North Korea has got to be hell on Earth. Amputations are performed without anesthetic, people suffer from malnutrition, spies are every where and the nation is armed to the teeth! The Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il is worshiped as a God and brutality is the order of the day. In a perfect world all the lefties – Oliver Stone, Michael Moore, the Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers would move there. Like Gaza, we should just let that nation fall apart and not get distracted by “humanitarian” issues. The most humanitarian thing we could do for rogue regimes is to let them fall apart.
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by Lauren Frayer
North Korea’s health system is in dire shambles, with amputations being performed without anesthesia, often under candlelight in impoverished hospitals where doctors are paid in cigarettes.
That’s according to a report released today by Amnesty International, outlining disastrous medical conditions in the reclusive communist state and calling on donor countries to send humanitarian aid and stop using North Korea’s residents in a game of “political football” with Pyongyang. The report also notes that North Korea has refused to cooperate fully with the international community in order to receive any aid.
North Korea claims that all medical treatment is free for its citizens, but defectors and health workers interviewed by Amnesty International said people have had to pay for treatment since the 1990s. However, because the country is so poor, many doctors are paid in cigarettes, alcohol or food. Only major surgery requires cash, which many North Koreans don’t have.
“If you don’t have money, you die,” the report quotes a 20-year-old refugee as saying.
Amnesty’s results were based on interviews with defectors and doctors who’ve worked in North Korea, but the group’s researchers weren’t given access to enter the closed communist country themselves. Many of the subjects’ names were omitted to shield their identities, or they gave only a single family name. There’s been no immediate reaction to the report from North Korea’s official media.
The report also describes hospitals that are barely functioning without medicines or even electricity. Epidemics like tuberculosis and anemia have been exacerbated by widespread malnutrition.
“North Korea has failed to provide for the most basic health and survival needs of its people. This is especially true of those who are too poor to pay for medical care,” Catherine Baber, Amnesty International’s deputy director for the Asia-Pacific, said in a statement on the group’s website.
“The North Korean people are in critical need of medical and food aid,” Baber said. “It is crucial that aid to North Korea is not used as a political football by donor countries.”
North Korean hospitals often have to strap patients to operating tables while amputations and other surgeries are performed without anesthesia, the report said. It quotes a 56-year-old woman from the northeastern city of Musan who underwent surgery in 2001 to remove her appendix — without anesthesia.
“I was screaming so much from the pain, I thought I was going to die. They had tied my hands and legs to prevent me from moving,” she said.
Another 24-year-old defector from North Korea’s northeastern Hamkyong province said he had his left leg amputated from the calf down, after he fell from a train and damaged his ankle.
“Five medical assistants held my arms and legs down to keep me from moving. I was in so much pain that I screamed and eventually fainted from pain,” the man was quoted as saying. “I woke up one week later in a hospital bed.”
The World Health Organization estimates that North Korea spends less on health care per capita than any other country in the world. The latest WHO figures show Pyongyang spends less than $1 on health care each year per person.
Read the rest here: Amputations without anesthesia in NKorea
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Less than $1 per person each year for he11 care. What is that buck for? A processing fee for your subscription card?
This is the ultimate end of Leftism. No matter how they smile and smile, their face is that of a grinning skull, their promise is only degredation and death. How many times does this have to play out before the Left will admit that, no, it won’t work this time. The problem isn’t that the right people haven’t attempted socialism yet. The problem is in socialism itself. Socialism is as diseased as Islam or Nazism. It is amazing to me that so many people don’t recognize that. It is still an acceptible thing to be a socialist. It shouldn’t be.
Romney should retire from politics. As Randy Jackson would say,”
SingingPolitics is not your thing, dawg, it is not your thing!”Going for an MRI on my shoulder today, nuclear stress test next week, knee surgery in August, shoulder sometime after, colonscopy in September.
Get yours before the Zero burns the whole shithouse down.
Of course this may overburden the insurance companies and cause them to go bankrupt sooner, but after paying insurance for thirty years and rarely using it…time to cash in on my health care investment.
My own little Cloward-Piven to bring on the inevitable sooner….if its going to be bloody let it be in what time I have left, and not in my children’s time.
@ Iron Fist:
I think we are always going to have evil operatives who want to be the cult leader. That’s what socialism/communism is. Using people. Dominating and controlling them. The bums at the top make promises they do not intend to keep. They are only concerned with power and money. And they are ruthless in going after it.
