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Again and Again the NYT Agitprop

Just when you think that all the Soros/Abramowitz’s media vampires are finally starting to recede back into the darkness that spawned them, if for nothing else than for the painful lack of arguments, The New York Times Agitprop rears its ugly head again with another bare-assed propaganda iditorial.

All they really want to do is to repeat, once again, the same old meme: that Serbia ought to be dismembered and its southern province of Kosovo amputated. Since they can’t offer any arguments and have nothing to back their pro-dismemberment stance, and being that they can’t simply say the actual objective is to harm the interests of Serbs and Russians and to continue to play gods in the Eastern Europe, they serve their readership a platter of sheer claptrap, making sure the all-important subliminal message — cut 15 percent of Serbia off! — is loud and clear.

That’s why the iditorial was written, mindless repetition being one of the main pillars of propaganda.

One of the problems the central Agitprop agencies like the New York Times have, is that they can’t simply come out and say what they want done. In this case, for instance, they can’t just say “rip Serbia apart, tear another hole to those pesky Russkies, show ‘em who’s the boss, for we rule the world,” so they try to wrap it up in the “op-eds”, philosophical, abstract editorials with no facts, no references and no signature, about the dirty jobs around the world someone has to do. This one is a perfect example of dirty propaganda and how people in the West get brainwashed en masse.

Good Western Prince and Evil Empress Russia

The anonymous NYT Comrade Iditorialist (Idiot, for short) first sets the stage: Balkans, the primitive, dark, gloomy place somewhere in the pits below and beyond the golden gates of enlightened West, where barbarians of all sorts and nationalities have been drinking each others’ blood for centuries. That’s where, this month, another complicated-beyond-words (certainly beyond the Editor’s comprehension) chapter — Kosovo — should’ve been “put to rest”, e.g. severed from Serbia.

“Putting it to rest” is more akin to mercy killing, like putting an old and ailing animal to sleep — an act West was willing to commit out of compassion, since it’s all so... painful and West suffers watching the Balkan Beasts writhe in agony.

But, the iditorial fairytale goes, the meddling of the Evil Empress Russia and its Even More Evil Daughter Serbia have prevented the Chivalrous Western Prince to fulfill its merciful mission in this case (Good Western Prince has dedicated his entire life to such mercy missions, out of pure kindheartednesses and sheer generosity). Comrade Idiot doesn’t really tell us what this “meddling” of the evildoers consists of — perhaps the fact that Serbian officials have taken part in the negotiations over their own province of Kosovo is somehow intrinsically evil in itself. Instead, he quickly moves on to say the Evil Serbs are “threatening to stir new troubles in Bosnia if Kosovo declares independence.” Going through the month of news in both Serbian and English, with the finest tooth comb, will fail to produce any semblance of proof for the claim that Serbs are “threatening to stir new troubles in Bosnia,” but that doesn’t matter one bit — the object of this game is to throw up in the air as many lies, innuendos and allegations as possible, cross your fingers and hope some of it sticks.

Because of all this, NYT’s Comrade Idiot calls for “urgent, creative diplomacy by the major powers”. The “creative diplomacy” in the New York Times lingo is a codeword for the naked force: cut Kosovo from Serbia and, one way or the other, force Russia to sign on the dotted line.

Dismember-Serbia-Because-Russia-Meddles Argument

Comrade Idiot further tells the world that Ahtisaari proposal to sever Kosovo from Serbia was absolutely perfect in every way. To add insult to the injury, he even mentions “a degree of autonomy for ethnic Serbs”, as if Serbs in their own country are indeed a minority that could be thrown few crumbs, a certain degree of cultural, religious and ethnic autonomy, though not too much of it. That’s when the Evildoers (Russia and Serbia) meddled again and managed to screw up a perfect plan in the United Nations which, instead of just imposing a dismemberment of one of its members (Serbia), allowed another disgusting round of awful talks.

The Iditorialist spared no expense and served a whole five-course meal of lies — almost every single sentence contains at least one lie — including the implication that the Security Council itself had set “a deadline” (December 10) for these talks (“But after fierce protests from Russia and Serbia, the Security Council called for more talks, with a deadline of Dec. 10”). The truth of the matter is that December 10 is only a date by which the mediating Troika has to submit its progress report to the UN Secretary General, while the U.S. State Department, UK and France decided on their own that December 10 is the deadline by which all talking has to end.

Reinforcing again the meme in the second passage: December 10 is the date after which the KLosovars will not wait and “neither should the United States and the European Union.” In other words: DO IT, just do it, cut it off!

