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Svetlana Bubanja Bucka, frizerka i vlasnica salona koji se nalazi na Obilićevom vencu, ispričala je pred sudskim većem da je videla kako Bris Taton sam skače.

Ona je kazala da je stajala ispred salona i ispraćala mušteriju kad je videla uplašenog mladića kako trči prema stepeništu i u zaletu skače u ambis dubine 20 metara. Potom mu je prišla, videla da je povređen i odmah pozvala Hitnu pomoć, koja je ubrzo došla na mesto nesreće.

Bubanja je kategorično tvrdila da Brisa Tatona niko nije gurnuo, već da je skočio sam i da je to scena “koju nikad u svom životu neće zaboraviti”.
Ovi svedoci su saslušani iza zatvorenih vrata, jer izviđajne radnje (koje se vrlo retko susreću u praksi suda) nisu otvorene za javnost.

Cecina frizerka medju “novim” svedocima ubistva Tatona: “Francuz sam skocio sa ograde”

Blic, 16. jul

raging-bull

You know, I’m not a philosopher or anything like that but I been around a little and the way I look at it is… We’re, all of us, lookin’ for the same thing: a shot at the title. No matter what you wanta be… you wanta shot at bein’ the best. Well, I had mine and it’ll always be in the record books… it don’t make no difference what happens to me from here on in… I got my shot and that’s a fact. Some guys weren’t that lucky… like the one Marlon Brando played in ‘On the waterfront’… an up and comer who is now down and outer. You remember.. there was this scene in the back of the car with his brother Charlie, a small-time racket guy, and it went somethin’ like this… It wasn’t him, Charlie. It was you. You ‘member that night in the Garden you came down my dressing room and said ‘Kid, this ain’t your night. We’re going for the price on Wilson’.You ‘member that? ‘This ain’t your night!’ My night… I coulda taken Wilson apart So what happens. He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark, and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palookaville. I never was no good after that night. It was like a peak you reach. Then it went downhill. It was you, Charlie. You was my brother, Charlie. You shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn’t have to take them dives for the short end money…. you don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody… instead of a bum, which is what I am.  Let’s face it. It was you, Charlie.

Hello. My name is Ed Snowden. A little over one month ago, I had family, a home in paradise, and I lived in great comfort. I also had the capability without any warrant to search for, seize, and read your communications. Anyone’s communications at any time. That is the power to change people’s fates.

It is also a serious violation of the law. The 4th and 5th Amendments to the Constitution of my country, Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and numerous statutes and treaties forbid such systems of massive, pervasive surveillance. While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair. These rulings simply corrupt the most basic notion of justice – that it must be seen to be done. The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

I believe in the principle declared at Nuremberg in 1945: “Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring.”

Accordingly, I did what I believed right and began a campaign to correct this wrongdoing. I did not seek to enrich myself. I did not seek to sell US secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. Instead, I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice.

That moral decision to tell the public about spying that affects all of us has been costly, but it was the right thing to do and I have no regrets.

Since that time, the government and intelligence services of the United States of America have attempted to make an example of me, a warning to all others who might speak out as I have. I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression. The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists. It demanded Hong Kong return me outside of the framework of its laws, in direct violation of the principle of non-refoulement – the Law of Nations. It has threatened with sanctions countries who would stand up for my human rights and the UN asylum system. It has even taken the unprecedented step of ordering military allies to ground a Latin American president’s plane in search for a political refugee. These dangerous escalations represent a threat not just to the dignity of Latin America, but to the basic rights shared by every person, every nation, to live free from persecution, and to seek and enjoy asylum.

Yet even in the face of this historically disproportionate aggression, countries around the world have offered support and asylum. These nations, including Russia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador have my gratitude and respect for being the first to stand against human rights violations carried out by the powerful rather than the powerless. By refusing to compromise their principles in the face of intimidation, they have earned the respect of the world. It is my intention to travel to each of these countries to extend my personal thanks to their people and leaders.

I announce today my formal acceptance of all offers of support or asylum I have been extended and all others that may be offered in the future. With, for example, the grant of asylum provided by Venezuela’s President Maduro, my asylee status is now formal, and no state has a basis by which to limit or interfere with my right to enjoy that asylum. As we have seen, however, some governments in Western European and North American states have demonstrated a willingness to act outside the law, and this behavior persists today. This unlawful threat makes it impossible for me to travel to Latin America and enjoy the asylum granted there in accordance with our shared rights.

