BELGRADE — Some milk in the Balkans has been contaminated by a naturally occurring cancer-causing toxin and consumers are accusing officials of hiding how serious the problem is.
Most health officials agree that the milk is safe and that even higher levels of aflatoxins — a fungus linked to mildewed cattle feed — are not harmful in small amounts. Serbian officials have refused to have milk pulled off store shelves and appealed for calm Tuesday before official tests show conclusive results.
But a warning by a regional official on his personal website has fueled doubts about the official line, suspicions fed by the region’s widespread corruption and the cozy ties between politicians and industry.
No matter where you go stink governments are the same!
No matter where you go stink governments are the same!
Worry has grown among consumers since the media first reported that the toxin had been found in some milk products after a dry summer provided conditions for the poisonous mold to grow.
High doses are linked to cancer, but experts say a person would have to drink a gallon a day for years to see any health effects.
Is there anyone left out there that trusts experts, governments, or mouthpiece media?
Is there anyone left out there that trusts experts, governments, or mouthpiece media?
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"Serbia withdraws suspected toxic milk" by Dusan Stojanovic and Jovana Gec | Associated Press, February 21, 2013
BELGRADE — Serbian officials ordered some brands of milk taken off store shelves on Wednesday despite earlier assertions that they were safe and not dangerously contaminated with a potentially cancer-causing toxin.
The order came after widespread public outrage over allegations that health authorities have for weeks been hiding the results of lab tests that reportedly show that much of the milk sold in Serbia contains high levels of aflatoxins, a fungus linked to mildewed cattle feed that can cause cancer if consumed in high doses....
"UN tribunal frees Croatian generals" by Dusan Stojanovic and Mike Corder | Associated Press, November 17, 2012
ZAGREB, Croatia — A UN war crimes tribunal overturned two Croatian generals' convictions for murdering and expelling Serb civilians during a 1995 military blitz.
Croatians viewed the decision to release Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac as vindication that they were victims in the Balkan wars in the 1990s, but neighboring Serbia denounced the ruling as a scandalous injustice toward tens of thousands of its compatriots expelled from Croatia after an offensive led by the two.
The deep division over the generals could set back efforts to reconcile the two wartime enemies — the most bitter rivals in the Balkans....
The ruling produced fury in Serbia, where it was seen as further evidence of anti-Serb bias at the UN tribunal. Even liberal Serbs warned that the ruling created a sense of injustice and could stir nationalist sentiments....
That's the way I saw it, yeah.
The fighting was part of the wars that erupted across the Balkans with the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The most deadly was in Bosnia, where Serbs battled Muslims and Croats in a four-year struggle that claimed some 100,000 lives.
And where Bill Clinton sent "Al-CIA-Duh" forces before, well, you know.
Serbia claims that over 1,000 Serbs were killed and more than 200,000 driven from their homes during the 1995 Croatian offensive led by former president Franjo Tudjman, dubbed ‘‘Operation Storm.’’
Tribunal prosecutors put the death toll lower, at 324, but told the court the victims included elderly and disabled villagers — many of whom were shot in the head.
But the appeals judges said prosecutors failed to prove the existence of such a conspiracy, effectively clearing Croatia’s entire wartime leadership of war crimes in the operation. It occurred at the end of Croatia’s battle to secede from the crumbling Yugoslavia and involved grabbing back land along its border with Bosnia that was earlieroccupied by rebel Serbs.
Wow. Helps to be on the "winning" side of history, huh?
Vesna Skare Ozbolt, former legal adviser for Tudjman, said the verdict ‘‘corrects all wrongs about our just war,’’ and ‘‘proves that there was no ethnic cleansing in Croatia and that it was all lies.’’
Related: Back to the Balkans
Tudjman died in 1999 while under investigation.
Serbs were furious.
‘‘As far as I understand this ruling, it is perfectly normal and legal to kill Serbs since nobody is being held responsible for it,’’ said Stana Pajic, who fled the offensive. ‘‘I’m terribly shaken by this unjust verdict.’’
I'm not shaken or surprised. I expected it.
