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Jarring sight -- a "Nobel Prize" sticker on a volume of books about Bosnia and Serbia by Peter Handke, who won the literature @nobelprize for 2019. With their decision, the Nobel jurors have literally placed a seal of approval on Handke's genocide denial, for eternity.
@NobelPrize The photo is by @peterdhintz, who ordered the volume from Amazon Germany after Handke was announced as the 2019 winner. This is how the book arrived, sticker affixed. Hintz just posted this story about the far right's enthusiasm for Handke's work. 54books.de
@NobelPrize @peterdhintz For more on the @nobelprize, Handke, and genocide denial, here's my story from a few days ago. theintercept.com/2019/10/26/nob…
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Peter Maass
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"It’s easier to ignore facts when the people closest to them are ones whose truths have not yet been codified. The truth of the Holocaust — there are still deniers, but it’s been codified. This controversy shows the truths of the Bosnian genocide have not been codified...
"One of the reasons I’ve gone on about this — I realized, Oh my god, this thing is not settled history. I thought it was. I knew there were conspiracy theorists. People in Serbia and elsewhere denied what happened. But no, it’s not settled history, and that’s shocking...
"It’s almost like all the journalists and all the people who were victims need to now do the same work they did back then to get the truth out. That doubt is back." forward.com/culture/435449…
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In a new letter, the Swedish Academy, trying to justify its choice of Peter Handke for the Nobel Prize for Literature, endorses a 24-page memo from his publisher. But the memo is filled with deceptions about Handke's books on the Bosnia war. Here’s the academy letter –
The letter, to Kosovo's ministry of foreign affairs, provides a hyperlink to the memo from @Suhrkamp Verlag. Two weeks ago, I wrote about Suhrkamp's deceptive memo. Here's a copy of it that I posted to DocumentCloud-- documentcloud.org/documents/6543…
My story for @theintercept is linked below but I honestly don't want you to click it right now. What I hope to do in the coming tweets is quickly deconstruct the key falsehoods that the @NobelPrize organization is hoping everyone will fall for. theintercept.com/2019/11/09/pet…
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Peter Maass
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An element that's overlooked in the debate about Peter Handke's Nobel Prize -- the victims & survivors who are being lectured to or dismissed are Muslim. An anti-Muslim bias is not a bug but a feature of this @NobelPrize.
@NobelPrize Not that it operates in an explicit way. It's just that the Swedish intellectuals (or whatever they are) who decide the Nobel Prize do not identify, cannot identify, do not care about the victims as much as they would if the victims were something other than Muslims in Bosnia.
@NobelPrize The same dynamic existed in the 1990s war. Why didn't the U.S. intervene sooner? I wrote, back then, that if a fanatical Muslim regime in Belgrade had been slaughtering Christians in Sarajevo, intervention would have been immediate. But Bosnia was Islam. We didn't care so much.
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Eine Dalmatienreise im September 2008. Im Gepäck unter anderem "Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht" von Peter #Handke. Rückblick an eines der intensivsten Literaturerlebnisse meines Lebens. Aus Anlass. #Karst
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After covering phoney evolutionists, astrophysicists, I'll work on some material on famous #psychologists, who help build the mental cage for mankind. Defining what's NORMAL to think (aka what they WANT you to think and what not). Let's spot some luciferian #freemasons, shall we?
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Robert Rohde
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THREAD) How famous do you have to be to get a place in @Wikipedia?

Sometimes, you have to win a Nobel Prize.

This is a thread looking at all the scientists who have been added to Wikipedia since 2007, but only after having been awarded a #NobelPrize. 1/
The English Wikipedia is an amazing resource, but its coverage of scientists can be a bit haphazard and at times misses many important figures.

(This is in contrast to athletes, who are pretty much guaranteed to have an article if they have ever appeared professionally.) 2/
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#Serbia’s govt continues its alarming (re)turn Milosevic era: Foreign Minister Dacic claims BiH’s RS entity should have declared independence when Kosovo did. A direct attack on Dayton Accords, BiH territorial integrity & sovereignty. Where is the EU? US? ba.n1info.com/a278083/Svijet…
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