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South Yorkshire’s chief constable David Crompton calls Hillsborough campaigners liars
AND still it comes, the drip of police bile and subterfuge that defamed the Hillsbourgh victims as agents of their own deaths. Just days before the truth was established to a degree that even the conniving elite found impossible to deny, the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire accused the families of Hillsborough victims of lying. On September 8, 2012, four days before the Hillsborough Independent Panel Report was released, David Crompton wrote in an e-mail to Andy Holt, his assistant chief constable, and Mark Thompson, the force’s head of media:
“Their version of certain events has become ‘the truth’ even though it isn’t.”
Truth. The email was released by the South Yorkshire Police & Crime commissioner, Shaun Wright, following a Freedom of Information request by the Daily Star’s Johnathan Corke.
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Madeleine McCann: What really happend with the troll Tony Bennett and Peter Tobin
ON Thursday last, Tony Bennett, 65, was given a three months prison sentence suspended for one year for publishing claims that Kate and Gerry McCann caused their daughter Madeleine’s death. There is, of course, no proof that the child has died. There is no evidence whatsoever that the McCanns had any part in any death. All we know is that the innocent child is missing.
Mr Justice Tugendhat found Bennett guilty of contempt of court.
“I am sure that he intended to allege that the claimants are to be suspected of causing the death of their daughter, and did in fact dispose of her body, lie about what happened and covered up what they had done. It is essential for the rule of law that injunctions and court orders be obeyed. It can’t be an answer that the person who is giving an undertaking or subject to an injunction can ignore it with impunity while it is in force.”
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Posted: 23rd, February 2013 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment
Man beaten to a bloody pulp with a Furby
FURBIES are so cute aren’t they? NO! They’re horrible! With their nasty little limbs, slowly blinking lifeless eyes, chilling little voices and nippy beaks. There is absolutely nothing pleasant about a Furby.
Furthermore, they make excellent improvised weapons, as one American lady showed in Pennsylvania.
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Weatherman passes out in morning TV stunt
AUSTRALIAN weatherman, Grant Denyer, has some interesting ways of reporting on the weather, making Fred Talbot (the less about him the better, presently) look like someone gently frollicking through a meadow.
Our Grant, for some inexplicable reason, decided to broadcast from a stunt-plane. A stunt-plane going so fast and driving in such a mental manner, that it made our dear old weatherman pass out.
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Posted: 22nd, February 2013 | In: Reviews, TV & Radio | Comment
Irfan Naseer, Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali walks into a car: the best jokes from the Brummie bomb squad
IRFAN Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid, 27 and Ashik Ali, 27, are guilty of being al-Qaeda-trained leading lights of terror cell that wanted to bring death and mayhem to Britain. At Woolwich Crown Court, the three, all from Sparkhill, Birmingham, were convicted of 12 charges of preparing acts of terrorism.
They’d kill British solders, women dressed in the wrong trousers, children and pets. They would strike with backpacks full of bombs and nails, machinegun Jews at prayer in synagogues and smear poison on doorhandles to murder non-glove wearers. They’d read al-Qaeda magazine Inspire, wherein they learnt how to fit blades ont a truck and drive it into a crowd of female charity workers.
How would they pay for all the hardware?
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Oscar Pistorius wins bail: ‘some kind of species the world has never seen before’ (photos)
OSCAR Pistorius has spent 4 days applying to be bailed for his shooting dead of Reeva Steenkamp, his lover. If this has been a big show, just wait until the main event. He’s won bail. A reader writes:
The Pistorius affair looks as though it may become a white athelete – black cop thing rather than an out and out temper/drug fuelled murder of a young woman. Either way Oscar’s finished, split and smoked like a haddock.
Magistrate Desmond Nair says the media have treated Pistorius like <em >“some kind of species the world has never seen before”.
He asks a key question: why did the accused fly into the apparent danger zone without his prosthetic legs when he had other course of action open to him?
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Posted: 22nd, February 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Sports | Comments (3)
Crocodile spotted in River Thames
AGAIN, we find ourselves looking at a world where animals are slowing taking over Earth, presumably so they can enslave us and eventually start wearing us as coats and turning our beautiful flesh into tinned meat.
The latest scare story from the world of nature is that a cyclist has claimed to have seen a crocodile in the River Thames. A horrible, non-blinking, tearless tooth-machine, ready to gnaw at your bonce and swallow your children.
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Posted: 22nd, February 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Cheap pizza in America if you order it with a gun
IF you want cheap products, order them with a massive gun in your hand. Now, most of you will be thinking ‘that’s just robbery, rather than completing a fair transaction!’, but you’ve clearly not heard about the pizza parlour in Virginia which is offering discount to customers if they are carrying a firearm.
No, seriously.
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Posted: 21st, February 2013 | In: Reviews, The Consumer | Comment
Oscar Pistorius: Hilton Botha and the troubling case of Denise Stratford’s murder
WHO’D be Detective Hilton Botha? Having ben subjected to a grilling by Oscar Pistorius’s lawyer Barry Roux, we learn that the copper is scheduled to answer an attempted murder charge in May. He and two other officers are accused of opening fire on a minibus taxi loaded with passengers. They were arrested in 2011.
It is alleged that they were drunk and driving a State vehicle.
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Posted: 21st, February 2013 | In: Reviews, Sports | Comments (3)
Heather Frost: Could Tewkesbury Queen borrow Rebekah Brooks’ police horse?
HEATHER Frost, the Sun’s “dole Queen“, might move into a custom-built six-bedroom council “mansion” in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
(It’s 1,850 square feet and not liable for any forthcoming mansion tax – mansions are now deemed to be properties worth over £2m.)
