This 1 minute clip is based on real operations by churches in Texas to scare teenagers into being Christian during Halloween.

cw wikipedia article mentions themes of sexual assault.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_house

Press Statement of Spokesperson for DPRK Foreign Ministry

Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea released the following press statement on Friday:

Recently the U.S. Department of State committed another grave politically-motivated provocation of malignantly slandering the DPRK through the "2026 Trafficking in Persons Report" which is full of lies, fabrications, prejudice and hostility.

This clearly proved once again the U.S. vicious and malicious intention to politicize and weaponize human rights and use them as the primary lever for its hostile policy toward the DPRK.

The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK brands the U.S. deceptive "report," which has nothing to do with genuine human rights as an intensive expression of the hostile policy encroaching upon the sovereignty and internal affairs of our state and hurting the rights and interests of our citizens, and denounces and rejects it in the strongest terms.

The U.S. "human rights" reports, which deviated from the basic principles of human rights and seriously distorted their core values, are nothing but false documents to justify interference in internal affairs and overthrow of social systems in other countries, and herein lies the moral and ethical vulgarity and problematic policy pursued by the U.S.

Human traffic has been an evil of American society for a long time, and it is also the U.S. "specialty" which is difficult to imitate.

The U.S. is the world's most heinous human-trafficker nation which is run and administered by a national flesh-traffic organization and is prospering thanks to it.

We will never regard the U.S. publication of the "report" as an annual and formal habitual practice, but as an unconditional and invariable continuation of the hostile policy toward the DPRK and as a nonstop confrontational attempt aimed at overthrowing the social system of the DPRK and disintegrating it from within.

The essence of the U.S. policy toward the DPRK is to obliterate our people's inalienable right to existence and development, and herein lies the main reason why we should concentrate our more efforts on building up powerful strength for defending our sovereignty.

The U.S. "human rights" racket against the DPRK, which poses a serious threat to the DPRK's sovereign rights and the rights and interests of its citizens, will be the first target of the toughest counteraction against the U.S. together with other hostile acts.

Falsehood has a short life and it cannot cover up the truth in any case.

The DPRK will redouble its practical efforts to neutralize the U.S. hostile acts, lay heavy responsibility on those who did malicious practices and implement justice through the most resolute and decisive action for defending its sovereignty and social system, uncompromising criterion of human rights. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/ed0e9aece7b4f6dce7fd1dc1dd644910

https://archive.is/gjOmu

https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2108332127318073528#m

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.

https://x.com/dhsgov/status/2108345517990129675

Department of Homeland Security

On October 8, at approximately 4:00 PM ET, ICE officers were conducting a targeted enforcement operation in the Bronx, New York, to arrest a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Repubic with a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny, and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession. He has associations to the Trinitarios gang. The same gang who brutally killed a CBP officer last year.

This criminal illegal alien was arrested by the NYPD on December 7, 2023, but was released into the community a few days later by reckless Democrat sanctuary policies that put American lives at risk.

During the incident, an ICE officer discharged his weapon and the criminal illegal alien was injured.

ICE officers immediately rendered aid. The individual is alive and at a local hospital. The FBI and HSI are on the scene. The incident remains under investigation. More information will be shared as it becomes available.

When dangerous illegal aliens are released back onto the streets by radical sanctuary politicians, our officers are forced to make arrests at large in the community in unpredictable and dangerous environments. Our officers should not have to risk their lives, and innocent Americans should not have to face unnecessary danger, because sanctuary politicians refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement.

U.S. Is Acting Rashly: International Affairs Analyst

Pyongyang, October 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Myong Chol, an international affairs analyst of the DPRK, released the following article "The U.S. is acting rashly":

"Peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait" is something always repeated by the United States and its allies in the international arena.

However, the U.S. has systematically destroyed regional stability and persistently escalated the situation under the pretext of "opposing unilateral attempt at change of phenomenon" in the Taiwan Strait.

The emergence of fighter jets sold by the U.S. on the island of Taiwan a few days ago is another typical example of the U.S. "peculiar contribution" to "peace and stability" of the Taiwan Strait.

The U.S. says that the sale of weapons to Taiwan is for "peace in the strait", but this is nothing but a shameless act of planting a bomb at the gate of other's house and asserting that the bomb is for ensuring the security of the house.

