A video featuring young cancer patients, their nurses, doctors and parents lip-synching to Kelly Clarkson’s hit “Stronger” has gone viral! The awesomely uplifting video was filmed via Seattle Children’s Hospital art program, the idea of which came from 22 year old Chris Rumble, a leukemia patient who wanted to share something with his hockey team in his hometown of Wenatchee, Washington. “I’m everyone’s big brother and I have a lot of friends here at Seattle Children’s,” Rumble said on the Seattle hospital’s blog. According to Dr. Douglas Hawkins, the patients and staff at Seattle...

A drunken British tourist was in the midst of an attempted rape on a Chinese woman when he got the sh*t beaten out of him in the streets of Beijing on Tuesday night. The brutal incident that was captured on film by one of the men who put a stop to the attack has gone viral throughout much of Britain and China. The man is currently being held by Chinese authorities. GRAPHIC VIDEO:

The Humane Society Of The U.S. just released some incredibly horrifying footage of one of Tyson Foods’ pork suppliers in Wyoming. The undercover investigation revealed workers “kicking piglets like soccer balls, swinging sick piglets in circles, and ruthlessly beating mother pigs.” Along with the individual acts of cruelty and abuse, the investigation also highlights the horrific suffering endured from the use of “gestation crates” where the animals will remain in the same position for nearly their entire lives. Please check out the footage below and go to the following link to tell Tyson Foods to end the...

In effort to dispel any rumors that Palestinians have rights under Israeli occupation, the Israeli Supreme Court turned down an appeal by two Palestinian hunger strikers to free them from detention without trial. Thaer Halahla and Bilal Diab are two of at least 1,550 Palestinian detainees currently on hunger strike after being held without charge under Israel’s so-called “administrative detention.” The strikes have become somewhat of a p.r. nightmare for Israel, drawing attention to its ongoing abuses and sparking international outrage from human rights groups. The Israeli group Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) condemned...

What do real Republican women want from their government? They dont want government in their banks. They dont want government in their classrooms. They want government in their vaginas! Well, at least according to this hilarious Funny Or Die PSA from Kate Beckinsale. Watch it now: Image screen-grab from Funny Or Die

Family, friends, fans and activists are mourning the loss of Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch. Yauch passed away today after a several year battle with cancer. He is remembered both as a hip hop pioneer and as a preeminent activist for the Tibetan liberation movement. Youch, aka “MCA”, was propelled to hip hop stardom in 1984 with the release of the Beastie Boys hit record, License To Ill. The Beastie Boys went on to sell over 22 million albums in the U.S. and over 40 million worldwide in a career that spanned three decades. In 1994, Youch established the Milarepa Fund to help raise awareness and generate funds for the...

An EPA report linking fracking to groundwater contamination in Wyoming was delayed after Governor Matt Mead persuaded EPA director Lisa Jackson to hold back the report, giving him time to coordinate an all out PR offensive for his oil and gas industry buddies. Well that’s really fracked up, Matt! According to an AP investigation, the data was held up for Mead by the EPA for a month before it was finally released this passed December, sending shockwaves through the oil and gas industry that’s already under fire from environmentalists. “When I talked to Lisa Jackson they were going to release the findings regardless. That...

Blind activist Chen Guangcheng told The AP that a U.S. official notified him of China’s intention to “beat his wife to death” if he didn’t pack his bags and get out of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, ASAP! While U.S. officials are denying knowledge of the threat, it was apparently serious enough that Chen split the embassy for a local Beijing hospital where he’s currently receiving medical care and was reunited with his family. Chen became quite a PR nightmare for China after exposing the government’s forced, late term abortion program. In recent days he skipped out on Chinese house arrest and caused quite...

The Israeli military has officially closed its investigation into the killing of 21 members of a Palestinian family, ruling out any chance of criminal prosecution for the soldiers involved in the incident. The case goes back to Israel’s 2009 Gaza war-crimes-extravaganza which left over 1,400 Palestinians dead, roughly half of which were civilians. In this particular incident, 100 members of the extended al Samouni family were ordered into a house by Israeli soldiers… who subsequently bombed the shit out of it, killing men, women, and children. Surprise! What’s incredibly unsurprising however is that Israeli investigators...

Federal officials are throwing out their first bone to blood thirsty environmentalists (like you and I) who seek justice for BP’s 2010 oil spill. Kurt Mix, a 50 year old BP engineer is being charged with obstruction of justice for deleting hundreds of text messages sent to his superiors describing the shit tons of oil leaking out of BP’s Horizon well. According to the Huffington Post, the criminal charges against Mix may “validate concerns raised by scientists, elected officials and environmental groups that BP officials deliberately misled the government and the public about how much oil was leaking from the ruptured...

