North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un's former girlfriend shot by firing squad

THE former girlfriend of Kim Jong-un has been executed by firing squad in a dramatic porn scandal as the North Korean despot's totalitarian regime continues its brutal grip.

Claims are being made by the South China Morning Post that singer Hyon Song-wol was gunned down in front of her family just three days after being arrested for breaching North Korean pornography laws, South Korea's largest daily newspaper reported. Hyon, who first met Kim about a decade ago, was among a dozen well-known performers executed with machine guns.

The dead - members of the Unhasu Orchestra and the Wangjaesan Light Music Band - were accused of filming themselves having sex and selling the tapes.Seoul-based Chosun Ilbo newspaper also revealed some allegedly had Bibles in their possession, although they were all treated as political dissidents.
Hyon - famous for propaganda songs including Footsteps of Soldiers, I Love Pyongyang and We are Troops of the Party - was a singer with the country's popular Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble.

"They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band and Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on," a source said.
The families of the executed have allegedly been sent to prison camps under the rogue country's guilt by association laws.

Kim and Hong dated until his despot dad Kim Jong-il ordered their relationship to end.
They were rumoured to be having an affair despite eventually marrying other people, with Kim's new wife Ri Sol-ju herself a former member of the Unhasu Orchestra.
"Kim Jong-un has been viciously eliminating anyone who he deems a challenge to his authority," a source told Chosun Ilbo, adding the executions "show that he is fixated on consolidating his leadership".

Inside Story - Syria and Chemical warfare

In Syria, women and children were among the dozens found dead under suspicious circumstances this week. Rebel forces said more than 1,000 people were killed by the government in a chemical weapons attack, while the authorities dismissed the report as "baseless". So, where does this incident leave the international community, if the so-called red line has been crossed? And is a political solution still possible for Syria?

To discuss this, Inside Story, with presenter Jane Dutton, is joined by guests: Dina Esfandiary, a research associate on the non-proliferation and disarmament programme for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, who specialises in chemical weapons and security; Firas Abi Ali, the head of the Middle East and North Africa country risk team for IHS Global; and Nikolaos Van Dam, the former Dutch ambassador to Egypt and Iraq.

Rape of Iraqi Women by US Forces

In March 2006 four US soldiers from the 101st Airborne

Division gang raped a 14 year old Iraqi girl and murdered her and her family —including a 5 year old child. An additional soldier was involved in the cover-up.

One of the killers, Steven Green, was found guilty on May 07, 2009 in the US District Court of Paducah and is now awaiting sentencing.

The leaked Public Affairs Guidance put the 101st media team into a "passive posture" — withholding information where possible. It conceals presence of both child victims, and describes the rape victim, who had just turned 14, as "a young woman".

The US Army's Criminal Investigation Division did not begin its investigation until three and a half months after the crime, news reports at that time commented.

This is not the only grim picture coming out of Iraq U.S. forces being accused of using rape as a war weapon.

The release, by CBS News, of the photographs showing the heinous sexual abuse and torture of Iraqi POW's at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison opened a Pandora's Box for the Bush regime wrote Ernesto Cienfuegos in La Voz de Aztlan on May 2, 2004.

Journalist Cienfuegos further states “Apparently, the suspended US commander of the prison where the worst abuses took place, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, has refused to take the fall by herself and has implicated the CIA, Military Intelligence and private US government contractors in the torturing of POW's and in the raping of Iraqi women detainees as well.”

Brigadier General Karpinski, who commanded the 800th Military Police Brigade, described a high-pressure Military Intelligence and CIA command that prized successful interrogations. A month before the alleged abuses and rapes occurred, she said, a team of CIA, Military Intelligence officers and private consultants under the employ of the US government came to Abu Ghraib. "Their main and specific mission was to give the interrogators new techniques to get more information from detainees," she said.

At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.

Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.

Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.

Detail of the content emerged from Major General Antonio Taguba, the former army officer who conducted an inquiry into the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq.

Allegations of rape and abuse were included in his 2004 report but the fact there were photographs was never revealed. He later confirmed their existence in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in May 2009.

The London newspaper further noted “graphic nature of some of the images may explain the US President Obama’s attempts to block the release of an estimated 2,000 photographs from prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan despite an earlier promise to allow them to be published.”

Maj. Gen. Taguba, who retired in January 2007, said he supported the President’s decision, adding: “These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency.

