Tag: World News
400 Taliban prisoners escape Afghani prison.
Aren't you happy we're still winning this relentless war?
huffingtonpost: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- More than 400 inmates – many of them Taliban insurgents – escaped from the main prison in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar overnight through an underground...
Japan suffers largest ever earthquake, mammoth tsunamis follow.
Nature has shown its ugly belly this morning, hitting Japan with an unparalleled earthquake measuring 8.9 on the richter scale. To date there have been 44 deaths, but more are sure to come, with up to 20 countries worldwide...
Dick Cheney must pay Nigeria a $250 million fine or go to jail.
Bitter sweet irony.
In what amounts to a ricocheting bribery case, from one entity back to the other- it seems that the Nigerian government, infamous for its very own very special brand of corruption is willing to drop charges of...
Ekaterina Zatuliveter has suddenly become the latest sexy Russian spy to be deported.
Is she a spy or isn't she?
Debate is still running as to whether Ekaterina Zatuliveter, a 25 year old Russian emigre working in the British House of Commons on behalf of British Liberal Democrat Mile Hancock was...
Iranian football star’s ‘temporary wife ‘ hanged.
Shahla Jahed loses her 8 year campaign at the gallows.
Shahla Jahed, the contentious mistress of famed Iranian football star Nasser Mohammad Khani was hanged this morning 6 am Tehran time after she finally lost her appeal seeking to prove...
Barack Obama: upsetting Norwegians.
We all know the President is a busy man, but it's not unreasonable to expect a trip to Oslo to pick up a Nobel Peace Prize to rank high on the agenda. Whilst in Norway, Obama is scheduled to...
Google, Censorship, and the First Lady.
The search engine Google has found itself in an extremely delicate situation this week surrounding an offensive image of Michelle Obama, and has taken a very confident and somewhat unexpected decision in how it has chosen to deal with...
Demolishing soccer stadiums because they don’t comply with Israeli codes.
When politics gets in the way of good will.
Here’s an interesting (distressing) situation out of Israel (you know, that fun place where the Palestians and Jews attack each other like madmen):
In anticipation of the completion of a friendly soccer...
Raul Castro’s Cuba More Opressive Than Ever.
Watching the human rights violations mount.
Here's a trick question. Because Fidel Castro, Cuba's longest reigning strongman, effectively moved aside for his brother Raul, what do you think has happened regarding human rights violations? If you believe they worsened,...
Wall of Sound
U2 is a politically conscious band. This has been their thing for a while now and this is the thing that really puts the ironic spin on an otherwise ordinarily ridiculous situation. In Berlin, Germany, to celebrate the 20th...
How to Get Away with Murder, Mafia Execution Captured on Tape.
Apparently the perfect murder is not the most complicated.
You don’t have to be overly cunning, or even particularly subtle. All you have to do, it seems, is make sure that absolutely everyone is utterly shit-scared of you.
As the...
How to deal with witches. A comprehensive guide to ridicule and punishment in India.
How can these things still go in the world? And why?
Out of the BBC comes a torrid tail of what to do when you find out your next door neighbor is a witch. Disturbing, Discretion advised…
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