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Inside The Wikileaks Headquarters: Photos
WIKILEAKS is being broadcast from a Cold War bunker deep within Sweden’s White Mountain, Stockholm. The site is being hosted by an isp called Bahnhof. This is effectively the headquarters of Wikileaks.
Wikileaks has been under attack. It moved from Sweden’s PRQ to Amazon’s cloud services, focused on Amazon’s EU cluster in Dublin. But now Amazon has kicked Wikileaks off and the site has moved once again.
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Posted: 3rd, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment (1)
Inside The Weird And Worrying Japanese Brothel: Photos
THIS Japanese brothel has rooms to satisfy every sexual fantasy that swirls about the head of Japan’s salary mean as they ride the train (room 4, sir), while reading hentai comics depicting scenes of pornographic violence against women. For the chikan the rooms may be no more than a salve to his desire for public gropings of unsuspecting females, given that their prostitutes mostly know what’s coming. The photos are odd and intriguing. Most rooms seem to have shackles, and the first class airplane cabin is more mile low than mile high…
Posted: 3rd, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Mugshot Of The Day: Art Taylor Cocaine Face
MUGSHOT of the day belongs to Art Taylor, an 18-year-old nicked in Framingham, Mass, for not signalling. Art, allegedly, had drugs in his car – a bag of cocaine – which he swallowed.
Says police Spokesperson Ron Brandolini:
“He made a quick movement to the center console, and there was small baggie with a white powder in it. He immediately made a movement to put it in his mouth.”
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Posted: 2nd, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
England Win World Cup 2026: Sepp Blatter Made Un-Refusable Offer (Russian Style)
RUSSIA wins. England loses the World Cup (and this is news, how?). Also defeated: Spain/Portugal, England, and the Netherlands/Belgium bids.
Prime Minister David Cameron is back from Zurich. Vladamir Putin won from a seated position, not having bothered to attend the shindig in Zurich.
The stadia needed to play the actual matches have yet to built in Russia. The roads linking the stadia have yet to be built in Russia. But the scalpers, black marketeers and hoteliers who will rip off visitors to the world’s biggest footy show are on course to be ready in time.
England will go again in 2026. England will make sure they have no decent grounds; no transport; a stack of laundered cash in dollars and euros; a secret Swiss bank account; poisoned Sushi; and a bid team made up of soccer’s hard men, football hooligans everyone who ever knew the Krays to make the bid happen.
The other result of the secret ballot of the 22-member Fifa executive committee sees the 2022 World up go to Qatar, hotbed of hotness. Who wants football in 58 degrees C? With no booze? With no history of the game?
So. Here’s to 2018 and 2022. Don’t bring the kids. Bring cash. In plain brown envelopes…
Posted: 2nd, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)
Wikileaks: Fame Hungry Julian Assange Steals Credit for CRU ClimateGate?
WIKIELAKS founder Julian Assange (not dead) seems to be doing his best to destroy the thing of wonder he helped create from his early musings.
(Did you sign the Wikileaks confidentiality agreement for freedom and get the cables?)
In this video, Assange says he and Wikileaks were responsible for the CRU emails being made public.
He says it “doesn’t matter what we [Wikileaks] think“.
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Giuly The Obese Cat Plays Almost Dead: In Photos
FAT Cat Giuly has reached the level of the internet sensation that only a fat cat can attain. Her owner Chiara Bagnoli, of Florence, Italy, has published an album of fat cat Guily’s poses. If you look closely you can see that fat cat has not been damaged by being morbidly obese but can flick her tongue “quite fast, actually” as she laps up her mid-morning snack of twice-fried duck and liquidised kebab and chips and has eyelids that can open and shut and open again as rapidly as a ginger tom half her weight…
Posted: 2nd, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Baby Sets Pregnant Woman On Fire During Birth
THE pregnant women sat on the gurney waiting for her caesarean at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel, has been set on fire.
It is 2008, and the Health Ministry inquiry committee recounts the tale.
The medics had Hospital staff had prepared the woman with sterilising solutions. She is then washed with an alcoholic solution. Best to be sure.
The surgeon picks up his electric diathermic needle. A spark fires. And the poll of liquid gathered below the woman’s buttock is alight.
A baby is delivered in the manner Evel Knievel would be proud to call his own.
