WtR
Author: Russian_Village
A survivor of six heart attacks and a brain tumor, a grumpy bear of a man, whom has declared Russia as his new and wonderful home. His wife is a true Russian Sweet Pea of a girl and she puts up with this bear of a guy and keeps him in line.
Thank God for my Sweet Pea and Russia.
An interesting thing in life is that businesses, countries, human societies are all the same, all over the world. The only thing that is different is the degree of good and bad within each separate entity. That degree of good and bad is what separates the world into its factions. Good & Bad are determined by that society and that criteria changes like the pendulum swinging on a never ending perpetual path…
Therefore, in that part of the world you desire and or need, you feel safe and comfortable. Yet, in that other part of the world you feel threatened, exposed and degraded. Yet again, many times, that human next door to you has the opposite feelings or thereof variant on those feelings that you have…
Businesses, countries, human societies: They all have characteristics of each other that make them the same. They nurture, develop, care, offer protection, safety, shelter, training, (but they also) lie, cheat, burn bridges, create war, hate, death, they are judgemental, sadistic, expanding, degrading….just to name a few characteristics…
When the balance of characteristics are skewed to the bad and or good. Humans suffer and or flourish at the whims of the few. Especially since humans make up all these countries and businesses. Everything around the world suffers the same intimate fate. The outcome within each human society, business, country is altered by who and what is manipulating the system at that moment…
Contrary to popular belief; We love someone to be in charge and allow ourselves to bitch and complain about how bad someone is and had bad the system is and how bad life is. Throughout history we have had stories told of good kings and bad kings, weak kings and strong kings, stupid kings and smart kings. All the while, always having a king to blame for our own shortcomings. Just put boss, president, god(s) and whatnot’s in place of “king” and you will get the picture…
Somewhere in our minds we all see deep within ourselves that perfect “Mayberry R.F.D.”, “Leave it to Beaver” type of perfect society (Other words, Utopia!). We want it to meet our expectations, yet, there is only one way that that type of existence is possible. If we do not conform to the rules instilled by such a ideology? It is impossible to achieve such balance. And no one (businesses, countries, human societies) but no one, is able to agree if such balance is desirable?
While there really is much more good than bad all over the world and bad is really a small percentage of the world; The good of humans never outweighs the bad of humans….the bad is the direction that we skew towards. Humans, especially as spectators, seem to be drawn toward “bad” like a moth to flame…
This is human nature all over the world. As that pendulum swings back and forth throughout our history? We see balance and harmony during every swing back and forth. It is a huge pendulum and takes awhile to swing its path. The pendulum is driven by forces that we do not see or understand, but it does allow us to glimpse utopia. At least the utopia you see as perfect!
But two things standout predominantly as the destroyer of societies, businesses and countries. There is a whole bunch of factors (greed as one factor) around and in between these two issues we have. Yet, if we think? Umpteen problems center around just basic root problems…
1. Moral Decay and 2. Soaring Wealth/Society Inequality; are major issues that define humans & humans make up all businesses and countries…
Moral Decay & Wealth/Society Inequality are a abyss which exhausts the humans in infinite desires to self-gratify their needs, without ever reaching self-satisfaction…
These are the Achilles heel of every single human on our planet!
WtR
PS: I do not have the answers, you do not have the answers, we do not have the answers and they over there, definitely do not have the answers. Yet when that pendulum swings and I glimpse a taste of utopia as it swings by, I realize that it is obtainable. Maybe, 100,000,000 years from now, when that pendulum stops in the very middle of its downward swing? Balance will become the norm…
We are all the same in the end of things…
We have a bunch of growing up to do!
Getting the front main seal put in to stop an oil leak on Sammy the Volga. Which means I have to do a variety of transportation styles to get back to the Tiny Russian Village. Other words walking for a bunch of it…
Very unusual for a Buck to wander out so late in the day. 🙂 Maybe those darn girl deer are enticing the big boys to be careless? It is rutting season you know? In fact it is at its peak right now….boys will be boys…
I would have loved to have gotten a picture of him. But of course he was running around when I was in the Big Village…
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“Strengthening our country and looking at what is happening in the world, in other countries, I want to say to those who are still waiting for the gradual demise of Russia: in this case, we are only worried about one thing — how not to catch a cold at your funeral” – Putin said.
