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The Yes California Independence Campaign aims to hold a referendum in 2019 that, if passed, would make California an independent country. Far-fetched as it may sound, the plan started gathering steam after Tuesday night’s surprising presidential vote. The movement has an impressive backer in Shervin Pishevar, a well-known angel investor who offered to bankroll a campaign to secede.
Since Stalin, Russia’s foreign policy has been more pragmatic than ideological. Right and left make no difference: Putin’s goal is to sow dissent and discord within Europe’s ranks and erode the unity of the EU.
Friends, I am in Russia at the moment. We are opening an embassy and cultural center for an independent California here. We need foreign countries to acknowledge the results of our independence referendum if we want to be an independent country afterall. - Louis
Yes California responds to primary election results; accepts invitation to attend international self-determination conference hosted in Moscow:
Yes California announced today that it has accepted an invitation to represent the California Republic at a self-determination conference hosted by the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia on July 31 in Moscow. The conference will be dedicated to the struggle of different regions and nations fighting for their independence and self-determination.
This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It’s shocking because our nation has been transformed in the exact same way, and followed the exact same steps.
But in reality, the main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all. According to my opinion and the opinion of many defectors of my caliber only about fifteen percent of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other eighty-five percent is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, or active measures, (~Activitia perionachia, in the language of the KGB), or psychological warfare. What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country. It’s a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages. The first one being demoralization.
The next stage is destabilization. This time, the subverter does not care about your ideas, the patterns of your consumption, whether you eat junk food and get fat and flabby. It doesn’t matter anymore. This time, and it only takes from two to five years to destabilize a nation, what matters is essentials, economy, foreign relations, defense systems. And you can see it quite clearly in sensitive areas as defense and economy.
A modernizing Russia could integrate itself into a wider international community; at the same time, a Russia which fails to build a more diversi ed economy and more liberal domestic order could increasingly pose a regional and global threat.
By 2030 Russia faces a steep population drop—about 10 million people—a greater decline than any other country during that time frame.
The Polish Government sees shale gas as an important resource for diversification away from dependence on Russian gas and has been granting exploration licenses, while the French Government has banned hydraulic fracking.
Russia has serious concerns regarding the threat posed by a rapidly expanding China, particularly Beijing’s growing appetite for natural resources which could eventually encroach upon the Russian Far East and Siberia. Russian leaders believe that they need to be wary of the potential for the US and NATO to intervene in a conflict involving Russia and one of the former Soviet republics.
originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: Kettu
Secession isn't allowed per the constitution, but I would definitely make an exception for California.
Would be maybe 2 years tops before it became a horribly failed country.
originally posted by: Kettu
a reply to: Vector99
This time, however, Russia's fingerprints are all over Trump, and it seems the leaders of the California Exit movement are cozying up to Russia quite nicely.
originally posted by: theultimatebelgianjoke
originally posted by: Kettu
a reply to: Vector99
This time, however, Russia's fingerprints are all over Trump, and it seems the leaders of the California Exit movement are cozying up to Russia quite nicely.
The Calexit is mainly populated by democrats who - for some - consider that Bernie Sanders would make a great candidate for the head of their independent state ...
Do you suggest that Calexit/Bernie supporters are pro-Putin ?
In October, 2007, Marinelli moved to Samara, Russia to work as an ESL teacher in a private language school after earning a TEFL certificate. Six months later, Marinelli accepted a new job teaching English for a competitor with a new school opening in the city of Kazan in the Republic of Tatarstan, a part of the Russian Federation 500 miles east of Moscow.
In 2009, Louis relocated to Saint Petersburg, Russia where he began working for another private language school as an English teacher and became a student himself at Saint Petersburg State University, the alma mater of Russian presidents Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. Although he initially considered giving up his U.S. citizenship to remain in Russia permanently, citing disillusionment with the United States government and political system, Louis came back to live in California in the summer of 2011.
originally posted by: Rosinitiate
I'm confused. Isn't California broke and suffering a major drought. A state that is drowning in Hollywood filth? They elected the Terminator for goodness sakes.
Funnier still, is a heavy Democratic state with over 50 electoral votes. They must really want 8 years of Trump.
originally posted by: Kettu
The Bernie supporters were drawn to the Yes California exit movement after it was created, not the other way around. Bernie people didn't form it.
originally posted by: Kettu
Just like Trump, Marinelli appears to have spent some time in....Russia:
originally posted by: dragonridr
originally posted by: Rosinitiate
I'm confused. Isn't California broke and suffering a major drought. A state that is drowning in Hollywood filth? They elected the Terminator for goodness sakes.
Funnier still, is a heavy Democratic state with over 50 electoral votes. They must really want 8 years of Trump.
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The combined debt of California’s state and local governments is at least $848 billion and could escalate past $1.1 trillion, according to a new report. By the way New York is number one in the country right now owing 17,405 per person. Don't see any way to get that out of the population do you??