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Explain to me again, why we are in Afghanistan? I am a little dense you know! As I understand it, they did not cause 9-11 and neither did Iraq…

So explain to me again why we are killing their people???

Americans killing civilians-good?
Syrians killing civilians- bad?

Anyone who had seen war and participated in it, in their right mind, doesn’t want war anymore. It is easy for you to call me and others who have lived through the horrors of war names when we speak against war. It is easy to condemn the ones who have lost their souls killing so many in the field of dishonorable war. You who sit in your comfortable arm chair pointing to the evils in the world and smearing us who were sent by their country to deal with it and now we don’t support the killing machine any longer. Most of us who are left from these wars, are in our graves long ago and if not 6 feet under we are in mental institutes from the terrible things we did and saw. There is no one left to speak up about what happened. some wars like Vietnam, Afganistan, Iraq were just plain not worth dying for…

Those who have been in war really never talk about it. There is no pride and there is no honor. My first wife could not tell you anything about what I have experienced in life, during a battle against the so called enemy. Why would she not know about the worst thing that happened in my life? Talking about it brings it all back and the best thing is for it to all stay hidden and only deal with it on dark and lonely nights, as you step over the boundary between earth and hell, as your dreams fill with the past as the faces of the ones you killed haunt you…

So call names all you want, but when I see Americans kill innocent civilians and we say, “Oops, sorry, my bad! Are you sure? They looked like terrorist!” Then we beat the band in the media when it happens to other governments, is a sign of an illness that I am not sure there is a cure for, for it goes deeper than just a superficial mental issue. It is something almost as deep as genetics in depth, within our souls and no amount of medicine and psych counseling will cure it…

Bless you all for screaming at Syria when the government tries to contain the terrorists and then overlooking the fact or reap praise, that we kill more civilians than any other country in the world, all over the world, every single day, day in and day out, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year…

Believe you me – More civilians always die in a war than military. Civilians have nowhere to go, for their land is their home and home is where you stay through all times of trouble…

Yes Americans killing civilians is called collateral damage!
Yes Syrians killing civilians is called evil and disgusting!

The situation is the same, but the truth is different…

My grandma always said, “No one cares about a damn thing, for the end justifies the means!”

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

For phone specs go here >>>: as I am not selling this phone and or advertising for it. I am just going to tell you about a very special phone that does not come along very often. The phone is the Huawei Honor U8860…

Sveta bought this phone for me months ago as I had reached an impasse with my other Android Phones. They just became to old and ancient to progress any father with them. She got nice one day (Well actually she is nice all the time!) and bought this wonderful cellphone that I had been looking at on a site that she messes around with as advertising on her blogs in Russian. The site is called Ozon.ru and it has a bunch of great stuff on it. It is in Russian though and that hinders the English reading people a bunch…

Well I took my time and since this phone has Android 4.0.3 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) on it and I wanted to get to know the new Android first before I did anything drastic. I finally came to the conclusion that Android has a lot of work to do on 4.0.3 and it was not near as polished as 2.3.6 Gingerbread and I decided to blend the two operation system together. So I started my escapades of creating my operating system just for me…

I will be truthful – ICS plain sucks and is not ready for big time. But when they get the bugs worked out then it will be fantastic. Google has hurt themselves by pushing ICS out too soon… (Kyle says!)

The Huawei U8860 would run for two full days before charging on the 2.3 OS, but on ICS it was knocked down to 1 day or less. On ICS the camera was top notch and took beautiful pictures. 2.3 was mediocre with pictures. 2.3 GB was fast as lightning and everything was response city, as it operated. ICS lagged and lagged some more. The longer ICS was not rebooted the more it lagged. So I took the best of both worlds and created what I call Ginger Flavored Ice Cream. (GFIC)

I also removed Google while I was at it and the only thing that I kept was Google Play Market. I removed Talk, Gmail, Maps, and just about everything that was Google that could be removed and still have a functioning phone. I also ended up removing the Play Store after I found a better App Store – it is from Iran and it is called, Bazaar Android market. It is an up and coming app store that right now rivals Google Play and you will find there apps that Google does not allow. You will also find that it updates all your apps, such as any Google app that you have such as Maps and Street View…

So for an example of what I did: I removed Play Store from the system apps and replaced it with Bazaar! I removed Maps and replaced it with a Russian based map system, etc etc etc etc….

My biggest achievement was removing the android launcher from Gingerbread and replacing it with the launcher from ICS and after a few tweaks and twiddles, it works like a champ. I want you to understand – I did not add these items, I removed physically all items that I replaced. I used different apps in place of the originals…

Now it is not because I am such a wonder at Android. In fact the opposite is true, but I am smart and I am daring. I also was prepared fully for what I was doing and it took me twenty restarts to get to the finally product. Well almost final, I am still playing around as I write this. I never stop trying to do new things to my phone and when I am bed ridden or sick from my illnesses, it gives me something to do to take my mind off of the pain. 6 heart attacks left me a little bit off kilter in life and somethings will never go back to normal for the rest of my life… 🙂

You need to install SDK from Android from their developer site: (Link Here >>>) This will allow you to do things that you only dreamed of and if we could have a tool this great to work on our real lives, then life would be perfect. Don’t ask me what to install from that site. I just installed everything that I could and it worked… 🙂

I learned how to flash the ROM or firmware and I learned how to do it good, very good, before I started to play Android Specialist. I have two Chinese ROM’s for ICS (4.0.3 and 4.0.4), one ROM for Cambodian ICS (beta), one English Stock Gingerbread, one Chinese Stock Gingerbread and a Female ICS Chinese ROM. All of them have been on the phone multiples of times and I have abused them all to the point of Phone being bricked, but this phone has yet to not be able to be brought back to life. Then after I learned what not to do, I studied what did not have to be on a Android Phone to still allow it to operate…

Then after I was done playing, I decided to create GFIC or short for Ginger Flavored Ice Cream…

I started with Gingerbread as the core and gutted it! I then added back what I wanted from the ICS. I loved the ICS camera app so I adapted it to the Gingerbread. All the while removing the remains of the GB camera. I found a launcher that was perfect and it is called HOLO Launcher. It is a ICS adaption and I took it and placed it into the system apps as a replacement for the Android stock launcher. The HOLO Launcher is a near perfect ICS look, as it is the ICS launcher, except it has been placated to GB…

With a few mishaps and jimmy rigging until I figured out the correct way to do things. With a few start overs to refreshed firmware, I finally succeeded in creating my GFIC with no Google at all and the best of both worlds. It has the speed of GB, the looks of ICS, the battery life has increased even over GB, it has all the latest bells and whistles of ICS software apps and to top it all off, I removed any app that I felt there was a better app available on the open market and replace it with that app that I preferred…

I created a phone with such a tiny footprint that you would not believe that it took up a third of the original space on the phone. I hate bloatware with a passion…

Of course the phone is rooted and is a very powerful, resilient device that has been left available by the Chinese to allow someone to do the work that they need to do, to create a better software and experience for yourself. That is what a phone should be like and should never be locked up and hidden from the eyes of the curious…

Just Remember Huawei U8860 Honor it is a great phone and very reasonably priced. Well at least in Russia it is…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

PS: This is my own person OS for my phone. It is not something I will be giving out to people to mess their phones up with. I would be open to answering questions as to what I used to replace what and as always before you endeavor to attempt such a thing as mess up your phone. Remember that I took several months and did a lot of reading and studying before I attempted to make a expensive paperweight out of my phone. Other words what you do is your problem and if you attempt to try to copy what I have done, you may find that your mileage exceeds or falls short of what I have done. I am not an Android expert and claims thereof are foolish to comprehend. That said, GFIC is a wonderful light OS that makes your phone fun to play with. For weeks it has been stable as can be. Only works on Huawei U8860 as that is all I have worked with…

While China and Russia do not always agree on things and see eye to eye all the time and this has never changed all through history, but what has changed is that China and Russia see each other as a partnership that needs to be fertilized and allowed to grow. Putin is well loved in China as is Medvedev and that my friends is half the battle…

The Western Empire has predicated the need for the two powers to conclude that things are getting bad in the world and the West has been behind the crap that is appearing time and time again…

A factor that has tied Russia and China in a secure bond is “Regional Security” : High on the agenda of the SCO summit became regional security, the Vedomosti daily reported. Three of five documents, which the presidents will sign on Thursday, were devoted to regional security. This is a program of cooperation in the struggle against terrorism, separatism and extremism for 2013-2015, an updated resolution on political and diplomatic measures of response to the situations, which threaten peace, security and stability in the region, and a declaration for the construction of a lasting peace.

This regional security issue encompasses the facts that the West is trying to destabilize the East and cause turmoil in the wake of the collapse of the Western Empire as it financially trips into a bottomless pit of debt. The West can not have a strong East s it falls apart and goes into a depression while the East is able to take advantage of that depression, as it did in the lest recession…

I listened to India today and even though the USA has turned up the bribery and corruption game by playing the military weapons card. India has come back with Iran oil is still going to be bought and the US needs to rethink the game being played in the Asian area. But India loves the money and says with a smile, “Thank You – for your people’s tax money, so that we can buy weapons!” I look all around the world and see the bribery and corruption of what is suppose to be the greatest country in the history of the world. It is suppose to be the richest country in the history in the world and it is suppose to be the most morally correct country in the world…

This is why the East is working overtime to lay the ground work for a unified Eastern world and what gets me is that America keeps printing the money and keeps handing out the money and keeps bribing, corrupting and coercing the world into going along with what she wants. I feel that if you have to pay for your friends then you do not have friends…

It is interesting to see the main stream media in America and the lack of real news on what is happening in the world. The lack of the real story as it is being played out all over the world. It is almost funny, if it was not so sad and scary. But who am I to tell you to read the correct news. Just look around and look outside the walls of the main stream media and you will see the real truth, but I realize that truth is not as much fun as who marries who and who sues who in the world of Hollywood…

So while you are worrying about Dancing with the Stars and Reality shows and you stay tuned to the local controlled news every night. Then you hear the world news as controlled by a select few. Just remember something…

Russia and China who have always had issues to cooperate fully are working out their differences and now that they see a common enemy to their existence on earth. The first step to a unified Eastern World has begun and America can thank themselves for this unification of finances and power…

China and Russia proclaim unity on Syria and Iran and they say this in the face of the West…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

PS: China and Russia flex muscle at the West By Brendan O’Reilly

Beijing and Moscow will send a clear message to the world at the ongoing Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. The leaderships of China and Russia have drawn two lines in the sand – an unequivocal “No” to bombing Iran, and another unambiguous “No” to regime change in Syria brought about through a Western bombing campaign. (Link)

“I will personally dispel that rumor:  ZZZ did not and does not distribute any former employee lists around the Landing asking current HTS employees if people should be hired.  YYY provided you a detailed description of the Department of Army approved hiring process for HTS.   I take exception to your unsupported allegation of ‘unfair practices’ in HTS and I ask that you not include me in future emails.”   Sharon Hamilton, Program Manager, Phase Zero Human Terrain System.

“From: XYZ USA CIV (US); Sent: 2012; To:  ZYX, ABC, EFG; Subject “Employee Verification…All, The following ex-employees have requested to reenter the HTS program….Please let me know if there is any reason why they should be denied…..”

“… HTS leadership and upper level managers and supervisors made no legitimate attempt to reign in rampant timesheet-overtime fraud…”

“You’re going to see backstabbing and butt kissing on an epic scale as everyone tries to stay on top of a rapidly melting iceberg.”

Using authorities located in the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS), the Phase Zero Human Terrain System (PZ-HTS) will begin terminating all Human Terrain Analysts no later than July 31, 2012. According to Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Michael G. Vickers, the purpose of DCIPS unite the intelligence community under the same “pay bands and grades” and to professionalize the intelligence workforce to meet complex threats that face the United States.

According to Colonel Sharon Hamilton, PZ-HTS program manager, a reorganization of PZ-HTS has been underway for some months now. Deployed teams are to be streamlined and all Human Terrain Analyst (HTA) positions eliminated. The rationale for the accelerated shrinkage is, “Due to the ongoing OEF revision of force structure, Department of the Army guidance, and changing HTS mission requirements, we must pursue a more aggressive approach towards our reorganization plan… We have been given the authority under DCIPS policy to initiate an immediate draw down of all current HTA employees. The target date for eliminating the HTA position is 31 JULY 2012.

No HTAs will remain in theater past 15 JULY 2012HTS Operations and the TSO will coordinate the staggered return of all HTA personnel over the next few weeks. We will provide all HTA personnel an official notification of this action, and all HTAs will be asked to sign and return a document that acknowledges their understanding…This means all HTA’s employment with HTS and the federal government will end not later than 31 July 2012 (no exceptions). This applies to all HTAs deployed, on detail, or on leave/comp time. I know this action is occurring quickly, but it is necessary to ensure the strength and sustainability of HTS in support of ongoing operations… I thank you for your service to our nation.”

When actions like this are taken in any organization, rumors begin to swirl about. With HTS 1.0–and now PZ-HTS, however, rumor has largely proven to be fact.

There is word of Pentagon guidance that is aiming for 40 to 60 percent budget reductions in PZ-HTS. But there is a problem. According to sources, firing all the HTA’s will not nearly be enough to reach the program manager’s reorganization goals. “[PZ] HTS assumed another bloated, expensive contractor though CGI and it is burning through cash…Even with the move to the remodeled building at Fort Leavenworth, [PZ] HTS can’t get to the numbers it needs to survive without releasing at least half its current strength. Even then, with the surge of troops coming out at the end of the summer, and no new relevant research being produced, [PZ] HTS faces shutting down school operations, eliminating the useless exercise at the end of training, and relying on refresher training online for sustaining it’s shrinking program… firing all the HTA’s isn’t going to get them anywhere near where they need to be if they’re looking for a 40 percent reduction. They’ll be lucky to hit 17 percent, even with a mass exodus. Even if they cut 50 percent of all [PZ] HTS teams today, they still can’t get there.”

“The plan and the numbers don’t add up. PZ- HTS people have accumulated significant amounts of COMP time,” said sources, some of it through (alleged) fraudulent practices. “The United States military often uses acceptable accounting tricks to push budget issues into the next fiscal year,” said a source, “but PZ-HTS leadership is not that clever.”

Curriculum and Hiring Practices

Sources point to mismanagement by leadership, lack of foresight, incompetent staff work, and pure greed, as primary causes of the PZ-HTS nosedive. They caution that the hurried and revised edition of the Social Science and Research Operations Curriculum, assembled from “dated textbooks” by “individuals who did no research in Afghanistan”, is going to be lambasted by the American Anthropological Association once they get ahold of it and review it. Criticism will likely be piled high on PZ-HTS.

CGI has maintained that they have improved the screening process for the PZ-HTS program ensuring, as much as possible, that the right people are let into PZ-HTS. Yet, according to sources, what is occurring in practice is that CGI screens potential employees and then sends PZ-HTS personnel a list of candidates that are, in turn, voted on for suitability. Allegedly, names are passed around the program and subjected to violations of privacy, rumors, gossip, innuendo, and outright lies. Further, according to one source, “If all they do is pass a list to [PZ HTS on who to admit and who to deny, what’s the point?”

Employee verification should fall solely to the human resources element within PZ-HTS. Apparently the only information that should be released is whether the applicant was a Department of the Army Civilian (DAC). Some applicants are former BAE employees (when BAE held the contract), and, evidently, employee verification should pass to BAE. When students graduate from initial training they become DAC’s and attend three (now one) week of pre-mobilization training. After that it is off to Fort Polk for ten additional weeks of training. Some suggest a solution to this shady practice: All former employees of HTS 1.0 and PZ-HTS should have a final DCIPS evaluation which would then be submitted to the primary contractor (in this case CGI) who would then determine if a former employee was suitable for re-entry.

Dispel the Rumor?

An example of the PZ-HTS vetting practice is from early 2012 and is provided immediately below. Hamilton’s response to an accusation from a private contractor challenging the practice follows after.

“From: XYZ USA CIV (US); Sent: 2012; To:  ZYX, ABC, EFG; Subject “Employee Verification…All, The following ex-employees have requested to reenter the HTS program. …Please let me know if there is any reason why they should be denied…..

From: HIJ; To:     KLM; Subject:     Employee Verification;  Sir, here’s my results: XY: No, also ZYX was team leader and he wouldn’t bring back, either; 0X: Mixed results, most said no, but ZYX said yes. Had an apparent bad rep, with an alleged sexual harassment here; XA: N/A; QZ: N/A; ZZ: His team leader had a bad rep, as the team [the person] was on. ZXO was adamant about not bringing back; XI: Very high reputation, was part of the June 2011 HTA mass dump. Very intelligent, multi-lingual. At least five people said to bring back; 01: apparent RM that was decent. Not much info.

According to Hamilton, “I will personally dispel that rumor:  ZZZ did not and does not distribute any former employee lists around the Landing asking current HTS employees if people should be hired.  YYY provided you a detailed description of the Department of Army approved hiring process for HTS.   I take exception to your unsupported allegation of ‘unfair practices’ in HTS and I ask that you not include me in future emails.”

John Stanton is a Virginia based writer specializing in national security matters. Reach him at cioran123@yahoo.com

The views of the above author are not strictly the views of Windows to Russia. They are an independent view from an outside source and country that brings a better light on the world in general and Windows to Russia is pleased to have John Stanton’s article on its pages today. It is hoped that we will have many more of his writings in the future…

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Yes you know me! Gonna be a good article on this subject very soon. I just last week laid down the reasons and why’s, so now it looks like the happenings are going on…

Historically China and Russia have differences, but when it comes to what the Western Empire is trying to do to the world! Then those differences have to be set aside for the betterment of the world…

Lets watch and see…

Putin wants Russia and China to join forces against the West…

Oh yes, you know me and I have a good article coming up!

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

The IMF recently made a analysts about the rating based on the the debt per one citizen. Japan turned out to be the top debtor by “the state debt volume per one citizen”. $105,500 of the state debt falls on each Japanese citizen, according to 2011 data. The total debt of Japan is around $13.5 trillion…. (Ouch!)

Next is Ireland: But then the good ole U.S. of A is a tad little bit behind Ireland. America is now at a rate of $50,448 per every American…

Then we find Russia is ranked 99th. Its total state debt falls in parts of $1,247 per each citizen… (Read $1,247! No – no more zeros and I did not forget them! I am not cheating! It is true. Russian people have virtually no debt…)

The photo above is a little out of date (2012 was a guesstimate when the graph was done!), because it does not show the huge increase in debt that has hit America or the rest of the West, but what the photo does show by colors, red being the worse and the darker the green the better, that the Western Empire is flat busted and is in debt up to its yin yang…

Green is my favorite color by the way… 🙂

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

PS: If you want to play around with the graph and see what your favorite country is doing in the debt issues. Then here it is…

http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock

Just do not blame me if you get upset that all that tax money that you hand over to the government is going out the window and down the drain…

Billionaire businessman and former presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov is among those who may run for the mayoral elections, business daily Kommersant reported today, citing sources close to the businessman. Prokhorov could announce his decision at a news conference on June 4…

This makes sense as long as there is no games played behind the scene. I never understood the running for president bit by nobody candidates, but to run for the mayor of Moscow and working his way up the political ladder makes a whole bunch more sense…

You have to prove you can do the job first, unless you have a mentor like Medvedev had and was carried for a year or so, before he was let loose on his own. In Mikhail Prokhorov case he has a very good chance in Moscow of grabbing the mayor spot. Moscow is where he did his best in the presidential race and with the dislike of Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin in overdrive around Moscow. Then he could knock Sobyanin off of his silver spoon given spot…

The idea that Mayors are appointed in Russia has always bothered me and I feel that the people deserve to elect their person to be the mayor of their town and city…

Mikhail Prokhorov Moscow Russia’s Mayor? Yes – very very possible, at least with the followers in Moscow…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Last night got to +2 degrees Celsius (Give or take about 35 to 36 F.). Yes that is correct almost freezing and cold enough that I had to get the space heater out to warm the bedroom. You see we do not have heat that we can just turn on and off as we need it and this last week we have needed heat going in the building… 🙂  (I keep our refrigerator at +3 C.)

That is so cool and was one of the best things about my night. I had one of those bad nights last night. Every since the six heart attacks years ago, I have interesting nights once and awhile. Nights that include taking nitro and sleep evades for sometimes a full day. So I had plenty of opportunity to think about the weather and think about many other things. The main thing that was on my thinking’s list last night was a question that Sveta asked me…

Sveta asked me, “Are you still happy to be in Russia?”

I responded with no hesitation and my response was from my heart, “Yes and I would not want to be anywhere else…”

Then last night I thought about why it is that I am happy in Russia and not happy back in my home country, America?

It dawned on my that I have nothing in common with most Americans. I do not feel the same love for a nanny state that a lot of Americans do. I spent years coming to grips with the fact that my ideologies are different from what most Americans think and act. Even when we agree on one thing, I find that most Americans whole mindset and thought processes are centered on big controlling government…

I can not accept that and as I look at the government in Russia, then that is what I wish the American government would become at the very least. One of the biggest things that the Russian government does that is unheard of in America is try to spend only the money you have and no more. Funny concept for America, could you imagine an America that only spends what it takes in in taxes? I can, because I see it is Russia…

So last night it came to me that from governments to just the people of the countries, I have much more in common with Russia. Be it the view point and criteria of gay rights, military spending, border patrol, local laws, governmental controls and or anything at all in comparing the two countries. I find that my tastes, abilities, thoughts, morals and financial aspects fall closer in line with Russia, also to expand that I should add the Eastern side of the world…

But this just does not have to do with just Russia! I have come to the conclusion that if I lived in China, Brazil, India and or many other countries, I would find that I would be comfortable as long as the government stays out of my way and the peoples way…

I do know that Canada, Britain, France and or Western based countries are not the cat’s meow when it comes to my thinking’s…

A good thought about the subject is: Sveta came home and said, “I just watched two young police men try to talk with a woman who was yelling at them out her window. She was being told to be quiet! The police had been called by the neighbors complaining!” Sveta said after a bunch of minutes of verbal exchange (by window), “The police decided that the woman was a mental (possibly drunk also) and told her that and left!” Sveta said, “That is just right, the less police involved the better!”

I found that interesting as I can remember a dozen times bailing out friends from jail for having someone call on them that they were too noisy and drunk. They never did anything wrong except back talked the police. That got them a night in jail. Sometimes this was friends who owned single family dwellings and sometimes apartment dwellings. Fact is that in Russia the odds are that all they are going to do is tell you to shut up and tell you that you are stupid or something and leave. That is if they even show up in the first place to tell you to shut up… (As Sveta says, “That is just right!”)

A group of thinking’s that I have on things in Russia: I never say that Russia is perfect and by far it is imperfect. But that is why I love Russia. They do not claim to be perfect, they just claim to be better than you are. That is not perfect by any means and they know this, but their faults and failings are at least known and expressed as faults and failings. They bribe and they admit it! They are corrupt and they admit it! They are poor and they admit it! They are not politically correct and they admit it! They do not trust their government and they admit it! They like furs and caviar and they admit it…

That is why I love Russia…

What more needs to be said?

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…