“So far the situation appears to be developing as a conflict among people who are unhappy with their socio-economic well-being. But we should not deceive ourselves, all color revolutions developed in similar scenarios. Armenia is not guaranteed from such outcome,” Kosachev said in comments with RIA Novosti.
look a t these Crazy Russians! fuckin, unreasonable and sorcerous!!
cars posted:i'm at least glad some of the organizers are responding to #euromaidan on twitter by saying over and over that they don't support euromaidan and they aren't anti-russian. on the other hand, that means they'll probably get removed from any real influence sooner rather than later
they're also over and over saying that they greatly respect maidan and are honored by the comparison
Even the population of Armenia is unclear. Officials say it’s 3,020,000, citing the last census in 2010, but independent observers think it’s between 2 million and 2.5 million, falling annually as tens of thousands depart to find work abroad.
Yet there’s a bright spot: Young North Americans of Armenian descent are still flocking to the country – taking up citizenship, starting high-tech companies or going into local politics.
(...)
Babken DerGregorian, 29, got his citizenship papers two weeks ago so that he could take part in local politics. From near Glendale, Calif., he’s the son of Armenians from Iran. A political science graduate of UCLA and later the London School of Economics, he worked on one of President Barack Obama’s campaigns in Florida and arrived here in 2012 to work for a human rights organization.
“There’s a whole new generation that says, ‘These are my rights.’ It’s very much an American approach,” he said. “I was politically active. I got arrested a number of times. I decided to get Armenian citizenship. If I’m going to be politically active, there is a way as an Armenian citizen to want my rights.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article19169292.html
DerGrigorian said he is optimistic that the protests will have an impact.
"My story is very typical of many people of my generation who did everything right. I and a lot of my friends are educated and very smart; yet, we're all unemployed. Those things affect you." said DerGrigorian, who added that he was speaking strictly for himself,
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/occupy-wall-street-movement-worldwide/story?id=14743648
Babken DerGrigorian, a Civil Society programs coordinator at the Open Society Institute.
http://armenianweekly.com/2013/07/03/onearmenia-uniting-armenians-for-change/
cars posted:i always want to give these things time to develop and they always develop into a blurry picture of hitler doing a kick flip over the statue of liberty
(RFE - Radio Free Europe, RL - Radio Liberty)
Interesting language for a non-maidan "nonpolitical" (organizers' words) protest about electricity
COLOR REVOLUTION BONUS ROUND:
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FSAD posted:
its cool that the same western-friendly stenographers of absurd shit are used for every colour revolution
we'll see if i get charged the $49, if i do get charged then i will be suspicious, but if not - i used a company credit card so maybe its an automatic fraud prevention thing. i also got an email telling me to fill out a customer support ticket which i dutifully did. if i dont post in the next 48 hours i am having my butthole electrocuted in a medieval dungeon in paraguay. death to videodrome. long live the new flesh.
jools posted:FSAD posted:its cool that the same western-friendly stenographers of absurd shit are used for every colour revolution
eg http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/12/14/heroes-of-the-maidan/
jools posted:jools posted:FSAD posted:its cool that the same western-friendly stenographers of absurd shit are used for every colour revolution
eg http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/12/14/heroes-of-the-maidan/
Petrol posted:
Very few people have heard of Christopher Chandler (lol), a reclusive billionaire from New Zealand, and that is the way he likes it. But the secretive tycoon wants to leave his mark on the world by bankrolling a business school for developing nations.
Chandler, a small-town beekeeper's son who has built a fortune estimated at $1.7bn (£866m), is a sort of antipodean version of Warren Buffett. Along with his brother Richard, he has bought and sold chunks of Hong Kong property, Brazilian telecoms, Japanese banks and Russian electricity enterprises.
Throughout his career, the 48-year-old Kiwi has nurtured the lowest of profiles - in Forbes's annual ranking of the richest, he is represented by a silhouette because no public photo of him seems to exist. But in a rare overt gesture, Chandler has committed $50m to the creation of a unique school in the US aimed at nurturing entrepreneurs with business ideas to help poorer countries step beyond poverty.
The Legatum Centre for Development and Entrepreneurship opens its doors in Boston this year with an initial crop of 12 postgraduate students from nations including Rwanda, Nigeria and Pakistan. The centre, which is attached to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is intended to create a generation of business leaders in poverty-stricken parts of the globe.
The centre is headed by Iqbal Quadir, a former Wall Street banker who created Grameenphone smdh - a $4bn company that popularised mobile phone use in rural Bangladesh by allowing handset owners to sell minutes of airtime to their friends and neighbours.
impacthubyerevan.com, .biz, .net and .org
and impacthub.am
so here is impact hub - yerevan
http://yerevan.impacthub.net/
i don't know if this is interesting at all to anybdy at all but i paid $49 fucking USD dollars god damnit so i better get in the news
https://twitter.com/HubYerevan/status/614442180686393344/photo/1
http://hetq.am/eng/news/61192/american-political-consultant-regime-in-armenia-wont-back-down.html
http://www.laweekly.com/news/campaign-consultants-stank-up-la-on-march-8-2169627
http://burbankblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/yet-another-investigation-of-eric.html
swampman posted:"babken dergrigorian" resulted in 5 results
impacthubyerevan.com, .biz, .net and .org
and impacthub.am
so here is impact hub - yerevan
http://yerevan.impacthub.net/
i don't know if this is interesting at all to anybdy at all but i paid $49 fucking USD dollars god damnit so i better get in the news
noone cares. you could of bought bere with that money lol
33 times it's the american government, 33 times it's the eu, 33 times it's russia's government
NoFreeWill posted:noone cares. you could of bought bere with that money lol
Its ok, I shit $49
swampman posted:"babken dergrigorian" resulted in 5 results
impacthubyerevan.com, .biz, .net and .org
and impacthub.am
so here is impact hub - yerevan
http://yerevan.impacthub.net/
i don't know if this is interesting at all to anybdy at all but i paid $49 fucking USD dollars god damnit so i better get in the news
now do vaghinak shushanian
Bablu posted:now do vaghinak shushanian
there are three results for "shushanyan" alone but i only have $49 more irl and need it for food
Electric Yerevan
someone wants to investigate Web Site check out MediaLab.am, the source for that linked story, "Founded by Umbrella Journalists' International Network NGO, Yerevan based Medialab is an independent balanced media laboratory providing true unbiased ..." just experimenting with some different recipes for news! just asking questions and trying things out at our laboratory which in turn is founded by an "International Network" NGO also headquartered in the same city and probably in the same office!
