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The Weight of Chains: US/NATO Destruction of Yugoslavia (Documentary)
Boris Malagurski
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Boris Malagurski's award-winning Canadian film "The Weight of Chains", dealing with the breakup of Yugoslavia from a different angle. If you thought you knew why Yugoslavia broke up, get ready for 2 hours of shocking facts that will shed a different light on Western intervention in the Balkans. Malagurski exposes the root causes of the Yugoslav wars and explains that the goal for the West to create economic and geopolitical colonies in that part of the world.
"The Weight Of Chains" presents a Canadian perspective on Western involvement in the division of the ethnic groups within Yugoslavia and show that the war was forced from outside - regular people wanted peace. However, extreme fractions on all sides, fuelled by their foreign mentors, outvoiced the moderates and even ten years after the last conflict - the hatred remains and people continue spreading myths of what really happened in the 1990s. Why did all this happen?
Who's in the film? Everyone from former "Economic Hitman" John Perkins, Retired Major General of the UN Army Lewis Mackenzie, Canadian economist Michel Chossudovsky, Canadian journalist Scott Taylor, former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia James Bissett, humanitarian Vlade Divac... and the list goes on!
This film was funded exclusively through donations, so please support the project by buying a DVD of the film through the film's website.
The director of this film, Boris Malagurski, has made several films to date, the last one being "Kosovo | Can You Imagine?", a controversial documentary exposing how remaining Serbs in Kosovo have little or no basic human rights, which won several awards at film festivals around the world and was broadcasted as well.
Comment: See also: The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia by the Empire of Chaos
Kries · 2015-02-23T18:54:23Z
The weight of chains or The fall of Yugoslavia – Different view
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. ~ Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda
Here in the forum as well as the Sott net repeatedly been shown and discussed movie "The Weight Of Chains" on how the dissolution of Yugoslavia. The film was met with approve, because they fit into the scheme of how great powers manipulate small nations and states. But the film is far from the truth and in fact a propaganda clip Serbian intelligence services in order to blur the real causes and consequences of the breakup of Yugoslavia. So let's start in a row:
The film was financed by the Serbian public television, that is not independent work, than the custom authorities of Serbia. Here the Serbian authorities are run by ultra-nationalists not to say the fascists. Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, who publicly spoke for one Serb must kill 100 Muslims - Bosniaks [Link]
President Tomislav Nikolic was in a military unit that carried out the massacre of innocent civilians in the village of Antin in Croatia Barany region [Link]
And here they are together with a war criminal Vojislav Seselj in positions above the besieged Sarajevo.
Here's what the siege of Sarajevo says prominent Serbian historian Dr. Latinka Perovic;
The siege of Sarajevo, which lasted 1479 days killed 10,615 people - of which 1,601 children, and injured 61,136 people - of which 14 946 children.
Next Dr. Perovic:
The basis for this war were unfinished conflicts and schisms: those from the Second World War, from 1948, the conflict over the different conceptions of Yugoslavia: whether to go to the federalization or the unitary centralized state. Serbia is believed her as a tool in these discussions always remains a force. And that, allow me, was the biggest misconception. One must not forget the fact that Serbia was preparing for war at a time when no one expected collapse of the Soviet Union; which is a very important fact.
Why is it important? Because they are the ones who are making the war believed that the Yugoslav conflict have Russia on its side. Around 1987 I spoke with then-Vice President of Serbian Academy, Antonio Isakovic, with whom I was, otherwise, until then occasionally seen. He immediately went to my explains how Slovenes and Croats do not want Yugoslavia and as time has finally come for Serbia to resolve your issue ...
"Sorry," I interrupted, "do you want a war?"
"Yes," he confirmed. "But it will not be fought on the territory of Serbia ... be killed some 86,000 people!"
"But where to 86,000 people, for God's sake ?! Whose head ?!", I asked.
And then they say - war came suddenly. Well, no! And with such a mortgage is impossible to simply rotate the list of history. This price must be paid. – end of quote
In the period 194-1990 Yugoslavia economically successfully functioned and was really socially country. This success not resulted from the socialist model of the economy than the specific geopolitical position. Although decorated like all other communist countries of the Warsaw Pact, Yugoslavia broke away from Stalin's reign of terror. During the worst crisis of USA under President Truman approved the aid to Yugoslavia. As such, Yugoslavia was a buffer zone between the two blocks. As secret US player dictator Tito, skillfully balancing in that environment, and became the founder of the Non-Aligned Movement countries. This was consistent with US, more than a third world country because of errors of American policy, fall under the influence of Moscow and Warsaw Pact. As with the east and west had to do, it's Yugoslavia traded in a way that western goods and technology, selling the communist bloc. And that was the source of the economic success of Yugoslavia. As soon as the Iron Curtain fell, the light came out the deficiencies of the socialist planned economy and the economic system collapsed in a short time.
Conflicts of interest and conception of some nations and the federal units of the former Yugoslavia, was silenced solid communist dictatorship and the wrong word spoken or sung traditional national song could end up in the gulag. Despite the formal equality of all peoples of the former Yugoslavia, Serbia had absolute dominance in the administration, foreign policy, military and state-owned enterprises. Dominance in the army quickly been used for wars of conquest against the first Slovenia, then Croatian and Bosnia and finally Kosovo.
More developed members of the federation Slovenia and Croatia, who were seeking a confederate arrangement, and politics of clean bills, to stop the practice, the spillover of income in underdeveloped units. In contrast to the claims in the film, the USA had an interest in Yugoslavia stay together. The reason for this is the elimination of Russia's interests in the region, and especially in Serbia, with which Russia as a Slavic and Orthodox country has traditionally good relations. USA is financially helped consolidate the economy of Yugoslavia, so that the government of then Prime Minister Ante Markovic gave assistance in the amount of $ 2 billion. It demanded democratic elections and free enterprise. And 1990 years and never lived better in Yugoslavia began to develop the private sector, finances are stabilized and saw perspective.
It is short because Serbia led by warmongers Slobodan Milosevic, falls into the payment system. It starts printing money without backing, and for a short time created runaway inflation and reform is destroyed by the Prime Minister Markovic tried to implement. It was the first attack on Yugoslavia. Another attack again conducted Serbia eliminating the autonomous province of Vojvodina and Kosovo that were constituent parts of the Yugoslav federacija.Time is violated loose balance established constitutional order of federal Yugoslavia. In this situation, the first Serbian man Slobodan Milosevic already rattles weapons and armed Serbs in other republics and provinces. The VJ controlled by Serbian forces, more is ready for final battle. In Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the leader of the rebel Serbs students Tavistock Institute, in Croatia psychiatrist Dr. Jovan Raskovic, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a psychiatrist, Dr. war criminal Radovan Karadzic
Dr Latinka Perovic- historian:
Serbia is from 1876 to 1991, in 114 years, led eight wars. On average every 14 years - a rawar. The longest period of peace coincides with the life of the second Yugoslavia: from 1945 to 1991.
And USA tolerated, moreover FM James Baker came to Belgrade and publicly give Slobodan Milosevic the green light to "fix" the situation in Yugoslavia. With the green light USA and mighty army Serbia moves in the dismissal of the Yugoslav crisis. It started a short war in Slovenia, which is the westernmost and no Serbian minority., And the same,fast receives permission to exit the Yugoslavia.Next spilled over into Croatia, and there's fascist policies more showed his true colors. Unseen crimes Dubrovnik, Vukovar, Skabrnja, concentration camps Velepromet,Stajicevo, Mitrovica, haunted population and the ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs. In Bosnia and Herzegovina was the worst because the Serbs constituted 31% of the population and that the scale of the crimes was the greatest and most tragic. Srebrenica with 8,000 killed Bosniaks Muslims, Prijedor, Foca, Sarajevo, concentration camps of Omarska, Keraterm, etc. etc.
It ended with the massacres in Kosovo, which were fortunately stopped by the United States, but not for humane reasons than their own geopolitical.
Summary of Serbian wars of conquest in the former Yugoslavia:
1 The Bosnia and Herzegovina killed almost 110,000 people,
50,000 women were raped,
more than two million people were displaced,
150,000 war invalids,
of 1995 killed / seriously injured by landmines 7500 people,
destroyed 614 Mosque,
discovered 5000 mass graves!
War damage 200 billion!
2 In Croatia killed 15,000 people,
37,000 wounded,
2,000 women were raped,
200,000 had been displaced,
34,000 war invalids	destroyed 122 Catholic Church,
discovered 156 mass graves,
war damage 32 billion euros.
3 In Slovenia, 57 people were killed.
146 wounded.
war damage 100 million eur
4 In Kosovo, killed about 14,500 people,
860,000 people were expelled,
Serbs poisoned 20,000 water wells in Kosovo,
2000 women were raped ...
