Windows to Russia

Coffee is great, but the subject of this article just plain sucks. I have talked about this subject of America not manning up to what it does and run around acting like, “What did we do? What did we do?”

Hillary Rodham Clinton the person that has been set up to take the blame for Benghazi, Libya:

Testifying before Congress for the first time since the September 11 attacks in Benghazi that left four Americans dead, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today took responsibility for the failures that led to those deaths, citing a “personal” commitment to improving diplomatic security abroad…

Has now been tasked with the mission to look toward Russia with pleading eyes of “What did we do?” and:

“It’s going to have to be a mutual effort, Europe and the United States both bilaterally and together, working to try to persuade Russia and particularly Russian leadership that they should become more integrated into and connected with Europe and the West,” she said.

Mrs. Clinton stressed that the future lied in stronger Russia-West ties and expressed hope that the next few years will see certain improvement.

“That’s where the future lies, and we hope that the next few years will be more successful doing that,” the US secretary of state underscored.

She reminded reporters that the Obama administration did its best to improve bilateral relations with Russia over the last four years.

ROFL – “Rolling on Floor Laughing,” is the only thing that happened, when I read this tidbit of a love message between America and Russia. Maybe the Western World should look in the mirror first and see what the rest of the world has to look at when you show up on our door step…

The amazing thing is that the woman (Hillary) who single handily destroyed American relations, “hand over fist” as she wandered the world looking to buy and pay off the over throwers of foreign governments for America. The woman who is even a bigger warmonger than Obama and even Senator McCain, is now also being groomed to run for the next presidency. Has been given the go ahead to ask Russia to come back and play…

The articles in the news have blossomed from her adorning public and she is being touted as the next best thing to “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!” combined with “Begging Strips!” for your dog…

So now after America has been the bully in the school yard and Russia is walking away from that bully and leaving it to play alone and in isolation. The bully is trying to gather its victims back around it for one last “Zippy Do Da!”

I mean, common! How much more obvious is it? America is watching a Russia leaving the Western playground and walking to the next playground (Eastern) because the kids there play much better together and all the while America is running in circles saying, “What Did We Do? What Did We Do?” With a dagger in its hand stabbing the latest victim…

All the while as the West sobs, as she realizes that Russian oil and gas are going East now and everyday the spigot is turned off a little more to the West and turned on a little more to the East. Oh yes I know we have trillion trillion zillion barrels of wonderful oil as we frack or country (USA) to its death. If you believe that bull then I have some Russian “Doggy Doo Doo” that you may want to buy…

Lets hope Russia knows and remembers what the West has done and never goes back to play…

They can always ask me and I will remind them…

Kyle Keeton
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Washington, it seems, has found a new way to deal with incompliant leaders such as President Putin: simply go around them and talk directly to their people.

In the past few days, State Department officials, old Russia hands and major columnists have all proposed the same idea.

Last Friday January 25, at the Daily Press Briefing, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland confirmed that the US “has decided to withdraw from the Civil Society Working Group of the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission in light of recent steps taken by the Russian Government which impose really strong restrictions on civil society”. Nuland explained the new approach, “we would rather direct our efforts in other ways and continue to work on our direct support for civil society organizations who want to work with us.”

The suggestion to “tone down, if not eliminate outright” the Bilateral Presidential Commission was aired back in December 2012 by the Kennan Institute’s acting director William Pomeranz in his paper “Moving Beyond the Reset” . In reassessing its Russia strategy, the Obama administration must “find low-profile, sustainable programs that bypass Putin and high-level politics and instead directly engage with the Russian people”, says Pomeranz. He also gives an unusually frank definition of the “reset”, the true meaning of which has been puzzling many Russians: “The United States used its reset policy in large part to enhance the credibility of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and to make him appear to be a more important international player then he actually was”.

On January 22, the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman, called to “break all the rules” in dealing with inconvenient leaders. His advice to the incoming Secretary of State includes “trying something radically new: creating the conditions for diplomacy … by going around leaders and directly to the people. … We live in an age of social networks …. There’s no more just top-down”. Do not negotiate with governments, negotiate directly with the people, is Friedman’s recipe.

