Now this is something close to my heart and has saved my life several times in the past. The AK-47 is the best small arms weapon bar none. They literally do not fail and they can be stripped and reassembled fast…

AK-47; Meanwhile in Russia

This Thursday, the Kalashnikov Group (AK-47) gave the green light to the US-based Russian Weapons Company (RWC), which had earlier announced plans to dodge anti-Russian sanctions and begin a domestic manufacture of the famous Russian brand.This is due to the huge demand for the AK-47 in America and therefore, they will make them in America…

The AK-47 is what I call, “More than one way to skin a cat!”

At first I was kind of pissed about the fact that Russia did this, then I realized that there is a method to the madness and having a weapon of the quality and proof of an AK-47 will give Americans an advantage, when hell breaks loose in the Western Empire. Russia is not shy about taking advantage of all aspects of loop holes available…

The new US manufacture called Kalashnikov USA and will make the full range of Russian weapons. From shotguns, rifles, to the élite 9x19mm carbine, so popular in movies. They will be up and running by second quarter 2015 and so far have not told where the plant’s site is, in America…

When I left America, I gave away a AK-47, Chinese SKS Type 56, and a Mosin Nagant Jungle Carbine. The last of my weapons of choice, as I struggled to survive in America. Nothing matches those three weapons and I wish I had been able to bring them with me. They were left in good hands, but I will never see them again, most likely in my lifetime…

America, you better buy these rifles as fast as they make them and I bet they will make sure that you have plenty of ammo for them also. Do it now, for if you hesitate, the government will take these gems of the small arms world away from you also…

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The copy scores 63 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered OK to read.

Many years ago, Sveta made her first video almost all by herself and I think it is good. She says the song is about a Blue Trolley! So she took a video of her trolley ride home, put her favorite song with it and here is what she got in return. This was many years ago, but as good now as then…

 

THE LAST TROLLEY BUS

When I’m in trouble and totally done
and when all my hope I abandon
I get on the blue trolley bus on the run,
the last one, at random.

Night trolley, roll on sliding down the street,
around the boulevards keep moving
to pick up all those who are wrecked and in need
of rescue from ruin.

Night trolley bus will you please open your doors !
On wretched cold nights, I can instance,
your sailors would come, as a matter of course,
to give help.

So many a time they have lent me a hand
to help me get out of grievance…
Imagine, there is so much kindness behind
this silence and stillness.

Last trolley rolls round the greenery belt
and Moscow, like river, dies down…
the hammering blood in my temples I felt calms down,
calms down.

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Moscow is full of Blue Trolleys…

I am reviving some more lost posts that I have found and will do so for several more over the next few weeks. We were hit very hard by hackers and internet attacks, done by the U.S. government and it has taken years to get even a small part of the lost data back. This is a treasure that we are pleased to get back online properly. Original was done in 2008…

I like the sepia effect that she gave the video, makes it look old! It is some of that old soul that I keep talking about in Russia, that deep soul from under all the superficial issues and things of life…

I am going to listen to the song! I like it….

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Hello,

Today I want to publish a translation of the song what I used for my “Circus Clip”. That is a song by Bulat Okudzhava.

THE CIRCUS

This is not a park you visit to relax and meditate.
In a circus one has got to fall and rise, not sit and wait.

Sliding round, round & round right beneath the top,
one must not have any doubts or think of something like a flop.

Dressing up for the occasion, doesn’t really mean a thing,
our smile is insincere and it isn’t worth a pin
in the face of purple plumes worn by the horses on the hop,
in the face of daring actors who don’t fear but cherish hope.

Human Hope, you are a creature on the wing, you are so sweet!
Your old holy substance is amazing, beautiful indeed.

Even if we lose all hopes ( or we have never had such things ),
you are great at spreading out your amazing magic wings.

Over circus rings and stages, over fairs, shows and balls,
over horror of spectators and alarm of know-it-alls.

You appear as if risen from the dead, alive again,
to the eye of those who fall and rise, – not sit in vain.

I think the words are very true and I think that you can change the word Circus on word Life. And it will be still very true!
Do you agree?

Best wishes for All!
Live bravely!

