Michael Jackson Tour Rehearsals Will Not Be Shown In Court

Prosecutors wanted to show some 12 hours of unedited footage from the "This Is It" movie about Jackson in a bid to demonstrate that the "Thriller" singer was healthy and in good form before he died of a drug overdose in June 2009.

Attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray, who is charged with being responsible for Jackson's death after giving him a dose of the anesthetic propofol, are expected to argue at trial that "This Is It," which was released after the pop star's death, was not a true picture of his health in his final days.

Sony Pictures, the studio that released the documentary film, argued that showing the never-before-seen footage in a public court might hurt its potential commercial value. The studio said it screened more than 100 hours of raw footage for the attorneys and the judge in the case.

Judge Michael Pastor made the ruling on Monday, concluding that it would not help the defense and that "it was a waste of my time."

The jury will, however, be shown clips that were used in the movie showing Jackson rehearsing for a series of comeback concerts in London.

However, Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor says footage - which was taken just days before his tragic death - will not add anything to the case, even though he agrees that Jackson was not in poor health.

He said: "There is absolutely nothing in those materials that could have been of assistance to the defence."

Pastor also agreed with the lawyers for Sony Pictures Entertainment that the clips have significant value and should not be publicly shown without a good reason.

He added: "There are materials which I viewed which I would regard as extremely valuable to Sony."

Murray has been accused of administering the medication and failing to provide proper care leading to Jackson's death, but in recent months, his lawyers have suggested the singer gave himself the lethal dose.

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Kristin Cavallari

Kristin Elizabeth Cavallari, born January 5, 1987 is an American television personality and actress. She is best known for her starring roles on the former MTV programs Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and its spin-off, The Hills.

Early life

Cavallari was born in Denver, Colorado, the second of three children of Judith Spies (née Eifrig) and Dennis Cavallari. When her mother divorced her father, her older brother Mike moved with their father to Laguna Beach, California, while she moved with her mother to the village of Barrington, Illinois, a suburb an hour northwest of Chicago. Kristin attended Barrington Station Middle School, and graduated on to Barrington High School. After difficulties adjusting to a new life with a stepfather and stepbrother, Kristin moved to California to live with her father. Instead Kristin was enrolled at Santa Margarita Catholic High School for her sophomore year. After she attended a Driver's Education course through Laguna Beach High School, her father enrolled her in Laguna Beach High School.

Career

Reality Television: Laguna Beach and The Hills

Cavallari was in her junior year of high school when the first season of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County began production. At the time, she was involved in an on-and-off relationship with senior Stephen Colletti. Cavallari's romance with Colletti caused a rivalry with another cast member, Lauren Conrad. The love triangle became one of the series' central plotline. 

In May 2009, Cavallari confirmed that she would be joining the cast of the popular MTV reality series The Hills. She appeared in the mid-season finale that aired on May 31, 2009 and appeared as a regular in the remainder of the fifth season. She inked a deal with MTV to appear as a series regular throughout two more seasons of the series following the fifth. The sixth and final season aired summer 2010.

Acting

After her stint on Laguna Beach, Cavallari headed to Los Angeles and briefly enrolled at University of Southern California. She signed on the UPN reality television series Get This Party Started, which premiered February 7, 2006. The series was canceled after airing two episodes due to extremely low ratings. She guest starred in another UPN series Veronica Mars in one episode. She has appeared in numerous television roles such as CSI: NY, Cane and Adventures in Hollyhood.

In 2006, she signed on as Crystal in the horror film Fingerprints. Filming took place throughout April and May 2006 in two Oklahoma towns. The film premiered at Screamfest on October 16, 2006. The film won Best Feature at the 2006 New York City Horror Film Festival. The film was released in 2007 to mixed to positive reviews. She also played a small role in "Wristcutters: A Love Story," an independent film, directed by Goran Dukic in 2006.

In 2008, she had a supporting role in Spring Breakdown alongside Amy Poehler as Summer. The film was released straight-to-DVD on June 2, 2009 and received mixed reviews. She also starred in the independent film Green Flash alongside Torrey DeVitto.

