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Re:... is for porn
Probably something like this happened (NSFW): http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-sex/asses-of-the-caribbean
The donkeys don't seem to mind it a bit.
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Re:Only a matter of time before the TSA jumps on t
enjoy their
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Re:Fanatic civilians?
Just in case someone is interested VBS.tv did a video about North Korea. Its a pretty good watch. http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3
What you said was pretty accurate. The people there are happy but its because they don't know anything else and they believe that their government would never lie to them. Personally I keep looking at this and can't figure out how all the countries in the world keep putting up with NK. It seems now is the time for everyone to tell them to sit down and shut up. I mean how would the world respond to any other country telling another country "Don't do those drills or we will start shooting at you". Think about it say Canada did drills off the cost near Maine in the northern US. How would the world act if the US went "If you do those drills we are going to bomb Vancouver!"? The rest of the world would have a fit. But with NK you have people like Russia that "asked South Korea to cancel the drills after North Korea vowed to strike back if they proceed." -
Re:Western spin
For more "through the looking glass" reporting from North Korea, try the Vice Guide. Similar to Lisa Ling's reporting, but with a more bizarre bent. One must see on the insanity of the regime is the museum of "tribute" from foreign leaders. They've collected all of the stupid little chachkies that various diplomats brought from around the world - plates with state seals, porcelain stuff from the gift shop, whatever - and placed them in a huge under-ground bunker museum. The official position is that these are items of tribute from every leader around the world who recognize that "Dear Leader" is the greatest leader and North Korea is the greatest country. Really.
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Re:does anyone really care about NK?
For more reporting on the opaque world that is North Korea, I recommend the Vice Guide to North Korea. Similar to the reporting in the article, this is a hand-held digital camera video documentary done without government approval, but told by a westerner with only officially approved access. Even so, he manages to convey some of the desolation that is the communist dictatorship. The presentation put on by his hosts in hopes of showing off the might of the North Korean state fully supports the reputation they've earned of being "crazy".
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Re:That's only 75 percent
Sorry, replying to myself with the complete link. Don't let the scary domain name fool you, pretty cool guerrilla style news site.
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Re:That's only 75 percent
See for yourself here.
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Re:Good for everyone
Dunno if anyone has posted this yet. But this was an interesting video I saw an book marked about a trip to North Korea.
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North Korea tourism
Vice Travel Guide to North Korea: http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3
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Re:Good for everyone
Take a travel there and see yourself
That's what this guy did:
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Re:Good for everyone
Take a travel there and see yourself
That's what this guy did:
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Re:Good for everyone
Take a travel there and see yourself
That's what this guy did:
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Re:Rather stupid...
I highly recommend The Vice Guide to North Korea for some insight into what their citizens can and can't do.
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Re:Not as dense os lead to believe
Vice TV did a special where they traveled to the Garbage Gyre (as they called it). If you want to see what it actually looks like, part 1 is here http://vbs.tv/watch/toxic/toxic-garbage-island-1-of-3
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Re:Why don't they build themselves a sewer system
Oh yes, let's have them build a functional and self maintaing sewer system and let them eat cake too while we're at it.
First thing I thought of when I read this was the images of a poop covered beach in Liberia I saw in the Vice Guide to Liberia. Watching that it’s hard to understand how things got so bad, but there is so much that needs fixed there. This is a nice simple solution that could help. I really think if you bring in a bunch of equipment and money, it either going to get stolen or misappropriated. It's hard enough to keep the peace let alone embark on a solid construction project. -
Re:Try to give them help and this is what they get
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Re:Try to give them help and this is what they get
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Re:Try to give them help and this is what they get
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Re:Try to give them help and this is what they get
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Re:Try to give them help and this is what they get
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Re:Try to give them help and this is what they get
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Re:Try to give them help and this is what they get
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Re:Try to give them help and this is what they get
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Wrong. It's difficult because there is no "patch"
There are two things that make this difficult. The amount of garbage is the size of Texas and a lot of the plastics have dissolved.
