Weird News of the World Thread - Part 1

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American Man Enters North Korea Illegally, Condemns U.S.

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North Korean authorities presented an American man to media on Sunday morning who said he had crossed into the country illegally but had not been put into custody, the Associated Press reports. He is seeking asylum in Venezuela.

Arturo Pierre Martinez, 29, was raised in El Paso, Texas. Martinez's mother, Patricia Eugenia Martinez, told CNN that Martinez has bi-polar disorder and had attempted to reach North Korea once before. He was stopped while attempting to swim across a river from South Korea and returned to California, where he was placed in a psychiatric hospital.

"Then he got out," she told CNN. "He is very smart and he got the court to let him out and instead of coming home to us he bought a ticket and left for China. He took out a payday loan online and left for China."

Martinez delivered a 4,000-word statement wearing a suit and tie at a press conference he said he had requested, hosted at the People's Palace of Culture. The statement was later published by the North Korean government's official Korean Central News Agency, according to the New York Times. Martinez thanked the North Korean government for not detaining him for the illegal act of entering North Korea, and criticized the United States for its human-rights violations.

On Tuesday, the United Nations voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution to recommend that North Korean leaders be prosecuted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.

Martinez condemned police brutality in the United States, the war in Iraq, and economic stratification, CNN reports."He also warned of 'extremely dangerous and subversive technologies' related to U.F.O.s," the New York Times reported.
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http://www.stripes.com/news/us/us-m...:+starsandstripes/general+(Stars+and+Stripes)

That certainly is bizarre
 
Cops Report First Vape-Related Kid Death After Toddler Drinks E-Juice

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Police in Fort Plain, New York say a one-year-old child died this week after ingesting liquid nicotine, the "juice" used in electronic cigarettes, WABC-TV reports.

According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, this would be the first confirmed accidental death related to the substance and the second death overall, after a 2012 suicide where a man injected himself with liquid nicotine.

From Albany's Times Union:

"It does appear to be just a tragic accident," said village police Sgt. Austin Ryan, adding that the glass bottle containing the liquid nicotine did not have a childproof cap.

The child's identity was withheld. His death is under investigation.

Emergency workers went to a home on Garfield Street at 4:06 p.m. Tuesday after getting a call that a child was "unresponsive." An ambulance took the boy to Little Falls Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:53 p.m.

In June, New York lawmakers passed a bill requiring all liquid nicotine to have child resistant packaging. Within the next few weeks, Governor Cuomo is expected to sign the bill into law.
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http://7online.com/news/police-say-baby-died-after-ingesting-liquid-nicotine/431827/

Well that really sucks. DS is going to be pissed anti-vapers will have something to use against the movement
 
Ebola-Stricken Sierra Leone Cancels Christmas

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Sierra Leone will ban all public Christmas and New Year's celebrations in an effort to curtail further spread of Ebola, Agence France-Presse reports. The government's Ebola response unit told reporters on Friday that soldiers would be deployed to keep people in their homes.

Public gatherings had already been banned, The Guardian reports; these new restrictions are intended to keep people in Freetown, the nation's capital, where Ebola is rampant, from traveling to see family members elsewhere in the country where the disease may not have yet taken hold.

According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report released on Wednesday, Sierra Leone and its neighbors Guinea and Liberia account for all but 15 of a total of 6,388 Ebola-related deaths worlwide (out of a total of 17,942 cases). In the week before December 7, Sierra Leone confirmed 397 new cases—three times its neighbors' combined total—and in the last three weeks, AFP reports, Sierra Leone reported 1,319 new infections.

On Thursday, President Ernest Bai Koroma asked his citizens to stop practicing traditional remedies. "The illness started at the border, and now it is in the city, and close to two thousand people have died from the outbreak," he said, according to Sierra Leone newspaper Awoko. "The fight started with one laboratory, but today we have close to 10 labs in the country, and started with 50 bed capacity, but now we can have treatment and holding centres and we have improved on so many things."

