Reply With QuoteNewly independent countries often get some wacky ****ers who grab absolute power and make some "interesting" policy choices. The early post colonial period in Africa was filled with such megalomania.
- He calls himself "Perpetual Ruler"
- He has forbidden playback singing
- He forced his people to celebrate "Mother´s Day" on his mother´s birthday.
- He doesnt understand english, but just told his ministers that if they dont learn english in 6 months they all will be fired
- He has closed all the hospitals and libraries in the inner provinces, forcing the rural population to travel long hours to get medical assistance or just a book.
- He is spending 18 million dollars in building a Zoo in the Karabum desert, where temperature is often 40 degrees in the shadow, he wants to put penguins there.
- According to the government, he is a literary genius, kids learn at school how to read with a biography of him and his family, with a rather mythical tone.
- There is a statue made of gold of him in the capital, which rotates following the sun.
I translated this from spanish
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/12...do/i-03501.htm
it was taken from Ansa, Moscow, so, it was not invented (after reading it the first time I thought it was a joke and that someone had hacked this story into the newspaper)
Newly independent countries often get some wacky ****ers who grab absolute power and make some "interesting" policy choices. The early post colonial period in Africa was filled with such megalomania.
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
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He calls himself Turkmenbashi " Father of all Turkmens"
and Turkmenistan ahs the third greatest gas reserves in the world.
I need a foot massage
This guy's got a screw loose. Almost as insane as Bush.
Nothing to see here, move along: http://selzlab.blogspot.com
The attempt to produce Heaven on Earth often produces Hell. -Karl Popper
- He calls himself "Perpetual Ruler"
Cool name
- He has forbidden playback singing
Not really crazy, just gets to some people
- He forced his people to celebrate "Mother´s Day" on his mother´s birthday.
Come on...it's a great mother's day present.
- He doesnt understand english, but just told his ministers that if they dont learn english in 6 months they all will be fired
If they all know it he won't have to
- He has closed all the hospitals and libraries in the inner provinces, forcing the rural population to travel long hours to get medical assistance or just a book.
Can be better for the economy
- He is spending 18 million dollars in building a Zoo in the Karabum desert, where temperature is often 40 degrees in the shadow, he wants to put penguins there.
Girls like penguins....there ya go
- According to the government, he is a literary genius, kids learn at school how to read with a biography of him and his family, with a rather mythical tone.
As long as it teaches them how to read it's cool
- There is a statue made of gold of him in the capital, which rotates following the sun.
That'd be awesome to have of you.
These aren't things a leader should necessarily do, but if you can get away with it, I don't see anything really stupid about it.
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"Apocalype was a great game." - DrSpike
"In Apoc, I had one soldier who lasted through the entire game... was pretty cool. I like apoc for that reason, the soldiers are a bit more 'personal'." - General Ludd
Yeah he ain't wacky at all, just has a rather high opinion of himself.
do they elect their crazies over there or not?
Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"
http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/12/16/70026.html
"If you can't get around without a translator, then you can't be minister. You need to argue, decide, know. Therefore, if you want to study on your own, learn at home at nights so that you know the language," Niyazov said in comments on state-run television.
Niyazov, who speaks Russian and Turkmen but whose grasp of English was not immediately known, has banned all opposition and controls all branches of government and the media. Golden statues and busts of the president are scattered across the country, and his portrait is on every bank note and coin.
In Monday, he ordered construction of a university to be named after his book "Rukhnama," which is held as a sacred text in this ex-Soviet republic and is mandatory reading for every Turkmen at schools and workplaces.
Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"
Seeings how the per capital income in turkmanistan is so low building giant motorized statues of himself doesn't seem like the best use for scarce government funds.Originally posted by Flip McWho
Yeah he ain't wacky at all, just has a rather high opinion of himself.
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
@Apo: Would you take the same attitude to Kim Jong-Il?
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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Hey, Turkmenistan is an US ally, but NK is not.Originally posted by Last Conformist
@Apo: Would you take the same attitude to Kim Jong-Il?
Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"
I'm just commenting on those facts, nothing else.Originally posted by Last Conformist
@Apo: Would you take the same attitude to Kim Jong-Il?
"Yay Apoc!!!!!!!" - bipolarbear
"At least there were some thoughts went into Apocalypse." - Urban Ranger
"Apocalype was a great game." - DrSpike
"In Apoc, I had one soldier who lasted through the entire game... was pretty cool. I like apoc for that reason, the soldiers are a bit more 'personal'." - General Ludd
Didn't this guy also rename a month after himself or something?
yes I think the month of January has his name at the moment.
Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"
This guy's got a screw loose. Almost as insane as Bush.
Then move there
I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
Asher on molly bloom
Laz should HF this guy.
Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave
Hey, Turkmenistan is an US ally,
No it isnt.
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
You're thinking of Uzbekistan. There, the ruler is very sane, and also very willing to kill or torture anyone who disagrees with him.Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave
Hey, Turkmenistan is an US ally.
