The Russian Health Ministry announced on Saturday that production of the world’s first registered coronavirus vaccine has begun. It’s been named ‘Sputnik V’ after the famed space satellite, launched by Moscow in 1957.
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Belarus’ Lukashenko in that last few years started to play, “Lets see which side will give the most favors?”
Russia did not play the game, they patiently said no and watched as the rope was dealt out for Lukashenko to tie the knot himself. The West especially the UK and the US tossed tidbits of masqueraded promises and tidbits of veiled wealth. The West will never change and cannot ever be trusted, yet Lukashenko tried to play one side against the other….we have seen this short term tactic used by many countries in the past…
I will say it time and time again, “Greed in any form….be it materialism, financialism and or amoralism is always the destruction of the player!”
Lukashenko the President of Belarus should never have tried to play the USA/UK against Russia….no matter how glittery the tidbits are, that are being used to entice with…
Lukashenko, how did that work out for your neighbor Ukraine? Oops…
Lukashenko, is it too late?
(Again) Only Putin/Russia knows at this point…
WtR
PS: Lukashenko is getting a taste of being “Friends” with the West, especially US and UK
Another tidbit of info…
“He wants to work with Russia, Poland, the European Union, and the United States,” Zhirinovsky explained, writing on his Telegram channel about Lukashenko’s appeals to foreign leaders. “But, alas, this girl is no longer a virgin, so in terms of a long-term relationship, nobody is interested in marrying her.”
We are that soap opera…
The buck stops … with the other guy.
It’s not my fault … it’s the other guys fault…
It use to be very clearly: As President Truman had a sign on top his desk that said, “The Buck stops here!”
If there should be any argument on this point, Mr. Truman has a desk gadget that ought to settle it. It is a little thing on which is printed four words—“The Buck Stops Here.” Others may pass the buck, but by the time it reaches the President’s desk—well, that is the terminal point. There just isn’t any place else for it to go.
Source: The Buck Stops Here – Quote Investigator
But according to this same site: It originated with Gen. Warfield
Gen. Warfield spoke on “Co-operation,” emphasizing the value of doing the job without seeking to escape responsibility by referring to a motto he keeps on his desk—“The buck stops here.” He described the extensive system of laundries operated by the Army Quartermaster Department at Army posts, producing a profit for the department, as required by law.
Source: The Buck Stops Here – Quote Investigator
Then in the ensuing years:
I watched how “Passing the Buck” even became common place….
I had a sign on my office door,“The buck stops here! Do not pass this door for another door, for if it is wrong it is my fault and I will take care of it, No one else is to blame! – Welcome…”
Source: From Russia: America Needs a Boss – The Buck Stops Here… | Windows to Russia
I could not contemplate running any business by passing the buck…
But I watched the USA and much of the world start passing the buck…
Therefore, I have talked about this issue on WtR and find it appalling that we the so called greatest country in the world, would ever think, do and contemplate; “Passing the Buck!”
A funny thing happened on the way to the Soap Opera:
This human existences has become one huge world wide, “Passing the buck!”
The soap opera that we call Earth is nothing but that….there are few now who do not look at the others and point fingers and blame everyone but themselves….the newest generations accept that passing the buck is acceptable…
I think 99% of all our issues we are seeing today worldwide would and could not be solved by simply saying, “The Buck Stops Here!”
Accountability is a major part of keep things in line. If you are accountable and held to accountability? You have a tendency to get it right, either the first time and or correct it when you are wrong. But, when you can just pass the buck? Never is anyone to blame for your stupidity and intentional actions against others…
That would be a good name for the world wide soap opera…
Passing the Buck…
WtR
PS: I am to blame as much as anyone. I watched all this happen and until late in life, did nothing and or said nothing about it all. But, I try now and that is better than 99% of the people running around and saying, “What did I do!” or better yet, “What did you not do?”
One lie is all it takes for everyone to lose their faith in you. What makes the USA and lap-doggy’s think that doubling down on lies makes that rule any different?So why do I publish Windows to Russia?
Because I like people? Because it is propaganda? Because it is fun? Because it makes me money? Because I am bored? Because – Because – Because?
No to all the above…
I write on Windows to Russia, “Because it is the right thing to do and the simple truth.”
