Julian Assange Wants To Run For Australian Senate In 2013
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaksmastermind currently holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, has his sights set on a new frontier — a career in Australian politics.In an interview with Australia's...
View ArticleIntense Pictures Of The Syrian Rebel Group Blacklisted By The US
On Tuesday the U.S. designated Syria's al-Nusra Front as a Global Terrorist organization because of its direct links to al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and then recognized the mainstream Syrian National Council...
View ArticleENDING SOON: Subscribe To A Newsletter For A Chance To Win An iPad Mini
Just in time for the holidays we're giving you have a chance to win an iPad mini. Become a newsletter subscriber now and you'll have a chance to win Apple's latest tablet. If you're the lucky winner...
View ArticleZero Dark Thirty Director Kathryn Bigelow Defends The Controversial...
The Oscar-winning team behind a film about the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty, have denied suggestions that they condoned the use of torture by including a scene in which...
View ArticleJoe Scarborough Rips Liberals For Hypocritical Reaction To 'Zero-Dark-Thirty'
The blindness of liberals to Obama's drone policy along with their outcry about waterboarding has rankled MSNBC's Joe Scarborough.Liberals (plus John McCain) are furious at the waterboarding scene in...
View ArticleNorth Korean Officials Watched Their Successful Rocket Launch From This Bond...
North Korea's successful rocket launch early this morning was watched by engineers and officials from a command center that was suitably Bond-villain-esque.North Korea Tech has more information on the...
View ArticleHow US Guilt Over The Rwandan Genocide Is Leading To Another Bloody Foreign...
The United States is allowing one tragic foreign policy failure to compound another.Eighteen years ago, President Bill Clinton watched passively as the Hutu extremist regime in Rwanda oversaw the...
View ArticleJesse Canella Of HonorVet.org Outlines The Tough Challenges Vets Face As They...
Jesse Canella co-founded HonorVet.org in order to provide a decent, "holistic" structure for veterans as they make the transition from military to civilian life.Canella's concerns are first for the...
View ArticleThe NYU Student Tweeting Every Reported US Drone Strike Has Revealed A...
NYU student Josh Begley is tweeting every reported U.S. drone strike since 2002, and the feed highlights a disturbing tactic employed by the U.S. that is widely considered a war crime.Known as the...
View ArticleDrug Smugglers May Have Developed 'Pot-Cannon' To Shoot Dope Over Border
Drug smugglers might have been using a pneumatic cannon to fire loads of marijuana over the border in Arizona, the Associated Press reports.A pneumatic cannon uses a pulse of compressed air to launch...
View ArticleIt Says A Lot About The Syrian Regime That It's Now Firing Scud Missiles...
Various news outlets, including this paper, are reporting that the beleaguered regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has, beginning Monday, fired six Scud missiles from Damascus towards rebel...
View ArticleSouth Korea Refutes US Officials Who Say The North's Satellite Is Tumbling...
Following North Korea's missile success earlier this week, U.S. officials told NBC late yesterday that Pyongyang's space vehicle is "spinning out of control" above the earth.The satellite was placed in...
View ArticleGun Control Advocates Sue Web-Based Gun Sales Company
Gun control advocates filed a groundbreaking lawsuit in Chicago Wednesday seeking to make companies that sell firearms over the Internet more accountable.The lawsuit filed by the Brady Center to...
View ArticlePolice Scramble Helicopter To Take Out Masked 'Super Hero' Ninja
A comic book fan who dressed as a masked ninja to emulate his favourite superheroes and fight crime in his neigbourhood ended up being arrested himself by police.He desperately wanted to be like his...
View ArticleCanada's F-35s Are Now $37 Billion More Than Promised And It's Outraging The...
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been the jet of choice for Canada since 2001, but a milestone was reached in 2010 when defense minister Peter MacKay announced his intention to buy 65...
View ArticleThere Are Around 23,574 Nukes In The World — Here's Who Has Them
The news that North Korea has successfully launched a satellite heightened fears that the same know-how could be used to launch ballistic missiles. Which countries already have the capability to launch...
View ArticleF-18 Crash Video Takes You Closer Than You Ever Wanted To Be To A Downed Hornet
Newly released surveillance camera footage shows intimate details of the F-18A crash in Virginia Veach we covered back in April.The footage comes out of WTKR Norfolk, a local news affiliate.Aside from...
View Article100 Things We'll Never Forget About 2012
2012 was hands down the most memorable year ever – and we have 100 reasons to prove it.From NASA landing a one-ton rover on Mars to everyone doing the "Gangnam Style" dance, 2012 provided us with tons...
View ArticleREPORT: Former Republican Senator Hagel 'Likely' Will Be Nominated As...
Bloomberg is reporting that former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel is "likely" to be nominated as Secretary of Defense, where he would succeed Leon Panetta.According to the report, President Barack Obama...
View ArticleEuropean Court Rules That CIA Tortured And Sodomized Terror Suspect
CIA agents tortured a German citizen, sodomising, shackling, and beating him, as Macedonian state police looked on, the European court of human rights said in a historic judgment released on...
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