On January 24, writing in the New York Times, familiar opponents of Russia, the former US ambassadors Denis Corboy, William Courtney and Kenneth Yalowitz discussed “Dealing With Two Russias”. To them, there’s a “modernizing Russia” – Medvedev’s, obviously – that sends children abroad to study, facilitates supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, backs sanctions on Iran, etc. And there is a “retrograde Russia”, where “democracy-building groups are under assault, dissidents are thrown into psychiatric hospitals and justice is politically rigged”. The ambassadors suggest “the West should employ differing strategies in dealing with each of the two Russias”. Regretting that ‘patriotic’ forces are now in power, the ambassadors believe that they are “increasingly alienating the urbanized and educated”.

This will not be America’s first attempt to stir up a civil conflict in a country whose leadership does not play by Washington’s book. Removing a non-compliant leader is usually executed through the agency of the opposition, bred and groomed by the US government and “private” foundations; if “velvet” or “color” revolutions don’t work, then armed opposition and terrorists come into play, as in Syria since March 2011.

Regarding the specifics, Victoria Nuland explains how the State Department is planning to circumvent new Russian laws on NGO funding and the closure of USAID: “… there are lots of countries where we do this from the United States. We do it from offices in third countries”.

The rule of law had always been the battle cry of Western governments and NGOs. However, when the law does not suit their agenda and was not written by USAID-funded lawyers, obviously, from the State Department’s point of view, it should be broken.

Indeed, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) structures – the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) – have preemptively left Moscow and taken positions in third countries. Where? The NDI moved to Lithuania, the IRI to Poland. In addition to being the most virulent anti-Russian countries, Poland and Lithuania are also known as hosts of CIA secret prisons. In Lithuania, a criminal investigation into the matter was closed, in Poland it has been dragged out, because it might “link some of Poland’s most senior politicians with illegal detention and torture”, according to Reuters.

More specifics from Kennan Institute’s Pomeranz: he recommends employing the resources of America’s European allies and specifically the European Court of Human Rights before which “every controversial piece of legislation passed by Putin invariably will be contested”. Pomeranz also stresses developing professional, cultural, scientific and scholarly links, interaction through the Internet, and even tourism: “Those connections should be cultivated as a means to bypass Putin and the anticipated political roadblocks”.

Friedman explains his “breaking all the rules” principle taking Iran as an example: “Rather than negotiating with Iran’s leaders in secret …, why not negotiate with the Iranian people? President Obama should put a simple offer on the table, in Farsi, for all Iranians to see… We should not only make this offer public, but also say to the Iranian people over and over: “The only reason your currency is being crushed, your savings rapidly eroded by inflation, many of your college graduates unemployed and your global trade impeded and the risk of war hanging overhead, is because your leaders won’t accept a deal that would allow Iran to develop civil nuclear power but not a bomb.”

Barack Obama previously reached out to the Iranian public over the heads of the Iranian leadership, when he issued a video address using the spring festival of Nowruz in March 2009. A few months later, during the June 2009 presidential elections, 36 Iranians died during the protests, 20 of whom were policemen.

We have been warned. Moreover, when America issues threats, it usually underplays the menace, and the reality is often more brutal. Patriotic societies in countries that refuse Washington’s dictates should be on alert.

­Veronika Krasheninnikova is president of the Council for Trade and Economic Cooperation USA-CIS. Since 2006, she has been St. Petersburg’s representative to the United States, in which she is responsible for the coordination of municipal, business, tourism and culture projects and programs between St. Petersburg and U.S. companies. Krasheninnikova was the Russkiy Mir Foundation’s representative in North America from 2008-2009 and is the author of America-Russia: the Cold War of Cultures (2007).

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The current U.S. administration made the decision that capturing, interrogating enemy combatants and interning them at “Gitmo” was not politically acceptable any longer, but that simply killing them was acceptable…

While I feel that “Gitmo” is a sin and immoral, I am confounded by the new decision path, as you gain no actionable information from someone killed in a drone strike…

It seems to defy common sense, but then again when did common sense ever apply to political decisions?

