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Me: “It was bullshit. It’s all bullshit. You ever heard of Smedley Butler?”
“I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as
a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps.
I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to
Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a
high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the
Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
…
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during
that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big
Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a
gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico
safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a
decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I
helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the
benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International
Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the
Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped
make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China
in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.
Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best
he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on
three continents.”
The song with words by Ri Hye Jong and music by Kim Kang Nam was introduced through media on the New Year’s Day.
It reflects the strong feelings of the Korean people regarding the
national flag as their own lives and their steadfast will to display the
dignity and might of the DPRK to the whole world from year to year.
As soon as the song came into being, it has become a favorite song for men and women of all ages in the country.
Singing this song, they are working hard to make innovative successes at their worksites.
Jong Kwang Yong, a worker of the Pyongyang Thermal Power Complex, told KCNA:
The song makes me feel high pride living in socialist Korea. The words
that the national flag represents our glory and our eternal future and
its beam will cover the whole world inspire me with redoubled courage
and passion.
I will fully discharge my duty as a member of the heroic Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il working class for the prosperity of the country.
Meetings Held to Vow to Implement Tasks Set Forth in New Year Address
[January 12 Juche 108 (2019) KCNA]
Meetings to vow to carry through the tasks set forth by Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un
in his New Year Address were held at units in the fields of
agriculture, fishery, light industry, construction, land management,
literature and art, public health and sports.
Reports and speeches were made there.
Reporters and speakers said that Kim Jong Un’s
historic New Year Address was an inspiring banner as it gives
confidence in bright future of socialist Korea and the revolutionary
self-confidence to all the people who turned out as one in the march in
the new year.
They called upon all the people to perform heroic feats in the grand
revolutionary march for building a prosperous country, noting that last
year’s proud struggle hardened the conviction that the ideology,
strength and way of the DPRK are the best and no force can check the
sacred cause of the DPRK advancing to accomplish a far-reaching ideal
and goal.
They expressed their resolution to push ahead with the all-out drive for
attaining the goals of the five-year strategy for national economic
development, holding high the slogan “Let us open a new road of advance
for socialist construction under the uplifted banner of self-reliance!”
“Before the 1450s, Europeans considered Africans exotic but not necessarily inferior. As more and more nations joined the slave trade, Europeans came to characterize Africans as stupid, backward, and uncivilized. Amnesia set in; Europe gradually found it convenient to forget that Moors from Africa had brought Spain and Italy much of the learning that led to the Renaissance. Europeans had known that Timbuktu, with its renowned university and library, was a center of learning. Now, forgetting Timbuktu, Europe and European Americans percieved Africa as the “dark continent”. By the 1850s many white Americans, including some Northerners, claimed that black people were so hopelessly inferior that slavery was a proper form of education for them; it also removed them physically from the alleged barbarism of the “dark continent”.”
December 26, 1893: Birthday of Comrade Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese Revolution, great teacher of the world’s working class and oppressed peoples.
“It is good if we are attacked by the enemy, since it proves that we have drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves. It is still better if the enemy attacks us wildly and paints us as utterly terrible and without a single virtue; it demonstrates that we have not only drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves but achieved a great deal in our work.“
- Mao Zedong, “To Be Attacked by the Enemy is Not a Bad Thing But a Good Thing”
Lots of dishes were named after their materials. But a dish is named after its vessel. It is Sinsollo.
Originally
it was the name of a unique vessel for boiling food. Then it gradually
changed into the name of the food boiled in the vessel. The dish has the
following history. During the period of feudal Joson dynasty a Jong Hui
Ryang lived a retired life alone in a deep mountain. He made a brazier
of a singular shape and carried it by his side to cook in it wild
animals he caught or wild vegetables he picked. At that time people
likened him to a spirit (sinson in Korean), and called the brazier sinsollo in the meaning that it was the one used by the spirit-like elderly man.
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