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Stupid New Mexico Police Say Paedophiles Are Posing As Pedobear: Warn Your Kids
TO New Mexico, where the Attorney General’s Office says “paedobear” aka “pedobear” is a menace to children. Pedobear is the Internet meme introduced to the Western web by 4chan as a way or mocking paedophiles and anyone posting creepy images and stories about children. It is a renamed version of the 2chan ASCII art character “kuma”. You might have seen Pedobear hanging out with the Pope.
Lynn Southard with the AGO says cars in Albuquerque and southern New Mexico are carrying paedobear stickers. Says she:
“It’s very scary, it’s a very scary situation that’s been brought to our attention that these vehicles are circulating around New Mexico.”
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Posted: 30th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment (1)
419 Scammers Cannot Do Photoshop: Brilliant Gallery The Nigerian Con Gone Wrong
THE Nigerian 419 scammers cannot do Photoshop. You’d think that being the Commander of the Imperial Forces of his Excellency etc… the Nigerian contact sitting on vast pile of cash would be able to hire a decent web designer. It turns out they like to do it themselves. People wise to the scam invite the scammers to pose for photos. These snaps will prove that they are persons of fine repute, elevated jobs and impeccable dress sense. Want to see some of the results
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Posted: 29th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Money | Comment
Peter Hain Gets Warning Computer Was Hacked – Suspects Form Queue Here: Irish, Welsh & National Security Dilemmas – Or Not
PETER Hain the once fiery – even thought at one stage to be bordering on anarchist – Young Liberal turned one-time Labour’s Northern Ireland supremo has been told by Police his computers may have been hacked.
The temptation is to ask if this is a bad thing for the Minister once charged and before The Beak for allegedly robbing a branch of Barclay’s bank. He was not guilty.
Apart from a few (later said to be totally unfounded) suspicions over Party Leadership election expenses contributions, Hain has kept a firm grip on the greasy pole to the Houses of Parliament front benches. There have been a few slips and pole descents but the unctuous Hain still slithers up the pole.
All this from the once 13-year-old boy who read the eulogy at the cremation of a man executed for murdering an old dear in an infamous Johannesburg Station bombing. The bomber had hidden behind a column to watch his bomb explode. Hain’s parents could not read it because at the time they were “Banned Persons” silenced by the Nationalist and Openly Racist Regime in power in South Africa. There are still long memories around Peter m’boy.
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Posted: 29th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
The 10 Biggest Rebels On The Internet: Don’t Do It
THE 10 Biggest Rebels On The Internet features they who dared to defy…
Posted: 29th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment
Gary Speed: Feeding Speculation And Waiting For The Secrets We Have No Right To Hear
GARY Speed’s death is occupying minds at the Sun. The paper’s front-page headline says of the man who represented Leeds United, Newcastle United, Everton, Sheffield United And Bolton Wanderers:
“Gary didn’t argue with wife, he wasn’t depressed”.
We do not know why Gary Speed died. The manager of the Welsh football team was found hanged in the garage at his home near Chester. An inquest will be opened at the coroner’s court at Warrington Town Hall on Tuesday.
We may never know why he died. But do we need to know? Do we deserve to know?
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Posted: 29th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (6)
Horror In Canterbury: Pizza Hut Turns To Pizza Hell For Pregnant Diner
LOCAL News of The Day: The Canterbury Star reports on the Pizza Hut pizza horror:
When Redwood man Rick Baker’s pregnant girlfriend told him she was craving pizza last week he took to the phone straight away- ordering two large pizzas from Pizza Hut Northwood. However, the fast food giant rang back 20 minutes later and said the pizzas could not be delivered for a further hour-and-a-half because the store had no delivery drivers.
The story is headlined:
Frustration as pizza chain fails to deliver
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Posted: 28th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
My Tram Experience: One Mum’s Racism On London Transport
IN a video called My Tram Experience, a British woman on London transport dandles her toddler on her knee and complains that Britain is full of non-British. The language is NSFW. It’s hard to overlook the fact that with her brown hair and brown eyes, she looks a bit non-Angelfolk herself. And the child looks a bit, well, German. Could she be one of the self-hating tram travellers..?
