Dictator Swagger:On This Day April 6-7, 2019 – Large scale protests break out across Sudan and, within 5 days, Sudan’s seventh President, Omar al-Bashir, is removed in a military coup ending his thirty-year rule. The protests and coup in April 2019, were a resumption of the civil unrest which initially broke out the previous December…
Things have gotten so bad that the Philippines cancelled crucifixions over coronavirus fears. There a plenty of people not taking COVID-19 seriously, like Boris Johnson, beach-going Spaniards, and US of A, but you cannot say that about Duterte and the Philippines. For the first year in living memory, no one will be nailed to a…
A man driving in Urumqi city located in the northwest of China decided to drive up a pedestrian bridge over a highway after missing his exit. His SUV which is capable of off-road terrain made it 6 meters to the top without any issues until he discovered this route wasn’t going to work out for…
Dictator Swagger:On This Day Baghdad, Iraq, April 9, 2003: With the help of U.S. troops, Iraqi civilians tear down a statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad. In a display of insensitivity, a U.S. marine draped a U.S. flag over the head of the statue, which reportedly stunned the crowd and drew ire from Arab…
Stranded Brits in Cambodia arrange their own charter flight after the embassy refuses to talk to them. There’s all that much that is funny about the coronavirus, or as the cool kids call it COVID-19, but there is a shit ton of irony in the fact that Boris Johnson is in ICU, with his stand-in…
At around 8 pm on February 22nd, 2019, Damon Simms was detained by police at Gabbi Guest House in Ta Phul Village, Svay Dangkum Commune, Siem Reap Province. Damon Walter Nelson Simms, to give him his full name is a 39-year-old Australian-Irish dual citizen who was running the hostel with his mother and wife. His…