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From: "francesco iannuzzelli" <francesco@...>
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To: pck-armamenti@...
Come segnalato in home page dalla testimonianza di Zoran, gli
USA stanno compiendo parecchie operazioni militari in
concomitanza con il voto in Yugoslavia.
In Kosovo sono arrivati altri 4 battaglioni di truppe alleate portando
la K-For a 45.000 effettivi.
Nella confinante Romania forze della Nato insieme a rumeni,
svizzeri e bulgari simulano un "intervento teso a riportare la pace in
un paese sconvolto dalla guerra civile".
In Slovacchia e Repubblica Ceca si svolgono le manovre "Blue Line
2000" con piloti e jet statunitensi.
Le operazioni piu' significative pero' riguardano l'esercitazione
congiunta tra truppe USA e croate, sia di terra che di mare, che si
svolgera' dal 25 al 29 settembre, coinvolgendo 600 soldati
americani e 9.000 croati nelle citta' di Spalato e Sebenik.
Sono accompagnati da due unita' di trasporto per operazioni
anfibie, la USS Austin e la USS Saipan, che nei giorni scorsi era
nel porto di Trieste (prima ancora a La Spezia).
Inoltre la portaerei Washington, a propulsione nucleare, e' stata
trasferita all'ultimo momento dal Golfo Persico all'Adriatico, dove e'
giunta in questi giorni.
Il dipartimento della difesa statunitense ha smentito ogni legame
tra queste manovre e le concomitanti elezioni yugoslave...
ciao
francesco
Fonti:
Reuters:
http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?ei=2205001&ern=y
Analisidifesa:
http://www.analisidifesa.it/numero7/natobelg.htm
francesco iannuzzelli francesco@...
associazione peacelink - sez. disarmo
http://www.peacelink.it
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DUE MESSAGGI DA MICHEL COLLON, PRESENTE IN JUGOSLAVIA
Message urgent de Michel Collon de Belgrade
L?opposition va provoquer des incidents Dimanche soir. Ils diront qu?ils
ont gagné les élections à 9 heures, les bureaux
fermant à 8 heures. Mais les résultats officiels n?étant connus qu?à
minuit. Ils diront que les sondages étaient à leur
faveur et que si Milosevic gagne ça ne peut être qu?une fraude. Ils
cherecheront des bagares avec la police et avoir de
mauvaises images. Peut-être aussi des incidents à Montenegro.
Pourtant les sondages ne sont pas fiables, reconnaît même un responsable
des observateurs dits indépendants, organisés
par l?opposition et les USA, qui reconnaît qu?on ne peut rien prédire.
La tactique de déstabilisation est bien coordonnée, les prix augmentent
chacun de ces derniers jours, on (qui?) organise des
pénuries, huile et sucre sont retirés, les gens se ruent pour stocker.
Les prix augmentent, un dinar de plus chaque jour pour
un mark. L?atmosphère devient engoissante.
La différence entre les meetings électoraux frappe. A celui de Milosevic
: « En tant que colonie, nous ne serions jamais
libres des sanctions car le statut de colonie c?est la pire forme de
sanctions ». Les gens sont fiers de ce qu?ils ont fait :
resister. Milosevic a beaucoup reconstruit. Mais bien sûr, il y a la
lassitude des sanctions et les illusions de la jeunesse qui
n?a pas vecu le fascisme. Il y a un fosse entre générations, d?autant
que l?Ouest envahit la jeunesse avec sa pub et son
modèle de consommation.
Et au meetings de Kostunica, les gens sont tristes, ils sont vite partis
apres le discours, il ne restent même pas pour le
concert. C?est normal, il se prétend un homme de principes mais il est
en train de vendre la souveraineté du pays.
L?opposition, trouvera-t-elle assez de gens pour le soutenir dans ces
incidents ? On verra?
Je ne sais pas comment ca va tourner, en tout cas ça valait la peine de
venir ici. Il faut se préparer au pire et mobiliser les
gens
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:24:19 +0200
> From: Marko Atanasievski
> To: pdevos@...
> Subject: Message de Michel Collon de Belgrade
>
> Nous sommes ici plus de 200 observateurs venus de 53 pays (Russie,
> Argentine, Chili, Jordanie, Chine, Allemagne, etc) pour contr^oler la
> legalite des elections en Yougoslavie.
> Au parlement, nous avons rencontre la commission de supervision des
> elections qui nous a explique les regles. En fait, elles ressemblent
> tout a fait a ce quon voit dans les pays occidentaux: vote secret,
> bulletins controles, dans tous les bureaux de vote, commissions de
> controle ouvertes a tous les partis.
> En fait, les methodes electorales sont celles pronees par l'OSCE,
> Organisation pour la Cooperation et la Securite en Europe, qui avait
> d'ailleurs declare parfaitement correctes les elections yougoslaves
> de 1996.
> On se demande alors pourquoi la presse occidentale repete inlassablement
> que les elections seront truquees pour permettre a Milosevic de gagner.
> Parce qu'elle pense que l'opposition va perdre? Parce que l'Otan
> cherche un pretexte pour intervenir a nouveau?
> Nous avons essaye de repondre a cette question, ce samedi matin, en
> echangeant nos observations entre observateurs d'une vingtaine de
> pays. D'abord, nous avons constate qu'a l'etranger, on racontait des
> choses assez incroyables. En Hongrie, la presse pretend que les
> observateurs etrangers viennent seulement de quatre pays (Russie,
> Libye, Irak et Hongrie), qu'ils ne peuvent rencontrer l'opposition et
> que celle ci ne pourra etre dans les bureaux de vote pour controler
> les operations. Trois mensonges grossiers, nous avons pu le
> constater. Au Canada, les medias ont pretendu que tous les
> journalistes etrangers avaient ete expulses. Archi-faux: il reste ici
> des dizaines de correspondants internationaux meme si cest vrai,
> quelques journalistes ont ete expulses.
> Cest peut etre regrettable dans certains cas, mais il faut aussi
> comprendre: les Yougoslaves ont subi une guerre, des milliers de gens
> ont perdu la vie, leurs maisons, leurs biens, l'Otan a foutu des
> dechets nucleaires un peu partout et ca provoquer des millers de
> cancers dans quelques annes, et toute cette guerre a ete prepare par
> des mediamensonges occidentaux. Aujourdhui, ils sont a nouveau
> nerveux car les Etats Unis manifestement font monter la tension...
> Il y a dix jours, un journal de l'opposition yougoslave a revele que
> Madeleine Albright, ministre US des Affaires etrangeres, avait reclame
> qu'on bombarde a nouveau la Yougoslavie. Proposition non acceptee
> pour l'instant par les autres responsables americains, mais demain
> qu'arrivera-t-il? Avant les guerres precedentes contre la
> Yougoslavie, on avait constate aussi une campagne psychologique
> preparatoire: demonisation de l'adversaire, creation d'un etat de
> tension en lui attribuant des projets agressifs (ici on pretend que
> Milosevic va attaquer le Montenegro, ce qui ne tient pas debout),
> etcetera... Dans cette campagne psychologique, les sondages doivent
> etre consideres comme une arme de propagande parmi d'autres. Selon
> beaucoup de gens a qui j'ai parle, la lutte sera serree. Voteront
> Milosevic ceux qui, en depit de critiques qu'ils lui font, mettent
> pardessus tout la defense de l'independance. Voteront pour
> l'opposition ceux qui, lasses par des annes depreuves et de
> privations, s'efforcent de croire Kostunica et les promesses des
> EtatsUnis. Mais les medias occidentaux avancent que Kostunica serait
> sur de gagner. Ca ne repose pas sur des enquetes serieuses, en fait
> il n'existe pas de sondage scientifiquement fiable. Pourquoi alors ce
> pronostic trompeur? Pour decourager les electeurs yougoslave et pour
> preparer l'opinion occidentale a cette idee: si Milosevic gagne, ce
> ne pourra etre qu'en fraudant, donc nous devrons intervenir de
> nouveau contre la Yougoslavie (par une nouvelle guerre ou de nouveaux
> bombardements? Esperons que non, et faisons tout pour qu'il n'en soit
> pas ainsi). Les Etats Unis ont fourni a l'opposition une serie de
> consultants specialistes de la communication (le genre de ceux qui
> ont assiste Jamie Shea durant la guerre); les sondages trompeurs
> font partie de leur panoplie d'armes psychologiques. Les Etats-Unis
> font aujourd'hui plein de promesses, garantissant aux Yougoslaves
> qu'ils vivront prosperes s'ils votent bien. D'abord, il faut
> remarquer que ces promesses ils les ont deja faites aux Russes, aux
> Bulgares et aux Albanais avec les resultats qu'on sait....
> En Occident, on n'en parle guere, mais ici, on est tres choques par
> les 70 millions de dollars que les Usa reconnaissent verser aux
> partis, medias dits independants et a d'autres organisations. Acheter
> la Yougoslavie? Que diraient les medias occidentaux si Belgrade ou
> Pekin versait 5 milliards de FB (somme equivalente si on compare les
> niveaux de vie) pour aider un parti d'extreme gauche en France parce
> qu'elle ne respecte pas les droits des Corses ou des Basques? Ou en
> Belgique parce qu'elle enferme les refugies dans des prisons?
>
> Redevenons serieux: les Etats-Unis sont en train de preparer
> psychologiquement l'opinion internationale a la possibilite dune
> nouvelle agression (n'oublions pas qu'ils bobardemt impunement l'Irak
> depuis neuf ans!). Ils osent presenter comme une lecon de
> <democratie> le chantage <Votez pour nous ou crevez de faim a moins
> qu'on vous bombarde a nouveau!>
>
> Au moment ou ils preparent un Plan Colombie, veritable declaration de
> guerre contre toute l'Amerique latime et ses nouvelles luttes au
> Venezuela, em Argentine et ailleurs, au moment ou ils soutiennent
> ferocement Israel responsable d'une purification ethnique
> systematique depuis plus de cinquante ans, au moment ou le monde
> entier se mobilise tres positivement contre les injustices de la
> globalisation imposee par les multinationales, il est tres important
> d'arreter cette nouvelle menace d'agression.
>
> Demain, les 200 observateurs se disperseront dans tout le pays ou ils
> pourront tout controler dans les bureaux de vote et les operations de
> comptage. Nous avons convenu d'echanger nos impressions dimache soir
> et lundi matin tres tot. Les resultats devraient etre connus dans la
> nuit. Il me parait tres important de contrer IMMEDIATEMENT la
> desinformation que certains milieux essaient d'organiser au sujet de
> ces elections. Je suggere de contacter d'avance des journalistes
> honnetes pour leur expliquer qu'une autre information est disponible.
> On peut me joindre a l'hotel Intercontinental, chambre 313.
>
> Michel Collon
> samedi 23 septembre, Belgrade
===
IMPORTANTI INFORMAZIONI DALLA BULGARIA
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/doncheva/electionday.htm
>Election Day Meddling
>A letter from Blagovesta Doncheva in Sofia, Bulgaria
>(9-24-2000)
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/doncheva/bulgmed.htm
>Bulgaria Meddles in Yugoslav Vote
>
>'Monitor,' [Bulgaria] September 22, p. 1-2-3
>
>Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marin Raikov, is behind an unprecedented
>plan for parallel Yugoslav vote counting from Sofia. Kostov threatens
>Milosevic with "categorical/decisive actions" if he 'manipulates' the vote on
>Sunday...
===
SULLE INTERFERENZE EUROPEE E STATUNITENSI
-------------------------
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Sept. 28, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
-------------------------
YUGOSLAVIA ELECTIONS: U.S., W. EUROPE USE CARROT &
STICK
By John Catalinotto
With the big vote set for Sept. 24, the European Union and
the U.S. government have stepped up their already blatant
intervention in Yugoslavia's national election. Both the
Yugoslav government and anti-war forces in NATO countries
have reacted with anti-NATO actions.
The EU offered the carrot. In a "message to the Serbian
people" from a Sept. 18 monthly foreign ministers' meeting
in Brussels, the EU said it would lift sanctions if
Yugoslavs voted out President Slobodan Milosevic in the
presidential election.
"The elections ... will give the Serbian people the
opportunity to repudiate clearly and peacefully the policy
of Milosevic." Should they do so, "we will lift the
sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, we
will support the necessary economic aid for its
reconstruction, and we will support the reintegration of the
FRY into the international community," is how the EU
presented its bribe.
Washington continued to wave the big stick. The U.S. Navy
plans maneuvers in the Adriatic Sea off the Yugoslav coast
on election weekend. Both U.S. and NATO leaders have
threatened intervention should there be conflict in
Montenegro, the smaller republic, which along with Serbia
makes up what remains of Yugoslavia.
If Yugoslavia is treated like the other former socialist
countries of the Balkans, "reintegration" means that a
handful of Yugoslavs will grow rich while the bulk of the
population is driven deeper into poverty and the people as a
whole are forced to submit to Western imperialism.
An article in the Sept. 19 New York Times makes it clear
that the only job opportunities for young Bulgarian women is
to work as prostitutes in the Czech Republic near the German
border.
The only serious candidates for president of Yugoslavia are
Milosevic and Vojislav Kostunica, who is backed by 18 small
opposition parties, some of them openly pro-NATO and all pro-
Western. Kostunica is a long-time anti-communist with
credentials as a Serbian nationalist.
Kostunica is also the only opposition figure who is not
tarnished by open association with NATO forces. He can
possibly attract voters who are weary of the assault on
Yugoslavia and who hope that removing Milosevic will end the
hostility.
The U.S. and West European imperialists, however, want
Kostunica to defeat Milosevic in order to weaken the best-
organized anti-NATO structures inside Yugoslavia. These
structures include Milosevic's Socialist Party and the party
called the Yugoslav United Left, plus the security forces
and the army.
Weakening this apparatus would leave the road open for
imperialist penetration and for turning all of Yugoslavia
back into a colony of the West, whether or not that is what
Kostunica plans.
The Western media claim Kostunica is leading in election
polls. Pro-Milosevic sources point out that the polls were
taken by pro-NATO organizations that want to try to claim
Milosevic "stole" the election should he win.
BELGRADE PUTS NATO LEADERS ON TRIAL
Meanwhile, the Milosevic forces have run their election
campaign against NATO threats, pointing to the opposition as
NATO puppets.
In addition, the Yugoslav government has gone on the
political offensive against NATO. In Belgrade Sept. 18 the
government opened a trial of NATO leaders for war crimes
committed during the 1999 aggression and 78-day bombing
assault.
Yugoslavia charged Presidents Bill Clinton of the United
States and Jacques Chirac of France, British Prime Minister
Tony Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, U.S.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and nine other NATO
and Western government leaders with war crimes. Their names
were attached to 14 empty chairs in the front of a Belgrade
courtroom.
Serb authorities appointed a lawyer for each of the accused.
Yugoslav officials said it would take four days to present
the evidence.
"They are charged with inciting an aggressive war...war
crimes against civilian population...use of banned combat
means, attempted murder of the Yugoslav president...the
violation of the country's territorial integrity. ..," the
charge sheet read.
"They fired 600 cruise missiles and made 25,119 [air]
sorties during the 78-day aggression, attacking both
military and civilian targets, killing and wounding many
people, causing mass destruction of property," it added.
The charges were similar in structure to those presented at
the dozens of "People's Tribunals" held in Germany, the
United States, Italy, Austria, Greece, Russia and other
countries in the past 14 months, all of which found the NATO
leaders guilty. The Yugoslavs will be able to present more
detailed, eyewitness descriptions of the crimes.
Exposing NATO's crimes and especially the lies NATO leaders
used to justify their aggression has strengthened solidarity
with Yugoslavia in some of the NATO countries.
