A zero-day vulnerability tool, covertly exploited by US intelligence agencies and exposed by the Shadow Brokers hacking group has been blamed for the massive spread of malware that infected tens of thousands of computer systems globally…
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Seriously? We (USA, NSA) play these games? What could go wrong?
Oops! Looks like “wrong” has happened…
I am sure soon we will hear, “Russia Did It!” ~SARC~
WtR
Russians like coffee, but Russians LOVE Tea…
Russians think IKEA is a wonderful place to shop…
Russians embrace winter like many embrace summer…
Russians say, “The importance of Russian laws are countered by the lack of desire and enforcement to follow those laws.” (Thus Russians are free!)
Russians could care less about racism, off color jokes and many other politically incorrect and or rude things; But never talk bad or joke about their parents… Never…
Drinking is important to a Russian so when you toast at drink time as a foreigner; say, “Za Vas! (zuh vahs; – To you!)” Forget saying. “На здоровье! (Na zdorov’ye; – To your health!”) the latter works if a Russian says it and you are not Russian…
Russians believe and they are correct that women are weaker than men; Thus a man who allows a woman to carry something heavy is no man!
Burping and Farting in public is a taboo thing in Russia, but if you do, then do not excuse yourself. That is worse then if you burped in the first place and no one will acknowledge that you burped anyway…
Try this for a tidbit…
Did I say Russians love tea?
I will jot down more as the weeks go by…
WtR
Russia must be laughing up their sleeves watching as the U.S. tears itself apart over a Democrat EXCUSE for losing the election.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 11, 2017
And this…
Yesterday, on the same day- I had meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the FM of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin.#LetsMakePeace! pic.twitter.com/SPiIrJqI6G
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 11, 2017
Truth is Russians think that America has lost its mind and most of the world thinks the same. Even if they speak behind closed doors, an erratic superpower with chaotic tendencies is not becoming to a stable world…
Lets hope Trump steers in the correct direction and stifles the thousands of American (and not so American) wannabe Hitlers and Napoleons trying to garner power by using America as a dart board…
I like the fact that Trump Twitters his thoughts… Good or Bad, who cares? I don’t…
Better yet! Time for a bunch more, “You’re Fired!”
WtR
Freight train leaves NE China for Belarus, running through Mongolia, Russia in 16 days #XinhuaTV pic.twitter.com/c0BOlu3TW7
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) May 11, 2017
The Western Empire has been reduced to just a game of checkers and chaos:
This is a stage of the empire dying and not a good stage for the world. While we point fingers at everyone else and blame everyone else for our issues, China, Russia and the literal entire east world is walking a straight line to the future…
All the while the MSM keeps tooting the horn of, “We are number 1,” as we find ourselves looking around at the facts. Wether you ignore the facts and or listen to them means nothing, time is changing and the wind has shifted direction…
We use to walk that glorious line toward the future, yet now the biggest thrill we seem to have in the news, beside war, is a private, but corruptly financed, space program. NASA use to be something, that meant something and now we have played another game and allowed a backdoor financial issue to finance SpaceX and we act like it is 100% private…
Corporations are government predisposed, even if they say they are not. In America, hand in hand is the only way that companies like Facebook and SpaceX survive. All part of the corruption game…
I do not care what you think about China, Russia and the East in general…
I will simply tell you that time moves on and as we sit in a past Cold War stupor, the East is progressing, as we falter and sink. We need to worry less about coverup and more about becoming great again…. China is now sending a train once a week to Belarus. This is called the the drip in a faucet, that soon becomes a stream, as time relentlessly churns onward and onward…
Remember something:
Just because the Mainstream Media says it is so, does not make it so!
While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker. — Ben Edwards
When the dollar rules our information, we do not have information we have a hoax and that makes us dupes…
Fact is:
China shipping directly to Belarus is a big deal and that train is part of the new future in the world. Maybe America needs to be part of that future?
