Saturday, April 17, 2010

Bloody Tulips!

by Dmitry Orlov

ClubOrlov (April 12 2010)


Excellent photo gallery of the uprising in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan {1}. Five years ago Kyrgyzstan (former Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic) went through a so-called "tulip revolution". Organized by George Soros and the usual suspects from the Orange Revolution Syndicate, they got rid of one unsavory dictator and installed another one - all in the name of democracy and freedom, of course. And now, just five years later, an uprising has taken place, the president and his entourage have fled, the government buildings have been looted, and the people are dividing up the land that they feel the rich elites have stolen from them.

This little country is important to the United States only because geography forces US and NATO to use it as a trans-shipment point for resupplying their endless war in Afghanistan. It is also used to channel out a lot of Afghanistan's heroin export. The proceeds from the heroin trade end up in Western banks, and that, in turn, keeps the war going.

But in spite of all the drug money flowing through the system, the Orange Revolution Syndicate is not doing so well these days. They lost the Ukraine, Georgia has been in the political morgue since it started and lost a war with Russia, and now they have lost Kyrgyzstan as well. Poor George Soros! There just aren't that many countries left in the world that a multi-billionaire like him can undermine using his ill-gotten gains in the name of "open society".

Fearless Russian photojournalists have wandered into this mess, and have brought us this. Many thanks to them and to RT {2} for letting us see for ourselves what a contemporary revolution looks like: bloody and chaotic as ever, but brought to us via cell phones and the Internet, with order restored by citizens using all of the advanced communications technology at their disposal to organize their effort. This is not your grandfather's revolution.

Links:

{1} http://rt.com/Galleries/report-the-bishkek-rioting.html

{2} http://rt.com/About_Us/Corporate_Profile.html

http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/04/bloody-tulips.html

Bill Totten http://www.ashisuto.co.jp/english/index.html

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