Windows to Russia

Kim’s full speech – via KCNA – is below:

Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) — Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, released a statement on Thursday.

The full text of the statement reads:

The speech made by the U.S. president in his maiden address on the UN arena in the prevailing serious circumstances, in which the situation on the Korean peninsula has been rendered tense as never before and is inching closer to a touch-and-go state, is arousing worldwide concern.

Shaping the general idea of what he would say, I expected he would make stereo-typed, prepared remarks a little different from what he used to utter in his office on the spur of the moment as he had to speak on the world’s biggest official diplomatic stage.

But, far from making remarks of any persuasive power that can be viewed to be helpful to defusing tension, he made unprecedented rude nonsense one has never heard from any of his predecessors.

A frightened dog barks louder.

I’d like to advise Trump to exercise prudence in selecting words and to be considerate of whom he speaks to when making a speech in front of the world.

The mentally deranged behavior of the U.S. president openly expressing on the UN arena the unethical will to “totally destroy” a sovereign state, beyond the boundary of threats of regime change or overturn of social system, makes even those with normal thinking faculty think about discretion and composure.

His remarks remind me of such words as “political layman” and “political heretic” which were in vogue in reference to Trump during his presidential election campaign.

After taking office Trump has rendered the world restless through threats and blackmail against all countries in the world. He is unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country, and he is surely a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician.

His remarks which described the U.S. option through straightforward expression of his will have convinced me, rather than frightening or stopping me, that the path I chose is correct and that it is the one I have to follow to the last.

Now that Trump has denied the existence of and insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world and made the most ferocious declaration of a war in history that he would destroy the DPRK, we will consider with seriousness exercising of a corresponding, highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history.

Action is the best option in treating the dotard who, hard of hearing, is uttering only what he wants to say.

As a man representing the DPRK and on behalf of the dignity and honor of my state and people and on my own, I will make the man holding the prerogative of the supreme command in the U.S. pay dearly for his speech calling for totally destroying the DPRK.

This is not a rhetorical expression loved by Trump.

I am now thinking hard about what response he could have expected when he allowed such eccentric words to trip off his tongue.

Whatever Trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U. S. dotard with fire.

WtR

I was working on the car. I lost a wrench somewhere, it was not around it seemed. The wrench was eaten by the wrench monster. I decided to shake it loose and hope I could have my two blood hounds hunt it down?

Therefore, I went down the mountain and around the corner and under the tree and came home with the car. I then sent the two happy blood hounds after a possible chance at finding a wrench, in the road, within a kilometer from home and I promised to be less grouchy if they found it… 🙂

Svetochka and Boza were happy and happy some more.They love a job to do and since they both think alike, they walk together good. They did it…. They even took a picture of where they found it at…

They found the wrench and I tried real hard to be less grouchy, cooked them dinner and gave them treats to eat…

Can you believe that they found the wrench? I did not think that it would be found…

Life has gone to the doggies…

WtR

US Intelligence tries, tried, attempted and failed big time in their attempt to stop the advancements of the Syrian Army…. And 29 Russians were the spoils to garner of that attack…

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The Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Tuesday’s attack launched by Al Nusra Front/East Turkestan Islamic Party terrorists in the midst of a de-escalation zone in the northern countryside of the Syrian province of Hama, was provoked by the US intelligence in order to stop the advancements of the Syrian Army in the east of Deir Ez Zour.

Peskov’s remarks came during a press conference, held in Moscow on Thursday.

On Wednesday, the Russian General Staff issued a statement, saying that the attack of Al Nusra Front/East Turkestan Islamic Party terrorists on Syrian Army positions in the north of Hama province, violated the de-escalation zone agreement and was initiated by the US secret service with an attempt to stop the advances of the government troops in the east of Deir Ez Zour province.

The attack of Al Nusra Front/East Turkestan Islamic Party terrorists was later repelled by the Army.

