Windows to Russia

Ouch again: Not long ago I posted that Hungary said adios to the Nabucco pipeline! A pipeline that was invented to try to hurt Russia, by a very vindictive cold war Europe! Well guess what? When it rains, it pours…

Germany’s RWE energy company has confirmed a report in Der Spiegel that it is withdrawing from the Nabucco project to pump Caspian natural gas to Europe across Turkey. It cited the doubling of cost estimates to $15bn and the uncertainty over gas supply contracts with Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.

A few weeks ago, Hungary said it was withdrawing from Nabucco.

The Nabucco pipe was designed as a competitor to Russia’s South Stream.

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Well I decided to sit down and write a coffee thinking’s article today for Windows to Russia! In fact, I was going to even not write at all and ignore Windows to Russia today. But alas that is not going to happen as there just is too much stupidity in the world at this moment and I just have to say something. Even if you hate what I say…

I had to laugh my head off at a photo that is being circulated by the Western press and now is being picked up by the Eastern press. It is a photo that is suppose to be a blast chamber for Nuclear testing by Iran. I saw the photo first and started to read an article because I wanted to see what advances that Iran is making in milk…

Yes you got me correct: The photo is a picture of a milk plant and I have seen the equivalent many times in America. Then I realized that they had a drawing also and then I realized that the photo was wrong (intentionally) and then I realized that nothing was what it seemed. Then I threw my hands in the air and realized that propaganda was at work again and the West has thrown another lie into the wind and hopes it catches in the tree limbs and festers…

Well that may have started my day off wrong as crappy propaganda always starts my day off wrong, but then I discover this little gem of a statement from the Media…

Security at airports in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East has been stepped up amid fears terrorists with surgically implanted bombs are planning to strike on the eve of Osama bin Laden’s death. Body scanners would not be able to detect if explosive compounds were planted inside a person sparking fears the bombers could evade airport security and bring down an aircraft.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2143695/Hunt-doctors-training-Al-Qaeda-plant-explosives-inside-suicide-bombers.html#ixzz1upblDRd8

That statement just iced the cake so to say! Now if that is not propaganda then I do not know what is and this type of scare tactics just removes more freedoms as you travel. Guess what world? Get ready to drop your pants and have them do body cavity searches. The days are numbered until it happens. Why I can’t wait until they try to give everyone a complete MRI of the body every time they fly. Do you realize how stupid all this is? Why if someone desires to blow the hell out of a bunch of people then why would they wait to get on an airliner? They could blow them selves up in the massive line we have created while we get checked for bombs and such. In fact from what I see at most Western airports, is that they have created the perfect situation to instigate a mass killing, if a so called terrorist group decided to mass kill. When you stop the flow of people to check if they are carrying contraband of any type then that is the point of massive backup and possible destruction, be it inside a building or outside a building. I have seen airports use the snake effect as it does in Israel, where the people are weaved back and forth in 5 to 10 rows and we pack like sardines by the hundreds. Someone in the middle of that snake effect is sure to wipe a few people off the earth and we only care about getting on the jet. Who cares about the jet? The Moscow metro bombings are a prime example that jets are not the endangered issues anymore. Anywhere you have a mass gathering of people, be it at a bus stop or grocery store, you have more potential for terrorists activities than in an airliner…

Nuff said about the stupidity of why we are all so scared to travel the world, without accepting the fact that we seem to be stupid enough to want someone to abuse us and molest us before we travel. You stand more danger by the fact that you stand in a massive line, waiting to be molested than if you just get your ass moving and get on board the airline. One day, you watch, big issue will develop because of the lines at all the public transportation areas. Then what are we going to do?

Gotta live life and quit being scared…

Now I have to say something about my favorite country other than Russia! Ukraine is getting a raw deal over this Yulia issue and that is that. Yulia is a conniving thief and that is that also. She should have gone quietly as did the last president and she should have taken her billions that she stole and left dodge. Yulia is a Western kiss ass and she does not deserve special treatment. She had more than a few chances to shut up and live a good life. Why even Russia would have let her come and stay…

Why is it that the West always makes a big deal out of the scum people and politicians of the ex Soviet Union countries? Now Europe condemns Ukraine and threatens Ukraine with lots of games and issues. Now this is from a Europe that is following the footsteps of America and is sinking like the Titanic…

I say ship Yulia to Europe and let her be a posted child for European morals and capriciousness. She would fit right in. Better yet send her to America…

I always think of Rod Blagojevich in America, why isn’t Europe coming to his aid. Telling America that they should do this and this and this. What is the difference people? Nothing and or not a damn thing. Both guilty within the judicial system of the respective country and no other country needs to interfere. This is from someone who thinks Blagojevich was railroaded by the system…

Two last mentions that are in my thinking’s but I am still thinking about them… 🙂

First the Russian Sukhoi Superjet that crashed! Something strange happened in this incident and I am watching closely to see what the black boxes say. As they say, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark!”

