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John McCain’s Second Statement on the Crisis in Georgia

Don’t miss Larry Johnson’s earlier post today, “Barack Obama Mimics George Bush on Russia’s Invasion?” and our original story on Friday with several updates, “McCain on Crisis in Georgia [Updates].”

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STATEMENT BY JOHN MCCAIN ON THE CRISIS IN GEORGIA

For Immediate Release

Contact: Press Office

Saturday, August 9, 2008

703-650-5550

ARLINGTON, VA — Today, U.S. Senator John McCain issued the following statement regarding the current conflict between Georgia and Russia:

“For many years, I have warned against Russian actions that undermine the sovereignty of its neighbors. Unfortunately, we have seen in recent days Russia demonstrate that these concerns were well-founded.

“This afternoon I spoke, for the second time since the crisis began, with Georgian President Saakashvili. It is clear the situation is dire. Russian aggression against Georgia continues, with attacks occurring far beyond the Georgian region of South Ossetia. As casualties continue to mount, the international community must do all it can to avert further escalations. Tensions and hostilities between Georgians and Ossetians are in no way justification for Russian troops crossing an internationally recognized border. I again call on the Government of Russia to immediately and unconditionally withdraw its forces from the territory of Georgia.

“Given this threat to Euro-Atlantic security, I am pleased to see the United States, the European Union, and NATO acting together by sending a delegation to the region, in an effort to broker a cease fire. This is an important first step.

“The United Nations has been prevented from taking any meaningful action by Russian objections. In view of this, I welcome the statements of democratic nations defending the sovereignty of Georgia and condemning Russian actions.

“I strongly support the declaration issued by the Presidents of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and their commitment that ‘aggression against a small country in Europe will not be passed over in silence or with meaningless statements equating the victims with the victimizers.’ I share their regret that NATO’s decision to withhold from Georgia a Membership Action Plan may have been viewed as a green light for aggression in the region. As they propose, a new international peacekeeping force should be created, in light of — as they observe — the ‘obvious bankruptcy of Russian “peacekeeping operations” in its immediate neighborhood.’ In addition, Finnish Foreign Minister Stubb, the Chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, has said there can be no return to the status quo in South Ossetia and that Russia cannot serve as a mediator in the South Ossetian conflict. Each of these leade rs represents a country that has undergone what Georgia is now experiencing.

“I am pleased the U.S. has agreed to facilitate the transfer of Georgian troops serving bravely in Iraq, who are now unfortunately needed to defend their own country.”

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Comment by simanov | 2008-08-09 21:54:17

Now is the time………………

Signed by the Kenyan citizen of the world.

Comment by jadwiga | 2008-08-09 22:02:28

Russia will not stop until all the small countries are re-integrated in the Russian empire.
They will go country by country, over an extended period of time. They will try to appease the Nato, Europe and USA between invasions.
McCain understands this and puts his feet down.

The two braniacs don’t seem to see the long term consequences. Not to mention that Obama would anyway refrain from anything strong. Even strong words.

Grrrrrr.

Comment by Dr. bobbi Anne White | 2008-08-10 19:36:33

sorry McCain is wrong. I have been listing to Russia Today and it was Georgia that started the conflict and with American mercenaries trying to prevent the Ossetia breakaway republic from gaining its sovereignty.
Saakasvilli has been using heavy measure to suppress the dissent against him and they are getting this modern technology from the US (rubber bullets, etc). It’s all about the oil and the pipeline, that runs through that region.
Don’t be fooled.

 
 
 

Comment by HARP | 2008-08-09 22:02:31

Please stop with the statements McCain….Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania….Obama can`t keep up.

Comment by StrawberrybitesBarky | 2008-08-09 22:11:26

Hahaha. Don’t you know it takes time to wiki all those foreign places?

Comment by HARP | 2008-08-09 22:14:04

See what happens after he goes to Europe.

