From Private Eye, a brief update on the lie detector system soon to be used across the UK on suspected 'benefit thieves'*, i.e. all claimants.  The system comes from Mossad, but what's really alarming is that it is administered by scorched-earth PFI war machine Capita.
*NB. Readers with no sympathy for 'benefit thieves' have come to the wrong website.

Outsourcing
LIE OF THE LAND

Lie–detector technology developed by Mossad for interrogating suspeted Palestinian terrorists is being used in British Jobcentres.

Two consecutive posts from Spiked is a guaranteed never-to-be-repeated anomaly, but in this case chief ideologue Frank Furedi's oft-expounded 'politics of fear' line leads to an important point about the Malthusian basis of ecology's millennial crusade.  (It's a point that's made all too rarely; for a more theoretically-informed version see the Iain Boal interview posted a few months back on this site.)  'Terrorism' serves as a sort of template for other official universal enemies: 'global warming', pandemics, 'overpopulation', etc.  (And, coming full-circle,

When Sir Edmund Haley, discoverer of the eponymous Comet, proposed to the Royal Society of London in 1692 the notion of an Hollow Earth, he opened (I believe this to be the appropriate modern day vernacular) a Whole Big Can of Worms.

James Flint on Teatrino Clandestino'sThe Magic Idealist at the Riverside Studios

>> Teatrino Clandestino, The Magic Idealist

Turbo-reification or the ultimate abject object – collectors, you decide!

Review of 'discord.sabotage of realities'