STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [The Newspeak contained in this story is almost a self-caricature, but is highly illustrative of how the New World Order operates. According to the OSCE chief, the lack of democracy in the five Central Asian nations - as opposed to the presumably exemplary democracy practiced by his masters in the UK, which just registered the lowest voter turn out in a national election since 1918, or the US, where it's hard to get even half the registered voters to the polls (and where money is the real factor in any event) - leads to terrorism, instability and armed insurrections, and not the other way around. As though, in other words, a Western nation beset by armed attacks from abroad, car bomb explosions, urban guerrilla warfare, etc. would 'expand' the democratic rights and liberties of its citizens. See Britain, France, Spain, the U.S. and how they handle whatever they designate as terrorism in their own countries. What the OSCE head is prescribing is a formula for more Macedonias. But regarding the Central Asian countries, one of whose presidents entertains the curious notion that eating and being safe from terrorist attacks is more important than staging million dollar election circuses, the West (read: NATO) must apply the "carrot and the stick" to convince them "to open up their societies" because the West is supremely interested in "their natural resources like gas and oil." The last three words are the operative ones; the rest of the article is so much crocodile tears and camouflage.] Saturday June 9, 11:41 PM OSCE chief fears destablisation in Central Asian states BUCHAREST, June 9 (AFP) - The acting head of Europe's security body the OSCE expressed concern Saturday about the lack of interest in democracy in the Central Asian states, saying it could lead to a spread of terrorism and Islamic militancy there. Mircea Geoana, returning from a six-day tour to the region, said every leader he had met had shown a lack of interest in issues such as human rights, the right of opposition, freedom of the press and respect for the rule of law. "In gagging their opponents, they risk driving them to terrorist organisations and there exists in Central Asia a real danger of extremism, notably Islamic fundamentalism," Geoana, who is also Romania's foreign minister, told AFP. The presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, all former communist leaders of the ex-Soviet Union, have all to differing degrees adopted totalitarian methods. At the same time, they are all pressing for international economic aid and help to make their porous borders secure against an increasing trafficking in drugs, which transit the countries on the way to the western market, ravaging the local populations. To cite one example, Turkmenistan's Foreign Minister Batir Berdiev told Geoana during his visit: "the people are not ready for democracy... only economic development is a priority." "Every time that you talk to them about human rights, they reply: economy and security," a European ambassador who took part in the delegation said. Geoana said the region had been ignored by western powers, but was still of critical importance, not only because of its strategic location, but also because of the region's natural resources like gas and oil. Geoana said the international community should take more of an interest and try to sow the seeds of democracy there by a "carrot and stick" approach. "We have to say that these countries are not yet ready to open up their societies," he said. "But by using a policy of carrot and stick, by investing more... there is a chance of swinging them towards democracy," he said. Geoana said that all the leaders feared their dire economic problems, marked by heavy unemployment, would help destabilise their region. As regards security, they expressed fears about Islamic extremism, what they see as expansionist tendencies by another Central Asian country Uzbekistan and the dangers of fighting in neighbouring Afghanistan spilling over. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