Then about our nice Occupy Kremlin or what ever you want to call it! It is a real party time and way over half the people showing up are sightseers that have nothing else to do. What you see in the photos is far from the norm in Moscow and Russia. These people driving this issue are the outcasts and this game is going on while everyone is having dacha trips and such that is the norm in Russia. Just like we were at the village this last week, so was millions and millions of others as the roads were jam packed with people traveling. What is happening in Moscow as a sit in is a political circus party that represents a tiny fraction of the people. Everyone else is going about everyday life and doing their normal for the president was elected by the majority. Normal people are planting their gardens and working on their dachas. I had to put in the photo of milking the cow at the sit in. Now that sums Russia up in a nutshell…

Raw Milk: Now that is Freedom…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

Remember a few decades ago when defection from communist countries to the west was common? Those in the west understood why. Of course they’d want to defect, they’d say. They’re all but slaves in the Soviet Union… or Cuba… or China. Pick your communist paradise.

How things change. Now Russia and China are some of the great new bastions of capitalism. Sure, they’ve still got a dictatorial, oppressive government, but so does the US. And now the Fasco-Communist Police State of the US is home to all the worst forms of government all wrapped into one.

And the defections from the US and the rest of the submerging western economies has begun.

Read More: The Great Defection From the West by Jeff Berwick.

It began with all of this: In a packed courtroom including former high flyers in the United Nations, lawyers appointed to defend the Bush regime in their absence face an uphill task.

Abbas Abid a father from Fallujah, appeared in a scarf fearing reprisals. He enacted how US troops subjected him to electric shocks, beatings and sexual abuse over a number of months. High ranking former UN officials here are expressing frustration.

An avalanche of information emerging after the launch of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has provided the strongest proof yet that America and her ally the UK are involved in practices that their leaders publicly deplore.

Mozzam Begg, British, former Guantanemo Bay detainee, who has received compensation from the British Government, described to a shocked court, how his torment began the moment he was handed over to American troops by the Pakistani authorities.

Meanwhile, Malaysia’s former Prime Minister and founder of the Foundation to Criminalize War remains determined to bring Bush and his cohorts to justice.

There’s pride here too that Tony Blair has already been convicted of war crimes by the tribunal in 2011. If Bush and Cheney are similarly found guilty at the end of this week. The question will arise which us organization will have the nerve and the power to try the same thing.

Now they have actually done it:

In a unanimous vote on Saturday the symbolic Malaysian war crimes tribunal, part of an initiative by former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad, found the former US President guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Seven of his former political associates, including former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, were also found guilty of war crimes and torture.

Press TV has reported the court heard evidence from former detainees in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay of torture methods used by US soldiers in prisons run by the American forces.

One former inmate described how he had been subjected to electric shocks, beatings and sexual abuse over a number of months.

A high ranking former UN official, former UN Assistant Secretary General, Denis Halliday, who also attended the trial, later told Press TV that the UN had been too weak during the Bush administration to enforce the Geneva Conventions.

He said: “The UN is a weak body, corrupted by member states, who use the Security Council for their own interests. They don’t respect the charter. They don’t respect the international law. They don’t respect the Geneva Conventions…A redundant, possibly a dangerous, and certainly corrupted organization.”

Following the hearing, former Malaysian premier Mahatir said of Bush and others: “These are basically murderers and they kill on large scale.”

It was the second so-called war crimes tribunal in Malaysia.

The token court was first held in November 2011 during which Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair were found guilty of committing “crimes against peace” during the Iraq war.

Now will America do what is correct?

Windows to Russia!

Being that we use two types of fuel to travel Russia, it is interesting to me to watch fuel prices and see what we save by using one fuel over the other…

We have had many articles on the virtues of Sammy our Volga! One of the best virtues is dual fuel capacity. Now cheap parts and easy to fix are other very important virtues but the dual fuel issue is the icing on the cake…

When Sveta and I travel we use Propane and or Benzine. This last trip we just made and travel over 1000 kilometers, we paid a low of 13.9 rubles per liter for propane and a low of 23.9 rubles per liter for Benzine. They could be bought more expensive, but really why should you?

Now lets translate these rubles into dollars: 13,90 rubles = .46 dollars and 23.9 rubles is .79 dollars at the rate as of today (5/12/2012). Now lets turn liters into gallons…

1 US gallon = 3.78541178 liters so lets take 3.79 as a good round figure! 3.79 X 13.9 = 52.681 rubles and 3.79 X 23.9 = 90.581 ruble. Now we have 52.68 rubles for propane per gallon and 90.58 rubles per gallon of gasoline. Lets relate that to dollars…

52.68 = $1.74 a gallon for propane in Russia!
90.58 = $3.00 a gallon for gasoline in Russia!

