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Resolutions calling on Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down, the West and its allies have gone ballistic in their desire of regime change.

After February’s veto, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asked US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, “What’s the endgame?”, to which she replied: “The endgame in the absence of us acting together as the international community, I fear, is civil war.”

She wasn’t kidding either, because the US and its allies are doing exactly that: promoting civil war as official policy towards Syria. Foreign Policy (a Washington Post publication) reports on 28th March that Senators John McCain (Republican from Arizona) and “five like-minded lawmakers” submitted a new resolution on Syria before Congress, calling for Congressional “support for arming the opposition against the regime of Bashar al Assad”. The resolution stops short of calling for direct US military intervention, which McCain openly and fully supports, as does Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut.

Their goal is to create a consensus on increasing US support for the Syrian opposition, around which US lawmakers can rally.  So far, in addition to McCain and Lieberman, the resolution is backed by Republican Senators Lindsey Graham (South Carolina), Jon Kyl (Arizona), Kelly Ayotte (New Hampshire) and John Hoeven (North Dakota).  The very powerful pro-Israel lobby AIPAC – American Israeli Public Affairs Committee – couldn’t be happier…

The resolution “supports calls by Arab leaders to provide the people of Syria with the means to defend themselves against Bashar al-Assad and his forces, including through the provision of weapons and other material support, and calls on President Obama to work closely with regional partners to implement these efforts effectively.”

It also urges Obama to support the so-called “Friends of the Syrian People” contact group of Arab states which agreed in a meeting in Istanbul on Sunday to provide monthly funding worth several million dollars to pay a “salary” to opposition fighters in Syria and encourage more defections from President Bashar Assad’s army.

As reported by the Associated Press, “This money is the first formal international support for the rebels, and officials attending the “Friends of Syria” conference said the substantial funds would also probably be used to purchase weapons on the black market for the rebel Free Syria Army.”

The message is therefore quite clear for all to understand: once again, as in the case of Libya last year, the US and its client states in the Middle East are paying huge amounts of money to mercenary armies – including “buying weapons on the black market for the rebel Free Syria army” – in order to overthrow the legal government of a sovereign country, this time, Syria.

Using Orwellian newspeak, Hilary Clinton referred to these millions of dollars as “humanitarian aid to Syria”.  So far, Syrian “freedom fighters” have received an official total of $25 million in such “humanitarian aid”, and only God knows how many millions more in black money are being funneled to local criminals, thugs and mercenaries inside Syria from secret CIA, MI6 and Mossad organized crime coffers, to be used for such black market arms purchases.

Clearly, in war and in peace, under today’s global power system, money talks… and it does so very loudly!   “Mr. Money is indeed a powerful Lord!” 16th Century Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo once said.  Five centuries later, nothing new under the sun…

The foreign ministers and top officials from more than 80 nations and international organizations gathered in Istanbul for the “Friends of Syria” meeting warned Assad that “he has little time left to comply with demands he stop his yearlong slaughter of his own citizens”.

Naturally, these same “Friends of…” know full well that even worse violence has been raging for a longer period of time in Egypt, Bahrain and other US-UK client states, but they and the Western mainstream media prefer not to unduly disturb global public opinion with that…

With their accustomed hypocrisy, the US, UK and their allies are the ones who get to decide who are the “bad guys” – Syria and Iran today, Iraq and Libya yesterday – and who are the “good guys” in the region, either because they are nicely pro-Israel, like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, or because they house the US Fifth Fleet like Bahrain and are thus allowed to continue torturing and beating their own people, while Obama, Clinton, Cameron and Sarkozy look the other way.

A front-page editorial in the official Al-Baath newspaper described the Istanbul meeting as a “regional and international scramble to search for ways to kill more Syrians, sabotage their society and state, and move toward the broad objective of weakening Syria.”

Under the money game, together with US “aid”, funds are also being contributed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait for distribution to “good guy terrorists” through the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC).

In today’s upside-down world, we see the US, UK, France, Israel, UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia all claiming to be waging a “global war on terror”, the roots of which can to a great extent be directly or indirectly traced back to these very countries, whilst at the same time they openly and blatantly admit to using the grossest and vilest State-sponsored terrorism tactics by financing, training, arming and supporting mercenary armies inside those very same enemy countries.

Such is US and Allied hypocrisy that they feel it’s OK to use exactly the same tactics against Syria, Libya and Iran that they accuse the “terrorists” of using against them.

