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US National Institute of Mental Health 1969 pamphlet on ‘Marihuana’
IN 1969, the US National Institute of Mental Health produced advice on ‘Marihuana’. The advice was that marijuana was “not a narcotic”:. It does “not cause physical dependence”. There are no withdrawal symptoms. Indeed, “No direct cause-and-effect link between the use of marihuana and narcotics has been found”. Although “users of one illicit drug may be exposed to a variety of them through contact with drugs sellers…”
Have attitudes changed over time?
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Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: Flashback, Reviews | 0 Comments
Press regulation: statist Winston Churchill was the Hugh Grant of his time
THE trusty Sun leads with Winston Churchill sticking two fingers up to Press regulation. The quotes tells readers:
“A free press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.”
Might that be the same Winnie who created the British Gazette, described on Wikipedia as the organ “published by the Government during the General Strike of 1926…
The Gazette first appeared on the morning of 5 May. It was highly patriotic and condemnatory of the strikers, becoming a very effective means of propaganda for the government.
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Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Church refuses straight weddings until gay marriage is recognised
RECENTLY in Britain, ‘gay marriage’ became plain old ‘marriage’, but over in America, things aren’t quite as rosy. American’s still love being told what to do by a man from the middle east, it seems. However, one of Jesus’ flock has decided to make a stand by saying that they’ll be stopping straight people from tying the knot until gay marriage gets the green light by the state of North Carolina.
The Green Street United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem has publicly slated North Carolina’s position to prohibit same-sex marriage and “all the rights and privileges marriage brings”.
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Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Crimestoppers release Marijuana scented scratch ‘n’ sniff cards, which will make great roaches
THE war on drugs is an amusing/disturbing one, when you think of a load of policemen harassing a hapless stoner as they make their way through ten packets of Aldi jaffa cakes and watch Freddy Got Fingered for the seventh time that day.
Sure, stoners are useless individuals, but they’re thoroughly harmless.
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Keith Richards asks: ‘Who the F*** Is Mick Jagger?’
FLASHBACK to 1975: Keith Richards Wearing a T-shirt asking “Who The F*** Is Mick Jagger?” during the Rolling Stones’ Tour of the Americas.
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Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | 0 Comments
Press regulation: history, hysteria and hyperbole
AN awful lot of nonsense has been written and spoken since the Guardian blew the phone-hacking scandal wide open in 2011 with its report that Milly Dowler’s voicemail had been intercepted and deleted. We have had a £4m public inquiry, the closure of the country’s best-selling newspaper, and seen police banging on suburban doors at dawn to arrest journalists who could more sensibly have been asked to attend the local copshop at a given time. The public money that has been spent on the demonising of the press is mind-boggling.
We have now reached such a pitch that the three party leaders were huddled together until the early hours yesterday, arguing the toss over how the press should be reined in without using any reins. Come the dawn, a deal had been done and everyone claimed to have won. Yesterday afternoon Mr Cameron told MPs that a royal charter would be approved by the Privy Council in May to establish a new regime to replace the supine Press Complaints Commission. The new regulator would be able to impose £1m fines for bad practice, and publications that refused to join in could leave themselves open to exemplary damages if they lost a court case.
All this was outlined in a three-hour emergency debate.
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Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 4 Comments
Earth Hour 2013: burning cats for Gaia
BEFORE we get to the video for Earth Hour 2013 – Plug in for Gaia – how will you be celebrating the Dark Ages in 60 minutes?
In 2010, Canada’s Environment minister kept warm by setting fire to a cat. But it was ok:
Because it was Earth Hour, they aired out the house to get rid of the smell of singed fur by opening windows, not using a fan.
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Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Shaven cat creates pun opportunity in Australia’s Northern Territory
“Whoever’s done it will have scratches all over them and be missing chunks of skin.
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Posted: 19th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Lord Ahmed: Michael White is not an anti-Semite says Daniel Finkelstein and his sensible Jewish friends
ABOUT peer Lord Ahmed is accused of being an anti-Semite. He denies the charge. You can read the background to the story here. It boils down to Ahmed allegedly claiming on Pakistani TV that the Jews were behind his conviction for dangerous driving. Lord Ahmed went to prison for his crime. The man whose car he hit died.
