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The Latest Islamic Attack on US Soil

OK, some of you still don’t get it! We had an Islamic attack on US military base, and the clueless US news media are treating it like an ordinary crime. The reports/commentators are trying to figure out why this Muslim soldier (who happens to wear a US Army uniform) on a suicide mission opened fire on American troops. It was a fairly obvious suicide mission. Just like the suicide bombers in the Middle East and the 911 attack, Muslims have infiltrated the US military and will be doing their best to give comfort and aid to radical Islam, which has declared war on these United States. (For those of you who speak, “Ya’ll,” I do mean all 50 of those States.)

The American media, once again, is proving that it is nothing more then the propaganda arm of the tyrannical dictatorship in Washington, D.C. True, you do get an election to choose the dictatorship’s figurehead for the next four years, and to pick the 535 power-mad flunkies who have let the real governance of the United States fall into the hands of thousands of unelected federal bureaucrats who are accountable to nobody.

Let’s examine the facts. Nidal Malik Hasan, the shooter, is a radical Muslim. He has been an outspoken supporter of radical Islamic causes. He has been in the US Army for a long period of time and knows the system well. He used that knowledge to kill a number of US troops and wound others. To wear a US uniform and support an enemy cause is a clear act of espionage. Of course, in the heavily controlled US press, no one would dare to point out this obvious fact.

Radical Islam is has been openly at war with the US since 1979, if not before. Yes, it has been thirty years since radical Muslims invaded US soil, namely the US Embassy in Iran, and took over 400 Americans hostage. President Jimmy Carter, one of the most clueless men ever to hold that office in US history, pussy-footed around, so that many of those Americans were not released until Ronald Reagan took office.

Reagan, with his hands firmly on the nuclear trigger, kept radical Islam at bay, but in radical Islamic circles, the hatred of America never ended. Reagan focused on “winning the Cold War.” He did so, but instead of using direct conflict, he pressured and cajoled the Soviets into slowly giving up Communism, thus freeing Eastern Europe from the clutches of left-wing tyranny. (On behalf of all non-Communist Slavic people, Mr. Reagan, please accept a “thank you” from this Czech-American.)

From then on, our position with radical Islam went downhill. The supposed “Third Reagan Term” was a dismal failure. Bush 41, sided with Islamic forces, and chose to help “break up the former Yugoslavia.” What that really meant was that after considerable Islamic violence, which he quietly but wholeheartedly supported, many Christians are now living under Islamic tyranny in the Balkans. Of course, the clueless American media, the abysmally corrupt US State Department, and many gullible Americans still believe that the Christian people of Serbian heritage did some horrible things to these “poor defenseless Muslims.” Nearly two decades of State Department and mainstream media efforts to dig up dirt against the Serbs have unearthed no credible evidence. On the contrary, there is overwhelming evidence that radical Islam and other outside influences not only set up this conflict in the Balkans, but also kept it going until they gained a jihadist stronghold in Europe. Thus, while the Roosevelt Administration helped liberate Europe from the Nazis, and the Reagan Administration helped liberate Eastern Europe from the Communists, the first Bush Administration helped the Muslim terrorists get a foothold in re-conquering the Balkans.

The Clinton Administration continued to coddle radical Islam, going so far as to use the US Air Force to aid and abet the radical Muslim terrorists in Bosnia, Albania and Kosovo. In addition, the Clinton Administration suckered and arm-twisted other nations to contribute their own air forces to aid in the terror-bombing of those who opposed the spread of radical Islam in the Balkans. While the controversy raged about the Clinton Administration’s eagerness to populate the US military with out-of-the-closet homosexuals, the public eye was distracted from the fact that radical Muslims were infiltrating the US armed forces. Of course, during the entire eight years of the Clinton Administration, reports of Islamic attacks on the US, and reports of attempted attacks, continued to trickle into the news.

It is likely that the most successful Islamic attack during the Clinton regime was the bombing of the Oklahoma Federal Building. On the day of the bombing, the US media at first focused the blame on Islamic terrorists. But then, the memo must have gone out to the closely government-controlled US media, so that the blame immediately shifted to US patriots who abide by the original intentions of the Framers of the United States Constitution and support their independent state militia. (No, the Framers were NOT referring to the state police or the National Guard.)

So, what was the payoff for twelve years of coddling radical Islam? What was the real legacy of both Bush 41 and Bill Clinton? The 911 attack, of course! By then, the Muslims had another oilman ally back in the White House, but jihadists have a habit of biting the hands that feed them. Bush 43, being both a former governor of the oil-rich state of Texas, and a close friend of the Saudi royal family and even of the bin Laden family, was not about to admit that we were at war with radical Islam. Instead, he declared war on “terrorism.” At the time, one commentator suggested that this would have been as silly as FDR asking Congress for a declaration of war against aircraft carriers on December 8, 1941. Terrorism is a weapon of war, not an enemy that one can declare war against. Radical Islam has declared war on the US several times during the last 30 years. A fatwa, after all, is an open declaration of war that is also an immediate and ongoing mobilization order. If the Muslim jihadists thought they could fight and win a conventional war against the US, they would do just that. Because they cannot, they use terrorism as their weapon instead.

The current Administration is an abomination. (Perhaps that should be spelled O-b-a-m-a-N-a-t-i-o-n.) A foreign-born immigrant from Africa serves as the United States President, illegally. He is allowed to hide behind his dark skin because all his critics are automatically accused of “racism.” So if you dare criticize his social agenda that is somewhere to the left of Karl Marx, or if you question his coddling of radical Islam, or even if you could not in good conscience vote for him because of his position on abortion, you run the risk of being labeled “racist.” (Note that the author of this article has been much harsher on Obama’s three white processors in this piece, but nevertheless, liberal propagandists with their “bigot” label will be complaining about this article).

Of course, all four of these administrations have used these Islamic attacks as just another pretext to restrict the freedoms of US citizens. Recently, I took my first airline flight since the 911 attack. The way I was treated was totally unbecoming a citizen of the US. Being disabled and unable to walk through metal detectors, I was made to balance precariously while being publicly patted down like a common criminal. The search was so invasive that the lady travelers in my party were aghast.

So, expect more Muslims in the US military to “go postal.” After all, this Nidal Malik Hasan is being passed off as a crazy man who lost control because he was being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Expect the US media to continue to pass off these Islamic attacks on US soil as “random acts of violence.” Expect the US military forces to fight in Islamic countries, supporting one group of Muslims over another. Expect the US media and US government to continue side with Muslim terrorists in Eastern Europe, as they have in both Russia and the Balkans. And, of course, if you are a US citizen, expect to lose more of your rights and freedoms.

The US people should be demanding the following actions:

1. That the United State Congress declare war on radical Islam;
2. That a Constitutional Amendment be ratified declaring that Islam is not a religion, but an enemy ideology, and that it is not to enjoy the protection of the First Amendment or of any other law guaranteeing unabated religious freedom;
3. That no Muslim immigration into the US be allowed until the war against radical Islam has been won;
4. That all Muslims in the US military should be investigated intensively and be required to state publicly that their belief in Islam shall never be used to disobey any order or to commit any act against the US, and that they be required to renounce all individuals, by name, such as Osama bin Laden, who oppose the non-Islamic world and all organizations, such as al-Qaeda and Hamas, who support violence against non-Islamic countries (anyone refusing to do so is obviously a danger to the US military);
5. That dangerous radical Muslims be interned, similar to the detainment of radical Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans who openly declared their loyalty to the Emperor of Japan over that of the US during World War II;
6. That the rights and freedoms of non-Muslim US citizens be restored;
7. That their respective States each declare its sovereignty; or declare independence from the US federal government.

Words fail me, yet again…

Albert Einstein:

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

Kosovo Establishes Islamic Heroin Republic With EU & US Blessing

Caliphate News Networx & Al BeBeeCeera report LIVE:

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Young ethnic Albanians (Muslims) celebrate Kosovo’s coming independence in Pristina yesterday. Check out the keffiyeh on the right.

Atlas Shrugs has more

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Too Late: EURABIA is happening right now!

Thanx to the despicable Willie Cl*tman, who bombed the Christan Serbs in order to curry favor with Arab-Muhammedans, the Balkan-Mujaheddin will now move towards the final solution For now, we run these articles again:

Bin Laden Mosque in Kosovo:

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Why are the Serbs - whom apart from the Jews were the major victims of the Holocaust during World War 2 - being cast as the perpetrators of genocide while the real perpetrators of genocide - the Islamofascists loyal to Alija Izetbegovic - are being cast by the corporate media, the US, NATO and EU governments as “the victims”?

Why was Naser Oric - the Islamofascist commander of Srebrenica and perpetrator of a massive genocide against Serbian men, women and children in Srebrenica from 1992 to 1995 - given only a 2 year sentence for this monumental crime against humanity and allowed to walk free from NATO’s Scheveningen ICTY prison: the former Nazi SS dungeon for patriotic Dutch resistance fighters against the Germans during World War 2 in The Hague, Holland?

Israpundit has more.

History of Jihad against the Serbs, Croats, and Albanians
[1389 to 1920]

Update:
The “morally superior” Lizard King will never know where it’s at

Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.

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Kosovo Serb Migration before Ottomans, 18th c.

Illustrated P.I.G.: ‘Can’t see blood’ on LGF

Lost in Lala-land:

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Charles Johnson:

‘I’m not sure whose side to root for in the ethnic Albanian, Kosovo-Serbia morass—there are killers on all sides—and today’s news from Kosovo leaves me with mixed feelings: Kosovo declares independence from Serbia.’

May as well join the Koz Kidz, Charles, what’s the difference?

If the Lizard King doesn’t know which way to root that means the Lizard Army is rooted, no?

A Lizard comment:

They seem to be very pro-America.’

America enabled them. Just because they wave American flags means exactly nothing. Now just go there and wave some Muhammad cartoons, and watch them love you…

FoxNews Slide show

Another one:

‘Can’t be all that bad. Very few cultures that don’t have blood on their hands…. ‘

Right. that makes us all equal. Forrest Gump has spoken!

