Do you take North Korean threats seriously?

[belamyi]

Likewise, my point about not just goofing around with subjects means that shallow satire, bad satire which goes just for the clownish side and forgets meaningfulness to real life, is against the very principle of satire: if, say, you depict American policemen as a boys club of doughnut-devourers dressed in a judge's robe because, to their own understanding, they ARE the law, you would be leaving out what policemen are for and what they DO do, apart from the easy-trigger and racism cases.

 

[zoltanspawn]

You don't mean my posts in which I say that if America is not able to make satire from covert rampant racism and easy-trigger policemen, how can you expect any sort of dictatorship to be more open to the concept of "free speech"... do you?

Which countries are perfectly enough endowed with "moral authority" to discuss the failings of other nations?

 

[belamyi]

Which countries are perfectly enough endowed with "moral authority" to discuss the failings of other nations?

All of them, according to each one of their leaders and the public opinion backing them.

 

[star-warrior]

Suspected US cyber terrorism downs N Korea's internet system

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...otally-down-as-US-cyber-attack-suspected.html

 

[belamyi]

 

[zoltanspawn]

The United Nations' ..."inquiry concluded that North Korea was committing human rights violations "without parallel in the contemporary world," and that these were ordered by the highest level of the state.

"Rarely has such an extensive charge sheet of international crimes been brought to the council's attention," UN assistant secretary-general for human rights Ivan Simonovic told the council.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

The United Nations' ..."inquiry concluded that North Korea was committing human rights violations "without parallel in the contemporary world," and that these were ordered by the highest level of the state.

"Rarely has such an extensive charge sheet of international crimes been brought to the council's attention," UN assistant secretary-general for human rights Ivan Simonovic told the council.

ha
_oil it up aye_
ta tink nos inculdes rest great 1st world lands alls upset

tinkyou

 

[belamyi]

The United Nations' ..."inquiry concluded that North Korea was committing human rights violations "without parallel in the contemporary world," and that these were ordered by the highest level of the state.

"Rarely has such an extensive charge sheet of international crimes been brought to the council's attention," UN assistant secretary-general for human rights Ivan Simonovic told the council.

We were not discussing whether North Korea is a bad country (just like China, as I was reminded when I tried to access an American website from Beijing: yes, "China, bad country"...) or that America, no matter what and how, is preferable, "better" to any other country around... at least for the time being, the future America is a different matter.

We were dealing, or so I thought we were, how those serious facts were seriously being dealt with, beyond the mere goofing in a Hollywood product, the holier-than-thou official reports.

However, I am not sure whether we can play decide to establish the Khmer or Stalinist regimes as even worse than any Kim ruling... and that after deciding to omit a few others, as SLOPs commented.

 

[zoltanspawn]

We were dealing, or so I thought we were, how those serious facts were seriously being dealt with...

Huh. The link mentioned how the United Nations' inquiry is very possibly laying the groundwork for charges before the ICC. Not serious enough?

But I digress from the real content of this thread, that hypocrite Angela Lansbury.

 

[belamyi]

Huh. The link mentioned how the United Nations' inquiry is very possibly laying the groundwork for charges before the ICC. Not serious enough?

America is the first one not to take seriously that sad joke that is the impotent UN.

But I digress from the real content of this thread, that hypocrite Angela Lansbury.

I thought she was more a stage climber, but I never cared that much about her.

 

[zoltanspawn]

America is the first one not to take seriously that sad joke that is the impotent UN.

Since you don't think "all" countries have the authority to discuss North Korea, that means only some, or no countries at all, do.

As the sad joke UN is now off the table too, which country, what entity, can?

Where is the sinless, effective organism that shames all these others?

 

[belamyi]

1.- Since you don't think "all" countries have the authority to discuss North Korea, that means only some, or no countries at all, do.

2.- As the sad joke UN is now off the table too, which country, what entity, can?

3.- Where is the sinless, effective organism that shames all these others?

1.- The UN is "all countries" together, like the National Assembly of China is "all the Chinese ".

2.- Nowhere, no country, nobody, because...

3.- Nobody is sinless because there is always someone to put the sin on however can appear as sinless and leave the rest appear as sinful. Heck, are you asking me to reveal you what life and the world is all about, when were you born, ten posts ago?

 

[pat grimshaw]

America is the first one not to take seriously that sad joke that is the impotent UN....

