I wonder if Homeland Security has a color coding for this particular warning. A Serbian village, Zarozje, is in full panic after its mayor issued a serious public health warning of an outbreak of vampires. One particular vampire actually: Sava Savanovic, which by the way is a great name for a vampire.
The mayor suggested people stock up on garlic and crosses after an old water mill collapsed. The story is that Sava Savanovic used the mill to prey upon unsuspected visitors. Apparently, the town allowed visitors to be vampire fodder to keep Sava Savanovic away from the local denizens (This may explain why Zarozje is not a popular tourist spot). The family that owned the mill refused to enter it because Sava Savanovic lived there. The mill rotted and recently collapsed. This really really ticked off Sava Savanovic, who, as a vampire, was already pretty ticked off.
According to the mayor, this has left Sava Savanovic without a home and looking for midnight snacks.
Somehow I am convinced that behind this story is a garlic farmer who was facing a sales slump.
Source: The Week
Mike S says: “Hate to say it but you outed me here. As a Jew, not Israeli, I think the assassination teams after Munich were quite appropriate, since all of those responsible for the gratuitous murder of the Israeli Olympic athletes were going to get away with their crime. Your equating that specific actions with drones is I think unjustified.”
I’m with Mike S here, and perhaps it is because genes are thicker than water but perhaps I would be with him on this one even if I were a non-Jew. See, the action against the Israeli athletes was definitely, without any doubt, both an act of war against a sovereign nation that had participated with other nations in an international cooperative game, but was, in addition, an antisemitic (therefore hate-motivated) crime — and this, unfortunately, is one of the functions of Israel.
nick spinelli 1, November 30, 2012 at 10:36 am
Dredd … You do know his sister was Surgeon General
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No, I did not know.
Of the U.S., or the Army, or what?
Randyjet,
Thanks for your definition. Exactly what I needed to expand on my thesis. Fits American system extremely well. All three branches of government are infiltrated by commercian interests/vorporation lobbyists/etc.
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It is also called corporatism since the state has a major interest in the operation of corporatioins as well as serving the interests of the private capitalist owners of that property. This necessitates the crushing of all opposition of political parties** and unions. The workers organizations are destroyed and in its place there are established company “unions” which are run by the companies.
Randyjet
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If elected, they have to be bought because they can’t pay their way. If appointed for lifetime, they are impatient to get on the corporate teat as quickly as possible.
I did not say totalitarian***, although we get closer for every passing day. But fascist, definitely. And liberl leftist I am not. Try again.
**Reagan killed the labor unions, and you tell me how a meaningful difference between the Dems and the Repubs disappeared, and when business buying whatever they needed: power, laws, wars, regulating welfare, education……..an infinite list.
***We can still decide where we buy groceries.
Darren Smith,
The list of vampire politicians is very long. Only now in America we have several. Hope you have lots of ink in your pen. If you want to start with the Balkans, I can do one on USA, starting with the Bushes.
ID707, You need to know what fascism is before you start slinging the term around. i hate those on the left who call everything fascist at the drop of a hat. Fascism is a mass movement of jingoist nationalism primarily from the petite bourgeiouse. It uses nationlist symbols and views to create a unity of the political spectrum around this nationalism to subject the lower classes to the will of the large corporations which fund such movements. It is also called corporatism since the state has a major interest in the operation of corporatioins as well as serving the interests of the private capitalist owners of that property. This necessitates the crushing of all opposition of political parties and unions. The workers organizations are destroyed and in its place there are established company “unions” which are run by the companies.
As for wealty interests controling the politics, that is NOT fascism since virtually every government based on private ownership of the means of production have done the same. This runs from the mercantile era of British power to the present. So saying that wealthy interests control the state is nothing new nor is it fascism.
While I am sure that there are probably fascists in even Sweden, and as was proved in Norway recently, the governments of those countries are NOT. The government of Croatia is as close to fascism as one can get without being fascist outright. As I said, if Germany decided to honor Hitler, I would not set foot in Germany again, even though the government might not be fascist.
