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One of Britain’s most notorious criminals, Ronnie Biggs, has been refused parole by Justice Secretary Jack Straw who says the 79-year-old train robber is “wholly unrepentant”.

Straw on Wednesday said Biggs had “outrageously courted the media” during more than three decades on the run after escaping from prison in 1965, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for his role in the 1963 Great Train Robbery.

In a statement, Straw said: “Mr Biggs chose to serve only one year of a 30-year sentence before he took the personal decision to commit another offence and escape from prison, avoiding capture by travelling abroad for 35 years whilst outrageously courting the media.

“Had he complied with his sentence, he would have been a free man many years ago.”

Biggs’ lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano told the BBC the decision was “perverse” and “obscene”, and said his client was in an extremely frail state.

He said: “He is in hospital, he has a nasal gastric feed, he has had three strokes, he can’t walk, he can’t talk… all the other (Great Train Robbers) served a third of their sentences. Why should Mr Biggs be different?”

The Great Train Robbery saw a 15-strong gang hold up a London to Glasgow mail train, making off with 2.6 million pounds in the money of the day.

The gang attacked the train driver with an iron bar. The driver never returned to work and died seven years later without making a full recovery.

Biggs played a minor role in the hold-up but was jailed for 30 years in 1964, but escaped by scaling the wall of the prison and jumping onto the roof of a furniture van.

He eventually fled to Brazil, where he was often pictured in British newspapers enjoying a party, but handed himself over to the British authorities in 2001 and was sent back to jail.

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Timeline: Ronnie Biggs

Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs has led a colourful life, taking part in a record-breaking robbery and becoming a world-famous fugitive from British justice, before eventually returning to the UK of his own free will and subsequently imprisoned.

1929
8 August: Ronald Arthur Biggs is born in Lambeth, south London.

1947
Joins the RAF aged 18, but dishonourably discharged in 1949

1963
Ronnie Biggs received about £140,000 from the Post Office train theft
8 August: Biggs is one of a gang of 15 masked men who stop the Glasgow to London mail train near Cheddington in Buckinghamshire.

They manage to steal 120 bags of money worth £2.6m - a record haul.

Train driver Jack Mills is beaten with an iron bar during the heist and suffers head injuries.

1964
20 January: The trial of the train robbers begins at Buckinghamshire assizes in Aylesbury.

16 April: Biggs is sentenced to 30 years for his part in the robbery.

1965
8 July: Biggs scales the wall of Wandsworth prison with a home-made rope ladder and drops on to a waiting removal van.

He then flees to Paris, where he has plastic surgery.

1969
He is tracked down to Melbourne, Australia, where he has been living with his first wife, Charmian, and their children.

Before the authorities can catch up with him, he flees to Brazil. The South American country had no extradition treaty with the UK at the time.

1970
Train driver Jack Mills dies of an illness unrelated to the injuries he sustained during the robbery. He never returned to work after being attacked.

1974
Scotland Yard detective Jack Slipper manages to arrest Biggs in Rio de Janeiro after he was tracked down by the Daily Express newspaper.

But Biggs successfully argues against extradition because he has fathered a son, Michael, by his Brazilian girlfriend, Raimunda.

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Blog I read: Jet Set Life

The G Manifesto » 02 July 2009 » In People, Style, Travel » No Comments

Blog I read: Jet Set Life

Jet Set Life has some pretty decent travel tips. And good information about establishing your “Muse”.

From their site:

Rob and Kim have always loved to travel. They experienced the world’s hottest destinations like Punta del Este, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Mykonos, Marrakech and Buenos Aires. Each time they would vacation, family and friends always had so many questions about the destinations they chose and how to create similar experiences. Apple computer made it easy to share their experiences through podcasting and iWeb, so they decided to start a personal website and a podcast called Travel the World with Rob and Kim. It’s wasn’t too long after that Tim Ferriss came out with the book The Four Hour Work Week. This book turned Rob and Kim’s world upsidedown. Because of Tim Ferriss’s ideas such as mini-vacations, muses and dreamlines, Rob and Kim began to design their life (and work) around their passion for travel and made traveling into a business or in Tim Ferriss’s words, a muse.

