“It’s ridiculous to put us on the same sanctions list as North Korea and then ask for our help in imposing sanctions on North Korea.” – Putin, president of Russia…
Yes, Putin our American Government is a little (lot) bit messed up at times…
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All Russia can do is to turn her back to the West, while watching very closely for the coming surprise attack. There is nothing in America for Russia. Any American investment in Russia will be used to damage Russia. Russia does not need any American capital. The Russian central bank’s belief in Russia’s need for foreign capital is proof of the successful brainwashing of Russian economists by American neoliberalism during the Yeltsin era. The Russian central bank is so brainwashed that it is incapable of understanding that the Russian central bank can finance Russian development without any foreign loans. The Russian government still doesn’t seem to understand that the only reason sanctions can be imposed on Russia is because Russia is ensnared in the Western financial system. The economic advice that the Russian government gets from its brainwashed neoliberal economists serves Washington’s interests, not Russia’s._._._
Source: Dear Russia: An Enemy Is Not A Partner
Now that is some truth…
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Here is the America quote of the week to show; well I am dumbfounded at what I heard…
“Enough is enough. War is never something the United States wants. We don’t want it now. But our country’s patience is not unlimited,” – said US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley said about NK… (She really said that? Yup!)
I am still in disbelief that she said this in the presence of the members of the UN. This woman is following a script, yet that very script is proof of a psychosis form of illness that is abundant within the American Gov. system…
This is from a country (USA) that at one time recently, we were bombing 7 countries at the same time… According to the New York City-based think tank, 26,171 bombs were dropped on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan during the year…
What she should have said is, “Enough is enough. War is never something the United States wants, it is something that we must have, just as an addict must have their drugs! And our country is in withdrawal right now!”
There, I corrected it for you…. You are welcome Nikki Haley…
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I look at America like this…
Install the names and people into the saying, that makes you happy. It works for all and everyone…
I admit that lumping all Americans in the same boat is wrong, but I also admit that silence is acceptance. The link above is to a 2005 article. I have not changed my thinking and if anything my thinking is stronger toward the fact listed in the article above…
While I cannot separate the good and bad in American people (we have become a populace of cyclical multiple personalities,) I do know that we allow the bad to override the good way too many times. This is a serious flaw that has become the normality for Americans. This norm is very detrimental to our society…
I talked with Svetochka about we are what we teach our kids. From the schools, the parents, the society and friends. We are either instill with certain things or not. e.g. – Opening doors for people, giving your seat on the bus to a pregnant lady and so on and so on…
A comment came my way…
Do not believe everything you ‘hear’ about Americans. We are a good, caring people.
This is true and I wish I could say that lumping all of us together is wrong, but until the people who care, stand up and make it known that what is happening is wrong and we will no longer accept what is happening (we showed some of this in electing Trump. Except he has shown us that the power of the American president is a facade). That aside…
There are good people…
But in a system as corrupt and maligned as the American government, we are too scared to do anything…
Fear: Thy Name is the Western Empire and the Terrorists have won…
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Fear and Hatred Unite Americans Now — US Military More Secure, Progressive
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I have a hundred posts on how we as a country (America) has become a fear mongering society. The government has induced this fear and greed and it has become anti-social to go against the idea that the world is a safe place. In fact with few exceptions, most of the fear is generated by the American actions in the world. There is a better way and when dealing internationally, we must utilize all countries and their opinions to better the world. You can not heavy hand the world to your desires…
Again that said…
America has good, no, great people living there. Just as Russia has, China has, North Korea has, Syria has and the whole world has. The issue is that all over the world we allow the instigators, fear mongers and the hatred pushers to rule the roost…
I admit that I am wrong to lump all as one…
But…
Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky. – Sonia Gandhi
America is not together…
I do not care if all is bad, if we are together on that bad, then so be it. If we all nurture the good, then so be it. The issue is that we all have a different idea about what good and bad is. That part to me is what is bad…
We think North Korea is bad, maybe they think we are bad?
I was raised to hate Russia, not dislike, but hate Russia. As many of us were raised and obviously being raised right now to feel the same way. Hate Russia is normality and yet this American living in Russia, understands that we are wrong. I live it everyday and we are wrong…. Just like we are wrong about North Korea and many other countries. It does not get any more palpable than Libya, we destroyed Libya and did admit we were wrong years later. That did not stop us from destroying it and we knew we were wrong, the normal people, knew we were wrong, yet silence allowed our governments to destroy Libya and now…. What was once a very fine country, a country that had circumstances that led it to be led a certain way, due to tribe factors, be destroyed in the name of a righteous Western Empire…. Yet we still do nothing to get Libya back on track…
I screamed bloody murder on this website about what we were doing wrong and I got abused and destroyed by a Western Gov. to silence this website. The powers to be wanted Libya destroyed and they got it…
I lump Americans together…
Therefore, when I get a message and it comes from someones heart and I feel that message…. I cry, I cry because I know that there are good people and good people have become the shunned…
Good people know not to lie, cheat, kill, destroy and act immoral. Though since we all seem to have different ideas about what all the above is acceptable. It has become easier to shut our mouths and take our lumps and hope it all goes away…
This is why I do not ever single out anyone who helps with donations, messages of care and generally acceptance that things need to change in the world. These people would be singled out and that is simply not something that I care to have happen…
So called good friends in America and friends who agree with me are fearful of staying in touch with me. It makes me sad to accept that because I feel that our government sucks and needs to be downsized and revamped, I am shunned!