Killgore Trout, chief of the Lizard brain police, has the right spirit:

‘Can we start recommending deletion of comments denying Serbian war crimes?’

Here Charley, a link just for you:

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Fleeing Serbs

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Looting Muslim Female

Atlas Shrugs: Cl*tman bombed the wrong people

Bush is no better. But this was torture:

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Dancing with terrorists. Not too bright…

Madeline Albright:
“It’s Wrong for US to use Terms Like Islamic Terrorists or Fundamentalists”….

(Thanx to Zip)

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Sucking up to terrorists:

Photo above: Secretary Alb***h greets Hashim Thaci, UCK leader August 1999, after the war

Update (Dveri Srpske):
Serbs demonstrate in front of US Embassy in Belgrade yesterday

Julia Gorin:
Islamic Countries will be First to Recognize Independent Kosovo

Israel Matzav:
Why Israel’s supporters should care about Kosovo

Strong American support for the independence of Kosovo is detrimental to Israeli interests. The US position is based on the view that a solution to long-standing conflict can and should be imposed on the parties by outside powers. In addition, the new state’s creation seeks to award part of a nation’s territory to a violent ethno-religious minority; futilely hopes to curry favor with the Islamic world through appeasement; effectively gives a fresh impetus to the ongoing growth of Islamic influence in Europe; and denies the fact that the putative state’s leaders are tainted by terrorism, criminality, and well-documented links with global jihad. Most importantly, it betrays a cynically postmodern contempt for all claims based on the historical rights and spiritual significance of a land to a nation. (More…)


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But who COUNTED the votes in Serbia?

(Updated information below.)

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“Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything.”

Communist tyrant and mass murderer Josef Stalin (attributed)

So who COUNTED the votes in Serbia?

We may never know for sure.

Let’s begin by looking at how much effort the US and the EU have put into manipulating the outcome of the recent election in Serbia:

SerbBlog: Western Leaders Try to Throw Serbia’s Election
by M.V. Pejakovich

Let me start by saying that I don’t care one whit who wins Serbia’s election for president. I am an American and the US is my country, not Serbia. As far as I am concerned, Serbian citizens have as much right to elect “a savior” or “an idiot” as we Americans do (and will do in the near future), and no other country (or countries) calling themselves “progressive democracies” have any right whatever to interfere in their election process.

However, this is NOT what is happening with Serbia. Western leaders, impatient with the Serbian election process, are acting like a bunch of bullies by trying to force Serbia’s citizens into electing the West’s “chosen one” candidate, Boris Tadic, and unfortunately, the Western media (both print and internet) are cooperating in this extortion.

Last week, in the Brussels Journal , the EU went after Eurovision song winner Marija Serifovic for singing & speaking at a rally for Tadic’s rival, Nikolic:

“the singer now appears to support Tomislav Nikolic, the eurosceptic nationalist candidate of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), who won the first round of the Serbian presidential elections last Sunday (20 January). Ms Serifovic participated in rallies organised by Mr Nikolic, including one in December in the Serbian town of Kragujevac and one on 15 January in Belgrade, singing her winning song, “Molitva” (Prayer).”[SerbBlog note: Marija Serifovic is also an ethnic Roma, AKA “Gypsy”, so the title “nationalist” gets put in the proper context here. The EU wants to punish Serifovic for simply supporting a candidate who is not “pro-EU”.]

Then consider the following statements & news stories in recent days on Serbia’s hot-button issue “Kosovo”:

From the Financial Times:

“Senior western diplomats say the precise timing now (on Kosovo’s independence declaration) depends on whether the next Serbian president is Boris Tadic, the pro-western ­liberal incumbent, or Tomislav Nikolic, a pro-Russian nationalist…..If Nikolic, the conservative, gets elected, then no one in Europe will see any benefit in waiting any longer with the independence declaration….If Mr Tadic returns to power, however, diplomats say EU states would see merit in delaying Kosovo’s independence by a few weeks, seeking to flesh out an agreement on closer EU-Serbian relations”

From Reuters:

“Kosovo will declare independence from Serbia with Western backing the weekend after the February 3 Serbian presidential election if the nationalist candidate (Nikolic) wins, political sources said on Wednesday. “If (Tomislav) Nikolic wins, it’s the 9th or 10th,” one of the sources told Reuters on condition of anonymity….If pro-Western incumbent Boris Tadic wins the closely-fought race, Kosovo Albanians would be expected to wait until the following weekend, and possibly until after a meeting of European Union foreign ministers on February 18, the source said. The West is “pushing for February,” the source added. The United States and major EU powers are trying to “coordinate” a declaration of independence by the Albanian majority province after almost two years of negotiations with Serbia ended in failure in December.”

I like that last line in the Reuters story — “after almost two years of negotiations with Serbia failed”. To anyone who has been following this story for the last “two years”, there were absolutely NO “negotiations” between Serbia and the Albanians on Kosovo. Both Condoleeza Rice and President Bush had already released statements months before these “negotiations” began, saying “Kosovo will become independent”, and they simply continued that same drumbeat through out the sham meetings between Serbia and the Kosovo Albanians . What that created was a sad display with Serbia on one side of the table, turning itself inside out to give the Albanians anything they wanted short of handing over their sovereign Serbian territory, and the Kosovo Albanians on the other side of the table, (with their US and EU backing) basically “buffing their nails” until the so-called “negotiations” were over, because the Albanians knew that the West had already committed to legitimize the theft of Kosovo. So why bother to even call it negotiations when the US & EU had already decided the outcome, beforehand? So that the uninformed, stupid or the corrupt, could believe and promote our US & EU governments’ lies when they say , “We tried, it failed, and then we had to do something”.

Now if the sham negotiations weren’t bad enough, the West isn’t even bothering to hide their extortion tactics anymore in the Serbian presidential elections. The message to Serbia’s citizens is clear, “Elect Nikolic and we will amputate Kosovo with a meat-ax soon, you will get no anesthetic and we will let the Albanians kill as many Kosovo Serbs as they want (and then blame it on you). Or elect “our man” Tadic and we might (if we feel like it) give you a couple of aspirin for the pain of amputating Kosovo from you and let a few more Serbs live.” It’s a “lose-lose” proposition for Serbia, as anyone can see — just as it is designed to be.

However, since the demise of Milosevic, all that Western intimidation of Serbia seems to have ever done is to drive Serbia closer to Russia. Russia’s support of Serbia in the UN Security Council on the Kosovo issue, and the Russian Gasprom deal signed with Serbia last week (which sunk the EU/US Nabucco plan and likely cost US State Department #3 man, Nicholas Burns, his job) has done more for Serbia than Western promises (and bombing) have done in the last 17 years. Combine this with the Serbian concept of “inat” (stubborn defiance in the face of bullies) and this all works in Nikolic’s favor, regardless of whether Nikolic is worth a damn or not.

But on the other hand, hope springs eternal in the human breast. For the life of them, Serbs still cannot understand why the US & EU would wish to continue punishing them and stealing their land. Serbs are Christians who speak multiple European languages and their kids want the same security & toys that other normal European kids have — and so do their parents. Based on this commonality, some Serbs believe that this torture has to stop soon — perhaps if they jump through just one more humiliating hoop then the West will see them for who they really are, perhaps if they elect just one more “pro-Western leader” then the West will recognize that Serbs ARE Europeans. This slim hope (or “wishful thinking”, depending on who you talk to) of one day maybe joining that EU “fun & goodies fraternity”, is all that Boris Tadic has to offer them. And the West knows this — which is why they had to throw in the ham-handed “club them if they don’t vote for Tadic” pressure to make the alternative even less attractive.

The big question that remains to be answered about this Western intimidation of Serbian voters to vote for Tadic in the upcoming run-off, is: “Will it work? Or will it backfire?”

Ultimately, Serbian citizens can (and should) be the ONLY ones to answer that, when they vote in the run-off election on February 3rd. It’s their fate to decide, not ours.


“It’s their fate to decide, not ours.”

Would that this were so!

According to news reports, this is what happened:


CeSID: Voters entrusted Tadic with another term in the office

Program Director of the election monitoring agency Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID) Marko Blagojevic stated tonight that, based on 100 percent of the processed sample, it can be assessed that voters in Serbia entrusted Boris Tadic with another term in the office. Blagojevic stated that Tadic won some 2.6 % votes more than his rival Tomislav Nikolic and that difference is between 120.000 and 130.000 votes. Blagojevic announced that the turn-out was about 67% in the second round of presidential elections, which means some 4.5 million voters. Earlier, Executive Director of the CESID Zoran Lucic told the press conference that it can be stated that Tadic is the President of Serbia considering the big difference in the number of votes.

Radio Serbia has more.


Here’s the bottom line:

How can we possibly trust the outcome of a manipulated election?

The problem is that this election is already tainted. Once it has become so obvious that the US and the EU have an intense, vested interest in subverting an election in Serbia, how are we supposed to believe these US and EU politicians and “international observers” when they proclaim that this election is legitimate and clean?

From what was indicated by various interviews, polls, and so forth, before the runoff election, it was not at all clear that a majority of Serbs would have been willing to follow Tadic in taking the EU route.

EU membership is not worth the price

Take a good look at what’s happened in the EU lately. What with the Lisbon treaty chicanery, the bureaucratic strangulation, and the persistent sellout to jihadism, the EU is clearly turning into an ugly dictatorship itself. Maybe all of the noise that Western politicians and journalists make about Vladimir Putin supposedly being a “dictator” is only a distraction from the very real dictatorship that is taking shape in the EU.

I should be accustomed to this by now…

Like M.V. Pejakovich, I, 1389, am a US citizen, and I find it disgraceful that my own country’s government is manipulating an election somewhere else. It would be wrong no matter what the motives, but in this case, our own politicians are corrupt and they want to sell out the Balkans to petrodollar interests. It’s disgusting. But I suppose I ought to be used to it by now, considering how much vote fraud goes on in the US.

Yes, it’s very sad indeed. And although the decision is not mine to make, I would be sorry to see any more countries fall under the sway of the EU or of any organization like it.