Anyone know who she is?(Essex Snooki is this way.)
Posted: 28th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts | Comments (12)
Kate Middleton To Join Public Sector Strike: Official Royal TUC Strike Fridge Magnets Raise Millions
PUBLIC Sector strikes are coming on Wednesday. And the big question is: will anyone who works notice? The right-wring press warn of queues at Heathrow Airport, pupils learning nothing in school and the country’s borders being porous. Again we ask: will anyone notice the difference?
Well, one difference is that the Guardian’s website is expected to be busier than usual and more people will watching Neighbours. Also, people on their way to work will be able to see the striking public sector workers and ask them what it is they do.
Francis Maude and Danny Alexander say the strikes will pose a “significant hit to the economy at a very challenging time”. It’s a warning that talks up the importance of the strikers’ jobs.
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Posted: 28th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Money | Comment (1)
Tabloids And Twitter Wallow In The Death Of Gary Speed: It’s Not All About Football
HOW do you report on the apparent suicide of Wales manager Gary Speed, dead at 42? His wife found him hanged at their home in Huntingdon Hall, near Chester.
The Mail opts for the investigation into a private life. Gary Speed’s nearest and dearest are now considered fair game. The front-page picture is of Speed and his wife Louise, mother to his two children. The headline states:
“Suicide mystery of Gary Speed”
Indeed, it is a mystery. Trying to make sense of a man’s suicide is an imposisble job for those who have never contemplated it nor know nothing of the workings of the man’s mind and private life.
The Times also want to know why. It’s front-page headline says:
“MYSTERY OVER MANAGER”S DEATH’
Simon Barnes tells us:
To regular viewers who tuned into the BBC’s Football Focus on Saturday there was nothing obviously wrong with the young international manager lauded for reversing his team’s ailing fortunes. But hours later, Gary Speed committed suicide in the garage of his £2 million home.
A sporting idol and adoring father of two boys, Ed aged 14 and Tommy, 13, he left fans and fellow professionals asking “why?”.
It may be a case of now ‘why?’ but ‘why not?’ – why not earlier? Why now?
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Posted: 28th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (17)
Photos Of The Day: Adele’s Wa*k In The Park
PHOTOS of the Day are brought to you by Adele, a Wa*k in the park, Eleganza clothing and Mick Jagger mooning a nose picking Keith Richards…
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Posted: 27th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment
Man Dumps Cat In Bin: CCTV Footage Of Singpore’s Mary Bale
THE Mary Bale Fan Club welcomes the mystery man who placed his cat into a bin in Singapore. A child looks on.
The man stopped his Mercedes by the James Tan Veterinary Centre (JTVC) in Singapore. He opened the large rubbish bin and put the car in it, by shacking it out of a carrier. Cameras at JTVC filmed the episode.
Says JTVC’s administration assistant Chee Siew Luan:
“We found a collar on him … We don’t know whether the cat belongs to the man or whether he was just dumping a random cat.”
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Posted: 27th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Tony Blair’s Labour Party MP’s Secret £100,000 Gift To LSE Student Saif Gaddafi
WILL Saif Gaddafi die before he can take the stand at the International Criminal Court? If he does, then perpetually terminally ill Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi will have outlived the Libyan leaders who presided over the Lockerbie killer’s release from a Scottish prison.
While we wonder what Saif Gaddafi knows about the deaths of 270 people in the UK’s biggest ever mass murder – what will he reveal and why – the Sunday Times reports that Argus Scotland — where former Labour MP Adam Ingram was non-executive chairman – gave the Gadaffi International Charity and Development Foundation £100,000 “at about the same time as it was awarded a multi-million-pound contract in Libya”.
That contract was awarded to Argus by Libya’s Organisation for the Development of Administrative Centres. Argus would design 10 universities.
