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The Most Powerful Gang in the World

2015-03-12T07:54:00.002-07:00

Jamaican Posse

This gang, armed with machine guns, came to be known, thanks to his connections in the government of Jamaica. The distinguishing feature of this group is its cruelty - the victim dies from absolutely any improvised from irons and ax, ending different types of weapons

Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC)

This gang is growing and thriving in Brazilian prisons and truscheb. Business cards are kidnapping, extortion and blackmail. Once they were able to capture the city of Sao Paulo, keeping people in fear and killing police officers in front of them.

Crips

This gang founded 16-year-olds, which is mainly engaged in bullying: frightened passers staged minor disturbances. At the moment - this is one of the strongest groups in the world. A distinctive feature of the gang members is a blue color that they wear all the time.

Yakuza

To join the Japanese mafia - need to cut all their ties of kinship, in order to prove their loyalty and devotion to the boss. It is believed that in addition to a complete renunciation they should cut off your one finger

Cosa Nostra

BeThis criminal group, better known as the American Mafia, is a sort of offshoot of the traditional Sicilian Mafia. I guess we all know how cruel they are different with respect to those who break their internal code of honor.

Irish Republican Army (IRA)

IRA exists precisely on the same principles as the rest of the gang - plundering and killing. However, they have a distinctive feature - it is their goal. They want to destroy Northern Ireland and one Irish government.

Triad

Probably the largest group, with more than 2.5 million members in it. Famous for well-organized structure and bloody rituals.

Los Zetas

Powerful drug cartels. They are responsible for countless murders and destruction. Cent group is Mexico, but the impact goes far beyond its borders.

Russian Mafia

His fame was for what kills not only the opponent, but all his family. Russian mafia influence extended to the whole world.

The world's scariest bridge - The Maryland bridge

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The William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge, known as the Bay Bridge, spans nearly five miles of the Chesapeake Bay to connect Maryland's eastern and western shores. Standing 186 feet tall at its highest point, the structure, which is regularly subject to violent storms, instills fear in thousands of Baltimore and Washington residents every time they drive across it.

An entrepreneurial Maryland man is charging $25 to drive motorists in their own cars across one of the world's scariest bridges because they are too terrified to do it themselves.a

Visible from space : The five-mile-long bridge is even visible from space.

This Is For Everybody Who Was Offended By The AIB Roast Video. Seriously

2015-03-12T07:17:00.000-07:00

Load
Dictionary definition : a heavy or bulky thing that is being carried or is about to be carried.
Indian definition : dimag ki dahi karna till it becomes lassi (malai maar ke)

We Indians love taking load. Mummy takes load because “mere bete ne khana khaya ki nahi?” Daddy takes load because “ladki haath se nikli ja rahi hai.” Sharma ji takes load because “mere bete ko sabki nazar lag rahi hai. ” We need to stop. Like seriously. Too much load is injurious to the health of the people around you. We don’t really care about you. :-P

This hilarious video from TheViralFever tells you all the side effects of taking too much load and why you should stop. Quite informative actually, if you’ve watched AIB Roast and it doesn’t get out of your head.

Life on the DMZ

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A North Korean woman walks on a field in the village of Gijungdong, near the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone separating the North from South Korea in Paju.

South Korean soldiers take part in a military exercise with their mobile artillery vehicles, near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju.

A girl runs past pinwheels arranged in the shape of the Korean peninsula at Imjingak pavillion near the demilitarized zone which separates the two Koreas in Paju.

South Korean soldiers patrol along the military fence, just south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Yeoncheon.

North Korean soldiers look across a concrete border as a U.S. army soldier and South Korean soldiers stand guard at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarised Zone, in Paju.

South Korean and U.S. Marines run during a winter military drill in Pyeongchang.

North Korean soldiers stand on their observation post near Panmunjom truce village in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju.

President Obama looks through binoculars at North Korea from Observation Post Ouellette, during his visit to the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas.

South Korean soldiers patrol along the military fence, just south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Yeoncheon.