Dismember-Serbia-Because-Serbs-and-Albanians-are-Both-Bad Argument

The third is my favorite passage. After figuring that too many people are already aware that Suffering KLosovars is a myth which can no longer be sustained, after realizing it is now clear to most that Kosovo Albanian separatists are nothing but thugs, criminals, drug and human traffickers, weapon dealers and terrorists, the NYT Agitprop finally drops the old spent story of poor, oppressed, “beleaguered KLosovars fighting for their freedom.” Now, according to the NYT, Serbs and Albanians are all equally bad: “these are conflicts with no good guys, and very little spirit of compromise”.

Again and again, the Iditorialist fails to explain in what way the current Serbian leadership taking part in this “conflict” (negotiations) are “not good guys”. One may like or dislike them, love them or hate them, but unlike Agim Ceku, Ramush Haradinaj, Hashim Thaci and most of the KLA Kosovo Albanian provisional leadership, none of the present Serbian leaders and state officials were taking part in any of the Yugoslav secession wars, they were not part of the Serbian government during the Albanian terrorist armed insurgency in Kosovo province in 1998-1999, none of them signed any of the previous agreements, none of them have ever crossed paths with any of the Albanians, except at the negotiating table, alongside the Western and Russian mediators. So how can they possibly be as bad as the KLA war criminal Agim Ceku, war criminal Ramush Haradinaj, war criminal Hashim Thaci and the rest of Kosovo Albanian criminals and known mafiosi? I would actually like to have the NYT Iditorialist explain this claim.

Secondly, speaking of a “spirit of compromise” many have argued that the very fact Serbian officials are actually willing to sit down and negotiate with terrorists who were trying to snatch part of their country under arms is a BIG, major compromise in itself. Because I don’t see anyone negotiating with Hamas, I don’t see anyone negotiating anything with ETA, I don’t see Mr. Bush negotiating with Bin Laden... Give me a break! This is not to even mention over a dozen compromises Serbian officials have submitted thus far in the form of detailed proposals to just about everyone on Earth, including the Albanian terrorists, while the war criminals sat there with their hands up their asses and kept repeating one word, ad nauseam: independence-independence-independence-independence... On the contrary, most Serbs will tell you that Serbian officials should have never accepted negotiations in any form with Albanian KLA terrorists.

Dismember-Serbia-Because-Serbian-President-Invaded-Serbia Argument

But let’s see what the anonymous NYT Iditorialist would consider “a compromise” on behalf of the Serbian representatives.

Here, he hits the rock bottom of propagandistic madness his Agitprop agency has hit to date, because the New York Times would consider the Serbs sufficiently flexible and reasonable if they would simply “admit” they have “lost Kosovo” in 1999, sign it off to Albanian terrorists and move on to bigger and brighter things:

“The Serbs refuse to admit that Slobodan Milosevic’s invasion in 1999 lost them Kosovo.”

Since when is the countering of a foreign armed insurrection within the borders of your own state called an “invasion”? If this is how it should be called, then Bill Clinton invaded Texas in April 1993 when Waco was stormed. If a president of one country can invade his own state with those state’s regular troops, then no president in the world is allowed to defend his country from foreign invasion or armed insurrection.

This is the prime example of the topsy-turvy world of the New York Times and similar Agitprop hubs, where the foreign insurgents, terrorists and invaders become “freedom fighters”, while the actual elected officials sworn to protect the state they serve against the foreign occupier are labeled “invaders”. How do you invade your own country?

Being that one can’t possibly invade one’s own state, how is defending that state and citizens of that state making you lose the part of state you were defending from the armed insurrection and sheer terror? Comrade Idiot claims that, by defending their state from Albanian Muslim terrorists, Serbs have actually “lost” the part of the state terrorists attacked. Therefore, make sure no one attacks no part of your country, because if you dare to defend it, you’ll lose it. And then you’ll have to “admit” (to New York Times) that you lost it by trying to protect it.

But the often parroted nebulous statement that Serbs “have lost Kosovo back in 1999” is, in fact, based on a whole other premise. As Melana Pejakovich aptly noted: “That was simply the politically correct translation of: NATO already CONQUERED Kosovo but we don’t want to admit that because it would show Clinton’s misuse of what was supposed to be a defensive organization for aggressive purposes, so we will just say that Milosevic lost Kosovo — it shifts the blame to Serbia for what befell her.”

Dismember-Serbia-Because-NATO-Bombed-It Argument

In contrast to “Serbian president invaded Serbia” nonsense, the very obvious NATO aggression and U.S.-led invasion of Serbia in NYT sprache is merely “an intervention”, like a good surgeon causes some pain to clean the infection... a sanitized, necessary, ethical medicine in the form of over 6,000 tons of explosives dropped on Serbia during daily attacks that lasted almost three months and took thousands of innocent lives, destroyed Serbia’s entire infrastructure and targeted purely civilian objects like power and water plants, hospitals, TV stations, marketplaces, residential areas, Chinese embassy, parks, bridges, factories...

An intervention, no more. To stop Serbian president’s invasion of Serbia.

