The bad boys of Brexit join fight to break up California

[TomCADem]

1. LA Times - "Moscow welcomes the (would-be) sovereign nations of California and Texas"

Makes you wonder whether Moscow pays them a stipend for sowing dissent among NATO members.

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-separatists-snap-story.html

The speaker was calling for California’s independence from the United States.

Alexei Gavrilko nodded approvingly. A burly, bearded, camouflage-wearing separatist from eastern Ukraine, he said he had come to the posh Moscow hotel just outside the Kremlin to “communicate with colleagues” representing separatist and secessionist groups from the United States, Europe, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union.

During a conference dubbed the Dialogue of Nations, Gavrilko listened carefully to Louis Marinelli, head of the Yes California group that is determined to hold the Golden State’s “independence referendum” in 2019.

“For the first time in history, we, the people of California, who were conquered and annexed by the American military about 170 years ago, will have a chance to express our voice to either remain a state in the American union, or instead, to pursue a path toward a nationhood,” Marinelli said solemnly.