Stalin Idea That Cultivated Trump Too

 Stalin was a very sharp and far thinking and creative thinking strategist, maybe a chess player too:

Way in the young days of USSR he realized that Armand Hammer was to be nurtured as the best contact man in the USA, better than a US or USSR ambassador, or a friendship society.

Years ago I told you about the Vassiliev's Notes. He used the free access to the  KGB archives suddenly opened to the public, on the condition that one could look at it and copy it only in handwriting into own notebooks, and only under the supervision of an archive worker.

His notes became extremely valuable because they were confirmed, or concurred with US VENONA and other intelligence products.

Armand Hammer, another products of Odessa, was a very enterprising young businessman who wanted to do business with Lenin even before he USSR was created. Armand became good friends with Lenin, and was the only person in the world who got personal gifts from the leader. The success resulted in pencil (bureaucracy, education) and asbestos (gloves, stoves, steam locomotives) concessions in the nascent USSR.

Some of the concessions' American citizen employees disappeared in USSR, it's very hard to account for their fate. Armand Hammer did not care about them.

After Lenin died, Stalin took over the government, and saw a gold mine of opportunity in Hammer. He formulated an idea well-recorded by the underlings:

Armand Hammer is a conservative American, an ambitious businessman, a capitalist, who loves USSR, is the only human being in the world personally accepted by Lenin, who had shaken his hand, hugged him, became his close friend; started to lobby USA government to recognize USSR, helped Communists to their business in USA, protected them. He will help USSR, to cause problems if not subvert  American government, and the country. This man should be groomed, protected, and coddled as long as he lives.

In the 70's Armand Hammer did cause problems for the government and the uS president. His illegal contributions to Nixon's election campaign, perfectly motivated as a pure motivation from the Republican supporter, caused a sub-scandal that that was a part of the later Watergate scandal, also involving a Montana governor, and Armand's Occidental petroleum. All reminiscent of the events of the Trump's presidency.

In both presidencies one could see the a modus operandi, or an obvious coincidental, or not so coincidental circumstantial evidence of the Stalin's use of a billionaire to stir problems in USA.

In the early 80's, high level strategists in the KGB and Politburo noticed that Armand Hammer's phenomenal mind started to show signs of decay. They explicitly started a project to find another conservative, republican billionaire who would replace Hammer.

Yuri Shvets, another product of Ukraine, and the best student of the KGB colleges and later the most professional KGB officer, is known as having been the USSR's embassy top spokesman, KGB man, operations man, etc. When KGB and USSR died, he was unemployed, and simply moved to USA, where he was quickly snapped up and employed by the intel community. Only months ago he felt free to start his own Youtube channel, where he confirmed the KGB following the Stalin's dictum.

From all the American functionaries who visited USSR, not even the Ed Kennedy and his naive overture of asking the KGB to help stop Reagan, the only prospect who inspired hope was Trump. Trump, interested in franchising or branding his name, wanted to give his name to a hotel in USSR, and sure enough, this was jumped on by the USSR and he was warm heartedly invited there by the USSR. Yuri Shvets, the ultimate key operative in the USSR embassy, later confirmed the KGB's agenda (In Russian, Youtube).

But somehow, Trump's connections did not help Russia or Putin. According to Shvets, the inept new generation of Russian intel community could not handle the American opposition, and only succeeded in electronic muddling or meddling in US elections.

Good Thing It's Not Wikileaks.

Years ago, way before Manning The Transvestite and Snowden The Whistleblower, I wanted to make this blog into a venue for all things leaky and secret, but realized that in long term, after much feedback, it would at best serve the PR of Obama mafia, and at worst, be Wikidiarrhea like Wikileaks.

The latest revelations on Wikileaks show a NSA guide to exploiting cyberinformation. The material is Top Secret, but the content is nothing new, and is extremely logical to anyone with some knowledge of Usenet, blogging, social web, and multimedia authoring.

Maybe we'll never know the real juicy classified info. So fat we have seen a version of a slide show presentation, with nifty general names names for conceptual systems that plug into the WWW and other digital networks, and it's just nice looking colorized flow chart. 

