The First Rapper Was a 1920s Soviet-Era Poet According To Russian Culture Minister

Al Gore invented the Internet, at least according to Al Gore. Now Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's culture minister, is laying claim to rap.  On October 16, he told a group of people at the Valdai Discussion Club that the first rapper was actually Vladimir Mayakovsky, a poet/actor during the 1920s and 1930s Bolshevik era.

He argued that whereas Russia did not invent ballet as an art form, it is now very much a Russian art. Same with rap.

"It's bothered me for some time now, I wanted to say, it infuriates me: this fascination of modern urban youth with rap, but when I try to dig into this business more closely, I'll chat with my son, listen to what he's listening to, and read, and I get the feeling that soon we'll be saying that rap is Russian art," Medinsky was quoted by Russian news agencies are saying. "Of course, it was born somewhere in America, but its flourishing occurred with us, of course."

Medinsky also said he told his son that Mayakovsky -- whose avant-garde poetry in the 1910s and 1920s made him a darling of the new Bolshevik leaders of the Soviet Union -- was in fact the first rapper.

"And now he's going around in class telling everyone that. And they're reading Mayakovsky and they all agree," he said.

Then again this is a man who has some other wacky ideas, including nefarious U.S. government ties to Netflix. You can read more about those on RFERL.

discussed the possibility that Netflix was a way for the US government plot to take over the world's tv sets.

And a short video of his oh-so-rapper-like poetry. Not.





Mayakovsky wound up committing suicide at the age of 36 possibly as a result of unrequited love.

One of his poems A Cloud In Trousers, from the prologue:

Your thoughts,
dreaming on a softened brain,
like an over-fed lackey on a greasy settee,
with my heart's bloody tatters I'll mock again;
impudent and caustic, I'll jeer to superfluity.

Of Grandfatherly gentleness I'm devoid,
there's not a single grey hair in my soul!
Thundering the world with the might of my voice,
I go by – handsome,
twenty-two-year-old.

Well, maybe this is a little rapperesque.

Upcoming Seth Rogen Comedy Is An "Act Of War" Claims Kim Jong-un

Poor old Kim Jong-un. North Korea's joke-of-a-president is being lampooned in the latest Seth Rogen James Franco comedy "The Interview" (opening in the fall), and he's madder than heck. In fact, the DPRK foreign ministry claims the movie is an act of war, and has vowed "merciless" retaliation if it's released.

Apparently the characters of Franco and Rogen, a talk show duo, are sent on a mission to North Korea to assassinate the dear leader.




Al Arabiya has posted links to other movies that have poked fun at the Kim dynasty.

N Korea Arrests 24-Year-Old American Who Wants Asylum

Who knows what the real story is, but North Korean officials claim they have arrested 24-year-old American Miller Matthew Todd (more likely Todd Matthew Miller or Matthew Todd Miller) for "a gross violation of its legal order." What did the lad do to land him in jail, you might ask? Ripped his tourist visa to shreds and shouted he had traveled to the DPRK seeking asylum "after choosing it as a shelter." That, to me, sounds like one of the myriad of fools who revere Kim Jong-un, and view North Korea as a shining example of a perfect utopia. And one would think that the North Korean government would be delighted that some western, American stooge would choose that hellhole of a country to call home.

State news agency KCNA stated:

"A relevant organ of the DPRK put in custody American Miller Matthew Todd, 24, on April 10 for his rash behavior in the course of going through formalities for entry into the DPRK to tour it."

Here's another official announcement regarding Miller's arrest.

According to NK News:

"Miller Matthew Todd’s action has hit the nerve of North Korean immigration officers because the DPRK considers entry visas its property and does not tolerate disrespectful attitude to it."

Of course, the news "broke" (well after he was actually detained) while Barack Obama was down in South Korea meeting with his counterpart Park Geun-hye. Kim Jong-un is probably just jealous that Obama has refused to be his buddy. And speaking of the visit, the DPRK has condemned Obama for traveling there while the South Korean's are still mourning the tragic ferry boat drownings.

I wonder how Miller feels about the DPRK now. Keep him, please.

Sources: Newsweek, NK News,

Kim Jong-un Wins 100% Of Election Votes!!

So Kim Jong-un won 100 percent of the vote in the DPRK, and North Korean propagandists are dang proud of that fact.

Of course, he was the only one of the ballot, and no doubt people were too afraid not to vote for him

But no surprise there.  What a joke

It still boggles the mind how there are people, many who are not even North Koreans, who think Jong-un is the best thing since wonder bread.

Boring propaganda video discussing his election win.

More info on the election.

