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16 June, 2015. 10:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact WASHINGTON D.C — Tom Freeman, the 27-year-old GOP Staffer closely aligned with Jeb Bush, has been falsely portraying himself as a white man, according to his mother. In a week of similar revelations surrounding Spokane NAACP Chapter President Rachel Dolezal - Mary Freeman said Monday that she and her son have been estranged for years. She says the...

12 June, 2015. 13:30 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact Entrepreneurial transport/export businessman, Andrew* says he could have never imagined the fruits that would come from a career in people smuggling. "It surprised me, I thought there was only one way to make money in this industry..." "The life-savings of people who are religiously persecuted is a pretty safe bet," "Turns out you can get...

25 May, 2015. 12:00 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] Prime Minister Tony Abbott has dismissed the idea of a referendum on same-sex marriage in Australia, after Ireland voted in favour of amending the country's constitution on the issue.  Mr Abbott says that the shirt-lifting community were lucky enough to have the opportunity to vote during Eurovision - and that letting them vote...

19 May, 2015. 11:05 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] ROYAL FAMILY loyalists say they are not surprised that majority of the United Kingdom consider Prince Charles to be the worst thing to come out of the British Empire since smallpox. In a recent survey conducted by the BBC: 90% of respondents indicated that the believe the 66-year-old has a worse reputation than...

4 May, 2015. 14:20 CLANCY OVERELL| Editor | Contact   The princess was born at 8.34am, weighing 8lbs 3oz - just 3oz less than Prince George when he arrived in July 2013. She is the first princess to be born into the British monarchy in 25 years. The last was Prince Andrew's daughter Princess Eugenie in 1990. Covered in a shawl and with a bonnet...

4 May, 2015. 11:50 IMRAN GASHKORI | World Sport | Contact AFTER FIVE YEARS OF WAITING - it finally happened. An affluent, convicted champion woman-basher fought a street kid from the Phillipines for 45 minutes in Las Vegas - Generating the biggest audience and the biggest paycheque in the history of professional sport. The judges at ringside scored it 118-110, 116-112 and 116-112 for the man known as...

21 April, 2015. 16:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected]   Hillary Clinton's announcement that she will enter the 2016 race for the White House came in a two-minute video released in a social media blitz, in which she told the US public she wanted to be their "champion". As well as stating "this is my time" - Hillary pointed out she will be...

10 April, 2015. 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] A MEMBER OF AUSTRALIAN ROCK BAND, I Killed The Prom Queen, has this week appeared in a new anti-wool campaign solicited and funded by animal rights group, PETA. The poster that Adelaide-based guitarist Jona Weinhofen appeared in has suggested that farmers who shear lambs are committing the highest form of animal cruelty, which results in...

NICK HUGHES-DENUTO | Health and Wellbeing | Contact A former executive salesman and "Black diamond earner" for the controversial workout supplement Isis-Genix, Michael Schnell spoke to the Betoota Advocate today about his time in the fast-lane of shady "health and wellbeing" pyramid schemes. “Essentially it uses the same basic principles of recruiting followers into a cult, they target people who are down on their...

1 April, 2015. 12:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact   A suspected member of a far-left militant group behind the live hostage situation involving a Turkish prosecutor in an Istanbul courthouse, is not really that keen on people seeing the lower half of his face, according to reports. While reportedly demanding that the police officer allegedly responsible for the killing of a teenager at a...