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Americans Kill British Troops On Indepedence Day
THE US is celebrating killing British troops on Happy Indepedence Day, with Johnny Cash. So says Yampster in the Forums:
It’s a little known fact that as the battle of New Orleans was fought after peace was signed between Britain and the USA it’s the first recorded case of the Americans killing British servicemen while at peace with them. Of course we had to wait for over a century before they started killing us while we were on the same side.
Happy ID Day…
Posted: 4th, July 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Bernard Madoff Hires Prison Consultant
BERNARD Madoff explains why capitalism will always out - he’s hired a prison consultant:
Bernard Madoff has hired a veteran prison consultant to help him to find the best possible jail in which to serve his 150-year sentence for Wall Street’s biggest fraud.
Payment on approval…
Posted: 4th, July 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Google Ads Serve Piotr Stanczak’s Murder By Taliban
PIOTR Stanczak was a Polish scientist kidnapped by the Taliban and murdered in teh name of Islam. Piotr Stanczak was given the option of coverting or death:
Piotr Stanczak did not exhibit the slightest hint of hesitation when the Pakistani Taliban asked him to choose between execution and conversion to Islam.
Whether the Polish geologist acted out of pride or religious conviction, he decided to pay through his blood to save his faith, a choice that bewildered his killers…
Posted: 4th, July 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Scare Stories: Thinking Positive Makes You Feel Terrible
THE Ultimate Media Scare Story goes something like this:
“REPEATING positive statements such as ‘I am a lovable person’ or ‘I will succeed’ makes some people feel worse about themselves instead of raising their self-esteem, a study says.”
That’s right – thinking positive thoughts makes life worse for you.
Posted: 4th, July 2009 | In: Media, Scare Stories | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Big Brother Housemate Contracts Swine Flu
IN this edition of Celebrity Swine Flu, Big Brother aid to masturbation Imogen Thomas catches swine flu.
Says Imogen:
“It’s awful, I feel drowsy and need to sleep. Swine flu isn’t exactly a good souvenir to bring back from holiday.”
Yeah, that’s right - Imogen Thomas is alive.
More celebrity swine flu to follow…
Swine Flu & Me
Lisa Rinna Had Pirate Copy Swine Flu
Hollywood Child Star In Swine Flu Terror
Jonathan Ross Linked To Pig Flu
Paris Hilton Flies To Mexico
Swine Flu Hits American Idol
Susan Boyle “Beaten Down By Swine Flu”
Obama Came Into Contact With Suspected Pig Flu
Mexican footballer suspended for Swine Flu antics
Peaches Geldof Linked To Swine Flu
Posted: 3rd, July 2009 | In: Media | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Alternative Album Art: The Who And Susan Boyle
Alternative Album Art - No. 2: Who’s Next And Susan Boyle
The Susan Boyle debate rages on. Will she need a makeover before the album comes out? Did she succeed despite or because of her unorthodox appearance? (Unorthodox by the constrictive standards of our celebrity culture, we hasten to add.) And so on and so on…
Back in the Sixties, record companies were still in the habit of putting pretty white girls on record covers, especially if the artist who recorded the music was black.
Otis Blue by Otis Redding was just one notorious example.
Posted: 3rd, July 2009 | In: Flashback, Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Alternative Album Art: The Who And Susan Boyle
Alternative Album Art - No. 2: Who’s Next And Susan Boyle
The Susan Boyle debate rages on. Will she need a makeover before the album comes out? Did she succeed despite or because of her unorthodox appearance? (Unorthodox by the constrictive standards of our celebrity culture, we hasten to add.) And so on and so on…
Back in the Sixties, record companies were still in the habit of putting pretty white girls on record covers, especially if the artist who recorded the music was black.
Otis Blue by Otis Redding was just one notorious example.
Posted: 3rd, July 2009 | In: Flashback, Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Drax Climate Change Protestors Fail
AT Leeds Crown Court, 22 climate change 22 activists are helping the jury to decide whether they had illegal stopped a train taking coal to Drax power station in North Yorkshire.
