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Western MSM Keeps Bending Reality to Suit Official Agenda

CNN was the only official media outlet in the West that has properly reported that around 100,000 people gathered Tuesday in Banja Luka, capital of Serbian Republic (RS) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, at another rally in protest against the unilaterally declared independence of Pristina separatists.

The figure of "more than 10,000" protesters in Banja Luka, cited by other Western news agencies (AP, AFP, Reuters, BBC, DPA et al.), could mean even the 100,000, because 100,000 is indeed "more than 10,000", but one would still expect that they wouldn't sink so low as to cut the number of protesters down to a mere 10 percent, or less, of the actual number of demonstrators.

The exact same thing occurred less than a week ago, when a huge rally organized in Serbian capital saw Belgrade being flooded by demonstrators from all over Serbia, as well as from Montenegro and Republic of Srpska. The first reports on CNN stated that over 2,000,000 people poured into Belgrade, blocking entire downtown and branching off onto the surrounding bridges, simply because the plateau in front of the National Parliament and St. Sava Cathedral was too small to accommodate so many people.

Then BBC World reporter told his TV station half a million people took part in Kosovo is Serbia protest and the common prayer afterwards, which the AP, Reuters and all the others quickly cut down to 150,000. From thereon that became an official figure faithfully repeated everywhere. Because, who can know that it was ten, maybe 20 times more people than that?

Those who flatly lied throughout the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia, multiplying the number of non-Serbian victims by 50, 100 and 200 (remember the alleged 100,000 and 500,000 "massacred Albanians" in Kosovo province during NATO aggression on Serbia?), should not be expected to start telling other inconvenient truths at any point in time. Not that CNN is any better, but slips like this simply reveal the duplicity and manipulations Western MSM constantly uses to warp and distort every issue, imperceptibly bending reality to suit the official agenda.

Kosovo is Serbia, and So is the Republic of Srpska

As the Serbian students in Kosovo-Metohia province enter the 10th day of continued protests against illegal declaration by Pristina separatists, the support for their struggle is growing around the world and especially in the region.

Yesterday's protest of Bosnian Serbs was another massive rally sending a loud and clear message into the world that Kosovo is Serbia and will remain Serbia forever.

Carrying Serbian flags, Kosovo is Serbia banners along with signs reading “We want independence of Republika Srpska”, the demonstrators chanted "Kosovo is Serbia" and "We will not give the Serbian soul to the devil."

Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik also appeared at the protest organized by the Serb Movement of Non-governmental Associations (SPONA). He said the gathering was "a democratic, human revolt" and that Bosnian Serbs will never accept amputation of Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohia.

Referring to the recent assessment by the Bosnian Serb Parliament that recognition of the unilateral independence by the US and Western powers sets a new international precedent which enables unilateral secession of Republic of Srpska from Bosnian federation, Dodik said:

"We only have a little patience left and this will not last for very long."

Disturbances erupted at the end of the peaceful rally as several hundred of young people tried to reach the US consulate. The building had already been evacuated and closed after the previous week's attack at earlier rally in Banja Luka.

As police cordons prevented them from reaching the US consulate building, protesters – mainly high school students – pelted the police with stones and water bottles. Police responded by firing tear gas to disperse them. Six people were lightly injured, including four policemen, and 20 people were arrested after the protesters broke away from a rally. According to the reports from Republic of Srpska, fifteen of the arrestees are minors.

Bosnian Serb National Assembly last week adopted a resolution that said that severing of southern Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohia is unacceptable, and that Republic of Srpska itself has a right to hold a referendum on independence.

Serbian Army Reservists Clash With Albanian Terrorists-Turned-Policemen

A day before, Tanjug reported that 19 Kosovo Albanian terrorists-turned-policemen (from KLA to KPS, by the virtue of US State Department edict) had been injured in a clash with Serbian army reservists who were holding a protest at the Mutivode administrative line crossing, between central Serbia and its southern province of Kosovo, on Monday.

