President #Putin on dealing with part of US political establishment: It is difficult to talk to people who confuse Austria and Australia pic.twitter.com/A1U3zD5glE
— Russia in RSA ?? (@EmbassyofRussia) September 5, 2017
Ouch! Wish it was not true…
WtR
This is the video it came from…
‘Working with people who confuse Austria & Australia is hard’ – #Putin on US establishment https://t.co/GEURt2cfkz pic.twitter.com/GGgKxGJlac
— RT (@RT_com) September 6, 2017
Putin spoke at the BRICS Summit in Xiamen, China September 5, 2017:
He spoke of finding out about the highly praised judiciary system of the USA. He said it with a (as I detect it) slight sarcasm to his tone. He hit it on the nail head…. America is no longer a country of law and order…. Both domestically and internationally…
Pyongyang will not relinquish its military program under pressure of sanctions and military threats, because the examples of Iraq and Libya have convinced it that nuclear deterrence is the only credible way to ensure its security, President Putin told journalists on Tuesday.
He basically said during his speech and by using examples of Iraq and Libya that these countries and their fate has convinced the North Korean leadership that only nuclear deterrence can protect them, so no sanctions can and or will dissuade them and Putin is firm on this…
Quoting Putin, “Ramping up military hysteria in such conditions is senseless; it’s a dead end,” Putin said. Putin also added, “It could lead to a global, planetary catastrophe and a huge loss of human life. There is no other way to solve the North Korean nuclear issue, save that of peaceful dialogue.”
Then he went on to point out the facts of North Korea and their fear of America…
As I told my colleagues yesterday, they will eat grass but will not stop their program as long as they do not feel safe,” Putin said. “What can restore their security? The restoration of international law.”
The fact that America is flouting International Law and throwing it in the face of other countries has reached a dead end with China, Russia and many other countries. Even Americas own so called allies are fearful of the retaliatory actions constantly imposed by a waning empire…. This is what not feeling safe is about and life is too short to live in fear…. America instills fear in many countries and these countries do not deserve this…
This all as Russia knows has nothing to do with Trump, but what it does have to do with Trump is that the actions of America have become laid on the carpet, like when your doggy has an accident or not accident in the middle of the living room, for all to see. The world now knows that, “No One Is In Charge in the USA!”
America behaves like a maniac and is running like a loose canon…. Seems Trump is correct for the president at this time…
I have said before, “America is run by a thousand plus wannabe Napoleons and Hitlers!” But I think that America has successfully grandstanded these guys and new names will be used in the future to describe individuals that desire power at all costs…
Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Putin is correct and he knows he what he will find when Russia sues America…
It is called a, “Nothing Burger!”
I say, “Too many US people are way too indoctrinated in their own self importance to appreciate even ¼ of Putin’s intellect, never mind ½ of it!”
Please prove me wrong…
Lets restore International Law and order. America has to lead the way, for right now she is running full tilt the wrong direction. Speaking of that…
It looks to me that Trump has allowed unadulterated control of foreign affairs to the deep state…. Good or bad?
WtR
Boza has been a learning lesson for me. A lesson about life…
I realize that sometimes you have to laugh about what life feeds you and accept that as a-okay…. This morning was one of those moments…
Boza and I stood at the elevator and waited for it to open. Boza was listening to the elevator coming and normally he stands in the correct spot, blindness or not and waits for the elevator. This morning he got turned around, maybe my fault and maybe not. I am not sure, but he turned around and faced the back wall if the hallway and stood waiting. He was staring at the empty wall…
I asked him, “What you doing?”
He looked up at my voice and gave me a look like, “What? The elevator is coming!” He is stubborn at times and did not move. He just knew that the door was in front of him and I just waited…. The door opened in a few seconds and he looked behind him…. Then he looked up at me as if to say, “Hey, they moved the elevator!”
I had to laugh, you know? Visa card for all else, but the look on Boza’s face, Priceless…
I let him sniff around and the door closed and he finally got his bearings. Then he looked at me as if to say, “Excuse me, but the door is closed!”
See it became my fault at that point…. So I pushed the button again and he walked onto the elevator and off we went to the ground floor…
We got off the elevator and Boza sniffed around and checked out both sides of the hallway. After a few minutes, he decided that everything was still where it should be and or where it has been put for now and off we went to walk. But I watched him and he showed how blind he was this morning. Somehow he had gotten turned around and he really was very sure that the elevator was on the opposite side than what it was. The look on his face was priceless…. He was kinda shocked at the situation, then he adjusted and accepted that us humans must have done something stupid and moved the elevator. I am not sure as to why this happened, but he, when we returned after the walk, once again knew what was what and led me, as the alpha wannabe he is, to the correct door…
Then he looked up at me, wagging his tail and I said, “You are the best smart boy in the world! That was a bad elevator, but now you know where to go!”