In 2009, she starred in the independent American high school comedy film Wild Cherry as Trish, which also starred Rumer Willis. She also starred in the straight-to-DVD film National Lampoon's Van Wilder: Freshman Year as Kaitlyn. The film was released July 14, 2009 to mixed to negative reviews.

Activism

Cavallari has been involved in the "Until There's a Cure" public service advertising campaign to raise awareness and funds for AIDS and HIV research and vaccine development. In 2006, Cavallari appeared in ads for PETA, and has also appeared as a celebrity spokesperson for "We Are Ellis Island", a campaign for the restoration of historic buildings on Ellis Island. In February 2009, she posed for the NOH8 Campaign in support of gay marriage. In January 2010, she traveled to El Salvador to do charity work. She told US Magazine "It really put everything into perspective and made me appreciate everything I have, seeing how happy and excited the kids were was the best feeling in the world", said Cavallari.  In March 2011, Cavallari traveled to Kenya, Africa to do charity work with the non-profit organization One Kid One World. 

Personal life

Cavallari was engaged to Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler but he called off their engagement in mid July of 2011.

Filmography

2004 - 2005 Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County Herself 28 episodes

2006 Get This Party Started Host 2 episodes

2006 Veronica Mars Kylie Marker 1 episode

2006 Lord of the G-Strings Crystal

2007 Cheerleader Camp Julie Television movie

2007 Cane Casey Episode: "Family Business"

2008 Green Flash Lana Direct-to-DVD release

2008 CSI: NY Isabelle Vaughn Episode: "Forbidden Fruit"

2008 Spring Breakdown Seven #3

2009 Wild Cherry Trish van Doren

2009 National Lampoon's Van Wilder: Freshman Year Kaitlin Hayes Direct-to-DVD release

2009 - 2010 The Hills Herself 23 episodes

2011 The Middle Ms. Devereaux Episode: "Friends, Lies, and Videotape"

Real Housewives Comment On Christmas Party

Last week we left off with Monica Chacon getting kicked out of the Gorgas' Christmas party, but this week we got the best Christmas present of all: watching Kim G. get kicked to the curb as well.

But oh man, she did not go without a fight. Or a bodyguard.

After Monica leaves, Kim won't stop gossiping about Teresa, to the point where the Manzos have had enough. When Lauren tells her to "stop stirring the pot because it's getting pathetic," Kim turns on her to pounce, but is met with calm and collected mama bear Caroline, who schools her elder on the concept of respect.

"You come to hurt people," Caroline says, eyes blazing. "You came with the intention to hurt tonight."

Kim doesn't take being lectured to too well, prompting Caroline's son Chris, who is best friends with Kim's son John, to step in and escort her outside. But not so fast - Kim brought her own bodyguard (who clearly isn't very good at his job) who starts cursing at Chris but gives up pretty easily.

The whole thing escalates pretty fast, and while Chris tries to ease the situation by talking to Kim out front, Kim continues to refuse to leave until the Manzos literally force her out the door.

Melissa admits it is a little strange that the Manzos are throwing people out of her house, but is really just grateful that the situation didn't turn out like her son's christening.

Towards the end of the episode, Giudice starts making mean comments about the Gorgas, especially Melissa, who he calls a “witch.”

“Joe Giudice was absolutely despicable,” Harrison said. “How can he say such awful things about Melissa in front of everyone? His own wife wants to patch things up and he pulls that? Yuck!”

Pepe found herself confused by the incident.

“Where did that even come from?” she said. “I wonder if the editors of the show edited the sequence so that it seemed like Joe was talking about Melissa but he was actually talking about someone else? Because honestly the only reasons I could think of why Joe Giudice would randomly start racking on Melissa like that would be if he were jealous of her or attracted to her or something equally ridiculous.”

Harrison has recently declared herself “Team Gorga,” saying “I think the Gorgas are the only ones trying to make peace. Teresa is even trashing them in her interviews.”

The episode ends on a cliffhanger, with Joe Gorga telling Teresa that he is going to leave for the Wakile party. However, on "Watch What Happens Live" with Andy Cohen, which aired immediately after, Caroline Manzo seemed to imply that the Gorgas did attend both Christmas Eve parties.

