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DPNE protest turns into 2020 election campaigning, name change not mentioned



An underwhelming protest, underwhelming display by Mickoski is the result of DPNE’s exhibition earlier today, attended by our own Pero Stamatovski.

If the DPNE wasn’t concerned before, they should be now. The crowd attending the protest was on par, even smaller than the one organized by the Boycott movement. DPNE did not have any of the challenges the Boycott movement had, who held their protest during terrible weather conditions in addition to the massive police raids preventing protesters from attending.

DPNE’s leader Hristijan Mickoski did not mention the name negotiations and the ongoing insanity in Parliament. The focus was on the following topics:

– Air pollution
– GDP
– Failure to bring FB and Google
– Wages

There was no mention of the name changes and the fact that DPNE is helping SDS complete the Deep State project to rename a country and erase the majority of the population out of existence. MINA’s Pero Stamatovski stated the mood in the crowd was one of disappointment and bewilderment at Mickoski’s speech.

Mickoski proclaimed his party “will defeat Zaev, whether via early elections, or in regular elections, whenever they came“. We don’t anticipate Zaev will leave his post 1 year early the way Gruevski did it every mandate.

Mickoski announced protests every Wednesday in front of the Government HQ, and each weekend in various cities across the country, seen by no one and heard by no one.


Ahmeti threatens there will be no peace unless the Prespa treaty is implemented

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti issued a public warning that Macedonia will “have no peace unless the Prespa treaty is implemented”.

The former guerrilla commander spoke at the event organized to mark the Albanian national flag day, and said that the treaty Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras signed to rename Macedonia is essential to regional stability.

– There are those who work for the failure of this treaty, but they have no room to act and it must not be allowed to remain in the archives. With a failed treaty there will be no peace process, no EU or NATO integration and the very important process to solidify peace and stability in South Europe and the Balkans will fail, Ahmeti said.


Leading prosecutor Ruskoska admits she was part of the politically driven Colored Revolution protests

Vilma Ruskoska, the prosecutor who leads charges for the April 27th incident in the Parliamenet, admitted that she was part of the so-called Colored Revolution of protesters coordinated with the SDSM party. Ruskoska was recently promoted into head of the Organized Crime department, after the cases she initiated against a number of VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament were used to get them to vote in favor of amending the Constitution.

– I was one of the citizens who were very disappointed of this situation, Ruskoska said in a TV interview.

– And you were part of the Colored revolution?

– Yes, I was.

-Does this make you biased in your actions?

– I have always tried to be unbiased. I was part of the Colored Revolution because I believed that law and justice should apply to all, the petty crooks and high politicians, Ruskoska said in her exchange. She dodged a follow up question from the journalist about her previous work as a prosecutor and whether she is in part to blame for the “inefficient fight against corruption in the past”.

The Colored Revolution protests were organized over several years, starting in 2015, by the SDSM party and non-Governmental groups, against the then VMRO-DPMNE led Government. Colored Revolution leaders now hold top positions in the SDSM led Government and were appointed as SDSM candidates for Parliament seats and in various state institutions.

Three VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament who are charged in the April 27th case voted against the party line on the renaming of the country and supported the Government’s proposal to amend the Constitution. They were released from detention by the court days or mere hours before the vote in Parliament, and VMRO-DPMNE accused the courts and the prosecutors of working for the Government, to ensure enough members of Parliament are charged and intimidated into voting “the correct way”.

 

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Speculation: Baily’s amnesty – Gruevski and Chavkov to take the fall

There’s great deal of speculation about the plan worked out by Baily and his assistant David Stephenson who is defacto running Macedonia’s illegal prosecution office (SJO/SPO).

The plan appears to be the following:

Two people will take the fall for it: Nikola Gruevski and Mitko Chavkov.

This way, the junta will ensure someone is blamed for the year long fiasco of innocent people being jailed and in the end, nobody will go to jail.

Gruevski is already unavailable, and will never be available, so he was the easiest target for the criminal junta to blame someone for April 27th and make themselves look good, while being unable to do anything in the process.

The second individual to take the fall is Mitko Chavkov, who will be given between 1 and 2 year jail sentence, however, he’s already been in jail for over 6 months. Chavkov has agreed to do this, more importantly, his daughter is set to receive major cash for this “justice” and for Chavkov taking the fall as someone in command of the police.

And there you have it, the criminals who staged a coup in Parliament, raised both hands to count themselves in the lobby of Parliament, are offering amnesty to others… What a country eh?

In the end, knowing how the junta operates, anyone of the 8 bribed DPNE MPs who doesn’t support the name change in Parliament will face prosecution and jail on made up charges. The survival of Zaev’s government hinges on these 8 MPs.


Everyone has a price: Zoki accidentally spills plans to make ex DPNE MP a Public Prosecutor

It wasn’t just the cash and immunity offered to former Minister of Culture and DPNE MP Elizabeta Kanceska Milevska who supported Zaev in Parliament.

Apparently, the SDS leader has promised her the position of Public Prosecutor, currently held by Soros activist Vilma Ruskovska.

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Academic Blaze Ristovski dies aged 87

Academic Blaze Ristovski, regarded as one of the most renowned members of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU), has died aged 87.

Blaze Ristovski (born in the village Garnikovo, Kavadarci, Macedonia on March 21, 1931) is Macedonian linguist, folklorist and historian. Graduated from Faculty of Philology in Skopje. Ph.D. in Philology. He was director of the Institute of Folklore “Marko Cepenkov” in Skopje. Member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and honorary member of the Writers’ Association of Macedonia.


Idiot shiptar Furkan Feta working in Parliament celebrates the death of Academic Blaze Ristovski



Furkan Feta, employed as an “advisor” in Macedonian Parliament was unable to hide his personal happiness from the death of Academic Blaze Ristovski.

In response to the news of the death of the academic, he wrote on social media “He finally died” – though what he wrote is way worse and a corresponding translation in English doesn’t quite exist.

Feta violated both the moral codes and the code of conduct for public administration employees. This is especially true for the Legislature, whose leadership must initiate a procedure to establish violations of the rules of conduct and hate speech on social networks.

Considering this idiot is part of DUI’s party, it is not expected for the Public Prosecution office to open a case as DUI politicians are protected species in Macedonia.

Worst of all, we’re footing the salary for this garbage.

 

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Scandal: All phone conversations in the Public Prosecutors Office were being recorded



A major wiretapping scandal is reported in the Public Prosecutors Office (OJO), which announced on Friday that conversations which prosecutors made from October 2016 through the fixed line system were being recorded. The recording system was active and in place until today, OJO informed.

– According to our initial findings, the conversations were being recorded onto two hard disks based in the building where OJO, and the two Skopje based services are located, the office informed.

An investigation is initiated to see who ordered the installation of this system, who had access to the recordings, whether they were being used and which company installed the system.

VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Dimitar Arsovski said that whenever SDSM is in power, all sorts of illegal wiretaps are put in place.

– The public acknowledgement from the OJO chief prosecutor today that the phones in this service were wiretapped is a major scandal and the proper response to this are resignations. SDSM is in power for a year and a half and now we face another serious wiretapping scandal, which opens many questions about how independent and professional this service is. We have already said that OJO is politically driven. We ask who was listening to these conversations and whether they were used to get the service to act in the way it did in the past years?, asked Arsovski.

Government spokesman Mile Bosnjakovski said that the Government condemns the wiretapping of the prosecutors and said that all efforts will be made to clear the whole thing up.


Following latest wiretapping scandal, Mickoski calls on Interior Minister Spasovski to resign

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said that the least Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski could do after a series of failures, is to resign. The latest blow for Spasovski came after the revelation that the Public Prosecutors Office was being systematically wiretapped.

– This is scandalous behavior on the part of the Interior Ministry, beginning in September 2016. Spasovski was technical Interior Minister and now he is Interior Minister. I saw that ridiculous statement from the Government spokesman who tries to find the blame elsewhere, instead of looking inside their own ranks. The least Spasovski can do after the disastrous mistakes of this year and half is to resign immediately, Mickoski said.

Spasovski was already under pressure after former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski was able to leave the country and received political asylum in Hungary, raising questions whether the Interior Ministry was incompetent, or was collluding in this case.


Hungary rejects EP amendment calling for the extradition of Nikola Gruevski

A minister of the Hungarian Government dismissed a resolution from the European Parliament on Macedonia, which includes a call from the Green Party to have former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski extradited back to the country. Gruevski sought and received political asylum in Hungary as victim of political persecution after the numerous criminal charges which the left wing authorities of Macedonia initiated against him.

– The European Parliament has no connection with the extradition and the asylum of the former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to Hungary, and the asylum procedure is not a political but a legal matter. They attack Gruevski because he built a fence and attempted to stop illegal migration. The pro-immigration parties in the European Parliament have shown once again that the migrants are what’s important to them and they go after everyone who protects the borders. The European Parliament should not poke its nose where it doesn’t belong, said minister Zoltan Kovacs, who is also spokesman of the Government.


Zaev says agreement is reached on the process of “reconciliation”

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said that he has reached agreement for the so-called process of “reconciliation”, widely expected to bring pardons for members of Parliament accused by prosecutors for various crimes after SDSM took over the Government, in exchange for their votes in favor of amending the Constitution and renaming Macedonia.

– We now leave it to the legal teams led by these two groups to make the next steps. Today we expressed political will and I personally attended the meeting of the group and expressed my personal will and will as Prime Minister, Zaev said.

Eight members of Parliament elected on the VMRO-DPMNE lists joined Zaev’s majority to provide 80 votes in favor of opening the process to amend the Constitution. Most of them face criminal charges, including for “terrorism” over the April 27th incident in the Parliament. Three of them were released from detention a day or ever hours before the initial vote in the Parliament.

Zaev said that the Government will not influence the judiciary, but that some kind of distinction between the different participants in the incident in the Parliament.

– The terrorist endangering of the constitutional order is not something which should cover all participants. I will not go into more details now, but I can only say that we need to have a clear distinction. There should be a message of reconciliation and an outstretched hand, but also a message that this will not be repeated, said Zaev. He added that he expects to have the necessary votes and even add to them the next time the process requires two thirds majority. Experts remain divided whether 80 votes are enough to amend the Constitution or if two thirds majority means at least 81 votes.