Yes it happened people; America attacked Russia in a wannabe provocation act of war. The spoils were enticing and the gathers were too confident. Stupid is as Stupid does…

This is a confirmation post for this WtR post yesterday (below)…

America has attacked Russia: US Secret Services’ Tried to Capture 29 Russian Troops in Syria…

WtR

Such a simple word!

“Words” has a meaning deeper than we seem to realize. Words; a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed. See simple and useful…

But…

Many years ago, I was in on the ground floor of the founding of a Ebonics school in Georgia. I was in food service and at the corporate level. Thus I was responsible to gather new accounts when possible and I presented a bid for the food service at this newly founded, yet in a decrepit old facility, school teaching Ebonics. To make this story shorter, I presented, I was called back and toured the facility and then called the third time, which meant I had the account…

I was good at what I do. I study and garner all the facts and twists that will make an account work. I knew that they did not have the abilities to feed the kids and I could do that. I could as we say, “Make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear!”

The school was in the pre-opening stages and would still be months from opening. I had gathered all I could find on Ebonics at that time and knew that this was a opportunity for grants, GOV. assistance and many futures of expansion availability…

But I will and have been labeled wrong in my beliefs many times…

I also knew that it (Ebonics) was a failure from the beginning. Ebonics could not grab me and hold my heart as appropriate and thus, I was not able to pretend that I cared. I called and declined for personal reasons as to why I could not come to the last interview. I am a white male, they were all black, I worked alongside Georgian blacks for many years, we were all the same and as good as one and another…. So why and what was the issue? Race had nothing to do with it. I do not see life that way, but I did see a degradation of one of, if not the finest languages on earth. Language is not to be messed with. Men and women vastly more intelligent than we are now developed languages all over the world and no one could foresee that we would butcher languages to appease the masses…. I could not other words; use a classification for my gains…. I had to live within myself, not within you…

They developed languages to be forever…. Your language you speak is old and most likely ancient, if not, it comes from some ancient form of language and this and or that language has been tested, tried and trued many times before you even were a twinkle in mom’s eye…

Language is a caste system…

Every country uses it and those who advance in language are set aside as different. Full language learning use to be available only for the very religious, very rich and or very special. The peasants spoke a simple and slanged tongue…

I was not able to be part in the degradation of the blacks, even if it was being done by their own. Language is too important to me and too hard for me to master to allow myself to be part of a downward process, no matter how good intentional it could be or was. That is questionable as to intentions…

I saw/see this same degradation happening within whites and we don’t even acknowledge that we were letting English become a side thing and no longer mattered if we flourish at it or not. We degraded ourselves, much less others of different races, colors and creeds…

I realized then as now that my command of the English language was marginal at best…

But even I noticed that the word ain’t and the resulting slap on the hand with a ruler, became silent and much less painful, as ain’t was accepted in everyday life. It might still be crass sounding, but have you ever listened to Americans making videos on YouTube? Crass is the norm anymore. I blame society, government and our lack of true schooling for this…

I also know that a dumb populace is a controllable populace by people with higher standards of education. This is the crux of the matter. As in 1984 by Orwell, language is a control factor…

Has been always and will be always…

Truth is that we should in all the world, be speaking the same language. It should be taught at the highest level that we are personally able to obtain. This language (no matter what language) should be with exceptions of local dialects, universal. Language is a barrier that is utilized to slander other countries in its available translations into other languages. It is easy to create a threat from a simple statement made in Russians and translated into English. The same goes for North Korea and the things that say. Interpretation and agenda is the name of the game…

I guess…

This is because I have to decrease my language skills, even as poor as they are, to get messages across. That makes me worry about our future. We read now on such a low level and schooling has become so poor in testing. That we do not even know it is happening. Things are covered up as we rejoice in our revelry…

I see this first hand in Svetochka. Sveta speaks very well in two languages and technically speaks well in three. Her English she learned was British English and she has learned a whole new type of English from me. That was the hardest barrier to overcome between us…. English is fractured many times over in the world…. Just as Spanish is, German is and French, for examples…

Why am I talking about this?

