Floods Across Serbia

Below is a letter requesting help for those in need. Please read and pass along and share and let everyone you know that many in Serbia who had little before may now have nothing. And please do what you can to help it ALL makes a difference.
Below the Letter will be links for you. Thank you in advance for your support and assistance.

To send items:
 Srbi za Srbe
Palmira Toljatija 5/III
11070 Belgrade,
 Serbia, Republic of

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*In NOTICE checkbox please enter the code FLDSRB14

Natural Rights v Government Reach

There has been "Democratic Springs" taking place all over the world to one degree or another. For the last few years we have witnessed an Arab Spring flaming in countries across the Middle East. The result has been Egypt is changing governments for the third time, Libya is a combat zone, or as some are calling it 'Woodstock for Terrorists', Syria is in ruins and still burning. The result is not more democracy but violence and terror and horror. In Libya, there is no central control of the country, so the nation is divided up under the control of militias, most with terror ties, including Al Qaeda, a declared enemy of the US, yet the US does nothing for the citizens of Libya, after removing the standing government that had been in power for years. And Syria, has been flooded with outside 'jihadists' including many hardened Al Nusra fighters that are trained, supported and allied with Al Qaeda. They have seen combat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya; some even have experience that goes back to the Balkans and former Soviet Republic.
While I certainly am for bad governments being removed, I think that the majority weight of responsibility for removing a bad government falls on the people of the nation in question. Yes, there may be times when outsiders need to step in due to complete and total inhumane actions by either side, those times need to be well measured and very well documented and the international community needs to stop picking sides and realize that in those situations there is no black and white division of actions. Both sides will be conducting themselves in less than honorable actions. War brings out the best in men; however, war also brings out the worse in men too.
Why do I think it is the responsibility of the 'oppressed people' to bear most or all of the burden of removing their government, when such government becomes unbearable by the majority of the public? I believe that in most circumstances today, the public under oppression by inaction or ignorance allowed the oppression to occur or at least expand. Thus, in these cases since they created the problem or increased and supported by inaction the problem it should fall to them to be the solution. It is after all their country and the future for their children that is at stakes.
It is only the masses, the people that can control the government. It is the right, duty and responsibility of people to accept and maintain their natural rights. What are your natural rights? As Jefferson put it, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. However, Jefferson was not the first to state the fact that man is born with certain rights invoked by the laws of nature. Rights "inborn into our hearts" according to Marcus Tullius Cicero who went on to say 
         There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes      to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by institution but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

These rights were stated hundreds of years later again by Sir William Blackstone;
"[T]he principal aim of society is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of those absolute rights, which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature, but which could not be preserved in peace without that mutual assistance and intercourse which is gained by the institution of friendly and social communities. Hence it follows, that the first and primary end of human laws is to maintain and regulate these absolute rights of individuals."

However, it seems that most peoples have forgotten that we have natural rights and that our natural rights out weigh the 'responsibility' of the government to keep us safe. Our personal safety is our individual responsibility not the job of government and by thinking that it is the job of government you indirectly forfeit your natural rights and the natural rights of all other members of the group, another action that is not your right. You are not better for shrugging your responsibility for your own personal safety and liberty and demanding the government handle a job that you are too lazy to perform and expect the government to do the job better than you would yourself. The bottom line you are YOU, a person to yourself; but, to the government you are only a number, you are no more valuable than the stranger you pass on the street. How much would you do for that stranger? Yet, you expect government to do more than that for you, so you do not have to do it for yourself. Then you think you have the right to complain about a bad government ignoring your safety and rights.
You are responsible for you!

The Experts Critize The Competition....

