>-----Original Message----- >From: Blagovesta Doncheva >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:02 PM >Subject: Elections, S24, Kostuniza Part II > > >> >>Part II >> >>2/ Food prices, July-August, 2000; Cost of Living >> Eleven years of democracy - USA style >> >>Preface >>At the last convention of the Union of Demonic Forces a decision was voted >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. They had several classified >conversations with their boys here surely, garnered with some juicy >reminders of Videnovs plight, evoking images of Mrs. Bowlen as Jana dArk >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!.. >> >>In August we here sterilize vegetables and fruit in jars using electricity: >one way of our fight for survival in the long winter months. >> >>Now we cannot do that: who will pay the electricity bill? >>Now we cannot do that: who will buy for us the very expensive vegetables >and fruit? >> >>Here is a Table for you illustrating the food price deadly rise (SEGA, >daily, August 4, 2000, p. 7) The two SEGA journalists have given data for >the situation in different towns of Bulgaria. I will quote only some of >them it will be enough as an illustration. >> >>PRICES of Some of the Basic Food Products in the Shops in Sofia and Two >More Towns Compared to the Previous Week Prices: >> >> >>Eggs >> >>Sofia - 0,16-0,20 leva/pc - +33% >>Pernik - 0,15-0,17 - +45% >>Montana - 0,12-018 - +50% >> >>Cooking Sunflower Oil >> A/ in glass bottles: >> Sofia - 1,70-1,90 leva/l - +16% >> Burgas - 1,80-2,00 - +23% >> Varna - 1,70-1,90 - +29% >> >> B/ in plastic bottles: >> Sofia - 1,60-2,30 leva/l - +24% >> Pernik - 1,60-2,60 - +40% >> Shumen - 2,10 - +45% >> >> Cow Milk >> >> Sofia - 0,64-1,10 leva/l - +2% >> Burgas - 0,75-1,35 - +8% >> Shumen - 0,90 - +13% >> >> Yoghurt >> >> Sofia - 0,35-076 leva/0.500 kg - +5% >> Burgas - 0,40-0,70 - +1% >> Shumen - 0,45-0,60 - +1% >> >> Pork >> >> Sofia - 4,70-6,30 leva/kg - 0 >> Burgas - 5,80-6,50 - +7% >> Rousse - 4,95-5,60 - +9% >> >> Sausages with Short Term Durability >> >> Sofia - 1,95-5,90 leva/kg - +2% >> Shumen - 2,80-3,60 - +2% >> Burgas - 2,80-4,60 - +1% >> >> >> Frozen Chicken >> >> Sofia - 2,79-3, 40 leva/kg - +2% >> Shumen - 3,20 - +10% >> Varna - 2,95-3,50 - +15% >>Vegetables >> >>Cucumbers (Sofia) - 1,60-2,40 leva/kg >>Tomatoes (Sofia) - 1,20 1.00 0,80 0,60 leva/kg >>Pepper (Sofia) - 1,20 1.00 0,80 0,60 leva/kg >>Onions (Sofia) - 1.00 lev/kg >>Garlic (Sofia) - 3.00 leva/kg >>Peaches (Sofia) - 1,20 leva/kg >>Apples (Sofia) - 1,50-2 leva/kg >>Melons - 1,00 lev/kg >> >> >>And so on, and so forth!... >> >>Excerpts from the article: >>.. The more the prices go up, the more people try to provide for black >days... They rushed to buy cooking oil, rice, white bean, and lentil. Many >complained that misery and hunger are in store for them because the have no >money to buy greater quantities of food. An elderly woman said she had >already tried to sell some of her clothes for a bottle of cooking oil and >potatoes. >> >>Our goods stay on the stands complained a vegetable grower. People do >not buy anything... We wont be able to live through the winter... >> >>SEGA, August 9, 2000, p.1-2 >>Title: The Cost Of Living Has Gone Up With 11% (a leading article) >>Author: Iv. Minchev >> >>Excerpts: >>Trade Union experts declare that: >>- the cost of living has gone up with 11% since January 2000. >> - the inflation is already 10,9 % and till the end of the year it >will be 14-16%. >> It should be >> - only 2,8 % - according to the government prognosis, >> - 7,9 9 % according to European Union Commission and the magazine >Economist. >> >>The Trade Union experts data >>- Food prices till August 7: >>cooking oil - +64%; >>sugar - +59%; >>eggs - +50%; >>white cow cheese - +45%; >>meat and sausages - +31%; >>chicken - +15%; >>cow milk - +29%; >>bread - +18%; >>vegetables - +16%, notwithstanding the fact that it is >their season! >> >>- Energy Prices: >>Electricity - +4% >>Petrol - +17% >> >>- Poverty Limit - 120 leva/month. >>One mans cost of living - 250 leva/month; >> In winter - 269-273 leva/month. >> >> Remarks: average month salary -  100 >leva/month; >> Average month pension -  50 >leva/month. >>(Those are the average month salaries of the ordinary people the month >salaries of the President, Premier, MPs, Ministers, Vice Ministers, etc., >are not taken into consideration. Most of their salaries are more than 1 mln >leva/month ($1 = 2.16761 leva, SEGA, August 22, 2000, p.1) >> >> >>SEGA, August 23 2000, p. 1 >>Title: Food Prices Jump Up in Defiance of Kostov Administration (By M.R.) >> ...For the period of one week only some food prices have jumped up as >follows: >>- White cow cheese - +0,07 leva/kg. It is already 4,20 in Veliko Tirnovo. >>- White sheep cheese 6,70 leva/kg. >>- Yellow cheese - +0,17 leva/kg. It is 7,10 leva/kg in