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Madonna in trouble with the far-right
MADONNA, the Queen of Pop turned spiritual world healer, is known for her constant reinvention as well as for getting into cat fights. Well, she is now in trouble with French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen.
While in Israel to promote her new album – and peace in the Middle East – Madonna performed in front of a giant screen showing Le Pen with a swastika on her forehead.
Ms Le Pen reportedly commented: “We understand how old singers who need to get people talking about them go to such extremes.” Ouch.
The controversial image appeared during Madonna’s performance of the song “Nobody Knows Me”. A video projected on to the giant screen erected on the stage showed quickly alternating images of political and religious figures, including Chinese leader Hu Jinatao, US politician Sarah Palin and Pope Benedict XVI.
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Posted: 5th, June 2012 | In: Celebrities, Reviews | 2 Comments
Breivik judge plays Solitaire as David Cameron slaughters birds and melons
ANDERS Behring Breivik murdered 77 people. His trial has been a procession of the bereft and the injured. He’s cut a pathetic figure, a narcissist who used a gun to be noticed.
One of the court’s three lay judges, Ernst Henning Eielsen, has been passing some of the time playing playing the card game Solitaire on his computer.
Yes, indeed. It seems that the courts in Norway only use standard Windows software and have no connection to the internet. Better perhaps he play hangman or World of Warcraft, as Breivik did as he merged fantasy into a bloody reality.
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Posted: 5th, June 2012 | In: Reviews | 2 Comments
Luka Magnotta arrested for murder of Lin Jun
LUKA Rocco Magnotta has been captured. The 29-year-old vain, self-styled porn star was arrested in Berlin in connection with the murder and dismembering of Chinese student Lin Jun in Montral.
Magnotta was nabbed at an internet cafe in Berlin’s Neukölln district. He was reading news about himself, says the Daily Mail, without offering any proof.
The New York Observer wonders if Magnotta could be the Hollywood sign killer.
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Posted: 4th, June 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Luka Magnotta is a global ‘serial killer’ and travel writer in Paris
LUKA Magnotta has not been caught by police. But the Sun says “he could be a serial killer.”
The Sun brings the facts:
Cops are convinced Magnotta may have killed others in recent years and are now desperate to snare him as soon as they can.
Convinced. May.
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Posted: 3rd, June 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Stuart Loving’s hunger strikes against fossil fuels (Darfur rests)
IN 2007, Start Loving, formerly Jay McGinley, sat outside the Sudan embassy in Washington and refused to eat until the war in Darfur ended. He told us, humbly:
“What I’m doing is not clever. It’s exactly what Gandhi, what King, what Jesus did.”
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Posted: 2nd, June 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
In photos: Egypt erupts as Hosni Mubarak dodges death penalty and murderous police escape jail
THEY wanted him dead. The Egyptians who massed in Tahrir Square ,Cairo, heard the country’s former President, Hosni Mubarak, sentenced to life in prison for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the uprising that forced him from power last year. The 84-year-old escaped the gallows. His two sons, Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, were acquitted of corruption charges, but still face separate trial on charges of insider trading. Egypt’s former interior minister Habib al-Adly has also been jailed for life. Six ex-police commanders were acquitted. They were – as it says – only obeying orders.
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Two Egyptian youths pass by a wall with graffiti depicting, from right, ousted Hosni Mubarak, military ruler Hussein Tantawi, presidential disqualified presidential candidate Amr Moussa and presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq and Arabic that reads, "I will never give you peace and you will not rule me another day, the revolution continues," at Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt Thursday, May 31, 2012. Guilty or not, Saturday's verdict in the Hosni Mubarak trial may only add to Egypt's polarization. The country is bracing for a heated runoff for president pitting the ousted leader's protege and last prime minister against an Islamist from a group that the old regime repeatedly cracked down (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Posted: 2nd, June 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Vintage weight-gain adverts – when fat was fulfilling
FAT. The Government, the press and the fat hate it. Once upon a time, the fuller figure was a thing of desire. We’ve got a gallery of vintage weight gain adverts for you to enjoy. Scoff it up. Eat for happiness:
Posted: 2nd, June 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | 0 Comments
Kyron Horman: Desiree Young sues Terri Horman for $10m – Mulugeta Seraw is not poof
KYRON Horman: Desiree Young, Kyron Horman’s bith mother, is suing the missing boy’s step-mother, Terri Horman – the last person we know to have seen Kyron on June 4, 2010, the day he went missing in Portland, Oregon.
