I thought I would comment on this Russian analyst prediction since it is all over the Internet news. He claims that the USA will break up. As some of you know I have been saying in my posts that the break up of the union is a possibility by 2013. However, I say that for different reasons than this moron does. The breakup will not be due to an economic collapse and dissatisfaction although that could add fuel to the fire. If the USA breaks up it will be because of two different ideologies in America that cannot be reconciled.

One ideology is based on biblical principles of morality, constitutional limited federal government, and on self responsibility and the other is based on liberal relativism, big federal government, and a socialist nanny state. If there is a break up of the American union it will be due to the heartland conservative states breaking away from the liberal states. It will come only after one ideology tries to force its will on the other.

I also find the breakdown of the regions by this Russian analyst to be rather bazaar. What he said makes me wonder if he knows anything at all about the demographics of the United States.

The Pacific Coast Chinese minority are not going to be a major factor for separation. The South is not Hispanic other than south Florida so Hispanics would not be a factor in the South. The South is the Bible Belt and that is why they might decide to separate. Texas could survive as a country by itself so I can see them seceding and if there is any breakup of the U.S. it will start in Texas.

After that the Russian analyst mentions five poor central states with large native populations. Huh? What states might they be? None of them are poor and the only state that has a significant enough native population to actually influence the state is Oklahoma but they would still go with Texas. He also thinks Canada has strong influence on the northern states? I suppose they do if you are only talking about beer.

This Russian even suggests that Russia could claim Alaska. I am sure Russia could claim Alaska. I believe some Russians already have claimed Alaska. But, Alaska would never claim Russia. Only a moron could think that Russia could take Alaska. Russia has a problem keeping the Eastern part of their own nation in Russia now. Russians need to keep their own country together before they claim a state that will stuff and mount any platoon of Russian invaders stupid enough to try invading Alaska on their dog sleds.

Lastly, he says it will be clear by spring that Obama will not have any economic miracles. Obama takes office in January. I do not think anything will be clear by this spring. Bottom line is that this guy does not know what he is talking about and I haven’t a clue why he even made the national news.

DRUDGE REPORT: RUSSIAN ANALYST PREDICTS DECLINE AND BREAKUP OF USA 2008®

A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.

Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily IZVESTIA published on Monday: “The dollar is not secured by anything. The country’s foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse.”

Asked why he expected the U.S. to break up into separate parts, he said: “A whole range of reasons. Firstly, the financial problems in the U.S. will get worse. Millions of citizens there have lost their savings. Prices and unemployment are on the rise. General Motors and Ford are on the verge of collapse, and this means that whole cities will be left without work. Governors are already insistently demanding money from the federal center. Dissatisfaction is growing, and at the moment it is only being held back by the elections and the hope that Obama can work miracles. But by spring, it will be clear that there are no miracles.”

He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts – the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.

He even suggested that “we could claim Alaska”

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I think we are about to make a huge foreign policy blunder in Kosovo. If we want to start a cold war with Russia and even see a hot war with Serbia this is a good way to bring it about. We are also going to see a new military alliance over this. We are doing this to appease Muslims who are working againts us. It is a huge mistake. We are just making another world crises as if we do not have enough of them.

“Most ominously, Russia with its newfound resurgence under Vladimir
Putin’s guidance has stated its willingness to support Serbia against what
they would consider an illegal occupation of Serbian territory. The current Serbian government is divided on whether it would be prepared to use force to protect its citizens in a breakaway Kosovo, but there have been clear indications that Moscow is prepared to provide military assistance if Serbia requests it.”

“The U.S. seems intent on letting the Serbian province of Kosovo break away and apparently sees the issue of no great importance. Russia on the other hand, sees the situation very differently. Moscow has warned it will not accept ndependence for Kosovo. Mr. Putin has put his prestige on the line. He cannot afford to back down as Boris Yeltsin did.”

“And therein lies the crisis. This is an “optional” crisis. We cannot overlook the fact that the dominant element in the local Albanian administration are commanders from the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army that have known ties to the global jihad movement and organized crime. Further, more than 300 mosques have been built in Kosovo, funded mainly by Saudi Arabia where the radical teachings of the Wahhabi sect are promoted.”

Kosovo train-wreck warnings

Putin, the Kremlin power struggle and the $40bn fortune Russia Guardian Unlimited: “Citing sources inside the president’s administration, Belkovsky claims that after eight years in power Putin has secretly accumulated more than $40bn (£20bn). The sum would make him Russia’s – and Europe’s – richest man.
In an interview with the Guardian, Belkovsky repeated his claims that Putin owns vast holdings in three Russian oil and gas companies, concealed behind a ‘non-transparent network of offshore trusts’.
Putin ‘effectively’ controls 37% of the shares of Surgutneftegaz, an oil exploration company and Russia’s third biggest oil producer, worth $20bn, he says. He also owns 4.5% of Gazprom, and ‘at least 75%’ of Gunvor, a mysterious Swiss-based oil trader, founded by Gennady Timchenko, a friend of the president’s, Belkovsky alleges.
Asked how much Putin was worth, Belkovsky said: ‘At least $40bn. Maximum we cannot know. I suspect there are some businesses I know nothing about.’ He added: ‘It may be more. It may be much more.”