Also on Thursday, government authorities initiated a two-week lockdown in the eastern district of Kono, The Guardian reports, where 87 people had been buried in 11 days. (This follows September's three-day, nationwide lockdown.) 25 people died in the five days before health workers arrived to investigate reports of the outbreak, a WHO report released Wednesday said.

Kono, a remote diamond-mining center with a population of 350,000, has only one hospital. The overwhelmed, under-resourced staff had not been trained to set up isolation zones. "They were actually carrying people who had died of Ebola to the morgue and passing the pregnancy ward, for example," Winnie Romeril, a WHO spokesperson who traveled with health workers to Kono, told NPR. "By the time we left there were already pregnant women dying."
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http://www.enca.com/africa/sierra-leone-cancels-christmas-ebola-crisis-deepens

Well things just keep getting worse for those people
 
U.S. Covertly Infiltrated Cuba's Hip Hop Scene in Anti-Castro Operation

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The United States Agency for International Development—the same government agency that funded "Cuban Twitter" and sent undercover youths to stoke civil unrest in the country—infiltrated Cuba's hip hop scene for two years with hopes of "[sparking] a youth movement against the government," according to an Associated Press investigation.

The effort, like those other plots, was largely unsuccessful. Carried out through a contractor company with the conspicuously inconspicuous name Creative Associates International, it focused largely on Aldo Rodriguez, a rapper who's music already harbored anti-government sentiments before the U.S. got involved, and his group Los Aldeanos. If USAID could raise Rodriguez's profile while nudging his music even more toward dissent, the thinking went, his fans could begin a grassroots movement against the government.

Over the course of the operation, the AP reports, USAID's operatives and the musicians who unwittingly worked with them were detained by authorities at least six times, and information procured from confiscated laptops and thumb drives led to its eventual demise.

USAID and Creative Associates' chief operative on the ground was a Serbian music promoter named Rajko Bozic, who helps run Serbia's EXIT Festival. EXIT, now a major summer music festival, began as a set of student-led concerts and demonstrations against the regime of the late Slobodan Milošević, who was ousted in 2000. In other words, Bozic successfully used music to help foment popular uprising in the past.

This time, though the operation saw some victories—a few high-profile performances for Los Aldeanos, and thanks to some USAID meddling through Cuban Twitter, an endorsement from Juanes—it fell flat on its face. Instead of strengthening the political music scene that was already in place, USAID killed it. The AP describes the fate of Rotilla, an ostensibly independent Cuban festival that was in fact financed by EXIT:

In 2010, the Rotilla Festival had seemed like a triumph to build on. But before the next festival could take place, Cuban authorities informed organizers they were taking it over.

A Creative contractor warned that the Cubans knew Bozic and his partners "were receiving money from USAID" and trying to undermine the government as they did with Milosevic in 2000.

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Rotilla had been exactly what the U.S. government sought to foster: an organic, cultural initiative independent of the government. Instead, USAID gave the Cuban officials a reason to end it.

USAID defended the plot to the AP in a statement, claiming that "any assertions that our work is secret or covert are simply false." Its operations, it added, aimed to support civil society "often in places where civic engagement is suppressed and where people are harassed, arrested, subjected to physical harm or worse."
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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7c27.../us-co-opted-cubas-hip-hop-scene-spark-change

The American government and Hip Hop, together at last haha
 
Cow Dies Hero's Death After Escaping Slaughterhouse

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A cow made a glorious escape from an Idaho meatpacking factory this week, only to perish in a hail of police bullets.

The extra-large meat machine managed to escape his hamburger fate for a brief moment that seemed to last forever, an officer detailed, breathlessly one imagines, to local reporters.

"It was not a very long time, although when you have a thousand pound animal that's running in the streets it can sure seem like a long time," Police Lieutenant Ian Nelson told KPVI.

