Posted on 08/10/2010 12:28:49 AM PDT by Cindy
SPIES WHO LOOK JUST LIKE US: THE GAME THAT IS NOT A GAME
SNIPPET: "The basic task of all spies, including the SVR Russian operatives recently caught, is to "steal and shape," Simmons explained.
The "steal" aspect is best known to the public, that is, stealing another nation's military or production secrets, but Simmons also described how spies can "shape" a nation.
Spies engaged in the "shape" aspect of espionage are known as "agents of influence," Simmons said. These "agents of influence" attempt to mold the thinking of a society or a government by targeting "experts who are quoted in the media, the published research of prestigious think tanks, and the exercise of government policy," Simmons explained to INA Today.
The 10 arrested Russian operatives were engaged as "agents of influence," and not primarily as spies looking for secrets.
Both the Justice Department and the media seriously misinformed the American people by stating that the Russian operatives had not stolen any secrets, but "they were deeply involved in the 'shape' aspect of spying," said Simmons."
(Excerpt) Read more at inatoday.com ...
Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2543199/posts
DOJ: 10 alleged Russian intel officers arrested
Associated Press ^ | 6-28-10
Posted on June 28, 2010 1:14:47 PM PDT by Justaham
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“Putin’s Spies in America”
FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com ^ | Friday, June 19, 2009 | Jamie Glazov
Posted on June 19, 2009 1:22:17 AM PDT by Cindy
Such people infiltrated every opinion-making institution and organization in the West with the goal of weakening the West and substituting for it Marxist centralized power. Many of them are native born.
Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265860/posts
“Former State Department Official and Wife Arrested for Serving as Illegal Agents of Cuba...”
US DOJ.GOV/opa - Press Release ^ | June 5, 2009 | n/a
Posted on June 5, 2009 4:00:39 PM PDT by Cindy
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“Nervous Castro fears he is next on the Bush hit list”
Sunday Herald (Miami) ^ | 5/4/03
Posted on May 4, 2003 1:43:30 AM PDT by Ranger
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Defense Intelligence Agency worker pleads guilty to spying for Cuba
Associated Press ^ | 3-19-02 | LAURIE KELLMAN
Posted on March 19, 2002 9:49:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on April 13, 2004 2:39:57 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. intelligence analyst who revealed the identities of four undercover agents to Cuban officials pleaded guilty Tuesday to espionage. She could spend 25 years in federal prison.
Ana Belen Montes, 45, was spying for Cuba from the time she started work at the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1985 until her arrest on Sept. 21, prosecutors say.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Yes, anti-American spies whether born here or abroad are enemies of our country.
The Bummer administration gives a hoot about “shaping agents” any more? Only if it’s Tea Party or conservative “agents” I guess.
Senator Joseph McCarthy was right, and history has time and again proven him right. (thanks to Ann Coulter for opening our eyes to this important fact. No wonder they hate her, she is doing some serious damage to them every day.)
For anyone serious about understanding how it is possible that 30% of Americans are somehow lost in the middle ground politically in every election cycle, I think it can and should be directly attributed to some very hard work by some very determined Communists to destabilize our Country, a task they have been working at non-stop since somewhere in the 1940's when they infiltrated the F.D. Roosevelt Administration, our education system, and even our religious institutions.
If any of you have not heard the Yuri Bezmenov interviews and lectures (found on youtube, here) these are a "must see", but book some time, order a pizza, prepare for a long sit, it will be like attending a college class, these are very lengthy, but this is important stuff.
The Soviets had developed a 3 point plan to take over any country which they used with success in several countries around the globe: Demoralize, Destabilize, and Normalize. (Normalize, means total iron-fisted control over a country has been achieved.) They were busy working that plan here. It is almost a bit scary to hear Yuri tell about fake churches and fake leaders/educators have been set up to mislead the American people. (And now we apparently have imposters running as Tea Party candidates? Interesting.)
This is why some months ago I began trying to push the idea that we really need to get involved in the boring but very necessary work to educate our fellow Americans even on the simple basics of what a Constitutional Republic really is, and why it is better than Socialism.
A beautiful case-in-point was on the Mark Levin show last night. A school teacher called in to complain that 40k was not enough money because the median income is 80k in her area. The guest host correctly advised her to simply marry another teacher for a combined income of 80k, and reminded her that they do, in fact, get 3 months off every year.
But this is the work of the Marxists to influence people to actually believe that a "workers paradise" is actually attainable, even if they do not use the worn out Marxist phrases anymore to describe it.
Years ago it was patently un-American to expect to live single and have a comfortable life. Now, "liberated" Teachers don't hesitate to demand $80K for doing 9 months work simply because that is the median income in their area and they don't feel a bit guilty for asking for it.
Lady Thatcher said it best: "The problem with Socialism is eventually you run out of other peoples money."
Even the Soviet Empire, with all of its enslaved satellite countries feeding it resources, still could not afford Socialism and was forced to disband in disgrace, not even able to pay its soldiers a proper wage. So the natural question that follows is: If we continue down this road to Socialism, what countries are we prepared to enslave to help pay the cost and buy us some time?
