I’ve been e-mailing and calling on this issue for three weeks. I’m not going to stop until they suspend the 1st Amendment and cancel all elections. The progs want to shut you up and when you give up just because something hasn’t gone exactly as you want it to, you play right into their hands.

Representative democracy is not a spectator sport. If you want things to go your way, you have to get down in the trenches and do whatever you can. Do like Rick Z and write to leaders in Congress as well as your reps. I have.

Artfldgr: Your concerns about Russia are way overblown. The ruble is crashing, capital is fleeing the country, and Putin seems not to understand what happened to the USSR – that they went broke. That’s where they are headed.

As for China, I agree with G.B., the PLA wants to get belligerent, but the leaders are not yet ready to confront us because the margin is still too slim. Both Russia and China recognize that Obama is an appeaser that can be pushed around. They are taking advantage of it. China also knows that the situation can change abruptly if a strong Republican is elected in 2016. I’m not sure Putin sees the reality of that. We are much weaker due to Obama’s policies, but we still have the most effective, battle hardened military in the world. Don’t sell us short.

A VERY important read to understand the GAME
the SAME game Obama and his cohorts are playing

RUSSIA IS A LIE
Putin and the postmodern
by Boris Schumatsky

http://schumatsky.de/Russia-is-a-lie.htm

Lying is an especially effective policy instrument when it is not coupled with self-deception. The political lie is only a lie if the liar doesn’t believe in it. As for Putin’s lies, The only people who believe in them are his apologists and supporters at home and abroad. If you try to find a grain of truth in the Kremlin’s web of lies you will become its useful idiot

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Moscow gladly rebuts its own lies as soon as they are no longer useful. The Kremlin doesn’t care what that does to its stooges – they will anyway string together some kind of explanation.

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The friends of the Russian autocracy misunderstand the policy of lying. The Kremlin doesn’t really aim at people believing its lies. Putin triumphs when other world leaders allow the lies to go unchallenged. Of course Putin knows that at least some politicians are wise to his ways. But to him the crucial thing is this: they don’t call the fraud a fraud, nor the invasion an invasion, nor the hybrid war a war.

Once the truth is absent the lie prevails

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We did not listen to Jé¼rgen Habermas when he identified the postmodern critique of reason as a new wave of counter-Enlightenment.

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Putin’s Russia lies because it genuinely and honestly believes that there is no such thing as truth.

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The decisive difference between Putinism and Nazism is that the fascists and national-socialists believed to a large extent in their lies. The Putinist only believes in one thing: lying as a way of life..

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If the victim doesn’t defend himself against the lies he also won’t defend himself against the violence. He will be beaten up, and the attacker has already won from the moment that his victim didn’t call him a liar.

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Today, Russia’s strategic nuclear forces (SNF) are even more advanced in comparison with those of the US, as they ensure parity on warheads with a significantly smaller number of carriers of strategic nuclear weapons

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The progress was made possible thanks to the treaty on the limitation of nuclear weapons, also known as START-3. The treaty was signed by Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama on 8 April 2010 in Prague (came into force on 5 February 2011).

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In the treaty, the Americans, for the first time in history, undertook to reduce their strategic nuclear potential, while Russia won an opportunity to increase it. Furthermore, the new treaty removed important limitations that existed in the previous START 1 and START 2 treaties. It goes about the size of areas for the deployment of mobile ICBMs, the number of multi charge ICBMs, and the possibility to build railway-based ICBMs.

Russia did not make any concessions.

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a common belief for many of those, who still enthusiastically remain in captivity of the myths about the absolute “weakness” of Russia and the absolute “superiority” of the West.

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By the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Armed Forces had about 20,000 tanks in the ETO. (european theater of operations)……………….The Americans, in turn, deployed 6,000 heavy Abrams tanks on the territory of the allied group…………. In early 2013, the Americans withdrew the last group of heavy Abrams tanks from Europe. ……………………In mid-2014, the balance of the Defense Ministry had as many as 18,177 tanks (T-90 – 400 pcs., T-72B – 7,144 pcs., T-80 – 4,744 pcs, T-64 – 4,000 pcs, T-62 – 689 pcs, and T-55 – 1200 pcs.).

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To date, NATO countries have only 260 tactical nuclear weapons in the ETO. The United States has 200 bombs with a total capacity of 18 megatons. They are located on six air bases in Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Turkey. France has 60 more atomic bombs. That is pretty much it.

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Russia, according to conservative estimates, has 5,000 pieces of different classes of TNW – from Iskander warheads to torpedo, aerial and artillery warheads!

………..by the beginning of 1991, the USSR had about 20-22,000 units of tactical nuclear weapons. They are nuclear warheads of air bombs, warheads for tactical missiles “Luna”, “Tochka”, “Oka”, nuclear warheads of antisubmarine weapons of the fleet, special warheads of air defense system missiles, nuclear mines and nuclear artillery shells of the Ground Forces.

This impressive arsenal was the result of forty years of an intensive arms race.

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there is always a lot more, especially when western press does not cover the situation very well, and so, we continue to believe what we last thought over 30 years ago, continues to today..

Same: identical; not different. / of an identical type; exactly similar.

Equivalent: equal in value, amount, function, meaning, etc.

nothing can happen that is the same
everything happening is equivalent

Openness and friendship were, quite literally, weapons in a new kind of war. Here secrecy was not guaranteed by silence or discretion, but by the West’s willingness to be deceived. Arbatov could boast quite openly without fearing that his country’s “major secret weapon” would be compromised; for as it happened, the weapon was irresistible. Elite opinion, even if warned that they were under a new kind of assault, would never believe that they were being attacked by smiles and friendly handshakes.

There was no intention to switch to democracy, or to develop a genuine free market economy. It was never sincere. It was a deception. The vast sums moved by Putin’s gang never belonged to the gang itself. Rather, the foreign accounts and corporate shares yet belonged to a party that wished to remain “invisible” in its dealings. – Dawisha – Putin’s Kleptocracy

More than ever before, communism began to operate through false fronts in Venezuela, Brazil, South Africa and Europe. Under these fronts, the communists kept their victories hidden. – Nyquist

“Western acceptance of the new ‘liberalization’ as genuine would create favorable conditions for the fulfillment of communist strategy…. The ‘Prague spring’ was accepted by the West, and not only by the left, as the spontaneous and genuine evolution of a communist regime into a form of democratic, humanistic socialism despite the fact that basically the regime, the structure of the party, and its objectives remained the same …. A broader-scale ‘liberalization’ in the Soviet Union and elsewhere would have an even more profound effect.”
– Anatoliy Golitsyn, New Lies for Old [1984]

“…Russia overcame the inertia of collapse and started reviving its power, while the West, being lulled by sweet day-dreams of the liberal ‘end of history,’ castrated its armed forces to the point, when they could be good [only] for leading colonial wars with weak and technically backward enemies. The balance of forces in Europe has thus changed in Russia’s favor.”
– Pravda.ru, Nov 2014

“The earnings which are accumulated in the Party treasury and are not reflected in the financial reports can be used to purchase the shares of various companies, enterprises, and banks. On the one hand, this will create a stable source of revenue, irrespective of what may happen to the Party.” CPSU memo via Paul Klebnikov

Heather Alexander March of Cambreadth

Clarityseeker Says:

Why now?

The answer’s obvious in its cynicism. If the Dems had rammed through immigration reform back in 2009-2011 as they did with 404Care, Emperor Tyrant would have never been reelected in 2012. He needed the cover of not having to face We the People again in order to do something like his imperial amnesty.