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Money Buys Happiness: Lottery Winners Reveal What Happened Next
Esther Tracey, a 24-year-old unemployed nursery nurse from Poplar, East London, celebrates her National Lottery win of £1,373,571 at The Ritz in London.
WHAT happens after you win millions on the lottery?
The Daily Mail says it’s mistery and more msiery:
Why so many lottery winners like me end up losers in love: Every week it seems another couple splits after scooping a Lotto jackpot
But it isn’t. That just makes the losers feel better. Money does buy happiness:
Dean Allen: 26 when he won £13,861,061:
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Life Imitates Seinfeld: Stop Or My Teenaged Daugther Shoots!
LIFE imitates Seinfeld: (and teenagers, we have you surrounded):
Heavily armed tactical officers surrounded a 12-unit apartment building in Waterloo, southern Ontario, Canada, on Saturday afternoon, after citizens and police reported gunshots.
But about two hours later, Waterloo Regional Police determined it was someone who had repeatedly slammed a door inside one of the apartments in the building. Nobody was hurt. No charges were laid, said Staff Sgt. Deborah McBride. “Apparently there was a heavy door that when it was slammed sounded just like a shotgun,” McBride said.
“We don’t know who slammed the door, but we don’t think there was malicious intent,” McBride said.
Run the CCTV fotage:
Slamming door brings big police response to Waterloo neighbourhood
Free Speech: The FA Wants Malky Mackay Charged With Thought Crimes
Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay with player recruitment staff member Iain Moody (left) before the game
EAT your heart out Ched Evans, writing in the Telegraph Jason Burt turns his gaze on Malky Mackay, the former Cardiff City manger whose offensive private emails became a public stick with which to beat him.
It was alleged Mackay shared racist, homophobic and misoynistic texts with former Cardiff colleague Iain Moody, who resigned his position as Crystal Palace sporting director shortly after the messages came to light.
Let’s look again at what was found:
“Go on, fat Phil. Nothing like a Jew that sees money slipping through his fingers.” On football agent Phil Smith.
“He’s a snake, a gay snake. Not to be trusted.” Referring to an official at another club.
“Not many white faces amongst that lot but worth considering.” Referring to a list of potential signings.
“I bet you’d love a bounce on her falsies”
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Posted: 17th, November 2014 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Sports | Comment
Newspaper Asks Its Journalists To Deliver Door To Door
NEWSPAPERS are in peril:
– One of California’s largest newspapers has asked reporters and other employees to help deliver papers on Sundays, according to a memo obtained by Reuters, the latest sign of the toll that financial woes are taking on print journalism.
The Santa Ana-based Orange County Register, which recently stopped contracting with rival Los Angeles Times for delivery services, is offering $150 gift cards to staff members if they deliver 500 to 600 papers, according to the memo sent on Thursday, which was confirmed by the paper’s top editor.
“The entire company — all departments, including our newsroom — has been asked to help during what has clearly been a difficult situation,” editor Rob Curley said in an email to Reuters. “It’s strictly voluntary.”
Looks like another job for the interns…
Nick The Whistleblower Shows Us The Murderous Westminster Peadophile Gang We Want To Believe In
THE police and media have yet to find what happened to Charlene Downes or Paige Chivers. No-one has come forward to tell the media about what they witnessed happne to those two missing teenagers. The focus is all on alleged crimes against children by a gang of Westminster elites.
The Mirror has news on that:
‘I watched Tory MP MURDER a boy during depraved Westminster VIP paedophile party’
Keir Mudie and Mark Conrad report:
The abuse victim’s claims are being treated as credible by detectives now investigating THREE murders allegedly linked to a network of VIP perverts.
Do the police dare treat anyone with a claim as incredible after the Rotherham abuse scandal, where the cops an State ignored the victims?
A victim of the Westminster paedophile abuse scandal has claimed he saw a Conservative MP murder a young boy during a depraved sex party.
Surely that ‘victim’ is an ‘alleged victim’. Can the paper say what it likes about the Tories with impugnity?
And the Sunday People can reveal that detectives are investigating THREE murders allegedly linked to a network of VIP perverts.
The horrifying account comes days after Scotland Yard confirmed they have launched a murder probe connected to allegations of sex abuse from the 1970s and 80s.
