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TRIBUNE (Magazine) “an independent weekly labour movement voice”
A new book is out: “BOOKS: Why Charles Lindbergh went to meet with Hermann Goering” - The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr Alexis Carrel and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever, by David M Friedman
Goering and Madeleine McCann… There is a link. Knew it…
MOST people know two things about Charles Lindbergh. One: in 1927 he became the first person to fly non-stop from New York to Paris. And two: five years later his baby son was kidnapped and murdered.
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Oh, and he invented the electric guitar, suffered from bi-polarism and once ate 17 pickled eggs in a minute. Go on..:
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AARON Evans, 21, pleads guilty at Bristol Magistrates’ Court to breaking into a covert capture car in the city.
That’s him with caught on camera - with his name and date of birth tattooed on his neck.
The car had been left by Avon and Somerset Police officers with a covert camera concealed inside, which took pictures of Evans.
And he’s a car thief because…
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TO Australia where Beaconsfield: A Musical in A-Flat Minor will debut in Melbourne tomorrow night.
Miner Larry Knight was killed in a rockfall at the mine on Anzac Day 2006, while Brant Webb and Todd Russell were trapped for 14 days.
It’s terrific show, if a little slow in parts…
Mr Russell tells us:
“(I feel) disgusted, really, in the way they’re going about it and what they’re going to call it,” he said on ABC radio.
“When they’re calling it ‘A-flat Minor’ it’s appalling I think, just a lack of respect for the Knight family. It’s better off being left alone, people are trying to get along with lives, trying to move forward, and they just keep using this tragedy of ours.”
Everyone’s critic. What about the show?
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SO this is war. Who threw the first falafel. Come on. Own up!
A new war between Israel and Lebanon has erupted, but this time the war is not geopolitical, but rather an issue of cuisine-who has sovereignty over traditional Arab dishes and sandwiches.
There’s nothing like a good old traditional Labanese Lord Al Sandwich.
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THOSE stock market figures in full:
DAILY STAR: “£60bn wiped off British stock market.”
THE SUN: “£93BN MELTDOWN”
DAILY MAIL: “By the end of trading, nearly £95billion had been wiped off he value of the FTSE”
And rising…
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POLICE Log: Anorak’s Look At Crime In The News…
Man Tail Gates Fox
A Tennessee man named Tommy Fox crashed his car while contending with an attack from a real fox whose tail he intended to cut off, authorities say.
Horse power. Tally ho!
After the Dover man struck a red fox that had dashed in front of his sports utility vehicle last week, he allegedly retrieved the seemingly dead animal from the roadway with plans to cut off its tail for a souvenir, a state wildlife official told Gannett Tennessee.
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THE Rev Peter Mullen is chaplain to the London Stock Exchange and environs. He smells a gay man.
Mullen says:
“Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO KILLS.”
Hurrah! A free tattoo for every gay man! Well, the church needs the support, and a free wafer, sip of wine and one up the arse from the priest may not be enough. Go on:
“In addition, the obscene ‘gay pride’ parades and carnivals should be banned for they give rise to passive corruption, comparable to passive smoking. Young people forced to witness these excrescences are corrupted by them.”
Have you inhaled a gay man?
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CITIZEN journalism means big media corporations can lay off hacks and get you do do their job for free. It’s great…
Read all about it…
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SIR Ian Blair is gone, and the Celebrity Police Force is looking for a new leader to be tough on celebrity crime. (Surely have his picture taken with some of the country’s best lag talent? – Ed).
And while the search goes on, the Star brings news that Big Brother reject Rex Nomark has, allegedly, smashed someone in the face with his belt.
In other times the alleged victim, known only as John, would be invited to give a statement to police, and the CPF would haul Rex in to the station for photos and autographs.
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FERGUS Shanahan, the Sun’s deputy editor, has today’s non-sequitur of the day. It’s stream of consciousness journalism…
Former EastEnders actress Wendy Richard is dying of cancer. Shanahan says Richard reminds him of Pat Phoenix, who played Elsie Tanner in Coronation Street, and also died of cancer.
When ill, Pat married Tony Booth, father to Cherie Booth, wife to Winston Churchill Blair.
“I wonder if he [Tony Blair] feels if three Labour governments have made enough progress on improving Britain’s dismal cancer survival rates.”
Journalists used to ask politicans questions, now they just wonder. Perhaps cancer can form part of a soap opera storyline, and Fergus can investigate by watching..?