Daniel Finkelstein is the Executive Editor and a leader writer of the Times, the paper that broke the story. He tweeted:
“Surprised to find our Lord Ahmed Jews story not in BBC radio news summaries…”
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In full: The Royal Charter on Self-regulation of the Press for Publication
RODNEY Willett writes in the Times on Press regulation:
I am unhappy that freedom is speech in this country – a freedom which was very hard to achieve – is under threat for no good reason. As the arrests show, we have all the required laws – what was wrong was that they were not enforced. There was no need for a costly inquiry funded by us taxpayers. The need was for a politician to stand up and insist that all in the media and the police who had broken the law be arrested and tried.
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Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
On This Site: photos of Iraq then and 10 years after the invasion
ON This Site is a photo essay of what life was like after the 21-days war that was Operation Iraqi Freedom and what it looks like now. Between 19 March 2003 to 1 May 2003, the Iraq War raged. Against a backdrop of duplicitous Western leaders (Tony Blair being the most craven) and Saddam Hussein’s brutality, the US led forces from the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland into Baghdad:
In this Wednesday, March 13, 2013 photo, Iraqi policeman Ahmed Naji stands on the grounds of the Iraqi National Museum at the site of an Associated Press photograph of U.S. soldiers on guard outside the museum taken by Anja Niedringhaus on Nov. 11, 2003. Tens of thousands of artifacts chronicling some 7,000 years of civilization in Mesopotamia are believed to have been looted from Iraq in the chaos which followed the the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Despite international efforts to track items down, fewer than half of the artifacts have so far been retrieved. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
This Tuesday, March 12, 2013 photo shows a general view of Abu Nawas Street in Baghdad, Iraq, at the site of a photograph of Iraqi orphan Fady al-Sadik waking on the street, taken by photographer Maya Alleruzzo in April, 2003. The park that runs along Abu Nawas Street, named for an Arabic poet, is now a popular destination for families who are drawn by the manicured gardens, playgrounds and restaurants famous for a fish called mazgouf. Ten years ago, the park was home to a tribe of children orphaned by the war and was rife with crime.
In this Wednesday, March 13, 2013 photo, Iraqi policeman Ahmed Naji stands on the grounds of the Iraqi National Museum at the site of an Associated Press photograph by Murad Sezer showing a U.S. Army tank parked outside the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad on Tuesday, May 6, 2003. Tens of thousands of artifacts chronicling some 7,000 years of civilization in Mesopotamia are believed to have been looted from Iraq in the chaos which followed the the US-led invasion in 2003. Despite international efforts to track items down, fewer than half of the artifacts have so far been retrieved.
In this Thursday, March 14, 2013 photo, Hussein, 3, poses in Firdous Square in Baghdad with a photograph taken at the site by Jerome Delay of the Associated Press showing the statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down by U.S. forces and Iraqis on April 9, 2003. Ten years ago on live television, U.S. Marines memorably hauled down a Soviet-style statue of Saddam, symbolically ending his rule. Today, that pedestal in central Baghdad stands empty. Bent iron beams sprout from the top, and posters of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in military fatigues are pasted on the sides.
In this Saturday, March 16, 2013 photo, street photographer Raad Mohammed poses with a photograph taken by photographer Khalid Mohammed in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square showing an Iraqi soldier manning a checkpoint on Friday, June 9, 2006, after the Iraqi capital was subjected to a vehicle ban in an effort to prevent reprisal attacks from suicide car bombs after the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Today, the square is the site of anti-government protests and a place for candidates in the upcoming election to display their campaign posters.
In this Saturday, March 16, 2013 photo, motorists fill the main street in Baghdad’s busy shopping district of Karrada, at the same site of an Associated Press photo taken by Hadi Mizban on Friday, Friday, March 7, 2008 after a bombing that killed 53 people and wounded 130. Bloody attacks launched by terrorists who thrived in the post-invasion chaos are painfully still frequent, albeit less so than a few years back, and sectarian and ethnic rivalries are again tearing at the fabric of national unity.
