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The Taylor Morris story – in photos
TAYLOR Morris left his native Cedar Falls, Iowa, for Afghanistan. He’d had joined the Navy and become an Explosive Ordinance Disposal expert. On May 3, 2012, Taylor stepped on an IED. His friend, Tim Dodd tells the story of Taylor and his girlfriend Danielle Kelly:
Innocence Of Muslims of the Muslims gets PG rating
WHAT heartless swine would deny this little kiddie what he wants?
Innocence Of Muslims of the Muslims gets PG rating in Australia:
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Posted: 16th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Stephen Street, Colette McPartland and Madeleine McCann is Scarlett
TOM Rawstorne has a question for Daily Mail readers – and it involves Madeleine McCcann:
Is Maddie the reason this girl was taken into care? Portuguese police say her British parents were too drunk to look after her… but the explanation could be more sinister
We meet Stephen Street, 42, and Colette McPartland, 37. They live in Portugal. They used to live with their daughter Scarlett, 2. She’s been taken into care. Rawstorne sums up the story:
…local police claim, the two English teachers — who have lived in Portugal for the past five years — had been drinking so heavily that Ms McPartland could not stand. Their child, meanwhile, had been left to run wild. At one stage, it is alleged, it was only the intervention of a passer-by that prevented Scarlett from running on to a busy road nearby. As a result, Scarlett was taken from the couple, bundled into a police car and driven to the local police station, where she was found to be wet, hungry and thirsty.
Bundled. The language has shifted. When the Mail first reported the story, it said:
Police claim the British couple were drinking white wine at a bar in Portugal while their daughter Scarlett played 100 yards away. Eyewitnesses claim they were staggering around.
We were told:
But there was no sign of them yesterday at their cramped ground-floor flat near to the square where they went drinking.
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Posted: 16th, September 2012 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment (1)
Lake Annecy murders: a Mitsubishi Pajero 4×4 and British number plates
LAKE Annecy murders: the lone assassin.
The Times says Zainab Hilli, 7, has told police that “one bad guy” murdered her fahter, Saad al-Hilli, 50, her mother, Iqbal al-Hilli, 47, her grandmother, Suhaila Allaf, 74, and “passing French cyclist” Sylvain Mollier, 45.
Why do the reports always describe him as “passing“? Is it a fact?
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Maryland police erect CCTV cameras to watch CTV cameras
TO Maryland, where CCTV cameras are being erected to watch CCTV cameras. CCTV camera vandals are thought to be operating in the area.
Prince George’s County Police Maj. Robert V. Liberati outlines the dream:
“It’s not worth going to jail over a $40 ticket or an arson or destruction of property charge.”
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Posted: 15th, September 2012 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment
In photos: brave Libyans protest against the murder of Christopher Stevens
AWAY from the gurning loons taking a break from shouting at pigeons in the precinct to shouting at Americans in embassies in London, Berlin, the Middle East and elsewhere in what is called the Islamic World, what you might have missed are the Libyans who think murdering Christopher Stevens, the US ambassador to that country, was an appalling crime, conducted by demented fascists with a perverted idea of Muslim spirituality. At a demonstration in Benghazi, the brave came out. The US and the West cannot abandon these people. They are the hope…
Posted: 15th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Innocence of Muslims: Nakoula Basseley Nakoula’s film has its critics
THE Innocence of Muslims is right now the most successful low-budget film in history. The pisspoor film has stirred Islamists to murder, burn flags and a KFC, and go potty. We’ve met Sam Bacile, wo looks like being Not a Jew but a Coptic Christian named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, a chap guilty for fraud and once arrested for manufacturing crystal meth and angel dust.
Laura Rozen looks at the case.
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Ironic last words – what they said right before they died
IN a textbook case of tempting fate, Californian rapper Erwin McKiness – aka Jew’elz and Inkyy, whose fateful Twitter picture is reproduced below – was killed in a suspected drink-driving accident after apparently tweeting the famous rap refrain, ‘You Only Live Once’. Or to be more accurate: “Drunk af going 120 drifting corners #F**kItYOLO”
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Posted: 14th, September 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
Letter of the week: suffering the conductors
LETTER of the week featured in the Times:
Sir, What a pleasant surprise it was to see Bernard Haitink dressed correctly conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, also dressed correctly in white tie and tails, at the Prom concert on September 7.
