For a free market, not a black market !
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:44 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Well, to be perfectly fair, it was the Stalinists allied with the black marketeers who took over.
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> Joanna
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> The Aliev dynasty's Azerbaijan regime runs a kleptocratic petrostate
> in the interest of the multinational oil barons. The dynasty's
> founder, Geidar Aliev, was a leading figure, a hard-line Politburo
> member, in the Stalinist ruling class of the self-styled "USSR." It is
> spectacular proof that the "dissolution of the USSR" was not what the
> benighted degenerated-workers'-state epigones of Trotsky called a
> "counter-revolution" but rather the organic development of a counter-
> revolutionary Stalinist regime whose state-capitalist nature had
> already been "decided by history" a half-century earlier.
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> (from The Armenian Weekly, 18/09/14)
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> STRASBOURG—Today, the European Parliament with an overwhelming
> majority adopted a resolution condemning the persecution of human
> rights defenders in Azerbaijan, and calling for targeted sanctions
> against Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s regime, and visa bans
> against some who are directly responsible for oppression in the country.
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> Azerbaijan was harshly criticized by members of the European
> Parliament, who stressed the absurd reality of Azerbaijan currently
> holding the rotating Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Council of
> Ministers—an institution upholding values of Human Rights and Freedom—
> whereas, “in the last few years the general Human Rights climate in
> Azerbaijan has been deteriorating, with a major escalation of
> government repression, pressure and intimidation directed at NGOs,
> civil society activists, journalists and human rights defenders.”
>
> Parliamentarian Marie-Christine Vergiat (Confederal Group of the
> European United Left – Nordic Green Left, France) said that the
> impunity of Azerbaijan and the Aliyev regime should stop, that the EU
> should not be focused on oil and gas only, and that the Association
> Agreement with Azerbaijan should not go on. Parliamentarian Alexander
> Graf Lambsdorff (Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for
> Europe, Germany) stressed the gruesome reality facing civil society in
> Azerbaijan, after the authoritarian regime’s continuous and brutal
> crackdowns based on fabricated and politically motivated charges. It
> was also mentioned, that a few months earlier, President Aliyev had
> called his critics liars from the podium of the Council of Europe, and
> had rejected any sort of criticism, despite the deteriorating
> situation in Azerbaijan.
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> “[The European Parliament] deplores the actions taken by the
> Azerbaijani Government to curb contacts between civil society and
> youth activists and intellectuals from Armenia and Azerbaijan, since
> these contacts are of major importance for bridging the long-standing
> hostility between the two countries; in this regard, recalls the
> important work done in this area by Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif,”
> states the resolution.
>
> The resolution also stresses that the European Parliament’s consent to
> the signature of a partnership agreement with Azerbaijan will be
> conditional on the satisfactory implementation of the above-mentioned
> requirements, the release of human rights defenders, the withdrawal of
> legislation restricting the operations of an independent civil
> society, and the cessation of repression and intimidation of NGOs,
> independent media, opposition forces, human rights defenders and youth
> and social network activists. Members of the European Parliament
> stressed that Azerbaijan should be held accountable for its actions at
> home, and that promotion of human rights should be an inseparable part
> of the foreign policy of the EU.
>
> The resolution highlights the fact that the EU-Azerbaijan human rights
> dialogue has made no substantial progress; calls on the European
> External Action Service (EEAS) to step up this dialogue, aim for
> results, and to report regularly to Parliament; and calls on the EU
> Council and the Member States to urge the International Olympic
> Committee (IOC) to call on the Azerbaijani authorities to stop the
> crackdown on activists, and make it clear that it expects the country,
> as hosts of the European Olympic Games to be held next year, to uphold
> the Olympic Charter’s requirement to respect press freedoms.
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> Most importantly, the European Parliament recalls its position of May
> 24, 2012, and calls on the EU Council to consider the possibility of
> targeted sanctions against those responsible for human rights
> violations, should these persist.
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> Kaspar Karampetian, President of the European Armenian Federation for
> Justice and Democracy (EAFJD) said that finally the European Union is
> speaking up against the oppressive regime in Baku, and that
> Commissioner Neven Mimica’s intervention is in the right direction.
> “We welcome this resolution of the European Parliament—a resolution
> that upholds the real values of the European Union, while stressing
> the necessity of sanctions against the regime in Baku. Human Rights
> should be considered in all aspects of foreign policy; and energy flow
> to Europe should not blind the EU to breaches of Human Rights and
> fundamental freedoms,” said Karampetian, adding, “Real democracy in
> Azerbaijan and respect to the right of self-determination of peoples
> is the only key to solving the long standing conflict with Nagorno-
> Karabagh, and a peaceful co-habitation in the South Caucasus.”
>
> Shane Mage
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> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures.
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