Della miseria della opposizione di destra in Serbia
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Date: Sun, 08 Aug 99 10:45AM MET DST From: P.Treanor@...
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Subject: New B92: Voice of Soros
A new radio station using the name of the former B92 radio has started
broadcasting in Beograd (Belgrade) under the name B2-92. They also have
a
new website, taking over where the much-visited Help B92 website left
off.
Like the the Help B92 website, the new website of Free B92
http://www.freeb92.net/
is owned by KPN Telecom, (a middle-rank European telecom company),
through
its
subsidiary XS4ALL Nederland BV. Koninklijke KPN NV (Royal Dutch Telecom)
is the privatised former telecom organisation of the Netherlands PTT,
originally the ministry for Post and Telegraphy.
For info on XS4ALL (a "nerds-get-rich" ISP in Amsterdam) see
XS4ALL cyber-liberals get rich
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/geldwolf.html
Legal control of both the Help B92 website, and the Free B92 website
were,
and
are, ultimately exercised by the board of KPN Telecom. The CEO at KPN
Telecom is Wim Dik, a former Netherlands Secretary of State for Foreign
Trade.
More realistically, daily control of the content of the websites
probably
rests with Maurice Wesseling, director of XS4ALL Nederland BV, whose
name is
under the press release /e-mail announcing the new site.
As you can imagine from this information, B92 is *not* a radical
left-wing
revolutionary progressive radio station, although an extraordinary
number of
people do believe this myth. B92 was the Serbian radio of the Soros
Foundation, which through its Open Society Funds and Foundations
controls a
surprisingly large sector of the media in some eastern European
countries.
(The Soros Foundation got in first, and had the most money).
B92 was therefore never an "independent" radio. Its function was to
promote
the values of a liberal-democratic free-market society in Serbia and
Montenegro, and specifically the classic-liberalism of George Soros. It
continued to do this even during the air war on Serbia, when for a time
it
broadcast from aircraft on the Serbian border (obviously with at least
the
military approval of the NATO which controlled the airspace), and also
from Austria on Austrian government transmitters. Both of these projects
were
apparently abandoned: perhaps because they were making the station an
easy
target for pro-Milosevic propagandists. In any case, in the present
uncertain climate, the station and its financiers are ready to try
again.
For those in any doubt about the ideology of the new station, its
website
includes a speech by George Soros
http://www.freeb92.net/media/statement/soros.shtml
This is a commencement speech delivered at the Paul H. Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University on May 27,
1999:
here is the original at the university website
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/events/sorospeech.html
In this speech Soros sets out his view that a world sovereign authority
is
necessary, to authorise intervention in states. He defends the NATO
intervention in Kosovo, as you would expect...
"Nor do I have any doubts that the situation required outside
intervention.
The case for intervention is clearer in Kosovo than in most other
situations
of ethnic conflict because Milosevic unilaterally deprived the
inhabitants
of
Kosovo of the autonomy that they had already enjoyed. He also broke an
international agreement into which he entered in October of last year."
Soros goes a lot further, though, in proposing that a new alliance of
open
societies should be set up, to militarily impose an open society on the
rest of the world:
"A political alliance dedicated to the promotion of open society might
even be able to change the way the UN functions, especially if it had a
much broader membership than NATO. NATO could still serve as its
military
arm."
Remember that B2-92 operates in a society where hundreds of civilians
died
in NATO bombing a few months ago: it clearly feels that it can now go
further than during the war. At the same time, the new version is much
more explicitly a Soros/NATO radio than the pre-war version. (I would
guess that they have dumped any journalists who had doubts about the
tougher pro-NATO line, but I have no confirmation of that).
Paul Treanor
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The B2-92 website (paid for by KPN Telecom) Is again showing how you can
tell
a lie, by hiding the truth. At the site
http://www.freeb92.net/index.phtml
it says "Radio B2-92 began satellite broadcasts of its news programs
within
hours of it being struck from the airwaves for the fourth time." And it
has
details of the 'B2-92 SATELLITE BROADCAST' on this transponder
HOT BIRD 5, vertical polarisation, video 11114, audio 7.74
But who is broadcasting here? Who put B2-92 back on air?
