Colonel Gaddafi’s Greatest Quotes: In Photos

COLONEL Gaddafi is portrayed as a delusional lunatic. Well, that is pretty much how he presents himself. But the gangster is no fool. This is the man whose regime ordered the bombing of a disco in Germany and a plane over Lockerbie, and murdered a British policewoman on a British street.

With Gaddafi still in power, Libya was welcomed back into the bosom of the West’s family of nations by Tony Blair, that shiny-eyed healer who wears his god on this sleeve but no blood on his hands.

Historians will one day argue over who was the more self-serving: Blair or Gaddafi. They will then debate if Victoria Beckham is posher than Rebecca Loos and if you can take two bottles into the shower.

Anorak

Posted: 1st, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (2)

Libyan Embassy Shuts In London: Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi May Soon Wish He Was In Scotland

THEY’VE closed the Libyan Embassy in Knightsbridge, London. Foreign Secretary William Hague announced that Britain is formally recognising the opposition National Transitional Council as the “sole governmental authority” in Libya. The French did it while back. But what triggered the move now?

Anorak

Posted: 27th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment

Anders Behring Breivik And The EDL Sound A Lot Like Militant Islam

ANDERS Breivik says he not work alone. No, it’s not the voices in his head. He is lucid. He admits carrying out the attacks but says he is not guilty of any crime. He “believes that he needed to carry out these acts to save Norway [and Europe from] cultural Marxism and Muslim domination.”

Nothing secures redemption and freedom better than murdering those who might not agree with you. Breivik wants his day in the limelight – it will make for pathetic and painful listening.

Anorak

Posted: 25th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)

Nafissatou Diallo Photos: Dominique Strauss-Kahn ‘Victim’ Says It’s About The Money

THE New York maid who claims former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her on May 14 is called Nafissatou Diallo. She is a 32-year-old immigrant from Guinea.

That’s her talking to Newsweek magazine and on Good Morning America.

Anorak

Posted: 25th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comments (7)

David Cameron Edits The Big Issue: What Andy Coulson Taught Me

DAVID Cameron will test what he learnt from his former spin doctor and News of The World editor Andy Coulson when he edits the Big Issue, the newspaper for the homeless. In this special issue:

Anorak

Posted: 21st, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment

Photos Behind Of Gaddafi’s Libya: How The People Love Him

THE Associated Press has been on the government tour of Libya. We’ve got the photos. You will see images of children play on a see-saw on a beach in Tripoli in Colonel Gaddafi’s land flowing in oil and money.

Anorak

Posted: 20th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Shagged Anne Mansouret Like A French Soldier: Pulled Out Quick

DID you know that Dominique Strauss-Kahn shagged Anne Mansouret. She says he “took me with the vulgarity of a soldier“.

Mansouret is mother to Tristane Banon – who claims DSK tried to rape her.

Anorak

Posted: 19th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment

David Cameran Talks Corruption With Goodluck Jonathan

PRIME Minister David Cameron is in Nigeria to conduct a seminar with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan about good governance, corruption, a missing uncle Rupert who has £1billion to invest in an offshore bank account, buying the police, the secret services targeting the ordinary people, nepotism in the BBC and the civil service…

Anorak

Posted: 19th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment

Margaret Thatcher Outlived The News Of The World: That Front Page In Full

MARGARET Thatcher outlived the News of The World. She would not die on Rupert Murdoch’s command…

Anorak

Posted: 15th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment

Syrian State Media Photoshops Assad With New Governor Of Hama (Photo)

TO Syria, for an audience with Bashar Assad. We’re a bit anxious about seeing the local despot in the flesh. But with any luck Sana, Syria’s state-run news service, will just photoshop us into the meeting – like it did with the new governor of Hama. Before Anorak joins with Martin Luther King,The Pope, Kelly Brook, Thierry Henry, John Lennon and Angelina Jolie also join us, we look at evidence of photo manipulation – or what editors of fashion magazines call “selling the brand”.

