Author: Russian_Village

All this leaves is Moscow left for Americans:

WASHINGTON, December 19. /TASS/. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has decided to shut down the national consulate general in Russia’s Vladivostok and suspend the operation of the diplomatic mission in Russia’s Yekaterinburg, a spokesperson for the State Department told TASS Friday. He explained that the decision was made to optimize the operation of the US diplomatic mission to Russia. At the same time, no additional actions involving Russian consulates general in the US are planned now.

Source: US consulate general in Vladivostok shuts down, one in Yekaterinburg stops operation – World – TASS

and

WASHINGTON, December 19 (Sputnik) – The Trump administration informed Congress that the United States will shut its two remaining consulates in Russia, The Associated Press reported, citing a department notification it obtained. The State Department told lawmakers last week the US would permanently close the consulate in Vladivostok and temporarily suspend operations at the facility in Yekaterinburg, the report said Friday.

Source: US State Dept. Notifies Congress of Intent to Close Last 2 Consulates in Russia – Sputnik International

The US blames it upon not allowed enough staff….yet do not forget who started this mess…

Kinda pissed this morning; Good job America close those Russian Consulates…

WtR

Or are countries like Russia, China and North Korea that strong? We always blame the three listed when we fail at anything…

A massive suspected Russian cyber campaign is being called the biggest breach in American history and a ‘grave threat’ to the government and private companies, with the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat demanding a ‘response in kind.’

The sprawling attack, which targeted critical government infrastructure using a Trojan horse hidden in network management software from SolarWinds Corp, also compromised broad swathes of the private sector, including Microsoft and likely most of the Fortune 500, it emerged on Thursday.

Officials say the attack went undetected for nearly nine months, allowing the hackers free range in the affected networks, including at the Pentagon, FBI, Treasury, State Department and nuclear security agencies, and that the true scale of the stolen information may never be known.

Source: Russian hack of federal government is ‘hard to overstate’ says ex-homeland security adviser | Daily Mail Online

I guess when it is done to us?

We don’t like it. For we do such as this to everyone else in the world…

We are that weak and unaware of our surroundings? Do we blame others to cover up our issues? Why admit that we are that weak at protecting ourselves? Our did we do something that we need a scapegoat for?

Either way; The USA looks pathetic and weak…

9 months hackers danced among our servers and networks…

It should make you ask questions as to why this could happen and if it did happen? How really did it? The ones who allowed it to happen and or say it happened? Coverup it is always coverup for others faults…

~~ Russia did it again and again… ~~

~~ Watch out, Russia will hack your doggy’s in bedded tracking chip and use him as a spy! ~~

WtR

Update:

Hacking Allegations Don’t Hold Water, Again “As with the DNC hacks and Russiagate we once again find the ‘Russians’ being accused of hacking absent any evidence”, says Earl Rasmussen, executive vice president of the Washington-based think tank Eurasia Centre. “For one, I am tired of the Russia Hack Syndrome”. The scholar recalls that four years ago Russia was accused of “exfiltrating” thousands of emails and documents from the Democratic National Committee’s servers and passing them to WikiLeaks

Source: US Media Suffers From ‘Russia Hack Syndrome’ & Provides No Proof of Breach, as Usual, Observers Say – Sputnik International

Update: (Pompeo does his usual!)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused Moscow of being behind the recent hacking campaign against his country. “There was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of US government systems”, Pompeo told The Mark Levin Show. “This was a very significant effort, and I think it’s the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity”.

Source: Pompeo Claims Russia is ‘Pretty Clearly’ Behind Major Hack Attack on US – Sputnik International

For decades, the Western World and many have joined in the financial quest, from the Eastern World; Have flocked to malls and shops because commercialism taught that this is where Christmas can be celebrated. That is where God is!

However, you will never see the same crowds in any church. Tearing the doors down to get at the goodies inside the building. This has nothing to do with the “awakened” culture. For if it does, “Then we have all be awake for a very long time!”

This has to do with how corporations, our leaders have destroyed society, values, and whitewashed truth. It has to do with false prophets, idol worshiping and other such things the Bible warns about…

We all worship, “The god, Money!”