In Italy, a traditional annual peace march from Perugia to
Assisi will take place Sept. 24 with a more clearly anti-
NATO position than it has had in recent years. Last year
former Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema led the march--but he
also had led the war against Yugoslavia. This year march
organizers invited forces carrying a banner "Against NATO,
against the embargoes" to play a big role in the march and
promised that none of the war criminals from the Italian
regime would be present.
In Germany, a group of anti-war intellectuals have issued a
call from Berlin: "No new NATO-war on the Balkans!" The call
warns of U.S.-NATO military preparations for a possible new
assault on Yugoslavia, and asks for actions against this new
aggression. There are also vigils planned in Bonn on Sept.
22 and 29.
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YUGOSLAVIA LODGES PROTEST WITH E.U. COUNCIL
BRUSSELS, September 23 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia has filed a protest
with the European Union in Brussels over a socalled "message" that E.U.
foreign ministers have recently sent Yugoslavs in connection with
Sunday's
presidential and parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia.
Yugoslav Charge d'Affaires Dragan Zupanjevac delivered the
protest
note to E.U. Ministerial Council Director General Brian Crowe.
The note says, among others, that the E.U. ministers' "message"
constitutes gross and unacceptable interference in the internal affairs
of
a sovereign country, and is without a precedent in democratic practice.
Yugoslavia believes it is high time the European Union
abandoned
its unprincipled and antiEuropean policy, its antiYugoslav policy of
sanctions and isolation, which is achieving nothing other than
continuing
to destabilise southeast Europe, the protest note says.
===
F.R. YUGOSLAVIA ELECTIONS
YUGOSLAVIA TO ELECT PRESIDENT AND MP'S ON SUNDAY
BELGRADE, September 23 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia will be electing a
president and federal parliament deputies, while its republic of Serbia
will be voting also for local administration officials on Sunday,
September
24.
According to the Central Electoral Commission, Yugoslavia has
an
electorate of 7,861,327; of this number, 7,417,197 are in Serbia, and
444,130 in the other Yugoslav federal unit, Montenegro.
This will be the first time for the people to be electing a
president directly, and they will have the choice of five candidates:
Incumbent Slobodan Milosevic, nominated by a leftist coalition
made up of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), the Yugoslav Left (JUL),
and the Socialist People's Party (SNP) of Montenegro;
Vojislav Kostunica, nominated by 18 opposition parties rallied
into the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) bloc;
Tomislav Nikolic of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS);
Vojislav Mihailovic of the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO);
Miroljub Vidojkovic of the Affirmative Party.
Should none of the candidates secure an outright majority of
the
votes cast in the first round, the two leading candidates will fight it
out
between them in a runoff two weeks later.
Serbs and Montenegrins will be voting in 27 electoral districts
to
elect 138 deputies to the Chamber of Citizens (lower house) of the
Yugoslav
federal parliament, from among candidates nominated by 30 parties on 30
tickets.
Of this number, Serbia will be giving 108 deputies to the
Chamber,
and Montenegro, 30.
Yugoslav citizens displaced from Serbia's U.N.administered
Kosovo
and Metohija province will be voting in Serbia's southern Prokuplje and
Vranje municipalities.
Deputies to the Chamber of Republics (Upper house) will be
elected
by direct ballot another first with Serbia and Montenegro, as two
equal
constituencies, giving 20 deputies each.
Parallel with the federal elections, polls will be held for
electing 120 deputies to the Serbian Vojvodina province's assembly
(Parliament), and local administrations in Serbia.
Also, 110 deputies to the Belgrade City Council will be elected
from among 548 candidates nominated by 21 parties.
Belgrade has an electorate of 1,351,365.
Apart from local monitors, the elections will be monitored by
more
than 200 foreign observers from 52 countries, who have already arrived
in
Yugoslavia.
YUGOSLAVIA TAKES FURTHER STEPS TO PREVENT ELECTION FRAUD
BELGRADE, September 23 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Central Electoral
Commission on Saturday reviewed reports on a plot to illegally augment
the
number of ballots at polling stations and issued further instructions to
prevent fraud on the eve of Sunday's elections.
Yugoslavia votes for president and deputies to both chambers of
the federal parliament, while its republic of Serbia elects local
administrators on Sunday, September 24.
The Commission said in a statement it has come in possession of
information that, as part of subversive activities against Yugoslavia, a
plan has been hatched to sabotage and compromise the presidential
election.
"Foreign factors have prepared a number of ballots for the
presidential election, which their stooges among the Yugoslav people
should
drop in the ballot boxes folded inside the regular ballot papers...
"This has been done because, under election rules, in case
there
is a single ballot in a box more than there were voters at that
particular
polling station, the polling must be declared invalid", the Commission
said.
In this way, a couple of hundred unscrupulous individuals could
invalidate the will of hundreds of thousands, it added.
The Commission has therefore decreed that the invigilators at
the
polling stations must check that the ballot paper of each voter in the
presidential election is a single paper, with nothing folded in it.
"The check will be made by each voter marking the ballot,
folding
it and then handing it over to an invigilator to see that it is a single
paper, while not violating the secrecy of the voting, and then dropping
it
in the box", the statement said.
The Commission appealed to the people to respect the reasons
that
have made this kind of control necessary.
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Date forwarded: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 04:37:12 +0200
From: "francesco iannuzzelli" <francesco@...>
Organization: peacelink
To: pck-armamenti@...
Come segnalato in home page dalla testimonianza di Zoran, gli
USA stanno compiendo parecchie operazioni militari in
concomitanza con il voto in Yugoslavia.
In Kosovo sono arrivati altri 4 battaglioni di truppe alleate portando
la K-For a 45.000 effettivi.
Nella confinante Romania forze della Nato insieme a rumeni,
svizzeri e bulgari simulano un "intervento teso a riportare la pace in
un paese sconvolto dalla guerra civile".
In Slovacchia e Repubblica Ceca si svolgono le manovre "Blue Line
2000" con piloti e jet statunitensi.
Le operazioni piu' significative pero' riguardano l'esercitazione
congiunta tra truppe USA e croate, sia di terra che di mare, che si
svolgera' dal 25 al 29 settembre, coinvolgendo 600 soldati
americani e 9.000 croati nelle citta' di Spalato e Sebenik.
Sono accompagnati da due unita' di trasporto per operazioni
anfibie, la USS Austin e la USS Saipan, che nei giorni scorsi era
nel porto di Trieste (prima ancora a La Spezia).
Inoltre la portaerei Washington, a propulsione nucleare, e' stata
trasferita all'ultimo momento dal Golfo Persico all'Adriatico, dove e'
giunta in questi giorni.
Il dipartimento della difesa statunitense ha smentito ogni legame
tra queste manovre e le concomitanti elezioni yugoslave...
ciao
francesco
Fonti:
Reuters:
http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?ei=2205001&ern=y
Analisidifesa:
http://www.analisidifesa.it/numero7/natobelg.htm
francesco iannuzzelli francesco@...
associazione peacelink - sez. disarmo
http://www.peacelink.it
===
DUE MESSAGGI DA MICHEL COLLON, PRESENTE IN JUGOSLAVIA
Message urgent de Michel Collon de Belgrade
L?opposition va provoquer des incidents Dimanche soir. Ils diront qu?ils
ont gagné les élections à 9 heures, les bureaux
fermant à 8 heures. Mais les résultats officiels n?étant connus qu?à
minuit. Ils diront que les sondages étaient à leur
faveur et que si Milosevic gagne ça ne peut être qu?une fraude. Ils
cherecheront des bagares avec la police et avoir de
mauvaises images. Peut-être aussi des incidents à Montenegro.
Pourtant les sondages ne sont pas fiables, reconnaît même un responsable
des observateurs dits indépendants, organisés
par l?opposition et les USA, qui reconnaît qu?on ne peut rien prédire.
La tactique de déstabilisation est bien coordonnée, les prix augmentent
chacun de ces derniers jours, on (qui?) organise des
pénuries, huile et sucre sont retirés, les gens se ruent pour stocker.
Les prix augmentent, un dinar de plus chaque jour pour
un mark. L?atmosphère devient engoissante.
La différence entre les meetings électoraux frappe. A celui de Milosevic
: « En tant que colonie, nous ne serions jamais
libres des sanctions car le statut de colonie c?est la pire forme de
sanctions ». Les gens sont fiers de ce qu?ils ont fait :
resister. Milosevic a beaucoup reconstruit. Mais bien sûr, il y a la
lassitude des sanctions et les illusions de la jeunesse qui
n?a pas vecu le fascisme. Il y a un fosse entre générations, d?autant
que l?Ouest envahit la jeunesse avec sa pub et son
modèle de consommation.
Et au meetings de Kostunica, les gens sont tristes, ils sont vite partis
apres le discours, il ne restent même pas pour le
concert. C?est normal, il se prétend un homme de principes mais il est
en train de vendre la souveraineté du pays.
L?opposition, trouvera-t-elle assez de gens pour le soutenir dans ces
incidents ? On verra?
Je ne sais pas comment ca va tourner, en tout cas ça valait la peine de
venir ici. Il faut se préparer au pire et mobiliser les
gens
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:24:19 +0200
> From: Marko Atanasievski
> To: pdevos@...
> Subject: Message de Michel Collon de Belgrade
>
> Nous sommes ici plus de 200 observateurs venus de 53 pays (Russie,
> Argentine, Chili, Jordanie, Chine, Allemagne, etc) pour contr^oler la
> legalite des elections en Yougoslavie.
> Au parlement, nous avons rencontre la commission de supervision des
> elections qui nous a explique les regles. En fait, elles ressemblent
> tout a fait a ce quon voit dans les pays occidentaux: vote secret,
> bulletins controles, dans tous les bureaux de vote, commissions de
> controle ouvertes a tous les partis.
> En fait, les methodes electorales sont celles pronees par l'OSCE,
> Organisation pour la Cooperation et la Securite en Europe, qui avait
> d'ailleurs declare parfaitement correctes les elections yougoslaves
> de 1996.
> On se demande alors pourquoi la presse occidentale repete inlassablement
> que les elections seront truquees pour permettre a Milosevic de gagner.
> Parce qu'elle pense que l'opposition va perdre? Parce que l'Otan
> cherche un pretexte pour intervenir a nouveau?
> Nous avons essaye de repondre a cette question, ce samedi matin, en
> echangeant nos observations entre observateurs d'une vingtaine de
> pays. D'abord, nous avons constate qu'a l'etranger, on racontait des
> choses assez incroyables. En Hongrie, la presse pretend que les
> observateurs etrangers viennent seulement de quatre pays (Russie,
> Libye, Irak et Hongrie), qu'ils ne peuvent rencontrer l'opposition et
> que celle ci ne pourra etre dans les bureaux de vote pour controler
> les operations. Trois mensonges grossiers, nous avons pu le
> constater. Au Canada, les medias ont pretendu que tous les
> journalistes etrangers avaient ete expulses. Archi-faux: il reste ici
> des dizaines de correspondants internationaux meme si cest vrai,
> quelques journalistes ont ete expulses.
> Cest peut etre regrettable dans certains cas, mais il faut aussi
> comprendre: les Yougoslaves ont subi une guerre, des milliers de gens
> ont perdu la vie, leurs maisons, leurs biens, l'Otan a foutu des
> dechets nucleaires un peu partout et ca provoquer des millers de
> cancers dans quelques annes, et toute cette guerre a ete prepare par
> des mediamensonges occidentaux. Aujourdhui, ils sont a nouveau
> nerveux car les Etats Unis manifestement font monter la tension...
> Il y a dix jours, un journal de l'opposition yougoslave a revele que
> Madeleine Albright, ministre US des Affaires etrangeres, avait reclame
> qu'on bombarde a nouveau la Yougoslavie. Proposition non acceptee
> pour l'instant par les autres responsables americains, mais demain
> qu'arrivera-t-il? Avant les guerres precedentes contre la
> Yougoslavie, on avait constate aussi une campagne psychologique
> preparatoire: demonisation de l'adversaire, creation d'un etat de
> tension en lui attribuant des projets agressifs (ici on pretend que
> Milosevic va attaquer le Montenegro, ce qui ne tient pas debout),
> etcetera... Dans cette campagne psychologique, les sondages doivent
> etre consideres comme une arme de propagande parmi d'autres. Selon
> beaucoup de gens a qui j'ai parle, la lutte sera serree. Voteront
> Milosevic ceux qui, en depit de critiques qu'ils lui font, mettent
> pardessus tout la defense de l'independance. Voteront pour
> l'opposition ceux qui, lasses par des annes depreuves et de
> privations, s'efforcent de croire Kostunica et les promesses des
> EtatsUnis. Mais les medias occidentaux avancent que Kostunica serait
> sur de gagner. Ca ne repose pas sur des enquetes serieuses, en fait
> il n'existe pas de sondage scientifiquement fiable. Pourquoi alors ce
> pronostic trompeur? Pour decourager les electeurs yougoslave et pour
> preparer l'opinion occidentale a cette idee: si Milosevic gagne, ce
> ne pourra etre qu'en fraudant, donc nous devrons intervenir de
> nouveau contre la Yougoslavie (par une nouvelle guerre ou de nouveaux
> bombardements? Esperons que non, et faisons tout pour qu'il n'en soit
> pas ainsi). Les Etats Unis ont fourni a l'opposition une serie de
> consultants specialistes de la communication (le genre de ceux qui
> ont assiste Jamie Shea durant la guerre); les sondages trompeurs
> font partie de leur panoplie d'armes psychologiques. Les Etats-Unis
> font aujourd'hui plein de promesses, garantissant aux Yougoslaves
> qu'ils vivront prosperes s'ils votent bien. D'abord, il faut
> remarquer que ces promesses ils les ont deja faites aux Russes, aux
> Bulgares et aux Albanais avec les resultats qu'on sait....
> En Occident, on n'en parle guere, mais ici, on est tres choques par
> les 70 millions de dollars que les Usa reconnaissent verser aux
> partis, medias dits independants et a d'autres organisations. Acheter
> la Yougoslavie? Que diraient les medias occidentaux si Belgrade ou
> Pekin versait 5 milliards de FB (somme equivalente si on compare les
> niveaux de vie) pour aider un parti d'extreme gauche en France parce
> qu'elle ne respecte pas les droits des Corses ou des Basques? Ou en
> Belgique parce qu'elle enferme les refugies dans des prisons?
>
> Redevenons serieux: les Etats-Unis sont en train de preparer
> psychologiquement l'opinion internationale a la possibilite dune
> nouvelle agression (n'oublions pas qu'ils bobardemt impunement l'Irak
> depuis neuf ans!). Ils osent presenter comme une lecon de
> <democratie> le chantage <Votez pour nous ou crevez de faim a moins
> qu'on vous bombarde a nouveau!>
>
> Au moment ou ils preparent un Plan Colombie, veritable declaration de
> guerre contre toute l'Amerique latime et ses nouvelles luttes au
> Venezuela, em Argentine et ailleurs, au moment ou ils soutiennent
> ferocement Israel responsable d'une purification ethnique
> systematique depuis plus de cinquante ans, au moment ou le monde
> entier se mobilise tres positivement contre les injustices de la
> globalisation imposee par les multinationales, il est tres important
> d'arreter cette nouvelle menace d'agression.
>
> Demain, les 200 observateurs se disperseront dans tout le pays ou ils
> pourront tout controler dans les bureaux de vote et les operations de
> comptage. Nous avons convenu d'echanger nos impressions dimache soir
> et lundi matin tres tot. Les resultats devraient etre connus dans la
> nuit. Il me parait tres important de contrer IMMEDIATEMENT la
> desinformation que certains milieux essaient d'organiser au sujet de
> ces elections. Je suggere de contacter d'avance des journalistes
> honnetes pour leur expliquer qu'une autre information est disponible.