Boza pushed his face against my leg, his way of telling me that life is good and we went home to the flat. I started to laugh, for he just takes life with a grain of salt and takes what life gives him. He is a happy doggy. That is one thing I worried about with his blindness, “Will he adjust?”
I realize that you have to know Boza well to understand his facial expressions and dogs have expressions, but he was sure that we did something, akin to moving a chair in the way of where he walks in the flat and he simply accepts such human mistakes as normal. He is use to me doing something like putting a sack I just carried in, in the wrong place and he runs into it. It makes me feel bad and he always gives me that look. The look of, “You did it again!”
Therefore, we got into the flat, I asked him, “Hungry?” Nope, he said by actions. Lets do your eyes? Yes, he said by actions. I worked on his eyes, hugged him until he started to growl at me. He growls when he has decided that you are acting the fool, for hugging is only a short time span thing. You know?
I laughed and he rubbed his face against me to tell me that it is all okay and he went to bed again…. He is tolerant of his humans that wait on him hand and foot. Even the king has to bend to the wiles of the peasants. You know? 😉
Maybe if us humans would take life the same way as Boza does, we would be happier and less worried about trying to mold life into our dreams. For life is a roller coaster and maybe, just maybe we should enjoy the ride, instead of trying to rebuild the ride all the time…
I guess you had to be there?
WtR
Drugs have been used all through history as a weapon:
A weapon to control the masses at home and or control other countries. When we talk about Afghanistan we ignore for the most part the issue that the USA has in the Opium trade around the world and the CIA’s involvement. Yes I know it is just a conspiracy whatchamacallit…
Or is it?
If we studied history, we would find that another empire used just such a drug to enslave China. Used the drug to get concessions and push to have changes made within China. It really is easy once you get millions hooked on Opium…
Very simple and it is in our face history…
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In 1839, England went to war with China because it was upset that Chinese officials had shut down its drug trafficking racket and confiscated its dope.
Stating the historical record so plainly is shocking — but it’s true, and the consequences of that act are still being felt today.
But…. What does that have to do with the USA?
[contentcards url=”https://www.juancole.com/2016/02/afghanistan-washingtons-twenty-first-century-opium-wars.html”]
This is that same ole same ole, that I talk about. That circle of life…
Therefore:
[contentcards url=”http://mediaroots.org/opium-what-afghanistan-is-really-about/”]
I know about this kind of stuff. I have sat in meets about how to control the masses. This is a common issue when it comes to empires and the USA is one of best at using it and most likely the worst at trying to use it. The opium simply comes home to roost, too many times and it shows in America…
It is a simple known fact that is ignored by everyday people, the USA, CIA and many other three letter demons, use opium to try to control everything from home to abroad. Opium is extremely addictive…
The US tries to push Opium to Russia, China, Europe and many more. The issue is that this substance gets out of sight and out of mind and ends up on our doorstep, just as it ends up on their doorstep. Money talks and America has a bunch of Opium users and I mean a bunch…
[contentcards url=”http://www.advancedped.com/american-opium-epidemic/”]
What was much more controllable in the British Empire days, due to transportation, internet and just plain smaller world through technology, has backfired on the USA. The CIA does not care and will not care. The country is and has been as long as I remember heroin addicts… But lets play with Oxycontin also. Nasty crap people, nasty crap…
Therefore, some more:
As we sit around and fear North Korea, Venezuela, Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan and dozens more…. We have a “Thousand Pound Gorilla” sitting among us and he is higher than a kite…
Russia is realizing what happened, just as Europe realized that drugs were being shipped through from Afghanistan to Europe and when this was realized, Mexico took on a role of even greater importance, Mexico is mainlining the stuff into America. This is big business and the USA instigators really do not care, as long as they get their money to garner their power structure and grow up to be as big as a “Thousand Pound Gorilla”…
I talked years ago about heroin issues in Russia.
This has receded and has become much better controlled. They people woke up for the most part..