“While I know Kathy had invited the Gorgas to Christmas, I believe they should have stayed at Teresa’s house,” Santoro said. “The kids were getting along well and Joe Gorga seemed to be enjoying the lost time with his parents and sister. In my opinion, this is when Kathy should have stepped up and told Melissa when she called to stay at Teresa’s if everything was going well.”

“However,” Santoro added, “I’ll hold my comments on that until next week when it all (hopefully) plays out.

Jay Cutler calls off engagement with Kristin Cavallari

Football is back, and Bears quarterback Jay Cutler is back on the market — the dating market, if reports of his breakup with fiance Kristin Cavallari are true. Naturally we turned to our advice columnist, Ask Amy, for, well, advice. Not for the formerly happy couple, but for you, the Bear-loving public.

Kristin Cavallari, the former reality star who wowed in a glass bikini during Swim Week, is swinging single again.

Why? Because Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, 28, called off their engagement, E! News confirmed. The possible reason: cold feet.

Another source told the site that Cavallari, 24, had issues about relocating to Chicago as her career is blooming in L.A. But the former Hills star was going to find a way. Cavallari had already picked out her gown for their spring wedding, posted their registry and threw an engagement party last weekend.

Amy Winehouse death: family to hold private funeral

Amy Winehouse predicted she would die at the age of 27.

The 'Rehab' singer - who passed away at her home in Camden, north London, on Saturday (23.07.11) - believed she would become one of a number of music stars in the '27 Club', which includes Jimi Hendrix, Doors singer Jim Morrison, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Janis Joplin, and pass away at that young age.

She also had an "obsessive" personality when it came to drugs, alcohol and food.

Her friend Alex Foden, who once lived with the musician, said: "Unfortunately, Amy had a very obsessive personality. She did everything to extremes, especially when it came to food and drugs. She loved food.

"But she'd either have binges - eating loads before running up to the toilet and getting rid of it all again - or she'd go up to four or five days without eating, surviving on alcohol, drugs and sweets.

"Amy always told me she thought she would die young and that she knew she'd become part of the '27 Club'."

Alex claims her problem with drugs became so prevalent she would sometimes get through £1,000 worth of cocaine in one night, because she would be paying for all her friends to get high as well.

Mitch Winehouse had desperately tried to get his daughter into the same rehab clinic which helped Russell Brand shortly before her death, it has emerged.

Chip Somers, the head of a rehabilitation centre, said he had been in regular contact with Mitch Winehouse before the 27-year-old singer was found dead in her north London home on Saturday afternoon.

Mr Somers, who founded Focus 12, said: "Her father came here for the day to find out what we were like and he really liked what he saw."

Mr Winehouse urged his sick daughter to go back into rehab.

But Chip said: "She turned down that offer. She had turned down many other offers of help."

Mr Winehouse fought relentlessly in a bid to help Amy beat her tragic addiction.

Chip, who has worked with TV star Davina McCall and comedian Brand, said the tragedy was being replayed in families up and down the country.

"It shows you cannot protect yourself from the consequences of extreme drug use.

"Anybody, if they abuse drugs or alcohol, then no amount of money will protect you from that.

"Unfortunately, money often protects you from the consequences of drug use. It can help buy people out of trouble," he said.

"People at her financial end of the spectrum often take much longer to realise they have a problem.

"Addiction affects people irrespective of wealth, power or position.

"The death of any addict is very sad.

"But this story is being re-enacted in three or four homes in the UK today and again tomorrow and the next day.

"This is happening all over the country."

In a tribute to Winehouse, Russell Brand said that without the help of Mr Somers and Focus 12 he may also have been killed by addiction.

The actor and comedian wrote on his website: "I was 27 years old when, through the friendship and help of Chip Somers of the treatment centre Focus 12, I found recovery.

"Through Focus I was introduced to support fellowships for alcoholics and drug addicts which are very easy to find and open to anybody with a desire to stop drinking and without which I would not be alive."

The singer's death has sparked a clamour for her albums.

