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Flashback: CIA Aided Georgia’s “Rose Revolution”
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Schneider Home
January 5, 2008
The petals fall off the Rose
In November 2003 Georgia had its "Rose Revolution". The western media sat on their comfortable sofas, watched the news on their wide screen tvs, and declared a victory for democracy, a peaceful peoples’ uprising, and a glorious future under the Harvard trained Saakashvilli. Most of the world, myself included, swallowed this narrative. Bad, corrupt soviet leader Shevarnadze is forcefully ejected from his quasi-dictatorial throne by his own people, who yearned for European norms: human rights, democracy, membership of the EU, and membership of NATO. The people loved their new leader so much that 97% voted for him in the free and fair presidential elections the following January.
Unfortunately, this is not what really happened and the protests and emergency rule that marred the country’s media image four months ago and brought about the snap Presidential election today, aptly illustrates this.
The Rose Revolution was not a simple uprising but was aided by the CIA and Ambassador Richard Miles (think Serbia). From early 2002 onwards the CIA had been operating in Georgia, supposedly to combat Al Qaeda. And yes, Georgia is an odd place to fight the war on terror against OBL. One of the main groups that took to the streets and stormed the Parliament house was Kmer (meaning "enough") was almost certainly CIA funded. Saakashvilli was never the democrat and wonderful liberal he was made out to be. His was a strategic role. He would further US interests in the Caucasus, especially with respect to Caspian sea oil in return for US and EU protection. However, Saakashvilli could never guarantee total support at home and thus slipped into heavily using patronage (what other may call corruption) and strongman tactics. He vamped up the nationalist rhetoric and classed with Russia over Southern Ossetia (population 70,000, about the same as Tunbridge Wells). He called Georgia’s participation in the USSR as the "Soviet Occupation" and put up posters around the Capital Tblisi stating that entry into the EU and the European Peoples Party specifically was his key foreign policy goal. The Prime Minister mysteriously died. All the time the EU was favourable towards Georgia’s entry into the EU and the US pushed heavily for Georgia to be brought into NATO. Saakashvilli has viewed and presented membership of NATO as not being part of the "western alliance" but in terms of nationalism. If Georgia is part of NATO it can play hard ball with Abkazia and South Ossetia, the two Russian backed breakaway regions (for a good economist article by Tim Judah click here), with the power of NATO behind it. That is why this small, often forgotten nation is of great strategic importance: oil and "great power politics".
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August 8th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Any information as to why the US’s excuse for everything, Bin Laden, was there. Also Any information as to the cause for the hostilities between Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo etc going back to 1900’s.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Let see, what’s more important–the Edwards Sex Scandal or Russia’s invasion of Georgia? No contest, why of course it’s SEX!!!!
August 8th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Fucking mainstream. Breaking news on CNN home page website: Edwards Admits to Extramartial Affair. We’re facing World War III with the American/Israeli backed Georgia aggression on Russia and these dumb bastards(CNN) find petty ass ‘gossip’ and list it as news. John Edwards no less. Who in the fuck cares? Maybe the same idiots concerned about who the next American Idol will be.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
let the truth out!!
BEAT the international bankers at their own game……become debt free and financially free!
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August 8th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Americans don’t deserve democracy. We’re all too stupid. Our idealistic system was envisioned to push the power down to the people. The leaders around the world know that fear and guilt will squash any uprising. The Russian, Chinese and US leaders will pull out the big guns as an occasional reminder for those that don’t play by their rules. Face it, world leaders will use their thugs anywhere to make their point.
joel Reply:
February 15th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Clark, no one deserves democracy. I will remind you that america is (was) a constitutional republic of laws. This is what america and the world deserves. A fair constitution for their countries with debt free money.
August 8th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Clark: This has NEVER been a democracy!!! It’s a Constitutional Republic!!! Get it right!! BTW the CIA has their dickbeaters all over the world in all the worlds dicks stroking chaos!!!
August 8th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
The Chinese Terror Attacks at the olympics. The Georgian incursion into Russian disputer territory.
If China and Russia are locked in other conflicts they wont be so hasty to aid Iran if Israel should attack.
Were seeing that 400 mil the US put behind covert ops against Iran being put to use. I guess that included funds for proxy armies. Even more so, this is the start of another world war.
August 8th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Violence is not allowed unless truth is avowed.
August 8th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
That was obvious to me from the beginning. You should all know that George Soros’s foundations were 100% involved in the so called colorful revolutions like the one in Georgia or the Ukraine. Soros has about 60 foundations around the world promoting the globalist agenda. Of course Soros is closely connected to the Rockefellers and other top globalists. Saakashvilli is a NWO shill, knowingly or not.