And…
Again Russia has woke up, but that circle of life has deposited it on another doorstep. Can’t make enough money from Russia, Europe and China? Send the crap to America…
[contentcards url=”https://www.wired.com/2016/03/americans-addicted-prescription-opiates-forever/”]
You are being played for the fool:
And we cultivate, guard and export the Afghanistan cream of the crop. That is why we have guards in the fields of Afghanistan. That is why we use our own cargo jets to transport it…. Gotta protect that money…
Makes me all warm and fuzzy feeling… ;(
WtR
They rebuilt the back wall of the Tiny Russian Village home. This was a job that I was planning on doing, but with Boza having eye issues, It became set to the back burner for me. But it had to be done. The two guys who did the work, had done some work on a nearby village home and I liked their abilities. Therefore, because they had good work ethics and cared about the quality of their work, they got the job…
All our lumber we had from two years ago has gone to its usage it was bought for. Thank goodness, the village home needed the back wall rebuilt…
Looks nice…
WtR
“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.” ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Ode to Coffee
O! coffee, where art thou
When I need thee now?
In thy many flavored blends
A hot cup would be godsend.
I cannot keep awake
Without a short coffee-break.
With thy life-giving aroma
Save me from going into a coma.
Java, Colombian or French Roast
Thy every flavor, I will toast.
To the end thy loyal slave
Three cups a day I will always crave.
(source: Ranjit Nair)
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When 3 a.m. comes and Boza is by my side?
There is one thing that inspires…
It would be a lie,
to say that getting up and walking Boza,
doing his drops in his eyes is such a pleasure,
that I leap out of bed and break the mires…
That would be a false expression,
the thought of a cup of coffee,
laced with cream,
strong, rich,
is the revelation…
Coffee,
wakes the quintessence of life,
motivates and lets the soul,
accept strife…
Coffee is…
WtR
[contentcards url=”https://asia.nikkei.com/Markets/Commodities/China-sees-new-world-order-with-oil-benchmark-backed-by-gold”]
I guess we know now why the Chinese have been accumulating gold hand over fist for the past 8 years or so…. So all that “blustering” from North Korea is really just a slight of hand distraction while China/Russia started to sneak their monetary weapons into place…
As The World Turns…
WtR
Nothing special, just a few pictures. The ones of Boza and I walking where actually magical and we had a nice unopposed walk…
The other two are pictures of two kids going to the first day of school. Young or old, they all had flowers, with a few candy boxes and other gifts. Russians are into cut flowers. I mean seriously, Russians are into cut flowers…
Gotta friend with a hangnail? Send flowers to them. Visiting your mom? Take flowers to her! Show up at the first date? You better have them flowers…
By the way. I met Svetochka at the airport in America, with one rose…. She smiled…
WtR
Now Merle Haggard had it correct. Just listen carefully and I put the words to the song for you. He hits it on the nail head with this song…
We’ll all be drinking that free Bubble-Up and eating that Rainbow Stew…
Merle Haggard Lyrics
“Rainbow Stew”
There’s a big brown cloud in the city
And the countryside’s a sin
And the price of life is too high to give up
Gotta come down again
When the world wide war is over and done
And the dream of peace comes true
We’ll all be drinking that free bubble up
And eating that rainbow stew
When they find out how to burn water
And the gasoline car is gone
When an airplane flies without any fuel
And sunlight heats our home
One of these days when the air clears up
And the sun come shining through
We’ll all be drinking that free bubble up
And eating that rainbow stew
Eating rainbow stew with a silver spoon
Underneath that sky of blue
We’ll all be drinking that free bubble up
And eating that rainbow stew
You don’t have to get high to be happy
Just think about what’s in store
When people start doin’ what they oughta to be doin’
They won’t be booing no more
When a president goes through the white house doors
An’ does what he says he’ll do
We’ll all be drinking that free bubble up
And eating that rainbow stew
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Trump has become exactly what we voted against. America does not have a president; it is official, America has only puppets for president…
When a president goes through the white house doors
An’ does what he says he’ll do
We’ll all be drinking that free bubble up
And eating that rainbow stew
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Now this video below is simply exactly what America is in the eyes of the world…
“Come on, Barbie, let’s go party!”
WtR
Russia’s Old Friend Darkness; the USA…
“On August 31 (2017), US authorities announced unprecedented measures to restrict the activities of Russian diplomatic and consular missions in the United States . We were asked to close one of the largest general consulates in San Francisco and shut down visa, notarial and other consular services to Russian and US citizens living in several densely populated states in two days. The US has also prescribed to immediately cessation of the activities of the Trade Mission in Washington and its branch in New York. The requirements for the movement of Russian diplomats and official delegations are becoming much tougher.
