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Bing Maps Show The CIA’s Secret Bin Laden Training Facility
11 Oct 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Just yesterday we reported on the fact that Apple Maps had exposed a Taiwanese military facility, now, using information contained in a Navy SEAL’s book, someone found a satellite image on Bing depicting what is surely the training facility used for the assault on bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound in Pakistan.
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Russia Frees One Of Three Jailed Pussy Riot Members
10 Oct 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
A Russian court today ruled that Yekaterina Samutsevich should be freed because guards threw her out of Moscow’s main cathedral before she could even remove her guitar from its case to play in protest of Vladimir Putin.
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50 000 Greek Protesters Demonstrate Against German Chancellor [GALLERY]
10 Oct 2012 by Steyn du Toit / No Comments
About 50 000 demonstrators defied a ban on protests yesterday in Greece to voice their displeasure with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She is currently in the country to meet with Greek leaders who are searching for a new package of budget cuts. They need this in order to secure bail-out funds – largely underwritten by the German taxpayer.
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Scotland Contemplates Split From United Kingdom In 2014
10 Oct 2012 by Simon Gerber / No Comments
If you’ve ever been to Scotland, or seen Braveheart, you’ll know that the Scots and the English aren’t the best of friends. Scotland currently operates under its own set of laws, and has a devolved government in Edinburgh, but it is now looking at making things a little more permanent.
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Morocco Won’t Allow “Abortion Boat” To Dock
04 Oct 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Morocco’s government has decided that it is not going to allow the Women on Waves “abortion ship” to dock when it arrives at Moroccan shores today.
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Dutch “Abortion Ship” Sails For Morocco
02 Oct 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
Over the past 11 years, a Women on Waves ship has visited Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Spain, sparking protests in each country from pro-life groups. Rebecca Gomperts, founder of the non-profit orginasation, and her team are sailing to a Muslim country for the first time, to raise awareness about women’s health, and specifically the drug misoprostol.
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Gordon Brown Cancels UN Press Conference After Only One Journalist Turns Up
28 Sep 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Poor Gordon Brown. He was due to hold a press conference on Wednesday to discuss his role as the UN special envoy for global education, but only one journalist decided to go.
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Outrage Over Chinese Beggars In Cages At Religious Festival [GALLERY]
20 Sep 2012 by Steyn du Toit / 3 Comments
In order to keep them from “ruining the experience for visitors”, organisers of the annual temple fair in Nanchang, China, have ordered beggars to stay in purposely built cages. Those beggars not willing to comply with this are simply banished from the city by officials. The zoo-like structures are so small that adults are unable to stand up inside them. Have a look in the gallery below for more detailed images.
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Korean Engineering Students See Hot Girls Dance For The First Time
20 Sep 2012 by Harry Haddon / 1 Comment
A bunch of Korean engineering students get incredibly excited watching a group of women perform a racy dance routine, throwing more fist pumps per second than previously recorded in the history of their country.
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France To Shut 20 Embassies Around The World Over Cartoon Fears
19 Sep 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / 2 Comments
French authorities are getting nervous that the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in magazine Charlie Hebdo may result in violent backlashes.
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Islamic Protestor Dies Inhaling Smoke From Burning American Flag
19 Sep 2012 by Simon Gerber / 4 Comments
There’s a lot of protesting and unrest in the Muslim parts of the world right now, mostly because of a movie called “The Innocence of Muslims.” At a recent 10 000-strong protest against the film, held in Lahore, the capital of the Punjab province in Pakistan – things took a deadly turn for one of the protestors.
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$200 In The Bank, $7 Million Under The Floorboards
19 Sep 2012 by Harry Haddon / 1 Comment
A man who died recently was found to have been stashing away gold bars worth $7 million under his house, while he only had $200 in his bank account. Walter Samaszko Jr., 69, of Carson city Nevada was also hoarding some rare gold coins, stocks, and a whole bunch of crap.
