Kosovo deports self-proclaimed imam

11.3.2010 by CrniLabudovi.

Published on SETimes (http://www.setimes.com)

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2010/03/11/feature-03

Kosovo deports self-proclaimed imam, closes mosque

11/03/2010

Self-proclaimed imam Xhemajl (Kastriot) Duka — an Albanian — is kicked out of Kosovo based on laws regulating residency for foreigners. Pristina is cracking down on Islamist extremists throughout the republic.

By Linda Karadaku for Southeast European Times in Pristina — 11/03/10

Deported rogue cleric Xhemajl (Kastriot) Duka. [File]

Kosovo police arrested and deported to Albania a self-proclaimed Muslim holy man last week.

Xhemajl Duka, known by the name Kastriot, had been living in the village of Marina, in the central region of Drenica.

In a press release, the interior ministry said that Duka was deported on March 3rd for violating laws regarding foreign nationals living within the country. That is, the reason he asked to reside in Kosovo differed greatly from what he was actually doing there, according to reports in Bota Sot, a daily newspaper.

The deportation is part of an on-going campaign in Kosovo against Muslim extremists.

The government said Duka received permission to live in Kosovo in order to develop humanitarian activities. Instead, they charge, he was promoting non-religious activities associated with Islamic fundamentalism.

Duka’s mosque in Marina — built in 1999 after the Kosovo war and reportedly a site of extremist ferment — was temporarily closed by the municipal council of Skenderaj on February 26th.

Duka was using the mosque for activities associated with a British-based charity known as Rahma Mercy. Of the 716 mosques in Kosovo, only the one in Marina was outside the jurisdiction of the Kosovo Islamic Community (BIK).

The mosque was closed after about 6,000 residents of Skenderaj — most of them Muslim — signed a petition alleging that it was being used for non-religious activity. Criticism surrounded the intellectual manipulation of orphans at the school connected to the mosque, as well as forcing pre-adolescent girls to wear the full veil and body coverings known as the niqab and abaya.

“It’s not by chance that [Duka] chose Marina” to set up his activities, Ajnishahe Halimi, an initiator of the petition who leads a local NGO in Skenderaj, told the Kosovo Daily Express. “There are many families in this place who lost loved ones] during the war. It’s easier to manipulate the children. [Duka] was forcing four-year-old girls to put the veil on.”

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Fahrudin Mavrić, suspected of killing police officer Željko Zečević on Wednesday, has been arrested

7.3.2010 by CrniLabudovi.

Suspect in police shooting arrested

6 March 2010 | 15:05 | Source: B92, Beta

BELGRADE — Fahrudin Mavrić, suspected of killing police officer Željko Zečević on Wednesday in Tutin, has been arrested. The arrest of Fahrudin Mavrić (Beta) The Interior Ministry confirmed for B92 that Mavrić was arrested near the administrative line with Kosovo. “We will be put into custody and charge him before taking him to the investigative judge of the Hugh Court in Novi Pazar,” Novi Pazar Police Administration Chief Dragan Terzić said. The incident happened after a police patrol intervened during a tavern brawl in the village of Jezgroviće. Two participants in the fight, Mavrović being one of them, were taken outside, but shortly afterwards they encountered police again as they caused a traffic accident. After police took the two into custody, Mavrić took the police officer’s gun while in the car, shot Zečević in the back and escaped. Zečević was buried in Tutin on Saturday. The funeral was attended by Interior Minister Ivica Dačić.

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Joke of the year - Kosovo PM: Kosovo vows to end chaos

5.3.2010 by CrniLabudovi.

AVOIDING CONFRONTATION:

Since the end of the Kosovo 1998-1999 conflict, the northern area bordering Serbia proper has been the scene of deep tensions.

PRISTINA, March 4, 2010 (AFP) - Kosovo’s government Thursday vowed to bring security and economic development to the flashpoint north as it presented an integration strategy for Serbs who do not recognise Pristina’s authority.

“The decade-long chaos must be ended. We should not allow the situation in the north of the country to keep our European future as a hostage,” said Prime Minister Hashim Thaci,

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http://www.javno.com/en-world/kosovo-vows-to-end-chaos-and-integrate-serb-north_296516

Friday, March 5, 2010

Kosovo: Dangerous Thinking

It has become difficult to determine what folks in Pristina really think from what they say when talking about Kosovo.