WtR
It is snowing, raining and cold cold cold…
That is Russia for you…
Happy Victory Day…
WtR
Yesterday I had to go out in the snow and work on the car. We had a dead miss in the ignition system and I had to fix it, just so we could get to the doctor for Boza. I fixed it and was soaked to the bones…
We have a saying, “Niggar-Rigged” and or the original “Jury-Rigged” and or Niggardly… Stop! Before getting an attitude it is not related to the word “Nigger…”
So with a little bit of old parts, new parts and some duck-tape and bailing wire, Sammy the Volga ran like a top, but needs new parts…. See niggard-rigged…
In the next few weeks, I will put new spark plugs and wires on her. It seems that we had and have a bunch of mismatched plugs and wires to deal with. Therefore, I will start from scratch and put new spark plugs and new wires on her when the weather breaks…. Today Svetochka and I will go buy new ones to get the job done…
I have a new water pump waiting and now in the Que is the ignition to finish, It is always something and never ends. Especially when it does not stop snowing and spring keeps waiting in the background hiding…
We had to get to the doctor for Boza and here is what we found out…
Boza has one eye that has responded perfectly to the medicine. His right eye is at 12 mm Hg and we cannot ask for any better than that. But! His left eye is still at 60 mm Hg and plus. This is bad and we will keep doing his medicine and go see the doctor again next Tuesday…
There will two doctors to look at him (one is a doggy surgeon,) I suspect that his left eye will have to be operated on to relieve the pressure. Not going to be a happy doggy, but we must get the eye pressure down…
So lets hope the weather breaks and I am able to spend a few hours tuning Sammy the Volga up. Though it was nice how well she ran yesterday. We have one fast and powerful Volga Wagon… 😉 But I have to install a water pump soon. It will take more than a few hours though and something new cropped up yesterday, the heater core seems to be plugged and heat, in this cold wet weather was not to be found. She ran good and never over heated, but all we had was cold air inside the car. Yes, heater core it is…
Another thing that has to be done is take Sammy to a body shop. It is time to get two new doors, rocker panels and some other body work done. Then painted back to the original color. Sammy is a great car and she needs a new dress put on, so that she will be oohed and awed at as she runs around…
Volga’s are becoming rare and Volga wagons are even more rare. In a few more years she will be a classic. Good girl she is…
Oh yes! It is starting to look a lot like Christmas…
“It’s Beginning to look a lot like Christmas” by Johnny Mathis (Lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGBie5pT9nw
And or maybe better yet…
Now that is Russia…
WtR
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.
They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
He was thinking this back in the early 1900’s. Could you imagine what he would think nowadays?
WtR
When mingling with the natives, do as the natives do. In my case Russians…
Or…
This has also been made into ringtones for your phone…
I hear it all the time when someones phone rings outside (No not my phone, silly people.) I see cars with Putin painted on them, shirts with Putin’s picture on them and the other day I noticed that there are hats with Putin’s face on them…
Whatever; “Such as Putin….” This is what happens when it is obvious that Putin is married to Russia, heart and soul. The people love him…. Yes many woman wish they had a Putin in their lives; Even in America…. It is also when we make someone bigger than life itself…
Gotta love the Russian people…
WtR
Again…
Or…
Boza and I walked at 5 a.m. and I took some images…
I loved the baby size street cleaner. He went back and forth a dozen times, cleaning this one spot. I have to say, he was determined to get it clean…. Looks like a cow to me, with the paint job…
Walking the hospital area is important for Boza and I. Boza can move around with very little restraint and is safe to sniff the world at large. We like to get there before the rest of the world wakes up and interferes with our peace of mind. Peace is important, for once the natives wake up, life is a shamble of humans going about their business and Moscow has a bunch of humans to shamble about…
Oh yes and one of the most important holidays in Russia is coming up…
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Yes big stuff and party time for everyone! But then Russians love to party and they have many important holidays to allow just that. This is just the biggest of the party holidays… 😉
Trees are painted white, signs everywhere and the rumble of tanks on Red Square is prominent…
My sweetie is home and we will party with Boza!