Today the Sunday People and Exaro investigations agency expose the full extent of shocking events the witness, known as Nick, has described to the Metropolitan Police paedophile unit.
What is Exaro?
Exaro is an online service that investigates issues that are important to business in particular and to the public in general, but which are being inadequately covered – or ignored – by the mainstream media.
Our specialisms are in-depth investigation and analysis. We investigate the decisions and actions of people in power. We root out material to provide insight, often using the increasing volume of data made available by public bodies, information that is rarely scrutinised.
For each investigation, we are committed to:
searching for the facts;
finding out all the relevant information;
regularly updating what we uncover.
Exaro is for people who want to be well informed about public governance, international affairs, and economic and commercial issues.“Exaro” is a Latin word; it is the first-person singular of the verb, “exarare”, which means to plough, to dig up, or to inscribe on a wax tablet. “Exaro” is pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable, just like “excavate”.
It’s run by New Sparta, which is owned by very wealthy fund manager Jerome Booth, who appears to have donated £10,000 to the Conservative Party and a large amount to the Anglia Ruskin University.
Back to the Mirror:
Nick said: “I watched while that happened. I am not sure how I got out of that. Whether I will ever know why I survived, I am not sure.” Eighteen months later, he claims a third boy was killed by two unknown men in front of another MP. Nick told of his terror as he and the strangling victim were driven to an orgy.
He said: “We looked at each other and saw the fear in each other’s eyes. We said nothing. I knew we were being taken somewhere to be sexually abused by powerful men. But I had no idea of the true horror of what was about to happen.”
And:
In hours of video testimony, he described how he saw the Conservative MP – who was sitting in Parliament at the time – throttle the boy. He said: “The MP was particularly nasty, even among the group of people who sexually abused me and others. I still find it difficult to talk about these incidents after all these years.”
A second witness has already corroborated some of the information related to the case, lending weight to Nick’s claims and strengthening his credibility in the eyes of the police. Nick has also told detectives about the death of another boy during a depraved sexual assault in the presence of a Conservative minister – a different MP to the one involved in the first killing.
Some of the information? Which bits? We’re not told.
And:
Nick said his abusive father supplied him to a group of MPs and other VIPs who held abuse parties at Dolphin Square – an apartment complex in Pimlico, near Parliament – and at other locations in London. He says the minister repeatedly raped him and other boys aged between ten and 14.
The Met’s Operation Midland has released a statement:
“Detectives from the child abuse investigation command are working closely with colleagues from homicide and major crime concerning this information.”
But facts are thin, no?
Nick went on: “There will be other people who know about the punishment and abuse carried out by this group – drivers of the cars who took the boys to venues, staff at the venues. Perhaps they can now come forward.”
But they haven’t come forward.
Last week we told how Nick, now in his 40s, had identified a shamed top diplomat and MI6 chief as one of his attackers. He picked out a photo of Sir Peter Hayman – a former deputy director of the secret service. Hayman, for many years a pillar of the establishment, caused a scandal when he was caught with paedophile literature.
Attorney-General Sir Michael Havers has denied as “completely untrue” the allegation by Mr Geoffrey Dickens, MP for Huddersfield West, that retired diplomat, Sir Peter Hayman had escaped prosecution because of an Establishment cover-up
Hayman died in 1992. His story is well known. Can we be more circumscpct as to why a man might pick his face from the pile? The Mail give us the background:
His [Hayman’s] membership number was ‘330’ and this organisation of similarly minded if not gilded individuals was called the Paedophile Information Exchange… PIE supported and encouraged illegal sexual relationships between adults and children. In other words, child abuse.
Sir Peter lived with his wife of 40 years in a lovely home in South Oxfordshire where, in a parallel existence, he was deputy chairman of the Conservative Association. He acted as a churchwarden’s assistant, and opened the local fete.
Everyone there thought he was marvellous. Who was to know otherwise?
That was because his official PIE literature and graphic correspondence with fellow paedophiles was by squalid necessity sent to a flat at 95 Linden Gardens, Notting Hill Gate, London, some 50 miles away.
The ex-diplomat had rented it for that purpose — as well as extra-marital sexual liaisons — under the name of Peter Henderson. The fact that the flat was almost across the road from the Soviet embassy was simply an irony. How the KGB would have loved to have made blackmail use of his peccadillo.
