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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.
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can I swear on this blog?
Go ahead. It’s fine by me.
I don’t know whether to burst out in homerical laughter or shake my head in disgust at the blatant display of such ignorance and - wilful? - misinformation. I’ll leave the swearing for another day. I mean, why waste them on something like this?
Albert Einstein once said,
“Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure of the former!”
Sadly, not untypical of the kind of disinformation that fuels US wars these days. Add this to GWB’s propensity for mangling the English language and if I lived in Piran I’d be worried
I wouldn’t worry, about it… We’ll just pretend, we’re Slovakia
Pengovsky: you have stolen my comment.
I was curious about the Iranian ambassador and I found out he does exist, though he resides in Vienna. The claim that Slovenia is presiding the IAEA worried me, too: it seems we aren’t. Yet.
My question is, where the hell do you FIND this stuff, Michael?
Poulette should know more about it that I, but I think we actually DO preside over the IAEA - or we did.
Slovenia does preside over the board of governors of the IAEA in the person of Mr. Ernest PetriÄ?. Through him, Slovenia is trying to realize its diabolical ambitions of arming Iran and creating some kind of Goldeneye device to use against western civilization. Don’t even bother trying to escape, though, because PetriÄ? will find you.
As for where I find this stuff: Doesn’t everybody spend hours upon hours trawling through crazy-conspiracy-laden extremist web sites? Don’t tell me I’m the only one. Hell, Newsblaze is included as a legitimate news source by Google News. (And no, it’s not listed as “satire.”)
If Dimitrij Rupel ever sees this, I’m afraid he might well shoot himself.
After all the NATO & GWB ar*e kissing he’s done, he’s just been classified as a close ally to Iran, acting as mutual opposition with them to NATO/UN/EU/OSCE.
Anyway, the whole thing seems to originate from the Crossfire War blog by certain Willard Payne.
www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/crossfire-war.html
Looks like this Willard Payne is either a very special sort of a joker, or a very seriously disturbed person. In the latter case, I would suspect a severe form of schizophrenia.
Or am I the only one failing to notice the World War III has been raging on since 1994?
Of course it is… It is the year thath Newt Gingrich poposed Pact for America (or what-was-it-called) which brought about Republican dominance which hopefully ends in 2008.ž
It makes sense, no?
As for Dimitrij Rupel: If US can’t see a 6′6″ bearded guy trying to suck up, then he really is doing a bad job
Sure, it’s easy to brush off the threat of OSCE occupation now. Wait until you have to tell your grandchildren how you were forced to fish in the morning, sit through endless meetings in the afternoon, and write policy analyses in the evening.
Wow. Wonder how long it’ll take for this exclusive to wind up on Fox News? And Pengovsky, the Gingrich thing was the Contract On America (or something like that).
@pirano: Right! (slaps himself on the forehead)
I knew it must be something like that, but no matter how I searched my brain all I could come up with was Partnership for Develeopment 
Wikipedia to the rescue: Contract with America. (Pengovsky, I’m surprised you remember such an arcane piece of American political history.)
Eric: Thanks for the laugh! I needed that.
Snarky remark on poster: Has ANYONE else noticed Uncle Sam has a Wahabi beard? Maybe it’s just me, but I know a Wahabi beard when I see it!
Seriious remark, this is what happens razfukana people from Texas who fell asleep in Geography class have anything to do with politics and government. They make lots of money despite not knowing the score, or who is who.
P.S. I was involved in a protest by several zeks in my gulag of the ‘Contract With America’ We each tore up copies of it and otherwise desecrated it. I would have used it for a private bodily function but ladies shouldn’t do that in public, so instead I tore it up, and spat on it, then threw it on the ground and stamped on it, then we all picked up our fallen pieces of the ‘Contract’ and put them in the office paper recycling box.
Gingrich mnakes me want to commit ethnic cleansing now that the U.N. seems to think it’s halfway o.k. or something.
oh and I wouldn’t like to tell those fucks my real name, my real address, or anything like that! They are what is described around here as BATSHIT CRAZY!
@Pengovsky and Pirano: Yeah, prepositions make a difference. Contract ON America sounds like something me and all those other anti-American lying fucks in Slovenia would come up with–you know, hire a mafia hit man to rub out Uncle Sam.
I’ve said this a million times, and I’ll say it again - Willard Payne represents the greatest threat to American democracy. He is the driving force behind every major policy decision that the U.S. had made in the past 6 years. Cheney is a regular reader of his blog, and he has lunch with Condi every Friday at Camp David. He must be stopped.
And it would not be possible for Alan Gray, publisher of the all-powerful Newsblaze, to be more of neofascist Yankee red-eyed devil:
www.thesop.org/index.php?id=393
Katja, you’re right to think that Willard and the gang are after you because they really are!
But, if I may criticize, I wish you had been more courageous. I absolutely think you should have dropped some kids off on the Contract ON America. I did. I printed it out, fanned it out on the American flag and splattered the biggest deuce of my life on it. But I didn’t stop there. I subjected Plank 1 - requiring that all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress (which we in my drum circle refer to as “Mussolini Revisited”) - to a very stern rebuke before I shoved it up the butt of a local cow. I was particularly disturbed by Plank 5, the ban on the casting of proxy votes in committee, because that’s exactly what Himmler did in 1928. I therefore hired a local gypsy to give it the “evil eye” treatment. And then, of course, make poopy on it.