The Soviet Sabotage Has Won, Thanks to Obama

Bezmenov's Lecture 

summarized as:

demoralization

family values destroyed, morality and virtues vilified , gender politics is a tool of revenge

destabilization 

riots, politicized malicious litigation, busing of rioters, political correctness, college radical activity

takeover

Comintern, The Soviet's Communist Party, and/or KGB establishing contacts with the student movemnets, leftist poltiicians (Ted Kennedy overture to the Soviets)

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," Obama wrote in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father." "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists." 

After college, Obama states lived on Manhattan's Upper East Side, venturing to the East Village for what he called "the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union."

From http://www.city-data.com/forum/elections/476925-quotes-obamas-book-1-i-choose.html

Weinstein, Chess, and survival in NKVD

Stumbled on this personality, definitely not out of any interest in chess.

This one is of a cringy profession, a high level Stalin security pro, Weinstein, Boris son of Shlomo, 

https://images.app.goo.gl/gb79XRxLmLmbyhpH7

Extremely more incredible is that he never joined the Communist Party, an absolute requirement for acceptance, credibility, reliability, etc.

Amid the chaos of the new USSR, there was an economics department of a university, which he finished with a degree and a doctorate, then transferred to the physics and math department, all before 1930s. Then headed development and planning committee for transportation, to build a reserve trans Siberian railway, further from the Chinese border (BAM, got shelved until 1970s), all the while being an expert in chess writing on it for chess periodicals and newspapers.

Got transferred to the NKVD security apparatus for strategic infrastructure, survived the irrational purges of the 1937-38s, despite all the odds. 

(All non communists in high positions were assumed to be the silent opposition to Communism)

When Germans invaded, supervised construction of defense engineering structures, then frontline supply logistics, then post war hydroelectric projects. All the while started to write books on chess, also under the pen name Ferzberry, a play on words "ferz" knight, "beri" take.

(From the directory compiled by the Memorial)

Меранская система в историческом развитии. М., 1956; Meran variation and its historical development

Комбинации  и  ловушки  в  дебюте.  М.,  1960; 

Tricks and boobytraps in debut

Импровизация в шахматном искусстве. М., 1976;

Improvisation in the art of chess

Шахматы  сражаются.  М.,  1985

Chess battles on

Ловушки Ферзьбери. М., 1990

Ferzberry's boobytraps.

ВАЙНШТЕЙН БОРИС СОЛОМОНОВИЧ (САМОЙЛОВИЧ) (19.05.1907, Одесса – 1993, Москва). Родился в семье служащего. Еврей. Беспартийный. Доктор экон. наук. Образование: физико-математический ф-т Среднеазиат. гос. ун-та 10.2401.30; 1 курс заоч. планового ин-та, Москва 1935–1936. Секретарь, инструктор, зам. пред. оргкомиссии Среднеазиат. пролетарского студенчества 10.24–09.28; пред. Среднеазиат. шахматной секции 1928–1929; литсотрудник газеты «Правда Востока», Ташкент 1929–1929; консультант Среднеазиат. Госплана 03.30–02.31; зам. нач. ЦУНХУ Среднеазиат. Госплана 02.31–02.32; ассистент Среднеазиат. планового ин-та, преподаватель Среднеазиат. пед. ин-та, Ташкент 03.31–02.32; ст. экономист, инспектор, нач. группы, нач. планового отд-я строит-ва БАМа 05.32–09.33. В РККА: служил в РККА, Винница 10.33–11.34. Нач. группы планово-фин. отд. Главжелдорстроя НКПС СССР 05.35–02.36. В органах НКВД–МВД: зам. нач. ФО ГУШОСДОРа НКВД СССР 03.36–01.05.37; пом. нач. отд-я ЦФПО НКВД СССР 01.05.37–02.38; зам. нач. сектора капитальных работ НКВД СССР 02.38–08.40; зам. нач. Глапромстроя НКВД СССР 08.40–03.07.41; зам. нач. Главгидростроя НКВД СССР 03.07.41–1941; зам. нач. ГУОБР НКВД СССР 23.08.41–15.10.41; зам. нач. Гл. упр. оборонительного строит-ва  НКО  СССР  15.10.41–18.09.42;  нач.  планового  отд.  НКВД  СССР 18.09.42–03.10.451;  зам.  нач.  упр.  материально-техн.  снабжения  (УМТС) НКВД  СССР  03.10.45–01.03.46;  зам.  нач.  Главнефтестроя  Юга  и  Запада  М-ва топливного  строит-ва  СССР  14.02.46–30.07.47;  нач.  упр.  производственных предприятий  и  лесозаготовок  Главнефтестроя  при  СМ  СССР  30.07.47–12.48; зам.  нач.  упр.  пром-сти  и  спецстроит-ва  ГУЛАГа  МВД;  находился  в  резерве офицерского состава МВД СССР 28.01.46–20.01.54; уволен 20.01.54. Звания:  капитан  ГБ  16.10.41;  подполковник  ГБ  11.02.43;  полковник  ГБ 12.01.45. Награды:  орден  Трудового  Красного  Знамени  21.02.42;  орден  Красной  Звезды 16.05.45; орден «Знак Почета» 20.09.43; 4 медали. Сочинения:  Меранская  система  в  историческом  развитии.  М.,  1956;  Комбинации  и  ловушки  в  дебюте.  М.,  1960;  Импровизация  в  шахматном  искусстве. М.,  1976;  Мыслитель.  М.,  1981;  Шахматы  сражаются.  М.,  1985;  Ловушки Ферзьбери. М., 1990. Примечание:  1Пред.  Всесоюз.  шахматно-шашечной  секции  1942–1945,  автор статей и фельетонов под псевдонимом Ферзьбери.

