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You’d think one of them would break ranks and skewer the fat little prick.
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Ya sure the little fat guy is hard on his people and is paranoid about the rest of the world, but that pales in comparison to the Israelis building appartment buildings for their people. Just ask the UN.
Sure, the Doughboy is a brutal commie dictator, but you have to admire the way he can turn his (albeit completely non-functioning) economy on a dime in pursuit of environmental goals, much like that other commie dictatorship so admired by PM Zoolander. Of course, Dear Leader’s idea of “green” measures is forcing his poor downtrodden citizens to eat grass due to food shortages. On the other hand, N. Korea is relatively free of pollution, since it has no industry and hardly any electrical power, either. Maybe we should sen Gerald Butts and PM Trudeau over (ideally, on one-way tickets) on a fact-finding mission to study North Korea’s green programs.
The guy has absolutely no idea how effing stupid he looks.
He’s been a brutal leader since he took power, just like his father was before him. A complete disaster who has sent his country down the road to financial ruin. And with state-controlled media there to do his bidding, there’s not much in the way of hope it would seem. As for North Korea and its dictator? I don’t have much to say on those things.
Where are all the people?
That’s what struck me. Every shot of “people” is either a choreographed photo-op or a group of soldiers – there is no traffic, there are no people, there is no activity. I wouldn’t be surprised if 90% of those “office buildings” were entirely empty. Those shots of Pyongyang at the beginning: you could fire a thousand artillery shells into those streets and wouldn’t hit anyone. That’s impossible to stage manage. Pyonyang is a city of 2.6 million people and you can’t see even a single vehicle in most of those shots. What the hell is going on there? I know, I know but even so: what the hell?
Good one, cheese wheel. Meek, submissive population, too….
Perfect,cheese wheel….:):). I hope you attempted to post that to a few leftard sights. It’ll send the 0.00001% who can figure it out into conniptions.
Canada’s jet-setting PM Trudeau: One year, ten vacations
Keeping track of all his vacations can be tough but I do my best and here is what I have just for the last year.
Last Christmas and New Years, Trudeau and his family were is in St. Kitts, a tropical paradise.
Last winter Trudeau and family took a ski and snowboard trip to Whistler and another trip to Quebec City for carnival.
There was his Easter vacation on Fogo Island, a remote and elite spot in Newfoundland where hotel rooms start at $1,575 a night.
There was his famous shirtless photobombing while taking a surfing trip to Tofino, British Columbia.
And now, New Years in the Bahamas.
On top of that we can add in an extra day in Japan for the Trudeau’s to celebrate their wedding anniversary which actually happened when they were back in Canada.
And we can add an extra day in New York City to see the musical Hamilton.
Before news of the Bahamas trip broke CBC reported that Trudeau reimbursed taxpayers for nine private trips, add in Bahamas and he is at ten vacations.
Did you get ten vacations or private trips last year?
In the past I’ve defended taxpayers paying extra for the prime minister to go on vacation. The PM has security needs, his security level and requirements are set by the RCMP. I get all of the reasons.
And I’ve defended this set up for Stephen Harper and yes, I’ve even done the same for Justin Trudeau – but no more.
While I understand that it costs more for the PM to travel, I don’t understand why he needs so many vacations.
I think Trudeau has taken more vacations on our dime than Stephen Harper did in his entire time in office.
http://www.therebel.media/canada_s_jet_setting_pm_trudeau_one_year_ten_vacations
A true masturbatory fantasy for our publik sector employees, from PM “Eye Candy” to the lowliest CUPE drone.
So, are you saying that all those buildings are empty, except for a few thousand favored aparatchicks necessary to run the state.
That is, at first thought, a preposterous idea, but, where are all the people!!!
Interestingly enough you see bits and pieces of western producs on the streets. Notice old Lincolns on the Funeral procession, an old Mercedes S class sedan, a number of Merced military light trucks and at 36:30, could it be, a WWII vintage British Bren Gun?
PM Hair-Boy’s favourite country keeps North Korea in the state it is in.
Liberal voters are indifferent to this suffering.
Taking all those selfies is exhausting!
Many years ago, when I was much more active as a shortwave listener, I heard a broadcast from Radio Pyongyang, as it was known in those days.
It was all poppycock and nonsense, of course. The announcer kept bringing up Doughboy’s grandfather just about every other sentence. Anything that happened in North Korea was due to the “love and guidance of our glorious leader, Kim Il Sung”, or something like that.
The way it was put, nothing happened without Comrade Kim’s say-so. He probably commanded the sun to rise, the wind to blow, and the rain to fall.
….friend of mine that traveled to NORK last year tells me that all the female guides, etc are really good looking and the traffic cops are all women chosen for their height and looks…Go figure!