There have been groups within th EU and NATO pushing toward Georgia joining those organizations ASAP.
August 8th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Yasir,
Truth is always the first casualty in war…
August 8th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Perhaps this is small NWO attempt to use Russia to gobble up Georgia entirely? Hope Putin and Bush enjoy the Olympics. Does not say much for those who are fighting and dying though..
August 8th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Martial Law in Georgia
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,399962,00.html
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is expected to declare martial law within hours, according to the Georgian security council chief, Reuters reported.
August 8th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
It seems that the possible allies of Iran are getting strangely “sidetracked” hmmm I wonder why?
China gets the Olympics “terrorist” attacks and since they are allies of the Iran they will be busy with this while Russia (again has some good relations with Iran) has this problem with Georgia there’s only one ally left to be busy and that is Japan. Once Japan (rather good ally of Iran from what I know) becomes “sidetracked” then it will be a hell of alot easier for America or Israel to eradicate Iran with little disruption from the other powers.
Or there will be a WWIII.
Again only time will probably tell but it seems this is the way it is going.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
This is it Ladies and Gentlemen, go to your Bibles and read Ezekiel 38 & 39. This is the beginning
of that prophecy. Scary and exciting at the same time. Got Jesus? 8.8.8. I knew something was gonna go down today!
August 8th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
OFF TOPIC.I need legal advise.I WANT TO PAINT 911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB ON MY CAR?I am canadien hey.Thank you.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
My mind is young and I am only beginning to germinate the seeds of wisdom. All I know is that I don’t know. Any response or discourse on the following letter will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading this.
Letter on Globalization and Sovereign Rights
The intent of this letter is to express to all peoples who truly understand the human, natural and, sovereign rights that American citizens enjoy; especially students, the need for global progress in the area of rights that are afforded to each person by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Education within the structure is essential in order to effectively change the negative aspects of a system which is believed to have inherent and intrinsic value but contains elements of tyranny and regression.
Students must educate themselves with the intent of progressing human kind and specifically progress toward a global society which excludes no one from the hard won freedoms that the citizens of the United States have won.
No other nations allow people to enjoy the human, natural and, sovereign rights that are provided by the protection of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
If the global society is inevitable and integration is the only possible course for survival then taking a world view and applying it to the rights that Americans have earned is essential.
Make no mistake; we are the leader in this area of progress. Education and actualization in said rights must be self-evident if other countries and their citizens choose to participate in this global system with us.
The benefits and freedoms that have been hard won over the last three hundred years should be provided to those that choose to participate with us in this time of global integration.
While cultural exchange is essential for progress, participation with those countries, peoples, or entities that choose not to extend these essential freedoms should not take place, for this is detrimental to personal sovereignty and the whole of humanity.
Inspired by Jefferson’s – “A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge”
“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth, that, possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes; And whereas it is generally true that that people will be happiest whose laws are best, and are best administered, and that laws will be wisely formed, and honestly administered, in proportion as those who form and administer them are wise and honest; whence it becomes expedient for promoting the publick happiness that those persons, whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or other accidental condition or circumstance; but the indigence of the greater number disabling them from so educating, at their own expence, those of their children whom nature hath fitly formed and disposed to become useful instruments for the public, it is better that such should be sought for and educated at the common expence of all, than that the happiness of all should be confided to the weak or wicked:”
Thomas Jefferson
Also to all who say that alex does not do enough, go do your own thing and make it happen. And I say to you this:
“What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. At most, they give only a cheap vote, and a feeble countenance and God-speed, to the right, as it goes by them. There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man; but it is easier to deal with the real possessor of a thing than with the temporary guardian of it.”
Thoreau – Civil Disobedience
August 9th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
TO: PEACEONEARTH (#15)
PAINT “9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB” ON THE TOP (ROOF) OF YOUR CAR, EVERYONE IN HOUSES AND BUILDINGS LOOKING OUT THERE WINDOWS WILL SEE IT, COPS WILL LEAVE YOU ALONE.
also: INSTEAD WRITE “WAS 9/11 AN INSIDE JOB?, MAKES THE SAME POINT, LESS “PUSHY” AND IF COPS (OR ANYONE) HASSLES YOU, YOU CAN ACT LIKE YOU THINK IT IS CRAZY CONSPIRACY THEORY STUFF. BESIDES 9/11 WAS’NT AN INSIDE JOB, IT WAS AN OUTSIDE (ISRAELI) JOB.