I get many emails and most emails are from crass individuals. Thus, when I get an email that has intelligence within it, I find myself happy. Even an intelligent person telling me I am wrong is a good thing. It shows abilities to be more than what we show that we are…

Soviets were extremely intelligent and Russians for the most part are also. The prevalence of intellects within the society norm are very high and that makes me comfortable within that society. That was a comfort that I did not find anymore within the American society. It had gotten sad to me when you simply tried to order a Big Mac at the McDonald’s drive through and the person talking to you sounded as though they were from Jupiter or such…

You never knew what you would receive! Why is that accepted?

Communication, not war is the key to a better world. Honest communication is the best and lies no matter how well meaning are never the answer. We have become a world of untruths…

My dads family were hillbillies and I grew up a hillbilly….

Have a nice day and I realize that….

I knowed the Lah brung y’all arond, naw dunt mean diddley squat to ya. It beats the heck out of me, why I reckon to talk about it. See ya I gotta git gussied up, fo Svetochka is coming. This’n jawing is not getting chores done. Tho, time’s I gotta Jerk a knot in y’ous tail…. It’s also time for Boza and I to hit the holler to walk it…

I blame it all on the era of Animism and the reinforcement by Ethnography…. Dang it y’all…

WtR

Damn Fools and more Damn Fools…

“According to our intelligence data, the offensive was instigated by the US security services to stop the successful advance of the government forces to the east of the [city of] Deir ez-Zor,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, commenting on the incident.

https://www.rt.com/news/404010-us-nusra-idlib-offensive/

I doubt you will hear this in the western news…

I will say one thing clear! Russia is getting pissed and the Bear will slaughter if the games do not stop. Syria is being twisted by America to try to stop the Syrian Army from taking their land back. Russia is in for the end results of a complete Syria and they will go to war with America over Syria…

You want that? I do not want that! You should not either…

You will get it and get it bad…

Damn Fools…

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From what is reported on media in Russia it was a damn mess and “187 objects, about 850 terrorists, 11 Tanks, four armored vehicles, 46 Pickups, five mortars, 20 Trucks and 38 Weapons Warehouses were destroyed in a 24-hours period by the Russian counterattack.”

The Russians fought tooth and nail along side the Syrians and they say no deaths of any Russians. This is hard to believe from my experience, but I will take it at face value.

I do know that the Russian official report is simply this… (From Video)

A large-scale offensive on the positions of Syrian Government troops in the Idlib de-escalation zone, which breached a ceasefire agreement, was “initiated by the American secret services to stop the successful advance of the [Syrian] government troops to the east of Deir ez-Zor,”

Head of the Main Operational Department of Russian General Staff Sergei Rudskoi said in a briefing in Moscow, Wednesday.

Sergei Rudskoi, Head of Main Operational Department of Russian General Staff (Russian):

“Despite the agreements signed on 15th November in Astana, Jabhat Al-Nusra militants joined by groups unwilling to comply with the terms of the ceasefire, at 8.00am [local time] (06:00am GMT) on September 19 launched a large-scale offensive on the positions of government troops to the north and northeast of Hama in the Idlib de-escalation zone.

The attack was carried out with the support of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, it was preceded by an artillery barrage.

During the day, the militants managed to penetrate 12 kilometres [7.5 miles] through the government troops’ defence line and at the front up to 20 kilometres [12.4 miles].

According to current information, the attack was initiated by the American secret services to stop the successful advance of the [Syrian] government troops to the east of Deir ez-Zor.

One of the main goals of the militants’ actions was an attempt to capture units of the Russian military police, amounting to 29 service personnel carrying out tasks at an observation point deployed in the area to control the de-escalation forces.

