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POPSCat Starts Race War "I made myself look marginally bigger and approached very slowly at a slight sideways angle, in accordance with accepted protocol. Sparks then swiped with his left paw and I was forced to act." He added: "Ask yourselves, if you awoke in the middle of the night to find an intruder spraying warm urine over everything you hold dear, would you have behaved any differently?" Sparks said: "The area Jazzy describes as 'his' garden is actually between our two properties and belongs to an elderly woman who has no cats. "It is widely acknowledged as neutral territory and is used by the local cat community as a toilet and napping area. "So I think Jazzy can kiss his balls goodbye." Jazzy continues: This is definitely the beginning of a Race War.
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POPSStarkey sick of hearing Jamaican patois at the Ivy Dr Starkey's outburst follows his claim the riots started because young white people had become black 'thus making it very difficult for the police to see them at night'. He also claimed young people, who are all exactly the same now, stole televisions because of the way they talked. But as riot-loving communists said that Alf Garnett with a PhD and a contract with Channel Four is still a racist, Dr Starkey was defended heroically by a couple of right wing white men causing everyone in Britain to immediately realise they had made a big fuss over nothing. Julian Cook, professor of shut up, you're wrong at Delingpole University, said: "When did it become racist to make sweeping generalisations about ethnicity?" Publishing his letter to the Ivy, Dr Starkey said the Oxford and Cambridge Club was just as bad, 'especially after they granted full membership rights to bitches'.
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POPSPolice hunt 30,000 rioters The prison population in England and Wales reached a record high for the second week running today as more and more people are sent to jail over the riots. The total number of prisoners hit 86,654, 723 more than the previous record of 85,931 set last week and less than 1,500 short of the usable operational capacity of 88,093, Ministry of Justice figures showed. BREAKDOWN OF RIOT CRIMES Of the 3,296 offences here is a breakdown of some of the more extreme crimes: Arson: 162 Assault with injury: 80 Burglary in a dwelling: 48 Burglary in other buildings: 1101 Robbery of business property: 102 Common assault: 32 Criminal damage to a motorvehicle: 399 Murder: 2 Robbery of personal property: 310 Serious wounding: 48 The Government said there will be enough jail places for anyone sentenced as a result of the violence and looting that swept across cities last week and it is understood contingency measures are in place.
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POPSEngland is NOT in moral decline, blasts Blair Instead he insists the disturbances were a product of alienated youths from 'profoundly dysfunctional families' and the problem needed a specific solution. He wrote in an article for The Observer warning that if people started to believe Britain had lost its moral compass society at large would be depressed and the country's image abroad would be ruined. Mr Blair said that while the left argued the rioters were the victims of social deprivation and the right said they needed to take responsibility for their actions, both sides 'just miss the point'. The 'big cause', he said, lay with alienated youths from dysfunctional families living outside 'any canons of proper behaviour
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POPSMan who saved girl says he's illegal immigrant "I came to work, to work hard," he told Univision. "The only problem is I entered the country illegally and now we can't afford a lawyer to file the immigration papers." Some argue he is an example of the kind of immigrant the federal government will now largely leave alone. The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that deportations would focus on criminals. "As exceptional as his story is," said Christina Parker, a spokeswoman for Border Network for Human Rights in El Paso, "It points to the fact that most undocumented immigrants living in the United States are not criminals. He's more than not a criminal now. He's a hero."
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POPSRobin Hood resigns due to ‘disillusionment’ with job
And the poor were hardly the paragons of virtue. They started giving me shopping lists, like plasma televisions, Kappa tracksuits and Nike trainers. I would be particularly annoyed when they would waste a large portion of the money I gave them on drunken, violent nights out in the city centre.’ Mr Hood’s views of the wealthy also changed during his employment, ‘I grew to learn that most of them were doing highly stressed, highly responsible jobs, and that much of their income was being spent on their day-to-day living. They had mortgages, families and other financial commitments. On top of that, they were mostly well-educated and interesting to talk to. I began to feel guilty for my crimes against them.’ Mr Hood’s employers said that the news had been a shock to them, but said that they had been considering making him redundant anyway. ‘After all’ they said, ‘the poor seem more than capable of robbing from the rich themselves these days.’