Example: The American Ambassador to Pristina talks of the “amazing results” in the south with some Serbs there voting in last year’s local elections and thus taking “their” place in “their” local governments. He suggests that Serbs in the north too will recognize they are “the first victims of the parallel structures” and will eventually do the same when freed from the influence of Belgrade. Does he really mean that we should take as a model process of change one where the dominant powers (Kosovo government, KEK, EULEX, ICO, police) intimidate and bully – through use of force, electricity cuts and neglect – already isolated communities till they submit to that power or face a return to the state of nature?

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Does he really think they will rise to his call to “take their destiny into their own hands, just as people in Gracanica and Strpce did” and accept that they can improve their lives “through participation in Kosovo institutions?” Or is he just speaking for effect, to provide reassurance to the Albanians and continued US cover for an EU policy apparently going nowhere but still letting Washington off the hook?

When the Kosovo Prime Minister suggests that the “decade-long chaos [in the north] must be ended” does he really expect us to take seriously the notion that rule by Pristina equals “no chaos?”

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http://outsidewalls.blogspot.com/2010/03/kosovo-dangerous-thinking.html

Autor:

Gerard Gallucci

Served as US foreign service officer, 1980-2005, in Latin America and Africa and after retirement as UN Regional Representative in Mitrovica, Kosovo 2005-08. Still active elsewhere.

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French FM Calls Reporter ‘Sick’ for Organ Trafficking Question

3.3.2010 by HoisseBig.

French FM Calls Reporter ‘Sick’ for Organ Trafficking Question

Belgrade | 03 March 2010 | Bojana Barlovac

 

Bernard Kouchner in Gracanica

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has referred to Budimir Nicic, a Voice of America reporter in Kosovo, as “insane”, when Nicic asked about Kouchner’s role in alleged human organ trafficking in Kosovo.According to Fonet news agency, after the journalist posed the question, Kouchner laughed out loud and said: “Organ trade? But you are sick, aren’t you? Do I look like someone who would traffic organs? You are insane, to believe all kinds of nonsense like that.”

He went on to say “What’s the yellow house? Why yellow? Sir, you should consult (a doctor). There was no yellow house, there was no organ trade. People who talk about things like that are bums and murderers,” the French diplomat was heard saying in a video that has since surfaced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LskwSUOeMuI&feature=player_embedded

Original youtube commentar: His Reaction tells everything - hes lying, the Council of Euprope is investigating this case and he doesnt know about that ????, Carla del Ponte also wrote about this in her book.. Siptari, God sees everything, so dont laugh like this motherfucker, because, what goes around comes around, so your kids could be missing and butchered some day also…
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Claims of human organ trafficking in Kosovo were first raised by former chief prosecutor at the Hague,  Carla Del Ponte, in her book “Madame Prosecutor”.

Del Ponte alleged that several hundred Serb civilians were kidnapped in Kosovo in 1999 by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, and then taken to northern Albania where their vital organs were taken out and sold on the black market.

The Yellow House is named as one of the locations where organs were allegedly harvested. One of Europe’s top human rights investigators, Dick Marti, is leading the investigation into the claims.

Kosovo and Albanian officials have repeatedly denied the organ trafficking allegations.

The Voice of America journalist was reportedly insulted by the Kouchner’s reaction. “My intention was not to provoke Mr. Kouchner, I was only doing my job professionally,” Nicic told Tanjug news agency.

Kosovo Serb politician Rada Trajkovic, who was one of Kouchner’s hosts in Gracanica, said that she could not justify the reaction of the French minister, but that she did understand it.

“Telling a doctor that he participated in killing, kidnapping and organ trade would be the biggest insult for me. The question has affected him personally and he had a reaction that I do not justify, but I understand,” broadcaster B92 quoted Trajkovic as saying.

Kouchner was the United Nations’s top administrator in Kosovo after the UN took control following the NATO bombing in 1999. He visited Belgrade and Pristina this week to discuss bilateral relations, EU integration and the Kosovo issue with top officials.

Serbia’s two journalist organisations - Serbian Association of Journalists, UNS, and the Independent Journalists Association of Serbia, NUNS - have strongly condemned Kouchner’s “undiplomatic speech and insults”, and requested an explanation.

 http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/26289/

Solana - Wesley Clark and the KLA Organ Harvesting Atrocity

June 30, 2008

KLA Organ Harvesting Atrocity…………………..

