Is it true love with the one he loves most? Yes but it looks as though the magic has gone out of the Cruise - Holmes relationship. Watchers say the couple, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are not as thick as they were. Indeed, that they are at each others throats and that Christmas with the potential in-laws was a disaster. Looks like that marriage may not get launched even, never mind get the chance to hit the rocks.


We just don't get it Katie, how could you not love a man whose beliefs insist that you are silent whilst you force something the size of a small turkey through your vagina. Ridiculous. Turkey? How ironic. We have to wonder, that silence thing, is it that you wont get into heaven if you do a bit of yelling, yuh know, like there'll be a guy at the pearly gates waiting - maybe L. Ron Hubbard himself - saying "...ah now let's just check. Yes sorry you were a screamer during birth... sorry you can't get into heaven." Look, if that happens, just ask why. What's the reason. Hey whilst you're at it ask what the deal is with prayer shawls worn under the clothes and wild eyed evangelists preaching hell and damnation from a Mercedes and Burkas particularly the one eyed variety.


Meanwhile what's the deal with South Park? For heaven sake Tom, you'd look great in cardboard cut outs. So they had a dig at your sexuality. Hey, its nothing we didn't already have our suspicions about. Is it the presence of Nicole Kidman and your Scientology chum John Travolta - hey John wake up! - or is it this coming out of the closet thing, the L. Ron Hubbard cupboard. Sounds mighty funny to us. Aw, go on Tom, Thomas, Tommy-boy, go on let it come to the UK. Lighten up buddy. Look we've all seen your performance in War of the Worlds and Minority Report and, well take your pick, its the same in all of them. Surely South Park would have given you a new dimension. Hey well, listen, you take care. Oh and watch out for guys with squirty microphones or custard pies now. Keep your guard up! BullshitBlog

Hey great news for Maddox and Zahara Jolie. They can now use their mother's new lovers last name. So for the time being they get to call themselves Maddox Jolie hyphen Pitt and Zahara Jolie hyphen Pitt. Cudos and respec' man. You could have added Voight to be a bit more Hollywood Ange but no, it works for us. What's next? Now if you could just run off with a De Mille next or a Zanuck or... hey what about calling them Zahara and Maddox Jolie-Pitt-Voight-Metro Goldwyn Mayer-Universal-Sony-Warner Brothers-Gone With The Wind.


And with her first biological Pitt due soon, just think of the fun they'll have naming him or her. They'll be able to take all those normal names and while away the hours respelling them. So for example just old plain John (as in say John Voight) could be Jjhfjohn pronounced... John. Or Louise spelt Lhooise. Get the idea. That's the trick, to come up with something that no one else has got. The essential Hollywood accessory, a name no one can spell pronounced the same as the one you can spell. Makes perfect sense. Then before you know it lots of copycat namings, only you have the original. In no time at all we guarantee that there will be hundreds of little Maddoxs and Zaharas running around council estates intimidating people, setting cars on fire and dropping E. Keanu mate, move over. BullshitBlog

This item is copied from the BBC News web site for reasons which will become obvious. All should copy and so support the work of such a man as Kailash Satyarthi. Anyone who has grown up in the first world will mostly have experienced the joy of childhood with the freedom to grow and learn and more importantly to play in a carefree atmosphere, to experience happiness we can take with us through our lives. But in some countries, children born into poverty work from the moment they are capable and know nothing of frivolity and fun. It seems incredible that small defenceless, ignorant children are bullied and beaten and harmed by adults who use them to their own ends.


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Kailash Satyarthi has saved tens of thousands of lives by staging dangerous and daring dawn raids on Indian factories where children are brutally enslaved. His mission is to "wipe away the blot of human slavery".
In Kenya, Martin Fisher and Nick Moon have helped impoverished families by doubling the yield of local farmers through a low-cost, manual water pump. Meanwhile, a new bank is loaning billions of pounds to the poor thanks to entrepreneurial efforts in Bangladesh. And one enterprising woman has founded the Delancey Street foundation in San Francisco to help drug addicts, criminals and the homeless win back their self-respect and lead productive lives.


I want to see in my lifetime that there is no child slavery in the world


A new breed of compassionate capitalists are beginning to stamp their mark on the world as 'change-agents' for society. Their stories and others are about to be told in a new TV programme fronted by Hollywood movie icon Robert Redford, recording the birth of the "new heroes of our time", the "social entrepreneurs".


Modern day slavery

Bonded labour is a form of modern day slavery whereby a poor family borrows a petty sum from a businessman or landlord but is forced to hand over one of their children as security.
Education enables children to have dreams and realise them But they are too impoverished to pay back the loan. The son or daughter becomes a slave and if they try to escape they are beaten, tortured and even killed. Forced to work 18 hours days, often without breaks, their spirit is crushed from an early age.


Mr Satyarthi left a promising career as an electrical engineer to mount rescue raids on factories - often manned by armed guards - where children and families were held captive.

Culprit companies include carpet makers, diamond miners, and even firms that make footballs.
Mr Satyarthi created the South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS) in 1989, which has liberated and rehabilitated nearly 40,000 bonded labourers, educating them in basic skills to lead and free and independent life.

Former slaves have even become liberators themselves, taking part in dawn raids to free others.


Death threats
But all this has come at a personal price to Mr Satyarthi.

He has endured death threats and attempts at incarceration and has lost two of his colleagues who were murdered on the job.
Undeterred, Mr Satyarthi has begun a programme called "Bal Mitra Gram" to encourage Indian villages to abolish child labour as well as supporting "Rugmark" - where carpets are labelled and certified to be child-labour-free from the factories that make them.


By showing buyers the human costs involved in some Indian industries, he hopes to tweak the conscience of western consumers.


