Friday, April 13, 2007
A rainy spring day..
Another guy who should be careful about the sushi...
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL137616420070413?src=041307_1336_TOPSTORY_russia_urges_britain_to_hand_over_tycoon
Europe's top security organization cites shortcomings in administrative justice in Kosovo
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/12/europe/EU-GEN-Kosovo-Justice.php
This story was up in Bosnian only over at Bošnijaci.net. Not EVERY song of Thompson's is concerned with killing of non-Croats, but he has the extremely nasty bit about Jasenovac and a lot of people don't care for this song. Frankly it's disgusting. I'm speaking as a person who likes other work of his. I find myself feeling too divided to enjoy his work as much, and I remember his first big hit, and liking it. There is however a HUGE contrast between the ethos of 'Prijatelji' and that icky, disgusting performance about Jasenovac. I really wish the most antagonistic song of Thompson was 'Čavoglava' One could see in it an expression of what it was like in the time of the war, and in 'Prijatelji' there was something about the time after the war, and even in the video one could see that there was some sorrow about the fact that there is so much war that people expect it, t hat every boy expects when he's a man, to have his time to be at war. I can go there, every people has such songs. Jasenovac is different though, it's not about anything defensible, it's not about defending one's own people against great odds, which EVERY people respects and honors, it's not about the beauty of one's own people like 'Moj Ivane' and let's be honest, artists among the Muslims and Serbs have songs similar to those songs, so they should not be offended with that, and probably aren't deeply offended. Again the Jasenovac song is different.
Sarajevo is a city that can't afford interethnic clash, and the Croats are enough of a minority that there has to be a smarter way of expressing pride in being Croat, and a smarter way of getting people to come to the concert and spend their money than having a guy who offends so many of their neighbors.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1315887920070413
EU Initials Visa Deal With 3 Western Balkan Countries
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20070413\ACQDJON200704130939DOWJONESDJONLINE000599.htm&selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&StoryTargetFrame=_top&mkt=WORLD&chk=unchecked&lang=&link=&headlinereturnpage=http://www.international.na
Bosnia court jails 2 Croats for war crimes
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/51139.html
Survivors of War Crime Outraged at Verdicts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20070413/wl_oneworld/45361481611176472878
And they should be outraged really. War crimes don't just affect the many dead and their survivors, they leave a sort of 'disturbance in The Force' history is altered in unpredictiable ways. There is a good chance there would not be a State of Israel if there had been no genocide against the Jews in Europe, or if a State of Israel had come into being it would have been in a different form and that there would not have been wars as a result.
We have yet to see the final result of the persecutions of Bosnian Muslims, and Bosnian Croats. On the basis of my understanding and knowlege of history, a mostly non-academic approach, I do not predict good things. How this half assed verdict was handled isn't good at all, not for the victims and most dangerously of all, not for the perpetrators. Sometimes it is not good to spare people who have done wrong.
Sarajevo as a weekend trip
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/destinations/europe/article1622182.ece
Those of you who remember war coverage 'Back in the Day' remember how good Martin Bell's work was. He got interviews no one else got and went places no one else did.
Quote from the article 'As Sarajevans proudly repeat, nowhere else is there a mosque, an Orthodox church, a synagogue and a Catholic cathedral all cheek by jowl.'
That's quite true, people are proud of this, and it is remarkable. I had not heard the phrase 'Jerusalem of the West' used to describe Sarajevo by my first trip. But I realized that it must be a good bit like going there, I flashed on that hearing church bells and the azan at the same time Christmas morning that the only thing more out there would be Christmas in Jerusalem. It was a very special experience.
This morning I was awakened by a lot of birds, I love hearing birds when I wake up. Much nicer than gas fueled lawn-mowers or weedwhackers.