In the militants’ attack, a (Russian) military police platoon of 29 people was trapped and for several hours repelled the attacks of the enemy shoulder to shoulder with the Mwali tribe, which signed the agreement on joining the cessation of hostilities and remained true to it in this difficult situation.

In these extreme conditions the commander of the Russian forces in Syria, General-Colonel Surovkin, formed a rescue group.

It was composed of units of special operations forces, military police, joined by the military-natives of the North Caucasus (i.e – Chechens) and the Syrian Special Forces.

The squad was headed by Deputy Head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Warring Parties and Hero of Russia, Major General Victor Shuliak.

Aviation conducted strikes on the terrorists’ positions. The actions of the rescue squad were constantly supported by a pair of Sukhoi Su-25s, striking at militants and armored vehicle militants from extremely low altitudes.

As a result, the encirclement was broken and units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, without a loss, reached the area controlled by the [Syrian] government troops. During the operation, three soldiers of the Special Operations Forces were injured. All participants of this unique operation were presented with state awards.

A terrorist attack was stopped and they suffered heavy losses due to the measures taken by the Russian command together with the General Staff of Syria.

Air and artillery strikes destroyed 187 objects, about 850 terrorists, 11 tanks, four armoured vehicles, 46 pickups, five mortars, 20 trucks and 38 weapons warehouses were destroyed in a 24-hours period.

Using the results of the fire support, units of the fifth volunteer assault corps, together with squads of government troops with the support of Russian aircraft, counterattacked and currently almost completely regained the ground lost.

The operation to destroy the terrorists will be continued.”

Guess it was just an accident? Damn Fools…

The body bags are being flown home in secrete (filled with American secret service personnel) to America as you read this…. You Think! And if Russians have been killed? Then I promise that America will no longer be the only country wanting to get a war going…. Except in this case with Russia, they have been pushed to damn long…

WtR

Russian answer to the American depravity – below:

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Just right…

Boza is my guard doggy and he keeps an eye out or in his case a nose and ear out for bad things, while I do the wells. Boza loves to do the wells. This means we walk a lot and that is to Boza’s happiness…

His eyes are good this morning and only showed a bit of stress, but now they are normal, or at least as normal as he gets. Couple of rough days with stressed eyes and mainly that was due to thunderstorms that kept coming and going…

Temperature was +3 in the air, but I can tell you that with the crunchy and sparkling grass around as we walked, that it was frosted in several areas. That is Russia for you…

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Svetochka comes tomorrow and Boza and I are excited. We miss our girl…

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I ended up painting yesterday and painted half of the shower house. I would like to get the outhouse painted also. But we will see…

Boza eats up much of my time, taking care of him…

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We have a rear axle seal leaking on Sammy the Volga and I have to deal with that this weekend. Old car needs some new gaskets. I will spend Saturday working on Sammy to get ready to go home again to Moscow…. Sveta is bringing the parts I need to fix it…

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Gotta go! It is time to shut off the big well and try to divert the water flows to the storage wells as needed. I can get it all done in less than two hours if I stay focused and not play around too much on the internet…

Have a nice day…

WtR

Trump at the UN…

After watching live the UN speech of Trump at the UN meeting. I now understand that no one is in charge in America. No one, but lots of wannabes…

Even a simpleton like me can see that foreign policy of America is turned over to the military, the banks are predominate in the White House admin and Trump is a loser…. Or better yet, fears for his life, lied and or everything is trumped as we say…

This link below sums it up better than I can do. I watched the whole speech and agree with 90% of what the article says…

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I voted for the man, because Hillary was the worst case scenario, but Trump is fast becoming Hillary Jr…

Nothing, I men nothing that the man said he would do is coming true and if it does seem like he is doing what he says, then maybe you need to look closer at what is happening…

Three countries called out as the evil of all the world…

Syria, North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela (Where is Russia?) all called out to the carpet. I have to say that Israel like his speech…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “In over 30 years in my experience with the UN, I never heard a bolder or more courageous speech.”

