The British government is thinking of keeping track of everyone’s phone calls, e-mails texts and internet use and using a private company to do it.  Critics say it is paranoid  attempt to create a world of total security.

Security Breach –  KAT POLINSKI & Murder in a World of Total Surveillance 

The US Congress has warned that China  is aggressively developing its power to wage cyber warfare and is now in a position to delay or disrupt the deployment of America’s military forces around the world, potentially giving it the upper hand in any conflict. China now has both the intent and capability to launch cyber attacks “anywhere in the world at any time”. In 2007, it says, about 5m computers in the US were the targets of 43,880 incidents of malicious activity — a rise of almost a third on the previous year.

Kat Polinksi is about the best cyber agent the US has — but even she finds it tough when she comes against China. 

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America’s National Intelligence Council has warned that the world is entering an unstable and unpredictable period in which the advance of Western-style democracy cannot be taken for granted. By 2025, it says, the US will have lost its global dominance. It sees a fragmented world with conflict over resources rising, and nuclear proliferation and nuclear conflict becoming more likely.

The Third World War tells the story of what could happen if sane minds do not work together.

Britain’s National Health Service plans to let medical researchers have access to patient’s private files – a move that the key data watchdog organisation has called ethically unnacceptable. Here the advance of technology, the desire for information and post Nine Eleven anti-terror values are coming together. In the minds of many a better a safer world is one in which in know as much about each other as possible. As yet, there is little serious debate as to how far it should go.

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According to Andrew Lycett in the Guardian, Quantum of Solace is the precise equation of the amount of comfort necessary between two people if love is to flourish. If this figure is zero. there can be no love.  Ian Fleming created a short story, with little action, from the title in which Bond, being told this over dinner, said, ‘when the other person not only makes you feel insecure but actually seems to want to destroy you…you’ve got to get away and save yourself.’ 

You learn something everyday. 

  

Fresh from the packed launch party of fascinating people for The Man Who Invented History — Travels with Herodotus by Justin Marozzi,  one of the most brave and brilliant travel writers of this generation. Although Herodotus died some 2,500 years ago he had plenty to say on issues similar to those that concern us today such as the Iraq war and the financial crisis on which he said, “Often God gives man a glimpse of happiness then utterly ruins him.”  

I can’t recommend it enough.

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The Mobile Identification at Scene (Midas) project will enable police in Britain to make biometric fingerprint checks on people in the street on handheld technology about the size of a Blackberry. The fingerprints will be compared against records on a national database known as Ident1 that holds information on 7.5 million people. Midas will be in widespread use in Britain within the next eighteen months.

 

Early plans to create a giant database holding information about every phone call, email and internet visit made in the UK were last night condemned by the Government’s own terrorism watchdog.  The Independent

This is the near-future world or total surveillance through which Kat Polinski hunts the killers of her sister in SECURITY BREACH.

   

This just in from W O’Dell on Thirrd World War 

The Third World War is one of the few books that i have read cover to cover without putting it down. In honesty im not much of a reader, and it is rare for me to get through a book without loosing interest. But this was truely different. A great book, totally believable plot line, and unlike a lot of books in this genre, theres no last minute hero, no climb downs, just all out Globalthermonuclear War. Brilliant read.

                                                

In Security Breach, the world is preparing for the signing of Project Peace, a treaty between Russia, China and the