The Sun leads with the news that Frost owns a horse. Indeed, don’t we all. Horses are the meaty pets of the poor. Old Mr Anorak’s was delivered this morning in cardboard box and smeared in ketchup. Heather Frost doesn’t own a horse. She owns ‘raw food’.
Of course what Frost should do appease the Sun is not to own a horse outright – bought fair and square – rather, she must borow a horse, like David Cameron did from former Sun supremo Rekbekah Brooks, whose horse Raisa was lent to her by Scotland Yard. The rich borrow. The poor buy. Those sad bastards. Says the Sun on its front page:
Mum of 11 dole queen owns a horse… and she wants to buy 2 more
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Posted: 20th, February 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Times readers offered the Sir Paul Stephenson treatment at Champneys
TIMES readers got an offer for a Champneys Detox Spa Event on February 26, 2013.
Are you feeling frazzled, tired, sluggish or bloated after Christmas? Join us for a detox party at Champneys Day Spas in Bath, Brighton, Chichester, Guildford, Enfield, St Albans and Tunbridge Wells.
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Atherton California: the best police reports in America
IN Atherton, California, the average home costs $4,010,200. It’s home to 7100 residents. Last year, the town saw 152 crimes, of which 95 were for larceny. There were no reported rapes nor murders. The Atherton Crime Prevention Task Force’s advice for locals is to “Call the police anytime you observe suspicious persons or events”. They do. This is selection of what they call to report:
Posted: 20th, February 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Sergei Magnitsky: How a dead man was put on trial
THE court calls Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. He’s a bit slow to take the stand. He’s a bit quiet. This is because Sergei Magnitsky is dead. He died in a Russian prison from pancreatitis. He’s buried at Moscow’s Preobrazhensky cemetery.
Mr Magnitsky was first arrested in 2008. The lawyer with US firm Firestone Duncan had been working for London-based Hermitage Capital Management. He claimed to have uncovered a massive fraud worth £125m. He told all to officials. He was then arrested for alleged tax evasion and sent to prison, where he was beaten and denied medical help. He was had been held for a year without charge. Well, just under a year. In Russia, you can be held for anything up a year without charge. That time would have lapsed on November 24. He died on Monday, November 16. Such was his misfortune.
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Posted: 20th, February 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Cardinal Peter Turkson: because only gay priest rape children
WILL Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson be the next Pope? He’s black. He’s African. He’s 64. The Ghanaian is President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. He tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that priests would not rape children under his watchful gaze because there are no gays in his Church:
“African traditional systems kind of protect or have protected its population against this tendency. Because in several communities, in several cultures in Africa homosexuality or for that matter any affair between two sexes of the same kind, are not countenanced in our society. So that cultural taboo, that tradition has been there. It has served to keep it out.”
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Posted: 19th, February 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
Oscar Pistorius murder trial: ‘My legs were off, she was doing yoga’
OSCAR Pistorius murder trial: The media round-up. The runner is on premeditated murder charge on the day the lover he killed, Rever Steenkamp, is cremated. He stands is before Chief magistrate Desmond Nair.
The media
Magistrate orders cameras off as #pistorius enters the dock. They fire away anyway. Is english the barrier? He asks
Guardian’s David Smith:
There’s a real electricity in the air, more than 100 people crammed into a red-brick courtroom. There are lawyers with big files and sheets of paper and briefcases, lots of court officials sitting around, police wearing flak jackets, and dozens of journalists, TV cameras and photographers. It was a massive media scrum to try to get in here.
Court officials now asking over 100 journalists to decide among themselves who gets into #OscarPistorius hearing, tweets
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Posted: 19th, February 2013 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
Demonising Tewkesbury mum-of-11 Heather Frost
HEATHER Frost, mother to 11 at just 36-years young – she started at 14 – is moving into a £400,000, 6-bedroom council house. The Sun says it’s a “PALACE FIT FOR A DOLE QUEEN“.
Frost is the “jobless mum on benefits” looking to move into a 1,850 sq-ft house in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
The Express also looks at the mum of 11, only it gives her age as 37.
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Posted: 19th, February 2013 | In: Money, Reviews | Comments (6)
At Washington’s Forward On Climate rally with the comedic genius of Mimi
TO Washington DC for the Forward On Climate rally. Writing at the Daily Kos, Mimi reports:
Well …. it was icy cold, very windy and I admit it, I almost didn’t go.
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The ordeal of Jean-Claude Mbédé: Africa’s anti-gay bigots in action
ROGER Jean-Claude Mbédé is serving a 3-year prison sentence for sending another man this SMS text:
“I’m very much in love w/u.”
Cameroon’s Secretary of State for Defense (SED) swooped. They arrested Mbédé on “suspicion of homosexuality”. On March 9th, 2011, he was charged with “homosexuality and attempted homosexuality”. One month later,
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Pamela Anderson has changed: Baywatch revisited
FACE of the day: Pamela Anderson shows off her acting range by playing an older black man who wants to save lives. Says Pammy: “I wanted a project that would test my artistry and allow me to use the life-saving skills I learned on Baywatch…”
Inflatables: models own.
Posted: 19th, February 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Children walk on burning embers and get piercings at Myanmar Hindu Festival (photos)
CHILDREN walk on burning embers and get big piercings at the Myanmar Hindu Festival, Dalla, about 15 kilometers (9 miles) south of Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. They bring up tough over there…
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Edinburgh pandas to put on live roly-poly sex show
THE pandas are getting ready for sex at Edinburgh Zoo. Tian Tian, the female, has been calling to her mate Yang Guang, the male. Well , so say the experts. The Times reports:
Yang Guang has been vigorously scent-marking, perform handstands…known as a display of virility in the wild.
The lights are dimmed:
Lighting levels inside both panda enclosures have been adjusted to simulate natural light levels, rising and falling at dawn and dusk.
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