August 9th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Have noticed how all people who have taken momentary charge of the world base themselves on war? All people of this type, those whose well-being depends on the ill-being of others, all dictators, ground themselves on war. It shows how man’s level of being attracts war and how the disease of war is in man, and due to his own state. Since man’s level of being is as it is, then everything will go in the only possible way in which it can go at that level, and no one will be able to anything. Everything is being done in the only way it can be done.
People do not comprehend how they are governed by changing events, imagining that they are always free. They say in times of peace that they will never under any circumstances go to war again. Yet, when a new war starts they always justify themselves and explain why they must do as they do—that is, as they cannot help doing.
War is an event which drags millions of people into its vortex whether they wish it or not. People, however, imagine that they are free. All man’s life is based on the idea that he is free to choose. If a man could see clearly that he is mechanical, that is, that he is not free, he would not be able to endure the realization.
Before war occurs, it is quite easy to think that one is free from it. But when the event comes, the case is different. It is almost as if the war tries to drag as many people as possible into its range and “feed” on them. People forget what they thought. The war attracts them into its sphere of influence. By means of self-justifying, they enter the event and pass under its power. A man may decide that he will never fight again in any war. He is sure he will not. But when the drums begin to beat, when the horrors and madness of war start and he see them or reads about them, he forgets all his resolutions.
War is a collective event, that is, an event implicating nations or a single nation, involved in war or revolution. Man does not see that his own level of being attracts the repeating cycle of war into his life. Because man—who has been formed by life—man who is so deeply asleep and unconscious of his true nature, the influences of war simply act upon him mechanically…it just happens! If men were awake, war could not happen.
All war is equally ridiculous and equally criminal!
If one thing could be different everything could be different. And then, perhaps, there would have been no war. Everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, and nothing is separate. Therefore, everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.
Everything happens on Earth as it does because man is asleep, and everything happens in the only way it can. Millions kill each other, suffer incredible misery and so on, because they cannot help it, and it all leads no where, and can lead nowhere. The direction that can lead somewhere is for man to awaken from his deep sleep. Awakening is the individual task of everyone. If a few begin to awaken, the effect spreads and others begin to understand that war is not the answer. You must not adapt to war. To adapt to war is to go to sleep in regard to war.
Everything based on violence can only create violence. There is not a single school of real teaching that teaches violence. Man—natural man—is based on violence and that is why he continually attracts war to himself in every generation. It must be remembered that it is the level of man’s being that attracts war! If man’s being does not change, wars will never end. It is every man’s—and collective humanity’s—inner state that manifests either good or evil, either war or peace. Man must overcome violence in himself. This is a very great issue, and a man must first of all study identifying in himself to its roots before he can understand what the overcoming of violence in himself means.
War exists because man is based on violence. If he receives influences he does not know how to use and does not understand owing to his defective and undeveloped apparatus of reception, he cannot deal with them, and so they pass into irritation, anger or violence. Man is thus like a bad transmitter. He is “evil” because he transmits badly. If a man begins to deal with the small cycle of recurring events in his personal life more consciously and does not identify with some of them, he begins to be able to transform his life on a small scale. He transmits a little better and begins to be a little freer from the machinery of life—of the “turning wheels” surrounding him. If everyone did this, man would not so easily bring mankind to war, and people could then resist war.
When war comes, people find reasons for it and consent to it and feel almost as if they were willingly taking part in it. Whereas war, as a vast collective event, a vortex, has grasped them into its powerful influence and made them take part in it. But if necessity imposes itself on a man in respect to war, even then he does not have to serve his lower nature, which is based on violence. He need not serve his lower nature if he does not identify with what he thinks he has to do and must do as regards war. But if he feels going to war is a fine thing to do he will identify with his lower nature and even go so far as to wish for rewards for his “meritorious actions.” To practice non-identifying can lead somewhere; to serve ones lower nature leads nowhere.
Man is not properly conscious and thus brings war upon himself. The normal state of consciousness in which most people go about, talk, write, plan, make love and so on is a state of hypnotic sleep. In this state of sleep, everything happens in the only way it can happen. Wars start and no one can stop them and people kill each other without wishing to, but because they have to. And a thousand and one other things happen, which no one wishes, but which inevitably happen just because everyone is asleep. People do not guess that this is the real explanation of why life on this Earth is as it is. That is, they do not possess the idea that man is asleep and do not think from it, but think instead from the ideas that man is awake and fully conscious. They think wars take place because of certain people in the background and cannot understand that they take place because everyone is in a state of hypnotic sleep which cannot be thrown off save by direct help from those who have awakened and left behind them ideas to think from and instructions to follow. The idea of man being asleep is an utterly different idea from any of the ordinary ideas we have about life. To think from it is to think in an utterly new way. Have you begun to think from this idea—both as regards life, other people and especially as regards you own self? Do you comprehend, through self-observation, that you yourself are also asleep?
