Saturday Sultress - Bo Krsmanovic

Born on March 1, 1992 in Belgrade, Serbia, Bo began modeling at the age of 14, and was introduced to the fashion world by her sister who is a fashion designer by profession. 

In 2016, she graduated from the Univerzitet of Dzon Nezbit in Belgrade, Serbia with a degree in economics.

‘World Testicle Cooking Championship’ and the winner is . . . .

It Takes Balls To Be A Winner

Lipovica (Serbia) (AFP) – Spring rolls, ratatouille and curry were on the menu at a quirky food festival in rural Serbia on Saturday, with one gutsy ingredient in common: animal testicles.

Now in its 15th year, the cheeky ‘World Testicle Cooking Championship’ draws a motley mix of teams — from groups of friends to professional chefs — for a few days of fun in the Serbian countryside.

There they set up cooking camps in a forest, stirring bubbling stews over wood fires as they vie for the coveted “Ball Cup”.

While the testicles — grey in colour and with a kidney-like texture — may spoil some appetites, festival-goers wax poetic about their taste and alleged aphrodisiac qualities.

“There were some really interesting combinations of flavour… the winner was super, really fantastic,” said Philomena O’Brien, an Australian woman who sat on the three-judge panel that blind-tasted dishes from nearly 20 teams. 

“Choosing the best balls is quite a responsibility,” she added with a smile. 

The event was started by Ljubomir Erovic, the author of a recipe book called “Cooking with Balls”, who claims testicles boost a man’s libido.

“It’s really an aphrodisiac festival,” he told AFP, before donning a chef’s hat and announcing the winner on stage.

Flares and fireworks lit up the sky after a local Serbian team was crowned the winner, with a team of Japanese curry-makers and French restauranteurs also singled out.

“It was quite challenging to do French gastronomy with testicles,” said a member of the French team, Philippe, who runs a restaurant in Paris.

“But we are happy with the result,” he added, showing off the team’s four-course menu featuring bull testicles with foie gras and chocolate “salty balls”, for which it received a special award. 

Milos Kojanic, a 24-year-old from the winning team, said his group also took home last year’s trophy.

The secret to their saucy stews? 

“That’s a mystery,” he said.

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The Kingdom of Enclava is Born

Enclav I - King of Enclava

Long Live the King

• The Kingdom of Enclava is a Balkan microstate proclaimed by a group of Polish tourists last month.
• The self-styled George II, Emperor of Atlantium, another microstate outside Sydney, Australia, does not rate Liberland’s and Enclava’s chances of reaching statehood highly.  “Since 1820, there have been something like 300 micronations of substance that have existed in the world, and not a single one has ever become a sovereign state,” he told Australia’s ABC news  “This is the problem with libertarian micronations: they actually think that by setting up this entity, by finding ways to get around existing laws that they think nobody has ever thought of before, that they can somehow become part of the global community of nations and become a sovereign state.”

(The Guardian)  -  The world’s youngest micro-nation, the self-proclaimed Kingdom of Enclava, has announced it will settle on a new spot along the Croatian-Serbian border after learning that its initial chosen location was on Slovenian territory.

“We cease all activities related to the establishment of the new state on a strip of land on the Croatia-Slovenia border,” Piotr Wawrzynkiewicz , one of the founders of Enclava, said in a statement sent to AFP.

Instead, the kingdom will now be located on a portion of unclaimed land along the Danube River “near the Free Republic of Liberland (on the Croatia-Serbia border)”, he added.

(Enclava.org)

The saga began when Wawrzynkiewicz and his friends, Polish tourists on a trip to Slovenia, learnt from locals that there was an unclaimed 100 square-metre (1,070 square feet) strip of land near the town of Metlika, some 50km (30 miles), west of Croatia’s capital Zagreb.

The tourists decided it was the perfect place to make their dreamed-of Enclava a reality, but the Slovenian foreign ministry said last week that the patch of land was part of its territory and the so-called micronation was only a virtual idea that had created a media buzz.