I have over 7000 posts (7300 + as of writing this post.) of various types of information, that covers the scale from cell phones that I buy, basic lies told by so many, about living in a Tiny Russian Village, living in Moscow and a whole bunch of my opinions mixed into the fray…
I do not care if you hate me, I prefer telling the truth instead and I am not working for your love. I don’t do it for hate either, I do it for truth. I tell the truth and while it may be truth in my eyes, it is truth and nothing but the truth….so help me god…
It is truth that has a whole bunch of reasons behind it and I am letting you know that someone is watching the stupidity as it happens…. Me!
I travel Russia and many other countries and the truth is that you do not hear 1/10th of what Sveta and I do. I just write about what is going through my mind at the moment that I start to write. It has nothing to do with sending any special message and wanting you to love/hate what I say…
It is simply what is, is what is…
If you want to debate what I say? Then you are at the wrong place! I would not say it, if I wanted to debate it. I say it because it is what is right and correct….you do not do anything about the situation that we are in and at least I am willing to stick my neck out and call foul when it is foul. I can’t call all fouls, for there are simply just too many fouls being tossed around….I call out what I can…
When I say that Libya is screwed and Syria is a USA induced %$#^&* pile and the financial side of the world is collapsing. When I say that the Western Empire is a sack of crap and needs to be buried as cow dung fertilizer. That is what I mean and you are not going to change my mind about it….When I say that what we are now doing in Venezuela is wrong, it is wrong and you know it….When I say that sanctioning Russia is wrong because we lie about why we do it, then it is wrong….When I say that the USA is cheating and trying to cover up their inadequacies about China, that is exactly what is happening. I call out America for being so scared and afraid of competition, that we look like a bully and that is what we are. Bullies are actually a very insecure person who confronts their own fears by trying to act tough…
As a sniper, I watched many humans drop like a rock and I watched many wiggle like a worm on the ground and nothing will stop the inevitable – I know what being screwed royally is. We are all screwed in one way or another, it is just how you deal with being screwed….I live with my actions every day and every night…
The best thing that I did in my life was to erase as much of my past as I could, with the last of my wealth and move on to a different existence in the world. Of course the past really never leaves you completely and it will haunt you late at night while it sneaks up in your dreams as you try to slumber and forget what was…
As a Lance Missile crew member, I was taught to rejoice at the fact that I had a life span of less than a minute in a real combat situation. Yes, we rejoiced about that. We would brag that we had a more important job, because we would die quicker than you would…
I am a lot wiser than you know and I have done a 100 times more things than 99% of you have in this world. I have seen things that would make your pee and bowels run freely as you try to escape it and I had realty checkmate me after having returned several id wallets to family in other countries of men that I mortally wounded and they asked me to do them a favor, as they died…
Try that on for size! Go knock on the door of the family of the man you shot a years earlier while you invaded a foreign country and tell them how he died and by who, because he asked you to as he died…
I could not live with ignoring his last request to me as he died in my arms…
Honor in death, even of your enemy….this is part and fully what is majorly wrong with things happening now in the west…
My word is gold and even a handshake is not necessary to enact my bond. Many years ago, I shipped a car to America and the whole transaction was done by trust in me. 10’s of thousands of dollars were entrusted in me and the person had never met me, except by e-mail and a couple of phone calls. I can be trusted and what I say can be trusted…
I will tell you one thing, not many people have shipped a classic car in that time frame from Russia and not many people have the contacts to do this in Russia and be a foreigner to boot. I think about that car everyday and have a slew of pictures of it. It was a true beauty and many times I wished that I had bought it for myself. It was a true Soviet Treasure… (In my eyes!)
One day, maybe I will write about that escapade and it was a blast I will tell you…
The problem is that I do not find very many Americans that I trust anymore, but I have found a whole world of trusting Russians that deserve to never be let down by a Western World of deceit…
So why do I publish Windows to Russia?