Oh ... get it ... like when Ted Kennedy was working surreptitiously in the interests of the old Soviet Union during the Cold War(?)
So what does this person recommend? If you arbitrarily increase the salary of everyone making less than the median income of 80K, the median income will consequently rise. Do you then raise the salary of everyone making less than the new median? Where does it stop?
In Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average - at least according to the town’s press agent.
Who needs spies when our very President is a traitor?
Many currently are located in the Executive Office Building beavering away to establish a Marxist Utopia.
SVR is not exist by now.
It was disbanded as a KGB’s 2nd directorate back to an earlier 90s.
It was for sure because Russia just couldn’t maintain a monster like that even if it could spend all the national budget on that.
One of them is President.
This is why I am on Free Republic every day (pleading, jumping up and down, and yelling,) with fellow conservatives. WE MUST SHUT DOWN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS!! WE MUST EDUCATE NATION'S CHILDREN INTO PRIVATE CONSERVATIVE EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS.
some very determined Communists to destabilize our Country, a task they have been working at non-stop since somewhere in the 1940's when they infiltrated the F.D. Roosevelt Administration, our education system, and even our religious institutions.
Since government schools are, by definition, socialist-funded, compulsory, and godless it wasn't hard for the Marxists to take them over. Gee! Americans themselves had built the socialist, godless, and compulsory foundation for them!
Modern government schools have been socialist-funded, and compulsory since they opened in the mid-1800s to mid-1900s. At first the curriculum offered a generic and lukewarm Protestantism. By my grandmother's day ( born 1894) the curriculum was essentially godless although mitigated somewhat by having basically Christian teachers.
So?...What happens when kids attend schools that are socialist, godless, compulsory, and government owned and run? Answer: The children think that socialism, godlessness, government compulsion, and government ownership of services is NORMAL! That we now have a government owned car company, mortgage services, school loans, and **compulsory** government retirement, Obamacare is INEVITABLE! Soon it will be government owed, run, and compulsory energy and even food.
I am exasperated with conservatives. You are completely correct with MUST MUST MUST begin the process of education, not only adults but the children as well.
By the way, that idiot teacher who thinks she should be paid by the median income of the area was INEVITABLE! Government schools and later her college indoctrinated her into believing this idiocy.
( Not proof read. I am in a hurry.)
I very much agree with the sentiment, but I can't see how this can be done?
School vouchers would be one helpful solution, we need to push harder for that. When parents can move their kids out of the socialist indoctrination camps we call schools today, and put them in private schools, this would be a very helpful step in the right direction, but not a complete solution.
What about all the kids left behind because their parents don't care?
Seems to me the best solution is to ween our State governments off of all Federal tax dollars. This "wealth distribution" plan is socialist at the core and gives Democrat Socialists unconstitutional powers by proxy.
If this means setting up tolls on all major highways, and perhaps requiring parents to pay some of the education cost of their children, sobeit.
If they complain, tell them Ms. Single-Liberated-Woman who is their teacher says she requires $80k per year income for nine months work so, sorry, but we are going to have to charge you something. /sarcasm
By rejecting Federal dollars, we can reject unconstitutional influence from DC and the people can regain control of their States including the school system.
So what does this person recommend? If you arbitrarily increase the salary of everyone making less than the median income of 80K, the median income will consequently rise. Do you then raise the salary of everyone making less than the new median? Where does it stop?
You know something? Sorry to change the subject, but this is also an interesting point when applied to another subject: the Minimum Wage. Didn't you just explain why they have to keep raising it? And therefore haven't you made the case that raising it is futile?
A Free Market Economy always adjusts because there is a certain demand for qualified labor in all positions. When the wages for those who flip hamburgers matches or exceeds those who are doing other labor, a chain reaction takes place which goes from bottom to top... over a period of several years, fortunately for Socialist Democrats this usually happens in time for an election cycle, everyone has had a pay increase to restore the balance to the Free Market labor pool, and once again we hear that the minimum wage must be raised yet again.
But to answer your question, what this means is that Marxist ideology has crept into our society to the point that many people who, ironically, probably consider themselves patriotic find no problem with living off the tax payers and demanding high wages.
It was disbanded as a KGB’s 2nd directorate back to an earlier 90s.
It was for sure because Russia just couldn’t maintain a monster like that even if it could spend all the national budget on that.
The recent arrest of Russian agents would imply that they still have a decent operating budget. They received hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase houses, etc, so they could 'fit in'.
Yes, the KGB may have been 'disbanded' or it may have simply had a name change and a budget cut, but I have no doubt 'they' are still at work to destabilize our country for the purpose of bringing about a Marxist government, as the recent arrests would strongly suggest.
One of the spies, for example, worked for a Hispanic newspaper where she routinely wrote articles critical of the US and its foreign policy. An obvious attempt to sow seeds of discontent in the American Hispanic community toward their own country.
Luckily for the foreign communist powers, they have had homegrown Communists like William Ayers and the DNC more than willing to pick up the ball where the KGB has left off.
This would be a good first step. Shutting down the Department of Education and getting the federal government out of the education business is definitely worth doing.