Following the breakup of former Yugoslavia in 1991, seven new states emerged in the region with many border disputes that left some territories as terrae nullius, or no-man’s land.

While a Hague-based international arbitration panel is expected to rule on the Slovenia-Croatia border by the end of this year, a solution of the dispute between Croatia and Serbia is still not in sight.

The idea behind Enclava is “to create a place, where everyone, regardless of skin colour, religion or nationality, will be able to express their opinions, study for free, and earn money without worrying about taxes”, Wawrzynkiewicz told AFP earlier this month.

News of the aspiring mini-nation spread quickly online and more than 5,000 people have already applied for citizenship, he said.

In a similar vein, Czech national Vit Jedlicka last month created the Free Republic of Liberland on a small parcel by the Danube river between Croatia and Serbia.

Read More . . . .        (RT News.com)

Why the Hell not?
As long as we are starting new countries let's break up the the United States.
Personally I would rather be in an independent People's Republic of California
than be ruled over by the scumbag oligarchy in Washington D.C.

President of self-proclaimed Liberland was 'arrested' for trying
to cross into his own country.  (Fox News) 

Long Live Liberland
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A group of Poles want to establish a new micro-nation near a similar one known as Liberland, whose flag flies on disputed territory on the Serb-Croat border. Photograph: CROPIX/SIPA/REX Shutterstock/CROPIX/SIPA/REX Shutterstock

Foreign Soldiers Fight for Russia in the Ukraine

Serbian volunteers fight for Russia in the Ukraine
to pay back the Russians for supporting them against the Muslims.

50 Shades of Grey and then some

An interesting mix of foreign fighters are 

helping Russia in Ukraine.

By Gary;

The bipartisan war-hawk political hacks are always screaming about some territorial dispute or another around the world and urging U.S. military action.

I am not an isolationist, and I am far from a pacifist.  But not every dust up around the world needs the U.S. to threaten war or the shipping of arms to encourage wars to continue.

These regional conflicts have been going on 10,000 years before the U.S. even existed and somehow the world has managed to go on.

Yes Russia is aggressive in the Ukraine.  This is nothing new, Russia has been aggressive since it was founded in 862 AD.  Hell everyone is aggressive:  The English took Scotland, Ireland and 25% of the planet, the Japanese took Korea, China took Tibet and the U.S. took 80% of the our country in the west and south from Indians, Spaniards, Hawaiians and Mexicans.

Just about every nation on earth will steal their neighbor's wealth and land given half a chance.

Which brings us to Ukraine.  What do you realistically do?  The Ukraine never even existed as a country before 1991 and about one in five "Ukrainians" speak Russian.  So puffing up your chest and screaming about Ukrainian borders being respected does not cut it with me.

Economic sanctions and the U.S. brokering a peace conference sounds better.  Certainly better that pushing the Russian bear closer to a wider war.

Meanwhile I find it interesting the number of foreigners gravitating to the Ukraine to fight for Russia and other eastern European fighting for Ukraine.

Volunteer Soldier Fighting in Ukraine

VICE NEWS - As the conflict in eastern Ukraine continues, thousands of foreign soldiers are joining the fight alongside the pro-Russia separatists of the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR). While the majority of these soldiers are from Russia, a growing number of volunteers from western Europe, and even as far as Brazil, are joining the ranks of the separatist forces.

You Tube.

French volunteers fighting for Russia

French volunteers fighting for Russia

Spanish volunteer fighting for Russia

Police have arrested eight Spanish men who returned from fighting alongside pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine, in what they said was the first operation of its kind in Europe.

Officers detained the suspects in six regions across Spain after they returned from predominantly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine, the interior ministry said in a statement.

They had gone to Ukraine last year where they joined pro-Russia groups fighting for independence in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, the statement added.

The Spaniards belonged to the far left and were inspired by the International Brigades, the multinational volunteer forces that fought against Francisco Franco’s uprising during the Spanish civil war in the 1930s.  (The Guardian)

Serb volunteers helping Russia in the Ukraine

Milutin Malisic, a member of a Serbian Chetnik
paramilitary group. (Reuters / Thomas Peter)

Bosnian Serb Leader “Unconditionally Supports” Israel’s Gaza Operation

Serbian paramilitaries known as Arkan's Tigers from the 1990s Bosnian War against Islam.
Naturally the U.S. & NATO backed Muslims against Christians.

