Viktig artikkel om internasjonal torpedoverksemd, utpressing, plyndring og
alminneleg løgn og bedrag. Alt bak ei fin fasade av generøsitet og
"donorkonferansar".
Og så er det jo alltid kjekt når Norge blir nemnt spesielt.
"In other words, the authorities in Belgrade borrowed money from
Switzerland and Norway to pay money owed to the IMF. Then they borrowed
money from the IMF - and that was used to pay Switzerland and Norway!
This is a con game."
Enda godt at Jagland får tilbake investeringane frå sin "store
utenrikspolitiske seier" i fjor haust (dvs. dollardemokratur-kuppet).
Og så får heller serberane surre rundt i ein meiningslaus gjeldsspiral med
utgangspunkt i oppdikta og urettmessig gjeld, der størstedelen er eit reint
plyndringsgebyr. Det er vel der vi vil ha dei.
Sender også med Emperors Clothes' bønn om kronasjer til vidare drift
(nederst i innlegget), om nokon skulle ha råd til å gi nokon slantar.........
Asgeir Bjørkedal
URL for this article is http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/fools2.htm
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[Emperor's Clothes]
SERB SOCIALISTS CALL 'AID'
PROMISES SUCKER BAIT
Socialist Party of Serbia blasts the "Washington-has- Yugoslavia-
over-a-barrel" argument. [31 May 2001]
Yugoslav authorities - including Voyislav Koshtunitsa and Zoran Djindjic -
are going all out to push a law through the
Yugoslav Federal Parliament. That law would legalize cooperation with the
notorious Hague War Crimes Tribunal. The
Montenegrin Socialists, who hold the decisive votes in Parliament, have so
far held firm against this law.
Meanwhile, many Yugoslavs believe the claim made by the Belgrade
authorities that if Yugoslavia does not help railroad
Yugoslav leaders to the Hague Tribunal, the U.S. will prevent a June
Donors' Conference from giving Yugoslavia
much-needed aid.
People are being tricked, says the Socialist Party of Serbia. Here's their
scathing refutation of the "we have to do it
because we're being financially blackmailed" argument.
-- Jared Israel
WE ACCUSE:
AID PROMISES ARE A TRAITOROUS LIE!
* Socialist Party of Serbia Statement, 31 May *
For the leaders of a country to tell the people in that country that they
should extradite patriots in exchange for money
from the forces which have bombed that country - is an outrage.
But for leaders of a country to pretend that they are getting money from
the bombers when they know perfectly well
they are not - to tell the people that they should support the jailing of
their patriots in exchange for money which these
leaders know does not exist - this is the worst treason.
The present authorities in Belgrade are guilty of treason.
No Donors' Conference has ever given any money to any country. The term
"Donors'' is itself a deception. The proper
title is ''Creditors' Conference.'' If a "Donors' Conference" takes place
in June it will be a meeting of the banks that
claim Yugoslavia owes them money. The purpose of that meeting, like the
purpose of all Donors' Conferences, will be
to plan how to sell Yugoslav property so they can get back the money they
claim they are owed as quickly as possible.
To whom will they sell Yugoslav industries to get their money? To
themselves basically.
How much will they sell it for? Pennies on the dollar.
How much of the so-called Yugoslav debt will get paid in this way? Very little.
What will happen to the industry that the 'Donors' scoop up in this
fashion? Wherever such industries might compete
with some industry from the 'Donor' countries, the factories will be closed
down.
Let us take an example that occurred in Hungary, a country whose leaders
have more than cooperated with the U.S.
The U.S. firm, General Electric, bought the big light bulb factory in
Hungary and closed it down. Now Hungarians have
to buy light bulbs imported by GE.
This has happened in dozens of countries.
Donors' Conferences helped plan the devastation of the economies of:
* Ukraine - went from the bread basket of Europe to being dependant
on Western surplus "food")
* Bulgaria - industry stripped and shut down)
* Russia - wages fell almost 90% overnight)
* Vietnam - after the "Donors' Conference" its industry was stripped
to raise the money to pay off 'debts'.
This was particularly vicious because those 'debts' had been
accumulated by the puppet regime of South
Vietnam. South Vietnam incurred the 'debts' when it bought weapons
from the U.S. to fight Vietnamese
patriots!
That's what a Donors' Conference does.
Sometimes the real work takes place after the official Conference is over,
in meetings of the so-called Paris and London
Clubs, which are made up, respectively, of big commercial and national
banks from the US and Europe.
But one thing no Donors' Conference has ever, anywhere in the world done is
give 1 billion dollars - or in fact any
money - to a country which supposedly owes these banks money. If they do
lend any money on paper they
immediately take it away.
That is, a little money may be lent with one hand, but it will be
immediately taken away with the other hand, to "repay
the debt."
This has already happened with millions of dollars supposedly "given" to
Yugoslavia by the international community. As
is reported in a text by Dr. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky: "
"The [IMF] Board approved a loan [of] US $151 million under the IMF's
policy on emergency post-conflict
assistance in support of a program to stabilize the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia's economy and help
rebuild administrative capacities. Of this amount, the [Belgrade]
authorities will draw... US $130 million to
repay the bridge loans they received [from Switzerland and Norway] to
eliminate arrears with the IMF.""
(Quoted in "Economic Terrorism," by Dr. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky)
In other words, the authorities in Belgrade borrowed money from Switzerland
and Norway to pay money owed to the
IMF. Then they borrowed money from the IMF - and that was used to pay
Switzerland and Norway!
This is a con game.
Sometimes the truth about the phony "Donors' Conferences" leaks out.
