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Man destroys entire booze section (video)
WHEN you cock-up at work, with some sly behaviour, you can get away with murder. However, if you work in a supermarket, surrounded by CCTV, it isn’t so easy.
Especially when you’re the poor sod who destroys a whole section of lovely, lovely booze.
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Posted: 14th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
St. Petersburg LGBT rally ends with the usual traditional arrests – photos
YESTERDAY, anti-gay protesters gather to confront an authorized gay rights rally in St. Petersburg, Russia. The rally ended in scuffles after several dozen demonstrators were confronted by about 200 conservative and religious protesters. The city government had sanctioned the rally despite the Russian government’s June passage of a contentious law outlawing gay “propaganda”.
People from both sides were arrested.
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Woman straddled like Jesus as drawbridge rose (photos)
Posted: 14th, October 2013 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Madeleine McCann: all front-page pictures of the latest ‘suspect’ snatcher
MADELEINE McCann: the latest “suspect” is front-page news:
Is he “vital“? Is he a “suspect“? Or is he just a “stranger“, called so because the Met have yet to identify him?
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Posted: 13th, October 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment
Malala Yousafzai: father regrets not protecting her from Bono and extracts from her auobiography
TO write I Am Malala: The Girl who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Christina Lamb spent a year in Birmingham with Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban. A few extracts from it. One notable fact is that her mother, Tor Pekai, is illiterate.
I had travelled up from London by train with her agent. As I am quickly to discover, there is a circus of people around Malala, including a leading PR company, an investment-banker friend of the family, do-good celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, and even former prime minister Gordon Brown, who hired Malala’s dad as an adviser to his own role as global education envoy for the UN. Everyone wants a part of her.
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Posted: 13th, October 2013 | In: Books, Celebrities, Reviews | Comment (1)
Madeleine McCann: the questionable timeline and the arrested man who wasn’t
MADELEINE McCANN: the timeline questions.
Today’s front pages:
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Posted: 13th, October 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment
Madeleine McCann: a version of events on Crimewatch and the truth is out there
MADELEINE McCann: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the missing child in the news: the timeline questions.
Today’s front pages:
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Posted: 12th, October 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment
The BBC and the Guardian’s London chatterati v Paul Dacre and the Daily Mail’s Middle England
PAUL Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, has written a reply to the fallout from his paper’s article on Ralph Miliband, Ed Miliband’s Jewish, Marxist father. Some said the article was anti-Semitic. Dacre’s article appears in the Mail and the Guardian. (If you want to know how the Guardian has viewed Jews, you should read this.)
The Mail’s “The Man Who Hated Britain” story might just about be the Mail’s ultimate trolling feature. It got everyone talking, polarised views – if you like the Mail, you don’t much mind the story; if you dislike the Mail you hate the story – and introduced most of us to Paul Dacre, a man who would be simply fantastic as a judge on reality TV shows (you heard it here first).
Says Dacre:
“The screech of axe-grinding was deafening as the paper’s enemies gleefully leapt to settle scores. Leading the charge, inevitably, was The Mail’s bête noir, the BBC… Is it fanciful to believe that his real purpose in triggering last week’s row – so assiduously supported by the liberal media which sneers at the popular press – was an attempt to neutralise Associated [Associated Press owns the Mail]…
“Some have argued that last week’s brouhaha shows the need for statutory press regulation. I would argue the opposite. The febrile heat, hatred, irrationality and prejudice provoked by last week’s row reveals why politicians must not be allowed anywhere near press regulation. And while the Mail does not agree with the Guardian over the stolen secret security files it published, I suggest that we can agree that the fury and recrimination the story is provoking reveals again why those who rule us – and who should be held to account by newspapers – cannot be allowed to sit in judgment on the press.”
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Exploding toilet leaves injured man too scared to flush (with epic local news photo)
STOP the show. We have a new contender for the Greatest Local News Photo of the year. Brooklyn resident Michel Pierre is pictured flushing his toilet for a safe distance.
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Posted: 12th, October 2013 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews, Strange But True | Comments (2)
United States fakes the return of its Vietnem War dead in ceremonies
THE US military has been faking repatriation ceremonies for dead American servicemen killed in Vietnam or the Second World War. The coffins paraded before the Press and the respectful veterans and weeping relatives contain soldiers’ remains that arrived weeks earlier to be processed in forensic labs and identified.
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Posted: 11th, October 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
The Hackney’s Atheist Church: can Sandi Toksvig replace God?
ALL hail Hackney’s Atheist Church. The HAC will “do good without God”.
Bit odd that a group that doesn’t want God should call itself a Church and meet on Sunday. Instead of sermons, the group with hold “talks on science and life”. But not God. That part of life is taboo.
It all sounds a bit intolerant.
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Shutdown US Government deems parks and underfed babies less essential than the Congress heated pool and arresting poor blacks with drugs
WHO the hell decides what is and is not “essential”? That’s not a philosophical question about life, the universe and everything; I’m asking specifically about the idiotic “let’s play chicken with the whole country” federal-government-shutdown thing playing out here in America.
The way it works is, “essential” employees of the federal government still go to work and get paid, while everybody else stays home (and will likely get paid anyway, though not until after the shutdown ends). Check out who’s working and who’s not and it soon becomes obvious that, even by the standards of a creepy police surveillance state, the US government has seriously warped priorities.
