Changing Education in Serbia....

As another condition to joining the sinking EU, Serbia needs to reform its education system. There are many countries that need to reform their education systems, some that are more 'developed' than Serbia. Part of the 'issue' seems to be that the best and brightest of Serbia's students leave their home country to make it some where else. This basic premise seems to imply that Serbia's education system isn't maybe as 'bad' as the EU Commission makes it seem. It would actually seem that the greatest reforms should be in the economy and market place as well as in research and development to create an environment that allows for the best to stay home and make their mark on the world from Serbia.
As I said most education systems need to be reformed. Most of them no longer educate, instead they train children to grow into compliant obedient workers for mega-corporations.
This immoral mentality is destroying the culture of humanity. We are not robots. We are creative, curious, adventurous, explorers of the amazing, wonderful world around us. We should be teaching our children to cultivate those traits with respect and morals. Education systems should encourage and treasure the various talents of each and EVERY child. For it is in this manner that we can truly ensure that humanity retains its humanness. We are so focused on advancing our materialistic interests that we forget our cultural needs as well as losing our respect for our heritage, especially if it conflicts with the materialistic advance. This error will be more damaging than any other action by any group or disaster that could impact the planet. It is a complete and total disgrace that not only are we throwing away historical artifacts and locations, we are also not teaching students to value, understand or gain from the knowledge left us by our ancestors.
Serbia is a prime location for a REAL reform in education. Let's start by showing the EU the door, minding our manners, of course. Then let's preserve all the history and knowledge of Serbia, both her land and people. Then lets get innovative and motivated and use that rich treasure as our guide for the future. Let Serbia be a new example for how to get it right, how to balance materialistic advances with our humanness. It can be done, we can have both. We can treasure our past and our history and still take steps forward in the materialistic world. This is the perfect time for Serbia to break free embrace her independence and blaze her own path.

Sitnice Znace/ Small things matter

Imam 25 godina, radim dva posla i pored toga radim i privatno, kad ugrabim vremena. Zivim kao podstanar sa devojkom sa kojom sam nepune 4. godine u vezi. Stalno sam u jurnjavi za parama... Sada jurim pare za kiriju, rezije, dnevne potrebstine... U 7. razredu sam poceo da radim sa caletom u radionici. Od tada moji ne znaju za "trebaju mi nove patike" "trebaju mi pare za eksurziju" trebaju mi pare za grad" ... U srednjoj skoli svi su bezali sa casova da bi isli po kaficima, a ja da bi bacao dzakove sa dva ortaka KAN,UREA(djubriva), 50e po sleperu, 3-4 slepera svaki dan... Kad je trebalo da se krene na faks moji nisu znali sta je to "treba mi lova za skripte, za ispit, za stan... " Nekom je sve to lepo, al' ja se ne secam kad sam se zadnji put necemu obradovao... Onako istinski kao malo dete kad dobije cipiripi ili ogromnu igracku u novogodisnjem paketicu... Treba se radovati i zadovoljavati malim stvarima i sitnicama. Ali ja tu sitnicu jos nisam nasao...

I'm 25, I'm working two jobs, and I do some private business, when I grab the time. I live in a rented apartment with a girlfriend. I'm chasing money 24/7... Now I chase  money for rent, utilities, daily necessities ... In the 7th grade I started to work with dad in his workshop. Since then, my parents did not hear about "I need new shoes," "I need the money for excursion," "I need the money to go out "... In high school, all the guys fled from classes in order to go to coffee shops, while  I was skipping clases in order to throw sacks of  fertilizer with two friends of mine, 50e by truck, 3-4 trucks per day  ... when I was in college my parents did not hear, "I need money for scripts, for tests, for a flat ... " To most of you this is cool, but I do not remember when was the last time I was truly delighted ... you know like a little kid when he gets favorite candy bar or a huge toy in the New Year's gifts ... We should look forward to the little things and meet little things with joy. But that little thing I still have not found ...