Consider this excerpt from a 'Reuters' news
dispatch. 'Reuters' lists all the terrible things that will happen if
Yugoslavia does not cooperate. The first thing is:
1. "The US will oppose Yugoslav loans and assistance from
international financial institutions such as the
International Monetary Fund and World Bank. At stake will be a
planned $260 million loan from the IMF to
back up reform of an economy on the verge of collapse after years of
sanctions and warfare."
NOTE that they speak of loan not gift. No donation here!
Based on the evidence from past experience, this money may never be loaned.
And even if it were loaned, it would
immediately be used to pay back part of the supposed debt. No money would
go to the economy or reach ordinary
people. And then the $260 million that we never received would have to be
paid back by selling our industries, by
agreeing to purchase shoddy goods from the NATO countries and by agreeing
to laws that eliminated social services in
our country.
That is why every country that has relied on these phony loans has
suffered. For 8 years we had no loans. Plus we had
sanctions. But Rumania and Bulgaria which had no sanctions and which had
loans lost all their industry and now their
unemployed come to Yugoslavia looking for work.
We will always be better off helping ourselves than being saddled with
parasites from the International Monetary Fund
and World Bank who are in business to strip countries like ours of
everything we have sweated to build.
Here's the second 'disastrous' consequence of not cooperating with Washington:
2. "[This will mean putting off] Belgrade's plans to start
negotiating a debt settlement with the Paris Club of
sovereign creditors and commercial banks of the London Club... Of its
total $12.2 billion external debt,
Yugoslavia owes some $5 billion to the Paris Club and around $3
billion to the London Club." ('Reuters',
April 2, 2001)
So the "international community" claims Yugoslavia owes it at least $12
billion (US). And if Yugoslavia does not hand
over Milosevic it will not have the pleasure of stripping all its industry
to repay this debt. Wouldn’t that be terrible?
And how does the "international community" figure that Yugoslavia owes it
$12.2 billion dollars? This is almost entirely
interest on debts supposedly owed by the now nonexistent Yugoslav Socialist
Republic. Here is a news report from
Dec. 31, 1992, which explains it all:
"From: 'Facts on File World News Digest,' December 31, 1992
"Headline: IMF Revokes Yugoslavia's Membership
"Text: The International Monetary Fund December 15 revoked
Yugoslavia's membership and apportioned
the country's foreign debt among what the financial institution
designated as Yugoslavia's five successor
republics. The IMF took the action on the grounds that Yugoslavia had
ceased to exist as a legal entity.
"Yugoslavia's foreign debt was about $15 billion, including $217
million owed to the IMF and $2 billion
owed to the World Bank.
"A total of 36.5% of the debt was apportioned to Serbia-Montenegro,
the new Yugoslav federation, which
the IMF treated as a single republic. Croatia was deemed to owe 28.5%
of the debt; Bosnia-Herzegovina,
13.2%; Slovenia, 16.4%; and Macedonia, 5.4%."
[End of 'Facts on File' news dispatch]
So in 1992, the IMF simply decided to say that the Federal Republic owed
5.475 billion US dollars. Since it now says
we owe over $12 billion, that means that almost $7 billion of the supposed
debt is interest! And when did that interest
get charged?
That interest got charged during the years of sanctions imposed by the same
international community that now claims
we owe all this interest!
Those sanctions hurt the Yugoslav economy to the tune of billions of
dollars U.S.
By what right do these men, who starved Yugoslavia with sanctions, costing
us billions, and then bombed Yugoslavia,
causing us at least $60 billion in damage not to mention the incalculable
cost in human death and suffering, the pain of
relatives who lost loved ones, the psychological damage to children, forced
to hide in shelters from bombs, the long
term damage of depleted uranium - how dare these starvers and bombers now
claim that Yugoslavia owes them
money?
Who are these men?
A Donors' Conference would give no money to Yugoslavia.
The only result would be: devastation of the Yugoslav economy. The Donors
would order a forced sale of Yugoslavia's
precious industries for pennies on the dollar to the same bankers who make
up the Donors' Conference.
And when it was all over, the debt would still be there.
Because the money raised would be too little - as it is always too little,
in every country where these bankers have
imposed this scam - to pay the debt. Because you see that is the whole
idea. They use the inflated debt to get hold of
the industry, and when it is all over, they leave the country stripped of
all it sweated for years to build, of everything
except - billions of dollars in debt.
We would gain nothing from this Donors' Conference.
But some things would be gone.
Our industry would be gone.
Our pride would be gone.
Our honor would be gone.
And our patriots, they would be gone as well, starting with Mr. Milosevic,
but not ending with him. Not ending with
him.
Let us not follow this fool's gold chase proposed by the present
authorities in Belgrade. Let us rely on ourselves, on our
integrity and our own hard work. Let us trade with friends, not with
thieves who try to break us with the fake lure of
suckers' gold.
When they speak of the urgency of this Donors' Conference, the present
authorities in Belgrade speak with passion.
Their passion is real.
But it is not because they fear that if we do not go along with their
proposals, Yugoslavia will lose money that it needs.
On the contrary, they fear that if they do not produce for their masters in
Washington, they will be punished.
For Washington has no friends, only future victims.
Washington has laid down the law to these Belgrade authorities.
It has told them: you are taking too much time. Give us Milosevic. Give us
the patriots of the Yugoslav Army. Give us
those who fought us in Bosnia and Croatia. Give them to us NOW. And give us
everything of value in Yugoslavia.
Because if you do not we will take you - the DOS leaders - in their place.
- SPS, 31 May 2001
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