> On peut me joindre a l'hotel Intercontinental, chambre 313.
>
> Michel Collon
> samedi 23 septembre, Belgrade
===
IMPORTANTI INFORMAZIONI DALLA BULGARIA
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/doncheva/electionday.htm
>Election Day Meddling
>A letter from Blagovesta Doncheva in Sofia, Bulgaria
>(9-24-2000)
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/doncheva/bulgmed.htm
>Bulgaria Meddles in Yugoslav Vote
>
>'Monitor,' [Bulgaria] September 22, p. 1-2-3
>
>Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marin Raikov, is behind an unprecedented
>plan for parallel Yugoslav vote counting from Sofia. Kostov threatens
>Milosevic with "categorical/decisive actions" if he 'manipulates' the vote on
>Sunday...
===
SULLE INTERFERENZE EUROPEE E STATUNITENSI
-------------------------
Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Sept. 28, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
-------------------------
YUGOSLAVIA ELECTIONS: U.S., W. EUROPE USE CARROT &
STICK
By John Catalinotto
With the big vote set for Sept. 24, the European Union and
the U.S. government have stepped up their already blatant
intervention in Yugoslavia's national election. Both the
Yugoslav government and anti-war forces in NATO countries
have reacted with anti-NATO actions.
The EU offered the carrot. In a "message to the Serbian
people" from a Sept. 18 monthly foreign ministers' meeting
in Brussels, the EU said it would lift sanctions if
Yugoslavs voted out President Slobodan Milosevic in the
presidential election.
"The elections ... will give the Serbian people the
opportunity to repudiate clearly and peacefully the policy
of Milosevic." Should they do so, "we will lift the
sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, we
will support the necessary economic aid for its
reconstruction, and we will support the reintegration of the
FRY into the international community," is how the EU
presented its bribe.
Washington continued to wave the big stick. The U.S. Navy
plans maneuvers in the Adriatic Sea off the Yugoslav coast
on election weekend. Both U.S. and NATO leaders have
threatened intervention should there be conflict in
Montenegro, the smaller republic, which along with Serbia
makes up what remains of Yugoslavia.
If Yugoslavia is treated like the other former socialist
countries of the Balkans, "reintegration" means that a
handful of Yugoslavs will grow rich while the bulk of the
population is driven deeper into poverty and the people as a
whole are forced to submit to Western imperialism.
An article in the Sept. 19 New York Times makes it clear
that the only job opportunities for young Bulgarian women is
to work as prostitutes in the Czech Republic near the German
border.
The only serious candidates for president of Yugoslavia are
Milosevic and Vojislav Kostunica, who is backed by 18 small
opposition parties, some of them openly pro-NATO and all pro-
Western. Kostunica is a long-time anti-communist with
credentials as a Serbian nationalist.
Kostunica is also the only opposition figure who is not
tarnished by open association with NATO forces. He can
possibly attract voters who are weary of the assault on
Yugoslavia and who hope that removing Milosevic will end the
hostility.
The U.S. and West European imperialists, however, want
Kostunica to defeat Milosevic in order to weaken the best-
organized anti-NATO structures inside Yugoslavia. These
structures include Milosevic's Socialist Party and the party
called the Yugoslav United Left, plus the security forces
and the army.
Weakening this apparatus would leave the road open for
imperialist penetration and for turning all of Yugoslavia
back into a colony of the West, whether or not that is what
Kostunica plans.
The Western media claim Kostunica is leading in election
polls. Pro-Milosevic sources point out that the polls were
taken by pro-NATO organizations that want to try to claim
Milosevic "stole" the election should he win.
BELGRADE PUTS NATO LEADERS ON TRIAL
Meanwhile, the Milosevic forces have run their election
campaign against NATO threats, pointing to the opposition as
NATO puppets.
In addition, the Yugoslav government has gone on the
political offensive against NATO. In Belgrade Sept. 18 the
government opened a trial of NATO leaders for war crimes
committed during the 1999 aggression and 78-day bombing
assault.
Yugoslavia charged Presidents Bill Clinton of the United
States and Jacques Chirac of France, British Prime Minister
Tony Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, U.S.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and nine other NATO
and Western government leaders with war crimes. Their names
were attached to 14 empty chairs in the front of a Belgrade
courtroom.
Serb authorities appointed a lawyer for each of the accused.
Yugoslav officials said it would take four days to present
the evidence.
"They are charged with inciting an aggressive war...war
crimes against civilian population...use of banned combat
means, attempted murder of the Yugoslav president...the
violation of the country's territorial integrity. ..," the
charge sheet read.
"They fired 600 cruise missiles and made 25,119 [air]
sorties during the 78-day aggression, attacking both
military and civilian targets, killing and wounding many
people, causing mass destruction of property," it added.
The charges were similar in structure to those presented at
the dozens of "People's Tribunals" held in Germany, the
United States, Italy, Austria, Greece, Russia and other
countries in the past 14 months, all of which found the NATO
leaders guilty. The Yugoslavs will be able to present more
detailed, eyewitness descriptions of the crimes.
Exposing NATO's crimes and especially the lies NATO leaders
used to justify their aggression has strengthened solidarity
with Yugoslavia in some of the NATO countries.
In Italy, a traditional annual peace march from Perugia to
Assisi will take place Sept. 24 with a more clearly anti-
NATO position than it has had in recent years. Last year
former Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema led the march--but he
also had led the war against Yugoslavia. This year march
organizers invited forces carrying a banner "Against NATO,
against the embargoes" to play a big role in the march and
promised that none of the war criminals from the Italian
regime would be present.
In Germany, a group of anti-war intellectuals have issued a
call from Berlin: "No new NATO-war on the Balkans!" The call
warns of U.S.-NATO military preparations for a possible new
assault on Yugoslavia, and asks for actions against this new
aggression. There are also vigils planned in Bonn on Sept.
22 and 29.
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YUGOSLAVIA LODGES PROTEST WITH E.U. COUNCIL
BRUSSELS, September 23 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia has filed a protest
with the European Union in Brussels over a socalled "message" that E.U.
foreign ministers have recently sent Yugoslavs in connection with
Sunday's
presidential and parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia.
Yugoslav Charge d'Affaires Dragan Zupanjevac delivered the
protest
note to E.U. Ministerial Council Director General Brian Crowe.
The note says, among others, that the E.U. ministers' "message"
constitutes gross and unacceptable interference in the internal affairs
of
a sovereign country, and is without a precedent in democratic practice.
Yugoslavia believes it is high time the European Union
abandoned
its unprincipled and antiEuropean policy, its antiYugoslav policy of
sanctions and isolation, which is achieving nothing other than
continuing
to destabilise southeast Europe, the protest note says.
===
F.R. YUGOSLAVIA ELECTIONS
YUGOSLAVIA TO ELECT PRESIDENT AND MP'S ON SUNDAY
BELGRADE, September 23 (Tanjug) Yugoslavia will be electing a
president and federal parliament deputies, while its republic of Serbia
will be voting also for local administration officials on Sunday,
September
24.
According to the Central Electoral Commission, Yugoslavia has
an
electorate of 7,861,327; of this number, 7,417,197 are in Serbia, and
444,130 in the other Yugoslav federal unit, Montenegro.
This will be the first time for the people to be electing a
president directly, and they will have the choice of five candidates:
Incumbent Slobodan Milosevic, nominated by a leftist coalition
made up of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), the Yugoslav Left (JUL),
and the Socialist People's Party (SNP) of Montenegro;
Vojislav Kostunica, nominated by 18 opposition parties rallied
into the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) bloc;
Tomislav Nikolic of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS);
Vojislav Mihailovic of the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO);
Miroljub Vidojkovic of the Affirmative Party.
Should none of the candidates secure an outright majority of
the
votes cast in the first round, the two leading candidates will fight it
out
between them in a runoff two weeks later.
Serbs and Montenegrins will be voting in 27 electoral districts
to
elect 138 deputies to the Chamber of Citizens (lower house) of the
Yugoslav
federal parliament, from among candidates nominated by 30 parties on 30
tickets.
Of this number, Serbia will be giving 108 deputies to the
Chamber,
and Montenegro, 30.
Yugoslav citizens displaced from Serbia's U.N.administered
Kosovo
and Metohija province will be voting in Serbia's southern Prokuplje and
Vranje municipalities.
Deputies to the Chamber of Republics (Upper house) will be
elected
by direct ballot another first with Serbia and Montenegro, as two
equal
constituencies, giving 20 deputies each.
Parallel with the federal elections, polls will be held for
electing 120 deputies to the Serbian Vojvodina province's assembly
(Parliament), and local administrations in Serbia.
Also, 110 deputies to the Belgrade City Council will be elected
from among 548 candidates nominated by 21 parties.
Belgrade has an electorate of 1,351,365.
Apart from local monitors, the elections will be monitored by
more
than 200 foreign observers from 52 countries, who have already arrived
in
Yugoslavia.
YUGOSLAVIA TAKES FURTHER STEPS TO PREVENT ELECTION FRAUD
BELGRADE, September 23 (Tanjug) The Yugoslav Central Electoral
Commission on Saturday reviewed reports on a plot to illegally augment
the
number of ballots at polling stations and issued further instructions to
prevent fraud on the eve of Sunday's elections.
Yugoslavia votes for president and deputies to both chambers of
the federal parliament, while its republic of Serbia elects local
administrators on Sunday, September 24.
The Commission said in a statement it has come in possession of
information that, as part of subversive activities against Yugoslavia, a
plan has been hatched to sabotage and compromise the presidential
election.
"Foreign factors have prepared a number of ballots for the
presidential election, which their stooges among the Yugoslav people
should
drop in the ballot boxes folded inside the regular ballot papers...
"This has been done because, under election rules, in case
there
is a single ballot in a box more than there were voters at that
particular
polling station, the polling must be declared invalid", the Commission
said.
In this way, a couple of hundred unscrupulous individuals could
invalidate the will of hundreds of thousands, it added.
The Commission has therefore decreed that the invigilators at
the
polling stations must check that the ballot paper of each voter in the
presidential election is a single paper, with nothing folded in it.
"The check will be made by each voter marking the ballot,
folding
it and then handing it over to an invigilator to see that it is a single
paper, while not violating the secrecy of the voting, and then dropping
it
in the box", the statement said.
The Commission appealed to the people to respect the reasons
that
have made this kind of control necessary.
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The Economist April 1st-7th, 2000
The next Balkan War
It could still be avoided with a relatively small amount of money, so
long
as it is spent wisely and soon
LOST in their cyber-dreams in Lisbon, the European Union's leaders must
have felt pleasantly far from the mess in the Balkans. They did, it is
true, offer some reassuring generalities about fast-track procedures for
effective assistance and so on in their conclusions; and EU panjandrums
and officials from a host of governments and international institutions
were taking stock of the Balkan imbroglio again in Brussels a few days
later. But there is little evidence that the Union's leaders are ready
to
devote the necessary attention to an issue that should be high on the
agenda of any European political summit right now: the avoidance of
another war in the Balkans, which remains all too real a possibility.
In case the summiteers have forgotten, the most dramatic event in Europe
last year was not, alas, the launch of some bold economic experiment but
the outbreak of the continent's most intensive war for half a
century-and
its conclusion on terms that offered no guarantee against a recurrence.
Since the end of the war over Kosovo last June, the West's adversary
Slobodan Milosevic has tightened his grip on power, at least in his
native
Serbia, and raised the rhetorical temperature. He is a man who thrives
on
wars, even though they invariably leave him king of an ever-smaller
castle, and several signs suggest that his next war could be fought over
Montenegro, the last remaining republic with which Serbia is linked in
the
shrunken Yugoslav federation.
Heading for the last bust-up
Montenegro is hardly a model democracy, neither is its president, Milo
Djukanovic, a model citizen. But he is pro-western and no friend of Mr
Milosevic. Indeed, he has been trying to put some distance between his
small republic and Serbia, and the West would rightly like to see him
succeed, so long as his efforts do not precipitate a bloody rupture.
That, however, is just what Mr Milosevic might welcome. As an indicted
war criminal, in charge of a country under sanctions, Mr Milosevic may
well calculate that he has nothing to lose by testing transatlantic
solidarity once again and drawing Russia's new administration, as well
as
NATO, into an international crisis. As the experience of the past
decade
makes plain, European governments cannot keep the peace in the Balkans
without taking America into account. In the continent's potential
killing
fields, moreover, there is a natural division of labour whereby
America's
might serves as a strategic deterrent, while artfully applied economic
assistance from EU governments keeps local antagonisms from boiling
over.
In sensitive spots like Macedonia, Kosovo and, above all, Montenegro,
the
swift dispatch of relatively small sums of financial assistance could
well
make the difference between peace and war. Many European politicians
understand this perfectly well, but their collective response to the
need
has shown up many of the EU's worst features: introversion, lack of
urgency and an obsession with arcane technicalities.
In the Balkans no less than in cyberspace, the EU is always capable of
conjuring up lofty visions. At this week's conference in Brussels on
economic development in south-eastern Europe, there was much talk-some
of
it sensible-about the need for bridges, roads, railway links and the
like
to create inter-dependence. There was also a realisation that
Montenegro's pro-western government needs aid over the next few weeks if
it is to fend off economic warfare from Serbia and maintain some
credibility at home: Mr Djukanovic says Mr Milosevic is trying to
promote
a coup against him, using Yugoslav troops garrisoned in Montenegro.
There
was a realisation, too, that spending money wisely in the Balkans is not
quite the same as spending it freely: if the aim is to keep Mr
Djukanovic
in power, it must go to pay the pensions of deserving Montenegrins
(including the Serb-minded) and so on, not to finance
cigarette-smuggling
by corrupt members of the regime. But did all that add up to action?
In Lisbon, the heads of government urged the "competent
institutions"-including, presumably, their own finance ministers-to
"make
necessary decisions"
to help Montenegro. But if those decisions continue to be held up by
technicalities and buck-passing between different parts of the EU's
decision-making structure, they may come too late to bolster the
Montenegrin government against a takeover bid by Mr Milosevic-and hence
too late to avert another war in the Balkans. If Europe's minds are
indeed genuinely concentrated on high, no time should be wasted in
taking
action lower down.
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The next Balkan War
It could still be avoided with a relatively small amount of money, so
long
as it is spent wisely and soon
LOST in their cyber-dreams in Lisbon, the European Union's leaders must
have felt pleasantly far from the mess in the Balkans. They did, it is
true, offer some reassuring generalities about fast-track procedures for
effective assistance and so on in their conclusions; and EU panjandrums
and officials from a host of governments and international institutions
were taking stock of the Balkan imbroglio again in Brussels a few days
later. But there is little evidence that the Union's leaders are ready
to
devote the necessary attention to an issue that should be high on the
agenda of any European political summit right now: the avoidance of
another war in the Balkans, which remains all too real a possibility.
In case the summiteers have forgotten, the most dramatic event in Europe
last year was not, alas, the launch of some bold economic experiment but
the outbreak of the continent's most intensive war for half a
century-and
its conclusion on terms that offered no guarantee against a recurrence.
Since the end of the war over Kosovo last June, the West's adversary
Slobodan Milosevic has tightened his grip on power, at least in his
native
Serbia, and raised the rhetorical temperature. He is a man who thrives
on
wars, even though they invariably leave him king of an ever-smaller
castle, and several signs suggest that his next war could be fought over
Montenegro, the last remaining republic with which Serbia is linked in
the
shrunken Yugoslav federation.
Heading for the last bust-up
Montenegro is hardly a model democracy, neither is its president, Milo
Djukanovic, a model citizen. But he is pro-western and no friend of Mr
Milosevic. Indeed, he has been trying to put some distance between his
small republic and Serbia, and the West would rightly like to see him
succeed, so long as his efforts do not precipitate a bloody rupture.
