CHUCK KOLB PRESENTS 'QUICK AND DIRTY' (lengthy)

PERIPHERAL POSTS ... 

Sheriff Richard Mack and Judge Jeanine Pirro
Sheriff Arrested For Defending Citizen’s 2nd Amendment Rights
http://constitutionalsheriffs.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network 
http://zionica.com/2013/06/12/sheriff-arrested-for-defending-citizens-2nd-amendment-rights/ 

Sheriff Finch arrest (3:27) KrisAnne Hall dissents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0prgiFh8K2M 

Recently, there have been groups of sheriffs from around the country banding  together in their opposition to
federal and state gun control efforts. They’re  coming together and announcing that they won’t be enforcing any
unconstitutional  laws that pertain to people’s 2nd Amendment rights. 
http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/03/jay-carney-local-sheriffs-had-better-enforce-gun-control-laws/ 

The New American summarized the situation:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/15651-florida-gov-arrests-replaces-sheriff-for-upholding-second-amendment

http://zionica.com/2013/06/12/sheriff-arrested-for-defending-citizens-2nd-amendment-rights/

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Bill Whittle On How The Progressives Infiltrated Our Culture
I was browsing vids late last night and ran across this three part presentation from August, 2011.   That’s right, August, 2011. 
It appears that Bill has been knocking himself out for quite some time and these particular vids need to go viral as they explain
the genesis of the progressive nightmare we are currently living [...]
http://logisticsmonster.com/2013/06/15/bill-whittle-on-how-the-progressives-infiltrated-our-culture/ 

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AK VS AR - DAMAGE ON STEEL (2:58) 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmbnTZt2nvg 
http://www.youtube.com/user/Brandon401401 

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3MIN News June 17 2013 & Large Quake Analysis (7:12) 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NwnloS9YoI 
It is important to know that many factors are involved in building pressure underground, and many others involved 
in triggering earthquakes. Not all coronal holes produce quakes and not all major upticks in seismicity occur with 
coronal holes. But the 100,000 plus people here have been watching a statistically significant correlation in upticks 
of that very seismicity. An uptick has begun again, the coronal holes are set. Not every such situation creates the 
danger, but it seems the danger prefers these situations. 

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To: 100,000,000 Christians Against Obama
Cc: OBAMA IS A LIAR*; Obama Enemy 2 USA*; Obama Prove Eligibility
Subject: AMERICANS AGAINST BARACK OBAMA | Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/AmericansAgainstBarackObama

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POSTED and forwarded to 33 other Conservative sites
 
Conservative Patriot
http://conpats.blogspot.com/
Lee S. Gliddon Jr.  - runlv2@yahoo.com 

POSTED and forwarded to 33 other Conservative sites
(lengthy) CONSERVATIVE INFORMATION FOR ALL 
ANONYMOUSLY YOURS ! NSA - PART DEUX !!! 
http://conpats.blogspot.com/2013/06/lengthy-conservative-information-for-all.html

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Snowden Damaging U.S. Intelligence? How is that not Good … Overall?  
by Arlen Williams 
http://gulagbound.com/39363/snowden-damaging-u-s-intelligence-how-is-that-not-good/ 

The Sandbagging of America
by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton 
http://gulagbound.com/39352/the-sandbagging-of-america/

https://twitter.com/GulagBound 
https://twitter.com/maggiesnotebook 

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One Nation Under Siege (Full Documentary)
http://logisticsmonster.com/2013/06/17/one-nation-under-siege-full-documentary/ 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXjEW2etAVM (1:21:30)
http://www.youtube.com/user/truthmediainfo 

http://logisticsmonster.com/2013/06/18/listen-up-corporate-owned-marxist-conditioned-moos-elbert-guillory-why-i-am-a-republican/

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Tribulation-Now - Web Site Article
http://www.tribulation-now.org/2013/06/18/popocatepetl-a-shot-over-the-bow/

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Doug Hagmann dispels rumors
by Doug Hagmann 
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/55986 
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/Insider-reports 

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Archbishop Chaput: Religious Liberty Depends on Lay Faithful, Not Bishops
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/archbishop-chaput-religious-liberty-depends-on-lay-faithful-not-bishops