The gift of Gruevski that keeps on giving: Ex DPNE Minister sides with Zaev



DPNE traitors continue their tradition to switch their allegiances through interviews with German based Deutsche Welle.

Next in line was former DPNE Minister of Education Spiro Ristovski who believes DPNE need to side with Zaev’s junta, for the good of the country.

– It is obvious that we are in a sensitive moment and it is not surprising that a second group of MPs is ready to engage in the processes of national reconciliation and the Constitutional changes. No one better than the deputies of VMRO-DPMNE. In that direction I encourage those MPs and others who think in this way to actively engage in the processes taking place in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia, and remain in Parliament.” Ristovski told Deutsche Welle.

Ristovski says that all MPs from the Parliament should be included in the new social phenomena and needs, and apart from the legislature, that process should be transmitted in all social spheres.

It’s the gift of Gruevski that keeps on giving. It’s become difficult to find a former DPNE minister recruited by Gruevski that hasn’t sided with Zaev.


Poll: Majority of citizens oppose renaming the country, believe VMRO members of Parliament voted under pressure



Poll shows that 51.5 percent of the public opposed amending the Constitution and renaming the Republic of Macedonia into the Republic of North Macedonia, as demanded by the Government. Only 37.6 percent support the change, a poll conducted by the MKD.mk news site and Market Vision polling agency showed.

Broken down by ethnic background, solid 62.2 percent of ethnic Macedonians oppose renaming the country, and less than half of that, 28 percent, are in favor. Among ethnic Albanians, on the other hand, 76.5 percent are in favor, and 6.7 are opposed.

A majority of 53.2 percent of all polled citizens also believes that the eight members of Parliament elected on the VMRO-DPMNE lists who voted in favor of opening the process to amend the Constitution weer doing so under pressure. Only 24.3 percent of the citizens believe that these members of Parliament voted on their own free will. Most of them face criminal charges directly, or against family members, and three were released from detention shortly before the vote.

Regarding other politically charged issues contained in the proposed constitutional amendments, an unusually high percentage of those polled – 37.6 percent – said they have no opinion on whether it is correct to water down the place ASNOM – the 1944 congress of Macedonia’s anti-fascist forces which declared the Macedonian state – holds in the Constitution. The majority supports the proposed text with 55.1 percent, and only 7.9 percent are opposed. A majority of citizens also supports adding the Ohrid Framework Agreement, signed after the rebellion of ethnic Albanian armed groups in 2001, to the Constitution – 56.8 percent are in favor, and 14.7 percent are opposed, while 28.5 percent had no response.


Gajdov: Frckoski behind Gligorov assassination

Political commentator Ljubomir Gajdov spoke this evening during a commemoration of multiple publications and books dedicated to Macedonia since gaining its independence.

His most interesting take that will certainly ruffle some feathers in the SDSM is Gajdov’s explanation who was behind Gligorov’s assassination and the subsequent cover-up.

According to Gajdov and his contacts in the CIA, Munich and London, the SDSM Minister of Interior and current professor at Ss Cyril and Methodius Ljubomir Frckoski was the brain of the operation. The assassination in collaboration with Athens was a diversion for the SDSM to change the name at the UN…

 

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12.02.2018 - Macedonia PM Backs Amnesty Deal ‘In Principle’
Macedonia PM Backs Amnesty Deal ‘In Principle’



Macedonia’s Prime Minister on Friday said he agreed ‘in principle’ with the opposition on a draft law offering an amnesty or pardon to some of those involved in last year’s rampage in parliament.

Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said on Friday that his government was willing to consider an amnesty for those involved in last year’s attack on parliament, after meeting the newly formed parliament commission on reconciliation – which is tasked with proposing steps for national reconciliation after years of political crisis.

Zaev said that his government wanted an amnesty law prepared, but noted that a pardon or amnesty would only apply to those who had not directly used violence during the April 2017 rampage.

“Let’s leave the legal teams to do the next steps now. We showed our political will today,” Zaev said, adding that the legal and technical details of the offer would be left for a later date.

Despite criticism from political, judicial and human rights experts that such a step would mean interfering with the work of the judiciary – a practice that the new government vowed to end when it took power in May last year – Zaev maintained that it would not interfere with the work of the courts.

“There are red lines that must not be crossed, whatever our will and wishes [for a partial amnesty]”, Zaev said, repeating that he greatly valued the maintenance of judicial independence as an “imperative” for the country’s Euro-Atlantic integration hopes.

The reconciliation committee was formed right after the start of still ongoing procedures for constitutional changes, in October, which form part of the historic agreement with Greece on the country’s name.

The body was formed on the initiative of the eight opposition MPs , seven of whom are now excluded from VMRO DPNNE, who provided key support for the start of the parliamentary procedure on the Greek deal – but conditioned their further support on progress in reconciliation that would include an amnesty.

Three of the eight opposition MPs are now on trial for involvement in the attack on parliament.

Critics have accused Zaev of trading the rule of law for opposition votes in order to reach the political goal of implementing the agreement with Greece, which would then unlock Macedonia’s stalled Euro-Atlantic integration process.

“I am willing to pay the political price,” Zaev has responded on several occasion during the past month.

The draft is not being prepared by the leadership of the opposition VMRO DPMNE party, but only with MPs expelled from the party because they supported the Greek agreement.

On Monday, parliament rejected VMRO DPMNE’s proposal for a full amnesty for all participants in the rampage.

Members of and sympathizers with the former ruling and now opposition VMRO DPMNE party had stormed the parliament in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the new majority from electing a new speaker and then forming a new government under Zaev.

During the violence, some 100 people, including Zaev, other opposition MPs and journalists, were injured, some of them severely.

Some 30 people, including VMRO DPMNE MPs who are accused of helping the crowd to enter the parliament building, now stand trial for “terrorist endangerment” of the country’s security.


December 2, 2018 - Slovak Court orders detained Greenpeace Activists to stay in Custody
Slovak court orders detained Greenpeace activists to stay in custody | Reuters

BRATISLAVA - A Slovak court ordered 12 Greenpeace activists, who were detained after protesting against a coal mining company, to remain in custody on Sunday until a trial.

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, however, said the court’s decision was questionable.

Fifteen activists from the Czech Republic, Belgium and Finland were detained on Wednesday after hanging a banner reading “Stop the age of coal” from a tower at a coal mine that supplies one of Slovakia’s most polluting power plants.

No one was harmed during the protest but the mining company, HBP, said 342 miners underground were put in danger as all operations at the premises were halted for several hours.

Three of the activists were released on Wednesday, while the rest were charged with a criminal offence of endangering a strategic utility.

The regional court in Prievidza, central Slovakia, did not set a date for a trial. Lawyers for the activists filed an appeal against the decision to keep them in custody, Greenpeace told Reuters.

If the decision is upheld, they could stay in the pre-trial custody for up to 12 months.

“The court’s decision is unprecedented. Activists are not criminals, they staged a non-violent protest against a company that has been polluting the region and Slovakia for decades,” Greepeace’s chief in Slovakia, Ivana Kohutkova, said in a statement.

Prime Minister Pellegrini said only perpetrators who pose a risk to society should be held in pre-trial custody.

Slovakia’s economy minister announced last month that the state will phase out subsidies for coal mines supplying one of the country’s most polluting power plants from 2023.

The government supports privately owned Hornonitrianske Bane Prievidza (HBP), Slovakia’s only coal miner, paying around 100 million euros ($114 million) a year, which helps maintain thousands of jobs. The company produced 1.8 million tonnes of brown coal last year, supplying the Novaky power plant in central Slovakia. The facility is operated by Slovenske Elektrarne, a utility co-owned by the state, Italy’s Enel and Czech energy group EPH.

Closing the mines has long been contentious as they employ around 4,000 people directly and 11,000 indirectly, although there are potentially opportunities in Slovakia’s booming car industry for retrained workers to secure another job.


12.01.2018 - Billionaire Czech PM faces more Legal trouble over use of EU Funds
Billionaire Czech PM faces more legal trouble over use of EU funds | Reuters

Billionaire Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis faced renewed pressure over his business dealings on Saturday after an EU legal document said he has a conflict of interest due to links to agribusiness companies that received European funds.

The document, which was seen by Reuters, could stir up political turmoil in the Central European country, where massive protests took place on Nov. 23 after the minority government survived a no-confidence vote over an alleged fraud involving EU funds.

Babis, who before becoming premier in Dec. 2017 served as finance minister since 2014, denied any wrongdoing on Saturday following media reports about the confidential document, which is meant to inform decisions by the European Commission.

The legal opinion, dated Nov. 19, said “the situation of Mr Babis qualifies as a conflict of interest,” because he could “influence” decisions on the use of EU funds of which companies linked to him had benefited.

It added that the alleged legal breach could require the reimbursement of some of the funds and said Babis should sever all ties to the companies involved.

According to the document, Babis was the “sole beneficiary” of two trusts into which his shares in the firms Agrofert and the Agrofert group were transferred. The trusts were set up by Babis in 2017 to address concerns about possible conflicts of interest.

The companies, through a network of dozens of agriculture, chemical and food businesses, received EU funds worth 82 million euros ($92 million) in 2017 and many more in previous years.

“I’m in no conflict of interest, I act strictly by the law,” Babis told Reuters on Saturday.

“I don’t control or direct the trust funds, because I don’t even have time for it, being fully occupied by the prime ministerial job,” he said, adding that he had not seen the legal opinion.

The document, however, said that even if he were not in a position of control, the situation would still qualify as a conflict of interest “because he has an interest in the economic success” of those companies since he receives economic benefit from their activities.

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The legal paper suggested the setting up of a blind trust as a way to end the conflict of interest.

Babis and his family should “sever all relations” with the two companies, the opinion said. Babis’ wife is one of the beneficial owners of the trust funds and sits in the board that oversees their management, the EU legal document says.

An Agrofert spokesman said the company had no information about any probe and had not been contacted about the matter. “Andrej Babis did everything that the Czech legal system required,” the Agrofert spokesman added.

The European Commission said it was “closely monitoring” the case.