Vouchers, tax credits, and privately owned and run charters will certainly help build the infrastructure needed for privatization. On-line schools, both government run and private, should be encouraged and funded with tax credits and vouchers. Also,...Individuals should be permitted to open one-room schools in their homes using voucher or tax credit money. The regulations on these one-room schools shouldn't be stricter than what is applied now to home based day care.
Once the private infrastructure is built parents can and should be expected to take on greater and greater responsibility for paying for their own child's education.
With regard to vouchers and tax credits, tax payer organizations should be vigilant regarding two things:
1) that as parents pay for their child's education, that property and other taxes are ***significantly** reduced.
2) That vouchers and tax credits do NOT NOT NOT cause the tuition creep that has been seen in colleges and universities. ( Wow! The middle classes are really getting walloped with that scheme!)
Is is possible to move to a completely private system? Maybe yes. Maybe not.
What about all the kids left behind because their parents don't care?
Government schooled children are already being left behind. Look at the literacy and numeracy rates. Look at the drop out rates.
Also...It is wrong to assume that any education happens at all in any government school. Where are the scientific papers that prove where and how children learn, and who does the teaching? Personally, I conclude that if there is an academically successful child, that child has had TONS of **afterschooling** or homeschooling!
I posted the following to another poster on a different thread earlier today:
When I ask parents of academically successful children ( who attend institutionally based schools) about their home study practices, I find that, (absolutely without a single exception!), these parents and children are doing **everything** in the **HOME** that my children and I did in our homeschool. There is NO difference!
And...Absolutely without exception, those parents who do not have academically successful children, these parents are **NOT** doing what my children and I did as homeschoolers.
So?... A few questions:
--Who is doing the hard work here?
—Is it the parents and children who are actually doing the hard work of teaching and learning in the HOME?
—How much learning actually happens in the school?
—Is the institutional school merely sending home a curriculum for the parents and child to follow in the home?
When I have posted these question, no government teacher or professional educator has provided me with links that would answer these questions....Therefore...Why are we assuming that government schools teach anything? Hm? Maybe it is the parents and children who are doing the hard work in the home.
If I were to design a teaching and learning environment, the first thing I would want to know is **who** is actually do the teaching (the parent? the child, himself? the classroom teacher?), **how** the learning is acquired, and **where** the real learning takes place.
Worse, many of them achieved supervisory positions, then hired people who thought just like them - and had no connection to the USSR at all. And those people in turn...
We have at least one academically successful child whose public school education has not required me to teach/reteach at home. I can think of one exception that occurred during the 4th grade when daughter was being taught three different ways to divide. That confused her a lot and set her back for a while. She eventually figured out on her own what worked best for her. Though I took one semester of Latin in college, I could not have taught her what she learned in public schools. I took one semester of German in college, and I could not have taught her 3 years worth of high school German. I could not have taught her one word of Chinese, and she has had 3 years worth. I could not have taught her Arabic either. Maybe you’re a better mom than I. And daughter is not done with high school, so I can add another year to each of those languages except Latin by the end of this academic year. The only help my husband and I have offered this particular daughter as far as her public school education goes involves keeping her fed, dressed, and in reasonably good health. And we’ve had to purchase materials for various projects over the years.
I can think of a few other exceptional students in public schools. It is rare, but it does happen. Could our daughter have skipped high school altogether and gone to college after the 8th grade? Probably. Our oldest did. But it was a good thing for our second daughter to learn the things she’s learned at a horrible high school that is largely populated with anchor babies and illegal aliens. Some of the best students at daughter’s school are in bad situations.
Your comments are just as anecdotal as mine.
Where are the carefully controlled education studies that show **exactly** :
— where is the student acquiring their knowledge ( home, school, elsewhere)?
—who is doing the teaching ( parent, the child himself, the teacher, tutor, tutoring center, friends, relatives, trips to museums and historical sites, or study groups as is common with Asians)?
— how is the learning acquired ( textbooks, lectures, TV, video, library, home reading material, etc.)
Since who, where, and how are ***fundamental*** to all learning I would think that any government teacher or college professor of education would be able to **immediately** post links to these scientific studies of education.
One more thing: I bet if we were to review your family’s homelife ( kids and parents) and our homeschooling family ( kids and parents) we would quickly learn that our habits were very very very closely similar both educationally and otherwise.
Your comments are just as anecdotal as mine.
Where are the carefully controlled education studies that show **exactly** :
— where is the student acquiring their knowledge ( home, school, elsewhere)?
—who is doing the teaching ( parent, the child himself, the teacher, tutor, tutoring center, friends, relatives, trips to museums and historical sites, or study groups as is common with Asians)?
— how is the learning acquired ( textbooks, lectures, TV, video, library, home reading material, etc.)
Since who, where, and how are ***fundamental*** to all learning I would think that any government teacher or college professor of education would be able to **immediately** post links to these scientific studies of education.
One more thing: I bet if we were to review your family’s homelife ( kids and parents) and our homeschooling family ( kids and parents) we would quickly learn that our habits were very very very closely similar both educationally and otherwise.
I hope not! For your sake! :) We are the most disorganized family I know. hah I guess there may be some order somewhere in the madness.
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