Slash Action Figure Pictures Released

Guns 'n Roses sang 'nothing lasts forever' but maybe if you look after him guitarist Slash will! Well at least the action figure of him that will be on sale in Febuary will - and if you can resist playing with him -...

Hyper-inflation, a 1000 dollar note buys a loaf of bread

What happens, when a country just prints money, not covered by productivity.Happend in Germany 1945, money worthless, new money the Deutsch mark, everyperson got 40 DM to start. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has...

Dad chops son's hand off in fight over banana

Father goes Bananas.In my day we used to just get the Belt when you made Dad mad....."A Papua New Guinean father has lopped off his son's hand when a family fight erupted over a bunch of bananas.The Southern...

IndyMac Fails, Seized by U.S. Regulators

IndyMac Bancorp Inc. became the second-biggest federally insured financial company to fail today after a run by depositors left the California mortgage lender short on cash. "FDIC Establishes IndyMac Federal Bank,...

MPs slash expenses by JUST 56p!

In a move to restore trust after numerous reports of expenses abuses, the expenses of all memebrs of parliament in the UK are to be scrutinised by forensic auditors.On average, MPs claim £135,000 a year in expenses....

CCTV Boom Fails To Slash Crime

As western governments increase spending into the billions on video monitoring of ordinary citizens in public places and extol the crime fighting prowess of CCTV technology, the evidence from Britain seems clear that...

Starbucks to slash U.S. store openings

Fewer Starbucks will do us all a world of good, by forcing us to walk that extra ten steps to the Starbucks on the next corner. "Starbucks Corp said on Wednesday it would slash U.S. coffee store openings through 2011...

Webcam Your Way into Velvet Revolver

Aspiring bedroom rockers' hearts must be racing after Slash suggested that the Velvet Revolver boys might build a website to audition wannabe Scott Weiland replacements.So break out the angsty grunge growls, boys and...

Axl Rose finishes Chinese Democracy, 14 years later

Given the time it took, I'm betting the album won't have much of a spontaneous rock n' roll vibe to it.  Perhaps more of a calculated, "holding the guitar too tight" feel.He did luck out with a topical title...

Velvet Revolver Split With Scott Weiland

Scott Weiland has been wylin' out for a while now. I suppose it was only a matter of time before the rest of the Revolver sent him packing back to his STP mates to see if he can salvage an iota of his 90s late-grunge...

New movie damns Monsanto's deadly sins

It may be exhausting, but we have got to make the effort to "know our enemy" - and Monsanto is one of our fiercest enemies - and the most devastating in terms of long term effects on health! "International — A new movie has dealt yet another severe blow to the...

Stone Temple Pilots to Play Summer Reunion Shows

Every band I can think of, no matter how recently they've broken up or parted ways, now seems to be getting in on the profitable reunion tour action. The latest culprits: STP -- those venerably late-to-the-grunge-era...

Ron Paul Odds Slashed From 15 to 1 to 8 to 1

"Following this weekend's Republican debate in Iowa and some extensive mainstream coverage and sound bytes., 2008 US Presidential candidate Ron Paul's odds to become the next Commander-in-Chief have been slashed further from 15 to 1 to 8 to 1."

5 Figure Unique Visitors Per Day, Are You Ready?

Are you ready for the traffic you’ve been dying to get? Can you handle 5 figure unique visitors per day or an hour? You may think that you are ready but may most likely be in for a shocker.

'Freddy Krueger' attacker jailed

People who act out this way are tapping into a huge mass of potential destructive energy; had this guy never seen Nightmare on Elm Street, I'm sure he would have found another vehicle for his violent fantasies."A man obsessed with the horror film character Freddie Krueger...

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