This blog wrote about the TIA programme in an article called The Infrastructure of Mass Surveillance that I first published in March 07 then again in October last year, and how UK Government and European policy was based upon the TIA programme. At the time I was called a conspiracy nut, an idiot, a scaremonger. Today, comes a press release from the UCLA in the US, following a report that the NSA had revived the TIA programme after being banned by Congress in 2003.   more »

In total, by last night, the Company has defaulted on approximately $16.6 billion of its indebtedness. The remaining indebtedness (?) is expected soon to go into default. Today we expect margin calls tomorrow of approximately US$97.5 million.   more »

According to this Parliamentary Written Answer, the current spending on "security" for the heavily fortified, and increasingly prison like Houses of Parliament and the associated office buildings, is running at about £38 million a year , yet MPs and Lords can still escape from the buildings, and protestors still get in !   more »