 

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-09 22:37:30

LOL….Harp…besides all those countries…Aaaand all those people all look and sound alike….No ?

 
 

Comment by simanov | 2008-08-09 22:13:52

Russia is a tiny country.

Comment by Uppity Woman | 2008-08-09 22:15:24

Not as tiny as Iran! Why, Iran is just a teeny tiny harmless country.

Comment by simanov | 2008-08-09 22:23:46

You can fit England, France and Germany into Iran with plenty of room to spare, But lets not distract the great uniter with knowledge.

Comment by just me | 2008-08-09 23:14:52

no you would all be doing his job for him he will be awinging by to read the comments before he speaks or takes action!

Do not help him….

Comment by just me | 2008-08-09 23:15:31

“swinging”

 
 
 
 
 

Comment by Jim S | 2008-08-10 07:52:17

Meanwhile, Obama criticized the Georgia National Guard for not asking for federal assistance when the Russians attacked Athens.

 
 

Comment by an observer | 2008-08-09 22:10:05

First let’s make it clear that Soros is the financial and political godfather of both Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and the purported Democratic Party Presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). Look at the vast Soros cash flow into Obama. He virtually owns Senator Obama.

Soros’ Open Society Institute boasts that they were the backbone of the so-called “Rose Revolution” that swept Saakashvili into power in 2003-2004. As of January 2004, the Soros Open Society Institute, which first set up its office in Tblisi, the capital of Georgia in 1994, began directly bankrolling the Georgian government, as part of a joint program with the United Nations’ UNDP (United Nations Development Program), then headed by Mark Malloch Brown, who is now secretary general of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Malloch Brown was so close to Soros, during his tenure at the UN, that he lived in an apartment he rented from the hedge fund speculator.

Second, in terms of the current conflict, President Saakashvili in fact ordered Georgian troops to fire on Russian peacekeepers, who were in South Ossetia as part of a United Nations mandated force, that has been there since 1994.

The British have been behind the destabilization of the Caucasus region since the collapse of the Soviet Union, funding and arming Chechen rebels, allowing recruitment into the Chechen separatist movements, at mosques in England, and providing safe haven to Russian Mafiya figures, like Boris Berezovsky, who bankrolled anti-Russian separatist and terrorist operations in the Caucasus.

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-09 22:28:51

Gee Wiz Observer….Maybe folks in Europe got tired of Putin turnin off the Gas in Winter…it gets cccccold there….nnno ?

Comment by an observer | 2008-08-09 22:45:46

Cutting power …………….. you must be thinking of California

 
 
 

Comment by Papoose | 2008-08-09 22:10:27

So much for a vacation with the folks, hoBO is going nuckin futz right about now cross-referencing this statement with an atlas and a who’s who cheat sheet.

Ziggy B is probably on the teleconference as we blog.
Is Jimmy Carter hooking up with his travel agent?

On the side:
Americans attacked in China by whom and why? Who in our government is addressing this? omigod.

Comment by Sam | 2008-08-09 22:19:03

 
 

Comment by Seattle Moss | 2008-08-09 22:12:22

Bottom Line…

McCain makes me feel safe!

Any other questions?

Comment by Papoose | 2008-08-09 22:28:31

Yes, First, hello Seattle Moss!

Q. Is it possible that Hillary and John will confer on this? Do you think they have conversed yet?

Comment by Seattle Moss | 2008-08-09 22:48:46

Hello Papoose!
I think John and Hillary both converse through surrogates by way of the Armed Services Committee that they both are on.
I happy to say that a new American majority is being created in the center.
McCain will likely lead this majority but will be influenced heavily by the Clinton democrats who will be a major part of the restructuring of the Republican party.

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-09 22:53:44

Hmmmm….interesting Seattle….Neither McCain or Clinton are party stooges…..maybe the Great American Middle can retake the country….

Comment by Seattle Moss | 2008-08-09 23:12:16

The most respected and feared demographic is the swing voter who votes Country over party.

