Month: February 2012

I am drinking a good cup of hot chicory and have the extra heater on. I got a little bit cold.: It was about -27 below Celsius as I walked the dog and my eyes started to tear up from the cold. That is when I realized that my left eye had frozen shut. Not badly, but still the eye lashes had frozen together. Then I realized that a tear had frozen on my cheek. Now that was so cool… (No pun intended!)

By the time we had gotten back from an hour long walk. The temperature had warmed up to about -25 below zero Celsius. (Yes a proverbial heat wave.) So I checked on Yandex what is -25 C in Fahrenheit? It is around -13 F… (Which means -27 C is around -17 F)

We probably stayed out to long and by the time we got back Boza was starting to feel the cold and was trying to keep any paw paw he could off the ground. He decided that two paws on the ground was the best answer… 🙂 (Better yet in my arms would be the best!) I could not feel my face and that seemed like a good time to go in…

Walking the dog in Moscow is always an experience and since I walk the dog a lot, I get lots of experiences…

That is why I love Russia and now I am going to go make a cream of chicken noodle soup for Sveta and I, for tonight on this bitterly cold evening…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

PS: I see old ancient Babushkas walking around in this weather like it is nothing. I realize that they have spent their whole life in these conditions. They are battle hardened people that know no other way of life. Also when the sun shines, even at -25 below zero, the mommas have their kids out in the sun playing in the parks. The kids can not get up if they fall down due to all the clothes and coats, but that is what mom is for, to pick them back up as they flounder in the snow. Then the moms pull their kids around in sleds all day and do the shopping…

That is why I love Russia…

Under the title “Why the United States does not want to elect Putin as the Russian president”  Komsomolskaya Pravda daily quoted some excerpts from a survey of a famous US political scientist and economist William Engdahl. Engdahl’s survey was published in Germany. The newspaper noted that Engdahl is convinced the US is seeking to discredit the Russian national leader, because the latter remains the major obstacle on the way for the West’s domination in the world.

“Washington clearly wants ‘finito’ with Russia’s Putin as in basta! Hillary Clinton and friends have apparently decided Russia’s prospective next president, Vladimir Putin, is a major obstacle to their plans. Few however understand why. Russia today, in tandem with China and to a significant degree Iran, form the spine, however shaky, of the only effective global axis of resistance to the world dominated by one sole superpower,” Engdahl noted.

“No mistake, Putin is not a world champion practitioner of what most consider democracy. His announcement some months back that he and current President Medvedev had agreed to switch jobs after Russia’s March 4 Presidential vote struck many Russians as power politics and backroom deal-making.

“That being said, what Washington is doing to interfere with that regime change is more than brazen and interventionist. The same Obama Administration, which just signed into law measures effectively ripping to shreds the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution for American citizens is posing as the world’s supreme judge of others’ adherence to what they define as democracy,” the political scientist remarked.

Engdahl offers to consider Putin’s recent statement that the US interferes in the elections, giving them hasty assessments. It is easy to find an official annual report (delivered in August 2011) of the Washington-based non-government organization with an innocuous name of the National Endowment for Democracy, he writes. According to the report the organization has already penetrated very deeply everywhere in Russia. The National Endowment for Democracy funds the International Press Centre in Moscow, where about 80 non-government organizations can give press conferences on each topic. The endowment also funds numerous youth organizations and seminars for future chief executives in order to help young people to engage in politics. Over 2,783,000 dollars were officially spent in 2010 for tens of similar programs in all Russian regions, the US political scientist claims.

The National Endowment for Democracy also finances the vital parts of independent sociological surveys in Russia and election observer missions make an important part of its activities in order to have an opportunity to state about election rigging. This is the National Endowment for Democracy which sponsors partially the Golos association.

“Helping youth engage in political activism is precisely what the same NED did in Egypt over the past several years in the lead up to the toppling of Mubarak. The same NED was instrumental by informed accounts in the US-backed “Colour Revolutions” in 2003-2004 in Ukraine and Georgia that brought US-backed pro-NATO surrogates to power,” Engdahl assumed.

“The salient question is why Putin at this point? We do not need to look far for the answer. Washington and especially Barack Obama’s Administration don’t give a hoot about whether Russia is democratic or not. Their concern is the obstacle to Washington’s plans for Full Spectrum Dominance of the planet that Putin’s Presidency will represent,” he speculates.

“We can also expect a more aggressive use of Russia’s energy card with pipeline diplomacy to deepen economic ties between European NATO members such as Germany, France and Italy, ultimately weakening the EU support for the aggressive NATO measures against Russia. We can expect a deepening of Russia’s turn towards Eurasia, especially with China, Iran and perhaps India to firm up the shaky spine of resistance to Washington’s New World Order plans,” Engdahl underlined.

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Russia has been the most vocal voice against a Western backed death resolution against Syria. I have said all along that China has the same feelings. Well it is official now as China has come out from the background and expressed their sentiments on the Syrian subject…

UNITED NATIONS, February 1 (Itar-Tass) — China will support Russia’s draft resolution on Syria, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations Li Baodong said at a session of the U.N. Security Council on Syria on Tuesday. According to Li Baodong, China intends to take an active and constructive part in consultations and make efforts together with other parties towards the settlement of the situation in Syria through a political dialogue. The Xinhua news agency on Wednesday quoted him as saying China is categorically against the use of force to change the regime in Syria as this violates “the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter and the basic norms governing the international relations”. The Chinese ambassador also backed Russia’s offer to the Syrian authorities and all opposition groups to send their representatives to Moscow for consultations without any preconditions.

So the single most important fact at the UN council meeting going on is the fact that Russia and China stand united and they both have veto power…

Of course after Hillery Killery Clinton tells everyone that: “I know that some members (UN) here are concerned that we are headed toward another Libya. That is a false analogy. Syria is a unique situation that requires its own approach, tailored to the specific circumstances on the ground.”

Okay – well we all know that what Hillary says is the word from god and we must believe! Right?

Since when would anyone believe a word that is said by a USA government official/politician, any time and anyplace in this world? Our reputation is worse than a bag of excrement left on someone’s front porch and lit on fire, as the door bell is rang, as a gag. This reputation is entirely Americas doing, by her actions when she plays, in other peoples back yards…

America reminds me of the comic strip “Peanuts” – we all have cringed, when Lucy always tells Charley Brown that she has changed and will not pull the football away as Charley Brown tries to kick it. But…

Well that comic episode sums up the US administrations word, reliability and respectability…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

PS: Expect to see a huge increase in media rhetoric against China now that they have expressed consolidation with Russia…