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Horrific Reports of People Cooking & Eating Their Children — and Digging Up Corpses — Come Amid NKorean Famine

Jan. 28, 2013 9:55am Billy Hallowell

North Korean Famine Allegedly Leads People to Kill & Cook Their Children | Cannibalism

In this undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013 in Tokyo by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a consultative meeting with officials in the fields of state security and foreign affairs at undisclosed location in North Korea. Credit: AP

While it’s certainly not the first allegation of cannibalism to come from North Korea, it’s equally as disturbing as those that preceded it. Troubling reports of a rise in starvation — and cannibalism — have emerged inside of a nation that continues to be intensely-secretive and shut off from the wider global community. According to an independent outlet called Asia Press, North Koreans are so desperate that they are increasingly turning to corpses and even murdering their own children for food.

One man allegedly dug up his grandchild’s corpse and ate it. Another purportedly killed and boiled his child for food. Of late, yet another individual has reportedly been executed for killing two of his children for the same purposes.

“In my village in May a man who killed his own two children and tried to eat them was executed by a firing squad,” one informant said of the latter incident.

According to the source, the father killed his daughter while his wife was away on business. Then, he killed the son because the latter child had witnessed his sister’s murder. When the wife came back from her trip, her husband said that they now had “meat.” After becoming suspicious, she contacted authorities who later discovered parts of the children’s bodies.

The “hidden famine,” as it has been called in North and South Hwanghae, is what appears to be driving this alleged horror. According to the Daily Mail, up to 10,000 individuals have lost their lives due to a lack of food — a figure that encapsulates the extreme desperation that may be driving the unthinkable.

Of course, the secretive and insular nature of the North Korean government makes it difficult to ascertain definitively whether instances involving human beings consuming one another are actually on the rise as some sources have claimed. Asia Press, the independent outlet issuing these reports, describes itself as a media venue that is trying to be “free from any dependence on capital and authority.”

While outlandish and unbelievable, this isn’t the first time the international community has heard similar stories. In the past, numerous reports about cannibalism have come from North Korea. The Daily Mail highlights some of these past instances:

In May last year, the South Korean state-run Korean Institute for National Unification said that one man was executed after eating part of a colleague and then trying to sell the remains as mutton.

One man killed and ate a girl and a third report of cannibalism was recorded from 2011.

Another man was executed in May after murdering 11 people and selling the bodies as pork.

In Oct. 2011, TheBlaze reported about Kim Hye Sook and the unbearable pain and emotional suffering that she endured during her 28-year detention in a secretive North Korean concentration camp. Brutal executions, starvation — even mothers killing and eating their children to ensure their own survival — were regular occurrences.

In an interview with CBN News, Sook recalled a mother boiling her 9-year-old daughter. In a separate fit of desperation, a woman killed her 16-year-old son, chopped him up and took him to a butcher to obtain some corn in exchange.

(H/T: Daily Mail)

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nomsain
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:45am
No sympathy from me. The people of that forlorn country far, far out number the fat pigs at the top and their obediant military. Look at Egypt, the people protest their govt. and changes can be made. While it’s not exactly the same, the citizens of N. Korea could bring about change but, admittedly, not without high cost in lives.

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- rose-ellen
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:58pm
  I stand by my posts -You’re barking up the wrong and irrelevant tree,RJJ.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:42pm
  PSYCHIC_ROSE, You might just be right considering that you can’t get on the right thread.
  
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- rose-ellen
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:09pm
  I post my reply closest to the appropriate place when that place is already a reply.
  
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- wwwDiscentus
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:10pm
  It is the highest cost to be paid when your government takes your guns. North Korean civilians are not allowed to have guns and having been weakened by starvation they can’t throw rocks very hard or very far.
  
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RANGER1965
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:45am
Starvation is insidious. It’s a pain that never goes away, an itch that can never be scratched, it preys on your mind, every second of every day, until your stomach is satisfied.

It’s an elemental type of suffering that will drive people absolutely mad.

Add to this, the suffering of watching your loved ones wither away in pain and despair…you have a recipe for absolute desperation. Men will do anything to save themselves and their families. People become animals, they will kill, steal, and do anything to live just one more day.

Prepare yourself people.