It’s encouraging that so many Americans are rebelling against the progs. We have never had a King in this country (except for this hack in office) and people are not impressed with what is going on.
@ chickadee:
Without getting all Freudian, it seems to me a lot of people want substitute parents or a more tangible deity in government.
@ chickadee:
The Cult of Personality be it Kim Jong-Il or even on a certain blog is disastrous.
Beware the Fat Police: Obesity rating required for every American by 2014. You fatties have been warned.
@ huckfunn:
I am hoping against hope that the challenges to this insane bill are upheld through the courts. I had a coworker actually tell me she was a socialist and that she’s hoping for the public option to eventually be the standard here in this country, like Canada.
I asked her to Google Bangor, Maine – 12 hospitals for 64,000 people (San Francisco, with a population of over 750,000, has 7). Guess who’s filling those beds, dumpkoff? Canadians who aren’t willing to suffer pain and perhaps death waiting for their fabulous public option to pay for their treatment.
I asked her how many students she thinks will be going into medicine if they’re going to be paid government doctors and told where to practice. Funny, she had no answer to that.
citizen_q wrote:
I agree.
The most pathetic of those are unreachable. These are damaged people who are susceptible to cults in general and are not used to thinking for themselves. (like some of the hapless fools at the BVofAF)
@ Iron Fist:
The Left loves death. That’s why they are allied with Islam.
@ huckfunn:
Yeah that’s part of Eugenics. Create a New Man/Master race.
@ Iron Fist:
At 4:30 PM EST I have a thread that will boil your blood.
Rodan wrote:
I don’t know how much more my blood can boil. It sure as ell is boiling these days. Btw Rodan you surely did a fine job last night. Bravo
@ Carolina Girl:
@ Rodan:
Next up. Health Care Law Mandates ‘Free’ Preventive Care. That entire hellcare bill is an RX for fascism. It must be overturned.
I put this over at the other place. But here it is again. Use your imagination.Doesn’t take much to know what this means.
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You may have a rootkit.
I gotta pack ‘em up and head to Ruidoso, NM. See ya’ll later.
Korea Borealis Delenda Est.
@ Rodan:
Hory clap!
@ Grimcargo:
Thank you and thanks for helping us get Pam. She can call anytime.
Rodan wrote:
She was a joy to have on last night.
The Obama Economic Boom keeps roaring!
Manufacturing cools in June as recovery slows
@ Speranza:
She’s the real deal unlike a certain washed up Jazz Man.
Rodan wrote:
Islam = Death!
huckfunn wrote:
Remember when we laughed abt. the ‘food cops’ in Britain going from house to house making unannounced visits to look in people’s cabinets and refrigerators for ‘outlawed food.’
This is where zero was going when he said, ‘We’re not going to be able to eat all we want and expect the rest of the world to be OK with that.’
This not going to work in America.
fck the progs. the overreaching insulting bastards.
@ Speranza:
Now now Speranza, you might hurt someones feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings…
*eye roll*
Leftists will become upset when they hear that Nork doctors are paid in cigarettes. Smoking is dangerous to your health.
@ Speranza:
Good morning, y’all.
I can only imagine the gnashing of teeth at other places…
@ BuddyG:
Hey, you got a shout out on the radio show last night!
goddessoftheclassroom wrote:
Heads were exploding and blood pressure was rising.
@ m:
Really? I gotta dial-in one of these days, but evenings are usually taken-up by family time. I’ll eventually make it.
What was the topic of discussion?
m wrote:
Yes it is all about feeeeelings – in liberal land.
BuddyG wrote:
You can hear the program in the archives.
chickadee wrote:
Mike Bloomberg’s New York City is all about the nanny state and food cops.
Rodan wrote:
Yes and he (Jazz man) is green with envy. What a loser!
@ BuddyG:
Rodan just said “hey want to give a shoutout to my friend BuddyG” … or something…
You should listen later, Pamela Geller joined us last night!
@ Speranza:
woah woah woah feeeeeeeelings
Obesity will just be another way for the zero regime to deny health care to people.
Fat people need to unite right now.
m wrote:
The worst lounge song ever. You know the party sucks when they play that song. Also I cannot stand Girl From Ipanema and New York, New York
chickadee wrote:
Also to tax you more because the less money you have, the less you will eat.
