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UC Davis Police Department And Linda Katehi Prove Attack Is The Best Form Of Defence: Live Ammo At Riverside
THE UC Davis Police Department has been squirting pepper spray at students protesting at University of California, Davis, near Sacramento. Linda Katehi, the university chancellor, invited police to deal with her customers. They dealt with the protest designed to show solidarity with students at Univeristy of California, in Berkeley, who were hit with batons by police on 9 November, by spraying them with mace.
The police are going through their utility belts with gusto. By the time the students at University of California’s Riverside campus come out in sympathy for their mates at Davis and Berkeley the police will have moved on to live rounds.
Meanwhile Katehi is upset and amazed that armed police should resort to violence. Who knew? Well, anyone poor and black in California knew. But who else? Why did no-one tell her? Says she:
“The use of pepper spray as shown on the video is chilling to us all and raises many questions about how best to handle situations like this.”
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Posted: 20th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Chaotic Police Complaint Commission Whinge Over Guardian Mark Duggan Yarn: Killing The ‘Murder’ Story
THE UK national newspaper The Guardian has bared its teeth, snarled, and told the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to piss off.
After what seems to have been a furious day the UK’s Press Association this morning put out a story, which can only have been triggered by the IPCC, saying:
“An investigation into the death of Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by police triggered riots across the country, has still to establish the sequence of events concerning a handgun found at the scene, the police watchdog (IPCC) said.”
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Posted: 20th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
Brandon Watts Will Never Forget Occupy Wall Street
OCCUPY Brandon Watts: Having, reportedly, lost his virginity in Zuccotti Park and been bloodied by the NYPD on a Day of Action after executing the time-honoured jolly jape of stealing a policeman’s hat – Bertie Wooster was fined £5 for the offence; it’s the crime that transcends race, age and class – Watts posed by his famous photo.
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Posted: 19th, November 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Occupy Bongo: Morning Cock Crow Attacked At Occupy Portland
OCCUPY Bongo at Occupy Portland:
Police say 45-year-old Alan Porter was hit in the head with a hammer Friday morning after he started drumming to awaken the other occupants. Police say 34-year-old Christopher Schisler has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault and 34-year-old Danny Arnold, who’s accused of choking Porter, has been issued a summons for assault. On Thursday night, 25-year-old Jason Carr was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after police responded to the report of a fight. All three suspects listed no permanent addresses.
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Saif Gaddafi Captured With Fingers Missing: Will Dictate Next LSE Thesis
COLONEL Gaddafi’s son aif al-Islam has been captured close to the town of Obari in Libya and flown to Zintan. One noticeable differnce to the pre-revolution Saif is that his fingers are missing. Did he lose them in a Nato Airstrike? And will he now have to dictate his LSE coursework..?
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Police Always Knock Twice – ‘Executed’ Mark Duggan Was NOT Armed When Lying Police Opened Fire
MARK Duggan. Remember him? He died in a London street while apparently obeying police orders and face down in the road near Tottenham Hale Tube Station, London.
He was the gent who police at first claimed had shot at an officer in the execution of their duty. That was just after a police-marksman had emptied two shots from an assault weapon and extremely efficiently double tapped the – now forensically proved to be – unarmed Mr Duggan.
If you have trouble recalling the name you may still remember the nights of police failure, burnings, violence and looting which followed the shooting and the stream of totally dissociated youngsters paraded through draconian rapid magistrates court hearings.
Mark Duggan was a 29-year-old father of four who police said had shot at them despite eyewitness accounts Duggan was on the ground next to a hired people carrier when an officer armed with a Heckler & Koch MP5 semi automatic machine pistol killed him stone dead in true SAS style. The police were using the usual no-chance-of-survival dum dum bullet banned to the World’s armies by the Geneva Convention.
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Posted: 19th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (8)
From the Daily Show: A Revealing Mock Report On Children In Need “Class Divisions”
THE Daily Show‘s report from Zuccotti Park before the Occupiers were kicked out shows how the camp had splintered into “uptown elitists and downtown poor“.
“As it dragged on, the movement was in danger of becoming the very thing it was fighting against“, reporter Samantha Bee, explains. We’re then treated to a tour of the park, with the iPad-armed college hipsters from Brooklyn on one end and the “downwardly mobile with their drum circle” on the other.
As one “uptown camper” describes the residents in the “ghetto section” in the most roundabout, PC way possible, Bee interrupts and asks: “Is there a course in condescension that everybody is taking here?”
