cult of personailty

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i read some stuff on this fellow

he would walk around his, i guess palace you would call it, with a

microphone..and his musings would be broadcast all over the capitol

literally, they had speakers hidden in bushes, and statues and light poles

so, you'd hear him when he, umm..did his bits of business

 

and, he'd make up holidays, like " melon day " , and have tons of melons brought

into town centres and just dumped..so folks could just come and carry them off

 

Turkmen Leader Promises Free Gas, Electricity and Water to Every Citizen Through

2030

 

October 26, 2006 — By Associated Press

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan -- Turkmenistan's eccentric leader on Wednesday had the

parliament promise free natural gas, power and water to every citizen in the

energy-rich desert nation through 2030.

 

" This decision would help ensure a carefree life for our people, " President

Saparmurat Niyazov said, adding that the nation had enough hydrocarbons to last

250 years.

 

Niyazov, who prefers to be called Father of All Turkmen, first ordered in 1993

that all residents of the ex-Soviet nation receive gas, electricity, water and

salt free of charge for a decade, and in 2003 had the move extended through

2020.

 

A program for the development of energy industries approved at the parliament

session Wednesday envisages that natural gas output, which amounted to 63

billion cubic meters last year, will rise to 250 cubic meters by 2030, the

Interfax news agency reported.

 

Niyazov, Turkmenistan's Soviet-era Communist Party boss, has ruled the Central

Asian nation for 20 years and has developed an elaborate personality cult.

Golden statues and busts of the president are scattered across the country, and

his portrait is on every bank note and coin.

 

In recent years, he has tapped the country's vast energy wealth for outlandish

projects _ a theme park based on Turkmen folk art and fairy tales, a giant,

man-made lake in the Kara Kum desert and a vast cypress forest to change the

desert climate.

 

Source: Associated Press

 

 

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances,

there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in

such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest

we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

William O. Douglas

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I like the sound of this fellow! The Valley Vegan........fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote: i read some stuff on this fellowhe would walk around his, i guess palace you would call it, with a microphone..and his musings would be broadcast all over the capitolliterally, they had speakers hidden in bushes, and statues and light polesso, you'd hear him when he, umm..did his bits of businessand, he'd make up holidays, like "melon day", and have tons of melons brought into town centres and just dumped..so folks could just come and carry them offTurkmen Leader Promises Free Gas, Electricity and Water to Every Citizen Through 2030October 26, 2006 — By Associated Press ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan -- Turkmenistan's eccentric leader on Wednesday had the parliament promise

free natural gas, power and water to every citizen in the energy-rich desert nation through 2030. "This decision would help ensure a carefree life for our people," President Saparmurat Niyazov said, adding that the nation had enough hydrocarbons to last 250 years. Niyazov, who prefers to be called Father of All Turkmen, first ordered in 1993 that all residents of the ex-Soviet nation receive gas, electricity, water and salt free of charge for a decade, and in 2003 had the move extended through 2020. A program for the development of energy industries approved at the parliament session Wednesday envisages that natural gas output, which amounted to 63 billion cubic meters last year, will rise to 250 cubic meters by 2030, the Interfax news agency reported. Niyazov, Turkmenistan's Soviet-era Communist Party boss, has ruled the Central Asian nation for 20 years and has developed an elaborate personality cult. Golden statues and busts of the

president are scattered across the country, and his portrait is on every bank note and coin. In recent years, he has tapped the country's vast energy wealth for outlandish projects _ a theme park based on Turkmen folk art and fairy tales, a giant, man-made lake in the Kara Kum desert and a vast cypress forest to change the desert climate. Source: Associated Press As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. William O. DouglasTo send an email to -