The Royals have been under public pressure to cut their spending. The British people have demanded more information on how the Queen spends taxpayers’ money. The yearly cost of the Royals to the British taxpayer was $1.12 per person. Buckingham Palace thinks this is great value for money. The Queen’s accountant said that the cost [...]
In a tale that many mainstream media outlets are attempting to use as a political smear campaign, the story of US Rep. David Wu’s severe negative reaction to a common psychiatric drug speaks more about the dangers of pharmaceutical drugs than it does partisan politics. Wu was hospitalised for severe reactions to an unnamed psychiatric [...]
On a visit to USA as a “Trade Ambassador” the prince, dubbed Airmiles Andy over his taxpayer-funded travel, waved aside criticism for spending £100,000 on a private jet to ferry him around the U.S. It was, he claimed, a “tiny spot in the ocean by comparison to many people”. I wonder who he compares himself [...]
Germany’s Nazi government was so angry about a dog trained to imitate Hitler that it started an obsessive campaign against its Finnish owner, according to newly discovered documents. In the middle of World War II, the Foreign Office in Berlin commanded its diplomats in the Nazi-friendly Nordic country to gather evidence on the dog, and [...]
Forget the sniffer dogs, crack teams of mice are being trained to detect bombers and drugs couriers at airports. The sniffer rodents are then hidden in airport scanners, ready to raise the alarm. The mouse-powered scanner looks like a metal detector or full-body scanner, but one side of it houses three concealed cartridges, each containing [...]
I hadn’t realised there was a detention centre, Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation, just up the road in Broadmeadows. You’ll find it hidden away behind the army barracks on Camp Road with no sign to indicate it’s there at all. The detention centre holds an estimated 42 unaccompanied Afghan teenagers – all from the Hazara ethnic [...]
