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> Serbia Seeks Solace In The Twilight Zone
>
> Their confidence broken, Serbs are looking increasingly to the
> paranormal for comfort.
>
> By Bojan Toncic in Belgrade
> (Published on 6 August, 1999)
>
> The exhausted citizenry of Serbia, bent double by war, poverty
> and isolation and short of news they can trust, are swallowing,
> not bread, but stories from the 'other side'.
>
> But in traumatised post-conflict Serbia the 'other side' does not
> mean the NATO states. The effects of war appear to have awakened
> a massive interest in the world of the paranormal here. It is met
> by a range of new magazines, books and newspapers covering a
> world where alien creatures have control over Prime Minister Tony
> Blair and the US Army is deploying squads of witches in a war of
> magic against Serbia.
>
> Magazines like Zona Sumraka (The Twilight Zone), Dosije X (X
> Files), Cudo (Miracle), Trece Oko (The Third Eye), and Fenomeni
> (Phenomena) have sprung up in the last two months offering escape
> to Serbs desperate to find an escape from their grim
> surroundings.
>
> The magazines appear to be the descendants of publications that
> specialised in lonely hearts advice columns and romances. These
> progressed, via horoscopes and articles on how to match your
> wardrobe to your star sign, into a media twilight zone.
>
> Many articles try to find spiritual rationales for the troubles
> that have befallen Serbia in recent months. In a lengthy article
> for the monthly Cudo, analyst Milan Vidojevic explains how the
> clandestine "Order of the Fourth Reich" is creating a new world
> order on behalf of Lucifer. Tellingly, the Order is being opposed
> only by the Chinese and Serbian governments.
>
> Meanwhile, Dr Todor Jovanovic, tells Dosije X to beware the
> extra-terrestrials who have recently arrived on earth. They
> "radiate something diabolical, evil, poisonous..." They have a
> hold over the brains of Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, NATO's Javier
> Solana and other NATO leaders, he writes.
>
>
>
> "If one were to switch off the impulses radiated at the US
> president by the extra- terrestrials," Jovanovic says, "only a
> sax player would remain," while of his secretary of state,
> Madeleine Albright, only "an elderly lady without ambitions."
>
> Other stories seem to feed off the Serbian preoccupation with
> history and the traditional view that the country always has, and
> always will, stand up alone against a host of enemies.
>
> Just as the regime propaganda portrays NATO as a loser in the war
> with Serbia, so too the extra-terrestrials miscalculated when
> they struck against Serbia.
>
> The Belgrade state media presents the recent armed conflict with
> NATO as a defeat for the West. They say Serbia will be more than
> a match for Clinton and Blair.
>
> That's why, says Jovanovic, the alien invaders have "wisely
> concluded that Serbia is crucial". It was why they have planned
> to "break" Serbia. But watch out extra-terrestrials, the Serbs
> will prove more than a match. "One should ask whether they are
> aware what is in store for them," he warns.
>
> It seems the aliens are no mere arrivistes either.
> Para-psychologist Milorad Tomic claims that aliens have been
> plotting for 50 years to do down Serbia, signing a secret deal
> with former communist leader Josip Broz Tito. An agreement was
> reached to allow bases to be set up on Yugoslav territory in
> 1945.
>
> To no one's surprise the aliens opted for Kosovo, where unusually
> strong "geomagnetic forces" make the province perfect for aliens,
> says Tomic, who claims to be a reincarnation of Nikola Tesla, the
> famous turn of the century Yugoslav scientist and associate of US
> inventor Thomas Eddison.
>
> Geomagnetic forces or not, Serbia is ready. According to Spasoje
> Vlajic, writing in Cudo, the Yugoslav army has set up a special
> squad-the secretive para-psychology Unit 69 - to confront the
> black magic forces deployed by the US Army. Vlajic, who played a
> key role, he says, in setting up the unit for the Yugoslav
> general staff, warns his readers that "voodoo warriors and
> witches are already among US troops in Kosovo".
>
> Vlajic cites an American magazine called The Military Review, and
> says US warlocks and witches trained at a secret base in Texas
> for their mission in Kosovo--which is to draw out and defeat the
> Serbian anti-magic Unit 69. The commander of the American unit is
> one Mary Palmer, a member of the US Army military police, he adds
> authoritatively.
>
> Since the war dozens such witches, clairvoyants and paranormal
> experts have stepped forward to join these publications, ready to
> give guidance of a sort to their bewildered readers as they
> struggle to find their bearings after 72 days of NATO bombing.
>
> According to Dr Geoffrey Scobie, senior psychologist at the
> University of Glasgow, such a fixation betrays serious emotional
> and identity problems in Serbian society. "People's belief in the
> paranormal increases when they lose confidence in material
> things," he says. "Traditional religious beliefs are not enough
> and so the paranormal is pursued to meet their need to believe in
> something."
>
> Defeat for NATO features highly in many of the specialist
> publications now on sale in the Belgrade kiosks. The magazine
> Trece Oko predicts that domestic political conditions in Alliance
> member states will deteriorate steadily forcing NATO to withdraw
> "by the end of this year, or by June 2000 at the latest".
>
> Many expect the August 11 solar eclipse to herald new troubles
> for the non Russian K-FOR soldiers. Most troubling for NATO,
> however, will be the appearance of a Danube version of the
> legendary Loch Ness Monster of Scotland - dubbed, 'the Danube
> Nessie' which was recently spotted by fisherman Milan Savin
> swimming by the destroyed bridges at Novi Sad.
>
> Savin reports that Danube Nessi used to live in a tunnel below
> the Danube and the city's historic Varadin Fortress, but the NATO
> bombs forced it up to the surface. Now Nessie cruises the river
> looking for victims. NATO better beware.
>
> Bojan Toncic is an independent journalist from Belgrade.
>
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