Why doesn’t the BBC establish a dress code for conductors and players? So often we have to suffer conductors in something akin to a waiter’s jacket and ill-fitting black trousers.
I know the ethos of the Proms is to appeal to a wide cross-section of the public, but properly dressed performers give pleasure to the eye as well as the ear.Elva Quaife
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Scare stories: King Tut’s moobs did not give him cancer
SCARE Stories: Each week the Daily Mail seeks out new ways for you fall ill and die. This week the Mail made us miserable with:
Monday:
“MINISTER FOR DEATH” – Melanie Phillips profiles Anna Soubry MP
“Are super-size clothes making children fatter?”
“Why do you just HATE some women on sight?”
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1965: The River Thames amphibious scooter
1965: The River Thames amphibious scooter. Those helmet will never catch on….
Posted: 14th, September 2012 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comment
Stockholm police hunt thief who left robbery victim to die on train tracks
TO Stockholm’s Sandsborg metro station, where a man spotted a figure lying unconscious on a train trck. Our hero jumped down and robbed him of a watch, gold chain and wallet. He then walked off. He did not phone for help. The victim, known only as Johnny, 38, was then run over by a train. He survived, but lost half of his left foot and his right knee is mangled.
Bloody hell:
Breast cancer advert that hits hard and informs
MEL B wants us to think about her breasts as we worry about breast cancer. The former Spice Girl comes cross as vain and vapid.
A better advert has been created by the Scottish Government. It features actress Elaine C. Smith, whose mother died of breast cancer.
If you find a gurning canker on your breasts, then try not to worry – you’re Mel B and used to it.
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Nottingham Post baby and toddler of the year fail
THe Nottingham Psot has ababy and toddelr of the year contest to plug:
Spotter: MediaBlog
The Innocence of Muslims murders: how Christians used anti-Semitism to whip up hatred
THE Innocence of Muslims protest in photos: In supposed reaction to the dire anti-Islam film, four Americans, including US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens are dead, murdered by a mob of Islamist protesters in Benghazi. There have been more protests at Sam Bacile’s film in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen.
Who is Sam Bacile? Well, he might be the persona of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55. Nakoula says he is not Bacile, but knows someone who is.
The AP reports that federal court papers filed against Nakoula in a 2010 criminal prosecution said that he had used numerous aliases, such as Nicola Bacily, Robert Bacily and Erwin Salameh, Ahmad Hamdy, Kritbag Difrat and PJ Tobacco.
…the cell phone number that AP contacted Tuesday to reach the filmmaker who identified himself as Sam Bacile traced to the same address near Los Angeles where AP found Nakoula.
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Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)
The Conker canker codswallop story
CONKERS are running out! Every year we get the same story. The Conker Help Enabling Environmental Safety EuRope (CHEESER) issues a dire warning each season, usually just before the World Conker Championships kicks off in October. Other than Mac Clifford, the WCC are the next best media manipulators in the business:
2008: “Millions of conker trees face being wiped out by deadly new disease” – Mail
2009: “Gardeners are to use garlic to fight bleeding canker, the tree disease that threatens to wipe out Britain’s horse chestnuts” – Guardian
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Lake Annecy Murders: Ex-RAF pilot Brett Martin says what he saw
LAKE Annecy murders: Anorak’s look at the four murders in the news media: Meet Brett Martin, the former RAF pilot who was first on the scene. He’s talked on camera to the BBC. Why?
Linked In says a Brett Martin was a “B757 Pilot at Air 2000; Air Defence Weaponeering Instructor (pilot) at Royal Air Force“.
He tells the BBC that he did not see the four-year-old child. He says the bodies were slumped. It does not surprise him that Zaina al-Hilli was not seen. He says it was like a movie.
“If you’ve seen CSI Miami it was pretty much what you would imagine the set from CSI Miami would be like. There was a lot of blood and heads with bullet holes in them.”
Why would a witness to such horror go on the telly? He was asked. Is it that simple?
The Daily Mail says French police are “baffled“; Zainab al-Hilli, 7, has not been interviewed fully; she may lose an eye; the former RAF officer who “stumbled on the carnage” is back in the UK.
