Archive for August, 2008
Although the Dutchess COunty weekly Troop Support Rally is the youngest of our weekly scheduled moonbat encounters, it is unique in that one of the opposition organizers is a celebrity, the folk singer and admitted communist Pete Seeger. Pete has gotten on in years and is not at the protest every week any more [...]
It is an honor and a privilege to present this video of the first Blue Star Mom Vice-President of the United States! God Bless Our Troops, God Bless Their Blue Star Moms and God Bless America!
Human Rights Watch issued a report yesterday which links to UN Satellite maps confirming the widespread wholesale destruction of ethnic Georgian villages inside South Ossetia.
Their report is here.
The UNOSAT page is here.
Human Rights Watch representatives were able to report on and take some still images of the destruction being wreaked upon the Georgian villages in [...]
The TImes of London
Russian-backed paramilitaries are “ethnically cleansing” villages on Georgian soil, refugees and officials told The Times yesterday.
South Ossetian militiamen have torched houses, beaten elderly people and even murdered civilians in the lawless buffer zone set up by the Russian Army just north of Gori. The violence, close to the border with the breakaway [...]
Washington Post Editorial 8/28/08
A flurry of [Russian] presidential statements on Georgia mix lies with a dangerous new doctrine.
IN TIME WITH Russia’s unilateral recognition of the independence of the two Georgian provinces it invaded this month, President Dmitry Medvedev issued a statement, penned an op-ed and granted an unusual flurry of interviews. His intent was to [...]
From the Opinion Journal comes this excellent report out of Georgia written by Melik Kaylan, a New York based writer who often reports from Georgia.
‘Anybody who thinks that Moscow didn’t plan this invasion, that we in Georgia caused it gratuitously, is severely mistaken,” President Mikheil Saakashvili told me during a late night chat in Georgia’s [...]
Yesterday I linked to part 1 of Laughing Wolf’s posting at Blackfive about the personal experiences of a Georgian emigre to the United States. Today he continues her story. Read both segments to gain a better understand of the background for Georgia’s aspirations for freedom and the price they have paid along the [...]
For years we have lived in the fantasy world that our actions regarding energy production here at home were merely an environmental issue. 911 should have woken us up and paved the way for a realization that we were seriously undermining our national security and that of our allies by allowing the circumstance where [...]
Michael J. Totten files this report with a wealth of information about what is really happening in Georgia. Updated with Video.
TBILISI, GEORGIA – Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. “The warfare began Aug. [...]
This weekend a ride that will live in legend took place. The New York based Fire Family Transport Foundation held a motorcycle ride to escort a cross of 911 steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department who responded to the crash of Flight 93 on that [...]
