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   From: d@ray   
      
   So there is political turmoil in Georgia right now as the Georgian   
   government attempts to pass laws requiring any organization that receives   
   more than 20 percent of its funding from abroad to register as “foreign   
   agents.” Somehow media organisations and NGOs being forced to disclose   
   their foreign funding would restrict “free speech” and is   
   “anti-democratic.” Truly laughable.   
      
   This has angered the Americans and the EU who are going total mask off with   
   their clear intention to control the Georgian political process rather than   
   allowing an organic national conversation to guide its politics.   
      
   //The “transparency of foreign influence” law passed by Georgia’s   
   parliament on March 7 is “incompatible with EU standards and values,” says   
   EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borell   
      
      
   Borrell also called on Georgia to uphold its commitment to the promotion of   
   democracy, the rule of law and human rights, and the right for people to   
   peacefully protest.//   
      
   So now an attempt at a Euromaiden style coup is occuring in Georgia to   
   prevent this bill from simply creating transparency about foreign influence   
   over their media, whilst their pro-Western President Salome Zurabishvili   
   just so happens to be visiting the US. Incredible stuff. "Democracy, the   
   rule of law and human rights" appear to basically mean allowing your   
   country to be subverted by foreigners who want to turn it into a   
   Ukraine-style warzone for the sake of their geopolitical chessmatch with   
   Moscow.   
      
      
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)