All language is but a poor translation.
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– ‘Poison’ pen mightier than sword for would-be North Korean assassin“I’ve never seen this weapon. If you look at the front, there are three holes, there was a bullet in each hole and here is the trigger. This is currently loaded and dangerous, two bullets remain.”
The third bullet had been fired by investigation authorities to test the weapon. It was accurate and deadly. The would-be assassin who was carrying these devices was arrested on his way to kill his target.
That target was anti-North Korea activist, Park Sang-hak, who has since been given round-the-clock police protection by South Korean authorities. We showed Park the footage of the weapons intended for him. He was shocked.“You’d notice a gun, but these weapons are so innocuous, you can easily kill someone, I’d be dead immediately.”
Park says he will continue to send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the border in balloons, a practice which has angered the regime, sparking threats of military retaliation. He was aware he was at the top of North Korea’s hit list.
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BBC Poll: Israel ranks among states perceived to have most negative influence on world
We’ve written many times about the Apartheid state that is Israel HERE; I wish it wasn’t so…but it is. America is alone in the world in it’s support of Israel and her policies…her illegal occupation and intentional gentrification of the Palestinian people. Israel is regarded in the same likes as North Korea, Iran, and Pakistan; in other words – humans around the world reject the Israeli state but not because it’s a “Jewish state” but because it has not embraced peace with the Palestinian people. And yes – Israel is now wholly to blame for this failure to reach peace.
You can find BBC’s annual poll in it’s entirety HERE - an excerpt:
The most negatively rated countries were, as in previous years, Iran (55% negative), Pakistan (51% negative), and Israel and North Korea (both 50% negative).
For those who held negative views of Israel influence in the world, the foreign policy of the Israeli State is by some distance the main reason explaining their negative rating (45%). The way Israel treats its own people stands out as the second most important reason (27%). Of those holding positive views, Jewish traditions and culture are cited by 29 per cent globally, closely followed by foreign policy (26%).
And Israel is in violation of international law by turning away political refugees because they’re not Jewish. We have written about this before HERE:
But I think Elie Wiesel – famous writer, political activist and survivor of the Holocaust – rebuts the hard line of the Netanyahu administration best in his article “Strangers in a Strange Land”: The Ethical Debate of African Refugees in Israel where he wrote:
As Jews we say “never again,” but a genocide happened again and instead of treating others in an ethical manner, Netanyahu is proposing inhumane policies that are an embarrassment to the State of Israel. It seems almost hypocritical for a country built by refugees to turn away refugees. Rather than jumping to conclusions, the Israeli government must set up a better process to determine the status of those crossing the borders.
Israeli news source YNET writes about the focus Israel is putting into changing this view through PR (but I submit very little in terms of actual deeds) – article HERE:
Just before going through passport control at Ben-Gurion airport, one sees a stand with small brochures packed with some basic, catchy information about Israel. These booklets are meant to equip Israelis traveling abroad with some flattering anecdotes and fundamental facts to help them improve Israel’s image overseas.
However, the people who drafted this booklet know well what our problem is. Our problem is not about a shortage of inventions, or historical sites, or irrigation technologies, or bold rescue operations. The problem is that we are increasingly deteriorating to the pariah status once reserve to South Africa at the end of the apartheid era.
The brochure does not say that we are being accused of “apartheid,” but those who wrote it know that this is the issue.
(via secretaryofswagriculture)
Source: classwarfareexists.com
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An Architecture Guide to Pyongyang - People - Dwell →
AN ARCHITECTURE GUIDE TO PYONGYANG
German architect and writer Philipp Meuser realizes that Pyongyang, North Korea, doesn’t top many travel destination wish lists, but after looking at his Architectural and Cultural Guide: Pyongyang Volume 1 and 2, due out on February 28th from DOM Publishers, I was shocked at how much the book piqued my curiosity. Now, it’s hard to imagine that Uncle Sam will let me, or any other Yank, north of the Korean DMZ anytime soon, but as a glimpse into a forbidden world, the book is fascinating. And as I learned from talking with Meuser, the origins of the book itself are as compelling, as they are strange.
Why an architectural tour of Pyongyang?
It’s very difficult to get to Pyongyang and as far as I know U.S. citizens can’t go at all. I’ve been five times, three of which were for the research for this book. Part of my motivation for this book was to do a guide book to a place that you can’t even visit. I want to show that North Korea is real and that Pyongyang is real, but for an American they’re also totally virtual. It’s like Google Street View. You see things all over the world, but you never really leave your computer.
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