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Politics
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Herman Cain, Unable To Articulate [VIDEO]
17 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
With the 2012 US Presidential Elections just under a year away, potential candidates are pushing hard to garner support in the hope of securing votes. None more so than Herman Cain, who shows in this video exactly how unprepared he is for the role.
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BBC Removed Climate Change Episode From Natural History Series To Sell Better
16 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“Frozen Planet” is the latest big-budget series from the BBC’s Natural History Unit; its seventh and last episode deals with global warming. Except apparently climate change isn’t that big of a deal, because the BBC has dropped that episode from its international line-up to help sell the series outside of Britain.
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Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used In American Airports
16 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday the European Union prohibited the use of X-ray body scanners, the kind frequently used by airport security in United States, citing cancer risks. American airport security, meanwhile, has deployed hundreds of scanners, screening millions of airline passengers – and if the European Commission’s conclusions can be trusted, exposing a fraction of those passengers to cancer risks.
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South African Expats Drop Local Flavour On Occupy Wall Street
15 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well done to Keet van Zyl and three other colleagues for being a little bit spicy.
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Indonesians Cheer For Mortal Enemies, Malaysia During Southeast Asia Games
15 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Indonesians and Malaysians don’t like each other very much. In fact, they dislike each other so much that “Hate Malaysia” and “Hate Indonesia” were even trending topics on Twitter last year after Indonesia lost a football game to their counterparts, that involved laser pointers. Now Indonesian students are being paid to support their archenemies in the Southeast Asia Games.
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They’re Deploying Ground-to-Air Missiles For the 2012 London Olympics.
15 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Philip Hammond, Liam Fox’s replacement as the UK’s Defence Secretary, announced to MPs that ground-to-air missiles would be deployed “to protect” the 2012 Olympic Games in London if deemed operationally necessary. This follows shortly after America announced intentions to send up to 1 000 security agents to provide protection for US contestants and diplomats.
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Herman Cain Doesn’t Smaak “Sissy Pizza”
15 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Herman Cain’s appetite for scandal seems bottomless, and just when the controversy-weary Republican Paty imagined the worst was over, Herman goes and serves up another slice.
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Barack Obama Takes Out Crocodile Insurance For Australia Visit
15 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Barack Obama will visit Australia tomorrow, and the US President isn’t taking any chances with those fearsome Aussie crocs. He’s been issued with a crocodile attack insurance policy, which will pay out more than $50 000 on the off-chance that he should be fatally attacked during his tour of crocodile-infested Darwin, where ‘Crocodile Dundee’ was set.
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The Occupy Wall Street Protestors Are Being Violently Swept Out By NYPD [LIVE STREAM]
15 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
At 2am this morning the NYPD started violently clearing out Zuccoti Park, where the peaceful Occupy Wall Street protestors have been camped out. The cops are using pepper spray, they are using LRAD sound weapons, and they are actively preventing any official media from reporting on their violation of OWS members’ constitutional rights. Shit’s gotten real.
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American Universities Purchasing ‘.XXX’ Porn Domain Names
14 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The .xxx domain, set to launch by the end of the year, is meant to be the domain of choice for porn sites. Which is dandy, but means that opportunists could register ‘google.xxx,’ for instance, and capitalize on Google’s popularity – so American universities are purchasing .xxx domains to keep people from making porn sites with their names in them.
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Even Superman Wants A Piece Of Julius
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I think it’s safe to say that hatin’ on Julius has now officially saved more conversations than the weather. Having said that, after a good rant most of us move on. Most of us. One Eastern Cape man, however, decided to put on a cape, jump on some cars and claim that he is a superman from the clouds, sent to kill Malema.
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James Murdoch’s Evidence Yesterday Was “Disingenuous”
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As reported in morning spice earlier today, James Murdoch claimed yesterday that two of his former senior News of the World executives had failed to tell him the truth about the scale of phone hacking at the News of the World, and that they had misled parliament. They’ve both since issued statements and called his new evidence “disingenuous at best”.
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Mininum Wage Increase In China: Everything Is Going To Get More Expensive Next Year.
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Effective January 1, 2012, the minimum wage is going to increase by as much as 20% in Guangdong, the industrial province in China where most of the stuff you’ve bought in the past decade was produced. Which means you’ve got yourself a significant rise in consumer good prices worldwide incoming.
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Robert Mugabe The Pop Star
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, has collaborated with an Afropop group, ironically called the Born Free Crew, to release a single that is getting some airplay on national television and radio stations. Keeping things in the family, the album’s executive producer is Mugabe’s Minister of Information, and of course, it’s about colonialism.
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International Energy Agency: Climate Change May Become Irreversible In Five Years
10 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure and carbon emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warns that we are likely to build so many new fossil-fueled power stations in the next five years that it won’t be possible to hold global warming at safe levels.