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POPSDavid Starkey Spells Out Riot Culture In Black & White "This was an explosion of the 'new' violent, nihilistic, gangster culture that has become a fashion. A fashion used by a section of blacks and whites, boys and girls. A fashion which is wholly false, that has intruded this country. We must be rid of it (or words to that effect)." Replying to Starkey today Ken Lucid, head of the History Faculty at Maidenhead University:- "I'm on holiday", declared Lucid from a smoke-filled bar in the Eastern Ukraine. "These minor convulsions in the United Kingdom cannot compare to what happened here in 1943. So if Starkey wants to waste his time on the irrelevant then so be it." "Anyway, he should have read my 2002 book 'Merging England" in which I address all issues of white and black culture coming together in one massive pot". Had he read chapter 4 he would have found a recipe for traditional Roast Beef and Yorkshire pudding with pawpaw, okra and sweet potatoes in a jerk goat meat stock."
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POPS'Paedophilia is Hollywood's biggest problem,' explosive claim by former child star Corey Feldman He told Nightline: 'The number one problem in Hollywood was, is and always will be paedophilia," he said. Exposé: He told ABC's Nightline that an abusive Hollywood mogul for the death of his friend Corey Haim 'It's all done under the radar... But it's the big secret.' 'There was a circle of older men that surrounded themselves around this group of kids. And they they had power or connections to great power in the industry. 'I was surrounded by them when I was 14 and I didnt even know it. It was only when I was old enough to know what they were. 'They all had either their own power, or connections to great power in the entertainment industry.'
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POPSLondon Riots: Mark Duggan did not shoot at police, says IPCC He was killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest, and received a second gunshot wound to his right bicep. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 6.41pm. The IPCC's statement said the bullet lodged in the police radio was a "jacketed round". This is a police-issue bullet and is "consistent with having been fired from a Heckler and Koch MP5", it said.
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POPSObama's Passive Conservatism Is Making a Lot of People Angry This gets lost in a fog of insider jargon like "pragmatic" and "consensus", or Obama's tired catchphrases "let me be clear" when he's at his foggiest and "it will not be easy" – meaning, we're screwed. It's hard to digest the truth, which is that Obama likes, and in his technocratic heart agrees with, the Republican economic diagnosis that what's wrong with America is not six wars (and counting) or 17-24 million jobless – but us average fools upon whom the profligate government lavishes too much money on "entitlements" like social security (which we've paid for out of our own pockets).
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POPSAyatollah of the RAF: Academic 'university' head is Muslim convert In another article recently he likened Churchill to Mohammed. In a letter to The Mail on Sunday entitled The Air Force Ayatollah, one senior officer expressed concern that Dr Hayward was focusing more on ‘Islamist activities that are nothing to do with the RAF’. High-flying student: Prince William was taught by Dr Hayward He also accused him of giving Muslim cadets preferential treatment and making other students take a ‘softly, softly line when writing about Muslim terrorists/Islamist extremists’. Another officer claimed cadets and lecturers ‘are in fear’ of expressing anything that might be construed as anti-Muslim sentiment. ‘Anyone who fails to follow the line that Islam is a peace-loving religion is hauled into his office for re-education,’ he said. Last night Dr Hayward said he did not ‘recognise’ the allegations.
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POPSExplosive Jackie O tapes Jackie O, as the world came to know her after she married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, asked that the tapes not be revealed until 50 years after her death but her daughter Caroline Kennedy decided to release them in a deal with ABC. According to the UK's Sunday Express, during the two-hour special, Jackie will reveal details about her husband's 'meaningless flings', including a fully-fledged affair with a 19-year-old White House intern, as well as revealing that she herself plunged into affairs.
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POPSDrunken Ben Bernanke Tells Everyone.....? "Look, they don't want anyone except for the Washington, D.C. bigwigs to know how bad shit really is," said Bernanke, slurring his words as he spoke. "Mounting debt exacerbated—and not relieved—by unchecked consumption, spiraling interest rates, and the grim realities of an inevitable worldwide energy crisis are projected to leave our entire economy in the shitter for, like, a generation, man, I'm telling you." "And hell, as long as we're being honest, I might as well tell you that a truer estimate of the U.S. unemployment rate is actually up around 16 percent, with a 0.7 percent annual rate of economic growth if we're lucky—if we're lucky," continued Bernanke, nearly knocking a full beer over while gesturing with his hands. "Of course, if everybody knew that, it would likely cripple financial markets across the entire fucking globe, even in various emerging economies with self- sustaining growth."
