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Satya Sai Baba Is Ill: Time To Bury The Lie?
SATYA Sai Baba, 84, is ill. In Puttaparthi, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, some of the swami’s 30 million devotees are outside the hospital. Within the hospital, Baba is experiencing breathing problems. Will he be ok? Or are his airways blocked by large golden egg?
Baba claims to be the reincarnation of a 19th Century Hindu godman. He is a self-declared living god, an Avatar.
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Posted: 6th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
EDL: Iran Invades Oldham And Demands British Built Mosques In Mecca
THE English Defence League v Press TV: Iran’s mouthpiece has taken over Oldham. Oh, and listen out for the man demanding that mosques are built in Mecca by British builders…
Posted: 6th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)
Nick Clegg Is The Celebrity Empathiser Who Wants You To Give Generously
NICK Clegg. Bit of a knob, eh? But he is worthy of comment. And like all good celebrities, it is being ignored that they most fear.
Clegg has been noticed because he has said something wholly obvious. Of course, this will not be his undoing because the political elite are never wrong; they have merely triggered debate and invited us to join in.
What he said was:
“In Britain today, life chances are narrowed for too many by the circumstances of their birth: the home they’re born into, the neighbourhood they grow up in or the jobs their parents do.”
Well, yes, Nick. It’s been like that forever – in every country. It was like that when Clegg’s dad helped get him a gap year post with a bank. Parents work for their children. Get over it.
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Posted: 6th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
James Bulger’s Killer Robert Thompson’s Lads’ Holiday: You Outraged Now?
JON Venables is in jail. So. It’s time to focus on Robert Thompson, the other of James Bulger’s killers. The Sun brings news of the child killer who killed as a child in its front-page headline:
“BULGER KILLER NO 2 GOES ABROAD ON LADS’ HOLIDAY.”
Thompson’s trip overseas follows news that Jon Venables went on a holiday to Norway following his release.
The Sun tells us:
Thompson used his phoney new ID on his passport for a secret “lads’ trip” to Europe.
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Posted: 6th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (46)
Real Madrid Beat Spurs In Photos (Arsenal Fans Breathe Again)
OF course – of course – Emmanuel Adebayor, a former Arsenal player, would score for Real Madrid against Spurs in the Champions League. If anyone wants to compile a list of players who have scored in a big game against their former team’s local rivals, we’ll pay. For Spurs fans licking wounds, we offer them the solace of Nayim.
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BBC To Make ‘Embryo To Sofa’ Show About The Human Virus
CHRIS Packham is auditioning for the roll as David Attenborough’s Voice of God in Radio Times. But whereas Dave was for life, Packham is, apparently, for death. Life on Earth is now Death To Humanity. Says Packham, a BBC telly presenter of natural history stuff:
“There’s no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we’re not addressing the one single factor that’s putting more pressure on the ecosystem than any other…”
Trees, right? Those fucking trees.
“… namely the ever-increasing size of the world’s population.”
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Does Jeremy Clarkson Have Only Half A Scrotum?
JEREMY Clarkson the likeable gang leader of TV’s Top Gear, has written of his apparent dislike of philanderers. Only, the Mirror says he might well be one. It introduces us to his alleged mistress Phillipa Sage:
TOP Gear star Jeremy Clarkson has been cheating on his wife with a pretty blonde during an international tour with the show.
Father-of-three Clarkson, 50, has been betraying his loyal wife of 18 years Frances in a brazen, ongoing affair with a work colleague.
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Posted: 5th, April 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Glee’s Ryan Murphy Apologises For World’s Wettest Feud With Kings Of Leon
UNBELIEVABLY there’s been bad blood between Glee creator Ryan Murphy and Kings of Leon. A feud ensued between the two, looking for all the world like a battle royale involving butterflies and sleeping voles.
So pathetic was this feud that Gwyneth Paltrow was the mediator. Imagine a world where the wife of Chris Martin is an adequate referee between sparring foes. Imagine that, all toothless with a spine made from runny jelly.
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Posted: 5th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
Rebecca Black To Sue ‘Friday’ And Biting The Hand That Feeds Her While She’s At It
REMEMBER when everyone thought it was funny to go tell a 2 year old girl to go self harm herself to death for making a bad record? Those were fun times weren’t they?
Of course, everyone’s hatred and projected loathing saw Rebecca Black reportedly earning an impressive $27,000 per week, leaving her to cry amongst toppling wealth. That’s the usual trade-off in fairness and at least she got it out of the way before the agony of adulthood broke into her brains and turned her into a listless, jaded husk of her former self.
