The Iranian morality police are cracking down on a decades-old Barbie doll ban, claiming the classic American toy is threatening Islamic values. As tension between the U.S. and Iran continue to rise, Shopkeepers told Reuters that the religious officers are coming into their shops and demanding the leggy blonde Mattel dolls be taken off the [...]
In 1991, Milton William ‘Bill’ Cooper was one of the trendsetters of what became a whistleblower movement, with a book called “Behold a Pale Horse”. A former member of Naval Intelligence, he offered information about the government’s inner secrets – or so he claimed – including their attitude towards UFOs. Specifically, he claimed that Kennedy [...]
Conservative New Democracy MP and former deputy health minister Gerasimos Giakoumatos, suggested on Monday that the Acropolis and other archaeological sites be leased to private firms in a bid to bring much-needed revenue into the debt-ridden country. In comments made to Vima FM radio station, Giakoumatos claimed that such a move would not be humiliating [...]
Students tried stripping to their underwear and handing out free chips; giant lions and roosters snogged in the street; the country’s leading actor ordered all men to go on shaving strike; and a woman senator said politicians’ wives should deny them sex. But in the end, it took a looming financial meltdown in the eurozone [...]
Wikileaks has once again shaken the foundations of the government and military establishment with its mass leaking of documents chronicling the war in Afghanistan. The leaking of more than 92,000 secret documents to the media last week revealed how difficult it now is for any government – however powerful – to conceal information from the [...]