When the People's Republic of China and the U.S. established their diplomatic relations, the latter recognized the government of the former as the only legitimate government of China and Taiwan as a part of the former. But the U.S. made it its policy and obligation to sell weapons to Taiwan, irrespective of the change of its administration, and has supported the separatist forces pursuing "Taiwan's independence" and challenging the "one-China" principle.

In the past decade alone, the cost of munitions supplied by the U.S. to Taiwan in the form of overseas arms sales totaled more than 39 billion US dollars. This includes 11 billion US dollars, the largest-ever arms sales approved by the present U.S. administration at the end of last year.

Not content with this, the U.S. has made it a fait accompli to additionally sell weapons worth 14 billion US dollars to Taiwan.

Herein lies the reason why peace and stability have not been restored in the Taiwan Strait for decades.

Recently, the U.S. proclaimed the first island chain including Taiwan as the forefront for suppressing China. It seeks to deploy the latest missiles on an island of Japan closest to Taiwan and "internationalize" the Taiwan issue by making its warships and aircraft pass through the Taiwan Strait under the signboard of "freedom of navigation".

This proves once again that "peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait" touted by the U.S. is, in essence, "support for Taiwan's power-based independence" and that the "one-China" policy advocated by it is nothing but the one for "perpetuating the division of China by force".

The Taiwan issue is an internal affair of China, so how to settle it is entirely the affair of the Chinese people, and no outside forces have the right to interfere in it.

Obviously, the U.S. did up the wrong button on the Taiwan issue and has taken again a dangerous course whose consequences are difficult to imagine.

Some American fighters to be deployed in Taiwan may be a comfort to the separatists for a while, but it cannot bridge the striking gap between the both sides in terms of capability.

No matter what method the Taiwanese separatists employ and what support the U.S. renders to Taiwan, it can neither deny the fact that Taiwan is a part of China nor influence the basic recognition of the international community that adheres to the principle of "one China".

The U.S. should think twice whether it is ready to stand in frontal confrontation with the powerful national power of the People's Republic of China for the security of Taiwan and whether it can cope with its consequences. If it is worried about the consequences, it had better think and act rationally.

Justice is not afraid of confrontation with injustice.

No one should question the ability and will of the People's Republic of China to defend its sovereignty, territorial integrity and core interests.

China's effort to retake Taiwan is an indispensable and just sacred cause for making abnormalities normality, making injustice justice and making instability stability. It is an irrefutable law-governed historical process that the island of Taiwan becomes a part of China again.

The instability of the Taiwan Strait precisely means the crisis of the United States. Taiwan's return to China is a matter of time. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/a76390ba490b00cd8a3da9998674ee93

https://archive.is/mZ3Uu

"Archaeopterix Coreanica"

Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- "Archaeopterix coreanica", registered as a natural monument, is on display at the Natural History Museum of Kim Il Sung University.

It was discovered in Paektho-dong, Sinuiju City, North Phyongan Province, the DPRK on March 10, 1989.

President Kim Il Sung was told that it is a progenitor bird fossil discovered in the stratum dating back about 150 million years. He named it "Korean archaeopteryx" and said that the excavation of the fossil shows that our country is the cradle of birds.

The fossil is composed of a skull, pterygoid, neck bone and feathers. The pterygoid has clear hook-shaped talons.

The Korean archaeopteryx with the most primitive shape of a bird clearly proves that the birds originated from the reptiles.

The age of the Korean archaeopteryx was most suitable for the birth and development of life. The fossil is of great significance in the study of biodiversity and ecological environment as it was unearthed with fossil fish, insects, pterodactyls and plants, etc. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/fe32c51f0f86d94c5f0d500e18d9f0b7

https://archive.is/o1azX

a couple snippets from the interview. the first snippet is about Tom Morelloa doing some concert to promote voting in the midterms. the second snippet is him saying that he didn't vote for Kamala because of her complicity in Gaza genocide, he doesn't use the word genocide.

https://archive.is/o6xOR

bold is interviewer, non-bold in tom

Is there an argument that people’s focus on Ed Sheeran is indeed a distraction from what they should be focusing on?

Yeah, 100 percent. It’s all right to shame him in this moment because he deserves the shame, but not the focus. The focus is your and my tax dollars are going to commit horrific war crimes in the Middle East, and that, I believe, should be the focus and what we should be doing our best to stop in its tracks.

