-Caveat Lector- > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: TiM Publisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: TiM GW Bulletins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 12:44 AM > Subject: How Washington Bought Yugoslav Presidency (TiM GW Bulletin > 2000/12-4, Dec. 12, 2000) > > > > > > FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA > > > > Thought you'd be interested in our latest Truth in Media Global Watch > > Bulletin which is now available at our Web site, just click on the > animated > > (green) THE NEWS button to go to our latest report. > > > > Of course, you can also click on the TiM Bulletins Index button in the > left > > frame - to go to selections of our Bulletins archived by geographic > regions > > and subjects, and in chronological order. Or click on any other button in > > the left frame for other topics of interest. > > > > And now, here are the headlines of the latest TiM Bulletin. Just keep in > > mind that our stories are CONSTANTLY updated, and that the e-mail text > > enclosed below is often merely the first edition of a story. So we > > recommend that you keep checking the TiM Web site daily, so that you would > > not miss out on some important news or commentary updates. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Truth in Media's GLOBAL WATCH Bulletin 2000/12-4 12-Dec-2000 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Topic: BALKANS AFFAIRS > > ------------------------------------- > > > > HEADLINES > > > > Washington 1. How Washington Bought Yugoslav Presidency > > > > http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2000/tim2000-12-4.html > > > > > > 1. How Washington Bought Yugoslav Presidency > > > > Kostunica, Once a Serb "Nationalist," Now a $41 Million-Washington Puppet > > > > WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 - Good speechwriters follow the classical speaking > rule > > - tell them what you're going to tell them; tell them; and then tell them > > what you've told them. > > > > Well, we told you in July the September 24 Yugoslav elections would be a > > Serb "demo farce," with Vojislav Kostunica starring as a naïve Don > Quixote, > > while, in fact, being a Trojan Horse bought and paid for by Washington. > We > > told you as the Serb "Ostrich Revolution" was unfolding, complete with > > destruction of electoral ballots, that it was a foreign-orchestrated coup > > d'etat. And we repeated that when Kostunica started to reverse himself > > following his electoral "victory." > > > > And now, with less than two weeks to go before the Dec. 23 Serbian > > elections, just as we were about to sum up what we've been telling you all > > along about DOS and Kostunica, lo and behold the Washington Post did it > for > > us. Yes, that "liberal" establishment mouthpiece; the nation's > penultimate > > authority on the imbroglio at the DC bordello, told the truth about how > > Washington bought the Yugoslav presidency for $41 million. > > > > The innocuous sounding headline of the Post's Dec. 11 article, "U.S. > Advice > > Guided Milosevic Opposition," was a guise for its devastating > > content. Devastating for Kostunica, an erstwhile Serb "nationalist," now > a > > mere Washington puppet. Devastating for DOS - the Washington-funded and > > organized Democratic Opposition of Serbia, now the new Yugoslav > > regime. Devastating for "Otpor" (Resistance), an ostensible "student" > > movement, also financed and run by the U.S. government. > > > > In short, the Post confirmed all our suspicions, and put a very explicit > > price on the Yugoslav presidency and Kostunica's betrayal of his erstwhile > > ideals: > > > > "The U.S. democracy-building effort in Serbia was a curious mixture of > > secrecy and openness. In principle, it was an overt operation, funded by > > congressional appropriations of around $10 million for fiscal 1999 and $31 > > million for 2000." > > > > The Post also paints a picture of Kostunica, DOS and Otpor as nothing more > > than U.S. marionettes. Even the very lines they mouthed off during the > > election campaign were scripted by their Washington puppeteers: > > > > "According to Stevanovic, the (DOS) coalition marketing expert, EVERY WORD > > of the opposition's one-minute and five-minute core political messages > used > > by opposition spokesmen across the country was discussed with U.S. > > CONSULTANTS and tested by opinion poll. Coalition candidates running for > > the Yugoslav parliament and tens of thousands of local government > positions > > received extensive training on how to stay "on message," answer > > journalists' questions and rebut the arguments of Milosevic supporters." > > (emphasis added). > > > > Here are some other excerpts from the Post report: > > > > "Held in a luxury hotel in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, in October > > 1999, the closed-door briefing by (Doug) Schoen, a Democrat (pollster), > > turned out to be a seminal