But the little guy's freedom in the great open concrete paddock was short-lived—five officers tracked the walking steak-frites through the streets, eventually shooting him three times "in the name of public safety."

Cops say he's now running around at a big farm upstate where he has lots of room to play and is having a great time, promise!
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/14/cow-bolts-butcher-shop-leads-pocatello-police-on-wild-chase/

Can't really blame the cow here
 
New York Man Walks Away Unscathed After Falling Off Sixty-Foot Cliff

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Contrasting with Florida Man's terrible luck, a New York man is incredibly fortunate this afternoon after falling sixty feet into a gorge in Letchworth State Park on Sunday evening. When crew rescued him a few hours later, they discovered that he didn't have a scratch on him.

22-year-old Timothy Mazurczak went hiking with a friend on Sunday when he stepped too close to the edge of a cliff and fell. The Genesee Sun detailed the work that went into his rescue:

It took more than two dozen rescuers from State Park Police, Livingston County ALS, and Cuylerville, Leicester, and Mount Morris Fire Departments more than two hours to get ropes and climbers down the sheer rock wall to Tim in the fading light.

At nearly 7:00 PM, Tim was hoisted unharmed back to the top of the overlook, where he walked himself to an ambulance to be checked for injuries. Besides a good deal of mud on his hoodie and jeans, he was apparently none the worse for wear after his ordeal.

WKBW-TV in Buffalo notes that he walked away from the ordeal with nothing but a ticket for not using "designated trails."

Unfortunately, not everyone who's fallen off the jagged terrain in the park has seen a similar outcome. Two people have died just this year after falling into the gorge. This past October, a 14-year-old boy slipped off the edge of a cliff and fell 200 feet to his death, and a hiker met a similar fate after succumbing to his injuries last February.

Letchworth State Park is located just west of the Finger Lakes and about 40 miles south of Rochester. The park is known as "the Grand Canyon of the East" for the miles of steep cliffs that surround the Genesee River as it passes through the area.
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http://www.geneseesun.com/2014/12/15/letchworth-rope-rescue-man-falls-near-overlook/

That's crazy lucky
 
Skinny Puppy: U.S. Owes $666k for Torturing Prisoners With Our Songs

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Canadian industrial band Skinny Puppy has sent the U.S. Department of Defense an invoice for $666,000 (the fee structure of the beast) for using its songs as the aural equivalent of waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay, keyboardist cEvin Key told CTV.

A former Guantanamo guard allegedly contacted the band to let them know their songs were being used as torture tools against detainees, and Skinny Puppy have since gotten the advice of lawyers who believe they have a good case against the U.S. government.

"We sent them an invoice for our musical services considering they had gone ahead and used our music without our knowledge and used it as an actual weapon against somebody," said Key, of the band that released an album called Weapon last year.

As for the insinuation that Skinny Puppy's songs are tantamount to prison punishment, Key says he's "offended."

"I wouldn't want to be subjected to any overly loud music for six to 12 hours at a time without a break," he told CTV.
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http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/vancou...sic-used-for-guantanamo-bay-torture-1.1671312

Listening to ANY Skinny Puppy song for more than a minute most definitely constitutes as torture IMO
 
Fifteen-Year-Old Boy Dies Saving His Twin Brother's Life

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According to reports, a fifteen-year-old Chicago boy died saving his twin brother from armed assailants this weekend.

Demario and Demacio Bailey, reportedly known around school as the Bailey boys, were walking to a high school basketball game Saturday when four young men started harassing them under a viaduct between the bus stop and the school.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Demario was shot in the chest as he tried to rescue his brother from one of the men. ABC reports the men were trying to steal his coat.

"They were raised to stick together," their grandmother, Bernice Fitzpatrick told the newspaper. "We always said, 'Take after your brother, look after your brother.'"

