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Would You Believe the State Dept Reportedly Prepared to Let Russia Build These on U.S. Soil?
The Blaze ^ | November 16, 2013 | Dave Urbanski

Posted on 11/16/2013 11:36:11 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

The CIA and Pentagon have been trying to halt a State Department plan to let Russia’s space agency (Roscosmos) construct within the United States a handful of monitor stations, according to American officials, the New York Times reported.

The fear is that the stations could aid Russian efforts to spy on the U.S. and bolster the accuracy of Russian weaponry, the officials told the Times, adding that the Russians said the monitor stations would dramatically improve their version of the Global Positioning System.

The CIA and other U.S. spy agencies, along with the Pentagon, believe the monitor stations would provide Russia with better accuracy with weapons and an opening to spy on the U.S., the Times noted.

In addition members of Congressional intelligence and armed services committees regard Moscow’s GPS — a.k.a. Glonass (i.e., Global Navigation Satellite System) — with suspicion and want answers from the Obama administration.

“I would like to understand why the United States would be interested in enabling a GPS competitor, like Russian Glonass, when the world’s reliance on GPS is a clear advantage to the United States on multiple levels,” said Representative Mike D. Rogers, Republican of Alabama, the chairman of a House Armed Services subcommittee.

The Times characterizes the State Department’s willingness to let Russia build about a half dozen stations as a way to help repair President Obama’s relationship with Vladimir V. Putin, which took a nosedive after Moscow granted asylum to Edward Snowden and supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad........

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: monitorstations; nationalsecurity; russia; russiamonitors; russiangps; statedepartment; usdefense
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1 posted on 11/16/2013 11:36:12 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Nowadays, I believe just about anything.


2 posted on 11/16/2013 11:38:24 PM PST by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: All
A Russian GPS Using U.S. Soil Stirs Spy Fears "............The Russian government offered few details about the program. In a statement, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Washington, Yevgeniy Khorishko, said that the stations were deployed “only to ensure calibration and precision of signals for the Glonass system.” Mr. Khorishko referred all questions to Roscosmos, which did not respond to a request for comment last week.

Although the Cold War is long over, the Russians do not want to rely on the American GPS infrastructure because they remain suspicious of the United States’ military capabilities, security analysts say. That is why they have insisted on pressing ahead with their own system despite the high costs......"

3 posted on 11/16/2013 11:40:13 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

In the appendix of this pamphlet you will find listed the officers and
address for each district of the Communist Party in the United States.

41. Who can become a member of the Comtnunist Party of the
United States?

Anybody over 17 years of age who can convince the Party that his
first loyalty will be to the Soviet Union and that he is able to do the
Party’s work as a Soviet agent.

He must be an active member of a Party unit. He must obey ALL
Party decisions. He must read the Party literature. He must pay dues
regularly.

42. How do you go about joining the Party?

You must know some member ‘in good standing who will vouch for
you to his Party unit. Your acceptance still depends on the verdict
of Party officials that you WILL AND CAN obey orders.

43. Canyoube asecretm^ember?

All Communists are secret members until authorized by the Party
to reveal their connection. Party membership records are kept in
code. Communists have a real name and a “Party name.”

44. Are meetings public like those of ordinary political parties.’’

No, meetings are secret and at secret addresses. Records are all
secret and in code. Public demonstrations are held at regular periods.

45. What dues do you have to pay?

They are adjusted according to income. They may range from as
low as 2 cents a week to $15 a week with special assessments in addition.

46. What do you have to promise?

To carry out Communist Party orders promptly. To submit with-
out question to Party decisions and discipline.
To work for “The triumph of Soviet power in the United States.”

47. After you join, what do you have to do?

You have to obey the Party in all things. It may tell you to change
your home, your job, your husband, or wife. It may order you to lie,
steal, rob, or to go out into the street and fight.

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It claims the power to tell you what to think and what to do every
day of your life.

