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Presidential Palace In Bosnia Set On Fire As Riots Break Out Protesting 40% Unemployment
Another day, another European nation is hit by violent riots as protests over the economy and corruption spilled over violently into the street, this time Bosnia where more than 150 people were wounded on Friday in the worst civil unrest in the country since the 1992-95 war. The reason: anger over the dire state of domestic politics, the economic collapse and especially the country's 40% unemployment rate. The Telegraph reports that angry protesters set fire to part of the presidential palace in Sarajevo, as well as government buildings in the capital Sarajevo, Tuzla and Zenica. At least 80 people were injured in Sarajevo and 10 in Zenica, authorities said. There were no immediate casualty figures from Tuzla, where the worst of the fighting was.
Bosnia is a relatively new entrant to the current iteration of mass protests, however judging by the severity of public anger, the country is doing its best to catch up with the rest of Europe. More:
Demonstrators also clashed with riot police for a third consecutive day in the protests, which have remained largely contained to the Croat-Muslim Bosniak half of Bosnia.
Anti-government protests began on Wednesday in the northern city of Tuzla, before spreading as thousands took to the streets of a dozen cities to express their discontent over the almost 40 per cent unemployment rate.
Local media said police used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters in Sarajevo, where demonstrators stormed two government buildings including a presidential office, setting them ablaze and smashing furniture. The palace fires were promptly put out but almost all the windows were broken.
By 7pm local time, protesters had dispersed in the three main flashpoint towns, but police remained out in force. All shops were closed and streets were littered with glass and debris. On Saturday morning, the streets of Sarajevo were calm after firemen spent the night dousing the flames which almost gutted one regional government building, consuming cars and newsstands nearby.
However the city was bracing itself for further protests.
In Tuzla, the crowd stormed the local government building, throwing furniture, files and papers out of the windows and then setting the building on fire.
The protests in Tuzla may be calming following the resignation of Sead ?ausevi?, the Prime Minister of Tuzla Canton - one of 10 cantons in the Croat-Muslim Bosniak half of Bosnia - but other cities are only just getting beginning. In an unprecedented move, hundreds gathered in the capital of the Bosnian Serb part of the country, Banja Luka, to express support for protesters in the country's other mini-state, which is shared by Bosniaks and Croats.
"We gathered to support the protests in Tuzla where people are fighting for their rights," said Aleksandar Zolja, an activist from Banja Luka. The protests began on Wednesday with a clash between police and unpaid workers of four former state-owned companies, which left some 130 hurt, mostly from tear gas.
Said otherwise, wealth transfer, crony capitalism, corruption and an economic collapse have managed to unite the same people that just two decades ago were killing each other during the Yugoslavian civil war over such typical Eastern European lines of tension as religion and ethnicity. Congratulations.
Four companies employed most of the population of Tuzla. When they were privatised, contracts obliged the new owners to invest in them and make them profitable but they sold the assets, stopped paying workers and filed for bankruptcy.
Ironically, the very same is happening in the US and the rest of the world, as the productive assets are being confiscated, the middle class is being exterminated, and an increasingly smaller number of entities control the bulk of the wealth.
Summarizing the Bosnian situation in a nutshell:
Beside the high unemployment rate, the privatisation that followed the end of communism and the 1992-95 war produced a handful of tycoons, almost wiped out the middle class and sent the working class into poverty. Corruption is widespread and high taxes to fund a bloated public sector eat away at paychecks.
Or yet another teaser of what is coming to every other insolvent, crony capitalist, corrupt country in the world.
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Sorry, I thought you wrote "world", but you wrote "word".
No problem.
Where does she have the money to travel the world?
And Law School? Don't you United Stateans have enough lawyers?
Women should have no positions of power. I believe this is also contributing to the moral decay of society, as you see women holding powerful positions.
Women are to be humble and submissive to their husbands.
I know Paul said things like this, but I believe that Jesus may have been silent. Women holding powerful positions is the cause of moral decay? Satan is at work all over the planet especially right under your nose in the church.
I said it is just another part of the deviation from God's Word. Women are to be submissive and under the protection of their husbands. Not to be out in society making judgments. All this 'feminine empowerment' satanic movements actually de-feminize women. What is needed is modesty in society, whether it is the way people to dress to referring to elders properly to knowing one's place and staying humble.