Ingram was the armed forces minister from 2001 to 2007. He was MP East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow. Yep, in Scotland, where al-Megrahi lived for a time.
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Posted: 27th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Chelsea’s Ashley Cole Accused Of Attacking Clubber: What Would Cheryl Think?
CHELSEA footballer and former Mr Cheryl Cole has “attacked” a “clubber“.
The Star’s Stone Age headline for a modern man appears above the news that:
“Ashley Cole was caught on CCTV throwing a wild punch at a football fan in a late-night bust up.”
Cole is alleged to have uttered the time-honoured enjoiner:
“Do you know who the f*** I am?”
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Posted: 27th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
The Leveson Inquiry Should Ignore Gerry McCann’s Words On Super-Injunctions For Photographers
WHEN the parents of Madeleine McCann appeard at the Leveson Inquiry, Gerry McCann told it:
You should not be able to publish photographs of private individuals going about their private business without their explicit consent, signed.
What say the snappers?
A ban of this type would be the death of the free press in the UK. Current guidelines require that individuals should not be photographed while they have a ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’. In practical terms this means that anyone in a public place can be photographed without permission, as they cannot expect privacy in a public space. If laws were introduced requiring the written consent of an individual before they were photographed, it would mean press photographers would have to ignore events unfolding before them.
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Posted: 26th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (11)
Black Friday Crowds Attack Walmart: Amazing Videos Of Shoppers Going Mad On Pepper Spray
BLACK Friday is when America goes mad for shopping. Highhlights of the craziness were a Californian woman who squirted pepper spray to beat other shoppers to an Xbox 360.
“This was customer-versus-customer ‘shopping rage’,” police lieutenant Abel Parga told the Los Angeles Times.
At Walmart stores – where the beautiful people shop – a man was shot by robbers in the car park outside the store in San Leandro, California store. At a Walmart in Kinston, North Carolina, security pepper sprayed the punters. One thing is certain: these are heady times of the pepper spraying industry. Also, bullets – there was a gunfight in the aisles at Fayetteville, North Carolina.
In Arizona a grandfather who tried to protect his grandson from stampeding Black Friday shoppers was hospitalised after a scuffle with police.
“They were fighting over bath towels on sale for $1.88, as ridiculous as that sounds,” Ohio Police Sergeant Jason Druckenmiller said. “A woman tried to get her hands on some towels when she was pushed from behind, and that’s when she came out swinging.”
Our pick is the fight in Arkansas for a $2 waffle iron.
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Posted: 26th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
BBC’S Weather Site Erases Scotland And England
THE BBC Weather site’s Find A Forecast Service allows users to type in the name of a place and discover its weather forecast. A search for Wales produces a good result. A search for Ireland produces a lot of choices by which to narrow the search. But searches for England and Scotland produce no results. Not one.
This is odd. Is it because Wales is bigger than Scotland? No. Wales covers 2,903,085km2; Scotland covers 5,062,011km2. Scotland is about twice the size of the Netherlands, and searching for Dutch weather gives users a choice of 37 locations.
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Posted: 25th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
The 85th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade In Times Square, New York: Photos
IT’S Thanksgiving. And that means only one thing: deep-fried turkey! But before that, here’s the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Times Square in New York. The parade premiered in 1924, this is its 85th year. In 1924, the inflatables featured: Howard Carter, George Gershwin, and Little Orphan Annie…
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Posted: 24th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment
Stephen Lawrence Murder Trial Days 7 And 8: The Police Have 15 Days To Account For
STEPHEN LAWRENCE MURDER TRIAL Days 7 and 8: The police failed and failed and failed.
Adrian Wain in charge of the first two examinations of the victim’s and suspects’ clothing. He spotted neither the very small fibres nor the 0.5mm by 0.25mm speck of blood found on Norris and Dobson’s clothing. Both were identified in 2008 by a science firm called LGC Forensics.
Prosecutors say this proves Dobson and Norris were at the scene of Lawrence’s murder. The defence lawyers say cross-contamination caused the evidence to be there.
