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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: ScubaGuy on June 01, 2010, 08:13:03 AM
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This thread is definite proof that drugs will make you paranoid.
DUmmie paranoia (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8460468#8460627)
Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jun-01-10 07:28 AM
Original message
Is North Korea radically different? Too many CAMERAS not enough Food
Life inside the North Korean bubble
by Sue Lloyd-Roberts
BBC Newsnight, North Korea
As we arrived at Pyongyang's airport our mobile phones were confiscated and throughout our stay in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea there was no access to the internet.
At the hotel our government minders had booked rooms alongside ours, and on the one occasion that we tried to leave without them we were reported and reprimanded.
From exchanges with our minders, we also learned that our rooms were bugged. But then we were not being singled out, the entire country lives in a bubble of unreality, cut off from the outside world and watched by an army of informers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8701959...
Is this ass hat really trying to compare us to NK?
NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jun-01-10 07:32 AM
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1. North Korea must be taking its cues from us
Next thing you know they will do is enact a Patriot Act so it becomes legal to spy on its citizens.
Don
KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jun-01-10 07:38 AM
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2. Fortunately Not...
While our liberties have been infringed and privacy is becoming harder to come by, it's nothing like the repressive situation in a totalitarian state like North Korea. There's a paranoia that their myths will be destroyed by information and the only way they can stay in power is to invade every aspect of life. It truly is a surreal world...a remnant of the "Soviet system" that hangs on against the tide of change.
NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jun-01-10 07:43 AM
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3. North Korea must be writing our school books then
Edited on Tue Jun-01-10 07:43 AM by NNN0LHI
>>>There's a paranoia that their myths will be destroyed by information and the only way they can stay in power is to invade every aspect of life.<<<
Because thats about what they are doing down in Texas.
Cheers ...
Don
Jeffersons Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jun-01-10 08:36 AM
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8. there are differences of course, but I bet we're monitored as close...
I was only focusing on surveillance, which is more advanced here. we likely have a better availability of food and cameras that film the public. I bet some Federal Agency or another monitors EVERY store/ parking lot in the USA. Certainly, there are more secret cameras in America than we care to think about.
I'm sure the CIA is employing tens of millions of agents to do this. :banghead:
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Isn't it the Obama administration that has announced that ISP's must log every website visited in the last 2 years? Isn't it the Obama administration that wants to track every cell phone and read every e-mail?
Kim Jong-Obama?
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oh man! I got a headache from all of that stupid bunched up in so few posts. :bawl:
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LOL!!! Yeah, the Feds are watching EVERY parking lot. :mental:
Greyt comedy. :lmao:
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I wondered why all the black Fords with dark windows were in the parking lot at the Holiday Inn express on I-40. It also explains how come there was only 10 room available. Oh, and I had to show my papers at every exit on the turnpike.