Maybe someone should put duct tape on Sec. Kerry or find him another speech writer. What a week for Kerry! First, he states as facts that there is PROOF of Russian military involvement in Ukraine unrest. He parades a pic that supposedly shows the Russian military personnel that is PROOF Moscow is calling all the shots in Ukraine chaos. While the State Department hasn't posted a retraction, the NYT has. Sec Kerry also stated how only one side of the parties involved were keeping their words, yet Ukraine's 'acting government' was the one that left the meetings and immediately threatened force against the protestors. And has since used that force against their own people, the very act that the US and EU used to justify supporting the overthrow of the legal government of Ukraine and prop up the illegal puppet government.
It is amazing how the US government is supporting the terrorists that are causing so much blood-shed and destruction in Syria; yet,are slamming protesters in Ukraine as terrorists. Well, I guess you could say that if anyone knows what makes a terrorist, it would be the US as they have trained, funded, supported and armed more than can be counted. The US government is slamming Russia for having any opinion or intention concerning Ukraine, however there are US agents openly and not so openly securing American interests from Mexico to Chile and from Cuba to Afghanistan.
The American public was told that bringing down the Iron Curtain was for the benefit of the people living politically oppressed lives under tyrannical governments, however in hind sight it appears that the sole and whole purpose was to switch the oppression from a political one to an economic one under the control of the EU and US. It is amazing how apathetic the American public is to the conditions of other peoples in the world. Which is shameful when considering that the US has helped to create the deplorable conditions in many of those places!
The upside for the rest of the world is that the American people are just as apathetic about their own lives as they are about everyone elses. They have allowed the US government to take away their rights with increasing leaps and bounds in the name of security. They have no concern about the treatment of their neighbors by law enforcement or security agents if the words 'national security' are used. Pathetically, there are many similarities between the current US government and the Nazi government of Germany in the 1930's. The only difference was the Nazi government lie was to reclaim the glory and honor of Germany, the US lie is to ensure the security of the people of America.

TSA Is Bad, But Last Experience Was With Good Agents........

Ok, so I do try to be a fair person. Which means if you do something that I think is beneath you, no
matter how much I like you, I will tell you and if you do something good, no matter how little I like
you, I will compliment you. In this case the 'you' is the TSA. So let me start with my compliment, no
matter how little I like them. Recently, my daughter's basketball team traveled to play in a National
Championship, which required flying basically cross country. I was one of the parents that traveled
with the team and the defacto 'travel expert'. Since all the girls were young most didn't have official
picture IDs, mine probably being the only exception, and only 3 girls were traveling with a parent and
my daughter and I do not share the same surname needless to say we were a challenge. The group was in total 17 travelers with about 10 being 'under-age' travelers. So I did my part to make things easy, but informing first the ticket agent and then the first TSA employee about our group number and ages. The TSA lady at the Florida airport that were left from actually opened up a new line just for our group. The next TSA employee that checked IDs against boarding passes personally handled our whole group so that there was no confusion. On the way back, we received similar accommodations from the TSA agents at O'Hare. With the exception of airline personnel at Detroit, who were great at the gate and on the flight, on this trip TSA actually seemed to understand customer service, something that is sorely lacking in airline travel in the last 10 or more years. Me complimenting TSA is huge considering what I think of the agency as a whole.
The above statement aside, let me say, in scope of extreme security that is the TSA today, I am
absolutely and categorically against their existence. The 9/11 Commission stated that the security
measures that were in place prior to 9/11 were adequate to prevent such actions as happened on that
day. The whole and entire failure of security on 9/11 was lazy security workers at the Maine airport
where they hijackers cleared security. It was also reported that a check of airline manifests and other
evidence suggested that the hijackers had traveled though various airports up and down the East Coast, looking for just such laziness and complacency in the security. Once this was determined the rest as they say is history.
Had it been my decision to make, I would not have changed one thing about our security at airports. I
would have fired the security personnel that were on duty at the time and their supervisor. I would have replaced them with more competent personnel and been done with it. What is my logic and rationale? The primary goal of terrorism is my logic and rationale. The whole goal of terrorism is to use terror to create such fear as to change your lifestyle or the actions of a government. That being said, once we totally changed how we fly; the terrorists won and we lost.
Which by that measure means that the GWOT was a complete and total waste. Why wage war against an enemy that you have already admitted defeat to by changing your lifestyle and the way the
government functions. It is no wonder that conspiracy theorists have had an absolute field day with
9/11 and the fall out of it for over 10 years now. Not to mention that in the rush to “keep us safe” not one single American seems to remember the words of Mr. Benjamin Franklin...'Those that would sacrifice liberty for the sake of security, will have neither and deserves neither.' And we have absolutely given up much too much of our liberty for complacent lazy people to 'feel secure'. Yet, in truth the only security is in their illusion that we are safer.
How so? Terrorists love to create carnage, the more blood and guts the better. Before 9/11 the number
of people clustered in a single area in the airport was limited to maybe say 100 people waiting in a
rather large and open area of a gate, now you have hundreds of people clustered and contained within
the security check point waiting lines, literally being sitting duck soft targets of a suicide bomber. Now you security dreamers can say well that shows that we are MORE safe, but the conspiracy theorist would say, that proves that it was the government and now that they have you sliding down that slippery slope of NO Individual Rights, they have what they want and we are safe until they want
more!