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DIRTY ROTTEN BASTARDS !
Another Journalist Dies after Exposing Big Gov Extremes 
http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/another-journalist-dies-after-exposing-big-gov-extremes/

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New Matt Damon Movie Reveals Mankind’s Transhumanist Destiny 
http://www.infowars.com/new-matt-damon-movie-reveals-mankinds-transhumanist-destiny/ 

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w vid NASA's LRO: Four Years in Orbit 
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/4th-anniv.html 

NOAA, partners predict possible record-setting dead zone for Gulf of Mexico 
Also anticipating smaller hypoxia levels than in past in Chesapeake Bay 
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2013/20130618_deadzone.html 

w vid Flood death toll in India hilly states climbs 
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/06/2013619563254688.html 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9F-UJeZ5BU

HISTORIC KILLER FLOODS RAVAGE NOTHERN INDIA - PROPHET DR. OWUOR 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBunndaH6A0 
Kindly visit www.repentandpreparetheway.org & www.jesusislordradio.info for more details 

Manam volcano erupts in Papua New Guinea 
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/manam-volcano-erupts-in-papua-new-guinea/

Violent explosion shakes Mexico’s Popcatepetl volcano 
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/violent-explosion-shakes-mexicos-popcatepetl-volcano/ 

Massive section of ocean floor off the coast of Portugal beginning to fracture 
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/massive-section-of-ocean-floor-off-the-coast-of-portugal-beginning-to-fracture/ 

New 'Embryonic' Subduction Zone Found 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130617104614.htm 

New Subduction Zone Forming Off Spain's Coast 
http://www.livescience.com/37418-subduction-zone-forming-off-spain.html

Study reveals complex rupture process in surprising 2012 Sumatra quake 
http://news.ucsc.edu/2012/09/sumatra-earthquake.html 

Global Analysis - May 2013 
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2013/05/ 
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/extremes/201305.gif 

Smoke Engulfs Singapore from illegal wildfires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81431

CHILE-ARGENTINA BORDER REGION 
http://global.shakemovie.princeton.edu/event.jsp?evid=C201306192129A 

New Insights On How Solar Minimums Affect Earth 
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/solar-minima.html 

Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate 
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/08jan_sunclimate/ 

Water Storage Maps Show Improvement 
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81408 

w vid Oamaru with an update on the horrendous flooding in Otago that has seen Dunedin cut off from the… 
http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/otago-experiences-worst-flooding-in-years-video-5468177 

A Better Eye on Reefs 
The study of coral reefs has been particularly enriched by Landsat. 
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81301 

About Global ShakeMovie - Developed by Princeton University 
http://global.shakemovie.princeton.edu/event.jsp 

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Whistleblower: Financial Aid Given To Obama As Foreign Student With Indonesian Citizenship 
http://networkedblogs.com/MozkM 

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More evidence of slain U.S. ambassador's secret activities
Information may help explain deadly Benghazi attack - Aaron Klein
www.wnd.com/2013/06/more-evidence-of-slain-u-s-ambassadors-secret-activities/ 

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Sheriff Richard Mack 
http://constitutionalsheriffs.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network 

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If you have any other questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at the address listed below.

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The Rule of Law Makes This The Land of Opportunity: Secure The Border
http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2734278%3AVideo%3A556993&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_video 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz3c2gcAOgQ 
http://www.youtube.com/user/SenatorCoburn 

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Chrislam Rises! One World Religion Revealed? (2013) (10:18)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxiHqDEzGHQ 

Chrislam Rising! The One World Religion approaches.
http://www.riggedreality.com 

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MUST SEE !!!
ANCIENT MAN MADE TUNNELS – Underground Civilizations
http://ufohunter.org/2013/06/21/ancient-man-made-tunnels-underground-civilizations/ 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E5ph0DbbXI (41:55) 
http://www.youtube.com/user/LifeAndHistory101 

Derinkuyu Underground City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_Underground_City 

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Gun Manufacturer Moving To SC Due To Conn. Gun Control Laws 
http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2013/06/20/gun-manufacturer-moving-to-sc-due-to-conn-gun-control-laws/ 

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Federal nullification efforts mounting in states 
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IGNORING_FEDERAL_LAWS 

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What It Means To Be A Reactionary
http://www.batr.org/reactionary/112105.html 

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NESARA- REPUBLIC RESTORED - Galactic News 
http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/ 

This is an Awareness Blog to consider the future of your world. Actions are being done now to restore our world. 
Watch and become AWARE! Send comments/news to johnmachaffie@gmail.com 29 MILLION +++ VISITS Use CTRL 
& MOUSE WHEEL to widen view - Dinar RV/PP/REPUBLIC News
Rumor - 50 Governors have resigned from the Corp government and joined the Republic.