Svet

(PS: The Russian original version below)

Цирк

Юрию Никулину

Цирк –не парк, куда вы ходите грустить и отдыхать.
В цирке надо не высиживать, а падать и взлетать
и под куполом, под куполом, под куполом скользя,
ни о чем таком сомнительном раздумывать нельзя.

Все костюмы наши праздничные – смех и суета.
Все улыбки наши пряничные не стоят ни черта.
Перед красными султанами на конских головах,
перед лицами, таящими надежду, а не страх.

О Надежда, ты крылатое такое существо!
Как прекрасно твое древнее святое вещество:
даже если вдруг потеряна (как будто не была),
как прекрасно ты распахиваешь два своих крыла

над манежем и над ярмаркою праздничных одежд,
над тревогой завсегдатаев, над ужасом невежд,
похороненная заживо, являешься опять
тем, кто жаждет не высиживать, а падать и взлетать.

(1965)

Svet
comments always welcome.

Time for Planting; putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow...

Time does fly and this past weekend, Sveta went to the village again to finish the paper work on the village home. The laws changed several years ago and she had to get all the paper work up to date, to keep from having ownership issues at a future date…

While I was slightly (Okay a bunch,) jealous of her going and I had to stay home with Boza. I have used the time to decipher what I am going to plant this year, at the village. It will be items that easily store for the winter in our Moscow home…

Vegetables like beets and turnips for long storage. Then items like radishes and grasses (parsley and such,) for short-term immediate use. Potatoes are to hard on me, as I am a diabetic, but beets and turnips do not bother me and besides, Sveta loves them also…

Therefore, beets and turnips it is and maybe just beets. For Russians have no greater desire for anything but borsch to eat at every meal it seems. I am finding myself starting to feel the same way, as I checked the bin for red beets today, to make a beet soup tonight…

Maybe just sugar beets and red beets, they are very easy to grow and between the two, you can have lots of cooking fun. This is what I am deciding as time flies, as I am getting anxious to get to the village and spend half a year there…

* * * * * * * * * *

This time we also are going to buy another or two dehydrators for fruit. I think three dehydrators going full-time this summer, will give enough dried apples, cherries, currant and raspberries to last the winter. Last year, we gave them all away and what we had left, we ate in a few weeks…

In our village, apples are abundant and I am going to store them for the long winters in Russia…

* * * * * * * * * *

This time I also am going to get out the pressure cooker and can some items up for the winter. It is time to become self-sufficient and travel the path of being off grid more and more everyday. The world is getting a never-ending psychosis of deadlier proportions, even as you read this…

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The copy scores 77.5 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly easy to read…

Cyber Secured Security; an oxymoron; 50 terabytes! Snowden leak reveals massive size of F-35 blueprints hack by China – 🙂

One does have to laugh though when you think the America National Security(?) Agency doesn’t understand that if you have secret information that you wish to keep secure, you don’t keep it on a computer connected to any cyber network, at any time. Surely the wealth of the citizens they have stolen has been enough to buy an extra computer or two? Then keep them off the cyber grid…

Why even Sveta deals everyday with banking systems that are never online (cyber) or on-grid so to say. They are never allowed connected to the world and that begs me to ask, “Why the hell are our national secretes online (cyber) at all and able to hack?”

This is what our government says is happening and therefore, I say our government is inept, inebriated, and or morons… (Anyone for all the above?)

Cyber * * * * * * * * * * Hot Dogs

Q: Why do hot dogs come in packages of ten, but hot dog buns only come in packages of just eight?

A: The thing is, life doesn’t always work out according to plan so be happy with what you’ve got, because you can always get a hot dog..

Bulletproof Monk….

