Blame the system not the journalist for the Evening Standard’s Budget leak
READERS of the London Evening Standard knew what was in the Chancellor’s Budget before George Osborne had adressed Parliament.
Editor Sarah Sands made a statement:
“An investigation is immediately underway into how this front page was made public and the individual who Tweeted the page has been suspended while this takes place. We have immediately reviewed our procedures. We are devastated that an embargo was breached and offer our heartfelt apologies.”
Posted: 21st, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
White House petition asks politicians to wear sponsors’ logos like in Nascar and F1
WHO funds your MP or Senator? The debate on Press Regulation is peppered with accusations that the politicians are in the pockets of big media and institutions. Should allegiances be declared in the manner of football kit advertising, or the suits drivers in F1 and Nascar wear? Should David Cameron wear a Sun newspaper logo on his chest? Should Ed Milliband sport a Unite union badge? In his last day’s in office should Tony Blair have worn BP flashing lights on his lapels? In America, you can sign a petition on the White House We The People site calling for the political elite to declare their vested interests at all times.
Posted: 20th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Republican who voted no to legalised weed found in possession of little green bag
SMELL that? A Republican who says marijuana should remain illegal causes a stink:
Assemblyman Steve Katz, a 59-year-old Republican who voted no last year on a bill to legalize medical marijuana, had been traveling 80 mph on I-87 through Coeymans, N.Y., where the speed limit is 65 mph, state police said. During the speeding stop, police said a trooper noted the odor of marijuana and found Mr. Katz in possession of a small bag.
Posted: 18th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
THE Labour Party has suspended their Lord Ahmed for his alleged comments that a Jewish conspiracy lurked behind his imprisonment for driving offences in which a man was killed. Says Labour:
“The Labour Party deplores and does not tolerate any form of anti-Semitism.”
Good that it does. Odd that it feels a need to state it. But, then, anti-racism is the moral cause the elite use to binds the nation.
But what does Labour do when others are accused of racism? Take Tam Dalyell, then a Labour MP, who said Tony Blair was being “unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisors”? That time, Labour did nothing.
A Cabal is defined as:
the artifices and intrigues of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government); also : a group engaged in such artifices and intrigues
Posted: 14th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Nick Clegg won’t be visiting his friend Chris Huhne in prison
NICK Clegg will not be meeting Chris Huhne in prison. In some parallel universe this man in the Deputy Prime Minister. He’s just there to make David Cameron look much, much better, isn’t he?
Posted: 14th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Politician Skull Reaper A-ji refuses to remove his mask in council chambers
THAT you Kendo Nagasaki in the Japanese city of Oita? Maybe? The man in the mask says he’s Skull Reaper A-ji. He’s been elected to thr city’ council.
But Skull Reaper A-ji has been banned from wearing his mask in council chambers.
Rules state that “a person taking the floor shall not wear items such as a hat.”
Posted: 14th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Labour peer Lord Ahmed blames the Jews for his imprisonment
LORD Ahmed is a Labour peer. In all likelihood, he will be expelled from the Labour Party if the following proves to be true. The Times leads with “Muslim peer blames Jewish conspiracy for jailing him”. The Times makes Ahmed’s religion central to the story. Were Ahmed Christian, would his religion be headline-making news?
Save your sympathies, perhaps, for Martyn Gombar. He was the 28-year-old Slovakian killed on Christmas Day, 2007. Lord Ahmed’s Jaguar smacked into Gombar’s car on the M1 near Sheffield. Gombar’s vehicle was stationary at the time. He had crashed and come to a halt in the outside lane.
Posted: 14th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
San Francisco elects Kermit the Frog as District Attorney
IN 2012, Kermit the Frog was sworn in as San Francisco’s District Attorney. Operating under the pseudonym George Gascón, Kermit is talking about California’s three-strikes sentencing law, school truants and safety.
Spotter: b3ta
Posted: 13th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Chris Huhne tells his wife he understands her as Vicky Pryce laughs her way to prison
CHRIS Huhne, the former Liberal Democrat Cabinet Minister, and ex-wife Vicky Pryce perverted the course of justice. Their lies earned theme each eight months prison.
Huhne, 58, will kick off his tour at HMP Wandsworth in South London. Pryce, 60, begins in HMP Holloway.
The judge said Huhne had “fallen from a great height”. But he still managed to sound lofty as he told reporters:
“I am just incredibly sorry. I want to say that to family, to friends, to constituents and to colleagues. Going to jail is a fairly small bit of the total penalty. What was really painful was losing the one job I really wanted to do. Climate change is something I care passionately about.”
