Health
Video: World’s 10 Most Controversial Foods
As the adage goes, you are what you eat. Well, in some cases that means potentially being in a whole lot of trouble. Here are 10 highly controversial foods. As the adage goes, you are […]
Month: October 2014
Sci/Environment
Video: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Dreams
Here are 10 things you may not know about the sleep-time visions. Be they nightmares, fantasies, or just a jumble of really weird stuff, dreams have long been a popular topic among scientists and mystics […]
News
North Korean Gaming App Hacked 20,000 South Korean Mobile Devices: Seoul Report
The North Korean government hacked South Korean’s phones by creating a mobile game that contained malicious software, according to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service. NIS officials didn’t report any damage or theft but estimated that […]
News
Revealed: US mail subjected to widespread government surveillance program
The United States Postal Service reported that it approved almost 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies as well as its own internal inspection unit, to secretly monitor the mail of Americans for use […]
News
Our Establishment is running scared about historic child sex abuse
Fiona Woolf, former president of the Law Society and current Lord Mayor of London, was the victim of a kangaroo court – but she was wrong to take the job chairing the government inquiry into […]
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Labour MP links Leon Brittan to 80s child abuse claims
Labour MP links Leon Brittan to 80s child abuse claims: Amid row over historic sex crimes inquiry, former Home Secretary named in Commons, reports the Mail Onlline: A Labour MP has used parliamentary privilege to […]
Middle East
Netanyahu is a ‘chickenshit,’ says Obama official
A senior Obama administration official has described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “chickenshit,” in an explosive interview with American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. The Guardian reports:-‘US relations with Israel have plunged to new depths […]
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Outrage as it emerges Labour’s proposed mansion tax will be ‘covered by MPs expenses’
‘Fury has erupted after it has been revealed MPs will NOT have to pay a proposed mansion tax. Instead, taxpayers will have to foot the bill of the swingeing annual levy, under current MPs expenses […]
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Japan to reopen 1st nuclear plant after Fukushima disaster – despite volcano risks
A local council has voted to re-open the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant on the outermost western coast of Japan, despite local opposition and meteorologists’ warnings, following tremors in a nearby volcano. Nineteen out of 26 […]
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Thousands rally in Hungary over internet tax despite govt concessions
Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Hungary despite the government’s amendment of a controversial internet tax bill. The demonstrators say the country is turning anti-democratic and drifting away from the EU. The protest against […]