Rumor - Awaiting go ahead from Iraq for the RV. Announcement made in the Mosque on Saturday Morning. 
This is Friday Night East Coast USA time.

Confirmed - Fed Reserve Chief Bernake announced on Fox News and also MSNBC news that the Fed Reserve 
IS exiting and being taken over by the Republic Treasury. Behind the scenes activities ongoing to downside the IRS.

http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2013/06/rv-intel-poppy3-update-6-20-13.html

http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2013/06/dinar-rumors-eagle1-6-20-13.html

http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2013/06/dinar-rumors-6-20-13.html

http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2013/06/iraqi-dinar-recently-being-said-they.html

http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2013/06/dinar-rumors-jester-6-20-13.html

http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2013/06/rv-intel-bluwolf-6-19-13.html

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Chelsea Clinton Laments: My Great Grandmother Did Not Have Access to Planned Parenthood 
New York, NY (CFAM) — From the stage at the recent Women Deliver conference, former US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea revealed that her much-admired maternal grandmother was the child of unwed teenage
parents who “did not have access to services that are so crucial that Planned Parenthood helps provide.”

Chelsea’s grandmother was born of an unintended pregnancy. And new research shows that her family is not
alone in treasuring a person who – if Planned Parenthood had been successful – would not have been born.

UPDATE: See video below beginning at the 20-minute mark for Chesea’s comments.
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/20/chelsea-clinton-laments-my-grandmother-did-not-have-access-to-planned-parenthood/

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MSNBC Panel Suggests Racist Motivation by Pro-lifers, Goal of 'Reproducing Whiteness'
On Saturday's Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC, substitute anchor Ari Melber hosted a panel of liberals fretting over Republican efforts 
to restrict abortion, with one guest even theorizing that Republicans are motivated by a racist desire to prevent white women from having 
abortions as a way of "reproducing whiteness, white supremacy, white privilege." 
http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/msnbc-panel-suggests-racist-motivation-pro-lifers-goal-reproducing-whiteness

Email Sent by Michael Hastings Hours Before His Death Mentions ‘Big Story’ and a Need to ‘Go Off the Radar’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/21/email-sent-by-michael-hastings-hours-before-his-death-mentions-a-big-story-and-a-need-to-go-off-the-radar/

Russian Paper Says “Weak Eyed Obama” Is Leader Of Sodom & Gomorrah Following G8 Summit
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/06/russian-paper-says-weak-eyed-obama-is-leader-of-sodom-gomorrah-following-g8-summit/ 

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El Shaddai = God Almighty 
MAGNIFICIENT 
El Shaddai by Amy Grant With Lyrics (4:08) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKHa6Cm62uI  

The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall
preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Psalm 121:7-8 KJV

Our Entire Society’s Perception of Reality Transformed: 
Gramsci & Frankfurt School, Quick & Dirty !!!
 by as Dawn sees it -  http://gulagbound.com/author/val/ 



Whittaker Chambers in 1948

The greater Communist movement’s infiltration into public policy, public office, and government is nothing new. In fact it is a much needed factor in the successful transformation of an entire society.  As Whitaker Chambers (Ex-Soviet Spy turned Soviet defector) had noted:

    That power to influence policy has always been the ultimate purpose of the Communist Party’s infiltration. It was much more dangerous, and, as events have proved, much more difficult to detect, than  espionage, which beside it is trivial, though the two go hand in hand. 
(Stalin’s Secret Agents - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BoIRqjDTE0 )

Another interesting note in regards to the real intentions of those who still call themselves progressives, coming from another soviet spy by the name of Elizabeth Berkely.

