Greens hypocrisy over Jonathan ‘Luther Jesus Mandela Ghandi’ Moylan’s fakery
WHEN green activist Jonathan Moylan issued a fake press release that led to millions of dollars being wiped off the share price of coal company Whitehaven, he became God’s representative on Earth. Bob Brown, former leader of the Australian Greens, writes in the SMH:
History is full of this. Gandhi and Mandela went to jail. Martin Luther King was assassinated. Jesus Christ turned up at the businessmen’s tables and look what happened to him. Anti-slavery campaigner John Brown’s ‘’body lies mouldering in the grave’’ and suffragette Emily Davidson was killed when she ran in front of the horses at the 1913 Epsom Derby.
Posted: 11th, January 2013 | In: Global Warming, Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Only three Presidents have issued more Pardon’s that soft Obama
PARDON me, Mr Obama. Jacob Sullum compares Obama to past presidents who issued those justice-defying Presidential pardons:
Which of Obama’s predecessors managed to make less use of the clemency power during their first terms? According to numbers compiled by P.S. Ruckman Jr., a professor of political science at Rock Valley College in Rockville, Illinois, just three: George Washington, who probably did not have many clemency petitions to address during the first few years of the nation’s existence; William Henry Harrison, who died of pneumonia a month after taking office; and James Garfield, who was shot four months into his presidency and died that September.
Posted: 10th, January 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Tweeter arrested for saying Hugo Chavez is staying in Cuba
TO Venezuela, where the men of Sebin (Bolivarian National Intelligence Service) have arrested Federico Medina Ravell:
Venezuelan intelligence officers have raided the home of a Twitter user suspected of spreading destabilising rumours about the health of Hugo Chávez ahead of an inauguration that the ailing president looks increasingly unlikely to attend.
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Medina, who was not at home, is accused of instigating terrorism through social networking sites. He is said to be behind the @LucioQuincioC Twitter account, which has claimed that Chávez will not return from Havana.
Posted: 8th, January 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Carol singers black up for Angela Merkel’s Epiphany
FACE of the day: It’s Epiphany in Germany, and German chancellor Angela Merkel has met with a carol singer dressed as one of the Three Kings in Berlin. Sensitive stuff. You should see how Hans the pig farmer portrays the King of the Jews…
Posted: 5th, January 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Unionists flag behind anti-abortion and gays: more Belfast City hall trouble (photos)
IN photos: Loyalist protesters converge on Belfast city hall. The protests and demonstrations continue at the removal of the Union flag from the city hall. There has been more violence. The BBC says protestors have pelted police with fireworks, bricks, stones and golf balls.
A 38-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after shots were reportedly fired at police also in east Belfast.
Leading Loyalist Jackie McDonald tells the Belfast Telegraph:
I share the anger in the loyalist community but somebody needs to stand up and tell the truth, which is that the flag is not going to go up again without an election or agreement … Sinn Fein has achieved this and until there is a change in the balance of power in City Hall, the flag decision won’t be reversed. There is no point giving people false hope.
Posted: 5th, January 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Andy Burnham is the latest fool to wage war on salt and butter
SHADOW health secretary Andy Burnham wants to ban foods that contain what he considers too much salt, fat and sugar. Of course, this being modern politics, Burnham soon dissembles and wants us to join the debate:
“Labour wants to lead this debate. That is why we are asking the public and experts if new limits for sugar, fats and salts would be the right approach. Like all parents, I have bought products like cereals and fruit drinks, marketed as more healthy, that contained higher sugar levels than expected. I don’t think that any parent would be comfortable with their child eating something that is 40 per cent sugar.”
Posted: 5th, January 2013 | In: Politicians, The Consumer | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Tory Chris Steward should donate his body to a food bank
TO York, where Chris Steward, a Conservative councillor, has views:
“We have lots of poor people, but living standards have surged over the years. There is certainly no need for food banks; no-one in the UK is starving and I think food banks insult the one billion in the world that go to bed hungry every day and ignore the fact a child dies of hunger every three seconds.”
He goes on:
“The fact some give food to food banks, merely enables people who can’t budget (an issue where schools should do much more and I have said the council should) or don’t want to, to have more money to spend on alcohol, cigarettes etc.”