Why did Mr Wain not see the evidence found on the two men’s clothing? He says:
“I wouldn’t have found it because I didn’t look for it.”
It was too small. The science was not advanced enough to deal with it. The matter would have had to have been 3mm by 3mm square. Mr Wain adds:
“The size of the stain we could deal with at that time was far in excess of what we could deal with now.”
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Posted: 24th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Parking Meter Robin Hood Detonates 14 Meters In Lewes, East Sussex
PEOPLE, described on the BBC as “vandals”, have used explosives to destroy 14 parking meters in Lewes, East Sussex.
East Sussex County Council says lives have been put at risk. No, not livelihoods funded by punitive parking charges. Actual lives.
There has been 15 attacks on 14 meters in the past three months.
Councillor Carl Maynard says such behaviour, often with fireworks, could seriously injure a passer-by. But it hasn’t. Moreover, no passers-by have even come forward to say they have witnessed the attacks.
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Posted: 24th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Madeleine McCann At The Leveson Inquiry: The Free Speech Debate
MADELEINE McCann: Kate and Gerry McCann has been addressing the Leveson Inquiry into media standards.
It’s front page news:
Front pages:
“Days of dignity for the McCanns”- Telegraph
“Lives are being harmed by these stories, says McCanns” – Guardian
“I was violated by the press says Kate McCann”- Times
“Tortured by the tabloids”- Indy
Kate McCann says he felt “totally violated” when the News of the World published excerpts from a private diary.
Madeleine McCann went missing on May 3, 2007. He case continues to make headline news.
Gerry McCann also spoke. He noted how the coverage turned from helpful to their search for their daughter to being negative against them.
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Posted: 24th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Madeleine McCann | Comments (24)
It’s Not Just The Republican Presidential Hopefuls Who Are Lost For Words
FORGET Bill Clinton’s non-inhaling marijuana experimentation, forget John ‘flip-flop’ Kerry’s ‘I voted for it before I voted against it’ moment, forget Barack Obama’s ‘guns or religion’ putdown. With another six weeks to go before the 2012 Republican primary and caucuses schedule kicks off, the Grand Old Party’s presidential race contestants have already outgaffed presidential hopefuls of all creeds and times. Or so it would seem.
Since the debate season started in May, the nine GOP candidates have committed so many political faux pas it seems the whole campaign is simply fodder for late-night talk shows. But is the 2012 race really exceptionally blunder-filled or is it that gaffes have become an unprecedented talking point and concern? Gaffes have always happened, but this time around both the candidates and their observers seem more preoccupied with them than ever before.
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Posted: 23rd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Fenton The Richmond Park Jesus Dog Is A Meme: The Parodies
FENTON! Fenton!! (Not Benton.) Jesus Christ Fenton!
Fenton’s day out was filmed by 13-year-old Jake Goodyear and his dad Ali. Says Mr Goodyear:
“I have been inundated with people from CNN, CBS, Good Morning America, German newspapers emailing … I don’t know what to do. I might get Max Clifford on it.”
Jesus Christ in Richmond Park.
The black labrador is chasing a herd of deer in London’s Richmond Park:
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Posted: 23rd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
The Best Jesus Albums Ever: Now That’s What I Call Christmas
THIS Christmas why not eschew the X Factor’s cynical recording and other novelty songs for some good old fashioned Jesus music? We’ve pulled together a Crusade of albums for your musical enlightenment. Take it away, The Faith Tones, The Christian Crusaders, The Handless Organist, The Copper Family, The Ministers Quartet and all the way from the stables Butch Yelton and Upbound singing songs from Swing That Gospel Axe…
Posted: 23rd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment (1)
Occupy Wall Street Pepper Spray Policeman John Pike Is A Meme
WHEN Lt. John Pike, a retired US Marine, squirted pepper spray at Occupy Wall Street protesters at University of California, Davis, he started a meme. He’s famous! Some of his ‘victims’ make you want you rejoice…
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Posted: 22nd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
