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Spain ( 15,000 From Around the World - Show up for Tomato battle ) Food fight

Published at 9:13 am EST, August 29, 2013

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Thousands of people from around the world converged on Buñol, a town in eastern Spain, on Wednesday for the world famous “Tomatina” tomato battle despite rain, lightning and thunder.
A total of 15,000 people from 60 countries, including Australia, the United States and Japan, joined Spaniards in the famous food fight, with organizers charging visitors an entry fee of 10 euros ($13) for the first time.
Buñol’s 5,000 residents did not have to pay the fee to take part in the huge food fight.
An entry fee is being charged this year to keep the number of participants, who often exceeded 50,000 in past years, to a more manageable 20,000, organizers said.
The combatants hurled 130,000 kilos (more than 143 tons) of tomatoes at each other, literally painting the town red.
The weather forecast called for heavy rain, thunder and lightning, but visitors flocked to the Tomatina anyway, with many wearing old clothes and swim goggles to protect their eyes.
The tomato fight ended at 11:45 a.m., when clean-up crews moved into the streets closed off for the festival.
The Tomatina, declared a Festival of International Tourist Interest in 2002, drew hundreds of members of the media to Buñol, putting the town in Valencia province in the spotlight for a day.
Imitators have popped up in other parts of the world, including the “Tomato Royale,” an event held last Saturday in Petersburg, Virginia, that drew about 5,000 people.
The Spanish festival started in 1945 as a prank orchestrated by several friends who threw tomatoes during a parade.
Buñol’s government took over the festival in 1980, making it an official event.

Mexico ( U.S operation in mexico code name " Operation Lowrider " ) Lol

 Covert Operation Targets Mexican Drug Traffickers

Published at 3:50 pm EST, August 29, 2013

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The U.S. government is using manned aircraft to assist Mexican police in identifying, capturing and killing some of Mexico’s most-wanted criminals, Fox News reported Thursday.
“Operation Lowrider,” which is being run by the Pentagon’s Northern Command, started in 2011 after the murder of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, Fox said.
More than 70,000 people have been killed and thousands of others have disappeared in Mexico’s drug war, which started in late 2006.
“It’s been successful in identifying, eliminating and bringing to justice those who brought tons and tons of drugs into the United States,” Phil Jordan a former DEA special agent and director of the agency’s El Paso Intelligence Center, told Fox.
The two propeller planes being used in “Operation Lowrider” are manned by personnel from a subcontractor to Sierra Nevada, a U.S. defense contractor, and have greater capabilities than the unmanned drones used by the Department of Homeland Security to monitor the border.
“Using advanced eavesdropping equipment, ‘pattern of life’ reconnaissance missions expose the schedules and routines of high level traffickers,” Fox said.
Information obtained by the planes is transmitted to U.S. officials, who contact Mexican police or military units so they can capture the target.
“The contract with Sierra Nevada expires in September. It is unknown whether Northern Command will renew it, or if newly elected President Enrique Pena Neito will continue to give the American surveillance flights permission to enter Mexican airspace,” Fox said.

CUBA News ( Thousands Flock to Public “Cyber Points,” Cuba Says )

HAVANA – Cuba’s “cyber points,” which offer public Internet access, have attracted more than 100,000 paying customers in the last three months, government daily Juventud Rebelde said Thursday.

About 60 percent of clients accessed the World Wide Web, while the rest spent their time on Cuba’s domestic intranet or e-mailing, the newspaper said, citing data from state telecommunications monopoly Etecsa.

Very few Cubans have internet access at home, due to a combination of politically motivated restrictions and technical constraints.

Etecsa now operates 121 cyber points where customers pay anywhere from 60 cents to $4.50 to connect to the internet, fees that many Cubans regard as prohibit in a country where the average wage is less than $20 a month.

Cuba, a nation of 11.2 million people, had only 2.87 million internet users in 2012.

The Cuban government says its immediate priority is to expand access to the internet from public places and that widespread residential internet service is years away. EFE

Mexico ( Judges get in fight with each other - see video )

MEXICO CITY – A judge in the central Mexican state of Morelos hit a colleague during an argument over alleged irregularities in the appointment of acting judges, media reports said.

Justice Miguel Angel Falcon Vega struck the smaller Justice Ruben Jasso Diaz during a session of the Morelos Supreme Court, with the assault captured on a video that was posted on YouTube.

Other justices stepped in and stopped the attack, and Chief Justice Nadia Luz Maria Lara Chavez suspended the session.

The fight highlighted the split in the state’s high court between supporters of Falcon Vega and Lara Chavez’s backers over how justices are promoted and removed from their posts.

The Judiciary Council will investigate the incident and Jasso Diaz has the option to take legal action on his own, Lara Chavez said. EFE

Mexico ( The Asian Mafia vs. the Mexican Drug Cartel in Mexico ) Along the border

 Asian Mafia Vs Video "La Tuta" The head of the Knights Templar on the border "Tijuana and    Mexicali area's. The drug cartel wars of Mexico continue on with no signs of stopping.
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North Korea ( ex-girlfriend of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un -Executed in public for porn tapes )

The ex-girlfriend of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Hyon Song-wol was executed by firing squad for breaking North Korea’s law against pornography.

 

According to South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo, she was one of famous performers who had sex on camera and later sold those tapes. Since some of other victims accused of the same crime, are said to have had Bibles, this fact, according to the newspaper, puts them in the position of the political dissidents.

Hyon and several other victims were arrested on August 17, the arrest followed by a public execution three days later.

All of them worked for Unhasu Orchestra and also performed as singers, musicians and dancers with the Wangjaesan Light Music Band.

Hyon met Kim ten years ago, when he was still single, and so was she, but the relationship was broken up by his father, Kim Jong-il

Interestingly enough, Kim's current wife, Ri Sol-ju, was also a member of the Unhasu Orchestra before becoming dictator’s wife.

0They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band and Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on," - The Chosun Ilbo reported with a reference to an informed source. According to another report, the family member of the executed performers were sent to prison camps, since, under the North Korea's law, they were guilty by association.

The Voice of Russia, mirror.co.uk