Windows to Russia

Got to get Sammy the Volga ready, got to pack and got to get the flat ready. It is time for a trip to the Tiny Russian Village…

I will post again in a few days. It will be sad, Boza will not be with us and he is so much of the Tiny Russian Village. That is one thing I have to do today; get all of Boza’s travel blankets and stuff from the car. I have delayed doing that, but today I will remove the last remains of Boza from the car. 🙁

Can’t wait to get to the village…

I want to see the white lilacs, our roses and our pine trees. Plus I have to install a new window and we have to look the home over carefully and see what shape everything is in…

WtR

PS: Will post Monday. Everything is wonderful in the Tiny Russian Village….white lilacs are alive, the rose is alive, the pear trees are huge and our baby pine has finally set its roots good…

Enough is Enough: EU to Block US Sanctions on Iran to Protect European Firms: https://t.co/mcmJK3eqOu via @SputnikInt

— Kyle Keeton (@kylesvet) May 18, 2018

Good…

‘With friends like that, who needs enemies?’ – EU Council President Tusk on Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/DjX3ybZkFh

— RT (@RT_com) May 18, 2018

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Ukraine should blow up Putin’s Crimea bridge

Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting Crimea, Ukraine, with mainland Russia on Tuesday. Putin did so by in a typical show of bravado by leading a column of transport vehicles across the bridge. Ukraine should now destroy elements of the bridge. While that course of action would be an escalation against Putin and one that would almost certainly spark Russian retaliation, this bridge is an outrageous affront to Ukraine’s very credibility as a nation. Of course, from Puti

Source: Ukraine should blow up Putin’s Crimea bridge

This is one of the most asinine thing I have ever seen written and Russia is correct to apply a lawsuit against said parties involved…

The Russian Investigative Committee (RIC) has opened a criminal case against Tom Rogan, a journalist from the United States, who “recommended” Ukraine blow up the Crimean Bridge, Svetlana Petrenko, the official representative of the Russian RIC, said. “A criminal case has been opened against US citizen Tom Rogan who published an article titled “Ukraine should blow up Putin’s Crimea bridge” calling for the destruction of the Crimean Bridge by bombing it,” she said. According to the investigation, in the ar

Source: Russia Launches Case Against Journalist Who Suggested Blowing Up Crimean Bridge – Sputnik International

This is a very real act of terrorism and in heavens name, how would the US respond if RT and or Sputnik ran a story about blowing up the Golden Gate bridge in America? This is blatant warmongering against Russia…

America you stepped off of the loony bin territory and now have gone totally bug %$^& terrorist….dangerous is no longer applicable, a terrorist is now who you are known as, America…

Never should have been printed, freedom of press is not an excuse to promote bombing other countries…

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I love to find tidbits of the olden days: Water towers are one of my favorites to find…

Then readers know that I love flowers: This is the blossoms from a chestnut tree…

Never fear if there is a fence: Russians always cut a hole somewhere in that fence and it becomes a passage to the other side….Russians dislike their paths to be fenced off…

Not far from the hole in the fence above, is this wonderful path from the old days…

Everywhere after Victory Day celebrations, we had the children drawing images of what they saw, in chalk. Pretty cool actually….I did the same as a child…

Just thought you might want to see some images of that Evil Russian World I walk in. As you can see I am scared and fear for my life… 😉

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I was around when min wage was $1 per hr. and the avg middle class made $700-$800 per month. A New car was about $1000, A 3 bed 1800 Sq ft House cost just $4000 or about $80-90 per month. Utilities for the same approximately, $20-$25 per month. Gasoline 17 to 20 cents per gallon. A loaf of bread 5 cents, average grocery bill was $25 a week. Price of a postage stamp just 3 cents. A visit to the family Doctor $10, and Emergency Room visit about $20. Full delivery for a baby was a measly $300 for full term Ob/Gyns and about $500 hospital 2 overnight stay in a private room. Minimum wage was instituted to protect children from being exploited. Adults rarely worked for minimum wage…

I remember a penny buying a sack of candy. Coffee was brewed in a percolator. Gold was $40 dollars n ounce. 25 cent movies. 50 cent a pound coffee. 20 cents for a pack of cigarettes. $1 pro baseball tickets. I remember many things…

I remember making $10 an hour to short line assemble combines and when I welded axles for those combines, I made $15 an hour. I remember being so damn rich that I would hold on to three or four paychecks before I deposited them in the bank…

I remember Edmond and bought everything through them to satisfy my mad scientist desires. I remember selling seeds and earning my first BB Gun, a Daisy Red Ryder Carbine. Oh those where the days…

I remember the bobby sock era. I remember dynamite as a normal item. I remember paper money backed by gold and silver. I remember S&H green stamps. Brownie cameras. Sinclare Dinosaurs if you filled up with gasoline…

I remember a whole different world than what we have now…

Could you imaging what we would remember if we lived to be a thousand years old?

