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To: Alex who wrote (70114)	5/24/2001 7:24:04 AM
From: d:oug	Respond to of 116762

sick, very sicko the usa mainstream press is but then its what the mainstream usa people want keep it simple so one does not have to understand sex makes the world go around money rules safety & security rules majority of usa folks who watch usa t.v. have both are clueless to know where or how it arrived for them and clueless to know its a house of cards and when the house of cards falls most all on this thread will not be surprised we will be hurt less than 99% of population much less just make a link or connection your fiat money to either physical gold or companies with physical gold

To: Alex who wrote (70114)	5/24/2001 7:30:41 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116762

France will 'mobilise' for switch to the euro By Harry de Quetteville in Paris and Toby Helm in Berlin PRESIDENT CHIRAC called yesterday for a huge mobilisation of the French workforce to deal with the switch from francs to euro notes and coins next Jan 1. M Chirac was speaking after a meeting of the cabinet in which Lionel Jospin, the Prime Minister, outlined the government's proposals for the operation to deliver £70 billion worth of euros across the nation before the end of the year. telegraph.co.uk The president said: "The effort of all economic, administrative and social employees is crucial. Everyone must be mobilised because this is about making the biggest and most significant economic and financial reform in the last 50 years work." The logistics of safely delivering 1.5 billion euro notes and eight billion coins to France's 47,000 banks and post offices, and collecting in 1.4 million notes and 9.2 billion coins in francs, have been causing administrative headaches for many weeks. In most euro-zone countries details of how the new euro money will be moved around and by whom are being kept secret for obvious security reasons. In Germany, there has been talk of border guards being drafted in for special euro-protection duties. Normal police leave has been cancelled in Berlin for the first weeks of 2002 because of fears over crime and security concerns. Several countries, including Belgium and Luxembourg, have discussed using their armies to assist the changeover. Yesterday, M Jospin and Laurent Fabius, the Finance Minister, formally told M Chirac how the government planned to work the biggest cash swap in living memory. M Fabius said: "It is a very, very, big operation. The police, the gendarmerie and the army will be mobilised. Of course we are also counting on the security vans." But the security van guards, who have suffered increasing attacks over the past year by highly organised and well armed gangs, were not reassured by the government plan. Between Christmas and the New Year, they will be required to make 14,000 journeys to distribute euros to high streets across France. They claim that without police escorts they will become the targets of criminals wielding the rocket launchers and machine-guns which are the modern French robber's weapons of choice. Unions have already said that unless state help is forthcoming they will call a strike similar to a three-week protest last year which crippled banks and left cash machines empty. Jacques Charles, a union leader at Brinks, said: "They can make all the decrees they like. But if nothing changes it will end with strikes." Security guards feel that the current two-stage euro distribution plan will leave them particularly exposed to attack. The plan's first stage this autumn will involve a series of vast convoys by road and rail to move the euro notes and coins from the mint to regional storage centres. They will be escorted by troops and heavily armed police. Once the notes have arrived in the 131 regional branches of the Bank of France that protection will be withdrawn, and it will be up to the security vans to make local deliveries. M Charles said: "The plan sounds great at the top. They're talking about armoured trains, armoured cars, military bases being requisitioned. All the big transfers will be escorted. But when it comes to us, they're just going to load us up in the regional centres and say 'do as best you can'." He added: "You'd need an army to attack the main convoys. All I've got is my revolver." But even if the euros are delivered safely, the French government still has a long way to go to familiarise the people with them. The statistics are alarming. Fewer than half of small businesses have made any preparation for the arrival of the euro. Although the option of paying bills or writing cheques in euros was made available at the beginning of 1999, this has accounted for only a tiny fraction of such transactions since then.