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Todd Bentley will kick out your sickness with the boot of Jesus (video)
TODD Bentley is the US-based Canadian pastor who says violence will cure the sick of disease. He says: “And I’m thinking why is the power of God not moving? And he said: Because you haven’t kicked that woman in the face.” So, he did and, “I inched closer and I went bam! And just as my boot made contact with her nose, she fell under the power of God.”
Todd Benltey has been refused entry to the UK, the Home Office has confirmed. He will not be appearing at the Portadown Christian Centre, County Armagh.
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Essex police hunting loose lion, presumed stuffed
BIG cat hunting with the Essex Police. They’re investigating a lion sighting near St Osyth.
Denise and Bob Martin reported the sighting to the police. They tell the BBC:
“To start with, we were convinced it was a lion… it’s the size of a lion.”
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Notting Hill Carnival 2012 in photos
NOTTING Hill Carnival 2012 – in photos: the grinding coppers; the smiling faces; the music; and the feathers…
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A test of auditory awareness
LISTEN.
This is a slightly edited version of our recent auditory attention experiment, soon to be published in the journal Cognition (Dalton & Fraenkel, 2012).
(I live with gorillas and grew up watching Johnny Morris, so talking gorillas are no big deal.)
Islamists destroy Tripoli shrine – leave bosomy minarets intact
HOW goes the Arab Spring in Libya? Well, the BBC reports that a Sufi shrine to al-Shaab al-Dahman in Tripoli has been smashed to bits. Salafi Islamists are in the frame.
The Salafists (great name, guys) view the shrine and others like it as idolatrous. A tomb to 15th-Century scholar Abdel Salam al-Asmar in Zlitan has, reportedly, also been targeted.
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June 21 1969: Buzz Aldrin takes Communion on the moon (the letter)
JUNE 21 1969: Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, 19 minutes after Neil Armstrong stepped out of the Apollo 11 capsule.
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Fixed Jesus fresco – the best parodies in photos
CECILIA Gimenez tried to recreate the face of Jesus. They say she failed. We say she inspired:
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Daily Telegraph says Neil Armstrong was ‘first woman in space’
NEIL Armstrong was the fist man on the moon, but was not the first man to report on a famous person’s death and scream ‘FIRST’ on the internet. In the great race to say ‘I beat the rest’, the Daily Telegraph tweets:
@telegraphobits : Obit: Neil Armstrong: First American woman in space
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Jesus Fixed: Portraits of Jesus by Spain’s most famous artist
WHEN Cecilia Gimenez repaired the portrait of Jesus by Elías García Martínez, we saw the true face of Jesus. Now, Jesus has been spotted all over the place:
Spotters: Damien Owens @OwensDamien – Jesus toast
Norwegian killer Anders Breivik sentenced to 21 Years in prison – photos
IN August 2011, Anders Breivik murdered 77 people on Utoeya Island, Norway. A court sentenced Anders Behring Breivik to prison on Friday, denying prosecutors the insanity ruling they hoped would show that his massacre of 77 people was the work of a madman, not part of an anti-Muslim crusade. Reading the ruling, Judge Wenche Elisabeth Arntzen handed down a sentence of “preventive detention” of at least 10 years and a maximum of 21 years:
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Read the leaked police documents about the arrest of Julian Assange
WE know how Julian Assange will be arrested. The British police will not press the fire alarm at the Ecuadorean embassy in London nor will they lure the WikiLeaks founder out with scraps of conspiracy theory and girls. Thanks to a Metropolitan Police, we can read the plans.
The paper reads: “Assange to be arrested in all circumstances … he comes out with diplomatic officials, in diplomatic bag, in diplomatic vehicle.”
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Posted: 24th, August 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
Cecilia Gimenez explains her reworking of the Ecce Homo al fresco (video)
CECILIA Gimenez repaired the Ecce Homo fresco by Elias Garcia Martinez. She says the priest said it was ok for her to turn the artwork into something better. The BBC reports:
Spotter: @Brandy_Snap
Was Todd Akin just quoting Irish science on rape?
WAS Todd Akin, science expert, the Missouri-based expert in rape and inventor of the Pussy Portcullis, just quoting from Irish texts when he said “legitimate” rape does not make babies?
