North Korea says "prepare for war"
Comment from Reddit user the_traveler:
Yesterday: 1. In a speech titled “Second Korean War is Unavoidable,” DPRK’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said, “now that the U.S. is set to light a fuse for a nuclear war, the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will exercise the right to a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors and to defend the supreme interests of the country (Korean News, the DPRK’s official news agency).” North Korea gave this speech hours before the UN Security Council was set to vote on new sanctions against the state.
2. The United Nations passed new sanctions against North Korea targeting arms manufacturers, the export of goods to North Korea, and financial transactions (CBSNews). North Korea threatened that passing these sanctions would constitute “an act of war” (NYTimes).
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The Aftermath of an Acid Attack in Iran (TIME)
This study sheds light on the difference across cultures and the importance of a global focus on promoting women’s rights. Please take a moment to read this, or at least the summary below…
Just before dawn, Sommayeh Mehri’s husband slipped into the bedroom where she slept with her two small daughters and doused their sleeping figures with a bucket of acid. Mehri awoke to excruciating pain and began shouting for help. “I’m burning, I’m burning!” she screamed. Her husband, who had earlier denied Mehri’s request for a divorce, had cut electricity to the house before his attack…
Under qesas, the eye-for-an-eye principle of Iran’s Islamic penal code, Mehri is entitled to ask for compensation and the right to blind and disfigure her husband with acid. Authorities in nearby Bam have been slow to grant Mehri’s divorce, however, and eventually released her husband last year on bail; Mehri has told reporters that he has since threatened her life…
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Indian officials ventured into a deep jungle, investigating several missing persons reports from a nearby city. What they found was a “Tower of Silence,” or dakhma. Zoroastrians use these sites to dispose of bodies in the open air.
While sites like these are not uncommon in certain parts of india, several peculiarities hint at something more unusual…
1. None of the bodies depicted in the photograph were identified. Villagers from nearby, though initially surprised at the sheer number of corpses in the dakhma, proved unable to recognize the bodies. The corpses also do not match the descriptions of the missing people.
2. There were no animals around except for maggots and flies. Zoroastrians rely on birds (i.e. buzzards) to dispose of the bodies, in the belief they are contributing back to the Earth. Officials found the corpses relatively untouched by any sort of animal.
3. There is no official count of the bodies. In fact, little work was actually accomplished at the site and, perhaps, this is why only one photograph has emerged. Officials avoided the spot - not only because they felt uneasy looking at it, but for the following, as well:
4. The deep pit in the center of the photograph was filled with several feet of festering blood - far more than the bodies on the outside could ever supply. The stench was so unbearable that many of the officials began to get nauseous when they first approached the dakhma.
5. The expedition was ended when a villager accidentally kicked a small bone into the pit, penetrating the coagulated surface of the pool. A massive burst of gas from the decomposing blood erupted from the pit, splashing those looking into it, along with the photographer.
Those caught in the explosion were immediately sent to the hospital, where they were quarrantined for possible infection. They became delirious with fever, shouting about “being tainted with the blood of Ahriman” (the personification of evil in Zoroastrianism), despite never having admitted having any familiarity with the religion.
In fact, many of them had no idea what the dakhma was when they had found it. Delirium turned to insanity as many began to attack hospital staff until they were sedated. The fever eventually killed all of them.
When officials returned with HAZMAT gear the following day, the site was empty. All the bodies had been removed and, astonishingly, the pool of blood inthe pit had been drained. All that remained of the incident was this photograph.

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Perspective is relative
Ilya Andreev, via Behance, shows us how to make a laptop stand out of a pizza box!
I am in love with Norway
Surreal reflection over a lake in Iceland
Mesmerizing blue
What You Will Need:
- 1 pkg (or recipe) of Gum Paste
- Powdered Sugar (just enough for dusting your surface & for tossing the mints in)
- Essential Oils or Flavored Oils (I used 3-4 drops per egg-sized portion of gum paste. More if you want stronger flavor! Mine were about average.)
- Food coloring – just a tiny bit is needed! (optional)
- Citric Acid for “sour” flavors – I didn’t use. (optional)
- Plastic straw (the fatter the better)
I figured the gum paste might prove challenging to find…but I found it in the cake decorating section of my local Walmart. The rest of the ingredients you probably already have on hand.
If you can’t find the Gum Paste in Walmart, I found it on Amazon for $10!
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Tree recycled as a log path!
