<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858</id><updated>2011-04-21T19:18:30.600-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Blogmenbashi</title><subtitle type='html'>Halk Watan Beyik Blogmenbashi! A site totally dedicated to President Sapurmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan and the infinite wisdom of his words and deeds</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>17</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-113457564918854591</id><published>2005-12-14T07:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-12-14T07:55:17.126-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>KERMIT COMES TO ASHGABAT! (PLUS SOME MAJOR CULTURAL LANDMARKS GET FLATTENED, BUT WHAT THE HELL, KERMIT COMES TO ASHGABAT I TELLS YA!)Exciting news!Today, President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Turkmenbashi the Great* held a session of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan. Officials of numerous ministries and agencies of Turkmenistan, as well as mass media were invited to the meeting. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/113457564918854591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/113457564918854591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_archive.html#113457564918854591' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-113457480708843487</id><published>2005-12-14T07:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-12-14T07:40:07.090-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Doesn't do weddings or bar mitzvahs...From BBC News.Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov has banned the playing of recorded music at all public events, on television and at weddings...Mr Niyazov's decree was published in the official daily newspaper Neitralny Turkmenistan (Neutral Turkmenistan). It banned sound recordings "at musical performances on state holidays, in broadcasts by Turkmen </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/113457480708843487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/113457480708843487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_archive.html#113457480708843487' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-113457443773647777</id><published>2005-12-14T07:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-12-14T07:33:57.746-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>On the road with the TurkmenbashiForget Jack Kerouac, once again the Rukhnama covers all your literary needs. From BBC News:In most countries passing a driving test is determined - unsurprisingly - by the candidate's ability to drive. But in Turkmenistan, knowledge of the highway code and control of the steering wheel are no longer enough. Candidates now have to pass an exam in President </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/113457443773647777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/113457443773647777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_archive.html#113457443773647777' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-108340353310013240</id><published>2004-05-01T02:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-05-01T02:29:52.496-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Peruse this thread where infidel blasphemers mock glorious leader Turkmenbashi. Especially limericks further on. May the forks of his lightning impale you!  Incidentally* not many people know that limerick is a traditional Turkmen verse form from Turkmen town of Limerek* where Turkmen poet Tahmasp Khan used it for his seventeenth century Turkmen epic poem dedicated to heroic deeds and courtly </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/108340353310013240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/108340353310013240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_archive.html#108340353310013240' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-108127958076144183</id><published>2004-04-06T12:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-04-06T12:30:06.356-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>DON'T FLASH YOUR TEETHFrom Gazeta Wyborcza, April 6 2004Lifelong ruler of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov has declared war on gold teeth. The former communist satrap, dressing himself up in the robes of a progressive khan, has decided that gold tooth crowns, once a status symbol in Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus, are a relic of the past. "Sebiljan, I don't want to hurt your feelings", said </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/108127958076144183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/108127958076144183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_archive.html#108127958076144183' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-108022496009220449</id><published>2004-03-25T06:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-03-25T06:33:43.200-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>THE TURKMENBASHI WANTS A RIVER IN ASHGABAT From Gazeta Wyborcza, March 25 2004The great Saparmurat Turkmenbashi, Father of All the Turkmens, or -as he is known in this earthly life- Saparmurat Niyazov, lifelong president of Turkmenistan, is throwing down the following challenge to the forces of nature. He has ordered a river to flow in Ashgabat, the desert capital of his desert country. He </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/108022496009220449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/108022496009220449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_archive.html#108022496009220449' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-107935534981268571</id><published>2004-03-15T04:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-03-15T04:59:05.216-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>YOU LOVE US, YOU REALLY DO!Central Asian and South Caucasian Freedom of Expression Network Report February 26 2004"There is good working relationship between Turkmenistan and the European Union," said Michael Wilson, advisor to the EU's TACIS programme in Turkmenistan."I think the working relationship has improved dramatically. And I think the professionalism from both sides has also increased </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107935534981268571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107935534981268571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_archive.html#107935534981268571' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-107822085927099087</id><published>2004-03-02T01:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-03-02T01:50:35.966-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>TROOPS TO REPLACE TURKMEN MEDICSBBC News March 1 2004President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan has ordered the dismissal of 15,000 medical workers. It is likely that at least some of the hospital work left behind would now be done by conscript soldiers. The Turkmen leader said the move would reduce state spending on healthcare and the workers will not be replaced. Cheaply-employed </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107822085927099087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107822085927099087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_archive.html#107822085927099087' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-107798015168611562</id><published>2004-02-28T06:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-02-28T07:00:58.090-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>RUHNAMA NEWSFLASH!This good site devoted to Ruhnama, our spiritual guide for new age. See how good you do in quiz here. Some questions need much pondering, for instance:  if a horse which can gallop when it is fat can also gallop when it is thin, it is a good horse, true or false? And can ants united can defeat a tiger or a lion? Hmmm, tough questions.  