This willingness by powerful states to act extra-legally represents a threat to all of us, and must not be allowed to succeed. Accordingly, I ask for your assistance in requesting guarantees of safe passage from the relevant nations in securing my travel to Latin America, as well as requesting asylum in Russia until such time as these states accede to law and my legal travel is permitted. I will be submitting my request to Russia today, and hope it will be accepted favorably.

Thank you!

Edward Snowden, Moscow airport, July 12th

Edward-Snowden

Edward Snowden: “My name is Ed Snowden, I’m 29 years old. I worked for Booz Allen Hamilton as an infrastructure analyst for NSA in Hawaii.

Glenn Greenwald: “What are some of the positions that you held previously within the intelligence community?”

Snowden: “I’ve been a systems engineer, systems administrator, senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, solutions consultant, and a telecommunications informations system officer.”

Greenwald: “One of the things people are going to be most interested in, in trying to understand what, who you are and what you are thinking is there came some point in time when you crossed this line of thinking about being a whistleblower to making the choice to actually become a whistleblower. Walk people through that decision making process.”

Snowden: “When you’re in positions of privileged access like a systems administrator for the sort of intelligence community agencies, you’re exposed to a lot more information on a broader scale then the average employee and because of that you see things that may be disturbing but over the course of a normal person’s career you’d only see one or two of these instances. When you see everything you see them on a more frequent basis and you recognize that some of these things are actually abuses. And when you talk to people about them in a place like this where this is the normal state of business people tend not to take them very seriously and move on from them.”

“But over time that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up and you feel compelled to talk about. And the more you talk about the more you’re ignored. The more you’re told its not a problem until eventually you realize that these things need to be determined by the public and not by somebody who was simply hired by the government.”

Greenwald: “Talk a little bit about how the American surveillance state actually functions. Does it target the actions of Americans?”

Snowden: “NSA and intelligence community in general is focused on getting intelligence wherever it can by any means possible. It believes, on the grounds of sort of a self-certification, that they serve the national interest. Originally we saw that focus very narrowly tailored as foreign intelligence gathered overseas.”

“Now increasingly we see that it’s happening domestically and to do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyses them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that’s the easiest, most efficient, and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government or someone they suspect of terrorism, they’re collecting you’re communications to do so.”

“Any analyst at any time can target anyone, any selector, anywhere. Where those communications will be picked up depends on the range of the sensor networks and the authorities that analyst is empowered with. Not all analysts have the ability to target everything. But I sitting at my desk certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a Federal judge to even the President if I had a personal e-mail.”

Greenwald: “One of the extraordinary parts about this episode is usually whistleblowers do what they do anonymously and take steps to remain anonymous for as long as they can, which they hope often is forever. You on the other hand have decided to do the opposite, which is to declare yourself openly as the person behind these disclosures. Why did you choose to do that?”

Snowden: “I think that the public is owed an explanation of the motivations behind the people who make these disclosures that are outside of the democratic model. When you are subverting the power of government that’s a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy and if you do that in secret consistently as the government does when it wants to benefit from a secret action that it took. It’ll kind of give its officials a mandate to go, ‘Hey tell the press about this thing and that thing so the public is on our side.’ But they rarely, if ever, do that when an abuse occurs. That falls to individual citizens but they’re typically maligned. It becomes a thing of ‘These people are against the country. They’re against the government’ but I’m not.”

“I’m no different from anybody else. I don’t have special skills. I’m just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watches what’s happening and goes, ‘This is something that’s not our place to decide, the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong.’ And I’m willing to go on the record to defend the authenticity of them and say, ‘I didn’t change these, I didn’t modify the story. This is the truth; this is what’s happening. You should decide whether we need to be doing this.'”

Greenwald: “Have you given thought to what it is that the US government’s response to your conduct is in terms of what they might say about you, how they might try to depict you, what they might try to do to you?”

Snowden: “Yeah, I could be rendered by the CIA. I could have people come after me. Or any of the third-party partners. They work closely with a number of other nations. Or they could pay off the Traids. Any of their agents or assets. We’ve got a CIA station just up the road and the consulate here in Hong Kong and I’m sure they’re going to be very busy for the next week. And that’s a fear I’ll live under for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.”