Update:

A Wretched, Pyrrhic Victory

Severing of Kosovo Province Enters the Final Stage with Boris Gump Reelected

Jansa and Tadic

Together with ecstatic long-winded congratulatory messages from the U.S. State Department, Javier Solana and the EU-presiding Slovenia to Boris Tadic and the “Serbian people”, after the Yellow leader barely squeezed through to get reelected as Serbian president, Serbia has received another, much more sincere, sobering message the very next day: that the illegal and unlawful EU mission to southern Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija has been approved by the EU.

One doesn’t really need to read between the lines to realize Western leaders have breathed a huge sigh of relief certainly not because they were concerned for Serbia’s wellbeing, but simply because they understand Tadic’s razor-edge victory as a green light to proceed with the final stage of their plan of amputating Kosovo province from the rest of Serbia.

According to Tanjug, which cites its sources within the EU in Brussels, the European Union adopted on Monday, in an “urgent procedure”, a document dubbed “Joint Action” on the “legal and financial bases for sending a EU mission” to Kosovo and Metohija. Since the procedure was so urgent, one has to wonder if the EU heads were only waiting for their own candidate for Serbian presidency to declare victory, eager to push the approval of the Ahtisaari-planned EU mission through on the very same day.

Serbian news agency reports that only “a single formal step remains” until the EU mission is sent to Kosovo — a decision by the Council of Ministers on the adoption of the “Operative Plan” which gives the go-ahead for sending the mission. The mission would be dispatched only a day after the “Operative Plan” is adopted.

All this despite Serbian government’s firm opposition to sending the EU mission without an adequate UN Security Council decision, since on its own, the mission has no legal basis and it directly represents the first step of the implementation of rejected Ahtisaari plan on “supervised independence” of southern Serbian province.

But the EU now believes it doesn’t need a UN SC approval, or the approval of the Serbian government, since the man who refused to put his signature on a document that articulated unambiguous opposition to the EU mission being sent to Kosovo, offered to him by Prime Minister Kostunica in return for endorsement for the second round of elections, has been reelected anyway. And if Serbian president has no objections to the EU mission being sent to the territory of the country he’s sworn to protect, they figure that there are no obstacles to sending the mission.

“Serbian People” or Hungarian, Croat, Albanian and Muslim Citizens of Serbia?

The showering praises and gushing congratulatory messages that have poured from Washington, Brussels and Ljubljana when it was announced Tadic has managed to scrape a victory in Serbian presidential elections inevitably speak of “Serbian people” who have “chosen the European integrations” by giving their votes to Tadic.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told reporters he had congratulated Boris Tadic and “Serbian people” on Tadic’s reelection, while Slovenians eulogized to the “Serbian people who have confirmed their support for democratic and European path of their homeland.” Although West’s collective desire to sell the whole deal as a Serbian choice is understandable, being that they desperately need to portray Tadic’s reelection as Serbian consent to the loss of Kosovo-Metohija province, the fact remains that Tadic’s narrow victory was neither a referendum on letting go of 15% of Serbia’s historic territory, nor the expression of the wish of predominantly Serbian nationals.

Understandably, all the praises ignore the fact that Tadic has barely managed to win by less than half percent above the necessary 50%, or 2.6 percentage points more than Tomislav Nikolic, which translates to a difference of around 100,000 votes between the two candidates. More importantly, they willfully ignore Serbia’s widely diverse, multi-ethnic society in which the sizable national minorities, such as Vojvodina Hungarians and Croats, as well as Presevo Valley Albanians and Raska (Sandzak) region Muslims (who call themselves “Bosniaks”) have voted in droves during the election runoffs, with the single goal: to prevent Tomislav Nikolic from winning.

One only needs to take a look at votes cast during the first round of elections, held on January 20, to find that the Hungarian representative, Ishtvan Pastor of Hungarian Coalition party in Vojvodina, was given almost all the votes that represent a difference between Tadic and Nikolic: 93,039 votes from Serbia’s ethnic Hungarians. At the same time, an equally marginal figure, Cedomir Jovanovic, backed by the Serbia’s Albanians and other Muslims as the only Serbian politician who supports severing of Kosovo-Metohija province, gained 219,689 votes two weeks prior to Tadic’s miserable victory. Everyone who knows the first thing about Cheda the Junkie and LSD LDP fanaticism knows fully well that they would rather pour gasoline over their heads and get collectively incinerated than see Tomislav Nikolic anywhere near a presidential office.

According to the local news sources, large communities of Hungarians and Croats populating mainly north of Serbia, have been pouring into the polling stations on Sunday, February 3, with military discipline, not so much to show support for Tadic, as to make sure Nikolic gets defeated. Some local TV stations have reported that “every single Hungarian in Vojvodina” voted against Tomislav Nikolic on February 3.

Meanwhile, according to Belgrade daily Glas Javnosti, British ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth allowed himself a luxury to publicly call the Albanians and other Muslims from Presevo Valley and Raska region to step up to the plate and cast their votes in order to ensure Nikolic loses the presidential bid. Readily responding, two Muslim parties from the Raska region have bragged about their help in defeating Nikolic on the very same day, announcing in the Serbian media that all the Raska Muslims “showed unity” by unanimously voting for Tadic.

British government has also financed CESID, a parallel structure to Serbia’s RIK (Republic’s Electoral Commission) to “count” the votes in the election runoff, and Stephen Wordsworth, the uncrowned king of cynicism, was among the first to congratulate “Serbian people” on the election results.

No Confusion in Kosovo-Metohija: Nikolic Wins Resounding 73.66% of Votes

How the actual Serbs voted is most obvious in the province of Kosovo-Metohija, where Albanians pretended no election whatsoever is taking place, so none of them took part, and where Tomislav Nikolic defeated Tadic with resounding 73.66% of votes won. Therefore, if the presidential elections in Serbia were a kind of “referendum” on the fate of Kosovo-Metohija province, Kosovo residents, whose opinion should matter far more than that of Novi Sad Hungarians, have stated their view in crystal-clear terms.

Crude EU Meddling in Serbia Elections

Right after the first round of elections, when Tomislav Nikolic surged to the top with 40% of votes won among 9 candidates, it became clear that “Serbian people” are determined to vote Boris Gump out of the office and replace him with the seasoned politician who places national interests above his personal or party-interests, and who has no intention to follow the foreign diktat, or tolerate West’s extortions, blackmails and rotten carrots.

Three days later, Reuters reporter Ellie Tzortzi noted the patently obvious EU interference in Serbian presidential elections, warning that “the EU must be wary of charges it is meddling to help pro-Western President Boris Tadic defeat nationalist Tomislav Nikolic, just as Serbia’s breakaway Kosovo province prepares to declare independence with the EU’s blessing.”

In order to boost Tadic’s prospects of defeating the challenger, the EU was prepared to offer Serbia the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA)—considered the very doorstep to the full EU membership—on January 28, only few days before the scheduled runoff. Tzortzi quoted Danish Prime Minister as saying “it would be a good idea” to sign a formal agreement “before the second round of the Serbian presidential election to demonstrate the positive EU attitude,” and briefly mentions that such opinion was shared by all representatives of the EU-member states, including the EU leadership, except for Netherlands and Belgium.

When that failed, the EU heads devised a non-SAA “political agreement”, which is quite unique in the sense that no other country wishing to join the union was ever proposed anything similar and, more importantly, which offers no territorial guarantees to Serbia but, through some cosmetic, superficial benefits, such as relaxed visa regimes and trade conditions, intends to anesthetize the Serbs in order to sever their Kosovo province with less noise, mess and fuss. They announced this “offer” few days before the February 3 election runoffs, as something that will be available to Serbia for signing on February 7.

But the rotten carrot and British ambassador’s crude interventions in the midst of Serbian election were far from being the only ways the Western officials have been influencing the outcome of the presidential elections in Serbia. As Neil Clark aptly noted, “the US and the EU have made […] quite clear […] the consequences which would follow if the Serbs decided to elect the Radical Party’s Tomislav Nikolic […], a man they describe as “ultra nationalist”, as their country’s new President this weekend. If Serbia does not vote the ‘right way’, the country faces ‘isolation’ and will be treated as ‘the Belarus of Europe’, western officials have warned”.

Foreign-Owned Media in Serbia Unleash Ferocious Pro-Tadic, Anti-Nikolic Campaign

Serbian media, almost entirely owned by the German, British and American corporations, has been running a similar pro-Tadic, anti-Nikolic campaign throughout, reaching the fever-pitch after the first round of elections. Serbian citizens were exposed to toxic daily fumes generated by the numerous op-eds, articles and “analysis” extolling the virtues of joining the EU, while at the same time exploiting the fears of “going back into the 1990s” — the poverty, isolation and wars, even suggesting the possibility of economic sanctions and another round of NATO bombardment (?!). The choice, as presented by the Yellow party politicians and Soros-owned media in Serbia was clear: either the bright and sunny future in the European Utopia (Boris Tadic), or return to the dark and gloomy hellhole from the time of bruising sanctions, Western aggression and merciless punishment (Tomislav Nikolic).

Apart from the unrelenting media campaign almost without exception drumming up Tadic as the only acceptable candidate, the Yellow camp showed they are not above the basest, sleaziest tricks to help them stay in power.

Yellow Camp’s Sleaze

One of the slimiest moves of Tadic’s supporters was to invent the alleged “endorsement” of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as if he personally favors Tadic over Nikolic. Even though Russian leadership, in stark contrast to the Western officials, has demonstrated an admirable level of chivalry and non-interference in staying neutral all the way and allowing citizens of Serbia to vote according to their conscious, Tadic’s team understood fully well they urgently need every inch of support they can pry, so they brazenly manufactured Putin’s support.

Being that Kremlin office takes care of even the small details and niceties such as expressions of condolences, presidential birthdays, congratulatory messages and similar, and that Tadic’s birthday happens to fall on January 15, Tadic has once again received a birthday card from President Putin’s office, just like the year before and the one before that and every year since he became Serbian president in 2004. But, unlike ever before, this time around the entirely innocent, non-committal wish for a happy birthday that coincided with the election in Serbia, was fervently publicized and advertised throughout Serbia, as Putin’s personal endorsement of Boris Tadic in the presidential elections.