event, pointing the way to the electoral > > revolution that brought down Milosevic a year later. It also marked the > > start of an extraordinary U.S. effort to unseat a foreign head of state, > > not through covert action of the kind the CIA once employed in such places > > as Iran and Guatemala, but by modern election campaign techniques. [.] > > > > Had Yugoslavia been a totalitarian state like Iraq or North Korea, the > > strategy would have stood little chance. But while Milosevic ran a > > repressive police state, he was never a dictator in the style of Iraqi > > President Saddam Hussein." > > --- > > TiM Ed.: It's rather amusing to see the Post attempting now to rewrite > > history, as if in passing. Never mind that the preceding contradicts its > > own past stories, among other western media's. Lest we forget, one of the > > most popular anti-Milosevic slogans has been for years "Sloba-Saddam" - a > > clear attempt to equate the Milosevic regime with that of Saddam Hussein > in > > Iraq. And the eight-year long U.N. sanctions against Serbia for being > > allegedly an aggressive "totalitarian state," are only exceeded by the > > still on-going sanctions against Iraq. Because unlike Milosevic, Hussein > > hasn't thrown in the towel. > > --- > > "Twenty (Serb) opposition leaders accepted an invitation from the > > Washington-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) in October 1999 to a > > seminar at the Marriott Hotel in Budapest, overlooking the Danube River. > > The key item on the agenda: an opinion poll commissioned by the U.S. > > polling firm Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates. > > > > The poll reported that Milosevic had a 70 percent unfavorable rating among > > Serbian voters. But it also showed that the big names in the > > opposition--men such as Zoran Djindjic and Vuk Draskovic--were burdened > > with negative poll ratings almost as high as Milosevic's. Among the > > candidates best placed to challenge Milosevic, the poll suggested, was a > > moderate Serbian nationalist named Vojislav Kostunica, who had a favorable > > rating of 49 percent and an unfavorable rating of only 29 percent. [.] > > > > Kostunica's selection as the opposition presidential candidate in August > > was shaped, in large measure, by the opinion polls. "The polls showed that > > Kostunica could defeat Milosevic in the easiest possible way," recalled > > Dusan Mihajlovic, leader of the New Democracy party, one of 18 political > > parties that made up the coalition. Part of Kostunica's APPEAL, the polls > > showed, was that he was widely perceived as ANTI-AMERICAN. Because he was > > an outspoken critic of the NATO bombing of Serbia, it was difficult for > the > > Milosevic government to label him a Western stooge or a traitor to Serbian > > interests. (emphasis added). > > > > Kostunica was also the one opposition leader strongly opposed to accepting > > U.S. campaign assistance. "I was against it, never got any myself, and > > thought it was unnecessary," he said in an interview. > > > > To many opposition activists, KOSTUNICA'S DENIALS RING A LITTLE HOLLOW. > > While it is true that his own party, the Democratic Party of Serbia, > > rejected anything that smacked of U.S. aid, his presidential campaign > > BENEFITED ENORMOUSLY from the advice and financial support the opposition > > coalition received from abroad, and particularly from the UNITED STATES. > > [.] (emphasis added). > > > > Some Americans involved in the anti-Milosevic effort said they were aware > > of CIA activity at the fringes of the campaign, but had trouble finding > out > > what the agency was up to. Whatever it was, they concluded it was not > > particularly effective. The lead role was taken by the State Department > and > > the U.S. Agency for International Development, the government's foreign > > assistance agency, which channeled the funds through commercial > contractors > > and nonprofit groups such as NDI and its Republican counterpart, the > > International Republican Institute (IRI). > > > > While NDI worked closely with Serbian opposition parties, IRI focused its > > attention on Otpor, which served as the revolution's ideological and > > organizational backbone. In March, IRI paid for two dozen Otpor leaders to > > attend a seminar on nonviolent resistance at the Hilton Hotel in Budapest, > > a few hundreds yards along the Danube from the NDI-favored Marriott. [.] > > > > Over the next three months, millions of "Gotov je" stickers were printed > on > > 80 tons of imported adhesive paper--paid for by USAID and delivered by the > > Washington-based Ronco Consulting Corp.