Dr Paul Chatterton, lead speaker of the defendants, tells the jury:
“UN statistics show that the amount of carbon produced by Drax was responsible for 180 deaths a year. Every minute we were on that train, we were stopping carbon emissions.”
Posted: 2nd, July 2009 | In: Media | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Andrew Sullivan Will Write For Free
ANDREW Sullivan would like budding journalists and bloggers to know that the man with the popular blog he’s paid to write on a popular website would write for free.
And I don’t think it is that terrible a thing if most journalists start earning less money. I wrote this blog daily for years for nothing because I love what I do. I’ve been really, really lucky to have landed at the Atlantic but the dirty secret is that I’d do this because I want to know more about the world and bring that information to as many people as possible, to advance those causes I believe are just and expose those lies that I think need exposing.
Posted: 2nd, July 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Madeleine McCann Was Tagged In Liverpool
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - Goncalo Amaral accused and tagging Our Maddie…
The Sun: “Maddie cop torture rap”
THE disgraced ex-boss of the Madeleine McCann probe has been charged with torturing a witness in another missing child case.
Alípio Ribeiro, head of Portuguese CID?
No, its:
Goncalo Amaral, 49, is accused of punching and slapping Leandro Silva - who wants £430,000 compensation - during the 2004 hunt for Joana Cipriano, eight.
And this is now news because..? Amaral was accused by Cipriano in June 2007.
In February 2008, the Sun had more news:
“McCann slur cop in ‘torture cover up’”. Amaral is “tubby”. Amaral weighs “18 stone”. The Sun says Amaral is involved in what “many say is Portugal’s worst miscarriage of justice”
And what kind of a character is Cipriano?
Mum Leonor, 36, girlfriend of Leandro, was jailed for killing the girl in Figueira, Portugal, just miles from Praia da Luz where Maddie disappeared.
So Amaral has been accused. Nothing proven. And he has been charged in Portugal, you know, that backward country where the bungling cops operate…
Digital Journal: “Overuse of Madeleine McCann keywords an ‘oversight’”
The Liverpool Echo and Post news site have claimed they did not deliberately use keywords tagged as ‘madeleine mccann, madeleine mcgann, kate mcgann, kate mccann’ to non-related news stories and it was an ‘oversight.’
Posted: 2nd, July 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Rebekah Wade Video Of The Week
REBEKAH Wade Video Of The Week. The Ginger Ninja’s empire:
Posted: 1st, July 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Huge Colony Of Ants Takes Over the Planet
THE summer new brings with it stories of killer bugs that spends all day dreaming up new ways to kill Britishers. Today, the BBC brings news of a single “mega-colony of ants” that has “colonised much of the world”.
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another. The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.
Right now ants are plotting to take over. In parts of Dorset, they already have.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the ants are Jewish ants and this is the way they roll. The Express says they might be gypsy ants, the Guardian that they have as much right to be here as anyone so long as their papers are in order, the Mail says the ants are not as dangerous as the Black Plague they carry on their backs, the Star says Armani finds ants “dead sexy” and the Sun says some of the ants are bigger than Ant, of Ant ‘n’ Dec (he’s the one on the left).
In Europe, one vast colony of Argentine ants is thought to stretch for 6,000km (375 miles) along the Mediterranean coast, while another in the US, known as the ‘Californian large’, extends over 900km along the coast of California. A third huge colony exists on the west coast of Japan. The enormous extent of this population is paralleled only by human society.
How do we know this?
Researchers in Japan and Spain led by Eiriki Sunamura of the University of Tokyo found that Argentine ants living in Europe, Japan and California shared a strikingly similar chemical profile of hydrocarbons on their cuticles.
Scientists have declared war on the ants by shoving shards of bamboo beneath their nails? Is this wise?
However, the irony is that it is us who likely created the ant mega-colony by initially transporting the insects around the world, and by continually introducing ants from the three continents to each other, ensuring the mega-colony continues to mingle.
