It has been bitterly cold these past few days but the cherry blossom is coming out along the Old Winchelsea Road and the daffodils are just a day or two away waiting for the wind to die down and go round to the south-west. There was some urgent housekeeping on the agenda for the day...including a trolley run from Sea Cruisers my local coal merchant with another 25 kgs sack of Maxibrite to keep me warm in the evenings for another week or so.
Like everybody else...I dream. Some I forget and some I don’t. I have no idea of the proportions of each of course. The dreams I remember come in two distinct types. There are the Freudian-Jungian ones replete with archetypes and jumbled imagery. I think I can safely assume that these well up from the unconscious and are pretty well covered by Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. I pay little attention to these...or about as much as I do to horoscopes. The other type are much more interesting.
These Type B dreams are much more vivid. I think of them as transmissions received by my superconscious. They are of quite a different quality to the Type A unconscious dreams...and they are a lot less frequent. Anyway I was woken up by one of these superconscious dreams this morning. There was a gentleman...and I would recognise him anywhere if I saw him again in waking life. He was standing over me and saying: ‘I am an aristocrat from Luxembourg. I have just sold Hrip Farm.’ I understood immediately, as one does with this sort of dream, that the Hrip Farm referred to the excerpts from the Finnish Kalevala that Connie incorporated into The Private Papers of Crocodile Uppsala. My response? A surge of joy...’Oh I am so glad it really exists!’ Make of this what you will.
Yesterday morning at Schevingen Detention Centre in The Hague, Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his cell. Shortly afterwards a letter written by Milosevic on Friday conveniently arrived at the Soviet Ambassador’s residence claiming that traces of strong drugs had been found in his blood...drugs normally used to treat leprosy and tuberculosis. The timing suggests disinformation. The newspapers will have a field day dragging out the usual suspects...SAS units dispatched by MI5, Mossad...always Mossad who clearly enjoy being regarded as thugs and killers...the French Stupidity Services and so on. The background however is rather more interesting. The Balkan Wars of the 1990s were complex in origin and execution. So there are an awful lot of people who were anxious to ensure that Milosevic never testified.
The long version of the Balkan War Sagas begins with the Berlin-Baghdad Railway and the Kaiser War of 1914-18 but we will fast-forward to 1990 when the US Congress passed the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act that instructed Yugoslavia’s six republics to declare independence within six months or lose all US support. The Americans followed this up by sending in the hedge funds to prepare the ground for the IMF rottweilers and nasty operators like the National Endowment for Democoray (NED)...a new kid on the block for which please read ‘C’ for ‘N’, ‘I’ for ‘E’, and ‘A’ for ‘D’...to destabilize by channelling funds into extreme nationalist or former fascist organizations. Slobodan Milosevic promptly signed his own death warrant by organizing a new Yugoslavian Communist Party dedicated to preventing the break-up of the federation. He never stood a cat in hell’s chance.
By the mid-1990s all sides in the destabilized Yugoslavia were guilty of atrocities...Bosnian Muslims, Croatian Catholics and Serb Orthodox Christians. But the western media concentrated on Milosevic because he commanded a well-defended enclave and rejected IMF final solutions, NATO storm-troopers and American oil companies controlling Caspian pipelines. In 1995 the Dayton Accord brought an end to the war in Bosnia when peace in the region was needed to develop oil routes from the Caspian into Europe...but it was a ‘peace’ on Washington’s terms...such as extending NATO eastward into Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic.
Dodgy dossiers had not been invented back in the 1990s. There were other ways. At Rambouillet in 1999 for instance an Appendix B was cobbled together ordering Milosevic to allow NATO troops to occupy Kosovo. He refused. The Pentagon started carpet bombing the Serbs back to the Stone Age (for humanitarian reasons)...ignoring international laws etc. And Slobodan Milosevic became the latest US bogey-man...a new ‘Adolf Hitler’. No doubt about it. An awful lot of people were anxious to ensure that Milosevic never testified. Now for some more horrorscopes.
Taurus (Apr 23 - May 22): ‘You are practical and persistent. You have a dogged determination and work like hell. Most people think you are stubborn and bull-headed. You are nothing but a goddamned communist!’ Scorpio (Oct 23 - Nov 22): ‘You are the worst of the lot. You are shrewd in business and cannot be trusted. You shall achieve the pinnacle of success because of your total lack of ethics. You are the perfect son-of-a-bitch. Most Scorpios are murdered.’ Sagittarius (Nov 23 - Dec 22): ‘You are optimistic and enthusiastic. You have a reckless tendency to rely on your luck since you have no talent. The majority of Sagittarians are drunks. You are a worthless piece of crap.’ Capricorn (Dec 23 - Jan 22): ‘You are conservative and afraid of taking risks. You are basically a chicken crap. There has never been a Capricorn of any importance. You should kill yourself.’ Have a nice day.