She travelled in college in exchange programs. Spen roughly 1 year abroad in China and also went to Europe. She had a full tuition undergrad scholarship, had odd jobs and is very frugal. We do have too many lawyers, but many do not practice law. She has almost a full tuition scholarship to law school and is training her mind and is at the top of her class. Her day job is OK, but not challenging. She saves half her income. She wants to make a contribution to society. She does community work such as tutoring and helping low income types with their tax returns. Don't know how she finds the time.
Thats the way to do it. Don't burn your own flyover neighborhood, take it to the source.
If Krugman is correct, they broke windows in the palace therefore this is obviously bullish for the future of Bosnia. Employment problem solved.
Russia and China are slowly starting to reign in their regions, ignoring pleas from Europe and the US to "see things our way". This will go on for a few more years until it will be used as an excuse for war....which is the only thing that will re-set everyone's economy. It is inevitable. The question is when. 5 years from now? 10? 20? Next year? But its coming...
Cable Guy, I agree war is coming, many of my posts point out that I believe that. Look around, in Ukraine the USA is playing the "end game", to think they can conquer all Ukraine is madness. West Ukraine, yes, they can be brought into the EU, but not the rest, there will be a shooting war in east Ukraine and Crimea. Crimea has already raised 5,000 men to work with police and military units to defend Crimea from any orders or invasion from a Kiev government installed by the USA demonstrators. Don't believe me, these are the words of the president of the Crimea Parliament.
I remember Sarajavo from those Olympics way back in the past. Now it is aflame. ANother victory for American and EU liberation movements?
I should add, Ukraine, this is what awaits you. Look around you, and think. The neo-liberal economics that the EU will impose will destroy 99% of you. I am sure the east Ukraine already knows this, center of industry, minerals and technology, the east Ukraine would be destroyed by the EU rules and by a German conquest of markets. East Ukraine sells mostly domestically and to Russia, the EU will kill both markets, and you can all kiss your jobs goodbye! East Ukraine will not allow the Kiev demonstrators issue orders to them, I can tell you this with 100% certainty.
eastern-europe is still a shit hole thanks to soviet union, and i'm not convinced they are better off than failing southern-europe. i'm from prior and recently i have lived in the latter. the western illusory wealth is way more appealing than former recollections of soviet tyranny and misery, even though russia has a real(productive) economy compared to eu fake(debt) markets. only ethnic russians want to join the russian federation, everybody else would welcome eu even if it would be a dictatorship. ukraine is fucked if not split. it's a predicament.
Eastern Europe is not a shithole you dumb fuck.
It's a region that mostly had to fight with various empires. And it managed successfuly to safeguard their traditions, languages and Christian faith.
Just look at Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria.
All Christian countries that fought hard the muslums hordes trying to conquer Europe.
And then the fuckng zionists backstabbed EE when they "offered" communism as a "gift".
Just because EE is not as consumeristic like you united statean fat asses, it doesn't mean EE is a shithole. Detroit is a shithole.
NY is a shithole, for all its shiny skyscrapers. DC is a demonic cesspit.
LA is a satanic huge brothel you fat fuck.
have you ever been to EE? if not then you have no idea what you are talking about. i'm living in one, though it's the most northern one. not a christian country and no muslims here, just a lot of russians. yes, we have seen empires come and go, but i don't see the relevance to not being a shit hole.
look up the statistics, even though economies in EE are not in the worst shape, by every statistic(except employment), EE countries are still behind greece.
EE is more consumeristic than USSA. it adopted to the most extreme form of capitalism after the collapse of soviet union to get as far from socialism as possible. overnight soviet elite became most adherent proponent of capitalism. can you imagine capitalism with the soviet elite and soviet mentality? if not, then you haven't seen crony capitalism. do you know what happens when everything is state owned and suddenly it needs to privatized? soviet elites(former communist party members) loved it!
I'm Romanian.
I know the problems of EE.
And it has problems.
But EE is definitely not a shithole.
Most people are white and Christian, a lot of them Orthodox Christian ( the true Christian Church). Their culture is rich and traditions are wonderful.
To hear a united statean saying that EE is a shithole is pathetic.
