Year: 2017

2:30 a.m. and Boza heard me stir…

That was enough for him to pop out from under Sveta’s side of the bed and wiggle his butt as his tail wagged so hard, you would have thought it would fall off. How can you resist such a happy boy?

Therefore, I growled and grumbled, then I got up and stumbled! Within a few minutes, Boza and I were outside and walking the streets of our city. It is so wonderful to walk at 3 a.m. and I find it easy to forgive Boza for waking me up. I am a light sleeper and the second he comes out from under the bed, 99% of the time I am wide awake, even if grouchy…

It was about 10 degrees out and the wind was blowing. It was very pleasant to say the least and we walked about one hour. We met no one and nothing. It was like walking in the Tiny Russian Village, except tall buildings instead of tall trees to walk around…

We got home and Boza beelines for under Svetochka’s side of the bed and went back to sleep. That does not work for me, for the cool air and long walk wakes me up and that is that…. Thus, here I am at 4 a.m. and thinking about writing on the blog…

I have a million things to say, but I keep my mouth shut about lots of stuff that I know about and have experienced in my life. Much of what I could talk about, would really piss off some people. I had a general ask me politely to keep much of my past, just that, Past…

So I walk along this morning and some of that past walks with me…

I realized that being alive is good. I am lucky to be here on this planet. I am lucky to still be alive. But the past still haunts me. I am lucky also, that time heals, erases partly and eases the pain of just about anything. I mean anything…

You still live with it…

We all have choices to make…

Some choices are good and some bad, but no choice is perfect. Everyday life is a divergence of paths. You have a million, no billion, no literally trillions of different ways to change your life and its paths. Even the most mundane of us have decisions to make, even the decision to make no decision is a path you chose to follow…. You had many other ways to diverse, instead of stagnate…

There are times I replay my life. I think about how I stepped to the right, instead of the left as I was running in a firefight and found that if I had carried forth with my leftward movements, I would be dead…. I call that, “My guardian angel at work!”

I made a choice to come to Russia. That was a path I could have taken at the time I made it. It was a choice based on thousands of different things that influenced the decision, but regardless, it was my choice and path to come to Russia…

The paths available to me were endless! I remember, as I thought about what to do? Life was laid out like a flat board and from where I stood all you had to do was image a line (string) going from your feet to the never ending distance and out of sight. Just keep putting strings and watch them disappear into the distance. Each one is a path…

These paths cross other paths. These paths are made up of humans and a million, million other things to interrelate with…

Some believe that our paths are set in stone. What is, is what is. We cannot change our paths…

Some believe that we have total control over our paths…

I believe that each path, the trillions of variances in the way forward, are all playing out at the same time. That each path is progressing and we play out life unknown to the other path, a trillion times. The path we think we are on, we actually are on that path. Some paths lead to early death, some lead to riches and fame, some lead to hell itself and some lead to heaven. But every path is progressing separately, as you progress within the path you are in now…

We live a finite existence within a infinite universe…

Nothing is finite. Just finite in the sense that we perceive it. We are very self-limiting and thus, hurt ourselves to develop spiritually and have lost our eutierria…. Technology seems to be what our genetics is geared for, not love of our planet. We are a vicious animal on this beautiful planet we call Earth…

Since we can only seem to accept what is in front of our eyes and basic senses, we see only a finite existence. If we could see the infinite in all around us? We would find that we are tiny indeed and not as grandiose as we perceive we are…

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists – proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision. — Thomas A. Edison

I wish to see the infinite, the impossible, the other paths, the other worlds. I wish to be able to walk upon another planet. See another star, overshadowing another world and to see life not from this world…

Maybe one of my paths is taking me there, as I sit here and write this article?

WtR

Russian Journo Kiselyev Roasts Crooked Hillary on Putin’s Manspreading, I mean sitting like a man…

Do not be drinking coffee at the computer when watching this….or any beverage for that matter…

Hillary is a worthless acknowledged panderer…

WtR

Grab a cup of coffee and or tea as in a bunch of the world…

In the city as I walk Boza, Boza and I see pigeon homes everywhere. Why even Vova in the Tiny Russian Village has a home for pigeons. Pigeons are very important to Russians…

It is autumn and time for the snow to fly here in Russia…

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This weekend Svetochka, Boza and I are going to the Tiny Russian Village. We have to get two tires installed (snow tire time) on the back of the Volga, buy a window for the village home from Leroy Merlin and spend two weeks in the Tiny Russian Village. I have several things to get done…

