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of course if you have kids at a gathering, it is well to let them out to play before you feed them, otherwise, well they'll be naughty at the table. Everyone got to whoop and holler and run around, and then dinner was calm and good as gold.

Well we have some real snow here, I did take some pictures, I admit, it's beautiful early in the morning, quiet except for the indignant cries of the crows who are not enjoying this development.

Oh, we actually do news here...o.k. here's some news...

Article is in Croatian, but there is a nice picture of a REALLY old fish-hook, which is surprisingly modern in design, I mean MINDBLOWINGLY modern looking. The only way the picture looks old is the rust encrustations!

Vis House dating 2 Centuries Before Christ Discovered

http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20061126/novosti03.asp

Admittedly a polemical source, but they do keep track of this stuff.

E.U.Fails to Protect Blue-Fin Tuna

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/releases/e-u-votes-for-pirates-and-pro


Seselj Trial starts Monday

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/26/europe/EU_GEN_War_Crimes_Serbia.php

He must not have read the Gulag Archipelago, to see why his hunger strike is a stupid idea. First a lot more people need to be on your side.


130+ Volts fry appliances in Bulgarian village

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n100366



Mysterious White Powder Spread in Front of U.S. Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=73181


Similarities in Bulgarian, Russian Assasinations Noted

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=73170

Not Balkans related but of interest anyway...

Berlusconi Collapses While Giving a Speech

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=73182

And definately of Balkans interest given how many of those things were floating around being put to bad use...

NPR's AK-47 Story

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6539945

you get to hear the inventor General Kalashnikov, it was interesting he's coming out with a new line of vodka.

We at Yakima Gulag Literary Gazett Wish our Bosnian readers a Happy Statehood Day.

Arrest in Djindjic Case

http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/061125162705.fl45n7xc.html


Seselj Continues to Obstruct Trial

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=325679&apc_state=henptri


UN tribunal backs earlier decision to quash most convictions of Bosnian Croat general

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20719&Cr=icty&Cr1=


More on Blaskic Case

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=325681&apc_state=henptri

Mandic Trial Hears of Terrible Jail Conditions

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=325675&apc_state=henptri


Video of Milosevic Arrest

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=325685&apc_state=henptri


15 Years Later, Vukovar Still Divided

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=325671&apc_state=henptri



No Agreement on Humanitarian Delivery of Electricity to Kosovo-Metohija

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-6VUQH9?OpenDocument


Pathologist tells of Kosovo Massacres

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=325673&apc_state=henptri


Kosovo Status May not be decided before September

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n100298

Djndjic Murder Political Says Witness

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n100268


Prison Uprisings in Serbia Put Down With Focre

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2006/11/24/story286449.html

More Tales of a Russian Mole in Canada

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=988ae7d7-474f-4c8d-9003-00ad22bbe241&k=5752

But that wasn't the spy story that's taking the world by storm! no for THAT story, see below v

Litvinenko: Full hospital statement

http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/?jp=CWIDGBMHOJID

Yahoo news is reporting that the poison used was radiological. an Irish news source I use oftne says it was polonium-210.


Man Who Met With Litvinenko Denies Involvement in his Death

http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/?jp=CWIDGBEYQLGB


Radiation in Sushi Bar

http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/?jp=CWIDGBEYIDGB

So did the British bring their Geiger counters? Wear lead gaćes? Inquiring Minds want to know!



Far from the Balkans in Northern Ireland

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/?jp=CWIDGBEYSNOJ

Balkans Rap

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=featuresNews&storyid=2006-11-24T134833Z_01_L23292478_RTRIDST_0_LIFESTYLE-LIFE-BALKANS-HIPHOP-DC.XML&src=rss

Landslide in Montenegro Causes Flooding, Evacuation of Village

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/23/europe/EU_GEN_Montenegro_Flooding.php


Wierd Romanian Rural Soap Opera Touts E.U.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2010027.ece

O.K. here's why the E.U. sucks!

"those in the countryside that people must change their habits has been difficult, said Roxana Morea of the European Commission delegation in Bucharest.