“Whilst it is for the national authorities in the first instance to take the necessary action, the Commission also has a responsibility to protect the financial interests of the Union,” a spokesman said, adding that Brussels had contacted Czech authorities about the matter earlier this week.

Philippe Lamberts, who leads the Greens grouping in the European Parliament, called for an immediate suspension of EU funds to the companies involved.

“The Czech Parliament and Commission cannot stand by and let this situation further denigrate the standing of the Czech government and the EU,” he said in a statement.

 

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That’s all she wrote – DPNE MPs gave the necessary quorum to SDS

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The presence of 20+ DPNE MPs in Parliament helped SDS achieve the needed quorum to enact change of country’s name. Mickoski kept his promise to Hahn.







DUI’s Ahmeti a terrorist, diagnosed as Schizophrenic by Swiss Government, 20 years in charge of Macedonia



DUI President Ali Ahmeti moved to Switzerland in the 1980’s providing a diploma purchased at Prishtina University to obtain asylum in the country as a “political dissident”. Early in his stay, Swiss psychiatrists diagnosed him with schizophrenia and deemed him unfit to work, for which state pension was provided.

Over the past 20 years, no Macedonian party or Government official has provided a single shred of information on the status of Ahmeti’s schizophrenia, whether he is fit to work in the country, let alone in Government.

For a Government official, this information must be publicly available. Yet, it isn’t.

Schizophrenia is a fairly broad notion of mental illness, however all patients have specific ‘rights’ in front of the law. Namely, diagnosed schizophrenics are not entirely capable of reasonably functioning independently. In any sort of conflict with the law another individual steps in to represent a schizophrenic patient.

Ahmeti has never disclosed the degree of his mental disease or the medications he is taking. Yet, this individual with a documented mental illness for 20 years is signing political agreements, and today is changing Macedonia’s constitution.

What is also symptomatic is that DUI’s Ali Ahmeti has a ban on entry into the United States, but also Switzerland and six other EU countries where he is on a “black list” of undesirable persons under the “threat to the general security”.

In other words, Ahmeti is considered a terrorist by 6 EU countries, USA and Switzerland. But he is in Macedonian Parliament and Government. To make the absurdity complete, the DUI leader is a frequent honorary guest in EU Embassies of the countries who consider him a terrorist.

US excels in this area, it will not let Ahmeti visit the country, however the US Embassy (a US territory), has hosted Ahmeti dozens of times.Switzerland expelled Ahmeti in late 1999 due to his radical islamic views. Official Bern also nullified his disability pension, which the Macedonian Government has been paying since 2002.

For his terrorism activities, Ahmeti spent two years in jail.

Since then, as a diagnosed schizophrenic a terrorist and a politician he’s involved in changing Macedonia’s constitution.

 

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Two proposed amendments, including one renaming Macedonia into North Macedonia, inch ahead in Parliament



Over the weekend, the Macedonian Parliament voted to approve the text of the proposed amendments 33 and 34 of the Constitution, which, if adopted at the end of the process, would rename the Republic of Macedonia into the Republic of North Macedonia. The two amendments are part of the Prespa treaty concluded between Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

Amendment 33 would add “Northern” to nearly all mentions of Macedonia or Macedonian in the Constitution. Amendment 34 changes the wording in the Preamble of the Constitution which mentioned the 1944 ASNOM World War Two assembly which laid the foundations of the Macedonian state, which Greece also found objectionable. In a nod to the ethnic Albanian members of Parliament who make up the majority needed to amend the Constitution and prop up Zaev’s Government, this article will also include a mention of the 2001 Ohrid Framework peace treaty which put an end to the Albanian insurgency.

The Government had between 65 and 67 votes for both amendments, while between 18 and 23 members of Parliament were opposed. This amounts to a simple majority in the Parliament, which is needed at this stage, for these and the two additional amendments. The two thirds majority of 80 or 81 votes – depending on interpretation – was needed to open the process and will be needed again to complete it. Eight former VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament who voted on October 19th in favor of opening the procedure abstained at this stage, demanding that the Parliament moves forward with the so-called process of “reconciliation” – widely believed to mean granting amnesty to them and their associates. Most of these eight members of Parliament face criminal charges directly, for close family members or associates and three of them were released from detention shortly before voting on October 19th.


Parliament moves third of the four proposed amendments to the next stage

In the Macedonian Parliament, 64 members voted in favor of the third of the constitutional amendments proposed in accordance with the Prespa treaty. This is enough to advance the amendment in the next stage.

Amendment 36 alters, for the second time, Article 49 of the Constitution, to additionally water down the provision that “Macedonia cares for the rights of the members of the Macedonian people who live in neighboring countries”. If the amendment is adopted in the final reading, this Article will refer to “the citizens of the Republic”, and not to the “Macedonian people”.

Against the proposal were 14 members of Parliament, and two abstained. This is the third of the four amendments proposed by the Zoran Zaev Government. The first two add “North” in front of every mention for “Macedonia” or “Macedonian” in the Constitution and reduces the importance of the 1944 ASNOM assembly, while mentioning the 2001 Ohrid Framework peace treaty in the Preamble of the Constitution.

After the amendments are adopted, a period of public discussion is supposed to begin, before the Parliament can vote for the final version of the amendments, when Zaev will again need a two thirds majority (80 or 81 votes in Parliament, depending on the interpretation of the Constitution).


All four amendments meant to rename Macedonia into North Macedonia advance in the next stage

With 66 votes in favor and 7 opposed, the Macedonian Parliament adopted the fourth and final draft amendment that will lead to renaming Macedonia into North Macedonia and to implementing the deal with Greece, in the second stage of its adoption.

This is the second amendment of the four proposed changes to the Constitution that was adopted on Monday. One of them guarantees the territorial integrity of neighboring countries and guarantees that Macedonia has no territorial claims toward its neighbors, and the other waters down the protection of Macedonians living in neighboring countries and abroad, replacing the word “Macedonians” with “citizens”. Two other amendments were adopted during the weekend. One adds “North” to all mentions of “Macedonia” or “Macedonian” in the Constitution, while the other reduces the prominence of the 1944 ASNOM assembly that declared a sovereign state of the Macedonian people, while adding the 2001 Ohrid Framework peace treaty with the Albanian insurgents in the Preamble to the Constitution.

This is the second stage of the adoption of the amendments, and the ruling coalition needed only a simple majority in Parliament to advance the amendments to the public discussion stage. Ultimately, the Parliament will have to vote with a two thirds majority, and the outcome will depend on whether Prime Minister Zoran Zaev will be able to keep in line the eight former VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament who voted against the party line and supported amending the Constitution. Most of them face criminal charges initiated recently by prosecutors and demand pardons in exchange for their votes.


Vucic: I know Serbia would’ve been praised if we arrested Gruevski without a warrant

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that he is aware Serbia would’ve been praised if it had arrested former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski or assumed responsibility for his escape, even though there was no arrest warrant against him at the time when he crossed Serbia on his way to Hungary.

– I know we would’ve been seen as the best people in the world for some, if we assumed blame for not arresting Gruevski. We were probably supposed to arrest him, 48 hours before the warrant was given, Vucic said adding that “Serbia respects the rule of law, and we are often blamed for that”.

Gruevski left Macedonia three weeks ago and reached Hungary after crossing Albania, Montenegro and Serbia. In Hungary he asked for and received political asylum, due to the political persecution and death threats aimed at him in Macedonia. Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev obliquely blamed the neighboring countries for allowing Gruevski to cross their borders, which responded by saying that Macedonia was late in issuing the arrest warrant.

Vucic also discussed the call by Kosovar Deputy Prime Minister Enver Hoxhaj, who asked Croatia, Macedonia and Montenegro to join Albania and Kosovo in an alliance aimed at Serbia.

– Hoxhaj denied that he was talking about a pact, but he didn’t deny the essence of his remarks. We on our part will not join any pacts and will not work to destroy pacts made by others. We will cooperate with all, but we will not allow anybody to humiliate our country, Vucic said.

 

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Ivanov covers sign at UN Climate Summit in Poland



Macedonia’s silent president Gjorgje Ivanov is attending a UN Climate Summit in Poland where the hosts had placed a sign with the UN acronym for Macedonia.

Ivanov impromptu covered the acronym portion of it with a piece of paper. This might be the first thing Ivanov has done right since 2014.

Today, as part of his agenda, the head of the Macedonian state had a lecture at Katowice University, where he stressed that “the Republic of Macedonia faces perhaps the biggest challenge in its existence, which is to deny historical rights and the right to self-determination.”

“Greece with the Prespa Treaty imposes a new name and demands that it be applied erga omnes – both for international and domestic use. It is envisaged to change the Constitution. Through this agreement, Greece will receive constant oversight of how we will name ourselves, but how will other countries address us as well,” he said in his address.

Meanwhile, Ivanov is trying to find the guarantees given to him by Zaev that there won’t be changes in the Constitution. Ivanov is not quite sure in which drawer he put them in.


Deep State to nutjob Zaev: Macedonia in NATO, maybe in mid 2020



This summer, Macedonia’s psychopathic representatives in the Government spent 400,000 euros of taxpayers money to celebrate entry into NATO. Prime Minister Jess Baily’s assistant Zoran Zaev proclaimed the country will enter NATO by the end of 2018 (this is now).

Meanwhile, for nearly a year we warned that Macedonia will change the name and it will never enter NATO (The US Deep State & their EU globalist puppets have created too many enemies across Europe which will use Macedonia as a tool to strike back at Washington). It’s now a certainty that Hungary and Turkey will block Macedonia’s entry in NATO, if it ever came to it.

After stating for a year that Macedonia will enter NATO in 2018, two weeks ago, Washington’s GMO product Z. Zaev proclaimed that Macedonia will enter NATO in 2019, by March of 2019 to be precise.

Today, Deep State representative Matthew Palmer stated Macedonia “may” enter NATO in mid 2020.



Once again, we’re going on the record stating Macedonia will never enter NATO or the EU.

The name negotiations from the very beginning have been a Mengele-like experiment by the new globalist Nazis to disappear countries, people, ethnicities and create a progressive global human population without identity, ethnicity, race or borders – all under their control. It never had anything to do with NATO or Euro integrations. Macedonia was picked as the “weakest” among all in Europe for this experiment that would offer the least resistance.