This step represents a new gross violation of international law, including US obligations under the Vienna Conventions on diplomatic and consular relations. It even surpasses what it was thought of earlier in Washington, including the expropriation by the Administration of Barack Obama in December last year, despite the immunity, of the residential complexes of the Russian Embassy and the Permanent Mission to the United Nations .
In addition to the regular raider seizure of expensive Russian state property, which we have been urged to sell after they (the FBI) blocked access to such property, this time the demands of the US authorities create a direct threat to the safety of Russian citizens. American intelligence agencies set out on September 2 to conduct a search at the Consulate General in San Francisco , including in the apartments of employees residing in his building and having immunity, for which they ordered that they and their families, including minors and even infants, vacate within 12 hours. This is an invasion of the consular establishment and the home of diplomatic workers, and they are left to fend for themselves, so as not to interfere with the FBI agents.
With such defiant actions, the US continues to burden the already difficult atmosphere of the bilateral dialogue, undermining opportunities for cooperation, including in the interests of solving pressing international problems.
It is especially depressing that tens of thousands of ordinary citizens of both countries, far from the political situation, will suffer from such measures. The US demonstrates that they have absolutely no interest in the development of ties between people-first they stopped issuing visas to Russians in their consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok, and now they deprive Americans of the opportunity to obtain Russian visas to San Francisco. In essence, this is a continuation of the same line of the Obama Administration, according to which, in 2013, the FBI intimidated American participants in study trips to Russia, organized through Россотрудничества, and in 2016 the State Department stripped five of our honorary consuls in different states, actively engaged in the expansion of public (in this case educational) exchanges.
We strongly protest against Washington’s actions that ignore international law, and, as is customary in diplomatic practice, reserve the opportunity for retaliatory measures. This is not our choice. It has been imposed upon us”.
31 августа американские власти объявили о беспрецедентных мерах по ограничению деятельности российских дипломатических и консульских представительств в США. От нас потребовали за двое суток закрыть одно из крупнейших генеральных консульств, располагающееся в Сан-Франциско и оказывающее визовые, нотариальные и прочие консульские услуги гражданам России и США, проживающим в нескольких густонаселенных штатах. Также предписывается незамедлительно прекратить деятельность Торгового представительства в Вашингтоне и его филиала в Нью-Йорке. Существенно ужесточаются требования к передвижению российских дипломатов и официальных делегаций.
Данный шаг представляет собой новое грубейшее нарушение международного права, включая обязательства США по венским конвенциям о дипломатических и консульских сношениях. Он даже превосходит то, до чего в Вашингтоне додумывались ранее, включая экспроприацию Администрацией Б.Обамы в декабре прошлого года, несмотря на иммунитет, загородных жилых комплексов Посольства России и Постоянного представительства при ООН.
Помимо очередного рейдерского захвата дорогостоящих объектов российской государственной собственности, которые нам после их блокирования настойчиво предлагают продать, на этот раз требования властей США создают прямую угрозу для безопасности граждан России. Американские спецслужбы вознамерились 2 сентября провести обыск в Генеральном консульстве в Сан-Франциско, в том числе в квартирах сотрудников, проживающих в его здании и имеющих иммунитет, для чего предписали, чтобы они и их семьи, включая малолетних и даже грудных детей, на 10-12 часов покинули занимаемые помещения. Речь идет о вторжении в консульское учреждение и жилища дипломатических работников, причем их самих выставляют вон, чтобы не мешали агентам ФБР.
Подобными вызывающими акциями США продолжают отягощать и без того непростую атмосферу двустороннего диалога, подрывают возможности для взаимодействия, в том числе в интересах решения насущных международных проблем.
Особенно удручает, что от таких мер пострадают десятки тысяч обычных граждан обеих стран, далеких от политики. США наглядно демонстрируют, что совершенно не заинтересованы в развитии связей между людьми – сначала прекратили выдавать визы россиянам в своих генконсульствах в Санкт-Петербурге, Екатеринбурге и Владивостоке, а теперь лишают возможности американцев получать российские визы в Сан-Франциско. По сути это – продолжение той же линии Администрации Б.Обамы, в соответствии с которой еще в 2013 году ФБР запугивала американских участников ознакомительных поездок в Россию, организовывавшихся по линии Россотрудничества, а в 2016 году Госдепартамент лишил аккредитации пять наших почетных консулов в разных штатах, активно занимавшихся расширением общественных обменов.
Выражаем решительный протест в связи с действиями Вашингтона, игнорирующими международное право, и, как принято в дипломатической практике, резервируем за собой возможность для ответных мер. Это не наш выбор. Его нам навязывают.
WtR