Christmas, Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus. The English term Christmas (“mass on Christ’s day”) is of fairly recent origin. The earlier term Yule may have derived from the Germanic jōl or the Anglo-Saxon geōl, which referred to the feast of the winter solstice. The corresponding terms in other languages—Navidad in Spanish, Natale in Italian, Noël in French—all probably denote nativity. The German word Weihnachten denotes “hallowed night.” Since the early 20th century, Christmas has also been a secular family holiday, observed by Christians and non-Christians alike, devoid of Christian elements, and marked by an increasingly elaborate exchange of gifts. In this secular Christmas celebration, a mythical figure named Santa Claus plays the pivotal role.

Source: Christmas | Origin, Definition, Traditions, History, & Facts | Britannica

Deny God exists all you want, yet do not deny that the Bible is a source of knowledge that we should never ignore from and utilize that knowledge to make a better life for us all. The Bible shows us that we have been through all what is happening many times in the past and instead of learning we repeat, even what has been laid out before us in writing, again and again…

Good example of what is written in the Bible: When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”

The problem isn’t exactly Christmas, but who is celebrating it. The problem is the perversion of Christmas (As among so many things in our world that have been corrupted.). That then is why we have to look at what is inside ourselves, inside our own country and inside what are the agendas?

If you are twisted & broken, can you promote meaningful  ideologies?

It is what is deep in your hearts, minds and soul. When you are destroying other countries, sanctioning those you hate, spreading lies, hate, and death. When you worship money, gold, trinkets and ideological subversion’s. Well it seems the original meaning of “Christmas” kinda gets very water down in the process. The Bible does talk about happenings such as we are seeing in our world, this is logical. Thus, this is not the first time humans have walked to the edge of the abyss…

Christmas has become a weapon, just as many things from words, actions and other past pleasantries….now twisted & warped to the agenda at hand…

If you were say, a country trying to just stay alive and are practicing “Christmas” that would be no problem. That is their business….as in Russia they celebrate New Years and Ded Moroz. Russia does not shove a modified version of Christmas down your throats with an iPhone and or a bomb attached to it. Because Russia, China, Iran and many many more are not dropping bombs, sanctioning, spreading lies, hate and death…..stop demonizing God for our human fault’s…

We hear and we experience almost daily anymore; Well you won’t accept our perversion of God/s Christianity and Christmas, so you must be against God, Christianity and Christmas…..uh…no…I am not against any of those things…

I am against all who are trying to be the “Poster Child” of any society that worships false idols, false facts and perverted societal norms. All done to further agendas and ideologies that benefit a small class of worldwide warped individuals, whom seem to be able to manipulate mass quantities of people. Through materialism, radicalism and idealism…

Everything we are experiencing has already been done countless times in our world and we just keep going along, as if it is the first time it has ever happened…

Humans!

WtR

While it was possible and it was not actually that easily possible, not so long ago. Better to say, “Impossible!”

Svetochka and I purchased a takedown 50 pound recurve bow. I suspect that in the future it will not be so possible, sooner than later. When loopholes appear you deal appropriately when needed and or as needed to do…

The image is the actual bow and it is a very nice, well built and solid bow. I spent many years hunting with such a bow and actually train with a crossbow in the armed forces. Never actually used one in combat, but long ago it was still viable enough to have as a training course…

Therefore, the usage of a bow weapon was ingrained in me at a very young age and this summer in TRV I will revamp myself with a bow. Sveta wants a light weight 20 to 25 lb compound bow to learn on and use. She will never pull this 50 lb takedown in any type of circumstances…

With extra strings, extra arrows of both hunting quality and practice quality, we will get ready for whatever the future brings. The amount of deer, wild boar and other wildlife that I see and track at times, guarantees that we eat good. No matter what the circumstances that we are faced with….I have spent years fishing with a bow in my early days and our river at TRV is perfect for such a use of the bow…

So we will this winter get the rest of the supplies to go along with the bows as we can afford them and this summer practice in the Tiny Russian Village…

Times are changing:

That is something that all need to think about and remember and get ready for a different future…

WtR

Tidbit Time:

Jet engines had been made in Ukraine. Ukraine decided to cut their throat and not allow Russia to have access to their own technology with and about jet engines years ago. Bad move on Ukraine’s part…

MOSCOW, December 15. /TASS/. The MC-21-310 passenger jet fitted with Russian engines PD-14 has completed the first flight, the press service of Rostec corporation said on Tuesday.

Read also: Supplies of MC-21 jet to customers may start in late 2021

“The maiden flight of the MC-21-300 airplane fitted with new Russian engines PD-14 was made on December 15, 2020 at the aerodrome of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant,” Rostec said.

