Saturday, July 19, 2025

Tuesday Morning Spice

Madagascar’s capital launches cable cars to ease traffic, Pirates of the Caribbean actor killed in shark attack, Julian Assange freed in US plea deal, and South Africa’s coalition government hits hurdle.

Tuesday Morning Spice

Why Cape Town isn’t mitigating load shedding anymore, The brewing secrets behind tastier no-alcohol beer, Out-of-control satellite hurtling towards Earth, China’s homegrown passenger jet, Best-selling 4×4 vehicles in South Africa, and The ten unhappiest countries in the world.

Monday Morning Spice

Assange vindicated. Zuma’s week of hell. Scores dead in massive Taiwan Earthquake. Rolene Struass wedding pic. Man shot dead at Dublin boxing weigh-in. Kid (11) shoots friend (8) dead. Salma Hayek’s inappropriate T-shirt. Blue Ivy and Apple BFFs forever.

SA’s Own Wikileaks? New Website To Publish Stories Editors Avoid

How often do you hear someone say something outlandish and justify it with the right to freedom of expression? The new Secrecy Bill in South Africa does make this somewhat challenging for media houses and journalists who have views that don’t 100% support the ruling party. For all of you who agree with the likes […]

Get Up To Speed On The Bradley Manning Verdict With Taiwanese Animated News [VIDEO]

Look, news is sometimes complicated and difficult understand. Sure, you’ve heard of this “Bradley Manning” guy. His name has been bandied about on campus, at a braai, or around the watercooler. You heard he was sentenced for espionage against the United States, but you’re not sure why, or how. That’s okay. Taiwanese animated news has […]

The Official Trailer For The WikiLeaks Movie Has Dropped [VIDEO]

Finally we’re able to get a first look at what we can expect from the WikiLeaks movie The Fifth Estate. The film, that is based on real events, explores the corruption and deception that caused the Internet to go into a complete frenzy. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Brühl, and Laura Linney, here is the synopsis […]

Thursday Morning Spice

Zuma appointed to UN education panel. Malema claims innocence and demands an iPad to prove it. Hundreds of police guns lost. MTN to provide 4G before year-end, but not in Cape Town. Apple-Google Maps Talks Crashed Over Voice-Guided Directions.

Monday Morning Spice

Assange berates US. Get Back To Work: Lonmin. Top Gun director kills himself. There is a new Miss World. Shia having ‘real sex’ in new film. Kasparov physically beaten by Putin’s government. Facebook Workers Suffer Pain Of Stock’s Sharp Sell-Off.

WikiLeaks Wins Legal Battle Against Visa, MasterCard

WikiLeaks just won an important legal battle which will force Iceland’s Visa and MasterCard partner to resume processing donations to the organisation. This comes after transactions headed for the secret-sharing site were blocked in 2010.

Anonymous Hacks U.S. Department of Justice

Oh hey, that V-for-Vendetta-themed hacker collective is back, this time with a 1,7 GB lump of data that they claim “used to belong to the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics.” The file was uploaded to the Pirate Bay yesterday, and allegedly contains “internal emails, and the entire database dump.”

Assange Stands “Real Chance” Of Election In Australia

Because apparently having your own talk show for starting a thing on the internet isn’t enough, recent polling of Australia’s Labor Party suggests that the Wikileaks founder is reasonably likely to get elected to the Australian senate, should he choose to go ahead with plans to run.

Julian Assange Talk Show Debuts From Secret London Location, Interviews Infamous Hezbollah Leader [VIDEO]

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s controversial new talk show is set to drop today at 13h30 South African time on a Russian digital news channel. Nothing this man does is not bent on overthrowing the way we look at our society and the world around us, so the first episode of The World Tomorrow should be a hefty serving of global illuminati conspiracy cray-cray realness. Check out Episode One, after the jump!

Robert Mugabe “Fighting For His Life” In Singapore Hospital

After decades of fighting innocent and unarmed civilians, Robert Mugabe is now reportedly battling with death in a Singapore hospital. Confidential info released by WikiLeaks last month said Mugabe has prostate cancer that has spread to other organs. According to the report, he was also urged by his physician to step down in 2008, but had ignored the advice.

Julian Assange To Run For Australian Senate

Julian Assange has found a way to run for the Upper House of the Australian Senate, in spite of, you know, being detained under house arrest in Britain. Which makes sense, I guess. Along with Assange’s candidacy, WikiLeaks announced on Twitter that they’ll be running a nominee against the current Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.

Could Wikileaks’ Bradley Manning Win The Nobel Peace Prize?

Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier who leaked thousands of classified military documents, images and videos to Wikileaks has allegedly been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Is he the most controversial candidate, and who else made the cut?

WikiLeaks Begins Releasing Stratfor Internal Emails

WikiLeaks is doing stuff that doesn’t involve Julian Assange’s career as a television personality – in this case leaking a cache of over 5 million internal emails from Stratfor, a “global intelligence” company. They reveal secret intelligence services provided to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, among others.

Guy From Wikileaks To Guest Star In 500th Simpsons Episode

The Simpsons are known for having the greatest variety in the people that guest star in their episodes. They can range from celebrities, political figures, even scientists such as Prof Stephen Hawking. As they approach their 500th episode, their special guest will be Julian Assange – founder of Wikileaks, and the first guest to appear on the show while still under house arrest.

Wikileaks Temporarily Plugged Due To Lack Of Funds

It turns out publishing classified diplomatic files online isn’t all that lucrative! Whistle blowing site, WikiLeaks has announced that they’re pausing their publishing process to concentrate on raising funds. Julian Assange claims that the financial “blockade” mounted by Visa, MasterCard and other companies, has forced Wikileaks to “temporarily suspend its publishing operations and aggressively fundraise.”

Wikileaks Releases New Batch Of Diplomatic Cables

Wikileaks is parceling out another bunch of diplomatic cables today, in case we’d forgotten about Julian Assange amidst all the other hubbub. Expect people to largely ignore the allegations of internal corruption and the details of John McCain’s conversations with that Gadaffi chap, and focus on the whole rape trial thing.