Then Sir Peter made a mistake. He left a packet of paedophile material in an envelope on a London bus. It was addressed to Mr Henderson at Linden Gardens in Notting Hill. A fellow passenger was curious. The package came into the possession of the police.
And:
Soon afterwards, in November 1978, they raided the Linden Gardens flat.
What they found was a huge trove of revolting paedophilia and other extreme pornography. Among it was a library of 45 substantial diaries in which Sir Peter had recorded in detail his sexual experiences and fantasies, the latter including sex with minors.
There was also substantial correspondence with other PIE members — 111 pages in one instance — in which they shared their otherwise secret desires and other graphic paedophile material.
Police later found that two of the dozen or so paedophiles in Sir Peter’s epistolary circle had been writing to each other about their interest in the extreme sexual torture and murder of children.
Hideous stuff. And grist to the mill of a paedophile network in Westminster. Hayman, after all, pretty much got away with it.
Geoffrey Dickens, Tory MP for Huddersfield West, outside the House of Commons. He is expected to name the diplomat referred to in last week’s Paedophile Information Exchange trial in the House today under Parliamentary priviledge.
Date: 17/03/1981
And then:
The brother of the judge in charge of the Government’s inquiry into allegations of an establishment paedophile ring refused to prosecute a paedophile diplomat caught exchanging obscene material.
Sir Michael Havers, the late brother of Baroness Butler-Sloss, was accused of a “white-wash” after he backed a decision not to prosecute Sir Peter Hayman. Baroness Butler-Sloss, a former president of the Family Division of the High Court who led the inquest into the death of Princess Diana, has been appointed by Theresa May to lead an independent inquiry into allegations that child sex abuse was covered up by state bodies, the church, political parties and the BBC. The Home Office said she had “impeccable credentials”.
And:
Seven men and two women, including Hayman, were named as possible defendants in a report submitted by the Metropolitan Police to the Director of Public Prosecutions. However, only one of the group was prosecuted after police found they had an “obsession” with sadistic sexual activity involving children.
Three years later, in the House of Commons, Geoffery Dickens, the MP who had campaigned against child abuse, used Parliamentary privilege to name Hayman. He feared an establishment cover-up like that which surrounded the Cambridge spy ring.
He asked Sir Michael Havers – then the Attorney General – if he “will prosecute Sir Peter Hayman.. for sending and receiving pornographic material through the Royal Mail.”
In a written answer, Sir Michael said he agreed with the DPP not to prosecute Hayman or the other members of the obscene correspondence ring.
There was “no evidence” that the diplomat had sent or received “extreme” material, Sir Michael said. The obscene correspondence “had been contained in sealed envelopes passing between adult individuals in a non-commercial context”, he added.Sir Michael added: “Although Sir Peter Hayman had subscribed to PIE, that is not an offence and there is no evidence that he was ever involved in the management.”
Like Jimmy Savile, Hayman’s dead. You also can’t ask the dead for their version of events.
Hayman had a revolting passion. But not being able to defend yourself isn’t fair, is it.
A statement by Scotland Yard said: “Our inquiries have revealed further information regarding possible homicide. Based on our current knowledge, this is the first time this information has been passed to the Met.”
And then this in the Mirror’s story:
Investigator Mark Conrad says…
He’s not a police invstigators. Mr Conrad’s Twitter profile says he is a “freelance investigative journalist and researcher”. And he says:
“Nick’s account of his decade-long abuse – the trafficking, sexual and physical assaults and murders – and revelations about the status of the men defied belief. Unlike many abuse survivors, Nick has gone on to have a successful life. He is intelligent, articulate and strong-minded.
“His accounts are uncomfortably detailed and consistent… Like Exaro, the police regard Nick as credible.”
But they are untested. The investigation is nothing of the sort: it’s one man making claims to a willing-to-believe audience.
Child abuse is an abhorrent crime. But this rush to believe the whistleblower is pandering to the conspiracy theories of a powerful network of paedophiles. The journalist is simply receiving the truth that makes the believed-in conspiracy fact. No dirt has been dug. The ‘victim’ has been heard but not cross-examined. Why did he pick Hayman out and no-one else? Why aren’t names being named? Why did he wait so long to tell all?