Music store HMV in Ipswich reported a staggering 800 per cent rise in sales of her two albums since the singer was found dead.

Prayer rally for norway shooting

Residents in Norway are turning to God to find answers and comfort after one of Europe’s worst lone-wolf terrorist attacks in history.

This is a national tragedy," one bishop told reporters on Saturday.

Reporters on the scene say the mood is disbelief in the aftermath of the attacks that took the lives of nearly 100 people, many of them teenagers. The mass murders have left the country in shock and dismay.

"When an event like this happens to young people especially – it is a crime against the entire nation," Dr. Patrick Long, a retired pastor in New Orleans, La., told The Christian Post.

"Our nation is praying for a praying nation. It is shocking that such a peace-filled country saw such hatred in one man who obviously did not know where his loyalties were and was without a doubt, insane. Christians around the world will have to pull together to help Norway in the following months to come."

Previously Oslo, known for the Nobel Peace Prize awards, had experienced no acts of terrorism before Friday's horrific events.

The first atrocity was the car bombing. Then, two hours later, came the attack on the island.

A 32-year-old Norwegian man named Anders Behring Breivik is the prime suspect in the murderous rampage.

Police told reporters that Breivik's targets of his anger were government officials and children associated with the governing Labor Party, not immigrants. It has been reported that the car bomb exploded near the office of the prime minister, who had planned to attend on Saturday the youth camp his party sponsored.

Breivik was reportedly dressed as a policeman and told the youth group he had come there as part of a security detail to protect them. Police told reporters that the suspect had never been a member of the police force but had served time in the army.

Churches across the country planned to remain open all day Saturday to offer prayers and comfort, Riksaasen Dahl said. "Every death notice is tragic, but when there are so many who are affected, it's overwhelming to take in."

Some prayer services were broadcast live over Norwegian radio Saturday.

A BBC reporter said today that emotions were running high at the lake and many survivors were hostile toward the media for intruding on their grief.

Police say they are sifting through the life details of Breivik to find answers as to his motives behind the murders.

“He describes himself as a Christian, leaning toward rightwing Christianity, on his Facebook page,” according to local authorities.

However, National Police Chief Sveinung Sponheim said the postings “suggest he has some political traits directed toward the right, and anti-Muslim views.”

Breivik’s Facebook page, before it was taken down, also listed a number of classical philosophical and literary works as his favorite books. He posted True Blood and Stargate Universe as among his favorite television shows, and names World of Warcraft as among his favorite games.

"According to a Google translation of a Norwegian news article, however, Breivik's Facebook profile was created only recently, and he had a previous profile on the page where he expressed "controversial" right-wing opinions. He considered himself a "nationalist" and was strongly opposed to multiculturalism and to Islam," reports The Los Angles Times today.

Glenn Beck compares Norway shooting victims to Hitler Youth

Beck then goes on to say that he had warned about such a scenario happening before, and attempts to separate himself from the shooter, a devout anti-Muslim who feared large government. Beck then goes on to warn that Europe is about to be taken over by radical Islam, a fear shared by the Breivik.

The summer camp in Norway did have a political purpose, but that hardly makes it comparable to something from the days of the Hitler Youth. There are multiple political camps in the United States for both liberals and conservatives, including at least one camp for Tea Party youth. For some reason Beck never dared to compare the Tea Party youth camp to the Hitler Youth. In addition, the summer camp in Norway was for the Labor Party in that country, which generally trends toward the left side of the political spectrum. Hitler’s regime was seen as an extreme right-wing government.

When discussing the tragedy in Norway on Monday, the radio host compared the Labor Party youth camp to the Hitler Youth.

"As the thing started to unfold and there was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth," he said. "Who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."

Ironically, Britain's Daily Telegraph points out, there are also such camps in the United States - hosted by the Tea Party, a political movement that makes up a large part of Beck's fan base.

A former press secretary to Norway's prime minister, Torbjørn Eriksen, told the newspaper that Beck's comments were "a new low."

"Young political activists have gathered at Utoya for over 60 years to learn about and be part of democracy, the very opposite of what the Hitler Youth was about," he told the Telegraph. "Glenn Beck's comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful."

