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Dylan Farrow responds to Woody Allen: 'Distortions and Outright Lies'

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The director's adopted daughter denies Allen's suggestion that Mia Farrow coached her to say he sexually assaulted her.

Dylan Farrow has responded to an op-ed Woody Allen published by The New York Times Friday.

In the response, provided to The Hollywood Reporter, Farrow denounced Allen's op-ed -- in which he suggested Farrow's mother, Mia Farrow, had coached her to accuse Allen of sexually assaulting her as a child.

"I have never wavered in describing what he did to me. I will carry the memories of surviving these experiences for the rest of my life," Farrow said.

She went on to challenge other points in Allen's op-ed, calling it 'the latest rehash of the same legalese, distortions, and outright lies he has leveled at me for the past 20 years."

Allen's op-ed came nearly one week after Farrow published an open letter on the Times website, where she detailed an alleged sexual assault Allen carried out on her when she was seven. Farrow is the adopted daughter of Allen and Mia Farrow.

Question

10 injured after massive explosion obliterates two houses in Essex, England

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  • Residents of Clacton, Essex reported hearing a loud bang 'like a bomb going off' at 8.30am thanks to gas explosion
  • Four fire engines, five ambulances and two air ambulances called to scene and took 10 people to hospital
  • Passers-by who helped pull victims from the rubble said they were shocked to find residents still alive
Nine people were hurt yesterday as a massive gas blast flattened two houses on an estate.

A retired couple were seriously injured but miraculously no one was killed in the 8.30am explosion.

David Davies, 65, was in bed and his wife Hela, 56, in the kitchen when the huge blast - which neighbours said was 'like a bomb' - sent debris flying up to 150 yards along the street in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.

The couple, who have three grown-up children, were rescued from the debris in their pyjamas by shocked residents who rushed to help. They were taken to hospital with severe burns.

Seven neighbours were also taken to hospital following the explosion, which fire chiefs believe could have been caused by a badly installed boiler or appliance.

Gary Curtis, 27, ran to help rescue Mr and Mrs Davies after the blast smashed his windows. 'It was like a bomb going off, he said. 'You could just hear screams coming from the rubble.

'The woman had somehow survived in a protective tunnel that had formed above her from the wreckage. When we pulled her out she had burns all up her arms, her pyjamas were singed. Her husband was still in bed covered in debris.

'It is a miracle that no one is dead. There is a primary school 100 yards up the road and a bus stop just outside the house.'

Eye 1

Corruption of Art: I am sick of pretending - I don't "get" art!

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You know what? I'm sick of pretending. I went to art school, wrote a dissertation called "The Elevation of Art Through Commerce: An Analysis of Charles Saatchi's Approach to the Machinery of Art Production Using Pierre Bourdieu's Theories of Distinction", have attended art openings at least once a month for the last five years, even purchased pieces of it, but the other night, after attending the opening of the new Tracey Emin retrospective at the Hayward Gallery, I'm finally ready to come out and say it: I just don't think I "get" art.

Comment: When psychopaths rule above, everything below them goes through the process of ponerization, which basically means that humanity and beauty are stripped from the people's minds in a slow but steady pace, until it is replaced with a pathological sense of humanity and beauty - at best a caricature of the original, at worst its exact opposite - which is then reflected in our language, in our art and in our interpersonal relationships.

Read also:

Political Ponerology
The Plot Against Art


Quenelle - Golden

Dieudonne puts BBC Newsnight reporter in his place, issues verbal quenelle to British government

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Fans of the comedian have condemned the banning of his shows as censorship

The French comedian Dieudonne Mbala Mbala, he of the infamous Quenelle gesture, today sent a billet doux to the Prime minister following the Home Secretary's decision on Monday to ban him from entering the UK.

He had previously declared that he would travel to Britain to support the West Brom player Nicholas Anelka who used the gesture, an alleged reverse nazi salute, when he scored against West Ham. Anelka who denies any malicious intent, now faces an FA disciplinary hearing. Newsnight's Steve Smith hopped across the channel to Paris this morning to meet him in the theatre where he's performing.

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Mysterious illness in flooded area, U.K.: boy dies and parents in hospital

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The road outside the property in Thameside, Chertsey, has been cordoned off
Two adults, believed to be the child's parents, are in a serious condition in hospital after falling unwell in a house.

A seven-year-old boy has died and his parents remain in hospital after emergency services were called to a house in flood-hit Chertsey.

Officers were called to the property at around 3.30am on Saturday following a request for assistance by the ambulance service.

The boy, named locally as Zane Gbangbola, was declared dead at nearby St Peter's Hospital.