This Tuesday, March 12, 2013 photo shows a general view of Abu Nawas park in Baghdad, at the site of a photograph taken by Maya Alleruzzo showing Iraqi orphans playing soccer with a U.S. soldier from the Third Infantry Division in April, 2003. The park that runs along Abu Nawas Street, named after an Arabic poet, is now a popular destination for families who are drawn by the manicured gardens, playgrounds and restaurants famous for a fish called mazgouf. Ten years ago, the park was home to a tribe of children orphaned by the war and was rife with crime.
In this Friday, March 15, 2013 photo, a woman and her child look at a camel at the Baghdad Zoo, as Abdullah, 8, poses with a photograph taken on July 20, 2003 at the same site by Niko Price of the Associated Press, showing a U.S. soldier visiting the newly-opened zoo. The zoo was decimated during the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, when the staff fled and looters gutted the zoo and the park surrounding it. Only a handful of animals survived, and later the grounds were used as a holding facility for looters detained by U.S. soldiers. The zoo reopened in July 2003, after being rehabilitated under the care of U.S. Army Capt. William Sumner and a South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony. Today, it houses over 1,000 animals and is a popular destination for families.
This Thursday, March 14, 2013 photo shows a general view of the crossed swords monument at the site of an Associated Press photograph taken by Karim Kadim of U.S. soldiers taken on Nov. 16, 2008. The crossed-sword archways Saddam Hussein commissioned during Iraq’s nearly eight-year war with Iran stand defiantly on a little-used parade ground inside the Green Zone, the fortified district that houses the sprawling U.S. Embassy and several government offices. Iraqi officials began tearing down the archways in 2007 but quickly halted those plans and then started restoring the monument two years ago.
Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Reviews | 0 Comments
Earth Hours kills Gaia faster
LET’S hear it for Earth Hour! Bjørn Lomborg has news of the March 23 homage to the Dark Ages:
In fact, Earth Hour will cause emissions to increase. As the United Kingdom’s National Grid operators have found, a small decline in electricity consumption does not translate into less energy being pumped into the grid, and therefore will not reduce emissions. Moreover, during Earth Hour, any significant drop in electricity demand will entail a reduction in CO2 emissions during the hour, but it will be offset by the surge from firing up coal or gas stations to restore electricity supplies afterwards.
And the cozy candles that many participants will light, which seem so natural and environmentally friendly, are still fossil fuels – and almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light bulbs. Using one candle for each switched-off bulb cancels out even the theoretical CO2 reduction; using two candles means that you emit more CO2.
Let’s hear it for light!
Emma Watson won’t be getting really naked in Fifty Shades of Grey
FIFTY Shades of Grey completely took over the world, giving people the chance to indulge themselves in the darker side of Mills and Boon and revel in some of the most clunky euphemisms for the vagina ever committed to a page. All good fun and a rather sweet way of getting your rocks off, compared to brutal 3 minute internet clips of tattooed LA starlets getting ravaged by men hung like wheelie-bins.
A film adaptation of EL James’ ‘Fifty Shades’ was inevitable and 99% of the world’s press rubbed their thighs with mucky fever, talking openly about which famous actress they’d most like to see getting spanked on the silver screen.
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Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Books, Film, Reviews | 2 Comments
Indian police blame Swiss victim for rape
INDIAN police have arrested six men for the alleged gang rape of a Swiss tourist in Madhya Pradesh. The woman and her husband were cycling around India. They had camped for the night in Datia.
A Madhya Pradesh policeman Inspector Avnesh Kumar Budholiya said:
“No one stops there. Why did they choose that place? They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They would have passed a police station on the way to the area they camped. They should have stopped and asked about places to sleep.”
