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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (14744)	10/2/1999 10:30:00 AM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Global community? Prepare? We live on the same planet? Austria's far-right scents victory Austrian voters could be on the verge of upsetting the political order Polls in Austria are predicting the downfall of the Conservataive-Socialist alliance which has dominated Austrian politics for the past 13 years. The far-right Freedom party is expecting to redraw the political map by making big gains in Sunday's parliamentary election, although it has faced criticism from respected mainstream figures. The Social Democrats (SPOe) led by Chancellor Viktor Klima risk losing their majority in parliament for the first time in 30 years. Stagnation and splits Many voters are fed up with the stagnation caused by Austria's cosy power sharing system between the SPOe and the conservative People's Party (OeVP). Klima (left) and Schuessel shake after TV debate Austria, which joined the European Union in 1995, has been run by this coalition since 1986 with the People's Party as junior partner. The country has never been more economically stable than under the "grand coalition", as it is called. Austria is one of Europe's richest countries and has one of the EU's lowest unemployment levels. But the coalition is split over key issues like the degree of liberalisation of the economy and whether Austria, which has been neutral since 1955, should join Nato. People's Party leader and foreign minister Wolfgang Shuessel says neutrality should not be an option for EU members. Resurgent right The splits have been cleverly exploited by the champion of disenchanted voters, Joerg Haider, the Freedom party leader. Dismissing charges that he harks back to the country's Nazi past, Mr Haider has successfully played on fears of foreign immigration and has promised to cut bureaucracy. Haider has avoided pro-Nazi gaffes that have dogged his career He says immigrants and asylum seekers come to Austria to suck dry the country's generous welfare system. Pensions are a key issue in Sunday's election - by the year 2010 the number of pensioners in Austria will significantly outnumber the national workforce - and many do not trust the coalition's ability to guarantee payments in the future. But Austrian EU Commissioner Franz Fischler launched a scathing attack on the Freedom party on Friday, accusing it of an anti-foreigner, anti-EU philosophy which would damage the country's international image. Another respected statesman, former Chancellor Franz Vranitzky joined the attack, warning that Austria risked isolation if the party were allowed to gain a foothold on power. This is certainly the most exciting Austrian election for decades. Only on Sunday night will it emerge how far the electorate have abandoned the established certainties of centrist rule in favour of the far right. news.bbc.co.uk

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (14744)	10/2/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Gus how about more conspiracy? Your Mossad theory just pails in exitment.. Some believe that the person using the name "Clinton" was ordered, by the secret societies that installed him as President,to start the war against Serbia which had not attacked any foreign country, least of all the U.S. A simple reason: The new Euro Dollar was declining against the so-called "U.S. Dollar". So the Europeans had a financial interest to get the U.S. into a financial disaster called Kosovo, to wreck the Dollar. When it is all said and done, WHO will have to pay for reconstructing the bombed out bridges, factories, and buildings in Serbia? You guessed it: the common ordinary U.S. taxpayer suckers. Not the Rockefellers, Mellons, Morgans, and other ruling families WHO PAY NO TAXES, hiding their fortunes through Foundations and corruption of the Internal Revenue Service. skolnicksreport.com (courtesy Edmund LEE Message 11427023