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Koalicija „Za evropsku Srbiju“ ponudiće Socijalističkoj partiji Srbije i manjinama da zajedno formiraju novu vladu Srbije, saznaje „Blic“. komentar: Odmah nakon objavljivanja preliminarnih rezultata izbora, postalo je jasno da će o budućnosti Srbije odlučivati mandati SPS. U ovom trenutku je jedino sigurno da SPS ulazi u Vladu. Odluka sa kojom listom, biće odluka budućeg političkog pravca Srbije i budućnosti njenih građana. Ovo je ključna odluka i za sam SPS. Da li će se odlučiti za novi imidž stranke koja će više brinuti o socijalnim pitanjima običnih smrtnika ili se neće odreći isključive nacionalističke retorike na koju smo navikli svih ovih godina ( kojem će se privoleti carstvu) ?Ovo je bila ubedljivo najprljavija predizborna kampanja do sada. Naslušali smo se izdajnika i lažova, muvatora i kriminalaca... Po prvi put smo imali prilike da gledamo antikampanjske spotove koji olajavaju onu "drugu" stranu bez ijedne reči o sopstvenom programu. Nije se štedelo na plasiranju poluistina i dezinformacija, došlo se na kraju do "Judinog potpisa" i anonimnih pretnji atentatom na Predsednika Srbije! Pokazalo se da je to potcenjivanje inteligencije glasačkog tela (nešto kao reklama za izbeljivač rublja). Izbori su nedvosmisleno pokazali da građani nisu spremni da posle deset godina borbe, odustanu od "Evropskog puta" ali ni od Kosova. Tu iskazanu volju naroda treba poštovati. Nije tačno da su ovi izbori bili referendum "Kosovo ili EU" već "EU ili samoizolacija" kao što nije tačno da je potpis na parafirani sporazum o saradnji i pridruživanju EU, potpis na nezavisnost Kosova. Niko u svetu na tome ne insistira kao bivši premijer Koštunica čime direktno ugrožava vitalne interese Srbije i čime je praktično odustao od sopstvenog programa. Da li će lideri SPS prepoznati šansu da stranku transformišu u modernu evropsku socijalističku partiju ili će ih Radikali progutati, saznaćemo vrlo brzo.Subscribe in a reader

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The Los Angeles riots of 1992 had a broad impact on popular culture that still continues, influencing music, film, television, video games and other art forms...

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The Los Angeles riots of 1992, also known as the Rodney King uprising or the Rodney King riots, were sparked on April 29, 1992 when a jury acquitted four police officers (Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno and Sergeant Stacey Koon) accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King following a high-speed pursuit. Thousands of people in the L.A. area rioted over the six days following the verdict. Widespread looting, assault and the occasional murder occurred, many of the crimes were gang-motivated or perpetrated. In all, 53 people died during the riots. [source]

The Los Angeles District Attorney charged the four officers with use of excessive force towards King. But the judge was replaced and the new judge changed the verdict. The resulting public outrage raised tensions between the black community and the LAPD, and increased anger over police brutality and issues such as unemployment, racial tension, and poverty in the black community of South Central L.A. There was nearly $1 billion in damage and 53 deaths; 2,383 injuries; more than 7000 fire responses; and 3,100 businesses damaged. Smaller riots occurred in other US cities. 4.000 of National Guard and U.S. Army Marines where called to restore order. After the riots King was awarded $3.8 million in a civil case, and used some of the money to start a hip hop music label.Subscribe in a reader

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"...it is more than obvious now that the ruthless destruction of Serbia during the 1999 NATO bombing was carried out with one goal and that is to turn the province of Kosovo-Metohija into the first NATO state in the world..."

