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Mr. Markiewicz,
Don’t tell a Serb how good Mr. Milosevic was, he has heard that many
times from Mr. Milosevic himself. Invent something new, with more
astonishing particulars, so that we can all be involved in your
understanding for justice.
Kostunica is a leader. He may not be the best one, but at least he is not the only LEADER as Milosevic used to be. Serbian people have tried and tested the system of Milosevic’s government which was so tyrannically superior to almost any other government in their history, no one would dare to revive it again.
Just because one doesn’t like the way how foreign powers conduct their affairs, it is inappropriate and almost selfishly immoral to even suggest justification of the dreadful results produced by Milosevic’s rule. Evil of one party doesn’t justify greater evil of another party. Apocalyptic results of Milosevic’s ruling formula are so painfully engraved in to the heart, mind and soul of Serbian people, that there is no need to be reminded of its legacy, because the remnant of its destruction is reality of Serbs today.
It will take great virtue and endurance of a Serb nation to cure its wounds. The generations of new politicians will learn how not to conduct themselves, and future mothers will tell their children a story about evil that once existed.
It is man’s capacity for evil that makes democracy essentially indispensable and man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible. To understand nobility requires compassion, sense for justice and truth, but to understand reality of another human being, it would take to become that human being. Therefore in order to understand democracy one should spend less time in the library with Shakespeare, and more time on the streets with people who are fighting to obtain a basic necessity for survival.
Mr. Markiewicz, I personally believe that you have good intentions, but please do not take away from Serbs something you, or any man of your caliber cannot give them: sense of dignity and pride. Don’t take away their hope, it is something that rightfully belongs to every human being. Let the events enter a new epoch peacefully with more rational approach.
Thank you
and God bless you
Slobodan Macura
apolo@front.net
La situation des Palestiniens est plus que pénible: leurs maigres territoires comptent parmi les zones ayant la population la plus dense au monde, alors que le taux de chômage est l'un des plus élevés. Leur vie est rythmée par les innombrables tracasseries de l'occupant israélien, dont ils dépendent pourtant pour travailler et gagner leur vie. Ils vivent ainsi depuis plus de trois décennies, et nul ne peut dire quand leur calvaire prendra fin. Ils devraient pourtant se demander dans quelle mesure leurs propres dirigeants portent une part de responsabilité face à la situation actuelle.
- Comment les leaders palestiniens peuvent-ils tolérer que des mioches soient envoyés au-devant de fusils ennemis? Avec, parfois, eux-mêmes des fusils dans les mains? Comment des leaders religieux peuvent-ils affirmer que ces enfants iront "droit au paradis?" Même en admettant que ce soit vrai, est-ce une raison pour envoyer des enfants à la mort?
- Comment des dignitaires religieux peuvent-ils encourager les attentats suicide, en versant "un salaire de la mort", substantiel, en espèces, aux familles des jeunes kamikazes, auxquels ils promettent, en outre, qu'ils auront droit à une place privilégiée dans l'au-delà?
- De nombreux observateurs affirment que le regain de violence dans les territoires trouve son origine dans la visite, le 28 septembre 2000, d'Ariel Sharon sur l'esplanade des mosquées, et estiment qu'il s'agissait d'une provocation volontaire. Mais pourquoi, dans ce cas, les dirigeants palestiniens ont-ils jugé bon de répondre à cette "provocation" purement symbolique? Pourquoi ont-ils appelé à des manifestations, au lieu de conseiller aux Palestiniens d'ignorer cette visite dans l'indifférence?
- La ville de Jérusalem, que les Arabes nomment Al-Quods, est chère au coeur des Palestiniens. Mais pourquoi la revendiquer en tant que "ville sainte?". La première ville sainte des musulmans est la Mecque. Jérusalem a bien moins d'importance pour les théologiens musulmans. Par contre, c'est l'unique ville sainte des juifs. De plus, elle est située sur une colline de grande importance stratégique pour Israël. Il ne sera possible de la partager que lorsqu'une paix durable sera établie. Donc, pas avant longtemps. De la part de la direction palestinienne, il aurait été plus réaliste d'admettre, lors des négociations de l'an dernier, que la question de Jérusalem soit remise à plus tard, et d'accepter, pour commencer, un état Palestinien sans Jérusalem - quitte à réclamer, plus tard, que la partie arabe de Jérusalem/Al-Quods leur revienne.
- La direction palestinienne réclame le "droit au retour" pour tous les Palestiniens chassés de leurs terres depuis la création d'Israël, ainsi que pour leurs descendants. Cette revendication peut paraître justifiée sur un plan théorique. Mais elle est absolument irréalisable dans l'immédiat, il faudrait de longues années de paix pour que les Israéliens puissent entrer en matière à ce sujet.
Les dirigeants palestiniens estiment que l'Intifada, et le cortège de souffrances qui l'accompagne, doivent se poursuivre jusqu'à ce que le droit de retour des réfugiés ait été accepté, et jusqu'à ce que "le drapeau palestiniens flotte au-dessus d'Al-Quods". Est-ce la meilleure voie? Je me permets de poser ici la question.