I’m printing the signs now and intend to make my fortune:
Sava Savanovic Slept Here
Actually vampires such as Slobodan Milošević had once been common in Serbian politics
While I am not a fan of Milosevic, he was overcharged and framed up to say the least. ALL of what he did was done by virtually ALL of the nations he was being judged by. I really got a laugh out of the “court” being in the Hague of all places since the people in that country should have been the FIRST ones to be on trial for the atrocities that were FAR in excess of anything Milosevic was accused of. Just remember what the Dutch did in Indonesia after WWII. Then we can all recall the FACT that Holland provided the most volunteers for the SS of any country in WWII by far. Those folks are REAL nazi genocidal murderers. They might be called experts at it in fact. As we found out later,most of the reports were lies fromt he NATO types about the so called war crimes. Then of course, this overlooks the FACT Milosevic was in HIS OWN COUNTRY at the time. He did not travel half way around the world to mass murder a people who did nothing to them as the dutch did or the US did in Vietnam. The US established free fire zones in Vietnam in which anyting living was killed on sight. ALL the villages were destroyed and the people forcibly killed or moved. The Serbs did none of that. Most to the people in Kosovo left on their own for the simple reason that NATO was threatening to make war there. I would get out too if I were facing such a thing. War zones are NOT a healthy place to be for anybody.
“If the US were sending out assassination teams as the Israelis did after the Munich massacre, or using drones in Western Europe, THEN I would be upset.”
Randyjet,
Hate to say it but you outed me here. As a Jew, not Israeli, I think the assassination teams after Munich were quite appropriate, since all of those responsible for the gratuitous murder of the Israeli Olympic athletes were going to get away with their crime. Your equating that specific actions with drones is I think unjustified.
“Using drones to attack the Taliban and their supporters is not a bad thing since we are at war with them.”
I guess then your delineation on the drone issue comes down to whose ox is being gored. I would think that the “Munich Massacre” was an expression of warfare by terrorists as much, if not more than the our war with the Afghanistan terrorists the “Taliban”. You are forgetting that for better or worse, the Taliban came to power with the support of a majority of the Afghan people. I loathe them for their aberrant beliefs, but it was not the Taliban who attacked us on 9/11, even if they allowed the attackers to base themselves in Afghanistan. Your equivalency’s don’t add up.
randyjet,
suppression is accomplished in different ways and against different groups. Your earlier experience is not relevant today.
I’m not too hep on fascism, but as I understand it, it requires giving power over the government to corporations. Do explain how this does not fit the USA. You do accept the fact that it is corporations who steer this country through bought laws and bribery??
It was savagery, which had been mentioned, that I was pointing out. Our attacks in the Swat Valley is willfully against the wishes of the Pakistan government. And many Pakistan soldiers have been killed by Talibans there. The real figures on civilian casualties. taps of burial ceremonies, two-tap attacks have we discussed too. So that pretty well fits a description of savagery, I feel.
Our use on drone attacks have no support in international laws and treaties that we have signed years ago.
Pakistan is a sovereign nation whom we pay support to, both military and civil. We are not at war with them.
You worded your criticism of former Yugoslavia in a way which I thought was a blanket condemnation of all nations there. Apparently not meant so.
Do you suppose that if you visited Croatia, that you might meet some people that you could like and respect?
There are fascists in many countries, even Sweden.
MS While some of the murders the Israelis carried out were justified in some circumstances, such as attacking those beyond the reach of law enforcement and courts. they went WAY out of line in Western Europe where they did have that option. The Israelis alsm managed to MURDER a niumber of people who were INNOCENT. The most egregious case was in Norway which the Norwegians let them off the hook Had the Israelis bothered trying to use the legal system instead of being terrorists themselves, they would have found out the guy they murdered had NO connection to terrorists at all.. Killing the terrorists in Arab countries was perfectly justified since there was no possiblity of using the law to get them. The SAME is true of the drone strkies since they are being done in an active war zone, and the Pakis are not too upset with them either since they could easily SHOOT THEM DOWN! They do NOT. The same is true for Yemen and killing the American citizen who was around the Al Qeada group when he shared their same fate. At least he can share the virgins with them now, so he should be quite happy and we should not mourn or protest his demise. He got what he deserved and wanted.
