MOKSHA, there is something I never mention in this forum, or anywhere online. Do you really not know about some of the goings on in your country? Do you think that the Cold War ever ended? You seem to buy into many of the popular culture concepts being tossed out there about America.

So let me tell you about something else. How nothing is what it seems in the world today. Russia posts more than twice the number of spies here than they did during the Cold War. And that's just the number that the government knows about which they are willing to share with the public. The Chinese are even more insidious. They hire spies inside this country, and attack through cyberspace at the same time. If you want proof, check out the latest weaponry in China and Russia. Why do the newest Russian fighter jets always look like the current American fighters? Why does their latest tank have the exact same technology as the M1 Abrams? How did the Chinese manage to build clones of both the F-22 and F-35, without doing any of the necessary research? Why do they have C-5 and C-17 clones as well? They don't even bother to make theirs look slightly different. They just acquire the blueprints and build them.

Just because these two countries are toying with capitalist concepts, does not mean they are our friends any more than they were during the Cold War. They still dream of world domination, but go after this through different means. Do you realize that what's behind the riots in the Ukraine, is that the Russians among them didn't like the idea that they were thinking about moving to a western orbit? Their political shift is a testament to the strength of our political and financial systems, nothing more. They are moving to beat us at our own game. The proof is in the pudding. The designs of their weapons of war, and the sheer number of spies we are arresting right now. You only hear blurbs about any of these, if that. We don't bust them, we turn them. But we are not being allowed to know about nearly as much as I would like, for very obvious reasons.

So we decide to turn socialist? I for one am not willing to see us shift to the failed system they just abandoned. This is what I don't like about Obama. He's brain dead. If he would only learn his history, then he would know that the entire western world is headed down a path that's doomed to failure. To be honest, he probably doesn't care. Eric Holder is initiating major investigations into things long since over, and the numbers increase every time new scandals hit about his boss. It's an obvious attempt to draw attention away from these scandals. And a lot of these online rumors are probably a part of it. An attempt to discredit our old guard, and elevate his boss to the appearance of a great messiah once again.

I'm not coming down on you. I just wanted you to know. Most people do not, as clues to this are rarely printed by our lap dog media these days. Nothing is what it seems as a result. Why? The people are not stupid. They know that something is wrong, and instead of digging for the information, they simply guess. If you want to know what congress is up to, check out the web sites from cspan and similar. It's all there, and it reads nothing like we are being told, by the media or the online trolls. It makes for a very dangerous world, simply because so many of us have been fooled. Now the administration indulges in whatever they wish, and don't even bother to hold a press conference. Remember how Reagan would answer questions twice a week or so? Now the press secretary reads a weekly statement, and hands out pictures from the white house photographer. The white house completely ignores congress, and has used their party as dupes. This is not our style of government. And it's what is wrong right now.

Tim