That, however, is just what Mr Milosevic might welcome. As an indicted
war criminal, in charge of a country under sanctions, Mr Milosevic may
well calculate that he has nothing to lose by testing transatlantic
solidarity once again and drawing Russia's new administration, as well
as
NATO, into an international crisis. As the experience of the past
decade
makes plain, European governments cannot keep the peace in the Balkans
without taking America into account. In the continent's potential
killing
fields, moreover, there is a natural division of labour whereby
America's
might serves as a strategic deterrent, while artfully applied economic
assistance from EU governments keeps local antagonisms from boiling
over.
In sensitive spots like Macedonia, Kosovo and, above all, Montenegro,
the
swift dispatch of relatively small sums of financial assistance could
well
make the difference between peace and war. Many European politicians
understand this perfectly well, but their collective response to the
need
has shown up many of the EU's worst features: introversion, lack of
urgency and an obsession with arcane technicalities.
In the Balkans no less than in cyberspace, the EU is always capable of
conjuring up lofty visions. At this week's conference in Brussels on
economic development in south-eastern Europe, there was much talk-some
of
it sensible-about the need for bridges, roads, railway links and the
like
to create inter-dependence. There was also a realisation that
Montenegro's pro-western government needs aid over the next few weeks if
it is to fend off economic warfare from Serbia and maintain some
credibility at home: Mr Djukanovic says Mr Milosevic is trying to
promote
a coup against him, using Yugoslav troops garrisoned in Montenegro.
There
was a realisation, too, that spending money wisely in the Balkans is not
quite the same as spending it freely: if the aim is to keep Mr
Djukanovic
in power, it must go to pay the pensions of deserving Montenegrins
(including the Serb-minded) and so on, not to finance
cigarette-smuggling
by corrupt members of the regime. But did all that add up to action?
In Lisbon, the heads of government urged the "competent
institutions"-including, presumably, their own finance ministers-to
"make
necessary decisions"
to help Montenegro. But if those decisions continue to be held up by
technicalities and buck-passing between different parts of the EU's
decision-making structure, they may come too late to bolster the
Montenegrin government against a takeover bid by Mr Milosevic-and hence
too late to avert another war in the Balkans. If Europe's minds are
indeed genuinely concentrated on high, no time should be wasted in
taking
action lower down.
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Kostunica: the New US Bait for the Serb People
The international media excitedly distributes Mr. Kostunica’s statements
against US interference in
Yugoslavia inner affairs (at the moment having in mind only the coming
Federal Presidential
Elections), the terror in Kosovo, etc.
He even called the World “Peacemaker”, USA, “an evil” for the Serbs.
And charmed by his patriotic statements, man is apt to forget he is only
one of the so-called Serb
Opposition’s two Candidates.
He is Zoran Djindjic and Co.’s candidate.
Same Djindjic who has worn out his shoes soles taking part in the
well-advertised meetings with the
USA Administration emissaries since USA-NATO occupation of the Serb
Province Kosovo in June
1999.
Who has repeatedly shaken hands with Mrs. MacDeath Alldark and the other
Clinton Administration
puppets on the string (the string being played on by the US
transnational corporations - especially
those, connected with the sophisticated weapon production, like
Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing,
Microsoft, etc.)
Whom and his buddies the US Senate has voted millions of US dollars
help...
Dear neighbours,
Do not get carried away by sweet talks: it is time for cutting off
emotions - it is time for a level
common sense logical thinking.
Remember: not only your country’s future is at stake.
The whole world is holding its breath now watching your steps!..
I feel like sharing with you my reasoning concerning Kostunica, based on
my experience as a former
activist of the Bulgarian Union of “Democratic” Forces (known now as the
“Union of Demonic
Forces”) and my life in “democratic” Bulgaria for more than ten years.
There are two possible scenarios if Kostunica comes into power.
First scenario: he proves to be really an honest person and patriot.
But what do you think he will manage to do by himself, notwithstanding
his eventual good intentions?
Could he possibly provide an independence from the Globo Cop?
Could he keep the US front line vultures, the International Monetary
Fund and the World Bank,
outside your country?
Could he keep Soros, that deadly pest of nowadays, on the outer side of
your boundaries?
Would the Globo Cop’s highly paid local lackeys like Djindjic let him do
it?
Would Globo Cop’s highly paid agents of his own let him do it?
An example from Bulgarian last ten year history.
In that period of ten years there was only one attempt for a nation
responsible more independent
ruling, carried out by a single person and a handful of supporters. I
have in mind Jan Videnov’s
two-year rule.
That young man had been a Bulgarian Premier in the period from 1994
(October-November) till
December 1996.
He was a Bulgarian Socialist Party Leader and the Bulgarian Socialist
Party government Premier after
that party great election victory in October 1994.
The Stripes and Stars had allowed the concentration of so much power in
his hands sure their local
lackeys would easily manipulate him because of his being so young.
But they had brought their goods to the wrong market.
He proved to be first a Bulgarian, and then a member and a Party leader!
After February 4 1997 a well-known Bulgarian intellectual, Mr.Hristo
Genchev, an architect by
profession, wrote: “The last nation-responsible government has fallen
down...”
He was the only one in that ten-year period who had tried to fight IMF
and WB!
The only one who had shown he cared for his country and people.
(And he was in power just in the period when the Big Brother Beyond the
Ocean needed
servile governments in all the countries neighbouring Yugoslavia!)
Having in mind the planned assault against Yugoslavia, the Empire of
Evil could not take
risks. Orders had been dutifully sent and the Bulgarian political circus
had been reopened
with a flourish!
Everybody jumped against the young Criminal! Not only the Union of
Demonic Forces but the
people from his government and his party - the Bulgarian Socialist
Party: i.e., all the US
Bulgarian lackeys gobbling hungrily at the US trough!
After some months-orchestrated tension in the Parliament, the government
and inside the
BSP, the first actual step has been taken: flour disappeared magically
from the market and a
bread crisis had burst in August 1996. It provided the necessary tension
and negative
atmosphere of rejection among the population. The notorious bread crisis
continued only
some weeks and then disappeared as magically as it had appeared!
Presumably, that Circus
Director had decided the public was heated enough against the BSP
Premier and called
withdrawal in expectation that Videnov would hand his resignation and
step down.
Again wrong calculation: Videnov stayed and continued fighting his very
lonely fight. Then
the Russian governmental Mafia threaten him and served his head on a
tray to the Stars and
Stripes - just as Chernomirdin did later with a whole country:
Yugoslavia!
He resigned but the US think-tanks dealing with the region had decided
then that it would be
more convenient for the US Balkans plans that the Bulgarian Socialist
Party should be
kicked out of power and replaced by the Union of Demonic Forces. It was
certainly evaluated
that UDF would support the aggression against Yugoslavia without any
voices of dissent, and
would readily provide all the necessary logistic collaboration or at
least would not create any
problems during the long time planned Great US “Humanitarian” War on the
Balkans!
So the US Ambassador, Mrs. Bowlen rolled her sleeves and stepped on it;
some of Mr.
Tenet’s tough CIA boys rushed to help armed with those special psychic
weapons they know
best about
* - and UDF called the famous jumping-up meetings in January 1997!
(“Jumping- up”
meetings because their essential part was the slogan: “If You Do Not
Jump, You Are Red!”
Those meetings were called everyday near the Parliament - the UDF
leaders and speakers
soon have worn out their anticommunist repertoire, and took refuge in
the quoted slogan and
started jumping eagerly in front of the crowds, making them jump too.
(By the way, not so
bad an idea: January 1997 happened to be rather cold indeed.)
The funniest thing was that both UDF and BSP came from the traitorous
Bulgarian
Communist Party, and those from the UDF who jumped most eagerly to prove
they were not
“red”, were just the persons with many years of communist past and
communist party work
behind themselves. I am talking about people in the periphery of the
Bulgarian Communist
Party Central Committee, of the Communist Secret Police Force agents, of
paid Communist
Party secretaries at different levels. ( Ivan Kostov, the UDF Bulgarian
Premier now, had
applied several times for a membership of the Bulgarian Communist Party;
his wife and Mr.
Sokolov’s wife had been for many years paid Communist Party secretaries
in Sofia Institutes
- Mr. Sokolov is the Bulgarian Parliament UDF head at the moment, former
UDF Minister of
Inner Affairs and a high level UDF Party functionary!)
The last round of the “January Revolution” (they call that pitiable
circus so!) had been an
orchestrated currency crisis a la Soros: $1 reached 3000 leva!
Results:
Certain people got very rich for hours only.
Others lost their many year savings for hours only.
Some credit millionaires woke up innocent like newly born babies: the
millions of dollars they
had to pay back to the banks had melted away like last year snow!
Lots of small shop owners went bankrupt.
And the ordinary Bulgarians started hating Videnov’s guts and his party
just as they should -
just according to plan!
On February 4, 1997 BSP resigned and new parliamentary elections were
announced.
Mr. Sofianski (UDF), the present Sofia mayor, was appointed for a
temporary Premier till the
elections, and immediately the US dollar most magically fell to its old
level well below 2 leva!
And the Bulgarian public learned - at last! - who are the Good Boys, and
who - - the Bad
Ones.
Elections presented no problem.
And Mrs. Bowlen, the US Ambassador in Sofia, clicked heels; reported
task fulfilled and was
assigned to a well- deserved higher post. The new Governor, Mr. Miles
swam heavily from
Belgrade and took to distributing power and money in Bulgaria, and to
keep generally the
newly acquired US province in line.
Videnov still keeps getting accused both from BSP and UDF for everything
negative
happening here, in the world in general, and in the Milky Way, maybe. (I
would not be
surprised if he gets accused also for the recent food price drastic
rise, and even for the fires
both in Bulgaria and USA -to say nothing about those in Greece!)
So much for Kostunica’s chances - if he happened to be really an honest
patriot.
Second possible scenario: Kostunica is the same shit as Djindjic and Co,
only his US trained
and supported image-makers have advised him to talk anti USA to make use
of the bitterness
and anti-US sentiments understandably prevailing in Yugoslavia after the
USA and NATO
aggression, Kosovo occupation, and the ethnic cleansing carried there by
Thaci the Snake’s
Great Albanian Warriors, KFOR, Koushner and his pay masters from USA.
He will manipulate people before the elections and afterwards he will
kick them coldly into
the teeth, and will start energetically licking the Ugly Uncle’s boots.
And if the Great
Globalizer demands from him to level out Belgrade to start building
another Bondsteel Base
just there, he, Djindjic and Co. will do it without batting an eye -
just as Kostov and Co.
(UDF) gave all the possible corridors for US and NATO in that bloody
spring of 1999 - or
Parvanov and Co. (BSP) turned to 180? at their Convention on April 6-7,
2000, and declared
their passionate love for NATO!
Then most of you will be very sorry for having given your votes for him,
but it will be too late.
The same holds true for Drashkovic’s candidate Voislav Mihailovic. Let’s
leave Mihailovic
aside, let’s concentrate on Drashkovic.
He is like a sunflower: always ready to turn to the sun, i.e., to bent a
knee to the Power on a
Rise. Against Milosevic, thinking wrongly he is weak enough to be kicked
out and replaced
with his own great person - then with Milosevic, because the last has
proved strong enough to
keep the power - against Milosevic again, writhing in front of Uncle Sam
and kissing hands to
the Serb and Iraqis children Murderess, unique Mrs. Mac Death
Alldark!... What could you
expect from him and his candidate? He has many times proved that he
loves best Power with
a capital P, not his country and his people!
Drashkovic, the pitiable clown, who could not think of any other ways to
draw the public
attention to himself, besides the laughable staged assassination
attempts!
Come on, you cannot be serious!
Something else: do not think he has stuck to a candidate of his own in
some defiance of Ugly
Uncle’s scenario for the Serb elections. Tenet’s boys and girls are not
orchestrating an
election in a sovereign country for the first time: they have rich
experience in the Latin
America countries and lately in the East European countries, especially
in Bulgaria! Their
strategy is as follows:
Stage One: find your men and play on their greediness and lust for
power.
Stage Two: get as many candidates/parties in the political space in the
pre- election period as
it is possible.
In ten years we had four elections for a Parliament, two Presidential
Elections, to say nothing
about the mayor elections!
Every time They stuck to that scenario: as many candidates as possible -
for Presidents and
mayors, as many parties as possible - for Parliamentary elections!
My observations: It gets the people in a state of uncertainty; it
provides a second stage of
voting (balloting); an atmosphere of pressure, tension and fear is
usually successfully created
between the first and second date of voting (that is the great time for
blows under the waist!).
And most important: less apolitical persons take part in the second
voting (balloting).
And very often that decides the end result.
Mihailovic has already declared he will give his votes to Kostunica!
They are sure there will
be a second voting and follow strictly the US model!
Well-worked model for orchestrating elections in sovereign countries
with US supported and
lectured “opposition”!
I had taken an active part in the first two Parliamentary elections
(1990 and 1991) and in one
Presidential election (1992). I had gone to the country to canvass for
the UDF candidates, I
had talked with lots of people. My conclusions: the strategy with lots
of candidates is usually
effective.
Example:
The first “free” election in Bulgaria was in June 1990.
Dozens of parties popped up in the political space in the short period
of several months after
the coup in November 1989 - among them the Turkish party of Ahmed Dogan,
“Movement
for Rights (!) and Freedom(!!)”. And that had proved to be the winning
move.
Our UDF canvass team happened to work in a region with prevailing
Turkish villages. We
had been warmly welcome but we had been told they would vote for Dogan’s
party: “We
have our party now. If we hadn’t had it we would have voted for you...”
Surely somebody did not like the idea of an overwhelming UDF election
victory at that early
stage of Bulgarian US so-called “democratisation”...
The US New World Order think-tanks’ leading strategy is: ”Divide and
Conquer!” It is
applied everywhere - in the pre-election period too.
See what a simple psychological game it is.
The scenario is targeting the mass of people without clear understanding
of the political
situation, the apolitical persons. They are the most easily manipulated
ones. They vote
emotionally and usually their vote is unpredictable to the last moment.
Imagine a person who is critical to Miloshevic but dislikes Djindjc
more, so his decision is to
vote for M. But here the couple Drashkovic-Mihailovic crops up, and our
man says to
himself: “Aha! I’ll teach the other two a lesson and will vote for that
one!”
The poor man is duped by the false impression that he is offered a third
choice instead of only
two crystal clear possibilities, namely:
Should Yugoslavia exist - or not?
Should Yugoslavia be a sovereign country - or a USA province, cantonised
to six and more
different parts and killed altogether and forever?
Let’s simplify it even more:
Yugoslavia - or USA (IMF, WB, WTO, Soros, etc.)?
What those apolitical persons do not know is that the couple Mihailovic-
Kostunica is at the
one side of the barricade and Miloshevic and his people are on the other
one.
What Ugly Uncle’s strategic brains rely on is that Mihailovic will take
votes from Miloshevic
- i.e., will add duped people under the USA banner. People who will not
know for some time
they have voted for their own death, for the death of their country, for
the isljamisation of the
Balkans, for killing the world in general in the name of the USA
transcontinental
corporations’ profit!...
Imagine a river with a USA banner at one bank and Yugoslavian - at the
other.
Under the Yugo banner you see Milosevic and his supporters trying hard
to hold the banner
up.
Under the USA banner you see Kostunica and Mihailovic in a brotherly
hug.
If you look more intently you will see behind their wretched small
figures of paid traitors the
deadly monstrous grin of USA terror-inspiring creations, IMF, WB, WTO,
Soros, the New
American Terrorist Organisation - NATO, and so on, and so forth!
