get the hell out! that’s the cia, lady.they ruined half the world. the national endowment is one of thefirst organizations that helped, and they’re still helpingtoday in various ways. at that time, it was elementary helpfor our work and equipment.
Offshore Job Ghana, the ned and manyother foundations helped. the biggest help came from thesoros foundation which was supporting independent media andngos in serbia the whole time. the thing that made thisfoundation the most efficient,
was that its headquarterswere in belgrade. so, its big office was in belgrade andthey could understand very easily what was going on, whoneeded help and where the help could be themost efficient, etc. that’s someoneelse’s money, man! well, the big bucks alwaysbelong to someone else. the information was on thedemocratic party’s website. that day, spokesperson cedomir jovanovic,at the dos press conference, said this. at the moment,this is the vote count:
vojislav kostunicareceived 2,783,870 votes. later, based on 98,72%counted election ballots, cedomir jovanovicshared these results. according to ourinformation, vojislav kostunica cancount on 2,649,000 votes in only one hour, the dos election stafflost 134,852 votes of their candidate. this kind of calculationis without precedent, it’s beyond allmathematic rules. simply said, the absolute sum,number of votes that a candidate won
can't decrease with the increasingtotal number of the counted votes. we had to take some measuresimmediately, almost at the same time when the barriers were closingthe borders with the west. in practically 5 or 6 days we visitedall our buyers in europe as well as our suppliers and we agreed oncontinuing our business relations. this means that our relationship withforeign buyers was so excellent, they appreciated usso much, that they agreed to work with useven under sanctions. our production was increasing all thetime because we had a market.
in 1999, we hadvery ambitious plans, but the bombingsstarted in march. thanks to the fact thatwe were close to the border, we succeeded to continuedoing business with foreign countries, evenduring the bombings. i will tell you a paradox,in that situation, and we how know longthe bombing lasted… in 1999, we had biggerproduction results than in 1998. of course, i was aware that foreignelements were involved in the changes
but i was hoping that betterdays were coming for the economy, that we wouldopen up more to the world. on october 6, 2000, some, i’d say,thugs burst into sever. thugs. i recognized some, but most ofthem came outside of sever. they burst into the building,managed to rebel people in one section and barged into the buildingwhere my office was. i came out, surprisedby the crowd. then we went to thenearby sever stadium, they practicallyarrested me
paraded me through the company as theworst scum, pushing me in front of them they didn’t let me return to my officeand practically threw me out of sever. right after i left, severstarted having problems. i always used to say thatif we stop production for only two days, we’lldisrupt our position on the market, and when themarket is lost, sever will be no more. as early as late october2000, production drastically decreased, sever’s positionon the market was disrupted and the collapse began. all peoplethink highly of themselves,
but i think that i was anextraordinary fighter for sever and that’s why theanswer to your question about how i feel about all this,is that i feel very emotional. when your life’swork is destroyed, when it was done by people whohave never built even a toilet, then it’s a tragedy and i thinkthat it would be unpleasant if the public heard the confession ofa man who was building this company for 30 years and led itwith his staff it to its biggest success on marketson four continents.
right after 2000, we accepted aneoliberal reforms program which was unsuccessful in the 1990sin all the countries in transition where it was implemented. it’s theso-called ‘washington consensus’ the washington consensus was createdby the international monetary fund the world bank and the unitedstates administration. it’s a codified program ofeconomic neo-colonialism based on threebasic elements: stabilization, liberalizationand privatization. that financial stabilization wasimplemented in our country in the form
of an almost fixed exchangerate, which led to an overrated rate of our domesticcurrency, the serbian dinar. let me explain thiswith a simple example. suppose that we were a companythat produced these pencils and sold a dozen pencils for1 dollar in the united states. so, we wereexporting those pencils. the production andexport costs for our company in october 2000 were50 serbian dinars. we were a company thatwas doing good business.
we produce, we export, our costs are 50dinars, we get 1 dollar and exchange it, the exchange rate thenwas 60 dinars for a dollar so we are aprofitable company. so, in order to produce the samedozen pencils, for which we needed 50 dinars in october,now we need 75 dinars. we export these pencils again to theunited states, we get 1 dollar, the exchange rate is still the same,and we get 60 dinars for the dollar. and we can close our company. we immediately implementedvery wide liberalization.
