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I have a small challenge for you in the form of a quick quiz question: You must use just one word in order to describe the following paragraph: "You sleep in small rooms with other people, usually on bunk beds, and every day you must get up and be out of bed exactly at 500 hours and go outside to do physical exercises where you are usually forced to sing songs with no significant meanings. Three times a day you wait in line in order to eat, or you don't get any food. You have to wear the same clothing as all others, take weekly showers in large mutual bathrooms, and in other parts of the day, you have to work on assigned jobs or learn how to survive fighting with other people similar to you." I don't know but I've been told So what is it? I am sure there are several words with different meanings that easily fit the description, but in relation to what I am going to write in this post, the chosen word is "the army". In this particular case, the...

Last week was very exciting on the global scale regarding the everlasting anti-piracy war. Only this time, instead of real criminals, somebody else could really suffer. Somebody like Wikipedia, for example. The whole activity raises more questions now, and maybe the biggest one is who was the real target with this SOPA and PIPA last week, and who was really responsible? Well, I have no doubts about that. It's the politics and politicians. With a vast number of parliaments, congresses, senates, or whatever these institutions are named in worldwide democracies, the biggest background activity known as political lobbying will always be there. This works really simply: you have money, and you want some law to be established to expand your business even more? Not a problem; just hire some advocacy firm to lobby for your goal, and over time, if you are persistent enough, you will succeed - politicians belong to those people who "change their minds" easily. They don't...

While visiting museums and exhibitions during travels is somewhat mandatory, touring our own cities and sightseeing their history is something we need a special reason for. I stumbled on this fact with many people, and it is not much different with us as well. This special reason today was a time gap we've got between couple of errands we needed to finish downtown, so we decided to stop by WW2 Nazi concentration camp, now a perfectly preserved memorial museum and one of three in Serbia during the second world war. "Crveni Krst", a concentration camp, was named for the nearby railroad station, and more than 12000 people passed through its dark chambers, who either died within or were executed on the nearby hill "Bubanj". Probably similarly to other camps in Europe, this one imprisoned mostly Jews, Roma, and members of the resistance, mostly partisans, communists, and their supporters. Compared to the camps in Germany at the time, specially populated with soldi...