Abu Izzadeen/Omar Brooks Released From Prison
Abu Izzadeen/Omar Brooks, was sentenced to prison for inciting terrorism and fundraising.
I cant really remember the situation of his arrest, but I will link to three videos that I saw on another blog:
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdH2WggEuUY]
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUegJUROSBI]
and finally, when I first heard of this guy (also taken from that same blog), which I agreed with and thought nothing wrong with:
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnPhuWFoXtU]
The author of that blog considers him and people like him to political prisoners for the views they hold.
Do you agree or disagree?
footage of time traveller in 1928 charlie chaplin film?
Its a woman with a mobile phone in a 1928 film.
Video of the clip along with the person who found it talking about it - going on and on and on:
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So... most important question - how many minutes and texts she got on her package?
Boris Johnson criticised for 'Kosovo' benefits remark
Ministers have criticised Boris Johnson for saying he would not allow "Kosovo-style social cleansing" in London, amid a row over housing benefit reforms.
Many London MPs are concerned the £400-a-week cap will force people out of the city and the Conservative mayor said that would not happen "on my watch".
Read more @ BBC News
Stop and searches carried out: 100,000+, Terrorists caught: zero
Over 100,000 stops-and-searches: zero terrorists
When it comes to wasting police time, the biggest offenders appear to be...the police. That, at least, appears to be the conclusion of the Home Office. Its official statistics, published today, show that while police stopped over 100,000 individuals last year to "prevent acts of terrorism", there was not a single arrest for a terror offence as a result of these stops.
Read more @ The Register
Dispatches: Iraq's Secret War Files
This was broadcast last night and if you missed it, you have 29 days to watch it here.
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMxEuXb6dw4]
Quite damning - involving torture, murder, mass murder and all round cowardice by the coalition forces and Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army.
Support our troops? Not when they do this!
The MoD is furious that wikileaks has released many documents about the Iraq War.
They are furious as incidents like this one where a British soldier murdered an 8 year old girl as she played in the street have a very slight chance of becoming public knowledge:
...Lawyer Phil Shiner said the murder happened while soldiers were handing out sweets to children.
He said: "The tank stopped at the end of the street, she's there in her yellow dress, a rifleman pops up and blows her away."...
So, to those that say "you should support our troops", I ask, do they support murder?
Paul the World Cup octopus dies in his tank in Germany
Paul the octopus, an unlikely star of the 2010 World Cup who 'predicted' the outcome of eight matches, has died at an aquarium in Germany.
Staff at the Sea Life centre in Oberhausen said they were "devastated" to learn that he had passed away during the night.
Read more @ BBC News
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Forced Marriage vs Gay Daughter
"I took off my hijab, and I threw it on the floor and my brother got really mad. It's the worst thing I could have done to offend my religion, aside from burn or tear the Koran.
"My mother, she kind of stood still, and started listening, and it was very liberating that she finally wanted to hear what I had to say.
"I told her about my sexuality and I said 'that's right, I do meet girls, and I love it' and I told her that she had been hurting me really badly, and I will never forgive her."
Now 20, Reviva - not her real name - recounts the day she finally came out to her family, her pupils flash and the flat, matter-of-fact delivery of her story-telling becomes briefly animated.
This, you realise, is the pivotal moment in a disturbing journey of self-discovery which encompasses family estrangement, exorcism, and attempted suicide.
Like hundreds of young men and women in Britain, Reviva was forced into marriage in spite of her sexual orientation, and still carries deep psychological scars from years of torment at the hands of her parents.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11613992