According to some reports, Tadic has fought tooth-and-nail to squeeze into the Serbian government delegation on the occasion of signing the agreement with Russian energy giant, Gazprom. Such an occasion, although immensely important for Serbian state, has in no way necessitated the presence of Boris Tadic, being that it was the deal worked out by the Serbian government and Prime Minister Kostunica and that members of Tadic’s party within the government were expressly against the agreement, almost ruining the whole deal if it wasn’t for direct intervention of the Serbian Premier. But, nevertheless, using and abusing every opportunity for catching some limelight and hijacking some of the credit for any positive development was a primal urge, capable of overriding any sense of common decency.

A Wretched Victory No One Would Wish

Add to all that a relentless smear campaign against Tomislav Nikolic (charged of using services of an American PR agency to “brush-up” his public appearances, a malicious lie that was quickly denied by the agency cited; accused of planning to assign a prime ministerial post to Vojislav Seselj, rotting in the Hague prison for five years while awaiting his “trial” for politically incorrect opinions and verbal offenses to start, etc.), the reports of Tadic’s supporters visiting Serbian voters in person, door-to-door, and offering paychecks in return for votes given to Tadic and payment of utility bills, or the delivery of insulting hand-out packages of flower, sugar and cooking oil given by the Yellows to the poor and disillusioned voters on the eve of the runoffs, and still, despite everything, Boris Gump has barely managed to scrape measly half percent above the margin to get reelected.

Apart from being overwhelmingly suspicious and quite questionable, Boris Tadic’s “victory” is probably the saddest, most pathetic and morally wretched feat no decent man would ever wish for himself. For who could possibly rejoice and celebrate the victory of a man widely expected to assist in cheerful dismemberment of a state he is supposed to serve and protect?

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Jawa Report: New YouTube Smackdown Assignments

Jawas have been asked to lend a hand flagging youtubes for this weeks smackdown. After all the help we’ve gotten from Quoth the Raven, we cannot refuse. Get to flagging and emailing boys and girls. Special attention goes to #1 and #3 smackdowns.

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  • The jihadist videos on January’s smackdown list are in the right sidebar, under the header SMACKDOWN Jan. 2008.
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“How can I put this badge on my blog?”

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  • In place of the anchor text, insert the link to the image file that you have uploaded on your host.
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“But I thought 1389 Blog is opposed to censorship!”

  • Yes, we work to uphold (or restore) the U.S. Constitutional protections for speech, press, assembly, and petition, and to uphold (or restore) similar protections in other parts of the world.
  • At the same time, we are at war, and we are entirely in favor of taking down enemy propaganda and other communications. These include, but are not limited to, terrorist training and recruitment videos. Such communications are not covered by any Constitutional or other legal protections for free speech. We want them taken down entirely, not merely blocked by censorware!
  • Our jihadist enemies do not lack for computer savvy. They are constantly attempting to game the system in various ways, so as to interfere with access to legitimate, constructive political speech in the US, the EU, and other parts of the world - particularly counterterrorist and antijihadist speech - often under the guise of “political correctness.” At the same time, they abuse the system - sometimes by hacking, spamming, or vandalizing our websites and blogs - to get their own messages out at our expense!
  • The bottom line: We must reclaim control over our own avenues of communication.

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US State Department Bungling Toward Armageddon

Bush Administration defies Russia over Kosovo independence

…in order to help America’s jihadist ENEMIES, no less!

As we have discussed many times previously, this would mean violating international law to hand over part of Serbia to a jihadist/narcoterrorist drug gang that also happens to be the local branch of al Qaeda. Aid and comfort to the enemy, anyone?

And here are the immediate consequences:


Byzantine Sacred Art Blog:
Serious Warnings West Either Ignored or Played Down

Russia Ready to Use All Means Available

“In order to protect its own and the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its allies, if the need arises, Russia will use its armed forces, along with the nuclear weapons,” said Chief of the General Staff or Russian Federation Armed Forces Yuri Baluyevsky on Saturday, according to RIA Novosti.

“We do not intend to attack anyone, but we consider it necessary for all our partners in the world community to clearly understand that to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Russia and its allies, military forces will be used, including preventively, including with the use of nuclear weapons,” Baluyevsky said at a military conference in a remark broadcast on state-run cable channel Vesti-24, according to the report also carried by the Associated Press.

“Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.”
- Euripides

What does the GWB administration not understand about, “If we have to nuke you to keep you away from our allies, we will!”

The US military and the usual experts and pundits fail to realize just how much the Russian military has modernized in the past few years. They also forget that, unlike the US military, the Russian military has not overextended itself into commitments all over the world.

The upshot? GWB is bungling toward another Cuban Missile Crisis, but he would be foolish indeed to expect the same outcome this time around.


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TENC: Oppose Fascist Rock Star’s US Tour with the Truth - Part 2

Thompson concert photo with huge crowd giving Nazi salute

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Oppose Fascist Rock Star’s US Tour with the Truth - Part 2

by Jared Israel
Member, International Commission on Jasenovac
Editor, Emperor’s Clothes

[Nov. 6, 2007]



In Part 1 of this series, I charged that in 1991, the New York Times, blazing a trail for the rest of the Western media, completely revised its account of the Holocaust in Croatia.

Before 1991, the Times reported that the Croatian Ustashe (clerical-fascists) murdered some 800,000 people, Serbs, Jews, and Roma, as well as antifascists of all backgrounds, in the Jasenovac death camp complex.

After 1991, the Times and other media reported that some “tens of thousands” (or sometimes 80,000, or 85,000) were killed. A 90% cut. Enough to make a Holocaust denier green with envy.

At the same time, the Times radically altered its perspective.

Before 1991, the murders were described as being caused by fascism. After 1991, they were described as being caused by fascism and ‘ethnic enmity,’ as if genocidal hatred of Serbs, Jews, and Roma was the fault of both sides - the Serbs, Jews and Roma, as well as those that hated them. This supposed ‘ethnic enmity,’ along with a supposed desire of Yugoslav Communist leaders to (as the Times put it) “demonize” fascism, was now presented as explaining a supposedly long-term dispute over the victim count.

Thus the Times not only drastically minimized the extent of Ustasha crimes, but it also lied about the numbers dispute. Lied because prior to 1991 it was the Times itself that had publicized the figure of 800,000 victims, which the Times itself was now denying.

I have made a most serious accusation. Here is the evidence.




Before 1991: The Times reports 800,000 victims





First, here are the relevant parts of New York Times articles that mentioned Jasenovac before 1991.

July 12, 1948: The Times referred to Jasenovac for the first time while describing Yugoslavia’s arrest of some agents of the defeated Croatian Ustashe:

“A third [arrested Ustasha - J.I.] was Ljubo Milosh, described as commander of the Ustashi concentration camp at Jasenica [Jasenovac - J.I.], where more than 800,000 persons perished during the war.”

(My emphasis - J.I.) [10]

May 20, 1961: Covering the trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann, the Times reported the testimony of Alexander Arnon, described as “wartime secretary of the Jewish Community in Zagreb”:

“Mr. Arnon said Croatian Fascists ran most of the concentration camps in Croatia and killed ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Serbian gentiles. In Jasenovac alone, 600,000 persons, including 2,000 Jews, were killed, he said.”

(My emphasis - J.I.)[11]

Mr. Arnon’s reported use of the phrase “Jasenovac alone” makes sense because Jasenovac was the name of a complex of Croatian death camps and also of the biggest site in the complex. So, Arnon was indicating that significantly more than 600,000 people were murdered in Croatian death camps as a whole.

October 1, 1972: In an article on the Yugoslav government’s response to terrorist attacks by Croatian Ustasha exiles, the Times again stated that 800,000 people were murdered in Jasenovac. This article is most helpful in understanding the Holocaust in Croatia, how it was dealt with in Communist Yugoslavia, and how the Times has, since 1991, misinformed readers.

Emperor’s Clothes has transcribed the first six paragraphs and three later paragraphs from the article. Here are the first six:

[Excerpt from 1972 New York Times starts here]

“Amid the dismal swamplands at Jasenovac, a small town southeast of the Croatian city of Zagreb a graceful concrete monument suggestive of hands raised in an appeal for mercy looks out over grass-covered mounds that neatly conceal the remains of one of the death camps of World War II.

The Jasenovac camp was operated by the Ustashi, the Fascist movement that gained power in Croatia in 1941 through collaboration with German and Italian invaders of Yugoslavia.

As many as 800,000 people - mainly Serbs, Jews and gypsies but also Croatian and other opponents of the Ustashi - are believed to have been shot, hanged clubbed to death or drowned in the nearby Sava River during the war years before the Ustashi fled from advancing Yugoslav and Soviet troops.

The transformation of the Jasenovac death camp into a memorial park, with only a small museum to give visitors some insight into the camp’s grim history, seems to symbolize an effort by the postwar Yugoslav authorities to let the wounds of wartime fratricide and atrocities heal for the sake of a united country.

Over the years, the Ustasha terrorism began to fade from memory. To avoid stirring up old resentments, the Yugoslav authorities discouraged publication of explicit writings and photographs about the atrocities. Only a few weeks ago, a court ban was imposed on a book that dealt with the Jasenovac camp.

Although the Ustashi are in exile and their young recruits have carried out occasional acts of terrorism against Yugoslav diplomats and officials abroad, the Belgrade authorities have refrained from all-out counter-attack, for they are apprehensive of offending the four and a half million people of Croatia and reluctant to risk opening old wounds between the Serbs and Croats.”

(My emphasis - J.I.) [12]

[Excerpt from 1972 New York Times ends here]

To summarize the key points:

a - The Ustashe murdered 800,000 at Jasenovac;

b - Yugoslav Communist leaders tried to suppress discussion of Jasenovac, “discourag[ing] publication of… photographs about the atrocities” and banning books;

c - Why the repression? The leaders feared discussion might “reopen old wounds”; also they feared a violent reaction from Croats, who were pro-Ustashe;

d - Even when the Ustashe, working from outside Yugoslavia, escalated their terrorist attacks, the Yugoslav government continued its policy of preventing a political counter-attack. For example, they continued banning books on Jasenovac.