"We say to them: if you carry on killing your pig in your courtyard or making your own alcohol in your home, very well - but you cannot sell it to anyone else."

People have had the freedom to do those things and now they won't. I don't see how that's necessarily a good thing.

Umbrella Assasin Revealed

http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=147&programmeId=52363687&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details.jsp

Link to more about the Umbrella Assasin

http://www.five.tv/programmes/revealed/umbrella/


Pope may permit condoms to prevent AIDS

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2007498.ece

I hope that he'll do that, because it's stupid not to.


Litvenenko died today. Not that it was a surprise given his condition.

Uncylocpedia Entry for BiH

Carniola's posting of the entry in Uncylopedia, a satirical version of the sometimes marginally more accurate Wiki-pedia inspired me to see if there were an entry for BiH. ooooj there was an entry alright....read at your own risk

Everyone should look up the UnCyclopedia listing for their homeland. . .

Witness says Deputy Knew of Plot to Assasnate Djindjić

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/23/europe/EU_GEN _Serbia_Assassination_Trial.php

I am really glad to have some time off. I managed to get up to 34,000 words, perhaps I'm actually at 35,000 words in my trashy NaNo novel. I'm running out of crazy stuff to add in. I don't know, I'm tired of killing people off, so I'm thinking of other things to put in. Maybe they can do a lot of cooking or something else that ups the word count. Maybe some long lost relatives of the main male character can show up....maybe.... I'll think of something crazy before I'm done. That's the only rule, it has to be a little crazy. It's trash. No research...That part is fun, you have NO idea how sick I am of researching things in the academic way! I'm doubly sick of citations because frankly the rules changed here and there. I am really at the point where I'd like to defenestrate the authors of these 'style' books. They serve very little useful purpose, and serve only to cause annoyance. . .
I realize there have to be SOME rules but damn....is there an end to it? To the exactions and demands? Where IS that End?

Serbia charges Milosevic Supporters

http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20061122-121322-2641r.htm



Slovenia dramatically increases troops in Kosovo

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200611/23/eng20061123_324346.html


Father Claims Jelena Dokic was Kidnapped

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3875258a1823,00.html


National Geographic Article on Thracian Heritage Stirs up Scandal in Bulgaria

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=73009

Further information on exhumations of war victims carried by the river into Serbia

http://www.asianage.com/main.asp?layout=2&cat1=3&cat2=33&newsid=258952&RF=DefaultMain


How do you say 'mojado' in Serbian?

http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20061122-030852-5020r.htm




Death Threats to BHT1 Journalist

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/22/europe/EU_GEN_Austria_Bosnia_Media_Freedom.php


Pie Killers Sentanced in Serbia

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21251069.shtml

I think they mean the 'pita killers' or perhaps the 'burek killers' people in Serbia eat more of those than of 'pies' as the concept is understood in the States.


Seselj Refuses to Appear in Court

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20061122\ACQDJON200611220719DOWJONESDJONLINE000554.htm&selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&StoryTargetFrame=_top&mkt=WORLD&chk=unchecked&lang=&link=&headlinereturnpage=http://www.international.na

Not that regular readers of this space didn't already know it, but another article anyway.

Neretva Under Threat

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11705

Everyone wondered if any good spy thrillers could be written when the Soviet Union era ended. I think these constitute exhibits A and B that there is matierial anyway for a post Soviet genre of spy thrillers.

An Old School Mole in Our Times!

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=05171515-91f9-4bda-8b49-68c982ec22f6

