Windows to Russia

Turkey was considerably warmer than Moscow and it was really nice to get a break from the snow and more snow. It was really too cold to swim and Sveta who is a water baby at heart tried. It was fun to watch her stare at the water and after putting her big toe intoContinue reading Just Some Pictures Of Turkey… (2013)

I have crossed the Russian border so many times that I really can not count them. Most of the time I do not say anything as I leave the country of Russia. I come and go from Russia and you never know it. That is because I get a one year multi-entry visa and IContinue reading Crossing That Russian Border Again… (2013)

In high school many years ago. More years than I like to contemplate, now at this stage of my life. I had a teacher for chemistry that was much older than all the other teachers and much wiser than all the other teachers. In fact I had no idea how intelligent he was until IContinue reading Mr. Smith the Chemistry Teacher of My Past…

Would you believe that the United States tried to do something that was not nice against Hugo Chávez? Wikileaks has done it again. I guess the US will really have to get tough now with Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. In a secret US cable to the State Department, dated November 9, 2006, and recentlyContinue reading Wikileaks Publish US Plans to Destabilize Chavez Government: Anti-Empire Report by William Blum…

I have talked about GOLOS before and now they are in trouble again! GOLOS has refused to register properly in Russia. GOLOS is considered “A Foreign Agent!” GOLOS who receives money from the USA and politically interferes in Russians politics by underhanded sneaky means and methods. Has been getting itself in hot water. GOLOS isContinue reading GOLOS in the News Again…

We failed big time in Iraq and now they have admitted to having failed even bigger in Afghanistan and now we are trying to fail again. We are driving off a cliff as we want to teach North Korea a lesson in who is boss… Now lets be clear about where the failure is located.Continue reading We Like Those Wars of Failure…

We stepped off the jet and found that it was -5 degrees Celsius. That is how Moscow greeted us after spending days in 20 plus degrees of wonderful weather. Nothing melted hardly at all and there is almost as much snow as when we left, on the ground. Here it is April 9th, 2013 andContinue reading Home in Frozen Moscow…

Time to go home. The trip is over, the temp is 24 c here and by tonight the temp will be -5 c in Moscow… We have to spend today messing around and getting ready to go home. Sveta and I are gathering tidbits of food for tonight, from our last two meals. We willContinue reading Moscow here we come…

While we did not come for fun in the sun and beach swimming. We did want to walk to the beach and look for sea shells. So we find the first misrepresentation by the system we got the tour through. The beach is two kilometers away and that is a far cry from 200 meters,Continue reading Our Hotel is not a Beach Hotel: in Turkey…

Mis-translations, games being played, war-mongering, stupidness, bullying and intentionally mis-leading the general public. That is what the aghast Turkey news is showing me, as I catch upon the world happenings over North Korea… Britain and the USA are leading a media assault against North Korea in an all out attempt to try to get intoContinue reading What the hell – leave North Korea alone…