    Stand your ground, put on an air of injured innocence; you are not a Communist,  just a ‘progressive’ whose record proves you have always fought for the rights of labor. (The Naked Communist  p. 149 - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2698124/posts )

The undeniable change we see taking place in our country today should be viewed through a much different lens than past generations. Some may blame it on a generational gap. You may even think with age comes wisdom and the younger generation will wise up someday,  As the saying goes “If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain”. If only it were that simple. The disconnect we see is not by accident. The truth is, it is intentional.

It is not a secret and any dictator worth his salt knows 
the key to transforming a society is to gain control of the youth - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHgYPDvQFU8 . 
Doing so gives the much needed advantage to change a society. Generation after generation then enter key positions in public office where they can effectively continue changing society based on what they have learned in college. Some may go on to be professors at universities (one recognizable “professor” would be Bill Ayers - http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169 ) where the cycle repeats itself.

Clever, “causes” such as social justice, socioeconomic equality, and women’s rights, give the illusion of fighting for worthy causes. The useful idiots that Lenin once spoke of are more than willing to fight for these oh so noble causes. Lets face it, when you are young you want to “change the world;” only problem is they truly have no idea what they are changing it to. Its not purely coincidental that people such as Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dorn, Frances Fox Piven, Mark Rudd, and the recently released Kathy Boudin all work in the field of education. These are radicals through and through and have every intention of continuing their glorious “revolution” by using your children. Lenin once said, “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”

So how does one go about changing a society? 
One way is to foment a  violent revolution - http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/the_collectivist_mind_game_part_2_demonizing_the_opposition.html ;
another is a slow “progressive” transformation. The later of the two is what has been in play for decades now.

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)

A Marxist philosopher by the name of Antonio Gramsci  realized no thinking person would just roll over and submit to a system that is going to enslave him. Rather, he believed one could, through years, if not decades, slowly subvert a culture in which the public could be influenced into a Marxist ideology.  In his deluded idea of someday achieving an egalitarian utopia he wanted the victims to actually enjoy being a party to a collective and a repressive regime.

    Gramsci believed that if Communism achieved “mastery of human consciousness,” then labor camps and mass murder would be unnecessary. How does an ideology gain such mastery over patterns of thought inculcated by cultures for hundreds of years? Mastery over the consciousness of the great mass of people would be attained, Gramsci contended, if Communists or their sympathizers gained control of the organs of culture — churches, education, newspapers, magazines, the electronic media, serious literature, music, the visual arts, and so on. By winning “cultural hegemony,” to use Gramsci’s own term, Communism would control the deepest wellsprings of human thought and imagination. One need not even control all of the information itself if one can gain control over the minds that assimilate that information. Under such conditions, serious opposition disappears since men are no longer capable of grasping the arguments of Marxism’s opponents. Men will indeed “love their servitude,” and will not even realize that it is servitude.
Gramsci’s Grand Plan - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/823368/posts 

One cannot deny patience and time are key components needed to change a once moral society into one that is unrecognizable as American. To understand how this has happened one must understand the role of the Frankfort School. 

Frankfurt School

Born in 1923, a group of determined Germans devised a plan to subvert Western culture and rot it from within.
http://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/

    When Hitler came to power, the Institute was closed and its members, by various routes, fled to the 
United States and migrated to major US universities—Columbia, Princeton, Brandeis, and California at Berkeley.

Here are some of their stated goals a bit about how they were to be achieved.

    1. The creation of racism offences.
    2. Continual change to create confusion
    3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
    4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
    5. Huge immigration to destroy identity. - http://gulagbound.com/39058/big-media-lobby-for-immigration-bill/
    6. The promotion of excessive drinking
    7. Emptying of churches
    8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
    9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
    10. Control and dumbing down of media
    11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family - http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/29/lesbian-activists-surprisingly-candid-speech-gay-marriage-fight-is-a-lie-to-destroy-marriage/

    One of the main ideas of the Frankfurt School was to exploit Freud’s idea of ‘pansexualism’ – the search for pleasure, 
the exploitation of the differences between the sexes, the overthrowing of traditional relationships between men and women. 