Sign seen at UN HQ in Geneva


Dramatic drop in support for the Special Prosecutor and the judiciary in general

The continues massive filing of criminal charges against officials from the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party has led to a significant drop in support for both the regular Public Prosecutors Office (OJO) and the Special Prosecutors Office (SJO).

A poll conduced by the pro-Government Telma TV station and MCMS shows that nearly two out of three Macedonian citizens distrust OJO. The work of this organization was seen in positive light by only 28.3 percent of the citizens, while 61 percent said that they don’t trust the main prosecutorial branch of the judiciary. This comes after a series of charges filed against politicians, exclusively from the conservative opposition party, while allegations of corruption against members of the ruling parties were ignored or dismissed in court.
Trust in the judiciary overall was expressed by only 33.3 percent of the public, while 61.4 percent said they don’t trust the system.



A new development in the poll is the drop in support for SPO. Formed under international mentorship, this service usually enjoyed high levels of support. But, the latest poll shows that 53.5 percent of the public no longer trust the Katica Janeva led team, which keeps issuing charges against VMRO-DPMNE officials. The poll was conduced in November, after the high profile pressure on VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament, about 15 of whom are charged by either OJO or SJO, to vote in favor of opening the process to amend the Constitution and rename Macedonia.


Macedonia fourth most polluted country in the world, citizens tortured by smog



Macedonia ranks fourth in the world by exposure to air pollution, says the international World Air Pollution Index program, based in China.

Collecting data from measuring stations and citizens on the ground, the site lists Macedonian cities as among the most polluted in the world, largely due to the use of wood and coal for heating over the winter. Social media are buzzing each evening with citizens reporting that they feel irritation of their eyes and when they breathe, smell of burnt rubber and other junk used in the poorest parts of the cities and extremely low visibility.

Those air pollution measuring stations that still operate have shown extremely high numbers of PM 10 particles, with 354 micrograms per cubic meter measured in Skopje and 390 in Bitola, while the World Air Pollution Index showed Macedonian cities at 484 on their scale.

In Novo Lisice, an extremely polluted area in eastern Skopje, environmental activists used hand held measuring devices on Monday, which showed an extreme high of 500 micrograms per cubic meter – 11 times over the maximum allowed concentration.

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Despite promising active measures to curb pollution, the Government is yet to do so, and was hit by a number of scandals in which top officials tasked with cleaning up the environment were caught sleeping during a Parliament hearing on this issue or rudely brushed off questions from the citizens.

 

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This article verifies Sergei Lavrov's statements on the conditions and activities during the last Macedonian Parliament vote, to change the name and identity of Macedonia.

Monday December 3, 2018 - Our Name Is Macedonia: Why Do We Have To Keep Justifying Our Existence? – OpEd
Our Name Is Macedonia: Why Do We Have To Keep Justifying Our Existence? – OpEd

In yet another protest against a change to Macedonia’s name and identity, Macedonians converged, en masse, in front of Macedonian parliament, despite road blockages and intimidation, carried out by the US-installed illegitimate government of Zoran Zaev.

Yes, Macedonia is on the brink of collapse due to interference from foreign elements. Its very sovereignty and the existence of the Macedonian people, including millions in the neighbouring countries and throughout the world, are in jeopardy.

Why? Because the US and European Union have deemed it a priority to increase NATO and EU membership and are demanding that the Republic of Macedonia change its name, identity, ethnicity and rewrite its history, contrary to all human rights conventions and international law. The end goal is to appease Greece, which opposes Macedonia’s name, all for the promise that Greece might lift its veto to allow discussions for the Republic of Macedonia’s potential NATO and EU membership.

Case in point: During an illegal session of Macedonian parliament on October 19, eight opposition MP’s were held in a chamber by the illegitimate government of Zoran Zaev until they followed orders to vote to change Macedonia’s name and identity. MP’s, with women especially targeted, were blackmailed, bribed and threatened with prison sentences, including threats to their families. This treasonous and illegal vote paves the way for two further parliamentary votes and for the complete annihilation of Macedonia’s right to self-determination.

These brutal tactics were sanctioned by US Ambassador Jess Baily, who was present in Macedonian parliament at the time. The mere presence of a foreign diplomat violates Macedonian (and any other country’s) parliamentary rules. But Baily is not alone. Joining him in interfering in Macedonia’s internal affairs are EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis and most, recently, US Assistant Secretary of State Wess Mitchell, who have all visited Macedonia recently to issue blatant threats. The common message is “Change your name or else”.

So why does Greece want to rename Macedonia and redefine the identity of the Macedonian people? Former Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis admitted, in 1995, that Greece manufactured the name dispute in order to deny the existence, and persecution, of its large Macedonian minority.

The name being imposed on Macedonia would be “Republic of North Macedonia”, and the new identity given to all Macedonians would be “Northern Macedonian”. There is a 19-page document known as the “Prespa Agreement” that redefines the terms “Macedonia” and “Macedonian” and gives Greece the power to punish Macedonia if it “misuses” any term to describe itself.

Does this seem normal?

And we are not just referring to Macedonians in the Republic of Macedonia. The entire region of Macedonia was partitioned in 1913 (a fact admitted by all, oppressors included) among Serbia/Yugoslavia (now the independent Republic of Macedonia), Bulgaria, Greece and later, Albania. Macedonians have been fighting attempts at eradication ever since. Greece, ironically, outlawed the term “Macedonia” and denied its existence until a dramatic propaganda switch in 1988, when it began a campaign of trying to deceive the world into believing that Macedonia was “Greek”. Let’s not forget though, that our other oppressors also claim Macedonia. Or, instead of being bogged down in a brutal game of Balkan roulette, we could just use common sense. Macedonia is Macedonian.

In a shocking interview recently on Macedonian television, Zoran Zaev even admitted that he was put into power to ensure Macedonia’s EU and NATO membership by forcing through a name change. But he fears no repercussions because he has the backing of the United States and European Union.

As a result, Zaev has used tactics such as ordering riot police to attack Macedonians who oppose the changing of their name and identity, falsifying election results, imprisoning dissenting Macedonians, firing people from public and private sector jobs, shutting down opposition media outlets and blocking social media access to those who dare oppose him.

Despite blatant and admitted interference, the US and EU have the gall to claim that “Russian meddling is destabilizing Macedonia”. American foreign policy dictates that “offence is the best defense”. In other words, accuse others of your own despicable tactics while continuing to employ them, with each successive one becoming more brazen.
Macedonians are simply demanding that their human rights and self-determination be defended. No one expected that it would be against attacks led by the West.

A solution that satisfies the West’s insatiable goal for Macedonian NATO and EU membership while actually respecting human rights, international law and decency? Instead of forcing Macedonia to jump through hoops on its way to cultural extinction, the West could remove the one-country veto rule in NATO and the EU or simply direct Greece not to use its veto power. The West must uphold the principles that it claims to respect, or it will be complicit in the demise of an entire ethnic group. Our Name Is Macedonia. Who gave you the right to change it?


December 5, 2018 - PM suggests Serbia could intervene if Kosovo sets up full Army
PM suggests Serbia could intervene if Kosovo sets up full army | Reuters

BELGRADE - Serbia’s prime minister suggested on Wednesday that any creation of a standing army in Kosovo could provoke a military intervention by Belgrade, two decades after Kosovo Albanians’ uprising against Serbian rule.

The predominantly ethnic Albanian Kosovo parliament is set to vote on Dec 14 on whether to transform its 4,000-strong, but lightly armed, defense force into a regular army.

Though that process could take years, Serbian politicians maintain that a Kosovo army could be used to expel remaining minority Serbs from Kosovo, an accusation denied by Kosovar leaders who rely on European Union and U.S. support in reforms and development of the impoverished, small Balkan state.

“I am hoping we would never have to use it (the army), but this is currently one of the options on the table as we do not want to watch this ... ethnic cleansing,” Prime Minister Ana Brnabic told reporters in Belgrade.

Balkans analysts said that any action by Serbia’s 28,000-strong army against Kosovo is highly unlikely given Belgrade’s aspirations to join the EU and that Brnabic’s remarks appeared to be a sop to Serbian nationalists.

“Brnabic’s claims...are in conflict with a recent statement of President Aleksandar Vucic who said that sending the (Serbian) army to Kosovo would lead to direct conflict with NATO,” said Milan Karagaca, a former military diplomat and a member of Belgrade’s Center for Foreign Policy think-tank.

Fraught relations between Serbia and Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008, soured further when Pristina slapped 100 percent tariffs on imports from Serbia and Bosnia on Nov 21 in retaliation for Belgrade’s lobbying against Kosovo’s admission to Interpol, the international police group.

NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg described the idea of creating a Kosovo army as ill-timed.

“Such a move ... goes against the advice of many NATO allies and may have serious repercussions for Kosovo’s future Euro-Atlantic integration,” Stoltenberg said in Brussels.

He also described the tariffs introduced by Pristina as divisive, adding that such steps are making EU-mediated dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo “even more difficult.”

He urged both sides to refrain from provocative steps and statements and to seek compromises if they want to move “toward a better future.”

Brnabic said the tariff hike would bring trade with Kosovo to a halt, costing Serbia 42 million euros a month. But Vucic said on Tuesday there would be no counter-measures.

The EU has said Belgrade and Pristina must normalize relations and resolve territorial and other outstanding disputes as a condition for progress toward EU membership both seek.


December 5, 2018 - Labor shortage compounds Croatia's struggle to catch up to Western Europe
Labor shortage compounds Croatia's struggle to catch up to western Europe | Reuters

ZAGREB - Croatia is suffering a severe labor shortage, most glaringly in its booming seaside tourist resorts, that is compounding obstacles to economic growth and dimming hopes of catching up to more developed European Union peers.

The problem reflects poor levels of pay, education and skills-training in a still mainly state-dominated economy that has driven many young Croats to find more lucrative, fulfilling work in affluent western EU countries, analysts say.

“The mismatch between education and the needs of the economy, a low readiness for mobility within Croatia and a high number of people leaving to work in other EU states negatively affect Croatia’s labor market,” Iva Tomic at the Zagreb Economic Institute think-tank told Reuters.