(1) Start working on a year of dehydrated food, just buy a little at a time.
(2) Get out of the big cities if you can.
(3) Buy enough weapons and ammo to protect yourself, and your possessions.
(4) Learn a few survival skills.
(5) Learn a cottage industry skill. Somthing that would be useful in tough times.
(6) Ask yourself lots of “What if” questions. If your answers are not satisfactory, make the changes you need to make them satisfactory.
(7) Involve your neighbors if you can. An individual no matter how well prepared is vulnerable. A community well prepared is as strong as steel. It just doesnt’ get any better.

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- chips1
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:04am
  (8) Make friends with the customers at your local donut shop.
  
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- chicago76
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:08am
  Now we know why Hollywood is full of madness.
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:26pm
  Good Advice Ranger !
  
  Those that Mock you will one day come begging – Blow their heads off and hang them in your yard as a warning to others!
  
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- AmericanStrega
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:20pm
  Ranger1965 (that was a good year):
  I’ve been stating your exact words for that past four years. But, most people believe nothing so drastic will happen here in the U.S. They think they will always be able to jet off to the local grocery and get what they need or buy it on the internet. When people have been lulled into believeing they cannot be put into a situation, such as North Korea or the Ukrain back in the “old days”, you will find a populace of people who do not understand reality and when thrust into that reality, they will not know what to do. They will eventually kill to survive. But sadly, people of the U.S. will not consider what is coming and will continue to tune in to the propaganda like Dancing With The Stars and Honey Boo Boo. These same people will not realize what is happening until it’s too late. Then they will be trying to break down the doors of those of us who know the score and thus, the bloodshed will start. Sad but true.
  
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- cliffattheblaze
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:20pm
  I would add that people should get some stuff for barter, like junk silver. I’ve heard that some people are getting whiskey and cigarettes stored up for barter as well.
  
  Also, people should keep enough cash on hand to take care of immediate needs.
  
  People mock preppers, but the mockers should realize that when they’re hungry and don’t have anything to trade for food, most preppers will be happy to give them a bullet for free.
  
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00100111
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:43am
This is what Obama wants for America.

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woodyee
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:43am
IF North Korea had imposed gun control, or this kind of thing would never have happened!

Gun Control for North Korea NOW! (How’s that, billy hallO’well?)

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Walkabout
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:40am
Yes, they can ship the unviable tissue masses to North Korea, where they can be processed into Soylent Green.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:17am
  “Yes, they can ship the unviable tissue masses to North Korea, where they can be processed into Soylent Green.”
  
  So the post about Planned Parenthood using aborted fetuses to feed hungry North Koreans got deleted.
  
  WHY?
  
  If a movie like Soylent Green can be made & be discussed, why not eating fetuses? If you can talk about eating humans, why not dead small humans?
  
  It is not even that bad. Liberals do not consider fetuses humans. So by the liberal theology it is not cannibalism. So how can it be a smear against Planned Parenthood & liberals. If it is not a smear, then why should the post be deleted?
  
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- txs_sxs
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 12:46am
  There is also a more recent movie you may have missed called “Dumplings.”. It is a Chinese movie that came out just a few years ago that deals with cooking and eating fetuses. The fetuses are the meat in the dumplings and are suppose to have a youth rejuvenating function.
  
  To the credit of the file maker, however, it is considered a horror movie.
  
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muffythetuffy
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:40am
ATOMIC WEAPONS AND ROCKETS ARE EXPENSIVE

Everyone must sacrifice. WHAT DOES IT MATTER…That could never happen here.

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jman-6
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:30am
I think Americans should stand up and demand our troops liberate the NorK’s! I’m sure most would rather support man’s freedom than have our heroes die for nothing in that forsaken place called Afghanistan! Wake up they have ‘Concentration Camps’ and we vowed to never let it happen again after WW 2 and yet we sit idlely by! I’m certain GOD is none to pleased with us!

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- gena t
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:38pm
  You think our devastated military has the manpower to get into another war? Where would we get the manpower and where would we get the money to sustain another war? If China were to intervene as they did during the Korean War it would quickly evolve into WWIII, is that what you think we need to get into? As long as North Korea is led by a group of lunatics with no regard for their own people and a paranoia that we would do just what you advocate we do, they will spend every penny they can grab on weapons instead of food for their people. It is a bad situation but the time that America can right every wrong in the world is past tense. Our country is barely able to sustain itself, we can no longer be the policeman of the world.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:10pm
  @Jman
  
  “I think Americans should stand up and demand our troops liberate the NorK’s! I’m sure most would rather support man’s freedom than have our heroes die for nothing in that forsaken place called Afghanistan!”
  