Perhaps Putin is just saving to buy back Alaska.

FOXNews.com – Medvedev: Putin Should Be Russian Prime Minister After March Elections – International News News of the World Middle East News Europe News
MOSCOW — Dmitry Medvedev, whose candidacy for Russian leader has the endorsement of President Vladimir Putin, called on Tuesday for Putin to become prime minister after the March 2 election.
Putin is prohibited by law for running for a third consecutive term, but clearly wants to retain a powerful role once he steps down. Medvedev’s proposal would provide such a role, especially if the constitution were amended to increase the prime minister’s powers — which could be done readily with the new parliament dominated by pro-Putin politicians.
Medvedev has spent most of his career as a loyal comrade of Putin.
“Having expressed my readiness to run for president of Russia, I appeal to (Putin) with a request to give his principal agreement to head the Russian government after the election of the new president of our country,” Medvedev said in televised address a day after Putin endorsed his candidacy.

Gee, how did we know that would happen in Russia? So they just change Putin’s title to Prime Minister and give the Prime Minister the power that the President had and Putin/Gog remains in power in Russia until he dies. So what has changed in Russia? Which proves that you can take the leader out of the country during a depression but you can’t take a people who love authoritarian rule out of the nation.

Russia warns of ‘consequences’ for Kosovo – Telegraph: “However, Russia – which historically has been a strong supporter of Serbia – issued a stark warning to the EU, suggesting that it ‘think very carefully about the consequences’. ‘In that case [of the EU supporting a unilateral bid for independence], those countries would be violating international law, and we will not support the violation of international law,’ said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. ‘I want to stress that UDI of Kosovo and recognition of such independence will not remain without consequences,’ he continued. ‘It will create a chain reaction throughout the Balkans and other areas of the world.’ “

Russia is correct. If the EU wants a new war in that region and a new Soviet Union they are on the right course to help bring it about.

Russia ’shut out’ election watchdog – Telegraph
Russia’s last pretensions to democratic credibility are hanging in the balance after Western observers abandoned plans to monitor a parliamentary election that critics have already dismissed as a sham.

The almost unprecedented decision is likely to set Russia and the West on a new collision course at a time when relations are already badly strained.
Already accused by domestic critics of engineering an electoral charade designed solely to strengthen Vladimir Putin’s autocratic rule, Russia now faces the added embarrassment of a vote robbed of legitimacy in the eyes of the international community.

FrontPage Magazine: “Remarkably, this unfolding takeover of one of the world’s largest economies has so far gone mostly unnoticed by the international community. Conducted discreetly and largely under the radar, it bears the hallmarks of Mr. Putin who has managed to acquire vast political power behind the façade of democracy. Now a similar effort is underway in the economic sphere even as most of the world still thinks of Russia as one of the freest economies in sight. Should this trend continue, the Russian state could well end up with unbridled political and economic powers in a not-too-distant future. Given today’s complex geopolitical situation, this is a troubling prospect to contemplate. Equally worrying is the fact that this undertaking is being carried out by a group of former KGB operatives. Looking at all this one can hardly resist the feeling that the old days may be coming back again. “

The Hindu News Update Service: “MOSCOW: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), a Russia-led defence pact of former Soviet states, have signed a defence cooperation pact dubbed a “Russian-Chinese NATO.” The SCO, which comprises Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and the CSTO, which groups Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia and Belorussia, signed a memorandum of cooperation on Friday on the sidelines of a CSTO summit in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan. China is the only member of the SCO, which does not participate in the CSTO. “

Putin of Russia has designs to reform a good part of the Old Soviet Union. This defence pact is probably only the start of it. It is looking more and more like Putin will fulfill the role of Gog spoken about in Ezekiel 38 and 39.

And for my next trick, I will turn into a prime minister – Times Online: “Today the answer is clear. Mr Putin will take over the job himself. That at least will give him a proper base for continued influence. The effect, of course, will be simply to reverse the balance of power. In future the prime minister will call the shots, while the president will find his power severely limited. And after four years Mr Putin could come back again as President (which is possible under the Constitution). And the balance of power would be reversed again. “

Or something will happen to the President and he will take over both titles and the title of the party. Then he will be just like his Soviet predecessors. Anyone that cannot see that Fascism is taking over Russia is blind. Putin is probably Gog.

Physicists challenge U.S. missile claims – USATODAY.com: “The Pentagon agency overseeing the missile program, the Missile Defense Agency, rejects the scientists’ claims, saying their analyses are flawed. The United States says the missile system is intended to counter a threat from Iran and could not take out Russian missiles. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has dismissed Russia’s concerns as ‘ludicrous.’

