Libya - did we support the good guy ???

Seeing the appalling pictures of badly wounded and bloodied Gaddafi being lynched by a jeering mob after being captured - injured but alive, when a NATO aircraft hit his convoy near his birthplace, town of Sirte, one cannot help but ask: Did we really support the good guys?.

Gaddafi was an evil and deluded dictator, who surely deserved spending rest of his days in a jail (or being put to death - that depends on your view on the capital punishment) but not before the justice took its due course. Even the arch-criminals of the Third Reich, responsible for deaths of millions, were given a fair trial and a chance to defend themselves in a court.

Instead, Gaddafi was beaten, sodomised and then shot dead, apparently by a 17 years old boy, who was not motivated by justice - he probably just wanted Gaddafi's mobile phone and his gold ring which he was quick to appropriate from the dead dictator's body.

There is no heroism in beating and sexually humiliating badly injured, defenceless, 70 years old man, nor there is any justification in summarily executing an unarmed prisoner of war, whatever his background.

The Libyan interim government was quick to try and cover up the Gaddafi's murder, stating that he died in crossfire, while being transported in an ambulance after his capture. However, the ambulance driver Ali Jaghdoun said that Gaddafi was already dead when he picked up his body.
In the meantime, bodies of 53 Gaddafi loyalists were found at a hotel in Sirte after apparently being executed, many of them with their hands bound behind their backs. There have been also reports of widespread looting and intimidation by rebel fighters around Sirte, with witnesses saying truckloads of stolen goods were driven away. If this is the forgiveness, tolerance and reconciliation promised by Libyan new government, we might as well have left Gaddafi in power.

This is the justice as it should be served...

...while this is just a brutal murder - plain and simple.

Thai Bogus Bride celebrates another successful scam

DOLCE VITA: Bogus Bride & Con Artist of Thai Nationality Yaowaret Wittek (on the right)
enjoys benefits of the life in the UK after pulling a foul scam scheme on her hapless husband Louis Wittek and getting away with £9,000 of his money. (Source of Photo: MEN 13.10.2008)

Thailand - land of smiles, golden temples, beautiful beaches and great exotic cuisine. But also a favourite destination of sex tourists, and a major source of the dubious mail-order-brides. Although the latter undoubtedly produces thousands of happy marriages every year (as BeeBeeSee.tv can confirm), in few marriages where the things go wrong, they go wrong spectacularly, as Mr Louis Wittek of Liverpool, UK found at his expense. Shortly after marrying Ms Yaowaret Iansee of Phayuha Khiri, Nakhon Sawan, Thailand and her arrival to the UK in summer 2005, the true purpose of the marriage began to emerge: siphoning any and all moneys back to Mrs Yaowaret's family in Thailand. It all started innocently, with small monthly contributions ranging between £150-200 which, considering that Mrs Yaowaret found a full-time job after about a year into her stay in the UK, were reasonable and perfectly acceptable. That was though soon not enough as Mrs Yaowaret's parents apparently suddenly couldn't do without a brand new 4x4 car. So there went another moneys for the deposit on the car, and further monthly payments to cover the hire purchase instalments. But Mrs Yaowaret's parents, now already showing off around the neighbourhood in their new shiny 4x4, realised that they will not become millionaires this way in their lifetimes. Mediocre monthly payments just didn't do anymore. Some new pretence had to be invented. So there came Mrs Yaowaret with a new story: "My parents got into huge debts. They risk losing everything. Debt collectors are knocking on their door every day. £26,000 would repay the whole debt and no more monthly payments will be required thereafter. Please help them, you are my husband and I have nobody else to turn to" (indeed, there would be no more payments required thereafter, as there will be no more Mrs Yaowaret either, but this part of the plan was, of course, not revealed at this point).

Louis Wittek loved his wife dearly. He believed in family values so he trusted her unconditionally. He also loved and respected her family, so he decided to help. He did not have the money, so he went to the bank and asked for the Loan. But, because of the huge debts accumulated on the Credit Cards in the meantime due to payments to Mrs Yaowaret's parents as well as thanks to Mrs Yaowaret's high demands and her expensive lifestyle, none of the banks was prepared to lend such amount of money. Eventually, one of the banks agreed to lend £9,000. Though himself not in the best financial situation, Mr Wittek took out the Loan in his name, hoping to earn the love of his wife and gratitude of her parents. (It goes without saying, that Mrs Yaowaret promised that the monthly repayments of the loan will be met from her wages).