It’s a clickbait, it’s salacious, it’s, “Oh my gosh, poor Ed Sheeran.” First of all, has Ed Sheeran never seen a Macklemore performance before in the last three years? He certainly should’ve known what he was getting into.

The one thing that’s sort of adjacent is, this is a time where speech is being vilified and is a crime, where the truth is a crime, where skin color is a crime, where immigrant status is a crime, where gender is a crime, where sexual orientation is a crime. And it’s my belief that the true crime is the rise of authoritarianism, and the true crime is the erosion of freedoms, and the true crime is an impending environmental disaster. And so my hope at each one of my shows, I deputize the audience as anti-fascist crime fighters, and that’s really the way that I think you have to look at the world right now. Like, what are the real crimes that are happening, and what is it that you and I can do to stop it?

Now that I’ve gotten you fired up — your Power to the People Festival. What is its most essential purpose?

It is not PR or hyperbole to say it is a festival of peace, love, justice, and music. In a time where war is celebrated, this is a festival of peace. In a time where hatred and division are rife, this is a festival of love. In a time where injustice is the norm, this is a festival celebrating fighting for justice. In a time where there’s a lot of shitty music, there’s gonna be a lot of great music on this stage, so we’re going for four for four.

How much were the midterms on your mind when you scheduled this?

As my dear departed mom, Mary Morello, who passed away at 102 years old, was a very political person, said, “You’ve got to fight the fascists every which way you can.” One of those ways is at the ballot box. It’s not the only way, and you should not just think that because you’ve done that. Voting is a piece on the chessboard, and that you try to create an environment where in between the voting you can fight for a more just, a more peaceful, a more equal world.

And so, is the festival three weeks before the midterms? Yeah. Does the money from the festival go to voting rights organizations? Yeah, it does, but the festival is about something much bigger than that. It’s about what kind of world do you really wanna live in, and should we fight for that world, or should we settle for the one that’s being spoon-fed for us by the oligarchs?

Returning as promised to the electoralism issue — there are some on the left who tend to argue it doesn’t matter, don’t bother voting, both sides are the same. So what would you say to someone on the left who says, “Listen, man, I listen to Rage Against the Machine, and I know everyone’s the same. It’s about tearing down the power structure. Doesn’t matter who you vote for. I’m not voting”?

On the one hand, I think that rebellion is self-care, in a way, but I answered that already. Mary Morello was 100 percent right. You have to stop the fascists every which way you can. First of all, a lot of people who I greatly respect and admire the sacrifice they’ve made to try to get people with my color skin to be able to vote in this country, and have died, been lynched for it, they’ve been shot in the back for it, and it’s very disrespectful to their memory to do that.

But that in and of itself is not going to change the levers of power in a significant way. It’s not. It’s not. You should do it. But it would be like, okay, great, you vote, and on the next day you start working. You start working harder for the world you really want without compromise and without apology. And not just putting in the hands of whatever corporate Democrat you choke down your vote for in that particular election, that it’s your job to make the world the way that you think it could be to help those that are the most in need and to hold those accountable who are most guilty.

Do you feel that people on the left should have voted for Kamala Harris?

I’m crystal clear that people’s conscience cannot allow them to do something that they fundamentally believe is wrong. I was the scheduling secretary for United States Senator Alan Cranston. I saw how the corporate Democrat sausage is made. It is worse than you think. And there is a reason, there is a righteous fury at the corporate controlled, money controlled electoral system we have that is absolutely legitimate, and people cannot choke down — I understand it — voting for a candidate that’s responsible for what happened in Gaza, and they just can’t do it, and I’m not gonna blame them for that.

But I think that putting it on them is the most cowardly thing. Put it on the fucking Democratic Party. First of all, I don’t believe it’s their responsibility and they’re never gonna necessarily never do the right thing, but I think it’s all of our responsibility to co-create the world that we want and not point fingers at people that were just like, “Well, you know, my conscience didn’t allow me to do that, so it’s your fault.” I will not co-sign that.

Did you vote for Kamala?

I certainly did not.

You did not?

Did not. I couldn’t do it.

I didn’t realize that.

V for Vendetta — that one inch of who you are belongs to you, and they can’t have it. Now, I live in a state where it may not have moved the meter, but I just couldn’t do it. Couldn’t do it.