Hot Dogs * * * * * * * * * * Gold

Russia just bought 46 tons of physical gold in December and that was all the while that they told the west that they were selling gold. They drove the price down and then they bought with Dollars that they are dumping…

Hmm…

Gold * * * * * * * * * * Gas

“If Greece has to leave the European Union, we will build our own relations with it, the food ban will not be applicable to it,” Russian Minister of Agriculture Nikolai Fyodorov said…

That gives something for Greece to think of. Then on top of it all, Greece, is the gas pipe connection to Turkey. It could be a great future for Greece, now get out of the EU…

Gas * * * * * * * * * * War

Heck the Ukraine Kiev side, is just bombing the crap out of East Ukraine and no one in the western press cares. Which means that all the sheep in the west think life is a bed of sweet roses in Ukraine, as the people are killed, as they sleep and try to work…

War * * * * * * * * * * Lies

This image is worth a thousand words; this is the march of solidarity in France. The leaders never marched with anyone…

Lies * * * * * * * * * * Stupid

The western world is…
Well just think about these two items…

1.) Lithuania is putting together a “Russian Invasion Manual…” 🙂
2.) A new study shows that the majority of public school children in the United States are living in poverty…

Just think about what these statements say about the west…

Have a nice day and Russia is looking better all the time…

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The copy scores 77 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly easy to read…

For the first time since I have been in Russia, the snow, ice, and temperatures are decent for a winter. A wonderful, blessed winter with fantastic weather and the snow and ice are melting away. This is fantastic, for normally we are walking on a meter of solid ice, that puts your heads into the tree limbs all winter long. I have talked before about how people snap limbs off way up into the tree, as the ice gets deeper and deeper. You either do that or get your eyes poked with small limbs, that are normally way above our heads…

Seeing a bare sidewalk in a Russian winter is akin to seeing Santa at Christmas, we know he is there, we just can not see him…

Winter is still good…

Yes, I see prices going up, but only on things that do not matter. I bought two loaves of bread today, at a cost of 12.6 rubles each. I bought white bread and froze one loaf. The black bread, which I did not buy, was 14.8 rubles each and they are much bigger heavier loaves than the white, as they always are…

Russian made products are decent price and as expected, foreign-made items are much higher. The catch 22 for the west is that Russia is making everything it needs and we lack nothing, due to internal production. This is what it is all about and it is what the west has no idea about. Russia is not the west and the west does not understand Russians…

How do you sanction a people who make their own brooms from tree limbs and twigs?

Or how do you sanction people who buy anything from the back of a truck, including fresh meat?

Or how do you sanction people who buy milk from the milk truck and see that as the best?

How do you sanction a people who do not expect anyone to help them and baby them?

* * * * * * * * * *

Today, Sveta, through a wonderful company called Ozon.ru, who sells products in Russia for years now. Just like Amazon in America, ordered me a new 7 inch tablet computer. I had a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 and it has just about quit working. It has been a piece of you know what since buying it, but it is what I got. I was sucked in by the hype surrounding Samsuck products and bought a Tab 2…

This time after much studying, I am going to buy a product made by Senkatel… (http://maximus4u.com/content/11-maximus-s1)

Winter is time for Bear Toys…

Last but definitely not least and the most important item on my thinking today…

I found this image of the two “sweet peas” in my life…

Talk about wonderful!

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The copy scores 79.5 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly easy to read…

All I can do is fix the broken in my life. I have to analyze and correct what is, out-of-place…

This seems easy, but it really is not so simple. Simple is swatting a fly that irritates you, but when your roots and past connections, drag you to the gates of torment. Then you realize that you have to stop the concrete block from sinking you into the deeper parts of the river…

This is normal for me to do this and as I get older, like I am tomorrow, though it really is just a symbolic situation, yet it does have impact upon the psych…

Life * * * * * * * * * * Life

I found the last images of my dad, before he died. It was strange to see myself, but myself years ago. I have exceeded in age by far, how my dad looks in the pictures that I have. He died a few months after these pictures and it is strange, he looks really good and vital. Yet he became really dead, really quick…

I look in the mirror and realized today that I am older than my dad, for my dad died many years ago. Do you miss your dad?

Life * * * * * * * * * * Life

I said something to my son, I said, “I never knew that my dad was in the Korean War until after he died!”

