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21 April 2010

(Tehran/Atlanta) Accordong to a leading Iranian hard-line cleric the source of the recent earthquakes has been found out and isolated to “Women who dress provocatively and tempt people into promiscuity [are to blame for earthquakes]“. The statement is proven true as recent earthquakes have struck especially promiscuous countries such as Haiti, Chile and China. CNN [...]

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5 October 2007

It could happen to anyone

A Venezuelan guy woke up in the middle of an autopsy. Apparently some one had mixed up the forms, so instead of getting “Heal and take care” form he got the “Examine and take to caretaker” one.

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13 August 2007

“Fuck the average reader”

David Simon interviewed by Nick Hornby himself. The most important message of the interview follows: “My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as [...]

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2 March 2007

Great walls of fire

“Corner Blog – Banned in China” The modern Great Wall of China is the firewall which filters the web traffic and only allows “approved” and “authentic” content for Chinese surfers. If you’ve wondered which pages it will block there’s now a solution for that – empirical tests using greatfirewallofchina.org. I tested if corner.rahina.info is available [...]

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6 February 2007

Video: US Airforce bombing British convoy on 2003 in Iraq

If you need to find one good thing about tabloid magazines is that they publish anything to get viewers and publicity. The Sun just published “a video that does not exist” on their website about the bombing of English convoy by US Airforce on 2003 which lead to a kill of a British soldier. The [...]

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1 January 2007

Top-10 Orwellian moments of 2006 in US

WFMU-blog listed top-10 Orwellian moments of 2006 Fox News airs an infomercial for torture Federal semantics eliminates the hunger problem also seen elsewhere in the Corner Blog Defending the First Amendment by proposing that we scrap it. Halliburton contracts to build large detention camps in the US The Inexorable Worldwide Rollout of RFID Chips Stay [...]

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18 November 2006

A security guard captured using excessive force

The whole nation of Finland was shocked and surprised as “The Voice of Truth”, Helsingin Sanomat, published a video on wednesday showing a security guard using excessive force. The news of naturally came as a surprise specially to the more alternative looking youth with long hair or political outwear. The police forces published their intention [...]