Russian Defector in British Hospital

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/20/uspy220.xml

MiG Crashes in Romania

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/22/content_5363378.htm
Today is the anniversary of the assasination of President John F. Kennedy, a cousin on my late mother's side, and also the first Catholic to be President of the United States. (All previous and succeeding Irish-Americans to hold the same office came from Protestant backgrounds.)
My mother, not notably psychic woke up with a funny feeling about the day and decided to keep us home from school. She told us to go ahead and make ourselves some marmelade sandwiches for breakfast and have some milk. So my sister and I made a huge stack of them and took them to our room. Then we heard a scream from her end of the house. At the time we lived in East L.A. in a large place on Madalay Drive. My sister and I had essentially our own entrance and bathroom and a sort of tiny galley, where we could keep cookies and stuff. A lot of freedom for a 9 year old and a 6 year old. We didn't even have to ask to go out on weekends and had our own key to the back door.
Anyway we ran to her room and found our mother sobbing and asked what was wrong. 'Someone has just shot the President.' She went to light a vigil candle for him and cou ldn't. She had recently shown me how to use a match, so she asked me to do it, and the glass exploded all over the room. Shortly after that there was a report unconfirmed that the President was dead, and then a definate report of his death not long after. If memory serves, an hour later.
My step-father arrived home maybe two hours later, haveing been excused to go home from work at his new job as a Social Worker. Of course this totally ruined Thanksgiving that year. We had Swanson's T.V. dinners and watched things to do with the assasination for the next week, wondering if the country would be plunged into civil war, under martial law or what. It was a far more te rrifying time than people realize now.
We've been hardened by worse and worse things since.

Russian Police Routinely Torture, Especially in Chechnya

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6169242.stm

Rape rooms were among the featured tortures mentioned in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and given as a reason to take him out. I guess it's o.k. for Putin to do it to the Chechens, since they're Muslims. I'm just saying......


C.I.A. Operatives at Scene of Bobby Kennedy Assasination

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/6169006.stm

Montenegro signs treaty to ban land-mines! :)

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-6VRPTX?OpenDocument

Security Council Renews Mandate of E.U. Force in BiH

http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/061121195639.tsnzrbbt

just by turning around your entire day can change in the same few seconds... looking East, over the parking lot, it was this funny Vermeer like golden color, then turn and look at the clock tower and here was a double rainbow!


Josh demonstrating a story some minister told him.

File under 'Not Helpful Behavior':

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-21T122301Z_01_L21791378_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOSOVO-SCHOOL-GRENADE.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-9Grenade Thrown Into Kosovo Classroom

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-21T122301Z_01_L21791378_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOSOVO-SCHOOL-GRENADE.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-9


Serbia to Exhume Bodies from 1991-1995 Wars

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-21T122301Z_01_L21791378_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOSOVO-SCHOOL-GRENADE.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-9


Interesting commentary:
What Are you so scared of?

http://www.ruralbiz.net/news.php?ID=639


Villagers of Glod Sue BoratforFor $30 Million

http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/now-villagers-sue-borat/2006/11/21/1163871392723.html

Bonus: Picture of the lady who played Borat's mother in the film. Warning Pop-up Ad

Daughter of past Romanian Dictator Dies

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/21/content_5359444.htm

Comrade Katjuša woke up at a proper hour for once, considering that the Madness of National Write a Novel Month is at it's height and Comrade Katjuša met and exceeded quota last night. She went to sleep at an early hour, but kept waking up and thinking of crazy plot twists for her trashy little novel. At 30,000+ words she is in good shape though.

The cold weather sharpened the appetite, and breakfast was black bread, Polish bacon, and onions with a shot of rose infused vodka. Then off the to the Yakima Gulag People's Institute of Higher Re:Education for a day spent in learning.

Today's Mladić Update
Two Plead Not Guilty in Mladić Case

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20061120\ACQDJON200611201444DOWJONESDJONLINE000562.htm&selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&StoryTargetFrame=_top&mkt=WORLD&chk=unchecked&lang=&link=&headlinereturnpage=http://www.international.na


Suspect in Ovcara Killings Arrested in Norway

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/20/europe/EU_GEN_Serbia_Norway_Arrest.php


Seselj Tops His Party's List

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20061120\ACQDJON200611200728DOWJONESDJONLINE000218.htm&selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&StoryTargetFrame=_top&mkt=WORLD&chk=unchecked&lang=&link=&headlinereturnpage=http://www.international.na

Central Asian Glamour

http://www.al.com/living/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/living/1163931806112440.xml&coll=2


Grandkids Win Rights To Tito Brand Name

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=118400&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21




Serbia Does Not Want War in Kosovo

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1223596.php/Serbia_does_not_want_Kosovo_war_president_insists

Note Bene: I do not have any idea how much credence to give this report... This site has all the hallmarks of a conspiracist site, but it's an interesting article.