This is when they created Jet Set Life. The goal with Jet Set Life was not to become a concierge service or a high end travel agent. The goal was to become the ultimate travel resource for jet setters, or those wanting to become jet setters. Rob and Kim purchased their Sony HD Video Camera, Sony Cyber Shot and Nikon D60 digital camera and were off to capture their travel experiences around the world to share with their viewers. They launched the website in 2008 and within thirty days they were close to breaking into the Top 100,000 websites ranked by Alexa. Their website let viewers into their travel experiences and provided them with a short video of the destination, photos of the destination and important information including when to travel, best way to get there and the type of currency. Rob and Kim also provide a free online guidebook that they call The Hit List. The Hit List includes Rob and Kim’s reviews of the best boutique hotels, restaurants, beaches, shops, nightlife and things to do in each destination.

Since, Jet Set Life has expanded adding a Lifestyle page that links viewers to Rob and Kim’s favorite companies in categories including villa and flat rentals, concierge services, boutique hotels, private jets, yachts, hip clothing, tailors, virtual assistants, social dynamics and even global charities like The Red Campaign.

Rob and Kim continue to find new destinations to bring to their viewers and they continually work on ways to improve the viewers experience. Any suggestions, ideas or comments are genuninely welcome.

Excuses are over. It’s time to live!

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How To Spot A Liar

The G Manifesto » 02 July 2009 » In People, Style » No Comments

How To Spot A Liar

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“Certain behavioral traits, like averting eye contact, could be cultural and not indicative of a liar,” says Joseph Buckley, president of John E. Reid & Associates, which has provided interview and interrogation training to more than 500,000 law enforcement agents to date.

Liars are often reluctant to admit ordinary storytelling mistakes. When honest people tell stories, they may realize partway through that they left out some details and would unselfconsciously backtrack to fill in holes. They also may realize a previous statement wasn’t quite right, and go back and explain further. Liars, on the other hand, “are worried that someone might catch them in a lie and are reluctant to admit to such ordinary imperfections,” says DePaulo.

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Yet another clue: imprecise pronouns. To psychologically distance themselves from a lie, people often pepper their tales with second- and third-person pronouns like “you,” “we” and “they,” says Hancock. Liars are also more likely to ask that questions be repeated and begin responses with phrases like, “to tell you the truth,” and “to be perfectly honest,” says Reid.

When telling the truth, people often make hand gestures to the rhythm of their speech. Hands emphasize points or phrases–a natural and compelling technique when they actually believe the points they’re making. The less certain will keep gesticulations in check, says Hancock.

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Michael Jackson on Street Game

The G Manifesto » 26 June 2009 » In Game, People » 1 Comment

Michael Jackson on Street Game

Rest in Peace: Michael Jackson Dead at 50

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Michael Jackson breaks down Street Game:

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Do you like Michael Jackson?

His early work was a little too disco for my tastes, but when Off The Wall came out in ‘79, I think he really came into their own, commercial and artistically.

The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost.

He’s been compared to Prince, but I think Michael has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humor…

In 1982 Michael released Thiller, his most accomplished album.

I think I his undisputed masterpiece is “Human Nature,” a song so catchy that most people probably don’t listen to the lyrics.

But they should because it’s not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends.

It’s a personal statement about the man itself.

Sabrina. Remove your dress.

I wonder where this guy got the idea for this video:

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Girls are mad fly in both though.

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Rest in Peace: Michael Jackson Dead at 50

The G Manifesto » 25 June 2009 » In Music, People » 3 Comments

Rest in Peace: Michael Jackson Dead at 50

I WANT YOU BACK

Pop star Michael Jackson has died after suffering a heart attack, it has been reported.

Media reports have said the star, 50, was taken to hospital in Los Angeles after he was found not breathing in his Holmby Hills home earlier.

The Jacksons Variety Show 1977 “Dancing Machine” with little Janet

Celebrity website TMZ said 911 operators received an emergency call about 12.12pm local time (8.12pm AEST).

Jackson is believed to have gone into cardiac arrest and paramedics performed CPR on him en route to UCLA hospital.

The website quoted family members as saying the Thriller singer was in “really bad shape.”