This satellite channel is the BBC World Service: see
http://www.lyngsat.com/hb5.shtml
B92 ( in the new name B2-92) is not an independent radio station, it was
(and
is) a western-financed propaganda station. It was never independent: it
was
the radio of the Soros Foundation / Open Society Institute in Serbia.
-
After the seizure of the B2-92 and Studio B stations, there have been
international protests by organisations of journalists. One is the
International Press Institute (IPI).
Here is its protest letter, from the B2-92 web site
http://www.freeb92.net/intere.phtml
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IPI DEPLORES THE SEIZURE OF STUDIO B AND B2-92
His Excellency Milan Milutinovic President
Your Excellency,
The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors
and
journalists, deplores the Serbian government's seizure of the Belgrade
municipal broadcaster, Studio B and the closing down of the independent
radio
station, Radio B292......
---------
But who is the IPI? It was founded in the USA in 1950 - at the height of
Cold
War hysteria. Its general political position is resolutely pro-western.
Speakers at its Boston conference 2000 included Henry Kissinger; Emma
Bonino;
Christopher Patten and the editor of 'Foreign Affairs'.
It has already supported B92 (the original name) with an award in 1998:
---
Radio B-92, the principal independent radio station in Serbia, hes been
named
by the Executive Board of the International Press Institute as the Free
Media
Pioneer of 1998. The station received the award on May 27, 1998 at IPI
World
Congress in Moscow.
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http://www.freemedia.at/pioneer.htm#The IPI Free Media Pioneer 1998
These awards are sponsored by The Freedom Forum. The Freedom Forum is
the
successor of the Gannett Foundation, established in 1935 by the Gannett
family
(newspaper tycoons). It is very rich ($1 billion in assets).
http://www.freedomforum.org/
The IPI report is financed by the conservative Knight Foundation, see
http://web.missouri.edu/~news/releases/octnov99/ipi.html
----
IPI Report defends everyone's right to freedom of expression and access
to
information in a thought-provoking fashion," said Johann P. Fritz,
International Press Institute director. "The Knight Foundation's
continued
generous support for this project will greatly assist us in bringing the
international media news and debates to journalists all over the
world...."The
Knight Foundation's relationship with both the Missouri School of
Journalism
and the International Press Institute have been long and productive
ones,"
said Del Brinkman, director of journalism programs for the Knight
Foundation
-----
The other sponsors are: The Times Mirror Foundation, The Hearst
Foundation,
The Newhouse Foundation. The "Founding Sponsor" is the Freedom Forum.
The IPI also runs a campaign for "Media And Free Journalism in Serbia".
http://www.freemedia.at/Serbia%20Campaign.htm
This campaign is directly funded by George Soros' Open Society Institute
and
the Amsterdam group Press Now, which coordinates support to
western-funded
media in SE Europe.
Paul Treanor
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/nato.html
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http://www.originalsources.com/OS5-00MQC/5-19-2000.1.html
Milosevic Follows Clinton’s Example in Shutting Down Radio B2-92
Clinton Bombed Serbia TV, Milosevic Just Closed Radio B2-92
By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com)
May 19, 2000
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Radio banned in Belgrade goes on air in Budapest
By Michael Roddy BUDAPEST, May 31 (Reuters) - Belgrade's
Independent Radio B2-92, shut by Serb security forces in mid-May, was on
the
air again in Hungary on Wednesday night, but only to a limited audience.
At exactly 10 p.m. (2000 GMT), Budapest's alternative station Radio
Tilos
kicked off its broadcasting with a half-hour programme of news in
Serbian
piped to Hungary by satellite from B2-92, which is still off the air in
Belgrade.
The lead item was a story about the arrest at the Belgrade airport of
four
members of a security squad protecting Serbian opposition leader Vuk
Draskovic, who was flying home from Moscow.
