[Assam] European Union and South Asian Federation
kamal deka
kjit.deka at gmail.com
Fri Jun 11 16:03:54 PDT 2010
By the way,I am summing up the entire discourse in two sentences.
Would it not amount to a snipe hunt to expect three huge countries
with disparate background to come under one umbrella to foster
friendly relations, when there is not even a semblance of unity among
300 kharkhuwa families in the USA? Haven't we witnessed time and again
how the unification process crumbles like a house of cards? To me,this
is nothing but a pure bunkum.
Let me give you the meaning of the saying " playing both sides against
the middle"---trying to support two opposing views at the same time.In
other word,there is no point in running with the hare and the hunting
with the hounds.
KJD
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, let us see if we can DE-Mystify this:
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> Allow me to agree that the mystifier here is a bad person, an ULFA-Pal in
> the image of say, a terrorist
> pal like Obama as the great American intellectual Sarah Palin might say. But
> he is just a messenger. Is the
> message he is carrying, sullied by his personal failings?
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> Or is the message a bad one? An undesirable one?
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> IF, the message is bad, why so? Is it because it will harm India?
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> And if it is NOT a bad message, that it would not only be in (India's
> interest, but also its neighbors, then
> why tar-and-feather the message, pooh-pooh it, because of the messenger's
> personal failures?
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> Would a thinking person, able or willing to reason, do that? Cut his/her
> own nose to spite the face?
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> That IS the question here.
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> Will we be blessed with an explanation?
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> On Jun 10, 2010, at 8:04 PM, kamal deka wrote:
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>> That's exactly how an ULFA's pal engages himself in an exercise called
>> MYSTIFICATION!!
>> Somebody,please let me know if there is a superior double talker than
>> this.
>> KJD
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Alpana B. Sarangapani
>> <absarangapani at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Isn't that something? Some are visioning of one big united world and some
>>> are trying to divide one little (or big) country that they live in.
>>>
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Sushanta Kar <pragyan.tsc50 at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:56:30
>>> To: <assam at assamnet.org>
>>> Subject: [Assam] European Union and South Asian Federation
>>>
>>> This is the Dream, most of the people is visioning these days. People of
>>> this region will sure go for it!
>>>
>>> I support your proposal Dilipda!
>>>
>>> Sushanta
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at gmail.com>
>>> Date: 10 June 2010 23:22
>>> Subject: Re: [Assam] European Union and South Asian Federation
>>> To: A Mailing list for people interested in Assam from around the world
>>> <
>>> assam at assamnet.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> Precisely!
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>>> On Jun 10, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Dilip and Dil Deka wrote:
>>>
>>> I am sure most netters have read european history and know how viciously
>>> > the european tribes (and subsequently nations) fought for centuries.
>>> World
>>> > wars I and II were fought in Europe. If those people can form an
>>> economic
>>> > and political union for the sake of survival, what is wrong in
>>> expecting
>>> > India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (also Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan
>>> possibly)
>>> > to form a federation?
>>> > There are 27 members in the EU and it is growing.
>>> > Dilip
>>> > ===========================================================
>>> >
>>> > Member states
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>>> > The continental territories of the member states of the European Union
>>> > (European Communities pre-1993), animated in order of accession.
>>> >
>>> > Albania
>>> >
>>> > Austria
>>> >
>>> > Belarus
>>> >
>>> > Belgium
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Bos.
>>> > & Herz.
>>> >
>>> > Bulgaria
>>> >
>>> > Croatia
>>> >
>>> > Cyprus
>>> >
>>> > Czech
>>> > Rep.
>>> >
>>> > Denmark
>>> >
>>> > Estonia
>>> >
>>> > Finland
>>> >
>>> > France
>>> >
>>> > Germany
>>> >
>>> > Greece
>>> >
>>> > Hungary
>>> >
>>> > Iceland
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Ireland
>>> >
>>> > Italy
>>> >
>>> > Latvia
>>> >
>>> > Lithuania
>>> >
>>> > Luxembourg
>>> >
>>> > Mac.
>>> >
>>> > Malta?
>>> >
>>> > Moldova
>>> >
>>> > Mont.
>>> >
>>> > Netherlands
>>> >
>>> > Norway
>>> >
>>> > Poland
>>> >
>>> > Portugal
>>> >
>>> > Romania
>>> >
>>> > Russia
>>> >
>>> > Serbia
>>> >
>>> > Slovakia
>>> >
>>> > Slovenia
>>> >
>>> > Spain
>>> >
>>> > Sweden
>>> >
>>> > Switz-
>>> > erland
>>> >
>>> > Turkey
>>> >
>>> > Ukraine
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > United
>>> > Kingdom
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>>> > European Union is composed of 27 sovereign Member States: Austria,
>>> Belgium,
>>> > Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
>>> France,
>>> > Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
>>> Luxembourg,
>>> > Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic,
>>> > Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.[30]
>>> > The Union's membership has grown from the original six founding
>>> > states-Belgium, France, (then-West) Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the
>>> > Netherlands-to the present day 27 by successive enlargements as
>>> countries
>>> > acceded to the treaties and by doing so, pooled their sovereignty in
>>> > exchange for representation in the institutions.[31]
>>> > To join the EU a country must meet the Copenhagen criteria, defined at
>>> the
>>> > 1993 Copenhagen European Council. These require a stable democracy
>>> that
>>> > respects human rights and the rule of law; a functioning market
>>> economy
>>> > capable of competition within the EU; and the acceptance of the
>>> obligations
>>> > of membership, including EU law. Evaluation of a country's fulfilment
>>> of the
>>> > criteria is the responsibility of the European Council.[32]
>>> > No member state has ever left the Union, although Greenland (an
>>> autonomous
>>> > province of Denmark) withdrew in 1985. The Lisbon Treaty now provides
>>> a
>>> > clause dealing with how a member leaves the EU.
>>> > There are three official candidate countries, Croatia, Macedonia and
>>> > Turkey. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and
>>> Iceland are
>>> > officially recognised as potential candidates.[33] Kosovo is also
>>> listed as
>>> > a potential candidate but the European Commission does not list it as
>>> an
>>> > independent country because not all member states recognise it as an
>>> > independent country separate from Serbia.[34]
>>> > Four Western European countries that have chosen not to join the EU
>>> have
>>> > partly committed to the EU's economy and regulations: Iceland, which
>>> has now
>>> > applied for membership, Liechtenstein and Norway, which are a part of
>>> the
>>> > single market through the European Economic Area, and Switzerland,
>>> which has
>>> > similar ties through bilateral treaties.[35][36] The relationships of
>>> the
>>> > European microstates, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican
>>> include
>>> > the use of the euro and other areas of co-operation.[37]
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