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An 82-Year Old Nun Broke Into One Of America’s Highest Security Nuclear Facilities [VIDEO]
03 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That headline is not a joke. Last weekend, an elderly nun broke into a nuclear facility Oak Ridge, Tennessee as part of an anti-nuclear protest. The daring feat force the US government to shut down one of its “most sensitive nuclear weapons sites” and seriously reassess is security measures.
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Iran Broadcasts Missile Tests On State TV [VIDEO]
05 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In news that is not very positive for Middle-East peace prospects, IRINN, the state broadcaster in Iran has broadcasted images of ballistic missiles being tested that it claims could easily reach US military bases in the region.
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US Agency Has To Confirm Mermaids Are A Myth [VIDEO]
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Incredibly, the US National Ocean Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had to issue a statement in the last week confirming the non-existence of mermaids after Animal Planet aired “Mermaids: The Body Found” and a whole bunch of Americans thought it was real.
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Home Test Kit For HIV Approved, On Sale In Months
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
On Tuesday, the FDA approved the first ever over-the-counter, at-home test for HIV. The test will offer customers complete privacy and could be on shelves in the States as soon as October.
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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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Anonymous Hacks U.S. Department of Justice
22 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh hey, that V-for-Vendetta-themed hacker collective is back, this time with a 1,7 GB lump of data that they claim “used to belong to the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics.” The file was uploaded to the Pirate Bay yesterday, and allegedly contains “internal emails, and the entire database dump.”
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Catholic Outcry Over Tutu’s US University Visit
02 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Archbishop Tutu is set to deliver a commencement address at a Catholic university in the States this month, but his visit has drawn the ire of several Catholic groups who claim the Arch’s views are not a good fit for the institution that invited him. They have some petitions going, the University has yet to speak out, and we’ve got the full skinny on their righteous campaigning to stop the Arch, after the jump!
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Controversial, Privacy-Destroying CISPA Bill Passed In House Of Representatives
30 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
CISPA – the ugly cousin of other internet-crippling bills SOPA and PIPA, whether Facebook admits it or not – passed late last week in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives. Worse, the bill was amended before it passed to allow even more types of private information to be tapped and shared by government agencies in the US.
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US Judge Rules Against German Microsoft Injunction
12 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In another great instance of American judges believing that their jurisdiction has no limits, a U.S. judge has ruled that Motorola cannot enforce an injunction that would prevent Microsoft from selling Windows products in Germany, should a German court issue such an injunction next week.
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Journalists Being ‘Strongly Cautioned’ Against Reporting On TSA Scanning Vulnerabilities
12 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Following a recent viral expose by blogger Jonathan Corbett on the potentially serious weaknesses in the TSA’s airport body scanners, multiple journalists have reported receiving emails from the TSA “strongly cautioning” them against covering the story. Corbett is encouraging media outlets to cover the story anyway.
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This Is The US Military’s Incredibly Creepy Robotic Quadruped [VIDEO]
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Thanks to Hollywood and entertainment media when we think of robots we tend to imagine humanoid machines, sometimes so closely resembling their real-life counterparts that the two are almost indiscernible. Because of that, there’s nothing that can really adequately prepare for this headless robotic monstrosity conjured up by the bright minds at DARPA.
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US High School Students Demonstrate Their Wonderful Lack Of General Knowledge [VIDEO]
03 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The US, the most powerful nation in the world both in terms of their economy and military seem to be lacking in one crucial area; education. A recent short study done by a high school student portrays the average American student as not knowing all too much about their own country.
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Navy Kiss Seals “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal [ICONIC PIC]
22 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Two female sailors yesterday became the first to share the traditional “first kiss” on the pier following the repeal of the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. And because people are clever about these things, they took a couple of photographs modeled after that post-WW2 first kiss photo. It’s very cool.
