Browse > Home / Breaking news / More Breaking News. From The Wires Of The Stirring Trouble Team November 10, 2009 We present more breaking news items. From the Stirring Trouble team, the Beatles of current affairs.Breaking News: To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Germany announces that it is planning to invade Poland and some other neighbouring countries. Breaking News: White House says that President Obama treats the conflict in Afghanistan as his ve... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Around The World / Uzbek Militants In Pakistan Are Being Forced Out November 10, 2009 Martin McCauley writes: The situation in Waziristan, where the Pakistan army is conducting an offensive against Islamic militants, remains tense. After meeting strong resistance Pakistani armed forces have captured the towns of Sararogha and Kaniguram, in southern Waziristan. The latter is the main base of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a militant group which has ... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Point Of View / Social Networking On The Web: It Looks Like A Dead End Street November 9, 2009 Dan Majestic writes: Are we a humorous website or what? And are we here to entertain the masses, and offend some people along the way, or are were here to be boring and repeat what others say, over and over again? Who knows, and those who do will not tell us. Anyway, twitter has been in the news recently. Or at least some people I know have been telling me that this... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Let's Be Cynical / It’s A Good Time For Political Satire. But Not For Pretty Much Anything Else November 9, 2009 It is a great time for anyone who dabbles in satire. (Is anyone out there still dabbling in satire? Or have you all been wiped out by political correctness?) A quick, brisk glance at the state of things will tell that it is a crazy world out there. In the supposedly highly progressive and technologically advanced 21st century we still have wa... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Breaking news / More Breaking News. From The Wires Of The Stirring Trouble Team November 8, 2009 It is Sunday again and we present more breaking news items. From the Stirring Trouble team. Breaking News: As world leaders gather in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Chancellor Angela Merkel warns: No groping, no swearing and no threesomes. Breaking News: White House denies that a jump in unemployment numbers contradicts its ... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Around The World / Is Iran Supporting The Taliban In Afghanistan? November 8, 2009 Martin McCauley writes: The growing military sophistication of the Taliban in Afghanistan has transformed them into a formidable adversary of the US-led coalition. It is a classic case of asymmetrical warfare: a huge, heavily armed force is confronted by a much smaller, mobile force which avoids direct military confrontation.When the Taliban were defeated in 2001, few predicted ... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Breaking news / More Breaking News. From The Stirring Trouble Team November 7, 2009 Today we present more breaking news items. From the wires of the Stirring Trouble team. Breaking News: G20 finance ministers gather in Scotland to share a laugh at all the idiots who fell for their bullshit about the recession ending. Breaking News: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown reveals that on many occasions when he calls the White House some young girl’s voice tel... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Around The World / Is Corruption Undermining The Power of the Communist Party of China? November 7, 2009 Martin McCauley writes: The revelations emerging from the present campaign against the triads, criminal gangs, in the city of Chongqing, in western China, has shocked many in China and abroad. So far over 3,000 hoods have been arrested. It is now clear that the police and judicial authorities have been colluding with the triads for at least two decades. The... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Business / British Airways Is Losing Money Again. I Blame Willie November 7, 2009 R.F.Wilson writes: Before I analyse the situation that the world’s favourite airline, British Airways, has found itself in, I would like to ask you this: is it proper that a huge company is run by a man who calls himself Willie? This is a serious matter, by the way, for I would have numerous reservations about the judgement of a top executive who has decided to operate und... Read Full Story

Browse > Home / Point Of View / We Turn The Spotlight On Bravery And Recklessness. Once Again November 7, 2009 Thomas Mathew writes: Here we go again: another have-a-go-hero is in the news for standing up to an armed robber, who burst into a petrol station with a shot gun demanding money. The hero in question, the attendant, chose not to hand over the cash but struggled with the armed criminal. It was by pure luck that the shotgun did not go off and eventually the robber mad... Read Full Story