Once again we are called upon to save the country.
Whether you voted..
Nixon to stop McGovern
Reagan to stop Carter
Clinton to stop Bush.

The facts are in..
McCain to stop Obama

 
 

Comment by Papoose | 2008-08-09 23:12:59

Exactly what I was thinking, and mainly why I responded to your invitation to ask a question.

Down thread, I pose another question, SM, who shall be Hillary’s Vice president. This is something that we should start to ponder.

hoBo is in Hawaai going trhough the microfiche, MSNBC is on hiatus, the world is in turmoil and the bots must be really in to badmitton tonight.

Time is of the essence and we PUMA are in the pole position to bust a move and change the subject.

Bill Clinton spoke to us last week. And, I really don’t think they are too worried about the campaign debt…it will all come out in the wash.

I am confident that Hillary and John have discussed this situation. I would be willing to bet, too, that they have spoken directly.

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-08-10 00:09:52

I’m following my gut on this one. The ideal scenario is Clinton 2012 if not 2008. no matter what either Clinton says. Obama can’t close the deal.

 
 
 
 
 

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-09 22:13:55

NoShit…..I have to hand this all out to McCain. Excellent analysis and strong statement which is critical when dealing with what The British Empire used to term the Oriental Mind. Thanks for posting it. Obama looks like Barky the puppy.
McCain…looks well….presidential….

 

Comment by Uppity Woman | 2008-08-09 22:14:12

I’m sure OBigHead will get around to copying John’s statement just as soon as he gets back for fixing up a birth certificate in Hawaii.

Comment by HARP | 2008-08-09 22:19:25

So much to do…Bush was right…It`s HARD WORK. Where are all the cheering crowds? Nobody told me I would have to make decisions….I know..call Putin and ask him to wait until I`ve finished my vacation.

Comment by layla | 2008-08-09 22:57:11

I’m afraid Georgian Prez will have to wait till he eats his waffles!

 
 

Comment by simanov | 2008-08-09 22:28:20

Jesse was so upset because there was nothing to cut.

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-09 22:30:14

lol….funny that simanov

Comment by simanov | 2008-08-09 22:33:49

Michelle bit him to it.

 
 
 
 

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-09 22:16:05

I think McCain probably just won the election….

 

Comment by Donna Brazile | 2008-08-09 22:18:35

ATTENTION: A STATEMENT BY ME

I call on Senator Obama to now demonstrate his SUPERIOR foreign policy experience by issuing a statement on this situation that makes sense!

Oh, he can’t. He’s vacationing in Hawaii just like Bush likes to vacation at his ranch in Texas.

Stop the hate!

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-09 22:21:50

Ehemmm….Miss Brazile every time you remind me to stop the hate…i chuckle…and i thank you for that….chuckle…stop the hate….

 

Comment by Donna Brazile | 2008-08-09 22:21:58

ADDENDUM TO PREVIOUS STATEMENT

Comment by Donna Brazile | 2008-08-09 22:24:22

ADDENDUM TO PREVIOUS STATEMENT

Some advisor please tell Senator Obama to quit reading “My pet coat” to his children and make an informed statement on this crisis.

Thank You.

Stop the hate!

Comment by fif | 2008-08-09 23:04:30

We’d love to stop the hate Donna, but you make it so darned easy…

 

Comment by PKJayne | 2008-08-09 23:13:25

lmao glad to see Mz Brazille back on the board.

 
 
 

Comment by lusitania | 2008-08-09 22:29:16

SUPERIOR foreign policy experience?

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahhahhahahahahhahahhahhaahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahaha!

 

Comment by Miss H | 2008-08-10 02:52:14

I would like to administer a good heeling on Ms. Brazile. Maybe a 5 inch sharpie (as in high heels).
But I just can’t seem to stop the hate.

 
 

Comment by Bridgette | 2008-08-09 22:19:29

Wow, a presidential candidate that knows what he’s talking about! That should be unremarkable..but its not since the other guy is such a dummy!