Kim Jong-Un Gets Honorary Doctorate From International Institute Of Social Scientists

North Korea's Kim Jong-un was just awarded an honorary Doctorate of Socio-Political Science, and a groovy gold medal and cup by the International Institute of Social Scientists in honor of his dead granddaddy Kim Il-Sung's birthday-which is this Monday.  Present at the sombre celebration (although sans the man-child himself) were various DPRK dignitaries:

Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly;  Ri Yong Sik and Ri Yong Chol, vice department directors of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea; Ri Hye Jong, director of the Academy of Social Sciences; Kim Jin Bom, vice-chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; Ji Sung Chol, vice-director of the Academy of Social Sciences, and officials concerned. 

And a bunch of foreign tools from India, Latin America and Russia:

Director General of the International Institute of the Juche Idea Dr. Vishwanath and Director General of the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea Dr. Harish Gupta who are directors of the International Institute of Social Scientists; Chairman of the Latin American Institute of the Juche Idea Ramon Jimenez Lopez and Secretary General Eleazar Rubio Aldaran; Chairman of the National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea of Democratic Congo Lohekele Kalonda Andre; Chairwoman of the Kim Jong Suk Women's Union of Russia Elena Bavichi. 

In Vishwanath's speech:

He said Kim Jong Un is devoting himself to building a thriving socialist nation with his extraordinary political ability, distinguished leadership and noble traits true to the idea and intention of Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il. He added: [snip]   Vishwanath handed over to President Kim Yong Nam the certificate, gold medal, cup and the decision of the council awarded to Kim Jong Un.  Ramon Jimenez Lopez made a congratulatory speech on behalf of the followers of the Juche idea in Latin America, Lohekele Kalonda Andre on behalf of the followers of the Juche idea in Africa and Elena Bavichi on behalf of the followers of the Juche idea in the eastern European region.

Ramon Jimenez Lopez said that Kim Jong Un has vigorously encouraged the world progressive people in their struggle for realizing independence. Lohekele Kalonda Andre said that Kim Jong Un is wisely guiding the work of all fields with his veteran and seasoned leadership. Elena Bavichi expressed belief that the Korean people would foil the U.S. imperialists and their allies' moves for aggression and successfully build a reunified thriving nation under the leadership of Kim Jong Un. Kim Yong Nam noted that the awarding of the title to Kim Jong Un is an expression of progressive mankind's profound reverence for him. 

A thriving reunified Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong-un?  Great, I'm sure the South Korean's will be delighted to suffer like their brothers and sisters in the DPRK.

Back to this Doctorate and the International Institute of Social Scientists. Google, and good luck finding any information on the Institute.  In fact, google and good luck finding anything about Kim Jong-un receiving this Doctorate, at least as of today.  There is an Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea. Juche is the philosophy behind what makes the DPRK tick- have fun delving into that. But I couldn't find any reference to an International Institute of Social Scientists.  Maybe someone out there will have more patience sifting through google results.

I thought it might be fake, but there was a ceremony (see video below), a certificate that looks Photoshopped:

And a dandy gold cup and medal.  I wonder if it's real gold.

We Will Suffer For "Hurting The Dignity" Of Supreme Leader- DPRK Military Video

Another North Korean propaganda film with DPRK military officers declaring that "the U.S. imperialist wolves and the rat-like Myung Bak clan of traitors can never be pardoned for having committed such hideous crime as hurting the dignity of the DPRK supreme leadership." They intend to "squash" every last one of us for apparently insulting pudge boy, Kim Jong-un.

These videos are always good for a bit of a laugh. Looks like a B-rated war movie with a bunch of bad actors.

Stupid Communists In Chile and NYC Protest In Support Of North Korea

There are still some incredibly stupid people in this world who believe in Communism, in spite of the fact that the system doesn't work. They're usually fools who live in Democratic, Capitalist nations where they're free to do things they would probably be jailed or killed for in a Communist country. Like protesting.  The Chinese government doesn't take kindly to demonstrations, the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 is a testament to that.

These dolts can stand in front of a Whole Foods in New York City in support of the lunatic leadership of North Korea (DPRK), rallying against what they call the recent war threats against the DPRK, without any repercussions. And yes, they seem to think that it's the poor, pudgy man-child Kim Jong-un and his people who are being threatened. I guess they haven't bothered to watch the news coming out of that country. Thank God the NY Red Youth are only a rag tag few.



And then you have these idiots in Chile, protesting in front of the South Korean Embassy, calling the U.S. "Yankee, Fascist Imperialists." A few more than in NYC, but still not many.



First of all, no-one is interested in North Korea other than the fact that the Pillsbury Dough Boy has launched several missiles- unprovoked, is promising more, has his hands on some nuclear weapons, and is threatening the world with them.