Gold Coins

Prosperity for Main Street, not Wall Street

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Our cities are not broke. They are struggling with onerous interest payments to Wall Street bankers who are nothing but middlemen. These interest payments impoverish your communities, while enriching Wall Street. This video shows how municipalities, counties, universities and states can significantly reduce their interest payments by creating their own public bank. This has already been done and proven, and could cut the costs of public projects by at least half.


Link to previous video:
http://www.endtheillusion.org/moneyno...

Comment: See also:
SOTT Talk Radio: Interview with 'Web of Debt' author Ellen Brown - How the banking system controls the world
California Doesn't Need to Borrow Billions from Washington -- It Can Print Its Own Money
What does North Dakota have that other states don't? A $1.2 billion surplus (and its own bank)


Che Guevara

Zionism is big player in French establishment sez Dieudo

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A French political activist and comedy actor, who has been under pressure from the government for "racist and anti-Semitic remarks," has told Press TV about the extent of Zionism within the French establishment.

"...Zionism takes up a considerable amount of space in the French establishment...," Dieudonné M'bala M'bala said at the Golden Hand Theatre, where he runs his highly popular shows.

In recent weeks, Dieudo, as the actor is often called in France, has been accused of preaching the Quenelle, a gesture considered anti-Zionist in France.

M'bala M'bala is credited with creating and popularizing the gesture, done by pointing one arm diagonally downwards palm down, while touching the shoulder with the opposite hand.

Following the accusations, the French government banned his show. Now he is back to running his comedy show tours.

M'bala M'bala said, "A kind of a storm hit my family and my professional circles. All this because of one man, Manuel Valls, the interior minister. For how long, I can't say. But I hope for the shortest possible time. He attacked me and the freedom of speech and expression in this country in general. Therefore, it feels very strange to face the entire government."

Rose

UK propaganda: Woman died after Muslim nurse refused to help as he was praying

An elderly woman was left on the floor at a care home for up to ten minutes because a nurse was praying, an inquest heard

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Deceased: Dorothy Griffiths, 87
Dorothy Griffiths, 87, was found sitting down after staff heard a bang and a carer went to the office for help to lift her.

But agency nurse Abdul Bhutto, who was in charge, said they would have to wait.

Carer Zoe Shaw told the Sheffield hearing: "It took between five and ten minutes because he was praying upstairs in the office on his prayer mat. A staff member told me we had to wait for him to finish."

An ambulance was not called for nearly four hours after Mrs Griffiths fell from bed and cut her head and suffered a gash to her hip at the privately-run Valley Park Nursing Home in Wombwell, near Barnsley.

She died later in hospital. Mr Bhutto failed to appear at the inquest and a summons had to be issued for him to attend the resumed hearing later in the year.

Assistant deputy coroner Donald Coutts-Wood said he had contacted him during a recess and he denied being the duty nurse that night and said he had been there on a course.

Comment: Elder abuse and neglect: Warning signs, risk factors, prevention, and reporting abuse


Piggy Bank

California: Rare penny could be worth $2 million

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To most people, a 1974 penny is worth one cent. For one San Diego man, it could fetch millions.

Randy Lawrence found out the penny left to him 30 years ago by his father may be worth anywhere from $250,000 to $2 million.

Lawrence told KFMB-TV that for years, the unique penny was left inside a plastic sandwich bag with several other coins collected by his father. Lawrence's dad served as the deputy superintendent of the Denver Mint.

"We assumed he must have felt it was just another souvenir from his days working at the mint," Lawrence told KFMB-TV.

When Lawrence recently moved from Colorado to California, he left the coin in the trunk of his car for a month. When he discovered it, he brought it into a local coin shop to have it appraised.

At first, the shop owner, Michael McConnell, valued the penny at $300.

Cult

John Paul II notes published in defiance of pontiff's last wishes

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A controversial book of John Paul II's personal notes hit stores in Poland on Wednesday, compiled by his personal secretary in defiance of the late pontiff's dying wish that they be destroyed.

Titled "I'm Very Much in God's Hands", the 640-page book delves into often obscure theological notions penned by Karol Wojtyla between 1962 and 2003, before and during his papacy.

An enigmatic passage from March 1981 mentions sinful Catholic clergy, but stops short of revealing whether the pontiff had in mind the wave of paedophile offences involving priests.

"Don't the sins of bishops and priests burden Christ with a greater cross, than those of others?" says one entry by the late pontiff, who will be canonised as a saint in April just nine years after his death.

John Paul had asked his trusted aide, Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz, that the notes be burned after his death.

But Dziwisz, who is now cardinal, said he felt it would be "a crime" to destroy them, sparking criticism and shock that he would ignore the pope's last wishes.