-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, 9 September 1999 9:42 AM Subject: WITH HER EYES OPENED - A LETTER FROM BULGARIA >Dear people, > > http://www.emperors-clothes.com received the following from >a Bulgarian reader a few days ago. Addressed to the >Serbian opposition, it clarifies the meaning of the >'democracy' dispensed by Madeline Albright's >"'Indispensible Nation." > >WITH HER EYES OPENED > >A Letter to the Serbian 'Democratic Opposition' >by Doncheva > >[Note <http://www.emperors-clothes.com> encourages everyone to distribute >the following in any way possible but please include the entire text >including this note. ] > >I was an activist in the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) until June 1993. >UDF is the mirror image of the Serbian Alliance for Change (the United >Democratic Opposition). > >The Bulgarian Union of Democratic Forces or UDF received a lot of money in >1990 - cars, computers, luxurious placards (transported from abroad in big >trucks) for the 1990 elections and the next ones - until the consolidation >of the UDF in power. We think that a certain amount of money continues to >flow, but now it is directed only to the UDF officials presently in power. >You all know what the Bulgarian government of the UDF did during the US war >against neighboring Yugoslavia. I will remind those who might happen not to >know or who have forgotten. > >It provided FULL SUPPORT for the USA. > >It gave the US and NATO all the asked-for corridors - in the air and on the >ground. (There is talk that Southern Serbia has been demolished by US >planes flying over Bulgaria from a US Turkish base.) > >For the first time since the end of the 500 year Turkish Yoke last century >Turkish ground force passed through Bulgaria. > >Here's an easy question: "From whence does money for the UDF (and now for >UDF leaders) mainly come?" You get one guess. > >So. We, here in Bulgaria, have had US-style democracy since 1989. For 10 >years already. > >MY TEN MOST AWFUL YEARS. > >What happened during that most awful period of my life on Earth? > >Through the ardent UDF leaders in power, the International Monetary Fund >and the World Bank are successfully devouring Bulgarian industry, >destroying the social fabric and opening national boundaries. (Our national >boundaries, mind you, never those of the US or Germany.) > >Three ways they devour Bulgarian industry > >- privatizing the Bulgarian plants and factories and liquidating them >afterwards; > >- directly liquidating them; > >- selling them for twopenny-halfpenny to powerful foreign corporations. For >instance, the Copper Metallurgical plant near the town of Pirdop producing >gold and platinum as well as electrolytic copper was sold in 1997 to Union >Miniere, Belgium for next to nothing. > >Conclusion: Bulgarian industry and infrastructure (the roads for instance) >have been most successfully demolished - and this WITHOUT bombing! - in >less than ten years. All this, just from doing what the Serbian opposition >is saying the Serbs should do. > >A popular joke here during the US war on Yugoslavia: two Turkish pilots, >flying over Bulgaria, are looking down at the Bulgarian landscape. One of >them says: "I wonder? Have we dropped bombs here?" "Don't be silly," >answers the other. "It is Bulgaria! They look like that without bombing.") > >Side results: - hordes of unemployed, as you can well imagine. > >Beggars in the streets. > >Children dying in the street from drugs and malnutrition. > >Old people digging in the rubbish containers for some rag or moldy piece of >bread. > >In 1989 my friend mother's pensions had been 105 leva. Now it is 46 leva at >$1 = ~1,87 leva. - August, 27. So, calculate for yourselves how much >dollars that 75 year old woman receives per month. > >Yesterday my brother in law told me he had seen the former headmistress of >his son's school to dig in a rubbish container? > >The Infant death rate has increased. > >The Birth death rate has increased. The reasons in most of the cases: >mothers suffering of shock and malnutrition). > >The Death rate generally has increased. > >Young people refuse to marry and have children. > >Will there be a Bulgarian nation in the 21 century? What have the Big US >think-tanks planned for Bulgaria? The answer is getting clearer with every >year? > >EATING AWAY SOCIAL PRIVELEGES > >Before 1989 Bulgaria was a SOCIAL state: Free medical care, FREE education, >social help and privileges for the mothers and the elderly. According to >the old (totalitarian) pension law people retired at 55 years of age for >the women and 60 years of age for the men. > >According to the new (U.S.-democratic) pension law and the adopted new >system there will not be any retired people here. > >The new system demands gathering of 90 points for the women- age plus >number of years in service - and 95 points for the men. The small number of >people about 55 still at work will managed to retire at about 58 years of >age (for the women) and 63 (for the men). > >But what about the people at 35-40-45 years of age, some of them unemployed >for years on a run already? > >How will they gather the number of years in service, necessary for >retiring? > >Nobody needs them, nobody wants them at work, nobody offers work to them. >When you open the newspapers at the pages with job offers you see the >repeated demand for age of 30 for the eventual applicants. Even if the >offer is for building workers or scrub women. > >So, if you are under 30, you have some chances to slave for 12 hours for >next to nothing for a newly hatched businessman. > >All the others are expendable and the only open exit for