“The mere description of these pictures is horrendous enough, take my word for it.”

In April, Mr. Obama’s administration said the photographs would be released and it would be “pointless to appeal” against a court judgment in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

But after lobbying from senior military figures, Mr. Obama changed his mind saying they could put the safety of troops at risk.

In May, he said: “The most direct consequence of releasing them, I believe, would be to inflame anti-American public opinion and to put our troops in greater danger.”

In April 2004, new photographs were sent to La Voz de Aztlan from confidential sources depicting the shocking rapes of two Iraqi women by what are purported to be US Military Intelligence personnel and private US mercenaries in military fatigues. It is now known, Cienfuegos wrote in May 2004, that hundreds of these photographs had been in circulation among the troops in Iraq. The graphic photos were being swapped between the soldiers like baseball cards.
Tribune carries here three of the ‘Rape’ photographs which have brought criticism that the U.S. forces in Iraq have used rape as a weapon of war.

What KFC Is Doing To Chickens

I never thought almost 6 years ago that so many people would see and more importantly debate over a topic and issue I thought would get no attention. Nearly a quarter million people have seen this, which isn't much by today's standards, and many comment each day.

Thank you all for everything good and bad and even though I'm sure KFC and PETA have solved many of these problems over the years, these issues still exist on a global scale today and all of this has opened many eyes, many thanks again

How Police Officers Treat Women

Never talk to police officer without a lawyer, even when you're not under arrest.

Sioux City Police explanation from their Facebook site is included in this video to get both sides.

SIOUX CITY -- The Police Department is denying any wrongdoing in the way officers treated a woman captured on camera being forcefully arrested this summer. The woman, who said she received a black eye and bruises during the scuffle, alleges she was mistreated and is considering suing police.

The footage, which began circulating online last week, shows Dacosta Daniels, 34, of Sioux City, being arrested during an Aug. 8 traffic stop in the 1400 block of McDonald Street. The scene was captured by a Sioux City Police Department car dashboard camera.

The video shows two officers shoving Daniels onto the patrol car's hood to make the arrest. She appears to struggle as police handcuff her. At one point, she is punched in the side and put in a headlock before being handcuffed, the video shows.

Sioux City Police Department spokesman Jeremy McClure said he would not elaborate about the arrest. Court records show Daniels was being arrested for assault of a peace officer, a serious misdemeanor. She is accused of punching police Officer Joshua Tyler before the arrest, records show.

McClure declined to talk in detail about the video. He said the department plans to post a longer version of the video on its Facebook profile Wednesday morning. It will include a narration explaining what happened, he said.

"It'll explain what the situation is, or what's going on," McClure said. "Basically, explaining what the officer is doing."

McClure said the incident was the subject of an internal investigation. It found that officers followed department rules in the arrest, he said.

Daniels' fiancé, Chris Robinson, said the video is from police dash cam footage obtained as evidence in the criminal case against Daniels. They provided the video to the Journal on Tuesday.

Court documents say the incident happened after police stopped Robinson and found that he was barred from driving. The car, with New Jersey plates, was a rental vehicle. Daniels was a passenger.

During the stop, Tyler asked Daniels what her name was and she answered with a profanity, the documents said. The officer then asked if she had identification, and she again swore at the officer, according to records. Daniels then attempted to make a cell phone call and the officer told her to hang up, which escalated into a scuffle, the documents allege.

The incident left Daniels with a blackened right eye and severe bruising over her body, she said. She sought medical attention and took photos of the marks, as did police, she said. Police would not comment on her injuries.

Daniels said she is pursuing a civil case against police and plans to hire an attorney soon. She said she didn't want to talk about specifics in the case.

A version of the video was first posted on YouTube and Facebook. Daniels and Robinson deny that they put the video online.

Isolated Amazon Tribe Captured For The First Time on Video

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Caught on camera: Isolated Amazon tribe captured for the first time on video before vanishing into the woods after encounter with 'the enemy'

A newly released video captures the first fleeting images of an indigenous tribe living in Brazil's Amazon jungle that is thought to have been almost entirely isolated from the outside world.

The rare images show several members of the Kawahiva tribe walking through dense foliage.

Naked men carry bows and arrows, and a woman totes a child on her back. The woman runs away after noticing the camera, and one man briefly doubles back to investigate.