we reduced all customs dutiesto single figure numbers we basically reducedthem to one third, we cancelled almostall duty free limitations and we made it possible for foreigngoods to be cheaper on our market. the money from the sale of thecompanies which were privatized went mostly into the state budget andinstead of using it for development it was used forcurrent spending. we implemented areally bad, plundering privatization, every citizenin serbia knows that.
hundreds of thousands ofpeople lost their jobs and they know what wasdone to those companies. new owners, managers, largely boughtcompanies in order to pump out money to their offshore companies,so their interest was profit at theexpense of our society. you claimed that the economic policyof stabilization, liberalization and privatization would bringprosperity to the people, while serbia waseconomically destroyed. concerning the washington consensus,all of europe implemented it
while it was still in fashion. it was infashion during the 1990s and early 2000s. things in life, as well as in theeconomy, are variable. i can’t push the same economicphilosophy my whole life, because that wouldmake me an idiot. when you’re selling something, the priceis not important. -how is it not important? the price is not important.it matters whether you can increase employmentand make profit. you’re all insane. rules are rules.
and where are wenow after ten years? industrial production in 2010 was11,4% less than it was in 1998. let me remind you, in 1998 we wereunder sanctions, right before the bombing. not to mention the year 1990.our industrial production was more than halved, now it’s46,7% of our production in 1990. the first loan that we got forour emerging yugoslav economy was received in 1949,amounting to 3 million dollars. the condition given to us by the usand the world bank for getting the loan was for yugoslavia toreturn the greek partisans
from southern serbia andmacedonia to greece right after returning to greece,the greeks killed all of the partisans. the loans were between 3million to 15, 20 and 30 million dollars fora 5 to 10 year period. so we got medium-term loans,not long-term loans. by taking those loans, yugoslavia receivedspecial treatment by the west, especially the united states. when i discovered what that specialtreatment meant, it was literally written in source documents: 'help themmaximally to their destruction.'
these coups, the coup against allende,the coup in brazil against joao goulart, the coups that took place throughoutcentral and south america all had the aim of giving the unitedstates control over this region. in 1994, croatia was at war andbecause of that, the state had a bigger budget deficit, and at the same timethere was no foreign income from tourism, and there was a deficit ofthe balance of payments. this meant that there wasmore foreign currency going out of thecountry, than coming in. croatia resolves the hyperinflationby transforming
the central bank to an exchange office, andthat’s where the biggest problem started. before 1994 the state emitted our money,the so-called croatian dinar. after 1994, the croatiankuna became our currency and for every kunareleased into circulation, it was necessary to take a loan abroad.the kuna became a voucher for the euro. so, if a national bankwants to give you a loan, it can’t get the kunas from thecentral bank to give them to you. first, our bank has to borroweuros on a foreign market, then those euros are exchanged tokunas at the croatian national bank,
and that’s why people who take a loanin kunas, have to sign a currency clause. our money is noteven printed in croatia, that’s a horrificbit of information. if you take the 10 kuna note, right belowthe pula arena, it says it’s produced by giesecke & devrient germany, on the 20 kuna note, it saysgiesecke & devrient germany, so it too isprinted in germany. the 50 kuna note, however, isprinted in austria, by cebs austria. the 1000 kuna note isalso printed in germany,
and finally, the 100kuna, by cebs austria. i asked the so-calledcroatian national bank why our national currencyisn’t printed in croatia. the answer was that itwasn’t profitable. then i asked theessential question. if it’s not profitable in ourcountry to print our money, then what kindof production is? from the very beginning, tudjman was hellbent on creating a rich croatian elite, 200 rich families in croatia.
of course, he only cared about hisfamily and friends getting rich. on the other hand, tudjman was,without a doubt, a warlord. the entire profit that tudjman, his familyand those 200 families made, is actually bloody money, acquired incriminal ways during the war. before the 1990s they couldn’teven afford a cup of coffee while after 1992, theywere multimillionaires. how can one explain that milosevicand tudjman, throughout the war period, had at least threecommon banks abroad? they invested capital in them,kept their secret accounts there.