Facts are: Saad Al-Hilli, 50, mother Ikbal al-Hilli, 47, Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, and Sylvain Mollier, have been murdered. All shot twice in the head. A double-tap. Police style.
Eric Maillaud, the French prosecutor says:
“She [Zainab]…is the only person alive who actually could have seen something.”
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Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Richard III has been in a car park for 527 years: Crown owes Leicester Council a fortune
ARE those the remains of Richard III, the last King of England to die in battle? Has Richard III been under a Leicester car park since 1485, when he was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field, assassinated by Henry Tudor’s men? At a rate of £5 per 4hrs, the Crown owes Leicester Council a fortune. A parking space, a parking space, the kingdom for a parking space!
The body might be that of the last Plantagenet king, whose death marked the end of the War of the Roses. The spine is bent. And arrow has broken the skull. But didn’t Wyllyam Gardynyr smash Richard’s head with a poleaxe?
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CCTV in schools: ‘If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear’
WHAT is the purpose of placing CCTV cameras in schools? Is it to collect data on pupils and teachers? Is it an attempt by the officials to prove how in control they are and how much they care for the student and staff body? The CCTV camera represents interaction. Don’t discuss and inspire. Just command and be omnipresent. “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” So goes the mantra.
In 2008, the Examination Officers’ Association (EOA) conducted a pilot scheme that it hoped would catch out cheats. EOA chief executive Andrew Harland, said back then:
“There is a growing problem of security and we’re trying to come to terms with that. CCTV would work, both for officers and for the students, in alleviating problems of accusations and speculation. I’m not a ‘big brother’ fan, but you have increasing numbers of people who don’t know the students in the hall.”
People have always cheated. CCTV is installed because its lazy and works on the hideous premise that everyone is a prospective cheat. And that includes the teachers.
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Posted: 13th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Is the attack on the US consolate in Libya linked to Assange and this Wikileaks tweet?
WITH Julian Assange holed up in the Ecuador embassy, London, Wikileaks tweeted:
“By the US accepting the UK siege on the Ecuadorian embassy in London it gives tacit approval for attacks on embassies around the world”
Did this pisspoor film really trigger murder on 9/11?
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This best local news story about a cabbage this week
THE Herford Times produces the Local News story of the moment:
Posted: 12th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Jewish New Year’s Card sent from the Lodz Ghetto in 1940
FLASHBACK: Jewish New Year’s Card sent from the Lodz Ghetto in 1940.
The message on the card reads: “May you be inscribed for a good year.”
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Buttock enhancer Morris Garner charged with murder
MORRIS Garner, aka Tracey Lynn Garner, is in the dock at Jackson, Miss. Garner has been charged with depraved-heart murder.
Karima Gordon died at Garner’s home in Jackson.
Garner had injected the woman’s buttocks with silicone to enhance them. (Vanity Wonder has written about the procedure.)
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Who is Sam Bacile? Does he even exist?
WHEN the US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other US diplomats were murdered at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya and riots broke out in Egypt, we were introduced to Sam Bacile, an (it says here) Israeli-American who calls Islam as a “cancer” and made a film about it. It’s called Innocence of Muslims. You can see it on YouTube. Libyans did. They took offence at the Prophet Muhammad being portrayed as a child abuser, rapists, homosexual and womaniser. The film helped drive them to murder.
But then, if the Islamists want to find a Westerner doping down Islam, do they need to look far?
HISTORIAN Tom Holland is bravely shrugging off Twitter threats this week following broadcast of his Channel 4 documentary Islam: the Untold Story…Now Channel 4 have cancelled the screening party due to be held next week.
The Telegraph reports:
One message sent to Holland read: “You might be a target in the streets. You may recruit some bodyguards, for your own safety.”
The programme is still accessible from the 4OD site.
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Posted: 12th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Local News: The Carpenders Park Community Hall toilet
LOCAL News: To Carpenders Park Community Hall, with the Watford Observer. By Mike Wright, Chief Reporter:
A community hall in Carpenders Park has been able to repair its toilet after winning a council cash grant. Carpenders Park Community Hall, in Gibbs Couch, was handed £240 from Hertfordshire County Council to replace the faulty flush system in the ladies toilets.
More great local news when we see it…
