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I know I'm a failure.
I just want to take a couple of other failures with me, 'fore I quit.
Alright? Alright.
LM, or Living Marxism, as they labelled themselves in the beginning,
was a magazine that folded in the year 2000, because of that picture over there.
The one we talked about... Too bright. Well. Sorry!
"The picture that fooled the world," they called it. The television company who owns that image took the case to court.
Living Marxism, or LM, lost.
They were ordered to pay £ 150 000
to two reporters each, and £ 75 000 to the TV production company ITN for libel,
or unjustly accusing them of lying about that camp there,
and that's why I won't say anything about it being a refugee camp,
or concentration camp, as I'm sure some of you would prefer.
No. Since that could cost me. A lot.
In addition to the £ 375 000 in libel damages, the magazine had to pay the attorneys
something in the league of £ 300 000.
Only dead Marxists have that kind of money.
The magazine formerly known as Living Marxism found itself deceased.
Or did it?
What's a million dollars for a group of unemployed intellectuals who'll never have to pay it? It isn't even paper!
They are numbers. They are nothing.
After a short pause the accusations started turning up again.
Or maybe they never disappeared in the first place.
What I'm talking about is revisionism, or rewriting of history.
Let's take another example:
Ssssshh.
I'll try again.
Sssh.
Serbian is such a challenging language, some of the names are almost impossible to pronounce.
Take Srdj for instance - the mountain shadowing the Old Town of Dubrovnik.
Sh.
You know, this was the Good Camp, as in good cop / bad cop? The bad cop was called Omarska.
Do you want to hear about the future of the Scandinavian welfare state?
No? Alright.
It's not socialism, as many, especially in the US, seem to believe...
Alright, alright!
I seem to have some difficulties pronouncing a certain name. But maybe you can help me. Let's see.
Sounds like thunder... lightning.