That said, this hallowed out feeling has already started to creep into the bones of young Ms Black as she’s decided to indulge in a very adult activity – no, not that kind of activity you lisping pervert – as she’s all set to take out a lawsuit!
And so, are we to assume she’s going for the jugular against though who made incredibly harmful comments against her? Don’t be stupid! She’s going after the people who facilitated her fame!
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Nothing Comic About This ‘Manga Verdict’: Simon Lundström Is Innocent
A BESPECTACLED graphic novel expert, Swedish translator of Japanese Manga comics and owner of over four million cartoon images, Simon Lundström is himself like a cartoon image of a nerd. But according to the Swedish courts his Manga collection is perverse.
Last year, Lundström was convicted of possession of pornographic material after 50-odd Manga images stored on his hard drive were classified as child porn. The Swedish court of appeal later agreed that 39 of the illustrated images, none of which has been banned in Japan and none of which shows real people, fitted the definition of child porn. Lundström was fined 5,000 Swedish Crowns (£500). Meanwhile, his main employer, publisher Bonnier Carlsen, has stopped giving him translating commissions, and Lundström has been burdened with a reputation of traversing the biggest taboo of our time: getting off on kids. The case has now been appealed to the Supreme Court.
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Posted: 4th, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
18 Black Paedophiles ‘Rape’ Hispanic Child: New York Times Blames Victim
IN Cleveland, Texas, 19 young men and teenage boys aged 14 to 27 have been charged with participating in the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl.
James C McKinley Junior told the story to New York Times readers.
The case has rocked this East Texas community to its core and left many residents in the working-class neighborhood where the attack took place with unanswered questions. Among them is, if the allegations are proved, how could their young men have been drawn into such an act?
Drawn in? Are they the victims?
“It’s just destroyed our community,” said Sheila Harrison, 48, a hospital worker who says she knows several of the defendants. “These boys have to live with this the rest of their lives.”
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Posted: 3rd, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (10)
British Police Train Bahrain Cops In ‘Community Policing’ And Kettling: Libya Burns
HAS the Government and the UN made pirates of the Allied forces? The rebellion in Bahrain is being squashed by police trained by the UK’s National Police Improvement Agency. (Pass the kettle.) As we learn on the NPIA website:
Three full-time advisers are working with the Bahrain police to offer assistance in the modernisation of the Bahrain Police Force.
Their focus is to develop and integrate the following within the Directorate of Public Security in the Kingdom of Bahrain:
Criminal Investigation
Forensic Science
Operational Duties
Community Policing
Nice, eh?
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Posted: 3rd, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (3)
The Wooster-ish Sebastian Marsh And Spanking Jenni Palmer
SEBASTIAN Marsh is the Wooster-ish character who has, according to the Daily Mail, been “sacked” for his email exchanges with Harry Fildes on the matter of innocent Jenni Palmer.
The Mail says the emails were “chauvinistic”. It says Sebastian Marsh, 24, has been “sacked” by Miller Insurance.
The emails exchanged between graduates of “£27,300-a-year” Shrewsbury School – and inadvertently copied in to Miss Palmer – can be read here.
Mr Fildes, a property surveyor who has also been suspended.
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Big Brother 2011: Charlie Sheen, Mohamed Al-Fayed And Cheryl Cole
BIG Brother is all set to be broadcast on Channel 5. It’s plus ca change at Richard Desmond Enterprises as Big Brother housemates tell all to OK! and show all on Channel X. It’ll be just like it was before – but better!
But what you want to know is who will be on this summer’s show? Anorak has compiled a list of the names the Daily Star – the official Big Brother newspaper (as it was when the show was on Channel 4) – has said might just be on the show:
Mohamed Al-Fayed – “Famous for his anti-establishment rants”
Charlie Sheen – “who has kept Hollywood spellbound with his off-the-wall antics”
Amy Childs – Katie Price would-be from The Only Way Is Essex
Chelsy Davy – “Prince Harry’s on-off girlfriend”
Andy Gray – Former football pundit
Peaches Geldof – “minx” 22
Max George – “The Wanted singer”
Tinie Tempah – Rapper
Joanna Lumley – Actress
Abbey Clancy – WAG
Jeremy Clarkson – Top Gear gang leader
David Walliams – TV funnyman
Katie Price – Author
Kerry Katona – Face of ownband ketchup
Samara Weaving – “Home and Away babe”
Ricky Hatton – “Former boxing champion”
Jenni Thompson – Wayne Rooney “hooker” who allegedly slept with the England ace
Natalie Rooney – Wayne Rooney cousin
Sam and Billie Faiers – “The Only Way Is Essex’s Faiers sisters”
Hosted by:
Emma Willis – “Big Brother’s Little Brother host”
Cheryl Cole – “No1 target for the most exciting job on UK telly”
Brian Dowling – “Ultimate Big Brother champ”
Posted: 3rd, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (3)
Kate Middleton’s Bullying Hell: Who Put A Poo In Her Bed?