“You can’t come forward against the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they’re such powerful adversaries. No one can meaningfully oppose them. If they want to get you, they’ll get you in time. But at the same time you have to make a determination about what it is that’s important to you. And if living unfreely but comfortably is something you’re willing to accept, and I think it many of us are it’s the human nature; you can get up everyday, go to work, you can collect your large paycheck for relatively little work against the public interest, and go to sleep at night after watching your shows.”

“But if you realize that that’s the world you helped create and it’s gonna get worse with the next generation and the next generation who extend the capabilities of this sort of architecture of oppression, you realize that you might be willing to accept any risk and it doesn’t matter what the outcome is so long as the public gets to make their own decisions about how that’s applied.”

Greenwald: “Why should people care about surveillance?”

Snowden: “Because even if you’re not doing anything wrong you’re being watched and recorded. And the storage capability of these systems increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude to where it’s getting to the point where you don’t have to have done anything wrong. You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you’ve ever made, every friend you’ve ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.”

Greenwald: “We are currently sitting in a room in Hong Kong, which is where we are because you travelled here. Talk a little bit about why it is that you came here and specifically there are going to be people…people speculate that what you really intend to do is to defect to the country that many see as the number one rival of the Untied States, which is China. And that what you are really doing is essentially seeking to aid an enemy of the United States with which you intend to seek asylum. Can you talk a little about that?”

Snowden: “Sure. So there’s a couple assertions in those arguments that are sort of embedded in the questioning of the choice of Hong Kong. The first is that China is an enemy of the United States. It’s not. I mean there are conflicts between the United States government and the Chinese PRC government but the peoples inherently we don’t care. We trade with each other freely, we’re not at war, we’re not in armed conflict, and we’re not trying to be. We’re the largest trading partners out there for each other.”

“Additionally, Hong Kong has a strong tradition of free speech. People think ‘Oh China, Great Firewall.’ Mainland China does have significant restrictions on free speech but the people of Hong Kong have a long tradition of protesting in the streets, of making there views known. The internet is not filtered here more so then any other western government and I believe that the Hong Kong government is actually independent in relation to a lot of other leading western governments.”

Greenwald: “If your motive had been to harm the United States and help its enemies or if your motive had been personal material gain were there things you could have done with these documents to advance those goals that you didn’t end up doing?”

Snowden: “Oh absolutely. Anyone in the positions of access with the technical capabilities that I had could suck out secrets, pass them on the open market to Russia; they always have an open door as we do. I had access to the full rosters of everyone working at the NSA, the entire intelligence community, and undercover assets all over the world. The locations of every station, we have what their missions are and so forth.”

“If I had just wanted to harm the US? You could shut down the surveillance system in an afternoon. But that’s not my intention. I think for anyone making that argument they need to think, if they were in my position and you live a privileged life, you’re living in Hawaii, in paradise, and making a ton of money, ‘What would it take you to leave everything behind?'”

“The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. People will see in the media all of these disclosures. They’ll know the lengths that the government is going to grant themselves powers unilaterally to create greater control over American society and global society. But they won’t be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things to force their representatives to actually take a stand in their interests.”

“And the months ahead, the years ahead it’s only going to get worse until eventually there will be a time where policies will change because the only thing that restricts the activities of the surveillance state are policy. Even our agreements with other sovereign governments, we consider that to be a stipulation of policy rather then a stipulation of law. And because of that a new leader will be elected, they’ll find the switch, say that ‘Because of the crisis, because of the dangers we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power.’ And there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.”

Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald’s 1st interview – I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things

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Glenn Greenwald: Have you given thought to what it is that the US government’s response to your conduct is, in terms of what they might say about you, how they might try to depict you?

Edward Snowden: I think the government’s going to launch an investigation, I think they’re going to say I’ve committed grave crimes, I’ve– you know, violated the Espionage Act. They’re going to say, I’ve aided our enemies in making them aware of these systems but that argument can be made against anybody who reveals information that points out mass surveillance systems, because fundamentally they apply equally to ourselves as they do to our enemies.

Greenwald: When you decided to enter this world did you do so with the intention of weaseling your way in and becoming a mole so you could one day undermine it with disclosures or what was your perspective and mindset about it at the time that you first sort of got into this whole realm?