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POPSNorris: I was motivated by love "I do not regret supporting and seeking clemency for a friend, but I do regret to say that I did not have sufficient compassion for the victim of Ezra's crime." The veteran Senator, an academic and renowned James Joyce scholar, did not take questions as he spoke to media outside his north Dublin Georgian home, but claimed he had been wrong. "I accept more than a decade and a half later when I have now reviewed the issue, and am not emotionally involved, when I am not afraid that Ezra might take his own life, I see that I was wrong," Mr Norris said. The Senator went on to say: " Sure the Palestinian boys are up for it...they welcome big bearded hasbeens riding the arse off them.......eh, in the best Platonic way..of course".
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POPSWhite People File Class Action Suit against NAACP It was at that point, he said, that he noticed the music being played in the background made him feel lonely and depressed, adding that the NAACP knew the Blues caused people to feel down but encouraged it's playing anyways. "On behalf of millions of White Americans who have suffered depression at the hands of this dastardly music from Hell," said Mr. Reems, "we now seek justice in the courts against the NAACP. Clark Pearson, a spokesman for the Memphis chapter of the NAACP, when notified of the impending Class Action lawsuit was quoted as saying White musicians have made hundreds of millions of dollars off the Blues while Black musicians continue to live in poverty. "You know what makes me feel depressed?" he said, "Listening to Bing Crosby singing 'White Christmas' on the radio every year makes me feel depressed. I can't change the station fast enough. Last year I tripped over a chair trying to change the station. Now there's a real lawsuit!"
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POPSBlack Leaders Rebuke Obama “We’ve got to educate the American people at the same time we educate the President of the United States.” Conyers told a reporter this week. The Congressmember pointed out that the Republican leadership — neither Speaker Boehner nor Majority Leader Cantor — called for Social Security cuts in the budget deal. Says Conyers, “The President of the United States called for that, and my response to him is to mass thousands of people in front of the White House to protest this.” Another esteemed outspoken former supporter of President Obama, Cornel West, a Princeton University professor, has come out strongly opposing many of the positions the president has taken. Dr. West, who campaigned vigorously for the Obama, recently said of Mr. Obama, he is “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.”
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POPSSyria: Assad's troops launch assault Mosque loudspeakers calling the faithful to prayer and urging them to remain steadfast were almost drowned out by the relentless cacophony of gunfire and exploding tank shells. "It is a massacre," said one resident. "We don't know how many are dead because there are so many bodies on the streets that we cannot collect because it is so dangerous. They do not care who they are shooting." But in a city still scarred by the memories of 1982, when some 20,000 people were killed during the brutal suppression of an Islamist uprising against Mr Assad's father and predecessor, the mood was still one of overwhelming defiance.
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POPSOld Rockers Sitting Pretty Aerosmith don’t have this market all to themselves, however. Van Halen have already announced a rival ointment called ‘Grapes of Roth’, and the Guns n’ Roses offering, labelled ‘Don’t Cry’, features a replica Colt 45 applicator. However, all three bands need a ‘big push’ to catch the market leader, U2′s ‘Unforgettable Fire’. Pharmacy experts think it’s an uphill task. An industry insider explained: ‘Seeing Bono’s face on the tube makes people instantly think of irksome arseholes. ’
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POPSMonsignor, priests to face joint trial The four others are charged in the same criminal case with raping boys in their care. Three of them are accused of raping the same child, starting when he was a 10-year-old altar boy in 1999, according to a scathing grand jury report released in February that blamed the church for knowingly harboring priests who abused children. The Rev. Charles Engelhardt, 64, and former priest Edward Avery, 68, are accused of raping the boy in the church sacristy. Prosecutors say former sixth-grade teacher Bernard Shero, 48, raped him during a ride home from school. The fourth defendant, the Rev. James Brennan, 48, is accused of raping a 14-year-old boy in 1996.
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POPSNorway: Right Wing Terrorism Police chief Svinung Sponheim said that internet posting by Breivik suggested he has "some political traits directed toward the right, and anti-Muslim views".
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POPSMona Lisa "Stoned Out Of Her Mind" Say Art Historians The Mona Lisa probably smoked a joint and did the bong hits, before she sat down for da Vinci. The name 'Mona' is also slang for 'Stoner' or 'Weed Head' in late-Medeival Italian. Da Vinci wanted everyone to know that 'Mona' was stoned. Art historians also noted the 'Mona Lisa' is best appreciated while the viewer is stoned. Da Vinci intended the 'Mona Lisa' to appeal to stoners throughout all the ages.