 

Comment by David Ross | 2008-08-09 22:21:39

McCain hasn’t won the election. Obama’s just lost it.

If only there was another candidate who had his, or her, own opinion on what to do.

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-09 22:24:45

Hey !….I’m not a Republican although I will play one this season at the voting booth if Clinton is denied the nomination she won by popular vote….chuckle…
You say tomahto…I say tomato…and you say potahto…and I say Potato….

Comment by just me | 2008-08-09 23:23:52

I say he’s rubbush and you say he’s garbage!

Whatever he needs to be thrown out with it

 
 

Comment by bemused | 2008-08-09 22:32:20

It was 3:00 AM and he had unplugged the phone.

 
 

Comment by flyingsongster | 2008-08-09 22:24:13

Susan I read your earlier post, and I agree this is a very serious situation. The Russians are trying to monopolize the oil that goes through the Tiblisi pipeline
which goes through Georgia, Turkey, etc. This pipeline was built by a joint venture of US and British oil companies, and was initiated by Bush the Older,
negotiated by Clinton, and finished Bush the younger’s administration. It is supposed to provide a large amount of oil to Europe and would have allowed them some freedom from Russian oil. The democracy in Georgia was promoted by the US, and 3 presidents. Putin is very aware that the US would have little credibility, in condemning the invasion of Georgia, and accordingly used the opening to assist the Russian citizens in the province.
I find that now, the US invasion of Iraq is coming back to bite us. The invasion of the sovereign nation of Georgia, which is condemned by McCain, is EXACTLY what he and others condoned in the name of National Security. I believe that his remarks are a bit incendiary.
On the other hand, the silence of Obama reminds me of something my uncle used to say. “Silence is golden, or sometimes just plain yellow”.
If I had to choose between the two at this moment. McCain or Obama?

I would choose Hillary.

Comment by an observer | 2008-08-09 22:37:16

Is there an advantage to being tied to British oil verses Russian oil? In light of BP’s history,explain that to me please.

Comment by flyingsongster | 2008-08-09 23:43:04

Good question. Well, I understand Russia’s position, since BP et al went into Georgia, etc. shortly after the collapse of the Soviet empire. To the Russians, the oil in the Black sea, should belong to them. The Georgians believe it should belong to the Georgians, but the corporate interests have taken much from the people of the country. Not justifiable.
Observer, the ultimate goal should be for the people of the nation to
be the beneficiary, not a few Leaders, or corporate execs, etc.
But that is in a good world.

 
 
 

Comment by bert | 2008-08-09 22:26:02

The vacationing Obama does not seem to understand that POTUS is a 24/7 job. In addition to looking very tired when he made his first statement about the Russian invasion, he looked peeved that his vacation has been interrupted. He does not understand the basics of diplomacy or even what the job of being President entails. He thinks it is all picture ops like his Europe picture book.He should not be elected.

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-09 22:33:40

” Well….Who cares about all those imperialist Eurocentric Cracker Europeans anyhow….Now can I just finish my low cal maitai…( sigh ) ” Barry to Axelrod

Comment by simanov | 2008-08-09 22:38:24

To limo driver, “So where is the special action around here?”

Comment by Papoose | 2008-08-09 22:43:30

simanov, you’re on a roll. My sense of humor is coming back after a loooong day of somberness.

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-09 22:47:44

Limo Driver to Barry ” Ummm…Mr. Obama…I don’t go in for that sort of thing no matter how much money you wave in my face…No Siree…”

Comment by Papoose | 2008-08-09 23:17:22

ROFL! No low down in these parts!!

Comment by simanov | 2008-08-09 23:26:48

Comment by Papoose | 2008-08-09 23:28:52

oops! nasty image, ain’t it?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Comment by layla | 2008-08-09 23:09:22

a 70 years old man is “stronger” than this guy! Oblahblah is a joke!