I promise, I'm NOT making fun of Northern Europeans here
http://www.ashersarlin.com/archives/2005/11/hey_vikings_nee.php
I wasn't going to say anything about the Imus show or how he crashed and burned, but the local radio station which VERY seldom takes my calls, had people on remarking about it. Some person called and started in about "I don't see where we have the right not to be offended" I am going to remember that line the next time some ignorant hick ignoramus makes remarks about either my skirt length or the fact I wear a scarf.
Actually, when someone goes on the air, they do need to consider their audience, because there are lines no one wants crossed in their living room.
I must leave the local station on to know about things like the lock down at the high school, flooding, wind storms, approaching bad weather fronts, and general news, and I don't like the level of right wing propaganda I have to put up with to have that service. At least it wasn't at the level of Imus.
The way I see it is that if they are going to force me into a certain mould to have a job, and they do and can legally even if it's WRONG, then I get to raise Hell about the shit I'm forced to listen to. It's like having your ears raped on a regular basis.
Imus should not have said what he said. It doesn't contribute to civility. I'm sorry Sharpton and Jackson didn't get nailed similarly, I don't like them either.
Radio is a fine balance between the offensive and the opportunity to air commercials.
I learned that many of the corporate entities who withdrew advertising now have Black CEOs. Back in the 1960s there wasn't the economic power in the Black community to bring down a guy who said what Imus said.
We don't have any right in America to say anything about what is on the radio elsewhere if we can't clean up our own acts.
Locally the main and oldest station is quite unbalanced politically. It always has been. Still they dumped Mike Savage, in a very quiet way, and replaced him with Jeff Beck, also right wing, also a bit of a 'shock jock' but he's not always making the sorts of remarks Mike Savage did that made me want to sharpen up all the edged tools in the house from the paring knife to the scythe.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL137616420070413?src=041307_1336_TOPSTORY_russia_urges_britain_to_hand_over_tycoon
Europe's top security organization cites shortcomings in administrative justice in Kosovo
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/12/europe/EU-GEN-Kosovo-Justice.php
This story was up in Bosnian only over at Bošnijaci.net. Not EVERY song of Thompson's is concerned with killing of non-Croats, but he has the extremely nasty bit about Jasenovac and a lot of people don't care for this song. Frankly it's disgusting. I'm speaking as a person who likes other work of his. I find myself feeling too divided to enjoy his work as much, and I remember his first big hit, and liking it. There is however a HUGE contrast between the ethos of 'Prijatelji' and that icky, disgusting performance about Jasenovac. I really wish the most antagonistic song of Thompson was 'Čavoglava' One could see in it an expression of what it was like in the time of the war, and in 'Prijatelji' there was something about the time after the war, and even in the video one could see that there was some sorrow about the fact that there is so much war that people expect it, t hat every boy expects when he's a man, to have his time to be at war. I can go there, every people has such songs. Jasenovac is different though, it's not about anything defensible, it's not about defending one's own people against great odds, which EVERY people respects and honors, it's not about the beauty of one's own people like 'Moj Ivane' and let's be honest, artists among the Muslims and Serbs have songs similar to those songs, so they should not be offended with that, and probably aren't deeply offended. Again the Jasenovac song is different.
Sarajevo is a city that can't afford interethnic clash, and the Croats are enough of a minority that there has to be a smarter way of expressing pride in being Croat, and a smarter way of getting people to come to the concert and spend their money than having a guy who offends so many of their neighbors.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1315887920070413
EU Initials Visa Deal With 3 Western Balkan Countries
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspxcontent/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20070413\ACQDJON200704130939DOWJONESDJONLINE000599.htm&selected=9999&selecteddisplaysymbol=9999&StoryTargetFrame=_top&mkt=WORLD&chk=unchecked&lang=&link=&headlinereturnpage=http://www.international.na
Bosnia court jails 2 Croats for war crimes
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/51139.html
Survivors of War Crime Outraged at Verdicts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20070413/wl_oneworld/45361481611176472878
And they should be outraged really. War crimes don't just affect the many dead and their survivors, they leave a sort of 'disturbance in The Force' history is altered in unpredictiable ways. There is a good chance there would not be a State of Israel if there had been no genocide against the Jews in Europe, or if a State of Israel had come into being it would have been in a different form and that there would not have been wars as a result.