218 demolished mosque, war damage about 30 billion euros
Total of missing more than 20,000 people
These presented data, publicly expressed in the media and, as regards Croatian and Bosnia and Herzegovina, can certify them as credible a possible deviation + -5%
Otherwise, the film is full of lies, and I do not intend to contest them individually, for this is my writing does not pay me govement. I would write a novel. However, several allegations have to challenge: Jasenovac concentration camp founded by the Croatian fascists in World War II, the place of execution of about 83,000 people, which is known by name
Nationality	children	male	female	total
Serbs	12683	21738	13206	47627
Gypsies	5608	5688	4877 16173
Jews	1601	7762	3753	13116
Croats	140	2866	1249	4255
Muslim -Bosniacs	52	897	179	1128
So no question of 600,000 Serbs killed as they say in the movie. These data confirmed by independent experts Slavko Goldstein, a Jew from Croatia, Bogoljub Kočović from Serbia and Vladimir Žerjavić from Croatia. Although one innocent victim of horrendous, increasing the number from 48,000 to 600,000 it can only Serbian propaganda. Let us not forget that the Serbian murder Austro-Hungarian prince Ferdinand, triggered the First World War .In movie assassin to Ferdinand described as a member of Young Bosnia, who allegedly organization of Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks- Muslim. This is a lie, in fact it is a Serbian nationalist, extended arm of Serbian politics in charge of creating a Greater Serbia. Who are closely interested in this matter, I recommend the book William Engdahl - A Century of war-
And so on, row lies row truth, the easiest to swallow, especially strangers who do not know the complex inter-ethnic relations in the Balkans and the former Yugoslavia. I must admit that the film is skillfully made, to hide the truth.
And here's what he says Serbian academician, writer, former president of Serbia, the so-called father of the nation Dobrica Cosic: "We lie to we deceived ourselves, to console others; lie out of compassion, we lie out of shame, to encourage, to hide our misery, we lie for their integrity. We lie because of freedom. A lie is a kind of Serbian patriotism and the proof of our innate intelligence. We lie creatively, inventively. " "In this country, every lie eventually becomes the truth."
About Cosic, Dr. Perovic say : Already from his second book, Roots, Cosic he decided to freely reconstruct the history of the Serbian people in which, is, that people only victim. I must say that Cosic this job working very methodically, persistently, deliberately. After all, that's what he himself repeatedly spoke. There is often thought that the Cosic is the man who Serbian people induced national ideology ...-
Niall · 2015-02-25T01:27:07Z
"Here in the forum as well as the Sott net repeatedly been shown and discussed movie "The Weight Of Chains" on how the dissolution of Yugoslavia."
Actually this is the first time Weight of Chains has featured on Sott.net.
"But the film is far from the truth and in fact a propaganda clip Serbian intelligence services in order to blur the real causes and consequences of the breakup of Yugoslavia."
Really? You have any evidence for that?
"The film was financed by the Serbian public television, that is not independent work, than the custom authorities of Serbia."
No it was made independently, with the help of alt.media website Global Research. They're still trying to raise funds from the public to get Weight of Chains 2 out there: [Link]
"Here the Serbian authorities are run by ultra-nationalists not to say the fascists."
Baseless nonsense. This is exactly the accusation levelled at Serbia by real fascists and the Western governments who destroyed Yugoslavia. You believed their propaganda and lies. As the film clearly shows, the real fascists lie elsewhere. Certainly, atrocities were committed by all sides. And stupid things were said by all sides. But the actual numbers - not the media numbers provided by US PR firms during the 1990s - show that at least as many Serbs were killed as any other ethnic group.
"The siege of Sarajevo, which lasted 1479 days killed 10,615 people - of which 1,601 children, and injured 61,136 people - of which 14 946 children."
Yes, it was horrible. And the Bosniaks, encouraged by jihadists (including Bin Laden!) - who were brought in by Western intelligence - were at least as guilty for creating that situation and prolonging it. The 'shelling of marketplaces' was actually the result of pre-planted explosives - which NATO KNEW about - and were deliberately done in order to bring in NATO bombing of Serb positions.
"One must not forget the fact that Serbia was preparing for war at a time when no one expected collapse of the Soviet Union; which is a very important fact."
What evidence is there for this?
"But it will not be fought on the territory of Serbia ... be killed some 86,000 people!"
Somebody personally told you 86,000 people would be killed?? I don't believe you.
"As with the east and west had to do, it's Yugoslavia traded in a way that western goods and technology, selling the communist bloc. And that was the source of the economic success of Yugoslavia. As soon as the Iron Curtain fell, the light came out the deficiencies of the socialist planned economy and the economic system collapsed in a short time."
The same thing happened to Yugoslavia as happened to nearly every other country on Earth: they accepted loans from the IMF. This is how the Western Empire gets a foot in the door.
"Conflicts of interest and conception of some nations and the federal units of the former Yugoslavia, was silenced solid communist dictatorship and the wrong word spoken or sung traditional national song could end up in the gulag"
Please! There was no 'dictatorship', and no 'gulags'. I think you were listening to too much Radio Free Europe.
"Dominance in the army quickly been used for wars of conquest against the first Slovenia, then Croatian and Bosnia and finally Kosovo."
Yugoslavia was not created by Serbia invading its other parts. Yugoslavia was created by a 'National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs', led primarily by Croats, and first based in London (where it got the Western Empire's blessing because it was against the German Empire in WW1), then Zagreb.
"In contrast to the claims in the film, the USA had an interest in Yugoslavia stay together."
No, the USA wanted to BREAK UP Yugoslavia.
"It demanded democratic elections and free enterprise.
Yes, the shock doctrine was applied. That was the main way they destroyed Yugoslavia.
"And 1990 years and never lived better in Yugoslavia began to develop the private sector, finances are stabilized and saw perspective."
Er, I think you're saying economic shock therapy was GOOD for Yugoslavia? Did you actually watch the film?
"Serbia led by warmongers Slobodan Milosevic"
Milosevic wasn't a warmonger. This is Western propaganda. See here: [Link]
"It starts printing money without backing, and for a short time created runaway inflation and reform is destroyed by the Prime Minister Markovic tried to implement. It was the first attack on Yugoslavia."
Yes, but this wasn't Serbia's doing! You see, the way this works is the IMF/international financial elite gives impossible-to-repay loans to a country, then the country is forced to change it laws according to what the creditors demand, then if the country doesn't accept, they sanction the country (a form of economic siege), and if that still doesn't work, they get the US/UK to bomb the country into submission.
"In this situation, the first Serbian man Slobodan Milosevic already rattles weapons and armed Serbs in other republics and provinces"
They had to defend themselves from US-trained and supported Croatian fascists and Islamic fighters from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia who were ethnically cleansing them in Krajina and Bosnia. Remember, Serbia didn't start this: the Western Empire started this.
"In Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the leader of the rebel Serbs students Tavistock Institute"
Hmm, I WAS going to say 'this is ridiculous!' But actually, it's plausible that some of the Serb paramilitaries in Bosnia were agents of the Western Empire, useful for 'committing Serb atrocities', and therefore aiding the Big Lie that this was all Serbia's fault.
"The longest period of peace coincides with the life of the second Yugoslavia: from 1945 to 1991."
It's very telling, isn't it? The 'great idea' - that if people in the Balkans got together and protected themselves from outside powers, they could live in peace. And it worked... until the outside powers infiltrated and duped its weakest elements.
"It started a short war in Slovenia, which is the westernmost and no Serbian minority"
Again, Serbia didn't 'start' anything! That particular 'war' was over in 10 days. Does that sound like a 'Big Bad Monster Serbia' doing whatever it takes to 'hold onto its colonies'??
"Next spilled over into Croatia..."
Nothing 'spilled over into Croatia'. The US had a timetable. Croatia was next. US Special Forces and Western intelligence operatives were long since on the ground training the Croats. Weapons were coming in via Germany, Iran, the UK. The newly privatized Croatian media was saying the most absurd things. Watch what's happening in Kiev today; it's exactly the same.
"...and there's fascist policies more showed his true colors."
You mean the Croats led by HDZ, right?
"Unseen crimes Dubrovnik, Vukovar, Skabrnja"
Unseen?? Atrocities committed against Croats and Bosniaks were the ONLY ones that were seen in the West! Serb victims just didn't exist in the Western media.
"concentration camps Velepromet,Stajicevo, Mitrovica, haunted population and the ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs"
Lies, lies, lies. There were no 'Serb concentration camps'. This was repeated in the media to make the Serbs seem like Nazis. The 'ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs' came AFTER much ethnic cleansing of Serbs had begun in Croatia and Bosnia.
"Srebrenica with 8,000 killed Bosniaks Muslims, Prijedor, Foca, Sarajevo, concentration camps of Omarska, Keraterm, etc. etc."
Actually, they only ever found the bodies of 70 Muslims killed in Srebrenica, although there were hundreds of murdered Serbs in the surrounding villages. See Michael Parenti: 'To Kill a Nation'.
"It ended with the massacres in Kosovo, which were fortunately stopped by the United States"
There were no massacres in Kosovo UNTIL the United States started bombing.
"These presented data, publicly expressed in the media and, as regards Croatian and Bosnia and Herzegovina, can certify them as credible a possible deviation + -5% "
Actually, that media 'data' has no basis in reality at all, as analyzed by people whose job it is to analyze the media: [Link]
"no question of 600,000 Serbs killed as they say in the movie. It can only Serbian propaganda."
The 600,000 figure refers to the Serbs killed in Jasenovac, the only REAL concentration camp the Balkans has ever seen, which was known as 'the Auschwitz of the Balkans'.
