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Politics
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Malema’s Panic Room
18 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Today the DA will ask Sars to investigate the fearless ANC Youth League leader, Julius Malema’s finances. According to the party’s police spokesman, the DA has information that points to Malema building a 16 million Rand mansion, complete with panic room.
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Moscow’s First Sex Museum A.K.A The ‘G-Spot’
15 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When opening a sex museum in a country where, publicly, sex almost doesn’t exist, you had better make sure that it’s as offensive as possible, since controversy is sure to follow. I’m pretty sure naming it Tochka G, meaning G-spot in Russian, and covering the walls with images of Putin sword-dick-fighting Obama, should do the trick.
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BREAKING NEWS: Rebekah Brooks Resigns After Murdoch’s Daughter, Elisabeth, Launches Scathing Attack
15 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The pressure finally got to the fiery red-headed Rebekah Brooks. In the last few minutes news agency Reuters has officially announced that News International CEO Rebekah Brooks has resigned and will be replaced by Tom Mockridge. This comes after a scathing attack in an apparent four-page letter from Elisabeth, and the second biggest NI shareholder declaring “she has to go.”
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News Host Remembers No Terrorist Attacks On US Soil During Last Bush Era [VIDEO]
15 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Fox News’ Eric Bolling recently decided that one of the guests on his show was being too mean to George W. Bush. So he spoke up in defense of the weapons of mass destruction eff up. Try spotting the slight error in this statement: “America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don’t remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.”
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Zuma Promotes Daughter’s Sitcom On Presidential Twitter Feed
15 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
When he’s not letting us know that he’ll be on holiday, President Jacob Zuma harnesses the power of the presidential twitter feed to promote the dramatic accomplishments of his progeny. Sweet, man. Check out the tweet after the jump.
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Italy Too Big To Bail Out As Crisis Enters ‘New Phase’
14 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“Italy Too Big to Bail Out as Crisis Enters ‘New Phase’.” That was the headline I read over at Bloomberg earlier. Don’t get me wrong, I know Italy is facing serious problems, but when will they actually get rid of the bungling “bunga bunga” Berlusconi? Today the country has been auctioning an estimated €3 – €5 billion in fixed-rate bonds.
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Syrian State News Agency Photoshop Fail
13 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
According to the Syrian Arab News Agency, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday “swore” in Anas Abdul- Razzaq Na’em as the new governor of Hama. Later, al-Assad received Na’em and instructed him with his directives, wishing him success in his duties. But was he really there?
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Cape Town Motorists Fear Empty Tanks As Strike Action Continues
13 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Cape Town motorists have begun filling-up their petrol tanks fearing a petrol shortage later this week. This comes on the back of news that about 5 000 Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers Union (Ceppwawu) members in Cape Town have joined the nationwide industrial action. The main march takes place in Cape Town next week.
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Floyd Shivambu Swears At Journalist [AUDIO]
12 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
A journalist had the audacity to call Floyd Shivambu right out of the blue to ask his opinion on reports that Julius Malema had spent roughly R78 000 on a holiday. Shockingly, Floyd answered his phone. Also, he swore at the journalist. Listen to an audio clip of the conversation inside.
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Ugandan Activists Could Be Charged With “Annoying The Person Of The President”
12 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Youth activists in Uganda recently attempted to throw a public birthday party for President Yoweri Museveni. They brought cake, sweets, and mangoes! By doing this, they hoped to focus attention on his disputed age. See, he claims he is 67, but they say he is actually 73. The president took offence and had them and their cake arrested.
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Obama Repeats George Bush’s “Internets” Flub
07 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all know that President Obama has paid a visit to the headquarters of “Twitterrrs”, but it wasn’t until yesterday that we learned that, in order for the President to log onto Twitters on his presidential computer, he needs to visit the “internets”.
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Helen Zille: “We Won’t Stoop To Their Level”
07 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille, co-hosted 2oceansVibe Radio‘s Morning Meeting from 08h00 to 09h00. Helen held no punches, bemoaning the timing of the allegations against Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, relating her experience of having her phone tapped, and praising the Western Cape for it’s entrepreneurial spirit. And then, of course, there was that […]
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India’s Health Minister Calls Homosexuality A Disease From The West
06 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While the rest of us have been wondering whether or not people are born gay, India’s Health Minister has know all along: that it is in fact a disease from the West. The only thing he is still struggling with is identifying sufferers from this illness as it is “difficult to find them because you don’t know who is doing it and where they are.”
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Australia’s New South Wales Police Get New Burqa Removal Powers
05 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, police in Australia’s New South Wales state were handed more authority to remove burqas and other face coverings to identify potential criminal suspects. The move follows the recent case of a Muslim woman who was acquitted after a judge ruled her Islamic veil made a positive identification of her impossible.
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Judge Nkola Motata Involved In Another Accident
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Remember judge Nkola Motata? He got a bit wasted a couple of years ago and drove his car off the road into someone’s garden. He was terribly sorry about it at the time – so sorry that his 12 months jail sentence was upheld. But during “the early hours” of this morning he was involved in yet another accident – this time with a minibus taxi.
