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Hillary: talks over Falklands “not too much”; talks over Kosovo too much? March 2, 2010 – 8:37 am At a press conference with Argentina’s President Kristina Kirchner, Hillary Clinton infuriated the Brits by saying that US supports talks over status of the Falkland islands. Said she: “We would like to see Argentina and the United Kingdom sit down and resolve the issues between them across the table in a peaceful, productive way…we want very much to encourage both countries to sit down.” Argentina is one of the majority of the states in the world that has not recognized Kosovo fearing...

(The Bleiburg memorial, with the Ustasha and Muslim symbols, dedicated "In memory of the innocent victims of the Bleiburg tragedy, May 1945") At the end of February, Al-Jazeera showed an interview with Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, currently on trial before the ICTY in The Hague. It was done as part of a 40-minute report with Rageh Omaar. The report opened with the rows of green funeral shrouds, wailing Muslim women, and the rows of names on the Potocari monument, near Srebrenica. The images that follow suggest that the Serbs rounded up some eight thousand civilians, and shot them in...

Famed PLO terrorist-turned-Christian Walid Shoebat is warning that the United States needs to be watching not Iran, Syria or even Hamas and Hezbollah as closely as it needs to follow the actions of the Islamic leaders of Turkey. It was just a few months ago when Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin reported Turkey appeared to be seeking the restoration of the old Ottoman Empire. The report said Turkey's increasing lack of interest in the European Union combined with its efforts to re-establish its influence in Turkic countries of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and its outreaches to Russian, Syria and...

Radical Islam & terrorism in the Balkans By Lee Jay Walker | The former Yugoslavia was engulfed by many civil wars and during the mayhem and carnage it is clear that radical Islam built “a new bridge.” This “new Islamic bridge” was built on foundations which had already been built in Bosnia. However, the 1990s enabled this potent force to enter other areas and to gain ground throughout the former Yugoslavia and this notably applies to Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia. Other areas of concern apply to Albania, Montenegro, and parts of Serbia (Sandzak). After all, if the Kosovo model is...

NATO forces say they are indefinitely suspending the training of Kosovo's security force for breaching its mandate....

Ganic ordered mass killing of Serbs in Bosnia Mar 4, 2010 M. Bozinovich | Former Minister of Interior of Bosnia, Alija Delimustafic, told the court in 2002 that Ganic commanded over Bosnian Muslim units that blocked the withdrawing ethnic Serbian soldiers who were slaughtered on the streets of Sarajevo. The slaughter is remembered as the Dobrovoljacka Street Massacre and it happened on May 3, 1992. “Ganic was in the role of the supreme commander of the [Bosnian Muslim] army,” said Delimustafic and named others who were in Ganic’s cabinet. Serbia wants Ganic extradited from the UK where he is being...

would seem to be an inappropriate reviewer for a book about "the worst car in history." I drive a BMW, after all. In my defense, it is a 26-year-old BMW. The window motors failed a decade ago, so I must chin myself up through the sunroof to collect my burgers at the drive-through. I hate driving in the rain because my ankles get wet, thanks to a hole in the floor. I now realize, though, that the rusty old wreck only buffs my reviewing credentials: It approximates the condition of a brand spanking new Yugo, the subject of Jason Vuic's...

The Obama administration criticized Israel for designating two shrines on Palestinian territory as Israeli national heritage sites. The criticism came as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday she hopes long-stalled peace talks between Israelis and the Palestinians will resume. Clinton told a congressional committee that groundwork is being laid to restart the talks with the help of US envoy George Mitchell. Toner said US displeasure with the designations of the Cave of the Patriarchs in the flash point town of Hebron and the traditional tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel in Bethlehem had been conveyed to senior Israeli...

A UN official has urged Albania to stop hampering efforts to investigate claims that hundreds of Serbs were tortured and murdered for their organs in the country during the Kosovo war. Belgrade says the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) abducted up to 500 Serb civilians and took them to neighbouring Albania for organ removal during the 1998-9 conflict with Slobodan Milosevic’s forces. The allegations were first made public in a memoir by Carla Del Ponte, the former chief UN war crimes prosecutor, who said her office had received information about a possible Albanian trafficking network selling human organs abroad for transplanting....