Russia is Mordor, but Independent.

It has been twenty years. The great V. V. Putin has become the Emperor of the Great Russia, and protected Russian sovereignty from the greedy claws of the foreign petrochemical giants.
Except, he neglected, or allowed, or knowingly handed Russia to his own bureaucrats. These guys have no talents of running a business, much less a municipality, so they pocket billions of rubles, euros, dollars, and export Russia's capital to build their own villas, buy their own vineyards, and open their own nest egg accounts at exclusive wealth management banks like the ones in Zug, Switzerland.

Even a manager of city's garbage disposal service is a millionaire, while the city is brimming with garbage and falling apart.

Mordor is the realm of the arch-villain Sauron.

Russian Naval Archives

Coordinates: 59°33'39"N 30°6'34"E

Also similar to US DOD The National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) and

Центральный Военно-Морской Архив (ЦВМА) (Гатчина)

overheard: Ivy Bells material stored at a defunct site

В ЦВМА хранятся документы периода Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 гг. и послевоенного периода с 1946 года по настоящее время.

Summary of Russians intercepting SR-71's

All the billions of taxpayer dollars that we sank into SR-71, only to operate it as a high-speed party crasher (ref. having it fly over dictators' palaces and parades). The Soviets, of course, knew it was coming hours in advance, without any need to have a spy in place either in USAF command or as a landscaping contractor near its air base.
Here is a rough translation of an email from a Russian communication intelligence specialist recalling the ease of detecting the SR-71. What a crude use of such a fine machinery!

"As far as the SR-71 in transit, I have none [i.e., data of my own - blog], however, several of them are over Barents Sea, for example, as Blimey 99, at 17:16 according to the the time marker. Opus 38, at 26:08, communicates through Gold 23 (KC-135), Croughton [RAF base - blog] does not hear, but we in Kaluga  - 5 AUs. One of the best ways to ID them is their mentioning of the real time GMT:
Op's normal at 34while RC-135, TR-1 и U-2 communicate in the 4-digit format: 0834.
[Other telltale signs] are of course, the pilot's voice, stifled by the high altitude pressure suit, the typical background noise of the radio, the Barents triangulation, then Baltics, and the KC-135Q modified for high altitude refueling, loitering along its [SR-71] route.
It always felt pleasantly reassuring to know that it was escorted by Mig-25, so it would never get lost or get bored.
[SR-71] always presented real danger, since in an hour that it spends over Barents Sea, it always detected all of our mobile SA launchers and could have directed a strike against them. We did not have the mobile launchers like the S-300, so we had to redeploy to other sites, and that was hours of hard work. That is why the main countermeasure against it was to guess its ETA, to turn off all the mobile systems, and leave only the fixed sites. Then the Dumb Yanks would come the next day, a different aircraft, and there were two of them at Mildenhall in England.
After the flight, this machine was not so reliable. Its speed up to 3200 and the latitude 25000 [was something]. One time it experienced a malfunction upon exiting Barents area, barely limped to Norway, the the HC-130 rescue was deployed, the helicopters. A week after it flew over to England, and ion another 2 weeks back home to Edwards [AFB], Nevada, all the while, by an unusual track - the way of SR only - not over the Atlantic, but over the [North] Pole and Canada, the way he reported through radio comm.
Let me know if anything not clear here, I will explain, just let me know the call sign and time of comm. Even though it has been 21 years, I still remember almost all."