Now that makes me all warm and fuzzy! Nutcase Netanyahu has spoken and you should swoon at his words…

Several quotes by Trump…

President Donald Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea and called Iran a “rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed and chaos,” during an address to the United Nations General Assembly.

And…

Trump denounced North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — who he dubbed “Rocket Man”— and said Pyongyang’s pursuit of an enhanced nuclear weapons program “threatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of human life.”

And…

Guess what? Once again our failings are tossed around the world and pinned upon others who are doing nothing to us and or the world. Only the USA is threatening daily, countries left and right. If we get threatened back by par to our threats, then maybe we need to change how we view the world…

The issue is that all the countries called out and many more called out daily time and time again, such as Russia and China, are not anything as to what we says they are. We are spoon fed lies and many of us believe these lies…

We had the power in our hands to change the world to the better, except we are using that power to destroy the civilized world…. Are we that ignorant?

You must remember that nothing, but nothing that is said by the USA in the media and government is truth. Nothing, except the fact we will bomb small countries to get our way…

Who is the threat to the world?

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Maybe Trump is scared for his life and families life? Maybe Trump is an idiot? Maybe Trump is actually that ignorant? Maybe Trump has no power whatsoever? Maybe Trump is a super puppet and we all fell for it!

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If we do not get off our asses and change the monster that governs America, we will not have a country as we see it today and that what we see today is a far cry from the country that we had 50 years ago. Then again, the country we had 50 years ago was a lying sack of %^$# and we had many wars to prove it. But, it was a vastly better sack of %^$# than what we have now…

What Russia says is actually very accurate below…

Konstantin Kosachev, head of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament: “Syria, Cuba and Venezuela are (painted as) almost the worst dictatorships in the history of the humankind.” He said the speech was “contradictory,” mixing expressions of respect for nations’ sovereign rights with a “barefaced U.S. pretense to determine who has such rights and who does not.”

But half (at least) of America is happy happy, joy joy over the prospect of war war war…

Beat them drums Trump! You made a fool out of me and millions of others…

Good way to look at what just happened…

Margot Wallstrom, foreign minister of Sweden: “This was a bombastic, nationalist speech. It must have been decades since one last heard a speech like that in the U.N. General Assembly. … This was a speech at the wrong time to the wrong audience.”

Other words: We just showed the world that we are out of control, both foreign and domestic in our policies and way behind the modern world and times…

I call it psychotic chaos…

WtR

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/neocon-watch/2017/september/15/nikki-haley-meltdown-assad-must-goand-war-with-north-korea/

The Devil is a Woman?

There must be something about being named US Ambassador to the UN that brings out the inner mass murderer in people. Madeline Albright famously admitted that she thought 500,000 dead Iraqi children due to US sanctions was “worth it.” John Bolton never met a disagreement he didn’t want to turn into a war. Samantha Power barked about human rights while her Administration’s drones snuffed out human life in unprecedented numbers. The real “butcher of the Balkans” Richard Holbrooke sold the Yugoslavia war on lies. John “Death Squad” Negroponte sold the lie that Saddam Hussein needed to be killed and his country destroyed for democracy to flourish, and so on.

Considering how many millions of civilians have been killed on the war propaganda of US ambassadors to the UN, perhaps the equivalent of another Holocaust could have been avoided if Ron Paul’s HR 1146 has passed 30 years ago.

But nothing could have prepared us for Nikki “Holocaust” Haley, who has thundered into the Trump Administration as US Ambassador to the UN despite hating Trump and Trump hating her. Why would President Trump pick someone for such an influential position despite her being vocally and publicly opposed to the foreign policy that provided the margin of victory for him? We can only guess. Was Trump lying on the campaign trail? Possibly. Does he not bother to notice that he has surrounded himself with people who are deeply opposed, at the DNA level, to the policies he ran and won on? Seems more likely. As Johnny Rotten famously ended the Sex Pistols run, “ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”

In fact yes. One-time top Trump supporter Ann Coulter today Tweeted the question “is there anyone out there left who doesn’t want Trump impeached?”

