Justin Cheats, Britney Droops

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Justin Cheats on Cameron, and We All Weep


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You’ve heard about it elsewhere, but VanRamblings has the naughty pictures and the whole salacious story (courtesy of Olde Blighty’s News of the World), all for you.
According to Britain’s favourite scandal rag, former ’NSYNC member and current pop prince Justin Timberlake spent two sizzling nights with model Lucy Clarkson (pictured to your right), while Justin’s girlfriend, Cameron Diaz, was 5,000 miles away in Los Angeles playing domestic goddess.
Still and all, according to the voluptuous Lucy Clarkson, neither she nor he scored …

“I kept saying to him that I wasn’t ready and he kept asking me why. I told him we didn’t have condoms. But it was obvious he was desperate to make love.”


For more on Justin’s boob fetish, take a moment to read the whole romantic, silly, virtually chaste, rock ’n roll story … here.
Star’s Gone From Superbabe To Wreck of the Month


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Sure, they call her the Princess of Pop, the blonde babe whose sexy videos are as memorable as her catchy singles.
But just four months before her wedding, Britney Spears’ drop-dead gorgeous looks seemed to, well, have dropped dead.
At 22, riddled with spots, the once sleek and chiseled Britney now has a double chin, puffy eyes, droopy boobs and wrinkles.
The whole sordid story is available here. Read it and weep.

Cruise Control? Cruise Ship Industry Pollution In Canada

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Alaska-bound cruise ships in dock, at Vancouver’s harbourfront Canada Place terminal

What images spring to mind when you imagine a northern cruise vacation? Crystal clear water, teaming with sea life; humpback whales frolicking for your viewing pleasure; or perhaps just the vastness of British Columbia’s pristine coast, and a wild azure blue ocean untouched by human pollution.
These images contradict the current reality of the cruise industry.
A single cruise ship discharges approximately 1.3 million litres of waste water per day, more than the port city of Haines, Alaska.
In an article published in The Dominion, writers Yuill Herbert and Karen Gorecki report that:

  • The American environmental group, the Blue Water Network, estimates that 77% of all ship waste comes from cruise ships
  • Two billion pounds of trash is dumped into the world’s oceans each year and 24% of that waste comes from cruise ships
  • 14 million kilograms of waste was produced in 2000 on the Alaska-Canada route alone
  • Cruise ships have accrued over $60 million in environmental fines over the last five years in the U.S. Yet, in Canada, due to a lack of monitoring and enforcement there have been no fines, despite the fact that these same ships visit our waters
  • Greenhouse gas emissions of international ships are excluded from the national emissions inventories, a loophole in the Kyoto Accord which benefits cruise ship lines

The Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group’s report, Ripple Effects: The Need to Assess the Impacts of Cruise Ships in Victoria B.C. not only serves to reinforce the points made by Herbert and Gorecki, among other findings the report’s authors learned that cruise “ships burn fuel that has sulphur content 90% higher than that used by cars.”

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Young Male Prisoners Sodomized at Abu Ghraib Prison

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In a report published in the British newspaper, The Independent, the paper reports that Seymour Hersh — whose essay on the torture of Iraqi prisoners appeared in New Yorker magazine in May — told a meeting (RealPlayer required) of the American Civil Liberties Union of the continued abuse and torture of teen male Iraqi prisoners. Hersh said …

“The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling, and the worst part is the soundtrack, of the boys shrieking. And this is your government at war.”


Hersh accused the U.S. administration, President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney of complicity in covering up what he called ‘war crimes’. A full transcript of the Hersh speech is available here.
An Associated Press story reports that two young male detainees were bound naked, and were raped in front of 30 other detainees. Further gross sexual abuse and humiliation is sited in the AP story.
The stories above follow on the heels of a May 22nd published report in The Guardian, detailing the rape of a teen Iraqi boy by an army translator.
To date, the U.S. administration has not responded to any of the stories alleging rape of young male prisoners at Abu Ghraib, nor have such stories appeared in newspapers or magazines published in the United States.