Что касается SR-71-на перелёте нету, а так несколько штук в Баренцевом море есть, например Blimy 99, 17:16 по таймеру записи, Opus 38, 26:08, работает через Gold 23 (KC-135), его Croughton не слышит, а у нас в Калуге 5 баллов. Отличительным разведпризнаком SR-71 является упоминание текущего время Гринвича только в минутах текущего часа, т.е. Op's normal at 34, тогда как RC-135, TR-1 и U-2 в 4-х значном формате, 0834, 8 часов 34 мин. Ну и конечно сдавленный голос в высотном костюме, характерный фон радиостанции, пеленг Баренцево, потом Балтика, болтающиеся KC-135Q по его маршруту-модификация танкеров, сделанных для его заправки на большей высоте. И приятное осознание того, что летит он в компании двух МиГ-25, чтобы нескучно было и не заблудился. Он представлял реальную опасность, за 1 час нахождения в Баренцевом море вычислял все наши мобильные комплексы ПВО и мог навести на них удар. Мобилок, как С-300 тогда не было ,по-этому приходилось свёртываться и перебазироваться, а это несколько часов нелёгкой работы. По-этому в борьбе с ним главное было угадать когда прилетит ,мобильные комплексы выключались, оставались только стационарные. Тогда пиндосы прилетали на следующий день, на другом, их два в Mildenholl'е в Англии было. После полёта ТО на пару дней, машина не очень надёжная. Зато скорость до 3200 и высота 25000. Один раз сломался при выходе из Баренцево, еле допукал до Норвегии, HC-130 спасательные поднимали, вертушки. Потом через неделю перелетел в Англию, а ещё через 2 недели улетел домой в Эдвардс, Невада, причём по необычному маршруту, так летел только SR-не через Атлантику, а через полюс и Канаду., где и отмечался на связи. Кому что непонятно, спросите, укажите время записи и позывной, подскажу, всего-то 21 год прошёл, почти всё помню.

Putin The Fair-Haired Poster Boy and The American Psyche

Half the world hates him. It is easy to hate him. But as the saying goes, too much contempt brings familiarity :-)
Putin for U. S. President - I endorse!

Russia has rights, too

By international law, Russia is entitled to politically care about its immediate neighbors. Ever since Yalta conference, Russia-Churchill-Roosevelt, the Eastern Europe has been recognized as an obvious safety buffer for Russia, in light of being attacked by Germany twice, including by the major powers of the nowadays EU plus US-Canada landing in Russia's north, and also Far East, at the conclusion of the 1st WW, 1918, while the most of the EU members attacking Russia through the Ukraine corridor, all out of totally illogical fear (no weapons of mass destruction yet) that the hungry bankrupt, devoid of gold and currency Russia that chickened out of the war, and had two revolutions into chaos and hunger in 1917, could somehow attack everyone in the world.

A good use for emoji

Let a Cossack lift his sword, and the Russian will pee
(Maybe in his tank while laughing)

Politically correct union, Timobama

According to the Int'l law, hostile use or blocking of straights constitutes valid casus belli, as was recognized for Israel in the 6 Days War, re. the straights of Tiran. Besides the natural economic (also the pipelines running through Ukraine, that bring hydrocarbons to Europe,) and safety buffer from Europe, Russia wants natural access to its Crimea, which it conquered after being attacked by Turkey, and again reconquered from the UK-led EU forces in the Crimean war of 1850, precipitated by the EU trying to block Russia from accessing the Med, and its real estate in the prime area of Jerusalem.

A rare photo op where two Soviet  era BTRs associated with the Soviets in Afghanistan - under way, and under different flags!