To further their aims they would:

    • attack the authority of the father, deny the specific roles of father and mother, and wrest away from families their rights as primary educators of their children. 
- http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/14/german-homeschooling-familys-request-for-asylum-denied-by-u-s-government/
    • abolish differences in the education of boys and girls
    • abolish all forms of male dominance – hence the presence of women in the armed forces 
- http://www.trevorloudon.com/2013/01/colonel-gordon-batcheller-on-women-in-combat/
    • declare women to be an ‘oppressed class’ and men as ‘oppressors’

    Munzenberg summed up the Frankfurt School’s long-term operation thus: ‘We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks.’

    The School believed there were two types of revolution: (a) political and (b) cultural. Cultural revolution demolishes from within. ‘Modern forms of subjection are marked by mildness.’ They saw it as a long-term project and kept their sights clearly focused on the family, education, media, sex and popular culture.

    CatholicInsight.com, cited via http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2216734/posts

The stated goals speak volumes as to how far they have come. All one really needs to do is take a look at the culture we are living in. 
Example after example can be found of how society has become corrupted.

Any Communist knows that a moral, virtuous society produces obstacles that must be overcome. 
Therefore, God, family, and love of Country have to be eliminated. Lets face it, if you have an allegiance 
to God and not government, that is going to create a problem for any committed Communist regime.

We have the imperative task today of learning from history and not just for ourselves but for our children. We will one day look back on what we see taking place today and wonder why we did not do more. This has so often been the case throughout so many periods in history. We have, without a doubt, been fed small doses of socialism for years. Socialism is just a vehicle to communism, which in turn will ultimately lead to a totalitarian system.

There has never been a time in history where we have the technology to literally track every person on earth. Learn from history, listen to those who have studied history and have tried to wake people up for years. Future generations will want to know the truth.
Per tabletmag.com: "Max Horkheimer (left) and Theodor Adorno (right), with Jürgen Habermas and others in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg. (Wikimedia Commons)"

“Critical Theory” plotters of the Frankfurt School per tabletmag.com: “Max Horkheimer (left) and Theodor Adorno (right), 
with Jürgen Habermas and others in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg. (Wikimedia Commons)”

http://gulagbound.com/38486/how-our-entire-societys-perception-of-reality-is-transformed-gramsci-frankfurt-school-quick-dirty/ 

Frankfurt School - 1950 

Part 1 
Former KGB’s Victor Kalashnikov: Dangers of Putin Worship, Russia’s Islamist Alliance,
Plans to Destroy NATO, Iran, Syria, New KGB, Cooperation with European Fascists 

Viktor Kalashnikov is a Russian freelance journalist and a former KGB colonel. In the autumn of 2010, he and his wife Marina,
a historian, were treated in a hospital in Germany for mercury poisoning in what they said had been an attempt on their lives by
Russia’s FSB, the successor to the KGB. He is a distant relative of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47. 



Kalashnikov and his wife have been publishing articles critical of the Kremlin since the 1990s. 
After living in Europe for several years they are now back in Moscow.

A Russian Analyst’s View, Part One
by J.R. Nyquist

A few days ago I received a call from Victor Kalashnikov in Moscow, a former KGB officer who now works as an investigative journalist. He was eager to share his analysis of recent global events. This was also an opportunity to ask his opinion about the global economy and the crisis in Syria. “Your side is losing,” he complained. “Did you read Barack Obama’s speech at National Defense University? What was this reference to the Twilight Struggle of the Cold War in his speech? What is this?”

Obama had spoken of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, saying that “a new dawn of democracy” had taken hold abroad. It was the sort of thing American presidents liked to repeat.

“I’m sorry to say,” Kalashnikov continued, “the president’s statement is at variance with my own perception. He says that your homeland is more secure today and there have been no more big attacks. Usually supreme commanders refrain from saying things like that. Undoubtedly you know what Hezbollah is. It’s not a loose group of fighters. It is a large organization. They use satellite TV programs to spread their radical Islamic ideas. So you may dismantle a bomb or destroy a terrorist network or base, but it would be premature to feel somehow relaxed. Moreover, Hezbollah’s program of indoctrination is going on worldwide. That’s the point. You Americans, whether you like it or not, are confronting an aggressive Islam, and Islam is a huge thing. It is very flexible, very motivated.”