Beck's remarks came after he praised himself for not jumping to conclusions about who was shooting at the youth camp.

After making the comments, Beck took credit for warning that something like this would happen.

"I warned that this would happen last fall," he insisted.

The Washington-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence described his remarks to the Telegraph as "absolutely disgusting.

Norway Terror: Who Is Prime Suspect Anders Behring Breivik

32-year-old man suspected of committing Friday's bombing and shooting in Norway appeared at an initial court hearing on Monday.

Anders Behring Breivik will be remanded in custody for eight weeks. For the first four weeks, he will be held in isolation with no contact to other people, mail services, or sources of media.

Monday's hearing was held behind closed doors. Afterward, Judge Kim Heger addressed reporters and read out the court's decision, including a few statements from the hearing made by Breivik.

Heger, speaking through an interpreter, said Breivik had "acknowledged the bomb explosion in the government quarter and the shooting at Utoeya." However, this was not an admission of guilt, as "the accused believed [he] needed to carry out these acts to save Norway and Western Europe" from, among other things, Marxism and Islam.

Part of the motive, according to Heger's account of Breivik's statements in the hearing, appeared to be a desire to send a strong message to Norway's Labor party regarding its immigrant policy. The youth camp where the shooting took place is affiliated with the Labor party.

Breivik has said he acted alone, but according to his statements on Monday, he claimed that there were "two more cells in our organization," which Heger said required more investigation.

It is believed that the bombing in Oslo was targeting the office of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. He was not harmed in the attacks, although seven others died in the bombing and more than 15 seriously injured.

Hours after that first attack, Breivik, dressed as a police officer entered a youth camp on Utoya Island. He allegedly told camp leaders that he was there on a routine check as a security precaution following the Oslo bombings earlier in the day. However, once given access to the camp he started mercilessly killing everyone in sight.

Acting Chief of Police, Sveinung Sponheim has said that Breivik was seen in Oslo prior to the explosions there.

Police reported: “The police have every reason to believe there is a connection between the explosions and what happened at Utoya.

The suspected killer was originally raised in Oslo and unconfirmed reports have said that he attended the same school as Norway's crown prince, Smestad Primary School.

He chose to be baptized into the Protestant Church at the age of 15, but over recent years has grown weary of the state of the modern Church. In one blog posted in 2009 he wrote: “Today's Protestant church is a joke. Priests in jeans who march for Palestine and churches that look like minimalist shopping centres. I am a supporter of an indirect collective conversion of the Protestant church back to the Catholic.”

Neighbors have reported that they often saw him in “military style clothing”, and some have commented on his love for violent video games.

Breivik wanted to be an entrepreneur and had tried to start a number of new companies. However, he was not successful; and each company was quickly dissolved soon after being established.

In2009 he created his latest business – the farm business that allowed him to purchase huge amounts of fertilizer. He has posted on one blog that this business had the purpose to help support his political activities.

EDL denies links to Norwegian gunman Anders Breivik

The Prime Minister has asked the security services and police to consider their scrutiny of groups such as the English Defence League and report any concerns or recommendations to the Government’s National Security Council (NSC).

Broader issues such as the licensing of firearms and the supply of ammunition and fertilisers which can be used for bombs will also be scrutinised.

Security officials have been asked to study contingency plans to ensure that adequate measures are in place to react to any “copycat” shooting spree by an extremist in this country.

The Prime Minister ordered the urgent work yesterday morning at a meeting of the NSC which was dominated by discussions over the Norwegian atrocity.

Experts from Scotland Yard have already travelled to Norway to help with the investigation.

Britain and Spain have both been victims of horrific acts of terrorism in the past and I know that both of us will be offering every support that we can to Norway in the days ahead.”

Mr Cameron added: “Britain has already provided police assistance and will continue to offer our expertise and our moral support.

“Britain and Norway have been good allies and neighbours in very dark days before. We know that the resilience and the courage and the decency of our Norwegian friends will overcome this evil.After such a dreadful event the British government must of course review our own security at home and that is what the National Security Council started to do this morning when we met.”

