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Samantha Lewthwaite: The truth about the British terror suspect
SAMANTHA Lewthwaite, 28, is being sought by the CIA, Scotland Yard, Kenyan Police and more agencies of justice. Samantha Lewthwaite is from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. She is the widow of Jermaine Lindsay, who killed himself and 26 passengers on a Piccadilly Line train in July 2005.
It is alleged that she is a terrorist, a mum of three funded by Somali pirates and training local Islamists how to make bombs in readiness for an attack on Western targets in East Africa.
She is suspected of being a paymaster, scout and reciter for the al-Shabaab terror group, part of the al-Qaeda network.
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Posted: 3rd, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (4)
Dobbin-gate: The best comment on David Cameron’s ride on Rebekah Brooks’ and The Met’s Raisa
DOBBIN(G)-GATE: The best comments on David Cameron’s ride on Raisa, the horse the Met lent to Rebekah Brooks. Before the horse died, Rupert Murdoch’s tame tabby Rebekah Brooks let David Cameron have a ride on it – to go for a hack, as it were. Thanks to Murdoch, even right-wingers are agreeing with the Guardian. The media mucks out:
Michael Crick, Channel 4:
#horsegate In Commons in 2004 Cameron attacked plans for horse passports. He said they’d affect “every child’s pony, every happy hacker.”
Posted: 2nd, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
John Kafunda and Reece Donovan convicted of cowardly attack on Ashraf Rossli
JOHN Kafunda and Reece Donovan have been convicted by jury of mugging injured Malaysian student Ashraf Rossli, 21, in Barking during last August’s London riots.
Beau Isagba had broken Rossli’s jaw and stolen his bike when the heroes arrived.
At Wood Green Crown Court, Kafunda 22, of Ilford, was convicted of robbery and violent disorder. Donovan, 24, of Romford, has been convicted of theft, violent disorder. He would go on to burgle a Tesco store.
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Posted: 2nd, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (6)
Justin Bieber gets a soaked in syrup and a car from One Direction’s Ellen – birthday video
JUSTIN Bieber is legal to have sex with. No tabloid countdown clock preceded this move. But if you want to shag Bieber, you now legally can. To mark the happening Bieber went on the Ellen Degeneres show. Ellen, took time out from being a member of One Direction (Niall Horan) to help a steaming mountain of praise on the singer for his selflessness and good deeds in face of mass fame and wealth accumulation. She invite someone named Scooter to give Bieber a $100,000 Fisker Karma.
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Posted: 2nd, March 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Underwater dogs in photos
UNDERWATER dogs are photos taken by Seth Casteel of dogs swimming underwater. And they’re brilliant…
Posted: 2nd, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment (1)
Kate Middleton shops for fat with The Queen at Fortnums – in photos
TODAY, Kate Middleton went shopping with Queen Elizabeth II, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Queen at Fortnum and Mason in London. The royal guests met military personnel involved in the Gifts For Troops scheme, which sends packages to soldiers serving in Afghanistan. Our Boys an Girls get tea and biscuits (Hobbing Nobs) if they’re out there during the Diamond Jubilee weekend. They might even get some foie gras and candied peel. Fortnums is the posh shop that sells tortured goose fat. It being one of Kate Middelton’s top five sources of fat, the other four being: lamb chops, KitKats, suet and custard creams …
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Posted: 1st, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Royal Family | Comment
PC David Rathband you legend: Raoul Moat victim’s brave suicide
DAVID Rathband has, apparently, killed himself at his home on Blyth, Northumberland. The policeman shot in the face and blinded by half-French murderer, Facebook legend, dick-head magnet and media hero Raoul Moat – who was Tasered (to death?) by the police – has hanged himself. Has Moat killed from “beyond the grave” again?
The media reacts:
The Sun (front page): “MOAT COP ‘SUICIDE’ – Blinded Rathband found dead at home”
It is the “torment of tragic hero“.
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Posted: 1st, March 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (15)
A “two-fingered salute” to the Leveson Inquiry
AS THE Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press trundles on, online magazine spiked launches an “intellectual two-fingered salute to the creeping conformism and censoriousness being unleashed by the Leveson process”.
Explaining the decision to launch a “Counter-Leveson Inquiry”, spiked editor Brendan O’Neill said the magazine intends to “carry a torch for press freedom”. The campaign will “put the case against Leveson, against judges and police getting to tell the press what its ethics should be, and against any stricture whatsoever on the right of the press, whether highbrow or low-rent, to investigate and publish what it sees fit”.
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Posted: 29th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (11)
The Caretakers – The England managers who didn’t hang around
THE day is upon us, and England Expects… not very much really, if we are honest about it.
It’s Stuart Pearce’s first game as caretaker manager of the national team and the omens aren’t great. Previous friendlies against World Cup runners-up have been largely miserable experiences for England, and the records of previous caretaker bosses are nothing to write home about either. So how does “Psycho” match up against his predecessors?
