"a new Russian propaganda machine, aimed at leading nations and built like the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Long-term-wise, the Council for Business Cooperation is expected to lobby Russia’s major strategic interests in the United States. A special attention will be given to the creation and fostering strong informal relations with key figures of the American establishment, business elite and journalists."
Well, this is a good move on their part. As I have been posting on this site for over a year, Russia has a deep and powerful influence over the American Left. They started building it in the 20s and 30s and numerous instances of Russian penetration of our society were uncovered through the 40s and 50s.
By the 1960s, the Russians had reached the point where no more instances of Russian penetration of our society were reported publicly. Partly this was a result of refinement out their penetration techniques---but mainly it was just a question of the Russians having so much influence in our media, in academia, etc. that people became increasingly reluctant to talk about what was going on. After all, does any clearheaded person with common sense really believe that the New Left of the 1960s was not under Russian influence? I have been told that the CIA uncovered connections between the Weatherman and Russia, but this is just hearsay, I have seen no published evidence to this effect.
As the groups talking about Russian penetration of American society became small "splinter groups", it became easy for the Russians to penetrate those groups and turn them aside from any useful purpose.
These all are multiple advantages to the current system they are putting into place. No longer would it be possible for a researcher to discover a "smoking gun" to reveal the powerful influence the Russians are having on American society. By setting up a legitimate linkage between the Russian government and people in the American society they wish to influence, the Russians can de-emphasize former methods of control---particularly people traveling outside the United States to be indoctrinated, debriefed, etc.
These methods, while secure in their operation, left a trail. Consider Bill Clinton's travels through Eastern Europe and Russia in the 1970s.
In addition, covert Leftist penetration into American society is moving outside its traditional boundaries. The Republican Party is starting to be be infiltrated by covert leftists, to an extent. I would be very surprised if fundamentalist Christian sects are not also beginning to be penetrated. The leftist influence and big corporations does not have to be speculated about---numerous overt examples exist. All of this will be aided greatly by this new organization.
The question, as before, is a simple one. Will conservative Republicans acknowledge this covert Russian assault on the fabric of American society, or will they continue to attribute the Left to things such as "cultural Marxism", the "decline of society", etc?
America is under attack by a foreign power, just as Europe was before it, and it is the same power. We conservative Republicans have the capability of victory in this struggle---but we cannot win this struggle without identifying our enemy and speaking his name openly to each other. If conservative Republicans can not understand that the Russians are behind what is going on in the Left in America, our society will be destroyed.
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Lots of rather disturbing news. At least in the cold war era, we had some folks that on the surface at least to opppose commnunist infiltration in this country. Now it has become a genuiune free for all.
Good post!
Don't forget Aldrich Ames and that other guy, the one in the navy, as concrete examples of Russian penetration. It is certain that with Jimmy Carter and especially with Clinton, since they admitted as much, that agents of the Clintons were planted throughout our government and switched from poteical appointee jobs to those proteced by Civil Service, meaning impossible to get rid of.
We know they have been content to infiltrate our government and society slowly and covertly. It is obvious in the areas you have mentioned and in academics, journalism, NGOs, and even the churches. Whast is less obvious is the penetration of businesses, as you said, because "eveil big business" is their sworn enemy.
Alothough David Horowitz and others have been excellent in uncovering and pointing out the many areas of influence and the people involved, there is one tactic they are usng that I haven't seen exposed elsewhere. That is the secondary effect of their control of much of academia.
We have been made aware that they promote leftwing ideas from grade school forward and that it intensifies in high school and colleges. We have also seen that those who agree with them are awarded the higher grades and those who don't are punished with lower grades.
Who gets priority for entrance into college? minorities, their carefully groomed vicim groups through affirmative action, and the other students with the highest grades. Who has the highest grades? Those whom they have arranged to have them, those who agree with the leftist agenda.
Who gets the highest grades in college? The same folkds. When hiring recenbt grads what do corporations look for? The highest performers. Who are those. You have it, the left leaners.
As a result, the left is overly represented in all disciplines in our society. Only those who are brought back to earth by reality or those who were faking it all along become conservatives.
Look at how oil and gas is being handled right now. Russias proxies, Iran and Venezeula, drive up the price of oil, in collaboration the American Left attacks Bush and Free Market Businesses over the high price of gas.
Mix the Russian/Belarussian/Kazakh spying (Higher than ever, even during the hieght of the cold war) with Chinese spying, and we have a LARGE problem.