According to the national employers’ association HUP, Croatian firms cannot fill at least 30,000 jobs, largely in tourism, which accounts for almost 20 percent of gross domestic product, and in construction, retail and manufacturing.

This at a time when Croatia and other European Mediterranean tourist hotspots are struggling to cope with huge crowds arriving on cheap flights and cruise ships in the summer high season.

Tourism in Croatia, with its spectacular, rugged Dalmatian seacoast and offshore islands, regularly offsets the country’s considerable trade deficit, so it is crucial for the service sector underpinning it to be able to fill job openings.

But many other businesses, Croatian- or foreign-owned, also have many job opportunities going begging, compounding the drag on growth and helping keep the unemployment rate unacceptably high - currently at 9.1 percent, analysts say.

That is down from 11.6 percent a year, but only because of the brain drain of young Croats.

“In (the town of) Sisak there is a visible lack of adequate workers. In the past financial year, when we hired 71 workers, 40 percent of those interviewed did not meet the conditions and 43 percent of our 90 employees had to be trained internally,” said Ivana Rumac at Italian-owned steelmaker ABS.

“The (Croatian) education system does not offer programs which provide skills we need,” a company statement said.

ABS, in Sisak 50 km (30 miles) southeast of the capital Zagreb, has now built its workforce up to 116 with a target of 150 by the end of the current fiscal year next June.

Franz Letica, head of Zagreb’s restaurant and bar owners association, said that in the first nine months of 2018 there were 782 unfilled openings for cooks and 1,493 for waiters, with only 272 cooks and 796 waiters employed in a city of 800,000.

The newest EU member country’s public sector is also affected. Ankica Prasnjak at the nurses union said Zagreb University Hospital was short of some 300 nurses as many had gone to higher-paying jobs elsewhere in the EU.

Potential investors face similar difficulties.

“A bigger Austrian company wanted to expand business in Croatia but, because of a shortage of adequately skilled workforce, eventually opted for South America where it also runs businesses,” said Sonja Holocher-Ertl, director of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce’s office in Croatia.

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Labor shortages are not unique to Croatia - other emerging economies in Europe’s ex-communist east and southeast have also
experienced a drain of young talent to the richer west of the EU, exploiting the right of free movement within the bloc.

But it explains analysts’ doubt that Croatia’s longer-term growth will surpass a modest 1-2 percent needed to rise to western levels of prosperity.

At the moment the former Yugoslav republic’s economy is expanding just below three percent annually, but even that is below peers in eastern and southeastern Europe.

Labor-starved businesses are lobbying the Zagreb government to raise the annual quota for foreign workers, which this year amounted to 38,769 licenses.

But skilled workers from other, less developed east European economies are difficult to lure as they can find better paid jobs further west, for instance in wealthy Austria or Germany.

The average salary in Croatia in September was 6,195 kuna ($950.21), far below western European levels. Croatian media report anecdotally that Croats working in hotels in Austria earn at least double what they could at home.

“Businesses here cannot raise salaries much and thus become more competitive because they would jeopardize their profitability,” Tomic said.

Critics say that excessive red tape and high tax rates lingering from Croatia’s communist past within old Yugoslavia, lumbering judicial procedures and frequently changing, opaque regulations add to barriers to growth and investment.

While a clear solution for Croatia’s growth problems is not in sight, senior Labor Ministry official Marija Knezevic Kajari said the domestic workforce pool was far from exhausted.

Only about 60 percent of Croatians between 15 and 64 years of age are employed - among the lowest rates in the EU.

“Importing workers is partly a solution but we believe there is space for retraining local people, for which we offer financial support to businesses and for people who have a business idea and want to be self-employed,” Knezevic Kajari said.

In the meantime local businesses fear missing out on new contracts. “With the shortage of skilled workers some employers are already having to cancel some business deals for next year. It has become a very serious problem,” the HUP statement said.


December 5, 2018 - Imprisoned Serb ex-commander indicted by Bosnia over wartime killings
Imprisoned Serb ex-commander indicted by Bosnia over wartime killings | Reuters

SARAJEVO - A Bosnian Serb ex-commander, who was jailed for 28 years by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for rape and enslavement in Bosnia’s war of the 1990s, has now been indicted over the killing of Muslim civilians, Bosnia’s prosecutors office said on Wednesday.

Dragoljub Kunarac, 58, who was the commander of a special unit of the Bosnian Serb army, is accused of taking part in killing of at least six people and torture and persecution of Muslim civilians from villages around the eastern Bosnian town of Foca in July 1992, the prosecutor said in a statement.

He is also accused of taking part in looting and burning down Muslim homes, the statement said.

Foca was notorious for the mass persecution and killings of Muslims by the Bosnian Serb forces as part of a campaign to form an exclusively Serb region, and for detention camps in which women and young girls were raped and enslaved.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) jailed Kunarac in 2001 for 28 years over torture, rape and enslavement in the first case in which the tribunal pronounced rape and enslavement to be crimes against humanity. He is serving his prison term in Germany.

The ICTY President Theodor Meron in 2016 denied his request to be released after serving two-thirds of the term. Kunarac is expected to appeal again, after Meron leaves his job in January 2019.

Bosnia’s state court needs to confirm the indictment against him. It is not clear whether any sentence he may receive if convicted in Bosnia would run alongside the ICTY sentence or be in addition to it.

Around 100,000 people were killed and 2 million moved from their homes during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.


December 5, 2018 - Slovakia expels Russian Diplomat, says engaged in Espionage
Slovakia expels Russian diplomat, says engaged in espionage | Reuters

BRATISLAVA - Slovakia has expelled a Russian diplomat after information from military intelligence showed he engaged in espionage activities in the NATO and European Union member country, Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini said on Wednesday.

“We expelled him on November 22 and he left Slovakia within 48 hours,” Pellegrini told reporters.

 

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VMRO-DPMNE takes to the streets in Skopje

VMRO-DPMNE prepares a protest rally in the capital Skopje on Wednesday evening, for the second week in a row.

– Macedonia is in darkness caused by SDSM, VMRO-DPMNE said, citing the inability of the SDSM party led Government to tackle the pressing problem of air pollution. “Minister Duraku arrogantly brushes off the citizens, his deputy Makraduli is asleep in the Parliament, and Mayor Silegov is playing gams on his phone, which shows you the extent of their care for the air pollution”.

The opposition party is protesting against the mass criminal charges being filed against its members and the on-going process to rename the Republic of Macedonia, even though the proposal was rejected by the voters in a referendum and members of Parliament are being blackmailed to support it.

– Our country is hostage to a small partisan elite led by Zaev which is pushing us further into darkness. VMRO-DPMNE calls on all the citizens who disagree with these destructive policies, to join us in our rallies across Macedonia, VMRO-DPMNE said.


I too want to attend DPNE promenade every Wednesday



DPNE and their dwindling membership held their Wednesday promenade from downtown Skopje to the Government HQ (0.5 miles).

DPNE Mickoski read out his usual campaign speech, promising bread and honey, being very careful never to mention the ongoing name change in Parliament and the fact his MPs are taking part in it. The air quality and wages were once again a big hit with Mickoski. “When we’re in power, we have a plan how to improve the air quality by 30%” stated Mickoski. But that’s for much later, for now it’s Asthma Inc.

The number of promenade attendants was drastically reduced from the previous Wednesday. One has a limited capacity of unimportant things it can hear from weatherman and air pollution guru Hristijan Mickoski. The surprising thing here is why were Government employees filming the gathering from one of the windows – this isn’t even a protest.



If this Wednesday’s attendance is anything to go by, it may become simply too embarrassing for the DPNE to hold these promenades every week.

Meanwhile, here is Shekerinska wearing the EU flag…



And here is Zaev proving once and for all primates do have the ability to talk, the trick is to put them in charge of Macedonia… Zaev explains that Athens is writing Macedonia’s constitution – brought to you by Washington.

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Zaev says he’s open to including opposition proposals in the Constitution amendments

The Macedonian Government held the first of the five planned debates which will meet the requirement to hold “public discussions” on the proposed amendments to the Constitution. During the debate, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said that he is open to some of he recommendations made by the eight former VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament who supported opening the process and also said that Macedonia is in constant communication with Greece to consult on the text of the amendments.

Some of the proposals which Zaev said will be acceptable to him include the obligation that all implementation of the name change will be gradual, and will depend on Greece not blocking Macedonia’s EU integration. This is a proposal from representative Panco Minov, who opposed opening the process, but indicated he may support the final text.

Professor Vlado Popovski said that the Preamble of the Constitution should continue to include a reference to the Macedonian people, and also opposed the proposal to water down the reference to the 1944 ASNOM assembly, when Macedonia was constituted as a state.

Debates will also take place in the FON University, the Macedonian Academy, as well as in the Tetovo and Stip universities.


Greek politicians seethe as video of Zaev’s “Aegean Macedonia” statement circulates

Greek opposition official Giorgos Koumoutskakos reacted angrily today after Greek media carried the statement from Zoran Zaev, who said that under the Prespa treaty, Macedonians living in Greece may finally be allowed to complete their public education in the Macedonian language. Greece has long refused to grant minority rights to Macedonians living in its northern region, and this issue has contributed greatly to the dispute between the two countries, with Greece demanding guarantees that Macedonia will not act to ask for greater minority rights.

– Now that we saw the video, we see that Zaev’s unacceptable statements are actually even worse than initially reported. We are not surprised by this, because it is a natural consequence of the Prespa treaty, which we always said will serve as an incubator of nationalism and irredentism, said the Greek shadow Foreign Minister for the opposition New Democracy party.

Defending the proposed amendments in Parliament before VMRO-DPMNE representatives, Zaev blamed one of them of doing nothing to help the Aegean Macedonians – ethnic Macedonians living in northern Greece which is often referred to as Aegean Macedonia or White Sea Macedonia.

– Now we have better chances, now we have a chance that the Macedonian language will finally be taught there. It was banned until now , we have a realistic chance to help them, to remove the borders, Zaev said in the statement which is now widely quoted in Greece. All leading Greek politicians responded angrily to the statement, which prompted an apology and clarification from the Macedonian Government.