The straw that broke the camel’s back was when:

“three Croatian émigrés hijacked a Scandinavian Airlines System plan Sept 15 [1972 - J.I.] and forced Sweden to release six Croatians imprisoned for terrorist attacks on Yugoslav diplomats.”[13]

In response, the Communists finally began publicly attacking the Ustashe.

What line did they take? The Times quotes the following from an editorial piece, written by a New York-based Yugoslav reporter and published in Politika, the leading Yugoslav daily, criticizing U.S. coverage of the Ustasha terror:

“For American readers and listeners, there was not a word that the Ustashi were on the side of Hitler and Mussolini, that they formally declared war against the United States, that they murdered Jews - an acute issue here [i.e., in New York City - J.I.] - and that they are sworn enemies of the concept of Western democracy.” [14]

Notice that in describing what the America media was leaving out, Politika left out the Serbian victims of genocide (and the Roma/Sinti victims as well).

This was quite an omission. To give you a sense of the scale of the genocide in fascist Croatia, here is an excerpt from a piece the New York Times published in Oct. 1941, five months after the invading Nazis installed the Ustashe clerical-fascists in power:

[Excerpt from “Massacres Laid to Croat[ian] Ustashi” starts here]

“The Croatian revolutionary Ustashi have killed between 300,000 and 340,000 Serbs and pro-Yugoslav Croats since last May [i.e., tens of thousands a month! - J.I.], according to figures compiled by intelligence experts from agents operating in Croatia and Bosnia and released to this correspondent here today.

While some of the executions have been carried out by German Elite Guard units, the Gestapo and regular German Army officers and by Italians in Western Croatia, the bulk of the killings have been done by the Ustashi, according to this report.” [15]

[Excerpt from “Massacres Laid to Croat[ian] Ustashi” ends here]

300,000 to 340,000 Serbs (and pro-Yugoslav Croats) killed between May and October of 1941. 60,000 to 68,000 Serbs a month.

Here is a final excerpt from the 1972 Times article. It is most revealing:

“One result of the anti-Ustashi campaign here [in Yugoslavia - J.I.] since the hijacking is that even schoolchildren in Belgrade, who had not heard of the Ustashi, are beginning to raise questions and are learning of the torments inflicted by Yugoslavs on Yugoslavs during the war.”

(My emphasis - J.I.) [16]

So, while Belgrade school children were learning for the first time that the Ustashe had existed, it was only if and when they “[began] to raise questions” that they also learned what the Ustashe had done during the war.

The Communists were (finally) publicly attacking the Ustashe for supporting Nazi Germany, for opposing democracy, for killing Jews, and for current acts of terror - but not for their genocide against Serbs and Roma, hence the children’s need to “raise questions.”

Consider the effect of this policy of suppressing discussion, both on Croats and on the main surviving victim population, the Serbs.

Communist Yugoslavia declared that most Croats had opposed the Ustashe. But this was manifestly untrue. How could the Ustashe, a tiny group of exiles, have returned to Croatia in April, 1941, and immediately launched a campaign of mass murder against ‘foreign elements,’ meaning Serbs, Jews and Roma - how could they have done this in the face of opposition from both ‘foreign elements’ and most ethnic Croats? They needed massive support from Croats from the start, which in turn required that ordinary Croats were already indoctrinated in the basics of Ustasha ideology: hatred of ‘foreign elements’ and Catholic fanaticism.

Looked at in one way, the Communist-perpetrated myth of Croatian antifascism was of great practical use to Croatia, since it allowed Croats to hold onto the vast properties stolen from murdered Serbs, Jews and Roma, rather than losing it and paying restitution to boot.[17] It allowed the perhaps tens of thousand of Croats who had committed overt fascist-criminal acts, and the much larger number who had in various ways supported those acts, to escape unscathed. It allowed the Catholic church, “many” of whose priests had, as the Encyclopedia of the Holocauststates, directly participated in the killing, to mainly escape punishment.

Looked at in another way, this was a terrible abuse of Croatian children, who were therefore raised in a double-talk fascist society, whose pro-Ustasha sub-culture thrived beneath a veneer of Communist rhetoric. There were things you did not - could not - for now - say in public, but you were of course to believe them and act on them as soon and as much as possible, things about the need to purify Croatia from ‘foreign elements,’whose presence polluted the Croatian national being.

This policy rewarded the behavior of the chameleon, as exemplified by current Croatian Stjepan Mesic, who boasted in a videotaped speech, delivered around 1992, apparently to the Croatian community in Australia, that the great strength of Croatia was its ability to deceive:

“‘You see, in the Second World War, the Croats won twice and we have no reason to apologise to anyone. What they ask of the Croats the whole time, ‘Go kneel in Jasenovac, kneel here…’ We don’t have to kneel in front of anyone for anything! We won twice and all the others only once. We won on 10 April [1941 - J.I.] when the Axis Powers recognized Croatia as a state and we won because we sat after the war, again with the winners, at the winning table.’” [18]

This same glib doubletalk is manifested today in the claim, made in tones of outraged dignity, by Croatian organizations in the US and Canada, and by Marko Perkovic Thompson himself, that the Thompson band is not fascist. How dare anyone say such a thing!

And consider the effect on the surviving victims - mainly Serbs, since all but a few Roma and Jews had been killed. If they wanted a Yugoslavia, which they did, they had to pay with a terrible silence, a silence enforced by the state. Even their children must not be told what had happened to perhaps a million of their relatives.

It is a grim irony that, during most of the existence of Communist Yugoslavia - with the exception of a few years immediately after World War II, when there were some trials of prominent Ustashe - the officially approved slogan of ‘brotherhood and unity’ meant in practice toleration of clerical-fascist beliefs and freedom for many clerical-fascists criminals in the republics of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

October 7, 1984: There was no mention of Jasenovac from 1972 until 1984, when, in a piece discussing a proposed but much-postponed trip to Croatia by the pope, the Times wrote:

“Another question is whether the Pope will visit the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp, 60 miles southeast of Zagreb. Among the displays at a museum on the site is a photograph of Cardinal Stepinac being received by leaders of the Ustachi, the Croatian collaborators of the Nazis and Italian Fascists.” [19]

Now we come to the watershed year: 1991.




1991: The Times invents a kinder Jasenovac




March 4, 1991: With Croatia on the verge of secession, the Times wrote about Jasenovac for the first time in seven years:

“The enmity between Serbs and Croats, who make up the largest of Yugoslavia’s six republics, has deep roots. About 30 miles from Pakrac, at the Jasenovac concentration camp, tens of thousands of Serbs, gypsies and Jews were killed when it was run by the fascist puppet government of Croatia during World War II.”

(My emphasis - J.I.) [20]

From a Ustasha death machine that killed “as many as 800,000 people” (see N.Y. Times, 1972), Jasenovac was now, somehow, a consequence of ethnic “enmity” (suggesting fault on both sides) where “tens of thousands…were killed.” An ugly place, but not part of the organized and systematic machinery of genocide, known as the Holocaust.

With few exceptions, throughout the 1990s and until now, Times articles have either bluntly stated that “tens of thousands” (or 80-85,000) died; or, alternatively, they have stated that the casualty figures are disputed, with the correct figures being somewhere in the “tens of thousands” (or 80-85,000).

May 19, 1996: Chris Hedges of the Times reported that:

“[Croatia’s then-reigning] President Tudjman, seeking to defuse criticism of the wartime [Ustasha] government, says 28,000 people were killed at Jasenovac. [Late Yugoslav Communist president] Tito, eager to demonize his fascist rivals, said 700,000 people died. Both figures are dismissed as unrealistic by independent scholars in the United States, who estimate that about 80,000 people were killed here.”

(Bracketed text is mine - J.I.) [21]

A few points.

First, the above is an early example of the ‘disputed-figures’ approach. As you can see, it renders the Times‘ desired figure - 80,000 - both more believable and also easier for readers to remember by associating it in our minds with a supposed dispute. (We pay more attention when there is a dispute.) So the ‘disputed figures’ approach is a learning aid.

It also enhances the Times‘ already-existing aura of impartiality, since the writer is championing supposedly honest mediation against supposed eternally feuding Balkans factions.

For Hedges, the honest mediators are some “independent scholars in the United States.”

It is a great story line, but here’s the rub: In order to mediate a real struggle, the mediators must exist. Searching in both the Lexis-Nexis and the New York Times archives, I found that no New York Times article ever identified Hedges’ “independent scholars.” Are they so independent they have no names? Are they living incognito, perhaps wanted for a felony? Did the Times interview them in the realm of Pure Spirit?

Since I can see no reason for not identifying American scholars - we are not talking about Salman Rushdie here - and since, given the importance of the question of whether some hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews and Roma were or were not murdered, I can see every reason for identifying the supposed scholars - I can only conclude that said scholars were imaginary.

Second, this made me wonder, apropos the claim that imaginary scholars had rejected both sides in the supposed dispute over numbers, ‘Do imaginary scholars have the right to reject things?’ But then I answered myself: ‘Why not, just as long as the things they are rejecting are also nonexistent.’

Which was definitely the case in this instance. Because there never was a dispute over numbers between Franjo Tudjman, on the one side, and former Yugoslav communist leader Tito, on the other.

Because just as before 1991 it was the New York Times that informed the world that “as many as 800,000 people” were murdered in Jasenovac, so the Times had also reported that Yugoslav Communist leaders banned books and discouraged pictures dealing with Jasenovac.

In other words, the two sides in this dispute were not Tudjman and Tito, they were the New York Times before and after 1991.

And finally, notice that Hedges made the remarkable claim that Tito tried to “demonize his fascist rivals.” Aside from the fact that Tito had no serious fascist rivals - the Partisans, with Soviet help, had thoroughly defeated the Ustashe - aside from that, the claim is remarkable because, while ‘demonize’ has the meaning of ‘portray as evil,’ it also has the connotation of deception - ‘falsely portray as evil.’ Is Hedges trying to plant the thought that fascism was unfairly maligned?