When you become a Communist, you become a revolutionary agent,
under a discipline more strict than the United States Army, Navy,
Marines, or Air Force have ever known.

48. Why do people become Communists then?

Basically, because they seek power and recognize the opportunities
that Communism offers the unscrupulous.

But no matter why a particular person becomes a Communist,
every member of the Party must be regarded the same way, as one seek-
ing to overthrow the Government of the United States.

49. What kind of people become Communists?

The real center of power in Communism is within the professional
classes.

Of course, a few poor people respond to the Communist claim that
it is a “working class movement.”

But taken as a whole the Party depends for its strength on the sup-
port it gets from teachers, preachers, actors, writers, union officials,
doctors, lawyers, editors, businessmen, and even from millionaires.

30. Can you quit being a Communist when you want to?

The Communists regard themselves as being in a state of actual
war against life as the majority of Americans want it.

Therefore, Party members who quit or fail to obey orders are
looked on as traitors to the “class war” and they may expect to suffer
accordingly when and as the Party gets around to them.

31. How does the Communist Party of the United States work,
day by day?

The Communist Party of the United States works inside the law
and the Constitution, and outside the law and the Constitution with
intent to get control any way it can.

32. What are some types of Communist activities within the
law?

Working their way into key positions in the schools, the churches,

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the labor unions, and farm organizations. Inserting Communist
propaganda into art, literature, and entertainment. Nominating or^
seeking control of candidates for public office. The immediate objec-
tive of the Communist Party is to confuse and divide the majority so 1
that in a time of chaos they can seize control.

33. What are some types of Communist activities outside the law?

Spying, sabotage, passport fraud, perjury, counterfeiting, rioting,
disloyalty in the Army, Navy and Air Force.

54. What are some official newspapers or m^agazines of the
Communist Party?

Daily and Sunday Worker, 50 East Thirteenth Street, New York
City; Morning Freiheit, 50 East Thirteenth Street, Nev^^ York City;
Daily Peoples World, 590 Folsom Street, San Francisco, Calif.;
Masses and Mainstream, 832 Broadway, New York City; Political
Affairs, 832 Broadway, New York City. There are also numerous
foreign language publications.

55. Does the Party also publish books and pamphlets?

Yes, thousands of them, through such official publishing houses as:
International Publishers, 381 Fourth Street, New York City; Workers
Library Publishers, 832 Broadway, New York City; New Century
Publishers, 832 Broadway, New York City.

56. Does the Party have public speakers and press agents?

Hundreds of them, paid and unpaid, public and secret, hired and
volunteered, intentional and unintentional.

Publicity seeking is one of the Party’s principal “legal” occupations,
intended to confuse people on all important issues of the day.

5 7. How does the Party get the money for all this?

At first it received money from Moscow but now it raises millions
of dollars here in the United States through dues, foundations, en-
dowments, special drives, and appeals.

58. Do only Com?nunists carry out Communist work?

No. The Party uses what it calls “Fellow Travelers” and “Front
Organizations” in some of its most effective work.

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59. What is a felloiv traveler?

One who sympathizes with the Party’s aims and serves the Party’s
purposes in one or more respects without actually holding a Party card.

60. Is he Important in the Communist movem-ent?

Vital. The fellow traveler is the HOOK with which the Party
reaches out for funds and respectability and the WEDGE that it drives
between people who try to move against it.

61 . What is a Communist front?

An organization created or captured by the Communists to do
the Party’s work in special fields. The front organization is Com-
munism’s greatest weapon in this country today and takes it places it
could never go otherwise — among people who would never willingly
act as Party agents.