According to the reservists' representative Dejan Milosevic, several hundred reservists from central and eastern Serbia protested against the unilateral declaration by Pristina separatists. The clash followed when, after a verbal exchange, one of the Albanian KPS members charged at Serbs and tried to grab the Serbian flag from one protester.

The clash between the unarmed reservists and Albanian KPS lasted between 3.50 and 5.15 p.m. Two Serbian reservists sustained light injuries in the incident. They dispersed after KFOR fired tear gas.

One Spark Away from Another Balkan War

Contrary to the attempts of US, UK and other Western politicians to present their governments' unlawful recognition of the mafia state on Serbian territory as a "way forward" and the move that will "bring stability and peace" to the region, we are witnessing the very opposite taking place. The region is becoming more unstable with each passing day, with dangerous sparks flying all over the place, so it is just a matter of one wrong turn and a single additional drop of oil to have Balkans burst into flames once again.

Advisor to the Serbian prime minister Branislav Ristivojevic assessed late on Sunday that “America will today or tomorrow understand that Serbia's opposition would last until the United States annuls its recognition of the sham state of Kosovo.”

“The United States made a completely wrong assessment that Serbia's opposition would last only one day, that it would be expressed through minor resentment and that everything would be all right after that,” Ristivojevic told Tanjug.

He said that “due to its completely wrong assessment of the situation in the Balkans, the United States brought about a crisis by recognizing a sham state in the territory of Serbia” and added that the region can now be stabilized by “the United States annulment of the illegal decision on the recognition of the sham state of Kosovo.”

The Real Resistance Ushers in the Real Revolution

It is interesting to note how Western MSM and Soros-outposts in Serbia, such as B92, "Danas", "Vreme" etc, though they believe they are helping by tooting the same State Department horn, are actually doing a terrible disservice to the Western governments they wish to serve, deceiving them with unfounded daily assurances that the riots, clashes and outbursts of violence are no big deal, no more than "Serbs venting their anger", and expected to pass any day now. Nothing could be further from the truth: the situation is extremely serious and Balkan is on the verge of another war.

If one reads the Soros-employee's claptrap, one gets a completely false and distorted picture: that Serbs (still!) want to join the EU, that they want to "leave the past behind" and "move forward" into the bright and sunny Prozac future in European Utopia, that they just want peace, health and wealth, "like all the normal people", so it's all good, don't worry, everything's cool here... The problem is that such misleading signals are being sent from a virtual handful of moral lepers, marginal amateurish inept politicians nobody ever votes for and quasi-reporters and quasi-analysts despised by the greatest majority of Serbs everywhere, who are paid to castrate and spread misinformation among their own people. At the same time, most Serbs are not buying any of it and have entirely different views and perceptions one can't even glean from B92 (which censors out every dissenting view, including the critical comments).

The problem is that West has been operating on wishful thinking for far too long and simply dislikes facing the less-than-pleasant realities, so it prefers to listen to the echo of its own wet dreams, rather than learn the truth. Simply put, Western power centers are constantly falling into the trap of buying their own lies.

The problem is that the most vigorous protesters and the most numerous ones throughout Serbia, in Bosnia, Montenegro and around the world are not late President Milosevic's generation, but youth and students who have been born after the Dayton Agreement was signed and many even after the Kumanovo Agreement—this is clearly not the old and depressed, but the very young, vibrant, spirited new Serbia which refuses to trade Kosovo-Metohia for Western visas, and will not lay down its arms for the sake of couple excursions to Brussels and London. Unlike the previous, tired and defeated "transition generation" which, to some extent, allowed itself to be persuaded it's better to give in and go along, this brave new Serbia has rejected the counterfeit "history" and empty promises, for the sake of truth, justice and its right to national pride, inheritance and heritage.

The problem is that the old "Otpor" was a CIA-funded sham and an asthmatic imitation of a "revolutionary" with a very short breath that allowed it to play in just one episode, and it is right now faced with the actual, rock solid and real Resistance. The problem is that B92 and the fake "Otpor" have grown too old, too fat and flabby, and they are currently being bulldozed over by the real deal. While no one was looking, and away from the media lenses, Serbia has risen.