Posts Tagged ‘News You Can Do Without’

Who should US invade next?

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If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Invade Iran.. South Korea.. Middle East.. Italy.. France… just name it. Ok, can you locate it on map please? [Hat Tip: Zainab Alkhawaja]

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Paternity test sought in Saudi case

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A woman in Britain is asking for a paternity test to determine whether her first daughter was fathered by the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. Friends of Janan Harb say that she had demanded a DNA sample from the Saudi Royal Family to find out if her daughter, Rania Boueiz, 30, a marketing executive [...]

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F**k Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades

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Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the f**king vanguard of shaving in this country. The Gillette Mach3 was the razor to own. Then the other guy came out with a three-blade razor. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Mach3Turbo. That’s three blades and [...]

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USA: United States of AFRICA

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Qadhafi Advocates on Libya’s ‘United States of Africa’ Proposals!!
Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi and the Algerian and Nigerien presidents Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Mamadou Tanja Friday discussed arrangements made by the 5th African Union summit on consolidating the march towards a United States of Africa.
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Saudi king to face divorce case?

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A divorce case against King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, said to be worth �32bn and among the world’s richest men, is to be heard in a British court.

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Sabbah Fulminates

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Slate, a division of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, say that “Criticizing the U.S. media for ignoring this story, Sabbah’s Blog’s Haitham Sabbah, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, fulminates…” while referring to my post: “Ask your (USA) media why they are silent on the AIPAC espionage story.“ Well, God Bless you, [...]

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Burj Al Arab Among Top 10 Most Expensive Hotels

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If money truly is no object, Forbes has released the 2005 edition of their Most Expensive Hotel Rooms list.
Burj Al Arab in Dubai offers breakfast for a paltry $41 per person, while Little Palm Island in the Florida Keys offers the option to rent out the entire island for only $1 million a weekend.
So if [...]

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Man pulls car with ears while standing on eggs

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A Chinese man pulled a car with his ears while walking on eggs without breaking them. He can also pick up a 25kg bicycle with his mouth while standing on eggs.

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British torture victims challenge Saudi authorities

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Lawyer of three British ‘torture victims’ moves to seize Saudi assets in Britain over legal case. Lawyer will “start the process” this week of seizing some Britain-based Saudi state assets, which include Saudi Arabian Airlines.

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Qatar’s top art collector under house arrest

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He also set a world record at Sotheby’s a year earlier when he paid �507,500 (around Dh3.5 billion) for Gustave LeGray’s mid-19th-century seascape, Grande Vague de Sete. Where he got the money from? Public funds of course!
Sheikh Saud Al-Thani is a second cousin of Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the ruling Emir of Qatar. As chairman [...]

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Russians shoot down rain clouds for Bush

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…But as the 10 a.m. time for the military parade approached, with organisers nervously consulting their watches, black clouds drew over Red Square and rain grew heavier. Putin greeted a string of arriving dignitaries huddled under umbrellas.
All that, however, changed as Bush and his wife Laura walked the 50 metres (yards) from the Kremlin gates [...]

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Muta’a

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Pleasure marriages, outlawed under Saddam Hussein, have begun to flourish again. “Al-Zaidi hopes to soon finalize his third muta’a, or “pleasure marriage,” with a green-eyed neighbor. This time, he talks about it openly and with obvious relish. Even so, he says, he probably still won’t tell his wife.”
At least Saddam did one right thing!

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US visa policy scares off visitors

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Jordan’s ambassador to Washington Karim Tawfiq Kawar said there has been a drop of more than 30 percent of students from the Arab world coming to the United States to study. Why?

Imagine a teenage Asian girl with a valid student visa was handcuffed and deported for entering the United States five days earlier than stipulated, [...]

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Cocktail

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Even though there’s no blood, poop, or eels, this is still one of the most terrible things I’ve ever seen. For serious, you should just skip this link.

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Eyes for Sale

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Broke woman advertises one of her eyes for sale to raise cash.

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KFC

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In an effort to boost sales, KFC to change name back to Kentucky Fried Chicken, increase secret ingredient that causes you to crave the chicken fortnightly

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Mineralnye Vody Airport: Come fly with me… or not

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At Russia’s Mineralnye Vody airport, it snows indoors, the lounge sells swords and daggers and the VIP restaurant is a picture of a water bottle.

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Gladiators of Iraq

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According to Lycos News:
US Marines of the 1st Division dressed as gladiators try to control a horse and stage a chariot race reminiscent of the Charlton Heston movie–complete with confiscated Iraqi horses at their base outside Fallujah, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 6 , 2004. For U.S. Marines tapped to lead an expected attack on insurgent-held Fallujah, [...]

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