Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

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- 5:50 PM - 0 comments

Enter the Jewish Taliban


As part of its operations in clearing the Taliban occupied areas of the Malakand region the Pakistani army is distributing pamphlets claiming that they (the Taliban) "... are the same as Jewish forces who are against the existence and security of the country ... "

Read the entire article here.

Image credit: daylife / Getty Images

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- 9:18 AM - 0 comments

Oh the irony!


Sometimes, things work out just right (or wrong, depending on your point of view) to create a deliciously ironic situation.

An expedition which set off from Plymouth on a 5,000 mile carbon-emission-free trip to Greenland ran into trouble and needed to be rescues by .... wait for it .... an 110,000 ton oil tanker.

I think they might have preferred to drown.
(Picture and story credit - The BBC)

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- 10:32 AM - 0 comments

Stimulating the economy ..... Chinese Style!

Authorities in the Hubei province in central China have ordered local government officials to smoke more cigarettes ... specifically those made in the same province.  Officials not meeting their 'puff quotas' or those who smoke rival brands will be fined.  In total, officials have been ordered to puff their way through 230,000 packs of Hubei-branded cigarettes.

Even local schools have been issued with a smoking quota for teachers, while one village was ordered to purchase 400 cartons of cigarettes a year for its officials, according to the local government's website.
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Local authorities in Gong'an county are taking the cigarette quota seriously and have established a "special taskforce" to enforce it.
According to a local newspaper account, a teacher from a village middle school said officials burst unannounced into the school at around 3pm one afternoon and started sifting through the ashtray and bins in the staff-room.
Three "non-compliant" cigarette butts were discovered by the "cigarette marketing consolidate team" which informed the teacher he had violated the related civil servants "cigarette usage rule" After some negotiation the school was spared a fine, but subjected to "public criticism" for "undisciplined practices".

From the Telegraph.