I could get into it more, as it was really a two-day affair, but I might as well let the thing speak for itself - I actually scripted it out and it’s performed on a monthly basis by the new initiates in my ashram. I’ll put a video up there on the youtube real soon.
Katja, I hope that I inspired you, because it’s still possible to engage in this important demonstration. It’s easy - just go to wikipedia and print it out. Then just lay down some spicy brown. Release the chocolate hostages! Open up a can of soup on that bitch!
@Jean just to clarify — I do remember that Contract WITH… but we all referred to it as the Contract ON… Made much more sense.
By the way, and if anyone’s in the least bit interested, I sent an email to the contact for the website, and just rec’d the following reply:
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Hello.
Most of Willard’s opinions get a lot of readers, but not a lot of comment.
In the beginning, I used to question a lot of what he says, but usually, with a few months, the things he said either
happened or other stories started to show up confirming what he said.
I am skeptical of this one too, but its his opinion and opinions are about debate.
He says he is a “worst case scenario analyst”
This story received two other comments very similar to yours. I may add an editors note about this.
He actually says “opposition” to western europe. I don’t know why he added “outright hatred” I’ve been thinking about that for a few days and I decided to edit that part because it puts the focus on one item instead of
the whole of what he’s saying and its not fair to Slovenia.
He also says “Ljubljana is in complete accord with Tehran on every issue
concerning relations between them and the European theatre” the key being “concerning relations”
It will be interesting to see if any of what he says about this appears in other places over the next few months.
Thanks for contributing your thoughts. It really helps to keep us focused on reviewing, checking and editing.
Alan.
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Pirano,
My God - what an unbelievably relevant, important post. I bow to you, in thanks of spending your precious time to provide us with your brilliant wisdom.
OK, now I know that there are those that say that there are 42,000 google hits for “Contract on America” and that this little bit of brilliant wisdom is about 13 years old, but I don’t think they’re getting it. It truly wasn’t until you spent your time posting this that the world got the message that the “Contract with America” was really a “Contract on America” - which is to say, if I may expound upon your brilliant, original words, that the 1994 document that the GOP signed was actually intended to be used to assassinate everyone in America. Pirano, you joker! You’re unbelievably funny! And relevant!
No doubt, in your brilliance, you are referring to the part of the Contract on America (ON - ha! I didn’t even intend to write that! It’s just the way I think now that you put up that extremely relevant post!) cited below.
Keep it up yo.
The Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act
A package of measures to act as small-business incentives; capital-gains cuts and indexation, neutral cost recovery, risk assessment/cost-benefit analysis, strengthening the Regulatory Flexibility Act and unfunded mandate reform to create jobs and raise worker wages. Although this was listed as a single bill in the Contract, its provisions ultimately made it to the House Floor as four bills:
H.R.5, requiring federal funding for state spending mandated by Congressional action, and estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to cost more than $50m per year, was passed 360-74, 2/1/95. This bill was conferenced with S. 1 and enacted, 3/22/95.
H.R.450 required a moratorium on the implementation of Federal regulations until June 30, 1995, and was passed 276-146, 2/24/95. Companion Senate bill S. 219 passed by voice vote, 5/17/05, but the two bills never emerged from conference.
H.R.925 required Federal compensation to be paid to property owners when Federal Government actions reduced the value of the property by 20% or more, and was passed 277-148, 3/3/95.
H.R.926, passed 415-14 on 3/1/95, required Federal agencies to provide a cost-benefit analysis on any regulation costing $50m or more annually, to be signed off on by the Office of Management and Budget, and permitted small businesses to sue that agency if they believed the aforementioned analysis was performed inadequately or incorrectly.
*** Katja, I really posted this for you! I need you to follow through on building that dookie castle! We must protest. Please please plant a steaming bouquet of brown roses on it! Help the groundhog find his shadow! Update the Captain’s log! Make a Novo Mesto hand warmer!
@Michael M: Well, what you call an arcane piece of US political history has had great reprecussions for the “rest of the free world”. Afterall it ended decades of Democrats’ control of Congress - an achievement on it own (I’m not saying I liked it - not at all - but it still was an achievement).
Add the fact that Contract with America actually percipitated today’s Contract on America, with most of the world being at least heavily disgruntled by the US (pirano’s pun is one for the books :D), you get a text-book example of a political seizmic shift whose tremmors are felt all over the world some fifteen years later.
In other words: it’s a classic
Definitely one for the Daily WTF. But Katja: don’t mess with Texas!
@ MiGrant, I’ll mess with Texas all I want thank you very much! I learned my English in Texas, my son was born in Texas and it gives me honorary Tejana status and the right to mess with Texas all I damn well want.
@ Patrick, ladies don’t publicaly display bodily functions of that sort.
I did write to Gingrich a lengthy letter with about 12 points to it, and he never replied, I sent it ‘return reciept requested restricted delivery’ and therefore I KNOW he got it. The lazy arrogant fuck never replied.
There’s a number of people in his stinking party actually put me in more of an ethnic cleansing state of mind.
Michael, Katja, Pengovsky, please don’t trouble yourself with nonsense like this NewsBlaze drivel. It is of less than no consequence as influential news outlets go. If you want to worry about misinformation that tilts the world on its axis, be concerned about the New York Times!