  That is an absolutely TERRIBLE idea, for many reasons. Among them: the people we’re coming to “liberate” would be the cannon fodder used against us; the one thing North Korea does well is use their weapons (usually just against their own people); China would never let us get away with it; the entire country is riddled with underground cave and bunker systems. We’d lose soldiers clearing every cave, or spend millions to blow every single one up.
  
  Invading North Korea is terrible advice. If you think it would help solve this problem, you’re right – only in that there would suddenly be many less mouths to feed.
  
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:29am
I swear to myself when I hear these wonderful stories coming out of N.Korea it warms my cold black heart. I want my serfs to know that I’m working feverishly to get you to N.Korea status and with my policies of devaluing your dollar and artificially raising the cost of your energy and destroying your military with women in combat roles it won’t take long to complete. Oh yes and disarming you is paramount because an armed society is dangerous to a Marxist regime like mine.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:38am
  You should have Send_the_Meteors travel there on a diplomatic mission of the highest importance.
  
  Another gift of a basketball autographed by Michael Jordan would make everything better.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:46am
  That’s a good idea. Send Ms Meteors to N Korea on a diplomatic mission. Baste him in Worcestershire sauce first. Label his clothes “Put in over on 350 for 5 hours”. Tell him it says “I come in peace”. They’ll love him.
  
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1SFG
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:29am
Did two tours in South Korea. Yes, Nk is that bad. My friend had to go to Nk to recover American Remains from the Koran war. He told me there were no birds, animals anywhere. Only the military, party elite and political informants have food. Sad.

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- chicago76
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:14am
  When only the military and police have guns, the people have no chance. Any country where that happens becomes third world dictatorships. Europe is becoming a third world dictatorship. The governments of the various countries have become irrelevant and are puppets of the ECB. Europe is ruled by a bunch of appointed bureaucrats.
  
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Metallicat
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:24am
This is the future of America if the progressive liberal continues to move us “forward”

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badge02812
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:22am
Another Nazi regime based on false biology science.

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nomorpc4me
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:19am
When we discovered the concentration camps in Nazi Germany at the end of WWII, we were aghast and our government(s) said it would never happen again. Now we hear of this inconcievable horror and we shrug our shoulders. Our society today will tolerate nearly every evil as long as it doesn’t intrude on our entertainment lifestyle. We will be very sorry for our dispassionate lack of compassion.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:29am
  We didn’t enter that war to save the Jews of Europe. We entered that war because the Japanese attacked us and Hitler declared was on us! I don’t recommend a second Korean conflict to save Korean from themselves either.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:48am
  I would like to see Spec ops go there and decapitate the leadership politically. I the Dear leader was executed with a few score or generals, I think the rest of the generals & colonels would fall into line. Let the South Koreans roll in & distribute food & disarm the rest of the North Korean Military.
  
  Why fight hard. Go for the head shot. Go for the leaders. See how many people want to wage war then.
  
  You also tell the Chinese oligarchs no more catspaw. That it is a fait accompli. It helps if they think that you are a Cowboy & mean what you say.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:25pm
  I wouldn’t mind seeing that Walkabout.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:05pm
  I believe in spec ops taking out the leadership. Too many leaders are perfectly willing to fight until their kids or they are about to come to harm. I would rather not have to kill young conscripts who have been fed a lien of bull or have to decide whether to flee, rebel or fight for whatever oligarchy.
  
  I have seen whole peoples desiring war. Europe was that way in the summer of 1914. The journalists helped stoke it up. By Christmas peace would have broken out if the common man would have had his way.
  
  Start at the top of the organization pyramid & work your way down. You will not have to go too far down.
  
  A lot less bloodshed that way
  
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- cowgirl
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 1:54am
  The jews were slaughtered in wwll because they were decent, trusting people who did not fight back when their guns were taken and the gov. started telling them what size soda they could drink. We have a choice still. So far we have been too interested in the superbowl, etc to care that they are financially ruining our country. Its hard to resist when you are really hungry.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:19am
Kind-a puts a new perspective on one of their favorite dishes….

“Kim” chee.

