Er dette noe for KK, Astor Larsen (eller andre i avisa som
føler seg kallet til å svare)?
(venter fortsatt på svar her på KK-forum
angående min kritikk av at avisa KK er alt for
lunken og tradisjonelt finansjournalistikk-kynisk
til Malaysias aktuelle forsøk på å stå i mot det gobale
finansielle diktaturet.)
Trond Andresen
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Fra THE STAR, ei Malaysia-avis,
http://www.jaring.my/star/current/10refomas.html
Thursday, September 10, 1998
'We must undertake own reform'
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad
said Malaysia must undertake its own financial reform since its appeal to
the world community to regulate and bring order to the financial market
has gone unheeded.
"Malaysia cannot wait. Malaysia has chosen to become a heretic . . . if
you like.
"If the international community cannot change, then Malaysia must
undertake its own reform," Dr Mahathir said in an article he wrote for
Time magazine to be published in its Sept 14 issue.
Dr Mahathir said although Malaysia might fail in its reform efforts, "we
are going to do our damnest to succeed, even if all the forces of the rich
and the powerful are aligned against us."
Dr Mahathir, who is also the First Finance Minister, said governments
were being told that the only system allowed was that of capitalist free
markets, of globalisation.
"Everyone must accept this system or be considered a heretic and
punished accordingly. Not the slightest modification is allowed," he said.
Dr Mahathir said for the capitalist free markets, it did not matter if the
unfettered and unregulated free market had destroyed the economies of
whole regions.
"The important thing is that the system is upheld," he said.
Dr Mahathir said many ideologies took decades, even centuries to be
acknowledged as wrong.
"So the question must be asked: How long before we reject the
infallibility of the free-market dogmas," he said.
Dr Mahathir said some were criticising the International Monetary Fund,
speculators, capital flows across borders and the right of the
self-appointed market forces to discipline elected governments.
"Can we wait 300 years? The damage is already extensive," he said,
adding that it would take decades to restore these economies.