"Let us not forget that the Serbian murder Austro-Hungarian prince Ferdinand, triggered the First World War"
That's the official, simplified narrative. It was far more complex than that. You should read 'A Century of War' by Engdahl.
"in fact it is a Serbian nationalist, extended arm of Serbian politics in charge of creating a Greater Serbia."
YUGOSLAVIA, not Serbia! Why do you keep referring to the Yugoslav idea by the pejorative term 'Greater Serbia'??"
"...who are closely interested in this matter, I recommend the book William Engdahl - A Century of War"
Oh, you have already read it.
Yes, I recommend this book too... because those who are 'closely interested in this matter' (inciting Yugoslav aspirations to inflame antagonisms between the Russian and Central Empires, and secure access to the Middle East) are the same forces who were interested in destroying Yugoslavia 80 years later.
"Easy to swallow, especially strangers who do not know the complex inter-ethnic relations in the Balkans and the former Yugoslavia."
I think, in this case, it takes impartial outside observers to see the picture clearly. You clearly still have a lot of deprogramming to get through.
Trident · 2015-02-25T05:09:28Z
Well, to this day I still haven't seen a foreigners explanation of the breakup of Yugoslavia that would really account for all the specifics of the war and that really has a good grasp of Balkan mentality.
Explaining facts on the ground like, you know, temporary cease-fires between ad-hoc militia groups for lamb barbecues (I'm talking Serbs and Croats here, in the middle of heated fighting between supposed hated enemies) or the fact that just about the only thing these two groups can agree on is disdain for Muslims becoming a majority in Bosnia.
(This stuff goes way back with medieval Turkish conquests in Europe; generally it is considered that the Southern Slavs and the Hungarians of course bore the hardest brunt of these wars which set them back ages against their neighbouring peers who used the turmoil to plot against them instead of supposedly helping Christian Europe. The Bosnians who initally converted to Islam after the Turks took charge were seen as tratiors because the Turks offered tax exemptions for fellow Muslims. So I think you see the origins of this enmity.)
And a lot of people see this as a primary driver for the war, i.e. the complicity of Tuđman and Milošević (who kept close contact during those times) to start a war with the ultimate goal of dividing Bosnia or "cleansing it", if you wish. So with this to work with, starting up a prolonged conflict would have been practically a breeze for foreign intelligence services: a little arms deliveries, a little training and advising, and playing all sides of course, and there you have it. And if they hadn't already encouraged these aforementioned motivations themselves, they would have at least agreed to look the other way for a while, at least while they bring in the Mujahideen to play the Bosniak side
(P.S. Fast-forward 20 years and Bosnia as a US colony still has a radical Islam problem; it's the only country in Europe along with Turkey where you can see people in the streets of Sarajevo in broad daylight walking around in ISIS uniforms or ISIS flags on rooftopes, (although these are, thank God, still a few incidents and not commonplace) pro-ISIS web sites, social media or militant scholars bringing into public debates such immensly pressing issues as the question can a woman travel unaccompanied by a man for more than 70 km).
Still, the economic realities that preceded the mass-hysterization of Yugoslavia and its subsequent bloody breakup are a total unknown for the population here to this day. No one tries to understand these kind of conditions and proceed to refer to the war times only in the context of complex intra-ethnic enmities. At the time, the economic hardships that befell Yugoslavia were explained by invoking an ethnic antagonization narrative and using an "Us vs. Them" justification (as in "it is them who are behind all the corruption, mismanagment and theft, we would not be going under if it wasn't for them"). To see how exactly does economic turmoil translate to ethnic conflict, including all the usual suspects (foreign intelligence, IMF, etc.) have a look at Ukraine.
And here is the work of the "spell-binders" who actively provoked hysteria, hatred and warmongering. The population had to be geared into it. And yes, Milošević was actively engaged in this as any and I mean any honest and well-meaning person in the Balkans will tell you. I don't know is this also influenced by a language barrier here, if foreigners maybe read his statements on paper outside of the whole circus-show of his public performances and think well this isn't so bad. Or after such biased media reporting about the events of '91 and after, do foreigners decide well the truth must then be the opposite of what we've been told and think the grass is greener on the other side and Milosevic was the "good guy".
But there is no green grass to be found. The psychological maneuvering that the political leaders (and let's just stop at Tuđman, Izetbegović and Milošević) engaged in centered wholly on the "victim" concept. All of them screamed victim, how they are being victimized, threatened, provoked by the other side. But while it is true that ordinary people were being antagonized, displaced and ultimatelly killed, this "victimhood" I'm talking about is not of this kind. It is a total hysterization exalted to the level of a national identity that gives one the moral necessity to destroy the victimizer, thereby completing the victim-victimizer circle. For reference see Israel and Ukraine, in case you're not sure what exactly I'm going on about. When this societal "victim status" is hoisted upon a collective, suddenly they can do no wrong, they are pure, and somehow always end up doing just what they screamed their victimizers were doing anyway, although now they literally see these acts as saintly. The result is blind hypocrisy on a truly massive scale.
And it's just so prevalent, so pervasive, that 20 years plus, the effects of this total ponerization of society are still here. Honestly, you barely need to scratch under the surface. I could tell you more about how this reflects in everyday life with people you meet, what can be observed in the media and from people around you while we all basically navigate through this cesspool of psychological triggers that some are more susceptible to than others, infected by this thought virus, but I would have to go at great lenghts.
The bottomline, Milošević and his like responded with vitriol, and not with seeking fairness for Serbs that were being wronged, the resulting vulgarization, hysteria, militant nationalist narratives, arrogance is still readily apparent in Serbian society today; cue: just have a look at the media. Milošević is the Alex Jones of the 90's Balkans, crass, obtuse, blundering, often deluded and really loud, if Alex Jones also had a hand in blood-spilling conflicts, which he doesn't so I apologize to the man for this comparison, just trying to get you a feel for the personality.
Can you provide any links to "vulgar, hysterical, militant, nationalist narratives" Milosevic made? Either in speeches or in writing. Outsiders might not understand what he is saying in video clips, but maybe we can 'get a feel' for the vulgarity you describe?
His first 'big' speech, the one that is most referred to in the West as "vulgar, hysterical, militant, and nationalist"... isn't: [Link]
...and it's not just that it isn't "vulgar, hysterical, militant, and nationalist"; it's a speech worthy of Putin: sane, rational, calling for peace, calm, intelligent, etc.
His last speech wasn't "vulgar, hysterical, militant, and nationalist" either: [Link]
So can you find anything for us that shows Milosevic's "vitriol, vulgarity, hysteria, and militancy" from in between those two speeches?
Why Niall, you misquoted me. I said the "resulting vulgarization, hysteria, militant nationalist narratives, arrogance..." ; I was aiming at the state society was left in afterwards, saying that these were the resulting societal conditions, as in mass psychosis, and not describing specific political speeches as such.
You have to look at the situations that were forming around and the decisions being made and not just the speeches; in the time of the first speech you mention Milošević canceled the autonomous status of regions Vojvodina and Kosovo in response to Albanian provocations and separatist desires in Kosovo, although this was against Yugoslavia's constitution. He called the autonomous status an injustice for Serbia and needless partitioning although the two regions were officially part of Federal Serbia so they were not separate and only had such a status because of their diverse multi-ethnic composition (multi-ethnicity being a welcome concept in ex-Yu). Great move to reduce tensions, right? And honor the spirit of Yugoslavia? Well it didn't pave the way for anything good. After these separatist tendencies started to flare up here and there, no one was up to the task, the media and politicians were in full frenzy, and saving what can be saved with attempts to possibly increase territory was what happened, not exactly attempts at reconciliation. Also, it's not a bad idea to look at the people that were surrounding him making inflammatory comments, the whole garniture in power.
Also, not too many people refer to Serbia and Montenegro as Yugoslavia after Slovenia, Bosnia and Croatia separated, yes I know that this was officially still the name, but the privatization already happened well before the bombing of 1999, there was no Tito, no communists, no state planned economy, no previous territories, no defining features of ex-Yu, so I look at the events of 1999 as a whole different bag of chips and sympathize with Milosevices remarks regarding the senseless bombing campaign. What I criticize him for is the early 90's, the war in Bosnia that was according to testimonies planned in Karađorđevo on the 25th of March 1991 in a meeting with Tuđman with the aim to partition Bosnia between Serbia and Croatia. Sadly, I can't find this stuff translated in English, but it's no mystery even in the mainstream press, since people have been coming forward with inside knowledge both from the military and politics.
But can I ask you something? Is your interest in this inspired by what's going on in Russia and Ukraine today? Because I see many people trying to extrapolate Russia's position today into Serbia's position vis-a-vis Croatia in 91'.
This is really a morass to get into, but the point I keep arguing is the effects, the results, you know by their fruit ye shall know them. The Balkans experienced an increase in psychosis, still widely felt, that includes Serbia as well, while Russia stood its ground, didn't openly invade in Ukraine, sent enough covert support just to keep the people from getting overrun and butchered, but insisting all the while on negotiations. Russia today is stronger, while the Balkan states are sad banana republics, and this is no coincidence. The narrative that had an enormous appeal to the citizens was the one with "the polite, green men" calmly facilitating the rejoining of Crimea, you've surely seen their symbol the soldier with a friendly domestic cat, no macho military supernationalist bullshit; just the total opposite of what the people of the Balkans were dealing with (and many asking for).