But the six scientists, whose backgrounds include elite American universities, research labs and high levels of government, said in interviews that Russia’s concerns were justified. ‘The claim by the Missile Defense Agency is not correct,’ said Theodore Postol, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a longtime missile defense critic. ‘And it is hard to understand how they could get something so basic wrong.’”

Why would Russia or anyone believe the missile defense would be there to protest Europe from Iran? The US and Europe have flatly said we will not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons.
The missles are clearly going to be in positions to stop any kind of surgical nuclear strike by Russia on one specific European country or more likely on Israel.

Putin the Terrible Macleans.ca – World – Global: “Can anyone control the forces the Russian president has unleashed?CHARLIE GILLIS September 3, 2007 A couple of weeks back, while news readers were averting their gaze from photographs of a shirtless Vladimir Putin fishing in Siberia, two videos circulating on the Internet laid bare a different, much more chilling, portion of the Russian body politic. The first was a crude bit of agitprop thought to originate with the Nashi, a Kremlin-funded youth movement loyal to Putin whose work involves denouncing the president’s critics as fascists, homosexuals or foreign-controlled traitors.The eight-minute clip, which eventually found its way to YouTube, was ostensibly meant to persuade draft-eligible teenagers to seek a career in the army. But its true object was to foment paranoia. Images of U.S. soldiers marching on unidentified soil flashed across the screen, while a narrator warned that America aims to ‘colonize’ Russia for its oil. Former Soviet satellites in the ‘Stans and eastern Europe were depicted as beachheads for an impending invasion. One animated segment portrayed worm-like tentacles emanating from the United States and creeping around the globe through former Soviet republics like the Baltics, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. ‘They are right next door,’ the voice-over said. ‘They will take any available opportunity to take us over.’ “

Remember when certain people said it was the war to end all wars? If you don’t that war was World War I. The wisest man who lived said there in nothing new under the sun and mankind keeps proving him correct. Just wait a decade until the Nashi gets into position of power in Russia with a modern military.

Putin brings back mental ward torment – Times Online

The Soviet practice of doing away with people by declaring them mentally ill is making a comeback in today’s Russia,” said Vladimir Bukovsky, a Soviet-era dissident now living in London who was twice locked up in mental institutions.
“Abuse of psychiatry had ceased after the collapse of communism. But now, under Vladimir Putin, a president who has brought back many Soviet-era practices and has described the collapse of the Soviet Union as a catastrophe – it’s becoming common again.”

Vladimir Putin rewrites Russia’s history books to promote patriotism – Independent Online Edition > Europe: “Critics are accusing President Vladimir Putin’s government of a Soviet-style rewriting of Russian history with a series of new ‘patriotic’ textbooks to be unveiled in the new school year. New laws passed this summer have given the government sweeping powers over which textbooks will be used in schools. Teachers and other critics have voiced concerns that this will allow the government to force the use of a single, approved book in each subject – essentially a return to Soviet practice. Mr Putin has complained that the negative view of the Soviet past in current history textbooks is down to the fact that the authors received foreign grants to write them. Now, the Kremlin claims it wants to change that situation and a recommissioning of Russia’s history textbooks is under way. A handbook for teachers, on the basis of which a future textbook for students could be written, is called The Modern History of Russia, 1945-2006. Only one of the authors is a professional historian. The book calls Joseph Stalin a ‘contradictory’ figure, and states that while some people consider him evil, others recognise him as a ‘hero’ for his role in the Great Patriotic War (the Second World War) and his territorial expansion.”

Putin wants textbooks to lie to the Russians about their past so that they will allow similar mistakes in the future and allow Putin to continue on the road to becoming the next Russian tyrant.

‘Will Canada Get the Cold Shoulder in the Arctic?’ – Aaron Goldstein – Aug 19, 07: “The key here is the Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater mountain range spanning more than 1,200 miles spanning the Eastern Siberian Sea to Ellesmere Island – the most northern part of Canada. Russia and Canada argue that the ridge is an extension of their continental shelves while the Danes argue it is an extension of Greenland, which is a Danish territory. Given that the polar icecaps are melting (largely attributed to global warming) the Lomonosov Ridge has created new opportunities for both oil and natural gas exploration as well as for shipping. Needless to say whoever prevails will reap an enormous windfall. It will also be a source of immense national pride in all three countries.”

How can anyone determine who owns the area around the North Pole? The most anyone can do is make is a judgment call that will just piss off the other claimers.
I have a solution. Agree to make all Arctic regions outside of the 200 mile territorial boundaries of the nations to be international with those areas managed by the United Nations. The money they get from the natural resources would be used to pay for the management of the area, the cost of UN government and as aid funds for the world.

Russian bomber jets resume Cold War sorties Reuters: “MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s strategic bombers have resumed Cold War-style long-haul missions to areas patrolled by NATO and the United States, top generals said on Thursday.”

Russia continues to ramp up their threat capabilites.