Maybe it is better that we don’t live that long, for I still want to buy all those neat things found in comic book ads, such as x-ray glasses and I even remember cars with no turn signals. What do you think your arm was for?

What else?

Jeans were called dungarees. No dial on the phone, had to talk to the operator. Beating on your TV to get any type of picture and standing during sports events with the antenna at the window. TV was off the air by at least midnight. I remember way too much…

But it was fun and most of all I remember toys that used your brain and not batteries…

Guess I am too old…

WtR

Ukraine is pushing for serious issues. I would imaging soon Russia will be using warships to escort the ships being harassed. Russia is giving warning shots about this issue…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation – № 825-28-04-2018

The number of Russian vessels illegally detained by the Ukrainian authorities has recently increased. Just two weeks after the Ukrainian coast guard unlawfully seized the Russian fishing ship The Nord and illegally detained the crew on March 25, an arrest warrant was issued for a Trans Services Maritime vessel.

On April 25, 2018, the Ukrainian cabinet supported an initiative of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine and issued an executive order on banning transit and shipping cargoes through the Ukrainian territory by vessels under the Russian flag or owned by persons registered in the Russian Federation, as well as any other vessels regardless of the flag they sail under, which had in the past entered seaports of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.

With regard to these provocative actions by the Ukrainian authorities against Russian vessels and citizens of the Russian Federation, the Foreign Ministry draws attention of shipping companies to the real risks of pirate seizure of Russian vessels by the Ukrainian security agencies.

http://www.mid.ru/en/maps/ua/-/asset_publisher/ktn0ZLTvbbS3/content/id/3200843

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BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhua) — Chinese researchers have developed a new method to turn carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, into clean liquid fuel such as methanol.

The breakthrough might help mitigate the greenhouse effect caused by carbon emissions, and promote the development of new clean energies.

A research team led by Professor Zeng Jie, at the University of Science and Technology of China, developed a new catalyzer with platinum as the raw material. The catalyzer can effectively convert carbon dioxide into methanol, which is also a basic raw material of the chemical industry.

The study was published in the academic journal, Nature Nanotechnology.

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After more than two decades of negotiation, the China–Russia gas deal represents a new era of energy cooperation between China and Russia. In total, this is a win–win deal for both sides. For China, the deal will decrease energy consumption and carbon emission but will not significantly influence air quality; for Russia, it will provide a new market for its gas resources.

Source: The effects of the China–Russia gas deal on energy consumption, carbon emission, and particulate matter pollution in China | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

I found this very interesting…

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Die Bundesregierung ist wegen der Steuerreform von Donald Trump alarmiert. Nach SPIEGEL-Informationen erwartet das Finanzministerium, dass deutsche Firmen mit US-Ablegern ihre Geschäfte bald verstärkt in das Land verlagern.

Source: Finanzministerium: Trumps Steuerreform trifft fast 5000 deutsche Firmen – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Wirtschaft

I woke this morning and thought about my own line of thinking on what is happening…

The EU is the actual target in all this financial games going on…we started with Russia and sanctions. This hurts the EU….Now China and games. This hurts the EU….Now Iran and games. This hurts the EU the most. We even threaten the EU with sanctions if they still trade with Iran…

Merry Christmas EU! You are the target of the end run of the USA games…

DER SPIEGEL is trying to tell the German people; Wake up and that means the EU better wake up…

I started to do some contemplating with this post the other day…

It makes no sense…

Wake up EU. America is gunning for you…

I am an American: What do you not understand about America First?

We’re against Everyone and everything and every country…

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SOCHI, May 15. /TASS/. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday presented his vision of the structure of the country’s new government. He handed over a draft decree on the new government to President Vladimir Putin….More: http://tass.com/politics/1004450

There are a thousand ways to look at almost anything. Why just ask a hundred people anything. That means at times you get a hundred answers and all are different….in Russia a land of intellects, you get a different answer from each person… 😉

I don’t try to analyze why Putin keeps Medvedev as Prime Minister of Russia. I know it works and seems to work good…

I do know that Putin and Medvedev are actually friends in life in general. They seem to have a working relationship and understanding what one or the other wants is available for all to see…

Medvedev is considered by many to be a 5th Columnist and too much align with the western viewpoint. Who knows? I do know that Putin and Medvedev work good together, as long as Putin is in the top spot. I know that Medvedev learned some hard lessons, during his term as the Russian President. The Western Empire burned his ass badly in Libya and several other deals…

Yet I find myself at personally being despondent of Medvedev as a leader…

Putin and Medvedev work good together. Medvedev has done very well with running the Russian Government and seems to meet his deadlines before the deadlines are due. He works hard at his job and in his way he is a Russian Patriot, just different than Putin…

It takes all personalities and ways at looking at things to make the whole picture (or country) come together…

WtR