The Serbs Back Israel

• Having known centuries of Muslim oppression, the Christian Serbs support Israel's struggle for survival against Islam.

Practically alone among European leaders, Bosnian Serb leader expressed unconditional support for Israel. Deeply antisemitic and afraid of their Muslim populations, European leaders back the jihadists in Gaza.

This is not unexpected from Eurabia. European leaders  backed the jihadists in Bosnia and dragged their toadie Bill Clinton into the Bosnian war to fight for the Muslims against against the Serb Christians paving the way for a jihadist state in the heart of Europe reports Pamela Geller.

Bosnian Serb Leader Backs Israel’s Gaza Operation,” Arutz Sheva, July 14, 2014.  Milorad Dodik offers rare unconditional support for Israel, says ‘extreme Islamist groups’ threaten ‘the entire world community’.

Nearly alone among European leaders, Milorad Dodik, the President of Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Republic), has expressed unqualified support for Israel and its counter-terror operation in the wake of ongoing Palestinian rocket fire. 

In a letter sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Dodik condemned the rocket attacks against Israel and noted his “complete understanding and support for Israel’s determination to respond to terrorist threats and actions in order to protect the safety of its citizens and their property”. 

“The terrorist threats and actions of extreme Islamist groups are a threat to the entire world community,” Dodik pointed out, adding that Israel is on the front lines in confronting this menace. 

Bosnia’s Serbs, Dodik said, “deeply and sincerely sympathize with the friendly people of the State of Israel”, and asked Netanyahu to “please accept our profound respect, support and compassion for your people”. 

Not to be confused with its sovereign neighbor Serbia, Republika Srpska is one of two autonomous political entities which constitute Bosnia. The other is known as the Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina, and is under joint Muslim and Croat rule. 

Dodik has been a longtime friend and supporter of Israel, which he has visited in the past.

Battle of Kosovo
Kosovo Serbs gather to mark the anniversary of the 1389 Battle of Kosovo at Gazimestan, near the capital Pristina June 28, 2013.
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After the first and second Battles of Kosovo the Christian peoples of the Balkans became 2nd class citizens in their own nations under the tyrannical rule of the Muslim Ottoman Empire. 
Credit: Reuters/Hazir Reka

Russia uses 1999 NATO bombing in media war over Crimea

 

US & NATO Bombing Serbia

• Russia points out Democrat Bill Clinton's unconstitutional war against Orthodox Christian Serbia's fight with Islam.
• Republicans got their panties in a twist and impeached Clinton because he got laid in the Oval Office.  But the GOP was silent and/or supportive of Clinton's unconstitutional Balkan war.

Russian television blasted viewers with 15-year-old footage of NATO bombing raids, burning buildings and wounded people in Yugoslavia on Monday to step up a media campaign against the West over the Crimea crisis.

State television and newspapers used the anniversary of the start of the bombing campaign to depict the West as hypocritical for saying Crimea has no right to secede from Ukraine when NATO used force to help Kosovo escape Slobodan Milosevic's clutches.


Scene from 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia

A special program on state TV called The Serbian Tragedy: 15 Years hammered home Russia's message that the United States and NATO are to blame for redrawing global borders, encouraging separatism and flouting international law.

“The result of the NATO aggression was the final collapse of Yugoslavia and the unilateral declaration of Kosovo's independence to applause from Washington and most European capitals,” government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta said.

“One can only wonder at the overt hypocrisy of Western politicians who now accuse Russia - which Crimea has joined as the result of a popular referendum, and practically without a shot fired - of violating international law,” it said.

Another Unconstitutional War
Clinton had the American military killing Serbians without a
Constitutionally required Declaration of War. 
See Kosovo War

A church in Kosovo destroyed by NATO bombing