Young, married to local cop, suing Horman for “custodial interference” – keeping a parent from their child “permanently or for a protracted period.”
Only, Terri Horman has been convicted of no crime. She has been charged with no crime. We do not know if any crime befell Kyron Horman. All we know is that two years ago the seven-year-old went missing form his school in Portland, Oregon.
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Artists impression of the day: Mick Philpott and his wife Mairead in court
ARTISTS impression of the day: Courts artist Elizabeth Cook captures Mick Philpott and his wife Mairead as they appear at Nottingham Crown where they were charged with the death of six of their children in a house fire.
Posted: 1st, June 2012 | In: Reviews | 6 Comments
Daily Mail says Adolph Eichmann isn’t dead (yet)
ITS 50 years since Adolf Eichmann was found working for Mercedes Benz in Argentina, smuggled to Israel, tried and executed.
Who better than the once Nazi-loving Daily Mail to write about Life magazine photographer Gjon Mili’s snaps of the mass murderer in his cell?
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Posted: 1st, June 2012 | In: Reviews | 2 Comments
Luka Magnotta is swimming with dolphins and becoming a tabloid celebrity
LUKA Magnotta is now a tabloid star. The former “porn star” / “model” / James Dean look alike (he had surgery to look like his idol) / suspected kitten killer and massive self-promoter on the internet is wanted by Canadian police in connection with a dismembered body, parts of which have been posted to the country’s politicians.
You might watched user “Luke Magnotta” apparently murdering and then sexually assaulting a man on a snuff website. The film is called 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pic.
Now you can read about him in the Sun, which screams from its front page:
“I CAN’T STOP KILLING”
The Sun says it has heard from the alleged killer.
Cannibal on run after ‘chopping up man’ warned The Sun: I can’t stop killing – First he fed kitten to snake on sick vid & we alerted cops but they did nothing
What a scoop! The wanted man had made contact with the British newspaper. The British newspaper knows for certain Magnotta killed cats by suffocation. And it knows it all just from watching a view and reading an email. Call off the police. The Sun has cracked it.
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Diamond Jubilee: Tower Bridge troops the colours
PHOTOS of the day: Composite of 12 separate images showing the different colours of Tower Bridge being illuminated to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. (Get a load of that austerity.)
Posted: 31st, May 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Luka Magnotta: 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick – did suspected killer video murder for death website?
WHAT news on Luka Magnotta, born Eric Clinton Newman, the alleged cat killer and former porn star wanted in connection with a hacked to pieces body doing the rounds in Canada? A torso was found in a bag in Montreal; a severed foot was sent to Canada’s Tory HQ; a severed foot to the country’s Liberals HQ; all body parts are from the same man.
Mike Nadeau found the headless body:
“Every time I passed by it smelled very bad and there were flies around it. I took a closer look and there were maggots coming out, worms coming out. We opened it up and looked inside and there was a body with no head, just a torso.”
Police have been investigating Magnotta’s appartment close to where the torso was found. Richard Payette lives across the hall. Says he:
“I never smelled dead body (before), but I’ve smelled bad meat. If I go by my sense of smell, it certainly wasn’t just hamburgers.”
Did vistors to the website bestgore.com website see the murder? The site advertises itself:
“Warning: Extremely Graphic! You have stumbled upon a website that features gore videos and images. Due to extremely graphic nature of materials found on Best Gore, access is restricted to adults only. If you are 18 years of age or over and wish to be reminded of real life, then be my guest, but do NOT take the warning lightly. Videos and images posted on Best Gore are bloody, gut wrenching, teeth grinding, offensive and upsetting. Just as the life itself.”
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Posted: 31st, May 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | 0 Comments
Spain bans joy on its motorway to nowhere as cleaners coat Barcelona in litter
SPAIN is broke. To emphasise their importance of their work – and their upset at cuts to pay – cleaners at Barcelona’s airport have ripped up paper and tossed it to the ground. Surely not cleaning the toilets would be the surest way to achieve their result? Or encouraging people to spit?
A better sing of Psnish impotence can be found in the road to nowhere:
The opening last week in northeastern Spain of a 37-million-euro stretch of motorway to nowhere is an irresistible metaphor for the euro, an ambitious project conceived in better times that is now seemingly running out of road. With Spain heavily in debt, the authorities could not afford to finish the highway but opened the completed 6 km section near Lleida in any case to deter illegal joy racing.