Coulter meant the wall or something else, but she could just as well have been complaining about the foreign policy about-face. Trump ran as a Ron Paul Republican, he governs as a George W. Bush Republican. Cheated? Yes, once again.

Which brings us back to the odious Nikki Haley. Today she no doubt thought she was being clever Tweeting in response to the predictable fact that yet another round of sanctions against North Korea did not result in Kim Jong-Un doing a Gaddafi suicide knife dance, that since the sanctions destroying the North Korean economy — such as it is — have not resulted in Kim’s surrender it was time to hand the matter over to Defense Secretary James Mattis.

Said US top UN diplomat Nikki: “We cut 90% of trade & 30% of oil. I have no problem kicking it to Gen. Mattis because I think he has plenty of options.”

We killed their trade, we destroyed their oil imports and still they have the nerve to defy us and not surrender…so time for World War Three! That’s Nikki. No foreign policy experience beyond the fetid breath of the neocon “experts” whispering in her all-too-willing ear.

But Nikki was not done today. After threatening a war on North Korea that would likely leave ten or more thousand US troops dead, hundreds of thousands of South Korean civilians dead, and maybe another million North Koreans dead, she decided to opine on the utterly failed six year US regime change operation in Syria. Today, as Deir Ezzor has finally been liberated by the Syrian government from the scourge of ISIS, Nikki Haley chose to go on record defending ISIS and al-Qaeda by repeating Obama’s line that Assad must go.

Ponder this for a minute: Assad has just defeated ISIS in Deir Ezzor. ISIS is the reason the US has invaded Syrian sovereignty and initiated military action. Yet according to Nikki Haley Assad’s reward for wiping out ISIS is that he must be deposed — presumably in favor of US-backed rebels who have been in bed with ISIS for six years!

Is Nikki Haley pro-ISIS? Is she pro-al-Qaeda? Is she evil or just stupid?

You decide.

But if she is not removed from office soon, she will be leading perhaps a million people to their graves.

Boza has issues with his eyes when the weather changes.

Therefore, yesterday we had a rough day and night. It is now 2 a.m. and I have medicated Boza and he is sleeping again. The thunderstorms are rolling in one after another and my arthritis is flaring so bad, I am running a fever…

But…

Life goes on and I sit here drinking a cup of coffee and writing a post, all the while as Boza has his head on my lap and is sleeping peacefully again. That makes all the sleeplessness worth it…

Makes it hard to get another cup of coffee though. Don’t wanna disturb the big baby…

I went to the Big Village yesterday and bought two cheap hollow broom handles. They ran 30 rubles each and I have put them together to make one long painting pole. It works…

I got most of the wall covered with one coat of new paint, I am worried about painting around the electric wires. I am not as coordinated as I use to be and a metal pole worries me. Gotta take that area slow…

The blue tarp you see in the image above is our pile of wood to build a chicken coop with…

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Prices are dropping again…

Bread is under 10 rubles a kilo loaf…. Milk is under 30 rubles a liter…. Chicken is so cheap that I can afford to buy de-boned legs quarters and home repair items are virtually nothing in cost. Russia has exploded the market with her own products and it shows…

The one thing I have noticed is interesting to me…

Germany has become the biggest supplier of food items after Russia and the USA has become quadrupled in supplying the Russian market with items associated with auto, home and chemicals…

Example is this, I went and bought rear axle oil. The oil was from the USA. I then took notice of other items, oils, chemicals (car waxes, washing compounds, etc…) all made in USA…. The little American flag is specifically mandatory on items made in USA. Thus, they show up easily…