Tires ran $35 equivalent in rubles each…. The old snow tires were worn out…

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Boza could see pretty good this morning. He chased pigeons and had a blast. It made him slightly confused at times, when things appeared in his vision, but he still walks better and has fun seeing things. We find life is so much better when Boza is happy and chasing a pigeon and or a kitty is what life is about for our sweet doggy…

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This winter, Boza and I will stay in Moscow. Svetochka will let us go to the Tiny Russian Village, but when you see her face as she says it, you know she wants us here with her. Boza and I plan on getting there early in spring, but I also have to leave Russia again around the beginning of April…. Never ends…

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As an American it bothers me tremendously to see my country destroying such wonderful countries. Sanctioning is the same as trying to destroy, as much as war is destruction of a country. Political agendas are just an excuse to kill, rape and pillage other countries. The realization that we crushed and destroyed Libya, Syria, Ukraine and others just recently in time frame, not to mention so many such a Korea, Vietnam and others in the past, makes me sad and worry about the American mentality and or intelligence about life in general…

Every country is different and we must accept that every country does not want democracy shoved down their throats by bombs and lies. Fact is we Americans do not live the life that we try to shove down others throats. Enough is enough… Lets live in peace around the world. Put our money in America to help ourselves, make a super defensive military and leave things alone. We will go much farther in life as rulers of the planet if we lead by example and not by hate and mayhem…

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We send nuclear subs to North Korean area, we send bombers to NK area, we spend millions of drills to destroy NK with SK and we spout our share of rhetoric, constantly spout the rhetoric day in and day out. Yet all we focus on is what NK does in return and to be honest NK is still at war with America and SK and we should never blame them for worrying about if that submarine is really there to attack them…

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Today lets stop long enough and ask, “Why we do this to North Korea (enter country of your choice)?” Maybe all that money spent on terrorizing North Korea (or country of your choice) should be put to free education and free healthcare within America? Hmm…..

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Chaos is: Stirring issues with Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, Venezuela and about six other countries at the same time… (We are bombing Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen as you read this…)

I ask, “Who the hell is in charge in America?”

Looks like whoever wants to be…

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I know who is in charge in Russia! Putin runs the country and Svetochka runs the local home front…. that is good enough for me… 😉

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You should read this…

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It is true…

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It seems that there are many ways to discourage travelers from crossing the boarders…

I felt sorry for the Russians as I traveled to Estonia. The Russian side of the boarder even warned everyone. The Estonian border would make life hell and they did…

The babushka near me, who was about 70 years old, was going to see her family in Estonia. She had gifts, candy and other things such as real Russian vodka. She was made to empty her bags completely, scatter everything, open all gifts and they confiscated one bottle of vodka and a dozen candy bars made in Russia. They made her empty her purse and open anything that was a bottle, sealed or not. They did this to every Russian on the train and or at least in the car I rode in…

She was almost in tears, for they had ruined her gifts to her family. They tore the gift wrapping off the toys and everything…

I have thought about this for awhile…

We all helped as many as we could get their stuff across the boarder. I took two packs of cigarettes, just like many who did not smoke did also. The packs had to be opened and they pulled out the cigarettes and scattered them on the beds. It seems that because cigarettes are dirt cheap in Russia, the black market is huge. Go to Russia and buy for a dollar and sell for four dollars in Estonia. No one could carry a carton of smokes across the border. This applied to candy and many other items… I also took two candy bars to get across the border for another woman…

They had collected one or two at a time a whole sack of these wonderful chocolate bars. Not from one person, but from a dozen people. Hope they all get fat at the border…

Got across the border and we all gave everything back…

They scanned the Russians with those metal detector wands and made several take off some of their clothing…

Yes, I am mad about this. For they never did this to anyone else on the car. Just the Russians…

I could have carried a trunk load of contraband and gotten it through the border. But then I am not Russian, am I?