here is one example. half offranco-yugoslav bank in paris was owned by the croats, the other halfby the serbs, during the entire war. i found documents from tudjman’s regime,written decisions, from 1993, about a recapitalization of thefranco-yugoslav bank in paris. do you know who the president of thebank’s administration was at that time? the now deceasedbora milosevic. nobody can convince me thatit wasn’t an agreed war. the elites in both yugoslavia and thewest found some common interests. the west’s obvious interest was the breakupof yugoslavia, and our domestic elites
needed to cover up their robbery.this could only be done by war. yugoslavia could breakup only through war. that’s why the west gave their blessingsfor that kind of development of events. trafficking organs?are you sick? you think i’m like that? don’tbelieve in everything that’s said. i’m not so wretched. did the ’yellow house’ exist? what yellow house? what is theyellow house? why yellow? the ’yellow house’ in albania.
sir, you should get a check-up. those who say that areidiots and murderers. during the 4 war years, gotovina earned thehidroelektro niskogradnja company, which was worth around 63 million dollarsat the moment of privatization; one house in a residential part of zagreb,today worth around 1,2 million dollars; only from the highway constructionhe earned 3,3 million dollars; a villa in pakostani, today worth4,4 million dollars, situated near the sea. he also has a military pensionwhich is 1,900 dollars. that’s for coffee anddrinks with friends.
and he’s supposed to be a hero? accordingto any definition, he is a war profiteer. in the 1990s tudjman nominatedso-called secret trustees which were legally the owners ofthe secret bank accounts abroad. they included politicians and criminals.the trustees were vladimir zagorec, convicted for organized crime, alsothe most honoured croatian general; hrvoje petrac, convictedfor organized crime, a notorious mafia boss in croatia;branimir glavas, convicted war criminal; ivan cermak, the oil boss who acquiredhis oil capital by war profiteering and in oil trades with serbian warlordarkan during the war;
then there wasalso ivo sanader. sanader thought he was thenew tudjman. he gathered the gang and told them to givehim control over the bank accounts where theywere still trustees. of course, sanader never had tudjman’sauthority over any one of them. he started stealing from public companies,taking the money out of the croatian electric company, the croatian highways,he continued the cigarette smuggling, etc. he had to find alternative sourcesfor his multimillion illegal income. i’ve done my part, nowit’s time for others.
no, no, others can continue. the guys on top are doing sh*t and f**kingwith us because we’re fools, and they’re getting help from that whorecalled the ’international community’. institutions that should be dealing withthose issues, actually deal with theory - what corruption is, how did it emerge,but i don’t see any work results. about two and ahalf months ago, i went to the city police departmentwith a completed case with all the evidence there, almostin the form of criminal charges. however, the dear police chief waswatching a cartoon the entire time
perhaps your tv wasairing it at the time. so, donald duck wasdoing what he does and the police chief briefly askedme what was the case about, but quickly went back to hispriority – the cartoon. and when the cartoon ended?- unfortunately, the cartoon never ended. lilacs! boris tadic had… fourscoops of ice cream. gaso knezevic wanted to replace thewhole concept of traditional education with a new, neoliberaleducation system.
after fifteen years we can see thecatastrophic consequences of that. according to research, 33% of allstudents are functionally illiterate, as high as 20% of highschool graduates say that they’ve neverread a single book. the quality of our educational systemis at its lowest level in serbian history. how much is 12 times 8?careful, that’s more than 100. not true, 96. f*ck culture,i'm a man. i put that on youtube andfound it very effective,
because it is the sad essence ofserbian culture nowadays. he called, and called,and said ’i saw the trailer, please take out mypart from the trailer, because i’m in a politicalparty that will probably become thegoverning party in my town’. it bothered him because he thoughtthat when his party comes to power, he will become the director ofthe cultural centre in paracin. he called me several times and eventuallyi told him: ’you know what? you’ll become the cultural centre director for sure,because they need people just like you’.
