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Paedo children warped by the internet are the latest moral panic
HOW do you follow the the BBC-led paedophile witch hunt? If you’re the Daily Mail, you look at children who are paedos. The Mail’s leads with the chilling headline:
Internet porn and the rape suspects aged 10
This is a:
“New fear for young after 24 police forces arrest under-13s for sex crimes in a year.”
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Posted: 19th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
C’mon Israel! Now only the anti-deutsche support the fighting Jews
IN Germany, the antideutsche are celebrating Israel. The antideutsche are Germans who are not all that keen on Germany. Brian Whelan says they are holding squat parties to cheer on the Israelis. This anti-Germany stuff is bit odd. But once upon time the Left all cheered for the Israelis. Israel was the dream of the Left, a socialist Utopia. But that’s largely gone. The nation became the Jew.
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Posted: 18th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
The best life story in 91 words or less
CAN you tell your life’s story in 91 words or less? The Gotham Writers’ Workshop held a contest to see if anyone could. The winner is this:
Cops, cashiers and railroad men: my people sprang from the Bronx. My parents used college like a pole vault, soft-landing in the burbs.
At 23, having horrified my family by salmoning back to that borough, I hung on the roof of a tenement building with Hector and Luis. I wanted a sharper life with guys like them, who dealt Mexican weed and stripped junkers on the Mosholu Parkway service road. They were like brothers until one caught the other with his woman. Out came the knife.
Too sharp. I moved.
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Rotherham man refuses to drive bus with gay rights advert on it
THE driver of the First Group bus has refused to operate the vehicle with the Gay Rights sticker down the side. The message, created and paid for by Stonewall, reads: “Some people are gay. Get over it!” Passengers for the X78 from Rotherham to Sheffield were forced to wait while another driver was found.
Says First Group:
We are aware of an incident involving one of our drivers refusing to drive a bus at Rotherham Interchange. We have spoken to the driver in question and the matter has now been resolved. We would like to apologise to any customers that were affected during this isolated incident.”
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Posted: 18th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
The march for Savita Halappanavar.
AS many as 10,000 people marched through Dublin for Savita Halappanavar. More here. And here.
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How the Colorado marijuana business works
MARIJUANA is now legal on Colorado. How does the market work? Tony Dokoupil explains:
After Eric Holder and the Obama administration suggested that they weren’t going to crack down on medical marijuana, everybody and their brother grabbed a trash bag full of weed out of their backyard and were like, ‘All right, medical marijuana here for sale!’ … Then Colorado was really interesting … because there’s a core of young, educated, politically connected and well-financed guys who said, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa. We can’t have former black market drug dealers and bikini girls as the face of our industry, because the community’s not going to accept it.
“So they partnered with law enforcement. They partnered with state legislators. They hired incredibly high-level political consultants and lobbyists who have worked nationally. And they are the inside force that led to the creation of Colorado’s regulated medical marijuana industry, which is unlike any in the country and which will be the basis for the legalized, regulated market. And so in response to the craziness that we saw in 2009 … a movement toward controlled, regulated, not-in-your-face, nonconfrontational pot culture has begun.”
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Posted: 17th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Grist.org and Daily Express compete to write biggest bullshit weather story
GRIST has news to amaze:
If you’re 27 or younger, you’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month … If you were born in or after April 1985, if you are right now 27 years old or younger, you have never lived through a month that was colder than average. That’s beyond astonishing.
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Posted: 17th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Lake Annecy Murders: police say it was random act of a madman
LAKE Annecy Murders: When Saad al-Hilli, Iqbal al-Hilli, Suhaila Al-Allaf, and cyclist Sylvain Mollier were murdered in the French Alps, we wondered why.
(Not: Still no photo of Sylvain Mollier. The Daily Mail asked “Does French cyclist hold the key to Alps massacre? ” It then published an “exclusive” photo of the wrong man.)