SCOTUS Gives Koch Brothers Deed To US

In a recent ruling the SCOTUS decided that limits on donations to SuperPACs and thus to campaigns in general are unconstitutional. In some respects this may seem like a good idea, however, in the larger picture of influence of elected officials it is a very bad decision. If you think that there is inequality now in the US just wait 10 years. It is amazing how far away from the path the forefathers set us on that we have strayed. What is the saying about sometimes you have to get burned yourself to know not to play with fire?!?!
Allowing unlimited donations to political entities will only increase corruption and remove the government further from service to the people. There is currently a huge gap between elected officials and their constituates. The American public has little to no trust in political leaders. Thanks to the Electoral College, which has outlived its useful purpose, there is no confidence in the election process.
It is worth the effort of each American to learn whom the Koch Brothers are and what they are about. Maybe the scare will make some wake up and put forth some effort to put the US back on the right path.

Egypt's Good So Let's Arm Them.....

Really, just cause Egypt has been SO busy fighting among internal factions and has thus not violated its Treaty with Israel, we are going to start sending them military shipments again? Really, who decided that the Treaty was the best and ONLY measure to use to determine military shipments to a country that can't keep a government in place for more than a year after ousting the lifetime dictator was sound logic??? Oh, that's right our lovely State Department!!!
Well we can take heart in the fact that our State Department has a stellar record in judging the short term actions of foreign entities. And the US has an even better record of picking 'better' sides in disputes in the internal conflicts of other countries. One need only look at Panama, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iraq, El Salvador, to see how well we pick sides.
The US has a long history of intervening in the internal affairs of other countries, when the US chooses to intervene it is not in the context of moral obligations of the citizens in the said country, in some cases the resulting interference results in the daily situation in the said country being worse, or even much worse as in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan.  This is not referring to their current states which are not good by any means, but to their former. Yes, for those who missed it in history class, the US helped put Saddam in power in Iraq. A man who gassed not only his own people, which we did nothing about, but gassed the battlefield in his war with Iran, thus killing not only Iranian soldiers but also his own soldiers. And it was US intervention that put the Taliban in power in Afghanistan.
All intervention into Iraq was pushed for economic reasons and to the benefit of the US and her OPEC allies, whereas the mess we created in Afghanistan that led to 9/11 were merely the US keeping score against the Soviet Union. There was never any real interest in the actual welfare of the citizens of either country. And there is no real concern in the daily lives of the citizens of Egypt either; otherwise we would instead consider the safety and stability of the internal peoples and area of Egypt to determine whether Egypt should receive military shipments.
The US really needs to learn that it cannot buy loyalty, that the citizens and governments are not of the same model as American citizens. You cannot control them buy keeping them focused on money and 'sparkleys' and distracting them with misinformation and down right lies. Sure, they will take your money and your 'sparkleys'; but they have learned the US game well.....it is all about ME, so there is no need for loyalty. The US only gets involved where there is a profit or benefit for them.
The world doesn't hate the US cause they are jealous of the American way of life, the world hates the US cause from the other side it is very easy to see the hypocrisy of US foreign policy.