Nov 2, 1998: For reasons whose explanation lies beyond the scope of this essay, for a number of months before the start of Croatia’s 1999 trial of Jasenovac camp official Dinko Sakic, the Western media published some almost-accurate articles about Jasenovac.

Case in point: the Reuters dispatch below. To be sure, the Times buried it on page 13, but at least they published it.

[Excerpt from Reuters dispatch, as published in the New York Times, starts here]

“Thousands of Serbs, Gypsies, Jews and anti-fascist Croats died in the camps. It is estimated in Croatia that 85,000 people died in Jasenovac, though Jewish groups put the toll much higher.”

(My emphasis - J.I.) [22]

[Excerpt from Reuters dispatch, as published in the New York Times, ends here]

Two points about this.

First, notice that the Times has admitted that Jewish groups (not former Yugoslav leaders, and not only Serbs) were defending a “much higher” count than Croatia’s. The Times did not inform readers of the number being put forward by Jewish groups, which, according to the London-based Financial Times, was 600,000. [23]By withholding this information, the Times prevented people from seeing the stark contrast - 600,000 vs. 85,000 - which might have caused them to wonder if Croatia was engaged in Holocaust denial. Nevertheless, the Times had made a major admission. The “much higher” count was not a propaganda creation.

Second, notice that the Times admitted that the Croatian establishment, not some nameless “independent scholars,” was behind the 85,000 figure. Meaning, the Times‘ own previous coverage was a lie.

The Western media used the trial of Sakic, a Jasenovac commander, to create the spectacle of a Croatia that was supposedly struggling with the painful truth about its past and deserved to be welcomed into the family of nations. To reinforce that impression, after Sakic’s conviction, in October 1999, the media quoted a few people, perceived as representing Serbs and Jews, who said they approved the conduct of the trial and praised Croatia.

With Croatia now presented to the world as having transformed itself - a falsification, in my opinion - the Times and other media ended their brief flirtation with semi-accurate reporting.

Thus, the day the trial ended, the Times published another Reuters dispatch, the relevant part of which is posted below.

While the almost-accurate pre-trial dispatch was buried on page 13, the post-trial dispatch got top billing: column 1, page 3. The Times uses that space for leading foreign news.

“Mr. Sakic, 78, did not flinch as the seven-member panel of judges pronounced him guilty of war crimes against civilians for his role as commander of the Jasenovac camp, where up to 85,000 inmates died at the hands of the Nazi-allied Ustashi regime in 1941-45.” [24]

Before the start of the trial, the 85,000 figure was Croatia’s view, sharply disputed by Jewish groups. Now, along with Croatia, the 85,000 figure had been miraculously transformed: it was now the upper limit of the number of victims of clerical-fascist terror at Jasenovac.

The year was 1999, but it wasn’t really 1999. It was 1984 plus fifteen.

Jared Israel
Editor, Emperor’s Clothes

[continued in Part 3]




Footnotes and Further Reading




[10] “Yugoslav Officers Studying In Russia Back Tito Fully,” The New York Times, July 12, 1948, by M.S. Handler

[11] “Eichmann Trial Witness Shows How He Escaped Nazis’ Wrath,” The New York Times, May 20, 1961, by Homer Bigart

[12] “Yugoslavs Assail Croat Dissidents,” The New York Times, October 1, 1972, by Raymond H. Anderson.

Scanned image of entire article is at http://tenc.net/a/times72.htm

[13] Ibid.

[14] Ibid.

[15] “Massacres Laid to Croat[ian] Ustashi,” The New York Times, October 11, 1941, Special Broadcast to THE NEW YORK TIMES, Page 3, 415 words

[16] “Yugoslavs Assail Croat Dissidents,” The New York Times, October 1, 1972, by Raymond H. Anderson

[17] As regards ‘only’ the “expropriation drive” against the Jewish citizens of NDH (Nezavisna Dr¾ava Hrvatska, or Independent State of Croatia), the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust writes:

“Overnight, a pseudolegal expropriation drive was launched, which before long turned into an unbridled countrywide campaign of plunder and pillage in which everyone who stood to profit took part - trade unions, youth organizations, sports clubs, the armed forces, and government officials of all ranks. Ordinary citizens also took part in this campaign wherever they could; indeed, the share of “private” elements in the plunder was enormous - at least half of the property of which the Jews were robbed apparently never reached the state treasury but remained in the hands of individual Croatians. According to an estimate by the Ministry of Finance published in 1944, the value of the Jewish property it acquired was 25 billion dinars ($50 million, according to the prewar rate of exchange). Presenting the state budget for the 1942-1943 fiscal year, the minister of finance, Vladimir Kosak, said that the deficit would be covered by proceeds from the sale of Jewish property.”

– From Menachem Shelah, “Croatia,” in Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, published in Hebrew and English, by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem, 1990; English edition, New York/London, Macmillan, 1990, p. 324.

See http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm#base

To read the complete transcription of the article “Croatia” of the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, go to
http://emperors-clothes.com/croatia/encr.htm

To access the PDF file of the “Croatia” article scanned from the Encyclopedia, go to http://emperor.vwh.net/croatia/encr.pdf

[18] “Croatian leader’s alleged speech glorifying WW2 pro-Nazi state widely condemned,” Text of report in English by Croatian news agency HINA, BBC Monitoring Europe - Political Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring, December 10, 2006 Sunday, 498 words

A Windows Media Video of Mesic’s speech in the original Serbo-Croatian can be viewed at http://emperor.vwh.net/croatia/MesicVideo.wmv

[19] “Four Years Later, Croatia Still Awaits Papal Visit,” The New York Times, October 7, 1984, by Michael T. Kaufman, Marija Bistrica, Yugoslavia

[20] “Serb-Croat Showdown in One Village Square,” The New York Times, March 4, 1991, by Stephen Engelberg

[21] “Croatian War-Shrine Plan Revives Pain,” The New York Times, May 19, 1996, by Chris Hedges

[22] “Argentina Extradites War Crimes Suspect,” The New York Times, Nov 2, 1998, Byline: Reuters

[23] “Dinko Sakic History’s Shadow,” Financial Times (London, England), July 7, 1998, Tuesday, SURVEY EDITION 1, SURVEY - CROATIA 98, by Guy Dinmore

[24] “Croat Convicted of Crimes at World War II Camp,” The New York Times, October 5, 1999, Page 3; Column 1; Foreign Desk, BYLINE:: Reuters


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TENC: Oppose Fascist Rock Star’s US Tour with the Truth - Part 1

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Oppose Fascist Rock Star’s US Tour with the Truth - Part 1

by Jared Israel
Member, International Commission on Jasenovac
Editor, Emperor’s Clothes

Nov. 3, 2007

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Croatian rock star Marko Perkovic ‘Thompson’ has just begun a US-Canadian tour, with two concerts in New York (Nov. 2 and 3), followed by concerts in Toronto (Nov. 4, reportedly cancelled), Cleveland (Nov. 9), Chicago (Nov. 10), Los Angeles (Nov. 11), Vancouver (Nov. 16), and San Francisco (Nov. 18.) Full details are in footnote [1].

Emperor’s Clothes has proven that Thompson is a self-declared Ustasha - a Croatian clerical-fascist. (Clerical-fascist ideology indoctrinates with a mixture of Nazi-type racism and Catholic religious fanaticism.) The Ustasha movement murdered over a million people from 1941-1945. The overwhelming majority were Serbs (Slavs who are Orthodox Christian, i.e., non-Catholic), but they also killed most Jews and Roma (’Gypsies’) in the greater Croatia that they ruled.

It is chilling that one can find videos on Youtube, such as the one below, in which people at Thompson’s June 2007 concert in Zagreb, Croatia, are heard chanting “Ubij, Ubij, Ubij Serbina.” It means “Kill, kill, kill a Serb.”

[If you have problems viewing video, go to Youtube, at http://tinyurl.com/yruy68
If you get a message that the video has been removed from Youtube, see footnote”FONT-SIZE: 0.75em”[2]
for an alternative.]

This tour by Thompson’s band, also called ‘Thompson’ (after the Thompson submachine gun), has produced justified outrage. It is an attempt to legitimize clerical-fascism. If Thompson - whose politics would logically lead to the murder of millions of North Americans, including African-Americans and other so-called ‘non-whites,’ Jews, people of Serbian descent and others of the Orthodox Christian faith, progressives, and anyone (teachers? trade unionists?) who dared to resist the clerical-fascists - if Thompson can carry out this tour successfully, it will be a victory for fascism.


Harmful ideas in the anti-Thompson camp


It is crucial that in opposing the tour, we explain the politics of clerical-fascism to the broadest possible audience. Those politics cannot survive scrutiny; in the end, they cannot survive without the use of terror.

Unfortunately, among those organizing opposition to the tour, there is much unclarity about the issues.

For example, in explaining why his group asked the management of a concert hall to cancel Thompson’s Toronto appearance (with apparent success), Leo Adler, national affairs director of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC), said “Thompson has been singing for years in Croatia” and:

One of those songs - titled Jasanovic/Stara Gardinska [Correction; Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara. - J.I.], which Thompson sang live in Croatia in 2002 - venerated those two infamous concentration camps where at least 90,000 Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and anti-fascist Croatians were murdered by the Ustashe movement and its Nazi collaborators during World War II.”

[All hyperlinks added by me - J.I]

Canada News Wire, Oct. 23, 2007 [3]

The problem is, Mr. Adler has reduced the number of people the Ustashe murdered in the Jasenovac death camp complex by around 90% - one full order of magnitude - in complete contradiction to all non-Ustasha, Western estimates (such as in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust) published prior to the onset of Western support for the Ustashe’s return to power in Croatia in 1990. It is as if he had said that ‘at least 600,000 Jews were murdered in Europe during the 1940s.’

History is a battleground of politics in the present. As Simon Wiesenthal told the Washington Post in 1993, regarding the attempt by Croatia’s Ustasha-apologist leader, Franjo Tudjman, to cut the number of Jasenovac victims by one order of magnitude:

“The long-term danger is that he is building a way for a new Ustashe.” [4]

We are in Wiesenthal’s long-term, today.