-Theory of CIRCLE and Double AMPLITUDES- ANSWER TO ULTIMATE QUESTION - The Beginning-

In previous post i stated that i'm more on the church side than Darvins when comes to creation of human and world as we know it. The Bible claims that the God created entire word as we know it in only seven days(number 7 is a leitmotif through entire Bible).. God created Earth, sky, day - night, plants, animals and human. God gived that name to that human. He called him Adam.God saw that Adam was lonly, and he took one rib from him, and from that him the God created female. God called her Eva. Eva opened opened eyes to Adam, and all of us... That b**ch just had to eat that apple. Ignorance is a bless, some say... OK back to the topic. Those of you who read the Bible probably noticed something weird. Entire population became from Adam and Eve. Which means Eve gave borth to several daughters and sons. Which means those brothers and sisters had intercorse with each other, and their kids had intercorse with each other... And we know that by the God that is a BIG no no.(p.s. that means we are all degenerates) But to those of you that are hardcore christians, you guys don't care beacuse you see only what your religion show you.  Another thing, when you start reading Bible from the beginning, you notice how everything goes in some kind of order, a gradual gradation. God created Earth, sky, animals etc... Everything kinda slowly starts to unfolds until Adam and Eve start to reproduce. At that point you have a big leep. Like something is missing... When you continue to read the Bible you will notice that a lot of things are unfinished, inconclusive. Durin during the reign of Diocletian, Constantine and Galien(i mention only this two names because they are most relevant to this topic.) Christianity has suffered the greatest persecution, but also a freedom. In order to bring down chrsitianity to bigger masses Bible had to suffer some changes. So few pages here and there are tosed out from the picture, and whoala we have THE BIBLE. The cause for wars, the cause for difrences and all that nasty thing. Than when we add difrent religions in to the picture faith and belief of the people are starting to use to manipulate the same people. And the whole Bible and religion thing are starting stand on a shaky legs. This is the reason why I personaly keep relegion and faith in God separate. It doesn't matter how you call the God, how you call the holy rituals and how you perfor them... Only thing that matters is that you believe in Him. If you believe, if you stick to basic moral, human codes, if you stick to The Decalogue, The Ten Commandments you will go to the heaven, no matter what religion you are. Simply as that.
Stay tunned, we just started to warm up. :)

Written by: Milos Birovic
Edited by: Cassi Merten

*The next few post written by me will be a small sneak peek in to a book that I'm preparing to publish. You could say that it will be a small on-line version of it. Yes in the real book it will be precise dates, numbers and all that boring stuff.*

-Theory of CIRCLE and Double AMPLITUDES- ANSWER TO ULTIMATE QUESTION - INTRO -

Have you ever wonder, how  the world as we know was created? Have you ever wonder, how was the enternal universe created? Have you ever wonder, how were the humans, animals and plants created?
I know I did. I have wondered since I saw the light of day. When we are little we litteraly absorb all information around us, like a sponge. As all of you, dear readers, I absorbed all information around me. First I learned through cartoons and encyclopedias for kids that the planet emerged by the Sun after the Big Bang, and then slowly started to cool. Than the school taught us the Kant-Laplace theory as the most relevant. For those who don't know or don't remember the theory, here is a short flashback. Kant-Laplace theory a.k.a. Nebular hypothesis is the most accepted theory explaining formation and evolution of Solar System (and The Milk Way ). The theory, about the Solar System is it is formed out of nebular masses/materials in space. Early beliefs were that the Earth was created by the Gods, and some believed that the Earth was in the shape of a disk (like a modern CD). Than some never believs were that the Earth is in shape of a ball and that the Earth is in center of universe and everything else revolves around her. This is called geocentric system and at that time church taught the people that this is the only truth. Then Galileo came in the picture with his heliocentric theory, which we know for sure that is the TRUTH. Sun is in the center, and other planets revolves around it. But the church didn't like that so they put him under house arrest. Some say that his last words were "Eppur si muove" , ruff translation would be "nevertheless it's turning" . Than we have theorys  how the humans, animals and plants are created. In the beginning it was the Gods that created humans and etc. Than we have the theory that the God(Jehovah, Allah, God....) created humans and etc... Then Darvin showed up. You know, that creepy lookin' guy that was kicked out from medical college, who later married his cousin. Well this lovely chap claimed that the plants and animals came from simple,cells you know amoebas and such... But the best part is that the humans came from a monkeys... Monkeys started to evolve/mutate bit by bit until modern human, homo sapiens sapiens is born. Personally I'm more on the church side than on this one. (I'm not on the church side about all things, but we will talk later about that). So Darvin basically said, as I see it, one monkey fell from the tree and became human. While other monkey stayed on the tree and continued to eat banana... So here we have some basic theories and beliefs that were poppin' out from the beginning of human era till now. In the  next posts I will start to expose my theory and beliefs. So stay tuned, trust me it is going to be very interesting to you dear readers.