You can see the click on this big image above (via The Atlantic Wire) and see if the Washington Post photo editors are right and Assad’s right foot is in front of the table leg. Also:

looks as if someone selected the the bodies and heads with the lasso tool and then adjusted the contrast and brightness, leaving a black outline at the tool’s selection boundary.

Anorak

Posted: 14th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment

Boris Johnson, Darius Guppy And The News Of The World Phone Hacking Saga

SEE if you can join the dots between phone hacking and London Mayor – and Telegraph journalist – Boris Johnson

Johnson once received a call from Darius Guppy – best man to the Princess of Wales’s brother, and fellow ex-Etonian and Bullingdon Club member. Yep. Like David Cameron – and like George Osborne, who championed Andy Coulson for that job as the PM Cameron’s press handler. Guppy wanted help in getting in touch with News of the World journalist Stuart Collier. Guppy had heard that Collier was asking questions about his life. Guppy wanted him stopped – frightened off. All he needed was Collier’s private phone number and address.

Boris Johnson was the Telegraph’s European correspondent in Brussels. Maybe the anti youth violence champion could help?

In 1993, Guppy would soon be jailed for five years for a £1.8 million insurance fraud. Guppy was jailed for five years in 1993. He served three in jail.

In the summer of 1990, Guppy and Johnson talked on the phone. Here are the highlights:

Johnson: “I really, I want to know …”

Guppy: “I guarantee you he will not be seriously hurt.”

Anorak

Posted: 14th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment

Gordon Brown Wakes From Rebekah Brook’s Slumber Party To Seek Revenge Over Rupert Murdoch’s Times, Sky And Sun

HAVING been able to legitimise buying up millions of copies of the News of The World, Guardian readers now learn that Gordon Brown fears his voicemail was hacked by News International workers. They allegedly accessed his bank account and his family’s medical records.

The key findings are:

• Scotland Yard has discovered references to both Brown and his wife, Sarah, in paperwork seized from Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who specialised in phone hacking for the News of the World;

• Abbey National bank found evidence suggesting that a “blagger” acting for the Sunday Times on six occasions posed as Brown and gained details from his account;

• Brown’s London lawyers, Allen & Overy, were tricked into handing over details from his file by a conman working for the Sunday Times;

• Details from his infant son’s medical records were obtained by the Sun, who published a story about the child’s serious illness.

The News of The World is dead. Rupert Murdoch’s  Sun and Times are now in the firing line. It’s stinky suff. And 2e only hope that Brown gets his revenge, sorry,  justice:

Senior Labour figures also strongly suspect that a news organisation broke the law to obtain the emails that led to the resignation in April 2009 of Brown’s close aide Damian McBride. The emails, which disclosed a scheme to smear Tory MPs, had been exchanged between McBride and a Labour party activist, Derek Draper. The Labour figures believe that the emails were hacked from Draper’s computer and that their contents were then sent to the political blogger Guido Fawkes, whose stories were then followed by Fleet Street.

Anorak

Posted: 11th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)

Sun Buries Itself, David Cameron And Ed Miliband In Drugs Story: Meet Rupert Murdoch’s Tom Baldwin

THE Sun’s headline about former News of The World editor Andy Coulson is not “Former News Of The World editor arrested over hacking claims while working for Rupert Murdoch”. No. The Sun’s headline is:

“David Cameron’s former aide quizzed over hacking claims”

The Sun’s focus is on Cameron and not on its sister organ. Why? Well, self-preservation, cynicism, pragmatism and maybe – just maybe – the Sun flexing its muscles. As the Independent puts the same news:

Cameron forced to cut Murdoch and his empire loose as he tries to deflect public anger about failure to tackle the phone-hacking scandal…

Anorak

Posted: 9th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (9)

Betty Ford RIP: Great Photos Of The First Lady Who Made Us Clean And Serene

BETTY Ford RIP. You were Gerald Ford’s wife. He took over from scandal-shattered Richard Nixon as President of the USA. Nixon made a name for himself over Watergate. On June 1, 1975, President Gerald Ford made his own mark on the top job by slipping as he disembarked from Air Force One in Salzburg, Austria. His wife was Betty Ford. She never flinched. But she suffered. She had cancer. Her mastectomy made a taboo subject a talking point. She spoke out on abortion and drugs. Her drugs addiction led to the creation of the Betty Ford Clinic. You can go there to get Clean And Serene.

