Who Killed Gaddafi And Buried The Truth About Lockerbie? The Sun Kills Justice For The 270

COLONEL Gaddafi is dead – killed by his own countrymen. Murdered by the mob. The British press react.

The Daily Mirror leads with news that he begged for his life. We don’t know this. All we know is that the rebels tells us:

The cowardly dictator screamed “don’t shoot, don’t shoot” as rebels finally closed in to end his 42-year reign of brutality, mayhem and murder once and for all. But 69-year-old Mad Dog’s pleas fell on deaf ears and the seething Libyan gunmen dragged him from the pipe, battered him senseless then executed him with shots to his legs and head at 8.30am.

Had Gaddafi stood up straight and tall and declared in a cut-glass accent words along the lines of “Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life” or “There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God’s messenger” or “Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way” would the rebels have relayed his message to the world?

The Belfast Telegraph describes Gaddafi as the “man who brought murder to our streets“. Gaddafi was a friend to the IRA, supplying them with weapons.

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Posted: 21st, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)

Retro Photos Of The Day: Free Borsht With Stalin’s Death

ON the day Colonel Gaddafi was killed in Libya, news from the past of another despot on special offer (these photos are great):

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Posted: 20th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment

Ricky Gervais Is The Language Nazi: Disabled And Able-Bodied Idiots Are All Mongs

RICKY Gervais, star of sniggering, self-regarding unfunny and lazy sitcoms featuring his self-depracting showbiz chums in which he plays David Brent (is he acting?), has been making fun of spazmos, sorry, retards, sorry, mongs.

Gervais says mong means someone who is stupid not somene who has Down’s Syndrome. And that’s odd because no-one told us. But Gervais was at the meeting and he says it’s okay to use a term that insults the disabled to insult the able bodied, too. He’s posted a few photos of himself making mong faces on twitter.

“Good monging, everyone!” he says.

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Posted: 20th, October 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment

Gaddifi’s Dead Body Shown: Photos That Prove The End Was Bloody

COLONEL Gaddafi is dead.

This is the picture released by French news agency AFP to confirm the death of despot Colonel Gaddafi

He was killed during the taking of his last refuge his home town of Sirte and after his escape convoy had been attacked by Nato aircraft

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Posted: 20th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)

Irishman Paul Moran Who Tried To Turn His Poo Into Gold Is Jailed

PAUL Moran, 30, tried to turn his faeces into pure gold by placing them on a heater – an electric one – at his flat in Derrin Park, Enniskillen. It was 7:14pm on July 24, 2010 – a balmy summer’s night.

At Enniskillen Magistrates Court, Moran admitted arson and endangering human life. He has been jailed for three months for causing around £3,000 worth of damage to his Housing Executive home.

Upon his release he will spend a further 12 months on licence.

His Honour Judge McFarland told him:

“Rather bizarrely you were attempting to make gold from human faeces and waste products. It was an interesting experiment to fulfil the alchemist’s dream, but wasn’t going to succeed.”

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Posted: 20th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (3)

Zionist FIFA Hates Me Because I’m Black: Trinidad’s Side-lined Jack Warner Plays Race Card

FORMER FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner says football’s world governing body is racist, zionist and discriminates against non-whites .

Warner, still Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Works, says so in a letter to the Trinidad Guardian newspaper. It gives no detail to support the allegations, claiming he will reveal all after sacked FIFA Vice-President Mohamed Bin Hammam’s case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Warner was due to appear in the same FIFA Ethics Committee inquiry which booted out Bin Hammam but quit before the hearing and did not appear.

“I will talk about the racism that is within FIFA,” Warner said, “I will talk about the zionism, which probably is the most important reason why this acrid attack on Bin Hammam and me was mounted. There is much to talk about that will make sponsors cringe with painful surprise.”

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Posted: 20th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment (1)

Hillsborough: When The Police And Media Colluded To Damn Liverpool’s 96 Innocent Victims

THE Hillsborough Disaster continues to make news.Theresa May, the Home Secretary, says she will do her utmost to make it so that official documents relating to the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans in 1989 are published.

