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Most recently, the BBC banned all mention of the hunger strike initiated to bring the depraved and sickening actions of the Israeli government to the attention of the world's public.

March:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21768293
Some prisoners have also been on hunger strike in protest at their treatment.

Feb:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21615320
Two Palestinians held in Israeli jail end hunger strike

Feb
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21564604
Palestinian prisoners stage fast over inmate death

Most recently, the BBC banned all mention of the hunger strike initiated to bring the depraved and sickening actions of the Israeli government to the attention of the world's public.

March:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21768293
Some prisoners have also been on hunger strike in protest at their treatment.

Feb:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21615320
Two Palestinians held in Israeli jail end hunger strike

Feb
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21564604
Palestinian prisoners stage fast over inmate death

Most recently, the BBC banned all mention of the hunger strike initiated to bring the depraved and sickening actions of the Israeli government to the attention of the world's public.

March:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21768293
Some prisoners have also been on hunger strike in protest at their treatment.

Feb:
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21615320
Two Palestinians held in Israeli jail end hunger strike

Feb
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21564604
Palestinian prisoners stage fast over inmate death

I don't think "so what?" quite covers the possibility of treason by State Department employees.

Well, "so what?" seems to covers the reality of treason in the Oval Office, so I don't see why the State Department should be held to tighter standards.

Panorama has spoken to several intelligence officials as well as the US' main source, Curveball, who later admitted making up the mobile laboratory claims.

You will need a UK IP address to watch this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rh8hd/Panorama_The_Spies_Who_Fooled_the_World/

rich ... have a large list of ways to avoid paying taxes.

Like 401K, IRAs and retirement saver’s credit, un-taxed healthcare income, home mortgage and student loan interest deductions, child tax credits, deductible childcare, deductible medical expenses...

50% of all US income earners pay not one thin dime to the US treasury. They put in for FICA for their personal bennies and that's it.

When the creditors finally come for the trillions in un-taxed savings people have been socking away for decades I'll have no more sympathy for them then you have for the "rich."

Twenty years ago, Charles Wheeler and David Taylor, his Washington based producer, were told that Richard Nixon had secretly sabotaged the Vietnamese peace talks in the autumn of 1968, to continue the war and ultimately strengthen his chances of claiming the presidency. It was an act of political espionage that cost thousands of American lives. Back in 1994, Wheeler and Taylor conducted their own investigation, tracking down those involved to piece the story together. Then they waited for the classified material to be released to confirm one of the greatest acts of political subterfuge in American history. Charles Wheeler died in 2008, before the release of key White House tapes relating to the affair. Now, using these newly released recordings, as well as many of the interviews they recorded at the time, David Taylor pieces together this intriguing story.

Obama should get another Nobel Peace Prize for this...he's clipping the wings of the military-industrial complex.

Absolutely any notion that this **adds** secrecy is insane. This is what Kennedy tried to do and it cost him his life.

This is taking our country back and adding accountability to something that previously had none (especially under Bush, who started using Hellfire missiles on drones, btw).

And WTF about is this above ^^ about Nixon? Obama *stopped* two wars...Nixon intervened at the end of LBJ's term to keep a peace agreement (that would've ended Vientnam) from happening before the election: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21768668

Read up chumps...

What a nonsense.

1. Saying the war had anything to do with Saddam style of governing Iraq is a total lie, fabricated ex post when the original reason itself turned out to be spectacular lie. Go read the final ultimatum Bush gave to Saddam. It goes on and on about how Saddam has WMD's, which he is going to hand to al-Quida terrorists and how they will together annihilate the world any time soon. That's how it was sold to US and world public. The only suggestion Saddam may not be so great ruler of his people is in short part specifically aimed at Iraqis.

2. With the right lawyer you can get assurance that torture isn't torture or that it's OK to indefinitely lock up people in cages without trial or charges, or even people you know are innocent. But lawyering sophistry aside, everyone knew that without new and explicit consent the war was illegal. That's why they tried so hard to ram the resolution thorough UN and the Security Council.