Now lets carry this farther yet. We get 8.5 km per liter on propane. We get 10.2 km per liter on gasoline or benzine. So lets say we traveled 100 kilometers…

100 kilometers takes 11.76 liters on propane! Cost is 163.47 rubles or $5.41 to travel a 100 km…
100 kilometers takes 9.8 liters of gasoline! Cost is 234.22 rubles or $7.75 to travel a 100 km…

Now of course a hundred kilometers is not very far, about 62 miles. So a long trip means we save a bunch of fuel costs as we travel. We traveled over a thousand kilometers this trip and that means that we saved around, $23.40 in total fuel costs by just burning propane. That is a two good meals or a night in a Russian hotel, while you are out traveling, per 1000 km… (Actually in many towns in Russia that would be two nights stay, as we stay in peoples homes many times!)

Now that makes Sveta and I happy with our Volga. She is part of the family and when Boza, Sveta and I are in her, she seems to smile as we travel down the road. Being a station wagon she can hold tons of stuff and we can keep it dry as we travel. I have some plans for her and I am going to beef up the back springs and front springs. I am going to try to get a little more ground clearance to help us with the back roads in Russia. I figure a lift kit for the back leaf springs will do the trick and I just want to find some coil spring spacers for the front. A few inches will do the trick.

This trip I saw something that I really would like to have in Russia, a small travel trailer! It was perfect and would sleep us all as snug as a bug in a rug. Then we could stop and camp anywhere and in Russia you really can stop and camp anywhere. It is that great…

Trailers are very rare in Russia and we have only seen a very few of them, but I know that they are available and I would like to have one to travel Russia with Sveta and Boza…

But that is off the subject and fuel was the name of the game. So we travel Russia on two fuels and that my friend makes for a great time of traveling Russia. Just look in search for propane and or look up Sammy the Volga. That will take you to our articles on propane and Sammy…

Propane Search Link >>>

Sammy the Volga Search Link >>>

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

Oh that goats milk is so wonderful. Goats milk has got to be the best milk on earth and it is really good for you! That is one of the many thinking’s that I was having as I consumed my cup of coffee/chicory this morning…

Oh the pictures above: First: That is our car that we travel all those wonderful kilometers of beautiful byways in. It is a true Russian Volga made in 1999 and it has propane/benzine duel fuel setup, which allows us to travel cheaply wherever we go. Second: That is my sweetie and she is giving me one of those huge Russian smiles that is reserved for someone you love. I am a lucky guy! Third: The village house, so beautiful. Forth: The lilacs are in full bloom and the yard smell heavenly day and night. Just had to watch out for the bees, bees, bees, bees and did I say bees? 🙂

I fell down on my job this trip and did not get done what I needed to get done. As I put in the post that I did while in the village, I burned myself and burned myself badly. I poured hot oil on my belly and I mean hot. Serious burns are nothing to laugh at. All the years that I worked in kitchens and no accidents, I end up severely burning myself for the first time. I mean that I did a number on myself and I burned my leg also. If I was not suppose to be tough and a man, I would have cried crocodile tears, because it really hurt…

Most likely I should have gone to the hospital, but I am stubborn and don’t like hospitals that much. So I self medicated and my sweetie helped. Hydrogen peroxide and antibiotic cream is the answer. Ouch…

So I am gonna quit kicking myself and get ready for the next village trip. I have to get a post hole digger and set a bunch of fence posts along the back of the yard. I would say 20 posts will do what is needed and finish fencing the yard. The fence that we put up last year is in great shape and held the goats back from destroying our yard. Yippy… (Goats in a Russian village is a normal issue as are cows…)

But everyone likes to give us goats milk as a peace offering when we come down to the village. 1. They know I love the milk and 2. They try to pay off the damage done by their goats to our fence. So since I love goats milk, I can be bought off pretty easily by that…

As I take a sip of coffee and think about, down in the village where I drank just coffee and goats milk. That brings a smile to my face almost as big as my sweetie can smile, when she smiles at me in the morning… 🙂

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

In just a few hours after his inauguration on May 7, 2012, President Vladimir Putin signed 13 decrees, instructing the government to implement all of his campaign promises. Dmitry Medvedev, who was appointed prime minister on May 8, does not consider this task to be overwhelming…

That is what I like to hear when a president takes over! My campaign promises: “Get’er Done…”

Say what you want and act like you want! But when was the last time that you heard “Get’er Done” over campaign promises? In fact when was the last time that you heard a president in America say, “Now first order of business, remember all those promises that I made to get elected? Get’er done…”

