Archives for March 6th, 2007

It’s high time Slovenia gets destroyed. (original poster)

I’ve read a lot of foreign-news stories about Slovenia but, man oh man, this has got to be the dumbest one ever written: Iran-Slovenia Unite Their Foreign-Economic Policy.

It appeared recently in something called News Blaze, which is some kind of “Lookit-me-Ma-I’m-a-media-mogul-on-the-interweb” type deal filled with junk like Midget Elvis stories and oodles of happy news from Iraq.

Still, you wouldn’t find this kind of sloppiness on a fourth-rate myspace blog. Here are some of the mistakes this sorry attempt at an article makes:

1) Slovenia is not currently being “occupied” by NATO. Or the EU. Or the UN. Or the OSCE(?!) Nor is Slovenia even “opposed” to any of those institutions. It’s not even opposed to the deployment of troops in the former Yugoslavia — the country just deployed soldiers to Kosovo.
2) Ljubljana is not “in complete accord” with Tehran.
3) Iran does not have anywhere near enough economic clout with Slovenia to “influence” its decisions, as the story seems to insinuate.
4) To say that Southeastern Europe has an “outright hatred” of Western Europe is nutty. To insinuate that Slovenia also hates western Europe and wants to throw its lot in with Iran is just moonbat cuckoo-crazy.
5) Romania is not a radical Islamic country.

The sources listed for the story include the Night Watch Information Service (where most of the crazy comes from) and the official Iranian news agency. Amazingly, the official Iranian story is more accurate than the News Blaze story.

Anyway, you owe it to yourself to see the worst story about Slovenia ever written so go check it out.

Also: They’re looking for bloggers and since they don’t seem to have any interest in facts, I’m guessing that they aren’t too picky.