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Welcome to Threatz

To successfully understand and counter the various threats to public security and safety (the Homeland Security and Resilience arena) it is vital that practitioners have a firm grasp of the variety of different threats, their relative likelihoods and impacts, and the recent changes/responses which have happened.

Too often people tend to focus on the 'issue of the day' and fail to see the big picture; the interconnections between threats and answering services. Threatz is focused on answering this need in a number of arenas.

Global Threatz

Using the 'wisdom of crowds' approach, collecting and collating views, news and opinions on key Threatz around the world. The focus is to gather peoples' views on relatively likelihoods of various events and news and presenting this considered view back in context. This will hopefully provide people with an overview of what are really the key subjects, and how they are changing.

Business Services

Taking the global picture as a foundation, building targeted understanding, visualisation services and scenarios which focus on the issues and problems faced by business and government agencies. We can help to build better understanding because our work is based on standing back and NOT expecting tomorrow to look like today.

 

 

News on Today's Threatz


Telegraph.co.uk

L'Aquila earthquake victims despair of returning to their ...
Times Online, UK
If Silvio Berlusconi takes the G8 leaders to meet those made homeless by April's earthquake during next week's summit at L'Aquila, he had better avoid a lady called Gaetana.
G8 summit: Gordon Brown to be advised how to survive earthquake in ... Telegraph.co.uk
Berlusconi 'asks topless model-turned-minister to replace wife at G8' Daily Mail
FACTBOX-Earthquake-stricken L'Aquila, site of G8 summit Reuters
Independent Online - Times Online
all 190 news articles

BBC News

Terrorism ruling 'in due course'
BBC News, UK
At the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh, defence QC Donald Findlay described the Terrorism Acts as "draconian" and advocate depute Derek Ogg QC, for the Crown, admitted that the legislation was "controversial.
Convicted terrorist's appeal hears how he used pseudonym Scotsman
Terrorism student appeal case begins The Herald
all 3 news articles

Times Online

Return from 'internal exile' for terror susepct at risk of absconding
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
A leading terrorism suspect has been allowed to return home to London from "internal exile" in the Midlands despite secret evidence that he could take part in terrorist attacks or abscond. By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent For security reasons, ...
Evidence 'not enough' as terror suspect scores win Times Online
The High Court ruled a terror suspect 'exiled' based on secret ... Daily Mail
Judge revokes 'terror exile' ruling The Press Association
all 90 news articles

World health officials meet on combating A/H1N1 flu pandemic
Xinhua, China
The meeting brought together delegates and ministers from 43 nations to share experiences in fighting the disease, evaluate the current situation, exchange information and discuss measures to confront the pandemic. According to the latest data ...
Video: Swine Flu spreading in Erie County? WIVB
Dispute over swine flu jab costs BBC News
Pandemic swine flu cannot be contained; to reach 100000 a day International Business Times UK
guardian.co.uk - This is Nottingham
all 2,011 news articles

'Are you a terrorist?' The questions foreign pupils must answer to ...
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
Another question states: "Has the applicant ever been involved in, supported or encouraged terrorist activities in any country?
Foreign students in UK being quizzed on terror Indian Express
all 8 news articles

Seattle Post Intelligencer

WHO, poor nations urge global access to swine flu vaccine
AFP
Laboratories with the capacity to produce a vaccine for swine flu, which has developed into the first pandemic of the 21st century, are mostly located in Europe.
H1N1 spread unstoppable Straits Times
Mexico wins praise for swine flu response The Associated Press
Mexican Tourist Mecca Recovering Slowly After Flu Outbreak Latin American Herald Tribune
GulfNews - Xinhua
all 186 news articles

Reuters

Japan, Hong Kong Find Tamiflu-Resistant Swine Flu Cases
????(???), South Korea
The patient was recovering after taking Relenza, another medicine used to contain the pandemic. Hong Kong health officials say they found the Tamiflu-resistant strain in a sample from a 16-year-old girl who tested positive for swine flu when she ...
Roche offers Tamiflu to developing nations AFP
Kenya lined up for cheaper swine flu medicine Business Daily Africa
Roche gives poor countries easier access to swine flu drug Tamiflu The Canadian Press
CIDRAP - Sydney Morning Herald
all 492 news articles

Times Online

Book by UK counter-terrorism officer blocked
Irish Times, Ireland
The publication of a book by a former top counter-terrorism officer has been blocked by the British attorney general. Baroness Scotland QC stepped in at the last minute to obtain an injunction preventing The Terrorist Hunters from hitting the shelves ...
Judge puts hold on publication of The Terrorist Hunters The Bookseller
Top police officer's book blocked BBC News
The book they tried to ban -- still on sale Times Online
Independent - PRESS TV
all 24 news articles

Hawaii volcano glow snuffed out by falling rocks
The Associated Press
The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory says the rock falls on Tuesday produced a seismic signal equivalent to a magnitude-2.4 earthquake. The rumble was felt at the observatory and the adjacent Jaggar Museum. Chunks of the vent rim fell into the cavity in ...

BBC News

Flu risk for indigenous peoples
BBC News, UK
"Many Aboriginal people died even in very remote parts of Australia during the great influenza pandemic of 1918." The World Health Organization has already expressed concern over the progression of swine flu in indigenous groups.