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Politics
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Swede Jailed For Trying To Build Nuclear Reactor In Kitchen
03 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A 31-year-old Swedish man, known only as ‘Richard’, was attempting to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen and was arrested and had his experiment shut down after he contacted the Swedish Radiation Authority (Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten) to ask whether or not his pet project was legal.
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Italy Approves Draft Law For Burqa Ban
03 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Italy has become the next European country to join the wave of nations banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. An Italian parliamentary commission has approved a draft law prohibiting women from wearing a burqa, niqab or any other garment that covers the face in public places.
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Mayor Crushes Illegally Parked Mercedes With Armoured Vehicle [VIDEO]
03 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
Vilnius is the capitol city of Lithuania – a place where they feel very strongly about cars wrongly parked in specifically allocated bicycle lanes. In this clip the city’s mayor, Arturas Zuokas, can be seen literally crushing an “illegally parked” luxurious blue Mercedes – with an armored vehicle!
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Married Norwegian Lesbian Couple Saved 40 Kids From Massacre
03 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This feels like it should have been news sooner, but it wasn’t. Which is why we’re going to talk about it now. Hege Dalen and wife Toril Hansen were one of several Norwegians who, on hearing gunshots and screaming coming from Utöyan Island, got into their boat and drove across the water to try and help.
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Greece Starts €50 Billion Privatisation Drive
02 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s time to dust off the old cheque book and keep an eye on what’s happening in Greece. You may just find something you want to purchase as Greek officials begin appointing advisers for the country’s ambitious privatisation drive, and what is one of the most ambitious asset-selling campaigns in modern history.
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Interview With Black Child Edited To Make Him Look Like A Gangster [VIDEO]
02 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A clip of a distorted interview with a young black boy has raised questions about ethics in journalism in America. Responding to a news reporter’s question about what he’d like to be when he grows up, the boy replied: “I’m going to have me a gun! I’m going to be the police!” Guess which part of that sentence did not make it to TV?
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Foxconn Increases Reliance On Robots For Manufacturing
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Because robots can’t get depressed over awful working conditions and commit suicide, you see. Also we don’t have a robot union yet, so Foxconn (the guys who manufacture the iPhone and iPad) won’t need to worry about the slowly increasing factory worker wages in Taiwan, which are driving overhead costs upwards throughout the fancy-technology-making-industry.
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DA Member of Parliament Too Sexy To Rape Anyone
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Friday Masizole Mnqasela, a DA Member of Parliament, was found not guilty of raping a schoolgirl last year. At the time he invited her to his house “for leftover braai meat” but claims nothing else happened. He branded the charge against him a political smear campaign, adding that he is too sexy to have to rape anyone.
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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.
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“Billionaire” Lamba Says He Was Set Up
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Investigative journalist, Jacques Pauw, has written a fascinating expose about the man who once claimed to be South Africa’s youngest billionaire, Mandla Lamba. In the article Mandla and Pauw have a heart to heart, in Diepsloot prison.
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Mugabe Spends $20 Million On Travel In Six Months
29 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A daily newspaper in Zimbabwe has revealed that Robert Mugabe has spent an excessive amount of money on foreign travel in the last six months, totalling $20 million. And we’re not talking Zimbabwean Dollars here, this is US currency. He has now reportedly surpassed his $15 million travel budget for the year, but that’s probably irrelevant to him.
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Zuma’s Chief Justice Decision Declared Unconstitutional
29 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I wrote yesterday about how depressed I was about the apparent lack of the rule of law in our fair land. Well today I am feeling a little better. The reason: The constitutional court has said that President Jacob Zuma’s decision to extend Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo’s term of office is unconstitutional.
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Malema Says Trust Fund Used To “Finance Charitable Causes”
29 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I don’t know about you, but I for one am feeling like a real tit! I can’t believe I fell for that silly City Press article claiming Julius Malema uses his secret trust fund to fund his lavish lifestyle. It turns out he’s actually a young philanthropist and uses it to “fund charitable causes!”
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Some British Communities Become “Shariah Controlled Zone’s”
28 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Bigoted members of British society must be speedily wringing their hands and tensely furrowing their eyebrows in anger that this has happened. While not quite the same as the Name Your Hood campaign, Islamic extremists have launched a poster campaign across the UK proclaiming areas where Shariah law enforcement zones have been set up.
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200 000 Mineworkers To Strike At 6PM Today
28 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last week we told you that the National Union of Mineworkers were planning a “massive strike”. Lesiba Seshoka, their spokesperson, has now confirmed that 200 000 gold workers will down their tools at 6pm this afternoon and that “there is no chance of negotiations to halt the strike.”