Ludwin Fischer
ludwin@softhome.net
In my view, the motivation of most Palestinians is not religious but national. WM
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Light loses energy propagating against a gravitational field. The loss is measurable as a shift of all wavelengths towards longer wavelengths -- "the red shift". Light gains energy propagating with a gravitational field. The gain is measurable as a shift of all wavelengths towards shorter wavelengths -- the "blue shift". It was observed that in a gravitational field a round trip from A to B and back from B to A cancels the two effects.
Now, assume that the cancellation is not total, but rather, an exceedingly small loss of energy takes place. If so, the question might be asked: could this loss be accumulated by a feedback arrangement through many round trips until a small but measurable quantity would be obtained?
Why should such an experiment by conducted?
The merit of such an experiment lies in the significance of implication of its outcome. In case of a positive result, that is, showing that alternating gravitational fields cause a net red shift, the conditions of the experiment could be related to the conditions of light propagating through cosmic distances and experiencing alternating gravitational fields as it passes by different galactic masses.
By documenting such relationships the observed cosmological red shifts could be based on gravitational effects and NOT the assumed expansion of the Universe.
This would imply that the evolutionary aspect in contemporary main stream cosmology be re-interpreted and a different kind of evolutionary process postulated.
How could present technology provide the necessary conditions for such an experiment?
Among the variables are:
a) The number of round trips,
b) Length of path of round trips,
c) Method of feedback,
A likely candidate to deal with these variables would be an application of fiber optics -- in many loops wound in the direction of the field.
d) Strength of the gravitational field.
The strength of the field could be produced by a centrifugal arrangement of coils of fibers mounted around a shaft strong enough to withstand high rotation. (A magnetically supported 13 kg rotor has been driven to 1000 rev./second in vaccuum.)
e) Wavelength of light,
f) Width of band at this wavelength,
g) Intensity of light,
h) Method of maintaining intensity,
i) Method of detection and measurements.
LASER beams are likely candidates. Nuclear emission of gamma rays of extremely narrow band are known (Mossbauer effect), however, their application in fiber optics is not fully known.
It appears that this whole experiment would be a strife for "more decimals". A positive outcome would be conducive to a reconciliation between evolutionary and steady state views of the Universe. This would allow seeing cosmology as a mere "cross section" of our concept of Existence itself (see
Complexity -- a Cosmic Parameter).
Louis Mathe
Now there are 10 free models there (an owl, a parrot,two frogs, a turtle,a skull, a bridge, three Christmas stars).
There are some improvements. Just click in the parrot in the left of the front page and you will see a list containing all the names. Click on the items and you have the models (jpg format).
Hope you enjoy it.
Marcelo Bicalho
mbicalho@marcelobicalho.com.br
"The Germans would have accepted, happy at not entangling divisions in the Balkan abyss."
I doubt it. Pig-headed is pig-headed.
Imperialism is Imperialism. Look at the Tasmanians. Or rather, look at Tasmania, where not a single descendant of the aboriginal Tasmanians, despite a heap of treaties, is alive today.
First consider the alliance of the Iroquois nations with the English. They wound up in Canada.
The Sioux allies of the USA languish today on reservations just like the Plains Indians who resisted. The Great White Father in Washington breaks all treaties.
The Third Reich didn't embrace as brothers the Ukrainians who greeted them with flowers. The idea that Hitler would have been kind to the Serbs is questionable. He hated the Slavs, which in first place meant Serbs. Read Mein Kampf.
I wonder, too, what might have lain down the road for WWII's willing Germanophile Catholic and Muslim collaborators in Yugoslavia. I think they would eventually have had harsh truth served up to them, once their usefulness was no longer needed.
German "support" in WWIII, now still being fought on the Balkan peninsula, really amounts to a new chapter in the old book of exploitation. Krleza, Croatia's greatest writer, noted that Croats were always casting around for "un altro signore" to bow down to.
Hitler was no different than Lenin when it came to hanging the rope merchants.
Peter Maher
jpmaher@neiu.edu
Regarding your analysis of my text, I stress that I didn't even mention alliances, only neutrality -- in particular, how it might have affected Yugoslavia. For their own sake, the Nazis didn't provoke the neutrals, but left them alone, from east to west, from Turkey to Spain. I know the case of a Polish Jewish family that spent the war in Krakow far from ghettoes because they had Turkish citizenship. Of course, if Germany had won the war it would have grabbed anybody that had been left out, neutrals and allies alike, but this is self evident.
My main point was that as a result of Serbian involvement in WWII Yugoslavia was smashed, by both former allies and former enemies. WM
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I find your arguments reasoned and plausible. Yet, I revert to my belief that
Hitler, though he left Spain and Turkey unmolested, and Bulgaria, had his
knife sharpened for the Serbs.
There was 1914-1918 for one thing. Then the purely geographic matter: Germany needed Serbia to reach the Aegean, Egypt -Suez and the spoils of India, "French" Indo-China, and "Dutch" East Indies. The French, Dutch and Brits found liberty & all that a convenient cloak for re-enslavement of the colonial peoples.