Written by: Milos Birovic
Edited by: Cassi Merten



*The next few post written by me will be a small sneak peek in to a book that I'm preparing to publish. You could say that it will be a small on-line version of it. Yes in the real book it will be precise dates, numbers and all that boring stuff.*

Welcome to Serbia

     Welcome everybody! Welcome to this blog about my country, my region, my city! Welcome to Serbia! Welcome to Srem! Welcome to Sremska Mitrovica!
Place where every thing runs slowly. Place where people look at all their problems and say FUCK IT. They just pour some white wine in glass with some sparkling water over it, and salute to the person on the right and drink it bit by bit. While in the background a sweat sound of TAMBURASI is coming.
   If you close your eyes you can hear whistling wind, whistling through the ears of wheat, in all this plain of Srem . You can hear people singing and laughing in cafana's.

"Stop the Danube, and the sands of  time. This is my song, and song of my dear. Let them accompany my everywhere. With the song of the best Wine. The eight tamburasi from the Petrovaradin" 

That is my favorite song, and that is my motto. And trust me, not just mine, it is a motto of almost every person who has a family in this region for a long, long, long period of time.
Close your eyes again. Do you see it? Do you see that person wearing white clothes with the black vest over it and black hat on his head? Can you see it how he is drinking cold white wine under the shade, during his break after working on his crops. Can you see it? Can you see that short guy with big stomach? You see that guy, that is Sremac.
This is the guy who did not care what nationality other people were; this is the guy who does not care which nationality other people are; this is the guy that would not care what nationality other people might be.
And I am just like that guy. Another usual, typical Sremac. And all of you that are currently reading this and thinking in your small closed minds filled only with westernized propaganda about Serbs and genocide  and war crimes, how they did this, did that, how they are responsible for all the mess that happened  here in The Balkans. Please, Get The Fuck Outta Here. Because your small, low IQ brains can not accept different and true information. And I am not willing to explain individually to each one of you who saw a couple news headlines and now think that you have all the knowledge of this world... And all of you who want to see the real Serbia, all of you who want to meet Serbia on her inside. Please stay and forgive me for my bad language in the previous sentences.
You saw that Sremac, right? Did you hear the giggling next to him? If not close your eyes again and hear it. Now move your look a bit to the right. Now you see from where that giggling coming from. It is from kids of the Sremac. You see those kids playing soccer, basketball, tennis...? You see those kids? They are the next  Branislav Ivanovic, the next Vlade Divac, they are the next Peja Stojakovic, the next Ana Ivanovic, they are the next Novak Djokovic... Those people that I just mentioned, they don't look like genocide maniacs do they, ha? No, they don't, and neither are the rest of the 99.99% of Serbian people. Oh, and what would  Sremac be without his Sremica, without his wife. The woman who makes the best strudels. And not just that, but all sorts of goodies made of dough. But be aware, you don't want piss that woman off... Just trust me :) I'm off, I'm heding to kafana. Cold white wine and sparkling water is waiting for me... You can look me up, just follow the sound of tamburasi and you'll find me. I'm buying. See ya :)   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS0vTrKZDxI

Author: Milos Birovic

Editor: Cassi Merten 

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Outside of Serbian Life......

Milos asked me to write the next post.....not sure what he was thinking there. The topic is inside Serbian life; I am not Serbian, I do not live in Serbia, I have never even visited Serbia.

But, maybe that isn't such a bad thing for this post. That gives me the chance to tell you not so much about westerners' opinions but maybe about how westerners arrived at them through ignorance, about not just Serbs, but the Balkan peninsula, as a whole. As we should all know it is ignorance that breeds fear and hate, or at the very least apathy, and apathy can be more deadly than than the first two. It is my opinion that ignorant apathy was all that was needed for several wrongs to be inflicted on the people of Yugoslavia.

When I was in college I was a history major and while my concentration was not European or the modern era, I did take enough courses to have had a concentration in Modern European History. Yet, with that much education I will now, freely admit that I knew NOTHING about the Balkans. Why now? Cause I had to learn to know that I had been ignorant.

Okay, so maybe I wasn't totally ignorant, but the things I did know either were not truly important or they were random facts that I had picked up somewhere along the way. Yes, I knew about Vlad the Impaler and I knew the Ottoman Empire had invaded and occupied, and I learned a few dates and facts. But I truly knew nothing about the Serbs before the Ottoman invasion and knew nothing about the occupation.

Now, I am not going to say that ALL Americans were as ignorant as I was and still am; but considering that unlike most American students, I focused on history and still did not know The Balkans, I feel confident stating that the majority of the American populous was even less informed than I was. At most what the normal, everyday American knew was that Yugoslavia, had been the enemy during the Cold War. That made it very easy for Americans to assume the worst in the people of the land called Yugoslavia.