Saudi Arabia – A Sri Lankan woman is facing decapitation by sword following accusations of witchcraft from the father of a 13 year old girl. The woman came into brief contact with the girl at a local shopping mall and allegedly cast a spell on her. But how does the dad know this? According to reports in the daily Okaz, the man told authorities that his daughter “suddenly started acting in an abnormal way” which apparently was enough to determine that the Sri Lankan was in fact a witch, and for the Jeddah police to arrest her. The penalty of death by decapitation is of course derived from the principles of Wahhabism,...

U.S. soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division had quite the Kodak moment after orders led them to investigate and document the remains of three Afghan suicide bombers. Upon completing their mission, the paratroopers made the prudent decision to pose with body parts (heads, legs etc) and take pictures as if they were at a celebrity meet and greet. The LA Times broke the story earlier today, noting that they’d received the photos from a soldier who wanted to “draw attention to the safety risk of a breakdown in leadership and discipline” [within the U.S. Military]. The U.S. Army launched an immediate, “criminal...

The water supply of an all-girls high school in northern Afghanistan was poisoned in what educators believe to be a heinous attack aimed at deterring female education. Approximately 150 schoolgirls were affected by the poison, many experiencing symptoms including severe vomiting and headaches. Several of the girls remain in critical condition at a local hospital in the Takhar province. According to the education department spokesman, Jan Mohammad Nabizada, “We are 100 percent sure that the water they drunk inside their classes was poisoned. This is either the work of those who are against girls’ education or irresponsible armed...

Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, Sweden’s Minister of Culture, was the subject of outrage after photos of her cutting into a cake depicting the genital mutilation of a stereotyped African woman circulated around the internet. Ummm Ya. Bad Idea. The cake was apparently an art installation for a tax payer funded event in celebration of World Art Day. According to The Local, the installation “was reportedly meant to highlight the issue of female circumcision,” and that it did! The most atrocious part of the exhibit, and yes, it does get worse, was the combination of screams coming from the head of the cake (a live performance...

Civil Rights – Dr. Martin Luther King said, “Where there is an injustice somewhere, there is an injustice everywhere.” While Americans celebrate today in honor of a historic civil rights leader, there is a Palestinian man in the “little town of Bethlehem” who has dedicated his life to spreading the teachings of Dr. King from far beyond America’s boarders. To his family, Sami Awad is a devoted husband, loving father, and a thoughtful and caring provider. But what his three young daughters may not be able to understand quite yet, is that their dad is a growing symbol of the modern-day Palestinian civil...

Human Rights – The U.S. Marine Corps is launching a full scale investigation into a video that appears to show Marines urinating on corpses of dead Taliban. The graphic video that’s now lighting up the web, was posted by an anonymous source sometime Wednesday morning, along with the caption “scout sniper team 4 with 3rd battalion 2nd marines out of camp lejeune peeing on dead talibans.” Several voices can be heard in the incredibly disturbing video, including that of an unidentified Marine who jokingly remarks “Golden, like a shower.” A Media Officer for the USMC told TMZ, “While we have not yet...

Civil Rights – President Barack Obama kicked off the new year with the signing of one of the single most disturbing bills ever to reach the Oval Office: The National Defense Authorization Act. The constitutional abomination came into effect on Saturday evening (while most Americans were busy celebrating the end of 2011) and gives the President the absolute power to detain American citizens indefinitely; no trial, no jury, straight to Guantanamo you go! Disguised as a defense bill to help the government fight the War On Terror, the NDAA is perhaps the most serious attack on the Constitution, democracy, and civil liberties that America...

Environmental Issues – Federal prosecutors are busy prepping the first round of criminal charges against oil giant BP for its central role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. According to The Wall Street Journal, the charges will be revealed early next year, and focus on several BP engineers who may have provided false information to federal regulators regarding the risks of drilling (while they were already drilling, of course). Sources familiar with the issue told NPR that “no final decisions have been made about the charges” and added that “even if prosecutors go ahead with the charges, attorneys for the engineers...

Over the past decade, unmanned fighter drones have become a staple of the U.S. Air Force and a proud, patriotic symbol of our dedication to the advancement of humanitarian technologies. After all, what could be more “humanitarian” than using a billion dollar RC robot-plane to blow up indigenous tribesmen in the middle of a third world desert? Thank you, Lockheed Martin! As cool as these stealthy little armored death machines may sound to your average Tea Partier, there is but one tiny issue of security that scares the absolute shit out of me, and it’s not just because I’ve watched too many Schwarzenegger...