-Caveat Lector- >NOTE: Aleksander Zograf (aka Sasa Rakezic), a cartoonist living in >Serbia, has been witnessing the bombing of his hometown, Pancevo, by NATO. >He has been staying in contact with the international alternative comics >community by e-mail. Following is his latest report. > >>From: "Sasa Rakezic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: NO COMMUNICATION >>Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 22:51:14 +0200 >>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >>X-Priority: 3 >>MIME-Version: 1.0 >>Status: >> >>Sasa Rakezic >>P.F. 163 >>26000 Pancevo >>Yugoslavia (Serbia) >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>May 9th 1999 >> >>Hello friends! >>Last night, a main post office in Kragujevac, in Central Serbia, was hit >>by a >>NATO bomb, but it didn't explode. During the same night, another post >>office - in a town of Uzice, was completely destroyed by NATO projectiles, >>and in a second attack, the same bulding - which was already turned into >>ruins - was bombed once more. The whole area was left without phone >>connections. The same thing could happen here in my town as well, and it >>makes me sad just to think about the possibility that we could be cut off >>from our friends all over the world... >>By the way, I have found more funny NATO leaflets - they are so >>collectible! I already gathered an interesting collection. The newest one >>is with the target sign ( so, it seems that - eventually - it was adopted >>even by the NATO designers! ) and with the message:NO FUEL, NO POWER, NO >>TRADE, NO FREEDOM, NO FUTURE: MILOSEVIC. Milosevic's photo ( a rather small >>one) is also included. >> Could these leaflets, dropped (maybe?) from the same planes which are >>dropping bombs on the towns bellow, be the meaningful media for the >>communication with the Serbian people? Ironically, one of the small Tv >>stations here has aired "Mars Attacks" movie few weeks ago. One of the >>scenes includes Martians destroying the towns and people of the Earth, >>while at the same time there was a voice from the speaker saying (with >>"Martian" accent): "DON'T RUN AWAY! WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS! I REPEAT: DON'T >>RUN AWAY! WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS!!" This whole situation seemed strangelly >>familiar to what we are experiencing in this silly land of Serbia. >>Anyway, after most of the offices and the transmitters of the major Tv >>stations ( some of which were owned by a state, and some which were private >>ones) in Serbia were rocketed , in some parts of the counrty you can see >>only a couple of programs, aired by some small local transmitters, but in >>some parts there is no signal of any Tv station left. Instead, I heard that >>some people were able to receive the signal by some sort of NATO Tv >>program, in Serbo-Croat language, transmitted probably from the near-by >>countries. I wasn't able to watch any of it, but I can guess that most of >>the people here will not be quite delighted to watch the program with NATO >>trademark , after the domestic stations has been blown to pieces by the >>very same organization (even though most of the Serbian stations were >>mostly airing American movies and Tv series anyway. At the beginning of the >>bombing campaign, as I described, there were some attempts by local >>censors to exclude American movies and series from the Serbian media. But >>it lasted just few days or so ). >> It is obvious that war kills communication, and that people who are >>pointing the means of destruction at each other don't really want to >>establish a meaningful communication in the first place. I should say >>again, and again, that we are living in a savage world, hiding behind the >>happy face of the mass communication. We are still learning to talk to each >>other....And we almost forgot that it is a simple and natural thing to do. >>Bye bye >>Sasa DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