Now, listen carefully. It is man and his level of being that is the cause of war, and as long as man does not try to awaken and develop himself, war will inevitably continue, that is, man will continue to attract war to himself. If we were all more conscious, then war would cease. But this is impossible. It is impossible for everyone to be more conscious. It is a matter of the greatest difficulty for even one person to become more conscious. Man is created a self-developing being, that is, we can work or ourselves and we can change our being—individually. If we all changed, wars would case. And, if we are all created as self-developing beings and make no attempt to use this freedom, why blame God for not intervening?
August 10th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
#17 CIU BONO,THANK YOU.
August 10th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
TESTING,1,2, TESTING
August 13th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
According to Russia today they said Georgia attacked South Ossetia . South Ossetia is pro russian when Georgia attacked South Ossettia the Russians came to the rescue according to the people in south ossetia and it came in the form of military blittzkreig Defense.Russia has pledged 400 million in aid to rebuild south ossetia.Why the hell does everyone think Russia was the aggressors!!!! Dyncorp merceneries , were found dead in the invasion of south ossetia and the military buildup up georgia was funded by the anglo/american establishment . On Aug 01 08
The US/UK/french were doing drills called operation Brimstone (as in fire and brimstone) they were practicing naval blockades against Iran.Several aircraft carriers and and military ships are now headed to the persian gulf.
The US Naval forces being assembled include the following:
Carrier Strike Group Nine
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN72) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing Two
Destroyer Squadron Nine:
USS Mobile Bay (CG53) guided missile cruiser
USS Russell (DDG59) guided missile destroyer
USS Momsen (DDG92) guided missile destroyer
USS Shoup (DDG86) guided missile destroyer
USS Ford (FFG54) guided missile frigate
USS Ingraham (FFG61) guided missile frigate
USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG60) guided missile frigate
USS Curts (FFG38) guided missile frigate
Plus one or more nuclear hunter-killer submarines
Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Group
USS Peleliu (LHA-5) a Tarawa-class amphibious assault carrier
USS Pearl Harbor (LSD52) assult ship
USS Dubuque (LPD8) assult ship/landing dock
USS Cape St. George (CG71) guided missile cruiser
USS Halsey (DDG97) guided missile destroyer
USS Benfold (DDG65) guided missile destroyer
Carrier Strike Group Two
USS Theodore Roosevelt (DVN71) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing Eight
Destroyer Squadron 22
USS Monterey (CG61) guided missile cruiser
USS Mason (DDG87) guided missile destroyer
USS Nitze (DDG94) guided missile destroyer
USS Sullivans (DDG68) guided missile destroyer
USS Springfield (SSN761) nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine
IWO ESG ~ Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group
USS Iwo Jima (LHD7) amphibious assault carrier
with its Amphibious Squadron Four
and with its 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit
USS San Antonio (LPD17) assault ship
USS Velia Gulf (CG72) guided missile cruiser
USS Ramage (DDG61) guided missile destroyer
USS Carter Hall (LSD50) assault ship
USS Roosevelt (DDG80) guided missile destroyer
USS Hartfore (SSN768) nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine
Carrier Strike Group Seven
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN76) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing 14
Destroyer Squadron 7
USS Chancellorsville (CG62) guided missile cruiser
USS Howard (DDG83) guided missile destroyer
USS Gridley (DDG101) guided missile destroyer
USS Decatur (DDG73) guided missile destroyer
USS Thach (FFG43) guided missile frigate
USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7) fast combat support ship
Also likely to join the battle armada:
UK Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal Carrier Strike Group with assorted guided missile destroyers and frigates, nuclear hunter-killer submarines and support ships
The build up of naval forces in the Gulf will be one of the largest multi-national naval armadas since the First and Second Gulf Wars. The intent is to create a US/EU naval blockade (which is an Act of War under international law) around Iran (with supporting air and land elements) to prevent the shipment of benzene and certain other refined oil products headed to Iranian ports. Iran has limited domestic oil refining capacity and imports 40% of its benzene. Cutting off benzene and other key products would cripple the Iranian economy. The neo-cons are counting on such a blockade launching a war with Iran.
This Is the pretext needed to cause war with Iran!!!!!!!
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August 13th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Try this website for details of the Russia/Georgia/US situation. http://www.onemorepromethean.com
The US had 1000 soldiers in Georgia for a training/wargames project called Immediate Response 2008, and have been funding the Georgian military since 2002.
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 am
Truth Bearer,
I have one thing to add to your comments, Amen.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
had no idea we had so much naval firepower in the Persian Gulf.
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