Further:
Is Trump getting it about North Korea?
http://freekorea.us/2017/01/03/trumps-tweets-show-the-right-instincts-on-north-korea/#sthash.oWN2sxcm.dpbs
Prison camps in North Korea:
http://www.hrnkinsider.org/2016/11/control-of-kim-regimes-political-prison.html
North Korean women want to be reunited with their stateless half-Chinese children:
http://www.hrnkinsider.org/2016/11/north-korean-mothers-fight-to-be.html
“Around 30,000 North Koreans have resettled in South Korea, the vast majority of them women. Assessing how many of them were victims of human trafficking is difficult as is estimating the number of North Korean women who remain trafficked in China or languish in prisons back in North Korea after forced repatriation. Kim estimates 60 percent of North Korean women in South Korea were abused in China. She said, “Naturally, women only share their stories with friends they are very close with and trust. This is because women defectors feel shameful about their experiences. It is extremely difficult for me when I share what I have been through. I was sold for 19,000 Chinese yuan (about USD 2,800). Moreover, I have to confess the fact that I abandoned my child, whether it was against my will or not.”
Trudeau’s favourite country is China. Liberal voters knew this and didn’t care.
I have been to Hong Kong 3 times and it is amazing flying in there. At night you cross Japan, a sea of lights, then see China, which each time has more lights from their huge cities. Crossing North Korea is just stunning as there is nothing, just black with tiny scattered lights except for more lights in the capital. The border to South Korea is a line of dazzling lights as the whole country is lit up with Seoul a brilliant star of lights. Then you see the jewel of Hong Kong.
Heh
In the 60’s of the past century growing up in similar circumstances, I can tell you it was fun to be growing up as a kid.
All the BS that everybody knew was going on.
99 % of the population knew the truth, though went along with the big lie lest their lives were cut short.
Used to live in a city about 50 km across the border from Vienna. We got the real news from the Austrian radio and TV so we were pretty much up to speed on the events around the world. Don’t speak German (or Austrian for those in Rio Linda) though father would be translating. Listening over the years and listening to the music, you generally get the drift of what is said even if you can’t say it.
There was no poverty as there is in Korea outside of Pyongyang.
There were though all those marches and communist doings that you see in the video. There used to be a big show about every other year in Prague. They used to call it Spartakiada. The flag waving, the unified exercises to the sound of revolutionary music and all that stuff.
One year, must a been 12 or 13 a big communist congress in town, some of us kids were selected to put on the cleanest white shirts with pocket at each breast and the red scarf. After all the big shot communists got in their rows, us young pioneers ran down the aisle and stopped at prescribed row and yelled hurray for the cameras. For us the whole thing lasted like 5 minutes max.
As a soldier later on used to do the goosestep march at a parade just like you see them Koreans.
T’was another time and another place half a century ago.
The interesting thing is that after being brainwashed practically the whole school years, nobody ever believed any of that bull$$it.
How is it then, that free people in North America like it so much and think that they could pull it of.
Boggles ones mind.
“How is it then, that free people in North America like it so much and think that they could pull it of.”
The people have never experienced the true face of socialism and how it destroys the human spirit. Other than a few, they do not believe you when you tell them how it is. And those pushing the soft communism that turns to hard communism by increments think they will do it right next time. The teachers, unions, and media do not think that the monster will eventually eat them also.
My relatives that experienced in Russia what you experienced in Czechoslovakia tell me that no one there believed the lies. Even Putin and most of his KGB fellow operatives no longer believed the false ideology that communism is.
cheese wheel, that was good.
“Other than a few, they do not believe you when you tell them how it is.”
That is the very central point. People here can’t understand how bad will it get, and it will. It just will take little more time to squander the wealth that free enterprise produced.
They look at Venezuela and thing mostly that it is a TV show.
I remember when 5 countries of the Warsaw pact invaded the country where I was born.
The tourists from North America thought it was really cool to watch.
No wonder they don’t get it.
Here is a documentary from NHK World, Japan television.
Money & Power in North Korea. The Hidden Economy Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKYBu9xIfac
An interesting story about the socialists and their vassals.
The people have never experienced the true face of socialism and how it destroys the human spirit. Other than a few, they do not believe you when you tell them how it is.
That reminds me of when I lived in Vancouver. Many people thought I was a fascist fruitloop because I didn’t have left-wing sympathies.
Most of them didn’t know I was born in Berlin, in the shadow of the Red Army. The sector I was from was originally occupied by the Soviets at the end of WW II but later came under British control. My mother spoke often about that and die Luftbrücke when the Allied occupying powers put it on the line to keep the western sectors of Berlin free.
Because of that, I grew up with an appreciation for what it meant to be living in a free society. However, I knew that this would never have convinced those people that communism wasn’t the wave of the future.
Lev:
I remember when 5 countries of the Warsaw pact invaded the country where I was born.
The tourists from North America thought it was really cool to watch.
I remember hearing about the Prague Spring on the news and how people in the west were anxious about what might happen because of what took place in Hungary in 1956. Still, many of us were surprised when the Warsaw Pact invaded. My personal reaction was: “They did what?”
I had a similar thoughts when I heard about that happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989. When I returned to university 25 years ago, one of my fellow grad students had been there together with his wife. After the People’s Liberation Army moved in, they got separated and she went missing for a year, but eventually joined him in Canada.
But don’t explain this to the champagne socialists. They’ll probably see those events as having arisen because of a lack of commitment to the revolution by the governments in question.
Google Maps is a fun way to tour North Korea. Fairly hi-res satellite view allows you to zoom down to street level. The streets are basically empty. Only a few cars here and there. Almost no people walking around. Military bases are in full view with no black-out.