Daily Star wins the prize for the most insane front page I've ever seen on a newspaper
Posted by Ian M on November 21, 2024, 6:20 pm
Seen in a supermarket today. What goes through the mind (sic) of someone who would think this was an appropriate response to the very real possibility of total nuclear war wiping out everything & everyone we know?
Thought for the day Treat yourself to a bomb shelter for Christmas, Dave
Thousands race to snap up £150,000 luxury bomb shelters in case Mad Vlad pushes the big red button
THOUSANDS of Brits are looking to treat themselves to a £150k fancy-dan nuclear fallout shelter in case World War 3 breaks out.
INSIDE: How to build your own nuclear shelter'
The whole culture is completely out to lunch. The 'respectable' titles weren't much better to be fair. Reporting that UK missiles had been used in Kursk - an act of war - with no indication that this might be even slightly morally questionable, or a matter that the public should have been consulted about (lol, as if...) https://www.frontpages.com/uk-newspapers/
At least the Daily Star article mentions Annie Jacobsen's book, but the tone and headline are so infused with disarming fake-jokiness that most readers will probably just laugh it off and move on to read about driving f*ing rats. Couldn't believe it when I saw it...
Brits flock to buy Putin-proof nuke bunkers with '300% increase' interest over WW3 fears EXCLUSIVE: It has been a week like no other for Nottinghamshire bloke Matthew Wright who says Brits worried about WW3 have been requesting nuke bunkers - but the shelters come at a steep price
A Nottinghamshire man responsible for building Putin-proof nuke bunkers has said worried Brits have flocked to get their own shelter amid the escalating situation in Ukraine.
Matthew Wright had previously told the Star that his firm Burrowed had been inundated with requests since it was set up six months ago. Today, Matthew added that the number of requests usually “ebbs and flows”, but the past week had seen “three times” the normal number of inquiries to his company.
Rattled Brits have asked about the pricey bunkers - an underground shelter could set you back well over £100,000 - as the situation between Mad Vlad’s Russian forces and Western-backed Ukraine continues to escalate.
READ MORE: Putin 'disappears for medical exam' during nuclear crisis in 'longest absence in years' – and no one knows where he is
Over the past week, the US approved giving anti-personnel mines to Ukrainian forces in the conflict, the use of long-range Army
Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles and Ukraine has fired UK-made Storm Shadow missiles at Russia.
Putin has also engaged in what Western officials called further sabre rattling as he lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike.
Today, US officials said Russia did not fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at Ukraine on Thursday, despite claims from Kyiv.
Matthew previously said: “People think it’s the fanatics and the doomsday preppers wanting bunkers but it’s just normal people who want to protect their family.
Matthew added today that his company could feasibility make group shelters if they were ever required in the future.
This year, investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen detailed the awful horror of what could occur in the event of nuclear war in her book ‘Nuclear War: A Scenario’.
The book said a counteroffensive launched by the US president would mean that in just 72 minutes, five billion people could be wiped out.
Jacobsen wrote: “This is the reality of the world in which we all live. The nuclear war scenario proposed in this book could happen tomorrow. Or later today.”
She added: “On top of the initial flash of thermonuclear light, which is 180 million degrees, which catches everything on fire in a nine mile diameter radius; on top of the bulldozing effect of the wind and all the buildings coming down and more fires igniting on top of the radiation poisoning people to death in minutes and hours and days and weeks, if they happen to have survived, on top of all of that, each one of these fires creates a mega fire that is 100 or more square miles and so.” Tell your story; Ask a question; Interpret generously http://storybythethroat.wordpress.com/tell-ask-listen/
Re: Daily Star wins the prize for the most insane front page I've ever seen on a newspaper
PS: in case you wondered, 'build your own' is a tease, it just plugs the same guy's business offering a plastic bunker (plastic, really?) for £150K or a concrete one for £500K. Apparently he built one for a DJ who wanted it to double up as a bar - you know, in case it doesn't all kick off and he feels like he wasted his money:
“The one I’m building at the moment is for a DJ who wants it as an underground bar but also doubles up if something bad were to happen. “His primary enquiry was about a bunker but then he realised he may as well pop a bar in and make it soundproof so he doesn’t keep his neighbours up with his music.” - https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/how-build-your-nuclear-bunker-34154104
to access RT online or even install the RT app. I have the app from earlier times but it just sits there and does nothing.
I have tried different brands of TV in numerous TV showrooms with my partner (we're both avid RT fans) and none of them have RT. Interestingly, none of the salespeople had even heard of RT but allowed me to perform my various tests with curiosity. To no avail.
Acquiring the RT app for our smartphones was no mean feat either. Sorted now though. Partner keeps me awake half the night watching/reading it.
on November 21, 2024, 6:20 pm