Now we try to ignore that “Gitmo” exists and play the new game of drone-der-kill…

Kyle Keeton
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The Russian Communist party plans to change its charter eyeing enhanced discipline and strengthening the position of the leadership – just as it was in the Soviet Union. The KPRF published amendments to its constitution which is likely to be approved at the party’s upcoming XX convention on February 23. Suggested changes are primarily aimed at the creation of a vertical power structure in the country’s second largest party. Federal party bodies will be given more powers, while regional Communist chapters will have less control over the KPRF’s leadership. Under the amendments, the presidium of the party’s Central Committee – made up of 17 Communists – will become the main ruling body. Currently, this role belongs to the Central Committee comprised of 145 members. Besides that, the Communists decided to get rid of the principle of the regular rotation of part of the KPRF leadership. At the same time, the party wants to get tougher on members who break the rules. Communists in leading positions in the party will lose their posts if they fail to perform their duties properly. The expulsion from the party will remain the most severe punishment. However, under the new charter it will become easier to kick someone out…

The communists absolutely have to move to a disciplined clear position in front of the electorate. In their present form they looked like a party gradually waiting for extinction. They started to look like a headless chicken. Instead, if they want to take power, they need to present a positive dynamic clear vision and program, one that is set to capitalize on the more open opportunity laden political environment that has come about here. They need be themselves, a disciplined self, if they have any hope of returning to the major governing force here, and become a viable alternative for international appraisal and free adoption. Whether you agree with these ‘communists’ or not, communism has a rightful position in any political landscape. It is therefore only fair that that alternative, as all other alternatives are organized in such a way themselves (it is their job), such they are capable in terms of gaining a mandate, and are viable following such acquisition to govern. The communists need move away from other groups and be a strong differentiated party on their own, depending on no one other than themselves. This is the clarity that both they need and the electorate. It is amazing and a striking indication of failure, that the second party is not the one creating the agenda on the streets, that it is not them driving pin point peaceful constructive issue led protest to reinforce both themselves and a system that they hope to be part of in terms of leading government…

Kyle Keeton
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Lets spend a half of an hour and watch the process of a planned marriage and wedding in the far North of Russia. The dads have made the arrangements and today is the day that they meet to work out the details. I realize that the language is unknown to you, but watch and learn how a young lady is to be married…

Location Naryan-Mar, Nenets, Russia…

She has some say in the process, but the pressure is heavy as she has very little choice…

I found it interesting that she is expected, once married to leave and never look back. Her home is now with her husband and not with her parents…

The movie covers the dads exchange to the final marriage and she is hidden on the sleigh so that she can not see how she gets to her new home. So that she can’t run away…

Loved it and it is a very good documentation of a different life and culture than what we know about…

The site page http://www.chumoteka.ru/2013/01/blog-post_19.html has all the information and just use the translator and read away. The owner of the blog ЧУМотека is a good friend of Sveta’s and I really enjoy the videos that this wonderful lady has on her blog…

Kyle Keeton
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While I have my doubts about the sincerity of most Americans and I have many doubts about the mental capacities of many Americans, this day and age, but I do know a raw deal when I see one and this gun issue in America is being driven from more than just an inside  the country push…

That is why I am posting this article, because maybe out of my thousands of readers a day. Someone will understand and see what is really happening…

While personally inside myself, I see an America that really does not deserve the run amok usage of weapons. I see a country that has abused too many in the world and deserve what it gets, but I am also American and love America. I just wish that we could have gotten ourselves under control before we destroyed all that, that made the USA good…

So while America is squabbling over gun control, abortion and a thousand other things that splinter America like a old glass mirror. The world is silently and medially playing the US governments own propaganda right back in her face and is using that propaganda to undermine America. Funny thing is, is that we have knowingly done it to ourselves…

RT (Russia Today) is a perfect example: They have become masters at posting the truth from both sides. They post the Russian side then they post the American side and the sides 90% of the time go in opposite directions. They post the truth, it just counts of what side of the world that you want to believe is true…

Now in a case like gun control, RT posts the governmental dribble that comes straight from the horses mouth, the USA government. This dribble is definitely not for international ears theoretically, but in this day and age, everything is for international ears and the USA administration and RT makes sure of it…

The American readership at RT is huge and when a reverse propaganda article is posted, the Americans are to the point of violent and rude. The Russians and other world commentators have learned from the Americans and now slap back full force against the hate. RT has discovered a win win situation for themselves and stir that American made propaganda like a witches brew stewing in a pot…

The drums have been turned on America over gun control and countries like China are beating the Gun Drums, Boom Boom Boom Boom go the gun drums, as they repeat over and over…

Disarm America – Disarm America – Disarm America….

They do not mean disarm the military, they mean take those damn guns away from the civilians…

Guess what? A whole hell of a lot of you are playing the same tune that Russia, China and many many countries are striving for. So as you play games with wording on gun control, the rest of the world is playing right there with you and for what it is worth. They try their best to make sure you hear those drums that are beating for you to remove those guns from civilians hands…

We like to confuse people with using phrases like, “The gun killed those babies!” or “Guns Kill!” It is as if those guns have intelligence and killed on purpose…

As I said above, “Someone will understand and see what is really happening…”

So what is really happening?