This unquestioning aproach to whistleblowers goes to the top. Tom Watson MP says:
“The allegations of cruelty, torture and murder are truly shocking and go far beyond the case I raised with the Prime Minister two years ago. The public will be deeply concerned which is why it is vital the police quickly establish the facts. It’s such a disturbing allegation that I have no doubt the resources will be found to conduct a thorough investigation.
“If true, this is a vital piece of the jigsaw in the pursuit of organised child abuse.
“We are at the point where the government should consider a national police inquiry made up of specialists from around the country. It is unfair to ask the police in London alone to investigate alleged crimes that took place in many regions of the UK. I am writing to the PM to make this request.”
All that from one testimony. And Watson’s in the mainstream, where conspiracies now live.
Meanwhile, what about Charlene Downes and Paige Chivers, teenagers who went missing long after Nick’s story of alleged depravity in high places is set? In the rush to bury the past, today’s news is being overlooked…
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Jimmy Savile Compensation: Victims Roll Up To The Great Charity Give Away
Slogans painted on the cottage owned by Jimmy Savile in Glencoe, Scotland.
HOW much does one of Sir Jimmy Savile’s victims get? The Sun knows:
OUTRAGED victims of Jimmy Savile have been told to expect payouts of just £7,500.
Surely the victims are more outraged that the BBC and NHS’s pet paedo got away with his alleged crimes?
Those targeted by the sex beast are expected to reject the “pitiful” compensation. It is thought people who were raped by the late DJ may get slightly more.
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Posted: 16th, November 2014 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Lars Klevberg Teaches Media To Treat Everything From the Middle East As A Fake
DO you believe what you see coming from the Middle East? You should doubt it:
An online video that purported to show the heart-stopping moment when a small boy risked his life to rescue a little girl from gunfire in Syria has been exposed as an elaborate hoax. Lars Klevberg, 34, a Norwegian film director based in Oslo, admitted last night that he was behind the staged clip, which has been viewed more than five million times and prompted international headlines.
Mr Klevberg scripted the scene after watching news coverage of the conflict in Syria…
The 60-second video appears to show a Syrian street raked by gunfire. A boy, who looks no more than ten years old, tries to reach a girl of about the same age as she shelters from gunfire behind a burnt-out car.
Entitled “Syrian hero boy rescues girl in shootout”, the video then shows the boy falling dramatically within yards of the car, apparently feigning injury, before leaping forward and pulling the terrified young girl to safety. They then run, hand-in-hand, under heavy fire to shelter.
The children were actors.
Mr Klevberg said, adding that his purpose had been to urge “action on behalf of innocent children”.
What a guy:
Klevberg contacted the BBC and admitted that the video was not authentic, revealing that the footage had been filmed in May 2014, not in Syria but in Malta. The Oslo-based filmmaker said his team wanted to draw attention to the plight of children in war-torn Syria:
If I could make a film and pretend it was real, people would share it and react with hope. We shot it in Malta in May this year on a set that was used for other famous movies like Troy and Gladiator. The little boy and girl are professional actors from Malta. The voices in the background are Syrian refugees living in Malta…
By publishing a clip that could appear to be authentic we hoped to take advantage of a tool that’s often used in war; make a video that claims to be real. We wanted to see if the film would get attention and spur debate, first and foremost about children and war. We also wanted to see how the media would respond to such a video.
Well, if it confirms their prejudices, they lap it up without question.
The New York Daily News lapped it up:
Metro was iumpressed:
In the incredible clip, which was released by Syrian activist group Shaam News Network, the boy can be seen lying on the floor as bullets whip around him in a rubble-filled courtyard.
(Shaam – the second ‘a’ is silent.)
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Police Seek ‘Socially Awkward’ Asian Male Who Chatted Up Women On Campus
TO the University of Waterloo, where being socially akward is a crime. Cambridge University students look on with fear:
“I’m sure some of them were very concerned about how this guy approached, but we still had to deal with university policies and laws, and we’re not seeing he’s breached any of those,” says Dan Anderson, director of UW Police Services.
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Women Are Child Abusers: Gwendolynn Lindgren Is Not A Man
IT’s not only men who attack children. But if you read the mainstream media, you wouldn’t know it.
The Guardian notes:
There is much more we don’t know, including how many paedophiles there are: 1-2% of men is a widely accepted figure…
And of women? No data is given. Not even a guess.