Eric Maillaud, the French prosecutor (see above), says he’s found no motive for the murders. It might have been a motiveless attack, the random act of a nutter. Says the expert:
“Without doubt we are looking for someone who has killed before, someone who puts no value on human life. We are not sure whether that means it’s a professional hit but if it was done on a contract it was very badly done.”
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Woman refused barber shop haircut says her human rights have been violated
FAITH McGregor (woman) wanted her hair cut like a “businessman” at the Terminal Barber Shop. But Omar Mahrouk, co-owner of the barbers in Toronto, Canda, declined. He said that to cut Faith’s hair went against his Muslim faith. He would only cut hair of a female relative. Unless Ms McGregor was willing to offer her hand before her head, the deal was off.
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The Snow Monkeys of Japan (photos)
THE Japanese snow monkeys of Jigokudani Wild Monkey Park in Yamanouchi, Nagano:
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Posted: 16th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Julie gets high in the dentist and makes the whole world laugh
GOING to the dentist is no fun. They drill your face, tell you off for the amount of sugar you spoon into your honking gob, and force you to read copies of Woman’s Own that are older than the internet.
However, sometimes, it is really really really fun. Especially when they jack you up on loads of drugs.
And to prove this, a video has gone viral of a great sport called Julie, who had her wisdom teeth removed. Filmed by her husband Cameron, Julie’s pie-eyed confusion is one of the most joyous things online right now (and not a stupid, cutesy animal in sight).
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Russian Revolution exam features BattleTech Marauder robot fighting for socialists
EXAMS in Australia have gotten updated. The country’s VCE exam body thought fit to show the truth and not airbrush out the massive robot from a scene depicting socialist fighters during the Russian Revolution. No text books feature the unsettling truth that robots fought for the working man. But now the 5,700 students who took the VCE history exam know the facts.
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Posted: 16th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (6)
Agent Frederick W. Humphries poses with Petraeus sex book dummies
MEET FBI Special Agent Frederick W. Humphries. This is the photo 47-year-old Humphries sent to Jill Kelley, a woman at the centre of the investigation into David Petraeus investigation. The photo shows Humphries after a “hard workout” with the SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) team at an Air Force base in Tampa, Kelley’s home town. He’s the one in the middle of the two GI sex dolls. He captioned the image “Which One’s Fred?”
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Posted: 16th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Savita Halappanavar: the UK’s Irish abortion tourists (garph)
DID Ireland’s anti-abortionists kill Savita Halappanavar in Ireland? Did ignorance? Did the Catholic Church? Did misogyny? Who owns your body..?
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In photos: Annual City of Lights Parade – Truro
THE annual City of Lights parade in Truro Cornwall. This year the theme is kings and queens.
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1978: Dar Robinson hits the high flying double trampoline
SEPTEMBER 20 1978: Movie stuntman Dar Robinson drops to second trampoline suspended below a helicopter flying at 300-feet as he performs the stunt live for the Dick Clark’s Live on Wednesday TV series. After hitting the bottom trampoline Robinson did several somersaults while cameras rolled. Dar Robinson died in 1986. He was 39. At his peak he held 21 world stunt records. He died working on the set of Million Dollar Mystery. He had worked in such films as Papillon, Airplane!, Police Academy and Lethal Weapon.
Sweden, where public transport is blighted by sex
SOME stereotypes are ace. While the English are known for complaining and being racist, the Swedish are simply known as being really, really sexy. Who wouldn’t want that as people’s default setting about you? And this, it seems, is a stereotype that has some legs.
Lovely, lovely legs.
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Israel watch: BBC broadcasts fake Hamas injury as fact
ISRAEL v Hamas. Who wins the media wars? Well, if this fakery is anything to go by, Hamas needs a new propaganda chief. File under: twins:
Action starts at 1 min 50s.
