World War Update.
This is funny. There is still lot of hard feelings between the Koreans and the Japanese over the Japanese’ harsh rule of the Hermit Kingdom from 1910 to 1945. Since South Koreans now do a lot of profitable business with Japan, they have largely elected to forgive and forget. The North Koreans apparently not so much.
North Korean speed skater DQ'd after apparent tripping attempt
Mad World Update.
Oz Cruise ship goes Mad Max.
A Carnival cruise in the South Pacific descended into violent anarchy
Jihad Update.
The Rohingya Muslims managed to piss off the Buddhists in Myanmar (formerly know as Burma) with their jihadist violence. If you succeed in getting the Buddhists violently angry with you it means you really worked hard at it.
“Bound together, the 10 Rohingya Muslim captives watched their Buddhist neighbors dig a shallow grave. Soon afterwards, on the morning of Sept. 2, all 10 lay dead. At least two were hacked to death by Buddhist villagers. The rest were shot by Myanmar troops, two of the gravediggers said.”
"One grave for 10 people," said Soe Chay, 55, a retired soldier from Inn Din's Rakhine Buddhist community who said he helped dig the pit and saw the killings. The soldiers shot each man two or three times, he said. "When they were being buried, some were still making noises. Others were already dead."
“The killings in the coastal village of Inn Din marked another bloody episode in the ethnic violence sweeping northern Rakhine state, on Myanmar's western fringe. Nearly 690,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their villages and crossed the border into Bangladesh since August. None of Inn Din's 6,000 Rohingya remained in the village as of October.”
“The Rohingya accuse the army of arson, rapes and killings aimed at rubbing them out of existence in this mainly Buddhist nation of 53 million. The United Nations has said the army may have committed genocide; the United States has called the action ethnic cleansing. Myanmar says its "clearance operation" is a legitimate response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents.”
“Rohingya trace their presence in Rakhine back centuries. But most Burmese consider them to be unwanted immigrants from Bangladesh; the army refers to the Rohingya as "Bengalis." In recent years, sectarian tensions have risen and the government has confined more than 100,000 Rohingya in camps where they have limited access to food, medicine and education.”
“Reuters has pieced together what happened in Inn Din in the days leading up to the killing of the 10 Rohingya – eight men and two high school students in their late teens.”
Special Report: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village
In Colombia Border Town, Desperate Venezuelans Sell Hair to Survive
Americas
Apocalypse Update.
It’s like the Grimm’s fairy tale of Hansel & Gretel come to life, isn’t it. The people ditch their children because they’re too poor to even feed them.
“After eating dinner, Silgado said, her children tell her, “Mom, I want more.” “But I don’t have more to give,” she said.”
Venezuela’s economy is so bad, parents are leaving their children at orphanages
World War/ Jihad Update.
Isn’t that the way it goes? Just bait and switch. Once you join up you don’t get to do any of the cool stuff you saw in the recruiting commercials on television. Nope, it’s all cleaning toilets, mowing lawns and painting the rocks lining the walkways to the HQ.
Young men left America to join ISIS. They ended up cooking and cleaning for the caliphate.
Let the World Fend for Itself
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