THE CHOICE IS ONLY BETWEEN TWO POSSIBILITIES - VERY CLEARLY DEFINED
AT THAT!
Of course the election strategists will stress on the difference in
details between the “two”
opposition candidates - the public should be duped into believing they
are “different” - that
the Serbs are offered more than ONLY TWO possibilities!
Example:
Bulgaria is in a pre-election period too.
You look at the river’s two banks and you do not see the Bulgarian
banner on either of them.
You look at one of the banks - and you see only Mother Bulgaria on her
dead bed!...
You look at the other and you see only the Stripes and Stars cheerfully
flapping there!
And under it you see both Kostov - or the Union of Demonic Forces - and
Parvanov - or the
Bulgarian Socialist Party - clutching greedily to the Globo Cop’s
banner!
And behind both of them the deadly monstrous grin of USA
terror-inspiring creations, IMF,
WB, WTO, Soros, EU and NATO!
The election strategists here are trying hard to convince the so-called
electorate that UDF
and BSP are “different”, when the truth is there is no political choice
anymore in Bulgaria.
JUST AS IT HAS BEEN IN THE SO-CALLED “COMMUNIST” PAST!
Nevertheless the BSP daily “Duma” keeps pouring horrible stories about
destruction, death,
hunger, poverty and screaming misery, rapes and madness flourishing in
Bulgaria. The daily
keeps instilling into its readers that only UDF, Kostov and Co. are to
be blame. When BSP
comes into power things will change. Blah, blah, blah...
The Genocide over my people and country is carried out for more than ten
years by ALL the
Bulgarian governments under the orders of IMF and WB!
The Big Brother wants only the territory, not the population on it. It
is superfluous and
should disappear.
All the Bulgarian Premiers since Lukanov (BSP) - who signed the first
agreement with the
IMF - till Kostov (UDF) are only the USA local lackeys, carrying out
orders!
How could BSP change things when Parvanov (BSP leader) and that most
greedy, traitorous
company around him had declared at their Party Congress in April 6-7
that they were
embracing eagerly IMF and WB, EU and NATO, and promised to be most
obedient servants
to all of them - just as the Union of Demonic Forces is!
WHERE IS THE DIFFERENCE?
They know very well they will change NOTHING, but they keep lying most
arrogantly their
members, sympathisers and the Bulgarian public in general that they will
save Bulgaria - if
they are elected.
Meanwhile the Governor of the newly acquired US province* Bulgaria on
the Balkans,
honourable Mr. Richard Miles, has given his pay masters’ order for a
coalition government:
BB (Big Brother) wants a coalition government and a Parliament of many
parties in
Bulgaria, and so it will be.
Again the principle “Divide and Master Them!” in action!
So much for the Bulgarian Parliamentary election next year.
If the Yugoslavians elect the opposition candidates - IT DOES NOT MATTER
WHOM OF
THEM!!!! - Yugoslavia will be erased from the map forever, and the next
election in Serbia
will be just like the Bulgarian election in 2001.
(Of course if in the meantime the Global Master or UU (Ugly Uncle) has
not cut Serbia into
several cantons: i.e., has not wiped it from the world map too...)
That is what will happen to your country if you vote for the pair
Kostuniza- Mihailovic.
Let’s now answer the question what will happen to you if you vote for
them.
What will happen to you under the IMF and WB yoke - i.e., under the USA
yoke?
The same what is happening to us here!..
(See “Recent News From Bulgaria: Bulgaria Under USA Yoke”)
Here I will try only to answer one more question, namely:
Is Bulgaria an Independent, Sovereign Country?
“Ha, ha!... - said the Clown.”
(A line from a song.)
A/ Food prices, July-August, 2000; Cost of Living
Eleven years of “democracy” - USA style
Preface
The Union of Demonic Forces Congress took a decision “to freeze" the
electricity and
central heating prices for one year. (Scrambling after votes: there will
be elections in
Bulgaria in the spring of 2001.)
High positioned vultures from IMF poured into Bulgaria in June 2000, all
of them red in face
and stomping most angrily around. They had several classified
conversations with their boys
here - surely, garnered with some juicy reminders of Videnov’s plight,
evoking images of
Mrs. Bowlen as Jana d’Ark in the stone-pelted Parliament in January
1997.
Afterwards Mr. Kostov, the Premier, appeared on the TV looking as if
chewed by a
hippopotamus, to announce that the electricity prices will be raised
with 4 % since August 1.
And the food prices rushed merrily-merrily up!...
B/ Read this:
“On August 14 CIA Head George Tenet* made a round of the official
Bulgarian institutions
under severe security measures. He spared 115 minute from his most
precious time for our
statesmen. Tenet spoke to the President, the Premier and the Minister of
the Internal
Affairs...
Dimo Gjaurov, the Director of the Bulgarian National Investigation
Agency, and US
Ambassador Richard Miles were constantly with the US Spy Number 1...
The official announcements declared that Tenet had discussed with our
statesmen
regional security in south-eastern Europe (i.e., the Balkans. Are They
going to obliterate the
name as well?),
Bulgarian Euro-Atlantic integration (i.e., NATO integration), and
the fight with the international crimes and terrorism.”* (Monitor,
August 15 2000, leading
article - p.1)
Some days later, on August 19, the daily “Monitor” announced in a
leading article again that
5 (five) FOREIGN businessmen were to be expelled from the country. “They
have
endangered the national security and have had connections with
international criminal
organisation.” End of quotation.
Were those five criminal and very dangerous businessmen Americans? NO!
Were they Germans, French, Italians, English or Spanish, Turkish or
Greek? No! No! No!
Were they all RUSSIANS? Yes, of course! YES!!!
On August 21 the Bulgarian media commented the information.
The daily “24 Hours”: “The CIA Boss declared that Sofia is a RRUSSIAN
spying centre.” (p.
1, leading article)
SEGA, August 22, p. 24: “For those who do not know: even in the years of
the greatest
dependence on the Soviet Union, KGB had not allowed itself to arrogantly
declare that Sofia
was a USA spying centre.”
But Great Boss Tenet, US Errand Assassin Number 1 - i.e., US Spy No.1,
as the Bulgarian
media calls him, had more orders for General Atanas Atanasov, Head of
the Bulgarian
Contra-Investigation Agency.
Yesterday evening (August 21) a TV speaker announced that more foreign
businessmen were
to leave Bulgaria for 7 days. They had been found to be a threat for the
Bulgarian national
security too!
Guess their nationality! If not RUSSIANS then - what?
SERBS, of course!!! No doubt about it!
“...They have been breaking the sanctions against Yugoslavia, organising
export of forbidden
goods or goods with possible double use.
A check in the State Newspaper has revealed that the eight Serbs had
firms registered in
Bulgaria after 1996. There is a speculation that some of them might be
in contact with the
Yugoslav Investigation Agency in Bulgaria.
As a threat to the national security might be construed also the
attempts for recruiting state
institution employees and ordinary citizens. During the Kosovo crisis
(i.e., US-NATO
aggression against Yugoslavia!) the ex-Minister of Internal Affairs,
Bonev, declared that the
participants in all the anti-US-NATO protests were “Serb mekereta”.
SEGA, August 23,
p.1-2
(“mekereta“, plural from “mekare” - Turkish.
1/ A beast of burden.
2/ Bootlicker, flunkey /lackey/, bastard /scoundrel, skunk, rat/.)
So much for the Bulgarian “open boundaries”: opened for some, closed for
others -
depending on the ethnic origin. (Hi, Amnesty International, Helsinki
Human Rights Watch,
Women in Stripes and Stars - forgive me, in Black, etc. where are you to
scream and cry in
anger?!)
Where is Soros the Opened - Soros the Great?
Doesn’t he hear? Doesn’t he see?
Or Soros the Vulture is highly paid
Countries to open only to a certain degree?
As one of the Bulgarian Serb mekereta, I have a question to Tenet The
World Errand
Assassin Number 1:
What are His Majesty’s orders concerning the Bulgarian Serb mekereta?
Are we going to be expelled from Bulgaria too? Not likely.
Then what? Threatened, arrested - what?
Or maybe silently extinguished in the dark of night, if we refuse to
shut up...
Only Tenet the US Errand Good Boy and CIA know... plus the ruling USA
mekereta in
Bulgaria.
By the way some bad boys and girls from the Bulgarian media have hinted
that Tenet the
Professional Killer is of Albanian origin. (No wonder about it!)
Come on, Tenet, boy, say it! Nowadays it is a pride to be from the Great
Albanian Nation that
is going to eat out the Balkans, as it seems the US plans are.
With the active passionate work of such like you and the Bulgarian USA
mekereta like all
those in power at the moment - plus valorous, most independent General
Atanas Atanasov!...
So, after 200 years of Byzantine yoke and 500 years under Turkish yoke
Bulgaria has been
“enjoying” USA yoke for more than ten years.
No fear of century-long yoke. Americans are neither Byzantines nor
Turks. They have all the
modern science last achievements at their disposal - all the economical,
all the possible
military means!...
Besides, they have a passionate love for speed, in addition.
Having in mind what is going on here in the last few months, we think
that the local colonial
administration boys have been rather severely scolded by Ugly Uncle for
the Bulgarians’
tenacious love for life. They have surely been kicked into quickening up
the desired
extermination of the remaining undesired population.
And the well-paid Bulgarian puppets-on-a-string clicked heels, rolled
sleeves and
energetically rushed to action!...
Monitor, August 28
Title: “The Balkans Are Second Latin America for CIA
CIA Lectures To Serb Opposition Representatives From “Otpor” in Sofia
Since Today”
“... 10 days special course is starting today in our capital in which
USA spies will lecture to
Serb activists from “Otpor”, according to BBC information...”
No comment.
Blagovesta Doncheva,
An ordinary Bulgarian and
a Serb Mekere, according to Gen. B.Bonev, Ex-Minister of Internal
Affairs
August 23-29, 2000
Sofia,
Bulgaria, the Balkans
(Still outside Albania... Still not a part of Turkey... For how long,
Tenet?...)
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The international media excitedly distributes Mr. Kostunica’s statements
against US interference in
Yugoslavia inner affairs (at the moment having in mind only the coming
Federal Presidential
Elections), the terror in Kosovo, etc.
He even called the World “Peacemaker”, USA, “an evil” for the Serbs.
And charmed by his patriotic statements, man is apt to forget he is only
one of the so-called Serb
Opposition’s two Candidates.
He is Zoran Djindjic and Co.’s candidate.
Same Djindjic who has worn out his shoes soles taking part in the
well-advertised meetings with the
USA Administration emissaries since USA-NATO occupation of the Serb
Province Kosovo in June
1999.
Who has repeatedly shaken hands with Mrs. MacDeath Alldark and the other
Clinton Administration
puppets on the string (the string being played on by the US
transnational corporations - especially
those, connected with the sophisticated weapon production, like
Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing,
Microsoft, etc.)
Whom and his buddies the US Senate has voted millions of US dollars
help...
Dear neighbours,
Do not get carried away by sweet talks: it is time for cutting off
emotions - it is time for a level
common sense logical thinking.
Remember: not only your country’s future is at stake.
The whole world is holding its breath now watching your steps!..
I feel like sharing with you my reasoning concerning Kostunica, based on
my experience as a former
activist of the Bulgarian Union of “Democratic” Forces (known now as the
“Union of Demonic
Forces”) and my life in “democratic” Bulgaria for more than ten years.
There are two possible scenarios if Kostunica comes into power.
First scenario: he proves to be really an honest person and patriot.
But what do you think he will manage to do by himself, notwithstanding
his eventual good intentions?
Could he possibly provide an independence from the Globo Cop?
Could he keep the US front line vultures, the International Monetary
Fund and the World Bank,
outside your country?
Could he keep Soros, that deadly pest of nowadays, on the outer side of
your boundaries?
Would the Globo Cop’s highly paid local lackeys like Djindjic let him do
it?
Would Globo Cop’s highly paid agents of his own let him do it?
An example from Bulgarian last ten year history.
In that period of ten years there was only one attempt for a nation
responsible more independent
ruling, carried out by a single person and a handful of supporters. I
have in mind Jan Videnov’s
two-year rule.
That young man had been a Bulgarian Premier in the period from 1994
(October-November) till
December 1996.
He was a Bulgarian Socialist Party Leader and the Bulgarian Socialist
Party government Premier after
that party great election victory in October 1994.
The Stripes and Stars had allowed the concentration of so much power in
his hands sure their local
lackeys would easily manipulate him because of his being so young.
But they had brought their goods to the wrong market.
He proved to be first a Bulgarian, and then a member and a Party leader!
After February 4 1997 a well-known Bulgarian intellectual, Mr.Hristo
Genchev, an architect by
profession, wrote: “The last nation-responsible government has fallen
down...”
He was the only one in that ten-year period who had tried to fight IMF
and WB!
The only one who had shown he cared for his country and people.
(And he was in power just in the period when the Big Brother Beyond the
Ocean needed
servile governments in all the countries neighbouring Yugoslavia!)
Having in mind the planned assault against Yugoslavia, the Empire of
Evil could not take
risks. Orders had been dutifully sent and the Bulgarian political circus
had been reopened
with a flourish!
Everybody jumped against the young Criminal! Not only the Union of
Demonic Forces but the
people from his government and his party - the Bulgarian Socialist
Party: i.e., all the US
Bulgarian lackeys gobbling hungrily at the US trough!
After some months-orchestrated tension in the Parliament, the government
and inside the
BSP, the first actual step has been taken: flour disappeared magically
from the market and a
bread crisis had burst in August 1996. It provided the necessary tension
and negative
atmosphere of rejection among the population. The notorious bread crisis
continued only
some weeks and then disappeared as magically as it had appeared!
Presumably, that Circus
Director had decided the public was heated enough against the BSP
Premier and called
withdrawal in expectation that Videnov would hand his resignation and
step down.
Again wrong calculation: Videnov stayed and continued fighting his very
lonely fight. Then
the Russian governmental Mafia threaten him and served his head on a
tray to the Stars and
Stripes - just as Chernomirdin did later with a whole country:
Yugoslavia!
He resigned but the US think-tanks dealing with the region had decided
then that it would be
more convenient for the US Balkans plans that the Bulgarian Socialist
Party should be
kicked out of power and replaced by the Union of Demonic Forces. It was
certainly evaluated
that UDF would support the aggression against Yugoslavia without any
voices of dissent, and
would readily provide all the necessary logistic collaboration or at
least would not create any
problems during the long time planned Great US “Humanitarian” War on the
Balkans!
So the US Ambassador, Mrs. Bowlen rolled her sleeves and stepped on it;
some of Mr.
Tenet’s tough CIA boys rushed to help armed with those special psychic
weapons they know
best about
* - and UDF called the famous jumping-up meetings in January 1997!
(“Jumping- up”
meetings because their essential part was the slogan: “If You Do Not
Jump, You Are Red!”
Those meetings were called everyday near the Parliament - the UDF
leaders and speakers
soon have worn out their anticommunist repertoire, and took refuge in
the quoted slogan and
started jumping eagerly in front of the crowds, making them jump too.
(By the way, not so
bad an idea: January 1997 happened to be rather cold indeed.)
The funniest thing was that both UDF and BSP came from the traitorous
Bulgarian
Communist Party, and those from the UDF who jumped most eagerly to prove
they were not
“red”, were just the persons with many years of communist past and
communist party work
behind themselves. I am talking about people in the periphery of the
Bulgarian Communist
Party Central Committee, of the Communist Secret Police Force agents, of
paid Communist
Party secretaries at different levels. ( Ivan Kostov, the UDF Bulgarian
Premier now, had
applied several times for a membership of the Bulgarian Communist Party;
his wife and Mr.