KATE Middleton wants to tell you about “MY BULLYING HELL”.
Was the future Mrs Prince William a kindergarten tough? Well, no. The News of the World has news:
ROYAL bride Kate Middleton suffered a devastating ordeal at the hands of a gang of vicious bullies, the News of the World can reveal.
It was those Palace flunkies that did for Diana, we’d wager?
Her teenage tormentors even put excrement in her bedsheets at posh Downe House school and hounded Terrified Kate, 29, was hounded for being “too perfect”.
That’s her story and she is sticking to it – literally.
School pal Jessica Hay said: “She told me she was very, very badly bullied.”
This might not be the best advert Downe House, that school where gels are processed into young ladies, has seen published.
We are told that Kate was “too nice for her own good“. Her two terms at the Berkshire school were a “tears-filled nightmare”.
The story is rooted in a new book by Sean Smith, authour of Cheryl, (a book about Cheryl Cole) Robbie (Robbie Williams), Jennifer: The Unauthorized Biography of Jennifer Aniston, Kylie: The Biography (Kylie Minogue), Britney: The Biography (Britney Spears), Victoria Beckham: The Biography, Justin Timberlake: The Biography, J.K.Rowling: A Biography and Royal Racing: The Queen and Queen Mother’s Sporting Life.
His books are published by Simon & Schuster, and distributed by Harper Collins, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Mr Murdoch also owns the Sun. This front-page news looks a lot like an advertorial.
Here’s the blurb about the book:
Kate’s journey begins with her remarkable mother, Carole, a true rags-to-riches story. Sean Smith examines Kate’s early life, her unhappy time being bullied at school before finding her feet at Marlborough College where she was transformed from an ugly duckling to a swan. He travels to St Andrews in Scotland where she met Prince William.
Yep. It’s a modern fairytale, in which the normal “ugly” girl suffers to become a swan.
As for that headline-making bullying… Well, the stories are rooted in Smith’s interviews with some of Kate’s “closest friends”. You may suppose that Kate’s closest friends would not talk to the media and writers of unofficial biographies. But you’d be wrong, apparently.
“The bullying was far worse than just knocking her schoolbooks out of her hands or pushing her to the back of the lunch queue.”
Worse than that?!
“Poor Kate was lonely, homesick and frequently in tears.”
So. It wasn’t just the alleged bullying that made her time at the school trying. She was homesick at boarding school at age 13.
And if there was bulling there must have been bullies. Will those girls now grown up bridle at the accusation?
“She had run into a pack of bullies who reduced her to an emotional wreck. Until then she had been at mixed schools and had no experience of how bitchy girls could be.”
Because girls at mixed school aren’t bitchy? Who knew?
This is followed by news of Kate being too perfect, her, er, eczema, and:
Kate’s parents went to see the then Marlborough headmaster, Ed Gould, to plead with him to take Kate in the middle of the summer term. Mr Gould listened sympathetically to their story and found her a place in the school’s all-girl house Elmhurst, renowned for its sporting excellence.
But what about girls being bitches when they are in one school?
Get a load of these alleged bitches, or as the paper puts it: “Famous old girls who survived.”
As Kate won the trust of her new pals, she told them how she “absolutely hated” her time at Downe House, which numbers BBC sports presenter Clare Balding, TV sitcom star Miranda Hart and model-turned TV chef Sophie Dahl among its former pupils.
And then we read the clincher: Kate Middleton is just like the caring News of The World:
She has never publicly spoken about her bullying ordeal – but has asked the 1,900 guests at her wedding to donate to charity Beatbullying, which has campaigned with the News of the World to stamp out the national problem.
Hurrah for Kate! Hurrah for the NoTW! Bully for them!!
Posted: 3rd, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Royal Family | Comment (1)
Anthony McCalla Charged With Attempting To Murder 5-Year-Old Thusha Kamaleswaran: Other Blacks Innocent
ANTHONY McCalla is the 19-year-old charged with two counts of attempted murder following the shooting of Thusha Kamaleswaran, aged 5, and Roshan Selvakumar, 35, in Stockwell, London.
He is not 13, as the sensationalist press reported. He is 19. He is an adult.
Although, police have also arrested a 14-year-old boy on suspicion of attempted murder.