Greece to Slovenia: You have to call Macedonia – “North Macedonia” now

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called on Slovenian President Borut Pahor to begin referring to the Republic of Macedonia as the “Republic of North Macedonia”. Slovenia is one of the first countries that recognized Macedonia under its constitutional name, but Greece expects countries that have done so to switch to the new name under the Prespa treaty agreed between Tsipras and Zoran Zaev.

– The treaty means that you, in Slovenia, as one of the countries that recognize our neighbor under its current constitutional name, will in the future call it North Macedonia. A large portion of of Macedonia is in Greece and it is an important part of the ancient Greek history, Tsipras told Pahor. Pahor welcomed the fact that the two countries signed an agreement, adding that a lot of work remains on its implementation.

 

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Kotzias: I would’ve pulled Zaev’s ears over his “Aegean Macedonians” statements

Former Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, who determined the text of the Prespa treaty with Macedonian Minister Nikola Dimitrov, said that if he still held office, he would’ve “pulled Zaev’s ears” over his statement that Macedonian living in Greece will soon be allowed to get public education in Macedonian. The statement, which Zaev made in Parliament, caused havoc on the Greek political scene.

– I would’ve pulled his ears using all means possible, using NATO and the EU. It is good that Nimetz got involved and reminded Zaev that he is violating two counts of the 1995 Interim Accord and the Prespa treaty, Kotzias said, using the common punishment for unruly kids as metaphor. UN mediator Matthew Nimetz intervened with Zaev to get him to issue an apology to the Greeks, who refuse the accept that there is a Macedonian minority in the part of the region of Macedonia which Greece has held for the past 100 years, let alone allow them to study in Macedonian.

– It is up to us to determine which language will be used in Greek education. It is not a matter that concerns them, Kotzias added.

Defending the Zaev – Tsipras treaty in Parliament, Zaev accused a VMRO-DPMNE representative saying that the previous Gruevski Government didn’t care enough about the “Aegean Macedonians” and that this treaty opens the way for them to finally get minority rights, including public education in Macedonian. Macedonians refer to this region as Aegean or White Sea Macedonia and its status has been a thorny Balkan issue ever since the expulsion of the Ottoman Empire a century ago.


Greece to introduce amendment to remove Macedonian language at UN



Greek newspaper Estia reports that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will ask the UN to approve an additional annex that will precisely define the Prespa Agreement in the sense that it will give a very limited space for language and national language.

According to the newspaper, the protocol will be an amendment to the Prespa Agreement, ie it will become its integral part.

According to Greek newspapers, Evangelos Kalpadakis, an adviser to the Greek prime minister, was engaged in the preparation of this amendment.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos has already asked the NATO Secretary General to oppose interpretations of the Prespa Agreement in Macedonia in order to prevent recognition of the “Macedonian people” and to emphasize that the language in the Greek northern neighbor is described as Slavic and not Macedonian.

 

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December 7, 2018 - Vying for influence, Russia accuses US of meddling in Macedonia
Vying for influence, Russia accuses U.S. of meddling in Macedonia | Reuters

ATHENS - The United States is meddling in Macedonian domestic affairs by pushing a name accord with Greece to boost the Balkan state’s bid to join NATO, Russia’s foreign minister said, amid a tussle for influence in the region.

Athens and Skopje have agreed Macedonia will change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia to end a decades-long dispute and potentially enable it to join the transatlantic military alliance and European Union, which Russia opposes.

“It’s obvious there is a rampant and continued intervention by the United States and the EU in Macedonia’s domestic affairs,” Russian minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Greek newspaper Efimerida ton Syntakton published on Friday.

Washington has voiced concern about Russia’s “malign influence” in Macedonia and elsewhere in the Western Balkans, accusing it of trying to undermine governments and block their progress towards international integration.

Moscow denies that, accusing the West in turn of big-footing the region and pressuring to rush the Macedonian process through by early next year. It says a Macedonian parliament vote that backed the name change was rigged through blackmail, threats and vote-buying.

“It is noteworthy that such a hurry serves Washington’s only aim for Skopje’s forced integration to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization),” he added.

Greece has long objected to the tiny landlocked state being called simply Macedonia, arguing it implied territorial claims over a northern Greek province of the same name. Some on both sides view the name change as a sellout.


December 7, 2018 - Russia and Greece want to make up after Diplomatic row
Russia and Greece want to make up after diplomatic row | Reuters

Greece and Russia are ready to put behind them a diplomatic row that troubled relations in July, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said after meeting in Moscow on Friday.

Athens said it had expelled two Russian diplomats and barred two other people from entering the country in July for trying to bribe officials and foment demonstrations to thwart a deal that would allow Macedonia to join NATO.

Russia has flatly denied the allegations.

In their first meeting since that incident, the two leaders defended their countries’ stance but appeared ready to turn a page.

Putin called the allegations “rubbish” and said that the respective intelligence services could settle such situations “without any theatrical gestures.”

“Firstly, right from the start we did not agree and we don’t agree now with the reason why our diplomats were expelled,” Putin told reporters.

“It’s hard for me to imagine that anyone with common sense either in Greece or Russia could think that Russia would plot or intrigue against Greece. It’s just nonsense, rubbish.”

“I hope that this page really has been turned,” he said.

Athens and Skopje have agreed that Macedonia will change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia to end a decades-long dispute and potentially enable it to join the NATO military alliance and the European Union, which Russia opposes.

Tsipras said he believed the diplomatic row was an isolated incident and that the two countries had a lot to gain from deepening future cooperation.

“When we see some isolated, and I do believe that they are isolated, incidents that annoy us, we are obliged to send a message,” Tsipras said.

“I believe that we are looking forward and that this case is over. What is important today is to take advantage of our big potential to deepen our cooperation in a series of sectors,” he said.


"The BOSS - showing Zaev - the door! "

FILE PHOTO: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrives to attend the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Summit in Milan, Italy December 6, 2018. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo

 

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Lavrov blasts US and EU interference in Macedonia as Tsipras meets Putin

The West is in a hurry to implement the treaty between Greece and Macedonia and bring Macedonia into NATO at the beginning of 2019, and this is the reason why they brutally interfere in the internal affairs of Skopje, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with Greek daily Iefimerida, on the day when Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

– As is known, the referendum failed. In this situation, the constitutional amendments were imposed on the Parliament, on October 19th, when members of Parliament were blackmailed and bribed, amid direct interference of foreign diplomats including the US Ambassador. Now intense efforts are put in place to finalize the process by the beginning of 2019. This haste only serves the one purpose of Washington, and that is to urgently admit Skopje into NATO, Lavrov said, speaking about the highly criticized vote in the Macedonian Parliament when eight members of Parliament from VMRO-DPMNE, most of whom have various criminal charges filed against them, voted against the party line and supported opening the process to amend the Constitution.

Lavrov said that the other part of the promise, that Macedonia will also join NATO after it changes its name, can take decades, and that the urgency of the process is over NATO alone.

– They keep placing countries in a false dilemma: whether to be with Moscow or with Washington and Brussels. These actions lead to further destabilization of the European security architecture and increases tensions and draws new lines of division, Lavrov added.

Russia has indicated that it may block the implementation of the Zaev – Tsipras treaty at the United Nations, and Zaev’s officials have said that, facing this Russian veto, the UN Security Council will be merely be notified of the treaty and not asked to adopt another resolution. Speaking to Russian media, before his meeting with Putin, Tsipras said that he hopes Russia will also adopt the name “Republic of North Macedonia”, which he and Zaev put forward.

Before discussing Greek hopes to serve as transit country for Russian gas with Putin, Tsipras assured the Russian public that his treaty with Zaev is not over NATO, but merely to resolve a long standing dispute between two countries. Greek – Russian relations have also deteriorated over the attempts by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as independent and equal to other orthodox churches.


President Ivanov says the Government is using the courts to pressure him on the renaming treaty

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov said that the several days of courthouse hearings in which witnesses blamed members from his staff for the April 27th incident in the Parliament are part of the campaign of pressure and intimidation aimed at him, trying to force him to yield and support the process to rename Macedonia into North Macedonia.

– For a year and a half, I and my team are permanently targetted by fake news and false allegations. These threats and pressures are attempts to get me to back off from my strongly held positions on the political developments in the Republic of Macedonia and the policies of the current Government. For the myriad time, I tell them that I will not abandon my positions, President Ivanov said in a late afternoon press conference.

The President listed a number of previous allegations which were proven false, such as that he was preparing an old Communist era fortified complex in a plan to declare martial law, or that his Office invited a foreign intelligence agent to the Parliament and pointed that even pro-Government prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska acknowledged that there is no evidence about any involvement of the Office of the President or the army in the incident in the Parliament. President Ivanov blamed the UBK secret police service and its permanent involvement in political developments in Macedonia as the main security problem for the country.

– Two years ago I said that the UBK is the main inflamation point and the generator of all political and security crises in the Republic of Macedonia. Three years after the Priebe report said the same, this tumor has not been removed. If the UBK dares to wiretap the Office of the President and prepare false notes naming my activities, I fear what else is going on in this institution, Ivanov said, speaking of the case when a still classified UBK report which he says contained falsehoods was accepted by the court as evidence to order detention of two former VMRO-DPMNE officials, Mile Janakieski and Kiril Bozinovski.

President Ivanov denied that his Office was preparing to declare martial law or a state of emergency, which is one of the claims raised against him. He outlined the conditions needed to do so – an imminent military attack on the Republic, or a natural disaster – and said that none of them qualified on that evening.

Ivanov’s signature will be needed to complete the process of amending the Constitution and renaming Macedonia, and given that he is President until next spring, he said that the Government may try to have him charged or arrested, like so many other officials elected or appointed through the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party.

– They could do it, we see what is happening these days, President Ivanov answered a journalist who asked if he has been threatened with arrest. Asked whether the ruling majority in Parliament could initiate an impeachment proceeding against him, he said “they’re welcome to try”.

Earlier, his Office issued a press release after Ivanov’s fellow Law Faculty professor Ljubomir Frckoski, who was his opposing candidate in the 2009 presidential elections representing the SDSM party, called for Ivanov’s swift impeachment and trial.

