Spying is OK, Everybody Does It

Only a few days after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Obama went to Ray's Hell Burger to bond and eat some dead animals, 10 Russian spies are arrested.

The alleged "deep-cover" spies are accused of working for the SVR, the Russian Federation version of the CIA. Mikhail Fradkov, director of the SVR, reports directly to Mr. Medvedev. {more}

Their job, according to the court papers in the case, was "to search and develop ties in policymaking circles" in the United States.

Each of the 10 was charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison on conviction.

Federal law prohibits individuals from acting as agents of foreign governments within the United States without notifying the U.S. attorney general.{more}

Develop ties in  policymaking circles to influence policy, acting as agents of foreign governments? Now where have I heard about other groups seemingly doing the same thing.

Oh yeah, AIPAC.

If the FBI and the Justice Department are finally cracking down on these un-American foreign agent spies, then the arrest of hundreds of AIPAC foreign agents must be imminent.

Or maybe since the 'antics' of Israel are getting a little too hot and the talk about Israel's history of spying in America is increasing, it's time to show the public that they're not the only spies in town.

Heck, those Russians may have been planning the next 9/11 and I bet they would have filmed/documented the event and danced and sang as they were doing it.





What's the big deal? We don't have spies in Moscow?

And what about that Israeli/American spy Jonathan Pollard? Isn't he still locked up?

Might as well let him go. Just like all the Mossad agents picked up immediately after 9/11 were set free to go back home.

It's just spying ..... everybody does it.

Putin shuts down Mafia Casinos

A sign reading "Casino" on a building on Pushkin Square, pictured left on Tuesday, was removed Wednesday in line with the new law banning gambling

By way of MSM Monitor comes the story that all casinos in Russia have been shut down.

Putting a crimp in one aspect of the Judeo-Russian mafia?

MOSCOW - Thousands of casinos, slot-machine parlors, and betting halls across Russia shut down yesterday, complying with sweeping new restrictions that require all gambling business to relocate to four remote regions of the country.

The law was estimated to put more than 400,000 people out of work as Russia’s economic crisis deepens and unemployment is rising.

Russian TV said more than 40,000 workers were affected in Moscow, at 30 major casinos and some 500 smaller gaming halls and slot-machine parlors. News agencies reported that Moscow police were checking gambling halls across the capital to make sure they were closing.

The law, passed three years ago at then-President Vladimir Putin’s initiative, confines gambling to four zones in far-flung regions of Russia, most thousands of miles away from Moscow.

When lawmakers signed the casino closure law in 2006, the move backed the image Putin wanted to project: that of a clean-living, workaholic president. But analysts say the government also saw an opportunity to weed out a criminal element involved in the casino business. {more}

"Weed out a criminal element." Sounds like good advice to me.

The people of the U.S. should take this as an example and work towards eliminating our own 'world's largest casino'......Wall Street.

Along with the criminal mafia of the Federal Reserve.

And their enablers in government.