Meanwhile, the Novorussians openly declared they have included a death penalty that will be applied to all pillagers, criminals in their OWN ranks who try to take advantage of the horrible circumstances the ordinary people are in, if such behavior was apparent. An extreme difference (!) from the Balkan situation where this kind of behaviour towards civilians was casually overlooked, lied about, and sometimes encouraged.
Basically everyone in the Balkans failed to own up to the challenges of the 90's.
"I said the "resulting vulgarization, hysteria, militant nationalist narratives, arrogance..." ; I was aiming at the state society was left in afterwards, saying that these were the resulting societal conditions, as in mass psychosis, and not describing specific political speeches as such."
Ok, the resulting vulgarization, hysteria, militant nationalist narratives, arrogance.
"Great move to reduce tensions, right?"
These 'tensions' were created externally by the British, Americans and their jihadist-Wahabbist friends. Milosevic was trying to keep the country from falling apart. He was a man of peace, and you, like most everyone else, have been trained to hate him for that.
"What I criticize him for is the early 90's, the war in Bosnia that was according to testimonies planned in Karađorđevo on the 25th of March 1991 in a meeting with Tuđman with the aim to partition Bosnia between Serbia and Croatia."
That would have been a reasonable thing to do, given the circumstances. Whatever about their efforts to make deals in their own best interests, they were all reacting to externally introduced circumstances planned in Langley and London. There was a timetable: First Slovenia, then Croatia, then Bosnia, then Kosovo. Read 'Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam' by Mark Curtis, 'To Kill a Nation' by Michael Parenti, and 'Hidden Agenda: US/NATO Takeover of Yugoslavia' by Chossudovsky, Clark, et al.
"Is your interest in this inspired by what's going on in Russia and Ukraine today? Because I see many people trying to extrapolate Russia's position today into Serbia's position vis-a-vis Croatia in 91'."
I saw someone try to say that Croatia in '91 was Crimea/Donbass in '15, and I thought, "hmmm, that doesn't sound right." So I looked into what happened and saw that it's more like this:
USSR = Yugoslavia (the apparent target)
Russia = Serbia (the real or primary target)
Croatia/Bosnia = Ukraine (the 'people we are liberating', but actually colonizing)
Crimea/Donbass = Krajina/Republika Srpska/Kosovo (the people who would have been - or were, in Serbia's case - ethnically cleansed)
"This is really a morass to get into, but the point I keep arguing is the effects, the results, you know by their fruit ye shall know them. The Balkans experienced an increase in psychosis, still widely felt, that includes Serbia as well, while Russia stood its ground, didn't openly invade in Ukraine, sent enough covert support just to keep the people from getting overrun and butchered, but insisting all the while on negotiations. Russia today is stronger, while the Balkan states are sad banana republics, and this is no coincidence. The narrative that had an enormous appeal to the citizens was the one with "the polite, green men" calmly facilitating the rejoining of Crimea, you've surely seen their symbol the soldier with a friendly domestic cat, no macho military supernationalist bullshit; just the total opposite of what the people of the Balkans were dealing with (and many asking for)."
I totally agree. The Russians would have very closely studied what happened to Yugoslavia. It seems that they understand very well how the West's multi-level and multi-pronged 'Total War' (information-financial-military) works. It might be complex and sophisticated, but in the end it's just a machine.
"Meanwhile, the Novorussians openly declared they have included a death penalty that will be applied to all pillagers, criminals in their OWN ranks who try to take advantage of the horrible circumstances the ordinary people are in, if such behavior was apparent. An extreme difference (!) from the Balkan situation where this kind of behaviour towards civilians was casually overlooked, lied about, and sometimes encouraged."
It's early days yet. What if we're only one year into a ten-year war? So far, we see that this kind of behaviour towards civilians is definitely being "casually overlooked, lied about, and encouraged" by Kiev.
"Basically everyone in the Balkans failed to own up to the challenges of the 90's."
That sits about as comfortably with me as saying "the people of Iraq failed to own up to the challenges of" the 2000s. And the Ukrainian people? How do you gauge their progress thus far in terms of "owning up to the challenges of" the 2010s?
Certainly, the people of the Balkans are partly responsible. They were deceived; they believed in the democracy fairy-tale, so ultimately it was their responsibility to not let the war happen.
But it happened. And now it's happening again, to Ukrainians this time.
Niall, it's not so black and white. Refer also to what I wrote here: [[Link]
When you say these tensions were created externally, it's not quite accurate. They have a long history the recent example being the events of WWII, so the words I would use is brought back from under the carpet. It just needed a little push to be unleashed. Some incredibly horrible things weren't even committed by military of any kind (like I mentioned in the above linked comment) or foreign actors but were civilian vs. civilian. A big part in understanding what happened is in the responsibility to see the shadow from within, not just focusing on the external forces, and this approach would be more constructive in making sure nothing like this happens again, IMHO.
"He was a man of peace, and you, like most everyone else, have been trained to hate him for that."
He was an incapable politician, refer again to the above linked comment. The rest of this is funny to say to an anonymous person you know nothing about. I faced personally the terror that was unleashed here but it's not the sort of thing I can mention on a public forum, just war zones are no picnic. I was "trained" by experience to hide in cellars from the bombs, never occurred to me to "hate" anyone though.
Re the partitioning: "That would have been a reasonable thing to do, given the circumstances. Whatever about their efforts to make deals in their own best interests, they were all reacting to externally introduced circumstances planned in Langley and London."
Did you just say its a reasonable thing to react to foreign induced civil war by ethnically cleansing a country and dividing it amongst yourselves...? Because that was the general idea, the Muslims had to be lowered in numbers and not be a majority. I'm lost on what you mean here.
Why not scream from the rooftops that externally introduced circumstances planned in Langley and London were turning the country into chaos? Did you have a look at the media at the time? Total bloodthirst. Did you know there was a positive example of keeping an eye on foreign incursions to stop them on time at the height of Yugoslavia when, and this will sound ridiculous, the Langley folk still used their incredibly stupid method of training ex-pats for subversive acts and flying them in a country to rouse up trouble. This was used on Russia at the height of the Cold war. Well a batch of those were practically airlifted in ex-Yu, they started their gimmicks, rousing up nationalist sentiment and the locals called the army on them right away. (This was conveyed to me by a veteran, I don't have an independent corroboration, though, it would have to be in some old media archive). What a stark contrast.
In Yugoslavia's demise however, the economic situation deteriorated, there was no watchful eye against manipulation from foreign sources, the political leadership stumbled along with no decisive goals, although it was getting apparent that Yuga could not be preserved in the same state, but no one would face the hard questions and there was no unified political front.
That's why I said no one owned up to these challenges, because things were brewing way before 1991.
For your last comparisons to Russia, I'll just quote what I said before:
Since everyone likes to compare Milosevic to Putin, though, since he's been rediscovered (or something) after the Ukraine crisis I'd like to offer my take on why I think this is not warranted.
He showed himself inept for the situation that was taking place; IMHO if you would like to compare Albanian separatism in those times with what happened in Chechnya I would say Milosevic is more like the bumbling Yeltsin (although Yeltsin ruined that situation far worse). What helped Putin to fix things was to spread far and wide the message that foreign elements were involved in this, and after mercilessly dealing with them, he addressed the underlying economic conditions, pouring streams of cash and giving people a better living standard. And separatism gone in a complete U-turn, since the people of Chechnya are probably the greatest supporters of Putin in all of Russia today. Still, all of this was not applicable to Kosovo for Milosevic, and it's easy to talk about what if's, but where would he have found the cash to address the economic situation if that was the most preferable course of action?
And fast-forward to the real morass after the armed conflict started in Croatia and Bosnia. Why was the Yugoslav national army shelling the coastal cities with no military targets in them, except for civilians? Wasn't their rationale the protection of civilians in the disputed area with large Serb minorities? It's as if Putin decided to bomb Lvov or another town in Ukraine outside of the disputed area's to retaliate against civilians being bombed in the southeast. This kind of stuff starts happening and pretty soon no one cares about what kind of speeches you're making. And in the Balkan region not exactly unknown for war barbarity, retaliations were out of control (i mean in general, not just the above example, also civilian vs. civilian). The result is 50 shades of black if you ask me.
Decidedly staying out of a full scale open war, addressing economic issues with the BRICS and in all other ways and making sure to bring into public debate the realities of foreign intervention and provocation by the Empire are Putin's course of action. Nothing of this happened in ex-Yu and people to this day won't look into the IMF's involvement or the American embassy; no objective information, no rational understanding, no political willpower, just a lot of suffering and it's always that ordinary people suffer the most.
Not your average black and white story.
I forgot to reply to this part also:
That sits about as comfortably with me as saying "the people of Iraq failed to own up to the challenges of" the 2000s."