Obama Meant Making Public EVERYONE ELSES Skeltons

One of Obama's loudest "Changes" he promised when he campaigned was transparency. What we have gotten is even more status quo than under the "tyranny of Bush". Most government watch groups have come to the same conclusion, the current administration is the most secret we have had in memory. It seems that absolutely even the most general knowledge is classified due to National Security.
In order for any information to be made public under this administration it either requires a HUGE court battle or gained by 'illegal' means. Of course publicly everything is Bush's fault or was an inherited mess from Bush. I wonder how many years Obama would have had to been POTUS before Bush was no longer responsible for the current situation. The sadder truth is that the American public has become so complacent that they allowed Obama's excuses and passing the buck to be rewarded by a 2nd term.
Of course the American public has also allowed for a Congress that has not done their Constitutional duty for more years than we can remember to stay in office and in power. Then we complain about the economy not getting better, the tax burden getting worse, and yet we do not fix things. Still things get worse and when they get too bad it will be too late. There is too much affection between big business and government and not enough between government and the public.
I said before Obama became POTUS that he was ALL talk and I have to say on that he has not let me down at all. And that is a very sad fact. I do have to say that he has surprised me by how aggressively his administration has gone after whistle-blowers and charging more people with treason than ALL other presidents combined. Just as disturbing are the down-right totalitarian policies of spying on your cubical mate and even being held accountable if they show honor and courage by blowing the whistle and you didn't squeal to the bosses before it happened. It appears that Mr. Obama and his advisers took Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 to heart as instruction manuals. They were supposed to be wake up calls for the public, maybe that is why they are not read anymore in lit classes in American High Schools. Of course today schools are just training facilities for conformity into a socialist totalitarian system run behind the scenes by big business.
It has become a concern for some in wondering just what it will take to wake the American people up and to get them to care; my concern is whether there will be anything left of the America that the world looked up to when that finally happens or will it really be too late.

Playing With Words To Strip Rights......

Retired Justice Stevens is speaking up against the Right to Bear Arms. He is making his case sound rational and logical and uber-civilized by manipulating the spirit of the words within the 2nd Amendment. The words that he is focusing on are "well regulated militia" and he would also add more limitations to the Amendment, thus making it UNCONSTITUTIONAL in application. It is very apparent that Justice Stevens is either very idealistic and liberal in his point of view or is a complete tool for oppressive government. Which, matters not, as both are detrimental to individual rights of ALL citizens.
The basic premis, intended or not, by the retired Justice is that only persons that are loyal to the government and labeled as militia by the government (so basically each states' National Guard) would be allowed to have weapons ONLY when performing their tasks as militia of the government. So Justice Stevens' new 2nd Amendment would read:

“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the militia shall not be infringed.”

While his proposal might sound perfectly civilized and acceptable to most upper-middle class suburbia, it is nailing shut the coffin lid on individual rights and freedom. Justice Stevens, effectively removes all ability of the citizenry to protect themselves from an oppressive government. I guess Justice Stevens has so focused on the Amendments that he has forgotten why the Bill of Rights were included in the Constitution from the start and were expected to be left completely and unequivocally intact.

“Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty to throw off such Government and to provide new Guards for their future Security.”" —The U. S. Declaration of Independence, 1776. 

If the Colonists had no weapons then we would still be declaring loyalty to the Queen and paying tithe to the Church of England. And that makes the death of EVERY Patriot from the Revolution to WWII in vain. And endangers ALL our individual rights. Think I am wrong; ask any dissident from the Soviet Block, better yet, ask anyone that has fled China, Cuba. The Soviet Union had a Constitution that on paper put the US one to shame, yet cause the public was unarmed and thus was NO threat to the government, big government I might add, it was just words on paper. 

If you think that that could NEVER happen here, you are one of the ones that is supporting the gradual oppression of yourself and everyone else. Think about the logic, you fear criminals cause they are bad people and armed, yet you support the Government, that is run by less than honorable people who are armed. You have not really thought your logic and reasoning through.

