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My recent visit to North Korea

Jay Tharappel
Honi Soit
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:23 UTC
north korea pool
© Jay Tharappel
On the 24th of July I arrived in Pyongyang in a travelling party with five others, including Dr Tim Anderson, lecturer in Political Economy at USyd. At the jet bridge we were greeted by Tammam Suleiman, who used to be the Syrian Ambassador to Australia, but who now serves as the Syrian Ambassador to DPR Korea.

What follows is not an academic account that takes into consideration every aspect of the country, but simply what I saw in a thousand words.

Most foreigners go through Koryo Tours and get shown the absolute best of the country, but because we went through the DPRK Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries they showed us a lot more of daily life, from humble farming households, to department stores, to the educational facilities on offer to Korean children.

Guiding us through these landmarks was our lead guide and translator Mr. Kim Jong-nam, who told us that he didn't "consider [us] as tourists but as a cultural exchange delegation." This probably had something to do with why we never felt like we were being controlled in any way. Our only limitation was that none of us knew Korean.

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Bulb

Human rights groups celebrate Israel's high court ruling that policy of denying Gaza patients access to medical treatment as leverage over Hamas is 'ineffective and illegal'

Yuma Patel
Mondoweiss
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Palestinian man
© Ashram Amra/ APA Photos)
A Palestinian man gestures outside Rafah border crossing demanding to travel for treatment in the southern Gaza Strip on November 20, 2017.
Israel's High Court overturned on Sunday evening the security cabinet's previous decision to prevent five Palestinian women, mostly cancer patients, from Gaza from receiving life-saving treatment in occupied East Jerusalem on the basis that the women had relatives that were active in the Hamas movement.

According to a joint statement from rights groups Gisha, Al Mezan, Adalah, and Physicians for Human Rights Israel - who filed the petition earlier this month on behalf of the women - the court ruled that "the decision to deny Gaza patients access to medical treatment as means of leverage over Hamas was ineffective and illegal."

In its decision, the court also confirmed that the patients themselves "did not pose any threat to Israel's security," the statement said, adding that the women's lawyers argued that denying them passage through Israel to reach the hospitals in East Jerusalem "was illegal and effectively constituted a punitive death sentence for reasons entirely out of their control."
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Health

Pennsylvania Dept of Correction puts all prisons on lockdown after reports of staff sickened by unknown substance


RT
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 19:57 UTC
Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility
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Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has puts its facilities on lockdown after reports multiple staff members were sickened by unknown substances . This comes after a similar emergency in an Ohio prison.

"The safety and security of our employees is my number one concern,"John Wetzel, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Secretary, said as he announced the lockdown.

"Our state prisons, especially, those in the western part of the state, have experienced recent incidents in which employees have been sickened and we need to get to the bottom of this issue now."

Effective immediately, all of the state's 24 prisons are locked down, all visits have been suspended, mailrooms indefinitely closed to non-legal mail, and staff have been instructed to don protective clothing and equipment, the department said on Wednesday.

Comment: See also: Two dozen people at Ohio prison treated for suspected opiate poisoning

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Red Pill

Londonistan: Vesti special report on 'success' of UK's multicultural experiment

Michael Quinn
Russia Insider
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:15 UTC
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This is an excellent 1 hour investigation by the top Russian TV News Channel of London neighborhoods, including Luton, which have become majority Islamic immigrant areas. Tommy Robinson is featured for much of the film as he takes the team around for an 'insiders' tour of these hellholes.

It is a real eye-opener, and damning indictment of the UK, globalist elite's failed policies of multiculturalism.

In addition to Robinson, the film interviews other anti-immigration activists, and a handful of Muslims, who present the other side of the argument.

Very high quality work. You won't find this on the BBC.

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Ambulance

Two dozen people at Ohio prison treated for suspected opiate poisoning


RT
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:34 UTC
ross correctional institute opiate overdose

Staff members became ill on Wednesday after being exposed to a substance that was possibly the powerful opioid Fentanyl, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Two dozen people at the Ross Correctional Institution in Ohio, including five nurses, 15 correctional officers and an inmate, required medical attention after experiencing overdose symptoms due to exposure to an unknown substance.

The Ohio Highway Patrol (OHP) was notified that people were sick and passing out at the prison at around 9 am, with officers and medics heading to the facility, Chillicothe Gazette reported.

Those affected were given a special medication, used to quickly reverse opioid overdoses, called 'naloxone.'

At least 19 overdose victims were taken to the Adena Regional Medical Center. The hospital's CEO, Jeff Graham, told reporters that "the majority will be treated and released."
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Arrow Up

Puerto Rico ups the death toll of Hurricane Maria to 2,975 from an initial 64


RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 20:00 UTC
Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria
© Carlos Barria/Reuters
Jayuya, Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria
Almost 3,000 people died in the wake of Hurricane Maria, which battered Puerto Rico last September, the US territory announced after a new study.