Very simple! The UN does not like Americans having weapons, like they do now. The world does not like Americans having weapons, like they do now. The worst of all this is not what the world wants, but the fact is that the US government does not want civilians to have the weapons they do now, so the American government has recruited the help of the world’s media, like RT and RT is more than happy to drive ratings and post American propaganda, being used against America…

Against America from America.

“Made in America” propaganda!

No Chinese factory needed, nor is it outsourced to India…

Kyle Keeton
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The State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, overpoweringly approved in its presentation on Friday, a well outlined bill that will ban the promotion of “homosexual propaganda” across the whole nation. Just one deputy voted against the bill and one abstained, whereas 388 voted for it…

Police, meanwhile, removed twenty people who radicalized the situation outside the Duma building as the bill was passed…

Hmm! Russia is nipping it in the bud, before it gets out of control. If you do not like something and it is against 99% of the population’s desires, then deal with it and don’t look the other way as society is being undermined…

If you are gay and hate Russia for it! Then go to the Western Empire and “suck hind tit” there…

That is why I love Russia!

Kyle Keeton
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I had a good laugh today and it felt great to laugh! I have been cooped up inside for so long that I was getting stir crazy and today Boza said, “I have to go and you will be sorry if you do not take me out!”

So I took Boza out and hope that I do not get in a bunch of trouble, because I have been told to stay inside due to my very bad case of the flu…

But out I went and Boza was saved…

The laugh came from when Boza and I went near the playground. The snow is piled 20 feet deep in places and it is literally mountains of snow. Well as it always happens, I did not take the camera and this little boy about 4 years old in a bright orange coat had climbed to the top of the highest peak…

He saw Boza and yelled, “Sobachka” which means “dog” in Russian and then beat his chest like Tarzan and went “Ah-ah-AHHHH, ah AHH, ahahahahahhhhh!!!!!!”

Then he slid down the opposite side, away from us and was yelling, “Sobachka” – “Sobachka” – “Sobachka” all the way to the bottom. He was never seen again as the mountain is growing deeper by the second, due to it snowing like crazy…

Boza looked at me as if to say, “Was that a monkey?”

I shrugged and said, “Lets go boy, it is not safe out here!”

Hope your day is good, because my day is fabulous as Tarzan is loose amongst the snow mountains here in Russia…

Kyle Keeton
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I am sipping that great cup of coffee and this time it is a German branded coffee. I try coffee and thinking’s from all over the world and I find that in general, coffee is coffee, but thinking’s are not just thinking’s…

According to where you are from and how much you allow the media to alter your thinking’s. The simple fact that killing children can be either a wondrous thing (Such as predator drone killings all over the world) to the end of society (such as the Sandy Hook massacre)…

I guess I am an old fashioned and you “can not teach old dogs new tricks,” kinda guy! Killing children anywhere in the world is a damn bad thing and “that is that”. But times have changed and we seem to be very happy to kill children all over the world in the name of national security of the USA…

So: coffee is coffee and my thinking’s are what count as I write this! That my friend is what this article is about, “My Thinking’s!” Be those thinking’s are different from yours, is your problem and not mine…

Apart from the first thought above, that second sip of coffee made me contemplate the gold issue between Germany and the USA. Germany is asking for some of her gold back and America has responded that it will take 7 years to get it returned… !!!???

What is news is that courtesy of the supplied calendar of events in the Buba statement, it will take the Fed some seven years to procure Germany’s 300 tons of gold. This is the same Fed that, in its own words, holds some “216 million troy ounces of gold” or some 6720 tons, in its vault 80 feet below ground level. (Source >>>)

Hmm! Seems fishy to me…

That third sip of coffee brought this revelation: Hillary Clinton is a Psycho and she is loosing it as she is set up to be the fall guy in Obama’s world of fantasy as president. Did you see Hillary at the inquest of Benghazi? Hoo Hoo Hoo is was a trip and she is not happy with taking the blame and being the fall guy, or should I be politically correct and say, “Fall Person?”

That fourth sip of coffee as I shook my head in realization of what is happening in the world. Was centered on Mali and the Western Empires faltering system and finances. We destroyed Libya and now those wonderful rebel people who we armed to the teeth, to kill Gaddafi, are trying to bite the hand that feeds it. We must have done a poor job of feeding the wonderful rebel people?

