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  2. Tried to get David and Monsanto from Amazon Price was $89/dvd.
    If you know sources where you saw it, it would help us all out here, in looking at that docomentary.
    It is not on Netflix, or Apple TV.

  3. Hello Catherine,

    I don’t know if you’ve ever seen or watched interviews with Joaquin Flores. He is at ground zero of the refugee crisis in Serbia. And this video is an excellent primer on the complexity of the situation and how the whole region is back on the path to war. Although it is a bit long. This interview also connects the dots on the refugee crisis to failed attempt by U.S. to try to pin the refugee crisis on Russian involvement only to be faked out by disinformation and triggering the crisis before Russia publicly got involved so Russia could avoid being blamed. The video is a bit long as it goes into a lot of depth.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hv34irgmNM

    Joaquin also runs the Fort Russ website which also follows a lot of Russian news, translating them into English and his analysis of Ukraine and Greece has usually been very accurate and as started appearing on Press TV and a couple other foreign news channels.. Frankly I wonder if he is an intelligence asset because his analysis isn’t something you would get just by taking college classes.

      1. Dear Catherine and Jonathan,
        I saw this comment and link and since it considers part of the world where I come from, I listened to it and looked at the website of his Center for Syncretic Studies http://syncreticstudies.com/ . At the top I see their logo and I wonder how strange, it looks very much as logo of Serbian extreme right, which like to call themselves Cetniks. Then I scroll down, and there they are on the right, link to the Srpska radikalna stranka or Serbian radical party, the one to which Vojislav Seselj and also current Serbian president Tomislav Nikolic and current prime minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic all belong to. Also, it looks like some of the members of this Center are also connected to this party. Reading the texts and listening to this audio confirms pretty much that line of thought. I believe that your question about how come this guy Joaquin Flores is discussing about some of these issues with seemingly lots of insight is pretty spot on. In my opinion this kind of organizations and propaganda is very common these days coming from Serbia and one should not be surprised. It is similar to what John Laughland and his colleague at The institute of democracy and cooperation Srdja Trifkovic are advancing regarding Milosevic and Serbia for years. Although, I agree that the International tribunals in The Hague are really a travesty for many reasons and have little to do with the truth, but what all these people are „forgetting“ to tell to you are too many things to be material omissions… For example, the SANU or the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art first published I think first in 1986 and then came into circulation again around 1995. First memorandum which discusses the issues of Serbia in relation to Yugoslavia and it pretty much states the continuation of „Great Serbia“ – type of politics, very well documented in different documents before that, which would ensure that Yugoslavia stays as it is, with Serbia in charge. When Milosevic says in his interviews in front of the Tribunal in Hague that he does not need Great Serbia, because he has already Yugoslavia, that is what he is referring to. After the war that did not go as they planned and after Yugoslavia fell apart, in 2002 SANU issues Second memorandum which is considered to state that basically what could not be achieved in the war, should be achieved by diplomacy and political action by peaceful means and the goal is to ensure that Serbia will dominate the region once again as it did in the past and regain what it lost in the war. This last document is not public, but its own creators, as well as Serbian politicians, have commented it and confirmed it in many occasions. So, when this kind of comments and people, like the ones I mentioned above, especially foreign „experts“ of the region are making such statements or writing books like the one Laughland wrote on Milosevic, you can be sure that it is part of that memorandum’s strategy by peaceful means. If they wanted to talk about the whole truth, they would have not only talked about NATO bombings of Belgrade, which were by the way atrocity and done because of US and NATO interests in Kosovo, not to save the rest of us who have been attacked by Serbia under disguise of Yugoslavia and JNA for years, but they would talk and write also more about what went down in for example Sarajevo or in Vukovar. But they took it all out of context and focus only on that and on Kosovo to bring home the point, which is obviously their task to begin with. The funny thing is that in such organizations you always have foreigners as well as some Serbians. Why do you think that is? If you want to see Western movie about this war, you can check movie called Harrison’s Flowers that is about occupation of Vukovar. When you see the group of JNA (Yugoslav army) soldiers marching and singing something along the lines: “Give us only salad, we will eat the meet of the Croats” you need to know that this is real news footage which I remember watching that day on TV (I think it is written in the movie as well).
        The rhetoric that Balkans region is on the verge of the new war has been around from the last war, that is for last 20 years… Surely, it is not the most pacific part of the world, but it is far from the brink of the war. We all call it „the Balkan pot“ because there is always something boiling under the surface. It would help if foreign powers would not mix in it so much, because I assure you that in all these nations around me there are normal people as well and I think we could get along just fine if there were not politicians, „experts“ and all sorts of interests. But, so could also people in Middle East I guess and look what that looks like…
        I apologize for another very long post, but it is very difficult for me to explain a little part of this complicated situation to you, since I am aware that most of the people from all over the world does not understand much about my region. So, imagine how well we all really understand what is going on for example in Syria or Palestine and Israel…
        Many regards to you all

        1. Thank you, Tea. Very much appreciated! If agree that it is very hard for someone sitting outside the region to figure out trustworthy coverage of what is happening. Everywhere you go these days, too much stirring of the pot!

          1. Thank you Catherine, you are right, it is difficult to know. These people are all direct product of the fight between NATO and Russia in different countries, so I guess one cannot follow all that is happening. I personally like to watch RT and agree with some stuff that Laughland says, because it gives us another side of the story. But always, based on our experience here, in the region that is a border between NATO and Russia, you realize that who knows how much of what any side is saying is really true? That I guess is the thing that Mr. Global is the best at, bringing the mess and unclear situations, so that people who wish to understand and know and not hate each other just because someone says they should have a much more difficult time.
            Best regards,

          2. I truly believe that both NATO and Putin report to Mr. Global. The divide and conquer games are much deeper and more intimate than most of us can fathom.

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