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Posted: 31st, May 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Luka Magnotta is wanted in connection with body in the bag case (photos)
LUKA Magnotta is wanted. Police in Montreal are seeking Magnotta in connection with the discovery of a man’s torso in a suitcase in the city. Not too long ago a human foot was sent to the Conservative Party of Canada headquarters in Ottawa. CBC News says a second package containing a human hand was addressed to the Liberal Party of Canada.
The body parts are rumoured to be from the same man.
Says Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere:
“The suspect and victim knew each other. It isn’t linked to organized crime.”
Adding:
“There are pieces of the body that are missing. Some body parts were sent by mail, one to the Conservative party headquarters, these are all pieces of evidence to us. There were other body parts sent by mail and the police are still investigating.”
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Posted: 30th, May 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Old couple attribute lasting marriage to matching outfits
WHAT is the secret of enduing love? Clothes. Matching clothes. Mel and Joey Schwanke of Fremont, Nebraska, are in their 65th year of wedded bliss. Mr. Schwanke told KETV:
“We don’t dare go somewhere without having matching outfits.”
Can it be that they no longer recognise each other by scent or hair styles, reliant now on their shirts and trousers ensemble? The advantages of matching outfits are:
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Face of the day: Commander Sarah West gets her warship
FACE of the day: Commander Sarah West is the first woman in the Royal Navy’s history to command a major warship – a Type 23 frigate HMS Portland. Commander West has an honours degree in maths from the University of Hertfordshire. She’s a red brick chick. It’s equal opportunities the likes of which the RN has rarely seen…
Why does the Evening Standard love The Grapes in Limehouse
RUTH Bloomfield tells Evening Standard readers that Limehouse is a great place to be – and a great place to drink!
“…Gordon Ramsay is not the only household name with a pub in the area. Sir Ian McKellen, a long-time resident, is the co-owner of The Grapes, a historic pub where Dickens once drank.”
Wow! The Grapes sounds brilliant.
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Posted: 30th, May 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
On the link between Marijuana and homosexuality
ROD Dreher looks at marijuana and homosexuality:
“I’m wondering if the erosion of the strict taboo against drug use, at least in one’s youth, has to do with the fact that so many of us have known, or at least been around, marijuana users for a long time. We know that most people can use the stuff without ruining their lives, or disqualifying themselves from public service. If so, then it tracks with the erosion of the taboo against homosexuality among younger Americans, who have had more direct experience of being around gay people.”
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Posted: 30th, May 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
Rebekah Brooks does not live at Hackers Cottage, Churchill, Oxfordshire
REBEKAH Brooks does not live in Chipping Norton. No. She lives in Churchill, Oxfordshire. That’s where you can vistis Hackers House Cottage on Hackers Lane.
But Rebekah Brooks does not live at Hackers Cottage, Churchill, Oxfordshire. Although she may well know someone who knows someone who does…
Posted: 30th, May 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
BBC says Microsoft Halo is in charge of the United Nations – Google fail
FURTHER signs of the Googleisation of mainstream media as the BBC News airs a segment about the United Nations Security Council using the logo of the less real United Nations Space Command, as seen on Microsoft’s Halo game.
Still, to secure world peace, anything’s worth a try…
Students rejoice as school burns – photo of the year
AS fire raged, the students of City College, Dalian University of Technology, Liaoning province, northern China, celebrated their graduation.
Posted: 30th, May 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
That Quebec student tuition fees protest in a map
IN Quebec, Canada, students have been protesting against hikes in tuition fees. The police asked the students to show them the protest route. They handed them this map:
Posted: 29th, May 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
A history of Olympic gender scandals
GENDER has been an issue at the Olympics for some time. Not every athlete fits neatly into the male or women’s categories. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) introduced mandatory sex testing in 1968.
In 1967, Poland’s Ewa Klobukowska became the first woman to fail a ‘gender’ test and was subsequently banned. She had won a gold medal at the Tokyo Games of 1964 as part of the women’s 4×100 m relay.
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The top five things we love and hate about Great Britain
IN honour of the Diamond Jubilee, Peter Kellner, president of YouGov, investigated what we most and least like about Britain. Anorak would love the poll to feature the myriad irritations that make us stand out as individuals. But the choices were limited (no room for Noel Edmonds, Chelsea fans in rugby shirts and finding a toilet light that’s been left on all night).
The top five things we love are:
Countryside
National Health Service
History
Monarchy
Liberty
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Posted: 29th, May 2012 | In: Reviews | 0 Comments