I interrupted Kalashnikov’s analysis to ask about the U.S. economy. “You can print as many greenbacks as you like as long as your carrier battle-groups remain active,” he said.” As long as America maintains its security sphere the U.S. currency will be supported by nations who want protection. “The real problem is that your side doesn’t have an adequate grasp of the strategic situation. You defeated Germany and Japan in World War II. What followed next? Brainwashing followed next. What you did was indoctrination – putting into their heads a pro-democracy ideology. That’s why you were successful back then. If the Allies had destroyed German networks without stopping their propaganda the war would never have ended in the hearts of the Germans.”

Kalashnikov was making a point about winning hearts and minds, and the relationship between terrorism and indoctrination. “Your president sees that some terrorist organizations are fed by state actors,” noted Kalashnikov. “But terrorism is a tactic. It is fed by many weapons and has many actors. Terror as a political tool was born in Russia. This was very well explained by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Fyodor Dostoevski [see The Possessed]. Now it is no accident that Russia is a close ally of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah. The latter represents a step forward in military organization. My feeling is that the Russians were the designers of this new organization. Hezbollah has a great tactical advantage compared to the state sponsored armies of the large powers. Hezbollah is flexible and mobile worldwide, not limited by borders, institutions, etc. They use terror to attack and kill civilians, to spread fear and defeatism. They are not the first ones to do that.”

Kalashnikov emphasized that Hezbollah, Syria, Iran and Russia are working together against the United States. “Russia is behind Syria and Iran,” he said, “supplying weapons and technologists. So far I see no viable solution to that challenge. That is why I was irritated by your president’s words, ‘we are more secure.’ But who is really in control? Who really has the initiative, Obama or Putin?”

I asked Kalashnikov about Russia’s vulnerability to Islamic terrorism. His answer took me by surprise. “The Russians think that with Orthodox Christianity Russia will be able to cope with Islam,” he explained. “Orthodox Christianity is strangely compatible with Islam. Western Christianity is far more distant from Islam. Did you know there are very strong and fast-developing contacts between the Russian Orthodox Church and Iran? This started some five or six years ago. The mullahs and the Orthodox are consolidating their friendship. They share an ideological and spiritual platform which is called ‘anti-Americanism.’ Both of them reject American values and way of life, and they reject American policy. That unifies them. It’s very important after the Soviet collapse that Russia was able to combine with true allies who will work against the same ideological enemy.

Iran is a strong anti-American state. The same can be said of Syria and Hezbollah too. I am here in Moscow, just 800 meters from a new Mosque that is being built. It is huge. The Russian police say that some 120,000 Muslims are gathering there in downtown Moscow. The number of Muslim immigrants is growing. They have been coming in for the last five-to-six years. The ethnic composition of Moscow is changing.”

I was surprised to hear this and asked Kalashnikov if this wasn’t a dangerous development for Russia. After all, won’t the ethnic Russians eventually reject an alien colony in the heart of their capital?
“Sure,” Kalashnikov admitted, “it’s a huge problem. But for now they are Russia’s allies. Please understand that Iran is not a Russian satellite like Cuba or Venezuela. Iran may be regarded as an ally because they target the West, but Iran is different from the others.”

I asked Kalashnikov if Russia might be using Iran as Stalin once used Hitler (to start the Second World War). I also suggested that once Russia was done making use of Iran the Kremlin would turn against Islam in order to lead Europe against the Islamic threat. I noted that Moscow already supports the anti-immigrant Right in Europe, which is why figures like Anders Breivik was an admirer of Putin. It is no secret that the racist and neo-fascists of Europe look to the Kremlin for leadership.

Kalashnikov responded eagerly by saying, “Let me talk about [the neo-fascists] in Hungary. They are pro-Putin. They are nationalists, and of course, they are absolutely anti-Semitic and anti-American. That’s right. When I came to Berlin two years ago the taxi driver from the airport said he was pro-Nazi, pro-Hitler and the Jews were to blame for everything. He spoke highly of Putin. And taxi drivers are good barometers. There is sort of a trend at work. But the key thing, you must remember, is Winston Churchill’s phrase that Russia ‘is a riddle wrapped inside an enigma’? That was just part of the phrase. Churchill said he knew the key to that riddle. He said it was Russian national interest. What he meant was Russian international strategy as he understood it. In that sense he was definitely right. My point is, whatever groups or trends may be identified, they should be evaluated on the basis of a common denominator. Will they assist in the struggle against the United States?”