Typical everyday Americans are very self-absorbed, materialistic people, whom tend to act like the world ends at the end of their nose. For those flaws, Americans still tend to like to think they are helpful, defenders of the underdog. They see their country as the defender of all that is good and right and free in the world. Unfortunately, most Americans are so busy keeping up with the Jones, that they do not really take the time to know what is going on in the world and to understand all sides of conflicts, as much as we dislike our politicians we seem to still trust them when they tell us that these people or this group is bad and we support their decisions about how to handle said conflicts.

This poorly placed trust is what happened in the Balkans in the 90's. Our media only showed the “crimes” committed by the Yugoslavia Army. There was no logic, no reasonable questions, no verification, no investigating by our media that resulted in any story other than the ones that reflected negatively on the Yugoslavia Army or the Serbian people. I blame that on the fact that news has become business and in doing so has lost any and all integrity that it once might have had. And we all know that big business and politics are diabolical bed buddies.

Yet, even our leaders were ill informed about the truth of the Balkans. For Tony Blair stated in April of 1999, “Kosovo is on the doorstep of Europe.” I am not sure how many people consider the doorstep of their home to be in the middle of their living room. But it is this very ignorance and misunderstanding by most Westerners about the Balkans that allowed such misdeeds to occur.

Serbian History #3 - GENOCIDE AGAINST THE SERBS -

    Before you start reading this post, play this song in new tab and simultaneously read the post. Thank you... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ffjXcpIk8

                 -Seven thousand nine hundred and fifty-

    There were as many as our hearts are able to count, seven thousand nine hundred and fifty. .. They were fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers; they were peasants and workers, merchants and laborers, judges and artists and shepherds. They were the children of our plains and small hills. They were from the village and the city streets, from Vinkovci to Bosut and the forest between, from Zemun to Slankamen, from the lower Danube, the Cotova and Prnjavor, they came from every boundary of Srem. There were dark haired and gray-haired, there were bright and grouchy, spitfire and conciliatory. Each one was different, they were their own, they were someones, but most importantly they were ours.
    

     They had seven thousand nine hundred and fifty names and just as many nicknames. Today they all share the same name, shooting victims in Sremska Mitrovica memorial cemetery.

     Each of them, a national hero as columns of innocent hostages, members of the Communist youth (*SKOJ) with smooth faces still, or an experienced member of the Committee Srem, maybe wounded and or captured soldier, or a girl who is knitting clothes for endless paths that will cross the Srem Brigade, maybe an old woman in a headscarf , ... and any man who is guilty only for living in his own country, which was not to beat, or the relatives of the partisans. Ha, and the whole Srem was partisan relatives. They breathed their last breath, the Revolution.

   

     However today, on that place, the place of their last pain. The torch monument is lifted. That monument turns his bloody forehead and speaks to the future: "They were seven thousand nine hundred and fifty, as much as our memories and love is able to count, they lived on their land of Srem and as martyrs they spilled their martyr blood on their native soil for freedom and socialism, for theirs and ours great nation." (Charter text of a memorial exhibition at the memorial cemetery)

     On the place where the Germans and their collaborators, the Ustashe, during the four year occupation conducted unrecorded crimes, a memorial cemetery was erected in the name of dead patriots, in the year 1960. The cemetery project was one of the first projects of architect Bogdan Bogdanovic, who has worked on memorials across the country and world.

   On that cemetery, that monument in the valley, the grand idea of reverence, the memory of the tragic events, innumerable victims and suffering and sacrifice for the right thing and a better life, expressed through ancient forms of that land: mounds and Mogiles, lawns and trees.. It is a monument to the country, simple and yet beautiful in its simplicity, the country's largest duration, enriched by the hand of man! country that gives and takes to give life again!Brick, stone, concrete and copper, in its own way complement the simplicity of the entire memorial space; in Mitrovica Memorial Cemetery, the signs are flames, torches and urn, symbolizing eternal life, light, and agape.

