NORTH KOREA FLOODS USA WITH CRYSTAL METH

KIM YONG-un  --
  LEADER OF NORTH KOREA

Apparently it has been going on since the 1990. The government ordered chemists to teach laboratories staff the method of producing crystal meth according to US.  Later when the pressure was too heavy the regime destroyed the labs.  They tried to prove to the world they stopped the illicit trade.

As it is always the same the ones who work in the labs, most probably, went underground and established a black market. Gangsters now flooding the US market with the crystal meth. Laboratory tests showed it is 99 per cent pure.

In 2012 the police managed to stop a shipment of 30 kg which was aimed to be send to New York. Last year two British subject coming from Thailand were carrying 100 kg of pure crystal meth. They were in court in New York and charged with smuggling illegal drugs.

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The  police constantly catching shipments of this highly addictive drug destination New York. Most of the shipments are from the most secretive country in the world North Korea.

At the moment there is a series running in the USA called Breaking Bad. It shows and deals with just that problem of crystal meth. I do not  agree with producing that show because it could get some more children interested in and try it. Apparently once tried it is so additive that they hardly can get off it or no tall.  The media sometimes brings shows which should not be on TV but being controversial it brings viewers and that brings money. Today the media does not seem to care what damage their films and shows causes and it does cause a lot of damages.  I am sure a lot of the youth would not be like that if it was not for violent films.

TITANIC DISASTER NEARLY DESTROYED SOUTHAMPTON

When the Titanic sank and with it the elite of the Edwardian era it made great headlines. Not many newspapers wrote about Southampton which was most affected. Shortly before the disaster Southampton was declared as the main port before it was Liverpool. The White Star was the only ones in the area recruiting people. The jobs on offer were firemen or stokers earning £6 a month and stewards earning £3 15s a month.

At the time of the Titanic disaster there was a miners’ strike and many men were eager to join the ship. Southampton had 100,000 inhabitants and 538 of the crew members were from Southampton. Apparently the worst hit area was Northam. The Northam school children of which a 100 lost a relative.

When they heard of the disaster everybody was hoping that their father and/or son would have survived and picked-up by the nearby ship Carpathia.

The telegrams which were sent to the families stating nothing more than “Much regret, name, not saved”. What an incredible heartless way of telling the family they lost their breadwinner. Let’s face it the elite, although just as tragically, did not have the loss of their income as well as their loved ones.

These families stood there with nothing to neither feed their children nor clothe them. At a time when they had hard times already. They had to pawn their furniture and relied on handouts to feed their children and themselves. The relief fund accumulated to £412,000 which would be today’s £20m even so in those days it was a huge sum. The Mayor of Southampton George Bowyer launched his own appeal.

Widows of non-salaries crew received nothing and that from a highly profitable White Star Line. They were completely dependent on the relief fund to keep them out of the workhouse. A fireman’s widow received a weekly 12s 6p plus 12s 6p for every child and an officer’s widow £2 per week.

The Salvation Army’s “slum officers” brought milk, tea, sugar and bread for the needy.

The historian Stephanie Barczewski wrote a book about the tragedy titled “A Night Remembered” and stated upon his finding that the film couldn’t have been more removed from the reality. He stated that Southampton was the place of the real tragedy.

The report from the Daily Mirror in 1912 gives a full view of the impact the disaster had on the town.

Mrs May across the way lost her husband and oldest son.....the son married a year ago and his wife had baby six weeks ago ...Mrs Allen round the corner lost her husband George....and the young girl in black is Mrs Barnes... she lost here brother ...the woman going into the shop is Mrs Gosling ... she lost her son ...and Mrs Preston of Princess Street, a widow lost her son too...

Nothing shows more clearly than that person's report. How close the losses were.

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT TITANIC

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  RMS  TITANIC

The amazing fact about the Titanic is that it was predicted 14 years before it happened. Author Morgan Robertson wrote a novella in 1898. It was called 'Futility Or The Wreck Of The Titan'. He wrote a story about a super liner called Titan which hit an iceberg and sank. It happened in April in the night. He also wrote that it was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men. It had watertight compartments and was thought to be unsinkable. He even mentioned how many passenger going to die and there won't be enough lifeboats. Did he have a premonition? Or was he told by a powerful source to prevent such a major disaster? Yet, nobody took any notice.

 CAPTAIN E J SMITH OF 
RMS TITANIC 

Apparently the Titanic was on fire when she left Southampton on 2 April, 1912. The fire was in the coal bunker and it is stated that it could  have burned for 11 days. After three days at sea the fire was put out. The bulkhead was red-hot and warped by the fire. It is assumed that it probably remained watertight.

The Titanic nearly collided with another ship when she left Southampton. The ship's Second Officer Charles Lightoller wrote in his memoirs that before she cleared the dock we experience the power of those engines and propellers. The Oceanic and St Paul were moored to the wharf alongside each other. The terrible suction set up in that shallow water simply druggedboth great liners away from the wharf. The St Paul broke adrift altogether. It looked like she was going to crash into the Titanic's stern. Only the Titanic's Captain Smith's experience and knowledge saved her.

On the fatal night, the wireless operators Jack Phillips and Harold Bride had repaired the damaged transformer for six hours. Before the collision they were trying to clear the backlog. They most definitely missed the message at 9.40pm from the ship Mesaba with the warning: "Saw much heavy pack ice, and great number large icebergs. Also field ice."Two hours later the chip crashed.

Second Officer Lightoller stated in his memoirs that the position this ship gave was right ahead of us and not many miles distant. The operator who received it was busy at the time and he put the message under a paperweight at his elbow. When he caught up with the backlog, he then would have brought it to the ridge. That delay proved fatal.

Micheal Navratil was on that ship. He kidnapped his two sons, Michael three and Edmond two, because of a custody battle His plan was to set up a new life in America. As the ship sank he dressed up his two sons and put them on the last boat. It was the last they saw of him. They could not speak a word of English. Margaret Hays, a survivor, took them to her New York home. Eventually, their mother recognized them and sailed back to Europe on the Oceanic.

TITANIC'S GYMNASIUM

FIRST CLASS GRAND STAIRCASE

The myth that Catholic workers at Harland and Wolff sabotaged the Titanic was not true. Rumors supposed to have been circulated that the Titanic's hull number was 3909 04 which spells 'No Pope'. It proven wrong because the hull number was 401 and a Board of Trade registration number was 131,428. At that time the Protestants-Catholic relations were bad in Ireland and the shipyards were in a Protestant area of Belfast.

Another story was about a Mummy on board which could have brought bad luck but that was never proven.  Apparently, a journalist W T Stead made the story up and told some passengers on the Titanic. He claimed four Englishman bought a mummy in Luxor.  They had bad luck ever since.   Stead drowned but Fredric Seward who was the only survivor of the dinner party told the story later.

Searchlights would have given the lookouts a better view.  They were steaming through a large ice field.  However, the calm, moonless conditions made the icebergs invisible.  After this disaster, searchlights were fitted on all large ships.

Second Officer Lightoller prevented men and boys from entering boats, even if they were only half full. He also refused Colonel John Jacob Astor, the richest man in the world, who asked to accompany his pregnant wife, Madelaine, even so the lifeboat was half full.

Chief banker Charles Joughin was drinking whisky as the ship foundered. He manage to swim in the freezing water for at least two-and-a-half hours. He also had several layers of clothes and that could have save his life. He survived far longer than any body else in the water.

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