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Russians In Bikinis Patriotically Wash Cars For Vladimir Putin [VIDEO]
28 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
There are two aspects to this video. The first is very obvious: girls chose to wash Russian-made cars in bikinis for Vladimir Putin, as the headline suggests. And the other is the awkward on air moment between the two television news presenters that happens after they cover the story.
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Zuma Drink Spiller Guilty Of Assault
28 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
You’re going to love this story. Remember the guy who spilt his drink on the President during the Durban July last year? Well he’s been found guilty of assault.
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Cele Flies In Style
27 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It seems that there truly isn’t a day goes by where some politician is caught on the take, then denies it, then blames the media, and then gets off. Monday was Malema’s turn and Tuesday Was Bheki’s. His mate Nathi got to explain just why the chief needed to spend 1.498 million Rand on plane trips.
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Zimbabwean Man To Stand Trial For Telling A Mugabe Joke
26 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Zebedia Mpofu allegedly had the audacity to tell a colleague at work that a soft drink and packet of biscuits he was having for lunch came courtesy of Zimbabwe’s economic policies under Robert Mugabe’s main rival, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Thank goodness someone heard and reported this traitor, who now has to stand trail for insulting and/or undermining Mugabe.
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Shock! The Broederbond Funds The Media! (Says ANCYL)
25 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
The ANC Youth League has attacked the media for reporting on Julius Malema’s finances, claiming that it’s all a big conspiracy against him and that the media is “funded” by the right-wing Afrikaaner group “Die Broederbond”.
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ANCYL Website Hacked For A Fourth Time
25 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
This photoshopped poster appeared on the “home page” of the “ANCYL”, “hours ago”. All of this is in quotation marks because apparently just about anything can happen with https://ancyl.org.za, which is currently enjoying an extended period of downtime. As Dumb & Dumber is the official choice of 2oceansVibe as Greatest Film of All Time, we […]
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ANCYL Website Hacked For The Third Time This Year [PIC]
25 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
For an organisation with a slogan like “Fight, Produce, Learn”, the ANCYL certainly doesn’t seem to adhere to the “learn” part. For the third time this year, their website has been hacked. Yesterday, a message appeared on the homepage that reads: “HA HA HA. I have a 16 Million Rand house and all of you don’t!!!!”
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Sexwale Slams Malema’s Concept Of Land Redistribution
22 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Tokyo Sexwale made it fairly clear yesterday that the Julius Malema notion of land redistribution is not what he has in mind for South Africa, as Human Settlements Minister. Oh, and he also called Julius a loud-mouth.
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SABC Says It Hasn’t Paid For The Rights To Mandela’s Funeral
22 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The SABC says its own internal investigation has found no evidence to substantiate a news article that claims the broadcaster paid Chief Mandla Mandela three million Rand for the rights to former president Mandela’s funeral.
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Sheryl Cwele’s Salary Reinsated
21 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Wife of the State Security Minister and convicted drug smuggler, Sheryl Cwele, will once again be enjoying her full salary, even though she’s a serious criminal.
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Julius Malema Refuses To Say How He Makes His Money [VIDEO]
21 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Earlier this week it was reported that Julius Malema was building a R16 million home for himself. And, as if shopping for the right furniture to put inside it isn’t stressful already, he now has to put up with cocky journalists asking him where the money came from. Especially if the answer seems pretty obvious: “It’s a private matter. I’m not a public servant.”
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National Union of Mineworkers Planning A “Powerful Strike”
21 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said yesterday that workers in the coal sector would go on strike following failed wage negotiations. These are the people that have to make sure Eskom has enough coal to keep on providing electricity to the country. Their bosses offered a seven percent increase, while they thought 14% was fairer.
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Malema Denies Building R16 Million House, But May Still Need To Answer On Funds
20 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Julius Malema has today denied that he is building a R16 million home in the upmarket Johannesburg suburb of Sandown. Rather, he chose to insist, “Instead of being rich, I remain poor but credit worthy.” He declined to give details of his financial interests, saying he was not a public figure, but this may yet backfire on him.
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Cope Founder’s Furniture Attached By Sheriff To Pay Legal Costs
20 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When Cope founder, Mbhazima Shilowa, named himself president of the Congress of the People, little did he think that he and his furniture would be taken to the cleaners to cover the legal ramifications. Political rival Mosiuoa Lekota won a court ruling last year which prevented Mbhazima from using the Cope president title, and lumped him with an order to pay R72,000 in legal costs.
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Campaign Urges Girls To Strip For Vladimir Putin [VIDEO]
19 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin seems to be loved by the ladies. So much so that a new online campaign urges young women to take off their clothes in support of his presidency. In this strange video, a sexy blond can be seen scribbling “I will tear my clothes off for Putin” on a white top in red lipstick before starting to undo her clothes.
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