Loggers first reported the existence of the Kawahiva in 1999. A reservation was created last year in the western state of Mato Grosso, but members of the tribe still face grave threats from loggers and farmers.

The video was shot in 2011 by a government agency overseeing indigenous affairs, but was only released Wednesday.

The video clip, which clocks in at 1 minute, 26 seconds, was made by a team of explorers from the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) - the Brazilian government agency responsible for mapping out and protecting lands traditionally inhabited by indigenous communities.

The recording shows nine members of the rarely seen Kawahiva tribe walking naked through the jungle, armed with bows and arrows.

They were spotted while traveling from one village to another in the heart of the forest bordering the states of Mato Grosso and Amazonas, according to the Brazilian site Jornal Hoje.

At one point, an indigenous woman appears in the frame carrying a child. In the next moment, she becomes alarmed after noticing strangers filming them.
After being warned by his clansmen, a Kawahiva warrior retraces his steps and then hides behind the foliage to observe the intruders.

Once they establish that the newcomers pose no danger to them, the entire group disappear into the dense woods.

The original video recorded by the FUNAI employees contained audio, which picked up on conversations between the Kawahiva tribesman spoken in the Tupi-Kawahiva language, which is common to several tribes in the region.

According to Suely Cabral Anna Arruda, a linguist from the University of Brasilia, the indigenous peopleS in the video were discussing an upcoming hunting expedition when one of the women noticed the camera crew, yelling to the others, 'tapui,' which can be roughly translated as 'it's the enemy.'

FUNAI employee Jair Candor, who recorded the footage, has made many trips to the remote area of the Amazon to monitor and protect the tribe without forcing contact with them.

'We were not there to meet them,' he emphasized to Jornal Hoje.

Prior to the 2011 expedition, which yielded the rare footage of the tribe, scientists only had scant evidence to rely upon in their study of the Kawahiva.

Over the course of two decades, experts have come across several temporary camps in the jungle and found many objects produced by the tribesmen, including a primitive loom used in the making of arrows.

The Kawahiva are hunters-gatherers and lead a nomadic lifestyle, which requires a large territory.

Family hopes for a girl, gets 12th boy

A FAMILY in Michigan in the United States welcomed their 12th child. And, shocker, it’s a boy — just like the other 11.
Jay and Kateri Schwandt believed the latest baby might break the gender streak, especially after Kateri, known as Teri, was nine days past her due date. That was unusual for her pregnancies.
But it was hardly a game-changer as a nurse at a Grand Rapids hospital announced delivery of another boy.
Tucker weighed in at 3.52 kilograms.

“Of course. There was a chuckle in the whole room,” Teri, 38, said on Thursday.

“I looked at my husband, and we exchanged a knowing smile. When they say it’s a boy, I think, OK, no problem. I’ve got this. We know what we’re doing.”

Tyler is the oldest son at 21. When the school year starts, three Schwandt boys will be in high school, while five brothers are in lower grades. That leaves three more at home with Teri.
The Schwandts, who live north of Grand Rapids, consider themselves devout Roman Catholics who don’t believe in using birth control and put the size of their family in God’s hands. Teri comes from a family of 14 kids. But she’s not the only member of her own family committed to the cause.

She has a sister in the Detroit area, Kate Osberger, who has 10 children of her own. Yep, all sons.

Vietnam War victims found in jungle after 40 years in seclusion

Vietnam War victims found in jungle

An 82-year-old man and his 41-year-old son have been found living in a forest in central Vietnam after they went missing during the country's war with the US, an official says.

The older man could communicate a little in the Cor ethnic minority language, but his son only knew a few words, an official at Tay Tra commune in Quang Ngai province said on Thursday on condition of anonymity.
Ho Van Thanh was last seen running into the woods with his then-infant son Ho Van Lang after a bomb exploded in his home, killing his wife and two other children in 1973, newspaper Dan Tri reported.
They were discovered when two people from a nearby village ventured 40 kilometres into the forest looking for firewood and spotted the two men's tree house. The villagers reported the find to local authorities who recovered the pair on Wednesday.

The two men survived by cultivating forest vegetables and hunting animals. They had no contact with the outside world, the report said.