Snowden: No, I joined the intelligence community when I was very young– sort of the government as a whole. I enlisted in the army shortly after the invasion of Iraq and I believed in the goodness of what we were doing, I believed in the nobility of our intentions to free oppressed people overseas. But over time, over the length of my career, as I watched the news and I increasingly was exposed to true information that had not been propagandized in the media that we were actually  involved in misleading the public and misleading all publics not just the American public in order to create a certain mindset in the global consciousness and I was actually a victim of that. America is a fundamentally a good country; we have good people with good values who want to do the right thing, but the structures of power that exist are working to their own ends to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of all publics.

Poitras: Can you talk about what you think some of the most important primary document are and what they reveal?

Snowden: The primary disclosures are the fact that the NSA doesn’t limit itself to foreign intelligence. It collects all communications that transit the United States There are literally no ingress or egress points anywhere in the continental United States where communications can enter or exit without being monitored and collected and analyzed.

The Verizon document speaks highly to this, because it literally lays out they’re using an authority that was intended to be used to seek warrants against individuals and they’re applying it to the whole of society by basically subverting a corporate partnership through major telecommuncations providers and they’re getting everyone’s calls, everyone’s call records and everyone’s internet traffic as well.

On top of that you have got Boundless Informant, which is sort of a global auditing system for the NSA’s intercept and collection system that lets us track how much– how much we’re collecting, where we’re collecting, by which authorities and so forth. The NSA lied about the existence of this tool to Congress and to specific congressmen in response to previous inquiries about their surveillance activities.

Beyond that we’ve got PRISM, which is a demonstration of how the US Government co-opts US corporate power to its own ends. Companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft– they all get together with the NSA and provide the NSA direct access to the back ends of all of the systems you use to communicate, to store data, to put things in the cloud, and even to just send birthday wishes and keep a record of your life. And they give NSA direct access that they don’t need to oversee so they can’t be held liable for it. I think that’s a dangerous capability for anybody to have but particularly an organization that’s demonstrated time and time again that they’ll work to shield themselves from oversight.

Greenwald: Was there a specific point in time that you can point to when you crossed the line from contemplation to decision making and commitment to do this?

Snowden: I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems anytime they mentioned anything that travels across public lines.

I think a lot of people of my generation, anybody who grew up with the internet– that was their understanding. As we’ve seen the internet and government’s relation to the internet evolve over time, we’ve seen that sort of open debate, that free market of ideas, sort of lose its domain and be shrunk.

Greenwald: But what is it about that set of developments that makes them sufficiently menacing or threatening to you that you are willing to risk what you’ve risked in order to fight them?

Snowden: I don’t want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded. And that’s not something I’m willing to support, it’s not something I’m willing to build, and it’s not something I’m willing to live under. So I think anyone who opposes that sort of world has an obligation to act in the way they can. Now I’ve watched and waited and tried to do my job in the most policy-driven way I could, which is to wait and allow other people, you know– wait and allow our leadership, our figures, to sort of correct the excesses of government when we go too far. But as I’ve watched, I’ve seen that’s not occurring. In fact, we’re compounding the excesses of prior governments. And making it worse and more invasive, and no one is really standing to stop it.

Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald’s 2nd interview – The US government will say I aided our enemies

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PIERS MORGAN, HOST: Ron Paul is a former congressman and former presidential candidate. He’s now chairman of the Campaign for Liberty. Ron Paul, thank you for joining me. You are a supporter of Edward Snowden and his actions. Why?

RON PAUL: Well, from what I hear and what he’s done, I mean, he’s done a great service because he’s telling the truth and this is what we are starved for. The American people are starved for the truth. And when you have a dictatorship or an authoritarian government, truth becomes treasonous. And this is what they do. If you are a whistleblower or if you’re trying to tell the American people that our country is destroying our rule of law and destroying our Constitution, they say they turn it on and say, “Oh, you’re committing treason.”

So this is a big problem. And to expect any changes without an announcement like this, things keep getting worse. They’ve gotten worse steadily for the past ten years. So essentially there is no Fourth Amendment anymore. And for somebody to tell the American people the truth is a heroic effort. And he knows that it’s very risky. He knows he’s committing, you know, civil disobedience, and he knows that he could get punished. But he believes very sincerely, I’m sure, I’ve never met the man, but he believes very seriously that what our government is doing to us is so serious that somebody has to speak out.

And I think the large majority of the American people are sick and tired of hearing how many people are having surveillance on them, whether it’s their phones, their internet, and e-mail and everything else. Matter of fact, I think the president ought to send him a thank you letter, because the president ran on transparency, and we’re getting a lot of transparency now. So, finally we’re getting the president to fulfill his promise about transparency. So that’s pretty exciting for me, because I believe in transparency.