WtR
In 1935 my Grandfather Keeton took out a note from a bank for $1000. This was only done once in his life and I happen to have the paid slip for that note taken out from the bank. A bank in Kansas City, MO.
From my understanding:
This money was for paying off medical bills and burying my Grandmother Keeton. She died young, in pain and of cancer. She was 37 when she died and my Dad who was the baby of the family had to grow up fast, hard and tough. My dad was the youngest of seven kids…
Grandpa, a boiler maker as his profession, was raising seven kids all alone and the eldest sisters of the siblings took over mothers spot…
$1000 is like $18,000 right now:
To borrow this kind of money must have been a terrible thing for my grandfather to have to do? My dad said it hung over his dad like a demon for the year it took him to pay it off. It seems that grandpa did not like to borrow money and felt that owing someone, was slavery until paid…
That is how we thought in the old days…
He paid that $1000 off in exactly one year. That is like paying $18,000 back nowadays, having seven kids to feed, house and take care of, then paying everything else that life throws at you. Could you do that? right now and still raise seven kids…. No I mean you, that person who brings home 45,000 a year in gross pay. Taxes and whatnot’s take half and then remove $18,000 for debt and live in the rest for a year…
Give or take according to your situation, that would be from $4000 to $5000 to survive, feed the family and pay the bills…
My dad told about how the whole family all did what they could to help pay it back. Every penny went to pay the debt back, a debt that was imposed upon them because they lost a mother to cancer…
Debt:
Somehow we have lost that fear of debt. We live in a debt society or I should say, the west lives in a very debt society and I now live in a cash or do or buy it society. Russians and that extends to the government try really hard to keep from taking out debt…
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan doth oft lose both itself and friend.” – -William Shakespeare
I watch Russians give money to others. I very rarely see a Russian hand out money and ever expect it back. Everyone in Russia has that person who has to have a ruble to survive and it is handed over without recourse. It is the Russian way and no we do not care to talk about mafia types. That is a whole another world and a very small part of this world. Same as in America. Playing with the devil is the path you take selling your soul…
A huge portion of the populace gives to those who do not have, for one day, you may need that ruble back and someone will pay it forward. It is a “circle of life” in a country like Russia…
I have learned to become part of that circle and it simply works…
Who really eats?
In the real world life is like this…
One man has a dollar, the other man has just borrowed 10 dollars from the bank. The man who borrowed the money just bought his dream toy that morning and the man who has a dollar, does not have that toy…
But later that night when dinner comes around; the man who spent $10 on a toy, does not have any money to buy food. His belly is growling and he is hungry. The toy is not edible…. He actually borrowed money to buy that toy, money he did not have in the first place…. Money he now owes on top of everything else…
The man with the toy looks out his window and across the street sitting at the dinner table is a man with his family eating dinner. That dollar bought dinner and the man with the toy sees boiled potatoes, salad, pot roast and even wine to drink…
The man with the toy looks at his family and sees a hungry family, but he has his toy!
What this means?
Very simply, it means you have two ways to look at things and two ways to take care of life. One you buy toys and owe, owe and owe some more. You never have enough and you never get out of debt. To eat you even borrow money. To live just basics of life, you have to borrow money. Money is that 800# Gorilla sitting in the corner…
Or! You buy what you need with what you have and feed your family and yourself. You belly is full, you do not have an 800# Gorilla staring at you and your family goes to bed at night in peace…
You either live within your means or you do not…
We have misconceptions:
We associate countries like we do people around us, people with who are rich and who are not. Who is third world and who is not. Who has massive GDP and who has small GDP. This misconception is not real world and that is the crux of the matter…
The man with a dollar and no debt is rich in all truthfulness. The man with $10 debt and a toy is dirt poor, until he pays that debt back…
We must pay our debts and when our family looks at us and their bellies growl from hunger, then we might learn to not go into debt for toys…
WtR