Engine operating modes, aircraft stability and sensitivity and functioning of all airplane systems were tested during the flight.

Source: MC-21-310 airplane with Russian engines makes first flight – Business & Economy – TASS

Russians do not cry and whine, they just start over and do better. Just like in the space industry and such as with missile development…

Russia just keeps advancing and going around the obstacles that are tossed at it by the west and her entourage…

WtR

Tidbit Time:

MOSCOW, December 15. /TASS/. Moscow authorities do not plan to close restaurants and stores, first deputy head of the Moscow mayor’s office, head of the department of trade and services Alexei Nemeryuk told the Russia-24 TV channel on Tuesday.

“Still, we hope to avoid a lockdown. < …> Both stores and restaurants are open in Moscow. There are no factors of any kind for a total shutdown,” he said,

The official noted that he cannot say precisely whether the restaurants will be allowed to remain open until 03:00 on New Year’s Eve, as it was done in a number of regions. “Let’s observe [the situation]. So far we have a complete ban on remaining open on New Year’s Eve, so at 11 o’clock in the evening all public dining enterprises should thank their clients, wish them a happy New Year and send them home to ring in the New Year,” he explained.

Source: Moscow authorities see no reason to close restaurants, stores – World – TASS

WtR

Svetochka works with many people from all over the world. She is in contact with IBM specialists and many other specialists from around the world. It is her job and she, as with many talk about King Covid-19….she has some horror stories about friends in the business, some now dead and many exceedingly sick and diagnosed with Covid-19…

I myself know of several who have died and many more who have been very very sick from Covid-19. It is wicked and most seem to be having long term issues now from it…

When I see someone coughing and spitting all over the sidewalk, as they wait for the bus and then get on the bus ignoring the wear a mask issue. You realize that even if it is not Covid-19, this person is spreading what ever they have and they do not care. They are selfish to all around them…

Bubonic & pneumonic plague, leprosy, smallpox, Chagas disease, hookworm, tuberculosis and polio are a few of the past and some present issues we face daily. Most had to dealt with by isolation. We have forgotten and ignored the olden times. I remember well polio vaccines and I remember well how many had polio. You never went a day without meeting someone affected by polio. The iron lung equipment became famous due to polio & swimming pools and movie theaters closed during “polio season” for fear of this terrible disease….yes we closed things down to stop the spread of polio…

Then we have ignorance speaking…

People keep saying, “Does anyone know of anyone who has had Coronavirus?”

It has become a battle cry upon the internet…

Yes Sveta and I know of many who have had and have King Coronavirus…

Gladly, I am able to say that most recover. Long term issues sadly seem to be the norm though…

We do not want it and thus we are very careful. Nothing is perfect, yet we try to stay aloof from humanity. So many humans don’t care…

The other battle cries are, “They said they feel fine!” or another, “I feel fine!” or another, “I can’t see it, who cares?” or another, “It only kills the elderly!”

~~ I am sure that all the people who lived in an iron lung would have appreciated an attitude like I see prevalent today? ~~

So many youth (I call youth under 50 years old.) have killed their elderly/grandparents around the world, by simply not caring. I guess we get what we deserve…

In Russia the adults follow the rules basically, yet refuse to have their children wear masks and follow guidelines. This is devastating the elderly around Russia. Just like the elderly are being devastated all over the world…

I guess who gives a flip if us old people die?

Humans are ignorant…

WtR

I first came to Russia in 2006 and found peanut butter in a special Moscow store downtown Moscow. Only place and very very expensive. Unbelievably expensive…

Then after I griped about no peanut butter in Russia and few years later….imported from the USA, France and Brazil appeared on the shelves. Price dropped considerably and then Chinese peanut butter appeared and price really dropped. Good stuff from China by the way…

Then Russia has finally decided that they can make it and yes it is easy to make…

Now we have dirt cheap and very creamy yummy Russian peanut butter (paste of peanuts) and in all the stores…

Things do change, slowly at times, yet things do change…

I just love peanut butter… (Я просто люблю арахисовое масло…)

WtR

Она летает, черт возьми!!! (She’s flying, damn it!!!)

Она летает, черт возьми!!! (She’s flying, damn it !!!) pic.twitter.com/nVAwwXZ93x

— РОГОЗИН (@Rogozin) December 14, 2020

https://www.space.com/russia-launches-angara-a5-rocket-second-test-flight?jwsource=cl

http://en.roscosmos.ru/21821/

РОГОЗИН was so excited…

Gotta love it!