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Philippino Mayor Punches Out Sheriff [VIDEO]
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A female mayor from Davao City in the Philippines has punched a court sheriff, in front of numerous TV cameras, because the sheriff insisted on demolishing 200 shacks despite her request for a two-hour delay. She’s since been told by her husband to take leave for five days while the Department of Interior and Local Government investigates.
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Kim Jong Il’s Son Had Six Plastic Surgery Operations
30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Kim Jong Eun is the son of North Korea’s Kim Jong Il. He is destined to rule this nuclear-armed rogue nation one day, but it is said that his dad is rather obsessed with the whole “eternal president” concept. So much so, that he’s sent his son for six plastic surgery procedures to look more like him and his father. See if you can spot the resemblances – I’d suggest starting with the double chins.
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French Journalists, Held By Taliban Since December 2009, Freed
30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After 547 days of being held as hostages in Afghanistan, two French journalists,Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier, have been released and are due back in France today. The two were kidnapped on the 30th of December 2009 along with their Afghan translator, fixer and driver in the mountainous Kapisa province northeast of the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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Greenpeace Ad: The Death Star Is A Volkswagen [VIDEO]
29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
You guys remember that VW commercial that ran during the Superbowl with a tiny Darth Vader? Well, Greenpeace does. And they’ve made a spoof follow-up in an effort to call attention to the automaker’s environmental record. Liberal media sentiments aside, it’s cute – click through for a tiny Vader and a Message About The Environment.
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Sao Paolo Judge Approves Brazil’s First Gay Marriage
29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After New York, every subsequent gay marriage approval is going to seem less exciting, but this is still a thing. Judge Fernando Henrique Pinto ruled that two men could convert their civil union into a full marriage, a right that’s been lobbeyed for since the Supreme Court recognized same-sex civil unions in May, but stopped short of approving marriage.
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TSA Pat-Down: 95-Year-Old Woman Told To Remove Adult Diaper At Airport
28 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here, at 2oceansvibe, we are quite familiar with some of the unusual pat-downs that the American Transportation Security Association (TSA) has conducted, but this one is surely the most controversial yet. They actually said they had identified something “wet and firm” and that they needed to remove the diaper to complete their checks.
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The Dutch May Ban Religious Animal Slaughter
28 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Dutch political left sees the ritual slaughter of animals as cruel to animals, whilst the right sees it as foreign and barbaric. They will both pass a law next week that will make the killing of animals without stunning them first illegal. This poses a problem for orthodox Dutch Jews and Muslims who’ve been doing it differently for the last couple of millennia.
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ICC Proposes Banning ‘Runners’ In Cricket
28 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The elimination of runners for injured players, the use of two new balls from each end in one-dayers, and new regulation around when the batting and bowling Powerplays can be taken, are among the key recommendations the ICC Chief Executives’ Committee has made after its meeting in Hong Kong.
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Now There’s A Company Specializing In Finding Your Embarrassing Facebook Photos
27 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Social Intelligence, a company approved a week ago by the Federal Trade Commission, is one that uses deep-search tools to do background checks on other companies’ potential employees. These guys could find your MySpace account, they’re that thorough. And if your deep-search profile doesn’t look good, you don’t get hired.
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Taiwanese Food-Blogger Jailed For A Bad Noodle Review
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Wonderful. A Taiwanese court ruled this week that a female food-blogger’s claim that a local restaurant’s beef noodles “were too salty” justified 30 days in detention, and two years of probation. Even better, she has to pay 200,000 Taiwenese dollars (about 50K ZAR) in compensation to the restaurant.
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Greek Dog Protesting Since 2008 [VIDEO]
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
We’ve been following the developments of the Greek financial crisis closely here at 2oceansvibe. What’s more is that dogs have been absolutely killing it this year and so we bring you, Loukanikos, who has hated Greece’s austerity measures, corrupt politicians, and the plight of the Greek people since 2008.
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FBI’s Search For Hacking Group Takes Out Random, Unrelated Websites
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The cyber-war on cyber-terror now has innocent bystanders, apparently. In a hunt for LulzSec, the hacking group claiming responsibility for the compromise of huge amounts of Sony user accounts and for briefly taking the CIA website offline, the FBI raided DigitalOne’s data – finding nothing, but causing a bunch of unrelated websites to go offline.
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Child Found Wearing Eight Kilogram Suicide Bomb Vest
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A nine-year-old girl has been found with an eight kilogram suicide vest strapped to her body in Pakistan’s troubled north-west region. The Pakistani police said they detained the schoolgirl on Monday after learning she was allegedly told to blow up a police checkpoint, which wasn’t far from where they stopped her.
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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.
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The Hawks Will Investigate New Arms Deal Claims
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ah, the arms deal. It’s like the ANC’s bastard child that won’t go away. The government said it should be dropped, as there wasn’t enough evidence to any investigate further. That was until Saab revealed that they’d paid brides of about 24 million Rand. Now it seems that the Hawks are finally going to take another look at the torrid affair.
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