Mossad False Flag Operations?

http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/recent-mossad-undisclosed-false-flag-operations

Slovenija's Hippy President

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2459976,00.html

Well he's at least not a war-mongering bastard like a lot of leaders in the region have been! Give the guy SOME credit huh


Albanian Army Officer Killed Accidentally

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/19/content_5347981.htm


Ethnic Business Awards in Australia

http://www.clickpress.com/releases/Detailed/21997005cp.shtml

It's not a good day until some kurva sina threatens to behead you: The monthly demo against the war in Iraq in the Yakima gulag is every third Saturday and Sunday of the month.
The Saturday one takes place downtown. We changed the location to the corner of South First and Yakima Avenue. It's a location I don't care for, too windy, but it does have traffic. Some of the traffic involved one ignorant kurva sina, who yelled at me mostly because he doesn't know the difference between a Catholic who adheres to modest dress and a Muslim.
O.K. I conced, maybe it's not a huge difference, but there are clues I'm not Muslim! Anyway he starts yelling all kinds of shit at me, threatening me with beheading and as the light changed went through the intersection and threw the Trailer Trash salute. I think the fact I bit my tongue and said nothing pissed him off worse than if I'd said anything. He was yelling at me to 'Go Home!' Hey if I ever figure out for sure what constitutes 'HOME' with my complex family tree, I'll be happy to oblige!
If I have to listen people spewing that kind of primativist hate, the LEAST they can damn well thicken up the coffee around here! :)
They are about to have some nice Celtic music on 'Domestic Taiga Comrade' and I'm enjoying them. Boys of the Lough. We got treated to how to spell and pronounce the name 'Cathail'.

Tens of Thousands Gather to Commemorate Vukovar Anniversary

http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=29650


Albania Will Resettle 3 More Guantanamo Inmates

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1223530.php/Albania_to_resettle_three_further_Guantanamo_inmates


U.S. Senate Backs NATO Expansion

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061117/pl_afp/usnatomilitaryalbania

Yeah now that some places don't get an invite! D'oh!

Serbs Protest Pollutio

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/11/12d0e09a-f7b9-4171-b9cb-00875643466c.html


NATO to increase presence in Kosovo

http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=923425


Bosnian tribunal endorses five-year sentence against former finance minister

http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=923389


7,000 Pirate CDs Busted in Downtown Sofia

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72829


Nun From Medjugorije to Speak

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061118/NEWS10/61117026/-1/NEWS

Holocaust Details Keep Unfolding After 60 Years

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/17/news/germany.php

It got very very cold this morning, someplace around 24 degrees F. Municiple water pipes froze in the nearby suburb of Tieton (rhymes with 'tie it on, actually you say it like tieiton real fast 'lil shibboleth action for my friends from Rio Del) Comrade Katjuša woke up late. We know there must be important Balkans news, but it's late and have to get out to the Yakima Gulag People's Institue of Higher Re:Education for a class. Slathering on the Bag Balm, pulling on the long red and blue woolen stockings, scarf shawl gloves book bag, it's all Very Time consuming. It beats being too hot, but it is certainly a Lot of Bother.

But Will It Play in Glod?

http://www.al.com/entertainment/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1163783776141900.xml&coll=3&thispage=2


Montenegro court awards compensation to family of slain Bosnian Muslim deported during war

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/17/europe/EU_GEN_Montenegro_Deportation_Trial.php


Bulgaria Losing Population

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=a571

This is just sad because Bulgaria has good land, and the people are good people.

Former Member of BiH Presidency Sentenced to Five Years

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n99814


Uproar at Death of Keeper of the Secret Files in Bulgaria

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061117/wl_nm/bulgaria_files_suicide_dc

I figured there'd be a stink about this...but that's not rocket science...


Italian, Bulgarian Researchers Close to an AIDS TB Vaccine

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72808


Getting Hilariously Hitched in Bulgaria

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72435

Not that this is REALLY news or anything as in new information..