 

…One Summer Evening in Swiss Alps: Wesley Clark and Javier Solana

Translation of the article and transcript of conversation published by Belgrade daily Kurir

NATO leaders Wesley Clark and Javier Solana knew that the international forces in Kosovo are dealing in trafficking of the human organs and drugs, and were most probably involved in these deals. Former NATO chief commander, American General Wesley Clark and then-NATO Secretary General Javier Solana have met on August 15, 2001, in a villa rented in Swiss Alps.

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 http://balkanblog.org/2008/07/02/solana-wesle-clark-and-the-kla-organ-harvesting-atrocity/

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US report says Balkans remain major drug route

2.3.2010 by CrniLabudovi.

 

US report says Balkans remain major drug route

02/03/2010

WASHINGTON, United States — The Balkans remain a major transit route for drugs moving from production to consumer countries, despite efforts by local governments to combat trafficking, the US State Department concluded in its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report published on Monday (March 1st). According to the document, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey are major transit countries for narcotics smuggling. To a lesser extent, the report said, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo and Montenegro are also smuggling routes. Albania is seen as a cannabis supplier, while Bulgaria produces amphetamine-type stimulants. The report warns of a surge in drug use in Croatia, Cyprus and Kosovo. Macedonia is singled out as neither a big producer nor a major regional transit point for illegal drug trafficking. (US State Department website - 01/03/10

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Briefing on Release of the 2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR)

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Washington, DC

March 1, 2010

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MR. TONER: Good afternoon – I had to check. It’s my pleasure to introduce you today to Assistant Secretary David Johnson of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. He’ll be briefing on the annual comprehensive assessment of worldwide illegal – of the worldwide illegal drug and transnational money laundering situation, known as the International Narcotic Control Strategy Report, or by the acronym INCSR.
This report covers calendar year 2009 and its conclusions reflect the Department’s analysis of the international drug control and money laundering environment during the last calendar year. The briefing’s on the record and CDs of the two-volume report are available in the Press Office. We’ll also be bringing them in here to hand out and will be posted on the State Department website at the conclusion of the briefing.
Without further ado, I’ll let the Assistant Secretary take over.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY JOHNSON: Thank you.
MR. TONER: Thank you.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY JOHNSON: Good afternoon. Today, we have the opportunity to present the 27^th edition of the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report to the Congress, or INCSR, as we refer to it here. This report is a review of foreign governments’ efforts to deal with their own domestic narcotics problems and to meet their international responsibilities as set forth in UN narcotics and crime treaties.
The drugs and chemical controls section covers some 130 countries and jurisdictions. The second section on money laundering and financial crimes describes the efforts of 60 nations to implement strong anti money-laundering and counterterrorist financing regime. This information provides a comprehensive assessment of the worldwide illegal drug and transnational money laundering terrorist finance situation.http://www.state.gov/p/inl/rls/rm/137531.htm

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HRW: über den Rassisten Staat Kosovo

28.2.2010 by CrniLabudovi.

 

Slow Progress on Rights in Kosovo

 

by

Benjamin Ward

Published in:

The European Voice

February 24, 2010

 

 

 

Ben Ward, associate director Europe and Central Asia

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Kosovo: Returning to Danger

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Kosovo: Poisoned by Lead

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When Kosovo declared independence in February 2008, there was optimism that after almost a decade of drift, greater self-government and a newly energized international presence led by the EU might finally move it in the right direction.

Two years on, there is not much to celebrate.  Despite its new authority, the government in Pristina tends either to gloss over Kosovo’s human rights failings or to blame international agencies for the problems. The rule of law remains weak, despite some efforts by the EU police and justice mission. And the overall picture for Kosovo’s already vulnerable Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian minorities seems to be getting worse, not better.

After a slow start (complicated by wrangling with member states, Serbia and the UN alike) the EU police and justice mission (EULEX) has made some positive steps, including setting up a mechanism to review any allegations of human rights abuse against it. EULEX has also sent some encouraging signals on accountability for war crimes, an issue on which Kosovo lags years behind other parts of the Balkans. It opened  an investigation, for example, into the fate of 400 missing people, mostly Serbs, who were allegedly transferred in 1999 to detention facilities in Albania by the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army.

But the rule of law remains weak. The government in Pristina continues to dismiss the alleged 1999 transfers rather than investigating them. There has been little progress in bringing to justice those most responsible for anti-minority riots in 2004, a litmus test for the justice system. And the lack of a war crimes strategy has hampered efforts to identify the highest-priority cases among the hundreds of files the EU inherited from the UN.