Radio Tilos's FM band transmissions are so faint they cannot be heard
everywhere in Budapest, let alone across the border in Serbia.
But workers at the station said the half-hour of B2-92 news, which will
be
aired most nights of the week, is a gesture of solidarity for the banned
station.
``We have a relationship with B-92 (the previous name of B2-92) for five
years,'' said Zoltan Rozgonyi, director of Radio Tilos, which shares a
frequency with two other stations and begins its 12-hour broadcasting
day at
10 p.m.
``They are the same type of radio station that we are, they are a member
of
the association of community radio stations and we have a personal
relationship with them,'' Rozgonyi said, explaining why Radio Tilos was
devoting a precious half-hour to programming few Hungarians can
understand.
However, Budapest has a substantial Serbian expatriate community,
estimated
at about 50,000.
Rozgonyi said Radio Tilos received no funds from anyone to air the
broadcasts. But the decision to give airtime to B2-92 fits in with a
strategy
of the European Union and the United States to boost independent
channels of
information for Yugoslavia.
Radio B2-92's broadcasts also are being transmitted just over the border
from
Serbia in the Republika Srpska in Bosnia and the station can be received
on
the Internet and on satellite channels.
Officials close to the European-backed efforts to promote media opposing
the
government of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic say that a lot is
being
done behind the scenes.
``We don't want big publicity for the individual measures because
Milosevic
uses that in order to discriminate against precisely those media because
he
says: 'Well, you're financed by foreigners','' said one official, who
asked
to remain anonymous.
Ironically, Radio Tilos itself is in imminent danger of being forced off
the
air because it failed to win a licence for fulltime programming on its
present frequency from Hungary's media supervisor, the ORTT, which
awarded it
to someone else.
Rozgonyi said he was still hopeful of winning a licence to broadcast on
a
different frequency.
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Sesta parte: RADIO B(OMBE)-92, "LA VOCE DI SOROS"
(Per altre informazioni sul legame tra Radio B-92 e gli USA si veda:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/217?&start=188 )
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Date: Sun, 08 Aug 99 10:45AM MET DST From: P.Treanor@...
To: Multiple recipients of list THRACE <thrace@...>
Subject: New B92: Voice of Soros
A new radio station using the name of the former B92 radio has started
broadcasting in Beograd (Belgrade) under the name B2-92. They also have
a
new website, taking over where the much-visited Help B92 website left
off.
Like the the Help B92 website, the new website of Free B92
http://www.freeb92.net/
is owned by KPN Telecom, (a middle-rank European telecom company),
through
its
subsidiary XS4ALL Nederland BV. Koninklijke KPN NV (Royal Dutch Telecom)
is the privatised former telecom organisation of the Netherlands PTT,
originally the ministry for Post and Telegraphy.
For info on XS4ALL (a "nerds-get-rich" ISP in Amsterdam) see
XS4ALL cyber-liberals get rich
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/geldwolf.html
Legal control of both the Help B92 website, and the Free B92 website
were,
and
are, ultimately exercised by the board of KPN Telecom. The CEO at KPN
Telecom is Wim Dik, a former Netherlands Secretary of State for Foreign
Trade.
More realistically, daily control of the content of the websites
probably
rests with Maurice Wesseling, director of XS4ALL Nederland BV, whose
name is
under the press release /e-mail announcing the new site.
As you can imagine from this information, B92 is *not* a radical
left-wing
revolutionary progressive radio station, although an extraordinary
number of
people do believe this myth. B92 was the Serbian radio of the Soros
Foundation, which through its Open Society Funds and Foundations
controls a
surprisingly large sector of the media in some eastern European
countries.
(The Soros Foundation got in first, and had the most money).