But we have our government turned on its head. The government is supposed to be open and we’re supposed to have our privacy, but we don’t have any privacy and the government’s totally secret. And then they combine this with what they do with the IRS? Maybe that’s how they line up their targets in the IRS. They modify, you know, they check on our phone calls and find out what kind of business deals we’re doing so we can audit them and do all these kinds of things. It’s just totally out of control.

MORGAN: I’m going to go to Ron Paul to put a different question to him. Ron Paul, if you had been president, which you could have been, you ran for office this time, and you could have won. If you had been president, are you in all seriousness telling me that you would have stopped all of this tracking of data in the way that the NSA has been doing it?

PAUL: An awful lot of it, but it wouldn’t be stopped. You would still have your, you would, you would still have your transparency. I mean, you would still have your intelligence gathering, but it would be done under the law. You would have probable cause and you would have courts. This idea that you can go to the FISA court and get a warrant, that’s ridiculous. That’s like the monitoring of the president saying, “Oh, well we’re going to pick and choose who we’re going to assassinate, American citizen or not. But we have monitors, we’re going to study this.” That’s the rule of law? What he’s doing is repealing the Magna Carta. You can’t just do these kind of things. And this one is not only repealing the principles of liberty, but it’s destroying the Constitution.

So my question should be, to all of you who defend this nonsense is, “What should the penalty be for the people who destroy the Constitution?” They’re always worrying about how they’re going to destroy the American citizens who tell the truth to let us know what’s going on, but we ask the question, what is the penalty for the people who deliberately destroy the Constitution and rationalize and say, “Oh, we have to do it for security?” Well, you know what Franklin said about that: you end up losing, you lose your security and you lose your freedoms too.

So I think we’ve embarked on a very, very dangerous course. The American people are with us on this. It’s totally out of control. And I would say if you’re confused about what we should do, just read the Constitution. What’s wrong with that? You know, that gives us pretty good guidelines. If you don’t like it, get people to repeal it and change the Constitution, but not just to deny it.

I mean, we go to war without a declaration. We totally ignore the Constitution. That is what our problem is today. We have no rule of law, and people say, “Well, just let secret courts do this, and the government to know everything, and the American people to have no privacy.” I mean you’re, that reflects an intimidation. People are insecure, and think that we need more authoritarianism. You’re justifying dictatorship is what you’re doing.

Piers Morgan interviews Ron Paul: Obama Should Send Snowden a Thank You Note – We’re Getting Transparency He Promised

Bolivia’s Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales (L) and Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa listen to the Bolivian national anthem during a welcoming gathering in honour of Morales, in Cochabamba, on July 4, 2013

An emergency UNASUR meeting has demanded the governments of France, Portugal, Italy and Spain apologize for forcibly halting President Morales’s plane in Austria due to suspicions Edward Snowden might have been aboard.

The Cochabamba Declaration issued at the summit also denounced “the flagrant violation of international treaties.”

Tensions flared at the UNASUR summit in Bolivia, with the country’s president Evo Morales saying that his “hand would not shake” if and when he “closes the US Embassy,” following the forced stop of presidential plane in Austria.

Spain has spoken out in response, stating that it has no reason to apologize to Bolivia. “Spain doesn’t have to ask pardon in anyway because its airspace was never closed,” Reuters quoted Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo as saying.

Ahead of the summit, the Bolivian President has expressed appreciation for the support he has received so far from Latin American countries.

“Apologies from a country that did not let us pass over its territory are not enough,” Morales said before talks in the central city of Cochabamba. “Some governments apologized, saying it was an error, but this was not an error.”

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa pointed out, “We are here to support Bolivia.”

Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro stressed“Violation of international law against Evo Morales is against all of us.”

Cristina Fernandez, who came to Bolivia a bit later than her counterparts, indicated, “It is curious that those who speak of human rights committed this violation.”

Jose Mujica of Uruguay and Desi Bouterse of Suriname are also attending the summit.

Not all the regional leaders attended the summit. The presidents of Colombia, Chile and Peru, who are considered to have strong ties to the US, were not present. However, the delegations of these countries expressed their solidarity with Evo Morales as well.

The meeting of South American leaders takes place after President Morales’s plane was forced to stop in Austria on Tuesday.

It happened due to suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board. The plane was searched by Austrian authorities, but they found nothing.