In the meantime, the business of liberating child slaves is something he will never turn his back on.

"I would never give up the work," he tells the BBC.
"Somebody has to accept the challenge whatever dangers are there.

"I want to see in my lifetime that there is no child slavery in the world."


Growth opportunities
Over in east Africa, Mr Fisher and Mr Moon are helping Kenyan farmers transform their lives by developing and marketing new technologies aimed at boosting crop yields and breaking the cycle of poverty.


The 'Moneymaker' foot-operated pump helps farmers boost yields

The pair founded Approtec (Appropriate Technologies for Enterprise Creation), to provide farmers with the tools to make their work profitable. The company was founded out of the belief that poor people do not need handouts, they simply need the opportunities and tools to make the most of their skills and entrepreneurial spirit. Despite being not-for-profit, the company says it takes a business-like approach to helping others.
"We don't think of them as poor farmers desperate for sympathy and charitable handouts," co-founder Nick Moon tells the BBC.

"We don't like the bleeding heart charity approach. We see them as a massive reservoir of unmobilised capital waiting to be invested in."



Enter the 'Moneymaker' irrigation pump - a small, foot-operated pump tailor-made to the requirements of Kenyan farmers. Soil that once took a whole day to irrigate, now takes one hour. The popular pump has now been used by over 32,000 east African farmers. All they are looking for is a practical opportunity to make better use of what they already have


Mr Moon says that on average a small-scale farmer's income goes up 10 times when using its technology. For every $1000 Approtec invests in marketing, it creates five new businesses that go on to make more than $20,000 in profit over the next three years, the company says.

Private sector manufacturers, distributors and retailers in the supply chain all make their respective profits from the operation. In short, everybody is happy.
"We are creating that wealth at the bottom of the pyramid but through market based approaches," says Mr Moon.

"All they are looking for is a practical opportunity to make better use of what they already have."

Has the News of the World got no more tricks up its sleeve. Once more they trot out the wealthy arab to ensnare some unsuspecting celebrity in front of whom they dangle an irresistible carrot just so they can drag his name into the public eye where they proceed to disembowel them in a most public manner. They did it to the Countess of Wessex and now they’ve done it again to Sven Goran Erickson.
What a one trick pony they have become. And why did they do it? Well, one would love to believe it’s because they see it as their duty to publically expose those elements of society who may constitute a menace. But you don't have to be a born cynic to recognise the fact they do it because they want to sell as many newspapers as they can to get their circulation figures up in order to sell their advertising space at a premium... but to whom? Only the sad, anti-social malicious who can just about read. Yes it's for them that they take some poor sod and attempt to destroy his life.


For that purpose alone they focus on someone who looks like a mark, an easy target, then they set up that target with the oldest trick in the book, the promise of wealth the details of which they secretly record and photograph with long lenses which they then flog on the front pages of their tawdry rags bought by dull, balding, sex starved little men, men with a short focus span and dreary fat women in leggings and sweat shirts (it’s all they can't get into) who have no lives of their own.


And if it isn’t a celebrity they’re haranguing its a sex pest or paedophile or any perverse individual they can sensationalise, all in the name of advertising revenue. The interesting thing is that they have affiliations with 'The Helping Hand Campaign' a subsidiary of 'Save The Children'. What do they do? Why do they have a campaign to fight “Bullying”. Ironic eh?



What delightful people they are. You'd want to meet them in a burning building when you twisted your ankle I'm sure!

The hypocrisy of this New Labour government is breathtaking. Here’s Ruth Kelly wriggling like a flounder on a hook - a male flounder that is, don’t you find her looks somewhat androgynous. She’s just one step away from dungarees and a ban the bomb button. Anyway, she’s been back tracking, side tracking, up and down tracking and looking for any exit strategy that will afford her credence and allow her to justify the employment of sex offenders in schools in her happy clappy lefty world, where committees of pipe smoking, bearded (would have been), open toed, patchouli oiled hippy minded, gay whale savers review each situation with “understanding” and ultimately come up with a wet wishy washy policy.


On the one hand you’ve got the Sun Newspaper strategy, which is ‘lets appeal to the lowest common denominator and incite them to violence and vigilantism by whipping up a frenzy of hate to sell more newspapers, selling them to people who are themselves just one step higher on the social rung and seeing someone worse than themselves, become filled with moral hatred turning them into uncontrolled loonies. Then on the other you’ve got the lefty intellectuals of the government saying, ‘Okay we probably can trust them even though they crossed the line once before but lets give them another chance at working with children. WRONG!!!.’ You just can’t win. There seems to be no middle ground where common sense prevails i.e. ‘Right, so we can’t trust these guys and gals to behave around kids, but we’ll let them back into society as they’ve done their time and keep them the heck away from vulnerable groups and potential victims in areas such as schools, sports training, swimming instructors etc. It couldn’t be simpler. Meanwhile that young chap Kelly has her staff busy this week searching records, looking back 30 years to see if she can divert attention from herself and pass the blame onto.... yes you guessed it, The Conservatives, searching for their past indiscretions in this area. Look lad, you’ve had years to put right what previous subsequent governments got wrong, the responsibility is wholly yours. Stop blaming history for your failings. Put the present right.


Frankly you should resign Ms Kelly and let someone more competent and more socially aware do your job. Maybe you should be on list 99 as you are in effect complicit. This is going to be another Jo Moore / Steven Buyers case where the so obviously inept hang on and hang on until the public stand up as one and demand your resignation, so go now whilst you can retain some dignity lad. Mr Blair, you should go too as you back her decision to the hilt it appears. If you support her so vocally then you clearly do. That makes you a liability too.... like we didn’t already know that with all the lies you’ve fed the public about Iraq.