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http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/02/24/slow-progress-rights-kosovo

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Is US-Albanian Mafia Lobby Sponsoring ”Freedom Fighters” Next Door?

28.2.2010 by janmalte.

Is Albania Sponsoring ”Freedom Fighters” Next Door?

11/9/2003 (Balkanalysis.com)In 1998, when NATO’s war on Yugoslavia was first being organized, secret camps were set up in northern Albania. There, British and American forces trained the rag-tag fighters of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The two countries openly armed, supplied and supported the KLA during the war against Milosevic, using the paramilitary group as NATO’s ground troops.

A New Question

All of this is fact. Albania’s army also directly trained the KLA. After all, if the West said it was OK, then there was nothing to be embarrassed about. However, once the fallout from Kosovo registered and Macedonia was destabilized by the renamed militants of the NLA (National Liberation Army) in 2001, Tirana changed its tune. It officially deplored the violence and denied having anything to do with sponsoring the rebels.However, at the same time “all contact stopped” between the intelligence services of the two countries, according to one informed Macedonian source. Clearly, Albania was not entirely pleased with beleaguered Macedonia’s attempts at self-defense.

Since then, the Albanian government has gone to great lengths to boost economic and defense cooperation with Macedonia, under the rubric of NATO enlargement and participations in joint ventures along the east-west Corridor 8, such as prospective railroad lines and oil pipelines. Albania is clearly looking for a new lease on life and deliverance from the economic dark ages that afflict most citizens who aren’t super-rich politicos or gangsters………………………..

Tirana Cracks Down: One Arrested, Another Indicted

In July, the Albanian government arrested one Gafurr Adili, leader of the Front of Albanian National Unity (FBKSH). This diaspora-based group claims to be the political wing of the AKSH (or ANA, Albanian National Army), active since 2001 in Kosovo and Macedonia. The group’s stated goal is to gather all “Albanian lands” into one majestic 19th century nation-state, by waging war with the “Slav colonizers,” Greeks, and whoever else gets in their way.

Simultaneously, the Swiss banned Adili from living in their country. Stated the BBC, “…until now he has enjoyed refugee status – though it appears that he is not actually barred from visiting Switzerland where members of his family live.” Such ambivalent restrictions are completely characteristic of the West’s schizophrenic, lax treatment of Albanian militants since even before 2001.

On 8 October, a second arrest warrant was lodged for the leader of Albania’s right-wing Party of National Unity, Idajet Beqiri. A high profile FBKSH leader, Beqiri is accused of “incitement and support for the extremist group.”

Since last spring’s attack on a bridge near Mitrovica, which proved that Kosovo Protection Corps staff members were moonlighting for the AKSH, the group has been deemed a “terrorist” one by Balkan and Western governments alike. Reports in the Economist and elsewhere described it as being run by increasingly desperate criminals and KLA veterans impatient with UNMIK’s rule in Kosovo. This year’s more concerted crackdowns by KFOR on smuggling, as well as similar revived efforts by Macedonian authorities, have also angered the militants. Averred the Economist on 12 September:

“…the AKSH represents few ethnic-Albanians. Its core consists of some 50-70 cigarette smugglers drawn from both sides of the border with Kosovo. Their latest violence has been largely prompted by their desire to stop Macedonia’s police from shutting down their smuggling routes and putting them behind bars. Hisni Shaqiri, an ethnic-Albanian MP in Skopje who is trying to help keep the peace between Macedonia’s Albanians and Slavs, describes Avdil Jakupi, the AKSH’s “divisional commander” known as Chakala, as a “mental patient and heroin addict”. A British brigadier advising the Macedonian government on defence calls the AKSH “criminals flying a political flag of convenience in the hope of finding legitimacy.”

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Tirana Cracks Down: One Arrested, Another Indicted

In July, the Albanian government arrested one Gafurr Adili, leader of the Front of Albanian National Unity (FBKSH). This diaspora-based group claims to be the political wing of the AKSH (or ANA, Albanian National Army), active since 2001 in Kosovo and Macedonia. The group’s stated goal is to gather all “Albanian lands” into one majestic 19th century nation-state, by waging war with the “Slav colonizers,” Greeks, and whoever else gets in their way.

Simultaneously, the Swiss banned Adili from living in their country. Stated the BBC, “…until now he has enjoyed refugee status – though it appears that he is not actually barred from visiting Switzerland where members of his family live.” Such ambivalent restrictions are completely characteristic of the West’s schizophrenic, lax treatment of Albanian militants since even before 2001.