B92 was therefore never an "independent" radio. Its function was to
promote
the values of a liberal-democratic free-market society in Serbia and
Montenegro, and specifically the classic-liberalism of George Soros. It
continued to do this even during the air war on Serbia, when for a time
it
broadcast from aircraft on the Serbian border (obviously with at least
the
military approval of the NATO which controlled the airspace), and also
from Austria on Austrian government transmitters. Both of these projects
were
apparently abandoned: perhaps because they were making the station an
easy
target for pro-Milosevic propagandists. In any case, in the present
uncertain climate, the station and its financiers are ready to try
again.
For those in any doubt about the ideology of the new station, its
website
includes a speech by George Soros
http://www.freeb92.net/media/statement/soros.shtml
This is a commencement speech delivered at the Paul H. Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University on May 27,
1999:
here is the original at the university website
http://www.sais-jhu.edu/events/sorospeech.html
In this speech Soros sets out his view that a world sovereign authority
is
necessary, to authorise intervention in states. He defends the NATO
intervention in Kosovo, as you would expect...
"Nor do I have any doubts that the situation required outside
intervention.
The case for intervention is clearer in Kosovo than in most other
situations
of ethnic conflict because Milosevic unilaterally deprived the
inhabitants
of
Kosovo of the autonomy that they had already enjoyed. He also broke an
international agreement into which he entered in October of last year."
Soros goes a lot further, though, in proposing that a new alliance of
open
societies should be set up, to militarily impose an open society on the
rest of the world:
"A political alliance dedicated to the promotion of open society might
even be able to change the way the UN functions, especially if it had a
much broader membership than NATO. NATO could still serve as its
military
arm."
Remember that B2-92 operates in a society where hundreds of civilians
died
in NATO bombing a few months ago: it clearly feels that it can now go
further than during the war. At the same time, the new version is much
more explicitly a Soros/NATO radio than the pre-war version. (I would
guess that they have dumped any journalists who had doubts about the
tougher pro-NATO line, but I have no confirmation of that).
Paul Treanor
---
STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
The B2-92 website (paid for by KPN Telecom) Is again showing how you can
tell
a lie, by hiding the truth. At the site
http://www.freeb92.net/index.phtml
it says "Radio B2-92 began satellite broadcasts of its news programs
within
hours of it being struck from the airwaves for the fourth time." And it
has
details of the 'B2-92 SATELLITE BROADCAST' on this transponder
HOT BIRD 5, vertical polarisation, video 11114, audio 7.74
But who is broadcasting here? Who put B2-92 back on air?
This satellite channel is the BBC World Service: see
http://www.lyngsat.com/hb5.shtml
B92 ( in the new name B2-92) is not an independent radio station, it was
(and
is) a western-financed propaganda station. It was never independent: it
was
the radio of the Soros Foundation / Open Society Institute in Serbia.
-
After the seizure of the B2-92 and Studio B stations, there have been
international protests by organisations of journalists. One is the
International Press Institute (IPI).
Here is its protest letter, from the B2-92 web site
http://www.freeb92.net/intere.phtml
---------
IPI DEPLORES THE SEIZURE OF STUDIO B AND B2-92
His Excellency Milan Milutinovic President
Your Excellency,
The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors
and
journalists, deplores the Serbian government's seizure of the Belgrade
municipal broadcaster, Studio B and the closing down of the independent
radio
station, Radio B292......
---------
But who is the IPI? It was founded in the USA in 1950 - at the height of
Cold
War hysteria. Its general political position is resolutely pro-western.
Speakers at its Boston conference 2000 included Henry Kissinger; Emma
Bonino;
Christopher Patten and the editor of 'Foreign Affairs'.
It has already supported B92 (the original name) with an award in 1998:
---
Radio B-92, the principal independent radio station in Serbia, hes been
named
by the Executive Board of the International Press Institute as the Free
Media
Pioneer of 1998. The station received the award on May 27, 1998 at IPI
World
Congress in Moscow.
