Gaddafi's golden gun found in Bab al-Aziziya

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Rebel fighters kick the head of a statue of Muammar Gaddafi, after entering his compound in Tripoli

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Welcome to Libya's 'democracy'

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Libyan rebels seen firing into air inside Gadhafi compound in celebration -Reuters reporters

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BREAKING: Russian says he spoke with Gadhafi by phone and that he doesn't plan to leave Tripoli. -EF #libya

That would be this Russian...

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

Tom Watson MP: Letter to Electoral Commission re: Andy Coulson

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Call for inquiry into News International payments to Andy Coulson

On yer Tom!!!

Amy Winehouse: no 'illegal drugs found' says family

Toxicology results have shown "no illegal substances" in Amy Winehouse's system at the time of her death, according to her family.

They say tests indicate alcohol was present but it cannot yet be determined if it played a role in the singer's death last month.
Winehouse's family thanked police and added that they await the outcome of an inquest on 26 October.
Winehouse, 27, was found dead at her home on 23 July.
A post-mortem took place two days after her death.
The star had a well-publicised struggle with drink and drugs.
Winehouse's father Mitch has since announced plans to launch a foundation in his daughter's name but this has been delayed because the name The Amy Winehouse Foundation has already been registered by someone else.
He said: "The plan is to help all children - not just rehabilitation, not just substance abuse. It's to help all children in need."
Shortly after her death, Mitch Winehouse met with senior politicians in parliament to discuss drugs policy and treatment services.
Winehouse's father told friends and family at the singer's funeral service that she had been her happiest "for years" in her final days.
A cremation in Golders Green followed a private service at Edgwarebury Cemetery in Edgware, north London, on 26 July.
The singer won widespread acclaim with her 2003 debut album Frank, which saw her nominated for the Mercury prize.
But it was 2006's Back to Black which brought her worldwide stardom, and won her five Grammy Awards in the US.
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Glenn Beck is exploiting Israel

Beck’s Latest Racist Remarks Draw Hate Group Accolades

Spotting the pirates

At least two music shops were looted during the riots that swept Britain earlier this month. In north London, a warehouse containing CDs and DVDs was set on fire. This was devastating for shopkeepers and local residents. But the British media industry may note, cheerily, that its products are still seen as valuable enough to risk a prison sentence. In many countries it is hard to conceive of looters stealing music or films from a store. In a few, it is difficult to imagine that a warehouse filled with recorded music would even exist.
Since 2000, when the file-sharing service Napster first became popular, digital piracy has dogged the media industry. Over time piracy has become more diverse and sophisticated. In some countries, rather than swapping files on peer-to-peer networks, people now stash their loot in private “cyber-lockers”. As broadband speeds have increased, pirates have gone from downloading single songs to grabbing artists’ entire catalogues. Watching pirated television shows and films online has become more popular, too.
Yet piracy has not exactly swept the world. It is endemic in some countries but a niche activity in others. In some places the tide is flowing; in others it appears to be ebbing. In response, media firms are moving their resources from country to country, with potentially large consequences for the global flow of popular culture...

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Hackers deface Libya's top level domain registry with anti-Gadaffi message

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(Thanx Stan!)

How the FBI investigates the hacktivities of Anonymous

Peter Ackroyd: 'Rioting has been a london tradition for centuries'

♪♫ Bob Dylan - A Change Is Gonna Come

Dylan performs at the 70th Birthday of the Apollo theatre, bringing the song full circle from it's origins (Sam Cooke wrote it as a response to hearing Dylan's Blowing In The Wind for the first time)

The Informants

James Cromitie was a man of bluster and bigotry. He made up wild stories about his supposed exploits, like the one about firing gas bombs into police precincts using a flare gun, and he ranted about Jews. "The worst brother in the whole Islamic world is better than 10 billion Yahudi," he once said.
A 45-year-old Walmart stocker who'd adopted the name Abdul Rahman after converting to Islam during a prison stint for selling cocaine, Cromitie had lots of worries—convincing his wife he wasn't sleeping around, keeping up with the rent, finding a decent job despite his felony record. But he dreamed of making his mark. He confided as much in a middle-aged Pakistani he knew as Maqsood.
"I'm gonna run into something real big," he'd say. "I just feel it, I'm telling you. I feel it."
Maqsood and Cromitie had met at a mosque in Newburgh, a struggling former Air Force town about an hour north of New York City. They struck up a friendship, talking for hours about the world's problems and how the Jews were to blame.
It was all talk until November 2008, when Maqsood pressed his new friend.
"Do you think you are a better recruiter or a better action man?" Maqsood asked.
"I'm both," Cromitie bragged.
"My people would be very happy to know that, brother. Honestly."
"Who's your people?" Cromitie asked.
"Jaish-e-Mohammad."
Maqsood said he was an agent for the Pakistani terror group, tasked with assembling a team to wage jihad in the United States. He asked Cromitie what he would attack if he had the means. A bridge, Cromitie said.
"But bridges are too hard to be hit," Maqsood pleaded, "because they're made of steel."
"Of course they're made of steel," Cromitie replied. "But the same way they can be put up, they can be brought down."
Maqsood coaxed Cromitie toward a more realistic plan. The Mumbai attacks were all over the news, and he pointed out how those gunmen targeted hotels, cafés, and a Jewish community center.
"With your intelligence, I know you can manipulate someone," Cromitie told his friend. "But not me, because I'm intelligent." The pair settled on a plot to bomb synagogues in the Bronx, and then fire Stinger missiles at airplanes taking off from Stewart International Airport in the southern Hudson Valley. Maqsood would provide all the explosives and weapons, even the vehicles. "We have two missiles, okay?" he offered. "Two Stingers, rocket missiles."
Maqsood was an undercover operative; that much was true. But not for Jaish-e-Mohammad. His real name was Shahed Hussain, and he was a paid informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation...

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