US and Turkey have hinted at blocking Russia exclusively from exiting the Black Sea, going back to the Kennedy's Cuban crisis. US Ambassadors from that era, writing memoirs ascribe the Cuban crisis being precipitated by USSR placing the missiles in Cuba to get leverage over US to guarantee the safe passage out of the Black Sea. Today Turkey still tries to get any leverage on Russia, now the true and tried Moslem card - there is a Moslem minority in Crimea, which must have the same rights as their freedom loving brothers in Chechnia, Lybia, Gaza, Egypt, and Syria. "Maybe these Moslems can be a convenient political pressure group" I saw this months ago in news headlines, before the Ukrainian revolt. I think Putin knew all of these factors, and let US NGOs roil the Ukrainians, waited out the Olympics, and made the move.

meanwhile, there is an item of that northern passage to the White Sea always brewing between US and Russia. It is wider than the double of 6 km of territorial waters which would allow Russia to claim as its home waters, but US has always penetrated into the White Sea, causing submarine collisions. Throughout history, as Putin pointed out reminding the world of the US/EU-like landing, USSR nor Russia never even closed the passage. Russians equated the case with the Great Lakes, "how would US feel if St. Lawrence river was more than 6 km wide and Russian subs showed up in Chicago?"

Russia can conquer a small country just by using a monument.

Good point:
Kiev - free(zing) Europeans
Moscow - slaves of the regime.

Russia also cares about Ukraine as its spiritual cradle. Ukrainian lang. is very close to Russian. Kiev is the cradle of Russian history. Ukrainians grow up speaking both languages, Russian first. It is more like Massachusetts, which speaks funny, but is so organic to US, and is just funny to imagine quitting the US. Ukrainians sound funny trying to speak Ukrainian only. Most Ukrainians think they are entitled to have Russian citizenship, and feel bad because politically the countries want to be separate. The western Ukrainians are more polish, hungarian, etc nationally, and identify with the Ukrainian Nazis who have been documented to massacre Russians, Russian-speaking Ukrainians, and Jews for the past 100 years.

Reality Check On Crimea

The West should redo its homework. Crimea has always been an integral part of Russia. It took a Ukrainian (Khrushchev) to transfer the peninsula over to the Ukraine. Since it was an act of a Soviet governmental political mechanism, it appears that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the surprisingly real-estate-like deed could be considered null and void. Moreover, Russia, the internationally recognized caretaker for all matter and obligation left over from the Soviet era, is the rightful authority on the disposition of the decisions by USSR's government. Then it makes sense that now, Russia, and Crimean Russians, have the right to decide the ultimate state of the peninsula.

It is also a double standard: the US has the right to put together a posse and invade faraway countries, but Russia cannot repossess its rightful possession with its own ethnicity. Not fair.

The poster is cute and poignant, but a reminder of fairness which Putin pointed out: during the most dangerous moments of Cold War, USSR (Russia) never used oil to blackmail the West. Unlike the Moslems with their petro-tantrums.

Common Wisdom About The Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.

I think in all the suspense of the missing Malaysian jet, some obvious common sense conclusions might be pointing to a solution,or the cause, and the guilty. Scouring talk backs to online news reports:
spirit1st
Allah, the god revealed in the Quran, is not a loving father. It says that he desires to lead people astray (Surah 6:39 , 126). He does not help those who are led astray by him (Surah 30:29) and desires to use them to populate hell (Surah 32:13).
Dennis
Hillary Clinton has just released a statement on the missing plane, It reads "What difference does it make at this point".
...
According to the latest Al Gore statement the plane was caught up in extreme winds that blew it off course and excessive heat that disabled it's systems, both due to Global warming.

Lang
a leaderless and failing US press is nearly hysterical over a plane crash that has nothing to do with america!! even Malaysia is having more trouble with their meddling than finding the plane!!

speedy 12
the plane has landed in a radical islamic country---on board is either gold---diamonds or---nuclear triggers---the latter being more probable.

WCG
A muslim pilot and copilot, what could possibly go wrong?

and I add: the plane has landed on a dusty landing strip in some central Asian country, all of its officials bribed and child abusers, to repaint the plane in the nap-of-the-earth camouflage. It will be fueled up, flown low, its next targets - one of the skyscrapers in Dubai,  Moscow or Tel Aviv.