the fact of the matter is that inmany places, not only paracin, they hand over cultural work to peoplewho couldn’t care less about culture. dance, let everybody know thatwe are celebrating a birthday tonight's show: "i’m whoringit up with your godfather." i should get naked? ok. yeah, i’ll take them out.there you go. you are so ugly! don’t you think that you went too far?- yes, i am aware of that but i like it, and that’sall that matters for me.
oh no, don’t tell me... ah. i willnever have a picnic in that park again. nothing, nothing, iam wearing nothing; i don’thave underwear,because it’s too tight. kulovgrad, kulovgrad, you shine likegold, you’ll be ours forever! fox news, mr. president. - fox? i love you people.the stupid people from fox news. this began with the election ofpresident hugo chavez in venezuela, and then all of latin americagained a new political face. geopolitically, our regionhad a big transformation.
but this also originated in a verystrong union amongst peoples, the peoples decided to endthese neoliberal governments, and to get rid of thewashington consensus. the army as it is now couldhardly contribute to the protection of the territorial integrity,at least for some reasonable time the question is, what is reasonable andwhat should we do afterwards? because there is simply no capacityfor confronting anyone. we have only 220 tanks. what canyou do with 220 tanks? he improved breakfast inthe military barracks.
he presented this as one ofhis biggest achievements. how did we get here? in that transformation process,uneducated people came up again, people who didn’t graduate in ourschools, but in some foreign schools. those nato standards. thoseuneducated students brought us here. one of the problems was thecriteria, how to choose an officer. so they made a staff pyramid.on top of the pyramid were those who spoke english well andwho were good with computers. we drastically reduced thenumber of our soldiers,
we reduced our heavy weaponry.i actually think that this derived from the thinking that the army shouldmainly be used for peacekeeping missions, so-called peacekeeping missions,though they’re really combat missions, either under the un,the eu or nato, but for a serious fight,i don’t see any potential. our army was completely transformedin the way it was demanded from abroad. we have the general staff,the ministries according to gs, the nato standards g1, g2, g3. solet the gs get out and fill up those sand bags to save ourpeople. it’s incredible that
the arrival of two amphibious vehiclesto the flooded area is breaking news on tv. where are all those amphibiousvehicles that our army had? how is it possible that they send apublic appeal on tv for 150 shovels? ‘people, bring shovelsto the army’. those kinds of appeals existeverywhere in the world, come on. no, in organized countries theyat least have shovels. since nobody invested in the army forthe last 20 years, reforms that were glamorously celebrated really meant havingmilitary advisors who were british and dutch generals and thisis how they lined up our
army, and this mess isthe result of all that. who funds the center? you're so rude, goodbye! does everyone have the rightto a different opinion? - no! no?- what someone says ordoes isn’t necessarily opinion. how can someone not have a rightto a different opinion in a democracy? that’s exactly wherethe problem lies. and for that you need experienceas a pedagogue, right? of course. in a country like serbia, where thereis a high level of psycho-social
disintegration of society, it is veryeasy to manipulate the entire society, or parts of it, any group, especiallythe most vulnerable ones. mostly the young ones who are still inthe process of establishing their own life values are subjectedto brain washing. it’s actually intellectual engineering,concerning value judgments first, that is to say, political opinions, thatare the most important and most interesting ones for those who use it,because young people are just forming their opinions and theyeasily change them. this makes them an easy target forthose who want to manipulate them.
we are going to startrepaying our debts in 2006. 2 years after october 5th 2000, we createdcertain credibility for our government and the moment hascome for us, with our credibility whichno one can doubt, to ask somedifficult questions. if we have to ignoreour national interests to get an 'international' reputation,then we don’t really need it. today, nobody can force someone todo something he doesn’t want to, that time has passed.