 
 

Comment by Steve Hayes | 2008-08-09 22:37:14

That seems to parallel Clinton’s aggression against Serbia.

What would happen is Serbia tried to retake its breakaway province of Kosovo as Georgia has tried to do with South Ossetia? What would John McCain do then?

 

Comment by Papoose | 2008-08-09 22:37:41

And he was HOPIN’ that John Edwards would be the main event this weekend. Bernie Mac’s untimely passing is not even enough to let him eat his poi in peace. If there is not a Board with a Funding Source to pilfer and disburse, hoBO is not going to be up to snuff…it’s not his field of expertise.

This event is just a distraction.

 

Comment by SHV | 2008-08-09 22:38:56

Germans, Sudatenland, Czechoslovakia, a weak Britain, Chamberlain…The countries have changed but the scenario sounds very similar.

Comment by David Ross | 2008-08-09 22:46:13

Or, if you like, Sarajevo and then Serbia in August 1914.

 
 

Comment by SHV | 2008-08-09 22:40:36

If things continue to heat up in Europe, will the military draft be far behind?

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-09 22:49:48

SHV…( sigh ) the days of an all volunteer army are over….

Comment by Papoose | 2008-08-09 23:02:25

and I read recently that Canada will not allow deserters this time around. Well, I got news for our sister to the North, you’ll be dealing with immigration big time. They would be smart to start building malls now as their new populace will have plenty of stinkin’ dollars to get rid of. O Canada is going to be bustin at the seams.

We’d better start brushin’ up on our French, ‘folks’.

 
 
 

Comment by Papoose | 2008-08-09 22:57:41

This day has been absolutely dreadful.

We have to get Hillary to choose her Veep as soon as possible. It would be really great if her campaign would leak her choice right now.

Let’s CHANGE the subject ~ people are getting bored to tears with hoBO already(with the exception of his mystical birth and arrival on our Mainland) and maybe we can attract some more “uncommitted” Superdelegates. The convention may wind up actually being purposeful and divert all the Oblahblahpalooza hoopla from even coming to fruition. The dNC should just cancel it otherwise since it’s a done deal.

Who shall be Senator Clintons Vice President? Let’s change the subject on those usurpers and be ready to rumble.

Comment by lililam | 2008-08-09 23:08:51

I say let it be Stephanie Tubbs Jones!!

Comment by Papoose | 2008-08-09 23:24:27

hmmmm, good! let’s continue to state our case and mull over the Ticket.

This is a mystery that needs to be rumorized as soon as possible. Maybe Patti Solis Doyle will be begging for the Chief of Staff role. Which btw~ is a crazy thing — Ogreatness appoints a position without even know if there would be compatability between his VP and that person’s subordinate.

 
 
 

Comment by an observer | 2008-08-09 23:05:13

So, we’re all supposed to believe this about our concern for Democracy.

Right!

Or, is the real reason to destabilize Russia because Russia, the world’s second-largest oil-exporting nation after Saudi Arabia, has been quietly preparing to switch trading in Russian Ural Blend oil, the country’s primary export, from the dollar to the ruble.

Oil trading is now nearly always denominated in dollars, the de facto common currency of the petroleum business. When Kuwait sells oil under a futures contract to India, for example, the price is set in dollars.

Similarly, Russia’s large trade with Western Europe and the former Soviet states in crude oil and natural gas is conducted in dollar-denominated contracts. As a result, companies and countries that buy petroleum products are encouraged to hold dollar reserves to pay for their supplies, coincidentally helping the American economy support its trade deficit.
Russia would like to change this practice, at least among its customers, as a means to elevate the importance of the ruble, a new source of national pride after gaining 30 percent against the dollar during the current oil boom.

A move away from the dollar, meanwhile, is more glum news for the United States. Other oil-exporting countries, too, are chafing at dealing in the weakening dollar.