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- jman-6
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:31am
  Really Monk?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:40am
  Hi MONK, as gruesome as that sounds, it is funny after all. Good catch on your part.
  As for her age, I have to wonder why she was imprisoned at the age of 13. But, at the Mariel Boat Lift I meet a grown man whose mother was a prostitute who had worked for the Batista government. Pregnant, she was imprisoned by Castro where she gave birth to him. Since he was born in prison, that is where he remained until he was one of the early prisoners released to the boat lift to help clear the prisoner population. First we received prisoners who were involved in lesser crimes, many of which we would never consider as crimes. Then later, came the truly hardened criminals. But, can you imagined being born in prison to remain a prisoner because your mother was an employee of the former government? We also had people claim to have been imprisoned for having more than roughly ten ounces of meat in their homes during a one week period. Another was a father and son imprisoned because the son got into a playground fight with the son of an Army Lieutenant who was also a card carrying loyal Cuban Communist Party.
  
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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:47am
  That’s the name of a Korean cooking show – I saw an add on food I think, yesterday. I thought it sounds funny. Hmmm. Not so funny.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:11am
  @jman-6
  “Really Monk?”
  
  Apparently you’ve never seen the way authentic Kim chee is made by farmers in Korea.
  
  Try looking it up sometime…. : (
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:19am
  Hi MONK, yep, they do bury it for a while, don’t they? I’ve never been able to get passed the odor, but I’ve know a lot of others who swear by it. Guess it beats a plate of Gaegogi.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:24am
  Geez, that brought back the old joke that I believe was even in an episode of MASH. But, what do you call a Korean family with a dog? Vegetarians. What do you call a Korean family with two dogs? Ranchers. I don’t say this to any way poke fun at an ethnic group, but it did apply to the uber harsh times that the Koreans have been put through from the time the Japanese invaded them and made an attempt to deforest the entire nation. Followed by even more harsh times during the Korean War, now followed by what Communism has done to North Korea and it’s people. Its not a joke, but reality for these people.
  
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- dollyg
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:04pm
  yes but we would have to have a real leader to call that shot…he is to busy destroying the world to try to save someone…
  
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USACommoner
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:18am
Kinda makes this foolish “war on women” sound trite now, doesn’t it…? “Boo hoo, the government won’t pay for my birth control pills with taxpayer monies…woe is me.”

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MBA
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:18am
Sounds like the liberals in this country! They should be so proud that this is what they want this country to become–not!

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FightingBear
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:18am
NKorea developing a nuke and the means to deliver it is so much more important than their own citizens resorting to cannibalism because of the nationwide famine.

More evidence that those in power are out of their minds and will use a nuke if they are allowed to build one.

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- chips1
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:31am
  It would be like one large microwave oven.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:16am
The book “A Modest Proposal” comes to mind…..

An ultra liberal 10th grade English teacher made us read it.

She thought it was great and serious. : (

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:02am
  Hi MONK, A very sick book even in it’s mocking form. Then again, maybe Jonathon Swift foresaw Bill O’Reilly’s existence. I guess he was the Margaret Sanger of the 18th Century?
  
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momrules
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:15am
When people are starving they will do terrible things. Within a week of lack of food at the local grocery store people in America will be killing each other for a bag of rice. What will they do after weeks or months?

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Cavallo
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:15am
Marxist Utopia. Bobo’s soul mate, Kim Jong Un. There is a lot of wealth for bobo the wonder Marxist to destroy in the US that was created by freedom. It will take a bit longer to get us to North Korea, but he has definitely set us on the expressway of death and oppression.

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DREDGE
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:13am
Must have eaten all the dogs,cats and rats!!!!!

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BODYBAG
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:12am
Sorry but I would need concrete documented indisputable proof before believing this.
No doubt conditions and living standards are atrocious, but in a world where it is increasingly
difficult to “cut through the noise” it is too easy to make claims like this to get attention.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:10am
Communism is a death cult and millions have been murdered throughout history.

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Gonzo
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:08am
KJU sure looks well fed. Wake up Korea!

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- Glith
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:32am
  He probably gets a taste for a little Korean
  
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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:41am
  Yeah, that porkbelly musta had a strange childhood too. Like Dr. Evil
  
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biohazard23
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:02am
Oh my…

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:15am
  Didn’t 0bama say “Never again?”
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:01am
Welcome to the future under Obama.

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