Let me repeat more clearly. What happened to Iraq and to Serbia in 1999 was being overrun by brute force alone. There is no way to escape an enemy that overpowers you in that way. But the Empire doesn't like to have to constantly have this kind of massive show of force, since its interventions are humanitarian, of a liberating nature, and it opts out more often to have the target start destroying itself. Yugoslavia and Ukraine were persuaded to destroy themselves, with the Empire just providing support. ISIS is also in that group, since it pretty much exclusively kills Muslims.
What you described in your example with Iraq is akin to a person walks in a room and starts killing everyone inside. What I said with my example is a person walks into a room, gives you a knife and tells you to kill everyone, cause you'll get goodies and it's the right thing to do. And you do it. Now who is more responsible, the person whispering in your ear or you yourself who actually listened and carried it out? And just imagine the psychological ruin you would be spreading to all around you when after the killings you just committed, you start screaming how in your great victimhood you have done nothing but the most saintly, pure acts.
Tito died in 1980. There was time to consolidate the country again, if there was a clear political course of action implemented. This was not done. The result was failure. That's why it's strange for me to hear that there actually was a "hero", a "good guy" who got things right. A hero is someone that walks in and saves the day, right? And if this person can't completely prevail against the enemies, at least there is a positive impact on society, a rallying of positive sentiment, a decrease in societal malaise. And it holds true even if the people are being impoverished by economic sanctions, like in the case of Cuba.
I just didn't see this, but the opposite. And I haven't exactly seen a legacy of this "goodness" either, there should have been some manifestation, right? That's why I mentioned to you the "polite men in green". Just think about it. The Soviet army was known to be brutal, the Soviets are the reason there is so much anti-Russian sentiment in the east of Europe, yet under Putin a major non-brutal military intervention took place, setting up a new, practically unprecedented example of peaceful military conduct in a region not exactly famous for it, and the people rallied around it with pride. I would say that the result is a decrease in societal malady.
I just don't see Milosevic in this role. He's too little, too late and not even such an important factor, I think that without him things would have still played out pretty much the same, and anyone can correct me if they wish, but I feel this was a prevailing sentiment of the time: like something big was set in motion and things were just unfolding before our eyes, without anyone being able to do anything about it.
Another point of confusion we might have in this exchange is that I see with the writings of Michael Parenti, for example, is that he doesn't differentiate between Milosevic before and after the Yugoslav wars. I don't have any problem with him afterwards, especially not when Serbia was subjected to a brutal show of force in 1999. Also, the Hague is a farce; that thing is a joke that should have been shut down a long time ago.
Let me just say one more thing. There was a recent editorial on this site that mentioned the book Defying Hitler as a personal account of an extreme historical moment that really gives you the perspective, the psychological essence of the situation, without just the usual historical birds eye view from afar. I agree with this approach, that's why I keep bringing up the psychological factors, the mass psychosis, the victim-mongering and the sheer brutality of the moment. There is a lot more valuable understanding to be gained here, then simply assigning "good guy", "bad guy" roles from a bird's eye perspective, that just don't explain all the destruction that happened.
Anyway, Niall if you want to talk more about this, why not have a Skype chat with me? What do you have to lose and what do I have to hide? It is an engaging topic, after all. If you agree, feel free to pick a time and let me know.
Nial, how can I see you are an ethnic Serb, and you must have been on programming treatmen of serbian psychiatrists dr Raovan Karadžić or dr Jovan Rašković, students of Tavistock institute.
I'm talking about facts, not theories. Main source is prominet serbian historian dr. Latinka Perović.
"Nial, how can I see you are an ethnic Serb"
I'm not from the Balkans, but if I were to guess about you, you are Croatian.
"you must have been on programming treatmen of serbian psychiatrists dr Raovan Karadžić or dr Jovan Rašković, students of Tavistock institute"
Yes, keep up the demonization of 'Serbs=Nazis', because that's all you've got.
"I'm talking about facts, not theories."
No, you're repeating lies. Facts are things that are true.
"Main source is prominet serbian historian dr. Latinka Perović."
I don't know who she is, but based on a quick search, she sounds like Yugoslavia's Brzezinski.
You have the right to believe whatever you want, goodbye
Yozilla · 2015-02-25T18:07:30Z
Milošević was a bankster.
Interesting is that number of 600 000 executed Serbs in Jasenovac.. In just one camp???.
Nazis managed to kill 6 000 000 (?) Jews in FEW HUNDRED or thousands concentration camps Six million and some claim that it is only a half of that number. Something is wrong: either much more Jews were killed in Germany (like tens or hundreds of millions) or..?
thorbiorn · 2015-02-25T22:19:11Z
While working on the situatioin in Ukraine and researching the recent bombing event at a rally in Kharkov I found:
[Link] which has this to say:
"In January last year it was reported that behind the protests in Ukraine was an American non-governmental organization. So January 7, 2014 in the article "American NGO involved in the Ukraine protests" William Engdahl wrote:
"CANVAS: Belgrade U.S.-funded training organization stands behind the carefully organized protests in Kiev. The recent protests in Ukraine are organized from abroad in attempt to destabilize the government of Yanukovych". [Link] The attempt, as we know, was successful.
Throughout the war in the Ukraine, we often heard about Serbs fighting on the both sides. The centre for applied nonviolent action and strategies (CANVAS), is formed in 2002 by some of the former members of the organization Otpor!."
And what about Otpor? On opendemocracy.net whose sponsors one can find [Link] there was an article by a former leading member of Otpor, Ivan Marovic. Here is a quote:
"There are a number of formal problems with such critiques of Otpor I wish to address before I get to the essence of my deconstruction. Critics often conflate former Otpor members with Otpor itself; so you will often find criticism of 'Otpor' mixed with criticism of individuals who were once part of that movement.
The most popular target, back in vogue thanks to a recent expose by Carl Gibson and Steven Horn, is Srdja Popovic and his organization CANVAS (Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies). Otpor and CANVAS are two different entities – Otpor was a mass movement, its goal was to bring down Milosevic; CANVAS is a small NGO with a mission to disseminate knowledge about nonviolent action. CANVAS was founded only a year after Otpor had ceased to exist, and Srdja himself left Otpor years before launching this organization.
[...] I want to defend Otpor because Otpor, being long dead, cannot fight back; not just Otpor, I wish to defend the struggle of the Serbian people against Milosevic.
Herein lies another formal problem: it was not just Otpor. Critics ignore the fact that Otpor was but one part of a much larger front fighting against Milosevic and his regime – an alliance of political parties, trade unions, independent media and NGOs. When they claim that Otpor was an American operation to unseat Milosevic, they do not bother to explain why all these other organizations were fighting Milosevic, some for years before Otpor joined the fight. Were they all American puppets?"
I think Ivan Morovic is ignoring that the Western powers actually were "working on" Yugoslavia many years before the turmoil of the nineties. I get the impression that it was like the Kiev Maidan, in other words some sincere intentions mixed up with an overpowering amount of malicious intent. What happened to Yugoslavia we know, what is happening to Ukraine we can read in the news.
Clinton and KLA
I remembered reading about the US support to Kosovo being linked up with a direct road for the drugs: From F.R. Duplantier there was an article: [Link]
"[...]one still must confront several disturbing, as yet unanswered questions about U.S. involvement in Kosovo: What right does an American President have to intervene in a sovereign nation's civil war? What is Clinton trying to accomplish with the protracted bombing of Serbia? Why is he depleting an American arsenal that may be needed elsewhere in the not too distant future? And why is he offering support to a gang of drug-trafficking terrorists? If the objective of the Gulf War was to protect oil supplies, could the aim of the war in Kosovo be to protect heroin supplies? That's a horrid thought, but there doesn't seem to be any other explanation, and old stories about strange goings-on at an airstrip in Mena, Arkansas now resound. [...]"
The US, drugs and KLA
This article was published by Mother Jones in January/February 2000 [Link]
"That phrase is troublingly familiar. It raises the question: Is our embrace of the KLA the latest in an ignoble tradition of aiding drug traffickers for political reasons? Similar recipients of U.S. largesse have included the Nicaraguan Contras, former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, the Afghan Taliban, and Burma's Khun Sa.
Early in 1999, as the war against Serbia raged, Congress voted to fund the KLA's drive for independence. In the days ahead, our embrace of the KLA may come to haunt us. Elections scheduled for this spring in Kosovo have been delayed; but no matter when they occur, observers say, their outcome is already certain. The time-honored clans will win. And the men in oversized suits -- the kind who sing allegiance to democracy and global capitalism while conducting business in the back of an unlicensed Mercedes -- will be running the show."
The W. Post on Clinton and KLA
In august 2014 there was an article [Link] in the Washington Post with the title:
"When the spoils of war are human organs
Bill Clinton's Kosovo 'freedom fighters' trafficked in body parts
By James Bovard - - Monday, August 4, 2014
Former President Bill Clinton continues to be feted around the world as a progressive champion of human rights. However, a European Union task force last week confirmed that the ruthless cabal he empowered by bombing Serbia in 1999 has committed atrocities that include murdering individuals to extract and sell their kidneys, livers and other body parts.
Clint Williamson, the chief prosecutor of a special European Union task force, declared that senior members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had engaged in "unlawful killings, abductions, enforced disappearances, illegal detentions in camps in Kosovo and Albania, sexual violence, forced displacements of individuals from their homes and communities, and desecration and destruction of churches and other religious sites."