Iran, one of the largest oil-exporting nations, and no friend of the United States, has since 2005 striven to open a commodity exchange to trade oil in currencies other than the dollar. Iran’s ambassador to Russia, discussing the two countries’ interest in the idea, said Iran might choose rubles to free his country from “dollar slavery.”

Ruble-denominated futures contracts for Ural Blend, the main Russian grade, would be an attractive financial instrument if the dollar continued to depreciate.

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-09 23:25:58

Ehemmm…Observer….save the sermon for Moveon….mkay ? I think your lost

 
 

Comment by Andrew | 2008-08-09 23:16:04

Obama has been on the phone, too. Let’s hope Jimmy Carter managed to straighten him out on the Georgia situation.

Comment by Papoose | 2008-08-09 23:25:58

And Caroline Kennedy, too. lol

 
 

Comment by Pink Panther | 2008-08-09 23:22:18

Does anyone remember the captured FARC documents that named Obama?

It was reported earlier this year that dead terrorist Raul Reyes had information that FARC was meeting “gringos” about Obama.

The computers captured by Colombian soldiers contained loads of damning information on FARC sympathizers and allies. FARC Leader Raul Reyes was killed by Colombian forces.

The Colombians captured two FARC terrorist laptop computers at the terrorist camp. The Colombians discovered information on the laptops including:

FARC connections with Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa
Records of $300 million offerings from Hugo Chavez
Thank you notes from Hugo Chavez dating back to 1992
Uranium purchasing records
Directions on how to make a Dirty Bomb

But, no one expected the following:

The FARC Terrorists were hoping and expecting that Barack Obama would win the US elections in November because he was most aligned with the Colombian Marxist group.

Was there an update on this information?

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-09 23:28:13

Excellent PinkPanther….very interestink…..No ?

Comment by Pink Panther | 2008-08-09 23:34:20

I tried to include a link but couldn’t post it. Let me try again.

gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/captured-farc-computers-name-barack.html

 
 
 

Comment by Alien | 2008-08-10 00:20:30

You are in a trap. McCain would have a shit foreign policy also ,dragging you in over Georgia.

Observer is right on the mark.

USA has to rein in Georgia. They are using you .

Comment by imustprotest | 2008-08-10 00:28:12

We do not have a choice. We have oil interests in Georgia. He have to respond, Georgians are our allies, they are a democracy. The Russians respect strength, the question is do we have the resources to respond? Russians are a landed power, they are in country with tanks…we need to get them to withdraw through power and diplomacy.

Comment by an observer | 2008-08-10 01:46:20

How to understand and therefore deal with Putin and Russia as a whole:

Russians do not believe in that Adam Smith / Wealth of Nations / “invisible hand” crap we and our sons & daughters have been taught in our Universities for the last 50 years.

They actually read and study Alexander Hamilton, the Carey’s and other physical economist’s writings about how to manage a national economy. We don’t.

In short, Putin will deal with us if we’re talking about implementing policies in finance and diplomacy that are on a sound foundation. That is, a new Brenton Woods Agreement.

And, he will deal with an administration that doesn’t have a rabid Russia hater like Zbigniew Brzezinski on the staff.

But he’s not going to put up with a lot of BS like we’re tolerating with this group of modern day fascists implementing the Obama phenomena, of whom Soros is the most visible individual.

Comment by jangles | 2008-08-10 11:36:10

Observer: I think you are right here and Zbig has been a huge voice in Obama’s foreign policy advisory. I appreciate your info on Soros and Georgia. I had forgotten his connections to that country. Certainly he is running/owning much of the Obama operation. It seems to me that the peripheral countries are really concerned about this Russian move—they have lots of bad history with imperial Russia and this must seem deja vu. Regardless of the right or wrong of it, I do think McCain has taken the lead here and since perception is everything in politics that may hurt Obama—his silence is remarkable.

Comment by Zeke | 2008-08-10 13:34:45

If we’re re-making the re-make of Manchurian Candidate, Soros is in the Angela Lansbury role.
Were that a true ending resembled the film’s.