Up until Tuesday last, the pro-life website www.prolifeinfo.ie told one and all:
“Trauma from the rape may bring into play some natural defence mechanisms that reduce the likelihood of pregnancy, such as hormonal change and spasms of the Fallopian tubes, which inhibit ovulation or fertilisation. The chance of conception resulting from a single act of unprotected intercourse even between consenting fertile individuals has been estimated at only 2 to 4 per cent.”
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Snapshot: Bernie Ecclestone and Michael Schumacher are sitting on a wall
FLASHBACK in a snapshot: It’s 12/08/2000. Formula One Motor Racing has arrived at the Hungarian Grand Prix. At the Qualifying session, Michael Schumacher tries to tip Bernie Ecclestone off the wall as David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen and Rubens Barrichello look on. Bernie then appears to grap Schumacher’s gear stick…
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Oral sex and unsafe sex are good for your mental health, says Daily Mail
WHEN Eddie Wren told us and Daily Mail readers “Semen is ‘good for women’s health and helps fight depression'”, we grabbed a jug of Fear Factor donkey semen and read more about the healing brain juice:
Oral sex is good for women’s health and makes you feel happier, according to a study which studied the effects of semen’s ‘mood-altering chemicals’.
Not just semen. But swallowing semen as a result of oral sex. Got that? Maybe rapists – for whom the news keeps geting better – an administer the stuff on the national health?
To investigate whether semen has antidepressant effects, the authors rounded up 293 college females from the university’s Albany campus, who agreed to fill out an anonymous questionnaire about various aspects of their sex lives.
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Posted: 23rd, August 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
China in photos before 1914
SNAPSHOT of life in China before 1914:
A family scene in China. In October of 1911 the revolution started in China which would see the end of the Qing Dynasty
Two Chinese women on a Chinese wheelbarrow. In October of 1911 the revolution started in China which would see the end of the Qing Dynasty
A Chinese peasant riding a water buffalo. In October of 1911 the revolution started in China which would see the end of the Qing Dynasty
The three year old Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the Xuantong Emperor of China, who abdicated in 1912 and still lives in Peking under the name of Henry Puyi. He is seen here on the knee of his father, the Regent, Prince Zaifeng Chun. His younger brother Prince Pujie stands next to them.
One of the Royal servants, akin to a senior civil servant, known in China as a Mandarin – 01/01/1911
The throne of the former Emperor of China, in the Forbidden City in Peking – 05/05/1911
The revolutionary outbreak in China has spread to the port city of Hankow. The Imperial authorities have asked theb foriegn consuls to patrol the river, but this request has been refused. Hankow is a treaty port, with a large European colony, a racecourse and a golf-course. British warships have been ordered to steam from Shanghai to Hankow in case the disturbances threaten British lives and property. – 23/10/1911
China’s philosopher Confucius, an aristocrat of the 6th century B.C., is shown in this undated painting. (AP Photo)
The awakening of China.The dowager empress. For half a century, Tzu Hsi, widow of Emperor Hsien-feng, was the real ruler of China and a leader of reaction.
This is an undated photo of the sacred city of Lhassa in Tibet, China. This monastery is the living place of the Dalai Lama.
French tourists sentenced to hard labour for ‘offensive’ Buddha statue photos
TO Sri Lanka, where French tourists Christina Margarita, George and Emile are in trouble for offending the feelings of Buddhists. The three have been arrested and detained in Galle after a photographic laboratory processing their holiday snaps called the police.
While at the Embekka Devale in Kandy, they has posed for photographs while embracing and kissing a Buddha statue.
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Super Fuzz was the super hero for 1980
IT’S 1980 and Super Fuzz (Poliziotto superpiù) is the newest sueprhero in town. If he sees red his powers wane. Starring Terence Hill as Policeman Dave Spee, Ernest Borgnine as Sgt. Willy Dunlop and Joanne Dru as Rosy Labouche.
1922: the Molby Revolving Hammock
IT’S 1922 and the Moby Revolving Hammock is all the go:
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Posted: 22nd, August 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Michael Jackson impersonator kidnaps child
To Blackburn, Lancashire, where Anisa Khansia, 30, is missing her son Amani, 2. He was kidnapped by his Turkish father, Mehmet Baki Sakaraglu. They were on holiday in Marmaris in June 2011. Mr Sakaraglu is on the run in Turkey.