State of the Gold Prices and World Affairs

Just scouring the web for the opinions of everyday people. On Pricedingold.com, these gems are found in (http://pricedingold.com/us-retail-gasoline) comments:

February 28, 2012...FASCINATING @ 10:34 am

I can't imagine paying $5.00 even in debauched dollars – $0.15 in pre Nix currency. Right now $4.00 per Gal it makes sense for me to consider to get on my bike and pedal 20 blocks to my Chevy Volt parked by the charging station. Situation being – Ossified (possibly conflicted) Con Edison Management dragging its feet in installing charging stations on residential streets. Ain't that cooked yet. Remember 16 Kw battery is 40 miles of fun or work or Etc. Then you run the gas engine just for nostalgia.

March 27, 2012...FASCINATING @ 8:26 pm

I Think Debauched Dollars are one part of the blind men's description of the gas prices Elephant.
Another are Planet Saudi Arabia is BSing about its pumping proves. And G. Sucks an Morgan Sucks are colluding (or at least enabling) Russians ( The oil is their major reason for growth) and Oil Companies (Half of British Retirees depend on BP's payouts) to ride World's growing dependency on what is a finite resource. Go electric. There definitely are no wires between Middle East and US. The utilities are regulated and electricity is definitely not a finite resource.

Area 51 on Wikimapia, A Test For Conspiracy Theories

By the way, I have stopped using my famous bots to fetch Russian intranet info. I have grown fonder of the country. I have called it as the Queen Elizabeth's imagined the Russians to be, the baptized bears, but since those times they have had Peter the Great, Tchaikovsky, and the space program. They are sssssmart and they like France! I admit, I like Putin and his sense of humor, re. beer drinking, Germany going from nuclear to burning wood, and the joke about the American surrendering to the KGB.

I wanted to check the proportion if not the number of gullible people on Wikimapia who look at the Area 51. So I signed in as a Guest and marked up two areas inside the Area 51, one that looked like a parking lot a Kukla Pen, and a hangar next to a dining area as the Moscow River project site.

Soon it got what it deserved. A Russian self-styled conspiracy expert (username FIJN) has compiled his opinions on my nebulous sites into his web project. I see from the latest visits that his comment was deleted.



I have dropped in on the Wikimapia view several times for the past 5 years, as can be seen from the comment window, and responded to the deleted comments (as Randy, Amalfic and others), some of which got deleted as well. So I decided to document my commenting, by grabbing a screen shot:









Of course the further explanation of KUKLA PEN as a CIA codename is also hogwash, but that was in response to several Russian comments indicating that the infinite subterfuge of the evil USA is capable of anything, and the world is going to witness quite a surprise of something military happening (think Matthias Rust) downtown Moscow.

These sites that were total spur of the moment decision to test the lunacy and the internet as a whole, garnered a plentiful harvest of search results which point to various opinions and sensationalism as well as conspiracy theories cooked with the most insane powers of deduction - just a sample:

Moscow River Project site - Wikimapia
wikimapia.org › World › USA › Nevada › Indian Springs‎

Revisiting Area 51 — Google Sightseeing
googlesightseeing.com/2010/05/revisiting-area-51/‎
May 24, 2010 – Kukla Pen building Moscow River building. Thanks to all of the many GSS readers who suggested visiting Area 51 again! For more information ...

Pen Kukla - WikiWorldBook
wikiworldbook.com/global-address-book/Pen-Kukla‎
Rivisitando l'Area 51. Di questo gruppo di strutture si dice che ospiti qualcosa di nomeKukla Pen project e in questi palazzi c'è il progetto Moscow River.

Boston, Israeli Flag, and Chechen Pain

Infowars-like scholars would say:
"Isn't it too coincidental that there were tons of medics and police on hand, and it all happened under the flag of Israel?"

CNN-like news agency would say:
"The fact that the Chechen brothers were involved in the Boston bombing and the killing of the MIT policeman testifies to the intolerance of the world toward the noble and freedom-loving people of Chechnya... having to suffer under the iron-fisted hegemony of the ex-KGB officer."

(Chechnya is just one of hundred or so Caucasus ethnicities fighting each other, Russia and Vlad Putin - ABC News.)