Essential: the Drug Enforcement Administration, responsible for arresting and imprisoning anybody who uses intoxicants other than alcohol and prescribed pharmaceuticals, is open.
Not essential: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, responsible for monitoring and tracking contagious illness, switched to shutdown mode.
So if one of those deadly science-fiction-movie-type pandemic viruses breaks out during the shutdown, the government can’t track the spread of the contagion but will still arrest anyone trying unapproved forms of medical treatment.
Essential: the private gym and heated swimming pool where members of Congress can work out at taxpayer expense.
Not essential: the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program providing food assistance to extremely poor moms with extremely young kids.
Because where “essential use of taxpayer dollars” is concerned, helping a Congressman burn extra calories off his corrupt and flabby ass takes precedence over getting extra calories to hungry babies who aren’t getting enough. (Though perhaps that’s not a fair criticism to make. Cory Doctorow speculated the real reason the gym’s staying open is because so many Congressmen live in their congressional office suites and use the gym’s shower facilities to bathe. Can we really criticize them for that? Trying to cleanse Congressmen of their own foul stench isn’t “non-essential” so much as “a lost cause.”)
Not essential: America’s national parks and all the park rangers who staff them; hence, all the national parks are closed.
Essential: The National Park Service also “closed” the World War Two and Vietnam War memorials on the National Mall in Washington, DC, which are actually open-air monuments in the middle of a large, unenclosed public area. So the only way to “close” these monuments is to have staff set up temporary barricades blocking area usually open to everybody, requiring far more manpower than simply leaving them open ever would.
Also deemed essential were the Yellowstone park rangers who allegedly locked tourists in their hotel, and even prevented them from taking pictures of animals. Can’t let people have fun in national parks, but must scare the hell out of those who try. It’s all about priorities.
Posted: 11th, October 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Want to listen to weird 999 calls? Why didn’t you say so?
999 is not a number to be trifled with. If you use the number to horse around, chances are, EVERYONE IS GOING TO DIE BECAUSE THEY CAN’T GET THROUGH.
Possibly.
Either way, the London Fire Brigade have decided to shame some simpletons who haven’t quite grasped what the number is for. One lady called the Fire Brigade because she threw a glass of water at fighting dogs, but forgot her false teeth were in the glass. Number of fires in that incident – 0.
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BBC debunks BBC reporter Victoria Derbyshire’s scare story on an ‘army of drunk children’
THE story about hundreds of drunk children in A&E departments was a front-page shocker. And it was, as we noted, balls. The story was created by the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire. It was bad that another BBC show sought to explain what utter nonsense it was, a scare story created from dodgy figures, a fear of youth and stocked by the therapy industry.
You can listen to the BBC undoing the BBC in this link: drunk kids
Liverpool sisters stole funeral wreaths to sell on to the grieving
SISTERS Marion Hill, 41, and Lyndsay Millett, 37, removed flowers left in tribute to a dead man at Liverpool’s Springwood crematorium. They said the flowers were for their mum’s grave at Allerton cemetery.
Police thought it an idea to visit their home in Almeda Road, Speke. here, they found blank condolence cards, wreath stands, “wreath-making paraphernalia” and seven wreaths, including one to “DAD”. Two wreaths to MUM” and “NAN” had vanished from the crematorium on the evening of May 7, having been left in tribute to Bridget Jannet.
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Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Ron Paul use the The Guardian to change the world, and other views on leaking
WHAT do we make of the Guardian’s decision to publish Edward Snowden’s leaks?
MI5 chief Andrew Parker: “The gift to evade us and strike at will'”
David Aaronovitch in the Times:
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Racism in Mexico: Health centre makes Indian women gives birth outside on the grass
TO Mexico, where Mexican paper La Razon says Irma Lopez, 29, was forced to give birth on the lawn in front of a medical centre in Oaxaca, Mexico, which had refused to admit her.
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Posted: 10th, October 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Court Artist Priscilla Coleman is first artist to sketch inside an English courtroom during a hearing
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West Sussex local news special: triple-ladder saves trapped mum and daughter
LOCAL news story of the week was found in the West Sussex County Times. Reporter DW Nye enlarges in the headline:
“Mother and daughter freed from Horsham bathroom”
A mother and daughter have been freed from their own bathroom after becoming locked in this morning (Tuesday October 8).
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Sexy Two Air Hostesses in Uniform: BA investigates this unerotic staff video
A VIDEO has appear online starring two women in British Airways uniforms. Weirdly, while clothed, they decide to have a shower. That’s right. A shower with your clothes on.
Of course, being dripping wet and covered in soap, one of the ladies decides to awkwardly strip off, throwing her cabin services manager’s uniform in the shower with her.
The video is called Sexy Two Air Hostesses in Uniform and British Airways are launching an investigation into the video and want to know the identity of the two women.
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Jack Kerouac’s original sketch for On The Road (and all the book’s covers)
JACK Kerouac was so unimpressed by the cover his publishers stuck on The Town and the City, he sketched the one he wanted for OneThe Road.
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Amanda Knox: ‘Foxy’ Cara Delevingne, unforgiving Patrick Lamumba and Cartwheels of joy
MEREDITH Kercher is not yet at peace. The retrial of Amanda Knox in Perugia, Italy, for Kercher’s murder is underway. Knox and her then lover Raffaelle Sollecito were convicted and then acquitted. This time, however, Knox won’t be in the courtroom, opting to remain in the US.
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Posted: 10th, October 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
