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Politics
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ANC And City Of Cape Town Arguing About Posters
16 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This is a little like me not being allowed to have posters up in my bedroom, but less serious: the ANC has lodged a complaint with the Electoral Commission after Cape Town city workers were found removing COSATU posters campaigning for Tony Ehrenreich. Because they want their posters back, apparently.
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“Shoot The Boer” Is Incitement To Murder – Halgryn Hands Down Final Judgement
16 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In what is surely a ground-breaking ruling around the subject of freedom of speech in South Africa, the words “dubula ibhunu” (shoot the boer) were declared an incitement to murder in a judgement handed down in the High Court in Johannesburg today by Judge Leon Halgryn.
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Texas Trying To Ban TSA Searches
16 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Since 9/11, flying has sucked. For all of the wrong reasons, flight security has become paranoid and despotic, and nowhere worse than the USA – where TSA agents have manhandled infants and the infirm in ‘the war on terror.’ So it’s nice to see that the Texas House of Representatives just banned TSA searches without probable cause.
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80 Killed In Bombing Of Pakistan Military Base
13 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Around 65 military recruits and 15 civilians were killed in the twin bombing of the military training centre in Shabqadar, Charsadda – the first attack in Pakistan since the announcement of Osama bin Laden’s death. The Pakistani Taliban claims to have carried out the attack to avenge bin Laden’s killing.
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Dear Leader Tongue Scraper
13 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The North Koreans are the cleanest people in the world. And nothing says clean like scraping filth off your tongue. Our Dear Leader uses the “Dear Leader” tongue scraper at least once a day to keep his mouth pure and unfettered by the air blowing from south of the border.
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Obama and Bin Laden Doppelgangers Hang Out
13 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ananias Rodrigues da Silva, the Brazilian Barack Obama lookalike, stopped by São Paulo to pay a visit to Francisco Fernandes – a bar owner who has been repeatedly harassed for his resemblance to Osama bin Laden. The two had a couple of shots and posed for photographs. It’s pretty great.
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Kalahari.net Is Having A Ding Dong Time With Election Posters
12 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
2oceansvibers are renowned for appreciating a bit of creative advertising humour from time to time. And with electioneering currently taking up a rather large amount of media space as we get ready for the local government elections next Wednesday, the ever resourceful Kalahari.net has decided to bless us with some radvertising.
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Pitzer College To Add Secularism Major To Curriculum
11 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One of America’s more notably known liberal arts schools, as they call them over there, has decided to add a major on secularism to their curriculum thereby making them that little bit more liberal than some of their competitors. This will be the first of its kind in America.
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Presbyterian Church Votes To Allow Openly Gay And Lesbian Clergy
11 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The US Presbyterian Church passed an historic ruling on Tuesday evening. They have decided to allow openly gay men and women in same-sex relationships to be ordained as clergy. This comes after a similar mandate that was to allow gay clergy was defeated two years ago.
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Hillary Clinton Photoshopped Out Of ‘Situation Room’ Photo
10 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just like every other newspaper in the US, in recent days Brooklyn-based Hasidic newspaper Vos Iz Neias has published the ‘Situation Room’ photo of Barack Obama and his White House security team watching footage of the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Except this version of the photo had a notable difference – and it didn’t involve Princess Bea’s cupcake hat.
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Sheryl Cwele, Drug Dealer And Wife Of State Security Minister, Keeps Her Job
10 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This story could only happen in Africa, or maybe Russia. And as insane as this sounds, it’s all true: Sheryl Cwele, wife of State Security Minister, Siyabonga Cwele, who was convicted last week of international drug trafficking, will keep her job as director of health and community services at the Hibuscus Coast Municipality.
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UK Journalists’ Tweets To Be Regulated
09 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Reports over the weekend have claimed that UK journalist and newspaper Twitter feeds are possibly going to become regulated. In essence they’ll be brought under the regulation of the Press Complaints Commission later in the year. No doubt fingers will strike keypads aggressively in weeks to come, the fearless bunch that the UK press are.
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Anyone But Verwoerd
09 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Any statue or symbol of apartheid South Africa is cool, just not Verwoerd, says ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu. He made the statement in response to the furore over the removal of the statue in the DA-controlled Midvaal municipality in Meyerton.
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Al Qaeda Confirms Osama Bin Laden’s Death And Vows Revenge
06 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Al Qaeda confirmed Osama bin Laden’s death on Friday and warned of retaliation. The announcement came via a statement posted on internet website forums commonly used by the militant group and reportedly warns that Americans’ “happiness will turn to sadness.”
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Just What Is Obama Watching Here?
06 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
I’ve been really intrigued by the whole Osama getting what was coming to him thing, as I’m sure you are. And chances are that you’ve also come across the photo of Obama and his national security team sitting in the Situation Room on Sunday. The image has been viewed over two million times on Flicker and has been re-published countless times on news websites worldwide. But just what are they all looking at?
