Just yesterday I had a bit of fun posting the NYTimes take on the global warming scam, claiming that in the near future there would be no more snow.
Really.
And I followed it with a post re: how the latest skiing season was a record-setter!
But there is a more serious topic that involves 'snow'.....
...and it will surprise you.
1.You may be able to tell when someone is wearing a bad toupée.....because it is a bad toupée.
If it's a good one,....you didn't recognize it as one.
The same is true of spying: you see the results...but don't recognize how an event was made to happen.
Perhaps the United States currently has the tech savvy that has become so popular in spycraft....and many suggest Israel being up near the top, but throughout the 20th century, there was one nation that was far and away the best.
a. I said 'perhaps.'
There is an excellentvideo interview with Eugene Kaspersky, of Kaspersky Labs, here,Cybersecurity Kaspersky Has Close Ties to Russian Spies - Bloomberg Business
...in which he quotes Condoleezza Rice as stating that,due to their technological education, Russian software engineers are the best in the world.
2.Russia had a head start in spying.
"Russia has a formidable spying tradition that dates back to the czarist-era Cheka. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the once omnipotent KGB was broken up into several smaller organizations with vastly limited powers. Since ex-KGB man Vladimir Putin took power, however, the SVR, or Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedk as its known in Russian, has recovered much of its swagger. Russian spying within the United States is now back to Cold War levels, U.S. officials believe. " The List The World s Top Spy Agencies Foreign Policy
3.About the disease of 'spying.'
Communism is international socialism. Those conversant with immunology, and the way viruses work will understand that the virus function is less about controlling an entire body and producing a 'zombie,' it's first directive is to take over the parts of the cell that make more cell, and forces them to make more viruses instead.
So it is with communism. It infects schools, government. and the venues that disseminate information.
One never has to see a red star banner, a gulag, or hear the word 'comrade.' Suddenly...the milieu is changed...as has happened in America.
4. It is well known today that Franklin Roosevelt's administration was infected in this way.
"Expert estimates now peg the number of Americans assisting Soviet intelligence agencies during the 1930s and 1940s as exceeding five hundred. Not one Aldrich Ames. Not two Rosenbergs. Not five “magnificent” Cambridgers. More than five hundred willing and variously able American traitors, many operating at the very highest levels of the federal government, with who knows how many more in support roles....
Soviet agents, Communists, and fellow travelers held official posts, or served as chokepoints of intelligence data, and from these positions were able to exert pro-Soviet leverage on U.S. and other allied policy..... . .... original source archives that have come to light in recent years suggest that, if anything, McCarthy understated the breadth of Soviet infiltration." Red herrings by Andrew C. McCarthy - The New Criterion
Be clear....we aren't speaking of Soviet spies who simply took classified material and handed it over to Stalin......
...we are speaking of spies able to dictate American political and military policy throughout and after the war.
Really.
And I followed it with a post re: how the latest skiing season was a record-setter!
But there is a more serious topic that involves 'snow'.....
...and it will surprise you.
1.You may be able to tell when someone is wearing a bad toupée.....because it is a bad toupée.
If it's a good one,....you didn't recognize it as one.
The same is true of spying: you see the results...but don't recognize how an event was made to happen.
Perhaps the United States currently has the tech savvy that has become so popular in spycraft....and many suggest Israel being up near the top, but throughout the 20th century, there was one nation that was far and away the best.
a. I said 'perhaps.'
There is an excellentvideo interview with Eugene Kaspersky, of Kaspersky Labs, here,Cybersecurity Kaspersky Has Close Ties to Russian Spies - Bloomberg Business
...in which he quotes Condoleezza Rice as stating that,due to their technological education, Russian software engineers are the best in the world.
2.Russia had a head start in spying.
"Russia has a formidable spying tradition that dates back to the czarist-era Cheka. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the once omnipotent KGB was broken up into several smaller organizations with vastly limited powers. Since ex-KGB man Vladimir Putin took power, however, the SVR, or Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedk as its known in Russian, has recovered much of its swagger. Russian spying within the United States is now back to Cold War levels, U.S. officials believe. " The List The World s Top Spy Agencies Foreign Policy
3.About the disease of 'spying.'
Communism is international socialism. Those conversant with immunology, and the way viruses work will understand that the virus function is less about controlling an entire body and producing a 'zombie,' it's first directive is to take over the parts of the cell that make more cell, and forces them to make more viruses instead.
So it is with communism. It infects schools, government. and the venues that disseminate information.
One never has to see a red star banner, a gulag, or hear the word 'comrade.' Suddenly...the milieu is changed...as has happened in America.
4. It is well known today that Franklin Roosevelt's administration was infected in this way.
"Expert estimates now peg the number of Americans assisting Soviet intelligence agencies during the 1930s and 1940s as exceeding five hundred. Not one Aldrich Ames. Not two Rosenbergs. Not five “magnificent” Cambridgers. More than five hundred willing and variously able American traitors, many operating at the very highest levels of the federal government, with who knows how many more in support roles....
Soviet agents, Communists, and fellow travelers held official posts, or served as chokepoints of intelligence data, and from these positions were able to exert pro-Soviet leverage on U.S. and other allied policy..... . .... original source archives that have come to light in recent years suggest that, if anything, McCarthy understated the breadth of Soviet infiltration." Red herrings by Andrew C. McCarthy - The New Criterion
Be clear....we aren't speaking of Soviet spies who simply took classified material and handed it over to Stalin......
...we are speaking of spies able to dictate American political and military policy throughout and after the war.
