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North Korea retaliates over earthy rocket – and play Where’s Kim Jong Un?
NORTH Korea has today said that it will “retaliate” in the face of condemnation from the international community over it’s failed rocket launch. They have back-tracked and refused to let inspectors from the Atomic Inspection Agency return to the country. The US has also cancelled planned food aid to the impoverished state.
As retaliation goes, it’s right up wither aiming a falling rocket at your foot.
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Posted: 18th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Anders Breivik: the Knights Templar fetish and a missing Serbian in Liberia
ANDERS Breivik is in court in Oslo. He’s having his five days in the media glare before being locked away for the duration of his life. He’s a mass murderer. But is he part of a plot? Is Breivik’s Knights Templar fetishism based on a reality? In his “manifesto” – the one he wanted to inspire others by – he states:
I had the privilege of meeting one of the greatest living war heroes of Europe at the time, a Serbian crusader and war hero who had killed many Muslims in battle. Due to EU persecution for alleged crimes against Muslims he was living at one point in Liberia. I visited him in Monrovia once, just before the founding session in London, 2002.
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Posted: 18th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
Dr Devinder Sivia is innocent – the media is disappointed
ALL charges against Dr Devinder Sivia, 49, pertaining to the death of his friend Professor Steven Rawlings, 50 – an Oxford don – have been dropped. Dr Sivia was arrested on suspicion of murder. Now the Crown Prosecution Service says the lecturer in mathematics for sciences at Oxford University has no case to answer.
Meanwhile, you may recall how the media did its utmost to make Mr Singh look a bit unusual.
A history of politicians crying
The art and artfulness of crying lik a politician:
Ken Livingstone
NORMALLY, one would feel sympathy for anyone reduced to tears by a Ken Livingstone campaign video. But when the blubber is Ken himself, and the tears are in full public view and in the presence of his own party leader, the response is likely to be rather different.
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Posted: 17th, April 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comments (3)
Anders Behring Breivik: Enoch Powell, The Hitler Youth and the Knights Templar
ANDERS Behring Breivik murdered 77 people. He murdered eight people in Oslo’s government district with a bomb. He murderd 69 at a Labor Party youth camp on Utøya island. Anders Behring Breivik says he was acting in self-defence. He says he was inspired by Al Qaeda’s methods in venerating and creating martyrs. He says:
“If you look at July 22, all were shocked, even militant nationalists. But I think the threshold for aggravated acts of violence by militant nationalists has been lowered. We have attempted to introduce new traditions for militant nationalists in Europe and we have taken a bit from al Qaeda and Islamists including the use of martyrdom. Al Qaeda is the most successful militant group in the world and I believe militant nationalists in Europe have a great deal to learn from them. The resistance movement since World War Two has been pathetic and we have to introduce these new traditions.”
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The erotic pictures of Art Frahm – women in peril with celery sticks
ART Frahm, the American creator of pin-ups, worked on one overriding principle: gravity plus everyday objects, notably celery, equals art. Falling panties were his sunflowers. You ladies had best stronger knicker elastic or else. As James Lileks notes: “Her pants are down and she can’t run. Have at it, boys!” The men in the pictures are always shocked and delighted, their greasepaint eyebrows lifted in expectation of still more excitement. Will she pick up her fallen groceries and celery sticks? Let’s find out:
Posted: 17th, April 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
Peter Rand’s faces of the 1960s
A COLLECTION of photographer Peter Rand’s 1960s subjects are on show at the National Portrait Gallery. The show runs from 17 April until 16 September 2012. Subjects include Ian Holm, Harold Pinter, Fenella Fielding, Dusty Springfield, Sarah Miles, Richard Branson and Mike Sarne, singer, of course, of the number one hit, Come Outside, featuring vocal interjections by Wendy Richard.
Challenge – can you name all the 1960s faces in this photo?
Who murdered Neil Heywood? All the facts so far
WHO killed Neil Heywood back on November 14 2011 in the city of Chongqing, China? Maybe no-one did. Neil Heywood had had dealings with leading local politician Bo Xilai and his lawyer wife Go Kailai, aka Gu Kailai. He fell out with them.
Allegations are that Mr Bo and his family were engaged in shifting big bundles of money out of China.
The Mirror writes:
Chinese media further alleged Mr Heywood was murdered after helping Mrs Gu to siphon nearly £800million of assets overseas.
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Posted: 15th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
Olly Cromwell – calling someone a ‘c*nt’ on twitter is now a crime
OLLY Cromwell, a blogger, is facing prison for calling someone “cunt” on twitter. Cromwell’s real name is John Graham Kerlen.
Olly Cromwell has been found guilty under Section 127 of the Telecommunications Act 2003 of making a grossly offensive and menacing comment on Twitter. He used the word “cunt”.