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City of Berlin: “No Entry For Hipsters”
18 Sep 2012 by Simon Gerber / No Comments
Berlin has just shot to the number three most visited tourist destination in Europe, coming in just behind London and Paris. The difference is that London and Paris have been hosting tourists for a good few hundred years. Berlin, on the other had, has only been welcoming guests for the last 20. Ze Germans aren’t too happy about this.
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Footage Surfaces Of The Violent Embassy Attack In Yemen [GALLERY & VIDEO]
14 Sep 2012 by Steyn du Toit / 5 Comments
This week we’ve reported about various violent protests on US embassies across the Middle East over a film deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. The latest incident saw an attack against the U.S. embassy compound in Sanaa, Yemen. Check out footage inside.
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Madeleine McCann Conspiracy Theorist Live On 2oceansvibe Radio This Afternoon
13 Sep 2012 by silverstreak / 4 Comments
Some of you may remember this guy, Stephen Birch. He’s a South African, who claims to have found Madeleine McCann’s grave, and – get this – the Portuguese government know about it too, but choose not to act on it. Birch will be live on Mark Bayly’s show at 16h15 this afternoon. Make sure you [...]
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What Happens When You Detonate A Nuclear Bomb Under Water? [VIDEO]
12 Sep 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
This is quite something. During the 1950’s, the US conducted various atomic tests. Some of those took place underwater, and this archive footage shows the raw power of atomic energy. Pat Bradley was one of the cameramen who documented the US atomic tests during that time, codenamed the Wahoo and Umbrella underwater explosions. He narrates [...]
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The Terrible Movie That Sparked US Embassy Attacks [VIDEO]
12 Sep 2012 by Harry Haddon / 4 Comments
A crap film is the cause of two attacks on American embassies in Libya and Eygpt. Followers of an ultra-traditionalist approach to Islam are very pissed about a video called the “The Innocence of Muslims” that not only portrays the prophet Mohammed, but ridicules him as a homosexual, an advocate of paedophilia, and shows him having sex.
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BREAKING: US Ambassador To Libya Amongst Embassy Staff Killed In Rocket Attack
12 Sep 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Reuters has just reported that the US ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on Tuesday in the Libyan city of Benghazi.
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Kim Jong-Un Provides Expert Fitness Advice At New Pyongyang Gym
11 Sep 2012 by Simon Gerber / No Comments
People of Pyongyang, rejoice! No longer will you be confined to dreary offices, with no way of de-stressing from your revolutionary work. Praise be to the Young General, for his great vision and the gift of Physical Exercise Centre!
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CIA Comes Clean About WMD Mistake In Declassified Document
07 Sep 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
It was the reason America and Britain used to go to war in Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction. The CIA have finally declassified documents that show how the intelligence agency were bamboozled into believing Saddam Hussein had any.
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How Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette Describes The Bin Laden Raid
06 Sep 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Controversy surrounding no-longer-anonymous Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette has peaked because his book about his account of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden is now for sale. Here’s an interesting summary of what he says went down.
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Violent Belfast Riots Leave 61 Police Officers Injured [GALLERY]
05 Sep 2012 by Steyn du Toit / 1 Comment
Sunday night saw the start of extremely violent riots in the Carlisle Circus area of Belfast. The riots were a result of sectarian clashes, and are linked to a republican parade that took place nearby a loyalist protest. Rioters hurled petrol bombs, stones, bottles, fireworks and rocks toward police lines. They even hijacked a van before pushing it towards police lines!
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Pussy Riot Blood Graffiti Just A Decoy In Russian Double Murder
31 Aug 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
Professor Igor Danilevskiy has admitted to stabbing to death to people in an apartment in Kazan, Russia Todau reports. The crazed man scrawled “Free Pussy Riot” on the wall in the victims blood which he said was meant to confuse the cops into thinking it was a ritual killing.
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“Free Pussy Riot” Scrawled In Blood At Murder Scene Of Two Russian Women
30 Aug 2012 by Simon Gerber / No Comments
The bodies of two women in the Russian Republic of Kazan, were found yesterday evening in an apparent statement on the imprisonment of punk band Pussy Riot. They were found in their apartment with multiple stab wounds, and the words “Free! Pussy Riot” [sic] painted on the wall in what police believe were the victims’ blood.
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