A crew went to the gyre and recorded a documentary (a free documentary by VBS.TV Garbage Island ), hoping to see giant island of garbage. While they did not see the island, what they saw was far worse. The plastics have dissolved and estimated that the amount of dissolved plastics is higher than the microscopic sea life and natural oceanic nutrients in the water. The gyre is now very, very gross. The garbage is either so scattered or very well dissolved that there is no way that it can be cleansed that easily.
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Re:How about from a boat?
This is part of a short documentary where they go out into the patch and trawl for plastic http://www.vbs.tv/watch/toxic/toxic-garbage-island-1-of-3
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Misconceptions about the DPRK
North Korea doesn't have a "government" as we think of a government. It's a totalitarian regime controlled entirely by Kim Jong Il. Anything you've heard about them having elections, having choice, etc., are all lies. The people in the country are all under the thumb of communist party.
If you want a semi-entertaining (if not scary) look inside North Korea, check this video series out
Also, this book gives some pretty frightening details:
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Re:Summary is hopelessly wrong...
A friend pointed me to this site, (possibly NSFW depending on certain links) which has a couple of people going inside North Korea to shoot video. What they shoot is not concentration camps. It's not executions. It's not poverty (strictly speaking). It's just the completely bizarre world that is North Korea. I wish I could describe it, but my words just wouldn't do it justice.
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Fishing for Plastic
Plastic without doubt has its uses in the medical world. Not that all plastic should be banned, but just because its been around so long that we are used to it, does not mean it is good for our food and water storage. And what about its impact on the environment. Plastic ends up in the Ocean, choking fish to death who think they are eating a jelly fish - not a plastic baggie. It keeps breaking down to smaller and smaller pieces (never going away), until that Tuna you just ate was a percentage of plastic. Plastic waste is creating a garbage island. If something may be unhealthy, and we need to reduce using it anyway, why is it so bad to cut back or find alternatives?
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Brooklyn's Nuclear Fears & Community Mentality
This is ancient early 90s news but Brooklyn has been the site of nuclear waste storage and it concerns many citizens. There is a warehouse there called Radiac Research Corporation that has about enough nuclear material for one atom bomb, although I'm sure it's not refined to that. Citizen watch groups have formed that will walk around the streets with Geiger counters. You will find some shock reporting that has somethings factual and a lot of things anecdotal evidence. If you do watch those videos, ironically pay attention to the state employed inspector on the boat. Hard numbers and comparisons with other major cities are a must to make any effect in this kind of reporting. Still, I would be upset if stuff like this dried up. I think it's important so that the community at least feels like it has an independent non-interested voice--I would risk false alarms for that any day.
I've also heard from other sources that New York City offers permits for polluting which isn't so wrong except that some of these are ridiculous. A lot of the rivers and streams to this day still are being polluted but since the companies are 'grandfathered' into pollution control, they can keep doing it. Do you ever think they're going to clean that up? I hardly think so.
So they want to avoid false alarms that could cause a mass panic. But like a lot of things there is a trade off and the trade off is the ability to independently verify that the air quality or radiation levels are indeed safe. If I were a citizen living there, losing the latter in and of itself would cause me panic. Poor means you're at risk of being ignored & treated like you don't matter and I don't think New York City (especially historically) is any different from the rest of the world. -
SpecialTen & VBSAny web-based favorites you'd like to point out for fellow commenters? Disclaimer! I am not your average American looking for a mindless laugh or entertainment! The channels I suggest here are probably not something a lot of people would normally enjoy watching.
For my artsy, music & avante garde stuff, I prefer SpecialTen, a UK DVD magazine I actually subscribe to. They offer their stuff for free though and I find it all to be either thought provoking, fun or both.
For my documentaries and also music stuff, I prefer VBS although I have heard many criticisms of it playing to hipsters and wanna be hipsters. This may be although I find the material interesting.
While they are nice and work well in Firefox (I watch them both in Linux), I find some of the reporting to be over the top shock reporting and also find the advertisements to be repetitive. I have seen the trailer for There Will Be Blood too many times to count and I THERE'S OIL HERE, UNDERNEATH THE TOWN AND I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN GET AT IT
Of course, I enjoy adult swim, the office, south park, the daily show, etc but you just go to the network sites for that stuff and I assume everyone knows that. And, of course, now that they're releasing the cap for Netflix, I will watch those online although I can't seem to get that to work in Linux. Perhaps they'll come around?