Alas!  An old adage says that when a civilized man captures a primitive cannibal, he may punish him in any way he pleases except…he may not eat him!

­Adrian Salbuchi

Adrian Salbuchi is a political analyst, author, speaker and radio/TV commentator in Argentina. See him at www.asalbuchi.com.ar…

­Disclaimer: ­The views and opinions expressed in the story are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Windows to Russia!

President Dmitry Medvedev has instructed the Russian government to think about how to simplify the entry into the country by foreign tourists before the summer. In his opinion, the old visa system is hindering the development of tourism in Russia, which was visited last year by a little over two million foreign tourists. Svetlana Andreeva has prepared the following piece about tourism in Russia.

President Medvedev believes that Russia can double the number of foreign visitors to the country per year, thus climbing to a higher rung on the tourism ladder from the present 59th position. It is difficult to say how the entry of tourists into the country can be made easier, including those traveling on-board cruise ships and yachts. In all probability, Russia will not decide to invent the bicycle, but to travel along a beaten path, says Andrei Klimov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.

“There are well established forms and methods in the world.  When a cruise liner sails into a port of a country for a day’s stay, it is not mandatory for a tourist to hold an entry visa, in order to go ashore. A special card on which “has entered the country” is stamped, is handed to the tourist. Armed with that card, a tourist can go on a sight-seeing of the country. On returning to the vessel, the card is stamped again. It is also vital to simplify tourism in the areas of cross border cooperation”, Andrei Klimov said.

Russia has a system of making it easy for foreign visitors to enter the country. Four years ago, supporters of the Manchester United and Chelsea football clubs, who played the final of the Champions League, which was hosted by Russia, entered the country without visas. Everything went smoothly then. There is now an amendment to the Russian law, allowing supporters to travel to Russia without a visa for a specific sporting event, after a preliminary agreement. This applies only to supporters, says Maiya Lomidze, acting Director of the Association of Russian tour operators.

“After taking this step, we need to go further towards easing the entry regime as a whole, and the results will be seen and felt”.

Any easing of the entry visa requirements plays a positive role in the efforts to increase the influx of foreign tourists. European and Asian tour operators say that the Russian visa system is hindering the efforts to increase the number of foreign tourists to the country The need to liberalize the entry rules, as well as to cut to the minimum the number of documents to be filled before a visa is issued has compelled President Medvedev to ask all the regional governors to work out a program of the development of tourism in Russia. (VOR)

Windows to Russia!

Windows to Russia has once again been moved to another server. This time though it happened smoothly and very little down time. Sveta is getting really good and she is definitely my better half. She works on computers everyday at the Gazprom bank here in Russia and so she has lots of tricks up her sleeves to help keep us online…

Even with so many IP’s blocked from America, Windows to Russia still grows in readership. Why even the ones I do not like to have around keep on coming back and try to circumvent by proxies and other such. I am amazed that someone who proclaims that I do not know who or what I am talking about, would keep coming back and still want to read what I have posted on my website. Why I can unblock an IP and there they are in a few days, back like a flea on a dog… (What! Do they check everyday to see if they can see the site again?)

I am really amazed and I wonder why people who hate you come around to keep reading your terrible articles that of course no one else reads in the whole world, but yet it seems that I have thousands of, hate Windows to Russia, come by everyday. I still do not accept the crap comments and crap attitudes because there is nothing worse than getting comments from the peanut gallery, telling you that Russia sucks and should be bombed or that your wife is a “blankety blank” communist that deserves to die. That is just sick people and only comes from the lowest forms of life and most of them are located in America. That is a fact, I have a much larger readership from China and they do not hardly ever leave a derogatory comment about killing everyone or blowing up everyone in Russia… (Just plain sick is what America has become!)

I had six comments left last night! Two were hateful and plain disgusting! (File thirteen!) One was from someone in China and was a very good comment! One was from a Russian and asked a very good question! Another was from America and asked how to get a visa! Then another from someone who dislikes me, who lives in Kentucky and I had to laugh because he keeps coming back and reading even though he dislikes what I write. I actually found another comment that was okay. So it was seven comments in all! The one who hates me is a perfect example of the thousands just like him, they can’t stand what I write, but they also do not stay away…

I will say again to you people: You do not have to like me or like what I say, but the fact that you and the American government keeps coming back and trying to slander me, or file a law suit on me, or crash the site, or cause issues in commenting, will not change anything. The more that you try to take the site down the more that I realize that I am on to something and what I say and think is not far from the truth…