I would be stroking my beard now had I not </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107798015168611562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107798015168611562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_archive.html#107798015168611562' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-107797890039983851</id><published>2004-02-28T06:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-02-28T06:39:26.950-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>YOU CAN'T SAY FAIRER THAN THAT...BBC News  Wednesday September 3, 2003Several Russian newspapers focus on a new ministry in Turkmenistan, comparing it to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's novel 1984. Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov recently announced that the Ministry of Justice would become the Ministry of Fairness and take on "extra rights and obligations" to maintain law and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107797890039983851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107797890039983851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_archive.html#107797890039983851' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-107797861836617407</id><published>2004-02-28T06:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-02-28T06:33:50.390-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>THIS IS A NEUTRAL COUNTRY FOR NEUTRAL PEOPLEFrom a Radio Free Europe report on Flag Day, February 19To be sure, Turkmenistan has undergone many changes since gaining independence in 1991. The capital Ashgabat has new buildings and a scattering of largely empty five-star hotels. It also has the Arch of Neutrality -- commemorating the United Nations decision in 1995 to grant the country neutral </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107797861836617407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107797861836617407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_archive.html#107797861836617407' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-107779387978755013</id><published>2004-02-26T03:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-02-26T03:15:52.170-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>POGOPHOBIA- IT'S THE LAWYoung Turkmen Face Beard BanBBC News Wednesday, 25 February, 2004Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov has passed a decree forbidding young men in the country to wear long hair or beards. The president said the Education Ministry should be in charge of checking people's hair as the issue was most pressing among the young. Mr Niyazov's rule in the central Asian </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107779387978755013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107779387978755013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_archive.html#107779387978755013' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-107779347397380920</id><published>2004-02-26T03:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-02-26T03:07:24.466-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>ONE GIANT STEP FOR TURKMENKINDBBC News Saturday, 9 August, 2003Inspired by the giant strides he sees his country as making, a shoemaker in Turkmenistan has created a huge shoe in honour of the country's president, Saparmurat Niyazov.Erkin Nepesow, from Turkmenabat in the east of the country, used his garden to show off his creation to Turkmen television."I made this giant shoe because I was </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107779347397380920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107779347397380920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_archive.html#107779347397380920' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-107765426367641177</id><published>2004-02-24T12:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-02-24T12:28:33.640-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>PROOF TURKMENISTAN IS NO BANANA REPUBLICTurkmen leader inspires devotion to melonBBC News Monday August 11, 2003Turkmenistan has devoted a day of festivities to celebrate the country's muskmelon, a close relative of the watermelon. The holiday was inspired by President Saparmurat Niyazov, who prefers to be known as Turkmenbashi, or leader of the Turkmens. "Do celebrate Muskmelon Day well, as </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107765426367641177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107765426367641177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_archive.html#107765426367641177' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-107755673814571972</id><published>2004-02-23T09:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-02-23T09:22:29.593-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>COUNTRY I HAVE VISITEDcreate your own visited country map or write about it on the open travel guideAs the Ruhnama says, travel narrows the mind.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107755673814571972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107755673814571972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_archive.html#107755673814571972' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-107745154366323496</id><published>2004-02-22T04:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-02-22T04:10:05.140-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Foreign disinformation from infidel blasphemer Wojiech Jagielski (Gazeta Wyborcza):Turkmenbashi for ProphetTurkmen youth are demanding that their lifelong president Saparmurad "Turkmenbashi" Niyazov be declared a prophet. And they have set a date - February 19 - which in desolate Turkmenistan is celebrated as the Day of the Holy Standard. The day is also their leader's birthday.Speaking on behalf</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107745154366323496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107745154366323496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_archive.html#107745154366323496' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347858.post-107443552380049346</id><published>2004-01-18T06:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-01-18T06:20:40.640-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Ruhnama be praised!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107443552380049346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6347858/posts/default/107443552380049346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://blogmenbashi.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_archive.html#107443552380049346' title=''/><author><name>C.</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