3. I guess you can wage philosophical debate about if you are telling lie when you truly believe in what you are saying. But in practice it doesn't matter. The fact is Bush administration was fabricating evidence that suited their case and hiding and dismissing everything that contradicted it. Like with the Nigerian tubes story or when Powell in UN played intercepted conversation and then outright lied about what was said in it.

BBC article says it's malware, not DDOS as originally speculated.

Even so, there was chaos, anarchy, dogs and cats living together, people having to pay cash at Starbucks...

Not to mention the large amounts of pollution from the production of them. Oil's far from clean, but it's not as bad.

Citation please? I've mostly seen studies like this.

Even this article only says it's worse if the power is 100% coal, which most areas aren't.

'Hydrogen Infrastructure' is a mistake in my opinion. Hydrogen is hard to store in the densities needed, you need expensive fuel cells to burn it efficiently, and it's not an energy source. It's an energy storage system - you have to spend energy to turn something into hydrogen - the most economical is natural gas, which is actually more efficient to use as a fuel directly, or from electrolysis, which is currently much less efficient than charging a battery.

I didn't say anything about corruption. There's no question that Afghanistan is horribly corrupt. But corruption is not the worst thing that can happen to a person. Believe me, my parents would have a lot more money if they'd fled corruption-free-in-1980 Detroit to corrupt-as-fucking-hell Chicago.

The World Factbook's literacy numbers are from the Taliban-era. Now millions of Afghan kids go to school, including most of the girls. It's not a good sign that nobody seems to have newer numbers, but it's also clear the situation is improving dramatically.

In '09 the BBC reported life expectancy of 44:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8339593.stm
So life expectancy in Afghanistan is improving at a rate more then 1 year a year.

I don't like Karzai's corruption. But the simple fact is he's improving his country at a speed which boggles the mind, and everyone else in his region is a) stagnating or b) China.

Most of the cameras in the UK are privately owned, plus everyone can request a copy of the footage of them from whomever owns the camera in question. All this "oh no the cameras!!!" stuff is pretty annoying.

There are a load of cameras going up the M1 that you can view online. Handy to see whether it might be worth it to take an alternate route...

America stood for individual freedom at its founding. It stood even more strongly for it once it got rid of slavery.

Who says it got rid of slavery?

In the UK you can demand that a company gives you all the data that it has on you, they must do so within 40 days. There is a statutory maximum charge of £10, it will probably cost them a lot more than that. The amount that they would have to supply would grow every year. It might be reasonable to ask once a year; this might encourage them to purge their data and only keep recent stuff ... but this would only have an effect if enough people did this.

There was an EU idea of the right to be forgotten, I don't know where that went.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93364&page=1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18144319
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Differences_among_countries_and_regions

Norway police admit slow response to Breivik massacre

Doesn't say anything about their rules regarding gun use slowing them down, which isn't surprising since that doesn't seem terribly plausible. They fucked up plenty, but not for that reason.

Better look for another example if you intend to hold the same position in the future. Or keep on with this one and hope no-one bothers to Google it again. That works for... well, most people, I suppose.

From what I've heard in the industry, it is. This BBC article is a little dated but is a good outline of some of the key points. Popular Mechanics did a good piece on the issue a few years back, if you're up for a longer read.

This has been done before.

Prior Art.

...no, no -- that's not how it's going to be "picked up".

Let's take a look:

NBC News: Particle confirmed as Higgs boson

Associated Press: Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

Reuters: Strong signs Higgs boson has been found: CERN

Wall Street Journal: New Data Boosts Case for Higgs Boson Find

FOX News: Physicists say they have found long-sought Higgs boson

Washington Post: A closer look at the Higgs boson particle that helps explain what gives matter size and shape

Chicago Tribune: Strong signs Higgs boson has been found: CERN

Sky News: Higgs Boson: Experts Sure Of 'God Particle'

New York Daily News: Physicists say they have discovered crucial subatomic particle known as Higgs boson