Sir Oliver Popplewell says the Hillborough families should move on. But how can you move on when justice has not been done? Popplewell chaired a public inquiry into deaths of 56 people in a fire at Bradford City’s Valley Parade stadium in May 1985. He writes a letter to the Times:

In the aftermath of other large tragedies, those affected have behaved with quiet dignity and great courage

Sir, Many years ago I had the responsibility of conducting a public inquiry into the fire at Bradford City FC. I was also concerned with the riot at Heysel Stadium, Belgium, caused by Liverpool football fans. Both these events were no less tragic than the events at Hillsborough (“Hillsborough families say papers must be released”, Oct 18).

The citizens of Bradford behaved with quiet dignity and great courage. They did not harbour conspiracy theories. They did not seek endless further inquiries. They buried their dead, comforted the bereaved and succoured the injured. They organised a sensible compensation scheme and moved on.

Is there, perhaps, a lesson there for the Hillsborough campaigners?

Sir Oliver Popplewell
London WC2

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Posted: 19th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment

Dale Farm Eviction Day Live Blog: Illegal Tasers, Burning Caravans And The Neighbours Rejoice

DALE Farm: The camp is coming down. Bailiffs have been clearing travellers from the site.

The Violence:

Two protestors ahve been tasered by police.

A caravan has been set on fire.

Electricity has been cut off.

Rocks and liquids are tossed at police. The Basildon Echo says protestors are urinating on police.

The Chant:

“F*** the police, no justice, no peace.”

The Travellers:

A woman tells Sky News:

All I’ve been prepared to do is put my body in the way of harm. The fact that these baliffs have been paid so much to rip apart families and take them from their home here is disgusting. The justice system has massively failed these people.”

The Council:

Tony Ball, the leader of Basildon council says:

The time for talking is over. We have given the travellers’ every chance to leave peacefully and they have not taken it. Now our job is to clear the site in a safe and humane manner. It is quite clear to me that the majority of the public want us to do that. My biggest fear is that somebody – be it a bailiff, a police officer, a traveller or a supporter – gets hurt. I would call on those inside Dale Farm to behave sensibly and responsibly.

Is her for real? He adds not long after:

The pre-meditated and organised scenes of violence that we have already seen with protesters throwing rocks and bricks, threatening police with iron bars and setting fire to a caravan are shocking. These are utterly disgraceful scenes and demonstrate the fact some so-called supporters were always intent on violence. Nonetheless we are going to press on with this operation with our partners in a safe, dignified and humane way and will uphold the law.

Mary Sheridan (traveller):

“The only premeditated violence has come from the police- they knew exactly what they were doing when they started beating and tazering people. This is not how a community should be treated by its own Council. It’s illegal for us to travel, but illegal for us to settle down here. We’re getting hit by the police but we’ve got nowhere else to go.”

The Rosy-Fingered Dawn

As daylight was just beginning to break over Dale Farm a line riot police appeared on the road leading to the front gate their shields illumunated by headlights from a row of vans behind.A siren from behind the barricades was sounded as a polce tactical adviser came to talk to the activist telling them they were there to protect them. A shout of fascist came from behind the gate. – Richard Alleyne, Daily Telegraph

The Police:

A spokesman says:

“Officers have this morning entered the Dale Farm site following intelligence which informed the commanders that anyone entering the site was likely to come up against violence and a serious breach of the peace would occur. Intelligence received indicated protesters had stockpiled various items with the intent of using these against bailiffs and police. The first officers on the site were attacked with missiles being thrown, including rocks and liquids. These officers were fully equipped to deal with this situation.”

The Tasers:

Christian Papaleontiou of the Home Office’s policing directorate told the Commons home affairs select committee that Tasers should not be used “as a crowd control measure”.

He told the committee:

“We again support the ACPO guidance, which is very clear that Tasers should not be used in terms of a crowd control measure in public order scenarios.”

The Injured:

Nora Egan, who claims she suffered back injuries in a confrontation with police. She said: “This is being led by the police, there is no sign of bailiffs.”

The Neighbours:

Says one:

“They started as seven families and now it has grown, illegally ever since. If we didn’t make a stand here we’d have no more green belt land left. They’d be setting up all over the Lake District. Our local authority has had to make a stand to show the rest of the country. If we had allowed this site to grow it would have got bigger and bigger until the travellers outnumbered the villagers.”