A special war-crimes tribunal is planned for next year. The New York Times reported that the trials may be stymied by cover-ups and stonewalling: "Past investigations of reports of organ trafficking in Kosovo have been undermined by witnesses' fears of testifying in a small country where clan ties run deep and former members of the KLA are still feted as heroes. Former leaders of the KLA occupy high posts in the government." American politicians have almost entirely ignored the growing scandal. Vice President Joe Biden hailed former KLA leader and Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in 2010 as "the George Washington of Kosovo." A few months later, a Council of Europe investigative report tagged Mr. Thaci as an accomplice to the body-trafficking operation.
Mr. Clinton's war on Serbia was a Pandora's box from which the world still suffers. Because politicians and most of the media portrayed the war against Serbia as a moral triumph, it was easier for the Bush administration to justify attacking Iraq and for the Obama administration to bomb Libya. Both interventions sowed chaos that continues to curse the purported beneficiaries.
Unfortunately, Bill Clinton will never be held liable for killing innocent Serbs or for helping body-snatchers take over a nation the size of Connecticut. Mr. Clinton is reportedly being paid up to $500,000 for each speech he gives nowadays. Perhaps some of the well-heeled attendees could brandish artificial arms and legs in the air to showcase Mr. Clinton's actual legacy."
Persej · 2015-02-26T02:48:39Z
Vojvodina and Kosovo
It is true that Milosevic reduced the autonomous status of Vojvodina and Kosovo in 1989, but he never canceled them. Vojvodina is still autonomous province: [Link]
Yes, true.
Autonomy was reduced then increased again in 2002; sorry I wasn't precise enough and i just said "canceled" in my above post. Thanks for pointing it out.
sms · 2015-02-26T21:58:34Z
the movie pretty accurately depicts what happened, what is happening and what will be happening, as long as we do not raise our level of awareness to a sufficient level, to be able to say "enough is enough" and to do something about it. However, the question is how to do that in a controlled reality or in a madhouse where most of psychopathological activities have been neatly covered by a mask of sanity, rationalised and justified in a way which suits to the madhouse management and where the brain washing and mind conditioning techniques and technologies have become a state of the art. Having been regularly applied on inmates, they are turning more and more of them into mind controlled slaves, happy to serve their masters and to die for them. How to recover and become a normal human being in a madhouse where one has been been regularly served his daily dose of tranquilisers and other mind altering and controlling medication? Furthermore, it could be said that, in the meanwhile, the inmates have become hostages of the madhouse management, which is pretty well armed and determined to protect its position by all means. They would not hesitate to destroy the madhouse if they perceive themselves as jeopardised.
So, what a more or less sane person can do in a reality consisting of psychopaths on positions of power, as a minority, and a majority of psychopathised (transpersonalised) humanity? For the former ones there is no cure as they are such by default, while if you try to apply some treatment to the later ones, who have some potential for a recovery, you may find yourself between a stone and a hard place. At the same time, one can not get out of the madhouse, physically, which may seem as the best option, but a hardly possible one.
It seems that in this reality a normal human being with a soul could be recognised by his feeling of humaness and by his acting out of it, however, when overcoming of the control system is in question, the humaness is not enough, without a sufficient awareness.


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Speaking English in class is bad. USING English in class is very good practice indeed. There's an enormous difference.
Why are the students writing English in Spanish class? IMHO, you are making them pass through the English (brick) wall to get to Spanish (or vice versa).
Why is it that in all the other classes, crossing into other things is good? Reading across the curriculum. Math in Spanish class. And so on, ad nauseum, even to a point that really doesn't serve the class being crossed into.
And people LOVE LOVE LOVE the wall. Every time the subject of using English in the FL classroom comes up, I get angry email. Literally. People write to me — people who aren't even on the list — just to tell me off. I don't get that much love ever outside of if I miss an estimated income tax filing date.
The minute anyone uses (note I said "uses", not "speaks") English in class, everyone is up in arms. "Bad practice! Bad practice!" How about the results?
The result of not using English is wasted time. Loads of it. Time preparing "realia". Time finding pictures. Time making the inevitable PowerPoint presentation (ooh! we're using technology, too!) that will somehow more effectively express the meaning of "apple" and "orange" in Spanish than saying the words in English in two seconds would.
We have about 110 hours a year in most high school programs. The average teacher probably spends an hour per unit on "introducing" vocabulary in this way, plus all the time that's spent dancing around meanings when kids just don't understand. Spanish spanish spanish spanish WORD-HE-KNOWS Spanish spanish spanish. It's frustrating, it's inefficient, and it's one of the time-honored traditions that are now being enshrined in the new not-really-CI movement among output-centric teachers.
Just. Tell. Them. What. It. Means.
When you forbid the use of a shared native language, you're forbidding the use of a logical tool that has been used in 2nd language acquisition (way before academe horned in on the process) for thousands of years: the native language. It's on the naysayers to prove to me that it's more efficient to "teach language" without using the native language in a principled manner.
very few words that have *no* equivalent or means of being expressed in another language.
The "brick wall" you refer to is another piece of Accepted Wisdom.
Grammar instruction did not yield the desired results, pairwork failed, so people figured it must be that there was too much English being spoken. So, no more native language in class!


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COVID shutdown in Shanghai threatens to cause further export delays
23 April, 2022 | Riya Girdhar
A rigorous COVID lockdown has caused nearly a third of shipments leaving the Port of Shanghai to be delayed. The delays are expected to compound a global supply chain issue that has resulted in sho...
As a result of a COVID lockdown at Shanghai's economic hub, Europe and the United States should expect increased delays and shortages of electronics imports from China, according to an economist from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW-Kiel).
Exports from Shanghai, the world's largest container port, have dropped by roughly a third, according to Vincent Stamer, a world trade specialist.
"Three weeks after the lockdown started, approximately 30% of goods that should be leaving Shanghai at this moment are not," he quoted. He also explained that "In other words, that's 30% fewer exports to the rest of the world."
Since the epidemic began more than two years ago, Shanghai has been the epicentre of the greatest COVID-19 wave in China. The port city, which has a population of 26 million people, has been under a rigorous lockdown since March 28, with some workers being forced to sleep in their factories.
Factories in the Shanghai area concentrate in exporting consumer items like tablets and televisions, as well as more advanced and intermediate electronic goods needed in Western production.
Despite Chinese officials' promises that the limits would have a minor impact on port operations, shipping delays have grown.
The new delays will almost certainly exacerbate a supply chain situation that has worsened since the first COVID lockdowns in spring 2020.
Large portions of the world economy were forced to close as a result of the pandemic, forcing freight businesses to cancel shipping schedules. As a result, a large number of container ships were anchored off the coasts of Western and Chinese ports, often in the wrong place.

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Demand GSA Administrator Murphy Stop Obstructing Transfer of Power
On Saturday, November 7th, the nation's major news desks called the 2020 presidential and vice presidential races for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. While it took several days post-election for local boards of elections to count mail-in ballots, it was soon clear that Biden and Harris had not only won the "blue wall" states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania but also flipped Arizona and Georgia, securing 290 Electoral College votes for Biden and Harris. The total well exceeds the 270 votes required to win the presidency.
In the face of defeat, Donald Trump and his administration are refusing to concede the election, making unfounded claims of voter fraud and pursuing flimsy legal cases. While Trump's behavior is no surprise, it obstructs an effective transfer of power over to the Biden administration. Typically, the presidential transition process begins hours after a winner is declared, allowing the incoming administration ample time to take control of the executive branch of our government. The Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) begins the official transition process by filing paperwork, releasing nearly $10 million in Congressionally-allocated transitions funding to the new administration, and providing incoming officials access to everything from office space to government email addresses. However, Trump-appointed GSA Administrator Emily Murphy has yet to file transition paperwork and is refusing to provide a timeline for doing so.
The American public has spoken. We have elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Congress now has a responsibility to ensure a peaceful and productive transfer of power. Demand House Democrats hold emergency hearings with Administrator Murphy and have her answer for failing to proceed with the transition.


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Will A Glock 10mm
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In the past few years, there have actually been a number of high-profile assaults including automated weapons. A police officer in Houston was killed by an unlawfully converted weapon.
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A Glock handgun is a semiautomatic pistol with an auto sear attached. This device transforms the weapon into a tiny gatling gun that can fire 20 rounds per second. Made from plastic or metal, vehicle sears can do amazing damage. These guns are typically utilized in criminal activities. A recent VICE News examination discovered several gun-related events including auto sears, including homicides, robberies, and even extremist attacks.
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Converting a semi-automatic pistol into a completely automated weapon is unlawful, and it puts the security of the general public at danger. A conversion device, called an automobile sear, is a little square device about the size of a thumbnail that can transform a semi-automatic gun into a fully automatic weapon. It has a magazine capacity of up to 34 rounds. Sanders acquired the gun in Indiana for less than $25.
Given that 1986, it is prohibited for civilians to buy fully automated weapons and offer them without a federal authorization or registration. However, a small number of totally automated weapons are still for sale in the pastime market, and can sell for 10s of thousands of dollars.
