Obama. A call to service.

These are Obama's plans for American Citizens. I would like to get some general feedback from American's and others about what they think of Obama's plans for the future and their children's futures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df2p6867_pw

Quote: I will ask for your service and your active citizenship when I am President of the United States.

Quote: This will not be a call issued in one speech or one program - this will be a central cause of my presidency. We will ask Americans to serve. We will create new opportunities for Americans to serve. And we will direct that service to our most pressing national challenges.

Quote: That's why I will call on a new generation of Americans to join our military, and complete the effort to increase our ground forces by 65,000 soldiers and 27,000 Marines.

Quote: Today, AmeriCorps - our nation's network of local, state and national service programs - has 75,000 slots. They tap America's greatest resource - our citizens.

Quote: As President, I will expand AmeriCorps to 250,000 slots,

Quote: People of all ages, stations, and skills will be asked to serve. Because when it comes to the challenges we face, the American people are not the problem - they are the answer.

Quote: We'll call on Americans to join an Energy Corps to conduct renewable energy and environmental cleanup projects in their neighborhoods. We'll enlist veterans to help other vets find jobs and support, and to be there for our military families. And we'll also grow our Foreign Service, open consulates that have been shuttered, and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy.

Quote: And we'll use technology to connect people to service. We'll expand USA Freedom Corps to create an online network where Americans can browse opportunities to volunteer. You'll be able to search by category, time commitment, and skill sets; you'll be able to rate service opportunities, build service networks, and create your own service pages to track your hours and activities.

Quote: So when I'm President, I will set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year. This means that by the time you graduate college, you'll have done 17 weeks of service.

Quote: At the middle and high school level, we'll make federal assistance conditional on school districts developing service programs, and give schools resources to offer new service opportunities. At the community level, we'll develop public-private partnerships so students can serve more outside the classroom.

For college students, I have proposed an annual American Opportunity Tax Credit of $4,000. To receive this credit, we'll require 100 hours of public service. You invest in America, and America invests in you -

Quote: To marshal their talents in building a new energy economy, I will launch an initiative to give our veterans the training they need to succeed in the Green Jobs of the future. It's time to end our energy dependence at home so our national security isn't held hostage to oil and gas from abroad.

Quote: And we will not leave out the nearly 2 million young Americans who are out of school and out of work. We'll enlist them in our Energy Corps,

The Trojan Horse of the Russians 2

A while back I posted about what I called the Trojan horse of the Russians. I said that based on what I was seeing that I thought somehow they had tricked us and that somehow they had won.
I said that somehow they seem to be coming back in a big way, and not only are they running somethings in society, but that our societies now mirror what we feared and reviled or at least said that we reviled just 20 years ago. We have become red.

Well I thought maybe this was just my ramblings, but on a recent forum posting someone else was kind enough to give me some links, and apparently I am not the first person to have had this idea. In fact before the walls ever fell, someone had written a book to say that it was a plot that the Russians had had, and that it was all part of a long range plan to conquer the West. Sounds far fetched right, but here we are, and looks who is back with a vengeance and look at our society and tell me that he's wrong.

Below are the links this poster was kind enough to direct me to. Well worth having a read.

[quote]
As per the predictions of Anatoliy Golitsyn
http://www.markriebling.com/predictions.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoliy_Golitsyn
the USSR never really 'fell' and simply changed shape to better handle the challenges that were arising while not having to keep up the pretenses of the past.
http://reformed-theology.org/html/issue07/perestroika_01.htm
http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/aug/15/nyquist.htm
http://www.thefinalphase.com/WildernessOfMirrors.htm
http://www.stoptheftaa.org/artman/publish/article_36.shtml
http://www.jbs.org/node/948/print
http://www.jbs.org/node/1026/print
http://www.jbs.org/node/944
http://www.jbs.org/node/939
http://www.jbs.org/node/2401 [/quote]


http://www.markriebling.com/predictions.html
[quote]Yet someone had predicted glasnost and perestroika, in detail, even before Gorbachev came to power. This person's analysis of events in the communist world had even been provided to the Agency on a regular basis.

In 1982, KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn had submitted a top-secret manuscript to CIA. In it, he foresaw that leadership of the USSR would by 1986 "or earlier" fall to "a younger man with a more liberal image," who would initiate "changes that would have been beyond the imagination of Marx or the practical reach of Lenin and unthinkable to Stalin."

The coming liberalization, Golitsyn said, "would be spectacular and impressive. Formal pronouncements might be made about a reduction in the Communist Party's role; its monopoly would be apparently curtailed.... The KGB would be reformed. Dissidents at home would be amnestied; those in exile abroad would be allowed to take up positions in the government; Sakharov might be included in some capacity in the government. Political dubs would be opened to nonmembers of the Communist Party. Leading dissidents might form one or more alternative political Censorship would be relaxed; controversial plays, films, and art would be published, performed, and exhibited."

Golitsyn provided an entire chapter of such predictions, containing 194 distinct auguries. Of these, 46 were not soon falsifiable (it was too early to tell, e.g., whether Russian economic ministries would be dissolved); another 9 predictions (e.g., of a prominent Yugoslavian role in East-Bloc liberalization) seemed clearly wrong. Yet of Golitsyn's falsifiable predictions, 139 out of 148 were fulfilled by the end of 1993 -- an accuracy rate of nearly 94 percent. Among events correctly foreseen: "the return to power of Dubcek and his associates" in Czechoslovakia; the reemergence of Solidarity" and the formation of a "coalition government" in Poland; a newly "independent" regime in Romania; "economic reforms" in the USSR; and a Soviet repudiation of the Afghanistan invasion. -Golitsyn even envisioned that, with the "easing of immigration controls" by East Germany, "pressure could well grow for the solution of the German problem [by] some form of confederation between East and West," with the result that "demolition of the Berlin Wall might even be contemplated." [/quote]

Then the other article was just as fascinating. http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/aug/15/nyquist.htm
[quote]Golitsyn's book is actually about strategy, psychological warfare and how to organize the implements of deception (of higher, intellectual warfare). Various tricks are discussed in the book. One trick is that of pretending to be at odds with those you are secretly allied with. Another trick is to reorganize your society and declare your own defeat in order to disarm an opponent. These tricks are thoroughly discussed by Golitsyn, who is blessed with analytical and strategical understanding. [/quote]

If an enemy could organise and plan a modern day Trojan Horse, then can victory be far off? If this really was a long range plan of Russia, then it was brilliant, and we like the the enemies of the Greeks, have slept and partied, while our enemies quietly and stealthily slipped into our shores and took over from the inside out.

I have not had a chance to read the books yet, but I look forward to hearing more about this long range plan. I no longer doubt that this is a plan that could have been planned, plotted and executed. I just wait to see what the outcome is going to fully be. Apparently the author of the books is in hiding. So the question is, is he a true target or a deep under cover agent, waiting for the signal of victory to be given? Stranger things have happened.