The only hope is that when Ants Attack – as they will – they remember that it was we humans who got them so much sex…
Posted: 1st, July 2009 | In: Media, Scare Stories | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Scientists Say Sex Increases Chances Of Pregnancy
IN today’s science class, a Dr David Greening, from Sydney IVF, tells delegates at the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology that sex increases the chance of getting pregnant:
Having sex every day improves sperm quality and could boost the chances of getting pregnant, research suggests.
Posted: 1st, July 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Michael Jackson’s Death Sparks Live TV Fight
MICHAEL Jackson Watch: Steve Ryan of ABC13 Action News is LIVE! in Las Vegas where he is meeting an “out of control” man with a slap in the face.
Michael Jackson’s death affects us all in different ways…
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Michael Jackson’s Last Word Was “Bubbles”
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Staff Thought Michael Jackson Playing Dead As He Lay Dying
OK! Pays $500,000 For Picture Of Dying Michael Jackson
The Ten Best Michael Jackson Conspiracy Theories
Michael Jackson Dies Without His Nose On
Posted: 1st, July 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Air France 447 And Yemenia Air 310: Grounding The Airbus
AIR France 447 crashes. Richard North looks at the Airbus and what happens next:
The Times is reporting that Airbus is expected to face calls to ground its worldwide fleet of long-range airliners today when French accident investigators issue their first account of what caused Air France Flight 447 to crash off Brazil on 1 June.
Early Tuesday, a Yemenia Air Airbus 310 went down with 153 people on board near the Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean in stormy weather
It is believed that the accident bureau will report that faulty speed data and electronics were the main problem in the disaster that killed 228 people.
Posted: 1st, July 2009 | In: Media | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
On Madeleine McCann, Keith Bennett And The Missing
On Madeleine McCann, Keith Bennett And The Missing…
KEITH BENNETT was murdered by Moors Murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady in June 1964. he was 12. His remains have never been found.
And now the search for his body has been stopped.
Says Keith Bennett’s mother, Winnie Johnson:
“I am 76 in September and I just want Keith found. I will never give up as long as I have breath in my body - not just for me but for my family and all of those around me. What Brady has done and continues to do is just so cruel.”
Madeleine McCann is missing.
As Anorak wrote in 2007:
So have you seen Madeleine? And have you seen those other children who are “MISSING LIKE MADDIE”?
Posted: 1st, July 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Neda Soltan Was Killed By Mossad And Michael Jackson’s Doctor
HONEST Reporting brings news that Neda Soltan - that’s Neda Soltani to you - was killed in suspicious circumstances. And you know who did it, don’t you? Michael Jackson’s doctor? No, it has to be the Jews - give it time:
Thank goodness Press TV clears away the hype and misinformation surrounding the death of Neda Soltan. According to Iranian state-run news channel:
The man who drove her to hospital said in an interview that her death looked “highly suspicious”, claiming there were no security forces or Basij members nearby… “
Posted: 30th, June 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Millions Of Britons Hosting Swine Flu Parties
THE SCARE Story of the Year award goes to the BBC for bringing readers news of swine flu parties:
Throwing “swine flu parties” in an attempt to get immunity against the virus while it is a fairly mild form is not a good idea, doctors say.
Pass the gammon, vicar:
Reports have emerged of people intentionally mixing with friends who have flu. Their reasoning is that it is best to be infected before the winter when the virus could become more deadly.
Posted: 30th, June 2009 | In: Media, Scare Stories | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Police Let Madeleine McCann Suspect Go Free
MADELEINE McCann Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news - how detective let a new suspect go free…
We interrupt news on Michael Jackson to return to the Third Summer of Maddie, in which the Sun reports that “Cops let Maddie suspect off hook”.
What suspect?
Posted: 29th, June 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Golfers Kill Michael Jackson’s Cats
GOLFERS for Michael Jackson are killing Ronaldo’s cats*. News just in:
Global warming is breeding cats:
The RSPCA claims climate change is producing a boom in the number of feral felines prowling streets in Melbourne’s leafy east.
Climate change could kill pets, according to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), as warmer temperatures cause an increase in exotic diseases among cats and dogs.
* This news is brought to you by Anorak’s in-house web expert.
Posted: 29th, June 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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