Posted: 15th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
Tom Watson, Simon Danczuk and Rob Wilson all want to be the fake sheikh
GOODBYE Cyril Smith. It’s not over yet, of course. Suspected of having been a nonce in life, the former Labour councillor and Liberal MP for Rochdale, not doing too badly in death. Yet. Unlike Jimmy Savile, Smith is still known as Sir Cyril, the Manchester Evening News using the title to tell readers that the plaque “honouring Sir Cyril Smith” has been removed from Rochdale Town Hall.
Council leader Colin Lambert said he and chief executive Jim Taylor thought it for the best. Says Lambert:
“We make no judgement on the situation with Cyril Smith, but the strength of public feeling is such that we have been alerted to a potential threat to the town hall.”
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Posted: 15th, November 2012 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment
Israel v Hamas: we all know who started it (photos)
HOW do you report on the battle in Israel and Hamas in Gaza? The Israeli’s says Operation Pillars of Defence is in response to Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza for the past five years. The Israel’s assassinated Hamas’s top military commander, Ahmed Jabari. The war will be conduced as much online as it is on the ground. The Alqassam Brigades (the military wing of Hamas) tweeted: “Our blessed hands will reach your leaders and soldiers wherever they are (You Opened Hell Gates on Yourselves).” The Israelis release a video of Jabari’s death. Hamas invites favoured photographers to document their side’s suffering.
The IDF has a live blog.
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Posted: 15th, November 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
David Petraeus’ winter wife: it was just sex dummy
WHY are we so interested in David Petraeus’s resignation? Sex sells. But the talk of State security and the like is bunkum. This is all about a man who had extra-marital sex and got caught. He’s been married to the same woman for 37 years. As an active soldier, you wonder who many of those years he has spent with his wife.
This would be a better story were Petreaus a hypocrite. But we don’t know what his relationship with his wife is. Maybe their marriage is an open one, allowing him and her to shag insignificant others. She might even get off on it. The shock always seems to be that women, in this case the married Paula Broadwell, enjoy sex, that they misbehave with their genitals as much as men do. Look at it not as an affair. Look at it as foreplay. Petreaus fell on his sword to protect his wife’s kink. Who knows? Not us. It’s none of our business.
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Mum wants oak trees banned from nut-free school
TO Ontario, where mum of two Donna Giustizia says oak trees by St. Stephen Catholic Elementary School are a danger to health. The acorns are potential killers. Says Giustizia chair of the school’s allergy committee, of the trees by the, apparently, nut-free school:
“A false sense of security is putting a sign on the door that says nut-free and there’s nuts all over the place. I’m not a crazy mom, I’m not asking for anything that’s not already there. The acorns are not only presenting a risk to the tree nut-allergic students but it is also becoming a great cause of anxiety amongst all students with nut allergies.”
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Did Ireland’s anti-abortionists kill Savita Halappanavar? (protest photos)
DID Ireland’s anti-abortionist kill Savita Halappanavar. Mrs Halappanavar was a 31-year-old dentist from India. Seventeen weeks into her pregnancy she suffered a miscarriage. Aware that her baby – her first – was dying inside her, she asked for an abortion. abortion The Irish State refused. The baby died. A few days Savita Halappanavar succumbed to septicaemia.
Her husband, Praveen Halappanavar, 34, says Savita asked for an abortion at Galway University Hospital. He has said that doctors refused to carry out a medical termination because the foetus’s heartbeat was present.
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Posted: 14th, November 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Iran’s Neda Soltani blames lazy media for her plight
THE BBC has the story on Neda Soltani NOT Neda Agha-Soltan. In 2009, Neda Agha-Soltan was killed in Tehran. The Iranian protest movement was gathering pace. Shots were fired. An unarmed woman was killed. The horror was captured on video. That video was posted on YouTube. The insurrection had a martyr. And we had a face of Iranian brutality. But the face we got was not that of Neda Agha-Soltan. We got the face of Zahra Soltani, aka Neda Soltani. So keen were large sections of the media to broadcast a face that they ever changed Neda Soltani’s name to Neda Soltan to fit the narrative.
We made a list.
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