Mr Cameron denied that Britain had been “complacent” about the threat of Right-wing extremism, pointing out that it was mentioned in the Government’s official terrorism strategy and in a speech he made on the issue in Munich in February.

English Defence League (EDL) has defended claims that Anders Breivik, who has admitted carrying out Friday's shooting and bomb attacks in Norway, had links to the organisation.

Mr Breivik posted supportive messages about the organisation online and claims to have had contact in the past with members of the EDL, but had distanced himself from them in his manifesto.

The leader of the EDL, Stephen Lennon - who also goes by the name of Tommy Robinson - denied that he had ever met Mr Breivik.

Speaking on Newsnight, he said he didn't believe the Norwegian had been on any of their demonstrations.

Norway Shooting Death Toll Drops Dramatically

Brundtland, who led three Labour Party governments in the 1980s and 1990s and is often called "mother of the nation", gave a speech on the island the day of the slaughter and left before Anders Behring Breivik arrived.

"Anders Behring Breivik had plans to come to Utoeya (island) while Gro Harlem Brundtland was visiting on Friday, but claims under interrogation that he was delayed," Aftenposten reported on Monday, citing unnamed sources.

The newspaper said the 32-year-old right-wing fanatic wanted to "hit Gro".

Brundtland, a Harvard-educated physician, has been a champion of social democratic policy approaches worldwide, and served as president of the World Health Organisation from 1998 to 2003.The report said Breivik made the remarks under questioning by police in advance of a court hearing on Monday.

At a 35-minute hearing remand hearing in Oslo, Breivik said the point of his attack had been to stop future recruitment to the Labour Party.

Judge Kim Heger read a statement to reporters where he summarised Breivik's claims. He said: "The object of the attacks was to give a sharp signal to people. The accused acted to induce the greatest possible loss to the Labour Party so that for the future it will limit new recruitment.

"The Labour Party has failed the country and the people and price of their treason is what they had to pay yesterday.

Police have lowered the death toll of last Friday's shootings from 93 to 76, reports the Associated Press. A reduction was expected as police collected more details about missing persons after Anders Behring Breivik's mass shooting on Utoeya island. Breivik was arraigned in a district court in Oslo Monday afternoon, where he admitted that the attack was meant to stop Labour Party recruitment in Norway and claimed that two more terrorist cells existed. After admitting that Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland was the target of the attacks, Breivak pleaded not guilty of terrorism charges and will be detained for eight weeks before the trial starts. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 21 years in prison--or 113 days per murder

Norwegian royal killed in shooting

Crown Princess of Norway’s stepbrother was killed by the crazed gunman as he shielded his ten-year-old son.

Off-duty policeman Trond Berntsen confronted Anders Breivik as the mass killer stepped on to Utoya island.

Mr Berntsen is believed to have saved his son by pushing him into bushes before he challenged the gunman.

The boy, who has not been named, survived and has begun telling police about the ordeal. Officers described his account as ‘harrowing’.

Mr Berntsen, 51, was the stepbrother of Crown Princess Mette-Marit. He was part of a private security operation for the youth summer camp at Utoya, but was unarmed.

He went to the ferry jetty following reports that a man, dressed as a policeman, had been acting suspiciously on the boat on his way to the holiday island.

A woman on the ferry, Monica Bosei, raised the alarm after learning details about the earlier bombing in Oslo.

The 45-year-old museum worker asked Breivik about the attack and became suspicious about his answers.

As the ferry docked on Utoya she ran off the boat and called for help from Mr Berntsen, who confronted Breivik.

The right-wing fanatic drew a gun and shot both Mrs Bosei and the off-duty policeman. Union representative Harald Olsen said Mr Berntsen would not have hesitated to challenge Breivik, even if he knew he was armed.

‘He would not have been afraid to confront someone acting suspiciously even if they had a gun.’

Mr Berntsen’s death was confirmed yesterday by a spokesman for the Norwegian royal family.

A palace spokesman said: ‘The crown princess’s thoughts go to his closest family.’ Mr Berntsen’s father Rolf became Mette-Marit’s stepfather in 1994 when he married her divorced mother Marit Tjessem.

