revolution
Fitting Your Mates In The Back Of A Mini Is No Longer A Ball-Ache
17 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So much for the ball-ache of getting in and out of your MINI when shooting the sidewalk café’s for a quickie…Can you say 5-door…
Clothing Brands Are Actually Remodelling Their Clothes To Cater For The iPhone 6
01 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Don’t stress too much if your new iPhone 6 Plus doesn’t fit into your favourite skinny jeans. Hopefully that little first world problem will soon vanish.
Stellenbosch Study Says Tim Noakes Diet Is Rubbish
10 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 21 Comments
Celebrity Professor Tim Noakes’ popular low-carbohydrate “banting” diet is neither healthier nor better for dropping kilos, according to a Stellenbosch University.
Opinion Based App Set To Rock Social Media World [Video]
21 May 2014 by chelsea / No Comments
Who’s going to know your opinion if you don’t say anything? New opinion based app, State, allows you let out all of your mini revolutions easily.
Ukraine Police Abuse Naked Man In NSFW [VIDEO]
24 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
As the revolution in Kiev gets uglier and uglier, a video has emerged of riot police making a detained protestor strip and stand naked in the snow while they photograph him.
Keen To Be A Minister In A Revolutionary Government With Your Own Budget To Spend? Click Here
08 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Every year, on 14 July, the French nation commemorates Bastille Day, marking the 1789 storming of the Bastille prison and the beginning of contemporary democracy. Bastille Day is a line in the sand, the third act of a revolution, and the start of a new life for the people of France. Fast forward to 2013, and the […]
Che Guevara’s Handwritten Diary Released Online
10 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Revolutionary hero, and centerpiece for countless t-shirts and flags, Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s handwritten diary, from the year leading up to his death, has been released online. This is the first time a broad audience will have access to the unedited text.
Creative Combat Gear Worn By Egyptian Protesters [PICS]
28 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The saying goes that you shouldn’t bring a knife to a gunfight. But in Egypt, where violence is once again reaching a crescendo, protesters are protecting themselves with whatever they can find as they fight fierce street battles with the military. Check out their home-made armour consisting of garden buckets, gas masks and…egg boxes.
The Occupy Revolution Has Hit South Africa
07 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
It looks like the tides that swept up the Occupy Wall Street protest campaign – ongoing after three weeks – have broken national boundaries; ‘Operation Ubuntu’ has been set up to launch a simultaneous protests on the 15th of October in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Grahamstown, as part of the global Occupy Revolution campaign.
Ugandan Police Spray Dye At Opposition Protestors [PICS]
18 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bravo. Anti-riot police used tear gas and water canons (loaded with dyed water) to disperse supporters of the opposition party in the outskirts of Kampala yesterday. The group had gathered to mourn people killed during demonstrations earlier this year.
Vodafone’s Wrists Slapped By Shareholders For Shutdown In Egypt
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Vodafone shut down their Egyptian network coverage during the revolution, arguably prolonging the event’s bloodshed and indirectly leading to the death of Egyptians who couldn’t summon ambulances when they were needed. This is bad. So it’s nice that AccessNow, a human rights NGO with Vodafone stock, are trying to force a company-wide human rights assessment.
Former Tunisian President Sentenced To 35-Year Jail Sentence In Absentia
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Tunisian court found former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife guilty of theft and the illegal possession of large quantities of money and jewelry. He sentenced them to 35 years in jail, which is great and all, except Ben Ali and his wife are in Saudi Arabia, making extradition a little unlikely.
Syria Moves To Lift Emergency Law After 48 Years
20 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Syrian government yesterday passed a bill lifting the country’s decades-old emergency law, some hours after protesters were fired upon by security forces. This follows weeks of pro-reform demonstrations and protests. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has at this point not yet signed the bill into legislation.
China Bans Time-Travel Movies
08 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well this is probably just the cherry on the big ol’ authoritarian cake they got going on over there, but hot damn. All the best movies had time travel in them. Never mind the fact that now a generation of Chinese kids won’t spend every waking moment waiting for their future selves to arrive in a DeLorean.
Schabir Shaik for President!
28 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Good news, ye trodden under masses of South Africa! ‘Anonymous’ has finally taken note of your plight and you can expect deliverance from your daily misery as soon as before the Rugby World Cup ends! So rise up and conquer, People! What are you waiting for?
Bahraini Protester Gets Shot Point Blank By Government Forces [VIDEO]
17 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One hears all these news reports about around the world, but there is nothing like visuals to demonstrate what these poor people are going through as we speak. In this video you’ll witness the apparent killing of an unarmed protester at point blank range by military forces loyal to king Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
Google Earth A Revolutionary Tool – The Photos That Sparked Protests in Bahrain
03 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the age of information, nothing can be kept in the dark anymore. These are the so called controversial Google Earth photos that initially set off Bahraini protests of inequality back in 2006. And when you see them, you’ll know why.
Citizens Of Bahrain Say “No Deal!”
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Monday we ran a story about Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the king of Bahrain, granting each family in his kingdom 20k in a brilliant attempt at reverse psychology. But apparently the people of Bahrain are bigger Tracy Chapman fans than he thought, as they are now also “talkin’ ’bout a revolution.”
WikiPedia Nails A Summary Of The Middle East Political Situation
03 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yemen is situated on the southernmost tip of the Arabian peninsula, neighbouring Oman and Saudi Arabia, and is a geographer’s spitting distance across the Red Sea from one particularly troubled Arab state – Egypt. With revolution standing a fair chance of spreading to Yemen, WikiPedia has stepped in to nail a prediction.
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