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Politics
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Russia’s Facebook CEO Fired, As Putin Takes Over
22 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Russia’s largest social network, VKontakte is now in the hands of Igor Sechin and Alisher Usmanov. Usmanov is a metals tycoon who expanded into tech via his company Mail.ru, and Sechin is the leader of the hardline silovik faction that backs Putin, is CEO of Rosneft, the state-owned oil company, and is believed to be one of the Russian president’s closest advisors.
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You Will Just Love Joe Biden’s First Selfie
17 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Can you remember your first selfie? Was it of you and mates sharing a good time or was it you pulling the dreaded duckface? It might just be a pic of two smiling old people, but we highly doubt your first selfie was as epic as Joe Biden’s.
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Here’s The DA Commercial Banned By The SABC [VIDEO]
14 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 22 Comments
The buildup to the general elections next month is heating up. Take a look at the DA commercial that the SABC banned for taking a jab at the ANC.
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WATCH: A Woman Threw A Shoe At Hillary Clinton [VIDEO]
11 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Politicians get on your nerves with all their antics. This woman was fed up listening to Hillary Clinton drone on during a speech at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries meeting in Las Vegas, and took matters in her own hands. Watch Hillary Clinton dodge, as a shoe hurtles toward her mid speech.
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WATCH: This Physical Altercation With Residents In Claremont Is Hilarious [VIDEO]
10 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
A DA ward councillor and an UCT lecturer had a little scuffle in the streets of Claremont. Yesterday, an inspection by councillors of a wall – yes, a wall – escalated into a gentleman’s slapfest. Please enjoy watching the hilarious altercation as it happened.
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There’s Been Another Fist Fight In Ukraine’s Parliament [VIDEO]
10 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ukraine’s political turmoil is far from over. A heated debate turned into a full blown fight in Ukraine’s parliament. Check out some footage from the punch up here.
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North Korea Has Executed Someone Using A Flamethrower
09 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
North Korea have the tendency for the theatrical. At the end of last year North Korean leader Kim Jong Un executed his uncle, Jang Song Thaek. Reports from South Korea say that 11 high-ranking officials connected to his uncle have since been either imprisoned or executed. One of whom was allegedly executed using a flamethrower.
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University Sex Dens And A Home Corpse Freezer – New Gaddafi Documentary Will Blow Our Minds
07 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In an upcoming documentary on the late Muammar Gaddafi, some of the Libyan dictator’s sick and perverted habits are revealed. ‘Mad Dog: Inside the Secret World of Muammar Gaddafi’, reveals among other things, his university sex dens and his home corpse freezers.
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Darth Vader Is Running For President Of Ukraine [GALLERY]
07 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
No jokes – Darth Vader is the presidential candidate for one the parties that will compete in Ukraine’s presidential elections. The Sith Lord was out doing what normal candidates do before elections, talking to old people and kissing babies.
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Tapped Phone Call Suggests Russian Plans To Take Miami
07 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Take a listen to two Russian ambassadors allegedly joking about the Kremlin’s plans for conquest. With Russia annexing Crimea, many suspect that Russia might not stop there. Hoax or not, this taped conversation is interesting nonetheless.
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George Bush Aimed To Shock With Nude Paintings [IMAGE]
04 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
George W. Bush will be remembered for his controversial decisions during his tenure as President of the US, but thanks to hackers we will remember him for his nude self portraits. Please enjoy the elderly statesman’s attempt at nude art.
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The White House Doesn’t Dig Samsung Using This Selfie For Commercial Purposes
04 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Who wouldn’t snap a selfie with Obama when the opportunity arises? But don’t try to use it for commercial purposes, you don’t want the White House on your back. Here is the selfie that has landed Samsung in trouble with the US government.
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Growing Up In Apartheid South Africa – A VICE Interview
04 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Apparently Vice likes to focus on South Africa fairly often, so they got one of their South African reporters to interview his mom about what it was like to grow up in South Africa as a non-politically active white person.
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Putin Is Finally Divorced And This Is Who He’s Tapping [GALLERY]
03 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Kremlin has announced that Putin’s divorce has been finalised. Back in 2008 rumours buzzed that the Russian President was going to divorce his wife and hook up with former Olympic gymnast, Alina Kabayeva.
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Public Protector Says Zuma Is Not A Child And Shouldn’t Be Protected
02 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s Nkandla report has a lot of ANC figures and lawyers coming out of the woodwork in Jacob Zuma’s defence. But she’s not scared. Madonsela thinks that people should stop protecting the president as if he was a “child or a victim.”