The self-confessed mass killer said he also hoped to kill former prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, a news report said.

Anders Behring Breivik, 32, is charged with killing at least 86 people on the island of Utoya on Friday, where the ruling Labour Party was holding a youth camp. Seven also died in a bomb attack in the capital of Oslo earlier the same day.

He said under police questioning that he had intended to shoot Brundtland during her presentation on the island earlier in the afternoon but he was delayed, a report by the daily Aftenposten said, citing police sources.

Labour member Brundtland, who was prime minister for three terms between 1981 and 1996, is referred to as a "murderer of the country" on a web posting thought to be connected to Breivik and his extremist anti-immigration position.

Norway shooting: German tourist hailed a hero after saving 30 lives

32-year-old has lived in Norway for the last few years and was holidaying on the mainland Friday, directly opposite the island of Utoeya when he heard shots.

“We thought that there was a fireworks display,” he recounted to news agency, DPA. But as he heard volley after volley of automatic gunfire, Gleffe became convinced he was hearing shooting instead.

He found a spot to look at the water and saw desperate people trying to swim to safety. That’s when Gleffe took action, jumping into a boat and racing to help people.

Despite the danger, Gleffe quickly pulled person after persons into his small boat.

“It all worked without speaking very much,” he said.

Managing to rescue around six people at a time, Gleffe made multiple trips – officials say he likely rescued around 30 survivors in all. He kept doing it until police showed up at the island, roughly an hour after the shooting started.

Mr Gleffe and his family were drinking coffee outside their caravan and discussing the Oslo bombing when they began to hear shots from Utoeya between 5pm and 6pm on Friday.

"I recognised the sound of the automatic weapon straight away," he said.

"Then I saw two youths who swam away from the island. Then smoke grenades came and several bursts from the automatic weapon. I saw through the binoculars that there were more people in the water."

Mr Gleffe, who lives in Ski, south of Oslo, took the keys to his boat and raced down to the water.

He threw life jackets out to the young people as they shouted: "Are you police, are you police?". Some told him that the gunman was a police officer as others yelled "terrorist, terrorist, terrorist!".

He plucked as many as he could from the water, steering the boat close to the shore of the island and using his binoculars to search for the gunman.

"I took between four and five trips. After that the police asked me to stop," he told the local Dagbladet newspaper.

"The youths were good. They supported each other and were organised, and said who needed first aid and who had to be taken into the boat first. 'You must take him, you must take him', they said."

"They were happy to get help, but they were unsure whom they could trust."

Among those who lost their lives during Breivik's rampage was Tore Eikeland, 21, president of the Hordaland branch of the AUF, whom Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg described as "one of our most talented youth politicians".

"Now he is dead. Gone forever. It is incomprehensible," he told mourners at a special memorial service at Oslo's cathedral.

Erik Dale, a friend and colleague in Norwegian youth politics wrote online: "It is much too soon for you to go, Tore. A great friend with a great heart. A heart that beats for everyone.

"And a political talent we all envy you. Norway's next Prime Minister, remember? It is too soon to lose you. We miss you."

Mr Dale also wrote about another friend, Tarald Mjelde, 18, who was missing presumed dead last night.

"We still need you, Tarald.," he said. "The little big boy with an enthusiasm that infects everyone around you. All the people who wish they had your energy. Your eagerness. If you hadn't been such a great little politician, I am sure you could have been an athlete.

"You love your football, even if you support the wrong team. How did you end up with Chelsea anyways? Please come home safe so you can tell me. We need you."

As the death toll from the island climbed to 86, the names of the missing began to filter out. AMong them was Simon Saeboe, 19, who posed with the Prime Minister in 2009.

Hanne Kristine Fridtun, 20, was last heard from at 6pm on Friday as she swam out into the water with several others.

"We are twenty people hiding at the water's edge. We are talking quietly so we are not heard," she told NRK, the state broadcaster on the phone.

Torjus Blattmann, 17, Syvert Knudsen, 17, Marianne Sandvik, 16 and Jamil Rafal Yasin, 20, were also all still missing.