@ chickadee:
It’s part of the Left’s plan to kill off Fat people, Limit population growth through abortions and kill old people.
@ BuddyG:
We had Pamela Geller on and a whole host of subjects.
@ Rodan:
Lovely. I’m not pissed off enough today :twisted;
@ Rodan:
Pam Geller?! Wow. This Blogmocracy thing is in ascendancy.
Next up Robert Spencer?
Ha Ha in your face selrahC!
I gotta dial in one of these days.
@ Speranza:
Get ready for gulags for the calorie challenged.
@ BuddyG:
Robert Stacy McCain will be next.
Rodan wrote:
Excellent.
@ Rodan:
My favorite McCain.
Pyongyang premium
BuddyG wrote:
Allahpundits favorite McCain is airhead Meghan McCain (who probably voted for Obama).
Rodan wrote:
Snowball will go ballistic! But you know that he and Dork_Falcon, and icejimmah, Hoops, and Cato the Ogre will be listening.
chickadee wrote:
We will all come out looking like Ukrainian peasants in 1935 after the forced famine by Stalin.
Rodan wrote:
He knows that the FDR generation – the ones who will vote Democratic even if Himmler was on the ticket – are dying off in droves so he wants to legalize and register all the illegals in this country to take their place as Democratic voters.
@ Speranza @50:
I don’t mind looking at Meghan but listening to her is another matter.
Time for a smokebreak
Smokebreak over, get back to work.
@ Speranza:
So did her father…
@ chickadee:
So all the fat people stage a protest march somewhere but then gravity takes over and they all spontaneously collapse into one Super Black Hole guy who has the power of time dilation, but then someone spills some lobster blood on him and he turns into Super Black Hole Lobster guy, except the lobster was from the Gulf so now he’s Super Black Hole BP Lobster guy who is a villain…
Yeah I knew it, I could write for AxeCop…
@ Scott Madsen:
Going through similar here and with the same thoughts in mind. I have put off the colonscopy – actually canceled the one I had scheduled.
Finally got myself a ‘primary doc’ this past winter for the 1st time in my life (since an adolescent that is). I never used my health ins. like an idiot I waited until everything start going south. B/P etc. This just freakin’ figures – now that I need it, its all going to go to hell in a hand basket. Same with SS, which I’ll never see, my retirement which will probably go under any time soon etc., etc.
Hate to cry ‘why me’ but really, after all these years of watchin’ everyone else enjoy their retirement…
Misery loves company, glad to hear it ain’t just me Scott !!
Hmmmmmmmmmm
OT- Anything that makes Maxine Waters THIS happy has to REALLY suck.
Bumr50 wrote:
Maxine Waters – “The rioters in LA were looting because they wanted to get diapers for their children”. What a disgrace!
@ 4_Sticks:
I’m in the same position too. My new retirement plan is to drop dead on the job and be found by the weekend cleaning lady.
Obama never misses an oppertunity to miss an oppertunity:
Ain’t that sweet. Obama is going on only his third vacation since the Gulf Oil Disaster began (poor guy), and he isn’t going to the Gulf beaches. He is going to Maine, to get as far away from the spill as possible. Real Leadership, Obama style.
Iron Fist wrote:
There is at least a 40% chance that Maverick did not even vote for himself.
As much as I hate socialized Medicine, North Korea isn’t really a good example to pick. North Korea is a failed society in every way possible.
Nevergiveup wrote:
I figured people wold recognize my hyperbole. Still, socialized medicine sucks a big one.
@ Carolina Girl:
I was shocked to hear so many friends/accurateness come out after the election and say they are Socialists. More shocking were the retired military friends I have that say same. I tracked a few down on FB thinkin’ I’d find like minded for sure knowing they had enlisted years ago and made it a career.I don’t know why I presumed this but I did – figured military career guys were all about G_d, the flag and apple pie. One just moved to So. America with his So. American bride.I didn’t toss out any feelers concerning Chavez etc., didn’t really want to know the answer – would rather remember him as the all American kid he once was. In fact, as kids we called him ‘Opie’ ’cause he looked just like Ron Howard on the ‘A. Griffith Show’.
All smoke and mirrors I guess…
Not sure if anyone has mention this yet:Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on North and South Vietnam
And this stupid piece is in Congress and voting on the future of my country???? G-D help us all.
@ Speranza:
That’s the scheme.
Forgot some people!