– The public knows that you are the architect of the politicized police and criminalized security service in Macedonia, used to damage our national interests. I’m not like you. What you are has been described in detail in the memoirs by President Kiro Gligorov and Speaker Stojan Andov, Ivanov’s press release raid said, naming allegations from the former President and former Speaker against Frckoski that he was offering bribes from Greek agents to Gligorov in order to rename Macedonia and was involved in the 1995 assassination attempt against Gligorov.


MANU debates: How to bypass Ivanov and rename the people without their approval

Professor Vankovska: In Macedonia, if you haven’t gone crazy by now, something is seriously wrong with you.

Vlado Jovanovski after the death of Ljubisha Georgievski: In Macedonia, the living are extremely jealous of the dead for being free and not being here…

The above quotes by Ss Cyrul and Methodius University professor Biljana Vankovska and actor Vlado Jovanovski pretty much sums up what is happening in Macedonia.

Today, Macedonia’s so called “Academy of Sciences” (MANU), an ironic name for an institution that has never had anything to do with Science, held a debate surrounding the Prespa Agreement. The debate was not whether this genocidal document is legal or valid, but the focus was how to bypass the ‘problem’ with presient Ivanov who refuses to sign the genocidal document.

Professors Svetomir Skaric and Vlado Kambovski took idiocy and dilettantism to new heights when they proposed instead of Ivanov, the agreement to be signed by UCK’s Talat Xhaferi who was illegally installed as Parliament speaker. To give you an idea of the individuals at MANU involved in the debate… Svetomir Skaric is the idiot who called for confederation between Macedonia and wait for it… Taiwan. He is also behind the recognition of Taiwan – did it after getting $20,000 from Washington. This is who is debating Macedonia’s future.

But not all is lost. Zaev and the SDS have introduced a law that will criminally charge the president for not signing genocidal agreements. The SDS law, will become valid once it’s signed by Ivanov. Why watch comedies when you can simply follow the situation in Macedonia.


Zaev’s Government turns its prosecutors on President Ivanov

The Justice Ministry is preparing a new law on the Special Prosecutors’ Office (SPO) which would give the much criticized institution mandate to initiate charges against leading officials, including the President, at a time when SDSM Government officials and allied media outlets are turning on the President, who is the last remaining senior VMRO-DPMNE appointed official in the country.

President Ivanov clashed with the Government over the detention of two former VMRO-DPMNE officials, Mile Janakieski and Kiril Bozinovski, when his office pointed out to the many failings in the procedure widely seen as revenge detention after Nikola Gruevski left the country. The President, whose term expires early next year, is also key in the adoption of the amendments meant to rename Macedonia into North Macedonia, which the Government is ramming through Parliament.

The pressure on Ivanov comes from testimonies by several people charged with being involved in the April 27th incident in the Parliament. At court hearings, apparently timed to fill media space during the debates on the constitutional amendments, defendants like Aleksandar Vasilevski – Ninja accused officials from the Office of President Ivanov of participating in crisis meetings over the incident, when SDSM’s push to elect a new Speaker provoked the assembled protesters to storm the building. According to the testimony, President Ivanov was thinking about declaring martial law in the country as the incident developed.

– The Office of the President didn’t discuss or consider declaring a state of emergency or martial law. We believe that the latest mentions of the Secretary General to the President, Boris Josifovski, in this alleged plan to declare martial law or state of emergency is yet another in the line of desperate attempts to create a scenario which would, without any basis, involve the Office of the President and the President himself, in the events on April 27th 2017, the Office of the President said in a press release.

These latest testimonies served as an excuse to order additional detentions of former officials such as then director of the UBK police service Vladimir Atanasovski. VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said that 15 party supporters faced police raids last week, during which special police forces members with assault rifles barged into their homes, before their wives and children.

President Ivanov also pointed out to one of the many failures of the courts and the SPO, when a still classified UBK report was used as evidence to detain Janakieski and Bozinovski, which is a violation of the law on classified information. The SPO, which has seen its public support melt away as they continue to push with charges exclusively against VMRO-DPMNE officials, was supposed to file charges only over the cache of wiretaps which the SDSM party began broadcasting in early 2015, and to stop filing additional charges in a year and half. But, according to the new draft law, it would gain additional competencies, to begin prosecuting even other judicial branches, all Macedonian officials, diplomats, and even political party officials.


Baily’s operative Mijalkov inserted in “prison” to talk patriots into testifying against Ivanov

Mijalkov’s stay in prison was recently extended by 30 days. He is placed in the “Hague” section of the prison which is dedicated for VIPs. The Hague section is more of a hotel than prison with comfortable beds, TV and all the necessities.

MINA finds, although a major criminal, Mijalkov’s stay in prison has nothing to do with crimes, instead he is there to spend time with and blackmail individuals jailed over the April 27th incident in Parliament and convince them to testify against president Ivanov – all in an effort to scare the president into signing the fascist genocidal Prespa agreement.

As a result, we’ve already seen a case based on fake statements being built against Ivanov by the SDS, with the imperative being to pressure him into putting his name behind the erasing of Macedonia. Similarly to the DPNE MPs, Mijalkov is offering the jailed individuals cash and ‘better life’ if they offer false testimonies that somehow Ivanov was behind the April 27 incident.

So far, the Court testimonies have turned into a fiasco for Zaev – with the likes of Jane Chento (hopefully Macedonia’s Future Prime Minister) refusing discussion asking to be returned to prison where he’s comfortable with his brothers. Chento’s unbreakable spirit and courage (runs in the family) has infuriated Jess Baily and Zaev.

Then there was Aleksandar Vasilevski - Ninja who in an effort to please Mijalkov overdid his false testimony and started to make up stories dating back to 2005. He got too eager to earn his promised $$$.

This latest fiasco against Ivanov is once again orchestrated by the US Embassy with CIA operative and SPO ‘advisor’ David Stephenson leading the charge.

 

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Bulgaria tells North Zaev: If you mention Macedonian language again, we’ll block you in NATO and EU

Macedonia’s Tatar neighbors are not pleased with Zaev.

Krasimir Karakacanov, leader of the Bulgarian VMRO-BND party who is Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister in Boyko Borisov’s Government, told Zoran Zaev that he needs to stop mentioning the existence of a Macedonian language, unless he wants to lose any chance of having Macedonia join EU and NATO. Bulgaria doesn’t recognize the Macedonian people and language as separate from the Bulgarian, adding Macedonia held already signed an agreement that will completely review and rewrite Macedonian history books as a condition to allow further EU and NATO accession.

– Macedonian langauge is not recognized anywhere as an official language. It’s only considered legitimate at the territory of North Macedonia. Zaev could demand this Bulgarian dialect to be declared as an official foreign language in Bulgaria, which is unacceptable and a provocation, Karakacanov said.

The nationalist Bulgarian politician reacted after Zaev’s statement which also caused anger in Greece. Zaev said that after the Prespa treaty is implemented, Macedonian living in the Aegean Macedonia region in Greece will finally be able to educate their children in Macedonian. This caused fury of reactions from Athens who in all fairness explained that they understand Zaev’s statements mean nothing both home and outside, but still should be careful what he says.

Karakacanov also condemned what was done so far by the joint Macedonian – Bulgarian commission of historians, which was formed under the treaty the two countries signed at the start of the year.

– Macedonian representatives in this commission seek validity for a false version of history. Macedonian lands are Bulgarian and that is a historic fact. I will not allow people with unclear positions and a reverse interpretation of history to be allowed to join EU and NATO on Bulgaria’s expense, and then secretly introduce the Macedonian language there, Karakacanov said. Zaev also insisted that, once Macedonia joins the EU, the Macedonian language will be one of the official languages in the Union.

Karakacanov spoke a day after Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva compared Macedonian national identity with brain washing.

– I don’t think it (the recognition of Macedonia under that name) was a mistake, but a sign of good neighborly and friendly relationship. It will take time before we erase all trace of the brain washing done by former Yugoslavia, when it insisted that Macedonians exist, Zaharieva said.

And this is how a tatar turkish tribe calling itself “Bulgaria”, is writing our history books. But, understandably, Macedonians have no desire to protest because the name of the country is not the same as gas prices, which are way more important. In addition, yellow vests are not readily accessible.

DPNE’s Kanceska Milevska in 2017, before she was bribed by Mijalkov

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1913520138746610

 

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Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister wants Macedonians to become “good Bulgarians”

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Krasimir Karakacanov said that Macedonians need to be turned into a “normal people” and “good Bulgarians”. Karakacanov, who is also the Bulgarian Defense Minister and leads the nationalist VMRO-BND party, recently warned Zoran Zaev that Macedonia won’t be able to join EU and NATO, where Bulgaria has veto power, unless he stops talking about the existence of a Macedonian language separate from the Bulgarian.

– I don’t want to be remembered in history as a fool who went out of his way to help a people, with good intentions, but they have a habit on the Macedonian side to say whatever. They need to come to their senses and become a normal people, or, shall I say, good Bulgarians, Karakacanov said in an interview.

He lamented divisions within the Bulgarian ruling coalition, which includes his nationalist bloc, saying that it is detrimental to making the most of the treaty which Macedonia signed with Bulgaria at the beginning of the year, which gives Bulgaria right to alter Macedonian history books.

– There is literally no progress in this historic commission. There is will to move forward from the Bulgarian side, but the Macedonian side keeps delaying. I don’t regret signing the treaty, it was a step forward, but Skopje needs to stop falsifying history, Karakacanov added.

Faced with his earlier statements, the Macedonian Foreign Affairs Ministry responded saying it will not reply in kind because it would create a negative spiral of hostility.

– We signed a treaty for friendly relations and we will build our friendship, but that includes mutual understanding, respect and care for the interests of the neighboring countries, the Ministry said.


DPNE Traitors: We can’t leave Parliament, promises are promises

DPNE leader Hristijan Mickoski announced on FB that he is a proud Macedonian, soon to be Northerner, and although not allowed to leave Parliament therefore removing the legitimacy that DPNE MPs are giving to Zaev in his quest to change Macedonia’s biblical name, Mickoski still wants everyone to know that he is proud and will continue with their fake protests.

Following in Gruevski’s footsteps, Mickoski vows to continue DPNE’s well established tradition: On Facebook, they’re patriots, but in Parliament traitors of the highest rank.DPNE’s treason is well documented for over 10 years: giving albanians rights outside of the Ohrid agreement, refusing to prosecute any SDS/DUI official during their reign, removing themselves from power after requests from foreign Ambassador(s), quietly supported Zaev’s illegal (and failed) referendum, to now openly supporting Zaev in Parliament.