--and plastered all over Serbia on > > walls, inside elevators and across Milosevic's campaign posters. Printed > in > > black and white and accompanied by Otpor's clenched-fist emblem, they > > became the symbol of the revolution. [.] > > > > An iron rule for both the coalition and Otpor was never to talk about > > Western financial or logistical support. To have done so would have played > > straight into the hands of the Milosevic propaganda machine, which > > routinely depicted opposition leaders as "traitors" or "NATO lackeys"." > > --- > > TiM Ed.: Which helps explain virulent verbal attacks on anyone telling the > > truth during the Serb election campaign, including the TiM editor, who > > publicly and frequently called Kostunica, DOS and Otpor by their real > names > > - Washington "lackeys" or "quislings." (For the rest of the Post story, > go > > to the TiM web site and click on: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18395-2000Dec3.html). > > > > So as you can see, despite our own "demo farce" unfolding in Florida and > > Washington, we, Americans, are relatively lucky. At least we are cooking > > in our own stew, rather than one prepared by an adversarial foreign power. > > > > To put the Serb "Ostrich Revolution" in U.S. perspective, imagine Red > > China, for example, fielding its own candidate in the American > presidential > > race (we know, some may argue they already have - in the person of Al > Gore, > > of course. But humor us on this for a moment, will you, for the sake of > > allowing us to make a bigger point?). > > > > Let's assume Beijing sets up its election command center in, say, Cuba, > > from where it disperses funds and masterminds the U.S. presidential > campaign. > > > > To make sure their candidate comes out on top, Beijing hucksters and > > pollsters paint him as an American patriot and anti-communist. And in the > > final stretch, they orchestrate a media campaign that pronounces the > > Chinese quisling the winner before the official counting was even over > (any > > similarities with the real life Florida scenario, and the U.S. national > > media, is, of course, coincidental ). > > > > In the end, when if even that's not enough to get their man into the White > > House, Beijing imports its mercenaries from the countryside to storm the > > Capitol Hill, set it on fire and destroy some of the electoral ballots in > > the process. Finally, after the frightened sitting American president > > concedes defeat, Beijing sends its goons to various Washington federal > > departments to kick butt (literally) and kick out the current > > administration heads, replacing them with its own lackeys. > > > > And then the Red Chinese proclaim that they have done all that, of course, > > in the name of "democracy-building." If in doubt, just ask the Washington > > Post. You saw that even in its today's electoral post-mortem the Post > > called what happened in Serbia a "U.S. democracy-building effort." > > > > Now, if this were to happen in our country, how would you feel about such > > foreign-imposed "democracy," my fellow-Americans? How would you feel > about > > its symbol - a clenched fist (a communist symbol) painted on a black shirt > > (a fascist symbol)? > > > > One would hope that any American, except perhaps a red commie or a fascist > > (or both, meaning a New World Order elitist), would be outraged, right? > > > > Well, surprise, surprise. Guess how a majority of Serbs felt about all > > that? They were elated! > > > > In fact, even today, as the masks are slowly starting to drop from > > Kostunica's and other DOS leaders' faces, pollsters tell us that > > Washington's bought-and-paid-for Yugoslav president still enjoys about a > > 70% approval rating in Serbia. > > > > So what does that tell us? > > > > First, you CAN fool some people ALL of the time, as Teddy Roosevelt also > noted. > > > > Second, America isn't the only nation dumbed down by the New World Order, > > especially considering that Serbia is cheering the Washington lackeys > after > > the U.S. led the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia. > > > > Third, Americans should feel lucky by comparison. Not only because what > > happened in Serbia makes our little Florida shenanigans look like a storm > > in a teacup. Also because the NWO's dumbing down of America has been > under > > way for decades. Yet now, after our own Election 2000 brush with infamy, > > > many Americans are waking up to that fact. And are beginning to fight > back. > > > > How long will it be before most Serbs realize they've been duped (again), > > and start to fight back (again)? Probably a lot longer that it will take > > them to get used to the Wall Street-financed and Madison Avenue-designed > > "democracy" chains they are now wearing around their necks (like the rest > > of the NWO slaves). > > --- > > P.S. Incidentally, Otpor's clenched fist on a black shirt, a cross between > > communism and fascism, is a perfect symbol of the New World Order. And no > > wonder, since it was created in Washington, the capital of the NWO Evil > > Empire. Perhaps the truth and liberty-loving Americans and other people > > around the world should paint a TARGET sign right over top of it. 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