GAMEPLAN This is another McCain-Giuliani-Perle-Lieberman connection. McCain has spent a lot of time in Soviet Georgia. As has one of his top advisors/lobbyist, Randy Schneumann. Ex-NY Mayor Giuliani and his business partners are backing McCain. The current Prez of Soviet Georgia is a NY attorney, recruited in circa 1995 by Shevrednaze.
PREZ CANDIDATE RUDY GIULIANI HELD A CAMPAIGN FUND-RAISER IN KAZAKHSTAN. KAZAKHSTAN? WHERE IS KAZAKHSTAN? It is a former Soviet Union state, the only Central Asian country sharing borders with both Russia and China, and with states of nuclear-transit significance such as Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
GLOBAL STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE Kazakhstan is in the Strategic Energy Ellipse and is a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization with China and Russia. A focal point of influence between the West and the East.
WHAT IS KAZAKHSTAN'S MAIN INDUSTRY Kazakhstan aims to become the world’s largest producer and exporter of uranium in the next five years.
REFERENCE Giuliani Fund Raising Reaches Into Kazakhstan By MARY JACOBY, WS Journal, Sept 25, 2007; Page A6 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119068473680038294.html Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s campaign is looking for political cash this week in an unlikely place: Resource-rich Kazakhstan----- where Giulian, Republican front-runner’s law firm's two offices does substantial business in the often murky oil, gas and minerals industries. A fund-raising event in Almaty, the commercial center of the former Soviet republic, will mark the campaign’s third foray overseas for cash. --snip--
Oh, yeah Perle (snicker)
GET OUT YOUR BARF BAGS According to the Wall Street Journal, US gov't infiltrator, Richard Perle (a self-described "Republican," former Pentagon official, Lieberman buddy, and Giuliani flacker) is plotting to establish an oil business in Iraq. Yup--Iraq. Perle was one of the phony "security experts" who schemed and colluded to make the case for the US invading Iraq (later found to be based on false info manufactured by Douglas Feith on his home computer). The WSJ says the Perle oil deal is being discussed with officials of northern Iraq's Kurdistan regional government, including its Washington envoy, according to documents. It would involve a tract called K18, near the Kurdish city of Erbil.
NAUSEA ATTACK Nothing in US history compares to spilling the blood of young Americans and raining trillions of US tax dollars into Iraq to pave the way for Perle's business plans. Nothing.
No surprise there. Remember MEGA Oil company and the "Baku Boom"? Mega was Richard Secord's lil' Oil "enterprise" in Azerbaijan while he and his ex-CIA buds stirred stuff up, selling arms and providing war training to the locals.
So, is Perle and Co. just the newer generation of the now geriatric-age Iran-Contra bunch?
Sitting in his Manhattan office in the spring of 1995, Mikheil Saakashvili had every reason to look forward to a lucrative career as a big-city lawyer.Only 26, he had attended schools in Kiev, Strasbourg and Florence, held a degree from Columbia Law School and was winning a reputation for diligence and legal talent. After nightfall he was likely to be found either at the Metropolitan Opera or cheering for the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
Now he is a superstar of Georgian politics, hugely admired and widely viewed as having unlimited potential.
Mr. Saakashvili is among the most prominent of several dozen bright and energetic young people who are playing important roles in building a new post-Communist order here. The president of the central bank, Mikheil Chkuaseli, was a swiftly rising 27-year-old business manager when he was tapped for his new post last year. More recently, a 30-year-old World Bank official, Irakli Managadze, was named Finance Minister.
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Mr. Saakashvili's transformation from freewheeling New York lawyer to someone seen as a crusading hero of a struggling democracy began when an old friend, Zura Zhvania, arrived at his New York office with a remarkable offer. He said he had been sent by President Shevardnadze to recruit talented young Georgians to enter politics. The desired qualifications were intelligence, energy, idealism and no connection to the old Communist elite.
Georgia was then in chaos, staggering under the weight of corruption, separatist wars in breakaway provinces, deep poverty, pressure from a resentful Russia, and criminality so severe that few people dared to walk the streets after dark. Mr. Saakashvili quickly succumbed to his friend's appeal and went with his Dutch-born wife to Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.
When Georgians voted in national elections in December 1995, both Mr. Zhvania and Mr. Saakashvili won seats in Parliament. Since then, they have helped shape their country's resurrection and transition to democracy. Mr. Zhvania, now 34, is the president of Parliament. Mr. Saakashvili, 29, is chairman of a powerful committee charged with creating a new electoral system, an independent judiciary and a nonpolitical police force.
In public opinion surveys Mr. Saakashvili often rates as the second most popular person in Georgia, trailing only President Shevardnadze.
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