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You should diary your first link! That's very damning and very important.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Feb 19th, 2008 at 05:06:13 AM EST
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The first link is broken by a stray comma.

Andrej Grubacic and Ziga Vodovnik: Caligula's Horse

Let us start with the "Slovenian scandal" which we recognize as a new colonial model. In one of our previous articles we suggested a possible explanation of the nature of American interests in the Balkans. We believe that our conclusions are further confirmed by the events in Slovenia, which, to remind our readers, today holds presidency of the European Union. European leaders woke up to an unpleasant surprise the other day, a leak of an internal document of Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MZZ). This document, published in the Slovenian daily Dnevnik and the Serbian daily Politika, reveals content of a meeting between representatives of MZZ and representatives of the US State Department and National Security Agency (NSA),that took place on 24 December 2007 in Washington D.C. Slovenia's willful following of various exotic orders coming not from Brussels (the Senate) but from across the Atlantic (the Emperor), is already a well-known fact in the diplomatic hallways of Europe. But recent developments directly connected with orders and promises that were revealed in this leaked document, can mean the final transfer of our horse to the stable of New Europe, a group of states whose foreign policy is dictated by servile obedience to the United States. This, of course, also means the official end to all illusions about the credibility and importance of the Slovenian Presidency in the EU.


We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Feb 19th, 2008 at 07:25:20 AM EST
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I'm not sure I agree 100% with the above commentary, but if you scroll down, they quote from the document, and the contents are chilling and damning in themselves.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Feb 19th, 2008 at 12:02:48 PM EST
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Dodo, my understanding of the balkans is as near zero as you can get.

please, do the much better job on it that you could do!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Feb 19th, 2008 at 12:40:38 PM EST
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However you doubt your own knowledge of the matters, yours is the scoop, it would not be fair for me to steal it! If you feel uneasy about making your own analysis, you could post it as LQD. However, just that you sought, found and read these three articles shows to me that you do have the knowledge.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Feb 19th, 2008 at 12:45:53 PM EST
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To boot, I won't do it anyway, because I have another diary project to finish by tomorrow :-)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Feb 19th, 2008 at 12:46:43 PM EST
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