International War on Terror a Threat to Human Rights

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20061117\ACQDJON200611171025DOWJONESDJONLINE000724.htm&selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&StoryTargetFrame=_top&mkt=WORLD&chk=unchecked&lang=&link=&headlinereturnpage=http://www.international.na

A Shibboleth for those of you from Rio Del, is when people use a varient pronounciation of some word or phrase to find out who is a foreigner. In Del Norte County California, they don't pronounce the 'e' at the end, normally it is CORRECT to pronounce the 'e' at the end but local custom is that it's not pronounced. NPR tries, they really try, but even they can be crushed by the Dreaded Shibboleth!
The Tsunami Hits Crescent City Harbor in Del Norte County California

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6498348


City Sues Kaiser for Patient Dumping!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6497254

GOOD, because I see patient dumping as part of the War on the Poor! This is so Third World! What is our F*&%$#*^ excuse?

For Trivia fans...which Nation or State was first to recognise the independance of the United States of America?
Please post your answers, guesses, surmizes, etc in the Comments Section Here at this post.
No prizes, just free publicity! :)

Update time:
No N.A.T.O. Invites for Serbia, BiH,or Montenegro

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/16/news/nato.php

Well I guess it all depends on point of view...

Zoran Djindjic's widow enters politics

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-11-16-voa69.cfm


And closer geographically to our gulag..

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2006/11/17/031.html


Croatian lawmakers refuse alcohol tests

http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20061116-121618-8305r.htm


In the old days this kind of suicide would have caused a lot of comment down on 'The Farm'

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n99760

U.N. Prepares Kosovo Exit Strategy

http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20061116-094723-5131r.htm



Iceland closes labor market to Bulgarians Romanians

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72747

As if the Romanians and Bulgarians felt like freezing to death.

Oh Please!

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72747

Like there isn't already AIDS in the U.K.?


Skenderbeg Monument

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n99742

Turkey Cuts Military Ties With France over Genocide Bill

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72709


Kosovo Urges Russia to Back Independance

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Rest+of+the+World&month=November2006&file=World_News2006111641444.xml


Stupid Football Violence

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=151530


Sweden Urges Compromise on Kosovo

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/16/europe/EU_GEN_Serbia_Sweden.php


Immigrants Good For Spanish Housing Market

http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Real_Estate_Proper

This is sad, I remember reading about when this guy got into West Point. It's all in Croatian.
Front Page Slobodna Dalmacija

DRAMA BIVŠEG RATNIKA 32-GODIŠNJI SPLIĆANIN ZAVRŠIO U BOLNICI
NAKON ŠTO SU GA ZAŠTITARI U TORONTU POŠPRICALI SUZAVCEM

Hrvatski diplomac s West Pointa
Drnasin u Kanadi se bori za život

OTKAZALO SRCE Incident se dogodio u nedjelju navečer u gradskom autobusu u Torontu, a po izvješćima kanadskih medija policajci i zaštitari nasilnog su Jasena Drnasina smirili suzavcem u spreju, pošpricavši ga po licu iz velike blizine, nakon čega mu je otkazalo srce


vise

http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20061116/novosti01.asp

Article in English on Same Story

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061116.wxsoldier16/BNStory/National/home


Neandrathal Bone from Croatia used for DNA Sequencing

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/health/la-sci-neanderthal16nov16,0,6015839.story?coll=sfla-news-science

When NPR ran this story they didn't mention that the bone came originally from Croatia, but I suspected it because of the age given for the bone used.




Tiny Koran for Sale by Albanian Man

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=inDepthNews&storyID=2006-11-16T140751Z_01_L16852264_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-ALBANIA-KORAN.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-inDepthNews-3

somehow this rather nice piece got lost from both my favorites AND from Balkan Brother, a wholey owned subsidiary of Balkan Baby, where I saw it in the first place. I was sort of upset because I got a kick out of the Hot rain driver at the begining of the video!