Despite all of that, Mickoski has a message for all Northerners. He will remain in Parliament because that’s the agreement he struck with EU’s Hahn and Prime Minister Jess Baily, both of whom are on their way out.

He will keep his treasonous party in Parliament and will give Zaev the necessary legitimacy (which is badly needed after the failed referendum). And yes, there will be occasional FB posts by the DPNE leader to remind everyone that he needs your vote as his MPs are helping Zaev in Parliament.

Meanwhile, Mickoski stated that his traitors MPs will remain dedicated to the most important things Macedonians care for: The price of apples, carrots, potatoes, air quality and of course faster internet for all. Because if Macedonians care for one thing in the past six months, it’s the falling apple prices.

Here is actor Mickoski, vital member of the controlled opposition during his promenade in Kochani:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=339628820151293

Judicial Watch details abuse of US Government funds to help Soros spread left wing policies in Macedonia, elsewhere



Judicial Watch has published an in depth analysis of the way in which American diplomats have directed public funds towards groups founded by the far left billionaire activist George Soros. Diplomats who serve in Macedonia were named in the report, which lists State Department officials who were in the past associated with Soros’ Open Society Foundation and the tens of millions of dollars directed toward the foundation by USAID and the State Department.

– Judicial Watch reporting uncovered how the U.S. government quietly spent millions of taxpayer dollars to destabilize the democratically elected, center-right government in Macedonia by colluding with Soros organizations, through Barack Obama’s U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess L. Baily. Ambassador Baily worked behind the scenes with Soros’ Open Society Foundation to funnel large sums of American dollars to their cause . The cash flowed through the State Department and the famously corrupt U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID), which is charged with providing global economic, development and humanitarian assistance. USAID allocated about $5 million to leftwing Soros groups in Macedonia since 2012, documents show, and at least $9.5 million has been earmarked by the agency to intervene in the Balkan nation’s governmental affairs for 2016 – 2021, the Judicial Watch report informs in the section on Macedonia.

Besides Ambassador Baily, the report also names another diplomat in Macedonia, the deputy head of the OSCE mission in Macedonia, Jeff Goldstein, who worked in the State Department for 25 years before moving in the Soros Foundation as senior policy analyst, a position he left to move to Skopje.

– Goldstein was one of the people present at Hillary Clinton’s 2010 meeting with Soros (as was Michael McFaul – the first non-career diplomat to be the U.S. Ambassador to Russia (2012 – 2014); and, an Obama national security advisor credited with being the architect of the “Russia Reset”, the report adds.

Another person related to Macedonia listed in the report is Delina Fico, the former wife of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. She is now director in the East – West Management Institute, which, according to the report, is the institution through which the “vast majority of U.S. Government funding for Soros’ entities” goes. She currently manages the 9.5 million USD grant which USAID made to the Soros linked EWMI.

According to Judicial Watch, these funds were used to bring down the conservative Government of Macedonia, through a combination of street protests and propaganda activities. Similarly, in other countries like Albania, Romania or Hungary, or further away, in Central America, the US Government gave money to Soros linked organizations who engaged in support for the local left wing parties and promoted left wing policies.

A group of Republican senators led by Utah’s Mike Lee raised this issue in 2017, but State Department ignored their calls for accountability.

– The senators received a non-responsive reply in April 2017 from career State Department official who served as a top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; worked closely with her in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attacks; and, was embroiled in Clinton’s email server crimes – Joseph E. MacManus. MacManus essentially rebuffed the senators’ request for an investigation into whether the State Department and USAID were using taxpayer money to support liberal causes they viewed as having no clear national-security interest, the report adds.

 

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Zaev responds to Karakacanov saying that he is a Macedonian and he speaks Macedonian

Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev today responded to Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Krasimir Karakacanov, who warned Zaev that Bulgaria will not support Macedonia’s EU and NATO membership if Zaev continues to insist that he speaks in the Macedonian language, separate from the Bulgarian.

– It is my right to say that I’m a Macedonian and that I speak the Macedonian language. It is a European value. I truly expect that European values will be accepted by all, just as I offered my hand and accepted that we share a common history. I will continue to speak in the spirit of friendship and I will continue to build friendship, regardless of the reasons someone has to make his statements. I believe that both Mr. Karakacanov and Minister Zaharieva, and Prime Minister Borisov, and especially the Bulgarian people, are a friendly people to our people, Zaev said during a debate on the proposed constitutional amendments which would rename Macedonia into North Macedonia.

Karakacanov said that the Macedonians will need to become “good Bulgarians”, while Zaharieva lamented that it will take time to “reverse the brainwashing” which she said Macedonians endured in Yugoslav times to forget that they are actually Bulgarians. Zaev and Borisov signed a treaty which Bulgaria said is a condition to allow the EU and NATO integration of Macedonia, but different articles of the treaty caused problems between the countries, and Bulgarians also got annoyed after Zaev said that, once Macedonia joins the EU, the Macedonian language will become an official EU language, separate from the Bulgarian.

– We signed a treaty on friendship with Bulgaria and the two countries shook hands and acknowledged that a portion of our histories is shared. But the treaty also allows that we mutually respect the two sides, Zaev said.

Meanwhile, Greek politicians were also angry at Zaev over his statement that that Prespa treaty he concluded with Alexis Tsipras will finally allow Macedonians living in Greece to get their public education in the Macedonian language. Greeks angrily reject the very existence of the Macedonian minority in its northern region.


Greek Defense Minister Kammenos says Macedonians must abandon “Tito’s propaganda”

While Bulgarian Defense Minister Krasimir Karakacanov calls on Macedonians to turn into “good Bulgarians”, his Greek counterpart and fellow nationalist political party leader Panos Kammenos said that the Prespa treaty is dead and that Macedonians need to abandon the propaganda from the Tito and Mussolini era.

Kammenos was angry at Zoran Zaev who said that the Prespa treaty will open the opportunity for Aegean Macedonians – ethnic Macedonians living in Greece – to finally be able to complete their public education in Macedonian. Other statements from Zaev, about the existence of the Macedonian national identity, also angered Kammenos.

– Statements from Zoran Zaev in which he talked about a Macedonian identity and language put an end to all discussions about the survival of the so called Prespa treaty. This irredentist and provocative behavior from Skopje shows to the international community that not only they are not prepared to become part of international organizations, but it also proves that they are still captive by the Mussolini and Tito propaganda, Kammenos said. Greek nationalist politicians often claim that the Macedonian national identity is product of Communist Yugoslavia and its leader Marshall Tito.


So much for good paying jobs at home – Zaev’s member of Parliament goes on Facebook to offer Roma workers construction jobs in Germany

Samka Ibraimovski, member of Parliament from the Roma PCER party, which is allied with SDSM, shocked the public when he published a call for Roma with construction skills to contact him for help finding jobs in Germany.

Ibraimovski briefly served even as a minister in Zaev’s Government, where he was tasked with Roma issues as well as bringing investment in Macedonia. This prompted comments on social media whether the SDSM led coalition is giving up hope that Macedonian citizens can find jobs in their native country and is now directly working to help them emigrate. Stopping migration from Macedonia and providing opportunity at home was one of the main promises which SDSM leader Zoran Zaev made during his campaign.

– Respected Roma, I inform all of you who are masons, carpenters and concrete workers and want to work in Germany, call 071973609, Samka Ibraimovski posted on his Facebook account.




Baily shows ex DPNE officials are used condoms – Todorov and Kralev charged

Despite doing the bidding for the US Embassy in its never ending quest to change Macedonia’s name, ex DPNE officials Nikola Todorov and Pance Kralev who supported both the referendum and vote in Parliament, earlier today were slapped with chargers by Baily’s SPO.

Todorov was doing Baily’s work for months in an effort to avoid the charges he just received…

It’s what MINA has been saying for over a decade. The way the US Embassy runs is very simple, once they have used you as much as they can, you become disposable… aka a used condom. It’s what has happened to dozens of Macedonian politicians and businessmen: Todorov, Kralev, Gruevski, Kamchev… Elizabeta Kanceska Milevska and Mijalkov are next.

And you’d think most politicians will see the countless examples in front of them and cease their subservience to the US Embassy. But no, it’s a vicious perpetual cycle of stupidity, with Todorov and Kralev showing the overall lack of intellect and trust in the Empire.

Similar fate awaits the 8 bribed MPs once they cast their final votes for the name change. The Empire doesn’t like having people around who know too much and can point their finger back at them… single usage is the key.


Macedonian Consul in Croatia asks Government: What sort of monkeys are you appointing as Ambassadors!?

Goran Kalogjera, a long-time honorary consul of the Republic of Macedonia in Croatia is horrified by the attitude of the staff at the Macedonian Embassy in Zagreb and the sheer disinterest of the state towards the function of the Embassy.

On his Facebook profile, Consul Kalogera asks the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to explain who is in charge at the Macedonian Embassy in Zagreb? Officially, the ambassador there is someone named Nazif Xhaferi who is neither heard of or seen at the Embassy.

Kalogjera, who established the Macedonian Language Department at the University in Rijeka and who independently financed the functioning of the Macedonian Consulate in that city, offered to resign right away.

“I’ve asked a question to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Macedonia, who is the person in charge of the Embassy in Croatia? Is it Xhaferi or his secretary Ms. Koloska? There are many Macedonians in Croatia who can never get in contact with the Embassy in Zagreb. An Embassy is there to provide assistance to their citizens, I can’t help Macedonians here because I am not authorized to do so, however it appears the Embassy isn’t either. Does anyone work there? – wrote Kalogjera on his FB page. ”

And if you think this is bad, there is a trend started by the DPNE to appoint albanians as Ambassadors around the world, and this trend had tripled under SDS. Vasko Naumovski in the US will now be replaced by another DUI official, completing a sweep of albanian “diplomats” running Macedonian consulates in the US.

Majority of these “ambassadors” have zero qualifications, they were/are sent as political payments by both DPNE and SDS in an effort to keep DUI in their coalition partnership and maintain slim majority in Government.