Kerlen wrote on twitter by a photo of a Bexley councillor’s home:
“Which cunt lives in a house like this. Answers on a postcard to #bexleycouncil”
The tweet was later followed by another tweet:
“It’s silly posting a picture of a house on Twitter without an address, that will come later. Please feel free to post actual shit”
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Posted: 14th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
How to get your four-year-old into Mensa
HEIDI Hankins from Winchester, Hampshire, has an IQ of 159. She is a member of Mensa and thus on a par with grown ups who like to showcase their IQs in “a society for bright people”.
Hankins is not Mensa’s youngest member. In 2009, Elise Tan Roberts, from Edmonton, north London, who at two years and four months old scored an IQ of 156, could recite the English alphabet, count to 10 in Spanish and name types of triangle. All vital tools in her bank of knowledge. It is not known if she could name all of the Secret 7, remember all the Moshi Monster characters by name and cuteness rating or play the recorder tunefully. You pick you measure of intelligence and wait for Junior to impress the adults.
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Posted: 14th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Etna Erupts – photos
THE snowcapped mount Etna erupts not far from Zafferana Etnea village, in Italy…
“Thanks for all the LOLz”: Creators of the “Texts from Hillary” internet sensation bow out
“THANKS for all the LOLz. We truly appreciate all the support.”
The founders of the “Texts from Hillary” Tumblr, Stacy Lambe and Adam Smith, have decided to bow out at their peak, reached just days after they launched their parody blog. It uses photographs of Clinton aboard a military transport plane flying to Libya in October. Wearing large sunglasses and texting on her Blackberry, Clinton is surrounded by staff and briefing papers. The images of her are paired with photographs of other politicians and celebrities and captioned with witty missives and text speak.
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‘Devil’ Karen Matthews gets Rebekah Brooks makeover
KAREN Matthews is the “DEVIL”. So says the Sun, which adds that woman who faked her daughter Shannon Matthews’ kidnap is in “disguise”.
The Devil is a master of disguise, even better than Heidi Klum. To date, the Devil has appeared as a serpent, a great red dragon, an archangel (all Bible), two brothers in Edlington, a dog in Stratford, East London (both the Sun), Haiti and Karren Brady’s chest. Now the Devil is a middle-aged mum-of-seven who is “slimmer and disguised with a new short hairdo” on a trip to buy ciggies.
The Sun adds:
Cruel Matthews looked chuffed to bits when she went shopping yesterday sporting the striking makeover.
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Posted: 13th, April 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
Spider-Man sticks hamster to cage
TO the home of Kate Meech in Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, where four month-old Smurf the hamster has eaten a Spider-Man magnet and become stuck to the metal bars of his cage.
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Blaming blacks for every crime ends white man’s guilt
IN a story that cynically name checks the dead black teenager Trayvon Martin, the Daily Caller’s Mike Judge talks about how a stolen bike ended his “white guilt”:
My white guilt died on Good Friday, April 6, 2012. That was the day my bike got stolen.
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Posted: 12th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Which celebrity and cause will help George Zimmerman fight a murder charge?
GEORGE Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin’s supporters will get their day in court. Zimmerman, the armed “white Hispanic” Florida Neighbourhood Watch activist who pursued “suspicious” 17-year-old black teenager Trayvon Martin in the city of Sanford and shot him dead has been charged with second degree murder.
Zimmerman says he is innocent. So do the local police, who did not investigate the killing, saying the death was in accordance with Florida’s Stand Your Ground rule. Zimmerman said Martin had attacked him first The police agreed. The police did not even test Zimmerman for drugs or drink.
Many of those protesting Trayvon Martin’s death say Zimmerman is guilty. Barack Obama said “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon” – an opinion based not on Martin’s school grades but on the teen’s skin colour.
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Posted: 12th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
North Korea – fantastic photos of everyday life in the secretive state
EVER wonder what life is like for everyday people in North Korea? Well, keep wondering. The Associated Press’s David Guttenfelder was among journalists given a tour of Heaven on Earth. He was shown what the State wanted him to see. So. What you get is clue as to what the State thinks is edgy and go-ahead, like the woman reading a book as she about to cross a road, an apple juice factory, ten pin bowling, a pet fish swimming in a tank on a table inside a Chinese restaurant at a hotel in Pyongyang, a missile by a huge soldier, a factory making cotton thread, a traffic warden directing no traffic and a huge choir singing on the steps of a government building. MP3 players, cars, nylon, eBooks, hygiene and Flashmobs are soooo last season….
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Greece rages: Dimitris Christoulas and Marios Lolos die as racism rises
GREECE is bleeding. A 77-year-old retired pharmacist named Dimitris Christoulas committed suicide at Syntagma Square in central Athens. In a suicide note, he claimed the financial crisis in Greece had ‘destroyed’ him. Hundreds attended the ceremony at an Athens cemetery. At a march in Athens to mark his death, a policeman was badly beaten. Also, photographer Marios Lolos, 46, who heads the Greek Photojournalists’ Association and works for the Chinese news agency Xinhua, suffered a skull fracture while covering the protest. Other Greeks are targeting foreigners – not only the Germans who are seen as the enemy. Several political parties have promised to take a tougher line on illegal immigration, ahead of a general election, expected in late April. Greece is the busiest crossing point for illegal immigration in the European Union. It’s getting hot in Greece….