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Croatians viewed the decision to release Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac as vindication that they were victims in the Balkan wars in the 1990s, but neighboring Serbia denounced the ruling as a scandalous injustice toward tens of thousands of its compatriots expelled from Croatia after an offensive led by the two.
The deep division over the generals could set back efforts to reconcile the two wartime enemies — the most bitter rivals in the Balkans....
The ruling produced fury in Serbia, where it was seen as further evidence of anti-Serb bias at the UN tribunal. Even liberal Serbs warned that the ruling created a sense of injustice and could stir nationalist sentiments....
That's the way I saw it, yeah.
The fighting was part of the wars that erupted across the Balkans with the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The most deadly was in Bosnia, where Serbs battled Muslims and Croats in a four-year struggle that claimed some 100,000 lives.
And where Bill Clinton sent "Al-CIA-Duh" forces before, well, you know.
Serbia claims that over 1,000 Serbs were killed and more than 200,000 driven from their homes during the 1995 Croatian offensive led by former president Franjo Tudjman, dubbed ‘‘Operation Storm.’’
Tribunal prosecutors put the death toll lower, at 324, but told the court the victims included elderly and disabled villagers — many of whom were shot in the head.
But the appeals judges said prosecutors failed to prove the existence of such a conspiracy, effectively clearing Croatia’s entire wartime leadership of war crimes in the operation. It occurred at the end of Croatia’s battle to secede from the crumbling Yugoslavia and involved grabbing back land along its border with Bosnia that was earlieroccupied by rebel Serbs.
Wow. Helps to be on the "winning" side of history, huh?
Vesna Skare Ozbolt, former legal adviser for Tudjman, said the verdict ‘‘corrects all wrongs about our just war,’’ and ‘‘proves that there was no ethnic cleansing in Croatia and that it was all lies.’’
Related: Back to the Balkans
Tudjman died in 1999 while under investigation.
Serbs were furious.
‘‘As far as I understand this ruling, it is perfectly normal and legal to kill Serbs since nobody is being held responsible for it,’’ said Stana Pajic, who fled the offensive. ‘‘I’m terribly shaken by this unjust verdict.’’
I'm not shaken or surprised. I expected it.
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"Ex-Kosovo official cleared of war crimes" by Marlise Simons | New York Times, November 30, 2012
PARIS — A UN war crimes tribunal Thursday acquitted the former prime minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, for the second time of torturing and killing Serb civilians while he was a commander of the NATO-backed Kosovo Liberation Army during its fight for independence in 1999.
Two of his comrades, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj, were also acquitted, although Brahimaj has already served a six-year sentence for torture handed down in an earlier trial. The judges ordered the three men released immediately.
Supporters cheered in the courtroom’s public gallery in The Hague.
In Serbia, which is involved in crucial talks with Kosovo, a former Serbian province before the war, the decision was expected to provoke a wave of angry reactions.
Who can blame them?
President Tomislav Nikolic of Serbia said in a statement, ‘‘Nobody will be convicted of horrible crimes against Kosovo Serbs. Such verdicts encourage separatism, hinder efforts to establish peace in the region, annul efforts to normalize relations between Belgrade and Pristina thus far.’’
Yeah, but they were our guys, so....
But other officials, including the Serbian prime minister, Ivica Dacic, said that talks with Kosovo would continue.
This month, the tribunal enraged the Belgrade government and many Serbs when an appeals chamber threw out the convictions of two Croatian generals, Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac. They led a military campaign that recaptured Serb-occupied Croatian land and drove more than 150,000 Serbs from Croatia.
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"UN court frees Yugoslav general; War crimes verdict voided" by Mike Corder | Associated Press, March 01, 2013
PARIS — A UN war crimes tribunal Thursday acquitted the former prime minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, for the second time of torturing and killing Serb civilians while he was a commander of the NATO-backed Kosovo Liberation Army during its fight for independence in 1999.
Two of his comrades, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj, were also acquitted, although Brahimaj has already served a six-year sentence for torture handed down in an earlier trial. The judges ordered the three men released immediately.
Supporters cheered in the courtroom’s public gallery in The Hague.