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POPSEx-bishop slammed over child abuse The inquiry - headed by Judge Yvonne Murphy, who in 2009 exposed a damning catalogue of failures in the Dublin Archdiocese - found the Catholic hierarchy in Cloyne was resisting church policy 12 years after a framework document on child protection was adopted in 1996. The commission's devastating criticisms go right to the top of the Catholic Church. It lambasted the Vatican and accused it of an "entirely unhelpful" reaction for referring to the Irish Church's mandatory reporting guidelines as merely a study document.
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POPSFour Roman Catholic bishops have gone missing in China Monsignor Joseph Junqi of Guangzhou has been missing for days; his believers are praying "constantly for him and some of his priests, that they remain faithful to the principles of the Church at this critical time". In addition to those in Guangdong, another four bishops, all in communion with the Pope, should be participating in the ordination of Shantou. In recent days, cartoons have appeared that depict a young man with a T-shirt with the inscription: "To avoid the excommunications, eliminate illicit ordinations". For some believers this is a sign of pain and anger caused by the illicit ordinations in recent months. Behind the "evangelization" rhetoric is a project for the control of all episcopal ordinations. The ordination of Shantou is proof of this, where the candidate, Father Huang Bingzhang, was elected at a session controlled and manipulated by the Patriotic Association. In addition, the diocese already has a bishop in the person of Monsignor
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POPSVatican readies to recognise South Sudan The year before, the Vatican had made a formal public protest about the treatment of the Church in the south, where civil war had raged between government forces and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Front (SPLA). The Vatican had accused the government of discrimination in education, harassment of priests and closing Catholic organisations since promulgating Islamic law (sharia) in 1991. The atmosphere was so tense between the Vatican delegation and the Sudanese officials during the one-day stop in Khartoum in 1993 that more than a few reporters accompanying the pope feared that something could happen. At a papal mass on a dusty field outside the capital, soldiers in uniform and well as men in plainclothes who were apparently members of militias waved machine guns in the air right in front of the altar. It was one of the tensest moments in my more that 20 years of travels with the late pope.
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POPSSexsomnia case man cleared of rape She had gone to sleep on his bed in the early hours of September 7 2009, using his room because it was cooler. Davies was already asleep in the bed and told the court he had no idea that she was there. The teenager awoke in the night to find Davies having sex with her, the jury heard. The following day he sent her text messages asking her if anything had happened. Dr Chris Idzikowski, head of Edinburgh Sleep School, gave expert evidence at the trial. He said that sexsomnia affects mostly deep-sleeping men: "Sexsomnia is instinctive behaviour, they are not conscious at the time."
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POPSErnest Hemingway 'driven to suicide over FBI surveillance' "It's the worst hell," Hemingway said. "The goddamnedest hell. They've bugged everything. That's why we're using Duke's car. Mine's bugged. Everything's bugged. Can't use the phone. Mail intercepted." Later that month he was committed for psychiatric care at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where he received electric shock treatment. He attempted suicide several times before being released. A few days after returning home to Ketchum, he shot himself in the head with his favourite shotgun aged 61.
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POPSPrincess Charlene of Monaco 'tried to flee three times' "Several sources have even confirmed that an arrangement was reached between the future bride and groom," said a report in Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD), the French national newspaper, which provided no further details. It followed confirmation by palace sources that Albert, 53, was due to undergo DNA tests because of claims by at least one unnamed woman that he has fathered another illegitimate child.
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POPSU2 hit by 'tax dodge' protest Ireland, which has already accepted an international bailout, is suffering through deep spending cuts, tax hikes and rising unemployment as it tries to pull the debt-burdened economy back from brink of bankruptcy. "Tax(es) nestling in the band's bank account should be helping to keep open the hospitals, schools and libraries that are closing all over Ireland," Art Uncut member Charlie Dewar said ahead of the protest.
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POPSWoman with world's largest natural breasts speaks "Sometimes it irritates me when people ask, 'how do you walk?' I'm not handicapped. I've just got very large boobs which I've learned to take and just do marvellous things with," she added. Most women whose large breasts are out of proportion with their body complain of discomfort, backache, neck pain and skin irritation, as well as excessive attention from men, the difficulty of finding clothes that fit, and an inability to exercise and the need for an enlarged lavatory for my enormous ass.