All in all, the President’s layover in Vienna lasted for about 14 hours.

Morales received a hero’s welcome at the airport in Bolivia’s capital of La Paz Wednesday night.

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Premijer Dačić dočekao me je u svom kabinetu vrlo prijateljski. Slično je bilo kad smo se sreli prošle godine. U međuvremenu, on je napravio nekoliko velikih političkih poteza i pozitivno iznenadio publiku. Što da ne kažem, i mene. Ne ustežem se da mu čestitam na hrabrosti, naročito onoj koju pokazuje u dijalogu sa Prištinom, i hvalim Briselski sporazum koji je napravio sa Tačijem. Činjenica da mi je njegova partija pre dvadeset godina lomila kičmu ne sprečava me da mu kažem da ide u odličnom pravcu. Paniću, ja sam Vas i tada potajno voleo, kaže mi. Nije to loše čuti, posle svega.

Prenosim mu da mi je jedan američki diplomata iz regiona nedavno rekao da Tači na sličan način govori o toj prošlosti. Glasao je za mene, seća se dobro nekih naših susreta, posebno je diplomati ukazao na značaj moga nedavnoga autorskog članka u Danasu kada sam u piku briselskog pregovaranja snažno istakao potrebu da se prihvati realnost i potpiše sporazum. Da je podržan Panić, mnoge bi se tragedije izbegle, rekao je Dačićev prištinski kaunterpart.

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Volim Ameriku! Uprkos svim njenim nesavršenostima. Samo jedna od njih: bilo je vreme kad kao imigrant nisi mogao ući, na primer, u Kalifornija klub! Rekao sam to predsedniku Niksonu kad je od mene tražio mišljenje – šta da uradi da dobije naše glasove. On je to promenio, Amerika je zemlja koja se uvek iznutra usavršava. Danas se obeležava Dan nezavisnosti, i 150 godina ključne bitke Građanskog rata kod Getisberga. Žao mi je što moji Srbi ne mogu da vide i osete atmosferu u zemlji: ovo je ponosna nacija, čiji sam adaptirani pripadnik, koja slavi radosno, poletno, bučno, sa vatrometima. Naročito omladina. Sa posebnim sam uzbuđenjem pratio ponovno otvaranje Statue slobode, koju je potrpao pesak uragana Sendi. Ovo je zemlja imigranata, i mnogi su Ameriku prvi put ugledali upravo kad su stigli na Elis Ajlend, gde dominira ponosna Ledi. Jedan sam od njih: za doprinos koji sam dao Americi dobio sam medalju sa imenom toga magičnog ostrva. Medalja Elis Ajlend kaže mi da sam napravio dobar izbor. U zemlji otvorenih mogućnosti ja sam svoju iskoristio.

Milan Panic, Danas, 07. jul

We’re ending our live coverage of the diplomatic crisis over the Morales flight. Our latest news story has just been published and can be red here:

Here is a summary of events today.

• A jet carrying the Bolivian president is on its way home after being forced to land at Vienna airport because of the refusal of some European countries to let it pass through their airspace. Eva Morales was returning from a visit to Moscow. He called it “an excuse to scare, intimidate and punish me”.

• The US government has admitted that it had been in contact with other nations about potential flights involving Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower. The State Department would not comment on whether it had made any specific respresentations over Morales’s flight.

• Bolivian and Austrian authorities insisted Snowden was not on the plane. The extent to which the Austrian police officers searched the jet was unclear.

• An Austrian official told AP that Morales’s aircraft asked controllers at Vienna airport to land because there was “no clear indication” that the plane had enough fuel to continue on its journey. This tallies with audio posted online purporting to be of a conversation between the jet pilot and the control room at the airport.

• Bolivia’s UN ambassador has said that the country will file a formal complaint with the United Nations over the “kidnapping” of Morales. A number of South American leaders voiced outrage at the incident, including the Argentinian president Cristina Kirchner and Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador.

• Ecuador’s foreign minister Ricardo Patino says Ecuador has found a hidden microphone inside its London embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is living, and it would disclose who controls the device. Patino described it as “another instance of a loss of ethics at the international level in relations between governments”.

Guardian, July 3rd, Bolivian president’s plane leaves Austria after enforced diversion

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People have been tweeting that Snowden should flee to the one place where he can guarantee he will be safe from prosecution by the Us government – Wall Street!

Richard Byrne, FB comment