Our Bill of Rights are a GIFT from our forefathers. And throwing it away for non-sense is throwing away everything that our forefathers sacrificed for us in hopes to ensure that we would never have to repeat their actions. Throw away our rights and you are setting us up to repeat history. Hence the basis for the saying; Those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it!

US The Land Of Boys......

It is increasingly difficult to find a real man in this country and that is very much to the detriment of the whole of the country and the world as well. Now some of you might say just walk down the street of any city and you will see lots of men. In fact when I walk down the city streets what I see are not men, but grown boys. And that fact has hurt our stance in the world as well as hurting every aspect of American society as a whole. Boys are no longer raised to be men, they are coddled and pampered and spoiled and lavished upon from birth and it is double if they have some athletic talent or some fame.
Currently, there is lots of outrage being written about the Heisman winning quarterback from FSU getting pretty much a probable free pass on sexually assaulting a young lady in Tallahassee. Not only was he not investigated thoroughly, he was also rewarded with the Heisman. While yes, I do agree that the Heisman should be based on the athletic talent of the nominees, there should also be some standard of moral and ethical character to become nominees; a certain code of conduct of merit and above average academic standing in their institution. In Heisman's day there were such standards, of course in his day we were still raising boys to be men. Wonder what Mr. Heisman would say about some of the nominees and worse some of the winners of the trophy that bears his name.
This behavior is not new and instead of becoming more victim fair and just, the justice system has actually become the opposite. Americans like to claim that we are the land of the free and that everyone is equal, yet in practice America is one of the least equal countries in the world. Especially in how the legal and justice system treats people.
American media slams Putin over 'Pussy Riot' and Egypt over the lack of investigating rapes of female journalists, with comments about their Western dress and manner bringing the assaults on. America also decries the 'unjust and unfair' treatment of girls and women under certain conservative Islamic governments. And while I do agree that the treatment of many groups of people in the world needs to be improved, starting with girls and women; America is not a glorified example of perfection in this instant.
Our schools tell girls they are only allowed to dress certain ways cause 'boys will be boys' and when our boys are being criminals we slam the victims with 'why are you ruining their lives' or 'why are you being such a little bitch'. What needs to be said to the boys is 'how dare you' and then they need to be held accountable and punished for their actions.
It is time for boys to be raised to be men again. It is time for them to learn that they should have self-discipline, self-control, self-respect. Anytime that a boy is even accused of sexual misconduct or assault it should be asked why did you put yourself in a position to have this issue at all! And if they are guilty of the charges, then it needs to be determined if what they did to their victim was something that they would wish on their mother! And above all they need to be punished for their actions. Real and good men treat every girl the way they would want their sister treated and every woman the way they want their mothers treated. Boys, especially grown boys, do whatever they want and know that mommy (and some 'fathers' too) will fix whatever trouble they get into.

