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Justin Bieber, kisses and Lady Gaga: New York concert photos
JUSTIN Bieber did not kiss Carlos Santana at the New Year’s Eve Concert in New York. But Lady Gaga did lock lips with Ellen Barkin’s fuhrer and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. Lady Gag aand Bloomberg kissed over a huge plastic prolapsed haemorrhoid with the word “Nivea” written in. 2012 promises to be the year of Prostate Cancer checks and peachy smooth cheeks.
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Posted: 2nd, January 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Dear God, even the Telegraph Can’t understand Corporate Tax
DO newspapers understand tax? No. We sorta expect this sort of thing from the Guardian or the Mirror. Not just whipping up people into paroxysms of rage about companies not paying their tax but not actually understanding what’s going on in the first place.
Now we appear to have the Telegraph again, not just whipping people up, but actually not understanding what in buggery’s going on at all.
Barclays stockpiles ‘losses’ to soften tax obligations
Barclays has amassed a war chest of “losses” to offset against future tax payments that can almost rival those at the crippled state-backed banks, despite remaining strongly profitable.
Yep, if you make a loss you can carry that loss forward to when you make a profit and set it off against that profit. Obviously.
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Photos of the day: Playboy Sex with Zsa Zsa Gabor
PHOTOS of the Day hark back to the golden age of lads maga, when “Arabs are lousy lovers” Zsa Zsa Gabor had slept with “six husbands”, and we all got to see what kind of man reads Playboy…
Posted: 2nd, January 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment
Anuj Bidve murder: public sector made Kiaran Stapleton do it?
ANUJ Bidve is dead. Kiaran Stapleton, from Ordsall, been charged with his murder. Kiaran Stapleton is 20.
THE Daily Telegraph’s interview with Anuj Bive’s family (full story here) is layered in a political nuance. We do not know why Anuj Bidve was murdered in Salford. The police have said racism was a possible cause without offering a hint as to why race played any part.
The Telegraph, however, is concerned with class:
Nehal Sonawane sits on the bed of the neat little middle-class house in the Indian city of Pune, waiting anxiously for news from England of the investigation into the murder of her little brother Anuj.
They are little Indian-landers.
The anger of a grieving family is understandable, but the temptation to generalise from a single, horrific case should be avoided. Though detectives are treating Anuj’s murder as a racially-motivated “hate crime,” they admit there is “no evidence” that it actually was. The designation appears to have been made as much to protect the police from charges of racism as for any other reason.
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Posted: 1st, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)
Anuj Bidve murder: GMP therapists, creepy Hazel Blears and saving Manchester’s education industry
ANUJ Bidve: a look at the murder of the Indian student in Salford on Boxing Day: creeping police, Hazel Blears and money…
Bidve, 23, a microelectronics post-graduate student at Lancaster university, was shot dead in Manchester on Christmas night.
He was not. He was shot in the very early hours of Boxing Day.
Rakesh Sonawane, Anuj Bidve’s brother-in-law tells the paper:
“Chief superintendent Russ Jackson of the Greater Manchester police, plus a specially trained family liaison officer…will be visiting Pune on Monday.”
Chief superintendent Barry Russel Jackson, detective constable Peter Christian Rickards and police constable Esther Barbara Lambert have flown to Pune to meet the family.
Yeah, just three coppers have headed to India to tell the family that Anuj Bidve is dead. Only three. This is not an investigation. This is PR. The Greater Manchester Police did not tell Anuj Bidve’s parents their son had died. The father’s phone number was on Anuj Bidve’s mobile phone. Yet, no-one from the police called it. Anuj Bidve’s family discovered he had died over Facebook.
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Posted: 1st, January 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)
The Best Mug Shots Of 2011
THE Best Mug Shots of 2011 are all from America. Of course they are. Over in the UK, we have Toby Jugs…
Posted: 31st, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment
Photos of the day: Women on top
PHOTOs of the Day feature women on top – a hark back to when women were useless, feckless, docile. In short, a time when women were put in a tin can and zoomed to the moon to service pioneering astronauts…
Posted: 30th, December 2011 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment (1)
Anuj Bidve: Hapless police post £50,000 reward
WHO killed Anuj Bidve. The police have arrested five men for the murder of the Indian student in Salford. They have used the words “racially motivated” and called Anuj Bidve’s death a hate crime, although not one motivated by, er, race.