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Posted: 29th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
Scotland Yard loaned police horse to Rebekah Brooks: Dobbingate
REBEKAH Brooks, formerly Rebekah Wade, was loaned a police horse.
One day earlier, we heard Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers says that he has uncovered a “culture of illegal payments” at The Sun newspaper.
Akers, of the Met Police, is leading Operation Elveden, an investigation into allegations of corruption at News International, where Brooks used to work.
Akers tells the Leveson Inquiry:
“Instead these are cases in which arrests have been made involving the delivery of regular, frequent and sometimes significant sums of money to small numbers of public officials by journalists…The evidence suggests that such payments were being made to public officials across all areas of public life,” she added. “The current assessment of the evidence is that it reveals a network of corrupted officials. There appears to have been a culture at The Sun of illegal payments and systems have been created to facilitate such payments whilst hiding the identity of the officials receiving the money. The e-mails indicate that payment to ‘sources’ were openly referred to within The Sun, with the category of public official being identified rather than the individual’s identity.”
Tom Crone, the News of the World’s head of legal, wrote to the paper’s then-editor Andy Coulson on September 15 2006:
“The only payment records they found were from News International, ie the NoW retainer and other invoices, they said that over the period they looked at (going way back) there seemed to be over £1 million of payments…They’re going to contact RW (Rebekah Wade) today to see if she wishes to take it further.”
The Guardian reprots:
The internal News International (NI) email shows an unnamed police source told Brooks there were between 100 and 110 “victims” while the News of the World was under criminal investigation for hacking phones in the royal household. She was also told there were records suggesting NI had paid more than £1m to Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator employed to carry out the hacking.
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Posted: 28th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (11)
Dumb and Dumber: The Golden Age of the Public Information film
THERE’S nothing funny or trivial about bowel cancer. Or rather, there shouldn’t be. Which makes the current bowel cancer awareness campaign rather odd.
It is presumably aimed at adults, since this demographic features exclusively in the current radio ads. Yet the gratingly condescending tone of the campaign is more suited to under-fives, with its “caring” nursery school narration and its constant references to faeces as “poo”.
Then there are the voices, which sound as if they are starring in a 1970s sitcom instead of a life-saving bulletin.
A series of people describe their “poo” in a tone that brings to mind the sparkling conversation at Gillian McKeith’s dinner parties. The last of these, with the glum air of jaded comedian trotting out a tired catchphrase, announces that ‘It’s all… bloody.’
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Posted: 28th, February 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
Auschwitz-Birkenau – Then and now in photos
THE Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland has produced a book of photos of World War II against the same locations today. It’s called Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Place Where You Are Standing…” The victims and murderers of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps are gone. But the place remains…
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Posted: 27th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Oscars 2012: the best moments in photos
THE 84th Oscars wer a terrific show. Silence as an golden as the statuette as The Artist was named best film at the Oscars. Jean Dujardin became the first Frenchman to win an Academy Award for acting. Michel Hazanavicius, thanks three people for his best picture award for the same film: “Billy Wilder, Billy Wilder and Billy Wilder.” Nicholas Sarkozy, the French president, did as all politics must and thrust himself into the limelight saying the The Artist has made “French cinema proud”. Meryl Streep scored her second Osar form 17 nominations for playing Lady Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Sacha Baron Cohen hogged the limelight, turning the AGM for the Hollywood film industry into a promotion for his new film by spilling Kim Jong-il’s ashes over the red carpet – but not Halle’s Berry’s chest (again). Another landmark was scored by Christopher Plummer, who at 82 became the oldest actor to win an Oscar, for his performance in The Beginners. Octavia Spencer for getting a gong for her role as the pastry chef in The Help, offering: “I’m freaking out … I’m sorry, I love you … I’m sorry, I love you.” Which might explain why the best actors work with the best scripts…
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Sacha Baron Cohen’s Oscar stunt gives Ryan Seacrest a powder – video
SACHA Baron Cohen was first banned from promoting his new film, The Dictator, on the Oscars red carpet then allowed to. Arch self-publicist Baron Cohen celebrated on Twitter:
VICTORY IS OURS! Today the Mighty Nation of Wadiya triumphed over the Zionist snakes of Hollywood. Evil and all those who made Satan their protector were vanquished and driven into the Pacific Sea. What I am trying to say here is that the Academy have surrendered and sent over two tickets and a parking pass! TODAY OSCAR, TOMORROW OBAMA!
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Posted: 27th, February 2012 | In: Film, Key Posts | Comment (1)
Oscars – 84th Academy Awards dresses, surgery and red carpet photos
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Dunking And Swinging Babies With Lena Fokina And Igor Borisovich Charkovsky
RUSSIAN baby yoga is all the rage. The video of Lena Fokina whirling Ukrainian baby Platona Goryun about her body was unusual.