“Russia has called on other nations at the UN to lift all economic [sanctions], at least temporarily, on humanitarian grounds. I am not talking about the sanctions on Russia — I don’t care, we will survive, — but there are many other countries that have struggled and are still struggling from the coronavirus infections and they do not even need external assistance, but simply lifting of those restrictions, at least in the humanitarian sphere, on medical supplies, loans, equipment and technology transfer. Those are purely humanitarian issues, are not they? But no restrictions have been lifted for reasons that have nothing to do with humanitarian issues”, Putin said.
Valdai Discussion Club meeting held Oct. 20 to 22nd, 2020…
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Anatoly Kucherena, former CIA contractor Edward Snowden’s lawyer, stated on Thursday that his client has received a permanent residence permit in Russia.
“Edward Snowden has received a permanent residence permit in Russia”, the lawyer said, adding that the procedure had taken longer than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Source: Snowden Receives Permanent Residence Permit in Russia, Lawyer Says – Sputnik International
Bless Russia, they did what is correct and Snowden is safe in a free land and a wonderful country…
WtR
Just giving my two rubles of info about a vassel country of the USA…
So BRICS better find a more stable and better B…
Like Belarus?
(Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso and Burundi)
Hmm…
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Kyrgyzstan and Belarus have both dealt lately & as of the moment with the Western Empires attempts at a color-revolution in their countries. Now Russia is officially saying that Moldova is next on the paid for color-revolution by the Western Empire…
The director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergey Naryshkin said, “Now we clearly see that the Americans are preparing a ‘revolutionary’ scenario for Moldova. They are not satisfied with the current head of state, Igor Dodon, who maintains constructive relations with CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States] countries, including Russia.”
Russia has called them correctly so far and now are calling out an attempt on Moldova & it is all because there are pro-Russian leaders…
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Info: Just some tidbits to read if you are interested below. Color-Revolutions are a real thing and a thing by a very corrupt Western Empire…
Funny they can keep a straight face as they claim the USA to be the victim while the same USA agencies they work for are working 24/7 to meddle in every (& I mean literally) every countries internal elections, internal affairs and internal social systems…
Top intelligence officials announced Wednesday evening that Iran and Russia have taken actions to try to compromise the U.S. election and have obtained some voter registration data. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told reporters at a last-minute announcement that Iran had sent spoof emails “designed to intimidate voters, incite social unrest, and damage President Trump.” He suggested that there had been reporting on these emails “within the last 24 hours.”
Source: Iran and Russia accessed some voter registration data, top intel officials say – CBS News
My how weak we are as a country. Once the land of the free and home of the brave has fallen so far into the pity pit…
USA the victim of evil Russia and Iran. ~~
Tidbit: In the USA, the term US intelligence is an oxymoron…
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At the end of October Svetochka is going to come to TRV and spend a week. Then we will leave and go back to Moscow. It has been a long haul alone in the Tiny Russian Village…
But working outside has become literally impossible. Fingers freeze and the chills from rain, cold and wind set in. I was blessed with fantastic weather for the short spring, summer and fall. I got a lot done. Just look at the blog, I have written about some of what I have done this year. Now it is time to read and write…
This weekend coming up, Sammy the Volga will have one more thing done to her and she will be (knock on wood) done. The front crankshaft main seal has started to leak and our guy who works on Sammy says the part is 700 rubles and about two hours of work…
Sammy runs, drives and handles like a new Volga. Not saying that a 1999 Volga even looked new and modern when it was first built, yet she could actually be at this point better than when new. Sammy literally purrs like a kitten at idle…
Kinda spoils all the good when the crankshaft seal is slinging oil around…
I will go to the Big Village this morning and get a few supplies. I need to get medicines for my heart and blood sugar and since I know that in Russia two hours easily turns into two days, I will be ready for such a thing to happen…
I am looking forward for my Sweet Pea to come and we will take care of some business for the homes, eat grilled outside fish and more fish. I have twenty carp frozen and waiting for Sweet Pea to come…
It is hard to believe that it is almost November. This year has gone so fast and yet so terrible in many ways. Sveta and I have been lucky; she loves working from home and I love working in TRV…
Time though to hug my Sweet Pea again!
