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Ecuador's Hitler-Quoting President Burned by Rad T-Shirt
Taylor Berman · 04/10/15 12:36PMReport: The Obama Administration Is Corrupt as Fuck
J.K. Trotter · 12/17/14 03:45PMToday the New York Times published an incredible, and incredibly detailed, account of unrestrained favor-trading within the Obama administration. In a nut: The president’s cabinet, including the State Department under Hillary Clinton, suspended travel bans placed on certain Ecuadorian nationals who committed fraud (and worse) after those nationals’ family members pledged five- and six-figures sums to Democratic organizations.
Extreme Racers Adopt Extreme Dog Who Followed Them Through the Amazon
Jay Hathaway · 11/25/14 04:50PMFeud Erupts Between Ecuador and Galapagos Islands Over Dead Tortoise
Enid Shaw · 09/22/14 08:05PMBack in June 2012, a tortoise died. That is, in and of itself, kind of newsworthy, given that giant tortoises have a lifespan of well over 100 years; the oldest one, the un-creatively named Jonathan, is still kicking at 182. But the death of Lonesome George was particularly sad, given that the old fellow was believed to be the last of his kind, a Pinta Island subspecies of Galapagos tortoise. He wasn't, by tortoise standards, all that old; according to PBS, George had barely broken 100 when he died in Galápagos National Park, and park officials said they'd investigate his cause of death. (They ultimately determined he'd probably perished from natural causes.) But now, two years later, a serious disagreement has broken out over what remains of George.
Guinea Pig Street Meat in Minnesota Ends Badly
Gabrielle Bluestone · 08/25/13 01:33PMEdward Snowden Stuck in Moscow as Ecuador's President Questions Asylum
Taylor Berman · 06/30/13 07:57PMEd Snowden's Great Escape: An Annotated Guide
Max Read · 06/24/13 02:32PMOn Sunday morning, Edward Snowden boarded an Aeroflot flight in Hong Kong, landing in Moscow more than 13 hours later. We think. The truth is, no one's quite sure where the NSA leaker is—Moscow? Havana? Quito? Reykjavik? (He's not on Aeroflot Flight 180, we know that much.) But we can reconstruct his movements—and speculate where he's headed.
Gabrielle Bluestone · 06/23/13 12:49PM
Queens Man Kidnapped in Broad Daylight and Held for $3 Million Ransom
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 05/23/13 09:43AMEcuador Grants Julian Assange Political Asylum
Neetzan Zimmerman · 08/16/12 07:58AMJulian Assange to be Granted Asylum In Ecuador
Adrian Chen · 08/14/12 02:41PMJulian Assange will be granted asylum in steamy Ecuador, reports the Guardian, citing an Ecuadorian official. Assange has been hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 19th, seeking asylum from president Rafael Correa in order to avoid an extradition order to Sweden where he faces a sex crimes investigation.
Watch a Man Use a Live Piranha Like a Pair of Common Household Scissors
Neetzan Zimmerman · 07/12/12 12:30PMMiley Cyrus Performs Nirvana Song, Hell Officially Frozen
Maureen O'Connor · 05/02/11 03:30PMFile this under "the medium is the message": At a teeny-bop concert in Ecuador, Miley Cyrus performed the world's most incongruous rendition of Nirvana anthem "Smells Like Teen Spirit." I say this as someone who once witnessed a violin-flute duo called Nerdvana at an Illinois summer camp talent show in the '90s.