It is usually found hiding among groups devoted to idealistic activi-
ties. Here are lo examples out of hundreds of Communist fronts
which have been exposed :

1. American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born.

2. American Slav Congress. .

3. American Youth for Democracy.

4. Civil Rights Congress.

5. Congress of American Women.

6. Council for Pan-American Democracy.

7. International Workers Order.

8. National Committee to Win the Peace.

9. People’s Institute of Applied Religion.
10. League of American Writers.


4 posted on 11/16/2013 11:52:17 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The more the merrier! I don't have a problem with this. Provided, of course, that

Then there is Galileo, which is the Eurotwit effort. I would apply the same conditions to them (and expect the same from the Rooskies).

5 posted on 11/16/2013 11:55:26 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: Rome2000

That was then.

These days, the red isn't under your bed. That person would be whomever the Secretary shall designate (e.g., your doctor).

These days, the commie is in the Oval Office.

7 posted on 11/17/2013 12:06:25 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Clinton was the originator of shifting military sensitive procurement from DOD to State. He wanted to sell Loral's systems to China. The DOD refused, so Clinton just moved the process to the Department of State, and after all the sales were completed, had an ADF approach beacon moved in order to crash Ron Brown's plane in the Balkans.

To this day the approvals go thru State, not DOD.

8 posted on 11/17/2013 12:10:07 AM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Given the current President and administration, yeah, I can believe it. In fact, I’m not even surprised.


9 posted on 11/17/2013 12:13:31 AM PST by hawaiianninja (Palm note to self: Call 'em a Depression and a Cold Civil War. Pray for America!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
No space program for Americans, but Obama will let Russia build theirs over here.

-PJ

10 posted on 11/17/2013 12:21:34 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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11 posted on 11/17/2013 12:26:10 AM PST by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

DoS is full of sycophants, narcissists, dumb@$$e$, nimrods, and other self-important fools and tools.


12 posted on 11/17/2013 12:54:23 AM PST by Sarajevo
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

First question, did the U.s. need to build monitoring stations on Russian soil when we were setting up our GPS system?

If no, this seems like an Obama “sharing the wealth” type of program. We have it and no one else does so under that guise we will let them spy on us from right in our country.

Please tell us this is not true. ‘Cause this is one upping clinton giving MIRV and rockiet info to the Chinese via Loral rocket launch “accident”.

What is it with Dem presidents and giving away our technology?

Scum, traitors. And 4 million consrvatives did not vote so put Obama in as president.


13 posted on 11/17/2013 12:55:50 AM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? The Dem's do & voted!)
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To: Shadowstrike

Maybe someone in the State Department’s a traitor - or accepting bribes.


14 posted on 11/17/2013 1:04:38 AM PST by GOPJ (Obama - "too arrogant to question his own bad judgement" ... Greenfield)
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To: GOPJ
Maybe someone in the State Department’s a traitor - or accepting bribes.

Hasn't the State Department always been kind of pro communist?

15 posted on 11/17/2013 1:54:41 AM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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To: Mark17
Hasn't the State Department always been kind of pro communist?

Or anti-American?


16 posted on 11/17/2013 2:14:02 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Shadowstrike
"Nowadays, I believe just about anything."

Amen.
With the incompetent people in charge we are getting just what one would expect with liars, murders & cheats.
Who is the murderer? Fat thigh witch is one. Remember Vince Foster?
Scary Kerry now running the State Department . . . . PLEASE. Mr. paper cut purple heart.

17 posted on 11/17/2013 3:57:18 AM PST by DeaconRed (ZERO Lied - one too many times. The walls are tumbling down. Couldn't happen to a more deserving SOB)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

close like that, they’ll be easy to takeout.


18 posted on 11/17/2013 4:11:15 AM PST by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The selling of America, before you know it the Chinese will be purchasing defaulted cities like detroit for pennies on the dollar, oh, it has already been talked about? Tin foil hat cadets saw it coming


19 posted on 11/17/2013 4:34:05 AM PST by ronnie raygun (todays truths are yesterdays conspiracies)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All
"Would You Believe the State Dept
Reportedly Prepared to Let Russia
Build These (GPS Systems)on U.S. Soil?"


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20 posted on 11/17/2013 4:42:01 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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