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April 17, 2009 (LPAC)--The recent protests-turned-violent in Moldova's capital, perpetrated by mostly college-age youth, near ten thousand, coming in from both around the country of Moldova and from neighboring countries, such as Romania and others farther away in Europe, are being dubbed the "Twitter Revolution." This name was given to the flash-riots which brought 10,000 protesters to Moldova's capital square the day after the Communist party won a majority in the parliamentary elections, in an article by Evgeny Morozov, which he penned in Foreign Policy magazine. Morozov, born in Belarus, is currently an active fellow of George Soros's Open Society Instititute of New York and a board member of the OSI's Information Program, formed to study how to use the Internet to facilitate 'democracy movements' in closed societies to overthrow authoritarian regimes. He names four such so-called authoritarian states on which the Information Project has been focused: Tajikistan, Moldova, Syria, and Thailand, bragging on his blog that these are "places that I visit frequently," studying opportunities that information technology and Internet networking present for overthrowing these 'authoritarian regimes'. (It should not be seen as coincidence that the violent protests in Thailand, staged by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship movement, followed on the heels of the Moldova riots by only one week.)

In his article in FP, Morozov cites the recent riots in Greece, which then spread to the rest of Europe, as another recent example of how Twitter was used to incite "flashmobs", or "spontaneous-but-networked protest," which, he claims, in another article, titled "Rioters of the World Unite," which he wrote in The Economist, is now the new wave of protest method replacing the now outdated pre-planned "set-piece" protests outside economic summits and so forth, of the form that we remember from Genoa and Seattle.

Morozov's article in FP cites studies done by the Berkman Center at Harvard University, on the use of "technology" in the Soros-sponsored Orange Revolution five years ago in Ukraine. At the end of the article, he writes, suggestively, that these Moldova protests "present an interesting case-study that I hope academic institutions like Harvard's Berkman Center and others would take on and examine in detail." In a blog called open Democracy, based in Britain, Morozov also mentions the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a think-tank at Harvard University, which he says "is currently running large-scale econometric models to observe how Internet access is correlated with political instability." Their study finds that "an increase in cell-phone availability increases the likelihood (at least perceived by the public) that the government might be overthrown by violent means."

The Harvard report cites the Two-Step Flow Theory of Paul Lazarsfeld (partner of cyberneticist Kurt Lewin, the intellectual father of today's Behavioral Freakanomics), which models the effect of media on society as mediated through multiple "opinion leaders" who each posses a network of "individuals in social contact with the opinion leader". The LPAC pamphlet "Is the Devil in Your Laptop?" published in 2007, documents the long history of the use of this type of "social engineering" and "group psychology" to threaten the stability of sovereign nation-states. See, especially, "INSNA: 'Handmaidens of British Colonialism" by David Christie. This document is critical background intelligence material for nation-states seeking to protect the stability of their governments from George Soros's social-networking 'democracy revolutions', now waging a global offensive of destabilization.