An Albuquerque woman photographed herself engaging in sex acts with a 7-year-old boy and told police she couldn’t promise to not do it again, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. Gwendolynn Lindgren, 34, was charged with criminal sexual penetration, among other things, after her husband told police he found photographs of her and the boy in emails on her cell phone.
We’ll keep track on the women who abuse children. It might makle men feel less like abusers-in-waiting…
Septic Willies On Rosetta and Philae : Dr Matt Taylor’s Sexist Shirt Sell Out
SO what the European Space Agency landed the Philae spacecraft on that singing comet. It was an awesome thing. Humanity is great. The names Rosetta and Philae are high on the news cycle. Space and the adventures imagained and realised is captivating.
Jonathan Freedland spoke for many:
…the fascination this adventure has stirred. Part of it is simple, a break from the torments down here on earth… For a few merciful days, the news has featured a story remote from the bloodshed of Islamic State and Ukraine, from the pain of child abuse and poverty. Even those who don’t dream of escaping this planet can relish the escapism.
But the comet landing has provided more than a diversion: it’s been an antidote too. For this has been a story of human cooperation in a world of conflict. The narrow version of this point focuses on this as a European success story. When our daily news sees “Europe” only as the source of unwanted migrants or maddening regulation, Philae has offered an alternative vision; that Germany, Italy, France, Britain and others can achieve far more together than they could ever dream of alone. The geopolitical experts so often speak of the global pivot to Asia, the rise of the Bric nations and the like – but this extraordinary voyage has proved that Europe is not dead yet.
Humanity is wonderful.
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Posted: 15th, November 2014 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment (1)
New Feminists Want Your Balls Censored: Shaming Men Into Silence On The Internet
The dressmaker’s dummy, the kitchen apron, the shopping bag and the clothes line all figured in this “banner” carried by Stephanie Gilbert, (L) and Judy Gilbert-Scott as militant women rallied at speaker’s corner, Hyde Park.
Date: 06/03/1971
THE web hates men because of new feminism. Well, so they say…
Sigh. A new current has developed in the polluted ocean of online videos. If you’re a Facebook user, you’ll have noticed it: it involves women, and men, and the former being incessantly harassed by the latter.
I’m talking about those hidden-camera clips in which a female actor records the appalling level of harassment that she was subjected to by men in the street.
The best known was made by Shoshana Roberts, who was filmed walking the streets of New York amid catcalls and sexual comments. Thus far, it has attracted a staggering 36 million views, and has been hailed as a much-needed exposure of the plight of a woman in 21st Century society…
Depictions of decent men have now become strikingly absent online. The overall suggestion is that men are guilty until proven innocent; this only reinforces gender stereotyping.
Indeed, we have reached a stage where feminist sites like Jezebel run stories like “How to kick men in the balls: an illustrated guide”, confirming the impression that the internet hates men. Misogynist trolling by horrid little men is a huge concern, but the answer is not to alienate the rest of us.
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Posted: 14th, November 2014 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Operation Fairbank: Murder, Rumour And Burying The Dead In Evil
TV and radio star Jimmy Savile entertains schoolchildren trapped in a broken-down lift in London. The youngsters were being presented by Mr Savile with a £7,500 cheque for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Ref #: PA.14859346. Date: 07/09/1973
DO we belive a Westminster paedophile ring operated in the 1960s and 1970s? Do we believe there was murder?
Scotland Yard is looking at claims that an alleged paedophile ring with links to former government figures, could have been involved in a murder
Any facts?
Detectives investigating allegations of organised child sex abuse in the 1970s and 1980s are now examining possible murder links, the Metropolitan Police has said.
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Serena Bowes: Persecuting The Victim With The European Arrest Warrant
IN “Fashion student Serena Bowes faces extradition to Italy after being accused of making up rape story”, the Telegraph reports:
Bowes, who claims she was raped during college trip to Florence, is refusing to return to Italy after being told she could face 12 years in prison for lying
Martin Evans tells the story:
A student who was allegedly raped while on a college trip to Italy, has been told she could be extradited and charged with making the story up. Serena Bowes, 21, was visiting Florence as part of her fashion degree, when she claims she was raped by a man in a nightclub bathroom. She reported the alleged attack to the Italian police and was also examined by a doctor at a hospital in Florence.
But after returning home and attempting to get on with her life, she was astonished to receive a letter from the Italian Police stating that she could be charged falsifying the rape and faces up to 12 years in prison if found guilty.
