up at the unelected European Commission over a suggestion that they should limit the speed on Autobahn’s   more »

In my blog yesterday I wrote about how the ID card scheme in the UK is being driven by the eID programme in Europe, and what organisations within the unelected European Commission are driving that forward. One recurring theme was refernce to the PEGSCO secretariat who approves EC e-policy. It would appear that as a secretariat PEGSCO does not exist, and at best it is a one man secretariat.   more »

As I indicated in my blogs yesterday, Tony Blair is not the guy making the running with the ID cards, nor is the Home Secretary (whoever that may be this week), but it is being directed and driven in the UK by the Treasury.They are the ones who have been in discussions for the past 10 years at various levels in Europe, and it is they who will introduce the first usage for the eID card, for financial transactions, cross border taxation, VAT and lots of other banking regulations.So who are these people in Europe making the running in deciding on whether you have an ID card or not. How is this decided, how is it regulated, what technology is to be used. Will your data be safe?   more »

The unelected European Commission has just announced the launch of the HealthGrids Knowledge Base, within the framework of the SHARE project and as part of the European eHealth action plan.So why have the UK government told us that these NHS projects are NuLab initiatives. Why have they not explained to the public the extent and scope of the European objectives, and exactly how our patient records are going to be shared. Why have they lied to us about the data never leaving the NHS. It is obvious that this entire Government is psychologically flawed, not just the Chancellor, and state pathological lying is embedded into the ideology.   more »

The debate about ID cards and ePassports in the UK, the NIR and the database state is well underway, and clearly driven from the unelected European Commission. I feel that much is now unfortunately beyond change, and the undertaking of David Cameron to scrap the ID card and the underlying database has been nothing more than a vote catching gimmick.   more »

The "illustrated guide" for council tax inspectors (Govt. snoopers) has been made public following Freedom of Information requests after months of stalling by ministers. They claimed that since it contains pictures of real homes it could not be published "in order to protect privacy". "Ministers have shown shocking contempt for Parliament by refusing to reveal their sinister handbook. No wonder they are now clamping down on the Freedom of Information laws which secured its release."   more »

Countries worldwide regulating in the field of privacy are generally following “the EU data protection model”, notes a report from the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Privacy International. The EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications does offer confidentiality, the report says, but globally it sees a trend towards more surveillance.   more »

We have always told you that ID cards and biometric passports is about people control, not about identity theft or fraud, or even illegal immigration, but controlling you and your movements, along with fingerprints, DNA databases, RFID, NHS spine, tracking in cars, 4m cameras, email and telephone taps, more police arrest powers, more HMRC spying, bugging and entry powers, data sharing etc. Today, this was confirmed.   more »

One has to wonder whether its true, or merely a provocation to draw the Blairs into the open.   more »

As the concept of personal freedom, privacy and the rule of law is worn away by the Nanny state, so we see unscrupulous people take advantage of this erosion. It seems that bailiffs could soon be breaking into homes, to seize goods for credit card debts, without a court order.   more »

That was the message from the chair of the Commons education select committee, Labour MP Barry Sheerman. Mr Sheerman’s remarks came following the unbelievable statement from Education Secretary Alan Johnson, who said the biggest reform of England's exam system for a generation "could go horribly wrong" and that “new practical and academic Diplomas could be seen as second-best”. Now its time TO LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE.   more »

In its yearly report on human rights violations abroad, prepared by the US State Department and delivered to Congress annually, failed to mention that the majority of the violations in the report were as a direct result of US actions or US training. The report carefully omits US support for and involvement in the very practices it criticizes. Other foreign commentators also complained about U.S. hypocrisy. After Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Haditha and other highly publicized human rights controversies, they wondered, where does the U.S. get off casting stones at others?   more »