The Lancashire Telegraph adds:
Anisa also claims Mr Sakaraglu stole Amani to avenge his humiliation on Britain’s Got Talent, which he appeared on in 2010 as Michael Jackson.
It’s what Jackson would have wanted…
Spotter: Karen
Black Kiss 2 is banned in the UK: sales should rocket
YOU won’t read Howard Chaykin’s comic book Black Kiss 2 in the UK. The book is not for children. As Chaykin says:
“It’s all about the three things that matter most: sex, death and the movies. It starts in a nickelodeon and ends in the Internet.”
Black Kiss was was sold in plastic bags by Vortex Press. Casual browsers could not open it in store. Chaykin says Black Kiss 2 is “considerably filthier” than the original. Good for him. Porn sells. 50 Shades of Grey sells.
USA Today reports:
During a recent trip to visit family, he noticed Fifty Shades of Grey was on his daughter-in-law’s night table, and she was embarrassed to admit she was reading the popular book. “She actually put her hand on top of it and looked away, like I wouldn’t notice,” says Chaykin, adding that, even though she never has read comics in her life, his daughter-in-law’s up to date on Black Kiss. “She said, ‘You must be really proud and really ashamed at the same time,’ which I thought was one of the best reviews I’ve ever had.”
Black Kiss 2 is signed for Mature Readers. Is it porn? Rich Johnston writes:
If I catch any of you fiddling with yourself when reading this, then I will be having words. The themes, attitudes and horror of the situation presented should have the opposite effect.
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RIP Tony Nicklinson: The State owned your body but not your mind
TONY Nicklinson has died. He died of pneumonia at the family’s home at Malksham, Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Tony Nicklinson had locked-in syndrome. Earlier this week he lost his legal challenge for the right to end his life with a doctor’s help.
His Twitter page declared: : “Goodbye world, the time has come. I had some fun.”
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The Church of England V Narconon and the Church of Scientology
HAS your school been visityed by Narconon?
Narconon provides drug information, education about the effects of drugs and effective drug rehabilitation programs for those already in the grip of addiction.
The site Naconon Exposed writes:
Founded in 1966, the modern Narconon programme is the work of the late L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction author and founder of the Church of Scientology
This site is, likewise, no fan of the outfit. The Sun reports:
SCIENTOLOGISTS have tricked their way into primary schools posing as drugs campaigners, The Sun can reveal. Thousands of pupils have sat through classes inspired by the cult — while parents were kept in the dark. The Sun has discovered anti-drugs group Narconon has even claimed the backing of some of the UK’s biggest High Street names and bagged cash from the Queen’s bank Coutts.
Our probe found that Narconon — which is inspired by the work of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard — been visiting schools in Newham, East London, and Islington, North London, for four years.
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Posted: 22nd, August 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Apocaholic: The past 50 years news in two paragraphs
CAN the news of the past 50 years be surmised? Matt Ridley has a go:
Over the five decades since the success of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 and the four decades since the success of the Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth in 1972, prophecies of doom on a colossal scale have become routine. Indeed, we seem to crave ever-more-frightening predictions—we are now, in writer Gary Alexander’s word, apocaholic. The past half century has brought us warnings of population explosions, global famines, plagues, water wars, oil exhaustion, mineral shortages, falling sperm counts, thinning ozone, acidifying rain, nuclear winters, Y2K bugs, mad cow epidemics, killer bees, sex-change fish, cell-phone-induced brain-cancer epidemics, and climate catastrophes.
So far all of these specters have turned out to be exaggerated. True, we have encountered obstacles, public-health emergencies, and even mass tragedies. But the promised Armageddons—the thresholds that cannot be uncrossed, the tipping points that cannot be untipped, the existential threats to Life as We Know It—have consistently failed to materialize. To see the full depth of our apocaholism, and to understand why we keep getting it so wrong, we need to consult the past 50 years of history.
Are you an apocaholic?
Local News: A mirror breaks in Stamford
LOCAL News: The Stamford & Rutland Mercurypolice log reports:
POLICE are looking for witnesses after a car mirror was damaged. The silver Toyota Avensis was parked in Princess Road, Stamford, yesterday (Sunday) when its wing mirror was damaged and left hanging off the side door.
If you have any info…
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