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The Anthology album of Rolling Stones secret songs
No Stone Unturned
As the Rolling Stones begin their 50th Anniversary with a tour, TV celebrations and yet another greatest hits compilation, we present our own tribute. Unlike their Sixties rivals the Beatles, they have never received the Anthology treatment, and obscure gems from their heyday remain uncollected and largely overlooked. So here, in the interests of history, is Anorak’s album of Stones secrets…
1965: Ride On, Baby
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Posted: 26th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Music | Comment (1)
In photos: the tattooed faces of MS-13 and 18th Street gang members
THESE are gang tattoos of inmates in South America prisons. The ornately tattooed Mara Salvatrucha and the 18th Street gang members are many. Time reports that El Salvador has over 55,000 gang members; San Pedro Sula, a city of half a million Hondurans, has over 35,000. These gangs are South American imports from Los Angeles, deported from the US.
Their facial tattoos are familiar. Their fighting is barbaric. Not included in this photo montage are our pictures from Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008 of prisoners at Pavoncito prison in Fraijanes, on the outskirts of Guatemala City holding up the decapitated heads of five alleged Mara Salvatrucha gang members. At least seven inmates were killed during a riot between rival gang members, five of which were decapitated, according to authorities:
In this Sept. 1, 2012 photo, an inmate belonging to the Mara 18 gang gestures inside the prison in Cojutepeque, El Salvador.
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Posted: 25th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (12)
How the Hit Parade moved from phonograph needles, platters and sleaze to MP3s
SIXTY years ago, the first British singles chart – or “Hit Parade” as it was called – was published. It appeared in the New Musical Express, and it was a top twelve that contained fifteen platters, on account of the joint number sevens, joint number eights and joint number elevens. Al Martino was number one with Here In My Heart. Only one of the discs was available in the new-fangled 45-revolutions-per-minute 7-inch vinyl format; the rest came as easily-breakable shellac 78s, for which the term “smash hit” was all too apt.
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Posted: 25th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Music | Comment
The George Bush ‘fake’ Turkey story rides again
EVERY Thanksgiving Anorak takes a look to see if anyone is still talking about President George Bush feeding a huge plastic turkey to US forces. The turkey was real.
The story began in 2003, when George Bush went from Texas to surprise the US troops serving in Iraq. In Baghdad, Bush gamefully fed the soldiers and posed for the for cameras carrying a big turkey, a real turkey dinner that sits on display in the mess hall. Someone, possibly Mike Allen in the Washington Post, suggested it was a fake. And with that the story ran around the world, used as a sign to show that Bush was wrong ‘un and a faker.
Many have regretted the error, but some, like the Guardian’s Mark Lawson, carry on denying the truth.
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Posted: 23rd, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (2)
Not a dry eye: New Yorkers recall a 27-year romance
YOU want to know about love? The Rauch Brothers met New Yorkers Danny and Annie. The voices resonate:
Brooklynites Danny, an OTB clerk, and Annie, a nurse, remember their life together—from their first date to Danny’s final days with terminal cancer. This remarkable couple personifies the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices of every day people if we take the time to listen. Originally an animation in two parts, here you’ll see a special version that combines both parts of their story.
Israel fakes: BBC Gaza correspondent tweets old photo of dead child killed in Syria
JON Donnison is the “BBC Gaza and West Bank Correspondent”. It says so on his twitter account.
Having advertised his role at the BBC – and thus given his tweets substance – he adds “Views mine”.
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Posted: 19th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (27)
Paedo children warped by the internet are the latest moral panic
HOW do you follow the the BBC-led paedophile witch hunt? If you’re the Daily Mail, you look at children who are paedos. The Mail’s leads with the chilling headline:
Internet porn and the rape suspects aged 10
This is a:
“New fear for young after 24 police forces arrest under-13s for sex crimes in a year.”
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Posted: 19th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Tulisa and Danny: the media handlers and lawyers take over the love story
IN “I want Tu make it work”, the Daily Mirror leads with news that X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos’ latest lover, Newcastle United footballer Danny Simpson, “is standing by her”. Stoic Danny has dated Tulisa three times, we are told.
Danny Simpson last night vowed to stay with his new love Tulisa Contostavlos – despite claims his ex-girlfriend is pregnant with his child.
Claims? The story has shifted. That Stephanie Ward was pregnant with Simpson’s baby was presented as fact a few days ago. The Mirror wrote of the soapy situation:
As a pregnant mum, she was horrified that she found herself competing with Tulisa.
