A consignment of 3,000 “useless” blank biometric passports has been stolen on its way to British embassies throughout the world. Or at least, the Identity & Passport Service says they’re useless. A recent article in The Register shows why nothing could be further from the truth.
The passports were stolen from a courier vehicle in Manchester, […]
As readers of our Caribbean Offshore Contacts Report are aware, there are only two countries in the world offering so-called Economic Citizenship programs - that is, the chance to buy a legal second citizenship and passport within a matter of weeks.
Those two countries are The Commonwealth of Dominica (an English-speaking Caribbean nation, not to […]
An interesting article in this week’s Business Week blows the lid off the background screening business in the US. This has become, warns BW, “a big business, but not always an accurate one.”
They go on to report that “whatever their motives, employers are becoming more dependent on mass-produced background reports that rely heavily on anonymous, […]
Britain’s Daily Telegraph (May 12th) reports on a new British government scheme, designed to shave a billion pounds off the cost of implementing their new population surveillance program, also known as the National ID card.
Originally, the proposal was for people to be fingerprinted at a passport office, but now the government has announced a plan […]
Most of you reading this will probably be familiar with the PT concept, but it is good to revise and refresh our memories from time to time. This from the UK Democracy Forum.
[This is the original P.T. article by Grandpa. It has been in the public domain for around thirty years and has been reprinted […]
Greetings to Nomads near and far:
“May you live in exciting times”
As Bear Sterns is being rescued by a bankrupt fed, we’ve decided to take a break from mainstream news and hit the road over the Easter break - nomad style. Your editorial team will be back blogging next week.
Someone pointed out that our list of […]
Be prepared if a customs official seizes your PC at the airport
The following was sent in anonymously by a Global Nomads reader. We hope you find it useful.
A lawsuit filed last week over warrantless searches of […]
Your Globalnomads editorial team have been reading with much interest the scandalous news from the Principality of Liechtenstein.
The German government have admitted paying “up to five million euros” for information stolen in 2002 from LGT Treuhand in Liechtenstein. LGT Treuhand is associated with LGT Bank, the chairman of which is Prince Philipp of Liechtenstein. LGT […]
Now here’s some pure, wholesome entertainment for you. Vera Verba, a Chicago publishing house most famous for publishing one of our favourite books A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, has just released their Conspiracy Hunt 2007.
By way of introduction, they permitted us to reproduce for our readers the introduction, which we think makes a lot of […]
In an alarming piece PopSci.com writer Catherine Price reports her attempts in (re-)establishing citizen privacy for a single week in California, which is, after all, the United States’ nation leader in privacy protection. Unsurprisingly, her experiment patently didn’t pan out. Next time you read another lukewarm headline of the “Are we heading towards an Orwellian state” ilk in the mainstream media, permit yourself a ghastly chuckle or three - no way we’re heading there: It’s arrived years ago and hardly anyone has bothered to take notice.