Sokolov’s wife had been for many years paid Communist Party secretaries
in Sofia Institutes
- Mr. Sokolov is the Bulgarian Parliament UDF head at the moment, former
UDF Minister of
Inner Affairs and a high level UDF Party functionary!)
The last round of the “January Revolution” (they call that pitiable
circus so!) had been an
orchestrated currency crisis a la Soros: $1 reached 3000 leva!
Results:
Certain people got very rich for hours only.
Others lost their many year savings for hours only.
Some credit millionaires woke up innocent like newly born babies: the
millions of dollars they
had to pay back to the banks had melted away like last year snow!
Lots of small shop owners went bankrupt.
And the ordinary Bulgarians started hating Videnov’s guts and his party
just as they should -
just according to plan!
On February 4, 1997 BSP resigned and new parliamentary elections were
announced.
Mr. Sofianski (UDF), the present Sofia mayor, was appointed for a
temporary Premier till the
elections, and immediately the US dollar most magically fell to its old
level well below 2 leva!
And the Bulgarian public learned - at last! - who are the Good Boys, and
who - - the Bad
Ones.
Elections presented no problem.
And Mrs. Bowlen, the US Ambassador in Sofia, clicked heels; reported
task fulfilled and was
assigned to a well- deserved higher post. The new Governor, Mr. Miles
swam heavily from
Belgrade and took to distributing power and money in Bulgaria, and to
keep generally the
newly acquired US province in line.
Videnov still keeps getting accused both from BSP and UDF for everything
negative
happening here, in the world in general, and in the Milky Way, maybe. (I
would not be
surprised if he gets accused also for the recent food price drastic
rise, and even for the fires
both in Bulgaria and USA -to say nothing about those in Greece!)
So much for Kostunica’s chances - if he happened to be really an honest
patriot.
Second possible scenario: Kostunica is the same shit as Djindjic and Co,
only his US trained
and supported image-makers have advised him to talk anti USA to make use
of the bitterness
and anti-US sentiments understandably prevailing in Yugoslavia after the
USA and NATO
aggression, Kosovo occupation, and the ethnic cleansing carried there by
Thaci the Snake’s
Great Albanian Warriors, KFOR, Koushner and his pay masters from USA.
He will manipulate people before the elections and afterwards he will
kick them coldly into
the teeth, and will start energetically licking the Ugly Uncle’s boots.
And if the Great
Globalizer demands from him to level out Belgrade to start building
another Bondsteel Base
just there, he, Djindjic and Co. will do it without batting an eye -
just as Kostov and Co.
(UDF) gave all the possible corridors for US and NATO in that bloody
spring of 1999 - or
Parvanov and Co. (BSP) turned to 180? at their Convention on April 6-7,
2000, and declared
their passionate love for NATO!
Then most of you will be very sorry for having given your votes for him,
but it will be too late.
The same holds true for Drashkovic’s candidate Voislav Mihailovic. Let’s
leave Mihailovic
aside, let’s concentrate on Drashkovic.
He is like a sunflower: always ready to turn to the sun, i.e., to bent a
knee to the Power on a
Rise. Against Milosevic, thinking wrongly he is weak enough to be kicked
out and replaced
with his own great person - then with Milosevic, because the last has
proved strong enough to
keep the power - against Milosevic again, writhing in front of Uncle Sam
and kissing hands to
the Serb and Iraqis children Murderess, unique Mrs. Mac Death
Alldark!... What could you
expect from him and his candidate? He has many times proved that he
loves best Power with
a capital P, not his country and his people!
Drashkovic, the pitiable clown, who could not think of any other ways to
draw the public
attention to himself, besides the laughable staged assassination
attempts!
Come on, you cannot be serious!
Something else: do not think he has stuck to a candidate of his own in
some defiance of Ugly
Uncle’s scenario for the Serb elections. Tenet’s boys and girls are not
orchestrating an
election in a sovereign country for the first time: they have rich
experience in the Latin
America countries and lately in the East European countries, especially
in Bulgaria! Their
strategy is as follows:
Stage One: find your men and play on their greediness and lust for
power.
Stage Two: get as many candidates/parties in the political space in the
pre- election period as
it is possible.
In ten years we had four elections for a Parliament, two Presidential
Elections, to say nothing
about the mayor elections!
Every time They stuck to that scenario: as many candidates as possible -
for Presidents and
mayors, as many parties as possible - for Parliamentary elections!
My observations: It gets the people in a state of uncertainty; it
provides a second stage of
voting (balloting); an atmosphere of pressure, tension and fear is
usually successfully created
between the first and second date of voting (that is the great time for
blows under the waist!).
And most important: less apolitical persons take part in the second
voting (balloting).
And very often that decides the end result.
Mihailovic has already declared he will give his votes to Kostunica!
They are sure there will
be a second voting and follow strictly the US model!
Well-worked model for orchestrating elections in sovereign countries
with US supported and
lectured “opposition”!
I had taken an active part in the first two Parliamentary elections
(1990 and 1991) and in one
Presidential election (1992). I had gone to the country to canvass for
the UDF candidates, I
had talked with lots of people. My conclusions: the strategy with lots
of candidates is usually
effective.
Example:
The first “free” election in Bulgaria was in June 1990.
Dozens of parties popped up in the political space in the short period
of several months after
the coup in November 1989 - among them the Turkish party of Ahmed Dogan,
“Movement
for Rights (!) and Freedom(!!)”. And that had proved to be the winning
move.
Our UDF canvass team happened to work in a region with prevailing
Turkish villages. We
had been warmly welcome but we had been told they would vote for Dogan’s
party: “We
have our party now. If we hadn’t had it we would have voted for you...”
Surely somebody did not like the idea of an overwhelming UDF election
victory at that early
stage of Bulgarian US so-called “democratisation”...
The US New World Order think-tanks’ leading strategy is: ”Divide and
Conquer!” It is
applied everywhere - in the pre-election period too.
See what a simple psychological game it is.
The scenario is targeting the mass of people without clear understanding
of the political
situation, the apolitical persons. They are the most easily manipulated
ones. They vote
emotionally and usually their vote is unpredictable to the last moment.
Imagine a person who is critical to Miloshevic but dislikes Djindjc
more, so his decision is to
vote for M. But here the couple Drashkovic-Mihailovic crops up, and our
man says to
himself: “Aha! I’ll teach the other two a lesson and will vote for that
one!”
The poor man is duped by the false impression that he is offered a third
choice instead of only
two crystal clear possibilities, namely:
Should Yugoslavia exist - or not?
Should Yugoslavia be a sovereign country - or a USA province, cantonised
to six and more
different parts and killed altogether and forever?
Let’s simplify it even more:
Yugoslavia - or USA (IMF, WB, WTO, Soros, etc.)?
What those apolitical persons do not know is that the couple Mihailovic-
Kostunica is at the
one side of the barricade and Miloshevic and his people are on the other
one.
What Ugly Uncle’s strategic brains rely on is that Mihailovic will take
votes from Miloshevic
- i.e., will add duped people under the USA banner. People who will not
know for some time
they have voted for their own death, for the death of their country, for
the isljamisation of the
Balkans, for killing the world in general in the name of the USA
transcontinental
corporations’ profit!...
Imagine a river with a USA banner at one bank and Yugoslavian - at the
other.
Under the Yugo banner you see Milosevic and his supporters trying hard
to hold the banner
up.
Under the USA banner you see Kostunica and Mihailovic in a brotherly
hug.
If you look more intently you will see behind their wretched small
figures of paid traitors the
deadly monstrous grin of USA terror-inspiring creations, IMF, WB, WTO,
Soros, the New
American Terrorist Organisation - NATO, and so on, and so forth!
THE CHOICE IS ONLY BETWEEN TWO POSSIBILITIES - VERY CLEARLY DEFINED
AT THAT!
Of course the election strategists will stress on the difference in
details between the “two”
opposition candidates - the public should be duped into believing they
are “different” - that
the Serbs are offered more than ONLY TWO possibilities!
Example:
Bulgaria is in a pre-election period too.
You look at the river’s two banks and you do not see the Bulgarian
banner on either of them.
You look at one of the banks - and you see only Mother Bulgaria on her
dead bed!...
You look at the other and you see only the Stripes and Stars cheerfully
flapping there!
And under it you see both Kostov - or the Union of Demonic Forces - and
Parvanov - or the
Bulgarian Socialist Party - clutching greedily to the Globo Cop’s
banner!
And behind both of them the deadly monstrous grin of USA
terror-inspiring creations, IMF,
WB, WTO, Soros, EU and NATO!
The election strategists here are trying hard to convince the so-called
electorate that UDF
and BSP are “different”, when the truth is there is no political choice
anymore in Bulgaria.
JUST AS IT HAS BEEN IN THE SO-CALLED “COMMUNIST” PAST!
Nevertheless the BSP daily “Duma” keeps pouring horrible stories about
destruction, death,
hunger, poverty and screaming misery, rapes and madness flourishing in
Bulgaria. The daily
keeps instilling into its readers that only UDF, Kostov and Co. are to
be blame. When BSP
comes into power things will change. Blah, blah, blah...
The Genocide over my people and country is carried out for more than ten
years by ALL the
Bulgarian governments under the orders of IMF and WB!
The Big Brother wants only the territory, not the population on it. It
is superfluous and
should disappear.
All the Bulgarian Premiers since Lukanov (BSP) - who signed the first
agreement with the
IMF - till Kostov (UDF) are only the USA local lackeys, carrying out
orders!
How could BSP change things when Parvanov (BSP leader) and that most
greedy, traitorous
company around him had declared at their Party Congress in April 6-7
that they were
embracing eagerly IMF and WB, EU and NATO, and promised to be most
obedient servants
to all of them - just as the Union of Demonic Forces is!
WHERE IS THE DIFFERENCE?
They know very well they will change NOTHING, but they keep lying most
arrogantly their
members, sympathisers and the Bulgarian public in general that they will
save Bulgaria - if
they are elected.
Meanwhile the Governor of the newly acquired US province* Bulgaria on
the Balkans,
honourable Mr. Richard Miles, has given his pay masters’ order for a
coalition government:
BB (Big Brother) wants a coalition government and a Parliament of many
parties in
Bulgaria, and so it will be.
Again the principle “Divide and Master Them!” in action!
So much for the Bulgarian Parliamentary election next year.
If the Yugoslavians elect the opposition candidates - IT DOES NOT MATTER
WHOM OF
THEM!!!! - Yugoslavia will be erased from the map forever, and the next
election in Serbia
will be just like the Bulgarian election in 2001.
(Of course if in the meantime the Global Master or UU (Ugly Uncle) has
not cut Serbia into
several cantons: i.e., has not wiped it from the world map too...)
That is what will happen to your country if you vote for the pair
Kostuniza- Mihailovic.
Let’s now answer the question what will happen to you if you vote for
them.
What will happen to you under the IMF and WB yoke - i.e., under the USA
yoke?
The same what is happening to us here!..
(See “Recent News From Bulgaria: Bulgaria Under USA Yoke”)
Here I will try only to answer one more question, namely:
Is Bulgaria an Independent, Sovereign Country?
“Ha, ha!... - said the Clown.”
(A line from a song.)
A/ Food prices, July-August, 2000; Cost of Living
Eleven years of “democracy” - USA style
Preface
The Union of Demonic Forces Congress took a decision “to freeze" the
electricity and
central heating prices for one year. (Scrambling after votes: there will
be elections in
Bulgaria in the spring of 2001.)
High positioned vultures from IMF poured into Bulgaria in June 2000, all
of them red in face
and stomping most angrily around. They had several classified
conversations with their boys
here - surely, garnered with some juicy reminders of Videnov’s plight,
evoking images of
Mrs. Bowlen as Jana d’Ark in the stone-pelted Parliament in January
1997.
Afterwards Mr. Kostov, the Premier, appeared on the TV looking as if
chewed by a
hippopotamus, to announce that the electricity prices will be raised
with 4 % since August 1.
And the food prices rushed merrily-merrily up!...
B/ Read this:
“On August 14 CIA Head George Tenet* made a round of the official
Bulgarian institutions
under severe security measures. He spared 115 minute from his most
precious time for our
statesmen. Tenet spoke to the President, the Premier and the Minister of
the Internal
Affairs...
Dimo Gjaurov, the Director of the Bulgarian National Investigation
Agency, and US
Ambassador Richard Miles were constantly with the US Spy Number 1...
The official announcements declared that Tenet had discussed with our
statesmen
regional security in south-eastern Europe (i.e., the Balkans. Are They
going to obliterate the
name as well?),
Bulgarian Euro-Atlantic integration (i.e., NATO integration), and
the fight with the international crimes and terrorism.”* (Monitor,
August 15 2000, leading
article - p.1)
Some days later, on August 19, the daily “Monitor” announced in a
leading article again that
5 (five) FOREIGN businessmen were to be expelled from the country. “They
have
endangered the national security and have had connections with
international criminal
organisation.” End of quotation.
Were those five criminal and very dangerous businessmen Americans? NO!
Were they Germans, French, Italians, English or Spanish, Turkish or
Greek? No! No! No!
Were they all RUSSIANS? Yes, of course! YES!!!
On August 21 the Bulgarian media commented the information.
The daily “24 Hours”: “The CIA Boss declared that Sofia is a RRUSSIAN
spying centre.” (p.
1, leading article)
SEGA, August 22, p. 24: “For those who do not know: even in the years of
the greatest
dependence on the Soviet Union, KGB had not allowed itself to arrogantly
declare that Sofia
was a USA spying centre.”
But Great Boss Tenet, US Errand Assassin Number 1 - i.e., US Spy No.1,
as the Bulgarian
media calls him, had more orders for General Atanas Atanasov, Head of
the Bulgarian
Contra-Investigation Agency.
Yesterday evening (August 21) a TV speaker announced that more foreign
businessmen were
to leave Bulgaria for 7 days. They had been found to be a threat for the
Bulgarian national
security too!
Guess their nationality! If not RUSSIANS then - what?
SERBS, of course!!! No doubt about it!
“...They have been breaking the sanctions against Yugoslavia, organising
export of forbidden
goods or goods with possible double use.
A check in the State Newspaper has revealed that the eight Serbs had
firms registered in
Bulgaria after 1996. There is a speculation that some of them might be
in contact with the
Yugoslav Investigation Agency in Bulgaria.
As a threat to the national security might be construed also the
attempts for recruiting state
institution employees and ordinary citizens. During the Kosovo crisis
(i.e., US-NATO
aggression against Yugoslavia!) the ex-Minister of Internal Affairs,
Bonev, declared that the
participants in all the anti-US-NATO protests were “Serb mekereta”.
SEGA, August 23,
p.1-2
(“mekereta“, plural from “mekare” - Turkish.
1/ A beast of burden.
2/ Bootlicker, flunkey /lackey/, bastard /scoundrel, skunk, rat/.)
So much for the Bulgarian “open boundaries”: opened for some, closed for
others -
depending on the ethnic origin. (Hi, Amnesty International, Helsinki
Human Rights Watch,
Women in Stripes and Stars - forgive me, in Black, etc. where are you to
scream and cry in
anger?!)
Where is Soros the Opened - Soros the Great?
Doesn’t he hear? Doesn’t he see?
Or Soros the Vulture is highly paid
Countries to open only to a certain degree?
As one of the Bulgarian Serb mekereta, I have a question to Tenet The
World Errand
Assassin Number 1:
What are His Majesty’s orders concerning the Bulgarian Serb mekereta?
Are we going to be expelled from Bulgaria too? Not likely.
Then what? Threatened, arrested - what?
Or maybe silently extinguished in the dark of night, if we refuse to
shut up...
Only Tenet the US Errand Good Boy and CIA know... plus the ruling USA
mekereta in
Bulgaria.