“We just got off the phone with Joe Jackson, Michael’s dad, who says ‘he is not doing well.” the website reported.

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Jackson was reportedly planning a comeback and was living in Los Angeles while rehearsing a series of 50 sold-out shows in London, the LATimes has reported.

Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics had rushed to the singer’s $100,00-a-month rented home near Sunset Boulevard to find him not breathing, the newspaper reported.

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Cocaine Cowboys: Jon Roberts

The G Manifesto » 24 June 2009 » In Crime, People, Travel » 2 Comments

Cocaine Cowboys: Jon Roberts

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The Miami New Times which gave The G Manifesto, The Best Manifesto Award for 2007 has an update on Cocaine Cowboy Jon Roberts:

Former mega-smuggler Jon Roberts, who flooded Miami with $2 billion worth of cocaine in the ’80s, naps away his days in a quiet lakefront Hollywood home. But soon, if what he says is true, a book, a high-octane movie, and videogame contracts will again make him a player. But he doesn’t want you to know this. He’s worried this article could spoil the publicity for his book deal. When I told him last week this story would be published, the craggy, gray-mustached ex-gangster vowed, “You will never write another word in this town again… I will go on TV and tell them everything in your article is bold-faced lies. I hope you get hit by a truck, you little scumbag.”

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The outburst is in character with Roberts’s gangster-flick biography, which he described in an on-the-record interview before changing his mind about publication. It begins with a hardscrabble childhood, continues through an astronomic ascent, and concludes with the inevitable prison reckoning. What probably won’t make the official cut, however, is his post-incarceration life, which his ex-wife claims included snitching on friends for cash.

Roberts was born and raised in New York’s Little Italy in 1948. His Mafioso dad was deported when the future smuggler was still a kid, he says. His mother died during a medical operation when he was a young teen. “Everybody told me it was a hysterectomy,” he recalls. “I don’t believe that was true. I think she went into the hospital to have an abortion, which was illegal at the time.”

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A budding violent criminal as a teenager, he bounced among relatives’ homes. His sister, who lived in Brunswick, Maine, booted him when he was around 16, he says, and he drove back to Mulberry Street, where he entered the family business. He worked as an enforcer for a loan-sharking uncle, he says, augmenting his income with two-bit capers. “This was the early ’60s — everybody was ‘love, peace, and hope,’” Roberts says. “So I’d tell some hippie I had 20 pounds of pot. He’d give me $10,000. I’d take the money and not give him any pot.”

After a failed kidnapping involving a debtor escaping from a basement “with a chair tied to him and no clothes on,” the adolescent mobster shipped off to Vietnam for five years. “I thought it was great,” he says. “There were no rules. You could kill people, do whatever you want.”

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After an explosion in an ammunition dump, he was sent home with four screws and a metal plate in his head, he says. Back in New York, he began opening nightclubs — until the late ’70s, when one of his partners turned up dead after taking 11 bullets. Roberts headed to Miami. He explains simply: “I heard there was a lot of coke down here.”

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Lindsay Lohan London Jewel Heist

The G Manifesto » 17 June 2009 » In Crime, Girls, People » 2 Comments

Lindsay Lohan London Jewel Heist

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The diamond necklace and earrings were modelled by the 22-year-old during the Elle shoot at Big Sky Studios in Islington, north London.

The jewellery, which was lent to the magazine by fashion house Dior for the day on June 6, was reported missing two days later.

Lohan is among a number of people present at the studio who could face questioning, the Sun reported.

A Yard spokesman said: “We had an allegation of theft made to us on June 8 and that is being investigated. There have been no arrests yet. We want to speak to a number of people in connection with the inquiry.

“It is alleged it is a necklace and earrings with diamonds with an estimated value of £250,000.”

A source added: “Jewellery is often lent out for big celebrities to wear on fashion shoots. Police are working out who had them when they went missing. People at Dior are very upset. It’s an embarrassment to the mag.”

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Lohan has had brushes with the law in the past.

In May 2007 she was arrested after cocaine was found in her crashed car and went into a rehabilitation clinic for 45 days.

However, in July that year she was again caught with the drug. She served one day in prison and was on probation for three years.