I asked Kalashnikov if Moscow grasped the fact that working with fascists and neo-Nazis might be dangerous. Didn’t Moscow learn anything from the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939?

“The main thing, the absolute priority,” said Kalashnikov, “is to get rid of the Americans at any price. It is an absolute priority today. No doubt about it. Whether it is dangerous to combine with fascists, we will see. The main thing is to separate and split NATO. This has been the core of the Russian strategy in Europe. You have to understand that anything that is negative for the Americans is positive for Moscow. American society and ideology – most all American values – are absolutely alien and opposed by us. That is why we are desperately seeking new allies and friends of whatever kind.

Two things I would like to stress: from the perspective of the Russian generals everything should have a strategic dimension: politics, military affairs, etc. They interpret everything in terms of a clear-cut enemy because what happened to the USSR did not change the nature of Russian society. We have a ruling class that controls everything, subject to no laws or norms, with huge resources, and centralization. What you have to understand is that Russia is a more centralized state than the Soviet Union was. There are no Republics. All important things are controlled from the Kremlin.

And a new Cheka [secret police] has come into existence and everybody has missed it. Everyone is ready to deplore the situation of the Russian opposition, but there is no interest in the new Cheka. It is well-equipped, newly trained and motivated. They are making headway, and they have crushed all the real opposition we’ve had in recent years. It’s a huge political factor at play in Russia. And I must tell you that professionally they are quite good, staffed with a new generation of Russians. Chekism is regenerated with the same old ways of thinking and acting, but with even better weapons and methods. The new KGB generation should be taken into account. They are on the Internet, they are using information warfare. I see them in Ukraine, in the Baltic States and in Europe. These guys are well paid and very committed.”
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Part 2 
Former KGB Col. Victor Kalashnikov on the Dangers of Putin Worship, Russia’s 
Anti-Western Alliance with Islam, Israel, Syria, Iran & Grand Kremlin Strategy

Viktor Kalashnikov is a Russian freelance journalist and a former KGB colonel. In the autumn of 2010, he and his wife Marina, a historian, were treated in a hospital in Germany for mercury poisoning in what they said had been an attempt on their lives by Russia’s FSB, the successor to the KGB. He is a distant relative of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47.

Kalashnikov and his wife have been publishing articles critical of the Kremlin since the 1990s. 
After living in Europe for several years they are now back in Moscow.
by J.R. Nyquist

Continuing my discussion with former KGB officer Victor Kalashnikov, I was eager to learn more about Russian strategy. Kalashnikov told me that Russian grand strategy has one focus. “It’s all about struggle against the United States,” he said. “All allies are measured in terms of their anti-Americanism. If they are anti-American, they are our friends.”

This is how we should understand the activities of Syria and Iran, for example. Russia is helping these countries acquire new weapons, new capabilities. To measure the degree of Russian enmity let us consider the Syria crisis, noted Kalashnikov: “The head of the Russian state has publicly warned the West that starting arms deliveries to the opposition in Syria might result in terrorist attacks against Europe. That’s a clear causes belli – a real terrorist threat.”

The average reader might imagine that Washington has taken alarm at Putin’s threatening remarks. But no such alarm has been registered. The American side barely acknowledges a threat has been made. And this is normal for us. For whatever reason, our leaders ignore the threat from Russia. Again and again, the Cold War is said to be over. There is no longer a threat from Russia, which is now described as a “normal” country.

But Russia is not a normal country. “The majority of Russians are supportive of Putin,” Kalashnikov explained. “The popularity of Putin is growing while American society and ideology are depicted as hostile to Russian interests. Therefore Russia is hungry for new allies or friends of any kind whatsoever. And these allies must be anti-Americans. All of this helps place the military issue in a broader context. It is not about tanks on the battlefield of Europe. It is about rockets in the arsenal of Hezbollah.”

The Cold War is not over. The rulers of Russia haven’t given up their goal of smashing America. Today, however, their strategy follows an indirect approach. The old direct approach of threatening Europe with tank armies has been replaced with a new strategy based on Islamic terrorism.