Truth about life, truth about Russia and truth about my America that I was forced from, by a system that has destroyed the American way of life…
That way of life has been found again in Russia, by me and for all the issues Russia has, they still try to put their children and life before material and financial items and issues…
Have a good day…
WtR
Fall is here. The leaves are changing, the fields are brown, The mosquitoes are almost gone, the horseflies have said goodbye, the days are getting very short quickly, single digit temperatures at night, only twenty degrees high in the daytime and the migratory birds are all practicing flying formation to get ready…
In about four months I have gone from the end of winter and now am staring at the start of winter again. For fall is very short, just like spring and summer here in Russia. Summer as normal was about two to three weeks long….I never stopped wearing long sleeves and winter pants. In Russia the only change of clothing to summer is to stop wearing long underwear and not have on three shirts and a coat. It is looking like soon that the long-johns will be going back on…
At 3 a.m. I was woke. It was not just a few weeks ago that I was walking at this time and it was very light out. I woke to pure darkness and shook my head as I said to nobody in particular, “How did the earth tilt so fast again?”
Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate all that spring, summer and fall bring and we still have some warm days to come, but in Russia, I have to start getting mentally prepared for winter and do not let your guard down….winter will catch you off guard easily…
Projects have to be either finished up and done and or do not even start them…
Today I have to get a tire fixed on Sammy the Volga. A very slow leak that takes four or five days to go down has developed and there is a place in a nearby village that repairs tires. So knowing Russia, I will be trying to get the tire fixed from 8 a.m. to at least Noon….things move slow here in Russia and there will not be any other customers, just me….I promise that is true and it took me awhile to get use to such ways of life…
Russia has really thrown a wrench in the Global Bull Sh#$….First on a vaccine for coronavirus and for us here in Russia, things will basically go back to normal (Okay, as normal as Russians can ever be). Does not matter what you think of it all. Russia found a way to “middle finger” the west and its antics…
I don’t fall for all the hype over this virus, but I am not stupid either and am thankful that Russia has thrown a wrench in the spanners, so to say…
Time to get the vaccine (I trust the Russian vaccine long before I would trust one from the Western Empire.) and get on with life. Think you in the western world will see the same? Yea, maybe 2021….maybe!
Sveta and I have to start thinking about where to go and spend a vacation. I really want to get back to Ajman, Emirate and enjoy the lights fantastic. I hope soon that we can get there without too much coronavirus issues…
Our favorite hotel there has offered us some free rooms for several nights and the food is just fantastic, not to say that the ocean is crystal clear and the people all over Ajman are very friendly. I would love to have a winter home there to spend time to recharge the batteries, so to say…
Still raining, yet it is finally light out and I really want to walk. Therefore, I am ending this thinking session and going to go out and enjoy the light rain. Gotta take what you get as dealt by the cards and make do. Time to wake up and smell the coffee…
WtR
Lots of intentional fires have been started and are still being started by the USA. These fires will be the US undoing….self-inflicted demise!
When they finish this pipeline it will be a turning point in the world. This is a very important issue and it must be done. When done the US is done and the future will change. That is why the US is so scared of this pipeline. There are many unheard business issues being started as fires by the USA, during the last few years, world issues like Huawei that are also a turning point right now. Once all these little fires get under control, the US will be isolated and left in the dark…
Tidbit: Did you know that while the USA is crying and playing games with Germany and Europe about oil and gas products, that the US is the second largest buyer of Russian oil products?
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MTTIM_NUS-NRS_2&f=M
So with that tidbit of info, welcome Europe to the bandwagon of US hated countries and areas of the world….the do as I say and not as I do syndrome…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will be completed in the near future, despite US pressure on those involved in the massive energy project.
Source: Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Europe will be completed soon – Lavrov — RT Business News
and
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, US-based Qualcomm is lobbying the Trump administration to roll back restrictions on the sale of advanced components to Huawei. Qualcomm presents that the export ban will not stop Huawei from obtaining necessary components, and instead, it will hand over billions of dollars of Huawei sales to other competitors.
Source: Qualcomm reportedly wants to sell its 5G Snapdragon chips to Huawei
These fires are started by a country (USA) that is running scared and the politicians have no idea what to do to correct the issues that are playing out right now in the world…
The world is much more than just the US and unless the US tries to become part of that world, it will be isolated. Just like little Johnny sitting in the corner with a dunce cap on at school…
WtR
Tidbit of coronavirus info:
A total of 20 nations from Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia have already requested doses of Russia’s breakthrough coronavirus vaccine, which was confirmed to be registered on Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin.At a conference dedicated to the announcement of the vaccine’s registration, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) explained that it had already received orders for a billion doses.“Together with our foreign partners, we are ready to produce more than 500 million doses of the vaccine per year,” Kirill Dmitriev explained. Everything produced in Russia will be used domestically, and doses for use in other countries will be made abroad.