This was her life in photos:

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** FILE ** In this June 1, 1975 picture, President Gerald Ford lands on his hands after slipping and falling on a wet ramp, while disembarking from Air Force One in Salzburg, Austria. A military aide, grabs the president to help break the fall. The president's wife, Betty, is at left. Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon's scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America's history, has died, his wife, Betty, said Tuesday Dec. 26, 2006. He was 93. (AP Photo)

Anorak

Posted: 9th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment

Has The Tabloid Media Prejudiced Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Trial? Those Front Pages In Full

IS Dominique Strauss-Kahn a victim of tabloid journalism? Can he get a fair trial after headlines like these?

Incidentally, the New York Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch. The New York Daily News isn’t…

Anorak

Posted: 7th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)

London Councillor With SHooting Conviction Can Keep His Job

STEPHEN Govier is the independent Southwark councillor (formerly Labour until the Party whip was removed when his past came to light) who served three years of a six year sentence in California for assault with a handgun. He can stay in his role because there is nothing in the rules banning him from holding public office.

The Local Government Act 1972 only bans people from standing for election if their conviction was in the UK or its dependencies and in the past five years.

It was back in May 1997 that Govier shot Martin DeLuca in West Hollywood. The BBC reports:

..the man he shot, actor and producer Martin DeLuca, went to 611 North Curson Avenue in West Hollywood to buy cocaine. The man supplying him was a former friend but the transaction went badly wrong. Shot in the head at point blank range by local cocaine dealer and then addict Stephen Govier, Mr DeLuca claims he was left for dead.

Anorak

Posted: 7th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comments (6)

Tristane Banon, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Rape, Politics And A By The Book Scandal Among Rich Paris Socialists

DID you know that a wealthy writer named Tristane Banon claims former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her in 2003 as she interviewed him for a book on mistakes made by leading political figures? (Oh, the irony.)

Banon says Stauss-Kahn yanked open her bra and tried to unbutton her jeans. Banon says her mum, Anne Mansouret, a regional councilor in Strauss-Kahn’s Socialist party, dissuaded her from telling the police. Mansouret is pals with Strauss-Kahn’s second wife Brigitte Guillemette. Banon is her god-daughter. Banon is also mates with Strauss-Khan’s daughter Camille.

So. On one side we have the claim that Strauss-Khan was the victim of political plot to brand him a sex fiend. On the other side, we have a story that claims a political plot saved Strauss Kahn from being branded a sex fiend.

Anorak

Posted: 4th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)

David Cameron Tours Afghanistan In His Lucky Blue Shirt As Locals Laugh Inside: Photos

DAVID Cameron has been to the ANA training camp at Camp Bastion, Helmand province in south Afghanistan. He pulled on his dark blue shirt. The Cameron dark blue shirt is what the Prime Minister wears when he wants to look tough. It fails horribly. He fluctuates between looking like a villain from a 1990s shoot-em-up film checking out a bigger villain’s  private army, and a marketing executive trying to discover who stole his gold pen.

These photos are great – the locals look they are in on the joke…

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (centre),arrives for a visit to Camp Bastion, outside Lashkar Gah, Helmand province in south Afghanistan.

Anorak

Posted: 4th, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)

Female Mayor Punches Sheriff In The Face: Democracy In Action (Video)

TO the Philippines, where Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte wants to discuss the removal of 500 shanty dwellings that were erected in the wake of flash flooding with Sheriff Abe Andres. Duterte is keen to act as a mediator tensions between squatters and police. Let the emdiation begin…

Andres was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

Anorak

Posted: 3rd, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment

Lord Hanningfield Jailed: Former Essex Pig Farmer Caught Troughing In Parliament

LORD Hanningfield, aka Paul White, has a new number. It’s his prison membership number. The former Tory peer and Essex Council leader Lord Hanningfield has been jailed for nine months for fiddling his parliamentary expenses to the tune of £14,000..