them is the >crematorium. Amen. > >And the IMF and WB aim will be achieved: less population, less pensioners, >less children?And THEY (the Global Super Rich?) will get closer to their >Global Aim of providing an Earth inhabited only by the Golden Milliard >[billion] (after the messy job of clearing away the redundant/unwanted 6 >milliards?) > >WHAT ABOUT EDUCATION? > >Now the number of children that do not go to school increases with every >year. Only comparatively well to do parents or parents who still have some >saved money can fulfill their children desire for a higher education. > >HEALTH? > >People have turned to old grannies' ways of healing. > >Going to the dentist is looked upon as a kind of a luxury. > >There are talks for a drastic raising of all the medicine prices here - >with 60-70% - from September 1st 99. > >The chasm between the handful of rich and the great majority of poor people >is disastrously deepening with every day. > >By the way, the last remnants of privileges will be taken away after the 1st >of January 2000. > >I have in mind the lower prices for train tickets for students, mothers >with children and the elderly. > >IMF DEMANDS: NO MORE SUBSIDIZED TRAVEL! > >Taking away these special, lower fares was one of the INTERNATIONAL >MONETARY FUND (IMF) conditions for the latest loan, agreed to willingly by >the UDF leaders now in power. > >Note that the UDF is short for Union of Democratic Forces, whose program > is the mirror image of the Serbian Alliance for change or United Democratic >Opposition. > >Note that the names are almost the same, aren't they? > >Bad. > >A proof of very poor imagination on the part of the Money-givers. > >They should insist on variety in names. > >WHAT TAKING AWAY TRAVEL PRIVILEGE REALLY MEANS > >It means additional separation of people, forcing them to stay either in >the towns, where they will die away from hunger, or in the villages with >the same result. Because most of the still active pensioners presently add >to meager family and personal income through some occasional jobs in the >towns or by providing vegetables and fruit for the winter in their father's >village gardens. It is possible and worth while NOW when they are >travelling by train at half the price. After January 1 it will be >senseless. > >So the death rate will increase - one of the IMF's apparent goals will be >successfully realized and the servile UDF leaders will be correspondingly >rewarded. > >I wonder. How much does it pay to destroy one's own people under the >sweetened slogans of "democracy" (what democracy?) and joining the "Western >civilization" (what civilization are we speaking of.) Does it pay really >well? > >Do you, the so-called opposition in Serbia REALLY think that the best road >for you is joining THAT "civilization"? What will be the bitter fruit later >of your efforts now? Cheap labor for the US and Western corporations and >the humiliating agony of a slow torturous death through wretched poverty >for your people. > >Look back into your history - a history of tough people able to find >solution of their OWN, to overcome obstacles with their OWN resources. >We saw what our contemporary "Western civilization" actually stands for >during those awful 79 days.When they bombed a sovereign EUROPEAN country >they defined themselves. > >Since Yugoslavian capitulation we all are DAILY witnesses what Western >civilization stands for in Kosovo. > >Everybody knows now that: > >1/ The US and Europe are against ethnic cleansing of the Albanians by the >Serbs. > >2/ But THEY are for the ethnic cleansing of the Serbs by the Albanians. >What has happened to the sugared talk about Human Rights? >Ah, sorry, I have forgotten. Serbs are not Human. (With the exception of >those that take the U.S. and NATO countries' money to betray their people >and their country!) > >You in the opposition, do you really want to lick the soles of those cruel >greedy monsters? > >OPENING OUR BOUNDARIES, MAKING US AN 'OPEN SOCIETY' > >...as expounded by George Soros, the international financier of newspapers, >radio stations, NGO's and political parties that facilitate the destruction >of previously viable nations. That philanthropist of the 'open society.' >We have learned the hard way what those pretty slogans about "opening the >boundaries" mean. > >It means KILLING the part of Bulgarian industry that is still managing to >stay alive and thereby give bread to a certain number of people. > >It means that lots of LOW QUALITY - I use the phrase deliberately: LOW >QUALITY - food products and other goods (socks for instance) flow freely >through the "open(ed) boundaries" into Bulgaria, undermining the efforts of >local producers. > >We have been perhaps one of the biggest consumers of the >notorious Belgian dioxin chickens. Result: some of the local producers have >gone bankrupt and sunk into dismal poverty. Some of the salami and sausage >producers have had the same fate. The same holds true for producers of veal >and veal products. > >I have a cousin who has a small farm - four cows. He hasn't been able to >sell his calves for two successive years. Two of the cows have already >died. He is smashed. The veal-buying firms explain that they prefer to work >with the frozen meat imported at low prices ready to be stuffed and turned >into salami and sausages. Never mind the salami and sausages' quality... > >"Fasan", the sock and stocking factory in the Danube town of Rouse, is >slowly sinking down (maybe it has already gone bankrupt and hundreds are in >the streets). Because of the Turkish socks, flooding the Bulgarian market >and sold at 0.5 leva a pair. The "Fasan" socks are sold at about 1 leva ($1 >=1,87 leva). > >They cannot sell them at a lower price - they will go bankrupt. > >They cannot sell them at the only possible-for-them price - and they have >gone bankrupt. Amen. Rest in peace. > >So much for "open boundaries." So much for Mr. Soros' "Open Society". >I hope you have now a clearer picture of what U.S.