Interesting and the USA is already mouthing about this information. I said it was coming and it has…
At least Russians are getting back to normal and so am I…
WtR
Update:
Sputnik V, the Russian vaccine against Covid-19, has already become subject to coordinated information attacks from nations that have political differences with Moscow. That’s according to the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) which bankrolled the research. Kirill Dmitriev claims that, whether inspired by commercial concerns or just malice, the politicized approach of a number of Western countries ultimately jeopardizes the health and safety of their own citizens. In the development and trials of the vaccine, Russia used a proven platform that had been tested on thousands of people over the past six years, the RDIF chief stressed, during an online conference on Tuesday.“ Coordinated and carefully prepared information attacks on the Russian vaccine are trying to discredit and hide the correctness of the Russian approach to drug development,” Dmitriev said. “A politicized approach to the Russian vaccine on the part of a number of Western countries endangers the lives of their citizens.”
Russia’s first vaccine against the coronavirus was developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute. Clinical trials of the vaccine were launched on 18 June and all 38 volunteers developed immunity. Russia has become the first country in the world to register a vaccine against COVID-19, President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday during a government meeting. The president also asked Health Minister Mikhail Murashko to keep him informed about the vaccine, while at the same time noting that he knows “it works quite effectively” and “forms a stable immunity”. “I hope we will be able to start mass production of this medication in the near future, which is very important”, the president said.Putin further thanked everyone who worked on the first-ever vaccine against the coronavirus, and described it as “a very important step for the world”. “I hope that our colleagues abroad will also move forward, and there will be quite a lot of products that can be used on the market, on the world market for medicines and vaccines”, Putin continued. The Russian president also revealed that one of his daughters had been vaccinated against the coronavirus. “In this sense, she took part in the experiment. After the first vaccination, she had a body temperature of 38 degrees Celsius, while the following day it was slightly over 37 degrees Celsius, that’s it. After the second injection, the second vaccination, her temperature also rose a little, and then everything cleared up, she feels good and the [antibody] titers are high”, Putin stated.
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Tried all summer and now that summer is gone, I had to try to salvage our power pole to survive another winter. It is one of those issues that Russia has a problem with…
Trying to get even the power company to do its job is like pulling teeth on a raging bull….just does not happen very easily…
In Russia you are either self-sufficient or simply don’t care. It takes much patience, stamina and willpower to accomplish things and humans look the other way most of the time… – Me
It is one of the reasons I love Russia, yet at times it also can be one of the most frustrating things that you have to deal with. Thus, I did my best and put an oak beam against our failing power pole…
You have to do what it takes to protect your own…
I dug a hole at an angle about 3/4 of a meter deep and drug a 400 lb beam and actually the main trunk of a small oak tree and finally after hours and tearing old injuries in my grouchy bear body, The beam fell into place….I was smart and drilled three holes through the beam at the top and cut the beam at the top at an angle to lay against the power pole, before starting the project….I had bought a box of long heavy steel spikes to attach the beam to the pole through the holes I drilled…
You should have seen the look on my face as the beam fell against the power pole and sat in its hole in the ground at a perfect angle….It was one of those, never in a million years will that happen again. It as my grandma would say, “Was meant to be!”
Believe me, I can appreciate how huge and heavy a power pole is after what I did…
Then I painted it white, because it is so close to the edge of the main road and this morning I orange stripped it to make it stand out better. I am sure that there will be many Russians wondering, “What the Hell?”
It is better than nothing and since we cannot get the power company to do a damn thing about it, I hope that this, with the other work I have done on it, will keep the pole up for the winter!
Then we can start again and try to get the power company to replace the pole…
You do what you gotta do, for they seem to do what they wanna do also!
You wait, tomorrow they will come with a crane huge truck and replace it… 😉
WtR
Yesterday, I had to try to support our power pole near our home. We called and asked for help, but, as you can imagine, coronavirus is the boss and they will be very longtime before getting out to help us. Therefore, I wrapped wire and wedged wood and drove spikes and cussed a bunch. I hope we can get it to stay upright until they can get out to fix it. I also had to put a brace on a home that is hooked to the same line. The home is trying to fall over… and it will take our pole down… which will tear a huge hole in our roof of our village home…
Source: Just looking around in my morning and evening walks around Russia… | Windows to Russia