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SARAH Palin on global warming. Says the New York Times editorial:
There were also occasional, disturbing flashes of the old, pre-campaign Sarah Palin. When asked about the causes of global warming, Ms. Palin suggested that man had some role — but she wasn’t saying how much.
Is anyone?
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IRANIANS are chanting “Death to Israel”. Borrringggggg. Can they get a new chant, one that rhymes?
Well, not all of them are chanting, just the Islamist students who are unveiling a new book.
The book “Holocaust,” published by members of Iran’s Islamist Basij militia, features dozens of cartoons and sarcastic commentary. Education Minister Alireza Ali-Ahmadi attended the official launch of the book in Tehran’s Palestine Square.
The Telegraph , which reports on the action, doesn’t say how much the book sells for, nor if it can be ordered online.
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MORE news on serious Gordon Brown.
Gordon’ at Lancaster House. It’s a drinks reception, with nibbles, to congratulate and paw over Britain’s Olympic gold medal winners. Says Gordon:
“There is more gold in this room than in the Bank of England.”
Ho-ho. No, he’s right. It’s not funny. Brown only does serious. There is more gold around an Olympian’s neck than in the BoE. Why? Because Gordon Brown sold the nation’s gold reserves.
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SAYS CRESSIDA Dick, the woman who gave the orders for police to shoot dead Jean Charles de Menezes:
“If you are asking me did we do anything wrong or unreasonable then I don’t think we did.”
Jean Charles de Menezes was guilty of living in the same block of flats as 7/7 bomber Hussain Osman.
Who can argue with Ms Dick’s statement that he deserved to die?
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TODAY Gemma Atkinson will be telling Daily Star readers about her “WILD ROMPS” with Jack Osbourne.
Jack is the son of vibrating pop sensation Ozzy Osbourne and pixie-voiced house-poo enthusiast Sharon Osbourne. Jack also wears glasses. That’s Jack.
Gemma is a former soap actress, wannabe Wag and the owner of two signed Cristiano Ronaldo that she keeps close to her heart beneath the skin on her chest.
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THE PORTUGAL NEWS ONLINE: “Business as usual in Praia da Luz”
Tourism is booming at the Ocean Club…
Robin Crosland has been in the Algarve for more than twenty six years. During that time, he has seen Praia da Luz grow exponentially.
He can remember way back when it was media as far as the eye could see…
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DEAR Anorak, How do I save the world? Here’s how:
Follow the Cape Farewell expedition to the Arctic, the frontline of climate change, with over 40 artists, scientists and musicians onboard including Jarvis Cocker.
It’s great. Here’s intrepid global warming explorer Francesca Galeazzi on “The search for the perfect iceberg”.
Yesterday for me was a roller-coaster of emotions: determination and failure, hope and fear, anticipation and disappointment.
We could cry but our tears would turn to ice…
One of my projects on board consisted of an artistic response to the melting and retreat of glaciers as result of climate change.
Oh?
My response was to place a park bench on a newly formed iceberg or floating ice-shelf off the fast-moving coast of West Greenland. A bench which, in its fragility and remoteness, becomes a silent witness of the dramatic changes that are occurring in the Arctic. A bench with nobody to sit on.
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THE best opening line of the day: a health warning at the Chinese Vegetarian Festival:
Doctors in Phuket, Thailand, are warning vegetarians at the annual Chinese Vegetarian Festival that piercing their faces with knives, axes, spades and beach umbrellas could expose them to health risks - Fox News
Chinese vegetarians are a menace:
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THE British Society of Magazine Editors invites members to:
Monday 13 October
BSME DAVID CAMERON RECEPTION
Member-only event hosted by David Cameron at his offices.
How very grand. What’s it about, then?
THE BIG DEBATE
THE WEB NEEDS MAGAZINES MORE THAN MAGAINES NEED THE WEB
Yeah, who needs the wbe..? Nor thsoe magaines. Beyond parody…
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VEGAN actress Daryl Hannah, a supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, wears suede boots to Richard Branson’s party. How so? Says Hannah:
“They were my mum’s. I only wear leather when it’s a gift.”
Like her…
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A 77 year old grandmother and her 49 year old daughter were today jailed for a total of 27 years.
They were sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court for smuggling 16 kilos of cocaine, with an estimated street value of £800,000 into the UK. Customs Officers intercepted them arriving at the Port of Dover in March this year.
Ambrozine Heron (77), Paulette Chambers (49), both from Smethwick, Birmingham, were jailed for 13 and 14 years respectively.
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MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
BRAD Pitt: actor. 