The Activist Jake Fulton

“They’re torturing people up there. We are trying to resist peacefully”

John Baron MP for Basildon and Billericay:

“We’ve been on the right side of this issue for the last eight years. Now we’re here we’re not going to rush our fences, we are going to do this safely. Police are using minimum force required, but when you have protesters throwing rocks and holding iron bars they have to protect themselves. We still hope this will be a peaceful site clearance. There cannot be one law for travellers and another for residents.”

The Bishop of Chelmsford, Stephen Cottrell:

“As we witness the sad and difficult eviction of the travelling community from Dale Farm, let us pray that it happens peacefully and that no one is hurt or injured. But let us also remember that this eviction does not solve the problem but moves it somewhere else. These families are going to have to sleep somewhere tonight. What is needed is a national solution to provide travelling communities with stable, permanent and, if they wish, settled sites so that their culture and community can be maintained and flourish within the law.”

The Cost:

Basildon Council say:

Although the cost itemised above includes an operational contingency there is a possibility that operational expenditure may exceed the £5m indicated. In this instance it will be necessary for an additional budget to be agreed to ensure the safe and successful completion of the site clearance. It is therefore proposed that the Chief Executive and Leader of the Council be delegated authority to approve additional expenditure up to a maximum of £1.5m bringing estimated costs of site clearance to £6.5m. Added to the £1.5m post operation costs, that equals £8m.

Polly Curtis says:

The council has a budget of £8m for the evictions, the police operation is thought to be around £10m with some suggestions that it could stretch to over £12.5m. The total bill is put at £18m by the council and £20.13m by the Dale Farm Solidarity campaign group.

But these figures are extremely provisional and don’t include the costs of the delays to the evictions after the court action last month.

Dale Farm Solidarity:

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Dale Farm is the largest community of its kind, and its eviction is among the biggest in recorded history. Eighty two families are facing the fact that they have nowhere to sleep tonight. The operation to do this has cost the taxpayer at least £18m.

Dale Farm’s size has also awakened many in Britain to the criminalisation of Travellers. Today’s operation has been harrowing for all the families and supporters involved. We have seen the police enter the site by smashing through a legal plot that was assumed to be safe by elderly residents seeking refuge. As police sledgehammered a wall on this plot, these elderly residents were seriously injured.

A Dale Farm mother is in hospital and can’t move her legs after being beaten by police; tasers have been used, despite being declared inappropriate for public order situations; and seven people have been taken away in ambulances. But how did it get to this?

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Posted: 19th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (14)

More Questions Than Answers As Disgraced Dr Liam Fox Is Nailed

FORMER UK Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox broke most of the rules in the book.

It turns out the Civil Service knew of and disliked young Mr Adam Werrity’s cast iron determination to stick close to the shirt tails of the former UK Defence Secretary.
Predictably, the relationship eventually forced the 50-year-old Dr Liam Fox’s resignation.

The, it has to be said, fleeting inquiry into the affairs of State and definitely non Statesman-like activities of Dr Fox while in charge of one of Britain’s biggest spending departments has hammered Fox and said he fell woefully short of what should be expected of a Minister.

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Posted: 19th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)

Gilad Shalit: All Views and News On The Asymmetric Israeli-Hamas Prisoners Swap

GILAD Shalit has bene released. Sergeant-Major Schalit, 25, was kidnapped from Israel by Hamas five years and four months ago. In that attacks, Hams killed two Israeli soldiers. In exchange for one soldier, Israel is freeing 1,027 Palestinian prisoners. The question is: why now has been released?

Says Shalit:

It has been a very long five years but I always knew I would go home. I heard of the release a week ago. You can’t imagine how I felt when I heard I was going to go home at last. I thought I was going to be there for many years. I miss my family, and I miss talking to my friends about ordinary things.”

No Forgiveness

Israeli President Shimon Peres has commuted the sentences of the freed prisoners rather than pardoning them. He wrote on all Palestinian prisoners’ release papers:

“I neither forgive nor forget.”

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Posted: 18th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)

Aussie Greens Poison Everything: The Macquarie Island Disaster

EVER managed to sit through one of those excruciating low budget Aussie/New Zealand immigration factumentries without having the blood boil just a little?