I said out loud, as I watched, “Now that is what I am talking about!”

Simply thinking about what life is really about…

WtR

Восточный.
Вывоз ракеты на старт. pic.twitter.com/5VFieGOcZC

— РОГОЗИН (@Rogozin) December 15, 2020

https://www.ixbt.com/news/2020/12/15/ona-letaet-chert-vozmi-raketanositel-angaraa5-sovershila-svoj-vtoroj-poljot-posle-shestiletnego-pereryva.html

Update: Because of this post…. *** Zero Hedge removed my privileges to comment on their site. I guess I upset a few apple carts with the truth…

Many sites who can afford it are going to paywalls to hide comments behind. It is the new way to try to hide against the censorship that Google, Facebook, Twitter and other “Gov” censoring sites does to your posts. Comments are now officially a liability and even what few I have had lately have been the cause of posts to be banned. Not the content that is being banned yet, but the comments cause the post to be ignored by search engines…

Threatening letters have been sent by e-mail and it is just not worth it anymore…

You will find as I am always on the beginning of stating the facts, “Comments will become and are now being exploited as a means to censor articles that do not meet the desired criteria for acceptance!”

This will ultimately end up even against articles all over the world, but for now, that freedom of comments has been hit hard and will be hit harder as a means to censor articles, unless you have lots of money and can get a ton of subscribers to a private paywall system…

I leave very few comments anywhere anymore. I do not care to get comments anymore myself. The comments you receive are 75% trolled by external forces anyway. For the most part, by government associated think-tanks who spend all their time looking for articles to disrupt the line of thinking being presented….mainly thinking and thoughts that do not go along with the status quo…

A perfect example of a destroyed website is Zero Hedge;

Needless to say, whether due to “mistakes” or overt attempts to demonetize us, the writing on the wall was clear: while they may be entirely within their rights to do whatever they want as “private” companies, pardon monopolies, the ‘social’ and ad-based gatekeepers of online content – the twitters, the googles, the facebooks of the world – had launched an overt crusade to upend the uncensored internet, to snuff out independent thought, contrarian views, and inconvenient opinions and create one giant echo chamber of consent straight out of George Orwell. To do that they would use any and every tool they have access to, and unfortunately we had to comply with the whims of these monopolies which nobody in Congress has the guts to challenge directly and to strip them of their too-big-to-question powers.

Source: Introducing ZeroHedge Premium | ZeroHedge

Update: *** (Oops, I upset some ZH apple carts with this next statement!)

Now it does not matter that Zero Hedge was going down the slippery slope of worthlessness this last few years. It does not matter that six years by me of being a ZH’er and I disagree with its path after it sold out and folded under the pressure…

The fact is that ZH is not worth the time or trouble to have a comment system and the hate on the comments became way too much, this last year with all the Trumpies and Bidenites threatening everyone everywhere. So to pay to be insulted by morons is not in the works…

ZH wants big dollars to act like an idiot and I am sure that with all there is in the world, many will sign up!

Not me, so my tenure as a ZH’er is over. Time to never go back except to look over a few articles and more on. Like I do with so many sites nowadays…

$25 a month at a year long subscription to act the fool….$30 per month. One at a time. $300 a year to one year at a time. Yippy! No way!

ZH has become its own Orwellian site and does not need your money. They have been bought and paid for long ago by the higher ups…

If you are awake?

You will see that WtR was censored by Facebook years ago. Twitter censored WtR at the same time. Google has censored WtR for several years now and squelches articles that get through, the ones that tell too much truth…

Update: And now Zero Hedge censors WtR and yours truly…

For years, since WtR had obtained an unbelievable readership at one time, it has been under constant barrages of attacks. Yet, even as you read this, the ones (websites) that have some money backing them are now showing the signs of the collective censorship that has been part of my life on WtR since almost day one…

Therefore, I am happy with my two thousand average first page tracking views, That is one view counted per reader per day. Not how many page views total, but how many different people a day come. They can look at a thousand articles, it is still one hit in my eyes. I am happy with two thousand average a day. The issue is that if I get more than that, I start having to fight tooth and nail to keep it online…

Fudge Muffins!

Forget the comments…

WtR

PS: Besides the page loads much faster and “Google” likes that better!