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Reuters Publish Grisly Photos Of Osama Bin Laden Raid (+ Top Secret Helicopter)
05 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
While the world morbidly waits for the release of pictures of a dead Osama bin Laden, new photos have emerged taken inside and outside the bin Laden compound – following the Navy SEAL raid. The pictures show dead bin Laden soldiers on the ground, as well as a radical top secret US helicopter. Click link […]
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Why It’s Difficult Having Your Enemy Number One Called Osama And Your President Called Obama [VIDEO]
05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Even the Bedouin people of the Sahara must surely know by now that Osama bin Laden has bitten the dust. So you’d think a sentence like “Osama bin Laden is Dead” wouldn’t pose too great a challenge for the press. But what countless newspapers, TV stations, radio stations and websites didn’t count on is how easily that simple sentence can become “Obama bin Laden is Dead.”
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World’s Media Publishes Fake Bin Laden Picture
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A photo purporting to depict a very dead Osama bin Laden has been proved as a fake. Although it must be noted that only the photo is a fake and the man himself is very much a corpse, somewhere at the bottom of the ocean.
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Government To Consider Legal Rhino Horn Trade
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Government has decided to mull over the idea of legalising the trade of rhino horn in a bid to curb the illegal trade and protect the endangered species. This comes in the wake of the news that we have lost over 138 rhinos in the first quarter of 2011.
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Grow Up, Children
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
May 18 is coming up, which is a relief given that by that date South Africans will have endured 11 days of unbroken work without a public holiday. When is the ANC going to realize that if they want to keep the 25% unemployed happy, we need more holidays, not fewer. How are these people that have been failed so spectacularly by the government supposed to feel part of society when the rest of us are out working?
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Bin Laden Aides Bought Big Orders Of Coke And Pepsi At Local Grocer
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It has emerged that Rashid and Akbar Khan, the two Pakistanis who helped Osama bin Laden hide in the shadows of their country’s army, bought large food orders for those living at the compound. They chose big brands and equally favoured Pepsi and Coke, neighbours and a local shopkeeper have claimed.
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Farmer Murdered, Dragged Behind Bakkie
03 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This story echoes like an apartheid-style murder and I watched, perplexed, on Sunday as certain subcultures of the Twitter feed buzzed with excitement at the possibility of a racial incident. This murder went largely ignored, surprisingly, given the magnitude of the violence committed in such a heinous act.
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Canada Elects Unprecedented Neoconservative Government
03 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In what’s been the most radical political shift in about a century, Canadians yesterday voted the Conservative Party into a 100-seat majority – meaning first time in history, the New Democratic Party will form the Official Opposition. Former Prime Minister Harper’s government was forced into an election after a no-confidence vote in parliament.
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Gaddafi’s Son Killed
01 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s youngest son, Saif Gaddafi, is reported to have been killed yesterday. According to the BBC, “A Nato air strike in Tripoli has killed the son of Col Muammar Gaddafi, a Libyan government spokesman has said.” Follow the link for more.
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Barack Obama Tears Donald Trump A New One (Video – With Trump In The Audience)
01 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
I sincerely hope you lot have been following the hilarities going on State-side. Our regular Morning Spice readers should be well-versed in Donald Trump’s birth-obsession conspiracy theory he picked up in his quest to become the next President of the United States of America. After months of speculation, Barack Obama finally revealed his original birth […]
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Apple Rejects New iPhone Game, “Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration”
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new iPhone game that’s been developed by a company from Boston, and that allows users to drive a truck full of immigrants through the desert while trying to prevent them from getting thrown out of the vehicle, has understandably been rejected by Apple Inc. The bigoted game can still be downloaded for PC’s and Mac’s though.
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Interviewer Loses His Patience With Orly Taitz, Calls Her Crazy On TV Before Cutting Her Off [VIDEO]
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Orly Taitz is the leader of the the “birther” movement – those claiming that Barack Obama is not a legal citizen of the United States. After his official birth certificate was however released earlier this week, she was interviewed on national TV and given the opportunity to apologise. She didn’t. See what happens when the interviewer finally loses his patience with her.
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Obama On Alabama Twister Devastation
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A further tornado outbreak yesterday has killed at least 210 people in Alabama, prompting President Barack Obama to sign a disaster declaration to assist the clean up of the aftermath of the twisters. Tornados have been ravaging the southern states of the USA for days now, and the death toll has risen to 300.
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“She’s Dying Already, There’s No Point In Calling The Ambulance.”
28 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
“A sergeant came around from the charge office and walked out of the station. He didn’t say anything, but walked to her passenger window. He shot her upper arm and it looked like the bullet went through her breast and out of her chest.” Sipho Baloyi, car guard and witness to the fatal shooting outside the Kempton Park Police Station.
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Police Stop ANC Members From Disrupting DA Rally, Makes You Think
28 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Police had to step in yesterday when a group of ANC supporters attempted to stop a DA rally from taking place in the Mamelodi Township in Pretoria. This is just a blip on the South African political radar that will quickly be forgotten, but it gave me pause for thought.
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