More Honorable Is An Honest Enemy Than A Dishonest Hero

Photo from patdollard.com

There has been a lot of remarks recently by regular people about just how horrible Russia and Putin are and how the whole world should back Ukraine, which they do not realize means backing a government that bullied its way into power. One of the words used to describe Putin has been bully. Yes, Putin very much can be a bully and if people had been paying attention to the world around them for longer than 5 minutes they might have some real concept of the political climate that has existed in Russia for several hundred years. If you are going to criticize and judge then you should do that with regard to the environment that the one you are criticizing exists in.
By comparing everyone and everything to your narrow American view you are being arrogantly egocentric. This arrogance creates misconception and fosters misunderstanding that will lead to dislike and distrust. If you want to criticize someone and be taken seriously then you should use the standard of their environment to be the measure by which you criticize and ridicule.
Russia was ruled by the Czars for centuries and as is usually the case that meant that even under good or descent Czars life for the masses was hard and meager. Then in the beginning of the 20th century came Lenin's Revolution, while one can argue the positivity of his intentions, the fact is that Stalin pretty much reverted to the strict oppression of the masses that was reminiscent of life under the Czars. After the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain it seemed as the Soviet Union broke up, much to the eager encouragement of the West, that Russia herself might spiral out of control in a free fall of corruption and organized crime. One of the largest factors in this free fall was the lack of a strong leader to put the government and country back together.
Enter Putin, yes he is former KGB, and he is from the old school. That being said he is intelligent, focused, motivated, savvy, educated and above all strong enough to have remained in power for decades. What is his secret to his staying power; easy, he is brutal and ruthless and cunning. He is a man that cut his 'political' teeth in the intelligence world, he is probably one of the most knowledgeable world leaders in respect to understanding the complexities of international relations and the intranational relations of all leading countries as well as most if not all emerging ones as well.
The West and Russia, primarily (China, more recently) have been competing for the rest of the world for the last 500 years. So the events in Middle East, North Africa, and now Europe are not new and should not come as surprising. As for the 'aggressiveness' of Russia and Putin's remarks and 'actions' I think most Americans should reverse the situation and think about how we would react if say Quebec managed to unseat the legitimate government of Canada and by the actions of their extremists made the residents of several English speaking provinces nervous and they asked the US for help. US actions would be at least on the same level as Russia's has been if not escalated. Make no mistake that the US would be much more assertive with similar action on her own borders.

Step back and look carefully...

While it is VERY true that I am not a conspiracy theorist, I would not label those individuals as crazy, out of touch, or paranoid. Not everything they say is wrong; as the saying goes, 'just cause I am paranoid, doesn't mean I am wrong'. Those words are very true. I also believe in 2 more important things:
1) that EVERYONE has the right to free speech, up to the point that it infringes on another's rights,
2) that no matter how EXTREME the views of individuals might be, they are entitled to their point of view and they help to provide a broad dialogue on issues that should be important to all citizens.

So today, I would like to present a different view on certain statements that are being printed in the media and my opinion of said statements might seem logical or paranoid; but, hopefully, they will start a dialogue.
'The government currently in power in Ukraine is a legitimate government. They were elected by the Parliament.' Before the protests started, not one single leader of Western countries stated that the legally elected government of Ukraine was not legitimate. Matter of fact that government was recognized and conducted business like any other European country. In order to ensure peace and democracy, that government even offered to hold early elections to allow the protesters to change the government in power legally, the pro-West protesters continued their violence until they were in power by a vote under duress of what was left of the Parliament.
'The people in power in Kiev have sanctioned/ordered "anti-terrorist" actions against pro-Russian protesters in Eastern Ukraine.' Whereas the legitimate government was criticized as being brutal when it finally sanctioned appropriate force by police, the new power grabbers are being praised for being measured and restrained by using the military against its own citizens, whom are being called Russian spies.
The United States has not ended its Global War On Terror. Top on the terrorist enemy list is Al Qaeda and its off-shoots. It has been reported not just by media, even mega-corporate controlled western media, but also, by the various terror groups, themselves, that most of Al Qaeda's off-shoots have sent fighters into Syria to remove the legitimate government of that country. The law of the land states that a traitor is any person that by any action supports or enables through any means the enemy of the state or provides comfort. Now this law is broad as it is expected to be applied with logic and reason based on the intent of those charged. That being said, the media has reported that the US is now directly and officially arming the rebels of Syria. Their supposed 'get out of jail' clause is that they are only arming moderate rebels, yet only a complete idiot or the most naive fool would believe that ONLY moderate rebels will have access to any items provided. Not to mention that arms and money and any other needed support has been provided indirectly via American allies in the region. Yet, not one person in the US government is being investigated for treason. It will be interesting to see how the government reacts if some independent journalist actually grows a pair and reports on US weapons being used against US soldiers in other areas of the world, like, maybe, Afghanistan! Which will be a very distinct possibility.
Again I say, if Pro-Russian protesters are equated with terrorists and professional terrorists that entered Syria solely for the purpose of overthrowing the legitimate government there are equated with rebels or freedom fighters how can any independent country in the world think that it can be independent in opinion and action, even internally, and not risk invasion directly or covertly by the US and EU!!!

