Chinese shopkeepers in the Xinjiang region have been ordered by authorities to sell alcohol and cigarettes. The items must also be advertised with huge, eye-catching posters. The interesting laws have been imposed in order to […]
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ISIS Opens 5 Star Hotel For Terrorists
Deluded terror organization ISIS is known for its heavy use of propaganda. It’s latest effort to mask a starving population, pervasive sex slavery and human rights abuses is showcasing a luxury hotel in the Iraqi […]
U.S. Announces $20 Million Bounty On ISIS Leaders
The American government announced rewards totaling $20 million for information on four Islamic State leaders. The US Department of State’s Rewards for Justice Program named the four as Abd al Rahman Mustafa al Qaduli Abu […]
Washington Approves Ferry Service To Cuba
Passenger ferries can now run between Florida and Cuba for the first time in more than 50 years after the U.S. government approved new services. Service has been stopped since the U.S. imposed a trade […]
Australia Introduces Tax On Personal Savings
In a scary move, Australia will be the first nation in the world to introduce a compulsory tax on savings. That’s right – if you have money deposited in a bank account, you will have […]
Yemen Rebels Shell Saudi City Causing Mass Casualties
Houthi rebels in Yemen have reportedly shelled a Saudi city, resulting in major casualities according to scattered reports from the region. Saudi involvement in Yemen has been slipping from public knowledge after they announced publicly […]
Iran Faked Destruction Of Mock U.S. Carrier
Iran has been caught faking the destruction of a mock-up U.S. aircraft carrier, new satellite images reveal. The new images show that the mock-up of the USS Nimitz nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that Iran claimed to […]
Russia Caught Inflating Popularity Of Pro-Russian Propaganda
Russia’s increasingly belligerent actions are universally condemned, both at home and abroad. Its people suffer and starve while Putin and his elite cadre of oligarchs inflate their bank accounts. Turns out that’s not all they […]
Facebook’s Internet.org Is A Privacy Nightmare
Facebook announced yesterday that it was opening up its Internet.org service to all sites, in response to criticism that it was playing favorites and undermining net neutrality in developing countries – effectively conditioning the population […]
Israeli Military Caught Massacring Civilians
The Israeli military deliberately targeted Palestinian civilians and their homes during the Gaza war last year, according to a damning report released on Monday. The report contains the graphic, first-hand accounts of more than 60 […]
Mass Surveillance Ruled Unconstitutional In Slovak Republic
Laws that allow for spying on European citizens continue to fall across the continent. First it was Bulgaria, which followed in the wake of the Netherlands. Yesterday the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic has […]
Mexico’s War On Drugs Means Cartel Whack-a-Mole
A weekend of narco-war convulsed Mexico’s second-largest city and a famed beach resort town showing that a powerful and aggressive drug cartel has risen to take the place of the weakened Sinaloa, Knights Templar, Gulf […]
Observer Severely Beaten For Reporting Russian Election Fraud
An observer who witnessed electoral violations in a Moscow-region local election was hospitalized with a ruptured spleen after being attacked by a group of men late last week, a news report said. Stanislav Pozdnyakov was […]
ISIS Comitting Genocide, Slaughters Hundreds Of Yazidis Over Weekend
ISIS’ massacres of Yazidi populations are now a full on genocide as the terrorist militants killed at least 200 Yazidis near Mosul, Iraq, on Friday, an senior Iraqi lawmaker said Sunday. The political party Yazidi […]
Antibiotics Used To Preserve Ancient Frescoes Of Pompeii
Some of the most celebrated frescoes at the ancient Roman ruin of Pompeii have been given a course of antibiotics. Specifically, conservators used amoxicillin, a type of penicillin, to treat strains of bacteria living in […]
Germany Launches Public Probe Of NSA Data Collection
Germany was up in arms this weekend over fresh spying allegations that could harm the country’s thorny relationship with surveillance of its citizens. The revelations bring back Soviet era memories where secret police held dossiers […]
Putin’s Instability Grows As He Recruits Child Soldiers
In the latest sign that megalomaniac Russian despot Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on reality, the country’s leader has re-instituted Soviet era children’s militias. Despite no enemy to fight the groups have been re-launched […]
Russia Creates International Fund To Bail Out… Itself?
Russian despot Vladimir Putin completed an agreement Saturday to set up a $100-billion reserve fund for the so-called BRICS — the five leading emerging economies that include Russia, China, Brazil, India and South Africa. The […]
Iranian Cleric Blames Nepal Quake On Women Who Dress Provocatively
Women who dress provocatively and tempt people into promiscuity are to blame for earthquakes, including the one which recently struck Nepal, a leading Iranian cleric has apparently said. Leader, Hojatoleslam Kazim Sadeghi, says women and […]
Jimmy Carter Dismisses Possibility Of Mid East Peace
Former president Jimmy Carter didn’t even discuss peace with the Palestinian leadership because he knows that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “does not now and has never sincerely believed in a two-state solution for Israel […]
Nepal Quake So Powerful It Changed The Landscape
The deadly quake in Nepal was so powerful that it has also changed the country’s landscape. Case in point: Mount Everest, which satellite data shows shrank after the disaster. According to Europe’s Sentinel-1A radar satellite, […]
North Korea Arrests NYU Student
In the latest provocation by hermit kingdom North Korea, a South Korean who lives in New Jersey was arrested last week for crossing into North Korea illegally, the North Korean Central News Agency reported on […]
U.S. Supplied Cluster Bombs Hit Civilians In Yemen
Human Rights Watch has found that Saudi Arabia is dropping U.S.-supplied cluster bombs in the fight against Houthi rebels in Yemen. The deadly small bombs, if unexploded, can lie dormant and then detonate when people […]
Human Pros Dominating Poker Robot – For Now
At the halfway point of the “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence” poker tournament between software developed at Carnegie Mellon University and four of the world’s top players, the humans are handily winning. The CMU computer program, […]
Milan Expo’s Glitzy Opening Marred By Violence
Milan’s flashy international expo was beset by violence on opening day as demonstrators clashed with Italian police on Friday. Police responded with tear gas on Friday as protests against the event overshadowed the start of […]
It’s A Girl!
The countdown to the second royal baby is over. And it’s a princess! The Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a girl Saturday at a London hospital, Kensington Palace tweeted. The baby princess weighed 8 […]
Twitter And Others Banned From EU Lobbying
Twitter could soon find itself ignored by top European lawmakers. Twitter, as well as media companies BSkyB, TalkTalk, LG Electronics and Angry Birds maker Rovio missed an annual deadline to register their lobbying operations to […]
French Special Forces Caught Abusing Children In Africa
Starving, homeless young boys in the Central African Republic were made to perform sex acts on French soldiers in return for food or money, the director of an advocacy group announced on Thursday, citing a […]
U.S. May Be Poised To Sell Iran Nuclear Materials
Sanctions and an increasingly constrictive global nuclear supply regime have left Iran little other option but to buy nuclear materials in the shadow. The country has built a clandestine global network of front companies and […]
North Korea’s Young Leader Can’t Leave Country
Things are not well at home for North Korea’s rotund boy leader, according to a release by the hermit kingdom. According to a press release the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, has backed out […]