Boston Globe: Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

BBC (UK): LHC cements Higgs boson identification

BusinessWeek: Case for Higgs Boson Strengthened by New CERN Analysis

The Daily Mail (UK): Scientists say they HAVE found the 'God particle' - but admit they still aren't sure what type of Higgs boson it is

The Independent (UK): Have they found the Higgs boson at last? Cern physicists say they're confident of 'God particle' breakthrough

Telegraph (UK): Higgs boson: scientists confident they have discovered the 'God particle'

News Limited (AU): Higgs boson, the God particle, discovered by CERN

US News and World Report: Physicists Observe Higgs Boson, the Elusive 'God Particle'

None of these articles make any links to "God" other than a few -- mostly UK, not US -- sources referring to it as the so-called "God particle", but even those explain exactly what this particle is theorized to be, not anything supernatural, "proving God exists", or having anything whatever to do with God.

I would suggest that google is a better place to find out this stuff. here you are just going to get a list of gramatical errors and some arguments about Religion, and probably some OS wars... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21785205 The BBCis a good place to start, if you would like your questions answered :D

Diesel causes cancer. Diesel particles could raise heart attack risks. And I'm sure there are tons of other stuff Diesel is good for, by all means let's have some more.

Am I wrong in thinking the UK has a plutonium stockpile it really doesn't know what to do with? Simply not juicy enough?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21505271

Here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11297461 for the UK.

Something like 12% of people who claim to be religious go to church (or mosque, temple etc) at least once a week. It's a bit higher for Catholics, about 17%.

(The statistic at the top, "According to the 2001 census, there were 41 million Christians in Great Britain, making up almost three quarters of the population (72%)", was often argued to be quite inaccurate. IIRC, the census question was pretty loaded -- I think there were tick-boxes for religions, but you had to write in "no religion".)

That a 2001 census! - 12 years ago! - Things have changed a lot since then. The immigration from Muslim countries have been so intense, and the birthrate of Muslims been so high, that Christians now are just above 50% and still dropping. All the lost percentages have been lost to the Muslim groups.

Here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11297461 for the UK.

Something like 12% of people who claim to be religious go to church (or mosque, temple etc) at least once a week. It's a bit higher for Catholics, about 17%.

(The statistic at the top, "According to the 2001 census, there were 41 million Christians in Great Britain, making up almost three quarters of the population (72%)", was often argued to be quite inaccurate. IIRC, the census question was pretty loaded -- I think there were tick-boxes for religions, but you had to write in "no religion".)

Considering the bleeding wound which is life in Iraq today you were trying for sarcasm, weren't you?

Wow, sucks to be them.

Buoyed by an increase in oil production and declining violence, Iraq's economy is showing signs of life.

Iraq has boosted oil production to 3 million barrels a day with the help of international oil companies. That's up from the 2.5 million barrels before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. The government expects to expand capability to 10 million barrels a day in six years, which would put it at the top of world oil producers.

Baghdad streets are jammed with late-model cars, and restaurants and cafes are open well into the night. People have more disposable income and can buy an infinite array of consumer goods. "There is a sense money is percolating," says Kevin Carey, a senior economist at the World Bank.

The International Monetary Fund forecasts Iraq's economy will grow 11.1% this year to about $144 billion . . .

Last year, Iraq attracted $55.67 billion in foreign investment and other commercial activity, a 40% increase from the previous year, according to Dunia Frontier Consultants. . . .

Last year, China's investment and other business activity in Iraq was valued at more than $3 billion, according to Dunia. South Korea ranked No. 1, with about $12 billion in Iraq, according to the report. A South Korean real estate developer is in negotiations on a deal potentially worth $35 billion to build 500,000 housing units and related infrastructure, according to Dunia.

. . . consumers are ready to spend. Stores are jammed with microwaves, computers, air conditioners and wide-screen televisions.

"In one day, we might sell 75 cars in this showroom," says Ali Alrobaiy, a marketing official for a large car dealer in Baghdad. "It's a huge market.". . . ---- Iraq's economy shows signs of growth

How?! How will they get by without Saddam to destroy villages with chemical weapons, steal the oil money to buy arms and build yet another palace? Who will replace the genius of his sons?