we're not a child,we're a country. we, in belgrade, should have theright to talk about our interests in a decisive, open,and efficient way. we shouldn’t be punished all the time. whenwe’re talking about national interests, the us can have nationalinterests in iraq, but serbia can’t have nationalinterests in kosovo? how’s that? we don’t have asingle good team dealing with our economic ties withrussia, china, and that’s a real disaster. the european union is an internationalorganization created with the aim
of permanent peacekeeping,because europe as a continent, suffered the most from wars. the most important role was played bygermany, great britain and france, and they are trying, through somekind of economic integrations, a single market anda monetary union to initiate that common idea aboutpeacekeeping and peaceful integrations. i believe that the european union offersmore possibilites and higher standards and social and economic policies, and apersonal standard for every one of us. since we are a country that’sbeen sold, partly seized,
partly sold intodebt slavery, we neither have our ownmaterial nor cultural identity, even our lands are for sale. we sold all the factories, all thebanks have foreign ownership, there is only one still in ourhands, which is a miracle. we ate our own substance,ate, sold, spent, wasted, remained with nothing,and like that, we are rushing into the vastnessof historical reality, as our deceased franjotudjman would say.
fascism is creeping up behindpractically all european countries. that’s why croatia shouldn’t be ashamedof entering the european union, because we are there withthose who are like us. in spite of everything, we’llbecome a member of the eu! in spite of everything! just like we brought fiat to kragujevac,the south korean yura to raca and nis, falke to leskovac, golden lady toloznica, panasonic is now in serbia, and now johnson electric came, i wasbasically the one who signed that contract, also bosch and 200other companies built
factories in serbia, butthat’s not enough. despite the fact that we werecooperating with subcontractors, we expanded our domestic productionand the subcontractors in our town were growing in parallel with us,which is very important to say. mladjan dinkic, the ministerof finance and economy, and mario moretti pelegato,the president of geox, signed a contract about receivingfunds for direct investment, that will open the possibilityof creating new jobs. then it is a market wherethere is no fair play.
workers started leaving us becausewe couldn’t compete with a company that got five times as much moneyas we got, that got construction land for free, and all the electricityand water connections for free. i personally think that thepoliticians only cared about having their phototaken, the media propaganda, bringing investors,and not what that investment will bringto us in the long run. so, people are hangingthemselves now. people who can’t find a way out o f poverty,
who can’t create a living for theirfamilies, can’t earn a buck for food. the most horrible ways. hanging,jumping out of a window. in bitola, a policeman’s father stole his son’s gunand shot himself. in stip, a man burned himself.it’s really tragic and very hard. whenever i talk about these things,i always react emotionally. in macedonia, during the transition,we expected the job market to improve, we expected more jobs, and that most of the people couldexercise their right to work.
that didn’t happen at all. mostpeople were left unemployed. the healthcare reforms and the healthcaresystem privatization also left many people withouthealth insurance. basically, the poorest onesdon’t have health insurance. the general social pictureof macedonia is not pretty. we don’t have democracy. we don’t haveinstitutions that work for the people. today, the relative poverty rate is at30,4%. we have data from 2011, but in 2012 and 2013 macedonia didn’tpublish any data about poverty. we can only imagine why.
the same poverty rate was at 19% in 1998, so we’ve had a rapid increaseof poverty in this country. the courts can’t deliver unpaid paychecksthat my company ows me the last 12 years. but if i don’t pay the electricityfor one month, they cut it off, even though i have nomoney to pay the bill. in 2011, 37,9% of people couldn’tpay their electricity, water and heating bills. and 56,9%, so almost60% of citizens are hungry in macedonia. if they arrest me tomorrow, i’llbe one happy camper, believe me. for me, prison is afive-star hotel.
free food, decent bed,no courts or bailiffs, i’d feel peaceful and carelesswithin those four walls. the most terrible thing is thatthere is no social dialogue. the political partiesinterfere with the unions which obstructs any harmonization of therights of workers and their employers. we don’t haveany union activities, no strikes, no protests,we don’t have a political fight between the government,the workers and the employers, a three-party dialogue thatwould lead to progress
for workers’ rights,that’s all been stifled. 56,4% of retirees haveincomes below the average. 41% of them receive the minimalpension, 160 dollars a month. 40 years of work and investingin their pension fund and today theyget only 160 dollars. with that, they haveto buy medication, which most people overthe age of 65 need, they have to financiallysupport their grandchildren, children with theirhusbands or wives, etc.