The bombing campaign, officially against then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ), was conducted by 19 armies of the Alliance's member states. The sustained attacks lasted for 11 weeks, or 78 days. Germany, France, the U.S. and Italy participated with most soldiers. The bombing was supposed to last 7-10 days and result in a surrender of Serbia, according to a pre-war estimate by General Wesley Clark, then the supreme NATO commander. 36,000 sorties were flown dropping 23,000 bombs and missiles.
Official data shows that 1,002 members of then Yugoslav Army and Serbian MUP were killed, along with around 2,500 civilians, including 89 children. 10,000 people were wounded.
Serbia's infrastructure, commercial buildings, schools, healthcare institutions, media outlets and monuments of culture sustained heavy damage during the war. Estimates differ as to the material damage done to Serbia. The government of that time asked for compensation of damages that it said ran into about USD 100bn. But G17 Plus economists believe the number is at USD 30bn.
The attacks began on March 24, 1999, a little after 20:00 CET, after then NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana gave the order to start the bombing. During the 78 days of this NATO campaign of air strikes, the capital suffered with almost all RTS transmitters destroyed, as was the TV tower on Mt. Avala, the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, the building of the Yugoslav Army General Staff, and, two hours after midnight on April 23, bombs hit the RTS building in central Belgrade, killing 16 employees and inflicting grave injuries on four others. On the fourth day of the war, Serbian AAA downed F117-stealth bomber. NWO techno-wonder wasn't secret any more. After it became evident that there would be no quick surrender of Serbia, NATO started to change its tactics. After 17 NATO aircraft and three rescue helicopters have been destroyed at Tuzla airport, NATO leaders took out their rage on Serb civilians. For three days in a row, NATO aviation targeted Uzice and its vicinity, including the city center. The most important strategic victory for Serbia that the April 18 Tuzla raid represented was that the Bosnian airport was never again used by NATO during the bombing campaign against Serbia. Especially daring were the two Serbian Air Force attacks on NATO aircraft stationed at the Tirana airport in Albania which also took place in April 1999. That's where NATO had positioned a squadron of 12 Apache helicopters that were supposed to provide air support for the "Atlantic Brigade," a ground force that was supposed to attack Serbia from Albania. The Atlantic Brigade consisted of some 6,000 Albanian volunteers from Diaspora, who were trained by American military instructors. Along with the KLA terrorists who operated inside Kosovo, but retreated to Albania, the Atlantic Brigade and the KLA were to occupy take the southern part of Kosovo since the NATO air campaign had not produced the desired results. So altogether, this was a ground force of some 20,000 fighters, including the foreign, mostly American, instructors and special forces. The first air raid in Albania by the Serbian Air Force took place on April 13, when four Serbian warplanes attacked the preparation camp of the Atlantic Brigade near Kamenica in northern Albania. One of the Apaches was destroyed and serious losses inflicted on the Atlantic Brigade troops. This was repeated on May 5, when three Serbian Eagles and two Seagulls attacked the Atlantic Brigade several times within short intervals. But one of the most spectacular actions the Serbian Air Force had undertaken against NATO took place on April 26, when the U.S. Apache air base near Tirana was attacked. In the wake of the two air raids, five Apache helicopters were destroyed. The strategic significance of this attack was that NATO never used the Apache helicopters again for the duration of the war. NATO succeeded in damaging only 13 of the Serbs' 300 battle tanks in Kosovo, despite alliance claims of large-scale destruction of Belgrade's heavy armor. Hundreds of "dummies" managed to fool the NATO dummies into believing they were bombing Serbian tanks and artillery. The Yugoslav Army used well-practiced Russian camouflage techniques which involved placing dummies around the countryside, some of them next to dummy bridges with strips of black plastic sheeting across fields as fake roads to delude NATO bombers into thinking they had a prime target to hit. By all accounts, the bombing was indiscriminate, killing farmers, suburbanites, city dwellers, factory workers, reporters, diplomats, people in cars, busses and trains, hospital patients, the elderly and children.
Aleksinac. Five Nato missiles hit Aleksinac, a small mining community, on April 6. Seventeen civilians, taking shelter in a basement of a house, were all killed. Although there is no military presence in the residential area that was bombed, more than 400 homes were destroyed.
Belgrade. Near midnight on June 1, 14 missiles destroyed a block of houses in a suburb of Belgrade killing 5 and injuring 20.Around 1 a.m. on May 20, Nato cluster bombs hit "Dragisa Misovic" hospital in downtown Belgrade. The neurological ward, the maternity ward, the gynecological ward and the children's ward for lung diseases were destroyed. Nato later admitted that one of the laser guided bombs overshot its target by about 1,500 feet (460 meters). On May 8, Nato airstrikes hit the Chinese Embassy, destroying half of the building. According to the Chinese Government there were about 30 people in the building at the moment of the attack. Four Chinese citizens were killed and at least 20 injured. On Friday, April 23, around 2 a.m., the building of the Serbian National Broadcasting Network was destroyed by Nato air strikes. The building is in the very center of Belgrade, a few hundred feet from a children's theater, St. Marko's Church, the City Childrens Center and the local market. More than 20 civilian employees of the TV station were killed. On April 13, a cluster bomb hit the Veterans Army Hospital in downtown Belgrade, injuring sixteen patients.
On May 5, Nato forces destroyed the Sloboda plant, the largest factory in Cacak. This factory produced domestic appliances and employed 5,000 workers. A residential area near the factory was also destroyed. Two persons were killed, one of them was a 74-year-old woman. Seven were injured.