By the way some bad boys and girls from the Bulgarian media have hinted
that Tenet the
Professional Killer is of Albanian origin. (No wonder about it!)
Come on, Tenet, boy, say it! Nowadays it is a pride to be from the Great
Albanian Nation that
is going to eat out the Balkans, as it seems the US plans are.
With the active passionate work of such like you and the Bulgarian USA
mekereta like all
those in power at the moment - plus valorous, most independent General
Atanas Atanasov!...
So, after 200 years of Byzantine yoke and 500 years under Turkish yoke
Bulgaria has been
“enjoying” USA yoke for more than ten years.
No fear of century-long yoke. Americans are neither Byzantines nor
Turks. They have all the
modern science last achievements at their disposal - all the economical,
all the possible
military means!...
Besides, they have a passionate love for speed, in addition.
Having in mind what is going on here in the last few months, we think
that the local colonial
administration boys have been rather severely scolded by Ugly Uncle for
the Bulgarians’
tenacious love for life. They have surely been kicked into quickening up
the desired
extermination of the remaining undesired population.
And the well-paid Bulgarian puppets-on-a-string clicked heels, rolled
sleeves and
energetically rushed to action!...
Monitor, August 28
Title: “The Balkans Are Second Latin America for CIA
CIA Lectures To Serb Opposition Representatives From “Otpor” in Sofia
Since Today”
“... 10 days special course is starting today in our capital in which
USA spies will lecture to
Serb activists from “Otpor”, according to BBC information...”
No comment.
Blagovesta Doncheva,
An ordinary Bulgarian and
a Serb Mekere, according to Gen. B.Bonev, Ex-Minister of Internal
Affairs
August 23-29, 2000
Sofia,
Bulgaria, the Balkans
(Still outside Albania... Still not a part of Turkey... For how long,
Tenet?...)
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Who Are the G-17?
By Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of , Ottawa,
author Globalization of Poverty, Third World of "The Network, Penang,
Zed
Books, London, 1997. and Jared Israel , editor, www.tenc.net (Emperor's
Clothes)
" We want to be open colony and open society." G-17 coordinator VESELIN
VUKOTIC interviewed on "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer", US Public
Television, July 14, 1999
Recently there's been a lot of interest in the economists in the
Yugoslav
group G-17. They wrote the Program adopted by the so- called
"democratic"
opposition and its Presidential candidate, Vojislav Kostunica.
The G-17 likes to give the impression it is independent and
Yugoslav-oriented. In fact it is funded mainly through the
Washington-based
"Center for International Private Enterprise" (CIPE). CIPE describes
itself
as "an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. " But in fact it is "a
core institute" of the National Endowment for Democracy. The National
Endowment for Democracy has nothing to do, as far as we can discern,
with
Democracy. Rather, the Endowment was created in 1983 to solve a problem
of
Empire.
People knew that the CIA bribed intellectuals and leaders and set up
phony
front groups to carry out US policy:
"When these covert activities surfaced (as they inevitably did), the
fallout was devastating." ('Washington Post', Sept. 22, 1991)
So Congress created the National Endowment for Democracy. Allen
Weinstein,
who planned the Endowment, said:
"A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."
('Washington Post', Sept. 21, 1991)
So the National Endowment (a sort of spinoff from the CIA) controls and
pays for the Center for International Private Enterprise which in turn
funds the G-17. In addition, the leading G-17 economists hold important
positions in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and have
for
many years.
If the "democratic" opposition got in power, the G-17 economists would
be
in charge of the Yugoslav economy. This is not a matter of speculation.
The
"democratic" opposition program calls for working with the International
Monetary Fund and the Fund does not work on a casual basis. It
invariably
insists that its men (who conveniently happen to be the G-17 economists)
run the show. That is not open for negotiation.
Let us take a look at three of the leading G-17 economists. Their record
is
most disturbing.
One of the writers of this article, Prof. Chossudovsky, studies the
effects
of the economic "medicine" imposed by the International Monetary Fund
and
World Bank. The G-17 program contains the same economic measures they
forced on Russia, the Ukraine, Bulgaria and Peru, among many others. The
results: social and economic devastation. But because of the long-term
US/German attack on Yugoslavia, the results in the Yugoslav case would
be
much worse.
G-17 economists are fond of phrases like "free markets" and
"privatization," but their International Monetary Fund "reforms" wreck
countries. First, they force governments to do away with any social
protections - subsidized food or rent, free transportation, free medical
care. Out the window. Second, they use economic manipulation and new
laws
to force businesses - public and private - into bankruptcy. Then these
businesses are taken over by a small clique of thieves, international
banks, rich speculators and foreign companies. They purchase the
businesses
at rock bottom prices. This is called "Privatization through
Liquidation."
A case in point is Yugoslavia, 1989.
The elder statesman of the G-17 is Professor Veselin Vukotic. Presently
he
is one of the brains behind Montenegrin secessionism. But in 1989 he was
Minister of Privatization under Yugoslav Premier Ante Markovic.
Yugoslavs have bitter memories of 1989-1990. But do they "put a human
face"
on the nightmare? Perhaps people think the economic disaster that befell
Yugoslavia that year was the natural result of "market mechanisms" or
the
fault of "incompetent government." It wasn't. There was somebody pulling
the strings.
That somebody was Veselin Vukotic.
In 1989-90, Professor Vukotic worked out of governmental offices in
Belgrade alongside an army of Western lawyers and consultants to impose
the
Financial Operations Act. It was a World Bank plan.
Under this law, companies were selected for bankruptcy or liquidation.
They
were forced to meet impossible conditions. In this way, Vukotic
orchestrated the breakup of fifty percent of Yugoslav industry. 50%!
World
Bank data confirms that under his direction more than 1100 industrial
firms
were wiped out from January 1989 to September 1990 And that was only the
beginning.
Over 614,000 industrial workers were laid off out of 2.7 million. The
areas
hardest hit were: Serbia, including Kosovo, and Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Macedonia. Real wages did a nose-dive. Social programs collapsed.
Unemployment shot up.
And now this same Vukotic, a key man in G-17, wants to return to power.
When the IMF gets its jaws on a country it forces the government to work
under people like Vukotic. So Vukotic could finish the job he started in
1989 and which ironically was discontinued when economic sanctions were
imposed in 1992. (Bulgaria would probably be better off today if it had
been hit with sanctions instead of with the International Monetary
Fund!)
While hoping to get his hands on all of Yugoslavia once again, Mr.
Vukotic
is practicing on the cooperative regime in Montenegro. Montenegrin boss
Milo Djukanovic, his former student, has appointed Vukotic Deputy Chief
of
the Privation Commission which is auctioning off state property in
Montenegro. Recently we discovered a US Commerce Department
advertisement
on the internet. The title is: " Montenegro: Seeks Privatization Fund
Managers." The advertisement explains that these Managers are needed in
Montenegro, where US officials are "providing technical support" for
so-called privatization. The managers would control "funds" that would
take
over ownership of what is now public property. The Managers could
"restructure" these privatized companies - lay off the workers and sell
the
most valuable components. The Commerce department promises that this
"should be quite profitable." Note how brazenly the U.S. Commerce
Department celebrates the transformation of Montenegrin property into
foreign profits.
Vukotic is helping in other areas as well. For example, last June NATO
marched into Kosovo, and the UCK along with them. Wherever they went,
they
drove loyal Yugoslav citizens from their homes, stole or destroyed their
property and threatened them with death. By June 26, the expulsions were
at
a peak.
Vukotic could no longer remain silent. According to the Associated
Press,
on June 26 Vukotic demanded that Kosovo have its own currency, separate
from the dinar!
Dr. Dusan Vujovic
One of the most prominent G-17 people is Dr. Dusan Vujovic, a senior
economist at the World Bank. He acts as a link between G-17 and
Washington.
He has been very active overseeing "reforms" in so-called "transition
countries". In August 2000, Vujovic was in charge of negotiating one of
the
World Bank's most deadly economic packages, imposed on the Ukraine,
already
devastated by previous International Monetary Fund Measures.
What happened to the Ukraine?
The Ukraine disaster started in the fall of 1994 in Madrid, Spain. Prime
Minister Vitali Masol signed an agreement with the International
Monetary
Fund.
In exchange for accepting "economic shock treatment" Ukraine got a 360
million dollar loan, a very small amount as these things are calculated.
Reforms were launched in mid-October, 1994. The IMF ordered the
Ukrainian
authorities to abandon State controls over the exchange rate. This led
to
the collapse of the currency. The price of bread increased overnight -
300%. Electricity shot up - 600%. Public transportation - 900%.
"Dollarised" prices were forced on a population with earnings below ten
dollars a month. Credit was frozen. With super high electricity prices
and
no credit, public and private industry was destroyed. The international
speculators moved in like sharks in a frenzy.
Then in November 1994, World Bank negotiators were sent in to "advise"
the
government on overhauling Ukraine's agriculture. The grain market was
deregulated. This opened Ukraine up to the dumping of US grain
surpluses.
Ukraine went from being a grain exporter to begging for Food Aid from
the
European Union and the U.S. Thanks to the International Monetary Fund,
Ukraine is a starving political protectorate of the US and Germany. And
remember, Ukraine never did anything to offend the U.S., unlike
Yugoslavia.
Zeliko Bogetic and the Rape of Bulgaria
G-17 member Dr. Zeliko Bogetic has a senior position at the
International
Monetary Fund. Bogetic has been doctor in many economic cures. The
patient
always dies.
In 1994-96, he played a key role in forcing a structural adjustment
program
(SAP) on Bulgaria. All social defenses - price controls, subsidized
food,
housing and medical care, were stripped away.
The program led to mass poverty. By 1997, old age pensions (according to
World Bank sources) had collapsed to two dollars a month. The World Bank
admits that 90 percent of Bulgarians now live below the extreme poverty
level but, they say, much economic progress is being made. Apparently
perfection will be achieved when there are no Bulgarians left alive.
What would Mr. Bogetic do if he and his G-17 colleagues came to power
under
a "democratic" opposition government?
Bogetic was dispatched by the International Monetary Fund to Podgorica,
Montenegro to advise the pro-secessionist government of President Milo
Djukanovic. Bogetic was to set up a currency board modeled on that of
Bosnia under the Dayton Accord. Bogetic's advice was to stop using the
Dinar, the Yugoslav currency. He said that under no circumstances should
Montenegro establish a Central Bank. Now remember, the Djukanovic
government in Montenegro says it wants "independence" from Yugoslavia -
but
a Central Bank is a requirement for real independence. No, said Bogetic,
that is the "worst possible solution". Meaning: independence in the
colonial sense.
Bogetic would be the likely candidate for Yugoslav Central Bank Governor
if
the "democratic" opposition were to win.
What would he do?
The same thing he's been doing in Montenegro - establish a colonial
style
currency board linked to the Deutschmark. Then monetary policy would be
controlled by the country's creditors. This would be an excellent state
of
affairs for the creditors, but very bad for the common people. It would
make it impossible to finance economic reconstruction through the
mobilization of Yugoslavia's own domestic resources. The country would
be
in a straightjacket.
What would International Monetary Fund-Type Reforms mean for Yugoslavia?
If
the "democratic opposition" came to power they would enforce
International
Monetary Fund economic medicine. That's what they say in their Program.
But would this be the same medicine that the Fund (including some of the
people who lead the G-17) have prescribed for Russia, Bulgaria and
Ukraine?
Russia, Bulgaria and Ukraine cooperated fully with Washington. As
nations,
they never resisted being turned into colonies. Was the West merciful?
Consider Russia. During the first year that the reforms were applied,
1992,
wages collapsed by 86 percent. And in many of the countries of the
Balkans
and Eastern Europe, economic activity has been cut in half, even if it
was
low before.
And these are cooperative countries. As everyone knows, the U.S. is very
annoyed with Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia has not been a good slave. It has
not
kissed the hand of the bombers.
History shows that if the Monetary Fund gets hold of a country that has
been rebellious the treatment is vicious. And we are not talking about
major rebels, like Yugoslavia. We are talking about very moderate
rebels,
like Peru.
In Peru, the government of President Alan Garcia (1985-1990) refused to
do
some of what the International Monetary Fund ordered it to do. In 1985,
it
decided to pay international debts at a reduced rate. It instituted an
economic program that would help (instead of destroying) the economy.
The country was immediately put on a black list by the International
Monetary Fund. This disrupted Peru's foreign trade.
Enter Professor Alberto Fujimori. It was the 1990 elections. With help
from
Washington, Peru was having economic problems, so many people wanted a
change. Fujimori was an unknown. People felt he was "honest" and
"promising". He led a tiny party that had never held power. He seemed to
be
squeaky clean.
With Washington's help, he was the top runner-up in the 1990 elections.
The
electorate chose him over the other candidates "because we did not know
who
he was" and "we thought he was honest" and "maybe if we put in someone
Washington likes they will go easy on us." They did not understand.
Washington has no mercy.
Fujimori of course caved in to the International Monetary Fund's
demands.
What followed was the most deadly economic "reform" in Latin American
history. From one day to the next, the price of fuel increased by 31
times
(2,968 per cent) and the price of bread increased more than twelve times
(1,150 per cent).
People could no longer afford to boil water. A cholera epidemic broke
out.
The social consequences were devastating. An agricultural worker in
August
1990 was paid $7.50 a month (US). That was enough to buy two hamburgers
and
a drink at McDonalds. Consumer prices in Lima were higher than New York.
Real earnings dropped by 60 per cent. By mid-1991 the standard of living
had declined by 85 per cent.
And this was the just beginning of ten years of deadly reforms under
Fujimori.
And remember, Peru didn't really do anything. Just resisted a few
International Monetary Fund Measures. But Yugoslavia? Yugoslavia has
been
driving the German Establishment (and now the Americans) crazy for 100
years or more. Washington and Berlin would like nothing more than to
make
Yugoslavia an example of total enslavement, to show people what would
happen to them if they were to resist.
Haven't the U.S. and Germany made this perfectly clear in Kosovo? A
gangster-fascist regime has been installed. And Western leaders are
fully
aware of the horror they have wrought in Kosovo. UN Secretary General
Kofi
Annan received a special report about this. The report was discussed by
the
British newspaper, the 'Observer':
"Murder, torture and extortion: these are the extraordinary charges made
against the UN's own Kosovo Protection Corps in a confidential United
Nations report written for Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
"The KPC stands accused in the document, drawn up on 29 February, of
'criminal activities - killings, ill-treatment/torture, illegal
policing,
abuse of authority, intimidation, breaches of political neutrality and
hate-speech'. " (quoted in "How Will You Plead at your Trial, Mr.
Annan?"
at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/howwill.htm )
What would Washington do if it's G-17 employees got hold of Yugoslavia?
They would institute the most extreme economic "reforms" to devastate
the
country.
Prices would go sky high; farmers would lose their land; businesses
would
be bought up and closed down. In Hungary they privatized the only light
bulb factory and shut it down so that now everybody has to buy bulbs
from
the US company, General Electric. In Yugoslavia they would take away the
lamps. People would be reduced to starvation.
This kind of suffering produces ethnic tension. Washington would whip
this
up by sending in their UCK (KLA) fascist terrorists. Why does Washington
keep the UCK in power in Kosovo? Because they want to use them again.
For
what? They are incapable of fighting a real army. But they are capable
of
terrorizing civilians.
A Washington-controlled government would bring in NATO troops to "help
keep
order." The troops would never leave. The hunt for imaginary war
criminals
would go on, a thousand times worse than it is in the Bosnian Serb
Republic. Croatians, Bosnian Muslims and ethnic Albanians who fled to
Serbia to escape fascist persecution would be put on the list of phony
war
criminals. All loyal Yugoslavs would have to pay for their (imaginary)
crimes so that "healing can begin."
