Author: BOB DJURDJEVIC
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HOW I BOUGHT MY NEW MAC
Ever buy something, only to discover hours later you could have paid a lot less? That’s what happened when I went shopping for a new MacBook Air. My trip to the Apple Store was full of salesmanship, theater, and high-tech enthusiasm. But the real surprise came when I rolled into Costco. What followed was part…
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MY MAC AND I
How old is my 2016 Mac in human years? I posed that to Google’s AI. Here’s the reply: “A 9-year-old Apple laptop is roughly equivalent to a 75- to 80-year-old person, retired and no longer able to keep up with the demands of modern life. While it can still perform basic functions, its hardware is…
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SERBIA: SHIT HAPPENS
A Dream Come True or A Nightmare Yet to Unfold? What a nightmare it has turned out to be so far. It was an authentic way to acquaint myself with the national character of the country in which I was born. In the end, I never felt more like a stranger in Serbia than in…
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BITCOIN AND THE PRESIDENCY: A NEW KIND OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
When Trump Media announced yesterday a $2 billion Bitcoin acquisition, the news was framed as strategic innovation. But this isn’t just another corporate pivot—it’s a potential conflict of interest of presidential proportions.
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NATO WAR ON SERBIA: GANG RAPE OF A SMALL COUNTRY
Je me souviens – I remember “NATO’s bombing of Serbia was nothing short of a gang rape of a small country. A military alliance of 19 nations and 780 million people; with over half of the world’s gross economic product, possessing two-thirds of the global military power, ganged up on a tiny nation of 10…
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THE MOUNTAIN SHOOK, A MOUSE WAS BORN
Guess it all has to do with expectations. Those who were hoping for a change after today’s massive demonstrations in the Serbian capital will be left disappointed. “The mountain shook, a mouse was born,” goes an old saw (“tresla se gora, rodio se mis” – the Serbian version of this proverb). Aleksa Cvetanovic, one of…
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ZELENSKY, E.U. HIT AN ICEBERG AT TRUMP’S OVAL OFFICE
TRUMP IS CAUSING A GEOPOLITICAL POLE SHIFT: LIBERAL NORTH IS NOW SOUTH, AND CONSERVATIVE SOUTH IS NOW NORTH The last day of February marked the beginning of the end of the Zelensky-EU love-in. The Ukrainian leader hit an iceberg at the Trump White House when he tried to lecture the US president and the vice…
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WHY DID FBI CHANGE ITS TUNE ABOUT LONE TERRORIST IN NEW ORLEANS?
On the Jan 1 evening news, the NBC anchor Lester Holt interviewed the Louisiana chief law enforcement officer, the attorney general Liz Murrill, about the New Year’s massacre on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. Here’s an excerpt from that interview: https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/louisiana-attorney-general-says-airbnb-fire-near-new-orleans-attack-linked-to-production-of-explosives-228294213818 As you see, she said that there were “multiple individuals” involved in the attack.…
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FED CHAIRMAN SAYS HE WON’T RESIGN EVEN IF PRESIDENT ASKS HIM TO
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Thursday he would refuse to leave office early if incoming President Donald Trump tried to oust him, adding he cannot be legally removed anyway. Speaking at a press conference following the latest meeting of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee, Powell was asked if he’d exit central bank leadership if…
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REPUBLISHING MY AUG 24, 2024 FORECAST “TRUMP TO WIN BY A LANDSLIDE!”
More than two months before the election, I said TRUMP WILL WIN BY A LANDSLIDE. I also said, “I plan to (re)publish this story and the image again on Nov 6. And now I have.
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