Author: Mike

That could be the fate of the former War time code breakers home if funds are not found soon to save the site. The trust which has been running the site is even selling off roof slates in a bid to raise money.

It’s and shame that subsequent UK governments have continued to  abandon any kind of promotion of the history of what went on at Bletchley Park.

I’m fairly sure that if this was France or the USA then there would be plenty of money to save what must be the best surviving example of how the UK managed to decipher so much secret information that helped bring about an end to WW II.

It might be that you can get all weepy about choir singing – I may have done in the past.

If I had had a chance during the BBC’s latest programme about Choirs, that would have been good, but in the last program we only heard approx 7/8 minutes of full and uninterrupted singing!

So much were the programs presenters, judges and contestants profiled it spoilt the continuity of the whole program and I actually gave up halfway through the second episode.

Last viewer watching would be a better title! Such potential for a really good programme was completely ruined by inept editing and over production! I doubt if I will watch much more!

An ‘under construction’ web site for USA bound travellers to register from 1st August 2008 for entry to the USA is up and running.

An accompanying PDF document can be found here.

Interestingly, even if you think log on and get authorisation and actually travel to the USA, you can still be refused entry and have no comeback on anyone as per the waiver that you sign by logging on…

As a condition of each admission into the United States under the Visa Waiver Program, the submission of biometric identifiers (including fingerprints and photographs) during processing upon arrival in the United States shall reaffirm the waiver of any rights to review or appeal of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer’s determination as to admissibility, or to contest, other than on the basis of an application for asylum, any removal action arising from an application for admission under the Visa Waiver Program.

Don’t forget, if you don’t register, you won’t get into the USA.

So it begins, the collection of the worlds population data, that is of course if you want to visit the good old US of A!

From January 2009, anyone wanting to travel to the USA under the previous Visa-Wavier program will now have the enter their travel and a number of personal details on the USA Department of Homeland’s VISA computer at least three days before their travel dates! Failure to register will mean that you will not even leave the UK, let alone arrive in the US.

This data will then be shared around a number of USA security agencies and if they flag you for any reason, even it is understood an unpaid speeding ticket, you could well find that your not going to enjoy Uncle Sam’s hospitality anytime soon.

The fact that this can only be done online will cause a number of inconveniences for people not on line at home, but will increased activity at Internet cafes. Of course it is anticipated that Airlines and Travel Agencies will do this for you at the time of booking. Regular travellers will be able to register at anytime and will only have to renew their ‘application’ every two years. All information will be kept for a period of 15 YEARS!

So what information is it that will be collected? I wrote about this as far back as 30th September 2006 when just 34 pieces of information were first discussed.

Now it seems that you will have to provide over 50 pieces of details personal information that will make up a Passenger Name Record (PNR) and will in fact match many elements of the Passenger Exit Record (PER) – also to be introduced on January 2009 by the UK government for all UK citizens to be completed for any trip out for the UK!

So not only will the USA government have all of your personal details if you want to go there; but even if you just want to pop over to Calais for the day, the UK government will also have the full facts.

It’s easy not to give the USA all this data, don’t go! But why do we have to give up all this information just to leave our own country?

See the tables below of the information you will need to supply for your PNR and PER.

PNR

PER

Keep a look out for updates.

Can this really be the true picture of the state the UK has ended up in?

According to this report from the Telegraph the UK the figure is just the tip of an iceberg of knife related crime that the current Labour Government has managed to hide from us!

If the report is to be believed, then this government has no right to be the elected represented body of the UK and should resign immediately. How can Jackie Smith or any of the labour government hold their heads up. They should resign in shame!

A story all too familiar as we continue to see ongoing disasters around the globe and aid destined for the suffering victims is either stolen on route, kept in stores instead of being distributed to the needy or even passed on to people who don’t even need the aid.

Another example of poor disaster relief in the third-world? No, it’s what happened to aid destined for the victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, USA!

In the country supposed to be at the fore front of communications, it seems that even USA based aid organisations don’t know what going on in their own backyard.

With some aid having been stored for over a year, much of it has now been passed on to various Mississippi government administration offices instead of the intended victims. You can find more details this story here.

It’s strange that the USA government can organise the rest of the world, but can’t even look after its own needy citizens. Funny, I thought that there was oil in Louisiana!

Can this really be true? According to this Times Online story, it is the third biggest threat to the UK after Al-Qaeda and Iran. The Al-Qaeda threat I suppose is clear – considering how we were jumped into the Bush bed by Blair and have been tarred with the same brush.

The Iran threat I am not sure about apart from the financing that they are providing to Al-Qaeda, however if we (the UK) assist the USA and Israel with an attack on the Iranian Nuclear plants, then I hate to think what might happen.

But Russia a big threat to the UK! What would Russia want with the UK? Are they afraid that we might be getting ready to buy too much of their gas supplies? Might we be buying to much Russian Vodka for our Friday night boozing?

It seems a strange story to run, but I suppose there’s no smoke without fire, so we will have to watch out for KGB spies tracking us on a daily basis!

Well maybe, if the latest news reports [2], [3] are to be believed.

I’ve never fully subscribed to all the conspiracy theories that surfaced after that devastating incident. Some of the theories seemed too far-fetched to be fully believed, but some did seem to have some interesting aspects.

But one thing I would say about building 7 to my lay eyes, I think that this building was deliberately demolished to hide something.

There are to many coincidence with the way that building came down and other controlled building demolitions for it to be anything else. Looking on any of the video sharing web sites there is plenty of evidence (I found over 30 video clips) to support this, the best one was this one…

Maybe we will never find out the real truth about the whole incident, could the CIA/USA government have engineered the whole thing? It’s something that will never be fully understood, but as far as building 7 is concerned, it was demolished for some reason and no amount of special USA backed reports will convince me otherwise.

So says our baby-faced Foreign Secretary. Nice words, but what are you really going to do about it?

I am sure that if there was oil in Zimbabwe, the British and USA governments would have some ‘regime change to be over there right away.

But there again I may be being somewhat cynical in my view, after all, the Iraq was only about getting rid of a murdering dictator!

Just how far are we in the UK going to allow our ongoing surveillance society to go?

With Google now starting to map the UK for their Google Street View application it seems that at least the UK Information Commissioner will stick up for the ordinary citizen, that is if the complaints are made!

Although Google says that it will use ‘face blocking’ technology to blur faces, the technology is still untested.

So beware if you see a strange looking car in your area, you could end up in a Google Street Map view with some explaining to do!