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Posted: 2nd, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (10)
The EDL And Charlene Downes: Blackburn Anti-Muslim Protest Photos
THE English Defence League was demonstrating in Blackburn, Lancashire. today. The mother of Charlene Downes was there to talks to members of the EDL. Why?
In 2003, 14-year-old Charlene Downes kissed her mum goodbye. And then..?
Her body has not been discovered. Police are certain that Charlene as murdered. The police believed she had been sexually abused in a town rife with child sexual exploitation. Two men were tried for her murder. They were cleared. The case is still open.
Her mother said:
“I could not understand why the police did not put out information about Charlene on TV, and why only the local paper was interested in her disappearance,” said Downes. “I often wonder, if she had been from a posh family, and was having piano lessons, would they have tried harder to find her?”
What does this have to do with the EDL?
Iyad Albattikhi, 31, was formally cleared of Charlene’s murder and Mohammed Raveshi, 51, was acquitted of helping to dispose of her body
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GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons Shoots Bull Elephant In Zimbabwe: Mugabe Unhurt
GoDaddy.com Chief Executive Bob Parsons has shot and killed and elephant of shooting and killing expedition in Zimbabwe. Having embarked on the mission to kill an elephant, he is, understandably, pleased.
A video has been posted of the grand escapade. Parsons and party survey a field of elephant-damaged crops (does maize have feelings? Discuss.) And then he shoots a bull elephant dead.
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Posted: 2nd, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)
Kerry Katona And Brian McFadden: What Really Didn’t Happen
“KERRY: WHY I’M BACK WITH EX-HUBBY,” says the cover of the Daily Star.
And inside the paper we read that Kerry Katona is NOT back with ex-hubby Brian McFadden, who has “split with his Australian love Delta Goodrem”.
It is rumoured Brian, 30, might now return to the UK for good.
That’s Brian McFadden, the singer born and raised in Dublin?
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Posted: 2nd, April 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
I Ain’t Gonna Pee-Pee My Bed Tonight: A Song
WORLD’S Got Talent presents I ain’t gonna pee-pee my bed tonight…
Previously on the show:
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OK! Asks Jack Tweed If He Worries That Jade Goody Sees Him Having Sex With Other Women
IN his week’s OK! we meet Jack Tweed, Mr Jade Goody.
The interview is entitled:
“It must be horrible for Jade to see me with other girls.”
Alongside this is a photo of Jack stood before a long ornate mirror. In the mirror is the image of Jade Goody, her hands clasped in prayer.
Can OK! top its question to Jack Tweed when it asked him not long after Jade’s passing how he coped “with his manly needs”?
Well, it tries:
“You must be embarrassed thinking that Jade might be looking down on you when you’re with another girl.”
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Sunday Sport Goes Tits Up: When Rose West Ate My Guinea Pig
THE Sunday Sport has gone tits up. And the day this news was announced is… April’s Fool’s Day. It’s fitting, no?
Will it return in the age of free porn on the web? Dunno. But in the meanwhile, here’s a look back at what once was:
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Musa Kusa Holds The Establishment Who Knew To Ransom Over Lockerbie
LIBYA and Musa Kusa’s defection reads like a bad April Fool’s joke.
‘Tell us the secrets of Lockerbie,” orders the headline bannered across the Glasgow Herald today.
The Herald has led the campaign to get to the bottom and at least some of the truths/versions – for there will many – of the exact double-dealings which caused, on 21 December 1988, the deaths of 270 in the skies over and on the ground of the once quiet backwater Scottish rural market town Lockerbie.
Once again Scotland’s legal system is thrust into the foreground as The Herald tells us
“SCOTTISH detectives and prosecutors are to interview Libyan defector Moussa Koussa about his involvement in the Lockerbie bombing.
“Colonel Gaddafi’s former foreign minister, who flew into the UK on a private jet on Wednesday, was a senior intelligence officer at the time of Britain’s worst terrorist attack in 1988, which claimed the lives of 270 people.”
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Posted: 1st, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (3)
Paul Dacre Ages: A Daily Mail Exclusive
THE Daily Mail moves on from insulting women’s looks by zooming in on the guilty body part to feature a picture of Lewis Collins, star of The Professionals, as he appears now. Collins is 64:
Lewis Collins has gone from dangerously attractive hunk, to middle-aged spread, comfy trousers and baseball cap
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Posted: 1st, April 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)
Barack Obama Wins Transparency Award In Private
BARACK Obama – not George Bush – wins the Don Rumsfeld Award for doublespeak:
Ahem:
President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday.
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Posted: 31st, March 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