I may not be smoothed tongue as many writers are, but when I write an article that tells you what the Americans government is doing and why it is wrong! That is when I get people and agencies crawling out of the wood work to try to do damage control. I see this stuff happen all the time on RT and other Russian sites. There is a network of scum that are waiting to try to bad mouth anything Russian and anti-American in the governments eyes…

If I write an article about walking the dog in Russia, no one cares and worries about that. Though you should worry about that article, that article is showing people the true Russia. Just look at the pictures that I post, they are taken by me or Sveta and that is life is as it really is, in Russia. Life in Russia is as good or better than what you have in America. Other words it sounds to me like life is better in Russia now than in America. I don’t know at this point and I won’t care because all I know is that I can travel freely to other countries from Russia and if I was still based in America, I would have many issues trying to cross the American borders all the time. It has become a sad and serious failing in our American world we live in, when I am treated better when crossing borders in another country, than I am treated by my own country, when I am crossing my countries borders…

So back to my earlier thinking’s: Yesterday I finally, after waiting and jumping through all the hoops put in front of me. Got windowstorussia.com removed completely from US control. The domain has now finally been removed from US registration and is under Russia jurisdiction as I write this…

Being under US jurisdiction was “hell in a hand basket” and dozens of times I have had to deal with being shut down because of USA laws against websites that you people do not even realize are out there. I have stayed quiet about most of what has been going on and it has not been easy, but as of last night the final nail in the USA jurisdiction coffin was driven and the lid sealed. Now the domain is in another part of the world and the continued attacks by the US government have a new way to be reported and I have hundreds of pages of data about the daily and sometimes hourly attacks at taking Windows to Russia down, time and time again. Windows to Russia was down on average three hours a day from attacks aimed at disrupting the website. It has affected the ratings in many standings and affect lots of aspects of the site. So what did I have to lose by literally starting over again? Nothing and actually everything to gain…

So I hope that some of the crap is put behind me! We have experienced in the last few years: 1.) Website being blocked (6 times) because someone lied and had our site blocked because some made up lie! In America it is block site first, then decide if what was done was correct. It was not and we are still online as you see. It was a government agency that performed the underhanded lies. 2.) We have had to alter the name of one site because someone patented a name and we had our site for two years before their patent was official. 3.) Hundreds of dDos attacks by my (USA) government and various agencies. Using taxpayer money to attack a site, as mild as Windows to Russia. (Maybe that is what you should think about how much truth there is on Windows to Russia!) 4.) Many more issues…

Yes – Windows to Russia has been an interesting trip and it looks as if it will continue now. I have been laid back trying to keep the shoot from the fan so to speak, at least until I was able to get the domain out of the clutches of the American grip. We did and hopefully we can breath again…

Maybe I can even tell you again, as I have done in the past: Your freedoms in America have eroded and washed away down the drain. I stand in Russia with more freedoms and liberty than you do in America. I have watched the Russian society remove lethal handguns from the police and replace them with rubber bullet non lethal handguns. I see a Russian government that (while it has many flaws) is much less intrusive into the daily lives of the Russian people than the American government is into the American people’s lives. I see Russian people that do not fear the police in Russia and I see a society in America that is growing to fear the police in huge leaps and bounds, as the police do more and more like it feels and wants and ignore laws on a daily bases. I see the rule of law being normal in Russia, but the rule of law is dying in America. I could express my feelings all day, but you do not want to hear what I have to say. So go away if you don’t want to hear what I have to say. But if one person does and decides to change his life and even goes to Mexico to look around, then I have succeeded…

I am freer than you are inside of the American borders and 6 years ago when I stepped off the plane in Moscow. I felt it and realized how squelched I was in America and now it has gotten worse, much worse…

Okay! Time for the DHS to try to take my server down again and again and again. Go ahead America it is what you do best! Disrupt the world and try to hurt everyone around you…

I call that a sign of an scared unhappy bully nation…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

PS: It really should bother you that thousands and thousands of expats from America tell the same story. Maybe the expats all have a different country they love, but their core story is the same. Freedom, liberty and opportunities lie outside of the US!

Now that should bother you. It does me and that is why I say something about it. For if it did not bother me then I would look the other way…

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Russia’s population is no longer dwindling, as the birth rate has been steadily rising since 2009. So much so, that in 2011 Russia became the largest market in Europe for children’s goods as parents splash out on the cute clothing and toys they never had when they were growing up in the former Soviet Union…