google.com - 4/10/2009
—
17 hours ago TBILISI, Georgia (AP) About 20,000 demonstrators kept up the pressure on Georgia's president to resign Friday, with some pelting his residence with cabbages and carrots on a second day of protests. President Mikhail Saakashvili rejected their demands and called for talks. The ...
blogs.ajc.com - 4/16/2009
—
blogs.ajc.com —
It wasn’t quite the firing on Fort Sumter
that launched the Civil War. But on April 1,...
your Georgia Senate did threaten by a vote of 43-1 to secede from and even disband the United States. It was not an April Fool’s joke. In fact, Senate ...
(more)
Georgia Senate threatens dismantling of USA
reuters.com - 4/13/2009
—
reuters.com —
TBILISI (Reuters) - Thousands of Georgians took their
campaign to oust Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili to his...
office on Monday, the fifth day of protests against his rule. Several thousand marched on the newly-built presidential residence that ...
(more)
Georgia protesters intensify push to oust president
| ...
google.com - 4/10/2009
—
google.com —
15 hours ago WASHINGTON (AFP) The United States
on Friday refrained from comment on calls from Georgia's...
opposition for President Mikheil Saakashvili to resign. Saakashvili, a strong ally of the administration of former president George W. Bush, is ...
(more)
AFP: US declines to take position on Georgia protests
Comments
Blog Reactions
Georgian Protesters Push for President to Step Down
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... The Georgian army was humiliated and the country lost territory as separatists and their Russian allies took full control of two breakaway Georgian regions.
Saakashvili, whose five-year term runs until 2013, told foreign reporters that he would not resign.
“It’s obvious the answer to this question is ‘no,’” he said in English. “It has always been ‘no,’ because that’s how it is under the constitution.”
Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated ...
Protesters Push for Georgian President to Step Down
The Hollywood Liberal —
... is directed at the president’s handling of the brief war last summer with Russia. The Georgian army was humiliated and the country lost territory as separatists and their Russian allies took full control of two breakaway Georgian regions. Saakashvili, whose five-year term runs until 2013, told foreign reporters that he would not resign.“It’s obvious the answer to this question is ‘no,’?” he said in English. “It has always been ‘no,’ because that’s how it is under the constitution.” Read more ...
Related Content
Georgian Protesters Push for President to Step Down
truthdig.com 4/11/2009 — It was not so long ago that Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili was beseeching the international community to help his country fend off “Russian aggression” during last summer’s conflict, but now the problems are mounting ...
The Associated Press: Russia moves troops closer to Georgia's capital
google.com 4/21/2009 — 2 days ago AKHMAJI, Georgia (AP) At a military checkpoint between Georgia and its breakaway region of South Ossetia, the word "Russia" is hand-painted in pink on a concrete security barrier. "It will be Russia," said a Russian army lieutenant as the ...
News Room | Press Release
sos.ga.gov 6/1/2009 — Obama Justice Department Decision Will Allow Non-Citizens to Register to Vote in Georgia Decision Bars Georgia From Continuing Voter Verification Process Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel issued the following statement following the U.S. ...
BBC NEWS | Europe | Georgian troop rebellion 'over'
news.bbc.co.uk 5/5/2009 — A mutiny at a military base near Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, is over, the Georgian interior minister says. Vano Merabishvili said the commander of the Mukhrovani base where a tank battalion mutinied had been arrested and others were being questioned. ...
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Georgian troop rebellion 'over'
news.bbc.co.uk 5/5/2009 — A mutiny at a military base near Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, is over, the Georgian interior minister says. Vano Merabishvili said the commander of the Mukhrovani base where a tank battalion mutinied had been arrested and others were being questioned. ...
Republican Rejection Of Hyperbole Called Racist In Georgia
rhymeswithright.mu.nu 3/22/2009 — After all, failure to go along with obsequiously sycophantic language in a resolution honoring Barack Obama can only be based upon race, not mere disagreement with the sentiments expressed. Frustrated black lawmakers staged a walkout Friday after the Georgia House...
Bank Failure 26: American Southern Bank, Kennesaw, Georgia
calculatedriskblog.com 4/24/2009 — From the FDIC : Bank of North Georgia, Alpharetta, Georgia, Assumes All of The Deposits of American Southern Bank, Kennesaw, Georgia American Southern Bank, Kennesaw, Georgia, was closed today by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance ...
The Associated Press: Feds spike voter citizenship checks in Georgia
google.com 6/2/2009 — 4 days ago ATLANTA (AP) The Justice Department has rejected Georgia's system of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check whether prospective voters are citizens, a process that was a subject of a federal lawsuit in the weeks ...
Historical Fiction
weeklystandard.com 2/24/2009 — Joe Klein apparently understands the Russians better than they understand themselves, and certainly better than anyone else in the press corps. In his latest dispatch for Time , the self-styled bane of neoconservatives untangles the latest Jewish ...
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
