Not So Novel Policing Idea Muted by UK Prime Minister
With the UK General Election looming, politicians are keen to present new and modern ideas to tempt the voter into putting that all important X on the ballot sheet. Gordon Brown, MP and current Prime Minister, has come up with a not so novel idea to tackle the public concern about front line law enforcement.
In a speech in Reading to whoever was prepared to listen, Mr. Brown has told National and Local Police Authorities to keep officers on the beat in order to maintain the public’s confidence in ‘law and order’.
Not everything is as appears, with the PM calling on local authorities to implement his target of Neighbourhood PCs spending 80% of their time on the streets.
Neighbourhood, or Community Police Officers are a tiny visible minority who are appointed by Chief Constable to patrol towns and villages, so don’t expect much in the way of change. These Officers are supplemented by Police Community Support Officers who respond to non-emergency inquiries ( within 24 hours.)
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The Mind Set Podcast: Episode 14
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Gareth and Peter opened the show by referring to some self-censorship from Episode 13 and asked for feedback on this topic. Peter described some ‘paranormal’ experiences during his three days away in the Midlands, UK. (photos on the Mindset Forum Paranormal Section.)
Next the clips were played:
A school in South Los Angeles is losing all its teachers, counsellors and even maintenance men. Is it about the money? Or are there other ingredients to this story? Gareth and Peter discuss the minutiae and possible consequences for Fremont High school.
A father is threatened with arrest for taking a photo of his son in a public area. are we living within a mindset that will be impossible to break? It is a mindset. Are people with cameras terrorists , burglars or child snatchers. Are there no longer any tourists?
The US has so far spent $226 billion on the Iraq war. $12 Billion has simply vanished, having been plane-loaded over to Baghdad for whoever to do whatever with. Who cares? Where is this reported? What is the agenda here?
Are we talking about the political systems of Pol Pot? Stalin , Hitler? Mao Tse Tong? No , this is the UK. Are we talking centuries ago? No, a policy was in place until the late 1960s to migrate children from care or from struggling familites to the outposts of the old Empire. Most were abominably treated. PM Gordon Brown apologises. But who should he apologise on behalf of?
Dehydrated patients forced to drink water from flower vases, accident victims left untended for hours, clinical judgements being made by receptionists. Is the mindless chasing of targets, set by the Political Parties, culpable in the early deaths and shocking treatment of over 400 patients at a Mid Staffordshire Hospital?
Secret Service Torture and Secrecy:
Britain’s top three judges released a devastating finding that MI5 officers have a ‘dubious record when it comes to human rights and coercive techniques’. After calling such claims ‘ ludicrous lies ‘ Miliband wishes future findings , especially if found complicit, held in secrecy. Gareth and Peter discuss.
and finally….
The Newscaster deserves ‘pun of the week ‘ prize for “Holy Smokes”. Mr. Kennedy lost his house and all his possessions in a fire, apart from a painting of Jesus. (film on Mindset Forum in Paranormal Section)
Is it a miracle of divine intervention? If so, the ultimate question- why did Jesus let his house burn down? Not very Christian of Jesus…
Until Next week, Peace Out Humans…
Cell phones show human movement predictable 93% of the time
We all know that Cell (Mobile) phones can be used to track us with ease, using triangulation of the constant signal from the phone to the cell tower, but did you know this…
It’s not currently possible to know exactly where everyone is all the time, but cell phones can provide a pretty good approximation. Cell phone companies store records of customers’ locations based on when the customers’ phones connect to towers during calls. Researchers realized that taking this data and paring it down to users who place calls more frequently might allow them to see if they could develop any measure of how predictable human movements and locations are. The users they worked with placed calls an average of once every two hours, connecting to towers that cover an area of about two square miles.
So, it seems that people in general are very predictable in their daily movements and habits.
Customers that stuck to the same six-mile radius had predictability rates of 97 to 93 percent, and this fell off as the typical area of travel grew. But the predictability eventually stabilized, and remained at 93 percent even as the radius of travel rose to thousands of miles. Regardless of how widely they traveled, the researchers could adequately predict their locations, down to the specific tower, 93 percent of the time.
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I Guess Microsoft really is Evil…
Microsoft has a 22-page document which outlines how they store all your private data in their online servers. The document also tells government agencies how they can get it. But, oh surprise, they don’t want you to see it!
The document was unearthed by Cryptome, the site who previously unveiled similar papers by Facebook, Skype, and other online giants. When Microsoft learned about it, they sent their rabid law dogs to tear Cryptome apart, Digital Millennium Copyright Act in one hand, iron bar in the other. So far they have managed to coerce Cryptome’s host company to take down the site the pages aren’t taken down. Network Solutions complied with Microsoft’s barking, passing along the message to Cryptome that, if they don’t take down the “secret” material, they would take down the whole site.
Obviously, Microsoft and Network Solutions don’t give a damn about public interest. Make no mistake: Knowing what Microsoft can disclose and how, no matter if you are a criminal or just some innocent dude using Microsoft’s services, should interest you
Read the full Document Here
Via Gizmodo
Photograph a cop, 10 years in jail in the UK
Next month the United Kingdom is to introduce a law that could could send photographers to prison for up to ten years, if they were to snap a picture of the British Bobby on the beat!
The new set of rules, under section 76 of the 2008 Act and section 58A of the 2000 Act, will target anyone who ‘elicits or attempts to elicit information about (members of armed forces) … which is of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.
A person found guilty of this offence could be liable to imprisonment for up to 10 years, and to a fine.
The law is expected to increase the anti-terrorism powers used today by police officers to stop photographers, including press photographers, from taking pictures in public places. ‘Who is to say that police officers won’t abuse these powers,’ asks freelance photographer Justin Tallis, who was threatened by an officer last week.
Tallis, a London-based photographer, was covering the anti-BBC protest on Saturday 24 January when he was approached by a police officer. Tallis had just taken a picture of the officer, who then asked to see the picture. The photographer refused, arguing that, as a press photographer, he had a right to take pictures of police officers.
According to Tallis, the officer then tried to take the camera away. Before giving up, the officer said that Tallis ’shouldn’t have taken that photo, you were intimidating me’. The incident was caught on camera by photojournalist Marc Vallee.
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Media Manipulation
This image above clearly illustrates how the media can take one photograph, and edit it in such a way as to alter the viewers perception of an event. Truly an eye opening visual…
David Icke gets a new Site!
After years of having one of the most clumsy and ugliest sites on the net, Conspiracy Maestro David Icke has finally overhauled his web site.
Icke’s site has always contained vast amounts of information, but the ability to find that information has always been a challenge. Not any longer, as the new site breaks all information into easy to find sections, making it extremely easy to drill down on any topic.
While Icke’s world view might not be for everyone, the site contains a wide verity of Parapoitical news and updates that are definatly worth checking out.
Click on the image, to visit Icke’s new site.
Aliens could be here on Earth!
Lord Martin Rees, president of the Royal Society and astronomer to the Queen, said the existence of extra terrestrial life may be beyond human understanding.
He made the remarks shortly after hosting the national science academy’s first conference on the possibility of alien life.
“They could be staring us in the face and we just don’t recognise them. The problem is that we’re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology,” he said.
“I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains.”
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