When’s the last time that you didn’t vote for the Democratic candidate?

Can’t remember the last time I did.

Wow, okay. I thought you were softening a little bit.

Can’t remember the last time I did.

Strategic Missile Launching Drill Conducted in Eastern Region of DPRK

Pyongyang, October 4 (KCNA) -- At dawn of October 3, a drill was staged to launch an intermediate-range strategic missile from an eastern region of the DPRK toward the East Sea of Korea.

The drill was conducted as part of the efforts to train the missile soldiers operating the hypersonic strategic weapon system in handling their equipment and evaluate the reliability, efficiency and mobility of the DPRK's war deterrent.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, oversaw the launching drill on the spot.

Among the spectators were Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the C.C., WPK, and Jang Chang Ha, general director of the Missile Administration of the DPRK.

Noting that it is a very important measure for ensuring national security and a responsible action of our army to build up the powerful and reliable nuclear deterrent through sustained verification of major components of the war deterrent, improvement of their performance and mastery of the capabilities for their successful operation and to show the counterattack means of our army in constant mobilization posture, Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"Through today's launching drill, the strategic missile soldiers have fully demonstrated their professional qualifications and counterattack posture, clearly showing that they are very good at operating their major offensive system and they are always available for mobilization. They also added confidence to our deterrent.

I highly appreciate commanding officers and soldiers of the missile unit who participated in the drill.

We must continue our responsible efforts nonstop to constantly and repeatedly make the enemy recognize the reliability and fatality of our strategic offensive means.

This is a form of exercising deterrent.

As always expressed clearly, such activities on our part are definitely aimed at more rapidly developing the country's nuclear war deterrent.

This is indispensable for protecting national security and stability in today's geopolitical environment. There will be no change in such view and line of ours.

We must deter various threats by dint of powerful deterrent and ensure a safe environment for the building and activities of our state."

The missile used in the drill was launched towards the northeast direction and hit the target point 1 000 km away from the East Sea of Korea at 43°36' 28.04" latitude and 138°00' 47.02" longitude.

Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed expectation and belief that all the missile forces would remain faithful to their missions of defending the sovereignty and security of the Republic in a responsible combat posture. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/2bd661f15c5178018e860a9ce35e555d

https://archive.is/X892e

Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK, on Strategic Weapon Launching Drill

Pyongyang, October 3 (KCNA) -- At dawn of this morning, a drill of firing a strategic weapon toward the East Sea of Korea was conducted.

An intermediate-range strategic missile was used for the drill.

The head of state personally oversaw the drill of a firepower sub-unit undertaking an exclusive special mission.

The joint chiefs of staff of the ROK, which tracked our drill, announced that the missile flew more than 700 km, while the Japan defence ministry termed the range 680 km.

They are interesting numbers.

We have already witnessed similar announcements four times and, finally, we came to the conclusion that the superiority of the special flight mode applied to the missiles in our possession has been verified in practice.

Of course, we should neither believe the enemy's tracking results nor satisfy ourselves of them, but such figures help take a look at the limitations of the enemy's tracking capability and the special features of our missiles.

Whenever we applied the wave-like trajectory mode to missiles, the enemy failed to track the targets from their first skip points.

Extension of the trajectory at the downward stage gives the numbers quite similar to the numbers of the ranges announced by the enemy.

The enemy always made such a lame excuse that there is a limit to the detection capability because of the curvature of the earth's surface, but in fact this just serves as a proof of our perfect missile capability and the most scientific "evaluation index" confirming the power and reliability of our weapon system.

They should acknowledge the speed of the missile.

And they would be well advised to recollect our announcements that it is capable of changing its flight orbit at a low altitude and AI was introduced into it.

In other words, this means that there is no way to avoid this attack.

Representatives of the Missile Administration reported to the head of state that it is possible to set at least four flight orbit modes according to a purpose and target with the technology recently introduced.

The head of state expressed the belief that any country in the world could not have access to such technology for at least several years. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/b3d26e7f14c26a50a6173db2e075687f

https://archive.is/wObxh

Eminem is no stranger to controversy throughout his career, whether it's for his lyricism or his political views. In the latter category, his upcoming feature on "7 Sins" from the new Kid Rock album Halfway To Jesus (dropping October 17) has divided fans who remember his previous condemnations of Donald Trump. On the other hand, Kid Rock is an ardent MAGA supporter with other right-wing inclinations. But he's also a longtime friend of Slim Shady, and he reportedly addressed this collaboration.