There was a huge earthquake in Japan...again...Ivan the Terrible's new town was briefly mentioned on NPR...it's freezing cold here but no snow hvala Bog! Must go in and do some typing and printing on my paper, in a bit. But I can take some time for a decent breakfast first. :)not that much happening here senores
Later: Again I was wrong, we have a huge big storm blowing in. Hood River Floating Bridge was closed, snow in Snoqualmie, Mt. Rainier park closed etc. 7rla itd.

Scroll to End of Post for a Question! :)

Update time!


More on Stanković Sentance

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-11-14T160247Z_01_L14321961_RTRUKOC_0_UK-WARCRIMES-BOSNIA-VERDICT.xml&src=rss

No sentance of this court is enough to do justice to him.


News of Brčko Mass Grave Exhumations

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=featuresNews&storyid=2006-11-15T200806Z_01_L15639061_RTRIDST_0_LIFESTYLE-LIFE-BOSNIA-GRAVES-DC.XML&src=rss



Discrimination Against Roma Begins in Primary School

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=76419





Poland Supports 'Free and Independant Kosovo'

http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2006/11/poland-backs-free-and-independent.html

Bulgarians 'Should Put Down Roots At Home' BBC article

http://kosovareport.blogspot.com/2006/11/poland-backs-free-and-independent.html


U.K. to re-think Closed Door Policy for Romanians, Bulgarians

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72641

but with this kind of nonsense do Romanians want to work for British?

Maid Sues Naomi Campbell

http://www.koat.com/entertainment/10324755/detail.html


Clergyman wants obligatory theology classes in Bulgaria

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72659

I don't think that's such a wonderful idea. Let that be seperate from school.


Armenia sends new peacekeepers to Kosovo

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/14/europe/EU_GEN_Armenia_Kosovo_Peacekeepers.php


Fact Sheet on ICC from AI

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGIOR400412006

For Trivia fans...which Nation or State was first to recognise the independance of the United States of America?
Please post your answers, guesses, surmizes, etc in the Comments Section Here at this post.
No prizes, just free publicity! :)

Update on the Sad Case of Winnie Brady

http://www.dublinpeople.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1897&Itemid=49

Winnie Brady disappeared mysteriously in Medjugorije and no one knows what happened to her. I'm inclined to suspect foul play and I feel bad for her family and her. Medjugorije has been generally a safe destination in BiH. I've said I'd keep up with this story, I have been concerned for her, and I'm sure some of my regular readers are concerned as well.
I note that Ireland lacks it's own embassy in BiH...how come it doesn't have a BiH embassy?
If anyone knows the answer, please send me the answer written in grease pencil on about ten pounds of prščut made from humanely slaughtered free range pigs to Editing Work Unit Yakima Gulag Literary Gazett Yakima Gulag Soviet of Washington! and send along some nice Yukon Gold potatoes too! :)

Sarajevo Nightlife

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/05/news/trsara.php

Looks like general news is a little hard to access from the gulag this morning.

This is one story I didn't see elsewhere at the time:

Croatia Least Corrupt Balkans Nation

http://www.dtt-net.com/en/index.php?page=view-article&article=1937

Stanković gets 16 years for war crimes

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/14/europe/EU_GEN_Bosnia_War_Crimes.php

16 years isn't enough for what he did! I wish he'd rot in Hell.

*UPDATE: EU Delays Troop Reductions in BiH

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21249704.shtml

I'm glad someone else realized this other idea was STUPID! Thank God!

E.U. drawing down troops in BiH despite Kosovo worries

I think this is stupid.

Novi Pazar Activist's Home Attacked With Grenade

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/14/europe/EU_GEN_Serbia_Explosion.php



and from a source I haven't used before.

A town called Farmer's Branch in Texas has made the presence of 'illegal immigrants' illegal in city limits. They have laws up now which prohibit landlords from renting to 'illegal immigrants' I put the quote marks because that is a part of the U.S. where it isn't always the Mexicans that crossed the border, sometimes, the border crossed them. I've been hearing talk on the infamous Mike Savage show that reminds me of when Milošević was begining the divisive sort of talk that destroyed the once remarkable nation of Yugoslavia in the end. I do not want similar talk to destroy my country. To let bitterness over mid-term election losses run rampant is silly. Such mid-term shifts of political balance are totally normal in the U.S. Granted it was an unusual shift of political balance, but the circumstances were extraordinary. Rather than being in attack mode people on the other side ought to be more reflective as to how it happened.
Christian voters in particular felt used. The corruption of some key Republicans didn't help in the least. They don't expect such lofty things from the Democrats. Lowered expectations benefitted the Democrats, BUT the Democrats have to carry on in a RESPONSIBLE manner. The Democrats must show leadership and not fall into corrupt behavior.