Sofia. >>- Pork - +0,14 leva/kg. Now its average price is 5,87 leva/kg. >> It is most expensive in Karjalii and >Blagoevgrad 6,80 lv/kg. >>- Cooking oil - +0,02 leva/kg. Average price now 2,06 leva/l. >>- Bread and flour - +0,01 leva/kg. >>No comment. >> >>3/ Creeping Genocide? Oh, no! It is a thing of the past... >> Galloping Genocide? That is it! >> >>Dont cheat yourselves even for a moment about the eventual end aim of >IMF/WB and USA in Bulgaria and the Balkans in general concerning the >population. >> >>Graveyard Industry >>The Only Business Offering Stable Prosperity in Bulgaria >> >>SEGA, July 11. >> >>After IMF emissaries last visit, the following decisions have been taken >by the corresponding municipal halls: >> >>1/ new 75 000 m2 are to be added to the Sofia graveyard Malashevtsi; >>2/ two new furnaces are to be added to Sofia crematorium; >>3/ pressure is to be exercised on Sofia neighbouring village mayors to >allow Sofia citizens to be buried in the village graveyards; >>4/ the law, concerning the distance between the graveyard and the first >house of the corresponding inhabited place, is to be changed and that >distance is to be lessened to only 300 metres; >>5/ crematoriums are to be built in Varna and Plovdiv. >> >>There is an offer for a crematorium able to rework a 100-kg of corpses per >hour. >> >>An Italian Company (V.O.T.) offers to invest about $ 1 million in Sofia >crematorium and to take it for 20 years. (SEGA, August 4, p. 12) >> >>A quotation from SEGA, August 4, p.12: >>... Since January 1, 2000 the municipal halls have got free from the >burial engagements >>They had to turn the (communist) Burial Homes into trade companies and to >stop the (communist) free of charge burials. >>The expenses are taken over by the people themselves; the municipal halls >will pay for the burials only of the poorest ones. Before January 1 the >municipal halls subsidised 13 free of charge burial services (according to >the communist laws), among them a coffin, transportation, cremation, a >cross, obituaries, digging the grave and civilian ritual. >> >>It was regulated in the (communist) Labour Code, Part 3, that the municipal >halls had to pay for the burial of the citizens. ... >>The changes that have come into effect since January 1, 2000, that Part 3 >is crossed out and the municipal halls have washed their hands from their >citizens dead. >> >>... More and more contractors and businessmen with money and connections in >the right places will turn to the graveyard business in the future. Lots of >money will change hands in the fight for the bigger town graveyards. That >business basic feature is that the flow of clients will never dry out, and >long-term researches and expectations can be carried out. The population of >Bulgaria is getting older and ill of all kinds of chronic diseases. The >death rate constantly gets on speed. >>... >>End of the quotation. >> >>SEGA, July 11, p. 24 >>/The last page of SEGA entertains the readers with examples of contemporary >(black) humour. >> >> After announcing the news in the graveyard sphere, the author continues: >>... There is an offer that promises reworking of 100-kg corpses per hour. >The man behind is not mad to offer such production capacities, if he is not >sure in our Health Reform effectiveness. His calculations have proved that >there will be enough raw materials. Besides, the health care end product >will be able to choose between the old-fashioned burials and the modern >civilised furnaces. ... I am dreaming even now for the time when the >chimneys of the modern post-health care will start belching forth clouds of >black smoke. . >>... >>But that is the back door of the Health Care Reform lets now jump at the >front one. Again hysterical journalist roar meets me! Much money has been >spent for luxury offices, repairs, cars and salaries... So it should be: >those who take care for our health are to be healthy and with high >spirits!... >>The medicine prices have drastically jumped up! ... The idea is to make >people go back to Nature. You have high blood pressure? Drink lime tea. Your >blood pressure is low? Drink camomile! You are nervous? Start shouting at >your wife. The child has high temperature? Box his/her ears, the temperature >will go down. >>... >>Dont worry about your health. Even if you have lost it, you will certainly >find it somewhere in the space between the health insurance and the >graveyard. >> >>Health Reform + Food-Electricity-Petrol Price Rise = Galloping Genocide. >> >> >> >> >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>iVillage.com: Solutions for Your Life >>Check out the most exciting women's community on the Web >>http://www.ivillage.com >> > > > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fw: Elections, S24, Kostuniza Part II
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:38:26 -0700