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Leicester Mercury Says Haymarket Shopping Centre Has NOT Cancelled Christmas
THE Leicester Mercury has news: the Haymarket Shopping Centre has NOT cancelled Christmas:
As you were…
Free Speech: Lefty Twitter And The Ideas Police
Freddie deBoer on the you-can’t-say-that moraliser who police free speech on twitter:
“It may be tempting to embrace the violent power of the state as the solution to ideas and expression you find hateful and ugly… Whether the elites that so credulously embrace the notion of empowering the police state to squash harassment like it or not. And it may be tempting to embrace the coercive power of large corporations to limit speech online. But I promise you: that power will also be used against you by your antagonists, who are opportunistic and learn quickly.
“Lefty Twitter might be obsessed with policing language. But they won’t actually get to do the policing themselves. Instead, they will hand that work off to the same broken institutions and corrupt authorities that they themselves have diagnosed as broken and corrupt. And that is one of these fundamental, existential paradoxes within contemporary left-wing orthodoxy today: simultaneously recognizing that we live within structures of intrinsic, intentional inequality and injustice, and yet forever ready to abandon that skepticism towards those structures when it seems convenient to do so.”
Free speech. No buts…
The Creative Class Are Heading Back To The Suburbs
LONDON is now so expensive to live in, artists and creatives cannot flourish – well n ot unless they have family money to rely on. The youth are screwed.
There’s an established image in the collective imagination of the kinds of places artsy types tend to live: the painter in a Paris garret, the actor in a Brooklyn brownstone, the musician in a San Francisco Victorian, or the playwright in a fisherman’s shack on Cape Cod. It’s all very romantic. We currently associate these places with vacation destinations and cutting edge high culture so of course that’s where the avant garde would naturally congregate. But people forget that in their day these were the cheapest least desirable locations available.
These spots were economically depressed, populated by the lower working class, immigrants, “working girls”, and the substance abusers of their day. In short, they were places that respectable people avoided and where the authorities generally turned a blind eye. How else could artists survive without family money or the income that comes with full time employment in the mainstream economy? And where else could fringe elements of various subcultures thrive without inhibition from the dominant culture? It’s only after decades of anonymous incubation that these neighborhoods eventually became safe and vibrant enough to attract middle class residents in search of good food, nightlife, and tourist photo opportunities.
The bright young things move in. Then the gallery owners take a pitch and attract the monied crowd. The property prices go up. The place gets hosed down. Everything vital is now retro or artisan and 10 times as dear. And only the impoversish creative class moves to… the suburbs!
Wheelchairs And Prams Fight For A Fair Service On The Bus
Disabled rights demonstrators chain themselves to a double decker bus on London’s Westminster Bridge. The action coincided with a mass lobby of Parliament to demand that MP’s support the latest Bill to give disabled people rights under the law.
Date: 09/02/1995
WHO has right of way on a bus: wheelchairs or pushchairs? No contest surley. Wheelchairs must win. Children can be carried. Unless you’re on an ATOS bus in which case the wheelchair user can bloody well walk:
A court will decide whether wheelchair users have priority over pushchairs on buses, but how do you decide who is more entitled to the space? In February 2012, wheelchair user Doug Paulley was not allowed to board a bus in Leeds because the wheelchair space was taken by a pushchair. The mother, not wanting to wake her sleeping baby, refused to move.
Paulley was left with no choice but to get off and wait for the next bus. That one was an hour away, and took him to the wrong side of the city. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back. “That day in February resulted in me not using a bus again for a year. I lost all confidence and couldn’t face it anymore,” he said last year.
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Sidcuip Burger Bar Bans Wheelchair-Bound Woman For Smelling Bad
“BASICALLY I went into a cafe, it’s one that I always go to except during the summer I’ve been sitting outside. It wasn’t great weather so this time I sat inside. I got to my table where I normally sit. I made sure I was out of the way of everyone else. Despite this the guy working there, he basically said to me you cannot sit inside because the customers have complained about you.”
So says Kelly Sawyer, 34, of her visit to the Star Burger in Sidcup High Street,
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Rotheram Abuse: The Police Called Me A Liar And Destroyed My Statement
THE BBC has news of Rotherham, where the State turned a blind eye to child abuse. So far, no police officer, politician, lawyer or doctor has been arrested about their roles in the scandal. What we have is educated guess work – 1,4000 children were abused – a police force in full PR mode and politicians scrambling to be righteous and consign the horror to the past.