As for the Israeli athletes, one can make a good case that they were legitimate military targets since they were all military personnel. I knew when I was in the military, I was a legal target at all times, on duty off duty, in uniform or out, even in reserve or active duty. That is a fact. Of course, there was no justification for the atrocity, but they were not innocent civilians. The terrorists got what they deserved too.
Dredd, You’re on fire! You do know his sister was Surgeon General.
randyjet,
Why is it worse now? There are several countries. Was that judgement for all of them?
And people don’t choose savagery or fascism unless there are special reasons. Right?
For example, why do we drone Swat valley civilians and have a neofascist government with unseverable links to corporations?
Your opinions interest me, so do please answer with your insights.
If the US was neofascist, I would be either dead or on the run and using my guns instead of my computer. To say the US is even close to being fascist is absurd, All the more so since I know what the Houston was like when I first moved here. I and others were arrested for simply passing out anti-war leaflets, our headquarters were bombed and shot up by the cops and their buddies in the KKK. A friend of mine house was shot up by them a number of times. The cops would raid parties that we held and arrested many of us. So don’t give me this crap about how the US is so repressive now.
The problem with Croatia is that they openly laud the Ustashi and shield their war criminals who committed genocide against the Serbs and others who are not Coats. THAT is my probem with them.
Using drones to attack the Taliban and their supporters is not a bad thing since we are at war with them. If the US were sending out assassination teams as the Israelis did after the Munich massacre, or using drones in Western Europe, THEN I would be upset. We use drones for the simple reason that the US and/or the ruling regime in those countries cannot nor will not bring those terrorists in for trial or even fight them. It is easier tor the US to save those countries government casualties and money by letting the drones do their dirty work for them. That is NOT fascism by any means. It is called WAR. Bad things happen to all people in such situations, especially when one opponents use their innocents as shields.
It’s risky, but try first putting up aa ad on the net, advertizing a vampire museum cum disco- The ad might be a way to test the waters before building it.
If things continue, it will be an eternal source of income for the family. Even Euros go for this stuff.
Actually I am more likely to stay away from Croatia because of their political situation. While I love Germany, I would not set foot there if they started glorifiying Hitler or the Nazis. Unfortunately, Croatia has decided that the Ustashi were their models and good examples for their people. The Ustashi were the puppet rulers of Croatia under Hitler in WWII. They were so brutal and savage that even the SS was appalled. Now when you can gross out the SS, you have really accomplished quite a feat. I have already been to Yugoslavia in 1984 and had a nice time and enjoyed the place, though the people were still civilized even under the Communists. Now is another matter.
The vampires have to pay for their sins:
Italian households are ALWAYS protected.
A lot of Serbian families migrated to the U.S. The keep mum about the vampires. Stay away from Serbia itself if you know whats good for ya. If your are gonna be a tourist, drive the Dalmatian Coast, Macedonia and up thru Croatia. Dubrovnik, is one of the finest looking cities in Europe. Rent a sailboat. Stay the heck away from Serbia.
I’m prepared…. I have my pods of garlic….
I guess now that the debate over bigfoot has gone mainstream http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/bigfoot-dna-proves-creature-exists-genetic_n_2199984.html every town that has weird cryptozoology myths will try to attract tourists by exploiting them, from vampires, to nessie, werewolves to . Movies like twilight sensationalizing the vampire story encourage this.”Why go to boring old bermuda when you could come here and win a chance to live forever, though 1/1000 die overnight!”
Maybe they should rebuild the mill. Not only would it give them something useful to do they could include a lot of garlic in the concrete and crucifixes in the art work.
Or they could try joining the 21st Century & give up on all the superstitious mumbo-jumbo . . . nah!
Ooo. That is a really good vampire name. But I too must look to the garlic farmer in peril before buying some metal collars and wooden stakes.