its funny too this "«Ամբրելլա» միջազգային լրագրողների ցանց ՀԿ-ի կողմից" aka "Umbrella" group that's behind MediaLab.am aka the name for the failed 2014 state dept op in Hong Kong, I'm sorry, I meant the "loose pro-democracy political movement that was created spontaneously during the Hong Kong protests of 2014" and its "united grass roots objection" (with an official logo and i guess an official wikipedia editor?)
because this other "Umbrella", the one that brought you the choice story in the first link about Armenian Freedom and the Monstrous Rus, is only referenced on other sites with links that direct back to the MediaLab.am site, specifically to this page http://www.medialab.am/%D4%B1%D5%B7%D5%AD%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%A6%D5%B4.html which doesnt fucking exist anymore... interesting choice to explain your sponsor.. and Internet Archive shows that page redirecting to the site's front page since it was first archived in 2011, then suddenly disappearing in the middle of 2013....
anyway im sure all these recent International Scientific News Laboratories have full transparency if we just look at who funds their projects, like these folks
well damn!! that sh'd sounds great did our friends make the cut??
congratulation!! now it's time to get down to some fine independent journalism free from foreign influe
"not necessarily"!! thank you this has been another episode of Exact The Fuck What You Expected
Rememberrrrrr:
Staff
Editor in chief
Marianna Grigoryan
Cartoonist
Mr. Nersisyan
Photojournalist
Piruza Khalapian
Reporters
Marie Nersessyan
Roza Hovhannisyan
Ani Yeghiazaryan
Diana Galstyan
Christine Khanumyan
this shit has to be seen to be believed, it's chaired by an ex-Royal Navy KPMG hyperconsultant.. it's funded by the World Bank, Madeline Albright's Haiti-fucking NDI and U.S. State... it also has the managing partner for the entire multinational Caucasus KPMG office on the board for some reason?... Brits, Americans, Germans, Belgians on the board, OSCE people, ex-ambassadors from the European creditor states, eXile-target-type consultant parachuters, not a lot of people from, you know, the Caucasus... they pay grants to graduate students and insist all projects contain Big Data on the Caucasus countries, but most of their conferences have IMF loan monkeys as their speakers, not academics....
they claim non-financial Partnership with Armenian government agencies for data sharing, which makes sense because they did a USAID-funded corruption survey with the Sargsyan government, or they did, until 2010 when that mysteriously stopped... then they started doing Funder: USAID projects on like, well one "fosters sustainable civil society development through strengthening the capacity of CSOs as critical actors to advance and oversee(!) reform" and then we got one 2014-2016 that's a "comparative study of interactions between actors and institutions in Armenia and Georgia to explore political constraints for autocratic(!) ruling regimes and volatility in salient policy areas." CSOs are non governmental actors but i guess those good kind folks are overseeing The big Reform now, in the Caucasus, where all of the most comically gigantic powers of Western capital Center their Resources for Research?
more tomorrow i guess, you've been warned
reminds me a lot of the stuff i found myself digging through when assisting with an early version of this article about similar hijinks in ukraine focused on the direct investment trojan horse outfit SigmaBleyzer.
KPMG specifically stands out because of Barents Group. that was a wholly owned subsidiary of KPMG at one stage and specialised primarily in USAID economic development projects. they came to my attention because SigmaBleyzer used to trumpet as one of its earliest successes the privatisation of the sevastopol shipyard. essentially they bought a majority share of the business and then Barents came in as part of their USAID-funded Enterprise Restructuring Project to reshape the business in capitalist form, including training of workers. to me this seems a classic example of capitalist imperialism - a complex alliance of public & private western actors working to 'cleanse' an important symbol of soviet power.
Barents Group, i believe, split off from KPMG some years ago and is now the economic development arm of BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting). BearingPoint over the past decade have been heavily involved in advising the Armenian govt on financial sector regulations (i.e. https://www.firstinitiative.org/sites/first/files/files/ARMENIA_STRENGHTENING%20SUPERVISION%20AND%20DEVELOPMENT%20OF%20INSURANCE%20SECTOR%20STRATEGY_ProjectLessons_Armenia_Risk-Sens%20EarlyWarn_Jun30final%20version.pdf http://www.cea.org.mk/documents/cv/CV%20EAR%20FORMAT%20-%20Roberts.pdf etc)
other leads that might be of interest -
GIZ, which is essentially the german counterpart of USAID https://www.giz.de/projektdaten/index.action?request_locale=en_EN#?region=4&countries=AM
EBRD http://www.ebrd.com/work-with-us/project-finance/project-summary-documents.html?1=1&filterCountry=Armenia
ganbatte, cars-san