A young man who was assigned to the Royal Wedding procession- one of those guys in the big fur hats- has been kicked off duty for insulting Prince William’s fiancee Kate Middleton on Facebook.

Earlier anti-Semitic posts made by 18-year-old Cameron Reilly were highlighted by press, but it was his comparatively tame if lengthier rant against Middleton that lost him his spot during the event. On his Facebook page, Reilly described being snubbed by Middleton as he patrolled:

‘Her and William drove past me on Friday and all I got was a s****y wave while she looked the opposite way from me, stupid, stuck-up cow. Am I not good enough for them! Posh b****. Who really gives a f*** about her?’

The Daily Mail also detailed Reilly’s earlier comments about “Jews”:

Commenting on his Facebook page on one such patrol, he wrote: ‘Watching a massive Jew gathering at the Tower of London! Have never seen so many rabbis in my life.

A pal replied: ‘Get the rifle out…’

To which he responded: ‘Have got one of the Jews in my sights now lmao’

It is not known whether Reilly will face additional discipline for the comments he made on Facebook.

British soldier kicked off Royal Wedding duty after nasty Facebook remarks about Kate Middleton is a post from: The Inquisitr

In an email to TPN podcasters, CEO Cameron Reilly stated that the main hard drive on the network’s server in Texas suffered a “massive technical failure” and that data on the drive is unrecoverable. In a subsequent email, Reilly stated that while backups were available for show blog posts and comments, there is no backup of site architecture, stats or media; or in other words, their entire archive of podcasts is gone.

Reilly went on to say that blogs/ landing pages for each show on the network would be rebuilt, but appealed to network members for archival recordings of old shows, or “if not, we’ll have to ask the audience if they have archived copies.”

TPN has had a difficult year, with the network being hacked earlier this year due to an old version of WordPress being run, causing widespread outages and some discontent among its podcasters. A number of podcasters left the network after the earlier issues.

I’ve asked Cameron Reilly for his comment on the outage and we’ll update the post if we get a response.

From the outside though I’d think a loss of data along these lines would be a serious issue for any company. That they were not backed up externally, or that they were archived on a single hard drive to begin with may suggest that the company may have already fallen on hard times after having claimed at one stage to be delivering 800,000 podcasts a month (total downloads) on 8 million page views across the network. TPN was the worlds first podcast network, and I know I’m not alone in thinking its sad to see it in this state, and we wish Cameron the best in his attempts to survive through this difficult time.

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