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Bet You Didn’t Know This About Robert Mugabe
01 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh, Mugabe. The nonagenarian is quite the controversial leader. Here are a couple of facts from Robert Mugabe’s upbringing, life and numerous terms as Zimbabwe’s president that we bet you didn’t know.
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Zuma Puts Nkandla On The Market
01 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Beleaguered president Jacob Zuma has indicated that his R246 million homestead in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal could face listing on the real estate market in the coming months, as the president struggles to raise the millions owed to South African tax payers following the construction of a swimming pool, amphitheatre, and chicken run at his private home.
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Zuma Finally Responds To Nkandla Allegations
31 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Jacob Zuma has responded to a damning report into the construction of his R246 million Nkandla homestead by the Public Protector, who found that Zuma had ”benefited unduly” from the construction of non-security features including a swimming pool, amphitheatre, kraal, cattle culvert and chicken run, and that he ought to pay back the money used in their construction.
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Foot In Mouth: The Worst Things SA Opposition Politicians Have Said
28 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Politicians have the tendency to blab on about a lot of nonsense. Here are a couple of quotes from opposition leaders at their worst.
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Zuma Used To ‘Knock Out Homosexuals’ And Other Incredible ANC Quotes
27 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Zuma and some other high ranking members of the ANC have made a couple of controversial statements over the years. Here are a couple of gems from key figures in the ruling party.
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Kim Jon Un Has Just Changed The Haircut Rules In North Korea
27 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Some serious developments are going down in North Korea – they are changing the haircut rules. Yes – there are haircut regulations enforced by the North Korean state, and they just got stricter.
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Ukraine’s Women Are Refusing To Have Sex With Russian Men
26 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Where sanctions, diplomacy and international laws have failed; will refusing sex solve the developing crisis in Crimea? Withholding sex is an age old practice by women in relationships in order to get their way. Ukrainian women have started a campaign to deny Russian men sex.
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Belgian Newspaper Slammed For Shocking Obama Ape Picture [IMAGE]
25 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Belgian newspaper, De Morgen is being slammed for a picture that appeared in their satirical section portraying President Obama and his wife with ape features. Many of its readers are saying that the newspaper went too far, and it’s more of a racist slur than an attempt at satire.
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These Are The Only Hairstyles Allowed In North Korea
25 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Often a westerner may succumb to emoting a racial slur of how everyone looks the same in an Asian country. Well in North Korea, it is even harder to distinguish people, seeing that there are only a couple of hairstyles allowed by the government. Here are 28 official North Korean haircuts.
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Amazing Interview With A North Korean Defector Living In London
24 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In 2005, Kim Joo Il realised that North Korea wasn’t the paradise it’s leaders had led him to believe it was. After serving eight years in the military, Kim Joo Il risked his life, fleeing the country.
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Nkandla’s Development – Incredible Photo Gallery
20 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With the report by the Public Protector finally out, let’s take a walk down memory lane and see where R246 million ended up being spent. Nkandla’s humble beginnings to the extravagant compound that it has become, have been documented in a series of photographs.
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Surprise Speaker At TED 2014 – Edward Snowden [VIDEO]
20 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Residing in an unknown location in Russia, the famous whistle blower Edward Snowden made an appearance in Vancouver via a robotic mobile camera. In his TED speech “Here’s how we take back the Internet,” Snowden speaks about surveillance, Internet freedom and PRISM.
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“A Thief, A Fool, And A Zulu Man Who Was Incapable Of Managing The Affairs Of His Kraal”
20 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The “Secure in Comfort” report by the Public Protector is over 400 pages of devastating findings, that will in most likelihood be used as loo paper by the government. The ANC refuses to see it at all. Even if the results end up being benign, as journalist Richard Poplank puts it, Zuma “will be forever remembered as a thief, a fool, and a Zulu man who was incapable of managing the affairs of his kraal.”
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It’s Official: ‘Unethical’ President Zuma Misled Parliament
19 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The report by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has found President Jacob Zuma has misled Parliament when he claimed the Zuma family paid for the costs of buildings in Nkandla.
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Three Words: Steve Buscemi [VIDEO]
18 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is partaking in the Inner Circle Show, an annual charity event where New York political journalists come together to poke fun of politics in a musical theatre setting. Here to aid the New York mayor for his skit on the show is actor Steve Buscemi.
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