Dismember-Serbia-Because-KLosovars-Don’t-Deserve-Independence Argument

“The Albanians of Kosovo are woefully unprepared for the independence they demand. The European Commission reported recently that the Kosovo administration is plagued by graft, cronyism and organized crime.” WHOA! This really floored me — if the previous was the rock bottom, these two sentences are the Olympic heights of honesty Comrade Idiot has flown to, without bursting into flames. Just like the recipe for the perfect propaganda stew calls for — a pinch of truth in a brewing cauldron of lies. Note also that this is the only piece of information that is backed by actual facts and the only bit that can be traced down to something more palpable — the European Commission’s report — than an abstract, completely devoid of logic, irrelevant personal opinion, like everything else in this Iditorial.

Dismember-Serbia-to-Punish-Bosnian-Serbs Argument

Like, for example, the very next claim, now repeated in a somewhat different version, that both Russia and Serbia have “together [...] goaded Bosnian Serbs into threatening to break up the Bosnian quasi-federation created by the Dayton accords should Kosovo become independent.” Conspiracy theories aside, no one in their right mind and with fairly decent knowledge of either Serbian, English or Russian can find any such “goading” of Bosnian Serbs, by either Serbian or Russian officials. Furthermore, anyone who knows the first thing about Bosnian Serbs must know that they can hardly be hoodwinked and “goaded” into doing anything they don’t want. And, finally, the Bosnian Serbs are not “threatening to break up Bosnia” — due to the EU’s Colonial Governor Lajcak and his latest dictum, they are saying they will withdraw from the Bosnia-Herzegovina state institutions in case the belligerent Slovak Mandarin continues to insist on his infallibility.

Once again, like the precious little rhyme, the third passage reaffirms the earlier message: it’s a mess and United States, Russia and the EU cannot allow it to go on.

Dismember-Serbia-Because-We-Can Argument

So, given that it is all so bad in the horrible Balkans, with bad KLosovars, badder Serbs and baddest Russians, given that Serbs have lost what Albanians don’t deserve and in which Russia keeps meddling, given that West was obstructed in its holy mission of mercy few times already, what does the NYT Agitprop suggests as the best solution? More talks? Sincere negotiations until the compromise solution is reached? Diplomacy and mediation? Rolling up the sleeves and teaching the KLosovars crime does not pay and terror is not the best recipe for land-grabbing? Joining the Serbs and Russians in upholding the international law, the UN Charter, Helsinki Final Act and UN SC Resolution 1244? Joining forces with democratic Serbia and Russia in an effort to build a truly democratic, civil society in lawless Kosovo province? Absolutely not!

Dismember-Serbia-Because-Once-They’re-in-the-EU-it-Won’t-Matter Argument

The New York Times in fact proposes forcing the EU to join Washington in amputating Kosovo province from Serbia, while “persuading” Russia to go along and accept it. The best way to do that, according to this Iditorial, is to “gather all the feuding Balkan nations under the European Union and NATO umbrellas, where issues of sovereignty, borders and ancient grievances would hopefully fade.”

As cool as that may sound to the ignorant and gullible, the fact of the matter is that Serbia refuses to be gathered under the NATO-aggressor’s umbrella — it has already said so, through its government officials and the overwhelming public majority. Furthermore, Serbia will most certainly not join the EU without its Kosovo province intact and it is questionable whether the majority of Serbs want to join the Union even with Kosovo (they will decide about that on a nation-wide referendum).

Dismember-Serbia-Because-We-Can’t-Appease-KLosovars Argument

Besides, if the EU membership is indeed a magic cure for Albanian violent ultra nationalism and separatism, why don’t you explain to Kosovo Albanians they need to stop demanding part of Serbia’s territory and instead wait for that happy day when Serbia joins the EU, where “issues of sovereignty, borders and ancient grievances would hopefully fade.” Tell them that! Don’t go around telling the world it needs to gift a chunk of Serbia to Albanian secessionists because... because there are no good guys there anyway (?!), and then go to Serbs and Russians to tell them it’s OK to dismember Serbia, because in the EU borders won’t matter — tell Albanian terrorists and separatists in Serbian province they can’t have part of Serbia because it doesn’t belong to them, because it’s illegal, unlawful and criminal; tell them to either learn to live with others, or pack their bags and go back to Albania where they’ll be living in a mono-ethnic society, with their own murderous codes and medieval tribal laws; tell them to wait for the whole Balkans to get into the EU and tell them that everything will be fine then.

NYT, the Global Fascists’ Prime Soapbox

No wonder the New York Times recently dropped its paid subscription spiel, which was to give them an appearance of quality through “exclusivity.” Who cares about exclusivity, when the purpose is to brainwash, propagate and push through the Soros/Abramowitz brand of global fascism?! New York Times is a mere lobbyist soapbox, and being able to spread their virus far and wide is all that really matters. The money — loads of it — will come from the lobbies they serve.