Most mathematicians and physicist in the 20th century that won Nobel prizes were educated in EE. And yes, many were Jews. I have nothing against real Jews, I despise Zionists which are atheists/babylonian jews.
United Stateans have no idea of EE.
They all think EE is all Russia or USSR. United Stateans are the most ignorant of them all.
In a way, I like it this way. The West is dying due to their own greed and materialistic ways.
All we Eastern Europeans need to do is just fucking wait.
i'm estonian and eastern european and it's still a shit hole. wake up!
i'm saying it because while the state and government are doing well, people live in poverty and in (wage) slavery.
I think you missed his meaning:
Conformity to his set of beliefs.
As for whether or not EE is a shithole, I've never been there, but IMO, the whole world is turning into a shithole.
I'm not saying EE is the best place on Earth.
But EE is the last refuge of the white man and also Christian man.
Except Bosnia and Albania, muslims are not welcome in EE.
Unlike Londonistan, Paristan, Amsterdamstan, Copenhagenstan, USSAstan.
And I honestly believe that the Orthodox Church is the true Church of Christianity.
We hold our Christian traditions intact since the Apostles that brought Christianity to our lands.
Just look at the Catholic faith. Ever since the schism it went downhill.
The catholic and all its minions (protestant and neoprotestant churches) are continually breaking themselves down into little pieces.
I consider our difficult times in EE after the fall of Byzantium a test from God. We the Orthodox have managed to keep our religious unity despite Islamic threat of invasion, despite atheistic communism.
Go in EE in an Orthodox Church on a Sunday and you will find churches full.
Can the same be said about materialistic and consumeristic West?
You should visit EE.
leaf of tree, you can't generalise EE. estonians hate christianity as much as we hate (atheistic) soviet union and communism. we are least religious country in the world(we are what you call pagan), 15% percent of populace is religious. this is not for no reason. though it has been 800 years from the crusades into northern europe(which you have probably never heard of), we have not forgotten the slaughter that catholic church brought upon us, which also established 700 years of bondage. fuck off with your bible bullshit, you and your church are not better than the muslims you hate.
I'm sorry to hear what the Catholic Church did to Estonia.
But do not think Christianity is only Catholicism.
We the Orthodox were also victims of the Catholic Crusades. The fourth Crusade that ransacked Constantinople and helped bring about the fall of Byzantium.
We the Orthodox in EE have learned the hard way that the Vatican is only concerned with power and wealth.
Do not think for a moment that the Orthodox Church is the same with the Catholic Church.
Orthodox Church has no misionaries. We do not seek to convert others. If others want to be Orthodox they should seek the Orthodox Church.
We had no Inquisition. The Orthodox patriarchs of each Orthodox nation, never had any political power like the Pope had in the past.
State was separated from the Church throughout the whole of Orthodox Christianity.
For example in Transilvania, for centuries the majority of Romanians suffered at the hands of Catholic Hungarians. They were not allowed to build churches and practice their faith.
One Jesuit general in 1700's even conducted a campaign to demolish all Orthodox churches and monasteries.
Romania too was pagan, even though before the romans came and conquered Dacia our religion was monotheistic. We had only one god called Zamolxes.
I guess we were lucky or maybe blessed to see the Light brought to us by Andrew the Apostle of Jesus.
But please do not confuse all of Christianity with Catholicism.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmoxis
you are right, christianity is not only catholicism. in fact, as far as i know, we have no ill blood against orthodox church and also russian orthodox were victims of northern crusades.
our pagan god was called tharapita, interpreted as taara (thor) + thunderbolt(pikne), help(a(v)ita) or garden(aida).
baltic states formed a pagan wedge between catholic and orthodox church territory and thus escaped the conversion until the 12 century when crusades came along. well, considering the very small number of estonians and all the adversary trying to destroy our identity, we are lucky to still be here after more than 5000 years, which put the ancestors of estonians(according to distinct language lineage) among the oldest permanent inhabitants in europe.
thanks for the insight. peace!
Estonia has in general been growing pretty well, no? Since they went through actual austerity. They need sound money though, not a peg.
yes it has, but lot of it thanks to eu money that was pumped into our economy. in few years we will turn from receivers to donors for the eu. estonian government is already preparing for it by nationalising unemployment and healthcare reserves. media is starting to propagate the idea of myra.
it's all an illusion!