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#malema – The Twitter Highlights Package
10 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Julius Malema’s hearing today has pretty much brought all productivity to a halt, with most of us holding our breath to hear the result. Twitter was abuzz with activity, and stressed to all of us the importance of putting your iPad on silent before a big speech.
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EXCLUSIVE: Zille And Mazibuko Comment On Malema
10 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Helen Zille texted the following to 2oceansVibe following the outcome of Julius Malema’s disciplinary hearing.
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UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS: Malema Suspended From ANC For Five Years + No Longer ANCYL President
10 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Julius Malema has been suspended from the ANC, and ANC Youth League for FIVE YEARS. Unlike many of the other sentences handed to other core members of the ANCYL, Malema’s sentence is effective immediately.
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Occupy Denver Protestors Elect Border Collie As Official Leader
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mayor of Denver, Michael Hancock, has been pressuring members of the Occupy Denver movement to pick a leader, “to deal with City and State officials.” So the protesters, in the most benign shove-it gesture imaginable, elected a three-and-a-half-year-old border collie. Named Shelby.
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Europe’s First Transsexual MP Takes Her Seat In Parliament
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday was a big day for European politics, with Poland welcoming their first transsexual woman ever into its parliament. Anna Grodzka was born a man but underwent a sex change. She was also joined by Robert Biedron – the country’s first openly gay man to be elected to office.
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French Weekly Gets Firebombed For Satirizing Muhammad, Does It Again
08 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Charlie Hebdo, French satirical weekly, was firebombed a week ago, after the publication put a caricature of the prophet Muhammad on the cover of an issue criticising the rise of Sharia law in the Middle East post-Arab Spring. And their newest issue has a caricature of the prophet making out with Hebdo’s editor.
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Conan O’Brien Presides Over Late Night Television’s First Gay Marriage
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Conan O’Brien returned to New York last week for the first time since his falling out with the NBC – not only to rub his recent success in his former employers’ collective faces, but also to preside over the first same-sex marriage performed on late-night television. Because I guess that’s worth making a big deal over.
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Intelligence Report: China & Russia Hired Hackers To Steal US Secrets
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A report released by U.S. intelligence agencies claims that Chinese and Russian hackers, hired by their governments, have been stealing classified data from American government organizations. Assumptions like this have been made before, but this is the first time such a report to Congress has pointed the finger squarely at China and Russia.
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Controversial Islamic Sex Guide Banned In Malaysia
03 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A book called Islamic Sex, Fighting Jews to Return Islamic Sex to the World has been banned in Malaysia. It was published by the Muslim Obedient Wife Club and urges Muslim men in polygamous marriages to have group sex with their wives as a form of “worship”.
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Greek Referendum On Bailout Threatens New Euro Zone Crisis
01 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
George Papandreou’s shock announcement that he will put Greece’s bailout to a referendum helped the FTSE open nearly three per cent down this morning. It was interesting listening to Lindsay Williams on 2oceanVibe Radio a little earlier too. He remarked that there are more Porsche Cayennes registered in Greece than taxpayers declaring an income of 50 000 euros or more. Clearly Greeks aren’t fans of paying tax.
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Mangyongdae Funfair: The Last Theme Park In North Korea [PICS]
31 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This fairly depressing photo series of Manyongdae Funfair, North Korea’s version of the Happiest Place On Earth, has just been released. The amusement park, located a few kilometres north of Pyongyang, is the last theme park in the dictatorship, which isn’t totally surprising given the dilapidated and dangerous rides on display.
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Saudi Royalty Offers $1 Million Reward For Capture Of Israeli Soldiers
31 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hours after Sheik Awadh al-Qarani promised a reward of $100 000 to anyone who captured an Israeli soldier, a member of the Saudi Arabian royal family, with ties to Rupert Murdoch, offered to raise that offer by $900 000 to make it $1 million. These offers follow the release of Israeli soldier, Gilad Schalit, who was held by Hamas in Gaza for more than five years.
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Greece Is Very, Very Lucky
28 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
European leaders are secretly all doing little victory dances. The Eurozone crisis has never looked better. Leaders have agreed new deals that slash Greek debt and increase the main bailout fund to around €1 trillion. They’re basically printing money. Athens will get a new €100 billion bailout early in the new year, and existing bond debt will be cut by 50%.
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Lindiwe Mazibuko Elected DA Parliamentary Leader
27 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Lindiwe Mazibuko has trumped Atholl “I speak a little isiXhosa” Trollip* in a vote to select the Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader. *[Thanks, Mvelase]
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The Port St Johns Municipality Has Been Shut Down
27 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It is with regret that the Port St Johns local municipality has been officially shut down for not paying nearly R11 million in debt. The popular tourist destination, situated along the Wild Coast in the Transkei, has been experiencing troubles for a while, but the sheriff of the court officially closed the municipal offices on Monday.
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