ATF agents recently took more than two-thousand bundles of conversion devices. These devices convert semi-automatic Glock handguns into totally automatic weapons. Federal law considers these conversion gadgets machine guns, and they were not made by Glock.
The expense would split down on prohibited weapon adjustment devices and stop their expansion. It would also require the Attorney General to consist of information on unlawfully customized weapons in its annual firearms trafficking report.
A semi-automatic handgun has a high rate of fire, however the rapid fire in the videos of the shooting in Las Vegas could have been a totally automatic weapon. The ATF 's National Firearms Act prohibits using totally automated weapons in civilians, but this restriction has substantial loopholes.
Transforming a semi-automatic weapon to a fully automated weapon is not an easy task. You require to register the weapon with the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and pay a special tax. If you don 't comply, you could deal with extreme penalties.
Converting a semi-automatic weapon to a completely automated weapon needs a license. The federal gun windows registry forbids the ownership of a fully automatic weapon unless the owner has a license. In the meantime, the vehicle sear is a growing trend in the black market and has resulted in lots of criminal offenses and homicides.
The Glock auto sear has an unique security system that keeps the weapon from accidentally firing. When you load a Glock auto sear, the gun will not fire unless the security system is engaged. A conversion device, known as an auto sear, is a little square gadget about the size of a thumbnail that can convert a semi-automatic weapon into a completely automatic weapon. Converting a semi-automatic gun to a fully automated weapon requires a license. The federal gun pc registry prohibits the possession of a completely automated gun unless the owner has a license. Will A Glock 10mm.
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The Glock automobile sear works by releasing a binary dynamite that locks in the chamber when the slide is held back. The trigger then follows the bolt forward and releases when the hammer comes out.
Adjustments to semi-automatic guns are not without controversy. Some members of Congress have revealed concerns about the importation of customized assault rifles. They are basically the exact same guns that were prohibited in 1989. Nevertheless, some rifles were modified to comply with the sporting purposes test, and are now legal to acquire in the United States.
In the previous couple of years, there have actually been a number of high-profile assaults including automatic weapons. An authorities officer in Houston was eliminated by an illegally transformed weapon.
The Uzi design and the AK47 design are two examples of weapons that have gone through adjustments to satisfy sporting purposes. Both of these firearms are semiautomatic weapons based upon the styles of military attack rifles. Modifications to these weapons are legal in some jurisdictions, but may be unlawful in others.
Modifications to semi-automatic guns have actually been prohibited in some countries for different reasons. The ban of semi-automatic rifles has affected the competitive shooting sports, and the ban has impacted the economy. The restriction also restricts the use of attack rifles for sporting functions, such as hunting.
This costs has actually not passed the Senate. It was the first vote on this issue in a number of years and has actually been not likely to pass. Still, the bill has actually produced a heated argument and shows the varying positions of the prospects on gun rights. The restriction would use to about 200 types of semi-automatic rifles, semi-automatic pistols, and other similar high-powered weapons. The majority of other models would not be affected. Will A Glock 10mm.
The Glock auto sear has an unique security mechanism that keeps the weapon from unintentionally firing. It also has a selector switch that limits the type of ammunition that can be utilized with the weapon.
The Glock auto sear consists of a cross-shaped protrusion at the back. The security mechanism avoids accidental discharges and guarantees the weapon is safe to utilize. Will A Glock 10mm.
To eliminate the Glock vehicle sear, you require to eliminate the slide lock. There are several ways to separate the slide from the frame, but the Glock Armorer 's Manual recommends that you utilize a strong hand method.
When you pack a Glock vehicle sear, the gun will not fire unless the safety system is engaged. This security avoids the gun from inadvertently releasing the very first round. In contrast, other semiautomatic handguns have an external safety device, which can be set with a flick of the thumb.
The Glock vehicle sear includes 2 receivers 20 and 21. They are engaged by the slide 13 of the Glock auto sear.
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A Glock pistol is a semiautomatic handgun with an automobile sear attached. This gadget converts the gun into a mini gatling gun that can fire 20 rounds per second. Made of plastic or metal, car sears can do extraordinary damage. These guns are frequently used in criminal activities. A recent VICE News investigation discovered numerous gun-related occurrences including car sears, including murders, break-ins, and even extremist attacks.
The ATF has introduced an examination into using automobile sears. The ATF has recognized a number of firearms customized with auto sears, including a number of Chinese-made guns that can fire completely automatic. A few of the modified weapons have actually been sold for numerous dollars each.
A Glock automobile sear is an incredibly dangerous modification to a handgun. In one case, an ATF representative seized a customized Glock that fired 30 bullets in less than 2 seconds.
Converting a semi-automatic handgun into a fully automatic weapon is prohibited, and it puts the security of the general public at risk. A conversion device, referred to as an automobile sear, is a little square device about the size of a thumbnail that can transform a semi-automatic weapon into a totally automatic weapon. It has a magazine capability of approximately 34 rounds. Sanders purchased the weapon in Indiana for less than $25.
Given that 1986, it is illegal for civilians to purchase fully automated weapons and sell them without a federal permit or registration. However, a small number of completely automatic weapons are still for sale in the pastime market, and can cost 10s of countless dollars.
ATF agents just recently seized more than two-thousand plans of conversion gadgets. These devices transform semi-automatic Glock pistols into fully automatic weapons. Federal law considers these conversion devices machine guns, and they were not made by Glock.
The expense would break down on unlawful weapon modification gadgets and stop their proliferation. It would also require the Attorney General to consist of data on illegally customized guns in its annual guns trafficking report.
A semi-automatic pistol has a high rate of fire, but the rapid fire in the videos of the shooting in Las Vegas might have been a totally automated weapon. The ATF 's National Firearms Act bans the use of completely automated weapons in civilians, however this ban has huge loopholes.
Transforming a semi-automatic gun to a completely automated weapon is not a simple task. You require to register the weapon with the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and pay an unique tax. If you wear 't comply, you might deal with extreme penalties.
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La baronía de Camporredondo es un título nobiliario español creado por Francisco Franco el 19 de abril de 1965, a favor de María Samaniego y Martínez-Fortún.

Denominación
La denominación de la dignidad nobiliaria refiere a la subrogación del señorío de Camporredondo, concedido por Carlos III de España a favor del antepasado de la I baronesa, Francisco Manuel Calderón y Enríquez de Cisneros, el 30 de mayo de 1765. La denominación hace referencia a la localidad de Camporredondo de Alba, en la provincia de Palencia.

Barones de Camporredondo

Historia de los barones de Camporredondo
 María Samaniego y Martínez-Fortún,  baronesa de Camporredondo.
 Casó con José Larrucea Lámbarri, asesinado por los republicanos el 31 de agosto de 1936, cuando se encontraba preso por motivos políticos en el barco-prisión Cabo Quilates. Tuvieron cinco hijos: Francisco Javier, Carlos (asesinados ambos junto a su padre en 1936), Jaime, María de los Ángeles y María Josefa. Le sucedió, por carta de sucesión de fecha 28 de abril de 1971, su hija:

 María de los Ángeles Larrucea y Samaniego,  baronesa de Camporredondo. Enfermera voluntaria de la División Azul en los hospitales españoles de Königsberg y Riga (URSS).
 Le sucedió, mediante Real Carta de Sucesión de fecha 25 de octubre de 2006, su hermana:

 María Josefa Larrucea y Samaniego,  baronesa de Camporredondo.
 Casó con José Antonio Girón de Velasco (1911—1995), ministro de Trabajo (1941—1957), bajo su gobierno se instauró el sistema de Seguridad Social que España tiene en la actualidad, con derecho al desempleo, vacaciones pagadas, pagas extraordinarias, etc.
 Le sucedió, mediante Real Carta de Sucesión de fecha 18 de septiembre de 2019, su hijo

 José Antonio Girón Larrucea,  barón de Camporredondo.

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From super fans to rivalry showdowns, Sioux Falls hoop showcase enters 10th anniversary with great expectations.
Ned Hirsch might be the most devoted college basketball fan in America.
He's coming to the right place. At just the right time.
The 63-year-old New York lawyer is on a quest to watch every Division I men's basketball team play in person – all 351 of them – and he is nearing his goal. He has seen 324.
Hirsch pursues this mission mainly by attending conference tournaments, where he gets more bang for his buck. He has attended 20 so far, including the first Big East tournament ever played.
He saw Michael Jordan play at North Carolina, Magic Johnson soar for Michigan State and Stephen Curry suit up for Davidson. He watched Bob Knight's undefeated 1976 Indiana team beat St. John's before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Madison Square Garden.
He has never set foot in South Dakota. That changes this weekend.
On the 10th anniversary of the Summit League tournament arriving in Sioux Falls, Hirsch will make an appearance at the Denny Sanford Premier Center, where in-state rivals South Dakota State and South Dakota are the top two seeds in the men's and women's brackets.
Hirsch had planned to arrive Saturday but was delayed when the East Coast was slammed by a Nor'easter that affected weekend travel. He intends to be on hand for Sunday's action, as well as Monday's semifinals and Tuesday's championship.
