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Ken Clark Is Britain’s Soft White Centre
JUSTICE Secretary – and how about that for a comic book title – Ken Clark is advocating liberal policies on prison sentencing. The idea is that prison does not act as a deterrent to re-offending nor as means to help people go straight.
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Posted: 10th, December 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Students Smash The Police In London (Photos)
THE students are not the miners. The clashes are not so desperate nor bloody as when the miners striked. But there is deep anger. The anger is not at lives and livelihoods lost; it is about the future. University tuition fees are big deal. But if you want to see someone killed right now, look to Nick Clegg and the LibDems. From being all thing to all people. He has now been forced to decide. And he is a Tory.
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Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (4)
Vladimir Putin Is Big In Fifa, Big In Sports And Huge In His Socks: Photos
FIFA president Sepp Blatter says England are “bad losers” at not getting to host the World Cup. He then adds, with a nod to the Noble prize he seems to crave:
“I really sense in some reaction a bit of arrogance of the western world of Christian background… the next regions we need to conquer would be China and India.”
But not the Christian bits.
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Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Wikileaks: Lockerbie Dead Sold Out For Weapons And Oil
WIKILEAKS and Lockerbie: Three years ago and a lifetime away Anorak readers were asked the question:
“The name Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi ring any bells?”
It soon did. Anorak had foreseen the bomber’s release which came on August 20, 2009 and this is the last clear photograph taken of him as he boarded a Libyan jet at Glasgow airport.
The man remains Britain’s worst ever convicted mass murder and as a prostate cancer victim he will die with that tag around his metaphorical big toe. He did not die in the three months predicted before the release “on compassionate grounds” and there is no real sign of him turning up his toes in the Tripoli home provided for him by a grateful Libyan state leader
His daughter, right on cue, has today told the BBC the bomber is now in “a coma” and has no real knowledge of anyone around him.
There are those would breathe a sigh of relief at that news since when the Scottish Courts were set up to try him and another at Camp Zeist in Holland the belief was he may have been killed by assassins for what he could tell rather than the Lockerbie Bombing.
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Posted: 9th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)
John Lennon Dreamed Of A United States Of Europe
JOHN Lennon died 30 years ago. So. Here’s Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament, tweeting:
And his dream? Well:
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
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Posted: 8th, December 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Turkey Nick Clegg Votes For Christmas: Student Fees Protest Photos
AHEAD of tomorrow’s Commons vote on student fees, and tomorrow’s demo in London, the students were protesting in College Green, Bristol, Leeds, Birmingham and outside the Royal College of Art in London. Lots of the signs at the student demos have declared “I can’t even afford a sign”. But the students at the college managed to make huge one. It’s in the form of a letter to Nick Clegg, the LibDem leader making the colour yellow appear cowardly and not at all trustworthy. Clegg is the turkey voting for Christmas.
Posted: 8th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1)
US State Department Invites Julian Assange To Speak At World Press Freedom Day 2011
IT’S UNESCO World Press Freedom Day in the USA, an events supported by the US State Department. The Day lasts three days – May 1 – May 3. It’s hosted in Washington D.C.. And guest speaker is surely Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Right? Says the blurb:
The theme is 21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers.
In light of the US cable leaks, the irony comes thick and fast:
The United States places technology and innovation at the forefront of its diplomatic and development efforts.
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Posted: 8th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Ireland Relocates to Brussels: Budget Protest Photos
IN Ireland memories are long and bloody. The Irish government has won the first parliament vote on its 2011 austerity budget. But the people are far from settled. Outside Leinster House, Dublin, Protestors and Gardai clashed. These interesting times in Ireland.
Some irony, readers, in that on the day Ireland passed the Budget, and approved the €85bn bailout, Iceland announced that it was out of recession. Yep, that is Iceland that allowed the banks to fail and its currency to be devalued. Iceland survives. Ireland goes for the big loan and props up the failed banks.
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Posted: 8th, December 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Nick Herbert MP And Those Police C*nts: Video
JAMES Naughtie salutes Jeremy Hunt (his recovery blather is great listening), police minister Nick Herbert, MP for Arundel and South Downs, isues a comment of police c*nts. police cuts.
Cue much laughter in the chamber:
Posted: 8th, December 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Leyton Aggression Boils Over: It’s 1965 And World Führer Colin Jordan Is At Large
IT is reported that Phil Woolas has given up his fight to hold onto his seat after lying about an election opponent, and there will now be a by-election in Oldham East and Saddleworth. Nick Griffin of the BNP has announced his intention to stand, and it seems inevitable that immigration will be one of the main issues of the election.
