Syria vs. Syria?Last week, the devastation of a chemical attack in Syria was covered in the news. The story was presented by news media as an attack of a rebel group against the government. More that 1,400 innocent people were killed, sparking international interest. An attack by the U.S. has been planned in the near future, more specifically before the U.S. president leaves for Russia. On the surface, this act of violence seems like a typical, yet particularly brutal act of rebellion, but an anonymous group has published a video ...
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Lamar Odom: It's a slippery SlopeOn the morning of August 30th, 2013, basketball player and more notably Kardashian husband, Lamar Odom was pulled over for reckless driving. After bei...
RIOT in TurkeyAngry is about the only way I can describe how I felt after I heard this on the news; a quote from Reccep Tayyip Ergodan, the current Prime Minister o...
Finally in Big newsFinally in big news, the countries of the world are finally realizing that they are being spied on by the American government via the NSA. Figured now...
RantIf you're anything like me, you worry considerably about the state in which we live. We live in a world of near absolute chaos, with an incredibly sma...
Has racism evolved?Welcome to the age where you can read all your magazines on an iPad, where cars talk to you and tell you which way to go, where toilets flush themselv...
How close is Big Brother?Are our governments actually trying to protect us from a looming threat, or are our governments themselves breaching our privacy in the name of some h...
The Hunchback KingKnown throughout history as the Hunchback King, recent events have brought this name-calling into controversy.
It's Sex, It's free, why not?It's a Wednesday night and I'm pacing anxiously around the printer in my college computer lab. "Where is my shit!?" After forty-five minutes, it decides to spit out my screenplay and I run out of the lab. Then hunger strikes -- a quick solution presents itself, I decide to get take out at one of the Mexican restaurants...
continue reading AMURICA the BYUTIFELInauguration. See, that wasn't so hard, but that word has been the kryptonite of facebookers, tweeters, insta-grammers, bloggers, and even--gasp, the news media *cough* FOX news *cough* on this, the day of Barack Obama's inauguration to his second term (which I claim as a victory for the U.S.A.). It seems as though a ...
continue reading Public Opinion"Public calls! We've got the public on our side! Out of my way, guy with public opinion coming through!"
This is a definite-not-lie quote from UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who has the public on his side. That's very important - as it makes what he's doing the right thing. Apparently.
In this context Mr Camero...
continue reading Should the government do more to discourage cigarette smoking?Considering the fact that the government spends annually from 50 to 70 billion dollars to treat more than 400,000 patients suffering because of cigarette smoke, the government should seriously think what they have to do to reduce this plague.
In US there are more than 43.5 million adults smokers, and there is no num...
continue reading Auntie's 90th Birthday – A Hearty Defence of the BBCThe bottom of this article has a song which basically sums up my defence, even though I first heard it after writing the sodding piece.
The British have a problem. Over the past few years they have learned, legitimately, that almost every single nationwide institution has been corrupted.
Worldwide, the discovery...
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