#third-world

[usafeaturesmedia]

If you live in California, get out -- or get used to living in a third-world environment without power

If you live in California, get out — or get used to living in a third-world environment without power

(TNS) The United States is an ultra-modern, first-world member of the Global North of nations, but increasingly, it’s not looking that way in one corner of the country.

Thanks to the fact that the Golden State is 110 percent owned and operated by the Garbage Party, it’s become a third-world shithole on the same level, in many respects, as some of the most backward countries in the Global South.

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New Post has been published on http://www.therakyatpost.com/lifestyle/2014/05/11/eric-lafforgues-photos-reveal-real-north-korea/

Eric Lafforgue's photos reveal the real North Korea

NORTH Korea remains a closed country for many, with only a few being able to enter the country and witness the ordinary people of the country living their lives.

Photographer Eric Lafforgue, however, has enabled us to have a glimpse into the lives of North Korea via his book, Banned From North Korea.

Talking to The Daily Mail, Lafforgue revealed that he was now banned from entering North Korea after the country’s authorities found out that he managed to slip out with photos he took that the authorities wanted him to destroy.

“Every visitor is warned not to take photos without the consent of the guides as soon as they arrive in Pyongyang, but in reality, it is impossible for them to monitor everything, especially when travelling with groups.

“They insist that you do not take photos of anything to do with the military and anything that could suggest poverty — even when you explain to them that it exists all over the world and even in France.”

The photos taken by Lafforgue suggest that North Korea is a third-world country, a fact that the authorities of the country try hard to mask, even to its own citizens.

He noted that while the North Koreans he encountered seemed “happy”, the poverty that existed in the country was unmistakeable.

“The guides tell you that they (teenagers) work in the fields in the same way that teenagers here have summer jobs (but) the difference is that in Europe they are paid, while in North Korea, it is a collective duty.

“I must say that they always seemed ‘happy’ and did not appear to be miserable, but the gap between poverty and patriotic enthusiasm is a narrow one.”

Lafforgue said that as a photographer, he wants to document what he sees, not what the authorities in North Korea wanted him to.

“I tried to document North Korea in the same way I would any other country in the world, but for them to accept it, you really need to follow their rules and for me, some of those rules just weren’t acceptable.”

Lafforgue’s book is available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/banned-from-north-korea/id687297046?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 and his interview with The Daily Mail can be accessed here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2624164/North-Korea-Starving-people-child-labourers-dilapidated-homes-appear-harrowing-new-images-taken-inside-rogue-state.html

[opalescent-soul]

Girl school bombed in Afghanistan

Do you know what I hate? Those third world countries who bomb schools the Americans build for little girls to learn in.  Third world countries seem to believe girls don't have the right to learn.  An all-female school in Afghanistan got bombed.  Five teachers and three girls were killed.  More were wounded.  Two girls got kidnapped from the bombsite.  Both of them have been found.  One girl is ten, she has cigarette burns over 70% of her body. The other is fifteen, she had hot oil thrown onto her face and now she is blind.  Reblog this if you want to help in the search for the people who did this.  Reblog if you want to stop people like them and bring them to justice.

[raskolnikoviscoming]

Who can do justice to somebody like that ? A man whose wit is so insufferably cocky that it is ten times as effective for being so. A man who is a one-man-theater-spectacle in ever sense of the term. A man whose days and nights are spent in the muddy backwaters of third-world poverty as he saunters through his kingdom ; the small-town courts of a subcontinental village. This is a man who is well into his forties but roars with laughter like a man of twenty , this is a man who still oscillates between extremes, A man with deeply entrenched flaws, a man with unquestionable talent , in effect ; a man who deserves much more. 

[m33d0k-blog]

Fun Fact!

Marriage by abduction accounts for over 60% of marriages in Ethiopia!

[cosmic-crocodile]

The exploits of exploitation

I've been thinking, and it has to do with third-world countries in relation to first-world countries. Why is it, that we refer to under-developed/developing countries/nations as third-world? And why do we refer to developed countries as first-world? In context, the naming stems from an exploitation system in which the first-world nation takes goods/services/raw materials from the third-world, in exchange for little or nothing at all. Put into context, the first-world countries would be nothing without the third-world countries being there for them to exploit. The meaning of the naming is clearly for purposes of perpetuating superiority complexes; of which complexes: race/ethnicity/political/economical/or a mixture of some or all, I'm not quite sure. It seems to me that the naming obviously doesn't help the developing nation, but I don't know if it adds any more hindrance (likely it does, I'm just keenly unaware); likewise, I don't see the naming hindering the developed nation, but does it add in someway to the perceived superiority of said nation? I can't imagine anyone or any state/country/institution that is upholding and perpetuating a superiority over something would have a naming system that does nothing to further perpetuate the superiority. I'm implying here that the name, the title "first-world", helps to perpetuate superiority more than the actual exploitation of the developing nation, from which the developed nation gained its power. I would like to discuss this further, perhaps when my brain has been rested.