Estonia is doing okay.
Why are you complaining?
Is it maybe a perceived inferiority complex versus the Westerners?
The average Western middle class man is one paycheck away to be homeless.
In EE having personal debt is something of an exotic thing.
People save. Having a credit card is also an exotic thing.
Westerners are up to their necks in debt.
Strip away their shiny veneer of "prosperity" and you'll find debt slaves to banks.
From what I've read Estonia is a model of growth based on what happens when actual austerity takes place and savings goes up and the private sector is unleashed again. They had huge growth rates and increasing economic freedom, not surprisingly. The euro peg needs to go, though, just like the Chinese and Hong Kong among others should let their currency appreciate and back it with sound money (PMs)
yeah, government(ex-communists) is doing okay. but hard working people are earning shit while prices (except housing) are same as in western europe. public debt is low but many (young) people got sucked into housing bubble so private debt is considerably high. i'm not talking about culturally being a shithole. it's economy that soviet union fucked up.
As I posted just a bit above this particular part of the thread, trust in the Lord, man. God will have His vengeance on these peoples who instigate wars and provoke and teach moral filth.
I understand fully that in many cases China as well that when things privatize the oligarchs come because they owned the SOEs, but at least the trend is towards economic freedom, opposite that of the West.
America used to be the model when it was a nation of industrious and innovative people, and far more reverence for God.
i also replied you above.
that's the thing, i yearn for a free country as the US was long ago. there's no economic freedom in eu(also valid in estonia). instead we have a country full of people dreaming of european federation. in soviet times they were called 'useful idiots', nothing has changed.
Couldn't agree with you more. I think you got the West figured out pretty well. Remember if it wasn't for a reserve currency status, the game would have never gone this far.
In just about every Zionist inspired European war (WWI, WWII, Yugoslavia 90s) or revoluation (Communist or crypto-Joo dictator power grab) it is almost exclusively Christian Slavs that experience the genocides & atrocities.
I glory to witness the obvious peace, and love, you carry in your Christian heart, brother.
"Russia has a real productive economy"
That was a good one!
What if we all stop buying their gas?
Satan in corner sipping on a slurppie. Waiting on the US of A.
Are people asking for more government or less in these protests? If it's the former, screw 'em.
Fuck Bosnians.
Signed,
V Nuland, Jr.
careful there ....merkel might get offended!
the germans have been traditional allies of the turks and muslims in the balkans, the leftovers of the ottoman empire.
So do I infer that Bosnia has neither a BLS to issue bullshit employment statistics, nor an EBT system to issue free food?
Most importantly of all, perhaps, youth unmployment at 58!!!
The poorest rebel first, not much to lose.
Who owns everything there now?
Ah but who cares? The important news is that a shower tile came loose in a hotel near Sochi.
NO FBI OR CIA AGENTS ALLOWED IN SOCHI RESTAURANT. I thought this was funny:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554309/We-not-serve-FBI-CIA-age...
Interesting reading: The demands of the people of TUZLA;
http://www.jasminmujanovic.com/1/post/2014/02/the-demands-of-the-people-...
So, as a true American would say, they are commies. Fuck the commies!!
I wonder if these people are just now starting to realize that the collapse of Yugoslavia was orchestrated by outside forces to steal everything that wasn't nailed down. I hope not.
Soros and Albright in unison: "War profiteering is NOT a crime!"
I hope it spreads across the inventive continent so Europe, both East and West, can be freed from that cruel bloodsucking pestilence.
People need to get smart and start acquiring 'subjects' and especially so if you can get things like rifles with scopes. Getting into a brawl with a bunch of meatheads that are a dime a dozen is so fucking stupid.
Bosnia is a disfunctional state. Two entities: the Serb republic and the Croat/Muslem federation. The former wants out of Bosnia (they always wanted that ever since Sarajevo proclaimed independence from Yugoslavia) and the latter is falling apart. There is little cooperation between them anyway. There are too many layers of governance in Bosnia and this will only make corruption exponential. International donor money is drying up and people cannot cope with 'transition'. On top of that it sounds to me that state assets are being sold for not what they are worth in order to strip them and sell of the parts. It happened in Russia, it happened in Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia. Now Bosnia is up. Potentially dangerous, some nationalist or religious fool might get some ideas.