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An injured and bleeding policeman is assisted by passersby after he was attacked by protesters in Athens' main Syntagma Square, Saturday, April 7 2012. A protest march that followed a memorial service for a retired pharmacist who committed suicide earlier this week turned violent with marchers beating a policeman in central Athens and stealing his uniform, bulletproof vest, manacles and walkie-talkie. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)
Nasa astronauts turns on James Hansen and the man-made Global warming agenda
JAMES Hansen, of NASA – he’s Director of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies – reportedly, has been writing to Solvenia’s President – the foreigner taking it upon himself to tell an elected leader how to build greener power plants. Oddly, Hansen sees himself as the little guy up againt the machine. As the Telegraph reports:
Dr James Hansen, director of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who first made warnings about climate change in the 1980s, said that public scepticism about the threat of man-made climate change has increased despite the growing scientific consensus …
He blamed sceptics who are opposed to major social and economic changes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for employing “tremendous resources” to undermine the scientific evidence.
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How racist American comic books won World War 2 – 20 photos
IN World War 2, the US called up Superman, Captain America, Batman and others to fight the green-faced “Japanazis”, Hitler and Captain Nazi. The US also called up Super Rabbit, The Black Terror, Tod Houlton Super Green Beret, Captain Marvel and The Fighting Yank for their Anti-Hitler Comics. All the heroes were white, apart from the massive-lipped black boy hitting a hammer for peace (see photo)and the only non-white member of the Young Allies. His name? Whitewash. Can racism defeat the enemy? Well, if it can’t the Americans always had a comic book GOD…
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Dispatches from a Fox News mole confirms everyone’s prejudices
EVER wondered what it’s like to work at Fox News? Then this new column over at Gawker will fill you in.
“The Fox Mole”, an anonymous long-time employee of Fox News Channel, according to Gawker, will be posting dispatches from within the organisation. In the first column, the mole, a self-described left-winger, suggests that working at Fox has made him/her undesirable to other employers and that Fox’s audience is full of racists.
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As Santorum drops out, a trip down meme-ory lane
RICK SANTORUM has announced his withdrawal from the Republican presidential race and in his concession speech on Tuesday afternoon he name-checked some of the many social-media phenomena and online pranks that he has inspired. But the pro-life, anti-porn former senator from Pennsylvania kept quiet about the less than flattering memes that also went viral during his presidential campaign.
Unsurprisingly, he kept quiet about his notorious ‘Google problem‘. Thanks to a campaign by gay rights activists, for a long time the top result for a Google search for “Santorum” was the website Spreadingsantorum.com. It is dedicated to spreading awareness of a made-up neologism that ties Santorum’s name to gay sex.
Neither did Santorum mention the portrait of him made entirely of images of gay porn or that corn dog gif.
He did, however, give a nod to the Twittersphere for making his favourite item of clothing – the sweater vest – famous. The Twitter handle @FearRicksVest pokes fun at Santorum’s attachment to his old-fashioned and casual look and Santorum’s campaign cashed in on its popularity by offering a branded vest to anyone who donated more than $100.
Before he bowed out, Santorum also gave a shout-out to the Harris sisters, whose Santorum-inspired tune Game On became a YouTube hit. The catchy chorus goes:
“Oh, there is Hope for our Nation again
Maybe the First time Since we Had Ronald Reagan
There will be Justice for the Unborn
Factories back on our Shores
Where the Constitution rules our land
Yes, I Believe… Rick Santorum is our Man!”
Cannabis and the Daily Mail’s schizophrenia scaremongering
WHEN the Daily Mail told its readers “Just ONE cannabis joint ‘can bring on schizophrenia’ as well as damaging memory” back on October 25, 2011, we wondered. Could it be true? Well, no. It wasn’t. A mere five months later, on pril 3, 2012, the Mail wrote:
A report on research by the University of Bristol on 26 October was headlined ‘One cannabis joint “can bring on schizophrenia”.’ We are happy to clarify that, as the article explained, the research on rats found that the active ingredient in cannabis could induce symptoms similar to schizophrenia, rather than schizophrenia itself.
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Posted: 10th, April 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Woman told to find new GP because her journey is killing the planet
AVRIL Mulcahy, 83, reportedly, has been advsied to find a new GP because her existing surgery is concerned about her health and, moreover, the health of the planet.
Five doctors at the West Road Surgery in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, signed a letter voicing their concerns over the patient’s “green travelling issues”. Her two-mile round-trip is a hazard to one and all. As such, Mrs Mulcahy, should register with a new GP within 28 days.
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Does cannabis make you more creative?
DOES smoking cannabis make you more creative? Two videos:
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