SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 A STEP ABOVE THE APPLE 5S

Until recently, I was a loyal Apple customer, with two MacBooks and an iPhone 5. But I recently moved from New York to London, and that meant I needed a new phone number. But my iPhone was locked, preventing that from happening.

So I decided to get a new phone. I really wanted a big, 5.7-inch iPhone 6, but that won't be out until September at the very earliest, and maybe not until next year.

So I got a Samsung Galaxy S5, one of the big-screen "phablet" phones with a 5.1-inch screen that is driving the smartphone category right now.

And I am blown away.

I had no idea what I've been missing.

Using a large-format Samsung Android is leagues ahead of the iPhone experience, especially for video and photos. The big screen makes a huge difference.

When I went back to my old iPhone I was struck by how bizarrely small it is. It was like looking at one of my old flip-phones from the early 2000s. I just couldn't understand why I had tolerated it for so long.

The Galaxy handles texts and email better than the iPhone, too. My main demands on a phone are email, messaging, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, photos, web media, and video. The big screen format really makes all of these pop in a way that they just don't on the iPhone. This will sound like the zealotry of the newly converted, but iPhone users do not realize quite how bad even basic web media like YouTube or Vimeo are on an iPhone until you see them on a Galaxy.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ditched-iphone-samsung-galaxy-s5-121300493.html

THE DEMOCRATS AT EVERY TURN HAS COME ABOUT TO WEAKEN THE STATES OF THE USA AS IT HAS PROMOTED THE INVASION OF ILLEGALS INTO THE USA WITH THE LEADERSHIP FROM THE DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO WHOSE MAIN AGENDA IS THE RADICAL SOCIALISM TEAR DOWN OF THE NATION AND ITS MIDDLE CLASS–300,000 ILLEGALS NOW AND MORE TO COME BECAUSE OF THE DEMOCRATS FROM DIANNE FEINSTEIN TO JOE BIDEN

…..So, after 300,000 illegal aliens of all ages have spent thee months pouring in, Obama finally tells ABC News that “unaccompanied children” should not be sent to the United States because the trip here is dangerous and “if they do make it [here], they’ll get sent back.” Right. Then, even as his administration, under a veil of secrecy, transfers tens of thousands of illegals to communities across the country (without notifying state officials), Obama ceremoniously deports a grand total of 38 Hondurans. That’s —  as Sweetness & Light computed — one-one-hundredth of a percent of the swarm that has crossed our border since April. Predictably, the president’s media accomplices highlight these trifling, cynical ploys as clear proof that Obama opposes the invasion he has instigated. And while we are diverted debating that claim, thousands more invaders are resettled as refugees.
In the interim, the press blames Bush. It’s a shrewd gambit: The charge is plausible because the GOP establishment has desperately pushed amnesty for years; even better, the charge involves a complex 2008 law, so it is difficult to unwind. Indeed, even conservative pundits have accepted the premise that what the press monotonously tells us is a “Bush-era law” has contributed mightily to the border crisis.
In reality, this 2008 measure, known as the “William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Act,” was a Democratic amendment, added by Senator Dianne Feinstein and then-Senator (and Vice President-elect) Joe Biden to the seemingly uncontroversial reauthorization of a Clinton-era anti-human-trafficking law. Yes, Bush did sign the measure just before leaving office — the third time he’d signed a reauthorization of the feel-good, anti-human-trafficking law. But to blame this law for the crisis is to blame a leak in the kitchen faucet for the flood that is carrying the house away…..
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383159/obama-caused-border-disaster-andrew-c-mccarthy

HUMAN RIGHTS THERE IS NONE IN NORTH KOREA–THE KIM KEEPS A DEATH HOLD ON THE PEOPLES OF THE NORTH–AS 268 HUMAN RIGHTS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HUMAN IMPROVEMENT BROUGHT ON BY UNHRC

The United Nations Human Rights Council has provided North Korea with 2-hundred-68 recommendations to improve its dire human rights conditions.
They came in a report adopted on Tuesday in Geneva during the council's Universal Periodic Review session on North Korea.
The extensive report urges Pyongyang to close its notorious prison camps and end public executions.

It also calls on the North Korean regime to stop its systematic and widespread human rights violations, which include forced labor.
North Korea immediately dismissed substantial portions of the report, rejecting 83 of the recommendations outright.
The rejected recommendations include closing down any political prison camps, eradicating state-sponsored discrimination based on the political backgrounds of families, and cooperating with the International Criminal Court.
North Korea’s UN ambassador So Se-pyong said, the recommendations came out of the international community's misunderstanding and prejudices against the regime.

Regarding the remaining 185 recommendations, North Korea said it would review them and respond before the council's regular session scheduled for September, during which time the full report will be made public.
The council's Universal Periodic Review is held for two-week periods, three times a year.
During each session, 14 countries undergo reviews.
Pyongyang took the opportunity to lash out at the United States.
The North's state media said the U.S. is the worst country in terms of human rights infringement.
It called the United States a "living hell," full of rampant racial discrimination and gun accidents, where only a select few get to enjoy material success.

http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nSeq=161987

AS THE COMMUNICATION AGE IN SOUTH KOREA HAS GROWN AND THROUGHOUT THE FREE WORLD SO THUS NORTH KOREA POLITICAL PRISON CAMPS–SATTELITE PHOTOS REVEAL IN DEC 2013 ITS EXPANSION

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This is North Korea's largest political prison, Camp 16, shown in a satellite image taken on May 25th.
Located in Whaseong-gun, Hamkyungbuk-do, the camp is about 560 square kilometers -- equivalent to half the size of the capital of Pyongyang.
The images, released as part of a report released Wednesday by Amnesty International, show new housing blocks have been added to the site, when compared with images taken of the camp two years ago.
The human rights group estimates that the number of inmates at the camp has increased slightly from the previously estimated number of 20-thousand two years ago.

The report also includes testimony from a North Korean defector surnamed Lee who worked as a guard at Camp 16 from the 1980s to the mid-1990s.
Lee said that detainees were forced to dig their own graves and were then killed with hammer blows to their necks.

The former guard said he also witnessed prison officials strangling detainees and then beating them to death with wooden sticks.
He said the officials also frequently raped the female inmates before killing them.
Amnesty International has called on North Korea to close the camps immediately and urged countries like China to stop repatriating North Koreans who flee the country on the grounds that they will likely be sent to the gulag.
Sohn Jung-in, Arirang News.

http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nSeq=153990