Posted: 5th, January 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Paedophiles like Jimmy Savile are ok: it’s the quality of the abuse that matters
JON Henley writes about his Brave New World in the Guardian:
In 1976 the National Council for Civil Liberties, the respectable (and responsible) pressure group now known as Liberty, made a submission to parliament’s criminal law revision committee. It caused barely a ripple. “Childhood sexual experiences, willingly engaged in with an adult,” it read, “result in no identifiable damage … The real need is a change in the attitude which assumes that all cases of paedophilia result in lasting damage.”
It is difficult today, after the public firestorm unleashed by revelations about Jimmy Savile and the host of child abuse allegations they have triggered, to imagine any mainstream group making anything like such a claim. But if it is shocking to realise how dramatically attitudes to paedophilia have changed in just three decades, it is even more surprising to discover how little agreement there is even now among those who are considered experts on the subject.
Posted: 3rd, January 2013 | In: News, Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Tory MP Mark Pritchard presents most stupid reason to ban same-sex marriage: ethnics are not gay
CONSERVATIVE MP Mark Pritchard digs deep and produces the worst reason to precent same-sex marriage. An idiot writes:
The Conservative parliamentary party should be more representative of the population. It is good news that in recent years the Conservative Party has made steady progress in increasing the number of its ethnic MPs. In 2005 just two Conservative MPs were from Britain’s ethnic minorities, in 2010 the figure had risen to eleven.
Posted: 3rd, January 2013 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Al Gore gets $100m oil money for Current TV: Muhammad ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami might laugh
AL Gore has teamed up with Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera on Wednesday completed a deal to take over Current TV, the low-rated cable channel that was founded by Al Gore…
Posted: 3rd, January 2013 | In: News, Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Mayor Bloomberg hates guns but his New York City profits from bullets
THE Sandy Hook massacre: New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is no fan of guns. He wants change. He wants:
Pass the legislation of Fix Gun Checks Act that would require a criminal background check for all gun sales including all private sales and online sales
Ban deadly, military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, which were previously banned under the now expired Federal assault weapons ban
Pass legislation to make gun trafficking a felony
Posted: 18th, December 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
That Global Warming Policy Foundation letter to the BBC: the ‘notorious seminar’ of 2006
IS the BBC biased in its reporting of global warming? The Global Warming Policy Foundation has written a litter to the BBC’s new Director-General, Lord Hall. It’s from Lord Lawson (Conservative), Lord Donoughue (Labour) and Baroness Nicholson (Liberal Democrat), the three Trustees of the all-Party and non-Party Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Over many years, the BBC’s treatment of climate change issues has been marked by bias, ignorance, credulity and – in the latest episode – unwarranted concealment. The behaviour of the Corporation throughout has failed to measure up to professional standards.
In their letter to Lord Hall, the GWPF Trustees have asked the Director-General Designate also to reconsider the implications of the controversial global warming seminar held in 2006 which has shaped BBC policy on climate-related issues ever since.
Posted: 17th, December 2012 | In: Global Warming, Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre: Mike Huckabee blames removal of ‘God from schools’
SANDY Hook Elementary School massacre: former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee see God. He tells Fox News:
“Ultimately, you can take away every gun in America and somebody will use a bomb. When somebody has an intent to do incredible damage, they’re going to find a way to do it… People will want to pass new laws, but unless you change people’s hearts, they’re our transition to the pastor side. This is a heart issue, it’s not something, laws don’t change this kind of thing.”
Posted: 15th, December 2012 | In: Politicians | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Margaret Moran gets away with: thieving MP dodges jail
MARGARET Moran is 57. She looks 87. Before she was nicked for fiddling her expenses – aka stealing £53,000 from the taxpayer – the woman who was MP for Luton for 13 years looked a lot younger. Nowadays we only ever see her dressed in a big, ugly coat, granny hat and sniffing into a paper tissue.
We saw her in that new look as she went into Southwark Crown Court. The now former Labour MP, Margaret Moran, has been given a two-year supervision and treatment order. No prison.
