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Slovenia To Get It’s Very Own Guantanamo Detainee
Gitmo, Big O, and Lil’ B. (source and source) Just as detailed in the now-infamous Wikileaks cable, Slovene PM Borut Pahor and US President Barack Obama discussed the possibility of Slovenia taking in...
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A Libyan Perspective in 7 Pictures
Colonel and Sarko. Those were the days, my friend… (source) Picture 1: When the Soviet Union went to spread Communism in Afghanistan in 1979, they were hoping for a quick in-and-out. Based on complete...
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Thaler…. Emen Thaler
By now half of what was once known as the Free World knows about the sheer stupidity of Zoran Thaler MEP who was caught red-handed in the Cash-for-laws scandal. But in case you missed it or are too...
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Osama bin Laden – Ezekiel 25:17
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? –William Shakespeare Wanted. Dear or alive (source) There’s...
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A Good Day To Die (Is EU Following In Yugoslavia Footsteps?)
Comrade Tito died on this day in 1980. Thirty-one years later the death of Josip Broz Tito is little more than a moment in history. Yugoslavia is no more, wars between nations have largely been subdued...
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Ratko Mladić “Found” And Captured
The arrest of war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladić comes at an extremely crucial moment for Serbia. At a time when Croatia is apparently on the verge of having been given a fixed date for EU entry, when...
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How Many Trees Does It Take To See A Forest
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out – Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then...
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London? Yes, London!
Looking at the rampage and looting in London, I can’t help but think of the Ljubljana student riots last year. Compared to what is going on in the British capital, rioting in Ljubljana was a walk in...
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Meanwhile, In Greece…
While Slovenia is gearing up for the official launch of the election campaign this Friday, shit is brewing in Greece. OK, that’s hardly news, but pengovsky was all like when he saw tweets about the...
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Greek Elections: A Europe-wide Non-Event
A couple of random thoughts on the non-event that was the Greek elections last Sunday: (source via TBIJ) For all the brouhahaha about Syriza, it turned out that the more things change the more they...
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Edward Snowden: Pics Or It Didn’t Happen
Last Saturday, Delo daily ran a front-page story by its Moscow correspondent Polona Frelih about NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden‘s meet-up with Russian human rights organisations. The catch: she took...
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Karl Erjavec And The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Pengovsky didn’t write up the fan-hitting-shit-storm that is Ukraine and the Russian muscle-flexing/military intervention mostly because there’s little I can tell you that transcends a Tom Clancy...
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Pro-Moscow Post-Communists Running EU And NATO, Apparently
To say that Slovenian government was caught off-guard by the Ukraine crisis is an understatement. It has, in fact, provided ample proof that for a while now Slovenian top-level diplomacy is running on...
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Scotland Referendum: Notes From An Independent Country
The first time pengovsky really went abroad (yearly summer migration to Croatia notwithstanding) was Scotland. Looking back, I can’t believe how lucky I was, catching the last train from Prestwick to...
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Why “Who Started First” Doesn’t Explain Charlie Hebdo
The Charlie Hebdo Massacre is resonating in Slovenia as well. For some strange reason it seems to have resonated with the people more than prior terrorist/hate-speech/other attacks on European media....
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SuperKarl and Croatian Rapid-Fire Mode
Karl Erjavec is one lucky sonofabitch. In fact, he is so lucky that his middle name could well be changed from Viktor to Felix. I mean, the lucky with this guy is so strong that if he’d been thrown...
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Oh, The iRonny
After less than a week as the Slovenian-appointed arbitrator at the Arbitration Tribunal, Ronny Abraham quit the post, saying he agreed to the appointment “in the hope that this would help restore...
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The Week Schengen Again Became Just A Place In Luxembourg
“Vat is your kargo?” The German border-policeman at a check-point just hundreds of metres inland from border with Austria could have very well escaped from a high-octane H’Wood flick while his muted...
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We Need To Talk About Hungary
So Hungary started erecting a barbed-wire fence on the border with Slovenia as well yesterday morning. Since the Orban government was busy doing exactly that for the past few weeks on its borders with...
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The Army Is A Broad Sword, Not A Scalpel
Following a surge in influx of refugees which apparently stretched Slovenian personnel and housing resources to their limits, the government of Miro Cerar came up with amendments to the Defence Act...
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