-Caveat Lector-
>From emperors-clothes.com
<<This is just the start of the posting; go and read as you like. This may be
just one viewpoint but suggest researching the comparative 'success' of the
former East Germany with the former West Germany {economies, i.e.}. I see some
common elements -- not that the 'old ways' were necessarily 'best'; it's still
a matter of how well those on what used to be the other side are able to
accomodate the brave New World (order).
A<>E<>R >>
Beginning of excerpt
> With her eyes opened
>
> A Letter to the 'Serbian Opposition' from a Bulgarian woman
>
> by Doncheva
>
> 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.")
End of excerpt
~~~~~~~~~~~~
>From www.zmag.org
> Forum Post
>
> Chomsky On
> U.S. British Political Relationship
>
> Leonard Abrahamson, on the US-British political relationship, and why British
> elites accept the role of "junior partner," as the British foreign office saw
> its place, with much distress, half a century ago.
>
> You're quite right about the illusions. From the perspective of US planners, the
> "special relationship" perceived by British elites has not been taken very
> seriously. More accurate are the remarks of a senior Kennedy adminstration
> adviser in internal discussion: the British are "our lieutenant (the fashionable
> word is partner)." And they were treated accordingly.
>
> I think you've identified the basic factors: "the ambiguous relationship of
> Britain to the big, continental, European states," and "Britain's spectacular
> decline as an economic power" after the two World Wars, particularly the second,
> when it was -- spectacularly -- displaced by the US as the dominant world power,
> far beyond anything that Britain had dreamed of. Britain at first tried to hold
> on to some kind of imperial system, but although the US tolerated that for a
> time for various reasons (Britain's military power was useful for US ends; the
> "dollar gap" prevented Britain from purchasing US exports; etc.), that was not
> going to last. The US was committed to a form of "liberal internationalism" in
> which all regional groupings would be eliminated (apart from its own) and the
> world would be opened to US economic penetration and political control.
>
> British elites knew it, at least the smarter ones, and didn't like it, but
> couldn't do much about it. In the mid-40s, British officials complained
> (internally) about "the economic imperialism of American business interests,
> which is quite active under the cloak of a benevolent and avuncular
> internationalism," is "attempting to elbow us out." One commented acidly that
> Americans believe "that the United States stands for something in the world --
> something of which the world has need, something which the world is going to
> like, something, in the final analysis, which the world is going to take,
> whether it likes it or not." And "the world" included Britain, something it
> would have to face.
>
> Britain had basically two options: to become part of Europe, which might in the
> longer term become a counterforce to the US; to become Washington's junior
> partner. Historically, Britain's major enemy was continental Europe, whether
> French- or German-led. It's not too surprising that British elites preferred the
> Atlantic relation, lining up with the dominant world power with which they had
> special cultural and economic ties anyway. Taking that course, what did they
> have to offer to the "special relationship" (as they perceived it)? The answer
> was given rather well by British military historian John Keegan at the time of
> the Gulf war, basically a US-British war. He pointed out that Britain couldn't
> compete economically any longer with Japan or Germany or France, and in fact had
> just been passed by Italy (a real psychological blow), but it still was
> pre-eminent in military force. As he put it: "The British are used to over 200
> years of expeditionary forces going overseas, fighting the Africans, the
> Chinese, the Indians, the Arabs. It's just something the British take for
> granted," and the war in the Gulf "rings very, very familiar imperial bells with
> the British." Same with other US escapades. That remains Britain's strongest
> card in international competition, particularly since the Thatcher years, with
> the deindustrialization and dismantling of the systems of social support and
> solidarity.
>
> There's very good work on the early stages of British policy (Christopher
> Thorne, John Saville, and others). There's also excellent work on how Britain's
> international policies developed (Mark Curtis has several very good books).
> There's a ton of literature on the US-Britain relationship. Off-hand, nothing
> spectacular comes to mind, and I don't have sources accessible to check right
> now.
>From http://www.britishcouncil-usa.org/contact/intro.htm
> The British Council is Britain's international network for education, culture
> and development services, sharing British expertise and experience with the
> United States and more than a hundred other countries.
>
> Our office in Washington, DC, is co-located with the British Embassy and we work
> closely with the Embassy and its network of British Consulates General and
> Consulates around the country.
>
> The aim of this website is to tell you of our interests and activities.
>
>
>
> •Education and training •Arts and culture •The European Series conference
> •Provide a comprehensive on-line information service for persons interested in
> studying or training in Britain •Provide access to sources of information about
> Britain and America
>
> If you work for an organisation interested in developing a collaboration with
> Britain in one of the areas in which we work, we should like to hear from you.
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED] to contact us.)
>
> Thank you for visiting our website, we welcome your comments, particularly on
> information you would like to see included.
>
>
> Produced in United States of America by the British Council © 1999. The British
> Council, registered in England as a charity no. 209131, is the United Kingdom's
> international network for education, culture and development services.
A<>E<>R
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking
new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said
it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your
own reason and your common sense." --Buddha
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled
one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller,
German Writer (1759-1805)
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that
prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
"Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless
of frontiers."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will
teach you to keep your mouth shut."
--- Ernest Hemingway
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material
is distributed without charge or profit to those who have
expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information
for non-profit research and educational purposes only.
DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER
==========
CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic
screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters
and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections 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, CTRL
gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers;
be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and
nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
========================================================================
Archives Available at:
http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
========================================================================
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
