typical approach and determine which substances are actually harmful to the user you know i've heard the argument that the war on drugs just wastes massive sums of money effort and lives in eternal futile battle which is true it does but the only option people give is just legalize all drugs there are a few problems with this when something is legal that tends to make it ok is it really ok for you to spend your whole life in a trance to avoid reality is it really ok for everyone in town on friday night after work to go on an ice crystal meth rampage the other problem is that the war on drugs fails because it's fighting the drugs and not the reason why people take them which is to escape reality why do people want to escape reality because in modern times or post modern times we live a soulless pointless isolated consumeristic existence of working in a pointless office job just to get poor so we can scrape by and get some cheap plastic junk at wal-mart when people's lives are empty they will fill them with something through a needle but that's just. a

different georgia was built in front of the very eyes of tbilisi citizens the main architecture was dismissed and the president personally approved the new ridiculous constructions bridge or a console shaped like giant pipes they were erected in tbilisi ruining the historical parts of the city is clear that the georgian authorities were keen on putting form over substance besides the capital the president experimented on the city of but to me several pointless skyscrapers were built. philly regarded everything is personal villa he got on his private jet landed here and then threw parties with lots of girlfriends the boulevard was closed off of course this is outrageous this was the case justin. but to me.

to believe to. combined a passion for western ways with. majority of georgian spiegel i understand the russian language and the history of virtually every family is linked with russia and all of a sudden to think that anything russian is bad lessons were dropped from curriculum in schools and movies with banned from television a new generation of georgians grew up not knowing a single. we don't get to speak russian often. there is much more practice in english. to be looking for the cause of this hatred to anything russian demonstrated by seconds really does seem strange because they were all born and grew up in this. we're always looking for some philosophical roots for. this so

you ask why there is a simple reason why they link their career their well being their future the only with the west but not with the interests of georgia. the establishment specifically the former ruling elite stream rusa photo ops. when they pray they even show contempt for the georgian king kali. well ordinary people feel russians are closer than europeans. and every georgian village people still remember the times of the soviet union with nostalgia it was a time when russians and georges lived together in peace and this. is it each other

regularly of course it's the older generation that still has these memories. did you watch the old soviet movie father of a soldier you plow the land first and then you sow the seeds likewise first comes russia and then europe we should lose russia those who lived in those times who saw what it was like back then want to get back to the old way. young people don't understand it they didn't live back then. they can only get this experience from us. has worked his whole life is a pot maker. to sell in russia hundreds of wine pots so unique georgian pams can't see he now lives from hand to mouth people used to go to russia just sell apples or whatever and they are in their income this way now they don't want us any more they don't let us ordinary people are struggling looking for whatever food they can come across. time is passing us but we never had any

democracy i don't trust those talking heads on the television. no dorry says that young people sometimes ask him for russian lessons but he complains that he doesn't speak as well as before. everyone wants to chat in russian. if. they want to learn it it's much more difficult to do it and you. know. it was in november two thousand and seven when the top down system of power built by mikhail saakashvili showed its real face for the first time the authorities launched a heavy crackdown on opposition protests attended by tens of thousands of georgians people hit the streets to demand that the president resign. the army and the police that were formed by. their allegiance by shooting at people with bullets and

threatening them with battle. at the very ave. they celebrated the revolution embraces saakashvili beat us up the open fire and us ordinary georgians it was for the first time the georgian soldiers the maisha they voted into power in two thousand and three could be a different man altogether any government that goes against its own people will end up in jail saakashvili will also end up in jail by then the president's closest defense minister. became an exiled. me should you have made a big mistake you will go down in history as georgia's most corrupt president. the government put down the brutality of the army and the police to the simple allegation that the protest straighted by the kremlin the release which was supposed to convince the nation really had no other choice that he had to defend democracy it was a trigger words in georgia. why did the international community keep

quiet. to such a cynical and brutal crackdown by the police. why. really managed to convince many in the west. it was an operation planned by russia's main intelligence directorate and the federal security service or the kremlin or all of them to get. everyone was waiting for the onslaught of the russian tanks. that we were going to raise the red flag. in november of two thousand and seven also showed that the democratic authorities were going to welcome any criticism from the journalists t.v. station he made he was the first victim of the new regime. i see them entering our office they are about to break into the studio something terrifying is going on i hope they won't use force i hear they are about to get into a studio goodbye and. that

was the evening when george's highs for the freedom of speech were crushed since then the media space has been exclusively pro president. not a single component of democracy was functional in those times elections were not fair courts weren't show. this situation in the mess media was disastrous. t.v. networks could not broadcast to a nationwide audience unless they played to the tune. called an early presidential election in january two thousand and eight so was this a face his main contended this time was the. leader of the opposition the lines. that was a dirty campaign with heavy mudslinging directed at me and at the united opposition our purpose was to bring down a dictatorship because that was

a tacit dictatorship we won the election and january fifth two thousand and eight the election commission unlawfully named the victor and then the bush administration and later russia back to. within less than a year the georgians would brew the outcome of that election. we shall keep on fighting russia hasn't just invaded some country in the caucasus with its tanks it is invaded europe georgia is the forefront of a word against evil. just two thousand and eight. many georgia suffered a humiliating defeat and its people the bitter taste of fear and the casualties that could have been avoided. on top of that the west never came to the rescue really had hoped they would and the georgians had a chance to glimpse their presence in action. it's worth.