The Russian side coming and going was very professional and very polite. They did not even bother the Estonians crossing into Russia. The Estonian side even brought three different doggies to sniff at us and make sure that we did not have certain things, such as bombs and stuff. Three times in half an hour…

One family of Russians who lived in Estonia with elder family and they had a baby, were even made to empty the new bag of sealed diapers and show that they were just diapers…

Russians took it in stride, but I realized that this is just part of a plan to degrade Russians. Yet, Russians make up (320,000 (est.) (24% of total population)) of Estonia.  Basically a quarter of the whole population…

I am not sure I want Svetochka traveling to Estonia again. I will be honest with you, I am hoping to make Belarus the twice year travel spot. I don’t think it will work, but I am hoping to make it work. Maybe I could fly into Belarus and fly back; internationally. I just need a visa for Belarus, but it can be done. Then Svetochka could go with me…

Estonia was a fine place for me (American) all the way around, but they hurt my friends from Russia and that makes me mad…. Ukraine 101 is what I see happening to the Russians…

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It has soured my desire to travel to Estonia…

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There are about 6.32 million American citizens living abroad, of those about 30,000 chose Russia, according to the Association of Americans Resident Overseas. Read more: https://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia/2012_12_20/US-citizens-moving-to-Russia-interview/

I am one of few living here in Russia and I am accepted with open arms, even as my country treats Russians with distaste and hatred. I would say that most of these Americans live behind walled guarded apartments in Moscow and or St. Petersburg and really are never known about in generally. I walk a life that has me being the first American that almost all Russians I meet have seen. I am met with open arms 99% of the time and my best buddy is Vova in a Tiny Russian Village…

The truth is, I am treated better at the border crossings coming and going from Russia, than I am traveling anywhere else in the world. The Russians are not aggressive at all and the experience I just saw at the Estonian border shows me that issues are abound in the world, especially in the western world…

I do not have to look for issues as I travel. These nasty issues rear their ugly heads and make it easy to see them first hand…

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I guess I have said enough today. I had a lot on my mind and now I will go finish cooking chicken for dinner tonight. have a nice day…

WtR

Korolov is about 200,000 people. It is located just outside of Moscow, but is actually a small area of the whole mess called Moscow Region… Moscow has about 15,000,000 people, including immigrants who are never counted…. The day time during the week is more like 20,000,000 people as they all pour into Moscow from the Moscow region which has around 8,000,000 people in it total. Much of the work force of Moscow is fluctuating everyday. The people come and work the week, then leave to go home the weekends…

Sveta rides her bike safely around Korolov all the time. Korolov is a very safe city, just like 99% of all of Russia is safe. Women do not have to fear the men here… (I would say it is more like the men fear the women….especially the babushkas.)

Kids love goats in Russia. The goat is an extremely important animal. It supplies milk and such. They all know what goats are for a typical Russian kids spends a third of his life in a dacha and or a village…

Just a fact day. Enjoy the images, Svetochka loves to take pictures and she loves to see her images on WtR…

By the way! This is the country and people you are suppose to hate…

WtR

Russia has made smart changes economically due to sanctions, before sanctions Russia was growing at 4% and flying along, then America illegally imposed sanctions over falsification of facts. Now we see Russia with a debt to GDP ratio of around 12% (USA 107%, UK 85% and Italy 133%), Russia has bought more Gold than any country for the past 3 years and is now the 3rd largest Gold producer in the world, Russia has around $400bn in foreign exchange (USA $115bn), Russia is the world’s largest wheat producer and exporter, Russia has the largest natural resources on the planet, Oil and Gas galore, Russia controls 9 oilfields in Venezuela (to prevent Venezuela defaulting on Russian loans). Russia has rebuilt it’s military on 10% of the USA defense budget, seen success in Syria and introduced many new pieces of equipment too, refined tactics in an operational theater of war, intensified the use of Intelligence Services overseas, Russia is now very close to Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Venezuela, India, China, Syria etc. The “BRICS GROUP” is seen as very attractive and other countries want to join the group, they see power and growth among the group, both militarily and financially. Far from being isolated, we see Turkey and Saudi Arabia buying the S-400 anti-missile systems, Saudi also agreeing a deal to manufacture Kalashnikov Rifles and Kornet anti-tank missile systems inside the Kingdom, so NATO allies are buying Russian weapons. Under sanctions Russia will grow at 2% in 2017. This is from a low debt and very mineral rich country!