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USA has again implemented more sanctions against Russian companies and literally anything to do with Nord Stream 2. The desperation of the USA is showing and the facts are askew in a terrible display of fear of competition on a level playing field…
Energy Sanctions
Develop, monitor, and implement energy sanctions targeting Russia, Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and other state and non-state actors to ensure energy resource production and trade do not become tools for the projection of malign influence.
Specific guidance related to Russia can be found below:
Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA)
Protecting Europe’s Energy Security Act (PEESA)
Source: Key Topics – Bureau of Energy Resources – United States Department of State
Okay, so more hate from the US Western Empire in the form of Sanctions….
The Department of State is committed to fully implementing sanctions authorities in the Protecting Europe’s Energy Security Act of 2019 (“PEESA” or “the Act,” Title LXXV, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, Pub. L. No. 116-92). We continue to call on Russia to cease using its energy resources for coercive purposes. Russia uses its energy export pipelines to create national and regional dependencies on Russian energy supplies, leveraging these dependencies to expand its political, economic, and military influence, weaken European security, and undermine U.S. national security and foreign policy interests. These pipelines also reduce European energy diversification, and hence weaken European energy security.
PEESA provides the United States with the authority to advance U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives, in particular, to address Russian pipeline projects that create risks to U.S. national security, threaten Europe’s energy security, and consequently, endanger Europe’s political and economic welfare.
In accordance with PEESA Section 7503, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, is to submit a report to Congress for the relevant period, identifying (A) vessels that engaged in pipe-laying at depths of 100 feet or more below sea level for the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, the TurkStream pipeline project, or any project that is a successor to either such project; and (B) foreign persons that the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, determines have knowingly sold, leased or provided those vessels for the construction of such a project; or facilitated deceptive or structured transactions to provide those vessels for the construction of such a project.
Source: Protecting Europe’s Energy Security Act (PEESA) – United States Department of State
As I said yesterday about sanctions, China stability and the hate from the US Empire…
This last few years are nothing for us Americans to be proud of. Our Government has shown itself to be psychotic and as with all sick beasts, the thrashing goes on forever…
Very sad quote from the USA website and it is linked above:
“Develop, monitor, and implement energy sanctions targeting Russia, Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and other state and non-state actors to ensure energy resource production and trade do not become tools for the projection of malign influence.”
“Malign Influence”
The only malign influence I am seeing in all these illegal sanctions is the one who is imposing these sanctions. When you read what the US writes in these official reports on the web, you realize that it is actually about themselves and they desperately project all the fear of their failures upon and against others…
How did such a wonderful country get to the point of teetering upon the abyss, as the green eyed monster looks up from below with its mouth open and waiting?
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche a German Philosopher.
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Update: I even had someone write to me and tell me that the USA would and does not do anything unless it is true and quote this person, “needed for national security of America’s existence”, okey-dokey! Except, how the hell does NORD-2 have anything to do with the USA in the first place? Well, it is true that the USA wants Europe to buy very expensive fracking leftover gas from them. But it is a threat to the USA if Russia sells the gas to Europe? Okey-dokey Maynard….and this person also told me that I am a very bad person and could most likely be a Russian acting American… 😉
On Tuesday, the US extended sanctions against Nord Stream 2 to businesses that provide services or funds to upgrade or install equipment on ships for laying the pipeline. Moscow sees US’ latest sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline as a continuation of a destructive policy which damages bilateral relations, Russia’s presidential spokesman said. “In general, this is quite an unfriendly and destructive policy of constant introduction of different restrictions against us, our economic operators and our economy. Unfortunately, this has already become an integrate part of of the unfair competition, Washington’s overt raider competition policy. Unfortunately, they have been pursuing this destructive policy for over a year, and it certainly damages our bilateral relations,” Peskov told reporters. Earlier this week, the US Department of State announced that it had rolled out sanctions to firms that “provide services or facilities for upgrades or installation of equipment for those vessels” that are being used to lay the pipeline.