Unable to carry out the final pogrom of the remaining Serbs and other non-Albanians in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija while the World Court is deliberating on the illegality of Priština’s unilateral declaration of independence, ruling Albanian terrorists, guided by the Empire’s administrators, are using other methods to finish the ethnic cleansing of the province — “random acts of violence” against the province’s Serbs, populating predominantly Serbian north with Albanians and cutting off electricity to Serbian ghettos are among the favorite means KLA thugs employ nowadays. Last Wednesday the electricity was cut off to the 14th century seat of Serbian Orthodox Church, Peć Patriarchate and Monasteries Gračanica and Devič. Bishop of Ras-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija Diocese, His Grace Artemije, who was forced to leave his residence in Prizren (razed in March 2004 pogrom) and was moved to Gračanica Monastery. “This is the latest attack against the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija,” Bishop Artemije said. “They first cut electricity off to Serb-populated villages. Once they were broken, the monasteries came under attack. They started during past winter, when Monastery Gorioč was left without electricity. In this way, they moved us back to the middle ages, only not the dark middle ages, but the golden ones. We shall illuminate our chambers with candles and vigil lamps, like our ancestors,” Bishop said. Bishop Artemije explained the issue has nothing to do with money, or paying the electricity bills, as the Western mainstream is always happy to report. The problem is in the agreements Priština wants to force the head of Serbian Kosovo-Metohija Diocese to sign, by which the leader of Serbian Orthodox Christians in Kosovo province would tacitly recognize illegal, terrorist state on Serbian territory.
Foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis on Sunday inaugurated the ministry's pavilion at the 74th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), and spoke on foreign policy issues. Bakoyannis said that the coming period will be critical for the country's foreign policy as well. On the FYROM name issue, she stressed that Greece must do its hardest in order to have a good outcome, and accused the Gruevski government of attempting to rewrite history and of cultivating fanaticism and intolerance among the FYROM people, thus taking the neighboring country further away from its Euro-Atlantic prospect. Bakoyannis further stressed that the "red lines" that have been demarcated by the Greek government "are in force". On the Cyprus issue, Bakoyannis noted that difficulties existed in the talks process for a solution, but added that prerequisites also existed for a solution. She called on Turkey to actively manifest a "European deportment", noting that this is the way that leads to European Union membership.
The World Council of Hellenes Abroad (SAE), the Worldwide Federation of Overseas Cypriots (POMAK) and the International Coordinating Committee “Justice for Cyprus” are strengthening their efforts towards the realisation of their vision of Hellenes worldwide for a united and prosperous Cyprus. According to a SAE press release, this was the message communicated to the President of the Republic Of Cyprus Demetris Christophias, by the leaders of the Diaspora, in a meeting here on Tuesday. The President briefed the attendants on recent developments in Cyprus, emphasising the fact that a settlement is sought which will lead to the termination of the Turkish occupation and the unification of Cyprus, within the framework of a bizonal, bi-communal federation. The President thanked them deeply for their support and their constant help.
Abkhazia plans to demand that Georgia “stop piracy” at sea, Abkhazian Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba said. “We are dealing with a new spiral of tensions initiated by Georgia. Georgia continues to whip up tensions, this time at sea,” he said told Itar-Tass on Monday. He said Abkhazia would voice a protest to Georgia at the five-sided meeting on the prevention and investigation of incidents on the border of Abkhazia to be held in the Gali District on September 8. The Abkhazian delegation will also demand that Georgia stop piracy”. “At the meeting we will raise the question of seizure by Georgian border guards of ships sailing to and from Abkhazia in neutral waters. We will demand that the Georgian side stop piracy,” Shamba said. In his opinion, the five-sided mechanism operating under the Geneva discussions on security in the Transcaucasia was created in order to prevent such incidents and any actions that lead to tensions. “The resolution of the problem associated with the seizure of ships in neutral waters will show how effective this mechanism is,” the minister said. Abkhazia said it would reserve the right to take "proportionate measures" in order to protect cargoes intended for the republic and will hold Georgia responsible for possible consequences, the Abkhazian Foreign Ministry said. He described Georgia's actions as "piracy and contrary to international maritime and humanitarian law".