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The U.S. Congress Has Authorized The Pentagon To Wage War Online
15 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, it’s nice to see that the House and Senate can agree on something. Although in this case they’ve agreed to a provision snuck into the U.S. military’s 2012 funding bill that grants the military power to conduct “offensive” strikes online — including clandestine attacks. And won’t that be fun for everybody.
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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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Chicken Pox Lollipops For Sale – A Tale Of American Parenting
08 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
American mother and pillar of the criminally insane community, Wendy Werkit, identified a gap in the junk food market and took a leap of faith. “Why has no one thought of this yet”, she thought, as she put the finishing touches on her Facebook ad. “Fifty dollars isn’t bad for a ‘pox’ infected sucker”, she thought, as her brain fell out of her ass.
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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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“Occupy Wall-Street” Spin-Off Protests Spreading Across USA
06 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The New York protest movement, “Occupy Wall Street,” currently enjoying a crowd of 15 000 supporters, has inspired folk in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and other cities around the United States to join in on the fun/outcry. Some level of police violence is being seen in all cases, with Seattle police forcibly removing all “occupation” settlements.
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Watch The Wildfire Spread In Texas [VIDEO]
07 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
To demonstrate the lethal speed at which the Texan wildfires are spreading, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department have released footage of the wildfire consuming the 6 000 acre Bastrop State Park – 84% of which has been burnt down as of today, in spite of firefighters’ efforts to save a number of historic Civilian Conservation Corps cabins.
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How About You Don’t Buy Your Kids A 9/11 Colouring Book
01 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Titled ‘ We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ Book of Freedom’, this absolute joke is timed to coincide with the attacks’ tenth anniversary. The publishers claim that it is designed to educate kids who had not yet been born when the events took place. It’s not long before stuffed Scooby Doo is dressed in a hijab looking down the barrel of a toddler sized Glock 45.
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Arizona Street Sign Hacked, Warns Of ‘Rogue Panda’
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With all these incidents of hackers lately, I’m waiting for Angelina Jolie to pop out somewhere and some guy named Cereal Killer to commandeer my TV. In this incident someone hacked a digital roadside sign in Flagstaff, Arizona, warning civilians of a ‘rogue panda on the rampage’. What a legend.
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US Military Hypersonic Jet Is So Fast, Even They Can’t Find It
12 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle is not only 22 times faster than a commercial jetliner, it’s also capable of reaching Mach 20, which is roughly 21 000 kph. So basically it’s kak fast. It’s so fast that the company that created it, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have lost it at sea. Again.
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US Government Cracking Down On Online Gambling Sites
19 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Five years after their last big push against online gambling, which resulted in PartyGamings jump to German servers, the US Department of Justice is again making inroads – last Friday taking over the URLs for PokerStars, Full Tilt, & Absolute Poker, and seeking US $3 billion in civil penalties.
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Fake Army Recruited In American Immigration Scam
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A resident of Temple City, California, is accused of running a fake military recruitment centre, where Chinese would-be-immigrants were made to pay to join a “special forces reserve” unit that would supposedly improve their chances of becoming US citizens. The “unit” is well known in Los Angeles, and was assumed to be genuine.
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Cao Ni Zu Zong Shi Ba Dai
12 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Cao ni zu zong shi ba dai. It’s probably about time I learned to speak Mandarin. According to research just published by the Conference Board, a highly respected research institute, the Chinese economy will overtake that of the poor old US by 2012 in terms of output.
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I Was Lovin It
12 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Is it McDonald’s fault that more than 63 percent of Americans are overweight or obese, making them the fattest nation in the history of the world? Check out this advert that might get them thinking.
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“Super WiFi Unleashed In USA”
30 Sep 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
ITWeb has reported that the FCC of America will be freeing up the vacant airways, or “white spaces” between between television channels, making them available for long distance, low frequency, ultra fast “Super WiFi”. So does this mean EVERYTHING web related gets an upgrade? If so, what could we expect? A few predictions:
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