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Jeremy Corbyn’s male-only retinue will never tell him he has no clothes

Edit The Observer 05 Jun 2016
The Outsider. Perhaps Jeremy Corbyn does, as the title of the new Vice film about him flatteringly suggests, have something in common with the hero of Albert Camus’s L’étranger. Not the murdering part, obviously. Nor the current outsider’s eye-catching hat ... Camus once clarified his meaning ... One kneels before him ... From start to finish, the behaviour of Corbyn’s cabal is hilariously, almost lovably, in the hapless tradition of the Ed Stone ... ....

Batshit Crazy—But Totally Believable—Conspiracy Theory Points To Cavaliers Championship

Edit Deadspin 02 Jun 2016
Everybody knows that the NBA is rigged. From the frozen envelope that gave Patrick Ewing to the Knicks to Tim Donaghy rigging games, outcomes in the NBA are obviously pre-ordained by a shady cabal of influencers. And the next thing to be fixed, of course, is the NBA Finals. But this time, thanks to the work of a number of intrepid sleuths, we have reams of cold, hard proof ... ....

The Rise and Rise of Mr Khan

Edit Huffington Post 02 Jun 2016
On Monday I watched the news on television. That isn't something I always do. Normally I pick up what's been going on from all sorts of different sources. the press, websites, the car radio, chatter in the pub; it varies from day to day ... That is a hard world, a place of knives in the dark and secret cabals, of entryism in constituency parties, of glasses of wine being passed "across the water" before they are drunk ... Step forward Mr Khan....

Donald Trump’s Little Boy Is a Gay Half-Jew With Jungle Fever

Edit National Review 02 Jun 2016
Generation Trump, the alt right people, the people who like me, they’re not anti-Semites. They don’t care about Jews. I mean, they may have some assumptions about things, how the Jews run everything; well, we do ... They’re right about all that stuff ... According to the angry game players who adopted “Gamergate” as their byword, the gaming industry is plagued by a cabal of censorious SJWs conspiring to take all the fun out of video gaming ... ....

Scottish parliament votes narrowly in favour of ban on fracking

Edit The Guardian 01 Jun 2016
Vote does not create binding policy but is significant defeat for SNP so soon into new parliamentary term ... Beamish said ... Labour’s position is clear ... A number of Scottish Conservatives spoke in favour of fracking, including the newly elected Maurice Golden, who argued that a “leftwing cabal” of Labour, Greens and Lib Dems was ignoring scientific evidence and the potential of the process to boost jobs and the economy, ... ....

What wasn’t said on our Memorial Day

Edit Denver Post 01 Jun 2016
Rather than speak of honor and loyalty, we should’ve hired a pack of lovely young mammals to whirl around in the Lindy Hop ... He has swept his lackluster opponents from the field of battle by enunciating the irrational fear that a foreign-born president has deliberately driven the country to the brink, enabled by a Washington cabal of think-tank muckety-mucks, and so China and Mexico and Iran are sucking the lifeblood out of us ... ....

Screenwriter Linda Woolverton fills in some of Wonderland’s blanks for ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’

Edit The Oklahoman 01 Jun 2016
LOS ANGELES — When Linda Woolverton was writing the screenplay for 1991’s “Beauty and the Beast,” she developed a reputation for banging her head on the table in meetings ... We got Belle out of it.”. Belle, Maleficent, Alice — Woolverton’s career is defined by her unconventional female characters, a cabal of bookworms, adventurers and wicked women who together have made nearly $3 billion at the box office, all of it for Disney ... Ewoks.”....

Screenwriter Linda Woolverton fills in some of Wonderland's blanks for 'Alice Through the Looking Glass'

Edit The Miami Herald 01 Jun 2016
When Linda Woolverton was writing the screenplay for 1991's "Beauty and the Beast," she developed a reputation for banging her head on the table in meetings ... "I'm sure I was a total pain ... Belle, Maleficent, Alice - Woolverton's career is defined by her unconventional female characters, a cabal of bookworms, adventurers and wicked women who together have made nearly $3 billion at the box office, all of it for Disney....

Dow-DuPont Merger Will Cripple Farmers and Food Sovereignty, Groups Warn

Edit Common Dreams 31 May 2016
Nika Knight, staff writer. Public interest groups urged the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block the mega-merger of chemical corporations Dow and DuPont, which the organizations argue is part of a larger effort to put a "corporate cabal" in charge of the nation's food system ... ....

Sunless Cell Nightfall, Challenge Of Elders Goes Super

Edit Inquisitr 31 May 2016
Another Iron Banner has ended for Destiny and a new Weekly Update for May 31 brings another set of challenges to PlayStation and Xbox players. The Sunless Cell Strike returns for Nightfall with the added difficult of no radar, plus the Challenge of Elders thinks Super abilities are super this week. Challenge of Elders ... 3 Val Aru’un Cabal ... Tier 3 ... 3,750 75 ... Take Them Out Kill 12 Consumed or named Fallen, Hive, Cabal, or Vex on Venus....

Ricky Burns and Tony Bellew wins confirm this is a golden age for British boxing, ...

Edit The Independent 31 May 2016
The old champions often had to sell their belts to make a few quid ... The history books show that this is British boxing’s golden age ... Burns got his chance because in this business you get what you negotiate and not necessarily what you deserve and his promoter, Eddie Hearn, put together an alluring package to get Di Rocco out of Italy and the WBA cabal out of Panama and ringside in Glasgow ... That was not in the script. ....

‘Renegade’ Ice-Cream Trucks Terrorizing Mister Softee Drivers

Edit New York Magazine 31 May 2016
They will stop at nothing. This is almost certainly the most extreme chapter in New York's long, ruthless soft-serve turf wars ... While vendors with permits can legally sell anywhere in the city, this new soft-serve cabal has strong-armed Mister Softee out of the neighborhood over the last year through threats, bullying, and physical intimidation ... If you do, there will be problems, and you won’t see him there very long." ... [NYT] ... ....

AAI, FWW and NFU Urge the U.S. Department of Justice to Challenge the Dow-DuPont Merger (NFU - National Farmers Union)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
(Source. NFU - National Farmers Union). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. May 31, 2016. Contact.. American Antitrust Institute. Sarah Frey, 410-897-7028, sfrey@antitrustinstitute.org. Food & Water Watch. Kate Fried, 202-683-4905, kfried@fwwatch.org. National Farmers Union ... 'Today's wave of agribusiness and food company mega-mergers is surrendering our food system to a corporate cabal that thwarts our efforts to build an fair and healthy food system.'....
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