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Iran Planning Its First Nuclear Submarine
13 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Iran said it is drawing up designs for its first nuclear powered submarine, which if it gets built, would make it the first not nuclear armed nation to put the technology to front line military use.
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Iran’s Oil Exports Plummet 40%
13 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Western sanctions against Iran’s oil exports have shown that they have fallen by an estimated 40 per cent since the start of the year, according to the International Energy Agency. Separately, the UAE is nearing completion of an oil route that totally avoids Iran. Unlucky, Iran.
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New Hilarious “Yes Men” Viral Campaign Owns Shell [FULL GALLERY & VIDEO]
13 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Greenpeace recently teamed up with activist pranksters, The Yes Men. Their goal? To rip Shell a new one over their planned Arctic oil drilling. Step inside, and watch a great (and hilarious) example of how social media and activism have become inseparable.
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Sweden’s Twitter Experiment Gets A Little Anti-Semitic
13 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Sweden has been handing its Twitter account to a different citizen every week for the past seven months. Which has been great for the most part, with priests and lesbian truck drivers representing the country – except the latest @sweden handler has been catching some flack for trying to figure out “whats the fuzz with jews.”
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Brutal Clashes Between Russian And Polish Euro 2012 Fans In Warsaw [VIDEO]
13 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Chaos erupted in Warsaw yesterday when Russian and Polish fans fought running battles in the streets before and after a Euro 2012 soccer match. At least 11 people were injured in the clashes. Eight of those hurt, including a policeman, are Poles, two are Russian, and one is German. The game ended 1-1. See the […]
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Yahoo Forms Content Partnership With CNBC
13 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yahoo has been criticised in the past for neglecting its original core business of being a search engine, and it may experience more of that with its latest exapnsion into content publishing. However, it has described its latest partnership with CNBC as a key strategy to becoming a “premium media network.”
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Sir John Major – “Rupert Murdoch Pressured Me Over Europe”
12 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sir John Major has been giving testimony at the Leveson inquiry into British press ethics today. Some of his testimony appears to directly conflict that of Murdoch’s, who in April claimed: “I have never asked a prime minister for anything.” Major becomes the first ex-Prime Minister to claim Murdoch tried to get him to change government policy.
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Spanish Activists Looking To Sue Former Bank Manager For Financial Crisis
12 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Spanish activists are raising a large private fund to pay for a civil action suit against Rodrigo Rato – the former chairman of Bankia, one of the banks central to the Spanish financial crisis. The fundraiser is following the usual decentralized online-activist structure, with members organizing themselves under the #QuerellaPaRato (“Lawsuit for Rato”) hashtag.
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Twitter’s First Official TV Ads, #Underwhelming [VIDEO]
12 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Sunday Twitter aired its first ever TV commercials. The series of shorts are centered on America’s favourite past-time, Nascar racing, and push their new message: “See what he sees.” Click through to see the clips.
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Zapiro Wins 2012 International Publishers Association Freedom To Publish Prize
12 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Jonathan Shapiro, more commonly known as Zapiro, has been named the 2012 recipient of the International Publishers Association (IPA) award for Freedom to Publish. He’ll receive it for his exemplary courage in upholding the freedom to publish whatever he wants, basically.
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Images Surface Of Syria’s Steroid-Mad “Ghost Killers” [PICS]
12 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Photos and horrific stories are starting to surface from Syria about so-called “ghost killers”. These guys have been pumped to the max with steroids, and serve one purpose only: to keep Syria’s president, Bashar Assad, in power. They do this by “terrorising women and children, and conducting ethnic cleansing.” See what these monsters look like inside.
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Dinner In The Sky: The Fancy Restaurant Dangling In Mid-Air [VIDEO]
12 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A new concept restaurant has met with some recent success. Dinner in the Sky has diners, dining table and waitstaff hoisted some 50 meters into the sky with a crane, where they can enjoy a high-altitude gourmet meal. The latest branch just opened up in in Brussels – take a look after the jump.
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The Dingo Really Did Eat Her Baby
12 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
30 years later the famous case of baby Azaria Chamberlain being eaten by a dingo while on holiday has finally been put to rest. Her mother, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, long maintained that a dingo took her baby, even as she was sentenced to life in jail for her daughter’s murder, a conviction that was later quashed.
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Soon Trolls In Britain Will No Longer Have The Safety Of Anonymity
12 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Trolls, a uniquely 21st-century phenomenon, have always enjoyed the privilege of anonymity. Abusive internet users have been allowed to hide behind made-up usernames while they went about trolling whom, when and where they please. That’s about to stop, in Britain at least.
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David Cameron Leaves 8-Year-Old Daughter At Pub
11 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, left his eldest daughter, Nancy, at a pub following a Sunday lunch. It happened after a mix-up with his wife Samantha, Downing Street has admitted. The couple only realised their daughter was missing when they got home.
