May 25, 2013

Two Students in Japan Discover Japanese Condom Ice Cream (Video)

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*The first thing we want you to know is that we have no intention on showing a sexually explicit video that includes ice cream, but it may be defined that way, thus the disclaimer. That being said, we saw an interesting video that has gone viral after only being posted on Sunday. According to MSN [...]




Nicki Minaj to Perform on ‘American Idol?’

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*Nicki Minaj will follow up her live Grammy spectacle with another live TV appearance next Thursday, if we are to believe her tweet. “American Idol performance on 3/29!!!!!!!” the singer tweeted Wednesday afternoon. Reps for the hit show have yet to make a formal announcement. In February, Minaj performed a controversial, exorcism-themed version of her [...]




Japan Offers Free Flights to Increase Tourism

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*If you haven’t traveled to exotic locations throughout the world because of financial issues, well, here’s your big chance. The folks over in Asia are trying to help you out. Since the problems with tsunami’s and earthquakes and now the nuclear meltdown in March has cost the area plenty of fans. (more…)  




Amazing Black Choir Helps Converts Japanese to Christ

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*CBN reports that historically, it’s been difficult to share the gospel in Japan. Traditional Japanese faiths like Buddhism and Shintoism have many gods and people avoid religions that make specific claims like Christianity. But now, through a music workshop, Japanese non-believers are learning to sing to the one true God. The movie “Sister Act” brought [...]




Magnitude 6.6 Aftershock Jolts Japan

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*(Via CNN) Fires burned in northeastern Japan Monday evening after a powerful earthquake rattled the region, sending a landslide into Iwaki City, authorities said. A preliminary estimate put the quake’s magnitude at 7.1, which was later lowered to 6.6, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A series of smaller quakes continued to shake the region. [...]




North American Toyota Plants Will Be Closing

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*Americans have been worrying about all the possible ways we would be affected by the horrible disaster in Japan and now it  is here. All of the people that have been displaced over there had jobs and families too. They had jobs that supported us and kept us going as well. There was a major [...]




The Socialist’s Journal: No Turning Back

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*Once upon a time people walked everywhere and carried whatever they needed in their arms or on their backs. But that wasn’t good enough… OK. No problem. Someone figured out how to make a wheel which led to a wheel barrel. At the same time someone figured out how to train animals to perform tasks [...]




Dionne Warwick may Pass on Japan Gig because of Quake

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*Since the tragic disaster that rocked the Pacific Ocean and caused the death of countless people, singer Dionne Warwick is considering to cancel her Japan performance. She is absolutely terrified of earthquakes and could hardly stay in Los Angeles when the city was hit with the 6.7 wrecker. She and her people are waiting for [...]




Forecast: Japan Quake Could Result in Tens of Thousands of Deaths

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*In Japan, with a death toll expected to climb into the tens of thousands, more than a half-million people displaced and a nuclear crisis continuing to unfold, rescuers converged Monday on Japan’s devastated earthquake zone. The government reported Monday that radiation levels again rose above legal limits outside the crippled nuclear complex at quake-battered Fukushima, [...]




Quake Toll in Japan could Top 1,300; Also (Video): Fears of nuclear Meltdown Subside

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*The death toll from Japan’s magnitude 8.9 earthquake that triggered a devastating 30-foot tsunami could rise to more than 1,300, government officials said. Most of the victims drowned, with about 200 to 300 bodies found along the water in Sendai, the closest major city to the quake’s epicenter off the coast of Honshu. The quake [...]




Obama: US ‘Stands Ready to Help’ Japan following Deadly Earthquake

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*President Barack Obama is assuring earthquake-ravaged Japan that the United States “stands ready to help” and said the Federal Emergency Management Agency is ready to come to the aid of Hawaii and West Coast states that could be hit by Pacific tsunamis. The largest earthquake in Japan’s history – measured at a magnitude of 8.9 [...]




Toilets, Restrooms, and Lavatories: the Thrones of Social Order

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*It is amazing how much going to the bathroom is a key part of our life, yet we rarely sit down and talk about how it affects us and how we co-exist as men and women segregated by our bathrooms. A professor of sociology at NYU who edited the book “Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing” [...]




Swiss Plan to Top World’s Longest Train Tunnel

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*Japan has long held the title for world’s longest train tunnel with their Seikan Tunnel in Japan . That tunnel was completed nearly 25 years ago and it is 33.49 miles.  A lot of it is submerged in water, but now the Swiss are throwing their hats into the ring with a train tunnel that will go [...]




Twitter Landmarks 20 Billion Tweets

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*Who would have thunk anyone was actually keeping track of this information? Well it’s true folks, Twitter’s popularity worldwide has reached an all time high and folks from all over are using the microblogging, 140 character limit message center to keep in touch, keep track of celebrities, and even take the place of texting or [...]




Jackson Estate: Schaffel Film ‘Misled’ Fans in Japan

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*The estate of Michael Jackson is warning fans against a documentary debuting in Japan today from Marc Schaffel, a former business partner who had a major falling out with Jackson in a messy trial in which they sued each other four years ago. In a statement sent to The Associated Press on Thursday, the estate [...]