I found his medals and such cleaning up his life after he passed away and left me a mess. No one else, but me and I almost went broke trying to pay it all off. That is okay, for we did not know about the ways of such things until it comes upon us and smacks us in the face. Death does that…

After my experiences, that my kids no nothing about also, I understand why my dad kept it all within himself and never sat around the fireplace expounding about the virtues of war and death…

Life * * * * * * * * * * Life

One fact that will not change is the fact that I am thankful and lucky to be in Russia. I was blessed with the best girl in the world and she just happens to live in one of the best countries in the world. That is what I call lucky and blessed…

For my life went from Hell to Heaven…

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The copy scores 86.1 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered easy to read…

American Data and Russian Rosstat data on birth rates…

Ever since I have lived in Russia, the western media and pundits have attack Russia consistently over one item, birth rate. Even while this same, is a fact in their own countries also. They attack Russia with closed eyes to the truth and once again never look in the mirror first…

Birth Rate is in the statistic…

Since 2008, the Russian conception rate, birth rate, has expanded by around 9%  to 10% while the United States has dropped by around 9% to 10%…

Why even our president, fed false numbers on Russia, never stops to consider the truth and spouts them like a jilted child at a playground;

“Immigrants aren’t rushing to Moscow in search of opportunity. The life expectancy of the Russian male is around 60 years old. The population is shrinking,” said Obama in an interview…

From the beginning this may sound astounding: didn’t Russia’s economy perform appallingly amid the previous and now sanctioned budgetary emergency? Isn’t their economy, people, and existence going straight towards a hard crash into the depths of despair? How do Russian desire babies, as their world falls apart around them? Besides, the western media says that Russians eat babies just like the North Koreans and all communist countries are baby eaters. Extremely hard to keep population up doing that… (~Sarc~)

It really is a sad state of affairs that our president tries to pass off ancient numbers as facts in this day and age of the internet! Russian men live well into their 70’s now, immigrants are rushing so hard here that Russia is having to stop the flow with legislation, and I can attest to abundance of twins being born here in Russia. – kKEETON

However its a western created puzzle when you truly consider it: Russia, and especially its work business sector, bounced back from the present and past money related emergency rapidly and the unemployment rate and the normal genuine pay rates, are at truly great levels in Russia. Basically, Russian wages have never been higher and unemployment has never been lower. In the meantime, in the United States, wages are stagnant and unemployment is pathetic over its long haul pattern. This kind of monetary disquietude has had a typically depressive impact on richness and white people birth rates…

Did you grab that last thought above?

Except for Iceland and Australia, Russia, seems (to be) the only other “white boy society” growing at the moment, the rest, like America and United Kingdom, made up of huge populations of minorities, others, and  them such, are going down. Down for the count? We will see in the future as minorities become majorities and Whitey becomes;  We will see…

Now before you rile your feathers, I did not say total population is declining (in America and Europe in general, it is in decline) for the countries. I said “White Boy” population is declining. Yes, Caucasian in the western world, are on a downhill sled run and you realize that sled runs are so fun, yet so hard to get off, before the fence comes up too fast…

It is called birth rate and us “White Boys” are being breed out of existence by the rest. Better get busy, if you do not want to be left behind – White Boy…

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PS: Increasing birth rate means you have to step to the plate and hit a home run! That could be part of the problem in a western society, that is basically heterophobic…

The copy scores 59 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered difficult to read…

When I was a little tyke in the prison called a state-run school, the state trained teachers, taught me oil came from dead dinosaur pieces/stuff/poop, rotting plants, and abundance of waste, from all creatures on earth. Then the powers of wisdom told that we would be out of oil and all living in caves again, if we did not do something about our selfish tendencies toward satisfaction, via oil based products…

This was even before the 70’s of oil delight and sitting for days in lines just to get fuel… >>>>

Then the seventies and fuel though rationed, went through the roof and the Pinto’s and Vega’s of death, became well-known. As they blew up and became thin grease spots on the byway’s of life as tractor-trailer rigs flattened them. It was an era that Ralph Nader saw his greatest achievements…

Therefore, something just seems wrong when as a child I just knew life would end for us as an advanced civilization and now as an adult, we have so damn much oil of a sudden, that the price is crashing. I wrote about how Russia says that oil seeps up from the center of the earth. It will replenish the oil wells, that over time have emptied and we find many cases to prove that they fill up again…

They were correct and we are showing just such an effect in this day and age…

Russian scientists claim that oil does not come from fossils; they’re synthesized deep within the earth’s mantle by heat, pressure, and other purely chemical/physical means, before gradually rising to the surface and replenishing pools of oil over time…

We have ridden the dead horse called peak oil and now that dead horse has gotten up and rode off into the sunset after a small sleep…

We find that China has developed the largest new car market in the world, a market that should by any means, deplete the remaining oil, (that oil that should have been gone years ago,) from the market and yet we find a glut of oil is still available, in fact, it is a bonanza of oil, unlike anything ever seen in the past…

Dinosaur Poop; Peak oil; go figure, I wonder who is playing who?