 
 
 

Comment by BJinChicago | 2008-08-10 01:51:18

Georgia attacked the Russians; they started it.

 

Comment by Dr. bobbi Anne White | 2008-08-10 19:44:14

I heard that Saakasvilli is nothing more than an autocrat and used crowd suppression to disperse opposition to him

 
 
 

Comment by Seraphiel | 2008-08-10 00:52:27

I love John McCain’s statements. It shows he doesn’t understand a shit of what has happened and is happening outside US borders. If he becomes president America will lose is face once again.

Comment by StrawberrybitesBarky | 2008-08-10 00:54:16

Are you serious? Compared to Barky’s statement? Get real.

Comment by Dr. bobbi Anne White | 2008-08-10 19:45:07

they were both wrong

 
 
 

Comment by sayitisntso | 2008-08-10 01:01:08

Weeel-l SerePILL, Why don’t YOU run for POTUS???

What would you advise at this point in time?

 

Comment by an observer | 2008-08-10 01:10:31

My fellow bloggers, always, always, follow the money!

One of the key operations run by Soros was to topple Georgia President Eduard Shevardnadze, and bring in Mikhail Saakashvili, the Colombia University-trained project of Soros’ “Open Society Institute.” (Columbia, the same place Obama was recruited, or trained, or picked up or………?) Ziggy teaches there, doesn’t he?

From 1994 to 2004, Soros’ various projects and subprojects of the Open Society Institute, including the Central European Project (CEP) and the Open Society Georgia Fund (OSGF), spent at least $40 million to topple Shevardnaze.

Early in 2003, Soros began a full operation to activate the “democracy” shock troops for the takeover of Georgia. The Canadian daily, Globe and Mail provided a vivid account in November 2003:

“Dateline Tbilisi–It was back in February that billionaire financier George Soros began laying the brickwork for the toppling of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze.

“That month, funds from his Open Society Institute sent a 31-year-old Tbilisi activist named Giga Bokeria to Serbia to meet with members of the Otpor (Resistance) movement and learn how they used street demonstrations to topple dictator Slobodan Milosevic. Then, in the summer, Mr. Soros’s foundation paid for a return trip to Georgia by Otpor activists, who ran three-day courses teaching more than 1,000 students how to stage a peaceful revolution.

“Last weekend, the Liberty Institute that Mr. Bokeria helped found was instrumental in organizing the street protests that eventually forced Mr. Shevardnadze to sign his resignation papers. Mr. Bokeria says it was in Belgrade that he learned … how to make use of public pressure tactics that proved so persuasive on the streets of Tbilisi after this month’s tainted parliamentary election.”

Georgia was not the only “colored” revolution whose Jacobin shock troops were trained by Soros. The play has been repeated in Ukraine and other former nations of the Soviet bloc.

When Saakashvili came to power in 2004, it was the duo of billionaire Soros and the then UN Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown (now Lord Malloch Brown, Secretary General of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office) who provided multi-million dollar grants to every Saakashvili government official from the top Cabinet posts to the “lowliest police officer,” journalist Mark Almond reported on November 14, 2007. In the same article, posted on his own and many other websites, Almond noted that Saakashvili’s well-paid (at $1,000 per month, adjusted for the dollar collapse) police forces were the club-wielding enforcers of Saakashvili’s moves against the opposition in the 2007 Georgia elections.

- Merger of Soros and the Empah? -

Lord Mark Malloch Brown is not merely a Soros collaborator and New York house guest, who helped enhance Soros’ anti-nation- state warchest with United Nations monies–he is George Soros’ business partner.

In April 2007, Malloch Brown was appointed vice-chairman of Soros’ hedge fund company, the Quantum Fund, from whence Soros’ billions come. The Financial Times reported that “Sir Mark [now Lord Malloch Brown] will also serve as vice-chairman of the billionaire philanthropist’s Open Society Institute, which promotes democracy and human rights, particularly in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.”

