Georgia revolt carried mark of Soros

[janx]

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031126.wxsoros1126/BNStory/Front/


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 the value of seizing and holding the moral high ground, and how to make use of public pressure — tactics that proved so persuasive on the streets of Tbilisi after this month's tainted parliamentary election.

In Tbilisi, the Otpor link is seen as just one of several instances in which Mr. Soros gave the anti-Shevardnadze movement a considerable nudge: He also funded a popular opposition television station that was crucial in mobilizing support for this week's "velvet revolution," and he reportedly gave financial support to a youth group that led the street protests.

(more at link)

This is fascinating. I know there have been threads here before about Soros, but this article contains information I'd never heard of.

[maddezmom]

1. no wonder the GOP isn't a fan of Soros

he has a track record and a plan.
<<Mr. Soros, whose large-scale currency market interventions have been blamed by some for the 1997 currency crisis in Southeast Asia, has said that his next goal is making sure U.S. President George W. Bush does not win re-election.>>>

[janx]

5. I believe he's serious about that. But I'm amazed at the

overthrow of Shevardnadze and that Soros had a hand in it.

[DUreader]

2. There were some threads with links to James Baker's part in Georgia too

No link for you on that

Georgia is a big energy hub and everybody seems to have a hand in it

[maddezmom]

3. you're right ...saw those

and I have a feeling he was protecting the trying to protect the pipeline for OIL.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Bingo

[Tinoire]

7. They're all Carlyle- Soros, Baker, Bush

Velvet hand, iron fist- whatever it takes to plunder the country.

Do you have a link to the Baker story?

[DUreader]

8. It was within the past week, LBN I think

If you DU search Baker Georgia and Shevardnaze(sp?)

you should find it

[maddezmom]

10. here's one

http://exile.ru/178/178010101.html

[Tinoire]

11. Thanks! n/t

[janx]

13. Thanks--now I understand. Soros and Baker were both

for ousting Shevvy, but for different reasons.

[janx]

12. Something's not making sense here.

Soros is on Chimpy's team?

Then why does he say that his life's ambition is to make sure Chimpy doesn't get reselected?

[DUreader]

14. Didn'y Poppy pull out of Carlyle? Power Plays inside the Carlyle Group?

Does Poppy even want little Dub.* reSelected?

[Donna Zen]

15. Poppy in

just made a recent trip to Russia regarding oil.

[janx]

6. James Baker? I thought he _liked_ tainted elections.

But if there was something in it for him, he probably wouldn't care.

[DUreader]

9. Shevy sold the Georgia power companies to the Russians

maybe reneged on some pipeline deals, Baker said Shevy would

be gone long before the re-selection happened. Look for

a more pliable US friendly replacement. Also look for Putin's

counter moves.