You might suppose that the polcei were making progress. So. Why have they posted a £50,000 reward for anyone naming Anuj Bidve’s killer?
Greater Manchester Police appear to be struggling to catch the killer or killers of 23-year-old Anuj Bidve.
The BBC pushes the race line, albeit subtly:
The Lancaster University student was shot by a white man in the early hours.
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Posted: 30th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Russell Brand and Katy Perry defile sanctity of marriage
RUSSELL Brand has filed for divorce from Katy Perry. Russell and Katy have been married for 15 month. It was never going to last. Unlike Brangelina, Jedward and SuBo, Russell Brand and Katy Perry never gelled as a tabloid abbreviation. Rerry, Berry and Puss had their champions, but no one name was settled upon.
Brand is the man Kerry described as:
“He’s like a cross between Charles Manson, Jim Morrison, Jesus and Elvis Presley.”
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Posted: 30th, December 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Will Abdelbaset al-Megrahi die before Saif al-Islam takes the stand?
WILL Abdelbaset al-Megrahi die before Saif al-Islam takes the stand?
Human Rights Watch says Colonel Gaddafi’s son is being held in solitary confinement in Zintan, in the Nafusa Mountains of western Libya. He has no access to lawyers. Saif al-Islam has had the ends of his right-hand forefinger and thumb amputated – they became infected after being damaged in a Nato air strike.
Saif al-Islam faces two trials on corruption and war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court.
Meanwhile, the Daily Record reports on the life of the biggest mass murderer in British history:
The Lockerbie bomber is no longer taking treatment for prostate cancer amid reports he has “given up” his fight against the disease. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is said to be on high doses of morphine to dull the pain of his illness.
In August 2009, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was given three months to live. He was released from Greenock prison on compassionate grounds. Compassion for the man convicted of killing 270 people.
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Posted: 30th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Photos of The Day: Miley Cyrus ODs on Justin Timberlake’s Eugenics & Sex Harmony
PHOTOS of the day are brought to you by: Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis’s attention grabber; Kim Jong-il’s giant; Jimi Hendrix is Mad; the elephant’s trick no.1; Miley Cyrus overdoses on weed; White pongo, strip poker for winners; the biggest Lord of the Rings tattoo ever; Eugenics & Sex Harmony; and monkey cops…
Posted: 29th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment
That Herman The German Friendship Cake Recipe (with added Holocaust)
LORD Kenneth Baker, the former Tory Education Seceretary, tells the Daily Telegraph that the Holocaust should not be taught in British schools because it creates an unfair vision of our German cousins:
“I would ban the study of Nazism from the history curriculum totally…It doesn’t really make us favourably disposed to Germany for a start, present-day Germany.”
A few days on and the Times leads with news of the Herman the German Friendship Cake”
“ACHTUNG! This invading German cake could take over your life”
Some way to go yet, Ken.
The Times’s Helen Rumbelow writes:
This is a national security announcement. If someone turns up at your door bearing a ‘friendship cake’, be very afraid… People of Britain, this is a national security announcement: beware the cake. The cake has gone viral. It has, in the jargon of military experts, “weaponised”, oozing into the homes of thousands of our citizens, attacking the nicest ones first. There are currently outbreaks reported almost everywhere, from Hertfordshire to Glasgow. We should be on Herman the German Friendship Cake high alert.
Do not approach it before you listen to my story. It is a cautionary tale. I reveal how a persistent German parasite has managed to turn communities in on themselves, converting their noblest intentions from good to bad. I can now clear the playground at the local school simply by turning up with a dirty yoghurt pot.
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Posted: 29th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Kim Jong-il’s hysterical funeral was a Princess Diana rerun
KIM Jong-il’s funeral was over the top, hysterical, mad and defied anyone to say a bad about it or the heaven-sent dead hero. It was like North Korea was burying its very own Princess Diana.
North Korean state media says of the Prince of Hearts:
“Snow fell over streets nonstop as if the sky had shared sadness with the Korean people who grieve over the loss of the sun of the nation.”