A woman, who was originally from North Korea, looks north after a memorial service for her North Korean ancestors in the direction of North Korea, near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju.

Over The Past Week, India Showed Me How Lucky I Am To Be A Woman In This Country

2015-03-12T06:50:00.004-07:00

You know what I love about this country? No, I’m not talking about her scenic beauty or her rich history, nor am I talking about the amalgamation of diverse cultures she shows off with pride. I’m talking about the people. Yes, the wonderful people who make up India. People who believe their men to be men. People who think that a woman’s duty is to be in the kitchen, and never raise her voice because it’s a man’s job to do so. People who think that women are to blame for everything, because she ‘probably provoked’ the man to raise his hand on her. People who consider a woman to be nothing but an object they can mishandle and misbehave with, and still have their way.

While I, like a lot of women in India, was in a natural state of beaming with pride about the patriarchal standards that are getting more and more ridiculous by the hour, a few horrendous incidents took place in different parts of the country. I didn’t know that someone’s Monday morning could get any worse till I read about all of them in the news.

1. A man went this far with a woman, because he was in love with her

The man accused went through the girl’s Whatsapp account on her phone, saw that she was having conversations with other men, and killed her out of burning rage. Sounds like a fair deal to me; after all, a woman is a man’s property.

2. A mentally challenged woman is no different than a normal woman- even she should be brutally raped, and killed

This mentally challenged Nepali woman was gang-raped and killed, and her body was found sans her heart and lungs.
See, this is why men are the best- they don’t differentiate on the basis of anything. There should be no inequality when it comes to women. Women of all kinds should be treated the same.

3. Age and family no bar, even if it’s a 12 year old

This piece of news stole the show. A 12 year old was repeatedly raped by her elder sister’s husband, and she ended up giving birth to the baby at the tender age of 13. Sadly, the girl has nowhere to go for support, monetary or otherwise, since her mother dismissed her, and the baby was given off to her relatives to take care of. While the accused is being sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment, the girl is trying her best to get him a more lenient form of punishment, because he seems to be the only one who can take care of her at this point in time. Moral of the story- a woman raped has to bear the brunt of being abandoned by people she calls her own, because apparently, she is at fault for being raped.

I would be lying if I said that this is all there is to a woman being raped in India. Victims are asked to keep shut and not talk about it, and they comply, fearing the accusers’ ability to do a lot worse if they told anyone about the incident, or be blamed for being the reason men ‘got provoked’ and ‘made a mistake‘.

4. This girl kept quiet for as long as she could, because she was being threatened by her rapists

The men who raped the 13 year old girl also video-taped the incident, and they threatened to leak the video online if she opened her mouth. After being raped again, despite not having said a word about the rape to anyone, she decided it was time she came out about this. The men are now arrested. Does this mean that the problem is dealt with? No, not even a little bit.

5. Social activist Sunitha Krishnan, who herself was raped at the age of 15, is being criticized for publicly sharing the videos of a woman being gang-raped in order for people to recognize the faces of the rapists in order to shame them publicly (the woman’s face and body has been blurred in the video)

A reputed online news portal is of the opinion that she was wrong to have circulated the video on Whatsapp because the ‘wrong people’ would get an idea off this, would want to do it more, and that it wouldn’t solve anything for the woman involved in this rape. Not only this, but Krishnan’s car was vandalized a few hours after the video started circulating. What we need to note here is that whether or not the accused are publicly shamed, it all boils down to the victim. Should it be that way? No, it absolutely shouldn’t. But it does, because women are always the ones to blame.

The lessons to learn from these incidents are many, and it clearly reflects the sad state of women in our country. We might think that we’re all changing with the times, but truth be told, we’re really not. And let’s not even get started on the fact that so, so many rapes and murders of similar nature get unreported on a daily basis. It’s nothing but ironic that while we worship goddesses with devotion and respect in our hearts, the real woman has no place here. If that isn’t saddening, nothing else will be.

We have observed a fair share of black days in humanity before, but I would simply end by saying that every day is a black day for humanity if you’re a woman in India.

Source - Storypick