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POPSJewish court sentences dog to death by stoning Clearly still offended, one of the judges sentenced the animal to death by stoning by local children. The canine target, however, managed to escape. "Let the Animals Live", an animal-welfare organisation filed a complaint with the police against the head of the court, Rabbi Avraham Dov Levin, who denied that the judges had called for the dog's stoning, Ynet reported. One of the court's managers, however, confirmed the report of the lapidation sentence to Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot. "It was ordered... as an appropriate way to 'get back at' the spirit which entered the poor dog," the paper reported the manager as saying, according to Ynet. Certain schools of thought within Judaism believe in the transmigration of souls, or reincarnation
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POPSLavish handouts are making Africa the 'spoilt child of the planet' ‘The current government is apparently determined to repeat the mistakes of the former one.’ Mr Kendrick decided to speak out as David Cameron defended of his controversial pledge to increase spending on international aid by 34 per cent while cutting budgets at home. He is now seeking a meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss his
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POPSbabies aborted because their mothers do not want two girls The study found that between four million and 12 million girls are thought have been aborted between 1980 and 2010. Raw data from India's census released in March showed the country's population comprised of 914 girls under age six for every 1,000 boys.
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POPSMugabe torturer who pulled out man's teeth with pliers However, Machemedze 'grew tired' of his work as a torturer and apparently fearing Mugabe would turn against him, he fled to Britain 11 years ago. Despite only having a temporary visa, Machemedze has remained in the country ever since, receiving taxpayer-funded treatment for HIV. Thanks to the Human Rights Act, Machemedze and his wife Febbie, 40, who also has the disease, will continue to live and be treated in Britain at the taxpayers' expense At an asylum appeal hearing in Newport, South Wales, Mr Justice David Archer said Machemedze was 'deeply involved in savage acts of extreme violence'. The tribunal also heard that some of the tortures 'were too gruesome to recount'. He added: 'Whatever crimes he has committed he cannot be returned to face the highly likely prospect of torture and execution without trial, the Sun reported.
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POPSChurch Report Cites Social Tumult in Priest Scandals But this study is likely to be regarded as the most authoritative analysis of the scandal in the Catholic Church in America. The study, initiated in 2006, was conducted by a team of researchers at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City at a cost of $1.8 million. About half was provided by the bishops, with additional money contributed by Catholic organizations and foundations. The National Institute of Justice, the research agency of the United States Department of Justice, supplied about $280,000. The report was to be released Wednesday by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, but the Religion News Service published an account of the report on its Web site on Tuesday. A copy of the report was also obtained by The New York Times. The bishops have said they hope the report will advance the understanding and prevention of child sexual abuse in society at large.
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POPSIMF Head Discovers 'Rikers Island' Is Not Plush Co-op Infamous Rikers is long known for it's stark facilities, although DSK has been granted a private room totaling 130 square feet, about the size of his walk in underwear and sex toy drawer in his six private residences scattered around the globe. Contrary to complaints by enraged Frenchmen, mostly on the left side of the political spectrum, DSK is getting room service, eating tools he can't hurt himself or others with, samplings of fine melted American cheese, healthy dry cereal with 1% milk, fresh fruit, and coffee or tea. Escargot, unless he can scrape them off the wall and find a way to saute them, are not on the menu.
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POPSChristopher Hitchens Cured After Praying to Mother Teresa "I've conducted other journalistic experiments before, like subjecting myself to water boarding," he said. "I mistakenly thought this lastest exercize wouldn't be as painful." Hitchens said that he conducted his "experiment" of praying to Mother Teresa while waiting for an appointment with his oncologist Tuesday at St. Malachy's hospital in London. When the doctor examined Hitchens, she found that all traces of his cancer had completely disappeared. Hitchens said he felt cheated rather than elated by the discovery.
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POPSIrish Church is near to collapse Fr Tony Flannery, a leading member of the Association of Catholic Priests, revealed at a conference of lay people in the Irish capital that “Cardinal O’Malley told the association the Irish Church had a decade, at most, to avoid falling over the edge and becoming like other European countries where religion is marginal to society”. Fr Flannery said Cardinal O’Malley gave a commitment to the priests’ association that he would deliver the frank assessment to the Pope in a confidential report to be submitted later this year.
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