“Now this is another topic,” Kalashnikov confided, “but we have to ask what happened to the Soviet Union in 1991. It was dismantled for the sake of reorganization and for the sake of Russian power. I remember quite well, even before Gorbachev, that our military showed discontent with the strategic picture. These huge tank masses were a wasting resource, especially after 1983.”

The grand strategy of the Soviet Union had to be overhauled and modernized while costs had to be brought down. Therefore, new methods of defeating America had to be devised, and new opportunities would then appear. These methods included the arming of terrorist states with nuclear and biological weapons.

Kalashnikov continued: “I mentioned the year 1983. At that time the core strategy was splitting Europe from America. Europeans worried that Soviet troops could reach the Atlantic in one or two weeks. Therefore, the West recognized an imminent threat. And there was real fear on the European side that the Americans would not defend Europe. In 1983, when America deployed Pershing missiles in Europe, this whole Soviet strategy of massing tanks was finished. It was futile. That was the starting point for a new strategy.”

Once the old strategy had failed, it was time to apply new strategic concepts. Kalashnikov asked, “What need was there for huge armies in central Europe when the result was always a standoff with the Americans?”

Inspiring your enemy with fear may lead him to capitulate. That was not the only possible outcome, however. There was always the possibility that he would call your bluff. In the case of America and NATO, the West’s defenses were strengthened rather than weakened in the 1980s. As Kalashnikov noted, “I remember our officers asking, ‘what shall we do next?’ Well, we were forced to start over with a new design.”

According to Kalashnikov, “The West sees that with friends like Iran and Hezbollah the Russians could start a lot of trouble. Add this to Russian ballistic nuclear weapons targeting American cities and you have a new formula: Nuclear rockets plus Hezbollah makes Russia invincible, and it is quite dangerous. It’s a new combination of military tools. That’s why I was irritated by certain statements in President Obama’s speech.”

I asked Kalashnikov about the increasingly precarious position of Israel. Kalashnikov replied, “The Israeli position is twofold. They are anti-Syria and anti-Hezbollah. But their position versus Russia was ambiguous. They have a growing population of Russian immigrants. So they would like to develop their relationship with Russia. Yet Russia is moving closer to the anti-Israeli side.”

While Israel remains uncertain toward Russia, Russia’s president charts a steady course, noted Kalashnikov: “Some of the top Israeli security figures met with Putin and asked him not to deploy anti-ship missiles which are effective against the American navy, and also the S-300 missiles that will greatly limit Israeli airpower against Syria. Putin rejected the Israeli request.”

How will Russia stop the Israelis from destroying the delivered missiles before they are deployed? Kalashnikov offered a surprising answer: “Syria’s military is going to be quasi-integrated with Iran. That means an attack on Syria implies an attack on Iran. Meanwhile Russia is sending ships from the Pacific Fleet, even as they modernize the Black Sea Fleet, with a new naval base at Novorissiysk. So the Russians are bound to increase their naval pressure on the Eastern Mediterranean.”

By strengthening Russia’s regional military presence, and by integrating the Syrian and Iranian armed forces, Russia hopes to build a soon-to-be impregnable stronghold in the Middle East. “I see Russia’s position growing there,” said Kalashnikov. “An Israeli attack on Syria would involve Hezbollah. And if push comes to shove, we can make trouble for the Americans in Lebanon, or somewhere in Asia.”

The West may not be willing to support Israel under these circumstances. As Kalashnikov explained, “The Western allies are going to think twice whether they will support Israel because of their growing vulnerabilities elsewhere. You have the bombing of the Boston Marathon. You have the vulnerability of NATO’s left flank in the Baltic States. Russia is saying, ‘You mess with our friends, we mess with yours.’ It’s a new game that you didn’t have to play during the good old days of the Cold War. “

Kalashnikov continued, “What happened on 9/11 was just an omen of things to come. At the time of 9/11 America’s dispute with Russia had reached its peak. George Bush was going to leave the ABM Treaty. Putin said, ‘If you do this you will not be able to defend against new threats.’ Bush said, ‘I am leaving the Treaty.’ So 9/11 happened. You had broken the strategic balance based on strategic missiles. You had been warned that new security challenges will emerge. But you didn’t listen in the summer of 2001.”
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