Posted: 11th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Julia Gillard’s creepy good luck message to tabloid The Sydney Morning Herald
CREEPING, much? The relationship between the powerful and the media them is tight in Australia. The country’s PM Julia Gillard has a few words to say on the new tabloid-sized The Sydney Morning Herald:
For generations, for the people of Sydney and beyond, the thud of The Sydney Morning Herald on the doorstep has been a welcome sound.
The Herald, first published in 1831, now stands as the longest continuously published newspaper in the southern hemisphere. So old and trusted is this newspaper that it is affectionately known as ”Granny”, an old insult that became a lasting badge of honour and the name of the paper’s most loved column: Column 8.
The Herald’s remarkable pioneer John Fairfax declared he would publish his newspaper ”upon principles of candour, honesty and honour” with ”no wish to mislead; no interest to gratify by unsparing abuse or indiscriminate approbation”.
This is a lofty aim and a continuing ambition for the new Herald.
As a free society we must always value a free press, and that goes for politicians, too. I’ve received my fair share of criticism from the Herald, as has my party. But I have never doubted that the value of the debates the Herald starts and the debates it reports on…
With this new compact format, the delicate task of unfolding those huge broadsheet pages and the occasional wrestle with them will become a memory. But the Herald will endure.
It is my sincere hope that whatever its format, The Sydney Morning Herald will remain a great newspaper of record, which repays the faith of its readers with quality, integrity and a recognition that with great power also comes great responsibility.
I warmly wish the Herald every success in its new compact edition.
Julia Gillard is the Prime Minister of Australia.
Talking truth to power.
Posted: 11th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Senator Chuck Schumer and Paris Hilton are stuck in a lift
IF it works for Paris Hilton and Premier League footballers (although they’ve moved on to massive headphones), it’ll do for Senator Chuck Schumer, who has taken to holding imaginary conversations to dodge the media:
Politico says Schumer (D-N.Y.) “is well known for pulling a flip phone out of his pocket and pretending to hold a conversation.”
“I try to teach my colleagues this excellent technique. I say, ‘You want to avoid these pesky reporters, talk on your cellphone.’”
Talks softly and carry a big mobile. Or make talking to yourself your own:
Posted: 10th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Hugo Chavez funeral photos: a charismatic bigot who knew his crowd
HUGO Chávez has been lying in state in an open casket in Caracas. The poor looked on and in. Many wept. Elsewhere many wondered what next for the Axis of Diesel, the bond that links Venezuela to Iran, Cuba and Syria. Chavez expressed solidarity with Robert Mugabe, Colonel Gaddafi and President Assad. If you don’t like America – and America is not keen on you – Chavez was an ally-in-waiting. And he had charisma. In 2005, officials from Venezuela signed a deal to send cheap heating oil to the poor of Massachusetts. Local congressman William Delahunt called the deal “an expression of humanitarianism at its very best”. We thought America would get the oil, spin it on the money markets and sell it on at massive profit. It didn’t. Sure, Chavez was a bigot, a racist and violent, but he knew himself and he knew his crowd…
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Venezuela's Vice President Nicolas Maduro, center, raises his fist next to Bolivia's President Evo Morales, center left, as they walk along the coffin containing the remains of President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Maduro will continue to run Venezuela as interim president and be the governing socialists' candidate in an election to be called within 30 days. Seven days of mourning were declared, all schools were suspended for the week and friendly heads of state were expected for an elaborate funeral Friday.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Posted: 9th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gun drawn in Jordan’s parliament (Video)
SCRAPS in overseas parliaments are much, much better than the ones we have in England. You see politicians knocking each other out, jumping on desks and shouting ’til their veins burst. In the Commons, you just get a bunch of posh blokes posing at each other and seeing who can piss the highest.
Over in Jordan, parliament had to be stopped when a ruckus broke out MPs yesterday.
Posted: 8th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Let’s ban all pornography in the European Union
ONE does wonder sometimes what they’re smoking over there in Brussels. The latest bright idea is that in order to reduce gender inequality therefore we must ban all pornography:
Calls on the EU and its Member States to take concrete action on its resolution of 16 September 1997 on discrimination against women in advertising, which called for a ban on all forms of pornography in the media and on the advertising of sex tourism
Posted: 8th, March 2013 | In: Money, Politicians, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Paul Rand drones on for 13 hours to stop King Obama
THE homepage of the BBC website has no mention of Republican US senator Paul Rand’s momentous filibuster. It’s buried on the Us section. Rand spoke for 13 hours to delay the nomination of White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan to the top job at the CIA. Questions abound about the possible use of drones against Americans. Using drones to fire on Americans would go against the sixth amendment – an American citizen’s right to a fair trial.
