Mladin Kovacevic
“Who the hell is Miladin Kovacevic,” you might ask, “A war criminal?”
Not quite, he is a Serb college basketball player involved in the horrific beating of a fellow student in a New York State town who was then helped to escape the USA and return to Serbia by a Serbian diplomat.
The US government is [...]
Originally posted at the Belgrade Foreign Visitors Club
There has been plenty of talk over the last few years about the need to attract talented Serbs from the Diaspora back to Serbia to lead the next generation of Serbian businesses with their unique blend of Western know-how and understanding of Serbian culture.
I have recently come across [...]
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Experts unveil ‘cloak of silence’
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Religious communities are driven by sexual advantages | behaviour and intelligence news at abelard.org
“Religious attendance in the contemporary United States is to support a high-fertility, monogamous mating strategy”
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“Lippmann…argued in his best-selling book called Public Opinion that democracy was fundamentally flawed. People, he said, mostly know the world only indirectly, through “pictures they make up in their heads.” And they receive these mental pictures largely through the media. The problem, Lippmann argued, is that the pictures people have in their heads are hopelessly [...]
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We have heard about shills lurking in forums, studios bribing bloggers to write praising movie reviews and astroturfing campaigns (or anti-Astroturfing campaigns) as part of the emerging story of PR and reputation management in the Internet era.
Now it seems there is a growing number of PR companies devoted to monitoring influential forums and having [...]
Property Week has a story on yet another attempt to do something with the Battersea Power Station:
Will the latest plan for Battersea Power Station, REO’s £4bn, Vinoly-designed ‘Eco-Dome’ become a reality?
Another year, another proposal for the redevelopment of the derelict Shell that is Battersea Power Station and the 32 acres surrounding it.
Yet, 25 years [...]
Originally published at the Belgrade Foreign Visitors Club
Very interesting comments from former Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith testifying in the Ante Gotovina trial.
Apart from his rather weak contention that the expulsion of the Krajia Serbs was not ethnic cleansing because the population had fled before the invaders arrived, the bulk of his statement is damning.
Galbraith [...]
Originally posted on Combat Consulting
About 18 months ago started using my MacBook Pro for all professional work, ditching my Toshiba and making “the switch”.
Despite really loving my Mac, various professional conventions and some much loved software keep me running a stripped down copy of Windows XP in Parallels nearly full time. Apart from being just [...]
Originally published at the Belgrade Foreign Visitors Club
A few weeks ago a visiting Irish friend of mine went out to resupply us wit booze and came back complaining that he could not find Cranberry juice for the vodka.
I told him, as a joke, that Cranberry juice was only sold in Pharmacies in Belgrade as a [...]
Originally published at The Belgrade Foreign Visitors Club
People fishing in extremely polluted water on the Sava river near Belgrade (March 2005). Detail here.
The same spot in May 2008, nothing has changed.
Water expert and member of the International Press Institute (IPI), Joseph Treaster, has posted a [...]