An 82-year-old man Vietnam War

North Korea's Inside brutal prison camps

The North Korean military has put on a lavish display to mark the anniversary of the armistice which ended the Korean War. But despite the truce nearly 60 years ago, North Korea is still seen as a volatile nation. It has been condemned by other countries for its nuclear testing programme and its record of human rights violations – in particular its use of brutal prison camps. One man who knows all about the country's abuse of human rights is Shin Dong-hyuk – the only man born inside a North Korean prison camp who managed to escape. His story has been documented in a book 'Escape from Camp 14' by journalist Blaine Harden. Here the author offers Yahoo! News a startling picture of what life is like in notoriously secretive North Korea.
A naked Shin was hung from the ceiling by his arms and legs, his body in the shape of a U. Just a boy at the time, he was lowered by a winch towards a tub of burning charcoal. Crazed with pain, he smelled his burning flesh. A guard then pierced his stomach with a hook on a pole and held him over the fire until he lost consciousness. This was just one instance of the brutal torture Shin experienced and witnessed at Camp 14 – one of North Korea’s inhumane prison camps.
American Journalist Blaine Harden spent years trying to gain the trust of Shin, now in his late 20s, so that his story could be told. He tells us: "The purpose of writing the book is to grab people by the throat and explain how North Korea operates and Shin’s story does that so well because no one has told it before."

Shin is the only person to be born in a prison camp who has escaped and lived to tell the tale.
His only crime? Being related to his father’s brothers who escaped to South Korea after the Korean War in the 1950s. There are people like Shin who were born in the camps and never allowed to leave and others, considered defectors, who are either there for ‘rehabilitation’ - or more likely until they die.
Harden says: "They can arrest anybody they want, for any reason, without any charge and take them away in the middle of the night and never tell them why they were taken."

The camps have been around since the late 1950s and Harden says they have always operated in almost exactly the same way. He says: "There is an incredible culture of brutality. Working people to death, usually by the time they’re in their mid-40s, they have executions, guards who are at liberty to murder, rape and torment the prisoners without any sanctions against them. They are taught to regard the prisoners as pigs and dogs. They can rape them, impregnate them, kill the babies and kill the women. They can also beat children to death if they’re in the mood."
A total of 60 former camp inmates have told their stories to human rights investigators. Harden explains how those interviews, carried out separately across a decade, tell a remarkably consistent story about how the camps operate, what life is like, who lives, who dies, why and how.
Shin was starved, beaten and raised as a slave in a culture of disclosure and reward. He reported his mother and brother for plotting an escape which ultimately led to their execution.
Harden says: "How Shin was raised in the camp is an example of the sort of mentality that is spread across the country. There are about 170,000 secret police in North Korea. They are in virtually every apartment block, every village. They are there to incentivise people to snitch on each other. And children, relatives and friends do snitch on each other."

An estimated 200,000 people are detained in prison camps and there are fears the camps are growing. Satellite images show the existence of the camps, yet North Korea still denies their presence to the rest of the world.
But people in North Korea know the camps exist. "They know that every once in a while people disappear into the night – an entire family," says Harden. "And they know if they speak out there’s a chance that they could join them."
People may be scared into silence but they are armed with more knowledge. Despite its extravagant ceremonial parades and military displays, North Korea is poor. Times are hard and although the Kim family rulers have tried to isolate the notoriously secretive country from the rest of the globe, censoring media, preventing access to the internet and effectively starving the populace of information, knowledge about the wealth and freedoms in the outside world has seeped through into this totalitarian state. 
More electronic products such as DVDs, radios and USB sticks are crossing the border illegally, primarily from China, and the number of radios that can tune into outside radio stations has increased. A recent survey of all defectors who have fled the country revealed that while in North Korea, 60 per cent were able to listen to outside radio stations on a daily basis.
Harden says: "They know more about the outside world but their ability to act on it and interact with each other based on the new information they have is not changing very much at all. There’s no civil society inside North Korea. People do not get together. They cannot meet in more than groups of three or four anywhere and people cannot travel easily within the country so they are socially and politically atomised."

Harden believes that life may have actually got worse under new leader Kim Jong-Un, who was declared the 'Supreme Leader' of North Korea at the end of 2011 following the death of his father.
He says: "It seems to have gone backwards in some ways. The border has been effectively closed down, people are not crossing or fleeing the country. The number of defectors arriving in South Korea has been cut significantly in the past year. Kim Jong-Un recognised that having this porous border was allowing people to go off and tell stories to human rights people and he wanted to end it. The Government has lost none of its appetite for cruelty."