Cuprija. On June 1, 2 civilians were killed and 9 wounded when Nato bombs destroyed more than 100 houses in the center of this small town.

Djakovica. On April 21 70 civilians died and 20 were injured in a refugee camp near Djakovica, home for more than 500 people evicted from Krajina (Croatia). The houses were completely destroyed. Just four years ago, more than 400,000 civilian Serbs were ethnically cleansed from the Krajina region by the Croatian government of Franjo Tudjman. There were 53 bomb craters at the site.

Grdelica. Nato hit an international train, on regular service from Belgrade to Thessaloniki (Greece), in the vicinity of Leskovac on Monday, April 12. Sixty passengers were killed, including a 10 year-old child. More than 30 passengers were wounded. All casualties were civilians.
Korisa. On the night of May 13, six Nato missiles struck a farm in the rural village of Korisa in Kosovo. In this attack, 87 Kosovo Albanians died.

Throughout May, Nato repeatedly targeted the town of Kraljevo, destroying its school and a hospital clinic. More than 20 civilians have been injured. A message on one of the bomb casings found at Kraljevo read, "Do You Still Want to Be a Serb Now?"

Luzane. May 1, Nato planes attacked a bridge in Luzane (12 miles from Pristina), hitting the bus filled with civilians, mostly old people and children. There were about 70 passengers on the bus. A missile hit the bus directly and split it in two. They attacked again 25 minutes later, when an ambulance vehicle was damaged and one medical doctor was seriously wounded in the head.

On May 7, 1999, 15 people were killed and 70 injured when cluster bombs fell on the town market in Nis.

Novi Sad. Nato attacked an oil refinery in Novi Sad more than 10 times. A thick cloud of benzene-laden smoke hangs over the city and water from the public water supply is no longer drinkable. Several residential areas in the suburbs of Novi Sad were demolished. As of June 1 there are more than 100 seriously wounded civilians in Novi Sad.

Novi PazarOn May 31, six Nato cluster bombs hit a four-storey apartment complex in the center of town killing 23 and injuring 20.

Nato forces have repeadedly hit the power plant in the Pancevo petroleum refinery complex, which supplied electricity and gas. The refinery was attacked on several more occasions. A huge amount of toxic material was spilled into the Danube River, which flows all the way from Germany to the Black Sea.

In the early afternoon hours on April 14, 1999, a convoy of Albanian refugees was bombed four times by Nato planes. The refugees were moving down Prizren-Djakovica road, mostly on foot, or in tractor trailers. At least 75 people were killed, 100 wounded.

