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· Cold War spy business between Russia and the US seems to be alive and well

· CBO Says Kerry-Lieberman is Multi-Billion Dollar National Energy Tax

· During a slow economy the White House is pushing something they call Recovery Summer

· After a challenge to a previous ruling Federal Judges have overturned the Obama moratorium on offshore drilling

· There is news about the Defense of Marriage Act that I would like to get to

· Is President Obama more similar to Lyndon Johnson than to Franklin Roosevelt?

 

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• Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona is leading a charge in the senate over yet another high priority issue of the Obama administration – this one involving Russia.

• We talked last week about the unplanned visit VP Biden made to soothe our allies that the Obama administration threw under the bus recently. This is about the missile defense plan which was trashed, then recreated by the Obama administration. They’ve run into some problems with the new plan.

• A couple items on healthcare today – including a statement by Joe Lieberman that might surprise you.

• Dem Senator Baucus took a look at the senate’s global warming bill and said he had serious reservations about backing it – even as President Obama praised the bill – what’s the rift?

• The question is being asked – when will President Obama visit Afghanistan or Iraq?

 

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The Chief of the CBO says Cap and Trade would slow the economy – umm duh.

Wages for 2009 are making their steepest plunge in 18 years as the stimulus program is working – according to VP Biden and Pres Obama – exactly as planned.

Shocker! Iran has not met a deadline for responding to an offer for other nations to enrich Iran’s uranium.

And Russia may soon be inspecting US missile sites.

Plus I thought a missile shield was a bad thing to this administration? If that’s true, why are they now building one after killing the Bush era plan?

Told you last week about the polarity within the Democratic Party on healthcare. Watch this grow. I will tell you a few other things going on around this issue

The National Debt is rising – congress is going to have to make an adjustment to what is allowable by law.

South Ossetia and Abkhazia – I have heard a lot about these two regions of Georgia that Russia has been trying to annex since the fall of the Soviet Union. Unlike most talk hosts, who admit they can barely say the names of these places, let alone discuss them at any length, this is an area of expertise for me. Since Yeltsin left the Presidency of Russia to Putin, Russia has been sliding back to a centralized core in government, particularly but not exclusively, at the time just before Putin’s re-election in 2004. The government had taken over the TV media outlets – this does not happen in Democratic nations; neutered the governors; reversed the direct election of governors – people in Russia cannot vote for their own governor – this does not happen in democratic nations; Putin jailed Mikhael Khordikovski – not only the owner of one of Russia’s largest oil concerns, but also the financier of Putin’s opposition. Image, President Bush putting Soros in jail and breaking his companies up on some trumped up tax evasions charge. This does not happen in Democratic nations. Then what did the Putin government do? Put K in jail in Siberia – where he still is – Broke Yukos up into tiny pieces and then formed government front companies and bought at pennies on the dollar mind you the assets of Yukos under the guise of foreclosure. This does not happen in democratic nations.
Anyone else who would be an opposition candidate to Putin was intimidated to the point of fleeing Russia and then Putin put warrants out for their arrest to keep them from returning to the country. This doesn’t happen in Democratic nations.
Then Just before the election, Putin found out that the opposition parties were going to opt out of the election process. If they did, the legal minimum for voting would not be reached and Putin would have to watch as his Prime Minister became president for the month or so needed to get new elections up and running. This made his Prime Minister a political treat to him. So what did Putin do? He fired his own Prime Minister 2 weeks before the elections.
When the Russian Submarine – Kursk- sank, the very television moguls who made Putin’s election possible in 1999, were driven out to the country by KGB/FSB and the television networks were seized, to stop the negative reporting about Putin’s response to that tragedy. So, when his re-election was running full steam, it was with Russia’s largest (some 65% coverage) TV outlets working directly for Putin. All through these years, Kremlin officials and sometimes Putin himself, held Friday meetings with Television directors to discuss exactly what these networks were going to air about Putin and the United Russia party and how. Is it any wonder that the United Russia party controls the DUMA? Is it any wonder that Putin is re-elected? Is it any wonder that Russian’s love him? His entire political existance, from the time Yeltsin named him the successor to the Presidency, has been crafted and the message blasted to the people of Russia with no opposition whatsoever. This is not democracy. Now, we won’t call it communism anymore – it is not really that. Putin wants the communists destroyed. But make no mistake – the KGB – arguably the masters of dirty tricks – are running Russia.
Let’s come back to recent news – S. ossetia and Abkhazia – these are two areas that the Soviet Union colonized with Russians, as they did in every country they had under their dominion – have been in revolt against Georgia since that country declared independence with the fall of the Soviet Union. We are talking about regions of about 100,000 people or so each. Russia, as it has been doing in every former republic, is fostering, aiding, training, what have you, the separatists in these regions. Now, what we are seeing here is Czechoslovakia all over again. Georgia attacks these Russian trained and equipped outlaws, and then Russia comes to the aid of the people of S Ossetia. They have been goading Georgia into a military situation for years. Check this out Russia is not only the agressor in this situation, it is also the country providing the peacekeeping forces. Think about this. The international community never thought this was a bit strange? It is only when the Russian government, true to what I have been writing about for several years, only when the Russian government attacks this small country as if it was China – like swatting a fly with a sledge hammer. Only then is the international community concerned.
When Condi Rice was appointed to Sec State, I was certain we would be pressuring Putin to back off. But Russia does theater level – basically country on country – exercises with China and calls it anti-terror exercises, and we say nothing. Russia produces and tests ICBM delivery systems and we do nothing. Putin makes overt statements to the media that Russia is going to flex its military muscle and display its economic might toward the west, and we do nothing. To my way of thinking – our attitude toward Russia has been abysmal. It is the single most important failure of the Bush administration – not responding to Putin’s many indications of moving to restore the Russian empire.
Did you know that we have Russian Bear bombers off the coast of Alaska again? Russian nuclear capable bombers are flying soviet era patterns off our coast again. Did you know that just as the US signed an agreement with Poland to install a system to intercept ICBMs, Russia actually made statements to the press threatening a nuclear strike on Poland?
“Poland, by deploying (the system) is exposing itself to a strike; 100 per cent,” General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the deputy chief of staff of Russia’s armed forces, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.
He added that Russia’s military doctrine sanctions the use of nuclear weapons “against the allies of countries having nuclear weapons, if they in some way help them”. General Nogovitsyn also said that would include elements of strategic deterrence systems.
President Dmitry Medvedev said the deal “absolutely, clearly demonstrates what we had said earlier: the deployment has the Russian Federation as its target”.
I know a lot of Americans choose to stay in a state of denial about Russia, but the facts are clear. The US establishes a means to intercept Russian ICBMs and blow them out of the sky. In response, Russia pushes out a bunch of propaganda about the US targeting Russia and threatens a NATO ally. It doesn’t get more more clear than that.
Russia is showing it has a propensity as generous today as ever for displaying military power at the least provocation and using ICBMs as threats. This is right out of the soviet doctrine and Putin is at the very heart of it. What is the American response to this? Did we put – publicly I mean – did we put the 82nd airborne or the 101st on alert? Did we move any naval forces toward the region? Did we move any military aircraft to Japan or Guam? We did nothing of the sort – at least publicly. NATO is nothing more than a moniker when we allow a member country to be attacked in the very least do not show our resolve. I know a lot of folks do not want to upset any apple carts and we don’t need another war. But I tell you now – we should have made it clear to Russia that they are not going to do these sorts of things in the 21st century. We’ve given Russia every indication that we will do nothing to counter their provocative moves to consolidate power. Our non-response now is going to cost us dearly later.