Posted: 7th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Sock puppets: How the European Union spends your money
A GREAT little report out from the IEA today. No, I’m not saying so because I wrote it: I didn’t. But it shows quite how the EU spends some of that vast river of cash we send it each year.
- Citizens have not been consulted directly, however. Instead they have been ventriloquised through ‘sock puppet’ charities, think tanks and other ‘civil society’ groups which have been hand-picked and financed by the European Commission (EC). These organisations typically lobby for closer European integration, bigger EU budgets and more EU regulation.
- The composition of ‘civil society’ at the EU level is largely dictated by which groups the Commission chooses to fund. There has been a bias towards centre-left organisations, with a particular emphasis on those promoting policies that are unpopular with the public, such as increasing foreign aid, restricting lifestyle freedoms and further centralising power within EU institutions.
Posted: 7th, March 2013 | In: Money, Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
King Barack Obama would stomp on the 6th amendment
IS Barack Obama a dictator? No, of course he isn’t. But would he like to be one? As he said:
“I’m the president of the United States, I’m not the emperor of the United States.”
Posted: 6th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Rest In Power, Comandante! Thoughts on the death of Hugo Chavez
CANCER gave Venezuela a bloodless coup when it claimed the life of Hugo Chavez, the country’s President.
Sean Penn liked him:
“Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion. I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela. Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.”
Posted: 6th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has died, presumed poisoned by parrot
VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chávez has died. He had cancer. Or as Vice President Nicolas Maduro put it, he had poison, administered by “enemies of the fatherland”. He’s waiting for “scientific proof” that Mr Chávez was poisoned.
Posted: 5th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
North Korea welcomes a little Un: Ri Sol Ju gives birth to future despot
REJOICE! North Korea has new future leader for its hereditary Communist dictatorship. Kim Jong Un’s wife, Ri Sol Ju, has given birth to a baby. Yep, he is the little un.
Reports are that the child has already been seen banging his fists on table, screaming, demanding and being utterly unreasonble. Says one insider: “He has the makings of a top notch despot.”
Posted: 5th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Julia Gillard’s jet-powered glasses
AUSTRALIA’s carbon tax forces companies to pay a (£15; $24) levy for every tonne of greenhouse gases they produce. Julia Gillard’s government is keen to create a clean energy economy. The tax will hit airlines. But, thankfully, Gillard is here to help them, too. Her glasses are travelling at speed:
Albert Park optical stylist Sue Feldy has been inundated with phone calls after she was exposed as the woman behind Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s new glasses …
Mrs Feldy was sworn to secrecy over her role in shaping Ms Gillard’s new look, but gained official permission to speak after being contacted by a radio station.
“I think I knew it would cause a bit of a stir,” Mrs Feldy said. “We have to keep getting them in, the stockist can’t keep up!”
Mrs Feldy flew to Canberra with 100 pairs for Ms Gillard to browse.
Posted: 27th, February 2013 | In: Global Warming, Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Prime Minister gets a good look at presenter’s vagina (video)
WHAT is a person supposed to do when someone is flashing their genitals around eh? Do you politely look away, or do you shriek and point? What most of us would do is have a little peak and try and be as dignified as possible when faced with someone’s nether-regions.
And that is exactly what Serbia’s prime minister did when he was faced with a TV interview, in which the host wasn’t wearing any knickers.
Posted: 26th, February 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The real problem after the Italian election: tell all those creditors to go screw
WELL, you can call it a problem if you like, personally I’d call it a godsend. But there are two things which should be making the European Union federast types very nervous right now. The first is that while neither of them actually won the election the winners in terms of doing really well were Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo. One’s a comedian and the other isn’t a billionaire on trial for under-aged whoring. But between the two of them this is true:
The projected results showed more than half of Italians had voted for the anti-euro platforms of Berlusconi and Grillo.
Posted: 26th, February 2013 | In: Money, Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Silvio Berlusconi to topless Femen protestors: ‘They just need to get laid’
THE topless women of Ukrainian feminist group Femen jumped at Silvio Berlusconi as he voted in Milan at the Italian elections. Across their naked chests they flash the message ”Basta Silvio!” (enough of Silvio). Can you ever have enough of Silvio, laydees? His response to the woman was, reportedly, “They just need to get laid.”
Posted: 24th, February 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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