---
http://www.freemedia.at/pioneer.htm#The IPI Free Media Pioneer 1998
These awards are sponsored by The Freedom Forum. The Freedom Forum is
the
successor of the Gannett Foundation, established in 1935 by the Gannett
family
(newspaper tycoons). It is very rich ($1 billion in assets).
http://www.freedomforum.org/
The IPI report is financed by the conservative Knight Foundation, see
http://web.missouri.edu/~news/releases/octnov99/ipi.html
----
IPI Report defends everyone's right to freedom of expression and access
to
information in a thought-provoking fashion," said Johann P. Fritz,
International Press Institute director. "The Knight Foundation's
continued
generous support for this project will greatly assist us in bringing the
international media news and debates to journalists all over the
world...."The
Knight Foundation's relationship with both the Missouri School of
Journalism
and the International Press Institute have been long and productive
ones,"
said Del Brinkman, director of journalism programs for the Knight
Foundation
-----
The other sponsors are: The Times Mirror Foundation, The Hearst
Foundation,
The Newhouse Foundation. The "Founding Sponsor" is the Freedom Forum.
The IPI also runs a campaign for "Media And Free Journalism in Serbia".
http://www.freemedia.at/Serbia%20Campaign.htm
This campaign is directly funded by George Soros' Open Society Institute
and
the Amsterdam group Press Now, which coordinates support to
western-funded
media in SE Europe.
Paul Treanor
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/nato.html
---
http://www.originalsources.com/OS5-00MQC/5-19-2000.1.html
Milosevic Follows Clinton’s Example in Shutting Down Radio B2-92
Clinton Bombed Serbia TV, Milosevic Just Closed Radio B2-92
By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com)
May 19, 2000
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Radio banned in Belgrade goes on air in Budapest
By Michael Roddy BUDAPEST, May 31 (Reuters) - Belgrade's
Independent Radio B2-92, shut by Serb security forces in mid-May, was on
the
air again in Hungary on Wednesday night, but only to a limited audience.
At exactly 10 p.m. (2000 GMT), Budapest's alternative station Radio
Tilos
kicked off its broadcasting with a half-hour programme of news in
Serbian
piped to Hungary by satellite from B2-92, which is still off the air in
Belgrade.
The lead item was a story about the arrest at the Belgrade airport of
four
members of a security squad protecting Serbian opposition leader Vuk
Draskovic, who was flying home from Moscow.
Radio Tilos's FM band transmissions are so faint they cannot be heard
everywhere in Budapest, let alone across the border in Serbia.
But workers at the station said the half-hour of B2-92 news, which will
be
aired most nights of the week, is a gesture of solidarity for the banned
station.
``We have a relationship with B-92 (the previous name of B2-92) for five
years,'' said Zoltan Rozgonyi, director of Radio Tilos, which shares a
frequency with two other stations and begins its 12-hour broadcasting
day at
10 p.m.
``They are the same type of radio station that we are, they are a member
of
the association of community radio stations and we have a personal
relationship with them,'' Rozgonyi said, explaining why Radio Tilos was
devoting a precious half-hour to programming few Hungarians can
understand.
However, Budapest has a substantial Serbian expatriate community,
estimated
at about 50,000.
Rozgonyi said Radio Tilos received no funds from anyone to air the
broadcasts. But the decision to give airtime to B2-92 fits in with a
strategy
of the European Union and the United States to boost independent
channels of
information for Yugoslavia.
Radio B2-92's broadcasts also are being transmitted just over the border
from
Serbia in the Republika Srpska in Bosnia and the station can be received
on
the Internet and on satellite channels.
Officials close to the European-backed efforts to promote media opposing
the
government of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic say that a lot is
being
done behind the scenes.
``We don't want big publicity for the individual measures because
Milosevic
uses that in order to discriminate against precisely those media because
he
says: 'Well, you're financed by foreigners','' said one official, who
asked
to remain anonymous.
Ironically, Radio Tilos itself is in imminent danger of being forced off
the
air because it failed to win a licence for fulltime programming on its
present frequency from Hungary's media supervisor, the ORTT, which
awarded it
to someone else.
Rozgonyi said he was still hopeful of winning a licence to broadcast on
a
different frequency.
17:49 05-31-00
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