In Serbia, which is involved in crucial talks with Kosovo, a former Serbian province before the war, the decision was expected to provoke a wave of angry reactions.
Who can blame them?
President Tomislav Nikolic of Serbia said in a statement, ‘‘Nobody will be convicted of horrible crimes against Kosovo Serbs. Such verdicts encourage separatism, hinder efforts to establish peace in the region, annul efforts to normalize relations between Belgrade and Pristina thus far.’’
Yeah, but they were our guys, so....
But other officials, including the Serbian prime minister, Ivica Dacic, said that talks with Kosovo would continue.
This month, the tribunal enraged the Belgrade government and many Serbs when an appeals chamber threw out the convictions of two Croatian generals, Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac. They led a military campaign that recaptured Serb-occupied Croatian land and drove more than 150,000 Serbs from Croatia.
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"UN court frees Yugoslav general; War crimes verdict voided" by Mike Corder | Associated Press, March 01, 2013
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — In a stunning reversal, UN appeals judges on Thursday acquitted the former chief of the Yugoslav National Army of aiding and abetting atrocities by rebel Serbs, including the Srebrenica massacre, by providing them with military aid during the Balkan wars.
General Momcilo Perisic, a former close ally of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, had been sentenced to 27 years in 2011 after being convicted of crimes including murder, inhumane acts, and persecution. The judges ordered him freed immediately.
They might as well just shut down this s***-show fooley for the world.
They might as well just shut down this s***-show fooley for the world.
The judgment is a rare victory for Serbs at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, where most of the convicted suspects have been rebel Serbs in Bosnia and Croatia. It also supported Belgrade’s often-stated assertion that it did not deliberately assist in Bosnian Serb atrocities and underscores how hard it is for international courts to prosecute senior officials seen as pulling the strings but not acting directly.
Aren't those the people from the nations that set this whole thing up?
Aren't those the people from the nations that set this whole thing up?
The court’s most ambitious attempt to link Belgrade to Balkan war atrocities ended inconclusively when Milosevic died of a heart attack in his cell in The Hague in 2006 before a verdict could be reached in his trial on charges of fomenting violence as the former Yugoslavia crumbled.
What a strange coincidence, huh?
What a strange coincidence, huh?
While linking senior officials in one country to crimes by rebels in another is difficult, it can be done.
I expect to see George Bush and Tony Bliar before the bar soon.
I expect to see George Bush and Tony Bliar before the bar soon.
Another high-profile case that played out in a different Hague courtroom, the prosecution of Charles Taylor, saw the former Liberian president convicted of aiding and abetting rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone during that African nation’s brutal civil war. Taylor has appealed his conviction and 50-year sentence....
Related: Sunday Globe Special: The Liberian Looter
That's the flip side to poor white prosecutions of those that fail to follow the dictates of the New World Order: tin-pot African rulers who have been double-crossed and paraded as an example.
Related: Sunday Globe Special: The Liberian Looter
That's the flip side to poor white prosecutions of those that fail to follow the dictates of the New World Order: tin-pot African rulers who have been double-crossed and paraded as an example.
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"Serbia’s NATO ambassador leaps to death, officials say" by Slobodan Lekic and Dusan Stojanovic | Associated Press, December 06, 2012
"Serbia’s NATO ambassador leaps to death, officials say" by Slobodan Lekic and Dusan Stojanovic | Associated Press, December 06, 2012
BRUSSELS — Serbia’s ambassador to NATO was chatting and joking with colleagues in a multistory parking garage at Brussels Airport when he strolled to a barrier, climbed over, and flung himself to the ground below, a diplomat said.
By the time his shocked colleagues reached him, Branislav Milinkovic was dead.
His motives are a mystery. Three diplomats who knew Milinkovic said he did not appear distraught in the hours leading up to his death Tuesday night. He seemed to be going about his business, they said, picking up a delegation of six Serbian officials who were to hold talks with NATO, the alliance that went to war with his country just 13 years ago.
Belgian authorities confirmed that the ambassador had killed himself.
‘‘It was indeed a suicide,’’ said Ine Van Wymersch of the Brussels prosecutor’s office. She said no further investigation was planned.
