I'm definitely voting "NO" now! Keep that crap out of our state; our kids are already stoo-pid enough without your drugs being foisted on us, Soros!!!
"Georgia lawyer fights for freedom; Called a velvet revolutionary" by Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times | September 7, 2008
TBILISI, Georgia - She's a soldier in a different kind of war.
Every few months, Nini Gogiberidze is deployed abroad to teach democracy activists how to agitate for change against their autocratic governments, going everywhere from Eastern Europe to train Belarusians to Turkey to coach Iranians.
Translation: She is a U.S AGENT!!!!
Gogiberidze is among Georgia's "velvet" revolutionaries, a group of Western and local activists who make up a robust prodemocracy corps in this Caucasus country. So much of the prodemocracy effort is funded by American philanthropist George Soros that one analyst calls the nation Sorosistan.
"Velvet revolutions require the same type of discipline as military revolutions but without the guns," said Gogiberidze, a 28-year-old Georgia lawyer. "People, if they stay united and disciplined, can change a lot of things."
Except here in AmeriKa!!
Georgia's status as a kind of laboratory for such groups is a little-explored dimension of the recent battle between Moscow and Tbilisi. It is a conflict between imperial ambitions rooted in the 19th century and the soft power of 21st century electronic media and global culture - the iron fist versus the velvet glove.
That's what papers do; hide things.
And talk about the iron glove. That's INVADING IRAQ, right?
The velvet revolutionaries, whose name comes from the peaceful 1989 uprising against Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, have racked up numerous successes, including Georgia's Rose Revolution, which brought Soros protege Mikheil Saakashvili to the presidency in 2004; the Orange Revolution later that year that toppled the Kremlin-backed government in Ukraine; and the Cedar Revolution of 2005 in Lebanon that led to the withdrawal of Syrian troops.
All you liberals still all gassed about moneybags George?
The Kremlin openly despises Soros. Along with other authoritarian governments, it views the so-called color revolutions as US-sponsored plots using local dupes to overthrow governments unfriendly to Washington and install American vassals.
Unfortunately, the RUSSIANS are RIGHT!!!!
Moscow regards Saakashvili and his crowd with the same disdain as it views the English-speaking, laptop-toting liberals who it believes brought post-Communist Russia to financial ruin in the 1990s.
Because those Zionist gansters plundered the nation!!!!
Critics say the velvet revolutionaries are naive, trying to graft foreign political solutions onto countries with long histories and regional realities.
"These do-gooders, thinking themselves to be doing good, walked themselves into a trap, sensing they could do whatever they wanted regardless of the long and tangled history of this place," says Thomas Goltz, an American journalist and scholar who lived for years in the Caucasus and has written books about Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.
"Get real!" he says. "You've lived here for thousands of years."
Billionaire financier Soros, who grew up under Communist rule in Hungary, launched his Open Society Institute after the collapse of the Berlin Wall in an attempt to encourage Western-style democracy in the former Soviet bloc, and eventually other autocratic states.
In Georgia, the Soros-funded activists occupy a low-key three-story office building called the Open Society Institute of Georgia here in Tbilisi, the capital. An alphabet soup of international and local groups also makes its home there. Locals call it the "Soros Fund" building.
Like Saakashvili, who studied law at Columbia University, many of the velvet revolutionaries spent time abroad. Gogiberidze studied for two years at the London School of Economics.
She is slender and energetic, inhaling cigarettes and downing cups of coffee. Her husband, an investment banker, has learned to appreciate her late hours and devotion, even helping her out sometimes, she says.
Oh, she sounds like a real winner there!!!!
And she unflinchingly answers sensitive questions about her employer, the Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies, or Canvas. The group is funded in part by the International Republican Institute, which many describe as the international arm of the GOP, and Washington-based Freedom House, which receives most of its funding from the US government.
"I have nothing to hide," she says.
No, but the newspapers do it for you anyway. This is a one-day wonder, you watch!!!!
Of course, the Russians are just bellyaching even though their complaints are legitimate.
Some governments have grown increasingly wary about groups such as Canvas and others associated with Soros, and have clamped down. Authorities shut down Soros's Moscow offices in 2003, seizing computers and documents.
Gogiberidze travels to third-party countries for the training courses, which attract between five and 25 students. Security is a concern. She doesn't exchange phone numbers or e-mail addresses with any of her students, for fear they will get into trouble for trying to contact each other.
Twice she had to change locations of workshops in Turkey, fearful that Iranian spies were on to them. At one point, Tehran canceled direct flights to the Turkish resort town of Antalya, where the training sessions were held. "These are very brave people," she says. "They know the risks of what they're doing."
Never worried about AmeriKan eyes? Must work for them then, huh?
On assignments, she encourages students to use nonviolent tactics to agitate for change. Avoid political rhetoric or demonstrations if they are too dangerous, she advises. Complain about services. Demand good government."
Yeah, while her bosses engage in shit like Gladio.
Meanwhile, the demands have not done much here in AmeriKa!
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