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Posted: 2nd, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (5)
Kelly Brook Backs The World Cup Bid: Photos
THE good news is that Kelly Brook is throwing her weight behind England’s World Cup bid for 2018. Says Kelly:
“People always get really excited when major sporting events come here, which shows how important sport is to people across England.”
Yeah. Whatever she said:
Posted: 1st, December 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Wikileaks: The Death Of Famous Julian Assange
PRESENTING the death of Julian Assange. Not here. But on the site Red State, where a “lexington_concord” says the Wikileaks founder should be executed.
Wikileaks has lost its way under Assange. Sure, it’s big news but the subversive cool and mystery has been blown to bits. Assange is a talented polemicist but he has gone for the big pay off in hitting the US over and over and over with cables we are supposed to take at face value and think have not been edited.
Assange now seems blinkered and biased. He seems obsessed with targeting America. Why? Well, as Lydia Grant told the kids with stars in their eyes:
“You’ve got big dreams? You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying … in sweat.”
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Posted: 1st, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (10)
I’m A Celebrity: Gillian McKeith Flavours Her Sanitary Towels With Herb Cubes
GILLIAN McKeith aka Gillian The Reptilian, was rumbled in the jungle. The woman who sniffs poo and then tells the fat they are abnormal, who is phobic about everything besides cameras, says she is “so pleased now I’m away from it all“.
This was Gillian’s chance to get back on the telly, her rightful place (or so she surely imagines). She spoke in TV tones, stating that if she did not do as instructed she would never work in TV again – as if TV was an actual place with rules and bylaws and not a massive void waiting to be filled by the vapid and needy and anyone with bit of paper that says “EXPERT”.
Says Gillian in answer to the question: “What surprised you the most in the camp?”
“During one Celebrity Chest, we were told about the number of Google hits we’d been receiving. I was amazed by the amount of hits I’d had in the jungle. Then I thought, ‘Wow, how embarrassing. That’s because of the whole fainting thing’.”
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Posted: 1st, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
The Shake Weight Is Beyond Parody: Video
THE Shake Weight is not a parody but a thing that exists. Adolescents and Priapic men prepare to be amazed as your keep fit regime just went legit.
Want to know the secret to boyish arms? You can’t handle the secret…
Spotter: Michael K
Posted: 1st, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
Wikileaks: The Hypocritical New York Times Published The Cables Because They Fitted Its Agenda
WANT to know why the New York Times published the Wikileaks leaked cables and never published the ClimateGate emails? (Don’t forget to readJulian Assange’s selected gazings and bon mots.)
The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.
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Posted: 1st, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Sheryl Crow Is Selling Her Green Mansion: Photos And Toilet Paper Included
PROPERTY Porn time again, readers, as we take look at global warming activist Sheryl Crow’s home, which is for sale by auction. It’s in Middle Tennessee, which may or may not be a real place. (Wonder if you can see Al Gore’s Peoples’ Ark from the pool?)
Sheryl is the singer and star or the 2007 “Stop Global Warming College Tour” (on the road), the star who told us to use only one square of paper per bowel movement.
I also like the idea of not using paper napkins, which happen to be made from virgin wood and represent the height of wastefulness. I have designed a clothing line that has what’s called a “dining sleeve.” The sleeve is detachable and can be replaced with another “dining sleeve,” after usage. The design will offer the “diner” the convenience of wiping his mouth on his sleeve rather than throwing out yet another barely used paper product.
Green Sheryl is selling her gigantic home:
6662 Cross Keys Road is 150+/- Acres, 10,264+/- Sq Ft Home; Gated Entry with Security System; Brick Construction [she’s showing off]; Five Bedrooms; Seven Full Baths; One Half Bath [bring your own toilet paper]; Six Car Attached Garage; Private In-Law or Nanny Quarters; 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Guest House; Additional residence on farm (with Life Estate); Fourteen Stall Barn; Indoor Riding Arena with lighting and sprinkler system; Theater Room; Music Studio- Incorporating additional living space; Salt Water Pool & Spa with Pergola; and recording studio.
An it is all “in a French style”. Because the French love that sort of stuff. Just love it.
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Posted: 30th, November 2010 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Student Demo 3 Photos: London, Cambridge, Brighton, Sheffield, And Manchester Wants Maggie Thatcher Dead
STUDENT Demo 3: Heated Debate In A Cold Climate. Before the photos, a few things to look out for: a man in a balaclava led a chant against student fees in front of the Vodafone shop in Broadmead, Bristol city centre, and a line of policemen who had been pelted with mustard. Why mustard?
In Cambridge, there was sit-in at the Senate House Old School, and a window was broken.
In London, Mark Bergfeld, of the Education Activist Network, led a procession and someone let off a red smokes flare. (Anorak loves smokes flares – very atmospheric.)
In Sheffield, it looked ruddy freezing.
In Brighton, it looked orderly.
In Manchester, someone said that when Maggie Thatcher dies they are going to have a party. It being what she would have wanted, presumably. And then in another picture Thatcher’s forehead was given a Nazi forehead tattoo like convicted murderer Charles Manson.
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Posted: 30th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Julian Assange’s Interesting Question: Read Wikileak’s Founder’s IQ.Org Musings
JULIAN ASSANGE and his Wikileaks are big news. But what was he writing about before he hit the big time? His site of 2006 was called, humbly, IQ.org. It stands for Interesting Question. We call them the Assange Cables and the highlights appear below. It’s like Adrian Mole discovered the web after an A-level course in sociology and Hunter S Thompson:
Wed 29 Aug 2007 : Iirrationality in argument
The truth is not found on the page, but is a wayward sprite that bursts forth from the readers mind for reasons of its own. I once thought that the Truth was a set comprised of all the things that were true, and the big truth could be obtained by taking all its component propositions and evaluating them until nothing remained. I would approach my rhetorical battles as a logical reductionist, tearing down, atomizing, proving, disproving, discarding falsehoods and reassembling truths until the Truth was pure, golden and unarguable. But then, when truth matters most, when truth is the agent of freedom, I stood before Justice and with truth, lost freedom.
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Posted: 30th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)
Chinese Dog Farmers Seek To Unify South And North Korean Meat Markets
CAN Ha Wenjin restore good diplomatic relations between China and North Korea? The Wikileaks leaks say that Chinese politicos seeking to get close to American politicos say that North Korea is a “spoiled child”. Well, so says the US politico under pressure to show how much progress he’s making in his despatches back to base.
The talk is of severed links between the Mr Kim’s North and big China. But Anorak has news of a secret North Korean cable (we intercepted Carrier Cockroach No. 555321 over Hong Kong) that says North Korea is delighted with the subterfuge and plot Dupe Imperialist Yankees is going well. Well, so says Our Man in Kowloon from his vacuum cleaner shop.
But what’s this got to do with Ha Wenkon? Well, she’s the Chinese women who’s adopted 1,500 stray dogs. She’s sold all her worldly good to fund the unofficial dog rescue centre in Tangquan County, Nanjing.
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Posted: 30th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
Wikileaks: Prince Andrew Went Hunting For Women After Brunch (Photos)
WIKILEAKS has not only managed to local Prince Andrew but made him appear to be newsworthy. The story goes that Tatiana Gfoeller, Washington’s ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, spotted Airmiles Andy at a brunch.
Indeed, readers. Shock of shocks that American cultural imperialism now includes brunch in Kyrgyzstan. (Toss out the yak butter and horse milk surprise and make mine a tall stack of pancakes with syrup and a banana smoothie.)
The ambassador says Randy Andy spoke “cockily” to a gathering of eating British and Canadian businessmen and “verged on the rude“.
Again, a shock. Andrew was only nearly rude. He didn’t look at the women’s chests the entire time. Blame it on jet lag.
One cables says that – ready for this? – Prince Andrew goes hunting!
Jordanian King Abdullah II is a close friend of UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff Muhammad bin Zayid Al-Nahyan (MbZ). The two frequently hunt — in Morocco and Tanzania — joined, more often than not, by England’s Prince Andrew.
Hunting for women? Hope so. Andrew has worked tirelessly to gain a reputation as a gadabout womaniser. Charles hunts. Andrew shags. Edward is not gay. Anne has tweed knickers. It’s just the way it is.