"Remember, there's good stuff in American culture, too. It's just that by "good stuff" we mean "attacking the French," and Germany's been doing that for ages now, so, well, where does that leave us?" - Elok
Uzbekistan evicted us from the bases there, cause we were making do big a fuss about human rights.Originally posted by Admiral
You're thinking of Uzbekistan. There, the ruler is very sane, and also very willing to kill or torture anyone who disagrees with him.
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
El bumpo
"Turkmen President Promises Heaven to All Readers of His New Book
Turkmenistan’s president-for-life Saparmurat Niyazov announced on state television that anyone reading his philosophical work three times would be assured a place in heaven, AFP reported.
“Anyone who reads the Rukhnama three times will find spiritual wealth, will become more intelligent, will recognize the divine being and will go straight to heaven,” Niyazov said Monday.
The Turkmen leader said he had “called on Allah” while working on the two-volume book to ensure that enthusiastic readers would be given quicker access to heaven.
Niyazov, known as Turkmenbashi (Leader of the Turkmen Peoples), has set up a bizarre personality cult, including erecting gold statues of himself and his deceased parents in strategic spots across his largely-desert country.
The Rukhnama, a collection of philosophical and religious writings, is compulsory reading for schoolchildren and government officials across the former Soviet republic in Central Asia."
http://mosnews.com/news/2006/03/21/h...ypromise.shtml
I need a foot massage
Cool, Dan Brown doesn't promise that
"Yay Apoc!!!!!!!" - bipolarbear
"At least there were some thoughts went into Apocalypse." - Urban Ranger
"Apocalype was a great game." - DrSpike
"In Apoc, I had one soldier who lasted through the entire game... was pretty cool. I like apoc for that reason, the soldiers are a bit more 'personal'." - General Ludd
I think this guy should reform islam!
I need a foot massage
He's a funny guy, but not dangerous for rest of the world. Kind of like Kim Jong-Il without nukes and crappy hairdo. He probably went a little bonkers after half of his relatives got killed in WW2 and the other half in an earthquake in 1948, leaving him into the care of USSR state orphanage at the age of eight. If I would've spent my childhood under the patronage of the state of the Soviet Union, I'd be a bit crazy too.
Ranked 18 in the Stock of Dictators, between Ceausescu and Milosevic. In contrast to the current rulers of his neighbouring countries, he's a pretty nice guy actually.
That's the same guy why made beards illigal, right?
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - Epicurus
yep.
As President-for-Life of Turkmenistan, he has issued many unconventional decrees, such as:
* banning news readers from wearing make-up as Niyazov had difficulty telling male and female readers apart
* banning lip syncing when performing songs
* In December, 1999, that every school pupil, student, soldier and military officer in Turkmenistan is to be presented on New Year's Eve with a watch bearing the picture of President Saparmurat Niyazov
* In April, 2001, banning ballet and opera, describing them as "Not a part of Turkmen culture"
* In 2001, forbidding young men to wear long hair or beards
* In June 2001, requiring foreigners wishing to marry a Turkmen national to pay a $50,000 fee.
* In 2002, renaming bread from chorek, the traditional Turkmen word, to Gurbansoltan edzhe after his mother
* In August 2002, redefining the stages of life, with adolescence extending to 25 and old age beginning at 85 (detailed below)
* In 2004, insisting that all licensed drivers pass a morality test
* In March 2004, dismissing 15,000 public health workers in wide-ranging cuts that particularly targeted nurses, midwives, school health visitors and orderlies[1]
* In April 2004, urging young people not to get gold tooth caps or gold teeth, suggesting instead that they chew on bones to preserve their teeth[2]
* In February 2005, ordering the closure of all hospitals outside Ashgabat, saying that if people were ill, they could come to the capital; also ordering the closure of all rural libraries of Turkmenistan, saying that ordinary Turkmens do not read books anyway[3]
* In November 2005, ordering that physicians swear an oath to himself instead of the Hippocratic Oath
* In December 2005, banning video games, stating that they were too violent for young Turkmen to play
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niyazov
CSPA
Only country I've visited where customs searched all luggage in and out
If they get a gas pipeline built then the country (or the leader) is going to be incredibly rich, which is not a comforting thought
"An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop" - Excession
I think in many ways it's better to have a blatantly crazy leader than one who purports to be decent, sane, and moral.
If bush was building gold statues of hismelf and building penguin ranches instead of liberating everyone from themselves, he wouldn't be hated so much.
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The guy sounds like my kind of guy
When I rule the world I will vow to put a penguin in every home!
I started to like the guy...Originally posted by Gangerolf
* banning lip syncing when performing songs
* In 2004, insisting that all licensed drivers pass a morality test
Now I want him dead.* In December 2005, banning video games, stating that they were too violent for young Turkmen to play
The videogames make me violent.
I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"
He wants to be the next Mohammed.
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