It’s all very revealing because despite the Occupiers’ slogan “we are the 99%” many of them harbour a great deal of disdain for the masses. As the Occupy Wall Street website says, “The masses are incessantly encouraged, even conned, into consuming, even if it is beyond, or way beyond, their means.” That’s right – the 99% have been hoodwinked, brainwashed, fooled. And it’s up to the Occupiers to enlighten them, apparently.
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Posted: 18th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Why Jody Sabral Left Biased Press TV
JODY Sabral was a reporter on absurdly biased Press TV, the Iranian state broadcaster. She left. Why?
My four-year relationship ended with Press TV on October 17, mainly because there has been a deliberate attempt to suppress information on the Syrian uprising. It’s one thing to take a position on the news you report, but it’s another to completely ignore a story of interest to the public. It’s well known that Iran politically backs the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, but I was shocked to learn of the extent to which Press TV could be used to propagate propaganda.
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Posted: 18th, November 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Local News: Planners And Residents Seek To Blame Basildon Town Centre On Pigeons
CAN Basildon Town Centre be blamed on pigeons? The Basildon Echo can try.
Or as Alistair Coleman says:
Believe you me, Basildon town centre was ruined long before the pigeons arrived
Posted: 18th, November 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Fukushima: What Ever Happened To Armageddon?
REMEMBER the Japanese nuclear reactor crisis in Fukushima? Sure, poo soaked organic beansprouts killed more than Fukushima and BP Oil Spill. But the was panic. There was a nuclear rabbit. A huge nuclear plume was heading to Oxfordshire after wiping out the US and showering deadly nuclear rain on Australian.Your Filipino maid was advised to take pills. You should buy potassium iodide pills at reassuringly expensive prices.
Experts predicted 50,000 deaths. It would be bigger than Chernobyl. It was agreed that this was another Chernobyl. France rowed over an MP’s Parked Car.
Fox News warned that night clubs would explode. The West was doomed. Armageddon was certain.
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Occupy Wall Street Is Overrun With Big Media’s Preening Narcissists
OCCUPY Wall Street has been Occupying Media. The Telegraph’s Tim Stanley observes:
Only when you get there do you realise the extent to which the Occupy movement is the creation of the mainstream media. The park is tiny (it’s about half the size of Soho Square) and even when it was packed it couldn’t have held more than 1,000. The space was reduced by media presence, which is wall to wall and preposterous. Journalists outnumbered protesters by four to one – there were so few demonstrators that the reporters starting interviewing each other. Whenever something (anything!) happened, we all ran over and filmed it. This included a dog that started barking. I took a photo of it and an Australian journalist stuck a microphone under its nose.
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Who Is Rebekah Brook’s Surrogate Mother? The Ginger Ninja Is ‘Pregnant’
RUPERT Murdoch’s Ginger Tabby Rebekah Brooks is pregnant.
We told you back in July she’s be with child in 2012. And we were right.
And the best bit is that she’s expecting a surrogate baby.
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Posted: 17th, November 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
On This Day In Photos: The Luxor Massacre
ON This Day In Photos: November 17, 1997: Egyptian Islamists murder 62 people at Luxor – 58 of them tourists, including six Britons (three members of one family: five -year-old Shaunnah Turner, her mother Karina Turner and Karina’s mother Joan Turner).
Two months earlier, nine Germans and an Egyptian driver had been murdered when gunmen opened fire on a bus in Cairo.
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This Pre-Occupation With Playing The Victims Of Wall Street Is Just Pathetic
TODAY marks the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. With the Zuccotti Park encampment in lower Manhattan cleared and hundreds being arrested in demonstrations in the financial district, it appears protesters have adopted an unflattering victim mentality.
There’s a whole lot of talk and tweeting going on about ‘police brutality’, ‘Nazi’ NYPD officers, ‘Cossacks in riot gear‘ sent in to ‘cleanse’ Zuccotti Park, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg behaving like a repressive Arab leader. It all shows that today’s radical left-wing activists are happy, not only to display great historical ignorance, but also to revel in an image of themselves as put-upon underdogs.
Why else would the new poster-girls for the amorphous OWS movement be an 84-year-old lady, a pregnant teen and a disabled woman – three people who all got caught up in the tumult in the past few days? These are all figures many will recognise as fragile and innocent and so they are pushed to the forefront to demonstrate how vulnerable the protesters are.
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Posted: 17th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
News In Photos: November 17 2011
NEWS In Photos November 17, 2011…
Would-be Taliban suicide bomber Mula Zakim, 20, from Pakistan, who is four years into a 5-year sentence after he was caught trying to pick up explosives to bomb a checkpoint in Sangin.