So. Andrew is rude. But over at the Telegraph, towards the top of the story, we learn that the Duke treated her with “with cordiality and respect”. This fact seems to have escaped the Guardian. Might it be that in the rush for transparency and the quest for freedom of information different new organs see what they want to see? And then there is the issue of actually taking these cables at face value and not questioning if they could have been manipulated in the chain between leaker and publisher? Is Wikileaks just Popbitch for politics?
The edited cable, as reported in the Guardian, goes:
“Rude language à la British … [Andrew] turned to the general issue of promoting British economic interests abroad. He railed at British anticorruption investigators, who had had the ‘idiocy’ of almost scuttling the al-Yamama deal with Saudi Arabia.”
Gfoeller is super smart and able to speak six languages. In that extract she speaks two at once. You want clever – you can’t handle clever, mon brave.
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Posted: 30th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Royal Family | Comments (3)
What’s It REALLY Like To Have Sex With Silvio Berlusconi? Photos
NADIA Macri is here to tell you, allegedly, how to have sex with Silvio Berlusconi, the Wikileaks-endorsed numero uno party guy. The divorced mother-of-one says Mr Berlusconi is the self-styled “dream of all Italians“. It’s a billing that might explain why many Italians eat late and stay up until the early hours. Coffee is a national pastime.
Berlusconi denies it all. But if you think it could be true, here’s how to shag a world statesmen, maybe. Earlier this month, Macri told us of goings on at a “bunga bunga” party:
“I’ve been to Berlusconi’s homes three times, but we had sex on only on two occasions: once in Sardinia and once at Arcore. He gave me €10,000 and other small presents. He personally gave me the money in an envelope.”
Nice money. But how do you get the job?
Rule 1: Try not to laugh at all his jokes.
“There were lots of young girls, I think they were minors but we didn’t speak to each other as we were told not to talk. I gave my number to Berlusconi’s secretary, I can’t remember her name, she was his organiser and she said I would be called again. I was called on my mobile by Berlusconi. He said ‘I am the dream of Italians’ I said, ‘who is this?’ and he said ‘It’s the Prime Minister of Italy.’ It was a beautiful moment to get to know him.”
Rule 2: Try not to puke
“The girls were young and it didn’t sit easy with me. It reminded me of the Noemi (Letizia) episode and I remember thinking so there are young girls.”
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Posted: 29th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (2)
Wikileaks Is PopBitch For A Lazy Media
WIKILEAKS has done it again: giving lazy hacks information on a plate and then letting them edit the stuff and fill pages of copy with diplomatic mutterings that may or may not have been tampered with. It’s Popbitch for celebrity politics.
(You trust Wikileaks and all the hands in the food chain between the source and the press to give you’re the goods unedited and as given? Why?)
Sod protecting sources and spending time building trust and getting to the truth. The desperate news media will just take whatever you have and pass the buck. It wasn’t us, yer honour. Get Julian Assange. He made us publish it. He knew how much we needed the money and the fame. Blame him. Blame Bradley Manning, the man many allege leaked the leaks. He said it was easy.
So, why did no investigative hack keen on freedom of information go it? No budget. Reporting is a largely desk-bond job. Sit tight and let the story some to you.
It’s the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal Mark 2. The Telegraph did no sleuthing. It was just offered a job lot of information and while the Sun passed over the chance and kept its money, the Telegraph seized the opportunity to cut through its usual diet of press releases and news wire missives.
The biggest joke is that Wikileaks claims to be about freedom and transparency. So, why was CNN asked to sign a confidentiality clause before Wikileaks would release the stuff to it? (CNN declined.)
Wikileaks wants the US – that softest, litigious target – to be accountable. What Wikileaks shows you is the truth, clear, clean and unredacted. Look! So we look. The media shouts and hollers. But we don’t have all the facts. We have snapshots of chatter not from the state but from employees of it. If one thing can be gleaned from the missives it is that at this confidential level the US allows its operatives to speak freely. Anyone want to see the Chinese equivalent messages? Do you think it would be big on jokes?
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Posted: 29th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Wikileaks: Muammar Gaddafi Uses Botox
WIKILEAKS: Did you knwo that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi – the one with the fit nurse – uses Botox to maintain his craggy face? Without it he looks radiant and smooth skinned. El Pais reports:
Among the cables with which it has worked this periodic, or reports are extremely controversial, as messages from the U.S. ambassador to Tripoli in which that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, uses botox and he is a hypochondriac who makes film all medical examinations for later analysis with their doctors
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Posted: 28th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Awkward Family Photos Banished With Windows 7 Family Photo (Pictures)
FOLLOWING our news that the taking of photos is banned from a school in Hertfordshire, we spot the TV advert for the Windows 7 Family Photo – to the Cloud – feature.
