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        IT WAS A WARM and sunny day in Nikorts-minda, and the word was out: He’s coming! Saakashvili is coming! My obvious question was WHY? He is going to sell Shaori to the Arabs! Or the Russians, some one commented rather laconic. There will be a tourist centre with everything: Restaurants hotels, gas stations, shops, fishing camps….you name it! And it’s tomorrow! First Saakashvili will attend mass

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in the church to get a blessing for the deal, then they will go to Lake Shaori to party and auction away the sea and the land around it. At last capitalism had entered Nikortsminda! Yihaaa!
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"The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it". Proverbs 10:22
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But the good Lord giveth instructions: And not always in the spirit of Adam Smith. It seemed that the thought of an official blessing of a business transaction didn’t seem particulary appealing of obvious reasons. So as a token of God’s dismay, dark clouds began piling up on the horizon during the afternoon. The birds stopped singing, the sun disappeared. Silence, and darkness soon surrounded the small constituency, and a deep, remote rumbling of thunder silenced even the most excited Nikortsmindians. Soon an apocalyptic thunderstorm furiously swept over the village, followed by an immediate black-out, which threw the whole of Western-Georgia into the complete darkness for 12 hours:
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"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money". Matthew 6:24.
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Well. In spite of a clear message, next morning the sun was shining at the gate of The Church of Nikortsminda. The local police made a mess of the Nikortsmindian town centre as Financial Viables arrived in black cars with armed gorillas, women and TV crews. The time had come to watch some folklore in order to calm the locals, and to be officially blessed for selling this huge area to the Arabs or Russians or who ever nourished the snake to it’s bosom. But lo and behold!:
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"It is simpler for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a man who has much money to come into the kingdom of God". Marcus 10:25, Lucas 18:25.
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One might think that the good Lord had made his statement the day before, but he had not forgotten his herds planned dance around the golden calf:  State Minister for Economic Reforms Kakha Bendukidze, whom evil tongues call Judas because he several times said that there is no threat in selling Georgia’s gas pipeline system to Gazprom or other interests, couldn’t get through the gate. Mr. Bendukidze is known to be a big man in more than one way, but God wouldn’t let him through the needle eye just like that. Defying Gods commandments has it’s price, and in front of TV crews and a huge mass of local admirers the ministers crew had to dismantle the gate to get him in to the churchyard.
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But God overlooked Giorgi Arveladze. Georgia's Minister of Economic Development had cunningly disguised himself in a funny red hat and wisely kept a low profile in the crowd together with the children and The Governor of Racha. The bubbling Borjomi General, and a guy in shades I think looked a lot like an Arab billionaire also attended the ceremony. Nothing happened to them. It seemed lik God was satisfied with the humiliation of Bendukidze. So the male choir sang, people danced their traditional dances, gazed at the celebrities and the blessing of the transaction was conducted by the priest. Then they all went off to the artificial shores of Lake Shaori to party!

Saakashvili? He wisely didn't show up.