Dear Mr Blair. . .

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18927928 ...yawn...

There was a documentary (Horizon: Playing God) about it last year that shows the silk being made, but it doesn't explain how it works except that the first step is to separate the spider silk protein from the milk.

No, my source is the bbc
Forgot to mention...

News article with details

The bit used in a lot of comedy sketches around the time: "Mr Clarkson punched one of the suspects to the ground before using his bodyweight to restrain him until he was handcuffed."

Hadrian's Wall was built to keep the English out, for their safety.

Different teams will have different merging policies, and given how one off the browser box is/was, I suspect it may not have been done by a main Windows developer.

I don't think it was supposed to be much of a "one off":

Microsoft initially argued that the move benefited users, but after the European Commission issued a preliminary report suggesting the firm had abused its position, the company agreed to offer a choice of browser until at least 2014 to avoid risking a fine.

However, this option was missing from its Windows 7 Service Pack 1 released in 2011 and it continued to be absent for 14 months.

During that time, Microsoft reported it was still complying with the agreement.

BBC (bolding by me)

Honest question... everyone keeps saying that Top Gear is a comedy/entertainment show, so why does it show up as a 'factual' show in many places? On BBC's site it says:

BBC Two - Top Gear

www.bbc.co.uk Factual Cars & Motors

Motoring magazine, including road tests, news and features.

It also won four awards in the "Most Popular Factual Programme" category of the National Television Awards (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011). Wouldn't it being a comedy/entertainment show disqualify it?

It also says on their site: '“Top Gear” takes extraordinary and ordinary cars to the limit and beyond to find out if they’re half as good as manufacturers claim.'... isn't this misleading if they don't actually test a manufacturer's claims? Lots of mention of testing cars, which now looks more like 'testing'. I'm confused.

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Honest question... everyone keeps saying that Top Gear is a comedy/entertainment show, so why does it show up as a 'factual' show in many places? On BBC's site it says:

BBC Two - Top Gear

www.bbc.co.uk Factual Cars & Motors

Motoring magazine, including road tests, news and features.

It also won four awards in the "Most Popular Factual Programme" category of the National Television Awards (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011). Wouldn't it being a comedy/entertainment show disqualify it?

It also says on their site: '“Top Gear” takes extraordinary and ordinary cars to the limit and beyond to find out if they’re half as good as manufacturers claim.'... isn't this misleading if they don't actually test a manufacturer's claims? Lots of mention of testing cars, which now looks more like 'testing'. I'm confused.

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Honest question... everyone keeps saying that Top Gear is a comedy/entertainment show, so why does it show up as a 'factual' show in many places? On BBC's site it says:

BBC Two - Top Gear

www.bbc.co.uk Factual Cars & Motors

Motoring magazine, including road tests, news and features.

It also won four awards in the "Most Popular Factual Programme" category of the National Television Awards (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011). Wouldn't it being a comedy/entertainment show disqualify it?

It also says on their site: '“Top Gear” takes extraordinary and ordinary cars to the limit and beyond to find out if they’re half as good as manufacturers claim.'... isn't this misleading if they don't actually test a manufacturer's claims? Lots of mention of testing cars, which now looks more like 'testing'. I'm confused.

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I thought the robots were the enemy in that reference?!? The last thing I want to hear about are turtlebots with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.

Hell, the Big Dog is scary enough for me.

Somebody did make Half-Life 2 FOSS , he almost get sent to the Federal (nigger filled) Gulag in the USSA, the German authorities stopped that earlier.

I would argue that it isn't HER child if you emphasised her in order to establish ownership.

I am approaching this from a European perspective, which tends to be that the child does not belong to the parents. Instead the child belongs to itself, and the parents are merely the guardians. From this perspective, the parents autonomy over their children is limited, and life-threatening irrationality should lead to you being relieved of your duties as guardian.

The most obvious example is the case from England of the mother who refused cancer treatment for her child, and ran away with him. Not only was did the English courts decide the treatment had to go ahead despite the mother's wishes, but her documented willingness to run away with the child, meant the child was ordered into foster care.