You know the type of thing; Customs and Immigration officials making life a living hell for paying travellers who have brought an apple core or the wrong type of insulin into the country. This while travellers are still smarting from the after effects of the mandatory application of a delousing spray applied to the entire passenger list of every aircraft landing in Australia before being tipped into Border Control humiliation rooms…with the TV crews.

The attitude and perverse pleasure some of the clearly new Australian officials have while making life difficult for travellers rankles more than a little as the claims are made that this is the front line in defending the flora and fauna (and genetic and criminal purity) of Promised Lands.

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Posted: 18th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)

Jemma Henley And Chelsea’s Ashley Cole: Katie Price’s Cut-Price Supermodel Confesses

ASHLEY Cole, of Chelsea FC and England, has a “SECRET LOVER”, reports the Daily Star on its front page. Of course, he has nothing of the sort. All Ashley’s lovers are branded “MRS C” on the nape of their necks. As you check your own necks, and those of your girlfriend, mother (but not hamsters), the Star tells us:

A SECRET lover of Ashley Cole was yesterday outed by Kate Price, who is now turning her into a supermodel. Jemma Henley claimed she had a hush-hush fling with the footballer for three months.

So much to digest. How do you turn anyone into a supermodel? Starvation, better genes and a manageable drug problem, allegedly?

Katie says Jemma “has fierce model written all over her“. In crayon. She also has a tattoo of Katie Price on her arm.

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Posted: 18th, October 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment

Yueyue’s Plights Shames China: Can Chen Xianmei Restore Face?

WANT to see a man run over two-year-old Yueyue at a hardware market in Foshan, China, and drive off? He’s been arrested. He says he was on the phone and never saw the child.

Want to see 18 people walk past the stricken toddler and do nothing to help her? Want her see her get run over for a second time.

When we first saw this, we thought it was a fake, something created by the Chinese authorities to prick a debate about unity. But it isn’t fake. It’s horribly real.

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Posted: 17th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)

Daily Mail’s Clarifications & Corrections Column Does Nothing To Erase Mail Online Errors

HATS off to the Daily Mail for its new Clarifications & Corrections column at the foot of Page 2. It is all to do with upholding and raising standards in journalism.

The Mail’s editor-in-chief Paul Dacre tells the Leveson inquiry into press standards, “the depressing fact that the newspaper industry is in a sick financial state“.

He laments the state of investigative journalism:

“Courts aren’t covered, councils aren’t held to account.” It is a “democratic deficit which itself warrants an inquiry”.

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Posted: 17th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)

700 Reasons Why The Pastor’s Wife Should Spit Sperm Into A Cold Glass Jar

SPERM. Just what do you do with it? Well a report by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the fertility watchdog, says there is lack of good quality sperm. In a bid to up the harvest, the £250 donors can claim in expenses for loss of earnings – you cannot be paid – may be increased to between £500 and £700. That is not too shabby.

The pastor’s wife may care to keep a chilled spittoon at the bedside:

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Posted: 16th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Money | Comment (1)

Occupy Rome Turns Violent: Photos To Make Big Media Cheer

OCCUPY Rome In Photos: The Occupy Wall Street protest movement has produced no images to make the media sit up and notice. But that was before Occupy Rome, a movement infiltrated by the usual suspects who want to break things. The medis is delighted. For added bonus points, an effigy to the Virgin Mary was smashed to the ground…

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Demonstrators walk past a broken statue of the Virgin Mary as clashes broke out between protesters and police in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Protesters smashed the windows of shops in Rome and torched a car as violence broke out during a demonstration in the Italian capital, part of worlwide protests against corporate greed and austerity measures. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Posted: 15th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment

X Factor Legend Kitty Brucknell CBE Retrospective: Photos

X FACTOR: KITTY Brucknell says that she is an “inspiration”. Kitty Brucknell tells us that she owes her fans – the “most important people in her life”. Kitty Brucknell seems to have fast-tracked herself past the recording and the winning and moved into the “legend” category. Look out for a Kitty Brucknell retrospective on ITV2, a CBE and a Chris Biggins, Joan Collins and the GIs recalling their time in rep together on 100 Best Kitty Moments on Channel 4:

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Posted: 15th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment (1)

Is the Daily Mail Stalking Amanda Knox? Nadia Gilani Has News On Foxy’s Burka Disguise

ANOTHER day and with it another chance for the Daily Mail to reports on Amanda Knox, the innocent American who never did take part in a demonic sex orgy and murder Meredith Kercher. Knox is  the innocent American ‘found guilty‘ by the Daily Mail’s technology and Nick Pisa’s quotes.

