>From: "roman kafel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Prawica: Fwd: Bob Trout: reports on Poland
>Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 05:09:52
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>Do wiadomosci...
>RomanK
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>>From: "Robert Trout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: "Roman Kafel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Bob Trout: reports on Poland
>>Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 22:34:52 -0700
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>>[Source: Polish, German media, Dec. 1-6]
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>>POLAND ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING A SECOND ARGENTINA. The
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>>economic-social situation is a disaster that is getting worse by
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>>the day. National unemployment is 16 percent, but critics say
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>>statistical tricks are covering up that in reality, it is at
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>>18-20 percent, already. Officially, an increase by 4 percent to
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>>20 percent is expected for sometime next year.
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>>In crisis regions like the northeast (between Gdansk and the
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>>Russian Kaliningrad enclave, the west (around Szczecin) and the
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>>southwest (Silesia), there are between 22 and 40 percent jobless,
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>>already now, and the government wants to continue privatizations
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>>of state-sector firms and of state-sector farms, which will add
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>>more jobless to the queues.
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>>80 percent of the unemployed have no legal claims to full
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>>state jobless support, and the immediate consequence of that is
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>>an accelerated process of impoverishment: According to the State
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>>Statistical Office, 54 percent of all Poles live below the social
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>>minimum, 8 percent below the minimum for mere physical survival
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>>(depend on support by others); 50 percent of the Poles say they
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>>have to continously tighten their belts, 70 percent say they have
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>>no alternative to cutting expenses for food.
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>>Twenty percent of the Polish households have a monthly
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>>income of less than $50 (200 zloty) only, and 75 percent of the
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>>households do not have an income above $120 (500 zloty).
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>>The debt crisis in the corporate sector, especially in the
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>>"new economy," is highlighted, these days, by the situation of
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>>Netia, the second-largest telecom enterprise in Poland, which is
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>>also the biggest private rival to the state telecom company.
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>>Netia is faced with full default, over a pile of snowballing debt
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>>which has reached the incredible sum of $855 million, which
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>>nobody can pay: It is said that even if all Polish customers of
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>>Netia spent 24 hours a day on the phone, they could not provide
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>>Netia with the money to pay its debt. Netia is a leading telecom
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>>operator in some of the biggest cities, like Warsaw, Krakow,
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>>Poznan, Gdansk, Lublin and Katowice. In the end, if private
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>>investors cannot be lured into buying up Netia, the state telecom
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>>company may step in; but it cannot pay the debt, either. To those
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>>that hold shares of Netia, it will be a huge loss.
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>>Dec. 6 (EIRNS)--SLANDERS AGAINST SCHILLER INSTITUTE AND LAROUCHE
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>>IN POLAND. In the context of a scandal provoked by Andrzej
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>>Lepper, the leader of the farmers' trade union, Samoobrona,
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>>Polish mass media have again started a slander campaign against
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>>the Schiller Institute and Lyndon LaRouche, accusing them of
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>>supporting and financing Lepper's organization. Lepper, now also
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>>a member of the Sejm (Polish Parliament), attacked Foreign
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>>Minister Cimoszewicz for his dealings with the European Union
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>>(Cimoszewicz announced after his visit in Brussels that after
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>>Poland joins the Union, foreigners will be able to buy land in
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>>Poland after 7 years, not 15 years as planned before). Later
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>>Lepper accused a few deputies from the liberal Platforma
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>>Obywatelska (PO, Citizens' Platform) of corruption.
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>>This started a big brouhaha and a flood of articles and TV
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>>and radio programs about Lepper and his ``connection'' to the
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>>Schiller Institute. The usual slanders were repeated, plus
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>>recently, one Konstanty Miodowicz, PO deputy and a former chief
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>>of counterintelligence in the Office of State Security, said on
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>>the popular radio show, that after General [sic] LaRouche was
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>>imprisoned, the Schiller Institute was pronounced illegal in the
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>>US. The Schiller Institute in Poland has immediatly issued a
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>>statement denouncing the slanders and explaining who Lyndon
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>>LaRouche really is, which was posted on a popular webside,
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>>www.aol.pl, and e-mailed to many contacts, who are eager to
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>>distribute it. Their spirit is generally very feisty. We also
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>>received a few letters via the Internet asking for more
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>>information about SI and declaring support.
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>>Most reports about Lepper and SI mention that the Institute
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>>is against globalization, free trade and the European Union (they
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>>never say what it stands for), but to many people this is enough
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>>to contact us, since there is a growing discontent with present
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>>economic policies and the new government's promise that ``we have
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>>to fasten the belt'' to improve the economy, which means cutting
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>>spending on wage and pension increases (which has been done due
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>>to inflation), education, health care, etc. For some people
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>>Lepper is actually a new hero, despite his radical methods,
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>>becase he openly attacks the liberals.
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>>It is clear now, that the so-called left (SLD), which has
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>>recently taken over the government is doing the same as the
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>>Solidarnosc government in the past. The coming event of the SI in
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>>Poland will be all the more important.
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I taki wlasnie cyrk, jest skutkiem zlodziejskiej lichwy bankowej o czym vel
balcerowicz az nadto wszystkim zademonstrowal, ze dzisiaj to i nawet na
"skarpetki" zabraklo...
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jasiek z toronto
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