I could go on and on…
But is is simple to me, yet very difficult to overcome, as difficult as it is to separate the good people from the bad people in America. Actions and words say what is necessary, silence and acceptance is going along with the flow of things…
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. – Haile Selassie
I believe this quote above with all my heart. I am not afraid to admit that we have issues and need to speak out about these issues. Good or bad…
Yes I will go to my grave and will die believing that we can correct what is happening. There are good people in America and the world as a whole. Maybe it is time these good people stand up, before we do not have a world that is worth living in…. Is there enough of us left? Maybe it is time to realize that the world is ours and does not belong to a very few percentage points of the populace to do with as they please? When did God give ownership to the world, to a handful of people?
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” ― Jon Krakauer
I agree…
May good people rule the world? But…. What is good? I believe there is good people, I just want them to stand up and be heard and not accept less than they deserve…
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This is nothing new. What is new is that is becoming much harder to annihilate those who dare to open their mouths, against the Empire…
Good article by …
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Eleven years with this special girl in Russia. This image is when Boza was about a year old…
Boza had a bath and most likely his first one, with the expression he has on his face… 😉
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We had planned on having a hard month. Our budget was destroyed by fixing the Tiny Russian Village home and finishing up the Volga from all her work needed. Boza had drained the budget at the same time with all his doctor visits and medications. Thus, money was gone and we were prepared for a few months of leanness…
Then today, from America came several donations, one was from a repeat donation person to boot!
I was going to have to delay a cat-scan to be done until money eased up, but now it looks like I will be able to get it done. I need to have my brain scanned and see if the tumor I fought with many years ago is still sleeping or not. This has been dragging on me as I worry about such things and rightly so. If you never have had to fight a brain tumor then you do not realize what I am talking about. Anything growing abnormally in your head, has and causes issues. I have had my share…
Medical care in Russia is cheap for even an American like me. A cat-scan would run: According to New Choice Health, the national average cost of a brain CT scan is $1,200.Jan 27, 2015…. In Russia it will run 6000 rubles = $100 at the time of this writing…. One of those things I talk about as far as cost inflation wrongness for Americans…
Therefore, Boza now will have months of medicine, we will have food on the table and I will get my health checked up on…. Seriously, I was not sure how all this was going to work out and it will still be tight monetarily wise, but now it is workable…
The first time I had to deal with a tumor I dealt with the VA and it was pure hell to get things done. All those years of being a good American and did the nasty for them, did not translate into a blessing when I need my country the most. I finally ended up doing chemotherapy through a hospital that did it on an emergency room basis. This way my company insurance would pay for it and it cost me $100 a visit and I visited every week (two sessions around 22 to 23 weeks long) for a year total. This all came out of my pocket…
The VA refused to help much at all, for to admit to an issue, would open them up to an Agent Orange issue and they knew what I knew. Being soaked to the skin for months in the stuff caused big problems. Some got something, I was not one to get anything. Like most of us…. I tried the system set up for us Vets who are not showing the accepted issues. I was railroaded…. If I had prostrate cancer I could have been helped…
So I tell myself, “It is all in your head!” Get it? 😉
Therefore, I ask nothing and I mean nothing, from my government, for I realize that I will get nothing…
Again, thank you for the donations…
I started to cry today, for really God does work things out, as long as you do your best. That is one thing I do, “My best!”
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If someone put me into a box and tried to seal it? If someone locked the doors on my home from the outside?
Wouldn’t you be a bit angry at those people? I would…
While North and South Korea had issues and it looked as it North Korea was going to mope the ground up with the South. The issue started originally due to cold war crap between the USSR and USA. The USA had to get into the middle of all of it and came close themselves to getting their ass handed to them. My dad was in the Korean War and if the UN counter-offensive that was launched at Incheon, had failed. We with SK would have been in the ocean next…. Very possible my dad would never have made it home alive…
As it was we failed for the most part, because China swarmed over the border and handed us our asses again. But we bombed the hell out of everything in the North Korea and made sure that hardly any buildings were left standing… We dropped 635,000 tons of bombs and if it moved we tried to bomb it…. The war never ended and in NK’s eyes is still technically going on…
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The armistice also established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The DMZ was decided to be a 2.5-mile (4.0 km)-wide fortified buffer zone between the two Korean nations. The Demilitarized Zone follows the Kansas Line where the two sides actually confronted each other at the time of the signed armistice. The DMZ is currently the most heavily defended national border in the world.
So instead of one Korea, we had as it was at the beginning of the whole mess, two Korea’s. Therefore we poured money into SK and boxed NK in tight as a sardine can…. We did not let the world properly intermingle with NK…
70 years of propaganda, financial destruction and literally just plain making up anything to demoralize the NK. On top of which America has a huge propaganda system at work in SK and this is all to keep fear of NK alive in SK’s eyes. Thus, they need our military bases there…
Once again, we Americans need to look in the mirror as we, talk trash about a country that has been abused beyond imagination verbally, morally, financially and socially. We are the catalyst to what NK became…
They fear the USA and that fear drives them to protect themselves at all costs… In their minds the war never ended. And it did not…
They are right to fear the USA! Ask Syria, Ukraine, Iran, Libya, Iraq, Venezuela, Serbia, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Somalia and there is many more… These are just off the top of my head…
How would you like it if someone tried to lock you in your room for 70 years?
WtR
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…
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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?
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