Every effort would be made to humiliate the people, to break their
spirit,
and to eliminate potential leaders of resistance.
Do you know what the United States did a few years ago to Vietnam? When
the
Vietnam War ended, the US government ordered an embargo which did
Vietnam a
lot of harm, economically. A few years ago, Washington agreed to lift
the
embargo. In exchange, Vietnam had to agree to pay the debts of the
former
South Vietnamese government, a puppet government controlled by
Washington.
Most of its debt came from borrowing money (from the US) to buy weapons
(from the US) to kill its own people. And now Vietnam is being forced to
pay this "debt" to Washington, after Washington had invaded Vietnam and
was
driven
out, leaving two million Vietnamese dead.
The "democratic" opposition says that if they can just get into power
everything will be normal. Washington would treat the Yugoslavs right.
Sure
they would. Just the way they treated the American Indians.
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By Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of , Ottawa,
author Globalization of Poverty, Third World of "The Network, Penang,
Zed
Books, London, 1997. and Jared Israel , editor, www.tenc.net (Emperor's
Clothes)
" We want to be open colony and open society." G-17 coordinator VESELIN
VUKOTIC interviewed on "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer", US Public
Television, July 14, 1999
Recently there's been a lot of interest in the economists in the
Yugoslav
group G-17. They wrote the Program adopted by the so- called
"democratic"
opposition and its Presidential candidate, Vojislav Kostunica.
The G-17 likes to give the impression it is independent and
Yugoslav-oriented. In fact it is funded mainly through the
Washington-based
"Center for International Private Enterprise" (CIPE). CIPE describes
itself
as "an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. " But in fact it is "a
core institute" of the National Endowment for Democracy. The National
Endowment for Democracy has nothing to do, as far as we can discern,
with
Democracy. Rather, the Endowment was created in 1983 to solve a problem
of
Empire.
People knew that the CIA bribed intellectuals and leaders and set up
phony
front groups to carry out US policy:
"When these covert activities surfaced (as they inevitably did), the
fallout was devastating." ('Washington Post', Sept. 22, 1991)
So Congress created the National Endowment for Democracy. Allen
Weinstein,
who planned the Endowment, said:
"A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."
('Washington Post', Sept. 21, 1991)
So the National Endowment (a sort of spinoff from the CIA) controls and
pays for the Center for International Private Enterprise which in turn
funds the G-17. In addition, the leading G-17 economists hold important
positions in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and have
for
many years.
If the "democratic" opposition got in power, the G-17 economists would
be
in charge of the Yugoslav economy. This is not a matter of speculation.
The
"democratic" opposition program calls for working with the International
Monetary Fund and the Fund does not work on a casual basis. It
invariably
insists that its men (who conveniently happen to be the G-17 economists)
run the show. That is not open for negotiation.
Let us take a look at three of the leading G-17 economists. Their record
is
most disturbing.
One of the writers of this article, Prof. Chossudovsky, studies the
effects
of the economic "medicine" imposed by the International Monetary Fund
and
World Bank. The G-17 program contains the same economic measures they
forced on Russia, the Ukraine, Bulgaria and Peru, among many others. The
results: social and economic devastation. But because of the long-term
US/German attack on Yugoslavia, the results in the Yugoslav case would
be
much worse.
G-17 economists are fond of phrases like "free markets" and
"privatization," but their International Monetary Fund "reforms" wreck
countries. First, they force governments to do away with any social
protections - subsidized food or rent, free transportation, free medical
care. Out the window. Second, they use economic manipulation and new
laws
to force businesses - public and private - into bankruptcy. Then these
businesses are taken over by a small clique of thieves, international
banks, rich speculators and foreign companies. They purchase the
businesses
at rock bottom prices. This is called "Privatization through
Liquidation."
A case in point is Yugoslavia, 1989.
The elder statesman of the G-17 is Professor Veselin Vukotic. Presently
he
is one of the brains behind Montenegrin secessionism. But in 1989 he was
Minister of Privatization under Yugoslav Premier Ante Markovic.
Yugoslavs have bitter memories of 1989-1990. But do they "put a human
face"
on the nightmare? Perhaps people think the economic disaster that befell
Yugoslavia that year was the natural result of "market mechanisms" or
the
fault of "incompetent government." It wasn't. There was somebody pulling
the strings.
That somebody was Veselin Vukotic.
In 1989-90, Professor Vukotic worked out of governmental offices in
Belgrade alongside an army of Western lawyers and consultants to impose
the
Financial Operations Act. It was a World Bank plan.
Under this law, companies were selected for bankruptcy or liquidation.
They
were forced to meet impossible conditions. In this way, Vukotic
orchestrated the breakup of fifty percent of Yugoslav industry. 50%!
World
Bank data confirms that under his direction more than 1100 industrial
firms
were wiped out from January 1989 to September 1990 And that was only the
beginning.
Over 614,000 industrial workers were laid off out of 2.7 million. The
areas
hardest hit were: Serbia, including Kosovo, and Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Macedonia. Real wages did a nose-dive. Social programs collapsed.
Unemployment shot up.
And now this same Vukotic, a key man in G-17, wants to return to power.
When the IMF gets its jaws on a country it forces the government to work
under people like Vukotic. So Vukotic could finish the job he started in
1989 and which ironically was discontinued when economic sanctions were
imposed in 1992. (Bulgaria would probably be better off today if it had
been hit with sanctions instead of with the International Monetary
Fund!)
While hoping to get his hands on all of Yugoslavia once again, Mr.
Vukotic
is practicing on the cooperative regime in Montenegro. Montenegrin boss
Milo Djukanovic, his former student, has appointed Vukotic Deputy Chief
of
the Privation Commission which is auctioning off state property in
Montenegro. Recently we discovered a US Commerce Department
advertisement
on the internet. The title is: " Montenegro: Seeks Privatization Fund
Managers." The advertisement explains that these Managers are needed in
Montenegro, where US officials are "providing technical support" for
so-called privatization. The managers would control "funds" that would
take
over ownership of what is now public property. The Managers could
"restructure" these privatized companies - lay off the workers and sell
the
most valuable components. The Commerce department promises that this
"should be quite profitable." Note how brazenly the U.S. Commerce
Department celebrates the transformation of Montenegrin property into
foreign profits.
Vukotic is helping in other areas as well. For example, last June NATO
marched into Kosovo, and the UCK along with them. Wherever they went,
they
drove loyal Yugoslav citizens from their homes, stole or destroyed their
property and threatened them with death. By June 26, the expulsions were
at
a peak.
Vukotic could no longer remain silent. According to the Associated
Press,
on June 26 Vukotic demanded that Kosovo have its own currency, separate
from the dinar!
Dr. Dusan Vujovic
One of the most prominent G-17 people is Dr. Dusan Vujovic, a senior
economist at the World Bank. He acts as a link between G-17 and
Washington.
He has been very active overseeing "reforms" in so-called "transition
countries". In August 2000, Vujovic was in charge of negotiating one of
the
World Bank's most deadly economic packages, imposed on the Ukraine,
already
devastated by previous International Monetary Fund Measures.
What happened to the Ukraine?
The Ukraine disaster started in the fall of 1994 in Madrid, Spain. Prime
Minister Vitali Masol signed an agreement with the International
Monetary
Fund.
In exchange for accepting "economic shock treatment" Ukraine got a 360
million dollar loan, a very small amount as these things are calculated.
Reforms were launched in mid-October, 1994. The IMF ordered the
Ukrainian
authorities to abandon State controls over the exchange rate. This led
to
the collapse of the currency. The price of bread increased overnight -
300%. Electricity shot up - 600%. Public transportation - 900%.
"Dollarised" prices were forced on a population with earnings below ten
dollars a month. Credit was frozen. With super high electricity prices
and
no credit, public and private industry was destroyed. The international
speculators moved in like sharks in a frenzy.
Then in November 1994, World Bank negotiators were sent in to "advise"
the
government on overhauling Ukraine's agriculture. The grain market was
deregulated. This opened Ukraine up to the dumping of US grain
surpluses.
Ukraine went from being a grain exporter to begging for Food Aid from
the
European Union and the U.S. Thanks to the International Monetary Fund,
Ukraine is a starving political protectorate of the US and Germany. And
remember, Ukraine never did anything to offend the U.S., unlike
Yugoslavia.
Zeliko Bogetic and the Rape of Bulgaria
G-17 member Dr. Zeliko Bogetic has a senior position at the
International
Monetary Fund. Bogetic has been doctor in many economic cures. The
patient
always dies.
In 1994-96, he played a key role in forcing a structural adjustment
program
(SAP) on Bulgaria. All social defenses - price controls, subsidized
food,
housing and medical care, were stripped away.
The program led to mass poverty. By 1997, old age pensions (according to
World Bank sources) had collapsed to two dollars a month. The World Bank
admits that 90 percent of Bulgarians now live below the extreme poverty
level but, they say, much economic progress is being made. Apparently
perfection will be achieved when there are no Bulgarians left alive.
What would Mr. Bogetic do if he and his G-17 colleagues came to power
under
a "democratic" opposition government?
Bogetic was dispatched by the International Monetary Fund to Podgorica,
Montenegro to advise the pro-secessionist government of President Milo
Djukanovic. Bogetic was to set up a currency board modeled on that of
Bosnia under the Dayton Accord. Bogetic's advice was to stop using the
Dinar, the Yugoslav currency. He said that under no circumstances should
Montenegro establish a Central Bank. Now remember, the Djukanovic
government in Montenegro says it wants "independence" from Yugoslavia -
but
a Central Bank is a requirement for real independence. No, said Bogetic,
that is the "worst possible solution". Meaning: independence in the
colonial sense.
Bogetic would be the likely candidate for Yugoslav Central Bank Governor
if
the "democratic" opposition were to win.
What would he do?
The same thing he's been doing in Montenegro - establish a colonial
style
currency board linked to the Deutschmark. Then monetary policy would be
controlled by the country's creditors. This would be an excellent state
of
affairs for the creditors, but very bad for the common people. It would
make it impossible to finance economic reconstruction through the
mobilization of Yugoslavia's own domestic resources. The country would
be
in a straightjacket.
What would International Monetary Fund-Type Reforms mean for Yugoslavia?
If
the "democratic opposition" came to power they would enforce
International
Monetary Fund economic medicine. That's what they say in their Program.
But would this be the same medicine that the Fund (including some of the
people who lead the G-17) have prescribed for Russia, Bulgaria and
Ukraine?
Russia, Bulgaria and Ukraine cooperated fully with Washington. As
nations,
they never resisted being turned into colonies. Was the West merciful?
Consider Russia. During the first year that the reforms were applied,
1992,
wages collapsed by 86 percent. And in many of the countries of the
Balkans
and Eastern Europe, economic activity has been cut in half, even if it
was
low before.
And these are cooperative countries. As everyone knows, the U.S. is very
annoyed with Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia has not been a good slave. It has
not
kissed the hand of the bombers.
History shows that if the Monetary Fund gets hold of a country that has
been rebellious the treatment is vicious. And we are not talking about
major rebels, like Yugoslavia. We are talking about very moderate
rebels,
like Peru.
In Peru, the government of President Alan Garcia (1985-1990) refused to
do
some of what the International Monetary Fund ordered it to do. In 1985,
it
decided to pay international debts at a reduced rate. It instituted an
economic program that would help (instead of destroying) the economy.
The country was immediately put on a black list by the International
Monetary Fund. This disrupted Peru's foreign trade.
Enter Professor Alberto Fujimori. It was the 1990 elections. With help
from
Washington, Peru was having economic problems, so many people wanted a
change. Fujimori was an unknown. People felt he was "honest" and
"promising". He led a tiny party that had never held power. He seemed to
be
squeaky clean.
With Washington's help, he was the top runner-up in the 1990 elections.
The
electorate chose him over the other candidates "because we did not know
who
he was" and "we thought he was honest" and "maybe if we put in someone
Washington likes they will go easy on us." They did not understand.
Washington has no mercy.
Fujimori of course caved in to the International Monetary Fund's
demands.
What followed was the most deadly economic "reform" in Latin American
history. From one day to the next, the price of fuel increased by 31
times
(2,968 per cent) and the price of bread increased more than twelve times
(1,150 per cent).
People could no longer afford to boil water. A cholera epidemic broke
out.
The social consequences were devastating. An agricultural worker in
August
1990 was paid $7.50 a month (US). That was enough to buy two hamburgers
and
a drink at McDonalds. Consumer prices in Lima were higher than New York.
Real earnings dropped by 60 per cent. By mid-1991 the standard of living
had declined by 85 per cent.
And this was the just beginning of ten years of deadly reforms under
Fujimori.
And remember, Peru didn't really do anything. Just resisted a few
International Monetary Fund Measures. But Yugoslavia? Yugoslavia has
been
driving the German Establishment (and now the Americans) crazy for 100
years or more. Washington and Berlin would like nothing more than to
make
Yugoslavia an example of total enslavement, to show people what would
happen to them if they were to resist.
Haven't the U.S. and Germany made this perfectly clear in Kosovo? A
gangster-fascist regime has been installed. And Western leaders are
fully
aware of the horror they have wrought in Kosovo. UN Secretary General
Kofi
Annan received a special report about this. The report was discussed by
the
British newspaper, the 'Observer':
"Murder, torture and extortion: these are the extraordinary charges made
against the UN's own Kosovo Protection Corps in a confidential United
Nations report written for Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
"The KPC stands accused in the document, drawn up on 29 February, of
'criminal activities - killings, ill-treatment/torture, illegal
policing,
abuse of authority, intimidation, breaches of political neutrality and
hate-speech'. " (quoted in "How Will You Plead at your Trial, Mr.
Annan?"
at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/howwill.htm )
What would Washington do if it's G-17 employees got hold of Yugoslavia?
They would institute the most extreme economic "reforms" to devastate
the
country.
Prices would go sky high; farmers would lose their land; businesses
would
be bought up and closed down. In Hungary they privatized the only light
bulb factory and shut it down so that now everybody has to buy bulbs
from
the US company, General Electric. In Yugoslavia they would take away the
lamps. People would be reduced to starvation.
This kind of suffering produces ethnic tension. Washington would whip
this
up by sending in their UCK (KLA) fascist terrorists. Why does Washington
keep the UCK in power in Kosovo? Because they want to use them again.
For
what? They are incapable of fighting a real army. But they are capable
of
terrorizing civilians.
A Washington-controlled government would bring in NATO troops to "help
keep
order." The troops would never leave. The hunt for imaginary war
criminals
would go on, a thousand times worse than it is in the Bosnian Serb
Republic. Croatians, Bosnian Muslims and ethnic Albanians who fled to
Serbia to escape fascist persecution would be put on the list of phony
war
criminals. All loyal Yugoslavs would have to pay for their (imaginary)
crimes so that "healing can begin."
Every effort would be made to humiliate the people, to break their
spirit,
and to eliminate potential leaders of resistance.
Do you know what the United States did a few years ago to Vietnam? When
the
Vietnam War ended, the US government ordered an embargo which did
Vietnam a
lot of harm, economically. A few years ago, Washington agreed to lift
the
embargo. In exchange, Vietnam had to agree to pay the debts of the
former
South Vietnamese government, a puppet government controlled by
Washington.
Most of its debt came from borrowing money (from the US) to buy weapons
(from the US) to kill its own people. And now Vietnam is being forced to
pay this "debt" to Washington, after Washington had invaded Vietnam and
was
driven
out, leaving two million Vietnamese dead.
The "democratic" opposition says that if they can just get into power
everything will be normal. Washington would treat the Yugoslavs right.
Sure
they would. Just the way they treated the American Indians.
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