Rodan wrote:
You know it and I know it. The alte kokcers (Yiddish for “old farts”) who think that FDR was God on Earth are dying off every day and their automatic votes for the Democratic/Liberals/Progs needs to be replaced.
Speranza @67 wrote:
yup
Carolina Girl wrote:
My go through 7 years of medical school and residency to make peanuts? Better to just work for the post office.
@ 4_Sticks:
I never could understand military people who vote Democratic or Liberal. Beware of military men who go into politics as Dems – Wesley Clark, Tony McPeak, even Stanley McChrystal.
nil stooge wrote:
LOL
@ Speranza:
Rick Santorum on John McCain
chickadee wrote:
We need to stage an eat-in!
@ Bumr50:
Excellent points! Much thanks. If they can portray McCain as some right-wing troglodyte then nobody is safe.
I still think that Obama wants to get Petraeus out of the way as a potential competitor in 2012.
@ chickadee:
“Fat Farms”. Ever see the 60′s (early 70′s ?) flick “Wild In The Streets” ? LSD camps for anyone over 30 (IIRC). I think Shelly Winters and Richard Prior were in it. Shelly had hit rock bottom by this point.
Anyhow, no joke, there are shrinks taking a 2nd look at LSD for psychiatric use.Combine all their concepts and you have fat people tripping in re education/weight reduction camps ! Talk about yer bummer…
Woah, Chucky! Woah, Chucky, Chucky! I found me some Belgain Nazis right here. Just look at that logo, Chucky! It looks just like…
@ Speranza:
I don’t get it either but it may have something to do with the system they operate in/live with. It is like socialism really.”Free” housing, free med care, all quarters look the same/uniform etc. I know room/board and all is figured in with their pay and all but its certainly not the same as ‘civilian life’.
@ snork:
‘TRK’ ??? WTF ??
The logo, not the initials.
@ snork:
It looks like Lud’s wannabe scene logo, LOL!
m wrote:
It’s a Tennessee swastika!!!!!11 And that’s a Belgain outfit!!!!!11 See??? It’s a conspiracy!!!!!11
@ snork:
LOL! Shoot, I bet they don’t want them anymore than the BDSM crowd does!
~:)
m wrote:
LudwigVanQuackquack is the funniest loser over at LGF.
I had the misfortune to see a middle aged Marxist Hippie today boarding a bus wearing a Che Guevara T-Shirt.
snork wrote:
It looks like the little plastic dingus you used to have to put in the whole on a 45 rpm record to fit a normal sized record player spindle…and boy am I dating myself with that reference.
For all of you old fools like me who are AARP members. I know it has turned into a liberal nest of BS. However check out the latest July-August issue of the AARP bulletin on page 12 under the heading of Your Health. These morons are proposing that a small town in Mississippi copy an Iranian model for health care. “a small group of professionals from the US and Iran are quietly working together to practice a new type of medicine in Mississippi”.
I guess they can’t wait for Obama care to slove their problems.
chickadee wrote:
Not just actual fat people, but people who like to eat fat. I weigh 106 lbs, and eat fatty meat, potatoes fried in lard, put real cream in my coffee and so forth. If some stupid diseased commie dares to try and force me to eat some “approved” modified fake bullshit nonfat “food”, said commie will get a 7.62 lead pill right between its beady little eyes.
Oh, and can we possibly send all our commies to North Korea for some amputations? The above-the-neck kind?
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PrincessNatasha wrote:
I can get into that.
Buffalobob wrote:
AARP is shameless.
snork wrote:
LGF Operative KKKillgore Trout is on the case!
BuddyG wrote:
So is being treated by North Korean doctors!
Iron Fist wrote:
So probably did George W. Bush and his wife and daughters.
Iron Fist wrote:
Hey being a genius is very tiring. The One needs his vacations (like one every week).
4_Sticks wrote:
That’s what I suspect, too. They can present themselves as really tough guys, but they never have to think for themselves. In fact, they are taught to be afraid to think for themselves. So if you come up with something that they don’t have a valid answer for, they just go postal.
And if the government and/or any liberal organization is looking for somebody to be a moby in what is supposed to be a right-wing organization, who better to choose than somebody affiliated with the military? Nobody will suspect them at all.
The Osprey wrote:
Don’t feel bad; I remember those plastic adapters. The alternative was to get a wider spindle for the 45 rpm singles.