This story has no direct Balkans ties, but is important. This is what I got to wake up to:

Big Kidnapping in Downtown Baghdad

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/world/middleeast/14cnd-iraq.html?hp&ex=1163566800&en=b76512dc9a148c96&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Excuse me but this sick shitdidn't even happen in the El Salvador and Guatamala wars and plenty of really sick shit happened in both those wars, including ethnic cleansing, mass graves, land mines, mass rapes. This shows that even the Green Zone isn't all that secure. The guys who did this had something resembling the right uniforms. Actually Americans should consider whether this could happen in America. A lot of used uniforms floating around in any thrift store... just saying. Some countries outlaw civilians wearing military clothing.

Gentle Readers: The news is sort of slow today, we'll have something more later.

Trust me there is a Balkans connection here .... besides the music...
Over at Harry's Place:
More about that silly Borat Film

http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2006/11/13/stingy_borat.php

Medical rarity:


Twins Born Nearly Two Months Apart

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6936808/

Croatian Man Kills Three in Slavonski Brod Cafe

http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20061113-073526-1889r.htm

A bit much for a slap in the face.

It's Later:

Two Serbs on Trial for Deaths of 3 Albanian Americans in Kosovo War

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SERBIA_SLAIN_AMERICANS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-11-13-17-12-16http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n99553


'Avoid Unilateral Actions' urges Kosovo Envoy

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00218.htm


Spain Opposes Kosovo Independance

http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n99553

They have a dog in this fight, there's seperatist movements in the Basque country and Cataluna.



No Welcome for Serbia in E.U.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/sovereign/integrate/2006/102006noserbiaeu.htm


Republic of Montenegro Signs Test Ban Treaty

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00227.htm

Interesting article on Civil Rights struggle in Alaska, trust me there is a Balkans connection, besides like our Gulag, Alaska once was ruled from Siberia.

Civil Rights Struggle in Alaska

http://www.adn.com/life/alaskana/story/8402095p-8296889c.html

Funny partly because I was the ONLY absolute ONLY person in Sociology, besides possibly the instructor, who knew that 'Tartuffe Bianco' means 'white truffle'! OK in this gulag you don't expect even the nomenklatura to know from 'white truffle' ....


Truffles from Croatia

http://xtramsn.co.nz/lifestyles/0,,12600-6547586-56,00.html

Move to Declare Ratko Mladić Dead

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=325309&apc_state=henptri

WWI Vets
Vietnam vetrans

tank in the parade
color party at the begining of the parade

Serb Suspect Begins Hunger Strike

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/11/europe/EU_GEN_Serbia_War_Crimes_Hunger_Strike.php


Word up here, hunger strikes only work so far before people get annoyed with being subjected to all the guilt.


Further on the Mass Grave Found Near Zvornik

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1670432006


Trajkovski Family Sues For Compensation

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1670432006

Badly Needed Macho Points for Gere

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/gere%20soldiers%20on%20despite%20broken%20rib_1013415


Serbian Radio Stops FM Broadcasts in Belgrade

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/726456/serbia_international_radio_of_serbia_stops_fm_in_belgrade/index.html?source=r_technology


More on Spanovic Case

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=325297&apc_state=henptri


This is late because 1. Drugarica Katjuša woke up late, unusually late even for a holiday weekend. 2. Katja was taken to the Vetran's Day Parade in the Yakima Gulag and combined photo and video journalism was taking place, as was instruction of small children, namely L. and K. on the vital subject of patriotism. Shortly in this space the film will be up.

I won't include the Wikipedia articles and it's speculations that Pearse was gay. He had a girlfriend and was engaged to marry her, but she drowned teaching another young woman how to swim and Pearse was never the same after she died.