£9,000 is a big amount of money, but Mrs Yaowaret was anything but grateful. The disappointment was palpable: "This Shit ?!?" she exclaimed upon receiving £9,000 and sending the money off to Thailand. (With the hindsight, we can now be almost certain, that the disappointment was caused by the fact, that the true reason of wanting exactly £26,000 was obviously not the debt. What was the true purpose, we can only speculate, but the purchase of a new family house is certainly a more plausible option. £26,000 translates into 1,700,000 Thai Baht in last year's conversion rate, and this amount of money buys in Thailand a big, 3-4 bedroom, detached family house).

Needless to say, only a few weeks after the money arrived on the account of the Iansee family in Thailand, Mrs Yaowaret was gone. Mr Wittek came one day home after work and found the house empty. Mrs Yaowaret did not even bother to leave a goodbye note. She realised that there was no more gold to dig out from this plot. So as any rational gold-digger would do, she just moved on, to the another plot with the better chances of yield.

By doing so, she has effectively put herself in a position of an illegal immigrant, as her UK visa was issued and valid only under the condition, that she has a genuine intention to sustain her marriage with UK resident Mr Louis Wittek.

BeeBeeSee.tv can reveal that the con artist Mrs Yaowaret Wittek lives at present in Manchester, UK, where she enjoys great life thanks to the £9,000 which she netted from her husband-robbing swindle, while her husband, Mr Louis Wittek struggles to keep up with the monthly payments for the £9,000 Loan (of which he, needless to say, haven't seen a single penny) and with the payments for further thousands of pounds worth of debts on the Credit Cards (either spent by Mrs Yaowaret or sent to her family under various pretences) and had to take second mortgage on his house to save his home from repossession and himself from bankruptcy.

BeeBeeSee.tv can also reveal that after being encouraged by the success of her Easy Money Making Scheme, con artist Mrs Yaowaret Wittek tried to pull her little scam (i.e. "My parents are in huge debts, you are the only person I can turn to, please help me !" - followed by a dove-eyed look) on at least one more intended victim, Mr Mark Chilton of Manchester, UK - though this time without the desired outcome.

(Virgin) Mary in the sky with diamonds ?

About 50 people in southern India's district of Kottayam in Kerala state, have badly damaged their sight by staring at the sun in the hope of seeing there a vision of the Virgin Mary, local doctors say.

Hundreds of Indian Catholics reportedly stared at the sun last February following rumours that a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary could be seen in the sky.

Soon after, local hospitals started receiving patients with burn damage to their eyes.

(source: BBC NEWS)

My second Teddy Bear is called Jesus

A British teacher working in Sudan was arrested after allowing her class of primary school pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad. She was charged with insulting the Prophet Muhammad, regarded as blasphemy under Sudan's Sharia law, and faced a possible six months in prison, 40 lashes, or a fine.

Mrs Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, UK polled the six and seven year old children in her class on what they should call the teddy bear. Out of 8 proposed names, including Abdullah and Hassan, the children (it is worth noting it was the pupils not the teacher) overwhelmingly voted for Muhammad, by 20 votes to 3.

She was later sentenced to 15 days in jail, to apparent dismay of the crowd of about a thousand protesters, who gathered outside the presidential palace in the capital, many of them carrying knives and sticks, chanting: "Kill her, kill her by firing squad" (!!!).

Mrs Gibbons was eventually pardoned by President Omar al-Bashir, after intervention of two UK Muslim peers: Baroness Warsi and Lord Ahmed, and freed after spending just 8 days in jail.

(source: WIKINEWS, under Creative Commons license)

Student Group wants yet More Guns on US Campuses

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The Dalai Lama awarded the Congressional Gold Medal

Despite furious objections from China and in the presence of President Bush, United States Congress on Wednesday, 17 October 2007 bestowed its highest civilian honor on Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists whom Beijing considers a troublesome voice of separatism.

As he presented the medal, George Bush hailed the Nobel Peace Prize winner as a "universal symbol of peace and tolerance".

(source: The New York Times)

2007 Ig Nobel Prize Winners announced

Good-hearted Archbishop

Tesco relaunches "Skinny Cow" range

Tesco relaunches their special range of Finest Cows from Wales, chosen from the most succulent new season stock around. And for the offer price £1 per this bovine beauty, you won't find a better deal anywhere else! Every little helps - indeed.

Prussian Blue (or barmy blues ?)