Afrika Bambaataa sued for alleged child sexual abuse | Hip-hop
Posted on April 19, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Hip-hop This article is more than 2 years oldAfrika Bambaataa sued for alleged child sexual abuseThis article is more than 2 years oldHip-hop pioneer has not responded to lawsuit accusing him of repeated sexual abuse and sex trafficking in the 1990s
Afrika Bambaataa, the pioneering hip-hop DJ, rapper and producer, has been sued over alleged child sexual abuse.
An anonymous man, named John Doe in the lawsuit filed in a New York court, alleges that Bambaataa sexually abused him for four years from the age of 12, in the early 1990s.
[Read More]Aura of credibility: why Democrats and elites revere Kissinger despite war crimes allegations
Posted on April 19, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Henry KissingerThe enduring fealty of Democrats to the late Republican has baffled many progressives
Henry Kissinger, secretary of state to Richard Nixon, dies at 100 One of the very few things that still brings the Republican and Democratic political establishments together is their shared reverence for Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger’s death, at the age of 100, has served as a reminder that the frequent, wide-ranging and substantial allegations of war crimes against him never dimmed the admiration he inspired among the powerful in Washington.
[Read More]Hidden France: where to stay and what to do off the beaten track
Posted on April 19, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Holiday guidesFrance holidaysIf you dream of salt pans and chalets on stilts, wild heather-clad hillsides and car-free isles …
Hidden … Greece | Croatia | Italy | Portugal
France, the world’s most popular tourist destination, is getting back on track this summer with a focus (and a €50m government investment) on eco-friendly holidays, slow travel and sustainable tourism. That means going beyond the usual hotspots to an unexplored France of bamboo forests, pink salt pans, chalets on stilts, prehistoric horses and maybe a weekend as a lighthouse keeper.
[Read More]It's a steal | Books
Posted on April 19, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
BooksIt's a stealEveryone should read Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, says Philip ArdaghThe Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
584pp, Doubleday/Bodley Head, £12.99
The state of Israel gives non-Jews who saved Jewish lives, or attempted to save Jewish lives, the formal recognition of being Righteous Among the Nations. In the introduction to his 2002 book The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust, Martin Gilbert quotes Baruch Sharoni, a member of the committee that recognises the Righteous, as writing "
[Read More]Morrissey's naked pictures: the latest sign of artistic decline? | Morrissey
Posted on April 19, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Music blogMorrisseyMorrissey's naked pictures: the latest sign of artistic decline?The man who found inspiration in Derek Jarman and Issey Miyake now seems to be taking visual cues from ... Red Hot Chili PeppersBecause he is the type of man, like Ross Kemp, say, or Bob Hoskins, who gets physically hotter with age, the flurry of Facebook updates informing me of a naked Morrissey photoshoot was too irresistible not to waste five minutes Google-imaging.
[Read More]Neil Young's Ohio the greatest protest record
Posted on April 19, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Neil YoungNeil Young's moving response to the killings at Kent State University 40 years ago this week was the pinnacle of a very 1960s genre. The revolution never cameOne day in the middle of May, almost exactly 40 years ago, Neil Young was hanging out at the house of his road manager, Leo Makota, in Pescadero, California, when his bandmate, David Crosby, handed him the latest issue of Life magazine. It contained a vivid account and shocking photographs of the killing of four students by the Ohio national guard during a demonstration against the Vietnam war at Kent State University on 4 May.
[Read More]Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li review a confident debut
Posted on April 19, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
FictionReviewLonglisted for the Women’s prize, this intergenerational saga set in a US Chinese restaurant is full of insight into immigrant families’ lives
The tireless staff of the Beijing Duck, a Chinese restaurant in Rockville, Maryland, form the cast of this Women’s prize-longlisted intergenerational family saga. The oldest is Ah-Jack, a veteran of the restaurant who can wrap duck in his sleep but no longer carry heavy dishes from kitchen to dining room.
[Read More]Our parents resented us
Posted on April 19, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
FamilyJudy Golding's father, the novelist William Golding, was besotted with his wife - and vice versa. Judy and her brother David very definitely came secondMy brother David and I loved being told stories, and those my father told were spell-binding. He would just take you away somewhere else, to some different, vivid world. One story was about my parents' meeting – our own personal creation myth, a different world even though it was about our parents.
[Read More]Webcam 'creepshot' pictures viewed and shared on Reddit | Data and computer security
Posted on April 19, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Data and computer security This article is more than 9 years oldWebcam 'creepshot' pictures viewed and shared on RedditThis article is more than 9 years oldRussian site Insecam, and others, were scoured for shots of women in private security camera feeds
Commenters on the discussion site Reddit pored over compromised security camera feeds linked from the Russian website Insecam, screenshotting and sharing pictures of naked or half-dressed women.
The website, which has been live since September, is just the latest of a string of sites which exploit knowledge of default passwords to access supposedly private security camera feeds.
[Read More]Anthony Price obituary | Crime fiction
Posted on April 18, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Crime fictionObituaryAnthony Price obituaryWriter of crime fiction and respected reviewer of the genreAs a cub reporter on the Oxford Times in the early 1950s, Anthony Price, who has died aged 90, was asked if he fancied reviewing a book for its sister paper, the Oxford Mail. It was, he was told, “only a children’s book but it’s by a local author”. The local author turned out to be a Prof JRR Tolkien and the book was The Fellowship of the Ring.
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