Ordering the brothers to "give it up," the robbers started going through their pockets, the police report said. A struggle and fight ensued, and Demario, the older of the twins by five minutes, saw that one of the robbers was on top of his brother. He went to Demacio's aid, telling the assailant to "Get off my brother," and was able to push the robber off, according to the report.

As Demacio took off running, the man shot Demario. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

The twin's grandmother said it was one of the rare times the boys were allowed to travel between home and school on their own.

"Our children have always been dropped up and picked up and escorted... They were starting to say, 'Ma, we can do things on our own,'" Fitzgerald told the Tribune. "We promised them we would give them a little more freedom. We let them go for one month. I don't know what we're supposed to do now."

Carlos Johnson, 17, was reportedly arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection with Demario's death.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...other-from-robbers-20141214-story.html#page=1

That really sucks, such a tragedy
 
New York State, Ever Less Important, Now Trails Florida in Population

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The United States Census Bureau announced today that the State of New York, which had been the nation's third most populous state, has now slipped to fourth place, behind Florida. In the 12 months ending July 1, 2014, the Sunshine State gained 293,000 new inhabitants, while New York added a meager 51,000.

As a result, the official population of New York state is now 19,746,227, while Florida's population is 19,893,297. There are 147,070 more people in Florida than in New York. That's approximately the entire population of Hollywood, Florida, or a bit more than the population of Syracuse, New York—Syracuse being smaller than Hollywood, Florida.

So continues a long slide for what was once the most populous of all the United States of America. New York surpassed Virginia in the 1810s to claim its spot as No. 1, a distinction it would hold for a century and a half before falling behind California in the 1962 census estimate, then Texas in 1994.

Now even Florida—a transient appendage of the continent, whose hollow land is collapsing in on itself where it is not being steadily consumed by the rising oceans—is a more attractive place to live.

The march of history is inexorable. Virginia, New York's long-ago rival, no longer even appears in the Census Bureau's top 10. It has less than half the population of New York now. By 2016, if this year's growth rates hold, New York in turn will have less than half the population of California.

But aren't California and Texas, and even Florida, larger than New York? Yes. By population density, New York can still proudly claim to outshine its more populous rivals—as No. 7 in the country, right behind Delaware, and six slots behind No. 1 New Jersey.

Today, the sun sets at 4:32 p.m. in New York City, where the weather is 46 degrees with a foggy drizzle. In Miami, where it is 83 degrees and partly cloudy, the sun will set at 5:35.
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http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2014/cb14-232.html

I've lived in FL most of my life and I have seen this state do nothing but grow and expand so this doesn't surprise me at all
 
Docker2.0 said:
If this story is true, that gives some credence to people who say that their is an Illuminati in the music industry who control what we listen to.
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Please take me down the rabbit hole on this train of thought my friend
 
DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs said:
The stage is yours, enthrall us with this tale of intrigue and our hip hop overlords
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I heard you the first time! :argh:

Anyway, notice how "real" music is being pushed back and this generic crap is being pushed? No one really sings these days without the computer's help? Most of the music sounds a like these days. Even going with rap. It was the "voiced of the hood" but look at the last 2 years, white artist have won it.......not that it's wrong.......but it seems like their is an agenda being pushed. Rap doesn't have any message at all now. You go from Public Enemy and 2Pac to Jay Z and Little Wayne...........Really? Most people I know can't even listen to music on the radio these days and that includes teens because even they say it's horrible. If it's true that the USA is involved with trying to incite a revolt in Cuba through their youth through their music, wouldn't they have to see if that experiment worked? Look no further than the USA. We've been purposely dumbed down so much that it's not even funny. Everyone is basically being taught to go with the flow instead of being that needle in the haystack to bring about change. I also find it fascinating that music's top artist are now in their 30's and 40's with no new...............eh I don't want to ramble but I can't put all my words into coherent thoughts. To much to say and I don't want to sound like that drunk uncle who you know loves porn but just can't prove it.
 
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