Here’s the blurb:
Mom wants the perfect family portrait. But some kid (or husband) always messes it up. So… to the Cloud! Where Windows 7 and Windows Live lets her mix and match her family’s best faces until she’s able to piece together a photo she’s proud to share.
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Posted: 28th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment
Justin Bieber Pray: Pro-Life Music For Christian Rock’s Chosen Son
JUSTIN Bieber’s video for Pray is a boon to the ailing newspaper industry. Bieber – messiah of Twitter (dear followers…) and small black girl heroine of XBox – says he reads the papers. And the signing foetus is pro-life, taking an anti-abortion stance with:
I pray for the life not started
I pray for all the ones not breathing
Take them away, Sunday school music enthusiast Justin Bieeeeber….
Posted: 28th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment
X Factor: One Direction Out Of Sync Say Simon Cowell Clones
X FACTOR judge Dannii Minogue says One Direction are not in sync. Dannii opens her mouth and says:
“It happened the whole way through the song last week. It’s only two minutes so they have to learn. Simon would point it out if it was my band.”
And that’s what’s wrong with the X Factor: there is one Simon Cowell and three people pretending to be him.
It’s getting to be like Top Gear, where Jeremy Clarkson once got to be the only Jeremy Clarkson while two lickspittles guffawed at his jokes and were sent off to try to do something zany for him to appraise – like two trainees presenting to their mentor (since we are on the X Factor theme). Then the yes men got spin-off shows and started to behave like Jeremy Clarkson. The man became a formula.
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Posted: 28th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Student Demo Photos: The Police Charge Video Is A Football Fan’s Joke
DID mounted police charge at the students demonstrating in Whitehall? The Guardian says they did. It says the video below shows police charging at the protestors. But it’s not really a charge, is it?
Naomi Bain disagrees. A staffer at Birkbeck University, says:
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite so frightening. I’ve seen police on horseback, but this was like a cavalry charge…”
Yeah, really. Naomi Bain has not seen enough.
The Metropolitan police have said that their tactics “did not involve charging the crowd“. A spokesman offers:
“I dare say they [officers policing the Whitehall demonstrations] were doing the movements the horses do to help control the crowd for everyone’s benefit, which has been a recognised tactic for many, many years, but no, police officers charging the crowd – we would say, ‘No, they did not charge the crowd.’”
As anyone who have every travelled with a football club knows kettling and police on horses moving through a crowd are common practice. You head to the ground in a group and the police stop you on the street. You are held. Sometimes you are held on the coach until enough vehicles can be assembled to form a convoy to head to the ground. Fans are held on planes. Fans are held at train stations. Fans are treated like prisoners.
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Posted: 27th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
iPad: Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily iPad Paper Saves Journalism From Google
AS Rupert Murdoch channels cash and 100 hacks into the iPad newspaper The Daily in the latest attempt to keep his titles a go-to source of news and views, big media must realise that good years are over.
The Daily will just be yesterday’s news today. It’s just another newspaper on a new format. It will cost 99 cents per week. That’s not too dear. But why pay when there are free newspaper, free internet downloads and Facebook?
Where Murdoch, a publishing genius. does get it right is that he is partnered with Steve Jobs, the apple genius. He also knows the value of good writing, the thing that builds readers loyalty and has been replicated on Twitter where you can follow your favourites. It will be walled content – but what is the ubiquitous Google but a controlled environment, with a hierarchy set by a big profit-focused corporation?
Murdoch’s taking a risk. But then forward-thinking media corps know risks need to be taken. Alan White looks at how journalism has altered and still remains as relevant as ever:
NEWS media owners and editors have in the past three or four years realised the game is up as they agonise over falling circulations, listeners and viewing figures.
Production journalists the world over are desperate to get to grips with retrieving their falling audience. They have the words and pictures but less and less of the targets are willing to stay with them as the cyber-routes explode across the intraweb.
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Posted: 27th, November 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