As it turns out, he doesn't need to see the Jackrabbits or Coyotes. He watched SDSU lose to Hofstra in Hempstead, N.Y., back in 2012, despite 25 points and 10 rebounds from Nate Wolters.
One year earlier, he saw USD fall 76-68 to New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark as part of a final Great West Conference campaign.
The Summit League teams Hirsch still needs to see are Fort Wayne, Omaha, North Dakota State and Western Illinois. By Sunday night, the number required to complete his quest will stand at 25.
Hirsch intends to visit the SDSU and USD campuses during his stay and the "beautiful falls" of the host city. But mainly he will witness a Summit League success story in Sioux Falls that thrusts this event into the national spotlight each March.
We all know the story by now. As SDSU joined the conference and became eligible, corporate heavyweights Sanford and First Premier helped lure the event to South Dakota, with the outdated and undersized Sioux Falls Arena serving as host venue.
The unique combined format of men and women was well-suited for this state, with the female Jacks drawing record crowds and reeling off seven of the nine titles since the event arrived in 2008.
USD joined the party in 2013, slowly expanding its ripples of red. By then the men's bracket was trending local, with Wolters and the Jacks breaking through to reach Big Dance in 2012 and 2013 and adding a third trip last year.
Moving from the Arena to the Premier Center in 2015 heightened fan appeal and helped secure the event for Sioux Falls through at least 2022, reinforcing South Dakota's largest city as the epicenter of Summit League basketball, much like it was for the old NCC.
With SDSU and USD top seeds for both men and women, setting the stage for potentially explosive title clashes, this 10th anniversary edition could be the best one yet.
We saw glimpses of greatness Saturday, including a lights-out shooting effort from USD's Jaycee Bradley, who tied a women's tournament record with seven 3-pointers for 27 points in an 83-32 rout of Fort Wayne.
Not to be outdone, SDSU standout Macy Miller tallied 19 points and five assists to help the Jacks pull away from NDSU for an 87-62 victory before a true-blue afternoon crowd of 8,944.
In the men's bracket, SDSU survived an opening-round scare by rallying past Western Illinois 66-60 behind 33 points and 19 rebounds from junior star Mike Daum, keeping the Jacks' title defense alive, while the second-seeded Coyotes ripped Omaha 87-73 in the nightcap.
Through most of the day, coaches and players from the in-state rivals seemed to be the only ones not freaking out about championship possibilities. Fans and media don't have the patience for "one game at a time," but apparently Monday's semifinal games must be played.
Coyotes coach Dawn Plitzuweit toed the same line and took pride in her team's "boring" approach to preparation. Meanwhile, the rest of us are practically shaking.
If the seeds hold, Tuesday's double dip of nationally televised rivalry games with NCAA tourney bids on the line would be indisputably the biggest day in the annals of South Dakota sports.
As a super fan, Hirsch plans to be around for those games, no matter which teams remain on his list.
He's always been a sucker for history in the making.


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Roddy Alves 'born to be a mum' and wants children after transitioning into Barbie
Rodrigo Alves, known as the Human Ken Doll, has confessed she wants kids and a big family very soon after undergoing her transformation to become Barbie
HUMAN KEN DOLL COMES OUT AS TRANSGENDER AND ADMITS 'I ALWAYS FELT LIKE BARBIE'
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Roddy Alves has revealed she was "born to be a mum" and is ready to have kids after recently coming out as transgender and transforming into Barbie.
The Brazilian former CBB star, 36, spent thousands on plastic surgery to become a so-called Human Ken Doll, but in January she embarked on a new journey to become Barbie.
Now adjusting to her new life by the name of Jessica, the star wants to settle down with an "independent man" and adopt kids.
"In the future I want to be a mother. I feel I was born to it," she told The Sun.
But finding love is the one thing standing in the way of her hopes to have a big family, as she's still searching for her ideal man.
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She continued: "Once I find love, I'd like to adopt and have a big family.
"My ideal man is independent. I don't like funny men. I like an intelligent man who knows how to treat a woman and will enjoy my body. I want a tall guy with a great physique."
However it seems things could work out, as Jessica admitted she's received a lot of male attention since becoming a woman.
At the age of 19, Roddy had her first nose job, and hasn't looked back since - having blown £650,000 on 60 different ops to emulate the iconic toy.
Jessica looks super stunning and is loving her new journey (
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Roddy as Ken after undergoing 60 ops (
The extremely complicated operations include 10 nose jobs and three chin implants, as well as six-pack implants, some bicep fillers, a hair transplant and jaw liposuction.
She also had rib removal, a neck lift and bum injections - and has now spent a further £100,000 on getting the female body of her dreams.
"I'd always felt feminine and when I struggled to be manly with my personality, I decided to make my appearance as masculine as possible instead," the star said.
"But no matter how much I looked like Ken nothing eased the pain of being Barbie inside."
Roddy looks bruised and swollen after gruelling '£25k face feminisation' surgery (
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He took a picture of his ribs as they lay on a tray in front of him after having them removed (
The former cabin crew worker is on a new quest to become Barbie.
She admitted it was a "tough decision", but it comes after Jessica says she "couldn't live as a man anymore".
Jessica reportedly underwent gruelling face feminisation surgery in Belgium - which is said to have cost £25,000.
She wants kids in the future, and says she feels she was 'born to do it' (
The glamorous star also had a boob job, and is very happy with her 800cc high protection breast implants.
Although she's lost contact with her dad, her mum knows she transitioned, and Jessica says she's "happy" for her.
She continued: "Looking back, I tried my hardest to be a man and I failed. But now I am the woman I was always meant to be - and I'm finally happy."


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Tax avoidance is in the establishment's DNA - Margaret Hodge MP
Liz Bates
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Speaking to PoliticsHome, Labour's Margaret Hodge argues that the Paradise Papers showed there is one rule for the super-rich and another for everyone else when it comes to paying tax.
Barking MP Margaret Hodge chaired the Public Accounts Committee from 2010-15.
Margaret Hodge has been a powerful voice against tax avoidance and evasion long-before the sensational Paradise Papers were released earlier this month.
As the formidable chair of the Public Accounts Committee from 2010-15, she pressed for a change in culture, greater transparency and tougher punishments for companies and individuals dodging tax.
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And with the subject firmly back in the spotlight after an investigation revealed high-profile public figures – including the Queen – had invested cash in offshore tax havens, she is once again fighting for change.
For Ms Hodge the momentum created by newspaper headlines could finally prompt a fundamental shift in how the practice is treated, but the establishment must first acknowledge the seriousness of the problem.
She says: "There is this establishment culture, where there is one law for the establishment and another for the rest of us. They look after each other's interests and they don't openly criticise each other."
The Barking MP continues: "We pursue the benefit scroungers and we hound them through the papers and then you come to the Lord Ashcroft's of this world.
"I was quite taken aback by that story [of the Queen's tax arrangements] because what it demonstrated was that the advisors… feel that it's such an accepted practice to hide your wealth and avoid legitimate taxes that they didn't think twice about doing it. It never occurred to them that it would tarnish the Queen's reputation. That demonstrates the extent to which it is in the DNA of the establishment really, and that's what we've got to change."
PUNISHING TAX DODGERS
Although she acknowledges that people often don't know the details of the financial schemes in which their money is invested, Ms Hodge is a strong advocate for taking personal responsibility and sees public exposure as a powerful catalyst.
Referring to her own experience, the Labour backbencher recounts how she responded when her family's own finances were laid bare.
"I think people are responsible for how their money is handled. The moment that I personally discovered that my uncle and my father had… we closed them down and in fact the money from one we put into a charity. So, in an odd way, because I've been through it… I think you have to be responsible for how your money is handled. So, for Lewis Hamilton to say, 'I left it all to all my advisors,' I don't think it's good enough. But I am much more interested in getting the systems changed than getting the individuals humiliated."
She is keen to stress that the real focus should be on those designing the elaborate schemes, who have, so far, largely gone unpunished.
"I think you should be made accountable and I think you should be punished. It should be an offence," she says.
CHANGING BUSINESS CULTURE
Beyond the momentary media interest, the Labour backbencher is optimistic that a change in how business views tax dodging could spark real improvements.
"My sense is that we are beginning to change. The conversation in the boardroom is beginning to change. So, whereas tax avoidance was seen as cool it is now seen as a reputational risk.
"The super-rich have been exposed by it [the Paradise Papers]. So, there are things that we can do in law, there are things we can do in the way we use the law - so that's how HMRC pursues individuals - and then there are things we have got to do about the culture and we have got to act on all three fronts. One of the really powerful impacts of things like the Paradise Papers – and there will be more – is it just lifts it up. It's been headline news for three or four days now and it allows that debate to take place and people to think about it and people are absolutely furious."
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09:46 on 13th November 2017
Margaret Hodge should do her homework, tax avoidance is ingrained within the establishment because as the late ex mi5 agent sir Arthur Conan Doyle stated, because it (coruption) is so deeply ingrained in the police and the establishment it may never be eradicated. The futile attempt to investigate this problem some year's ago was exasperated because the government inspectors and investigators were themselves from the same establishments that are controlled by the corupt and greedy individuals.
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