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I've Seen All I Need to SeeGet out of your basement and do some traveling. Well, I know I'm not supposed to feed the trolls but
Well, at the boundary waters, I drank out of the lakes, ate the fish, it was paradise. Later I went to college at the University of Minnesota and thank god that you can't get into the BWCA except with a canoe or helicopter. You can't swim or fish in the lakes/rivers of Minneapolis. So what's my point? Well, everywhere man has touched that I've seen, things have just gone down hill. Those trees and resources that once covered North America? Gone. We bitch at Brazil to stop deforestation when we did the same damn thing when we settled this land.
Go see the world? Go see Manilla? Go see West Virginia? Go see Brooklyn? The super stack nickel refinery in Canada?
For every single place you tell me to go see, I'll show you a spot ravaged to hell by the human race. -
I've Seen All I Need to SeeGet out of your basement and do some traveling. Well, I know I'm not supposed to feed the trolls but
Well, at the boundary waters, I drank out of the lakes, ate the fish, it was paradise. Later I went to college at the University of Minnesota and thank god that you can't get into the BWCA except with a canoe or helicopter. You can't swim or fish in the lakes/rivers of Minneapolis. So what's my point? Well, everywhere man has touched that I've seen, things have just gone down hill. Those trees and resources that once covered North America? Gone. We bitch at Brazil to stop deforestation when we did the same damn thing when we settled this land.
Go see the world? Go see Manilla? Go see West Virginia? Go see Brooklyn? The super stack nickel refinery in Canada?
For every single place you tell me to go see, I'll show you a spot ravaged to hell by the human race. -
I've Seen All I Need to SeeGet out of your basement and do some traveling. Well, I know I'm not supposed to feed the trolls but
Well, at the boundary waters, I drank out of the lakes, ate the fish, it was paradise. Later I went to college at the University of Minnesota and thank god that you can't get into the BWCA except with a canoe or helicopter. You can't swim or fish in the lakes/rivers of Minneapolis. So what's my point? Well, everywhere man has touched that I've seen, things have just gone down hill. Those trees and resources that once covered North America? Gone. We bitch at Brazil to stop deforestation when we did the same damn thing when we settled this land.
Go see the world? Go see Manilla? Go see West Virginia? Go see Brooklyn? The super stack nickel refinery in Canada?
For every single place you tell me to go see, I'll show you a spot ravaged to hell by the human race. -
I've Seen All I Need to SeeGet out of your basement and do some traveling. Well, I know I'm not supposed to feed the trolls but
Well, at the boundary waters, I drank out of the lakes, ate the fish, it was paradise. Later I went to college at the University of Minnesota and thank god that you can't get into the BWCA except with a canoe or helicopter. You can't swim or fish in the lakes/rivers of Minneapolis. So what's my point? Well, everywhere man has touched that I've seen, things have just gone down hill. Those trees and resources that once covered North America? Gone. We bitch at Brazil to stop deforestation when we did the same damn thing when we settled this land.
Go see the world? Go see Manilla? Go see West Virginia? Go see Brooklyn? The super stack nickel refinery in Canada?
For every single place you tell me to go see, I'll show you a spot ravaged to hell by the human race. -
Re:Good Lord.
Unfortunately, there is not a non-flash player version as near as I can tell. This link has enough comments to explain it all. http://vice.typepad.com/vbs/2007/06/vbs_producer_
m e.html http://www.vbs.tv/shows/index.php?show=Toxic%20Alb erta Is the source of the vids. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_Oil_Sands Is an article about what the vids cover but it doesn't say anything at all about how bad it is, and the long term (40 year) shortsightedness of it. Unfortunately the wiki article does nothing more then say that "Its controversial". The vids really demonstrate how bad it is... "690k 3 bedroom houses and so on..." Its insane economic growth, at a major cost to the environment and the people of Alberta Canada. And its backed by only people wanting to make a quick buck, and the oil companies handing out the paychecks.