it. but that was a shameful scene that i can neither forget not forgive to this day. deserves to be put in prison for the events of two thousand and eight alone even if we were told. the fultz on the show lead us to a disaster and cause our country to be split up at best that calls for punishment doesn't it. the georgian government propaganda machine works day and night shaping the narrative of the moral. purpose the georgian public is convinced that russia has occupied and causey and southall said by recognizing their independence today five years on the hopes in tbilisi still cannot stomach defeat. more than go to you can see skin vaal

as a lost battle but the war is far from over eighteen percent of our territory is under occupation. by the war will continue until georgia's territorial integrity is restored. we should always remember as winston churchill famously said you would have to be naive to believe that russia respects anything but force . russia could have imposed harsh sanctions against georgia in the wake of the wall but didn't when the reasons for that was the fact that there are about a million ethnic georgians living in russia they've done their best to support their relatives in georgia says regular georgians appreciate that age. more than george in public. has learned no lessons from the conflict with russia in two thousand and eight the. faith in the might of the west. idea that the west will

come to our rescue has become an article of faith george's political elite. fighting in the georgian government launched a witch hunt to find someone to blame for the defeat. of the end of the war general tristen city. and one hundred fifty army officers were arrested and charged with high treason. was personally introduced to the comforts of a georgian prison which they woke me up in the dead of night and took me to some decrypted building one of them is through a gun and said shoot you if you don't sign this. i told them we'll shoot me then i won't sign this because it's all fiction then they took my children hostage my son was ten and my daughter fourteen years old. they would walk into our

cells and say plainly you'll rot here afraid the rest of your life. really has been formally recognized as a political prisoner he made no difference to the georgian government whether a suspect was an active duty general or a military advice and with the georgian mission to nato. spent several years working on behalf of his country at the nato headquarters in brussels but that helped him a little once he was charged with espionage. he spent almost four years in detention. they maintain that i had been spying for. russia the cia a the british intelligence service the french intelligence oh yes and al qaeda apparently through doku motto of.

their did whatever they. one thing in syria these days and even the obama administration can do nothing to rein the saudis in and i think the sad answer is that the united states doesn't have the power that it once had it doesn't have the leverage that it wants tries to work through allies through international organizations and occasionally on its own and deal with the court of public opinion . the best america can but there are there is a lot in the toolbox right now they're not many tools live. right on the scene. first street. and i think picture. on our reporters twitter. and instagram.

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walk the. cretaceous three sports three. major three. three. three. three broadcast quality video for your media projects free media don carty dot com. the west did assist georgia once the war was over extended credit and dispatched teams to build settlements for the new displaced refugees the village of a baby was arrested by a german construction team several rows of thin walls similar looking cause just the village lies within walking distance of symbolic those are our mountains and

beyond the misery land we used to have everything very good houses our own gardens sure we have to buy everything. the wools are rotting away. no one has supported us in all this time the government what good is it it was them who brought this upon us if not for them we would be fine now. now has an ailing mother brother and sister who stayed behind. she has never seen them in five years refugees have been stuck away from their native villages strangers in the eyes of locals the only hope these people might see is the hope of going home one day that we will return. when if not us our children will come home. and i don't want to stay here i want to be home. and i miss my family i have met

with my sister but they cannot see my brother and i want to meet my mom my friends and. my teachers and my neighbors. and this war was a mistake we need to make peace with. otherwise we will never get any better. the war of two thousand and eight georgia's political elites away from brush it for good at the same time he really became something of a pariah for the international community. is no european nation would welcome the president of georgia for an official visit he was seen as a disappointment even by the americans calling him a loser behind his back. from the georgian leader. the false patriotism is the last resort of scoundrels. he found himself in this role and he exploited it in every possible way.

he used it to assert himself beyond limits feasting on it it would be pointless to look for any rational reasons here. the woman mourning coats a c for the fallen georgians of world war two was the first to fall victim to the new policy. on the value of the momotaro was over there all over by that tree but. today there are any seventy two war veteran still alive in could see see his really however wasn't concerned about the memory of that war or the veterans opinion. three hundred thousand died in the war one hundred twenty three of them were heroes of the soviet union it's a sign of utter disrespect i don't think anything one except for fascists could have done such a thing. but it turns out there was no other place in georgia to build

a new parliament. and then add to that it looks like a trudeau sort of a. load . all over it's. two thousand and twelve was a critical year for georgia a new political figure if it had been seen at ivanishvili. cost of the revolution of the roses this billionaire supported the young democrats and fussed he says he spent almost a billion dollars on their initiatives but later he became disillusioned with second israeli and in recent years he distanced himself from politics and was mostly involved with charities to d.c.