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Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
July 1951: A grocer’s shop window in London
FLASHBACK to July 1951: A grocer’s shop window in London. Biscuits by weight. Sago. And cans are the greatest:
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Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | 2 Comments
Hacked Off are Hitler’s Nazis fighting The Sun’s Winston Churchill: the Press freedom vote
THE SUN says it’s ‘D-Day’ for Press freedom. Anorak agrees that press freedom carries no “buts…” No caveats. It’s either free or it isn’t.
The Sun says statutory regulation of the Press is wrong. It is. Says the Sun:
MPS were yesterday urged not to vote for new laws to shackle the Press tonight — as eleventh-hour talks to find an all-party solution went to the wire. David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg yesterday held a series of afternoon phone calls that re-started negotiations for a deal on the Leveson report. As they bargained, newspaper industry experts appealed to MPs not to shame Britain by throwing away 318 years of Press freedom.
The Sun then adds:
Senior Tories last week claimed Labour and the Lib Dems were on the verge of a deal — but shied away after threats from militant pro-legislation group Hacked Off. Actor Hugh Grant, Hacked Off’s main funder, yesterday admitted personally calling Mr Miliband and Shadow Cabinet members to insist they bring in legislation.
Over in the Guardian, the world is very different place:
To read some accounts of Monday night’s Leveson vote a casual reader could be forgiven for thinking that Britain’s press stands at a historic crossroads. One arrow points to freedom, the other to the end of all that Milton, Wilkes and Mill lived and died for.
The truth is rather more mundane. MPs are being asked to choose between two versions of a royal charter – a medieval piece of constitutional nonsense that fudges the issue of statutory regulation. There are good and bad things in both charters, not a straight choice between virtue and evil – and nothing in either to signal the death of press freedom…
There are two main issues around which there has been less consensus – whether the charter needs any reinforcement to prevent it being unpicked by ministers without parliamentary debate and whether the press should be able to veto appointments to the regulator. The argument for parliamentary underpinning lies in the curious and unsatisfactory nature of the royal prerogative – a profoundly undemocratic device which allows ministers of the day to interfere with, or even abolish, a charter without any kind of open debate. So we prefer the Liberal Democrat/Labour proposal (the so-called “royal charter plus”) which would require a two-thirds majority of MPs before anything decided on Monday night could be amended. Some fear that this will cement arrangements which are yet tried and tested. But the royal charter plus gives the regulator and recognition body reasonable discretion to judge whether the scheme is sustainable.
The Daily Mirror:
A majority of MPs were expected to vote with Labour, Lib Dems and up to 60 Tory rebels who want the new press regulator backed up with a tough press law. Both sides propose using a royal charter to create a new watchdog body in response to the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry, set up to look into press ethics.
However, the Lib/Lab version involves underpinning the system in legislation, something the PM says is a risk to press freedom.
The Times:
The Lib/Lab royal charter — a vehicle used to set up institutions such as the BBC, universities and professional bodies — is very similar in most respects to that put forward by the Conservatives. It features tougher powers for the new watchdog to force newspapers to print prominent apologies and also rules out an effective industry veto over the membership of the regulatory body. The main sticking point had been the insistence by Mr Miliband and Mr Clegg that legislation was required to underpin the system — attacked by critics as opening the door to future political interference. Mr Cameron shut down the previous round of talks last Thursday, declaring that the differences between the two sides were too great and saying he would put the matter in the hands of MPs. Tory sources blamed Labour for the collapse, claiming the Opposition put new demands on the table under pressure from the Hacked Off campaign group not to agree a deal — something denied by the Opposition.
There’s no denying that for some it’s personal. They have had bruising experiences with the press that fill them with a desire for revenge. Nothing wrong with that, you might say: politics is often about retribution. But any Conservative who is wavering really should consider the brutal politics that have overshadowed this exercise since well before Lord Justice Leveson opened his inquiry. They have only to study the work and words of Hacked Off to realise that, while it is many things, a friend of the right it ain’t. As a lobby group it has given voice to the frustrations and sufferings of those whose lives were made more miserable by the conduct of some sections of the press. But it is led by political operators who, above all things, long to stuff the right. I won’t go as far as to say they are indifferent to the victims of hacking, but we should be in no doubt: they are using the victims as human shields for a calculated political project. In the Hacked Off campaign, and its Labour and Lib Dem supporters, you see what amounts to political revenge for years of exposure and polemical abuse at the hands of the centre-right press.