Then we have a debt heavy western country, leading the charge off the cliff…. Lets hope that the followers stop before they leap like lemmings…

America has totally lost the trust of Iran and North Korea (I know you don’t care,) we have lost the respect and trust of China and Russia (Now you should care,) we have fully alienated Pakistan, Turkey and perhaps even Saudi Arabia and we are driving everyone into China’s and Russia’s arms. We have exhausted the patience of America’s fair-weather puppets in the EU and East Asian ally area and we have undoubtedly lost control over our own administration and country. The EU has now woke to the fact that the sanctions have been to destroy the Euro, not Russia…

The only danger alerting the world right now, seems to be if America is still powerful enough to do something truly dangerous to the world, but too weak and ill-informed to actually understand what they are doing…. There is a bunch of talk going on behind closed doors all over the world and America is the subject…

And that my friend is the real issue. Not Russia, not the EU, not Iran, not China, not North Korea and not all the propaganda boogeymen under the bed, but it is the USA, who is the issue that is at hand. The USA is flagrantly violating everything from international law, international morals around the world and international financial expectations are being slandered by America daily…

The wind is blowing and it is blowing Eastward…

Russia: As The Winds (Petrodollar) Do Change!

WtR

I see confusion growing in emails and comments, as to why would Turkey wanna hate us sweet lovable Americans?

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Bottom line is: America tried to other throw Erdogan and his government in Turkey. Therefore, with a simple role of the dice to see which countries sandbox the bully USA should play in, was a roll of many repercussions…

Turkey will jump like a flea to fresh blood and America has given its arm to chew on…. NATO be damn…. Thus when the other day America said, “The US has suspended the processing of the vast majority of new visas in Turkey after authorities in Istanbul arrested a US embassy employee last week, escalating a brewing diplomatic crisis between the two allies and, in effect, blocking thousands of Turks from travel to the US.”

Turkey already primed with the fact that America tried to overthrow the Turkish government. Has jumped out and started to bite, just as we in the East know that Turkey will do and not care at who says, “What did I do?”

Statement from the Turkish Mission to the U.S., October 8, 2017 pic.twitter.com/4i0BwInOCj

— TurkishEmbassyDC (@TurkishEmbassy) October 8, 2017

Russia is way too patient, China is way too businesslike, Iran too far removed from hurting America, but Turkey….

Turkey is going, no they are mad at America and they are going to get angry. The anger is boiling right now…

Just to remind you of something; Russia, Iran and even China are now all working together as a partner with Turkey. Yes, this happened all in the last year or so…

Do not run around America and say, “What did I do?”

We Americans allowed our government to try to coop the Turkish government and we failed, almost succeeded, but with a touch of Russian help in the info department, Turkey (Erdogan) came through the attempt…

Just wondered if you even realized all that happened? The Turks are hot headed and now they are getting mad, angry and pissed off. Americans do have Turkey issues…

Good ole CIA with its nose where it should not have been…

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Have a nice day…

WtR

It is a sickness to obsess with one subject so much… (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
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“Russian propagandists scored a victory in Spain this weekend after ‘boldly injecting fake news and disinformation’ into the debate over Catalonian independence and seemingly influencing the election results,” the Washington Post’s Dan Boylan wrote, citing “U.S. information warfare experts.”

Again and again…. The Russians did it, all over the world…

WtR

Everyday we step closer to the abyss, as it sings its siren song to induce and lull us within its depths…

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This week, during a session of the Russian Federation Council’s Interim Committee on the Protection of Sovereignty, RT’s Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan explained that according to the channel’s lawyers, the US branch staff could face harsh penalties if RT fails to follow through with the demands.

“We received a letter from the US Department of Justice, demanding that we register as a foreign agent. By October 17 we must ‘whip ourselves’ and say that we are a foreign agent,” Simonyan said, adding that “[our] lawyers tell us that if we [RT’s American branch] do not register as a foreign agent, arrests of our employees, seizure of property will follow – absolutely serious things.” 

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Hmm…….?

My question is this!

How long before we dredge up old laws and or organizations “to gather up” Russians (foreign agents) living in America, into safe for the rest of us camps? Only three million or so…. We have camps ready as you read this… (http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps1.htm)

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Not as long as you think! Russophobia has become everyday life now in America…

Is it coming???

Russophobia is just a stage of many witch hunts. Through the history of America; there has been a long line of chaos and disorganization emitting from the Western Empire of the USA…

Nonetheless, Russophobia seems to have become out of control, in-context and civility and is eating the host, as it grows like a cancerous tumor, within the main body of the country…

Lets hope we are civilized enough not to burn the Russians….at the stake…

WtR