Jul 13 2007

Queen Bites Back Post Correction

Category: In The Media,PersonalChrisM @ 3:42 am

In a previous entry (the Queen bites back post), I relayed information that the BBC had provided, detailing how the Queen had apparently stormed out of a photo session with Annie Leibovitz. However, the situation has now changed, and it would appear that this footage was ‘mistakenly’ edited incorrectly.

The remarks the Queen made to one of her aides (“I’m not changing anything. I’ve had enough dressing like this, thank you very much,”) whilst apparently walking off, were actually made before the photo shoot took place, and not after Leibovitz was shown asking Elizabeth II to consider removing her tiara. The BBC has apologized for the accidental mistake, and so I thought I should provide an update.

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May 16 2007

Scary Times For Kazakhstan

Category: Aware Or Conspiracy Nut...,In The Media,KazakhstanChrisM @ 3:45 am

I thought I’d already linked to KZBlog’s article on the case of a business man who was abducted and beaten, allegedly by a well known figure in Kazakh politics, but I couldn’t find it a moment ago. Anyway, see here.

Then there is the current legal proceedings related to extraditing a man from Russia, to Kazakhstan, where questionable mistakes/errors of judgement appear to have been made. Not only do independently audited records allegedly display that no crime was committed, the charges he was extradited for appear to have been replaced with others, despite this breaking the due process, if reports are valid. Check here.

Now we have the case of a KTK (a Kazakh TV channel) employee who was kidnapped, beaten and held in a cell. His treatment was so shocking that he suffered a stroke. Click here for more info and a further link to a Russian language article on the incident.

On a slightly more light-hearted note, I’ve just come across a picture which look embarrassing enough, without any kind of background information…

Bush Idiot

Apparently his Supreme Stupidness G W Bush had almost inferred that Queen Elizabeth II was more than 200 years old, and so decided to recover his embarassment by giving a WINK to the Queen!

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