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[Loud Whispers]

It's a relative thing. /int/ was most certainly born in the darkness, but I recall it not having the undercurrent of /pol/ natsocs that it does now.

That's about as retarded as saying /b/ was never racist, the halfchan /int/ you see now is flooded with reddit normies who like polandball
Who do you think created Sweden YES? Rhymes with lint

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Cheeky calais immigrant camp has turned into a small city

[Guardian G.I.]

It's a relative thing. /int/ was most certainly born in the darkness, but I recall it not having the undercurrent of /pol/ natsocs that it does now.

That's about as retarded as saying /b/ was never racist, the halfchan /int/ you see now is flooded with reddit normies who like polandball

Which is pretty ironic, because Polandball was created by Krautchan's /int/.

[Dorsidwarf]

Merkel is Time's person of the year, narrowly beating out al-Baghdadi.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Here's some actual North Korea news.

[ChairmanPoo]

I shit you not: the Spanish Internal Affairs minister has claimed in a major newspaper that he has a guardian angel called Marcelo, on whom he relies for advice. Particularily in regards to parking the car.




Suddenly the last four years start making sense

[Frumple]

I, uh. That -elo seems to suggest that whatever it is, it's not an angel >_>

[wierd]

Here's some actual North Korea news.

The world will thank us for freeing them from your imperialism!

[Bouchart]

I shit you not: the Spanish Internal Affairs minister has claimed in a major newspaper that he has a guardian angel called Marcelo, on whom he relies for advice. Particularily in regards to parking the car.

Well, has he gotten any parking tickets lately?

[Culise]

I, uh. That -elo seems to suggest that whatever it is, it's not an angel >_>

What's wrong with the letter "o"?  The only thing I can think of is that it denotes a masculine noun in Spanish, but all of the named archangels in Christianity are...well, genderless, I believe, but uniformly depicted as masculine, so unless I'm incorrect (easily the case), that's likely not the hang-up you're thinking of.

[Sheb]

North Korean boat filled with bodies are washing up on the coast of Japan.

[martinuzz]

North Korean boat filled with bodies are washing up on the coast of Japan.

That link is unreadable without creating an account at the Economist

[TempAcc]

Just close the screen popup thing. I can read it fine, but I'll post it here just in case:

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FOR millennia the Tsushima current running north-eastward up the west coast of Japan has brought abundance to fishermen. More recently it has brought less welcome rubbish, as well as giant jellyfish grown monstrous on the effluence from the industrial revolutions taking place in China and South Korea. Now the current is giving up perhaps its grimmest cargo yet: rickety boats filled with corpses. Since October over a dozen vessels have been found drifting in Japanese waters. The latest, recovered on December 6th off the coast of Aomori prefecture in Japan’s north-east, contained four badly decomposed bodies. It brings the death toll from the ghost boats to 25.

Japan’s coastguard will not speculate on the boats’ origin, but everything—including their wooden build and primitive, flat-bottomed design, as well as cigarette packets found on board—points to reclusive North Korea. The bodies have been cremated, unclaimed and unnamed.

They were probably fishermen for squid, who were caught out in storms and who died of exposure or thirst. Fishermen in Fukui prefecture in north-central Japan say that a capsized vessel found about 100 kilometres (62.5 miles) off the coast last month had only primitive gear for catching squid and lacked even a VHF radio. “It’s incredible that it got this far,” says Mitsumasa Sakashita, one of the fishermen.

Little happens in North Korea without the say-so of the young dictator, Kim Jong Un, and the ghost vessels may attest to that. He has pushed the state-owned seafood industry to increase its haul. Seafood is North Korea’s sixth-biggest export. Running the business has long been in the gift of the army. It ensures that troops are fed first, and that the army earns hard cash—seafood exports to China, especially of crab and clams, were $67m in 2012, according to the South Korean government. That is not much by the standards of any normal country, but a fortune in North Korea. A power struggle for control of the North’s fisheries is thought by some to have led to the downfall and execution in late 2013 of Kim Jong Un’s uncle, Jang Sung Taek.

Now, says Kim Yong-hyun from Dongguk University in Seoul, the South Korean capital, the North is pressing fishermen to go farther out to sea. Japan’s coastguard says over 400 North Korean squid boats were spotted near its exclusive economic zone last year, up from 110 in 2013. A big convention of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, the first since 1980, will take place in May. Kim Jong Un, says Mr Kim of Dongguk University, will want to show how well the regime is working under him.

North Korea has haunted this Japanese coast before. In the 1970s North Korean agents snatched schoolgirls and salarymen from villages to work as translators and to train North Koreans as spies. Very occasionally, defectors have been known to wash up too. The latest deaths are tragic, says Mr Sakashita. After all, he says, they were fellow fishermen who died alone with no one to mourn them.

[martinuzz]

aw those poor sods

[Sheb]

According to interviews with senior Commission officials, the Commission is going to propose the creation of a European border agency 1200-2000 strong that could be deployed at the Commission's discretion in case of emergencies.

Interestingly, they want the power to deploy their border guards even if the state they're deployed to object. Of course, so few men won't make much of a difference at first, but if that agency is expanded, they could become a major force. I welcome it of course, just as the Euro crisis showed that a common monetary policy without fiscal transfers is doomed, the current refugee crisis show the issue of a border-free zone without a European framework to manage it. It could also make the refugees resettlement deal easier to swallow for Eastern European.

[Helgoland]

How are these guys going to be financed?