I'm amazed that during the Cold War when the USSR and USA were threatening to nuke each other that the dopey UN would be located in the centre of Capitalism. No wonder Mohammed Acca want to bomb New York.

 

[belamyi]

I'm amazed that during the Cold War when the USSR and USA were threatening to nuke each other that the dopey UN would be located in the centre of Capitalism. No wonder Mohammed Acca want to bomb New York.

The UN is surrounded by, not located in... you don't need to have watched The Interpreter to know about that.

 

[zoltanspawn]

2.- Nowhere, no country, nobody, because...

3.- Nobody is sinless because there is always someone to put the sin on however can appear as sinless and leave the rest appear as sinful.

No one should talk about extrajudicial executions, etc. Okay.

In better news, The Interview is now scheduled to appear in theaters shortly.

 

[pat grimshaw]

The UN is surrounded by, not located in... you don't need to have watched The Interpreter to know about that.

Is that the movie with Clooney and that Plastic Woman?

I have only paid to see one Clooney movie. (He must be close to retirement now. Why did he go to Switzerland???).
That Plastic Woman is a jinx for me because I was invited for a date by a new man. Twice! I think they must have been both put off by my groaning in the cinema.

 

[belamyi]

No one should talk about extrajudicial executions, etc. Okay.

In better news, The Interview is now scheduled to appear in theaters shortly.

To chatter about is not changing anything: it is a good individual option to "talk about" wrong when society, the "good people" and governments are deaf and totally refractory to the issues, and in that hopeless situation all you can hope for is to at least maintain the topic there, even if nobody takes it seriously,

the main difference about democracies and dictatorships is not so much about the absence or presence of liberties, but how they too often pursue the same ends through different means: dictatorships supress "talking about" altogether, democracies, promote all sorts of prattle until people who never knew better get even more confused and just as manipulable.

"Talking about" is never worth anything as long as the rest do not EFFECTIVELY follow it, not merely clap to it, and truth is not something depending on a lone soldier fighting for it, or a melodramatic stage like the one in the video: if society and those who "talk about" can do nothing more than that, hoping that, somehow, the light will be made on those ignorant of horrors... if people do not have the capacity to inquiry by themselves and understand by themselves before it gets to the own backyards, even if there is no "talking about" as part of the daily prattle through all the different means and media, you increase the ado to make a nothing about the most serious issues.



The more you merely "talk about", the farther you stray away from the main topic, so that in this case it is not about North Korean people suffering under a ruthless regime anymore (allowing it EVER actually was about that), but about Americans getting pissed by being told what they can or can not do by filthy commies.

 

[belamyi]

Is that the movie with Clooney and that Plastic Woman?

I have only paid to see one Clooney movie. (He must be close to retirement now. Why did he go to Switzerland???).
That Plastic Woman is a jinx for me because I was invited for a date by a new man. Twice! I think they must have been both put off by my groaning in the cinema.

No, it's the one with Madonna's first ex and the plastic woman.

 

[zoltanspawn]

To chatter about is not changing anything: it is a good individual option to "talk about" wrong when society, the "good people" and governments are deaf and totally refractory to the issues, and in that hopeless situation all you can hope for is to at least maintain the topic there, even if nobody takes it seriously,

the main difference about democracies and dictatorships is not so much about the absence or presence of liberties, but how they too often pursue the same ends through different means: dictatorships supress "talking about" altogether, democracies, promote all sorts of prattle until people who never knew better get even more confused and just as manipulable.

"Talking about" is never worth anything as long as the rest do not EFFECTIVELY follow it, not merely clap to it, and truth is not something depending on a lone soldier fighting for it, or a melodramatic stage like the one in the video: if society and those who "talk about" can do nothing more than that, hoping that, somehow, the light will be made on those ignorant of horrors... if people do not have the capacity to inquiry by themselves and understand by themselves before it gets to the own backyards, even if there is no "talking about" as part of the daily prattle through all the different means and media, you increase the ado to make a nothing about the most serious issues.

The more you merely "talk about", the farther you stray away from the main topic, so that in this case it is not about North Korean people suffering under a ruthless regime anymore (allowing it EVER actually was about that), but about Americans getting pissed by being told what they can or can not do by filthy commies.

I expect that the horrors you prattle about are not subject to the same criticism. Perhaps we've found our sinless organism.

 

[skinIsIn]

Guess none of this matters - Sony decided to cancel the release.

And, to add to this, a Steve Carell movie, 'Pyongyang', just got the ax.

Guess we know who runs Hollywood this week.

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