Savine Vode. On May 3, , during the Nato attack on Savine Vode a civilian bus on the Djakovica-Podgorica Road was hit. At least 20 persons were killed, 43 were injured (23 suffered serious injuries). There were large numbers of women and children among the victims. Rescue teams and ambulance cars weren't able to help the victims due to the prolonged attack.

Surdulica. On May 30, 20 patients in a sanitarium and retirement home complex where killed when the buildings were destroyed by five Nato missiles.

Varvarin. Nato planes took out a bridge in this central Serbian city, killing 11 people who were crossing in their cars when the missiles hit.

NATO's war against Serbia ended on June 10, when the United Nations adopted the still valid Resolution 1244.
UNHCR data shows that after the arrival of the NATO ground forces in the province, some 230,000 Serbs and Romas fled to central Serbia, escaping ethnic violence against them perpetrated by Kosovo's Albanians.
Numerous incidents that followed against Serbs and other non-Albanians resulted in the kidnapping and murder of some 1,500 people. Albanian sources put this number at 500. Another wave of violence and ethnic cleansing took place on March 17-19, 2004, when 4,000 Serbs were also exiled from their homes.
The "Clinton Doctrine"
"Bomb the civilians and the civilian structures until that country's military can't stand to watch it anymore." (Col. David Hackworth, one of America's most decorated soldiers)

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Indian Chief 'Two Eagles' was asked by a white government official, 'You have observed the white man for 90 years. You've seen his wars and his technological advances. You've seen his progress, and the damage he's done.

The Chief nodded in agreement.

The official continued, 'Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?'

The Chief stared at the government official for over a minute and then calmly replied. 'When white man find land, Indians running it, no taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, clean water.

Women did all the work, Medicine man free.
Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; all night with there wife

Then the chief leaned back and smiled. 'Only white man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that.

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Thi​s war​ has​ now​ las​ted​ lon​ger​ tha​n Wor​ld War​ I, Wor​ld War​ II,​ or the​ Civ​il War​.

There is no longer any doubt that the Iraq War is a moral and strategic disaster for the United States. But what has not yet been fully recognized is that it has also been an economic disaster. To date, the government has spent more than $522 billion on the war, with another $70 billion already allocated for 2008. Recognizing these costs of the Iraq War is even more crucial now that the economy is facing recession.According to the group Just Foreign Policy, more than a million Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion and occupation, now entering its sixth year.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than four million Iraqis are displaced from their homes, with roughly half of them outside of the country.
Baghdad has become the most dangerous city in the world, largely as a result of a U.S. policy of pitting various Iraqi ethnic and sectarian groups against one another. Ethnic and sectarian cleansing strategies, backed by occupation forces, have virtually eliminated all mixed areas of Baghdad.
War crimes: Iraq Veterans Against the War argues that well-publicized incidents of U.S. brutality like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha are not the isolated incidents perpetrated by "a few bad apples," as many politicians and military leaders have claimed. They are part of a pattern, the group says, of "an increasingly bloody occupation."
All this Cheney calls a "successful endeavor."
So why, exactly, did the U.S. invade Iraq five years ago?The official reasons -- the threat posed to the U.S. and its allies by Saddam Hussein's alleged programs of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have long since been discarded by the lack of evidence that such a threat ever existed. Is the world safer place now without Saddam? There was no Al Quaeda in Iraq before invasion.
The Iraq war is largely about oil. After all, oil is an absolutely indispensable requirement for running modern economies and militaries. And the invasion was a forceful -- indeed, a shock- and awe-some -- demonstration to the rest of the world, especially potential strategic rivals like China, Russia, or even the European Union, of Washington's ability to quickly and effectively conquer and control an oil-rich nation in the heart of the energy-rich Middle East. Indeed, a demonstration of such power could well be the fastest way to formalize a new international order based on the overwhelming military power of the United States. It would be a "unipolar world".
Bush made his comments in a speech at the Pentagon to mark the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion : "Because we acted the world is better and the United States of America is safer."

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New selfproclaimed albanian terrorist state in Europe! Thank you Bill, Thanks Bush :} Now, everybody would want to be like Kosovae!

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