Friends posted heartfelt messages on Facebook and more than one million joined a tribute page illustrated by a single candle.

One wrote on Simon Saeboe's page: "This is so unfair and unreal you will always be remembered and never be forgotten" while another added: "I am so glad I had a chance to know you.

Norway Attacks Stoke Fears Of Growing Extremism

According to the police and Mr Breivik's own lawyer, the suspect has admitted the killings but has not accepted criminal responsibility for them. In other words, he does not believe he should be punished for them.

His lawyer, Geir Lippestad, told Norwegian media on Sunday: "He thought it was gruesome having to commit these acts, but in his head, they were necessary. He wished to attack society and the structure of society."

Mr Breivik is believed to be linked to far-right groups, and it has been suggested that he spent years planning the attacks.

But Professor Jeremy Coid, professor of forensic psychiatry at Queen Mary college, University of London, says that there is likely to be a deep level of mental disturbance underlying this ideology.

"The bottom line is that we don't at this moment know enough about his motives to diagnose his mental state. However, while there are all sorts of cross-cutting with right-wing ideology, I believe he is likely to be suffering from a mental disorder.

"He is across the borderline from extreme ideology. But the devil is in the detail and we need to understand more about his motives.

There are several causes. The most recent, of course, is the economic crisis. But the basic cause is the arrival of millions of immigrants over the last two or three decades in a continent whose nation-states were founded on the concept of mono-ethnicity. A German analyst once told me the modern European state was founded on the notion of exclusion, not inclusion. Immigration has placed Europeans in front of the dilemma of questioning their national identity: What does it mean to be British, French, Norwegian? In northern Europe — in Scandinavia and the Netherlands — there was a climate of political correctness that stifled the debate and allowed a lot of animosity to fester under the surface.

So that has led to a more mainstream backlash. You see politicians you would think of as being more in the center as well as people far on the right making these kinds of statements.

Recently, in fact, yes, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron all declared that multiculturalism had failed.

But there's a confusion about what multiculturalism means and how different governments applied immigration policies, if they had any at all. In Germany, immigrants were never expected to remain; that's why they were called "guest workers." German authorities often show a condescending attitude: There are judges who rule in favor of the Muslim husband beating his wife because the judge says it's part of their culture and religion. The result, two or three generations later, is mostly separate, parallel societies — German and immigrant — that never meet.

[There is] a similar result in Britain, where many [South] Asians live in closed communities, alienated from British society. In the Netherlands, political correctness even led to the government subsidizing separate Muslim soccer leagues.

These policies have in no way helped the process of integration. On the contrary, they created more alienation, more mutual suspicion, and increasing polarization on both sides.

You mention a number of mainstream leaders, of mainstream conservative parties, that have actually gotten into power in various governments. But are there also more extreme right-wing parties that are gaining traction in this atmosphere?

First of all, many taboos that emerged after the devastations of World War II are being broken. There's more and more brazenness in flaunting fascist and neo-Nazi symbols. In the office of the leader of the Belgian ultra right-wing party Vlaams Belang, I saw a framed poster celebrating all the neo-Nazi and militant ultra right-wing groups of the '70s. And in Berlin I saw an apparel shop selling coded Nazi items — no swastikas, but Nordic symbols dear to the Nazis.

Far-right parties are winning votes from people who used to vote for the left. In the former communist East Germany, the neo-Nazi party has elected representatives in two regional parliaments and in several municipalities. The Sweden Democrats, whose roots are in the neo-Nazi movements of the 1980s and '90s, were elected to the Swedish parliament for the first time last year. The ultra-right Danish People's Party has 25 deputies out of 179. In the Netherlands, the anti-Islam Party [for] Freedom won more than 15 percent of the vote. And here in Norway, the far-right Progress Party is the second-largest in Parliament.

What's interesting is that while Norwegian police officials seem to have underestimated the right-wing threat, there are several leading Scandinavian crime writers — the best-known is the late Stieg Larsson of the Millennium trilogy — who focus on the threat of domestic right-wing extremism. It's crime literature, this time, that's ahead of the curve.