The FT added in a May 1, 2007 article that, “In a letter to shareholders in his Quantum hedge funds, Mr Soros said Sir Mark would provide advice on a variety of issues to him and his two sons, who now run the company on a day-to-day basis. With his extensive international contacts, Malloch Brown will help create opportunities for [Soros Fund Management] and the fund around the world….”

Now, Lord Malloch Brown is the Secretary General of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Has he formally left the Quantum Fund and Open Society Institute?

Comment by Zeke | 2008-08-10 13:31:27

Ob,
Thanks, it is truly always about the money. This newer layering of the onion is intriguing and, as you may already be doing, quite deserving of a book.
Tri-lattes have always been an interesting study and their presence in this, especially Soros, is in no way surprising when one considers that its the only game these Huge Fish have left to play. Nothing gives that buzz anymore except playing around with the biggest toy they can.

 

Comment by workingclass artist | 2008-08-10 14:37:00

OKAY Observer…..You have got my attention…..hmmm….is this tied to the socialist leftie plan the brit progressives are writin about ?

 
 

Comment by Miss H | 2008-08-10 02:35:12

I was attending a meeting today in Washington DC and happened to sit down next to Mr. Webster Tarpley, author of “Obama The Postmodern Coup”. I bought this book and he graciously autographed it. We then discussed what is written on the back cover of the book:
“Obama comes from the orbit of the Ford Foundation, and has never won public office in a contested election. His guru and controller is Zbigniew Brzezinski, the deranged revanchist and Russia-hater who dominated the catastrophic Carter presidency 30 years ago. All indications are that Brzezinski recruited Obama at Columbia University a quarter century ago. Trilateral Commission co-founder Brzezinski wants a global showdown with Russia and China far more dangerous for the United States than the Bush-Cheney Iraq adventure. Obama is a recipe for a world tragedy”
I thought these were crazy statements and then we turned on the TV and heard the reports of conflict in Georgia with the Russians. My jaw dropped and my hands went cold.

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-08-10 08:01:15

And this is the “change” we were supposed to be “hoping” for.

 
 

Comment by jangles | 2008-08-10 11:46:26

It is deeply concerning to realize that a multi-billionaire can manipulate forces worldwide, outside the foreign policy of governments worldwide, and potentially plunge all us into the abyss. I just read Cormack McCarthy’s “The Road” and thought how devastating and real he made our mutual destruction emerge but that we were probably delivered from the nuclear threat—now I am not so sure. This situation is enormously troubling and our media seem to be unable to capture it, analyze it for us in any way. I understand that McCain’s advisor on this is a Georgian and connected with Saakashvilli. Is Soros funding McCain in any way?

Comment by Zeke | 2008-08-10 14:13:26

I have no hard info on any of it, but think for a moment on Ob’s comments above. Soros has no side except the one he’s on.
There is no other rush for people like this, they have had so much more power for so long that even people like John Edwards and Bill Clinton, whose power rushes were so lacking in imagination that they stopped at their zippers, are rank amateurs.
George Bush the First was the one who re-ignited my conviction that the Tri-lattes and the Bilderbergers were still subtly tugging the strings.
You wanna talk about ‘chills up a leg,’ my chills almost caused my to rapidly, yet simultaneously, warm and dampen my leg right after. GHWB gave a speech right after Saddam .5 saying that there was to be “A New World Order” (Kegel Crunch Now!)
What had the President of the United States just f**king said? A New World Order meant one thing and one thing only, Globalism.
So what, you might say? Anyone who just watched corporate, internationally funded sonsabitches steal the democratic process of one of America’s two major political parties may now see just exactly “what.”
The bottom line of this could just be that although we have awakened late, that we can now see the degree of rot we have allowed to occur.
Damn, who knew we had to retain our nationalism in order to retain our political system? Other than those guys who wrote the Declaration and Constitution.
We will defeat these bastards by stomping them one by one. First up, Barry.
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