research shows that a young marriedcouple with one or two kids will live well if they haveone retiree living with them, because they can eat. and they are reallythrilled with two retirees at home, then they havea luxurious life. this points out thatgenerations which should give the biggestcontribution to the society, they are not active on the job marketand live from their parents’ pensions. many people areadmitting now that we lived well under socialism.
we had free education, free healthcare,we traveled where we wanted, we had decent tv programming, we all hadvacations that we enjoyed, but today, sadly, we have none of that. we’re leftwith nostalgia, a very big nostalgia, especially for older generations. spoiled childrenwho have it all, do not respect that. with the dismantling and destructionof the economy of yugoslavia, the middle class has been left withno rights, the middle class is gone. and there is a huge gap betweenthe poor and the ultra-rich.
the gap between the rich and the pooris increasing because of the politics that care about the wealth of the richand not the well-being of the poor. the gini index, used to measure thedispersion between the rich and the poor, was 28,1 in 1998; in 2009 it increased to 43, so thegap between the rich and the poor has almost doubled. the highest salary in macedonia is 185times bigger than the average gross wage. we used to emphasize the cult ofwork, knowledge and activities. today we have the cult of wealth, we cansee that wealth is the absolute criteria
for everything and everyone. you don’thave to be educated or intelligent; but if you have money, allthe doors are open for you. we are living in somekind of tycoon era, where the rich grabbed not onlythe most of the economic power, but also practically allthe political power. the government ofthe political oligarchy, with the helpof the constitution, allows the political oligarchy tocreate laws that favour only some. this means that the politicaloligarchy favours only individuals
with which it sharesthe power it usurped. he came once from the east, therich sheikh with black eyes… they will invest 120million dollars. wow, i’ve got it made! hey sheikh, sheikh, iswear to your allah, i will make you, sheikh,very very poor. i think it’s good that someexperts came in, especially the minister of economy,finance and administration,… kori udovicki? - udovicki, yes.also, lazar… - krstic.
and… what’s his name… - dusan vujovic- vujovic, yes they’re all from thesame neoliberal school that cuts off state spending and social programs. do you think that things can changein the country through elections? i don’t think so. - why not?- it’s always the same folks in power. elections… i doubt it. it has never beenpossible, not even today. who knows?- they can’t be changed through elections
things can’t change- it think they can’t. no. - no, man. don’t think so. - no.- no. - nope. elections? who are wekidding, we live in serbia. in serbia, no. the samepoliticians always come to power. it’s an illusion, that people thinkthey are asked to make decisions. does anythingreally change? no. change has to start fromus, not from elections. thank you.
as far as i know, nobodywon elections by saying they will put us into debtand sell off state property. only when theycome to power is when they do all that.none of the peoples from the former yugoslavia had a chance toconfront the political oligarchy because the people weren’t aware oftheir ugly and horrible intentions. citizens of serbia areless and less interested in the political systemin which they live. only a third thinks thatdemocracy is an ideal system,
and the others are convinced thatserbia’s downfall started october 5th. protests, 24-hours walks and thestruggle for democracy didn’t bring us what we expected. we don’t live better.half of those polled think that there are other systemsthat could better suit serbia. the overwhelming majority thinks thatlife was better during socialism, during tito’s era. 10% think that the goldenperiod was after 2000, a little less think that lifewas the best in the 1990s, and only 4% think thatlife is better after 2012.
we shouldn’t forget that theworld oligarchy and big capital have huge financial power and hugeresources to shape countries like serbia, and in most of the countries, both themedia space and the political space, the way inwhich they please. it’s considered that those whoreceive social help are lazy, that they live at the state’s expense. iasked government institutions several times if they really thinkthat people receiving social aid really livefrom that social help, because i think itdoesn’t work like that.
they work on the black market,they collect and sell scrap iron, old plastic, or things that they produced by themselves. dear politicians, if youtry to do their work so that you can bring homesome 4 dollars a day, tell me if you are lazyand if they are lazy, those people who fight every dayto bring home a piece of bread. translated bysvetlana maksoviä†igor stevanoviä†
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