The good Lord old the public ruse that he was staying overnight at hotels London when he was at home in Essex – the one he reached by this chauffeur driven car provided for his use by Essex County Council.

Anorak

Posted: 2nd, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment

Conservative Party More Elitist And Undemocratic Than Communist Party Of China

THE Conservative Party should look beyond Christopher Shale’s memo on attracting new members and look East to the Chinese Communist Party of China. It has 80.3 million members. It’s 90 years young this month. Damien Ma reports:

The CCP has increasingly evolved into an elite establishment political machine, attracting the highly educated and ambitious. It is often viewed as something of a “career insurance” for newly minted college graduates. … Having spoken to some students over the years, I never got the impression that they were signing up for any ideologically driven purpose. To them, it felt more along the lines of entering into the realm of one of those exclusive and elite clubs at an Ivy League university.

Anorak

Posted: 2nd, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment

Ed Miliband These Strikes Are Wrong: Labour Leader Raps (Video)

ED Miliband will now t-t-t-tell you why the s-s-s-strikes are wrong. In a desperate bid for look dynamic and capable of leadership his answer is that all sides must join big debate. He says the rhetoric must stop. He says the rhetoric must stop, rhetorically, over and over and over and over and over…

Anorak

Posted: 2nd, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)

Old Moore’s Tory Stargazer Predicts Prime Minister Nick Clegg For 2012

NICK Clegg could become Prime Minister one day, claims the astrologer in the new edition of Old Moore’s Almanack 2012. Oh, but hang on a minute. There’s also Theresa May to consider. She, too, is potential PM material according to a profile in the mag which unveils the year (and more) ahead, occasionally with startling accuracy.

I’ve long suspected that ‘Dr Francis Moore’ – the eponymous astrologer of the title, still going strong at 314 years-old – is a celestial right-winger who treats the bit between Thatcher’s fall and Cameron’s rise as a moral low in British history. Last year, he wrote enthusiastically of the Tory tide: ‘This is the beginning of a period that is going to be more difficult and very different to the freewheeling, destructive influences we have been enjoying for the past twenty years.’ He relished the return of ‘traditional, old-fashioned values of discipline, respect andresponsibility [his italics]…largely missing for twenty years.’ Oddly, profilgate bankers played no part in our bankruptcy; and anyone might think Tony Blair had not been a right-wing wealth-lover.

Madame Arcati

Posted: 1st, July 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment

The J30 Strike Kept The Media Working Hard: Everything Else Just Worked The Same

HOW did the J30 public sector workers’ strike over pensions go? The media reports on what was either a grand day out or a blow for justice, depending on your prejudices:

The Times (front page): “First strike fails to spa”

One of the largest strikes in a generation by hundreds of thousands of teachers and civil servants had “minimal impact” on public services, despite the closure of more than 7,000 schools, No 10 said yesterday.

Up to 300,000 teachers and at least 100,000 civil servants walked out in protest over “unfair and unjust” changes to their pensions. But with little disruption to airports, Jobcentres, or courts the action was dismissed as a damp squib by a Downing Street source…

The Guardian (front page): “A text book lesson in protest and Miss and Sir chalk up a respectable result”

Anyone want to talk to the press…? Yes, You sir:

Doctoral student Harry Pitts, 24, one of the last self-proclaimed Marxists in the Labour party, had come from Falmouth where his father works in the docks and his mother teaches. The government’s attack “is probably a way of breaking down people’s sense of vocation within the current capitalist mode of production, preparing us to be more pliant and amenable to bursts of temporary work or call centre jobs”, he said.

Stick that into a chant and he’s got a winner.

Anorak

Posted: 1st, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment

David Cameron Teaches Teachers To Know Right From Wrong

DAVID Cameron, the most patronising man in Britain has told teachers that it is “wrong” to go on strike.

Mr Cameron went on to say that the pension reforms that have prompted Thursday’s planned walkout are “right”.

Anorak

Posted: 29th, June 2011 | In: Politicians | Comments (10)