This sort of thing is so rare that it stands out like a sore thumb and you just will not see it happen very often. In Russia it happens all the time. Campaign promises are the number one priority and the sure fire way to fail, is to not follow through with what you promised as you told the world how great you would be for the position…

Putin knows this and he always makes it a priority to fulfill his promises first thing. The key to that is to have a prime minister that follows what you say and Medvedev is just perfect for that…

I have over all the years never seen anyone in America really care one iota about the campaign promises that they made. Once a politician is in office and the realities of who bought your way into office are spelled out for you. That is when you realize that corruption rules in America and your promises are worth about as much as that piece of paper you call money is worth. Not very much…

I could go on and on about who broke what promise in America, but if I had to do that then you would not listen anyway! It is spelled out in black and white everyday, you just need to open your eyes and get your head out of the sand…

Of course this will not be a news item high on the list! It makes better news to show a couple of hundred idiots that dislike Putin as president and act like they represent all of Russia… 🙂

I call Democracy in Russia as an experiment to decide and learn! / I call democracy in America a success! As democracy is winning and I wish that everyone would quit using the word as in conjunction with America. America is a republic, but that republic is soon to be a democracy and then the fun will begin…

America uses democracy to destroy countries that she does not like: Democracy–dēmocratía (“power/rule by the people”)–is a horrible system of government. It is maintained by violence, mob rule, and a pernicious envy–an envy that arises when one of its citizens rises too far above the others, an envy that drives that democracy to rip them down…

A democracy is what the American government wants in America, but a republic is what the people need and should want…

In a Republic, the sovereignty resides with the people themselves.  In a Republic, one may act on his own or through his representatives when he chooses to solve a problem. The people have no obligation to the government; instead, the government is a servant of the people, and obliged to its owner, We the People.  Many politicians have lost sight of that fact…

As you see we are on the wrong path and I hope Russia continues away from the same path that America is on. I hope that Russia learns from the failures they see in America…

I think they can and will…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

Megaphone our internet carrier at the village is working on the system and upgrading stuff! So we get internet only from a cellphone and very little of that. That is okay though and I am enjoying the time away from everything…

I have worked on the car and Sveta and I have walked in the woods, yes Boza also… 🙂

I did something really stupid and I have burned my belly badly and that makes me really grouchy as the skin peels away… 🙁

But other than that all is great and the weather is fantastic. It is always interesting to me from my life in America. In America we always used peonies at Easter time to decorate the graves with. Here in Russia we hardly have even a bud starting. It is way past Easter…

Tomorrow we go pay the electric bill for the village and then we are going to get some tree fertilizer for the apple and plum trees. You should see the blossoms, they are gorgeous and the lilacs are beyond imagination this year. The air is wafting with the smell of lilacs and you should see the bees…

So this article will be short and not picture! Sorry, But there is only so much that I can do with a cell phone. We leave Friday and come home and then I will show some pictures of the Village…

Kyle and Sveta
Windows to Russia!

Sveta is at the bank today and I am working today also. All of Russia has to work today on a Saturday because that is how it is done for holidays that fall during the week. You get a day off in the week and you work Saturday to make it up. I even think that we have to work next Saturday also, if I have my memories correct…

So like I said, we will be headed toward the village Sunday sometime. I worked on the car yesterday and before we leave on Sunday, I will check air pressure in the tires and all the fluids one last time and off we will go…

I also have my modem to have internet in the village and I plan on doing some posting. I have several websites that I am writing a daily continuation and thousands of people expect my daily story. One that has rocketed to the moon and beyond is my site, The Zombie Source Code! What started out as a simple toy blog to play with, has grown, as I have increased my writing skills. It has now become a full fledged book and you would not believe how many people come to read daily. Thousands…

Try “The Zombie Source Code” I posted 24 out of 30 days last month and I am on pace to print one a day this month. I will fail because in the village the odds of the Internet working are 50/50 and that is that…

The blog starts out weak and I was not really into it for a month or so. I had never done anything like it before. But by the 5th or 6th post, The story starts to take hold and then as you read you can see the transformation in to a regular book. It has developed and now will become a trilogy. But remember it is only rough draft and needs work. Sveya is in love with the story that has developed and she waits every night for the next chapter, as does a thousand people do the same every night…

No – it does not make any money and one day I really need to figure out how to produce money out of the millions of articles that I am writing. People love to read, but clicking ads is like taboo to 99% of the readers. But that is okay, because that is not why I write…

So it may be a couple of days before I post again, but I will be back! 🙂 That is a promise…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

PS: The book is on Wattpad also:

Wattpad Book 1 – The Zombie Source Code…

Wattpad Book 2 – The Zombie Source Code Earth…