What we need are evidence and criminal trials.
Police in Rotherham tore up paperwork relating to one child sex abuse victim and stopped another from being medically examined, the BBC has been told.
Anorak likes to be objective. But do we all believe the victim’s claims? We do. They are too easy to believe.
One woman claimed a policeman called her a liar after she reported being abused aged 15, and the other alleges police prevented her being examined after she was abused aged 13.
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Black Marks And White Boards: Minneapolis Schools Set Racial Quotas For Discipline
IN the USA, where equiality rules, Minneapolis public schools have set a racial quota for discipline:
“Moving forward, every suspension of a black or brown student will be reviewed by the superintendent’s leadership team. The school district aims to more deeply understand the circumstances of suspensions with the goal of providing greater supports to the school, student or family in need. This team could choose to bring in additional resources for the student, family and school. . . . MPS must aggressively reduce the disproportionality between black and brown students and their white peers every year for the next four years. This will begin with a 25 percent reduction in disproportionality by the end of this school year; 50 percent by 2016; 75 percent by 2017; and 100 percent by 2018.”
Anyone think that just means less suspensions?
Paedo-Panic: Puxton Park Would Have Let Jimmy Savile Watch The Birds
CAROLE Mideley has few sane words about the paedo panic. Last week a man was banned from Puxton Park park for being an adult male unaccompanied by a child:
We can be bawled out by security for filming our own toddler in a ballpool (legally you can photograph anyone in a public place, but on private property it is at the management’s discretion), yet serial child sex abusers ran rampant in places like Rotherham undisturbed. What seems to matter is being seen to be vigilant, even if it does amount to a hill of beans. Julie Spence, former chief constable of Cambridgeshire, recently said the force spent more on CRB checks than they did on real child protection, ie, tracking actual sex offenders. About 3.9 million such checks were carried out last year. Most will be vital, of course, but 843,000 of those were on volunteers offering to help with school trips, discos or reading. A friend recently volunteered as a helper at her son’s school but was told she hadn’t been “trained”. What they probably meant but were too polite to say was that she hadn’t been vetted for a paedo past. Worth remembering, meanwhile, that a CRB-type check would have picked up nothing amiss with Jimmy Savile.
Free Harry Roberts – But The T-Shirt Costs
HARRY Roberts, the murderer, is free.
A police killer who was jailed for life in 1966 for the murders of three unarmed officers has been released from prison. Harry Roberts, 78, was part of a gang planning an armed robbery when they were disturbed by the policemen in west London. He was released from Littlehey prison in Cambridgeshire on Monday, The Sun reported.
Eric The Chick-fil-A Manager’s List of Banned Words
FREE Speech Watch:
Eric, a manager at a Chick-fil-A restaurant, made a list of words that he forbade his staff from uttering while at work. When someone crossed out “bae” he added it back on the list and wrote, “scratch it our & you lose your employee meals!”
Spotter: Boing Boing
Hart To Heart: Woman Marries Anonymous Sperm Donor Who Fathered Her Child
MODERN romance features Aminah Hart who wanted her daughter to meet her biological father – the one who sired her by donating his sperm.
A British-born woman who had a child through IVF is engaged to the anonymous sperm donor she tracked down and later fell in love with. Aminah Hart, 45, an Australian woman born in London, only met her fiance after she had given birth to their daughter Leila, it has been reported.
She originally selected Scott Andersen, an Australian cattle farmer who lives on an island off the south coast, from five possible sperm donors because she liked that he listed himself as “happy and healthy”.
Aminah discovered his identity through a series of internet searches based on his name as well as his profession as a cattle breeder and his role as a Aussie rules football coach.
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Posted: 11th, November 2014 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment
Madeleine McCann: 7 Arguidos, DNA, A Lone Woman And Exclusives
MADELEINE McCann: a look at reporting on the missing child in the news. Today the tabloids’ ‘Our Maddie’ is back on the Mirror’s front page:
The ‘EXCLUSIVE’ news is that there a ‘Brit Man & Woman’ are ‘NEW SUSPECTS’.
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Posted: 11th, November 2014 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews | Comment