I said "I shall return", and I did.

I have been away, no doubt. I have had to travel and work throughout Europe and Far East. The most important thing I realize is that my priorities have changed. I no longer think the Russian Bear and Vladimir Putin are such an evil entities. I think Putin is cool, and the smartest political leader that has ever been on the world scene, and maybe the best Russian leader. I have built up more of data for this database, and will have to decide which of that data deserves to be posted here.

review of Arab culture of regression

Consider some of the important findings in recent Arab Human Development Reports and related studies:

• The total number of books translated into Arabic in the last 1,000 years is fewer than those translated into Spanish in one year.

• Greece – with a population of fewer than 11 million – translates five times as many books from abroad into Greek annually as the 22 Arab countries combined, with a total population of more than 300 million, translate into Arabic.

• According to a Council on Foreign Relations report, "In the 1950s, per-capita income in Egypt was similar to South Korea, whereas Egypt's per-capita income today is less than 20 percent of South Korea's. Saudi Arabia had a higher gross domestic product than Taiwan in the 1950s; today, it is about 50 percent of Taiwan's."

As Dr. A.B. Zahlan, a Palestinian physicist, has noted: "A regressive political culture is at the root of the Arab world's failure to fund scientific research or to sustain a vibrant, innovative community of scientists." He further asserted that "Egypt, in 1950, had more engineers than all of China." That is hardly the case today.

The UN Human Development Report reveals that only two Egyptians per million people were granted patents, compared to 30 in Greece and 35 in Israel (for Syria, the figure was zero).

Similarly, the adult literacy rate for women aged 15 and older was 43.6 percent in Egypt and 74 percent in Syria, while for the world's top 20 countries it was nearly 100 percent.

And finally, according to Freedom House rankings, no Arab country in the Middle East is listed as "free." Each is described as "partly free" at best, "not free" at worst.

The sad truth is that it is precisely political oppression, intellectual suffocation, and gender discrimination that explain, far more than any other factor, the chronic difficulties of the Middle East.

The Souther-Orlov Famous Unknown Spy

Michael Evegenievich Orlov, (born 30 January 1957, Hammond, IN, died June 22, 1989, Moscow, USSR as Glenn Michael Souther was a US Intelligence Specialist, and a petty officer (an equivalent of a sergeant ) in the US Navy, who spied on US out on purely ideological grounds.

His father was a middle-class businessman. His parents divorced when he was four years old, and he was raised by his mother. In 1975 he studied at a university, but after six months dropped out. Upon joining the USN he studied at the The Naval Marine Intelligence Training Center (NMITC)'s Photography Interpretation School under gaining command, at the end of which was assigned to the 6 th Fleet U.S. Navy.

From 1977 to 1982, Glenn Souther served in a FICLANT unit (Fleet Intelligence Command Atlantic) of the 6 th U.S. Navy based in Italy, handled the public relations, and was the personal photographer to the fleet commander Admiral Crowe. He served on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, then on the command and control ships USS Albany and USS Puget Sound.

From 1983 to mid 1986 Souther was studying for his commissioning at the University of Old Dominion ROTC in Norfolk, and also served as a reservist at the U.S. Naval Base in Norfolk, where he had access to materials related to US space program.

Since his youth Souther was interested in the culture of the Soviet Union, loved to read Vladimir Mayakovsky, and read Marx. He has formed his own view of the world, which he wished was ruled by justice, equality, supremacy of collectivism over individualism.

In accordance with his convictions in 1980 Souther asked the Soviet embassy in Rome for help in obtaining Soviet citizenship. He did not ask for political asylum, did not indicate any harassment by U.S. authorities. Boris Solomyatin, the KGB resident in Rome, recalls how he recruited Souther: "No, he did not nurture the decision to betray his country - he wanted to find a new one. Souther did not even consider the nature of his service in the U.S. Navy to be secret.

Souther went on to serve on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, and other warships, and he handled top secret secret documents and imagery. Therefore, the Soviet intelligence services were very interested in Souther and offered him help in obtaining citizenship in exchange for secret information. However, after he flatly refused material compensation for their services, they suspected him to be really working for U.S.

