Have you seen this man?

Heinrich Kieber, a 42-year-old former bank employee from a Liechtenstein bank, is wanted on suspicion of selling a cd-rom containing information about bank clients with secret (read “tax evasion”) accounts totalling over $300 billion to the German government for a fee of more than 4 million euros ($6.2 million). He is believed to be hiding in… Australia. Apparently he has gone into hiding disguised as Michael Stipe.

clipped from www.nytimes.com

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TPN TXT about to launch

A very exciting day at TPN. The proofs of the first book to be published by TPN TXT, the book arm of TPN, arrived today.

Designing 2050 -- 001

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The book is called “Designing 2050 – Pathways to sustainable prosperity on spaceship earth” and it has been written by my friend Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist.

It’s a VERY exciting book, something I am incredibly proud to be associated with, and it will go on sale, in both a print and an ebook version, very, very soon.

How Things Work

An interesting paragraph below from a Times story on Simon Mann’s upcoming TV interview to be aired in the UK.

Mann is a mercenary in prison in Equitorial Guinea on charges of an attempted coup. He has apparently done an interview from prison where he names the high-ranking British business people (including Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British PM Maggie Thatcher) and, perhaps, politicians, who supported the attempted coup.

Two interesting things here:

1. The below paragraph indicates that Scotland Yard dropped their investigation of the coup after the London bombings. Note to self: if the cops are ever getting too close to my illegal activities, activate some of the fundamentalist patsies I have on standby to distract the authorities’ attention until I can shred the evidence.

2. Mann’s wife has been trying to stop the interview from going to air, even though his captors have indicated that they may show him leniency on account of the interview. Why would she do that? Who is she trying to protect – and why?

clipped from www.timesonline.co.uk

Simon Mann’s TV interview may reveal backers of failed coup

The interview could put pressure on Scotland Yard to revive its own investigation, which was dropped so that police could shift resources to the 7/7 and 21/7 bombings.

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