I charge that clerical-fascism now controls Croatia; that it is spreading, sponsored by Germany, the U.S., and the leadership of the Catholic Church.

If I am wrong, then why, knowing what Thompson is - for example, knowing that, until 2002, when it became an embarrassment for Croatia’s Western sponsors, this top rock star sang two songs celebrating the Holocaust in which he boasted that the Ustashe had returned and that he was one of them - knowing all this, why does Croatia’s parliament-controlled TV continue to broadcast his concerts? [5]

Why have the US and Canadian governments granted him visas?

Why, when Thompson not only advocates fascist politics but presents himself as a super-militant Catholic, as indicated in the pictures below:



Thomas' Catholic medallion Catholic church Thompson is raising money to build

The Thompson home page features images of the St. Benedict’s medal, most devout of Catholic medallions, which Thompson wears at concerts, and of a Catholic church that Thompson is raising money to build.

Thompson raising "crusader" sword Thompson striking a somewhat suggestive pose with "Crusader" sword

At concerts, Marko Perkovic raises his trademark Catholic Crusader’s sword above his head and plunges it into the stage floor, staring ahead sternly…

Thompson posturing with crusader sword

The Crusader’s sword forms a military cruciform, symbol of religious war.

Thompson's sword/cross emblem Closer view showing Catholic rosary on cross

Just to make sure people know that his trademark sword is a religious symbol, not some dungeons and dragons-type iconography, on album covers Thompson adorns it with a rosary and cross, colored red to remind Catholics of “our savior’s blood.”

Photo credits and links, see footnote [6]


…why, given Thompson’s public self-definition as singer-prophet of the church militant, has the Catholic hierarchy not condemned his clerical-fascism and prohibited Catholics from attending his concerts?

Why, instead, has the Croatian Catholic church sponsored him and championed him politically?

Those organizing opposition to Thompson scrupulously avoid mentioning the role of the Catholic church. But the fact that the Catholic hierarchy promotes Thompson raises a basic question: to what extent is that hierarchy promoting clerical-fascist ideas among the vast Catholic population, worldwide?

Look at the boys in the photo below. One sports the Thompson sword-cross, the other the Ustasha ‘U.’



Croatian Nazi Ustasha T-shirt

In the Eastern Soviet Union, elsewhere in Eastern Europe, and in the Balkans, the Nazis’ local, clerical-fascist junior partners, such as the Croatian SS Crna Legija, or ‘Black Legion,’ were known for the pleasure they took in their work, massacring Jews, Orthodox Slavs, and ‘Gypsies.’ In the photo above, taken at the Thompson concert in the Maksimir stadium in Zagreb this past June, a boy of 12 or 13 wears a Ustasha ‘Black Legion’ SS T-shirt, complete with the Ustasha ‘U.’

Photo credits and links, see footnote [6]


Who is teaching these children?

In 1998, the Croatian news agency HINA quoted Croatian president Franjo Tudjman saying that Croatia is a place:

“in which the Catholic Church has a full opportunity to work in the spirit of its principles and to the benefit of the people within which it lives.”

BBC Monitoring Europe, September 28, 1998 [7]

“In the spirit of its principles and to the benefit of the people in which it lives.”

The late Mr. Tudjman was a clerical-fascist; therefore, clerical-fascism determined his notion of “benefit.” However, regarding the specific question of the influence of the Catholic church, and not just in Croatia, he was speaking accurately.

Since the Catholic church aggressively champions Thompson in public, the question is: what are they teaching children in the former Socialist states, and elsewhere, in private?


New York Times spreads Croatian Holocaust revisionism





To return to the matter of Mr. Adler’s erasure of 90% of the Jasenovac victims, perhaps he was misinformed. Perhaps by the New York Times.

In a widely-circulated Times article analyzing Thompson’s huge June 17, 2007 concert in Zagreb’s Maksimir stadium, Nicholas Wood wrote:

[Times article starts here]

ZAGREB, Croatia, June 30 - On a hot Sunday evening in June, thousands of fans in a packed stadium here in the Croatian capital gave a Nazi salute as the rock star Marko Perkovic shouted a well-known slogan from World War II.

Some of the fans were wearing the black caps of Croatia’s infamous Nazi puppet Ustashe government, which was responsible for sending tens of thousands of Serbs, Gypsies and Jews to their deaths in concentration camps.”

[My emphasis; hyperlink added by me - J.I.]

New York Times, July 2, 2007 [8]

[Times article ends here]

There are two important falsehoods in the excerpt above. One has to do with the concert, the other with Croatian death camps.

First, regarding Thompson’s Maksimir stadium concert, it isn’t true that “thousands” of fans gave the Nazi salute. It was tens of thousands.

According to local news estimates, 50-60,000 people packed into the stadium. They were listening to music, but they were also expressing their clerical-fascist beliefs.

The pictures below were taken at that concert. (All credits are in footnote [6].) As the pictures show, some people expressed their clerical-fascism individually:

Thompson shirt with Croatian Nazi (Ustasha) emblem and slogan

In the photo above, taken at Thompson’s June concert in the Maksimir stadium in Zagreb, the boy wears a t-shirt displaying Thompson’s trademark Crusader’s sword (also seen on the concert tour bus) and the Ustasha slogan “za dom spremni” (’for home, ready’).

What’s on the back of the shirt?

Thompson's tour bus
Croatian Nazi "Black Legion" tee shirt

On the back of the shirt, the words ‘Crna Legija,‘ or ‘Black Legion,’ the infamous Croatian SS military force that massacred hundreds of thousands of Serbs and other so-called “foreign elements,” wiping out entire villages. In the song Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara, which Thompson admitted singing from the early 1990s until 2002, he boasted that the ‘Black Legion’ had returned. The ‘U’ on the shirt stands for Hitler’s beloved Ustasha. The checkerboard motif in the center is from the Ustasha flag; it was resurrected along with the Croatian Ustashe, who have been back in power since 1990.

Photo credits and links, see footnote [6]



…and sometimes they expressed their clerical-fascism collectively:



Croatian Nazi U for Ustasha banner

A Hitler salute and, on the upper right of the banner, a ‘U’ for ‘Ustasha.’ And everyone wears Thompson shirts.

Women wearing Ustasha (Croatian Nazi) caps

The women are wearing Ustasha caps.


Perhaps the most chilling thing is how normal everything looks. These are not people on the fringe; they are the mainstream, with their fascist caps, fascist t-shirts and fascist slogans and salutes:



Nazi-saluting youngsters at Thompson concert



…and they are organized. Including the children.



Thompson with Nazi-saluting crowd


There is something familiar here. At first, you cannot place it, but then, watching the concert video below, it dawns on you: this has the look and feel of one of the Nazis’ Nuremberg rallies, modern style:

[If you have problems viewing video, try at Youtube, at http://tinyurl.com/yutgtw
If you get a message that the video has been removed from Youtube, see footnote”FONT-SIZE: 0.75em”[2]
for an alternative.]



…and virtually everyone is involved:



Thompson concert photo with huge crowd giving Nazi salute

Above, a section of a Thompson concert photo. The full picture was too large for this page, but can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/2jqj8v

Photo credits and links at
[6]


The people in the picture above are giving the Nazi salute in response to Thompson’s chanting of what Mr. Wood called “a well-known slogan from World War II.” The slogan, Za Dom Spremni (”For Home, Ready”), was the favorite of Croatia’s clerical-fascist rulers. It meant: Ready to do anything to ‘purify’ Croatia from “foreign elements.” Serbs, Roma and Jews.



Nazi Iron Trefoil medal

Za dom spremni - For Home, Ready!

The Order of the ‘Iron Trefoil,’ the military medal of Hitler’s favorites, the Croatian Ustashe. 10-IV-1941 (April 10, 1941) was the day on which the Nazi forces invading Yugoslavia reached Zagreb and installed the Ustashe as the clerical-fascist rulers of greater Croatia. It is tragic but true that Croats have been indoctrinated to view this as a great victory by and for Croats.

Source: http://users.skynet.be/hendrik/eng/Cr-Trefoil.html


Not having access to the pictures and videos above, most Times readers would have no way of knowing that Nicholas Wood minimized the number of people giving the Nazi salute, reporting that there were thousands when in fact there were tens of thousands.

Was he trying to soften the horror? One wouldn’t think so; after all, he talks about “Croatia’s infamous Nazi puppet Ustashe government,” which makes him sound like an anti-fascist.

Because he does sound anti-fascist, and because he is writing in the respected New York Times, people would be unlikely to suspect that, in claiming the Ustashe were -

“responsible for sending tens of thousands of Serbs, Gypsies and Jews to their deaths in concentration camps” [9] [my emphasis - J.I.]

- Wood was erasing most of the victims.

How could readers know that, prior to Croatia’s 1991 secession from Yugoslavia, the New York Times had reported that the Ustashe murdered 800,000 people at the Jasenovac death camp?

This apart from the toll at other Croatian death camps, and the hundreds of thousands of people the Ustasha SS military force, the Crna Legija (Black Legion), massacred in their villages. See poster below:

Croatian and Bosnian Muslim Nazi Poster

A recruiting poster for the Croatian Ustasha SS force, known as the ‘Black Legion.’ Ustasha ideology was fanatically Catholic and targeted “foreign elements,” but the Ustashe defined local Muslims as ‘Croats,’ and worked closely with Muslim extremists. This poster, aimed partly at Muslims, shows one soldier wearing a fez, the hat of fanatical Islam, and includes a minaret (part of a mosque) in the background.

Top line: “Croats of Herzeg-Bosna!” Underneath: the crooked double-S of the Nazi SS, plus a checkerboard, motif of the Ustasha flag, which was brought back when Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia in 1991 for the second time in 50 years. (The first time was on Apr. 10, 1941, the day German troops marched into Zagreb, Croatia.)

The caption reads: “Great leaders Adolf Hitler and poglavnik [fuehrer] Dr. Ante Pavelic call you to defend your homes. Join volunteer units of Croatian SS.”

