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.

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, military Malthusians now explicitly cite terrorism alongside resource-shortage as a noxious consequence of profligate working class reproduction.)  Furedi doesn't quite put it this way, but 'terror' is a useful starting point for perpetual emergency-management because the negligible real effect of the phenomenon and the total indeterminacy of the concept mean other fear-triggers can simultaneously be made to seem 'even' more dangerous (by comparison) and always already everywhere (by analogy).  So that unlimited ad-hoc emergency powers become all the more 'necessary' and inevitable.   

This seemed of interest particularly in relation to polemics about class/identity/criminality/organization following the Paris 'riots'. Reposted from Indymedia Ireland on Interactivist
(http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=06/02/27/1223203&mode=nested&tid=14), it's an assiduous account of an event that barely got any coverage here: faced with the provocation of an Ulster Unionist march through the Easter Rising sites (no doubt in the name of 'truth and reconciliation', 'tolerance' etc ), supposed 'lumpen'/'asbo'/'knacker' estate youth ignored the Republican party line, stopped the unionists from going anywhere, scared the shit out of the Gardai and apparently engaged in a bit of 'spesa proletaria' while they were at it. The writer identifies the rioters' tactical advantage in their distance from any political representation or agenda, but doesn't romanticize this state of 'nothing to lose' as anything like an effective counter-politics. S/he also carefully sets out how this was an 'apolitical' class riot, sparked by nationalist/patriotic sentiment, disowned by nationalist parties, and directed against the police as everyday agents of immiseration.