Complex reportedly confirmed via a representative from Em's camp that the team-up is actually real and official, as many Internet users questioned its veracity upon its announcement. Also, the publication reportedly obtained an excerpt from Halfway To Jesus' foreword that goes into the mindset behind the link-up.

"I'm proud of the guests who joined me, especially my old friend Eminem," Kid Rock reportedly expressed. "His verse speaks to something we’ve talked about and that really needs to be heard: we differ politically and on other things, but we’ve stayed friends through it all. We hope that sets an example for people who’ve lost friends or stopped talking to family because they think differently."

Previously, Eminem has criticized Donald Trump often, even showing up to a Kamala Harris rally in Detroit in 2024. He had told Trump supporters to stop being fans of him in the past, later empathizing with them being fooled by his promises. However, the Detroit MC shares that Motor City connection with Kid Rock. They have various collaborations and moments of camaraderie over the past four decades.

Most recently, Marshall Mathers had tweeted that "one thing" they can agree on is their love for the Detroit Lions. The rapper, rock, country, and now Christian rock artist had admitted they disagree politically. But he still showed Em love for expressing his beliefs.

It seems like fans who want more context for all of this will have to wait for Halfway To Jesus' release on October 17. Many fans expressed outrage or less indignant criticism over the move. Regardless of what they thematically explore on their collaboration "7 Sins," the damage is already done for lots of listeners.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/zach-bryan-free-palestine-shirt-gillette-stadium-macklemore-1235636423/

On the first of his two-night run at Gillette Stadium on Friday, Zach Bryan hit the stage wearing a shirt that read “Free Palestine.” The singer-songwriter appeared to be sending a message to stadium and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft after he banned Macklemore from the venue following the Seattle rapper’s comments while touring with Ed Sheeran.

Reps for Bryan and Gillette stadium did not immediately return a request for comment.

Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, October 2 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on Friday:

The enemy remains a foe.

This is a crucial conclusion we have reached again through another farce created by Seoul.

Seoul clearly revealed its sinister intention to plunge the situation in the Korean peninsula again into a critical state for its selfish purpose, since it hastily made a groundless conclusion that the recent case of mine explosion in the border area was due to someone's "covert and deliberate mine-laying" and announced what is called a poor "official-stand statement".

They even called for an "apology". It is really despicable.

It is necessary to think reasonably.

Why do they suppose that we would have done so to go with them?

It is needed to know exactly about the true intention of why we are fortifying the border line.

Explaining in a simple and clear way, this is aimed at shutting down the door forever so that we will have nothing to do with the ROK and even wild animals can not come and go.

To be frank, we shudder even at the thought of the ROK tribes who would describe even a flock of birds in the air as "drones from the north".

So, it is our strongest desire to cut off the relationship forever with those tribes that make troubles.

We do not allow the slightest space or room for us to go with the ROK.

Committing the suspicious accident beyond common sense by themselves, they came to be put in a dilemma. After all, it seems they are resorting again to their habitual act of finding fault with other.

Indeed, it's boring, awful and disgusting.

We're witnessing another really absurd thing once again.

Seoul should no longer play cheap tricks and stop at once its nonsense to tarnish the image of our state.

The word "provocation" the ROK tribes use so often against us is their most favorite one. We wonder if they know the exact meaning of the word.

From a commonsense point of view, the word "provocation" can be used for any act of shifting one's blame onto others, and such acts should be termed "provocation" as drone provocations made by the Yoon Suk Yeol regime and the present Seoul authority against the DPRK.

Another great irony is that the inferiors like the small fry were busy with finding fault with others by releasing the results of the investigation and official stand statement, whereas the president was present at a commemorative ceremony and expressed the "will" to take practical and consistent measures to defuse military tension.

It's the climax of the farce that everyone should watch.

It seems that Part 2 of the farce started.

He seems as if he is going to play a righteous leading character after making the situation complicated.

We wonder who are the leading actor and the supernumerary, but we want him to be a popular "righteous actor".

Those who wrote the playbook for the farce, directed it and played the actors deserve the precious "citation". -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/d4a749a018dbcb54c8aff12bc3f9943c

https://archive.is/MEGv5