Boris Johnson (London Mayor):
Everyone accepts that the papers have behaved with vileness and stupidity towards the McCann family, and the bereaved relatives of Milly Dowler. Everyone wants to protect innocent members of the public from such bullying and abuse, and all would now accept that the old Press Complaints Commission was about as much use as a chocolate teapot. Yes, as some of us have been saying since long before Leveson was even a twinkle in the PM’s eye, it would be a good thing if there was a beefed-up regulatory body that had the power to impose rapid and draconian fines and to demand apologies for the falsehoods and intrusions perpetrated by all contracting papers. But if Parliament agrees to anything remotely approaching legislation, it will be handing politicians the tools they need to begin the job of cowing and even silencing the press; and what began by seeming in the public interest will end up eroding the freedoms of everyone in this country. It is a completely retrograde step, and will be viewed with bemusement by human rights organisations around the world.
The Independent quotes JK Rowling:
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, also called on MPs to oppose the government. “I believed David Cameron when he said that he would implement Leveson’s recommendations ‘unless they were bonkers’,” she said.
“I did not see how he could back away, with honour, from words so bold and unequivocal. Well, he has backed away, and I am one among many who feel they have been hung out to dry. I am merely one among many turning their eyes towards Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg and hoping that they have the courage to do what Cameron promised, but which he failed to deliver.
Christopher Jefferies in the Daily Mail:
Retired teacher Christopher Jefferies was vilified by the press after his wrongful arrest for the murder of Joanna Yeates in 2010. He successfully sued eight newspapers.
I welcome tomorrow’s open and democratic parliamentary debate, which I hope will allow many misconceptions about Lord Leveson’s recommendations to be clarified, and lead to the establishment of an independent regulator, underpinned by statute, to monitor press self-regulation. Such legislation is no threat to free speech, as some have suggested; rather it will protect members of the public from the more scurrilous journalistic abuses, which, in my case, were responsible for the printing of lies and unfounded allegations.
With tough legislation governing press standards I believe the situation in which I found myself would be less likely to occur. A Royal Charter, such as David Cameron proposes, is far from being the most desirable way of implementing Lord Justice Leveson’s proposals, since it is undemocratic. It can be altered at any time without democratic debate, by the Privy Council, which largely comprises the need to stop politicians interfering with the press, for the press to remain free. Government ministers who have shown themselves to be all too susceptible to pressure from editors and proprietors. If a Royal Charter, backed by statute to prevent future changes without parliamentary agreement and fully compliant with Leveson’s proposals, can attract cross-party support, it must be welcomed as a way out of the impasse. What is being recommended is a system of self-regulation that is transparent and accountable; where journalism is seen to be oveturned by a code of ethics of which it can be proud.
Mick Hume:
Much of the evidence to the Leveson Inquiry dripped with fear and loathing of the popular press, and that prejudice is clear between the lines of the report. It is not hard to imagine what view the new regulators might take of ‘good’ journalism. Their kitemark would be a form of ‘ethical’ licensing, a badge of conformism. After all, what such marks usually tell us is ‘this product is safe and child-friendly’. We might note that none of the rule-breaking convention-busting heroes of the historic struggle for a free press in Britain, such as John Wilkes in the eighteenth century or WT Stead in the nineteenth, would have qualified for any such kitemark, and were all the better for it.
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Investigative journalism always involves the use of underhand and sometimes ‘unethical’ methods, since it is a struggle to reveal what somebody else – usually somebody with power – wants to keep hidden from public view. It is a basically a dirty business in which all kinds of tricks might be justified. Even a top Guardian reporter told Leveson that he had hacked a target’s phone. Whether a particular reporting tactic is legitimate in relation to a story is a judgement call that journalists and editors have to make in the specific circumstances of the moment, and then justify to their readers – and, if necessary on occasion, to a jury of their peers. But decisions about the rights and wrongs of underhand reporting are not ones that should be taken by judges or coppers in any healthy democracy. Leave that to the police states.