Governor Ricardo Rosselló made the official announcement on Tuesday, following the publication of an independent study estimating the casualties at 2,975.

Commissioned by Governor Rosselló and carried out by the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, the study found that the death toll was considerably higher than original reports.

In estimating the true death toll of Hurricane Maria, researchers looked at historical data to estimate how many people would have died had the storm not hit the island. That figure was then compared to the number of deaths reported from September 2017, when the hurricane hit, to February 2018, when the island still struggled with blackouts and a shortages of essential supplies on the road to recovery.

The study found that all age and income groups were affected by the sharp rise in mortality, but that the risk of death was markedly higher among the island's poor. Among low-income Puerto Ricans, the risk of death was 45 percent higher.
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Heart - Black

Senior Facebook engineer: Company deserves criticism, suffers from liberal mob-rule


RT
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:57 UTC
facebook
© Eric Gaillard / Reuters
A Facebook employee has warned that the company's liberal culture is becoming increasingly intolerant, going so far as to say that Donald Trump and other critics are right to accuse the social media giant of political bias.

Brian Amerige, a senior Facebook engineer, vented his frustration over the company's liberal conformity in a message posted on an internal message board. His post, titled "We Have a Problem With Political Diversity," sparked a company-wide debate and was later leaked to the New York Times.

"We are a political monoculture that's intolerant of different views," Amerige wrote in the post.

"We claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack - often in mobs - anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology."

He said that employees "tear down posters welcoming Trump supporters" and are quick to call for the firing of anyone believed to be a bigot, lamenting that over-zealous political correctness was damaging the company's "internal culture" and "viability."
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Boat

Fire breaks out on Greek ferry with over 1,000 passengers prompting massive evacuation, no injuries reported


RT
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:05 UTC
The Eleftherios Venizelos ferry fire

Hundreds of passengers were safely evacuated early Wednesday from the Greek ferry after a fire broke out in the car deck.
Over a thousand people on a Greek ferry lived through a sea-traveler's worst nightmare - being on board a smoke-filled vessel at sea. They had to flee the cabins and remain on deck as the smoke-covered ferry tried to reach land.

The Greek vessel Eleftherios Venizelos belonging to ANEK Lines was heading to Chania, Crete in the early hours of Wednesday, when it notified the Greek coast guard that a car deck, which had more than 200 vehicles, had caught fire. The distressed ship, which was carrying 875 passengers and 141 crew members, was safely escorted to the mainland port. A Navy frigate, nine boats, and other vessels assisted the rescue operation, according to the coast guard.
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Russian authorities arrest two prison guards involved in torture-video case


RFE/RL
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:33 UTC
yaroslavl prison

A screen grab from a video released by Novaya Gazeta showing several Russian prison guards forcing inmates to run a gauntlet.
Two Russian prison guards have been detained in an alleged torture case at a notorious penal colony in the city of Yaroslavl.

The Investigative Committee said in its statement on August 29 that Sardor Ziyabov and Dmitry Nikitinko were detained on suspicion of involvement in the beating of inmates.

The statement also said that investigators were trying to identify other possible suspects in the case.

The announcement comes six days after videos published online by Novaya Gazeta newspaper revealed fresh evidence of inmates being tortured and abused by guards at Corrective Colony No. 1 to the northeast of Moscow.

One of the videos shows several guards forcing inmates to run a gauntlet. The guards are also seen kicking inmates and beating them with their fists and rubber batons.

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Wolf

Syrian asylum seeker on trial for attempted murder of German woman claims avenging insults by stabbing people 'acceptable in my culture'

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:19 UTC
german police
© INA FASSBENDER/AFP/Getty Images
A 17-year-old Syrian asylum seeker has admitted to stabbing a 24-year-old German woman, claiming that stabbing and potentially killing someone who insulted him is acceptable in his culture.

Syrian asylum seeker Abdullah A. is currently on trial in Hanover for stabbing 24-year-old Vivien K. at the end of March after the young German woman got involved in a fight between the Syrian, her cousin, and brother at a local supermarket, Bild reports.

The four-inch-long blade used by Abdullah A. caused severe injuries to Ms K. including breaking her ribs and injuring several vital organs including her liver, stomach, kidney, and intestine.

After being rushed to hospital after the attack, the victim was put into an induced coma and had her spleen and parts of her pancreas removed. She now has a 16-inch-long scar from her breastbone to her abdomen.

Vivien K. appeared in court earlier this week to confront the asylum seeker who came close to killing her.

Comment: Clearly a psychopath or character-disturbed individual attempting to beguile his German hosts: stabbing someone because they offended you is universally unacceptable. Yes, including in Syria.

We hope all the 'cultural relativists' are happy now: they're using your arguments to justify criminal behavior.

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