Idajet Beqiri

On 8 October, a second arrest warrant was lodged for the leader of Albania’s right-wing Party of National Unity, Idajet Beqiri. A high profile FBKSH leader, Beqiri is accused of “incitement and support for the extremist group.”

Since last spring’s attack on a bridge near Mitrovica, which proved that Kosovo Protection Corps staff members were moonlighting for the AKSH, the group has been deemed a “terrorist” one by Balkan and Western governments alike. Reports in the Economist and elsewhere described it as being run by increasingly desperate criminals and KLA veterans impatient with UNMIK’s rule in Kosovo. This year’s more concerted crackdowns by KFOR on smuggling, as well as similar revived efforts by Macedonian authorities, have also angered the militants. Averred the Economist on 12 September:

“…the AKSH represents few ethnic-Albanians. Its core consists of some 50-70 cigarette smugglers drawn from both sides of the border with Kosovo. Their latest violence has been largely prompted by their desire to stop Macedonia’s police from shutting down their smuggling routes and putting them behind bars. Hisni Shaqiri, an ethnic-Albanian MP in Skopje who is trying to help keep the peace between Macedonia’s Albanians and Slavs, describes Avdil Jakupi, the AKSH’s “divisional commander” known as Chakala, as a “mental patient and heroin addict”. A British brigadier advising the Macedonian government on defence calls the AKSH “criminals flying a political flag of convenience in the hope of finding legitimacy.”

……………………..It is highly likely that American diaspora funding is being organized by the same congressional lobby groups and

AACL, Josef DioGuardio Mafiso  is Member since 1979 Knight of Malteserordens.

that funded the last two wars, and which retain strong links with former KLA leaders. The fact that Mr. Beqiri was invited one month ago to advertise his views in front of the International Crisis Group in Brussels cannot be reassuring either!

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 http://www.balkanalysis.com

Treasury Designates Bin Laden, Qadi Associate

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated Dr. Abdul Latif Saleh pursuant to Executive Order 13224 for providing support to Usama bin Laden and al Qaida……………….

http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/js2727.htm
9 Both Abdul Latif Saleh and Yasin Al-Qadi were represented in court by Idayet Beqiri, political secretary of the “Front of Albanian National Unity” (FBKSh).

http://www.terrorfinance.org

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BMZ Bundes Entwicklungs Ministerium Bilfinger & Berger

25.2.2010 by janmalte.

Das gehört zum Politischen System, nennen wir es Deutsche Lobby-Politik Mafia! Im Moment werden alle Öffentlichen Gebäude in NRW untersucht, wo diese berüchtigte Firma seit 40 Jahren mitgearbeitet hat.

Bilfinger, hoch gesponsert auch von dem BMZ Bundes Entwicklungs Ministerium und der KfW, wie der EBRD, hat zig Skandale im Ausland, wie andere Baufirmen, Firmen wie Siemens, Telekom, RWE bis Berlinwasser.

Dreist ist das BMZ, wenn er auf deren Website Seitenlang veröffentlicht, was man angeblich gegen Korruption macht. Fakt ist das praktisch das BMZ, nicht einmal hohe Millionen Aufträge und Projekte kontrolliert, wohin die Gelder gehen. Das BMZ gibt genau 0,3 % der Projekt Summen aus, für die Kontrolle, wo 3-4% notwendig sind. Damit ist Tür und Tor geöffnet und es kommt zu Fake Projekten, wie u.a. das GTZ Projekt “Industrie Zone Spitale” Durres-Albanien, wo sogar die Frankfurter General Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt hat.  Noch peinlicher sind dann Millionen hohe Geld Summen der Entwicklungshilfe (GTZ)m für den von der Bestechungs Industrie (Mercedes, Hochtief, Siemens, Berlinwasser, Bilfinger & Berger usw..) finanzierten Transparenty International in Berlin, was eine der zig Georg Soros finanzierten PR Zirkel ist, für Auslands Bestechung.

Das BMZ ist seit Jahren ein Mafiös geführtes Unternehmen, wo Nichts kontrolliert wird und man eigene Lobby Büros im Ministerium hat, wo täglich daran gearbeitet wird, wie man möglichst hohe Geldsummen, ohne Ausschreibung, illegal und hoch kriminell über Lobby Firmen und “Schwarz Kassen, zur Bestechung von Regierungs Vertretern” im Ausland umleitet. siehe jüngsten Fall mit Mercedes, wo eine 200 Millionen $ Strafe in den USA gezahlt wurde.  Mercedes ist natürlich auch lt. eigenen Angaben der GTZ, ein besonders enger Partner. Gemeint ist wohl in der Auslands Bestechung.