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Cambridgeshire Police Up For Bad English Award – Are Black Drivers To Blame?
CAMBRIDGESHIRE police’s email to people “leaving in the Castle Ward” is written in code. The Plain English Campaign has nominated the missive for the Golden Bull “gobbledygook” award.
Anorak brings you the message written by one our old staffers.
The Plain English Campaign calls it “ploddledygook”:
“We can all have a giggle about this, but there is a serious message.”
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James Bulger’s ‘Copycat’ Killers: Boys Try To ‘Kidnap’ Toddler From Liverpool Asda
THE SUN spots another James Bulger, the two-year-old child killed by ten-year-olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. Richrd Moriarty’s story begins:
Boys held for Bulger ‘copycat kidnap bid’
Thank goodess they were stopped.
Tragic James’ mum says: It’s chilling
Tragic James’s mum is Denise Fergus, the go-to source for emotionally led opinion.
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Posted: 17th, November 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (6)
Stephen Lawrence Murder Trial Day 3: Royston Westbrook, Joseph Shepherd And Alexandra Marie Hear The Silence
STEPHEN Lawrence Murder Trial Day 3: Anorak’s daily look at the April 22, 1993 killing in the news: Royston Westbrook, Joseph Shepherd And Alexandra Marie hear the silence:
Prosecutor Mark Ellison is holding sway at the Old Bailey. Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, deny murder.
Royston Westbrook is in the witness box. He says he was stood at the same bus stop as Stephen, 18, and his friend Duwayne Brooks. He saw the white gang approach in Eltham, south-east London.
“Stephen and Duwayne were stood right by the bus stop. They were talking about football, and just general chit-chat. They were discussing among themselves whether they should go back to the roundabout because they could see if the bus was coming. They decided to walk back to the roundabout.”
Many more were at that bus stop. The two black youths had gone to the top of the to see if the bus was coming. It was 10:30pm.
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Posted: 16th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
The Daily Express Sees Siberia And The Arctic In Ice-Broken Britain
JUST as the Daily Mail loves bad health scares, the Daily Express has an obsession with bad weather. Nathan Roe pounds the snowy beat:
Britain is braced for an Arctic blast which will bring record low temperatures within weeks, forecasters said last night… Britain is likely to be hit by temperatures as low as minus 20C – perhaps even lower – and widespread heavy snow as early as the start of next month. – Daily Express, 8 October 2011
Still waiting:
Britain faces a sudden shivering end to the exceptionally warm late autumn with temperatures plunging towards Siberian levels. Winter weather will arrive with a vengeance with temperatures well below zero within the next fortnight. – Daily Express, 2 November 2011
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News In Photos: November 16 2011
NEWS In Photos- November 16, 2011:
Law enforcement officers photograph a window at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, as seen from the South Lawn. A bullet hit an exterior window of the White House and was stopped by ballistic glass, the Secret Service said. An additional round of ammunition was found on the White House exterior. The bullets were found Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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Court Finds Michael Jackson Guilty Of Sexually Assaulting Children
AT Warley Magistrates Court in Sandwell, West Midlands, 49-year-old Michael Jackson has been remanded in custody charged with the kidnap and sexual assault of a 10-year-old boy who vanished on a trip to local shops.
Jackson, from Oldbury, West Midlands, did not speak during the brief hearing.
No-one reading that can overlook the name and make a link to another who shares it.
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Posted: 16th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Memes Before The Internet: A Flashback Special
DID memes exist before the Internet? Heyyyyyyyy! They did. Just don’t tell Sid:
On This Day In Photos: Anthony Blunt Is Named As The Fourth Man
ON this Day in Photos: November 16 1979 – Anthony Blunt is finally revealed as ‘fourth man’ in the Cambridge spy ring.
Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher revealed that Blunt had confessed in 1964 but had been granted immunity from prosecution. Why? Well, secrets, dear boy, secrets. Blunt said then Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home had arranged the deal. But he was just the front. The spy’s modus vivendi is to reveal little. The truth comes in drips. Di the British spooks already know what Bunt was up to?
This went to the top of British society, a scandal involving the true power behind the brand: civil servants and the Royal Family. Blunt had worked for MI5. He was “art adviser” to the Queen.
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Man Mauled By Spider Monkeys At Zoo: Tourists Take Videos And Laugh
JOAO Leite dos Santos has gotten drunk and thought it a good idea to swim in the water that separates the spider monkeys from the humans at a zoo in Sorocaba, near Sao Paulo, Brazil. Guess what happens. Yep, people looking on laughed and took videos as he got mauled. What must the monkeys think of us:
