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Smoker Dillies: Everyone is back from the dachas and the streets are packed with cars and people. The kids have started school today and it is a “three ring circus” again in Moscow…

Sveta says, “Summer is the only time that we have a semblance of life in Moscow!”

That I agree with and what she means by that is this, “In the summer half the city goes to the dachas and stays most of the time, away from the big cities. Now everyone is back…” This happens because Russians very strongly believe that children should be in the fresh country air and the dacha is the nearest thing to country for many Russians…

During the summer you can find parking for your car, you can go to the doctor without waiting all day, you can drive the MKAD and not get run over and there is peace and quiet. This is the way it is from when school gets out to when school goes back in. Today the kids are everywhere and the parents look haggled…

Now it is time for Sveta and I to go to the village for a few weeks. Now that everyone is back in the cities, the village is empty and peaceful. I still have work to get done before the winter hits and if you were here, you would understand that winter is coming fast…

It is still strange to me to see how Moscow switches from a city of 10,000,000 to a city of 20,000,000 overnight. Then visa verse at the beginning of the summer. It is just one of those things that makes Russia an interesting place to live and it would not be Russia, if it did not happen this way…

Oh by the way! I truly believe after living here all these years. That Moscow has a population at its peak of 20,000,000. There are so many illegals and unregistered people living here that at any given time during the winter, Moscow swells to at lest 20,000,000 people. It is during the summer that so many people leave to the villages and dachas that the population actually reaches the official count on the books. That is something that I have noticed…

This is part of why I love Russia…

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I said that Sveta would be taking pictures with her new Samsung Zoom and she is. She loves that camera phone and it really is a great camera…

My favorite of these pictures is the tunnel of art. In Moscow and in fact many cities in Russia. The underground tunnels that pass under a road or go to the metro system are always a bevy of delights. You never know what you will find as you cross under a street of Moscow for the first time, as every tunnel is a potential business transaction of some kind or another. In this tunnel, we have many starving artists collections of paintings. Why we even can buy any frame we desire to beautify said art…

The last photo is something I have talked about before. People are really stupid when it comes to trains and these two girls will not be around long, if they keep up the bull…

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Two e-mails sent to me over the weekend, actually 50 e-mails, but these two I liked. The first one is from an Facebook reader that followed me back to my website and that e-mail is an exact echo of what I was thinking…

“Obama blinked (thank God)…Putin is now leader of the free world…”

Now the second e-mail was sent as a slam against me and trying to tell me to get out of America. I get lots of these and I guess that they are not able to comprehend that I am working on doing just what the e-mail link that was sent to me talks about. They also seem to not comprehend that I am out of America and that I do not want to come back and that e-mail is actually an echo of what I think…

Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship: (Go To >>>)

A. THE IMMIGRATION & NATIONALITY ACT

Section 349(a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 1481(a)(5)) is the section of law governing the right of a United States citizen to renounce his or her U.S. citizenship. That section of law provides for the loss of nationality by voluntarily

“(5) making a formal renunciation of nationality before a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States in a foreign state , in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State” (emphasis added).

B. ELEMENTS OF RENUNCIATION

A person wishing to renounce his or her U.S. citizenship must voluntarily and with intent to relinquish U.S. citizenship:

appear in person before a U.S. consular or diplomatic officer,
in a foreign country (normally at a U.S. Embassy or Consulate); and
sign an oath of renunciation

Renunciations that do not meet the conditions described above have no legal effect. Because of the provisions of Section 349(a)(5), U.S. citizens cannot effectively renounce their citizenship by mail, through an agent, or while in the United States. In fact, U.S. courts have held certain attempts to renounce U.S. citizenship to be ineffective on a variety of grounds, as discussed below.

C. REQUIREMENT – RENOUNCE ALL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES

A person seeking to renounce U.S. citizenship must renounce all the rights and privileges associated with such citizenships. In the case of Colon v. U.S. Department of State , 2 F.Supp.2d 43 (1998), the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected Colon’s petition for a writ of mandamus directing the Secretary of State to approve a Certificate of Loss of Nationality in the case because he wanted to retain the right to live in the United States while claiming he was not a U.S. citizen.

D. DUAL NATIONALITY / STATELESSNESS

Persons intending to renounce U.S. citizenship should be aware that, unless they already possess a foreign nationality, they may be rendered stateless and, thus, lack the protection of any government. They may also have difficulty traveling as they may not be entitled to a passport from any country. Even if not stateless, former U.S. citizens would still be required to obtain a visa to travel to the United States, or show that they are eligible for admission pursuant to the terms of the Visa Waiver Pilot Program (VWPP). Nonetheless, renunciation of U.S. citizenship may not prevent a foreign country from deporting that individual to the United States in some non-citizen status.

E. TAX & MILITARY OBLIGATIONS /NO ESCAPE FROM PROSECUTION

Persons who wish to renounce U.S. citizenship should be aware of the fact that renunciation of U.S. citizenship may have no affect whatsoever on his or her U.S. tax or military service obligations (contact the Internal Revenue Service or U.S. Selective Service for more information). In addition, the act of renouncing U.S. citizenship does not allow persons to avoid possible prosecution for crimes which they may have committed in the United States, or escape the repayment of financial obligations previously incurred in the United States or incurred as United States citizens abroad.

F. RENUNCIATION FOR MINOR CHILDREN/INCOMPETENTS

Citizenship is a status that is personal to the U.S. citizen. Therefore, parents may not renounce the citizenship of their minor children. Similarly, parents/legal guardians may not renounce the citizenship of individuals who are mentally incompetent. Minors seeking to renounce their U.S. citizenship must demonstrate to a consular officer that they are acting voluntarily and that they fully understand the implications/consequences attendant to the renunciation of U.S. citizenship.

G. IRREVOCABILITY OF RENUNCIATION

Finally, those contemplating a renunciation of U.S. citizenship should understand that the act is irrevocable, except as provided in section 351 of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1483), and cannot be canceled or set aside absent successful administrative or judicial appeal. (Section 351(b) of the INA provides that an applicant who renounced his or her U.S. citizenship before the age of eighteen can have that citizenship reinstated if he or she makes that desire known to the Department of State within six months after attaining the age of eighteen. See also Title 22, Code of Federal Regulations, section 50.20).

Renunciation is the most unequivocal way in which a person can manifest an intention to relinquish U.S. citizenship. Please consider the effects of renouncing U.S. citizenship, described above, before taking this serious and irrevocable action. If you have any further questions regarding this matter, please contact:

Express Mail:
Director
Office of Legal Affairs (CA/OCS/L)
Overseas Citizens Services
Bureau of Consular Affairs
U.S. Department of State
4th Floor
2100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
Phone: 202-736-9110
Fax: 202-736-9111

Regular Mail
Director
Office of Legal Affairs (CA/OCS/L)
Overseas Citizens Services
Bureau of Consular Affairs
U.S. Department of State
SA-29, 4th Floor
Washington, D.C. 20520

01/10/2013

Now I posted this for many people have sent me e-mails about how to go about the process and instead of sending them to this government site, they can see the basics right here and decide if following the link is what they want to do…

The first e-mail is perfect and says it like it is, in a nutshell. I really liked it and kept it on my desktop for several days, until I had time to post it. In fact I think that it may replace the proverb at the top of the screen. I want to thank who sent it and they know who they are… 🙂

I also want to thank the ones sending me the hate and “Please leave and don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out!” – e-mails. To be honest, my thoughts are more like, “Leave now for the door will slam in your face as you try to leave later!” Seriously people, There is a whole world of wonderment out here and being controlled behind a border, is not the cats meow…

5 years ago when the death threats reached a frenzy and the attacks from the DHS and TSA were starting to become a real issue. My mind was made up by all the hate, spite, death threats, attacks and games, that I would not have any part with a country that promotes such immoral behavior. America talks about the rest of the world and all along they never once look in the mirror and see who is talking. I looked in the mirror and what I saw scared me and being that American is not in my book anymore…

In fact being in America is not in my books anymore…

Not sure if it will happen as the process is not easy and the government is looking to stop people from leaving as a citizen. They have a basic process and a thousand hoops to jump through, before they say okay…

The world is still huge and there is many places that the US can not touch. I see the writing on the wall about the US future and one day it will all collapse and the fingers trying to control the world will shrivel and die. Why the fact that Switzerland has given in to the US over the banking system is enough reason to turn your back on the USA and Switzerland…

Have a great day and keep sending those death threats. They make me feel so desiring to step back into America…

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We were raised to trust our government, but those days are long gone and the past is catching up faster and faster…

Now as I sip that cup of coffee this morning, I even wonder about if things could have been true in the past. The things related to my government and her escapades. I personally know that most if not all the military fiasco’s are faked, false, instigated and or lies. Now I have lost so much faith in my government that I have nothing but doubts about anything that happened in my life as an American citizen…

I am not alone in my thinking’s and these thinking’s have nowhere to go, but around and around as we watch the lies being spun by the dozens, as the coverup of all that is happening is progressing…

It struck me very clearly: Syria is being destroyed by the west and it has been done on purpose. I have been amazed that this time around, many less people are watching the “Dancing with Stars” and watching the scums in the White House parade their stupidity. Could it be that we are really getting fed up with killing millions of innocent people all over the world?

There is a serious issue that is developing out of all this. The trust is gone and with that trust being sent down the drain, comes doubt. The doubt of everything that has ever happened in the last hundred years…

I doubt and being right or wrong has nothing to do with that doubt: Doubt means – To be undecided or skeptical about: began to doubt some accepted doctrines. To tend to disbelieve; distrust: doubts politicians when they make sweeping…

So now I doubt everything that has been told to me and that is really sad. I doubt even the happenings such as the moon landing and terrorist attack 911. Why do I doubt these things and a thousand other things from my past?

If we lie about something as world shaking serious as war and destroying other countries. If we lie about anything! I we lie about even one thing as a government. If we lie about the financial issues! I mean simply if we lie as a country and we lie to the world and we lie to the people of that country, then I have doubts about anything and everything that comes out of my government, because I expect my government to lead the world by example and morals…

For we are suppose to be heads and tails above the Zimbabwe of the world and it seems that we are the Zimbabwe of the world…

Man I am really stupid to think that the USA was a great country, that lead the world in liberty, morals, rights, freedoms and expression…

The American government has no right to lie about anything. We chose the moral high ground and with that comes responsibility. That we have failed at miserably…

I have remembered this quote below since I was little. My grandpa said this to me several times before he died. I realized much later that Otto von Bismark was German and he was quoted by my grandfather many times for many things. My grandfather was German and it makes sense now that he was born in the 1800’s and Bismark lived during the times my grandfather did. I have found many quotes from Germany that hold so true in our modern day and age. Tells me that history just goes around and around and around…

“People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.” ― Otto von Bismarck…

Now that is the truth…

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I kept waiting and I kept waiting. I looked under rocks and I looked behind trees, but summer never showed itself in Moscow, Russia. Oh the trees have grown like crazy and the flowers have bloomed so beautiful, but summer forgot to wake up this year and now old man winter is stirring…

The trees are dropping leaves in the autumn breeze, yes I said autumn and the pathways are littered with yellow, brown and red colored twirling leaves, as they fall in a delightful shower of a feeling of Halloween. But Halloween is still a long ways off…

The warm coats are being brought out from the storage and the long underwear is already back on the legs and arms. Why Sveta walked the dog the other day and she had on her winter coat. I shook my head, not at Sveta for wearing the coat, but at Russia for making her wear that coat. The last I looked at the calendar, it is just August, 29th today and that means school is starting soon, but the cold weather is suppose to be a long ways off…

Not here in Russia! I tried to tell you many times on this website: Winter is at least 7 months of the year. and that winter is getting ready to start, whether we want it to or not…

Sveta looked at me the other day and she looked at the sky as we walked and she watched the leaves fall in swirls in the breeze and she tightened the coat around her some more, then she said, “Lets move to Uruguay!”

I thought about what she said today as I drank a cup of wonderful coffee. Hot steamy coffee, that takes the edge off the chill in the 7 degree Celsius temperature from last night. Then I look at Uruguay and studied it: Looks like Sveta and I need to make a trip to Uruguay and check it out. Looks like a wonderful country and it definitely looks to be more temperate than Moscow, Russia. The thing about Uruguay is that it still is cool, but it has very distinct seasons and that seems to be very important to the mental moral of many people…

I love winter, but if my sweetie is getting upset at the super long winters and no other seasons. Then who am I to argue. For she is my sweetie and her happiness is the number one rule. Besides she has seen a whole bunch more of these endless winters in Russia than I will ever see and maybe she is tired of no definitive boundaries of the seasons…

Have a great day…

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Every now and then one of my English-speaking colleagues asks me what Russia will do if the western powers make good on their threats and strike at Syria. My answer is: nothing. Russia does not have to do anything, it can just sit quiet. The situation is advantageous to Moscow. Our leaders will be only too happy to see the US start a new war it cannot win.

Consider the options. A land invasion is out of the question. Sustained air bombardment risks the loss of pilots, and would therefore be unacceptable for the public in the west. The likeliest avenue is missile strikes; President AL-Assad regime will undoubtedly suffer – but Russia and Iran will be able to make up for any losses. The allies will give Mr Assad a bloody nose and that is it. Punitive strikes cannot bring about a turning point in the hostilities. Any substantial change in the correlation of forces on the ground is not feasible.

So, morally and psychologically, the Assad regime will score points, at least in the eyes of the developing world – and certainly in those of Russia. Propaganda is certain to draw parallels with the intervention in Iraq 10 years ago. It is, of course, very easy to picture the US as a global bully ever bent on inventing pretexts for aggression. Iran will be jubilant. Many people in Syria will be inclined to resist a new imperialist crusade.

Upping the ante is advantageous for Moscow. The more the western powers are involved in the conflict, the more deeply they are immersed, the more opportunities emerge for Russia to back the Assad regime as a “legitimate authority under attack”. Since a land operation can be ruled out, it may appear in the end that not only has Mr Assad survived but also that Moscow and Tehran have won in the global confrontation with the coalition of the west, Turkey and the Arab League.

Western officials imply that a punitive strike is not intended to engineer regime change, nor is it meant to give the opposition an opportunity to deal Mr Assad a decisive blow. “We just want to punish the dictator and send him a message: do not even think of using the chemical weapons again or else . . .” Well, suppose he never uses these weapons again. Does this mean that he is bound to lose the war? Not by a long shot.

Some observers seem to believe that Mr Assad, sensing mortal danger to his regime as a result of the strikes that may signal the start of a full-scale western invasion, will be more amenable to make concessions. According to this view, he would agree to a peace conference and delegate some of his powers to a person acceptable to the opposition. In this case, however, there can be no doubt that the rebels, particularly those affiliated with AL-Qaeda, would never comply with this arrangement. “Assad in Damascus? Never.”

Other analysts have been insisting for months that the only solution is to press Vladimir Putin to convince Mr Assad to take a softer line, maybe even to relinquish powers. It must take an extremely naive person, however, to believe that the Russian president would ever be ready to do any such thing – or, even if he were to, that Mr Assad would obediently step down and leave Syria.

At this moment – when the wheel of fortune seems to have turned in Mr Assad’s favor, thanks to assistance from Iran and Hezbollah – the Syrian leader is more likely than ever to believe that it pays to tough it out. Indeed, he is vigorously asserting himself and now looks more confident than ever.

As regards what some critics call Mr Putin’s incomprehensible intransigence, the bottom line is this: even if the Assad regime ultimately crumbles, the Russian president will not be regarded – at least not by domestic public opinion, which is vital for him – as a loser. The official line from the Kremlin will be: “We did our best to help the Syrian people in their struggle against those determined to impose their will and topple a government they disliked. We acted true to our principles but what can you do against the combined forces of the west, Turkey and Saudi Arabia? America has shown its true ugly face once more.”

On the contrary, if Mr Putin comes on board now and goes in for some concessions, he looks like a loser since it can be interpreted as backing down under American pressure. And that really would be absolutely unacceptable to the Russian people.

The writer is a professor at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow…

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This morning Sveta and I got up early and went to the doctor. If you follow this blog then you know that I have a dozen articles and I think the healthcare in Russia is fantastic. Well once again I had to go in and see a therapist. That is what Russians call a MD and I have been to specialists, but did not have a MD to keep an eye on my health…

So Sveta and I once again walked to the medical office and I got to be looked over by another Russian woman doctor. As I have said many times, women are the doctors in Russia and to prove my point. I counted the doctors located on one floor of the three story building that we were in. Twenty Five doctors and two of them were men. The other floors are the same ratio…

Then to boot, I saw that they had a therapist who is on vacation and she is a cardiac specialist. Looks like I may have found a cardiologist close to home. That is going to be a wonderful thing and she uses the same office that my new therapist uses. They are partners in crime so to speak… 🙂

So I have to have a ton of blood/other lab work done, x-rays of my lungs and a sonogram of my kidneys/liver. My last blood tests that came back are showing liver issues and that is not good. I think it is the ton of medicine that I take and it is a side effect of that…

Oh the x-rays of my lungs are a real precaution thing that Russians do. TB has been an issue really bad in the past and Russians believe in x-rays to try to catch the TB as early as possible. They have x-rays of the lungs done about every two years. Just kinda a informational thing for everyone to know…

I feel that I am having good care in Russia and the visit today cost 900 rubles for about an hour of the doctors time. That is about $25 dollars an hour total and that is regular price, not insurance discounted, not government assisted, but the cost that any Russian would pay out of pocket. I do not have healthcare in Russia as I am not a citizen and not able to have assisted healthcare. I wish and I would use it, as I have been many times to the free healthcare places and paid the fee to have service. But $25 dollars is not going to break me. Then I have learned that doctors make so little in Russia that when Sveta says we will take a box of candy or another treat for the doctor (Kinda like taking an apple to the teacher!), we do just that. These doctors do not make a huge salary and that $25 dollars per hour goes to the medical complex and the doctors are paid a hourly wage. So I will most likely see Sveta suggest taking a box of sweets to this doctor, Sveta liked her and thought she was great…

Yes if you picked up that what I think does not really matter, then you picked it up correctly. Besides I am just a grouchy old bear anyway… 🙂

I still chuckle as I see that all doctors are basically women and I always wonder how that would go over in America? You know! Men doctors and women nurses. Law of the west…

Such a different world this is, than the one I left behind in America. Different in many good ways…

The few women doctors in America that I met were almost the death of me: Example – One woman doctor at a Saint Mary’s hospital, asked me if something else was not normal about me, that drove me in to see the doctor for chest pains. I replied that my left arm was weak. I had no strength in it. She grabbed my arm and said, “Try to lift your arm!” I lifted it and said, it hurts and is weak…

She laughed at me and said there is nothing wrong with you. You almost picked me up off the ground. Ha Ha Ha Ha. Then she sent me home, after laughing at me. Two days later I was in surgery at a Saint Lukes for a heart attack. I have talked about things like this before and that is what makes me very upset with the American way…

In 7 years in Russia, I have never been treated that way and never laughed at. They take their jobs seriously and that I appreciate…

Besides: Sveta would kick their butt if they laughed at me and that is just right…

Have a nice day…

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I chuckled, then I laughed to myself and then I laughed out loud as I thought about the reaction to what Russia is talking about doing in the Duma. In fact it is a reason why I love Russia so much…

Russia could soon reintroduce the ban on blood and organ donations for gay men, but offer them free treatment facilitating ‘conversion’ to heterosexuals, a senior Russian MP has said. “We will suggest amendments to the law on donors that reintroduce homosexuality to the list of contraindications for blood donations in Health Ministry instructions,” said State Duma MP Mikhail Degtyarev, who is also a Moscow mayoral candidate from the populist-nationalist party LDPR.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! LOL…

Free treatment for “facilitating conversion to heterosexuals,” now that will go over in the west like a lead balloon, with a brick tied to it…

You know? There are somethings that can be done to the west and cause coronary palpitations! This is one of those things that cause such issues to arise and that is why I love Russia for doing it…

Why threaten militarily? Why threaten financially? There are better and more efficient ways to upset a superpower who is defenseless against nuclear laden country such as Russia. Russia does not need to fire a shot to show strength. Russia just needs to attack from afar the immoral structure of the west and allow the people to drive the governments deeper and deeper into the point of no return. It is called give enough rope and they will hang themselves…

Ta-ra-ra Boom de ay,

Russia stirs the pot of gays,

Ta-ra-ra Boom de ay,

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PS: That is why I love Russia…

Syria is the beginning of the end…

The west instigated it on purpose…

The west antagonized it on purpose…

The west infiltrated it on purpose…

The west terrorized it on purpose…

The west wants war – after war – after war – after war…

Syria is the beginning of the end…

And why are we doing this? You should know and you should be capable of seeing it. Look around…

Here is a few examples of thousands, no wait! Millions of reasons…

Fukushima is a nuclear melting pot… (Literally)

Libya is a modern day civil war…

Israel needs Syrian water…

Iraq is a modern day civil war…

Afghanistan is a worse failure than even Vietnam…

The Gulf of Mexico has never stopped leaking and is a time bomb (furtively speaking)…

Western debt is no longer in trillions it is in quadrillions of little worthless pieces of paper…

Democracy has become a failed experiment… (Originally started by the Greece!)

Corporations rule the western world…

The $ DOLLAR $ has become god…

Drones in the skies… (at home and abroad)

Resources such as oil and gas underline all movements of power…

A western backed pipeline needs to cross Syria…

Snowden has a thousands times worse damaging data to release on the west…

The lies are catching up to the west…

The west has lost, who the west is and was!

The soul of the western world has been sold…

AS much as I would wish that Russia could (ride in like a knight in shining armor) stop what is happening and that Russia and China would end the suffering of the world. Russia will not get militarily involved in Syria. Moscow will continue to point out the folly of Washington and the west, but Russia as is China, are going to concentrate on finishing their own defenses and growing there already prospering economy’s…

The Russian economy has real growth and not governmental induced pacemaker growth. 2% growth in Russia is like 12% growth in America…

Meanwhile, a war in Syria will move the United States and the puppet west many steps closer to total financial disaster, moral structure decay and the last of the freedoms to be sliced off the books…

So the day is coming that Russia, China, Iran and many more countries will cease to accept the western bovine feces. That day is sooner than you think and most likely in my lifetime and yours…

So how is your day? The world is getting another black eye from the west and her bullying ways…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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I see the people power photo all the time about the people and the power people really have over governments, but I never see it as in correlation with countries of the world. The countries of the world are no different than the people. Just think about what the photos say…

So I made a photo that uses countries in place of the term people. If the worlds countries walked away from the west, then the real power would show. Just like people give power to politicians, other countries give power to the west…

Last but not least: It is all about “People Power!”

It is all greed and the dollar, isn’t it?

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