The U.S. and Russian presidents will meet in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to discuss progress towards a new bilateral arms control treaty, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. "At a meeting that will take place in New York on September 23, [Dmitry] Medvedev and [Barack] Obama will hear a report on the progress of the talks," Lavrov said. Medvedev and Obama agreed in July in Moscow on the outline of a deal to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-1), which expires on December 5, including cutting their countries' nuclear arsenals to 1,500-1,675 operational warheads and delivery vehicles to 500-1,000. During a telephone conversation on August 5, Medvedev and Obama confirmed their intention to prepare a new nuclear arms reduction treaty by December. The START 1 treaty obliges Russia and the United States to reduce nuclear warheads to 6,000 and their delivery vehicles to 1,600 each. In 2002, a follow-up agreement on strategic offensive arms reduction was concluded in Moscow. The document, known as the Moscow Treaty, envisioned cuts to 1,700-2,200 warheads by December 2012. According to a report published by the U.S. State Department in April, as of January 1 Russia had 3,909 nuclear warheads and 814 delivery vehicles, including ground-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) and strategic bombers. The same report said the United States had 5,576 warheads and 1,198 delivery vehicles.
President Barack Obama cannot possibly intend to resemble an aspiring dictator. Somehow, he keeps doing so. Now he’s going ahead with plans to address America’s schoolchildren, having dropped the part about encouraging those children to then “write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.” This administration’s run is rapidly transforming into an episode of “The Twilight Zone.” How could Obama be so foolish? He and his advisers must be oblivious to the connections between the American far left and fascism. They must be immune to the revulsion that so many ordinary citizens feel when they see government acting as it has this past year. The irony is that Obama could achieve his objectives if he worries a little more about the genuine fears of his opponents. If you want to be successful in a democracy, don’t dismiss your opponents as kooks; study them. By far the most important and prescient book of the past decade is Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” (2007), which makes it easy to understand why town-hall meetings are stuffed with concerned and angry citizens. If Obama wants to save his presidency, he needs to drop what he is doing and read it, now. “Fascism, at its core,” Goldberg writes, “is the view that every nook and cranny of society should work together in spiritual union toward the same goals overseen by the state.” I’ll put it this way: Fascism, at its core, is a stew that begins with liberal orthodoxy and then adds a charismatic leader and thuggish government officials.
Paintings of female Palestinian suicide bombers as the Virgin Mary have been removed from an Israeli art exhibition after widespread outrage. The exhibition, which contains a series of eight paintings in the traditional Christian style, angered so many Israelis that they were taken down before the exhibition in Tel Aviv even officially opened. 'Terrible, Terrible. They make terrorists holy. It's really, I can not believe it. It gives them (a) push to do it again and again,' Rivka, one of the few Israelis who visited the exhibition before it was officially opened told Reuters television. Placards placed by the art works held information about each of the suicide bombers, and the number of people killed when each bomber blew up. 'This exhibition is hurting the families who lost their loved ones. Taking terrorists who killed innocent people, and glorify them, which holy figures from the Christian world is serving the terrorists organisations that they want to show that terrorists are human beings. Not only that, it will bring other terrorists to do the same, if they are holy,' Meir Ein-Door, CEO of ALMAGOR, the roof organisation for Israeli bereaved families whose relatives were hurt in Palestinian attacks, told Reuters in Jerusalem. But the exhibition also sparked outrage among the Christian community. 'These pictures are provocative and offensive. They demonstrate carelessness not only towards an important religious symbol but towards the Christian institution. The virgin Mary has a high status in Christianity and she is revered by Christians for many reasons. In Islam, she is also held in a high regards, and is sanctified. In addition, these pictures undermine the Palestinian cause,' the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem Theodosios Atallah Hanna said. The Israeli Journalist Association, who own the venue in which the exhibition was set, decided to remove the art works, following protests over the offensive subject of the paintings.