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The copy scores 67 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered OK to read…

Originally posted in January of 2006 on kylekeeton.com…

I found an interesting subject from the Soviet era: The Kola Superdeep Borehole!

It reached a depth before stopping: 12,262 meters = 44,290 ft = 7.62 miles!

The Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russian: Кольская сверхглубокая скважина) was the result of a scientific drilling project of the former USSR. The project attempted to drill as deep as possible into the Earth’s crust. Drilling began on May 24, 1970 on the Kola Peninsula, using an “Uralmash-4E” and later an “Uralmash-15000” drilling device. A number of boreholes were drilled by branching from a central hole. The deepest, SG-3, was completed in 1989, creating a hole 12,262 meters (40,230 ft or 7.62 mi) deep, the deepest hole ever made by humans.

The project was first proposed in 1962 and was assigned to the Interdepartmental Scientific Council for the Study of the Earth’s Interior and Superdeep Drilling. The drill site was chosen in 1965 in north-west Soviet Union, 10 kilometers (6 mi) west of the town of Zapolyarny, Russia.

The initial target depth was set at 15,000 meters (49,210 ft). On June 6, 1979, the world depth record held by the Bertha Rogers hole in Washita County, Oklahoma (9,583 meters (31,440 ft) was broken. In 1983, the drill passed the 12,000 meters (39,370 ft) level and stopped drilling for about a year to celebrate the event. This idle period may have contributed to a disappointing break-down on September 27, 1984: after drilling 12,066 meters (39,587 ft) down, 5,000 metres (16,400 ft) of boring pipes tore off and were left in the earth. It was decided to drill again from 7,000 meters (22,970 ft). The hole reached 12,262 meters (40,230 ft) deep in 1989. In that year the hole depth was expected to reach 13,500 meters (44,290 ft) by the end of 1990 and 15,000 meters (49,210 ft) by 1993. However, due to higher than expected temperatures at this depth and location, 180 °C (356 °F) instead of expected 100 °C (212 °F), drilling deeper was deemed unfeasible and the drilling was stopped in 1992. With the expected further increase in temperature with increasing depth, drilling to 15,000 meters (49,210 ft) would have meant working at a projected 300 °C (570 °F), at which the drill bit would no longer work.

The Kola borehole penetrated about a third through the Baltic continental crust, presumed to be around 35 kilometers (22 mi) thick, exposing rocks 2.7 billion years old at the bottom. The project has been a site of extensive geophysical studies. The stated areas of study were the deep structure of the Baltic Shield; seismic discontinuities and the thermal regime in the Earth’s crust; the physical and chemical composition of the deep crust and the transition from upper to lower crust; lithospheric geophysics; and to create and develop technologies for deep geophysical study.

To scientists, one of the more fascinating findings to emerge from this well is that the change in seismic velocities was not found at a boundary marking Jeffreys’ hypothetical transition from granite to basalt; it was at the bottom of a layer of metamorphic rock that extended from about 5 to 10 kilometers beneath the surface. The rock there had been thoroughly fractured and was saturated with water, which was surprising. This water, unlike surface water, must have come from deep-crust minerals and had been unable to reach the surface because of a layer of impermeable rock.

Another unexpected discovery was the large quantity of hydrogen gas, with the mud flowing out of the hole described as “boiling” with hydrogen.

The site is currently controlled by the State Scientific Enterprise on Superdeep Drilling and Complex Investigations in the Earth’s Interior (GNPP Nedra) as the Deep Geolaboratory.

That is a long ways straight down…….

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The copy scores 55.3 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly difficult to read…