Peter Robinson explores the global challenges confronting American today–from Iraq to Europe to Iran and the dangers of nuclear proliferation–with Kissinger, one of the country’s most preeminent foreign policy practitioners. Kissinger asserts that the 1960s myth, that the U.S. government is somehow an evil enterprise, is alive and well. In this environment, he says, our leaders need to present a clear and educated vision of America’s role in the world.
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Live with President Vladimir Putin – Hot Line (excerpts)Part 7
December 24, 2001
Moscow, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, village of Kazache-Malevany (Krasnodar Region), Kaliningrad, Novosibirsk, Murmansk, Rostov-on-Don, St Petersburg
Прямая линия с Президентом России
24 декабря 2001 года
Москва, Владивосток, Екатеринбург, Казань, хутор Казаче-Малеваный (Краснодарский край), Калининград, Новосибирск, Мурманск, Ростов-на-Дону, Санкт-Петербург
At present the Government is grappling with two issues in this sphere. On the one hand, it is drafting additional legislation and on the other hand, economic validation is being provided. We are looking for sources of funding to create the necessary start-up capital for the insurance system. It is insufficiently developed today. Regarding schools. It is a separate topic which is even more important for the state. Insurance has no place here. We can use only direct financing. This is particularly true of the secondary school, more than of higher education. The school is in a difficult situation, just like the housing and utilities sector because it is in the hands of municipal authorities, which dont have sufficient budget revenues to maintain schools in proper conditions.Was it Sverdlovsk?
YEKATERINA ANDREYEVA: Yekaterinburg.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: I think the Yekaterinburg Region has the only school in Russia which is on strike. And yet Yekaterinburg is a high-revenue region, it is a net contributor to the federal budget. Why does it happen? Because there are certain problems in bringing support from the national and regional level to the municipal level, including support of schools.I think that problem can and must be solved. And I have prepared a decree, which I am going to sign before the end of the year. It is a very soft decree, but it recommends the heads of the Russian regions to introduce targeted subsidies for schools to maintain their facilities and material resources and the salaries of teachers. The federal budget will help the regions for its part.
PAVEL GAMOV (Orenburg): My name is Pavel Grigoryevich Gamov, I am a pensioner and I live in Orenburg. I have a question that worries me very much. How do you account for the fact that the courts pass long prison sentences for minor crimes while not using other means of punishment envisaged by the criminal law?
VLADIMIR PUTIN: Pavel Grigoryevich, you have touched a sore spot, you put your finger on it. The problem is there: it is a distortion of the governments crime control policy. The policy is set forth in the Criminal Code and we should see how to change it.Nothing like it happens in other democratic countries. Minor crimes of course can be punished in ways that do not involve imprisonment. At the same time court rulings regarding people who have committed serious crimes must be enforced. And the state must be consistent. The government has been given this task and we will tackle it.
YEKATERINA ANDREYEVA (reads out a question online): Petrov, an entrepreneur in Moscow, and Andrei Cherkashin, a journalist: are you aware that there is a popular new phrase, the cover market and that representatives of the law enforcement bodies are in the top spot in this criminal rating? What is the national government going to do to conquer the most powerful mafia in the land?
VLADIMIR PUTIN: I am aware of the problem, and there are no easy solutions. I am sure there are many questions on this topic, which is very close to the topic of corruption. In general, corruption and abuse of power, especially in the law enforcement sphere, is not unique to Russia. It is a scourge of many countries. But in Russia it has acquired a certain scale that the government cannot ignore.In order to solve this problem the situation in society as a whole must be changed, in economics and in the education sphere. But meaningful administrative decisions are also needed.One way to tackle this problem is to strengthen the law enforcement agencies and reform the courts. This is the aim of the package of laws on the reform of the judiciary which seeks to strengthen the courts, to make them more independent, on the one hand, and more accountable to society and the government, on the other hand. As you know, the Criminal Procedural Code is due to come into force next year, and under its provisions no citizen can be interrogated even when detained, not arrested, but simply detained, in the absence of a lawyer. So, if beginning from July 1 next year somebody detains you in the street, he has no right to interrogate you in the absence of your lawyer if you demand that a lawyer be present.
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C-SPAN coverage of TREASON IN PROGRESS in the U.S. House Of Representatives on this day, Saturday, November 11, 2009 — another day of infamy — compressed here to see the heroic Republican stand, patriotic and true, against the Democrat TRAITORS in America’s midst!
TREASON! TREASON in the U.S. Congress! TREASON in Washington, DC! Democrat communists ramming thru their “health care reform” bill to the tax-and-spend price tag of over ONE TRILLION DOLLARS for the unConstitutional government takeover of one sixth of the U.S. economy. Having the undisputed best health care in the world, Americans don’t need, don’t want, and otherwise cannot afford the GENERATIONAL DEBT of marxist ObamaCare. Americans WILL NOT TOLERATE this overt attempt to collapse the U.S. economy by avowed socialists, communists, and marxists in the White House and the Congress! AMERICA IS UNDER ATTACK and the time for patriots and defenders of Liberty to FIGHT BACK is now, is today:
REP. STEVE KING, R-IOWA: “The gentleman from Georgia stated ‘all Americans deserve health care’. All Americans HAVE health care. Every single one. And 85% of us are insured. And 85% of us are happy with the policy that we have. And the President has made 2 arguments. One of them is that health care in America costs too much money. What’s your solution? Spend another TRILLION AND A HALF! Too much money? Throw another trillion and a half at it! That’s up-side-down. What is the simplest part of logic that you don’t understand?”
REP., R-TEXAS: “This job killing bill … cuts Medicare, piles debt on our children, and raises health care cost and raises taxes on the American people.”
REP. PETE SESSIONS, R-TEXAS: “Also, last night, the Rulles Committee we found out, which is VERY DEVASTATING and I believe UNWISE. The Senate does not have this provision, they removed it, but the House keeps in this bill ‘failure to comply with individual mandates in this bill could lead to a $250,000 fine and 5 years in jail’, criminal penalties that are a felony is you willing choose not to participate, if you willingly choose then not to pay the fine in your taxes! … what we’re going to do is criminalize Americans who choose not to join in this government run health care system.”
And WHO is this figurehead of corruption — the Marxist radical mixed-race Kenyan called Barack Hussein Obama, A.K.A. Barry Obama, A.K.A. Barry Soetoro (that’s right, illegal alien) — currently polluting the White House and orchestrating the death of America?
http://obamacrimes.com/
The OBAMACRIMES website (and the lawsuits to force the production of Obama/Soetoro’s withheld birth certificate) “was created after research indicated that Barack Obama is not a ‘natural born’ citizen or a Citizen of the United States as required by the United States Constitution to be eligible for the Office of President.” -attorney Philip J. Berg (registered Democrat)
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