How can it be possible that Governments spend millions on the ADE651 – an empty plastic toy that doesn’t work?
I’ve just watched the Newsnight report exposing the ADE651 ‘bomb detector’ which has earned a British man £50m in sales to the Iraqi Government. Experts took apart the device and revealed it as a ludicrous scam; an empty case with nothing in it that could possibly detect anything – let alone explosives.
It is unbelievable that this device has been sold in some 20 countries - making the ‘inventor’ something like £80 million.
Scams are everywhere and they seem to be on the increase. But it almost beggars belief that the ADE651 could be developed, marketed, sold and exported without someone pointing out the bleedin’ obvious: that it’s nothing more than a toy gun that wouldn’t look out of place on a Scientology table in your local market.
Unbe-f****g-lievable.
Background
It’s not that I wouldn’t expect the boss of one of the world’s biggest airlines to be lobbying at Copenhagen. It’s not even that I don’t believe that he’s probably a decent bloke with some genuine good intentions looking to make a difference in the world; I’m sure he is.
Photographed round the back of Tavistock Post Office yesterday, this is clearly the staff ‘smoking bucket’. It looks awful to people who have never smoked. It looks awful to those of us who once smoked but have since given up.
An in-the-moment review of Facebook captured on iPhone in the office
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