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Posted: 19th, November 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Israel watch: BBC broadcasts fake Hamas injury as fact
ISRAEL v Hamas. Who wins the media wars? Well, if this fakery is anything to go by, Hamas needs a new propaganda chief. File under: twins:
Action starts at 1 min 50s.
Posted: 15th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
Israel v Hamas: we all know who started it (photos)
HOW do you report on the battle in Israel and Hamas in Gaza? The Israeli’s says Operation Pillars of Defence is in response to Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza for the past five years. The Israel’s assassinated Hamas’s top military commander, Ahmed Jabari. The war will be conduced as much online as it is on the ground. The Alqassam Brigades (the military wing of Hamas) tweeted: “Our blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers wherever they are (You Opened Hell Gates on Yourselves).” The Israelis release a video of Jabari’s death. Hamas invites favoured photographers to document their side’s suffering.
The IDF has a live blog.
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Posted: 15th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
Revealed: Rochdale spanker Cyril Smith’s links to Jimmy Savile and the BBC
WE told you Sir Cyril Smith was next. The former Liberal Democrat MP for Rochdale and former Labour Party councillor (oh, dread place), who died in 2010, was long rumoured to have been a paedophile. Labour MP Simon Danczuk, whose posterior now occupies the Rochdale constituency, told the House of Commons: “Young boys were humiliated, terrified and reduced to quivering wrecks by a 29st bully imposing himself on them.”
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Posted: 13th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)
The lower-league legends who played for England
THEY came from nowhere… Meet the lower-league legends who graced the highest stage of all.
Wilfried Zaha’s call-up to the full England squad has raised eyebrows among those accustomed to the Premier League closed shop that has become the norm in recent times. But there are historical precedents for the Crystal Palace wide man’s sudden rise to fame – and not all the lower-league debutants are from the dim and distant past…
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Posted: 13th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Sports | Comment
The paedophile witch hunt trawls for Masons from Dunblane to Wales
FREEMASONS! Channel 4 has alluded to the spectre of freemasonry at the paedo feeding frenzy. Is the BBC debacle linked to the Freemasons? The BBC, Tom Watson MP, Channel 4 News and Phillip Schofield have spoken about peadophiles operating in the ruling Conservative Party of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. None have offered a shred of proof nor taken their concerns to the police. The BBC and the Guardian went further, alluding to and naming to Lord McAlpine, linking the former Tory Party treasurer to child abused in North Wales care homes. Lord McAlpine is entirely innocent. The broadcasters’ whispers were based on the claims of one Steven Messham, who had been abused by others. Mr Messham has apologised, blaming the police for facilitating his error.
George Monbiot of The Guardian told his 55,000 Twitter followers: “I looked up Lord McAlpine on t’internet. It says the strangest things.”
The Speakers’ wife Sally Bercow told her 56,000 Twitter followers: “Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*”
How does that help the victims?
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Posted: 12th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (11)
Irony overload: The Sun berates the BBC and the Guardian for whipping up ‘paedo hysteria’
LOOK up ” a bit rich” in the dictionary and you get this. As Brendan O’Neill says, “this is so good – the Sun berates the BBC and the Guardian for whipping up ‘paedo hysteria'”…
Previously:
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Posted: 10th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
The Tory paedophile ring and other witch hunts
PAEDO-hunting is now entertainment for daytime telly. Phillip Schofield, host of ITV’S This Morning, attempted to ambush David Cameron by handing him a list of names of suspected paedophiles he’d found by looking online for a few minutes. No proof. No evidence. Just what Phil had read on the web. For good measure, Phil flashed the list he’d made up to those watching at home. Disgusting.
And odd. Not too long ago the liberal commentariat was bashing the News of The World. When the now dead paper’s Paul McMullan told the Leveson Inquiry “Privacy is for Paedos“, he was rounded on. Now the same people that professed to hate such tabloid tactics are using them.
This has been coming. Schofield is just the latest idiot to jump abord the paedo-hunting bandwagon.
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Posted: 8th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
Phillip Schofield asks Cameron about paedophiles and PM gets confused
SOMETIMES, television is so bewildering that you can’t possibly believe that it is comprised of real human beings. Take for example, this morning, when Phillip Schofield went feral and handed our Prime Minister, David Cameron, a piece of paper with a list of Tory MPs who the presenter believes are paedophiles.