While sanctions have destroyed Europe’s economy, with the exception of Germany’s, America has moved in and started to supply many items that Russia does not produce enough quantity  yet…. Interesting in my eyes and it tells me who is who and what is what…. Europe needs better friends and it looks like the sanctions where aimed at Europe instead of Russia…

Never fear though…. Russia is moving fast upon the market that America has tapped and soon America will be put out again. Germany is another story, German made items, German warehouses and German businesses are flourishing here in Russia…. Germany has used these sanctions to their best effect and have taken a strong hold in the Russian market…

Food items are flush with German foods…

Thought you might like to know that…

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Good sign for today; Boza has eaten three times this morning and it is just 4:30 a.m…. 😉

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Another tidbit of information…

Russia is AliExpress’s largest market segment…

It has been the largest for many years, but now that AliExpress has opened warehouses and made a huge push into Russia, the sales have gone to the roof. Shipping was the biggest issue and with local warehouses shipping items in days instead of months. It shows…

Russia is one huge on-line market, Russians love to shop on-line…

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Well gotta go. I have walked Boza twice, Boza has eaten three times and I will walk him again. Then since it is raining off and on, Boza and I will take a nap. It is 5 a.m. and time to rest…

I started this post at 2 a.m. and during this post, I walked Boza, did his eyes with medication, fed Boza, drank two cups of coffee and surfed the internet for interesting tidbits to increase my knowledge of the world. Most likely will not paint today, looks like a rainy day all the way around…. Guess I will read a book?

Boza says, “Yup, time to sleep now!”

WtR

Kind of sums it up pretty well…

There are three basic kinds of liars: Sociopaths, Psychopaths and the most dreaded Political Parasites. And all political parasites are either sociopaths or psychopaths…

That seems like a good way to see what we have for leaders in the world…

But…

Boza and I are bachelors for a week and Svetochka is back in Moscow. Boza and I walked this morning and since I did not get to bed last night until very late, I am groggy this morning. Boza is happy next to me and I am surfing the internet…

May just take it easy today?

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The new walls are double painted and I am now starting on the side wall of the Tiny Russian Village Home. We have all the wood that is left over stacked and covered against the elements and you can see it covered with a blue tarp in the second picture…

I will go to the Big Village tomorrow and get a angled long handled paint brush. I need it to help get under the eves of the house and will in the next few days get the side of the home painted. I also painted another section of back wall and once the side is done, we are done painting for the winter. It is getting cold fast, should have freezing nights in a week or so…

The neighbors are all painting also. This weekend was wonderful, everyone’s homes are looking good. Painting party going on, without the party… 😉

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Second cup of coffee this morning…

It is cold at about +5 and since sleep was elusive, coffee is excellent to help that issue…. Already talked with my sweetpea and she is at work and while not happy to not be with us, she is happy and safe in Moscow. Boza and I miss her already…

Splurged yesterday, bought some Jacobs coffee. It is strong, rich and nutty tasting. Jacobs Gold is the type and was on sale. That is the only way I will buy Jacobs. Otherwise too expensive. I like Nescafe the best,but occasionally I want some different taste to my coffee. Jacobs answers that need and desire…. Jacobs is a very popular coffee in Russia…

German Coffee…

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I will be back on track tomorrow and will take some pictures of the neighbors homes. They are looking good, except one is a color that I will call pumpkin and thus, the home is now the Pumpkin House when I talk about it…

Speaking of pumpkins…

A babushka at the top of the Tiny Russian Village, has got a pumpkin growing in a interesting spot. It still is not near ripe and is hanging on, but I hope she is ready to grab it. It will split if it falls and hits the ground. It is a big pumpkin. I am always amazed at how the nicest veggies like to find the weirdest spots to become monsters in size. I had to build a platform once for pumpkins that grew like this…

I see this pumpkin and think of pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, baked pumpkin, boiled pumpkin and roasted pumpkin seeds…

Yummy…

WtR