now has the largest orthodox cathedral in georgia. his construction was funded by in vanish really essentially been seen and vanish really was the only person with enough money and power to challenge second israel. on october the first two thousand and twelve georgians used their want to fight. says that during second israelis rule georgians experience the biggest turmel's since world war two. in the last nine years almost three hundred thousand people have had some experience with georgia's penitentiary system they were either imprisoned or came in contact with the system in some other way. our people have never been traumatized like this before. we are this poorest but the safest country but we paid an extremely high price for our safety.

georgia has the highest number of prisoners per capita. lists of political prisoners longer than those in north korea and a fair bit of these facts are backed by european observers as well that. people enjoy just say that just ahead of the election many was swayed by footage of torture and abuse in georgian prisons by local television. indignation for stronger than anger people voted for a vanished blog if it weren't for ivanishvili i think it would have been a rerun of one thousand nine hundred one he would have started shooting at each other it's all because of misha who pushed it too hard on people. because of the three young reformers who emerged out of the revolution of roses and stood for a political spring just one is a major player in politics. now calls mikhail saakashvili possible enemy.

course i realized i was an enemy for him. but unfortunately i wasn't lucky in my enemy didn't prove to be worth fighting he crossed the red line he put pressure on my family and my children. but what's more important is what he has done to my country. shows a chart featuring sec israeli's approval rating over the past year today it's as low as one of eduard shevardnadze in two thousand and three when he was basically blamed for anything that was wrong in the country history repeats itself. gives you an idea of the evolution of approval ratings of mr saakashvili it was as high as seventy three percent in two thousand and four when he came to power with triumph. and here's august two thousand and thirteen just fourteen percent. according to police said the leader of the parliamentary majority campaign manager of the blocks nominee the ruling coalition will not repeat mistakes. i

spent my political career in the opposition. and i remember what kind of methods were used against it i will not allow the use of these methods against the opposition ever again. relations with russia is getting more and more complicated the ruling party led by events really says it's ready. but indicates it will not happen overnight i haven't been to russia for ten years. and i don't speak russian very well now. but i will speak russian. we are fully prepared to revive our friendship with the russian federation. we realize that it will be difficult. i hope that russia will feel the same way about georgia. together with his

supporters cockup indicated say is now writing a book called two hundred years of occupation according to him georgia never wanted to be part of the russian empire it was conquered he says such sentiment is still present. and south of our part of georgia. i hope that georgians will never elect a government that would follow a different policy. knowledge a different political reality. with both russia and georgia have what we call red lines and unfortunately these red lines cross we are not so much concerned about visas or mineral water or wine exports to russia we are more concerned about our territorial integrity about the skin vell district this is our concern. ultimately only mean. it's a good campaign saying she knows how to negotiate with moscow. without make the.

true we are in a dead end unfortunately. but there is always a way out. yeah i like him as a motorist he would agree with me that sometimes in order to move forward a longer route i think you need to back down and to make a u. turn or a left or right turn and then you're on the right track again and when you get out of it. i think we must do it with this. the past nine years that we're trumpeted by second really as the time of democratic reforms actually lived invade the unemployment rate remains very high standing at more than forty percent. but even i mean to be honest little has changed for us politicians fighting for power and advantages that still what it used to be. the residents of the old someplace tired of the experiments of the regime the election

is seen as a new hope for the better they don't even want to talk about cycles really he's been consigned to the past. we don't need the old president enough is enough for the good things about his pocket and no one thinks about the people. because of the time being no one in georgia knows what policy the new authorities are going to take but most georgians have learned one lesson from the presidency of seconds really there's so much between george and some russians and you can destroy a relationship that spans many centuries with just one strike as people in tbilisi say georgia cannot relocate itself into space or some other continent russians and georgians are bound to live together forever regardless of the name of the possible future president threw up his young back.

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days. through to some one hundred top two cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand killing. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a limping torch relay. on r t r two dot com. look at this i understand it's go back to libya because for all the criticism that you have about russia and syria russia doesn't want to see syria explode everyone thinks it's russia trying to protect its friend is by geopolitical i just know it's about a region because explode and they explode in a really vicious fashion it's a way for me a lot of wings of the horse because we're not doing killed in a civil war is that your position no matter who is it it's

a secure site which is one of sheeple that doing something that is a well we're doing nothing and only a hundred and a lodger should be heiress richie to your publisher is he or those around my even across the political i'm neutral you handle it i mean the rest ok you you good you finish the russian oil no no no i'm not going to be in the line of peter lavelle to my line. we're not psyched to act at camp at guantanamo where patients are forced to live. on. never turn world's attention to the place that some gulag of our time.

eavesdropping on allies the latest and it's a leak shows the agencies but monitoring the german chancellor's cell phone for over a decade adding fuel them to europe's frustration over u.s. surveillance practices also this week. i remember flying out of the window and suddenly i was on the street and in a panic talk to survivors of suicide blast that hit the crowded bus in the russian city of volgograd. americas on man killing machine was drilled condemnation from amnesty international and human rights watch who say the drone strikes in pakistan and yemen may constitute war crimes. and the syrian government presents its plan to destroy its chemical weapons while nineteen opposition groups refused to a.