Notice how Syria has taken a back seat to Mali? By the time we come back to Syria, maybe we can claim that 10,000,000 people have died there at the hands of the Syrian government and that the rebels are so innocent that they are born again Christians twice over…

That fifth sip of coffee saw me looking at a shot over the Empires bow! Here is one of many things that Lavrov said yesterday: Lavrov warned the Western Empire, who are led by the United States, against any military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities to prevent Tehran developing nuclear arms. This, he said, was a “Very, very dangerous idea.” This is a red line being drawn and formed…

That sixth sip of coffee saw me looking at, Report: Top al Qaeda leader killed – CNN…

Do you realize how many al Qaeda leaders that we have killed? It seems to be in the thousands. Almost every damn al Qaeda must be a leader! No wonder they are winning! I read these reports as this: Today Afghanistan news sources said three children killed in illegal drone strike and the next day American news says, Three al Qaeda leaders killed in drone precision drone strike in Afghanistan…

The seventh sip of coffee saw me looking at: “Women in combat: Pentagon to overturn military ban!” Okay, I guess our women need to get in on the action and kill some children also. That just makes the circle of life complete. Go women and then you can have a extremely high suicide rate also, just like the men you so wanna be…

That eighth sip of coffee had me thinking about the way China is showing massive support for disarming America. Oh yes for those of you mentally incapable of seeing outside the box! The world outside the box is dancing at the thought of America disarming her civilians. In fact I have seen article after article from China, Russia, Asia, Europe and many many other places, that is Gung-ho in support of Obama taking away those weapons of mass destruction from Americans. Sneaky world and you will not see this unless you dig deep for the Western press really ignores it… (Example: China Calls for ‘No Delay’ on Gun Controls in U.S.) or (China to Obama: Gun Control Works!!!)

That ninth sip of coffee had my mind wandering back to women on the front line in the military! Seems kinda stupid as I think back to what I have seen! God Bless America, because she is going to need all the help with morals she can get, when we have women being subjected to the quagmire of ^%$& that entails a front line assault and you are shooting children with hand grenades as they advance upon your line of defense. The children do this because we are invading their land and that is what you do when someone invades your land. Kill at any and all cost, for they have all to gain/lose and we are the invaders…

I guess I am too old fashioned! What happened to the desire to nurture babies instead of killing them? What happened to protecting women and children? What happened to “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle!” Oh I forgot! That is discrimination to think women should raise children, so that societies will be better. Also we want to disarm civilians and at the same time lets make better killing machines out of our women…

It is said that if you corrupt a man – you corrupt a man. But if you corrupt a woman – you corrupt society…

What indeed did happen?

I sipped another sip and decided that I will stop! My blood pressure is up and I despise what the world is doing to the innocent people and I really do not want to talk about how we are marching a path to war and Russia just set a red line in the sand…

I thought about the song: “Why Can’t we be friends…”

Kyle Keeton
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It looks like it would be better for the tourists to stay home at this time of the year during winter. Unless that is, you would like to help shovel snow over your head?

As happens every year, it is always an issue of where to put the snow? The snow does not melt, because the temperature never gets above freezing. So we have two (3) ways to deal with it, 1. Pack it down and hope the 6 foot solid ice packs melt by next winter, or 2. scoop it up and pile it to the sun in an obscure spot of the parking lot. Now in Moscow, center they have a third way that we do not have, 3. Scoop it and melt it… (Video)

So if you do not move it, ultimately the pathways get so packed up that two legged people have serious issues to get around. Much less cars and trucks and 4 legged doggies…

Boza is having a rough time as he tries to figure out where to do his doggy business. As he stops to try to do the call of nature, he sometimes sinks out of sight in the snow surface he was just running across, Then he has the urge to jump like a deer to get out of that sinking feeling. This makes for less desire to do doggy business and more desire to survive and imperious death of snow drift…

The world of Russia is made up of sleds, skies, snow shoes and lotsa darn luck…

It is strange to walk your regular paths and sidewalks. The tree limbs that were way over your head in the summer are now at eye level. So you trim the trees as you walk and since I am tall, I am first to trim most of the time. I have to really be careful as the limbs will be eye level many times for me and can put an eye out. Then after it all melts come summer (notice I said summer not spring) the tree limbs are way way far above your head again. Then they can start to grow again and we get to play the same game all over, next winter…

I just love Russia…

Kyle Keeton
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