Gawker mocks the show:
As you can see in the video above, the completely authentic and not at all staged or impelled expression of hysterical grief was on full display…
Right enough. Just like when Diana died, the draconian top-down message to grieve made everyone weep. When a lip-quivering, arch cynic Tony Blair oozed about The People’s Princess added to the message that we all be upset to the core. A celebrity shopping Princess had died whilst on yet another holiday.That was sad. But thanks to Blair, the BBC and the elite commentators, it was tragic.
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Posted: 28th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Sarah Palin – You Betcha: Inside the Palins’ Assemblies of God church
SARAH Palin… Do you belive in her? What does Sarah Palin believe in? Nick Broomfield’s Sarah Palin – You Betcha! investigates life inside Palin’s Assemblies of God church.
Near the start of the programme, Palin’s parents explain to Broomfield that the family had left Roman Catholicism and been re-baptised into the Assemblies of God while Sarah was a child. The reason they did this is not given (and Broomfield doesn’t ask), although it seems likely that social pressure played a role: in Alexandria, Egypt, a former classmate named Yvonne Bashelier claimed that Palin and her friends have a “spiritual bond” through the Assemblies of God:
To go against Sarah would be to go against your church, whether you agree with her or not, and going against your church and your community is a pretty powerful thing…
As for non-evangelicals:
A lot of it was unspoken pressure. You just got left out of the group. People wouldn’t speak to you, Sarah would encourage other people not to talk to you.
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Posted: 28th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)
Irrational Mohamed Bouazizi is Time magazine’s Person of The Year
MOHAMED Bouazizi is Time magazine’s person of the year for 2011. Mr Mohamed Bouazizi was 26 when he set himself on fire in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. A female municipal inspector named Fedia Hamdi had stopped him from selling fruit off his unlicensed barrow. She slapped him in public, so the story goes. The officials then confiscated his goods – apples, bananas and apples – and his scales. They took away his hope.
That was December 17, 2010.
Mr Mohamed Bouazizi responded by setting himself alight.
He died from his wounds on January 4, 2011. Bouazizi’s death trigged the Arab Spring. Mohamed Bouazizi brought about the end of Mr Ben Ali’s 23 years as Tunisian leader. Colonel Gaddafi would also go from neighbouring Libya, murdered they say. Hosni Mubarak of Egypt would be forced to leave his job as Egypt’s President, only to be replaced by the military.
The Arab Spring brought change but not all of it for the good of the powerless.
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Posted: 27th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Lady Gaga poses for Terry Richardson: Photos
WHEN Lady Gaga met Terry Richardson the result was these photos – a kind of history of sex stills from the 1950 to the present day:
Posted: 27th, December 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)
Who murdered Anuj Bidve in Salford and why was it racist?
WHO murdered Anuj Bidve? Mr Bidve, an Indian postgraduate micro-electronics student studying at Lancaster University was 23. He was on a trip to Salford, Manchester, when a white man shot him a point range in the side of his head. It was around 1:35am.
Why was Anuj Bidve shot after a brief conversation win his killer.
Says Chief Superintendent Kevin Mulligan:
“This appears to have been an unprovoked attack. We cannot establish a motive at this time. We are investigating every possible aspect and we are in the early stages of the investigation, but we are not ruling anything out.”
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Posted: 26th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
Shopper killed at Boxing Day sales on Oxford Street
A MAN has been stabbed to death in the middle of London’s Oxford Street, opposite Bond Street Tube Station, just by the FootLooker and Disney store, up from Selfridges. This is the first day of the post-Christmas sales.
At Selfridges shoppers have fought over goods. The first sale at the Selfridges store was a Miu Miu bag, reduced to £909 from £1,250. Bargain is a relative term.
You can almost taste the insanity…
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Posted: 26th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Prince Philip: other women get ready to sing
GEORGE Michael will “NEVER SING AGAIN,” says the Daily Star’s front-page headline. But Prince Philip and his backing girls might.
It’s Celebrity Death Watch, the tabloid show starring George Michael – singer, formerly of double act Wham! – is taking on Prince Philip – one half of Britain’s most showbiz duo.
Before Christmas the papersd led with the two men, both ill. Now the front pages tell us:
“Queen’s Brave Face For Philip” – Daily Express leads with a photos of Queen Elizabeth a smiling at a Christmas Church service.
“Alone for First Time in 55 Years” – Daily Mirror leads with glum looking Queen at foresaid service.