5 Things bizarre sex found in studies

Sex is one area that always stirs controversy. Information is diverse and colorful, and seemingly never enough. That is why researchers are all sorts of studies and keep us abreast of new discoveries. Here are seven things discovered bizarre sex education, according to Oprah.com.

1. Men with belly "hold" more

Over time, size men are "rounded". And it seems that this is in their favor. At least, that according to a study published in The International Journal of Impotence Research. It was found, after some research involving many different weight rule that men with a higher body mass index maintained a lay up to five minutes longer than men "held that the ring". Researchers explanation would be that fat contains a hormone called estradiol that slows the ability to ejaculate. However, too much fat leads to erectile dysfunction disease who suffer most obese men.
2. Sex toys can lower libido

According to studies conducted in the Netherlands by the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, looks like some sex toys contain increased concentrations of phthalates. In contact with genital tract, these chemicals contribute long-term to lower sex hormone, which affects libido.

3. The link between female orgasm and feet

A study at the University of Groningen has revealed that women can raise the rate of orgasms by up to 80% if you wear socks while having sex. Researchers say cold feet prevent women quietly enjoy a game of love. Explanation would be that area of ​​the brain associated with sexual pleasure is very close to the area that "feels" foot comfort. The study appeared in the book "Free Women's brain power", written by Dr. Daniel Amen.

4. Bad odor and safer sex

Researchers at the University of New Mexico found that young people tend to use condoms more often when you are in a room that smells bad, than in one that smells nice. Scientists say that after unpleasant smell, the brain enters a state of alert and automatically, the man has a tendency to protect themselves from diseases.

5. Number of sexual partners depends on your family

A group of researchers at Florida Atlantic University says the number of sex partners who have over life has a lot to do with members of their families. More specifically, the first born has fewer sexual partners and married faster than do the second or third born. The explanation? Older siblings identify more with their parents because they are the first models that I see in life. Younger siblings do not have the same expectations and limitations that have several models.

5 things you must not tell sex partners

Sometimes, you say words then regret it. Some are easily overlooked, but others can lead to rupture of a relationship, the more that it's a love relationship.

Here are 5 things you must not tell sex partners:


1. "And my ex / my ex / to do that!"

If you want me to take a compliment, it is certainly not flattering one. NO you compare current / loved / the ex-/ a, under any circumstances, nor positive or negative sense.

2. "Is not that X is really sexy?"

Besides the fact that it can be very embarrassing, it can make you question the other to believe that you are looking for other / other suitors / e On the other hand, the answer is very difficult: if honest and say yes, you can cause yourself a bad mood, and if you remember, anyway it's not fair to your relationship. So better avoid this kind of question!

3. "We can not have sex now ... In 5 minutes starts ... (your favorite show)"

Whether it's your favorite episode of a show or entertainment news, or a football game, all can wait or be registered. Not the case, however you just refuse sex partner not to miss favorite TV show.

4. "I'm fine!"

Yes, we mean that it grudgingly told that even you do not believe it. If your partner asks you if you're good couple and you tell him yes without really doing this to be two mistakes. Does not solve the First and Second exclude it from the list of people in front corara open your soul. And if you want a lasting relationship, emotional ties are as important as the sexual relationship. And emotional conextiunea can be created only through honest communication.

5. "You think it's wise to eat something?"

If him / her see the delights of a large donut with chocolate topping, it's time to do them morale, even if it is "hidden". Anything you say can be translated into "I have gained lately! It's time to give up nonsense. " If you need to say that it would be preferable to abstain, especially if you're a man.

Naked and Afraid Reality Show; What do you think ?

Naked and Afraid'' is a new reality show on Discovery Channel sending two naked people in the wilderness to survive. Is it the latest in crass reality? Or is it really intriguing? Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and the TYT Supreme Court.

"Naked and Afraid," Discovery's new reality show premiering Friday, follows two different people each week as they are deposited in a taxing, remote wilderness environment where they have to survive for three weeks without food, water, shelter or clothes. When the first clips of "Naked and Afraid" hit the internet, the show got a lot of attention, as shows with naked people tend to do. It seemed like the latest series to push the bad taste envelope: "Survivor," but nakeder."*