As for Yankee imperialism, it was North Korea that invaded South Korea in 1950.  China invaded Tibet and Nepal. The former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and in fact, how was the Soviet Union even created to begin with?

How these fools can support a regime that clearly has a few screws missing, has created a cult of personality in the Kim Jong family dynasty, has the fourth largest army in the world- some 1.2 million strong- has concentration labor camps where whole families are carted off to for life, where the people in the rural areas starve, and where people are executed for insignificant reasons. Take Chong, a worker at an armaments factory who, in 2010, was executed by firing squad for speaking on his cell phone with a friend who had defected to South Korea many years before. Chong made the mistake of telling his buddy what the current living conditions were like, at the time, including the cost of rice. For that he was executed. He also happened to be using an "illegal" Chinese cellphone, and cellphone usage in North Korea, for obvious reasons, is very restricted.

If all these pro-North Koreans are so enamored of the DPRK, I would invite them to move there. Let's see how long they'd last.

North Korean People Have Taken Up Arms- DPRK Propaganda Video

The North Korean people have taken up arms and are ready to decimate the American imperialists. Or so this DPRK propaganda video claims.

It would be laughable, barring the fact that nuclear weapons in the hands of a lunatic is incredibly dangerous.

North Korean People- Nuke The Yankees

North Koreans talk about their hatred for Americans and how the DPRK should nuke 'em for causing all their troubles.

There was probably a soldier aiming a gun at their heads, or they'd been threatened with a nice trip to one of the prison concentration camps.

Poor ignorant people.

Hugo Chavez To Be Displayed In Glass Coffin, Forevermore

UPDATE: 3/14/13: Chavez will not be embalmed after all.

So the Venezuelan people "will always have him", Hugo Chavez's embalmed corpse will be placed in a see-through glass casket and permanently displayed at the Museum of the Revolution. So says, Vice President Nicolas Maduro, who is now acting Prez. That way his doting, now mourning, Chavistas, Hollywood elite- the likes of  Sean Penn, Michael Moore and Oliver Stone- and people like Jimmy Carter, who admired him can have look-see whenever they want.

He will join other communist luminaries in being publicly displayed. In perpetuity.

The tradition of displaying socialist leaders began with Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, upon his death in 1924.

The practice was repeated with his successor, Joseph Stalin, in 1953, though the Georgian strongman’s body was later removed removed from Lenin’s tomb in 1961 at Premier Nikita Kruschev’s urging.

Other communist leaders such as Mao Zedong in China, Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam and both successive patriarchs of the “Kim Dynasty” in North Korea (Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il) have also been put on permanent display.

Not unexpected for a narcissist. After all, if he placed his image on cans of tuna that he shipped over to Peruvian quake victims back in 2007, he would make sure he was remembered forevermore.

Chavez Poisoned By Enemies- Says VP Maduro

Although the world was finally told of the passing of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez,  I have a feeling it might have happened a tad earlier than officially announced- considering the veil of secrecy surrounding his illness towards the end. When a series of photos of Chavez surfaced after his most recent cancer surgery, an L.A. based digital animator posted on Youtube his 'evidence' that the photo of Chavez with his daughters reading a dated 'Granma' newspaper were, in actuality, photoshopped. So we still don't have any definitive proof how long he was alive after the last surgery, not that it matters now. He died of his cancer, and all the loons are blaming the U.S.

When he was alive, Chavez was convinced that the U.S. gave him and other leftist Latin leaders cancer, including Argentina's Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, until it turned out her thyroid wasn't cancerous at all. And just prior to the announcement of Hugo's demise, Vice President Nicolas Maduro accused "enemies" (like the U.S.) of having poisoned his comandante, after it was revealed that Chavez had developed "a new, severe" respiratory infection.

“We have no doubt that Commandant Chávez was attacked with this illness, we have not a single doubt,” Maduro said. “The established enemies of our land specifically tried to harm the health of our leader.”

Maduro said he will order the creation of a “scientific commission” to look at this alleged conspiracy that Chávez was sickened through medical means.

“We already have leads, which will be further explored with a scientific investigation,” Maduro said.

Arafat died in 2004, less than a month after coming down with “flu-like” symptoms. Conspiracy theorists and some Palestinian leaders suggest that Arafat was poisoned medically by Israeli operatives.

“There have been too many cases throughout history, including the most recent, of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, it’s widely known that was poisoned medically.”

Of course, the fact that there was no access to Chavez by foreign operatives prior to the respiratory infection means naught. And no mention of the fact that Yasser Arafat died from HIV/AIDS, at least according to his personal doctor Ashraf al-Kurdi.

And these people rule countries.