Source: Pro-Ustasha website, http://zadom.page.tl/Galerija-slika/pic-33.htm


From “800,000” to “tens of thousands” of Holocaust victims. And this not in a recognized revisionist rag, but in the New York Times.

The Times routinely publishes corrections of errors. If the 800,000 figure had been an error, the editors would have published a correction, explaining the reason for the change.

They did not. They never presented any justification for their 90% cut. They simply erased the old figure and brought in the new, telling readers nothing, repeatedly publishing their 90% cut, from 1991 to the present.

An act of monumental duplicity? Yes.

But why did they do it?

The Times first published their new victim count in March of 1991, two months before Croatia launched its war of secession against Yugoslavia. I charge that in thus rewriting Yugoslav history, the leading newspaper of the US establishment was:

A) Signaling the Establishments in other countries that the U.S. was supporting the rebirth of clerical-fascist movements in the former socialist states;

B) Signaling other media worldwide to follow their lead in suppressing the important historical information that a) the Serbs had played a crucial role in the fight against fascism and b) the Serbs, along with Jews, Russians, and Roma/Sinti, had suffered the greatest losses from the Nazis and their allies (in the Serbs’ case, the Croatian Ustashe), precisely in punishment for Serbian opposition to fascism. By keeping this historical perspective from ordinary people, the media could prevent them from becoming suspicious of propaganda that portrayed Croatian secessionists using Ustasha symbols and chanting fascist slogans, as victims of genocide; Serbs expressing quite legitimate fear of returned Ustasha power, as ‘new Nazis’; and Yugoslavia, created to defend the Balkans against outside pressure (meaning, historically, Germany and the Vatican), as the cause of strife in that region.

By surreptitiously and massively revising what had happened in World War II, the Times was, in Simon Wiesenthal’s words, “building a way for a new Ustashe.”

I have made a most serious charge. Let me present the proof.

[continued in part 2]


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Footnotes and Further Reading


[1] Thompson’s present tour schedule:

Nov. 2 and 3, New York
7:30 PM
Croatian Center in Manhattan (upstairs),
502 West 41 Street, New York

Nov. 4, Toronto (Thompson denies reports this has been cancelled. What they may be planning is to bus people to an unannounced location.)
Present (reportedly cancelled) location:
Koolhaus,
132 Queen’s Quay East, Toronto

Nov. 7, Cleveland

Time unannounced, probably 7:30
Slovenian National Home,
6409 Saint Clair Ave, Cleveland

Nov. 10, Chicago
Croatia Cultural Center,
2845 West Devon Avenue, Chicago

Nov. 11, Los Angeles
St. Anthony Croatian Center,
712 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles

Nov. 16, Vancouver
Croatian Community Center,
3250 Commercial Dr., Vancouver

Nov. 18, San Francisco (area)
ARC at Willowglen dvorana,
680 Minnesota Avenue, San Jose

[2] When we put a Youtube video on Emperor’s Clothes - a process called ‘embedding’ - we also download a copy of that video and save it. If one of our ‘embedded’ Youtube videos is removed from Youtube, then and only then we will upload our copy to our own server and provide readers with a link. How will we get that link to our readers? We will put it on a page dedicated to links to embedded Youtube videos that no longer work on Youtube. That page will be www.tenc.net/a/yt.htm Right now (Nov. 2, 2007) there is nothing on that page because (knock on wood) all our embedded videos are working, so if you go to that page today, you will find a friendly greeting and nothing else.

If you cannot access one of our embedded Youtube videos, try going to the Youtube link we provide under every embedded video. If you get a message “this video has been removed” then try our removed-videos page www.tenc.net/a/yt.htm If the video you want is not there, it means we don’t yet know the video was removed from Youtube. Please write us and we will upload it as quickly as possible. Sorry this is complicated; we are just trying to be helpful, which always gets one in trouble.

[3] “Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies calls on Croatian Cultural Center to cancel ultranationalist Croatian singer’s Vancouver concert,” Toronto, Oct. 23, 2007, CNW - Canada NewsWire Group, at
http://tinyurl.com/yntex6

[4] The Wiesenthal quote is discussed in a paper I wrote for the Fourth International Conference on Jasenovac, last May (2007). Here is the relevant excerpt:

[Excerpt from “Reducing the Number of Jasenovac Victims Means: ‘building a way for a new Ustashe’” starts here]

Trying to create an appearance of balance in an article that was otherwise a glorification of Croatian secessionist leader Franjo Tudjman, the Washington Post solicited a dissenting opinion from the late Simon Wiesenthal.

As quoted by the Post, Wiesenthal attacked Tudjman’s claim that some tens rather than hundreds of thousands were murdered at Jasenovac, which was, according to Tudjman, a harsh labor camp, not an extermination camp. Here are Wiesenthal’s comments, as published. (The bracketed text and the ellipse are from the original.)

“‘Like the deniers [of the Holocaust], he reduced the number of victims,’ said Simon Wiesenthal, the well-known Nazi hunter, in a telephone interview. Wiesenthal said his research suggests ‘a few hundred thousand were murdered’ in Jasenovac alone during World War II. To Wiesenthal, the real danger in Tudjman’s work is not the specific numbers ‘but the diminution of the problem. … The long-term danger is that he is building a way for a new [fascist] Ustashe.’”

–”Franjo Tudjman, at War with History; Croatia’s President And a Past That’s Shaping the Present,” Washington Post; March 1, 1993, Steve Coll, Washington Post Foreign Service; VELIKO TRGOVISCE, Croatia

Notice that as quoted, Wiesenthal says “‘a few hundred thousand were murdered’ in Jasenovac alone.” Two points about this.

First, since the term ‘few’ is ambiguous, it is worth noting the actual figure attributed to Wiesenthal’s Documentation Center in Vienna regarding deaths in the Jasenovac camp:

“There is still dispute over the total number of those who died in Jasenovac camp. The Simon Wiesenthal Documentation center in Vienna, which researches Nazi war crimes, believes the figure is 500,000.”

– “Victims of Croat camp remembered as camp commander is sought,” Agence France Presse — English, April 19, 1998,

Second, the Post paraphrases Wiesenthal saying he was talking about “Jasenovac alone.” That is because Croatia had a death camp called ‘Jasenovac,’ which in turn was part of a complex of camps also called ‘Jasenovac,’ and then there were death camps outside this Jasenovac complex. It appears that Wiesenthal was speaking only of the individual site called ‘Jasenovac,’ meaning that in his estimate, the number of people murdered in all Croatian death camps together was greater than 500,000, and probably far greater.

Wiesenthal issued his warning that cutting the number of Jasenovac victims meant “building a way for a new Ustashe” some two years before Croatia’s murderous eviction of almost the entire Serbian population of the Krajina region in 1995. This eviction put Tudjman and his associates in control of a virtually serbenrein greater Croatia, including Croatia proper, Dalmatia and Krajina. Smaller than the World War II ‘Independent’ State of Croatia only in that it did not include Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Thus, two years after Wiesenthal’s warning, Croatia had gone a long way towards a) reasserting the boundaries of the former Ustasha state and b) fulfilling its goal of killing, driving out or converting all Serbs. (The Ustashe’s other “foreign elements” - Jews and Roma - were almost entirely eliminated in World War II.)

[Excerpt from “Reducing the Number of Jasenovac Victims Means: ‘building a way for a new Ustashe’” ends here]

[5] In 2003, the Croatian parliament passed a law under which members of a Program Council in control of Croatian Radio-Television, HRT, were henceforth chosen by parliamentary vote.

(See “Croatian Government Plans Reform of State-Owned Media,” World Markets Analysis, February 10, 2003, IN BRIEF, by Sarah Mitchell )

In protest, Vlatko Silobrcic, then head of the Croatian Television Council, resigned. Reported the Croatian news agency:

“Silobrcic believes that the new law on HRT, which becomes effective next week, foresees a new way of electing members to the council according to which party policy directly participates in the election.”

– “Croatian state radio-TV head resigns post,” BBC Monitoring World Media Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring, February 21, 2003, HINA news agency, Zagreb

Since that time HRT has been subject to extreme pressure, including suspensions, threats to fire and firing of leading people for permitting some investigative reporting and weak criticisms of anti-Serb racism, with even threats of violence condoned by top government officials. This is the ‘independent’ station that broadcast Thompson’s June 17 Maksimir stadium concert on July 2, 2007.

[6] Credits for photos, in order of appearance:

The pictures of the St. Benedict’s medal and the church are from Thompson’s home page, http://www.thompson.hr/

The raised sword is from the website http://www.lupiga.com/ and is posted at http://tinyurl.com/3c83fx

The sword plunged into the stage is from http://www.jutarnji.hr and is posted at http://tinyurl.com/32tff9

The military cruciform is from an http://index.hr slideshow posted at http://tinyurl.com/2jzbov

The album cover is from a record shop at http://tinyurl.com/35dt7g

The young boy wearing the Black Legion t-shirt is posted at http://www.net.hr/2007/06/18/0150007.28.jpg

The two photographs of the boy with the Thompson t-shirt, front and back view, have been removed, but they can still be viewed as still shots in a video at the news website http://dnevnik.hr posted at http://tinyurl.com/2pu2ew

The group with banner is from http://www.jutarnji.hr/ posted at http://tinyurl.com/339×6k

The two young women with Ustasha caps are from an http://index.hr; slideshow posted at http://tinyurl.com/2jzbov

The medium sized group giving Nazi salutes is from an http://index.hr slideshow posted at http://tinyurl.com/2jzbov

The Nazi salute organizer is from an http://index.hr slideshow posted at http://tinyurl.com/2jzbov

The huge group giving Nazi salutes is from an http://index.hr slideshow posted at http://tinyurl.com/2jzbov

[7]BBC Monitoring Europe - Political, Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring, “Croatian President Assesses Importance of Pope’s Forthcoming Visit,” September 28, 1998. Source: HINA news agency, Zagreb

[8] “Fascist Overtones from Blithely Oblivious Rock Fans,” New York Times, July 2, 2007, by Nicholas Wood

[9] “Fascist Overtones from Blithely Oblivious Rock Fans,” New York Times, July 2, 2007, by Nicholas Wood


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