-type democracy has >brought Bulgaria and its people. Of the real, practical meaning of the >sugared phrases. > >WHAT BREAKS MY HEART > >I personally live in abject misery. I pay my Internet fee at the expense of >great limitations in food, forgoing other needs as well. I do not know how >long I will be able to support it. > >But it is the sight of the old men and women, digging into the rubbish >containers that is breaking my heart. > >And the old people begging in the streets? the outreached trembling >hands?the tears of pain and humiliation in the eyes?They make me cry. > >Because, you see, street beggars might be only part of the New York >scenery. But it is a new and very shocking sight for us here, and our >hearts are bleeding. > >PRICES - BEFORE U.S. DEMOCRACY AND AFTER > >I enclose a comparing table of some prices in 1989 and 1999 from "Appeal", >the monthly newspaper of our activist group. > >Prices in leva 1989 and 1999 > >$1 = 1,87 leva (as of 8/27/99) > >Bread, 1 kg (white flour) 0,48 0,63 > >Bread, 1 kg (wholemeal) 0,15 0,45 > >Salami 1 kg 2,80 3,60 > >Yogurt 0,22 0,32-0,75 > >Tram ticket (Sofia) 0,06 0,25 > >Steam Heating, average 14,0 80,00-150,00 > >El. energy,1 kwh:day/night 0,042/0,022 0,08/0,04 > >Luxury lady shoes 30-40 100 > >Suit, average price 100 300 > >Lighter, ordinary 0,20 4,00 > >Books 1-2 6-10 > >Cinema ticket 0,40-0,80 4-8 >Salary, average 200 150 > >Pension, average 100 50 > >And so on and on and on ? > >ALL GENOCIDES ARE NOT EQUAL IN THEIR EYES > >The USA started bombing Yugoslavia officially because of the still unproven >genocide on the poor Albanians by the Serbs, the Demons. > >Meanwhile they are carrying out invisible at first sight but very effective >genocide on my people in Bulgaria. As in all the countries in the deadly >grip of the US type of democracy and its envoys, the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY >FUND and THE WORLD BANK. > >What are the Serbs thinking? > >I am truly amazed at some Serbian people's reactions lately. I have never >looked upon them as being a nation of suicides. > >What are they striving for? What do they want? The dismal, hopeless life of >their Bulgarian neighbors? > >Do they REALLY want to see their old people dig in the dung containers? > >Do they REALLY want to stop their children from going to school because of >lack of money for shoes and text-books? > >Do they REALLY want to slave for the American or German corporations 12 >hours per day for miserable pay? Because think: what is the greatest >attraction for a foreign corporation in a devastated country like >Yugoslavia? The cheap labor! That is it! > >The so called Sweatshops. > >I cannot believe my eyes and ears! AFTER 78 or 79 DAYS OF AMERICAN BOMBS at >that! Over the bodies of killed Serb children by the A M E R I C A N bombs! > >It is simply UNBELIEVABLE! > >And after the good example of what the US kind of "democracy" has done to >Bulgaria, the Yugoslavian neighbor. > >I do not want to vindicate myself for having been an activist of the UDF >till 1993. I only would like to point out that at that time we all believed >the totalitarian state [the former, Communist Bulgaria] was simply lying >about the USA. That all the warnings about the USA were simply propaganda >lies. We had not heard anything about the IMF or the WB or the >transnational corporations and their expansion policy in 1990. We fell for >the seductive talk about democracy and openness and the rest. > >But it is impossible to say the same for the so-called Serb Opposition. > >Especially after the U.S. war on THEIR country! > >They, the Serb Opposition, are even not ashamed of the $100 million of US >"help", arrogantly announced in the face of the whole world! [This refers >to US aid openly given to help the opposition in Serbia] > >Don't you, all the Serbs that are hanging at the lips of that US or German >flunkey, [Alliance for Change leader] Djindnic, feel humiliated at having >chosen to work for the US and West European interests against your own >people? > >When the blood of the Serbian children is still fresh on the money they are >giving you?! > >SHAME, SHAME ON YOU! > >Desanka Maksimovic has a poem saying: >My forebears and fellow-villagers >Have never been traitors. >They have gone since times immemorial >Where Justice has called them. > >She is lucky she is not alive today. > >WHAT IS AT ISSUE? > >The issue is not Milosevic. US and the "Western civilizations" are reaching >greedily for your country. Their geopolitical interests and their >corporations demand it: they need the land and what resources you have. > >Doncheva, >Sofia, Bulgaria >the Balkans > >If you're reading this article in a site other than Emperors-Clothes.com >and would like to see more articles please click here >http://www.emperors-clothes.com/splash.htm or go to >http://www.emperors-clothes.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Neither public email list, open for the public and general discussion. To unsubscribe click here Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=unsubscribe To subscribe click here Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=subscribe For information on [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.neither.org/lists/public-list.htm For archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