Information received from Glen Souther was genuine, sensitive and extremely important.

In Moscow my friends have found a treasure trove of US Naval documentation whith acronyms and serial numbers pointing to the commands and to the time frame of Souther's access. Note this as a catalog of publications turned over to the KGB:

More to follow, of course.

Souther was placed under surveillance, which lasted about a year, but has not produced success. He has repeatedly briefed at a local FBI office, where he first talked about his views on the world, the USSR, the Soviet culture. Later he was summoned for more questioning, which also yielded nothing. Souther was asked to undergo lie detector test, conducted according to the standards of the FBI, not the Navy's more scrupulous methodology. Because of the threat of arrest June 9, 1986 Souther booked a flight on an Alitalia flight, with a return ticket to the USA, flew to Rome, where the Soviet secret service transferred him to Moscow.

Life in the USSR

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on October 2, 1986 he was officially granted Soviet citizenship. He chose a new name of Michael E. Orloff. The application for citizenship Souther wrote: "With all the responsibility that the U.S. government will never do nothing of sincere and honest intentions to establish peace on earth until, until you are firmly convinced of its total military superiority. U.S. contempt has taken and continues to endanger the fate of other nations.

Orlov-Souther was the only foreign-born agent of Russian intelligence service who received the official title of a KGB officer. He was conferred the rank of a Major. He was given an apartment in Moscow and a dacha in the suburbs.

June 22, 1989 as a summer cottage Orlov wrote several suicide notes, went into the garage, shut all doors and windows and started the engine. His wish was to be buried wearing the uniform of a KGB officer. In honor guard at the funeral were the leaders of the KGB, including the Committee's chairman. Orlov was buried in the cemetery Novokuntsevskom Moscow, next to the grave of Kim Philby.

In a letter written before his death, addressed to fellow spies, Orlov wrote: "I do not in any way regret our relationship. They were long and helped me grow as a person. All were tolerant and kind to me. I hope... you forgive me for what I did...or for not going to the last battle."

This echoes his earlier letter in 1988: "Russia was for me the place where I have lived in their dreams - a country fascinated me, despite the fact that I was sometimes difficult and lonely."

More reading:

* Michael Glenn Souter. Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia. Retrieved April 26, 2010.

* Nicholas Poroskov He gave Russia a thousand nuclear goals. Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia (15 June 2006). Retrieved November 17, 2008.
* William Plummer, Chris Phillips A Moscow Suicide Reveals Glenn Souther's Double Life as a US Sailor Spying for the K.G.B. (English) (July 17, 1989). Retrieved November 17, 2008.
* Esther B. Fine Defector to Moscow Is Dead; Work for K.G.B. Is Lauded / / New York Times: Newspaper. - New York: June 28, 1989.
* David Johnston Ex-Sailor, a Suspected Spy, Granted Asylum by Soviets / / New York Times: Newspaper. - July 18, 1988.
* Soviet Union The Odd Case of M. Orlov / / Time. - July 10, 1989.

A rare view to Moscow subway's secret STP-89 communication center

I have been traveling, and visiting Russia, the Land of the Sleeping Bear. That's where a friend snapped for me a rare picture of the Moscow Subway's emergency strategic communications room , of unknown affiliation.

They refer to it as STP-89 strategic operations room. Inside the equipment as state of the art as Russian petrodollar can afford to achieve, except the hand drawn Fire evacuation plan

Litvinenko's tea came from this government isotope research lab

Inside Russian Plutonium development center pellet storage lockers. Probably stores all those poison pellets for the famous umbrella, tea, coffee, ballpoint pen and other methods of killing

mysterious simplicity, though a turret housing an irradiation source

primitive nuclear technology using rubber hoses- shock absorbers in case of a strike by a nuclear weapon?

log-cabin feel to the plutonium site: "no entry without an engineer" -is the blue glow between the doors a Cherenkoff effect?

Isotope tea, anyone? - this where Livinenko's teabag was prepared.

Revealing notice exposes Russia's strategic cable

Russian-Byelorussian notice to protect underground communication lines has an address and a phone number, which I had someone look up. A non-descript address in Minsk, Belorussia, connects it to a Belorussian front for Russian FSB's infrastructure management agency.

In other words, this is a Russian military cable access well.