Let us look at that again. Gordon The Gopher’s best friend went online, found a load of names who have been accused of raping children, presumably with little to no actual evidence, and wrote them down on a bit of paper and handed them to the man who has an entire country to run, and expected an answer.
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Posted: 8th, November 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
The Daily Mail is more racist than football and Strictly Come Dancing (but not the Leveson Inquiry)
WRITING in defence of football’s designated position as a sport riddled with racism and in need to state control, lest the white working class fans race riot, Martin Samuels uses his Daily Mail column to compare the national sport to Strictly Come Dancing.
Samuels notices that Colin Salmon has been voted off BBC pro-celebrity dance show Strictly Come Dancing. Colin Salmon is black. He was voted off in a public vote. Samuels writes:
The past two weeks, Salmon has been inexplicably endangered by the public poll. On Sunday, his luck ran out. He performed nervously in the dance-off and was eliminated. Aside from Louis Smith, the Olympic gymnast, who is mixed race, Strictly is now all white on the night.
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Posted: 7th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
The best internet reactions to Barack Obama’s win and Mitt Romney’s loss
WELL, Barack Obama won. Canada can reopen her borders. Mitt Romney can walk freely in the knowledge that no crazy is going to assassinate him or compare him to Hitler. For those bored with the whole shebang, Frank J. Fleming @ tweets: “My dream is to one day vote for president and then never hear about the guy again until the next election.” And on the internet, the mood is mixed:
Posted: 7th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
FLASHBACK: Bombshell resignations – how to say ‘stick your job’ in style
RESIGNATIONS – memorable ones. And on that bombshell…
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Posted: 6th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
The best and funniest photos of the US 2012 Presidential election
THE best and funniest photos of the US 2012 Presidential election. Mitt Romney or Barack Obama?
Posted: 6th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Daily Mail spots black Superstorm Sandy looters for Oscar Grant
TO many the story of Superstorm Sandy is one that brought out the best of humanity. People helped one another. But not everyone behaved well. A few people looted. Of the millions of people hit by the destruction, a few opportunists went on the rob.
The paper yells:
“Even momma got outta house to loot new shirt’: Looters brag on Twitter”
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Posted: 6th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Why The Daily Mail is Evil (starring sexy toddler Suri Cruise)
THE Daily Mail is hugely popular website. Bullshit.com is winning. Why? Well, it has lots of stuff on it. Above all else it has lot of celebrity stuff. And lots of celebrity kids. The Daily Mail love looking at celebrity kids, taking note of their curves and sex appeal. Suri Cruise is not old enough to have curves. But if the Mail stares long and hard enough, the paper of record should be there when they develop, and she becomes “all grown up“. Martin Robbins reviews the watchers…
Posted: 5th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Donald Trump’s kids investigate Obama’s parentage in Africa: turns out they’re bastards
YOU might think a man with tsunami on his head would be sensitive to natural disasters. But Donald Trump is not like the rest of us. Trump is all about bits of paper. Bits of paper makes things true to Donald. He most likely has bits of paper that say “Your Hair Is Real”, “Scotland Loves You” and “You Da Man” pinned up around his house, each piece of proof printed on embossed paper and bearing the hallmarks of esteemed institutions, such as The Harvard School of Hair.
Most recently, Trump has been looking for a piece of paper that proves Barack Obama’s passport application form. If Obama shows it, Trump will donate $5m to a charity of Obama’s choosing. If he doesn’t, Trump will keep his money. Obama – shock of shock – never took up the offer.
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Posted: 3rd, November 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (3)
Daily Mail pervs at 14-year-old Elle Fanning
THE Daily Mail hates paedos. It does like Chloe Moretz. And Lourdes, Madonna’s daughter. And Bella Thorne. They were all underage when the Mail noticed their “sexy” looks. Now the Mail has spotted Elle Fanning. Leah Simpson writes:
The 14-year-old took to Instagram to share a photograph of her Halloween outfit and wasn’t afraid to flaunt her curves for the camera
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Posted: 2nd, November 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)
The Best of British isn’t made here
WHAT is the Best of British?
HP Sauce has a Facebook page.
Nothing surprising about that, except that it uses the social media platform to trumpet its Britishness, and boasts that, “HP, the UK’s no. 1 brown sauce, has been adding oomph to your favourite dishes since 1903.”
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Posted: 2nd, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comments (23)