We have yet to see the final result of the persecutions of Bosnian Muslims, and Bosnian Croats. On the basis of my understanding and knowlege of history, a mostly non-academic approach, I do not predict good things. How this half assed verdict was handled isn't good at all, not for the victims and most dangerously of all, not for the perpetrators. Sometimes it is not good to spare people who have done wrong.
Sarajevo as a weekend trip
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/destinations/europe/article1622182.ece
Those of you who remember war coverage 'Back in the Day' remember how good Martin Bell's work was. He got interviews no one else got and went places no one else did.
Quote from the article 'As Sarajevans proudly repeat, nowhere else is there a mosque, an Orthodox church, a synagogue and a Catholic cathedral all cheek by jowl.'
That's quite true, people are proud of this, and it is remarkable. I had not heard the phrase 'Jerusalem of the West' used to describe Sarajevo by my first trip. But I realized that it must be a good bit like going there, I flashed on that hearing church bells and the azan at the same time Christmas morning that the only thing more out there would be Christmas in Jerusalem. It was a very special experience.
This morning I was awakened by a lot of birds, I love hearing birds when I wake up. Much nicer than gas fueled lawn-mowers or weedwhackers.
I promise, I'm NOT making fun of Northern Europeans here
http://www.ashersarlin.com/archives/2005/11/hey_vikings_nee.php
I wasn't going to say anything about the Imus show or how he crashed and burned, but the local radio station which VERY seldom takes my calls, had people on remarking about it. Some person called and started in about "I don't see where we have the right not to be offended" I am going to remember that line the next time some ignorant hick ignoramus makes remarks about either my skirt length or the fact I wear a scarf.
Actually, when someone goes on the air, they do need to consider their audience, because there are lines no one wants crossed in their living room.
I must leave the local station on to know about things like the lock down at the high school, flooding, wind storms, approaching bad weather fronts, and general news, and I don't like the level of right wing propaganda I have to put up with to have that service. At least it wasn't at the level of Imus.
The way I see it is that if they are going to force me into a certain mould to have a job, and they do and can legally even if it's WRONG, then I get to raise Hell about the shit I'm forced to listen to. It's like having your ears raped on a regular basis.
Imus should not have said what he said. It doesn't contribute to civility. I'm sorry Sharpton and Jackson didn't get nailed similarly, I don't like them either.
Radio is a fine balance between the offensive and the opportunity to air commercials.
I learned that many of the corporate entities who withdrew advertising now have Black CEOs. Back in the 1960s there wasn't the economic power in the Black community to bring down a guy who said what Imus said.
We don't have any right in America to say anything about what is on the radio elsewhere if we can't clean up our own acts.
Locally the main and oldest station is quite unbalanced politically. It always has been. Still they dumped Mike Savage, in a very quiet way, and replaced him with Jeff Beck, also right wing, also a bit of a 'shock jock' but he's not always making the sorts of remarks Mike Savage did that made me want to sharpen up all the edged tools in the house from the paring knife to the scythe.
# posted by Katja R. @ 8:34 AM 
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Bell's reports from war time Sarajevo were excellent.
And I am so glad he returned and is now trying to tell the rest of the world how beautiful Sarajevo can be!
And I am so glad he returned and is now trying to tell the rest of the world how beautiful Sarajevo can be!
Martin Bell also did some very good reporting from Northern Ireland. I watched for his reports, he did excellent work there, so I was more inclined to trust his reporting from Sarajevo over other reporters.
I too am glad he went back, now I just hope Sarajevo can avoid becoming a tourist trap, that people will come with respect and that Sarajevo's people can benefit.
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I too am glad he went back, now I just hope Sarajevo can avoid becoming a tourist trap, that people will come with respect and that Sarajevo's people can benefit.
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