WW I was based on the assassination of a single individual.

Not to mention the war for Jenkins's ear, when England went to war because a Spanish captain was accused of cutting off the ear of an English captain something like a decade earlier...

Or the Napoleonic wars, which destroyed several countries in the name of bringing freedom to people living under dictatorships...

Or al-Qaeda's war in Mali, which Europe financed (second source)...

Or the ongoing war against the Jews, which Europe is funding (as is the US)....

Europeans might say that it's not really war if they are paying someone else to fight a war in another country outside of Europe, but that does not explain Europe's support for the war against the Serbs in Yugoslavia, in which NATO helpfully bombed the forces of secular Yugoslavia -- including those of the liberal Muslim co-governor of Bosnia -- on behalf of an alliance of Croatia's Nazi party and a Muslim force organized by Osama bin Laden... and then they did it again in Kosovo, which had been majority-Serb since medieval times and is now down to about 10% Serb due to the war.

Europe is far from innocent, including modern Europe.

Texas.

For the frying pan into the fire: sinkholes too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21627614/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17890754 Australian billionaire Clive Palmer to build Titanic II 30 April 2012

Little slow on the news /.

Criticism of different passenger service levels is economically insane! Some people want better service during their long and turbulent voyage, and some people want a cheaper ticket. Force everyone into the same service level in the middle, and some people will be disappointed with the quality of the voyage, and some will not be able to afford to go. This regulation would result in there being separate ships: one better quality, one better value, etc. Cost-efficiency will be lost by having several small ships where one would do, which means everyone is worse off. And when you take away people's ability to get what they want for their money, like crossing the ocean in ideal comfort, the incentive to contribute to the economy to make money is greatly diminished, resulting in a tremendous loss for the economy as a whole.

Oh, and many commie Hollywood myths are greatly exaggerated, or just completely made up...

Ships have been sinking since the dawn of history. In spite of the specific famous disasters like Titanic, crossing the Atlantic has become MUCH safer as the result of the Industrial Revolution, which has been made possible by (relatively) free market capitalism. Capitalism is what has created the opportunities in America that those immigrants were seeking, without which they'd have no choice but stay in the inferior conditions they were trying to leave behind. Millions of people have made it across the ocean on ships similar to the Titanic (though smaller); only a few thousand had perished. Why do some people always want to focus on the negative, and make baseless bashing of capitalism the main narrative of every story they tell?!

--libman

I don't think there's any parcticular need for a special package if you already have fast broadband. Most of the decent free TV is on iPlayer, which covers all the BBC channels and now has content from the major free to view commercial rivals:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

You might also want to check out the ITV Player, 4od and Demand 5 sites (I rarely bother).

You can grab BBC (only) programmes from iPlayer with get_iplayer, which generates standard mp4 files you can play anywhere (finally a use for that Apple TV!):

http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html

Some US TV sites can be accessed by methods like this (or get a VPN):

http://xtremisreaction.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/how-to-watch-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-in-the-uk/

http://xtremisreaction.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/how-to-watch-hulu-and-us-television-in-the-uk/

The UK already figured out that wind power claims are exaggerated.

The article you quote there says:

Statements made by the wind industry and government agencies commonly assert that wind turbines will generate on average 30% of their rated capacity over a year, it said.

But the research found wind generation was below 20% of capacity more than half the time and below 10% of capacity over one third of the time.

This seems like an exercise in how to lie with statistics. If you're below 20% half the time, you're obviously not below 20% the other half of the time, which makes your average necessarily higher than 20%. Of course, it does say "more than half the time", but how much more? Also, it doesn't actually directly contradict the 30% average figure, which you would think it would if it had actual findings that contradicted that figure. About the best this study seems to be able to do is point out that wind power doesn't maintain a perfectly steady rate. Duh! This is why you don't rely on it as your only source of power, why you maintain a power grid that lets you pipe in power from far away when you can't produce all you need locally, and why we need to keep working on storage technologies. Everyone already knows all of this.