“Philip: Just Let Me Go Home!” – Daily Mail
Her reign has always been a team effort. All her strength is built on Philip’s enduring love
The Mail is in the Haze Zone, the part leading to an obituary, in which the Prince, who is patron of the British Heart Foundation, is spoken about in Mills & Boon language.
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Posted: 26th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Royal Family | Comment
Gordon Ramsay’s Sex Dwarf presents the 10 best news headlines of 2011
WHAT were the 10 Best News Headline of 2011? Gordon Ramsay’s sex dwarf – the one eaten by a badger – should do well…
Posted: 25th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Alleged child rapist Jerry Sandusky sells gay films to child rape fans on TLAGay.com
WHAT would alleged Penn State University child rapist Jerry Sandusky watch on his DVD player? Well, that question is rhetorical because we already know. The good people at TLAGay.com have a “Jerry Sandusky’s Favorite Films” section, in which Jerry Sandusky fans can empathise with the their film guide by watching such movies as Boy’s Love, Schoolboy Crush, Cold Showers, Billy Budd, Tenderness of the Wolves, Punish Me, Acla and A Whole New Thing:
A quirky, home-schooled 13-year-old gay boy goes to public school for the first time and develops a major crush on his English teacher.
Because what all teenage boys want is to raped in the showers, allegedly? Because equating gayness to paedophilia is a step forwards?
When a schoolteacher discovers that the beguiling teen prostitute he once hired is now a student at his school, a scandalous series of events, queer schoolboy drama and lots of nearly-naked shower room scenes ensue. Schoolboy Crush is a Japanese animated film come to life.
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Posted: 25th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Virgin and Waterstone’s say Hitler’s Mein Kampf is ‘recommended reading’ at Christmas
MEIN Kampf, the book by one-hit wonder Adolf Hitler, is said by Waterstone’s to be the “perfect present” for Christmas. Is Waterstone’s just in tune with its readers in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, giving them the “essential read” that appeals to their prejudices and likes? Is this a reaction to customer feedback or just Waterstone’s attempt to spread the word? The Virgin Megastore has a similar policy in Bahrain, where Mein Kampf is recommended reading to the country’s many unenlightened bigots. Does Richard Branson need the money? Is consumerism so cynical?
Says a Waterstone’s spokesman:
“A customer spotted that one shop had used a seasonal point-of-sale wraparound promoting the book as the ‘perfect present’. Obviously this was not an appropriate thing to say about Mein Kampf. We apologise for the offence caused and will communicate with all our branches at the earliest possible opportunity to remind them of the sensitivities surrounding our stocking of Mein Kampf.”
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Posted: 24th, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Corina Gutierrez performs the happiest most uplifting Christmas song ever
CORINA Gutierrez, aka Ez2Smile, of San Antonio, Texas, will now star in the most uplifting and happiest feel good Christmas song ever.
The Zumba fitness instructor and motivational speaker, who has had osteogenesis imperfecta from birth, says she pressed the wrong button on her online playlist.
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The Meri Yulanda story: is the Indonesian tsunami girl for real?
MERI Yulanda is your feel good Christmas story for 2011. Meri, also known as Wati, was swept away from her village of Ujong Baroh on the Aceh coast, Indonesia, by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
The tsunami killed 170,000 people in Aceh alone and over 230,000 people in all.
This week, Meri Yuland turned up in Meulaboh, Aceh. She was looking for her mum and dad.
Yulanda says that in the intervening years she was forced to work as a beggar for a widow. And now, just before Boxing Day, she tues up safe and well.
Can she be believed? Is it too incredible to be true?
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Posted: 23rd, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
British say French are wrong – industrial PIP silicon breast implants are fine
WILL the British Government command British women to remove the faulty implants made by Marseille’s–based Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP), the French company killed off by news that it used industrial silicon (used in electrical insulation and mattresses) in breast implants?
In the UK, at least 40,000 women have bought the PIP implants.
In France, the country’s Health Ministry will meet the cost of the implants removal. The implants are not killers and the French see it “as a precautionary measure”. Moreover, any woman who had the implants following breast cancer surgery can have news ones fitted at the expense of the State. Will the British Government do likewise?
No.
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Posted: 23rd, December 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
