November 2007
Australia wants Iraq troops home by mid 2008 →
About 550 Australian combat troops in Iraq should be withdrawn by about the middle of next year, Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd said on Friday, setting a broad timetable for the soldiers to return home. Australia has about 1,500 troops in and around Iraq, but Rudd won power at the Australia’s national election on November 24 with a promise to bring frontline forces home. “The combat...
Prostitute auctions sex for charity →
A Chilean prostitute has auctioned 27 hours of sex to raise money for the country’s largest charity during an annual fund-raising campaign. Maria Carolina became an overnight celebrity in the conservative Roman Catholic country, making news headlines and appearing on talk shows since she made her unusual donation to the televised charity event, which runs for 27 hours starting on Friday...
Rodney King Shot in Southern California →
Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by LAPD officers (and their subsequent acquittal) sparked the Los Angeles riots in 1992, was shot late last night, according to San Bernardino police.King was shot in the face and arm while riding his bike home to Rialto.
Microsoft Word Tourettes Prank →
What do you think of when you think of Tourettes? Random swear words right? This next prank does exactly that. While you are typing in a word document or outlook a random swear word will appear. The words will appear in random increments and the words them selves are random. The words and the time gap is determined by you.
Conan O'Brien pays salaries of 80 people →
Conan O’Brien is digging deep to help his staff weather the WGA strike. Host of NBC’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” will cover the salaries of his non-writing production staff for the foreseeable future, an NBC U spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.
Australia ranked world's third most livable nation →
AUSTRALIA is the third most desirable country to live in, according to an annual United Nations report that looks at wealth, life expectancy and educational levels. Australia came in behind top-ranking Iceland and Norway in second spot. But the US has slipped to 12th, from eighth last year.
150,000 watch North Korean factory boss executed... →
A North Korean factory boss accused of making international phone calls was executed by a firing squad in front of 150,000 people, it emerged today. Its citizens are banned from communicating with the outside world, part of the regime’s authoritarian policies seeking to prevent any challenge to the iron-fisted rule of Kim Jong Il.
Video: Michael Moore cut this scene from Sicko... →
In addition to France, Canada, and the UK, Michael Moore also went to Norway. What he found, was unbelievable.
Environmental Group Will Take On Japanese Whalers →
A group of militant environmentalists has pledged to harass and intimidate the Japanese whaling fleet that recently set sail on an expedition to hunt over 1000 whales, including 50 rare humpback whales. The group is called the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS), and it plans to disrupt the whaling fleet by confronting their ships. The society has several celebrity supporters, including Sean...
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France Sets Sanctions Against Internet Piracy →
Internet users in France who frequently download music or films illegally risk losing Web access under a new anti-piracy system unveiled on Friday. The three-way pact between Internet service providers, the government and owners of film and music rights is a boon to the music industry, which has been calling for such measures to stop illicit downloads eating into its sales. Under the agreement...
How a Computer for the Poor Got Stomped by Tech... →
From its inception, One Laptop Per Child posed a threat to the personal-computing dominance of software giant Microsoft and chip maker Intel. The team (drawn from MIT) designed a machine that didn’t use Windows or Intel chips. It uses the Linux operating system and other nonproprietary, open-source software, which users are allowed to tinker with..
Waiting for the guards →
Waiting For The Guards is the first of 3 films commissioned by Amnesty to highlight the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA in the “War on Terror”. The Directors approached the making of the film in a way that has never been done before, choosing to show the reality of Stress Positions in as authentic a way as possible. They filmed a person being put into Stress Positions over a 6...
The Hidden Truth... Behind Video Games →
It’s fitting that Pac-Man was released in 1980, right after what is commonly known as the “Me Decade” (1970’s) had concluded and the money obsessed 80’s had just begun. While the game seems innocent enough, it’s obvious that it is actually a commentary on popular consumer culture. Pac-Man is an allegorical character meant to represent the average consumer while...
“I don’t think that if someone gets caught with methamphetamine, we should...”
– Police Officer To John McCain: Drug War Blows
UK's families put on fraud alert →
Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing. The Child Benefit data on them includes name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and, where relevant, bank details of 25 million people. Chancellor Alistair Darling said there was no evidence the data had gone to criminals - but urged people to monitor bank accounts...
Saudis defend rape victim's thrashing →
Saudi Arabia has defended a court’s decision to sentence a woman who was gang-raped to 200 lashes of the whip, after the United States described the verdict as “astonishing”. The 19-year-old Shi’ite woman from the town of Qatif in the Eastern Province and an unrelated male companion were abducted and raped by seven men in 2006. Ruling according to Saudi Arabia’s...
Radioactive Ammunition Fired in Middle East May... →
By firing radioactive ammunition, the U.S., U.K., and Israel may have triggered a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East that, over time, will prove deadlier than the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan. So much ammunition containing depleted uranium(DU) has been fired, asserts nuclear authority Leuren Moret, “The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed.” “More than ten times...
US high court to rule on Washington DC gun ban →
The U.S. Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide whether handguns can be banned in Washington, D.C., a case that could produce a decisive ruling on whether individual Americans have a right to keep firearms.
Long-lost cave of Rome's founders discovered →
Italian archaeologists believe they have found the cave where, according to legend, a wolf suckled Romulus and Remus, the twin founders of Rome. An underground cavity decorated with seashells, mosaics and pumice stones was discovered near the ruins of the palace of Emperor Augustus on the Palatine hill. Experts say they are “reasonably certain” it is the long-lost place of worship...
The Man Who Got Rejected 5,000 Times →
Emil Kacic, a wealthy Croatian lawyer, realized that he must be the ugliest man in the world when he racked up 5,000 marriage proposal rejections! Croatian lawyer, Emil Kacic, who has logged all the failures in a little black book, said: “Money can’t buy you love, at least if you have a face like mine.”
Internet could run out of capacity in two years →
Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, according to a study released Monday.
The 10 Most Insane Medical Practices in History →
The 10 most insane, hilarious and weird medical practices and history. Including greats like electrical impotence belts, urine therapy and female hysteria!
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“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”
– Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2
Universal vs. YouTube and MySpace takes its first... →
Trent Reznor describes how Universal’s desperate, potentially devastating lawsuit against YouTube and MySpace has prevented him from launching an innovative new website: “We are challenged at the last second to find a way of bringing this idea to life without getting splashed by the urine as these media companies piss all over each other’s feet.”
FOX News becoming international laughingstock →
because it minimally adheres to certain superficial conventions, it can masquerade as a “news” outfit and enjoy all the rights that accrue to that.
Japan fleet sets off to hunt humpbacks →
A defiant Japan embarked on its largest whaling expedition in decades Sunday, targeting protected humpbacks for the first time since the 1960s despite international opposition. An anti-whaling protest boat awaited the fleet offshore. The whalers plan to kill up to 50 humpbacks in what is believed to be the first large-scale hunt for the once nearly extinct species since a 1963 moratorium in the...
WatchRocket Attack On Soldiers At AlQaim Iraq