Will the New Government Be Chastised for Deaths Inflicted........(don't hold your breath)

The new government in Ukraine, conducted military operations against protestors that had taken over government buildings in the eastern Ukraine town of Kramatorsk. “They must be warned that if they do not lay down their arms, they will be destroyed,” General Vasily Krutov, first deputy head of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) told reporters, as cited by AFP. The general went on to state that the protestors were supported by hundreds of Russian soldiers. Those are very strong words for a government that has been commended by the West for being more democratic and patient and controlled in their response Pro-Russian protestors. Yet, not one word of restraint has been uttered by the west concerning the possible loss of life of protestors in eastern towns.

Photo Credit- Sergei Grits/AP

Ironically, the legitimately elected government of Ukriaine; that, in response to Pro-EU protestors, agreed to early elections, the legal and proper thing to do to ensure legitimate and fair forming of a new government, was harshly criticized for using force against protestors after they used force and violence to gain control over government buildings in Kiev.  How the rule of hypocrisy does rule the day!
The Kiev military operations resulted in the rapid recapture of the airstrip, this mere fact disproves the Kiev claim that the Russian Army had a contingent of hundreds of troops in support of the protestors, had that in fact been the case, this conflict would not have gone so easily in favor of the government. However, mainstream media in the West will not point out the fact that is so obvious. In fact as this article is being written, AlJazeera is reporting that the US is praising the Kiev government for a 'measured' response, but that means congrats on only killing civilians and not losing any troops. How sad that the US considers the 'Pro-Russian protestors' in Ukraine to be classified as terrorists and the professional, life-time terrorists in Syria are rebels.
To bolster the Western support and possible future intervention in the Ukraine, the UN has released a statement that places total and complete blame on the Anti-West parties for spreading lies and propaganda to incite hatred and a false sense of insecurity towards the Russian minorities. Guess the UN workers that visited Ukraine, were not informed of the brutal treatment of those that did not support the Pro-EU protestors once the protestors replaced the legitimately elected government by force.

Changing Education in Serbia.....

As another condition to joining the sinking EU, Serbia needs to reform its education system. There are many countries that need to reform their education systems, some that are more 'developed' than Serbia. Part of the 'issue' seems to be that the best and brightest of Serbia's students leave their home country to make it some where else. This basic premise seems to imply that Serbia's education system isn't maybe as 'bad' as the EU Commission makes it seem. It would actually seem that the greatest reforms should be in the economy and market place as well as in research and development to create an environment that allows for the best to stay home and make their mark on the world from Serbia.
As I said most education systems need to be reformed. Most of them no longer educate, instead they train children to grow into compliant obedient workers for mega-corporations.
This immoral mentality is destroying the culture of humanity. We are not robots. We are creative, curious, adventurous, explorers of the amazing, wonderful world around us. We should be teaching our children to cultivate those traits with respect and morals. Education systems should encourage and treasure the various talents of each and EVERY child. For it is in this manner that we can truly ensure that humanity retains its humanness. We are so focused on advancing our materialistic interests that we forget our cultural needs as well as losing our respect for our heritage, especially if it conflicts with the materialistic advance. This error will be more damaging than any other action by any group or disaster that could impact the planet. It is a complete and total disgrace that not only are we throwing away historical artifacts and locations, we are also not teaching students to value, understand or gain from the knowledge left us by our ancestors.
Serbia is a prime location for a REAL reform in education. Let's start by showing the EU the door, minding our manners, of course. Then let's preserve all the history and knowledge of Serbia, both her land and people. Then lets get innovative and motivated and use that rich treasure as our guide for the future. Let Serbia be a new example for how to get it right, how to balance materialistic advances with our humanness. It can be done, we can have both. We can treasure our past and our history and still take steps forward in the materialistic world. This is the perfect time for Serbia to break free embrace her independence and blaze her own path.