After scraping the plans of building a missile defense shield in Poland and Czech Republic President Obama is working now on deploying defense missiles to another part of Eastern Europe: the Balkans. Romania and Bulgaria are both members of NATO and the EU. Last week Romania’s top defense body had approved Washington’s plan to deploy interceptor missiles. Bulgarian PM Boiko Borisov said Sofia should show solidarity and consider the Washington deal after negotiations with NATO and EU. After humiliating Poland the Obama administration realized they still need the land based defense structures designed to protect against current and emerging ballistic...

In honor of this day, January 20th, 2010, which is the Serbian Orthodox Krsna Slava of Sveti Jovan (St. John the Baptist), I'm sharing this beautiful Serbian Chant, "We Magnify Thee, O Lifegiver Christ", sung by the St. Petersburg Valaam Metochion Choir at the St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Washington, D.C. in 2002. Sveti Jovan was the Krsna Slava of my beloved maternal grandparents, Andja and Timotije, my Baka and Deka. Enjoy. Aleksandra Rebic We Magnify Thee, O Lifegiver Christ*****

Muslim terrorists in the Balkans have established a terrorist training camp in northeast Bosnia-Herzegovina, according to a report in the newspaper Dnevni List. The Mostar-based Croatian newspaper reported Jan. 6, quoting security sources that the special training camp is located near Gornja Moaca in the northeastern part of the country. U.S. intelligence agencies have been closely monitoring Muslims in the Balkans amid concerns that fundamentalist Muslims have been recruiting there.

I pretty much had to see Avatar despite major kinds of ideological misgivings... Aside from anything else, I had a funny sort of a feeling of deja-vu watching the thing. A small, innocent, naive, and spiritually oriented nation of some kind has something which some sort of a great power wants, and some ultimate high-tech military organization gets turned loose on them... Where have I heard that story before?? I mean, the only thing wrong with the analogy was that the Pandorans in the film weren't really getting ****ed over badly enough for the analogy to really work. For instance,...

Senior Palestinian officials note that Palestinian unilateralism is modeled after Kosovo's February 2008 unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia. European and U.S. support for Kosovo's unilateral declaration has led the Palestinian leadership to determine that geopolitical conditions are ripe to seek international endorsement of its unilateral statehood bid, despite the fact that leading international jurists have suggested that the cases of Kosovo and the Palestinian Authority are historically and legally different.

Belgrade - Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden tried to covertly buy weapons from the former Yugoslavia in the 1980s, but was turned down, according to an investigation by the Belgrade daily Blic on Tuesday. The weapons were intended for Afghanistan, where Islamist rebels were fighting the forces of the Soviet Union. Quoting a source from the state-owned arms manufacturer SDPR, the newspaper said Osama "walked in unannounced on June 25, 1986, and simply said 'I want to buy that and that'", the unnamed source said. Bin Laden's "wish list" included anti-aircraft missiles, machine guns, mobile radar units, ammunition for rifles...

Serbia continues to get the bulk of the blame from many in academic and media circles for today’s catastrophe in the Balkans. An example is Professor Staric in his recently published book entitled Confronting The Yugoslav Controversies. While attempting to appear even-handed, Prof. Staric clearly shows his anti-Serb bias with statements such as, “After Slovenia and Croatia, which were the most developed republics of the former Yugoslavia, had declared their independence on June 25, 1991, the Serbs did not like to lose their ‘cash cows’,” and “The Serbs (mainly) and Croats have clearly shown that they are unable to live...

BUDAPEST/BERLIN/ULM(Own report) - The Hungarian government has announced a "Danube Summit Meeting" for next month to implement the - German inspired - "Danube Strategy". Following in depth talks in Berlin, the Hungarian foreign minister announced that the "Danube Summit" will be held in Budapest at the end of February. The summit will prepare closer ties of the Danube region to the EU's hegemonic power, which should be adopted, as the EU's Danube Strategy, during Hungary's EU Council presidency in the first half of 2011. The Hungarian government's Danube activities are in line with demands of German economic interests, seeking to...

At a meeting Tuesday with Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned that the worldwide jihad had set its sites on the area of the Balkans as its next target. Quoting Israeli intelligence sources, Lieberman said that Islamic fundamentalists were planning to take advantage of the tension between Muslim and Christian populations in the region. Fundamentalists were being funded by Iran and radical elements in Saudi Arabia, and had recruited Bosnians and Albanians for terror training camps. The new terrorists would be sent home to stir up trouble, in the hopes that an Islamic revolution could be...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFqg1rCZUq4 If this doesn't show that liberalism and nazism are the same thing, nothing will. GIVE KOSOVO BACK TO THE SERBS!