    The total number of victims of fascist terror in this city is 21,597 men, women and children. Here, 7,950 of them have a proper memorial. At the memorial board of the Memorial Cemetery is inscribed:

    "Here are the Germans and Ustashe from 1941 to 1944, they killed 7950 men and women. Here are the tortured people' males and females in the rain and snow, naked and barefoot,with bayonets they are forced to dig their own graves. Here, on the wounded they poured lime and buried them alive. Here are the martyrs to death waiting for rescue. They are over pits, the bayonets and machine guns singing. They were patriots, communists, veterans, they were people. They were and are the freedom and brotherhood of nation, our dignity"

    

     Among the executed at the memorial cemetery there were many famous and respected people of Srem, as it was, Janko Čmelik, Svetozar Birovljev-Cvece (Flower) and many others. There were doctors and students. Among them, was also a well-known painter Sava Šumanović and national heroes Stanko  Paunovic-Veljko, Bosko Pakovljević Pinky, Slobodan Bajic Paja (Donald) and Jovanka Gabošac, whom just before the execution spit in the face of the Ustashian officer. All convicted just because they could not tolerate the Germans and Ustashe presence and had been under the slogans of "rifle and to the Frushka," "do not give to the enemy a single grain of wheat" and “better grave than slave“. They rebelled to the woods and joined the partisans and swore partisan oath.
                            
                                 - The first executions-
   
      Occurred almost simultaneously with the military operations of German occupiers, preparation followed by their servants - Ustasha for the repression of unmemorized scales. For the people of Srem repression was nothing new; in mid-January in Srem began the terror reign of Ustasha against the people. Through prisons in Ruma and Sremska Mitrovica passed thousands of men, women and youth from all parts of the Srem.
    
    In the prisons were performed medieval tortures, especially in the prison in Ruma. At that time, in January 1942 the first execution were conducted in the northern part of the Orthodox cemetery in Sremska Mitrovica, where previously were buried prisoners and suicide victims. “Moving summary court” (Pokrijetni Preki Sud) first appeared in Sremska Mitrovica in the so called "Martinackoj affair", when 11 of the 24 trials resulted in death sentences. An Ustasha officer, in May 1942, made a recording which is three minutes length, the recording is now kept in the Museum of Srem. "Moving summary court" returned to Sremska Mitrovica, and more groups of defendants arrived. All were accused of "collaboration with the Communist Party," and "not reporting to the authorities what they knew about the work of others", from "Jarački group" ten people were executed.
    In the second group there were 30 defendants. They mostly were inmates from the notorious prison in Ruma. They had already been tortured in the most barbaric ways. Among them was Milan Milutinovic, the Secretary of the Srem Committee and a member of the district committee of the Communist Party of Srem. Milivoje Veselinovic, a railway worker and member of the party of Stare Pazove. Sreta Popovic, a teacher from Golubinci, Uros Stojišić from Mandjelos, a teacher and member of the Party, Kaja Relic, Mica Kekezović, Jovanka Gabošac and other activists and fighters.
The shooting of 27 communist “soldiers” was performed during the day on 7 May in 1942. These workers, peasants, high school students, and others...They were all Murdered.
Saved images recorded specific moments from this shooting, and they are now in the Museum of Srem.

                   - A few facts about Memorial Cemetery-
   One of the worst killing fields during the Second World War. The place where occupiers executed 7,950 men, women and children. Located by Orthodox Cemetery in Sremska Mitrovica. In order to honor the people of Srem who would not tolerate oppression of the fascist occupiers and traitors of their race, in the worst way of torturing and murdering the inhabitants of Srem.
     Mass arrests of people and the most brutal torture methods practiced by the Ustashi in Jasenovac and other concentration camps. By the dozen patriots had to kneel next to the pit and wait for a shot in the head at close range, or lie in to the pit and wait for Ustashi to pour fresh lime on them. In September 1942 alone 800 people were killed. During the whole action under Tomic 6,000 people were killed and over 10,000 abused.
In addition to the victims that were killed in this place during the war, also killed here were 308 soldiers of our National Liberation Army. Also 20 soldiers of Bulgarian army, and 18 Red Army soldiers. Also here are buried the remains of four national heroes: Janko Cmelik, Stanko Paunovic Veljko, Bosko Pakovljevic Pinki and Slobodan Bajic Paja
     Memorial Cemetery was constructed in 1960, and is the work of architect Bogdan Boganovic.
    On 22 March 1965, Josip Broz Tito visited the Memorial Cemetery, and has written in the Book of impressions "I am deeply shaken by victims who fell for freedom and happiness of new generations"

A friend of mine Charles Cather and I made a video about Memorial Park witch you can see at this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DTf2KCMGk

Medal of National Hero 

                                         

            Germans and Ustashe in current Memorial Park

Stanko Paunovic-Veljko

Boshko Pakovljevic-Pinki

Germans and Ustashe conducting executions

Slobodan Bajic Paja

Janko Chmelik

Author: Milos Birovic

Editor: Cassi Merten 

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