Fokina teaches the skill in Dahab, Egypt. Her yoga is called “extreme developmental gymnastics“. And if you parents aren’t doing it then your children are going to be left behind.
Nathan Thornburgh interviewed Lena. She’s 50:
Um, what exactly are “extreme developmental gymnastics”?
That’s what we call it when it gets scary for the parents and children and me (just kidding). It’s actually skipping rope, climbing, all sorts of flips, trampoline, stretching…
Fokina says her baby yoga was invented “by life“, and is inspired by the ideas of Igor Borisovich Charkovsky. Who he?
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Posted: 26th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (4)
Amanda Holden died for 40 seconds – the Sun mocks Hugh Grant’s Leveson lines?
AMANDA Holden kicks off the Sun on Sunday by telling readers “My Heart stopped for 40 seconds”.
It’s a dead ‘n’ tell.
Speaking of her hell for the first time in a world exclusive interview, Amanda told The Sun: “I was moments from death.“
The Sun has decided that the next best thing to a dead star is a TV star who nearly died. When Amanda Holden gave birth to Hollie, she suffered a haemorrhage and was treated in intensive care.
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Posted: 26th, February 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Terrible album covers – Vinyl horrors
More worst album covers ever… More vinyl epics here.
Posted: 24th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment
Is it a bag of crisps? Is it a nightclub performer? No, it’s a Swedish princess Estelle
SWEDEN’s newborn future monarch has been given a name: Estelle. But it has been lampooned by some Swedes who don’t think it’s a worthy moniker for an heir to the throne.
While many feel such criticism is highly inappropriate, others yet have weighed in to say that engaging in a debate about the princess’ name is beneath them. In other words, there’s been more than a whiff of snobbery to the reactions to this royal affair.
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Posted: 24th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Three musicians play the Badgermin for the first time – video
YOU are about to see three musicians play the Badgermin for the first time. The Badgermin is part badger and part theramin.
The electronics are from a PAiA Theremax kit, with new 8mm diameter removable antennae…200 points to whoever it was that said “Can’t wait to see it play a live sett…”
The live sett (dead sett):
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Posted: 24th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
In photos – Central Saint Martins MA Catwalk show for London Fashion Week
LONDON Fashion Week in photos – the Central St Martins Fashion Show at the BFC venue at Somerset House. A bit of Abu Ghraib, a spot of McDonald’s chips and Doogle shoes…
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Posted: 23rd, February 2012 | In: Fashion, Key Posts | Comments (3)
Daily Mail says nutritionists it promotes put health at risk – massive fail
HEALTH Tuesday – the Daily Mail’s weekly look at new ways to die features an article on nutritionists by Louise Atkinson:
EXPOSED: The nutrition therapists who puts your health at risk.
Louise Atkinson has news:
The therapist peered at my tongue. ‘Should I be worried about bowel cancer?’ I asked her. I’d told her about my changed bowel habits over the past six months, weight loss, fatigue and dark stools.
Louis is talking shit – literally.
Last month an alarming report by the consumer organisation Which? highlighted the risks posed by rogue nutritionists. All are classic symptoms of bowel cancer that, to a GP, would flag up the need for further investigation. I’d even mentioned that my father had died of the disease.
But the therapist seemed unconcerned: ‘Oh, you don’t need to worry about having cancer,’ she said. ‘I can tell you’re quite well. You’d be much better off thinking about changes you can make to your diet to help you prevent cancer.’ She recommended I cut out sugar (‘because cancers feed on sugar’) to reduce my risk.
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Posted: 23rd, February 2012 | In: Key Posts | Comment (1)
Adele presents the Top 10 Showbiz Fingers Ever
ADELE’S Top Ten Showbiz Fingers. Following new on THAT finger Adele waved at the Brit awards, we’ve trawled the archives for more showbiz fingers:
10. Katie Price
In 2002, Katie Price was treated for cancer on her finger. Some said it was the residing place for her talent and when it was cut out her dreams of being a Hollywood great died.
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Posted: 23rd, February 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
FakeGate: Heartland Institute calles Gleick a forger and a thief
PETER Gleick is the conduit of the so-called FakeGate missives. Gleick, founder of the Pacific Institute, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an expert on water resources, lied to get his hands on a documents from the Heartland Institute. He then made them public. George Monbiot was thrilled:
Shocking, fascinating, entirely unsurprising: the leaked documents, if authentic, confirm what we suspected but could not prove.
Leo Hickman frothed with excitement:
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,” pleaded the Wizard of Oz as Toto revealed the true identity of the man with the big, booming voice to Dorothy and her friends. But it was too late: the illusion was shattered.
The Heartland Institute, an influential rightwing thinktank based in Chicago, which has long pushed misinformation about climate change, is currently having its own Wizard of Oz moment following theleaking of internal documents which reveal the true extent of its funding and efforts to cast doubt on climate science.
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