An Account of the Easter Rising of 1916

Go have a look! How soon we forget!

But not from YGLG or from school work! :)

And because I have something nice to celebrate here's a cut from 'Flogging Molly' an Irish ethnopunk band



Robber in Sweden on Trial for War Crimes in BiH

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1220372.php/Convicted_Swedish_robber_on_trial_for_war_crimes_in_Bosnia

The suspect sounds like a very interesting example of cultural marginality.

More on Arklov Case

http://www.thelocal.se/5470/20061110/

and yet more on the same case:

Arkov pleads guilty

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/10/europe/EU_GEN_Sweden_Bosnia_War_Crimes.php

More victims found in mass grave near Zvornik

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1220475.php/More_victims_found_in_new_mass_grave_in_eastern_Bosnia

Kosovo leaders express dissatisfaction with delay of report on province's future status

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/10/europe/EU_GEN_Kosovo_Status.php


Russia ranks between Libya and Macedonia in living conditions

http://www.regnum.ru/english/736672.html

This king is an ancestor of mine on my mother's side, and she was very proud of us being related to him! Trust me this story has a Balkans connection...a very sad one.

The Story of King Gustav Adolfus II

http://www.thelocal.se/5402/?PHPSESSID=0670d8b9218a7d821edfd0b93319af92

Interesting sidelight on the recent U.S. elections: Not only are there more Democrats in the House and Senate, but the rural voters were key and another thing, record numbers of women have achieved these offices.
The U.S. has been behind many other governements in the numbers of women to achieve high political office.

Uh Oh, Balkans dishes are TRENDY now! :)

I like ajvar too, it's not exactly like salsa though, nor chutney, it's different, in a GOOD way! :)

Kosovo Declaration of Independance Possible

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-09T132423Z_01_BYT933611_RTRUKOC_0_US-SERBIA-KOSOVO.xml&WTmodLoc=IntNewsHome_C2_worldNews-2


N.A.T.O. Flexes Muscles on Kosovo

http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/army/NATO_Flexes_Muscles_In_Tense_Kosovo11008854.php

Christies Byzantine Era Bulgarian Dish Sale to Go Ahead

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72382

Gold Find in Bulgaria

Bulgarians Protest Higher Price of Schengen Visas

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72383

Suspected War Criminal Could Benefit from U.K. Asylum Law

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/09/uwarcrim109.xml

Given how hard it historically has been forVICTIMS to get asylum, sorry this pisses me off. Granted I'm NO fan of trial in absentia, and all that, but seriously, people often need asylum, and can't get it!

War Crimes Trials for Bush Administration People?

http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/12102/War_Criminals_Beware


5 Charges against Seselj dropped

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/11/icty-drops-5-of-14-charges-against.php


A Reversal in Offshoring!

http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=5652571&nav=menu99_2_1

In Touch With the Inner Indian

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061109/asp/calcutta/story_6972811.asp


Russia Wants to Mine for Uranium in Bulgaria

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20061108/55459534.html

as I told my assorted ignorant friends, the Balkans has resources.

In Touch With the Inner Indian

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061109/asp/calcutta/story_6972811.asp


I gues Bulgaria needs a buy back program for weapons too!

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72326

Ethnic Greeks in Albania to Recieve Greek Citizenship

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200611/08/eng20061108_319454.html





Democrats sweep the House!
Pelosi is going to be Speaker of the House and Sean Hanity can just suck it up! He better smile while he does it!


Baby Tiger Lives in Sofia Bulgaria Department Store

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72333

This is a lovely baby Siberian tiger, and should not be in a store. How did he get there from Siberia? Is his presence even legal?


Article from Der Spiegel on BiH

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,446890,00.html

and another interesting article,

and 'White Trash' in Europe

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,442649,00.html
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1162991520750B262
New Mass Grave Found

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1162991520750B262

The Senate is now no longer overwhelmingly Republican, and the House has been swept!

Democrats in general are better news for the Balkans than Republicans. As far as local races go, the Gulag's mostly Republican incumbants have stayed in.