YakimaGulagLiteraryGazett: December 2011

It's been usual to for clerics to condemn Muslims attending New Year's Eve celebrations, the alcohol, the dancing and noise, only to see Muslims going anyway.
I personally think it's better for people to have fun in groups. They may like each other more and be less likely to turn on each other.

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=12&dd=28&nav_id=78028

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

To Any Jewish Readers,

An old but nice link:

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2006/05/24/sarajevo-haggadah-republished/

And pages from the actual book:

http://www.google.com/search?q=sarajevo+haggadah&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=wY36TuuXN8ariALLtpiTDQ&ved=0CC4QsAQ&biw=320&bih=416

That search has lovely pictures.

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A far cleaner shot of Christmas Lights with Pop-Up Penguins

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Christmas Lights with Penguins

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Monday, December 26, 2011

Opaaaa! They Killed Sponge-Bob

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Christmas Lights

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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Sretan Vam Božić to my Catholic and Protestant Readers!

News includes the arrest of a torturer:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/bosnian-police-detains-war-crimes-suspect-nicknamed-by-victims-female-monster/2011/12/21/gIQAfs018O_story.html

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/23/4142470/proceeds-from-angelina-jolies.html

Farmers in BiH need help:

http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=266655

McDonalds in BiH:

http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/12/20/divided-they-stall/

And Dirty Dodik breathes more hot air.

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=12&dd=24&nav_id=77964

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Who does this remind you of?

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Bosnia News:

Edin Dzeko was extradited and has arrived in Sarajevo:

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7BJ1IA20111220?irpc=932

An interview of the male and female leads in Angelina Jolie's film:

http://collider.com/goran-kostic-zana-marjanovic-in-the-land-of-blood-and-honey-interview/133250/

Nice Food:

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/cuisine/christmas-feasts/christmas-treats-from-afar-20111220-1p2ye.html

I like walnut cake... I miss it!

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

For Those In Need Of A Strong Emetic, A Few Words From Dirty Dodik:

http://english.blic.rs/m/News/8272/BosniaHerzegovina-shall-disintegrate

I really can't stand this guy...

Not huge other amounts of Bosnian news. Mostly it concerns Angelie Jolie's film. I do plan to see it if it screens in the Gulag.

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Salmon Canapés po Ruski:

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Shrimp Canapés

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Arkan's Killer Found:

http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL6E7NE3HG20111214

I was visiting BiH at that time. It was pretty exciting when Arkansas got killed.

http://www.balkans.com/open-news.php?uniquenumber=129514

Suspected Bosniak War Criminals Arrested:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n266271

Note picture with the real flag...

The Constitution of BiH does need fixing... Just saying'

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/12/14/feature-01

NeKulturno Korner:

http://perezhilton.com/2011-12-13-bosnian-serb-war-victim-wants-in-the-land-of-blood-and-honey-banned

I guess that was inevitable...

So was the gratuitous and unseemly flame-war.

Not to be upstaged by Angelina Jolie....
John Travolta and Robert DiNiro are making a movie set in BiH during the war times.
Robert DiNiro is very pro-Serbian..

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h12Xv9QPnhYIYI9zV_kxZJYxvTJA?docId=CNG.060300aa875f48b7c3965f7fb0a7ac0f.81

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Marvelous Old Police Car

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And I <3 this one!

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Some Things were better then... Wall Street guys actually went to jail then...

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Birds in the Lilac Trees

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Monday, December 12, 2011

3 Indicted for war crimes against Serbs in Sarajevo

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/9/29156/World/International/Three-men-indicted-for-war-crimes-against-Serbs-in.aspx

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Ostale vijesti danas- other news:

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2011/12/12/1357780_icty-jails-bosnian-serb-for-refusing-to-testify-in-genocide-trial

http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/44785/2/slovak_experience_guides_bosnians.html

I think it is a bad idea for Bosnia to join the EU just yet. I have mixed feelings about NATO.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/criminalizing-mass-murder-65-years-after-the-uns-first-condemnation-of-genocide/2011/12/11/gIQAAm2ToO_blog.html

http://www.microcapital.org/microcapital-brief-microcredit-foundation-prizma-of-bosnia-and-herzegovina-borrows-680k-in-local-currency-from-privredna-banka-sarajevo-dd/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/video/2011/dec/12/lend-with-care-alastair-stewart-bosnia-fundraising?newsfeed=true

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Jolie Film Screened in Sarajevo for War Victim Advocacy Groups:

http://www.eurasiareview.com/12122011-bosnia-war-victims-praise-new-jolie-film/

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Thursday, December 08, 2011

Vijesti:

http://www.transconflict.com/2011/12/we-need-to-talk-about-mevlid-vehabije-and-extremism-in-bosnia-and-serbia-812/

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/bosnian-muslim-academics-condemn-wahhabism-after-attack-us-embassy_611671.html

I tried to explain Salafism to someone this way once:

Imagine you have some Amish people, only they are not Christian, they are Muslim, and they reject most modern things except the gun and the bomb.

Salafists at one time rejected the automobile and used carriages.

Amish people so far as I can see are pretty nice. I don't think I would like Salafists as neighbors. Muslims, fine, no problem there... Christians.. No problem, Jews no problem... Sikhs, or Hindus or Buddhists... No problem.
Long as they let me live my life we are all cool .... Oh and try to get along with each other!

Mladić Trial to begin in March, 2012

http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/dutch-news/mladic-genocide-trial-should-begin-in-march-judge_194272.html

BiH- Serbia Cooperation on war-crimes trials doomed:

http://www.isaintel.com/2011/12/05/bosnia-serbia-another-cooperation-protocol-naturally-doomed/

Severe Drought Hits Danube Shipping:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ships-stranded-crops-in-jeopardy-power-shortages-as-drought-hits-eastern-europe/2011/12/02/gIQAjm3mKO_story.html

And as if drought were not bad enough...

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/economics/2011/12/08/visualizza_new.html_8319787.html

http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/europe/balkans/bosnia-herzegovina/b066-brcko-unsupervised.aspx

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Wednesday, December 07, 2011

The first Bell Pepper!

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Monday, December 05, 2011

Tips From Friends Can Really Help!

Hat to author Katarina Tepesh, I reviewed her book ' Escape From Despair' some time back.

Here is who might be suing Angelie Jolie:

http://www.slashfilm.com/in-land-blood-honey-trailer/#more-114435

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Coca~ColaTruck

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Police cars at the beginning of the Christmas Parade

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Sunday, December 04, 2011

Trials and Tribulations:

http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/04/karadzic-bosnia-war-crimes-vulliamy?cat=world&type=article

Expeditious but not fair!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16012961

The lake is just about gone! I am really shocked!

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=13&articleid=20111203_11_A6_CUTLIN350215

HDZ really took a beating:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=473716&version=1&template_id=48&parent_id=28

I think joining the EU is a terrible idea for any of the Balkans nations.

But here we go!

http://www.euinside.eu/en/mobile/there-will-be-no-stability-in-the-balkans-without-serbia

http://www.euinside.eu/en/mobile/the-crisis-in-the-eurozone-will-not-spare-the-balkans

And Kultur Korner:

I guess I do want to see the film....

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/12/04/angelina-jolie-directs-a-film-about-the-bosnian-war.html

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Friday, December 02, 2011

Izzy!!!

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YakimaGulagLiteraryGazett

Saturday, December 31, 2011

New Year's Dinner:

War Crimes Indictments For 8 Muslim Bosnians

We are all one..,

Zenica New Year's Blues

Friday, December 30, 2011

At Long Damn Last!