Es hat Tradition dieses Betrugs System, wie die SZ am 22.2.2010 schreibt.

Kriminalität am Bau Einstürzende Neubauten

22.02.2010, 18:062010-02-22T18:06:00 CEST+0100

Von H. Leyendecker und C. Jiménez

Die Bauwirtschaft ist nicht erst sei dem Köln-Desaster in der Krise, unqualifizierte Arbeiter und mangelnde staatliche Aufsicht treiben die Branche in den Ruin.
Bauarbeiter, Foto: ddp

Die Bauwirtschaft krankt an vielen Ecken: Die Löhne sinken rapide, die Arbeiter sind schlechter ausgebildet und die staatlichen Aufsichtsbehörden kontrollieren zu lasch. Foto: ddp

In Köln werden traditionell Regeln und Gesetze geknetet und gebogen, bis sie passen - oder nicht. Außenstehende reden vom “Kölner Klüngel”, die Rheinländer selbst predigen die Philosophie vom “Leben und leben lassen”. Aber ist der massenhafte Diebstahl von Metallankern, die beim Bau der Nord-Süd-Stadtbahn in Köln für Stabilisierung sorgen sollten, sind die offenkundige Fälschung Dutzender Messprotokolle und der Verzicht auf ausreichend Beton auf die üblichen Zustände in der “leichtfertigen Stadt” zurückzuführen, wie Heinrich Böll seine Heimatstadt nannte?……………………………
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/798/504015/text/

Der Zustand der Deutschen Bananen Republik im Deutschen TV

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8.000 Dokumente werden in Rumänien aus der Zeit Nicolae Ceausescu’s frei gegeben

24.2.2010 by HoisseBig.

Files on Romanian revolution declassified

24/02/2010

For years, files related to the overthrow of communism in Romania have been kept under wraps as a “state secret”, but the government is moving to change that.

By Paul Ciocoiu for Southeast European Times in Bucharest – 24/02/10

Almost 8,000 files will be declassified. [Victor Barbu/SETimes]

After years of foot-dragging over the issue, the Romanian government has decided to declassify nearly 8,000 documents related to the toppling of Nicolae Ceausescu’s communist regime and the bloodshed that followed.

The cabinet made the decision during a session on February 10th, after the defence ministry cleared the move.

The so-called “revolution files” had been classified previously as a state secret. According to the ministry, however, they no longer pose a threat to national security. Besides the 7,617 files being made available now, an additional 2,684 were declassified in mid-January.

Over 1,000 other documents still remain classified, but the defence ministry said it will examine their contents and will declassify any related to the 1989 events. All of the declassified documents will be published in Romania’s Official Gazette….

Setimes

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Kosovo: economic and institutional worries loom large

22.2.2010 by ctstmaser.

Lack of progress shadows Kosovo celebrations

22/02/2010

Though the public is proud of their independence from Serbia, economic and institutional worries loom large.

By Linda Karadaku for Southeast European Times in Pristina — 22/02/10

Kosovo Albanians wave flags in Pristina on February 17th to celebrate independence. [Getty Images]

Two years after Kosovo’s unilateral split from Serbia, its citizens are more concerned with unsolved problems than in celebrating the milestones achieved.

Although the new state has won recognition from 65 countries and has joined international institutions such as the IMF and World Bank, it still faces a host of economic and other challenges.

According to Koha Ditore Editor-in-Chief Agron Bajrami, there is considerable frustration.

“I think the second anniversary of the proclamation of the independence has found Kosovo in a complicated internal situation, with an increase of the discontent of the majority of the citizens, [due to] the lack of the expected progress in building a state based on democracy and rule of law in Kosovo,” he told SETimes.

Bajrami. known for his sharply-worded editorials, says key problems such as the economic situation, corruption and organised crime are not being addressed properly. The ethnically divided north is in a state of tension, Serbia continues to put up obstacles and the number of recognitions is inadequate, he said.

“If we add to that the hard social situation, accompanied with the unlimited government expenses, I think, it is not [surprising] that on the second anniversary of independence what comes to mind are the successes which are lacking,” Bajrami said.

Another journalist, former Zeri editor-in-chief Bardh Hamzaj, highlights positive moves the country has made………………..

Setimes

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