JoeA - you are correct! however, note that this is dangerous, because if this domino falls and such a precedent is established in the Balkans, then you will have others to follow: the breakup of Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania .... and creation of new states after that .... not really smt anyone would be interested to explore ... best the status quo!
Please don't mix religion with this . Banja Luka populated by Bosnian Serbs joined revolt in solidarity with Bosnians and Croats part of Bosnia. People are sick of corruption. Religion is just excuse to keep population faiting over somthing ...
I don't understand. Didn't these people keep some of the weapons they used during the civil war? Maybe they are all rusted. Don't these people at least have axes and machetes for cutting wood and brush? Why do they throw rocks? At least sharpen some broom handles and create pikes.
These people will never be really free because they refuse it.
USA citizens have plenty of weapons, after 100 years of being army base, maybe they could show the way instead. People on the Balkans have been used as a cannon fodder many times for a long time. They deserve a break if anything.
hmmm... the Carl Icahn model of 'Shareholder Activism' has spread to Bosnia! Sell the company assets and enhance shareholder value --- taking the profits, and leaving a defunct skeleton of any socially-responsible entity DOA, all the while flying low for what carrion the vulture capitalist icahn can grab thru some-kinda int'l eminent domain or resumption/ compulsory acquisition!?!
Bravo Mitt,... 'We Are People too, Corporation'?
the TAXES on Globalization fall heavy upon the plebs...
This is Bullish right?
Why doesn't the government just tell them that the employement is some number around 7% even though only 60% of people have jobs, works in the USA.
The USA provides their unemployed with food and entertainment.
Ahhh no bread and circuses? Well there's the problem....
If you like your wealth transfer, crony capitalism, corruption and economic collapse, you can keep your wealth transfer, crony capitalism, corruption and economic collapse.
Double
Coming soon to a US town near you.
You think FEMA purchased billions of rounds of hollow point SW40 for fucking target practice?
Whenever Allah shows up...
There goes the neighborhood.
Bosnia should hire the US Department of Labor to compute the country's unemployment rate. Like that, the percentage unemployed will go down to 7%, since most unemployed Bosnians will be classified as not looking for work, so they become the invisible unemployed.
"Ghana limits dollar transactions to protect cedi"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26064127
"Brazil: Rio protest over transport fare rise ends in violence"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-26077374
Be grateful, there'll come a time when robots will be breaking out and protesting 40% unemployment.
What kind of "President" has a "palace"?
Obama
I love watching the people lash out against the beast of the state.
Tough to tell which side to root for.
Which side of the unrest is the current American administration on? I'll be on the other side.
Zeitgeist Movie...
Oh yes, of course, it's the Muslims, and nothing to do with this;
"Labor markets in the Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia) are characterized by some of the highest unemployment and low employment rates in Europe."
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2014/wp1416.pdf
Ignoring economic realities.....sound familiar?
All of these countries are structurally retarded, and are/ will get hammered by Fed policy. But hey, they are not EMs, so why give a toss.
I did not hear of the riots in Croatia or Serbia or Slovekia or Bulgaria or Romania or Hungary or the, well never mind you seem to have yours made up already.
Bulgaria in 2013 was plagued by riots against their government.
The fact that Bulgaria ia a NWO slave is why you never heard anything about them.
In Romania also there took place riots especially a Canadian jew-owned gold mining corporation and against Chevron -- nat gas fracking -- in 2013.
Probably those riots were not presented in the MSM because Romania too is a slave to the NWO.
Here's short interview of Hayat's TV journalist with the Prime Minister of canton Sarajevo's government Suad Zeljkovic http://youtu.be/qRjkrg5Gz8A
And here's translation:
Journalist: "Mr Zeljkovic, can you give us a statement now?"
Mr Zeljkovic: "No, I can't give a statement."
Journalist: "Ok, if you can't give us a statement, can you give us your resignation then?"
Mr Zeljkovic: "Go fuck yourself!!!!"
Journalist: "Ok, thank you, good bye"
Broke and unstable? they got what it takes to join the EU!