Of course, Meredith Kercher is the Mail’s Our Meredith, a British woman who was ruined by incompetent Italians (didn’t they free the innocent woman? – ed) and influential Americans who were, er, forced to sell lots of their stuff and go into debt to fight for their daughter.

The Mail’s Nadia Gilani delivers:

Helping hand: Amanda Knox tries to disguise herself as she enjoys an arm-and-arm walk with her best girl friend

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Posted: 15th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)

Occupy Wall Street’s Guide To Hand Gestures

OCCUPY Wall Street’s guide to Twinkling: Pay attention lest you get nu hand speck wrong and end up looking stupid:

You out your left hand up, your left hand down, you shape it it into a grip and w*** it up and down…

Spotter: Jammie Wearing Fool, David Thompson

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Posted: 15th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment

Julian Assange Hijacks Occupy The Stock Exchange: Photos

LIKE most things American, Occupy Wall Street is now a global franchise. Today, the movement that champions non-moving occupation arrived in the City of London under the banner ‘Occupy the Stock Exchange’. This would be a peaceful protest’ against the global financial system. And it has been.

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Posted: 15th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment

ITV’s Biased Studio Experts Say Sam Warburton’s Red Card Was Wrong: Spine Injuries Are OK With Steve Rider’s Team

SO. There is was. Sam Warburton, the 23-year-old captain of Wales got sent off for a stupid and dangerous tackle in the Rugby World Cup semi-final and as he walked off the pitch so went his side’s chances of victory. But the French are such a prosaic, plodding bunch of bovine flatfoots, and the Welsh so vibrant and up-for-it, that the reds almost won. The Welsh should have won, on account of scoring the game’s only try, which is the purpose of the game.

On ITV, referee Alain Rolland’s decision to dismiss Warburton was castigated. Listening to the monocular experts in the blinkered ITV studio – and how ITV must have prayed for a British win and with it a big audience for the final and lots of advertising money – the actual victim, one Vincent Clerc, was utterly forgotten. It was luck that he never landed on his head and damaged his spine.

Law 10.4 on ‘spear tackles’ reads:

“It is dangerous play to lift a player from the ground and drop or drive that player into the ground whilst that that player’s feet are still off the ground so that the player’s head and/or upper body come into contact with the ground.”

Ahead of the tournament a directive was also issued to referees:

“Foul play – high tackles, grabbing and twisting of the head and tip tackles to be emphasised, with referees to start at red and work backwards.”

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Posted: 15th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (6)

Can Bacon Can Improve Anything? A Gallery Of Love

JUST as any news story can be improved with the inclusion of a dwarf, any part of life can be improved with bacon:

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Posted: 15th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment (1)

On The Daily Express’ Xenophobia, Jani-King, Racism And Anti-Immigration Henry Smith MP

“WORKERS ARE FIRED FOR BEING BRITISH.”

So declares the Daily Express‘ front-page headline.

Giles Sheldrick has news:

TWO workers were sacked simply for being British, an MP claimed yesterday.

Claimed? Claimed is front-page news.

The explosive allegation made during a Parliamentary debate reopened the row over the rights of British employees being undermined by migrant workers.

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Posted: 14th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)

Photos Of The Day: Meanwhile In London

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Posted: 14th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment

The Simple Pleasure Of Ruining Amanda Knox’s Life In The Daily Mail

AMANDA Knox: “Sweet taste of freedom for Foxy,” declares the Daily Mail on its cover. The paper that called her an actress continues to shine a bright light on an innocent woman. The photo is captioned:

“A simple pleasures: Amanda Knox out buying some chocolate and toothpaste near her US home.”

Ah, the simple pleasure of being photographed as you pop to the shops.

The Telegraph’s Andrew Hough also spots those simple pleasures:

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Posted: 14th, October 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (10)