There has been much discussion about the ‘robust’ tactics in recent election campaigns, but the clip below, from a 1965 episode of Panorama, shows a time when politicians needed to be ‘handy on the pavement’.
The Leyton by-election that year involved a Labour candidate, foreign secretary Patrick Gordon Walker, who needed a safe seat after losing Smethwick at the general election after a racist campaign by the Conservatives. Cue Colin Jordan of the National Socialist Party. At an international conference in the Cotswolds in the summer of 1962, Jordan and George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, had established the World Union of National Socialists and declared Jordan its ‘World Führer’. Now it was a case of ‘today Leyton, tomorrow the world’.
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Posted: 7th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (4)
Wikileaks: Idiotic Liam Fox And Malcolm Rifkind Attack The Capitalist Julian Assange
JULIAN Assange’s bank account at the Swiss post office’s bank, PostFinance, has been cut off. His 31,000 euros are frozen. Wikileaks continues to operate. But Assange is now so entwined with the site’s fortunes that a blow for him is a blow to it.
This news follows PayPal’s decision to stop processing Wikileaks’s funds.
The reason for this latest freeze is not that the Swiss are disapproving of his means or have discovered that in this world you need to take sides and not just stick with an agenda of fierce civic pride and assisted suicide, rather that:
“(Mr) Assange entered Geneva as his domicile. Upon inspection, this information was found to be incorrect.
“(Mr) Assange cannot provide proof of residence in Switzerland and thus does not meet the criteria for a customer relationship with PostFinance. For this reason, PostFinance is entitled to close his account.”
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Posted: 6th, December 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Anna Chapman And Katia Katuliveter Prove Russia’s Spymasters Are Bonkers: Photos
MIKE Hancock is an important man. The Portsmouth South MP, is has been complying Katia Katuliveter, whom MI5 thinks is a Russian spy. Following the news that Anna Chapman spied on the UK from the bed of a Southampton man, we get news that Katia spied on the UK from watching Mike Hancock. He’s a member of the Commons Defence Committee, and therefore privy to just about no decent secrets. He’s an MP. He is not in the military.
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Posted: 6th, December 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Katia Zatuliveter: Sex, Photos, Short Skirts, And Anna Chapman
KATIA Zatuliveter is being deported for alleged spying for the Russians. Did the woman born in Dagestan work for the SVR (External Intelligence Service)? Not sure. But she certainly worked for Mike Hancock, the Liberal Democrat MP for Portsmouth, a man revealed in TV interviews to be partial to pink cable-knit jumpers.
She is blonde and 25. He is grey and 64. He is married with two children. The stereotypes are in place to make this story fly.
The Firm:
Katia is married to Andrew Cowburn. He runs Choices (Northern UAK). The motto: “Knowledge is our business”:
Here at Choices (Northern UK) Ltd we aim to offer quality information, advice, guidance and application support to international students wishing to study in the United Kingdom.
The Denial:
Mr Hancock issues a statement denying Katia is a spy. He ends with:
“She has been an excellent and conscientious employee and I wish her well in all this. There was nothing she was doing for me that was in any way sensitive.”
The Attraction:
That sound you hear is a loud “fnar” from the Daily Mail. It leads with:
A womanising MP was targeted by a suspected Russian spy in a Moscow ‘honeytrap’ sting, Whitehall sources believe.
So. Her sex and looks got her the job?
One Westminster source said: ‘She would walk around in very short skirts and high heels with Hancock and they would be seen having lunch together. Certainly some thought she was charming and intelligent.’
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Posted: 6th, December 2010 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Wikileaks: Sweden Is A Lickspittle State And So No Friend To Julian Assange’s WikiBitch
WIKILEAKS: Those bitchy emails that turn our political elite into celebrities just keep on coming. Julian Assange has a future as Perez Hilton’s publisher. But he is wanted in Sweden to answer an allegation of his involvement in an alleged rape. Assange’s lawyer, Mark Stephens, is on the BBC. He wants to talk about Sweden being a lickspittle state to the USA:
READ: Wikileaks: The Hypocritical New York Times Published The Cables Because They Fitted Its Agenda
Posted: 5th, December 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Wikileaks Killed 1300 People And Counting
WIKILEAKS has killed 1,300 people. OK, not killed but led to their deaths. Not our opinion but that of fame-hungry Julian Assange, who has undone the brilliant site by steering it towards an anti-USA agenda and media prominence.
