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Lockheed Martin $10 Billion in Contracts

November 15, 2021

Dear CCI Friends,

How is it that American citizens want diplomacy instead of conflict, good relations with other countries, their tax dollars spent toward noble causes … and yet our Congress still votes for the obscene types of expenditures below? Do you have an explanation for this? How does it happen?

Let’s raise our voices against any activities that contribute to the waging of wars, killing of human beings in other countries, ruining other nations’ economies, leaving destitute human beings without food, hospitals, schools or means of surviving in their parts of the world.

Ponder the facts below … this is how our tax dollars are being spent.

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Strange Birds and Thoughts from CCI’s Autumn 2021 Trip

November 12, 2021

Dear CCI Friends,

I asked Paula Day, lawyer and a dedicated CCI volunteer, to write you regarding her experience traveling with Volodya Shestakov and me over thousands of miles across Russia less than a month ago. The following is her description of our travels in addition the impact of the situation with Dennis, one of our two CCI men traveling on another route across Russia.

It was great traveling with Paula, sharing her previous experiences and mine with her. Enjoy her fresh take on the people we met. Later I’ll send you photos to give you a sense of where Russia and her people are today.

Sharon (signature)

Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives

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Russia-China … A Military Partnership? If So, WHY?

November 11, 2021

Dear CCI Followers,

The following article should come as no surprise. The whole world has watched as our U.S. leaders have time and time again, boxed in Russia and kept China in a manufacturing mode only. Those days are over, never to return. We in the U.S. are definitely in decline and both Russia and China are on rapid incline. They didn’t intend to be partners, but it works to the advantage of both who are now cooperating on all levels.

Given the thwarted intentions of current Washington elites, this produces a very dangerous world in which to negotiate our future. Russia and China both push for a multipolar world while U.S. leaders insist on a unipolar world run by NATO.

We citizens in the United States must make our collective voices of sanity heard. We don’t want a unipolar world under NATO, we want a fair and multipolar world where all nations sit down together to settle the challenges that we all face. There is so much good we could do if we all cooperate and none insist on the lion’s share of the wealth and privilege!

What major action can we take to get the attention of our leaders and the world? We are ready, COVID or no COVID. This issue facing us is far more lethal than any virus or contagion!

What are your thoughts?

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NOTICE: Ambassador Jack Matlock Speaks Out!

November 9, 2021

Dear CCI Friends,

Our friend, Ambassador Jack Matlock speaks out as a member of the American Committee for US-Russia Accord (ACURA). I am also a board member of this group.

Ambassador Matlock leaves no room for debate on this issue. What is being done is patently dangerous to the survival of our world. Our side is deliberately playing with the potential for Nuclear War by its dangerous words and its extremely dangerous actions in numerous areas throughout the world.

Write a brief comment to us here at CCI and we will get the collection of your comments to a number of reputable sources … and better still, write directly to anyone, any newspaper in which you can get printed.

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CCI’s 2022 Citizen Diplomacy Trip to Russia

November 2, 2021

Dear CCI Community,

We at CCI continue to deal with Russia’s and America’s challenges regarding COVID.

We are moving ahead with our large June 2022 Citizen Diplomacy Trip to Russia and urge you to participate with us. We will be flexible and sensitive to applicants’ concerns regarding the COVID virus— which unfortunately still remains unpredictable.

Hence, we will continue to advertise our VIP trip, receiving and accepting trip applications all the while.

 However, we will require no financial payments until we and you determine whether the COVID viruses are sufficiently subdued. Applicants can opt out at any time.
The Application for the trip is below.

We are eight months away from the date projected for our June 20, 2022 trip.

In September and October, several CCI travelers visited different Russian cities. We are so sorry to report that Dennis Ortblad, a former State Department Diplomat became ill in Saratov and was transferred to a Moscow hospital for treatment. To our utter shock, Dennis expired in Moscow on October 24th.

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