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Madonna Flashes Nipple On Stage, Crowd Scarred For Life [N5FW VIDEO]
11 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Recently, on the Turkey leg of her MDNA tour, Madonna quite deliberately flashed her nipple at the crowd, drawing gratuitous cheering and pic-snapping. Click through for the obviously N5FW video.
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#RIPBoxing Trends After World Is Shocked By Pacquiao’s Defeat
11 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Saturday night, defending WBO Welterweight Champion Manny Pacquiao met challenger Timothy Bradley for a much-hyped title fight. The fight appeared to be heavily lopsided in Pacquiao’s favour and the verdict seemed to be all but sealed, until two of the judges revealed their scorecards and created one of the biggest controversies in boxing history.
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Terra Sacra – A Time-Lapse Spanning Seven Continents Over Six Years [VIDEO]
08 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Very few people are privileged enough to travel the world and even fewer can say they’ve set foot on all seven continents. Thankfully we have been blessed with photographers like Sean F. White, who has not only accomplished both, but chose to record the journey and share it via an amazing time-lapse recording. Click through for a magnificent six-minute trip around the world.
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Microsoft One-Ups Google In Battle For Cloud Market
08 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
As the American government continues its internal adoption of cloud computing services, Google and Microsoft have been scrambling for contracts – what with their being lucrative and influential and such. Sucks to be Google, then, because the FAA just awarded $91 million to Microsoft to have their platform transition to the Microsoft Office 360 cloud service.
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Greek Politician Punches Female MP In Face Live On TV [VIDEO]
08 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ilias Kasidiaris is a Greek politician and former special forces soldier. He is the Golden Dawn party’s spokesperson, as well as a passionate far-right Holocaust denier. See him take part in a live TV debate, during which he disagrees with, and ends up punching a female member of parliament several times in her face. He also throws water in the face of another MP.
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R.I.P. Fleetwood Mac Guitarist Bob Welch
08 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bob Welch, formerly Fleetwood Mac’s guitarist and succesful soft-rock soloist of the 70’s, was found in his Nashville home yesterday, dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 65. Police reports say that Welch’s body was found by his wife in the mid-afternoon, along with a suicide note.
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Captured Refugee Abused, Forcibly Tattooed On His Forehead [VIDEO]
07 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In a disgusting display of cruelty and abuse, captors tattooed a refugee’s forehead after he tried to flee Syria for Lebanon. Click through for the disturbing video, slightly N5FW.
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Model Livetweets Married Actor’s Awkward Attempt At Seduction
07 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 9 Comments
Ha! Model Melissa Stetten found herself getting hit on by vaguely-famous actor Brian Presley on a flight out of Los Angeles. Using this new thing called ‘the internet,’ she identified Presley as a married, outspoken Christian with a five-year-old kid. So she livetweeted his ridiculously awkward attempt at hooking up with her. Watch it unfold below.
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They’re Making An Elvis Hologram Too
07 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In news that you want desperately to be surprised by, but just can’t, the creators of the Tupac-ogram have announced that they’re working on an Elvis Presley hologram, for making film and television appearances – and, depending on how unsettling they can get the reincarnated star to look, on tour.
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FAIL: “Die Stem” Plays Before SA/Britain Investec London Cup Game
06 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just before the start of the SA/Britain women’s hockey game at the London Cup yesterday, both teams had their national anthem played at the stadium. Except, when it was South Africa’s turn, they got played “Die Stem”. The South African Hockey Association has now requested a personal apology from competition manager Steve Catton.
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Welcome To The New, Larger Internet: IPv6 [VIDEO]
06 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Right now, you could be using the new Internet, and you probably didn’t know. Essentially, the Internet got too small, and we’d have run out of addresses if they didn’t do something about it. But, we’ll let Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, guide us through the jargon.
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Getting Divorced? Check Into A Divorce Hotel
05 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Are you fed up with your marriage? Well you can now check in to one of a number of Dutch hotels for a long-weekend and get your divorce sorted at the same time. A great idea, I call it the reverse-honeymoon.
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Download Banksy’s Exclusive Diamond Jubilee Artwork, For Free [PICS]
05 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This past weekend marked the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, 60 years of politely smiling, waving and occupying an ultimately powerless position. In celebration, renowned street artist, Banksy, created an exclusive piece, which can be yours for free! Click through for cultural enrichment.
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Barack Obama Sings “Call Me Maybe” [VIDEO]
05 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
YouTube user, Baracksdubs, is back with yet another great mashup featuring Barack Obama. Only this time, he’s singing his version of viral parody sensation “Call Me Maybe”, by Carly Rae Jepsen.
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Sony Not Making Anyone Believe, Shares Lowest Since 1980
05 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sony shareholders looked on as they watched the electronics and entertainment giant’s shares fall below 1 000 yen for the first time since 1980 yesterday. The Tokyo stock market took a dive early Monday after a dismal performance from Wall Street, bad US job data, and amid other global economic concerns.
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