A former author and activist opposed to the authoritarian regime of former strongman Slobodan Milosevic, Milinkovic was outgoing, had a warm sense of humor, and worked to keep good ties with ambassadors from other former Yugoslav countries, according to diplomats and acquaintances.
The diplomats said they knew of no circumstances — private or professional — that would have prompted him to take his own life.
But Milinkovic, 52, had mentioned to colleagues that he was unhappy about living apart from his wife, a Serbian diplomat based in Vienna, and their 17-year-old son.
So he killed himself?
One of the diplomats said she had spoken to a member of the delegation who had witnessed the leap from the 26- to 33-foot-high platform.
The diplomats all spoke on condition of anonymity.
The death cast a pall on the second day of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers.
NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was ‘‘deeply saddened by the tragic death of the Serbian ambassador.’’
‘‘As Serbian ambassador to NATO he earned the respect and admiration of his fellow ambassadors,’’ he said.
When Yugoslavia was a united country, Milinkovic worked for a prominent Yugoslav foreign policy think-tank. But when Milosevic seized power in Serbia in late 1980s, Milinkovic joined other liberals who opposed the regime and presented a rare voice of moderation during the era when much of Serbia was engulfed in nationalist fervor. He established ties with human rights and other groups and remained active in antiwar groups.
After Milosevic was ousted in 2000, Milinkovic was appointed Serbia’s ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe, or OSCE, in Vienna.
He was transferred to NATO as Serbia’s special representative in 2004.
Milinkovic worked to foster closer ties with the representatives of Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Slovenia.
He leaves his wife and son.
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I'm sorry, folks, but it looks like murder to me.
By the time his shocked colleagues reached him, Branislav Milinkovic was dead.
His motives are a mystery. Three diplomats who knew Milinkovic said he did not appear distraught in the hours leading up to his death Tuesday night. He seemed to be going about his business, they said, picking up a delegation of six Serbian officials who were to hold talks with NATO, the alliance that went to war with his country just 13 years ago.
Belgian authorities confirmed that the ambassador had killed himself.
‘‘It was indeed a suicide,’’ said Ine Van Wymersch of the Brussels prosecutor’s office. She said no further investigation was planned.
A former author and activist opposed to the authoritarian regime of former strongman Slobodan Milosevic, Milinkovic was outgoing, had a warm sense of humor, and worked to keep good ties with ambassadors from other former Yugoslav countries, according to diplomats and acquaintances.
The diplomats said they knew of no circumstances — private or professional — that would have prompted him to take his own life.
But Milinkovic, 52, had mentioned to colleagues that he was unhappy about living apart from his wife, a Serbian diplomat based in Vienna, and their 17-year-old son.
So he killed himself?
One of the diplomats said she had spoken to a member of the delegation who had witnessed the leap from the 26- to 33-foot-high platform.
The diplomats all spoke on condition of anonymity.
The death cast a pall on the second day of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers.
NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was ‘‘deeply saddened by the tragic death of the Serbian ambassador.’’
‘‘As Serbian ambassador to NATO he earned the respect and admiration of his fellow ambassadors,’’ he said.
When Yugoslavia was a united country, Milinkovic worked for a prominent Yugoslav foreign policy think-tank. But when Milosevic seized power in Serbia in late 1980s, Milinkovic joined other liberals who opposed the regime and presented a rare voice of moderation during the era when much of Serbia was engulfed in nationalist fervor. He established ties with human rights and other groups and remained active in antiwar groups.
After Milosevic was ousted in 2000, Milinkovic was appointed Serbia’s ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe, or OSCE, in Vienna.
He was transferred to NATO as Serbia’s special representative in 2004.
Milinkovic worked to foster closer ties with the representatives of Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Slovenia.
He leaves his wife and son.
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I'm sorry, folks, but it looks like murder to me.
Also see: Srebrenica general guilty of genocide
At least they got one.
All three are followers of the Wahhabi sect — an austere brand of Sunni Islam.
A given during a false flag psy-op.
Also see: Thirsting For Balkan Stories