He claims that Wikileaks swung the Kenyan 2007 elections. There was much bloodshed:
“1,300 people were eventually killed, and 350,000 were displaced. That was a result of our leak.”
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Posted: 3rd, December 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (40)
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)
Student Fees Demo Photos: Mutism And Dead Lions For Change
I UNDERSTAND that UK students protesting against tuition fee hikes have already been kettled by the cops close to Westminster Palace. Quite right. At least 200 of them went running down Whitehall in breach of an agreement with the Met, so what do they expect to happen? Ah yes, media martyrdom. Now listen to Madame.
A much more effective form of protest would be mass insolent mutism. Or the People’s Silence. This would involve crowds of tens of thousands of students gathering as close to guilty buildings as legally allowed and just standing there saying nothing for hours on end. If the police ordered dispersal – because they have suppers to go home to – protesters should refuse and lie down on the spot (still saying nothing) feigning death, whatever the weather. If anyone was injured it would be the fault of the police entirely as they attempted to drag protesting carcasses from a to b. Such a protest would require nerves of steel, iron discipline and cold fury.
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Posted: 30th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | 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
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)
The Irish Suffer For The Greed Of The Bankers: Eat The Poor
FORGET all those acres of print filled by experts telling you how they knew Ireland was heading for disaster and spare a thought for the people who had the greed of bankers foisted upon them by a compliant political elite. Jonathan Swift – where are you now? Paul Krugman sums up neatly:
Then the bubble burst, and those banks faced huge losses. You might have expected those who lent money to the banks to share in the losses. After all, they were consenting adults, and if they failed to understand the risks they were taking that was nobody’s fault but their own. But, no, the Irish government stepped in to guarantee the banks’ debt, turning private losses into public obligations.
Before the bank bust, Ireland had little public debt. But with taxpayers suddenly on the hook for gigantic bank losses, even as revenues plunged, the nation’s creditworthiness was put in doubt. So Ireland tried to reassure the markets with a harsh program of spending cuts.
Step back for a minute and think about that. These debts were incurred, not to pay for public programs, but by private wheeler-dealers seeking nothing but their own profit. Yet ordinary Irish citizens are now bearing the burden of those debts.
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Posted: 29th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Abu Dhabi To Follow The Birmingham Model: Welcome To Rover World
WHERE Birmingham leads, Abu Dhabi follows. It was ever so. Now, following the successful export of powdered custard, the Beardmore Precison Motorcycle and Judas Priest, Birmingham is sending good governance to the sand-blasted Department of Municipal Affairs (DMA).
Wonks in Abu Dhabi are mulling over the idea of restructuring the city’s municipal government along the lines of Birmingham City Council.
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Posted: 29th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment
Wikileaks: US Calls Putin Batman, Medvedez Is Robin And Berlusconi Is Osama Bin Laden
WIKILEAKS: Dmitry Medvedez is a cartoon character rhe U.S. embassy in Moscow says is Robin to Vladimir Putin’s Batman.
The Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini says the Wikileaks leaks are “the September 11th of world diplomacy“.
Which would make Silvio Berlusconi Osama bin Laden.
Here’s Medvedez. And anyone not amused by a man who looks like his own action figure is made of tough stuff. Or drunk:
Posted: 28th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
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
Wikileaks Leaks Cost Lives? Well, So Say The Enemies Of Free Speech
WILL Wikileaks’s latest document dump on an expectant and eager media lead to lost lives or just cause a few red faces in Washington and The Pentagon? Maybe.
CNN – not one of the organs chosen by Wikileaks to publish the documents first – declares:
“State Department says new WikiLeaks document dump would risk lives”
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Posted: 28th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Wikileaks Cables: Obama Thinks Cameron’s An Idiot And Ahmadinejad Is Like Hitler
WIKILEAKS is preparing to launch lots of data containing slights and asides on Western leaders. Listen up, American military and politicos, here are three words for you. Off. The. Record.
Do not sent incriminating emails. Do not send cables making cheap jokes and witty asides about your allies. Save it for the pillow and golf greens.
Simon Hoggart, of the Guardian, told the BBC:
“There is going to be some embarrassment certainly for Gordon Brown but even more so for David Cameron who was not very highly regarded by the Obama administration or by the US ambassador here.”
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Posted: 28th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
