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Iohannes posted:First the rumours were that he was gay, then a pederast. The more recent ones connect him with Thomas Hamilton. They're generally noticeable as anti-Scottish and anti-Masonic ravings by the kind of person who still talks about Zionist conspiracies and the Soviet European Union aka Mike James Are "gay" and "pederast" things that people generally associate with the Scottish?
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# ? Oct 25, 2012 12:21 |
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I had to google Mike James. Assuming you aren't for some reason talking a NBA player, I read a few of his writings and he is quite clearly certifiable. If Talk Radio was a thing in this country, he'd be the guy at the start of Children Of The Corn on the radio, exhorting for "Amens" and the coming Holy War.
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# ? Oct 25, 2012 12:36 |
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PiCroft posted:I had to google Mike James. Assuming you aren't for some reason talking a NBA player, I read a few of his writings and he is quite clearly certifiable. If Talk Radio was a thing in this country, he'd be the guy at the start of Children Of The Corn on the radio, exhorting for "Amens" and the coming Holy War. Hasn't he been on TalkSport FM a couple of times? That station attracts some real headcases (And even employs them, in some cases). Also no-one ran with "Mirror, Mirror on the wall. Guess who's been hacking after all?" as a headline over the Mirror action. Missed opportunity, lads.
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# ? Oct 25, 2012 12:41 |
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Twisted Perspective posted:There have been conspiracy theories about Gordon Brown being a paedophile floating around the net for years. That sounds like one of the most baseless rumours ever. Besides, doesn't the timing seem to suggest it was an aid of a pre-Thatcher PM?
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# ? Oct 25, 2012 15:06 |
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Please oh please let it be Thatcher herself.
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# ? Oct 25, 2012 16:25 |
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Lord of the Llamas posted:That sounds like one of the most baseless rumours ever. Besides, doesn't the timing seem to suggest it was an aid of a pre-Thatcher PM? According to this article- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/was-there-a-paedophile-ring-in-no-10-mp-tom-watson-demands-probe-8224702.html this started with the arrest of a paedophile in 1992, so it would have to be Major or earlier. But everyone knows it's Ted Heath.
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# ? Oct 25, 2012 16:28 |
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Manic_Misanthrope posted:Please oh please let it be Thatcher herself. I'm not sure what advice Jimmy Saville would have had for her
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# ? Oct 25, 2012 16:45 |
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prefect posted:Are "gay" and "pederast" things that people generally associate with the Scottish? Like the way drunken poor is associated with the Irish and Worlds Largest Parking Lot is associated with Wales?
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# ? Oct 25, 2012 16:56 |
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prefect posted:Are "gay" and "pederast" things that people generally associate with the Scottish? Yes. http://youtu.be/ybQCNb4AuW4 http://youtu.be/Jgm3xMWQVT0
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# ? Oct 25, 2012 18:28 |
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A Winner is Jew posted:Like the way drunken poor is associated with the Irish and Worlds Largest Parking Lot is associated with Wales? All I know about Wales is that Terry Jones is from there, and that they have no vowels. I thought it was relatively mountainous, though. (Which would seem to inhibit parking.) Thanks for the links -- that guy is funny.
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# ? Oct 25, 2012 20:06 |
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marktheando posted:According to this article- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/was-there-a-paedophile-ring-in-no-10-mp-tom-watson-demands-probe-8224702.html this started with the arrest of a paedophile in 1992, so it would have to be Major or earlier. But everyone knows it's Ted Heath. From my understanding of the transcript of PMQs it seemed that Watson was referring to "a minister from the early 90's" which would seem to indicate Majors government
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# ? Oct 26, 2012 01:41 |
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prefect posted:Are "gay" and "pederast" things that people generally associate with the Scottish? Only their national heroes.
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# ? Oct 26, 2012 11:23 |
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It keeps going and goingquote:Former No 10 spin doctor is told ‘lurid’ emails may have been hacked
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# ? Oct 26, 2012 11:27 |
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The Hacking Scandal has officially become the Duracell Battery of scandals, it just keeps going and going on. It's also the first time I have heard about this attempted "smear" camapaign about the health of tory officials, it's such a non-issue as I'm sure they have personal doctors watching them every step of the way, why risk a scandal over that?
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# ? Oct 26, 2012 11:40 |
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Temascos posted:The Hacking Scandal has officially become the Duracell Battery of scandals, it just keeps going and going on. It's also the first time I have heard about this attempted "smear" camapaign about the health of tory officials, it's such a non-issue as I'm sure they have personal doctors watching them every step of the way, why risk a scandal over that? Perhaps the health issue was freebasing.
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# ? Oct 26, 2012 12:13 |
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Temascos posted:It's also the first time I have heard about this attempted "smear" camapaign about the health of tory officials, it's such a non-issue as I'm sure they have personal doctors watching them every step of the way, why risk a scandal over that? This is the first you've heard about Damien McBride and co? It was back when Brown was PM, a fairly big scandal at the time and not all the smears were about their physical health.
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# ? Oct 26, 2012 13:46 |
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Brown Moses posted:It keeps going and going It would be frankly outstanding if Paul "poo poo" Staines gets dragged to court over this.
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# ? Oct 26, 2012 17:22 |
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If by any chance you eventually encounter anyone worth pissing on, please literally piss on them.
