Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : MDA - Market Direction Analysis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: awi who wrote (38621)	1/30/2000 5:10:00 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

OT, Anko, it's actually Freiheitliche Partei. 'freedom party' is only a close approximation, not a verbatim translation as there is no English equivalent to the German word 'freiheitlich'. anyway, i tend to agree that Haider's party is likely to lose some of it's more extreme aspects once it is actually in government. much of the party's rhetoric is purely aimed at catching votes...the party is as i said a far cry from it's more radical cousins across Europe. whether Haider remains the governor of Karinthia is not yet certain. it is quite possible that he will take on the e.g. the ministry of finance, or maybe even become chancellor (= prime minister). we'll have to wait and see...the coalition negotiations are still in progress. i may be a bit too complacent here, but i don't really think Haider is 'dangerous'. i strongly disagree with many of his public statements and wish he were not in the powerful position he now finds himself in. but looking at his Karinthian record, i'd say his rhetoric and the political reality are quite far apart...he's a dog that barks, but doesn't bite, unless Hitler who barked and bit. note that Haider is a great admirer of U.S. style deregulation and low taxes - he's a frequent visitor to the U.S. to study the system there. i am not trying to defend the man, just pointing out that his extremism is not as pronounced as many observers seem to think. otoh, he's an accomplished demagogue using vague fears in the populace about "Ueberfremdung" (=a term describing the influx of foreign workers into Austria - it has negative connotations) to garner votes. in Karinthia any attempts to curtail foreign (cheap) labor in e.g. the construction industry have so far come to naught... regards, hb

To: awi who wrote (38621)	1/31/2000 5:55:00 AM
From: Eddy Blinker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

Erst das Fressen...dann die Moral.... But Marx and Engels are dead.Replaced by naked money-power politics. Today it is first the money and then the moral. Dictated by the political correct elite who advance their agenda under the cover of global village builders but frequently are in service of international gangs of stealing, asset stripping, balance sheet doctoring hoodlums on competitive hunt for the last European saving account which they can convert into worthless paper holdings and credit cards. For decades Austria was controlled by a particular bureaucratic culture. Far removed from the conditions of the ordinary on the street. This arrogant parasitism inheritable from one generation to the next, rewarded privileged life-styles to yes sayers while curtailing free enterprise. Mr.Haider is just the right man to clean up this unholy act. Simultaneously Mr.Haider presently is--unless he falls victim to the plutonium sting- a formidable antidote to the corrupt Eurocrats in Bruessels who fill- non stop- their pockets with green bucks. Not Euros! Mr.Haider a Nazi? People must wake up and realize that the words "Nazi", "Holocaust" and "ethnic cleansing" are used nowadays as first class political/commercial weapons with which anyone with opposing views in any field can be discredited and if needed- politically eliminated. A tricker treat for short sellers. Look no further as the Vienna exchange today. Regards, ED