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OT: The News Thread

Pretty wild if true.

Didn't he have a son thought to be even wackier? Or am I missing up batshit cults of personality here?
 
I hope his son won't be ronery without him!

[video=youtube;jdug6yHJB40]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdug6yHJB40[/video]
 
The son is a bit of an odd one to judge really. If memory serves, he went to private school in Switzerland and was generally well liked by the European and American kids that he went to school with. Was also a huge basketball fan, but **** all is known about his political leanings.
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-pictures-life-planets-secretive-nation.html

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anyone who hasn't watch the Vice Guide To North Korea (available on the Vice Guide website) should probably do it now. Astounding.
 
This is pretty good too...hadn't heard this one before:

Kim shoots a 38 under par, complete with 11 holes-in-one, his first time golfing. You may not know this, but, according to the state-run North Korean media, Kim Jong-Il is the best golfer in history.

Back in 1994, North Korea's first golf course was opened in Pyongyang, and Kim decided to play it. He'd never golfed before, but wow, was he a natural.

In his first-ever round of golf, he shot a world-record 38 under par... including another world record 11 holes-in-one! And even though all 17 of his bodyguards were eyewitnesses and swear they saw that go down, for some reason, the round-eye devils at "Guinness" fail to recognize either record.

After that round, the media tells us, Kim decided to retire from golf forever, lest he ruin it for us mortals.
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http://www.11points.com/news-politics/11_craziest_kim_jong-il_moments
 
Hoss said:
I wanted to quote the blog, but it was too long... I didn't mean that people in general are smarter... I was talking about that group of people that ME was referencing who wrote that article in the science journal... I was just amazed how there are people that smart to have in their mind the concept of what is going on on molecular levels, and how to understand them. The break through of technology helps this of course, but just the understanding of complex physics and mathematics is what I was impressed with.

Sure the average person can't make a micro chip or anything like that, but the fact that we have people in this world who can figure this shiite out is what is cool to me.
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CEO's running complex multinationals are right up there too (despite what some think). People programming million lines programs.

There are some people who are simply focused and can put together "the big picture" that most of us choke on.
 
click on the link, it's a top 11 list of his crazier things. I guess weird stuff happens when you're surrounded by literally millions of yes-men your entire life.
 
u wonder how much of that is real and how much of that is, " i better act REALLY devastated right now like everyone else or they are going to whup my a$$"
 
Ya I would guess some guys with guns were probably telling them to cry harder.

That or they've really done some fantastic brainwashing.
 
i think its a bit of both. i think there is some genuine sadness in there, but alot of it is just an almost psychotic group psychology that swtiches on when the leadership flips the switch and tells them what to do. it really looks like they were all ordered to show up at that monument at a specific time and cry. it would have been very interesting to see the 1 hour before and the 1 hour after. were they lining people up and then going, "1, 2, 3,......CRY!!!!"?? at the end did they order then to stop crying and then march back to their homes??
 
I don't think going there was ordered, since Pyongyang alone has millions of people. But yeah it's probably clear to all of them that showing up and being the least sad person there is a bad idea.
 
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