Posted: 14th, December 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Words of thanks to Maria Miller and the heroic Joanna Hindley
MARIA Miller proves that politicians apply pressure on the media. Miller is the Conservative MP for Basingstoke and Culture Secretary being investigated for claiming over £90,000 expenses for a second home where her parents live. She says she’s done nothing wrong. Indeed, far from it. She has done us all a favour. She has shown everyone that the press are not the sole aggressors. She has shown that politicians can be deceiving and work to squash the facts.
Or, rather, her aide Joanna Hindley has, reportedly. When a Daily Telegraph started asking about Miller’s expenses, they were warned off.
“When a reporter approached Mrs Miller’s office last Thursday, her special adviser, Joanna Hindley, pointed out that the Editor of The Telegraph was involved in meetings with the Prime Minister and the Culture Secretary over implementing the recommendations made by Lord Justice Leveson. Maria has obviously been having quite a lot of editors’ meetings around Leveson at the moment. So I am just going to kind of flag up that connection for you to think about,” said Miss Hindley.
Posted: 13th, December 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
David Cameron’s secret daughter linked to Will Young
DAVID Cameron opens his little mouth and emits a high pitch whine. He’s seen the X Factor. He sees the reporters. He tells them that he voted for Will Young on the X Factor “because my daughter made me”.
Has he got another daughter, other than the one he once left in a pub?
Posted: 11th, December 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The trial of Aberdeen’s Renee Slater, formerly Ron, for entering dummy Helena Torry in election
RENEE Slater is accused of registering a dummy named Helena Torry to stand in the Aberdeen City Council elections. She’s been arrested under the Representation of the People Act.
So. Will Helena Torry stand in city’s Airyhall, Broomhill and Garthdee constituency? No.
Posted: 10th, December 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Fox News Fail in Obama attack: misspells ‘illiterate’
FOX Nation attacks Obama in North Carolina. And misspells “illiterate”:
Posted: 7th, December 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Australian PM issues zombie warning
AUSTRALIA’S prime minister, Julia Gillard, has announced the apocalypse in a video posted on YouTube. No, this isn’t someone impersonating her. This is a real world leader, telling us that zombies are on the way.
Of course, she’s not serious because zombies don’t exist. However, it is really good and is going viral as we speak.
Posted: 7th, December 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Ed Balls says Ed Miliband took a few minutes to read the 1,987-page Leveson Report in full
HOW politics works: Ed Miliband v Ed Balls:
When Lord Justice Leveson moved to shackle free speech with his report, Ed Miliband told the House of Commons:
“Lord Justice Leveson’s proposals…should be accepted in their entirety.”
Posted: 7th, December 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Hurrah for Kelvin MacKenzie the Southern Party ponce unafraid to be recognised as a tabloid hero
KELVIN MacKenzie is a one-man circus. The Sun should bring back its former editor. He know how to rile and get a noticed. Kelvin saus he want to create “The Southern Party”. It will stand up for the ”overtaxed and over-burdened” Southerners. He advocates Home Rule for England’s South:
As a standalone entity, the people of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and London are 18th in the global GDP league, just ahead of Indonesia and just behind Turkey. If you took this region out of the UK economy, it would be called Ethiopia.
Posted: 5th, December 2012 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Belfast City Hall Flag Riot: Photos of Prince Edward’s most meaningful moment
ON the day Kate Middleton announces her pregnancy, hundreds of Northern Irish monarchists come out waving Union flags. But they weren’t happy. They were angry. Kate has opted to get pregnancy treatment in London not Belfast. The future King or Queen will not be Irish. But that wasn’t it. This was about flags.
The flag waving was punctuated with violence. In response to the Alliance Party’s proposal, Belfast councillors voted by 29-21 to change their policy on flying the Union flag over Belfast City Hall. The flag will only flutter on 18 days of the year (the BBC has 15 days). The flag has flown from the building every day since the place opened in 1906. The custom must change. A crowd descended on the building. They attempted to storm the building. Some later attacked St Matthew’s Catholic Church in a nationalist area of east Belfast. A tricolour was burnt. Representatives of Her Majesty’s police force were injured.
Posted: 4th, December 2012 | In: News, Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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