What price freedom?
Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 6 Comments
Hot for Teacher essay writer sues school that expelled him for $2.2m
JOSEPH Corlett, 57, was booted out of Oakland University, Detroit, for writing the essay Hot For Teacher. He was inspired by the Van Halen song of that name. He’s now suing. He wants $2.2 million. Corlett, who now lives in Florida, has filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court in Detroit.
Corlett was taking the class English 380: Advanced Critical Writing. His teacher was Pamela Mitzelfeld (photos).
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Posted: 17th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Miss Atomic Bomb: when Vegas showgirls put the sex in Armageddon (photos)
Above-ground nuclear testing was a major public attraction during the late 1950s, and hotels capitalized on the craze by hosting nuclear bomb watch parties, which usually included the dubbing of a chorus girl as Miss Atomic Bomb. Merlin was the last and most famous of the Miss Atomic Bomb girls.
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Posted: 17th, March 2013 | In: Flashback | 0 Comments
Why it’s good to own a gun…
WHY it’s good to own a gun… Ok. Maybe not good. Maybe, this video should be called ‘Why it’s useful to own a gun…’
Spotter: BlazingCatFur
Posted: 17th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
St Patrick’s Day in photos: drinking in Dublin, London, New York, Chicago, Tampa and Savannah
ST. Patrick’s Day 2013 in photos: Pictures from celebrations of all things Irish and Catholic from New York, Tampa, Chicago, Savannah, Dublin and London. Says one local: “This year St Paddy won’t be banishing the snakes; he’ll be just moving them along to different parts of the country.” Happy, St Paddy’s. Make mine a Guinness:
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Paramus, N.J. resident, James Dawson, 18, celebrates his Irish heritage wearing a horse's head with a green mustache, during the St. PatrickÃs Day Parade on New York CityÃs Fifth Avenue, Saturday, March 16, 2013. At right is Dawson's sister, 23 year old Lauren Dawson. (AP Photo/Verena Dobnik)
Posted: 17th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann’s London Marathon ‘death threat’ sickens Frankie Boyle’s Sun
MADELEINE McCann: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the missing child in the news. As another anniversary of her vanishing approaches, the mainstream media one again picks up the story:
The Sun: “Marathon gun nut’s threat to kill Kate”
Cops probe vile web death threat to mum of missing Madeleine
Who has threatened to murder Kate McCann? And why?
A SICK internet troll has threatened to gun down Kate McCann as she runs the London Marathon, it emerged yesterday.
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Posted: 17th, March 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | 1 Comment
Lance Corporal James Ashworth win the Victoria Cross
LANCE Corporal James Ashworth, 23, of the 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards has won the Victoria Cross. He was killed by a grenade blast in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on June 13 2012.
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Posted: 16th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Face of the day: Swiss woman gang raped in India
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Posted: 16th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Stephen Lawrence: Gary Dobson drops his appeal and the white working class swoon
GARY Dobson will not appeal his life sentence for his part in the murder of Stephen Lawrence. He’s dropped his appeal. Dobson, 36, and the connected David Norris, 35, were both imprisoned the 1993 murder of the black teenager.
But David Norris is appealing. Good. The thought of that odious scrote having his hopes raised and repeatedly dashed is satisfying.
Stephen Lawrence’s mother Doreen says of Dobson’s move:
“Now that Gary Dobson has dropped his appeal I can only assume it is because he has finally admitted he murdered Stephen. He could have done this much earlier and avoided the pain and heartache me and my family have had to suffer over so many years. I now hope that David Norris will do the same and avoid prolonging my pain. I also hope that those others who were involved on the 22nd April 1993 follow Gary Dobson’s lead and admit their own involvement.”
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Posted: 16th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