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# ? Oct 26, 2012 18:37 |
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:It would be frankly outstanding if Paul "poo poo" Staines gets dragged to court over this. Would really be the cherry on the shitcake
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# ? Oct 26, 2012 18:40 |
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Tomorrow's Mail has another breaking story in the hacking scandal: https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/262269773889536000/photo/1/large
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# ? Oct 27, 2012 22:23 |
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Mr. Squishy posted:This is the first you've heard about Damien McBride and co? It was back when Brown was PM, a fairly big scandal at the time and not all the smears were about their physical health. Yeah, I wasn't exactly the "interested in news" guy at the time, student apathy was my way, guilty as charged there. Interesting to see what will come out of the PR Firm's hacking, I would say its shocking (But given everything so far, I've gotten numb to it) but not surprising people would get data from it.
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# ? Oct 28, 2012 10:24 |
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Temascos posted:Yeah, I wasn't exactly the "interested in news" guy at the time, student apathy was my way, guilty as charged there. quote:The ideas contained in the email include spreading several false rumours: that David Cameron had an embarrassing medical condition; that George Osborne took drugs with a prostitute – an old allegation in the public domain which Osborne has flatly denied; allegations of a sexual nature about the Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries, which she vehemently denies and has consulted her lawyers about; and about a Tory MP allegedly getting publicity for a firm run by his partner. There is no evidence that any of the claims are true. From the "make poo poo up" school of political blogging.
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# ? Oct 28, 2012 11:28 |
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From today's Independentquote:Mirror hacking probe names six reporters
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# ? Oct 28, 2012 20:36 |
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Some very interesting thoughts on Jill Dando's murder and phone hacking from my fellow Hackgate investigator Greg Callus, highly recommended: http://gregcallus.tumblr.com/post/34500136975/jill-dando-john-yates-operation-oxborough
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# ? Oct 28, 2012 20:54 |
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Brown Moses posted:From today's Independent Mirror journalists posted:they plan to cite "common practice" as their defence. Ooh.
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# ? Oct 28, 2012 22:59 |
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Did anyone who applied for the BBC journalism training scheme hear about the results of the verbal reasoning test yet?
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# ? Oct 29, 2012 14:49 |
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"We Will All Go Together When We Go"
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# ? Oct 29, 2012 15:07 |
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Zephro posted:http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/apr/12/damian-mcbride-derek-draper-emails The George Osborne thing is based on this photo right?
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# ? Oct 29, 2012 15:59 |
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marktheando posted:The George Osborne thing is based on this photo right?
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# ? Oct 29, 2012 17:19 |
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Zephro posted:I believe so, but AFAIK the other stuff is completely invented. Well not *completely* invented, it's stuff like the Osborne rumour for which tenuous, circumstantial evidence existed and they were going to try to crank up the rumour mill and then drop that circumstantial evidence into the mix so as to ensure it would be interpreted as proving the rumours. They had no actual evidence, or even reason to believe that evidence existed, to support the rumours, just things like that photo that might be able to be interpreted as damning evidence.
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# ? Oct 29, 2012 17:38 |
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What, even for things like Cameron's 'embarrassing medical issue'? Wasn't that an accusation that he had some chronic STD or other sexual issue?
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# ? Oct 29, 2012 18:04 |
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quote:Leveson report delayed until late November
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# ? Oct 31, 2012 00:13 |
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What's the significance of this speech on Osbourne's in December?
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# ? Oct 31, 2012 13:13 |
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FightingMongoose posted:What's the significance of this speech on Osbourne's in December? This whole "oh no, not statutory regulation" approach that so much of the press is adopting boggles the mind. If they'd found estate agents routinely breaking the law you can bet the response wouldn't be "welp, better let them self-regulate". The naked, unclothed self-interest is breathtaking.
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# ? Oct 31, 2012 14:21 |
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Zephro posted:To tell us all about how tractor production is up 544% and the economy will reach the sunlit uplands any minute now. What is mind-boggling is how many politicians seem to support the lack of legislation. gently caress you Pickles.
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# ? Oct 31, 2012 15:21 |
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FightingMongoose posted:What's the significance of this speech on Osbourne's in December? So he can't blame the triple-dip on the lack of the report.
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# ? Oct 31, 2012 15:42 |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oct/31/sun-phone-mpquote:The Sun newspaper has been ordered by a high court judge to reveal what it knows about the alleged theft of a mobile phone belonging to Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh, which was reportedly handed to the paper by a member of the public.
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# ? Oct 31, 2012 16:06 |
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Private Eye had some early reports in Street Of Shame the last few issues saying that some editors received advanced warnings of criticism in Leveson's report, especially Paul Dacre (for "complete failure of leadership") so they can respond to it when it's released. I'd imagine that's spooked them into going full tilt at Leveson and setting up lobby groups as apparently it's "explicitly damning" of the entire industry according to the Eye. So their best chance is to try neuter it by lobbying the government to try kill any proposals Leveson recommends as when it comes out, there's going to be even more scrutiny on them.
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# ? Oct 31, 2012 18:16 |
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New post from my regular blog contributor on a mysterious fellow called Andre Baker.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/11/01/fox_news_s_roger_ailes_offered_off_the_record_help_to_condoleeza_rice_in.htmlquote:Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Gawker's John Cook recently got his hands on a handwritten note Fox News president Roger Ailes sent to Condoleezza Rice in March 2005, shortly after Rice was confirmed as George W Bush's secretary of state. On its face, it certainly doesn't make the cable news channel chief look like a model of journalist impartiality. It reads in full: This isn't the first time Alies has been accused putting his word in with those running the show; Ailes wrote a letter to Bush the week after 9/11 in a confidential communication saying "The American public would tolerate waiting and would be patient, but only as long as they were convinced that Bush was using the harshest measures possible." It's not that big of a story in the whole scandal of the Newscorp/News International narrative. I just mention it because that note to Rice felt awfully reminiscent to me of "Professionally, we're definitely in this together." (It fits better into the context of this thread if you take the 'this' to mean 'the culture of trying to call the shots of international politics from behind the scenes.')
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