As for your other two links, they don't really seem to be related to the issue of wind power or renewable energy at all. Those articles are about social problems that are killing people. The source of the energy used for heating seems to be irrelevant.

One of the news bits omitted from TFAs but included in the BBC article is this:
The firm plans to shut a third of its stores by the end of the year.

and

Barnes & Noble was originally a New York bookstore, which Mr Riggio bought out the branding rights to in the 1970s, before building out a successful US-wide chain.

Keeping a giant money losing company going would seem to be hopeless. I would expect that Riggio would reduce B&N's presence to only a few stores that he is sure can survive. Essentially save the company he started by sacrificing the behemoth that it has become.

The UK already figured out that wind power claims are exaggerated. By a lot. "Fuel poverty" is now an 'issue' that appears regularly in the UK press. It's killing people.

Don't believe any of it; they're all oil company shills. Yay saving the planet.

The UK already figured out that wind power claims are exaggerated. By a lot. "Fuel poverty" is now an 'issue' that appears regularly in the UK press. It's killing people.

Don't believe any of it; they're all oil company shills. Yay saving the planet.

Ignoring the politics a little bit, there was a really good example of how this CAN work recently with the B4RN project.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21442348

A consortium of local farmers came together and allowed the use of their farmland and spare time to place fibre and hook up the local residents with gigabit internet speeds. By coming together as a consortium and being cooperative (rather than greedy) they have combined both entrepreneurial vigour with a sense of social awareness. I don't see why this model couldn't work in France too...

3. When I went to the new Yahoo page, I immediately thought, "Oh, shit, how'd I wind up on Facebook?"

Because Yahoo and Facebook had patent-fight sex and are now friends with benefits.* Hope you like your email, news, and flickr with extra Like buttons.

*When you say things like "We are excited to develop a deeper partnership with Facebook", it's hard for me to call you anything less.

When was the last time N Korea arrested visitors saying they were CIA spies? On the contrary, N Korea is very welcoming to foreigners, including Americans.

Charges as CIA spies? How bourgeois. It is much simpler and a better reflection of North Korean socialist morality to just hold a trial.

2 U.S. reporters get 12 years in N. Korea - June 08, 2009

Two American television journalists today were convicted of a "grave crime" against North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor, a move that increased mounting tensions between the U.S. and the reclusive Asian state.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for San Francisco-based Current TV, were sentenced by the top Central Court in Pyongyang in a two-day trial that started Friday as U.S. officials demanded the release of the two women.

The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported that the court "sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor" but gave no further details.

Because the pair were tried by the nation's highest court, there can be no appeal.

Of course the North Koreans are not especially shy about grabbing Americans.

North Korea says it has arrested American citizen - Sun December 23, 2012
North Korea arrests American; continues shelling near disputed border - January 28, 2010
North Korea arrests US man - December 29, 2009

And foreigners? The North Korean government loves foreigners. . . in a sort of "collect them and trade them!" kind of way.

Japanese kidnapped by North Koreans return home in tears
Kidnapped by North Korea
Armed North Koreans kidnap Chinese sailors
Jenkins Photo Proof Of Kidnapping? - ". . .she is a Thai national who was kidnapped by North Korean agents. . ."
Did North Korea Just Kidnap Two American Journalists?
Kidnappers Incorporated
Japanese families fear that North Korea is still abducting - North Korea had kidnapped nationals from at least 11 other countries, including France, Italy and the United States.

It seems they want to impress them, not arrest them.

Impress them in a Potemkin village sort of way, yes.

Welcome to Lenin Disney: North Korea’s otherworldly tourism experience

The surreality of visiting North Korea begins at customs. Officials in full military dress — and there are a lot of them, judging by this clandestine video shot by a Canadian tourist — announce that anyone carrying a cell phone must surrender it, to be returned on leaving. The experience gets weirder from there, based on the numerous travelogues and reports that have emerged since the country lifted many of its restrictions on American tourists in 2010.

Tourism is an opportunity for North Korea, whic