The current NW Order needs the Danube and the Serb [including Kosovo, Bujanovac,
Makedonija, just as Hitler did.
Peter Maher
Hi William,
Just read your interesting theory of what would have happened if Yugoslavia had been neutral
in World War II.
I've contempated this long and hard and the best example I can give is when the Germans went into Russia, they were first greeted as liberators. If the Germans had been smart, they would have had the Russians on their side merely by treating them humanely - but no, when it turned out that Fascism was just as brutal as Communism, the Germans blew it.
As for the Serbs, there was, and continues to be such a hatred by the Croatian Roman Catholics for the Serbian Orthodox Christian, I doubt that much would have changed.
For what it is worth, we are humiliating Russia today, just as we humiliated Germany after World War I, which was the catylist that led to World War II. More and more, it appears that Russia is being groomed as America's #1 villain. The question is, why?
It doesn't help when CIA director, George Tenet, ludicrously lumps Russia with Osama bin laden and China as global threats. (Associated Press, 2/16/01), and when I see panel discussions by so-called think tanks that are pretty well following the same line, I can only surmise that there is a bigger plan in the works.
As someone recently posted, what has happened in Kosovo is exactly what we planned for Kosovo. We intended to get US military presence in Kosovo, as we did in Bosnia, and now it appears that we want to interfere with the fighting in Macedonia in order to set up a US military presence there, also. What does it tell you when the Macedonians are being invaded by Albanian insurgents, and the US says, "please don't fire back! You might kill some ethnic Albanians???" Ethnic Albanians are fleeing Macedonia, and to the media, this is nothing more than a repeat of Serbs ethnically cleansing their Albanian population in Kosovo. At least, that is how the media will paint it. As in Kosovo, I wouldn't doubt that Albanians have also been ordered to leave by their Albanian commanders so that the cameras can catch the exodus of Macedonian Albanians. It worked for them in Kosovo. Why not Macedonia?
The same is true with the fighting on Serbia's southern border. The Serbs are told, "gee, maybe we can narrow the border, but don't send in your tanks and don't kill any ethnic Albanians, or we will go after you."
The whole thing is bizarre.
Hope my little interjection wasn't too disruptive for you.
Best regards,
Stella L. Jatras
sparta13@ix.netcom.com
FYI, Kingdom of Yugoslavia had a neutral status prior to coup de etat on March 27, 1941. Take a look at agreement signed between Germany and Yu on March 25, regarding passage of the German troops and other related issues. Negotiations were long and Hitler had given up a substantial number of initial demands. Negotiations were between representatives of Pavle Karadjordjevic (formally the Yu government) and Axis powers. One of the chief Yu negotiators was David Stakic, lawyer appointed by Pavle Karadjordjevic.
The agreement never had a chance: I believe Pavle knew
that Yu would get occupied in a "second round", but was
buying time (same thing Stalin did with Molotov-Ribentrop
non-agression agreement). Time was the crucial issue for others,
too; for Hitler and Stalin, it was a question of "Barbarossa"
timing; for Brits, it was a question of diverting a projection
of axis mil power from the island and Greece into the other areas.
For internal exponents of "international community", Ustashi and
Communists, it was a welcomed opportunity to make a diversion
of the state, and reap the rewards. Communists started demonstrations
at Belgrade University in the afternoon of March 26. Ustashi
were busy preparing "NDH" power structures. Both were undermining
Yu defense capabilities, in anticipation of attack.
Crucial role, however, was one of the British Inteligence Service.
Name and email withheld
Do you have any information on a gypsy named Zuleika from the tribe of Beria.
from the 1500's? Or any thing about a gypsy Zuleika.
SPMLYBEAUTIFUL@aol.com
I hope a reader can provide you with the information. By the way, did you try to contact Gypsy home pages? WM
Dear Mr Markiewicz
...I have just visited your pages for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed all.
Yours truly
Hugh McDonald
hyoomik@vaxxine.com
http://www.vaxxine.com/hyoomik
I see from your own home page that you are an artist and philosopher. Welcome to the club. WM
Bonjour,
Je viens de lire le dernier numero de Vagabond. C'est bien pour une fois de voir noir sur blanc quelqu'un exprimer ce que l'on pense. Continuez le bon travail!
Miguel Ferreira
MAC SOS
Genève - Suisse
jmferreira@bluewin.ch
MAC SOS - http://www.freespeech.org/jmf-photo
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Dear Mr. Markiewicz,
Allow me to congratulate on a well deserved domain name. Yours is one of the more stimulating web sites I know. Here are a few more markers for your consideration: Regarding the elections in Yugoslavia and their aftermath:
Notes from an Imploding Empire
The Second October Revolution - Book Review
After Milosevic, Milosevic
The Fifth Horseman
Slobodan Milosevic is Dead
Thank you again for a great resource and don't be discouraged. It is what
you GIVE that matters - not what you GET.
Sam
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
palma@unet.com.mk
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William Markiewicz