Snowing like a crazy fool outside…
That means magical snow…
I just love magical snow, even if Russian Christmas is still a few days away. I take all the magical snow that I can… 😉
Oh and Yes!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
From Svetlana and Kyle in Russia…
WtR
Good Grief!
I have been here in Russia 14 Christmases…
Mask mask mask!
Get your face mask, Christmas is almost here!
Does Santa have to wear a mask?
Do the reindeer have to wear masks?
What about the Elves?
What about Mrs. Clause?
Oh My, First world problems are just too too much to handle…
WtR
PS: How does Rudolf’s nose shine through a mask? Oh My!
MOSCOW, December 20. /TASS/. Russia plans to vaccinate people above 60 years of age against COVID-19 next week, the country’s Health Minister Mikhail Murashko announced in an interview with the news program on Rossiya-1 TV channel on Sunday.
Source: Russia plans to vaccinate elderly people against COVID-19 next week – Society & Culture – TASS
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All presented as thumbnail, click image and you will find the whole delight… 😉
These are scoured from the internet in a dozen places. They are old Soviet/Russian New Year cards. Notice the animals seems to be almost human in many cases. Russians love their animals. My favorite is the first image. The bears…
Enjoy the old eye treat candy for this Christmas…
WtR
Russian hack of federal government; Do we admit we are this weak?
Now Trump is Tweeting Twittering Away!
….discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!). There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election, which is now obvious that I won big, making it an even more corrupted embarrassment for the USA. @DNI_Ratcliffe @SecPompeo
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2020
All the while our media and other parts of our government point fingers at Russia. Trump who is spouting about China even has his employee, Pompeo spouting about Russia, Russia, Russia…
Source: Pompeo Claims Russia is ‘Pretty Clearly’ Behind Major Hack Attack on US – Sputnik International
Fear causes Chaos, confusion and degradation of all facilities. The USA is showing markedly degraded abilities at just about anything anymore!
Tidbit: USA running scared as the fear & chaos is strong within…
Does anyone else but me see that the madmen have escaped the insane asylum?
We need to get them rounded up before they figure out how to get over the White House fence and cause havoc all over town…
Oops, they seem to have gotten out long ago!
WtR
We (USA) even cannot decide who to blame it on, because there is no one to blame but ourselves!
Covid-19 keeps us foreigners locked down the same as the Russian citizens. We follow the same rules and same regulations, yet we will not get the same treatment as to access to the Covid-19 vaccine…
I understand, I am not a citizen, yet I have been in Russia so long that I feel like one and I am accepted as a citizen in all but the legality aspects of being a citizen…
Therefore, while Svetochka gets her vaccine, I must struggle to receive the same vaccine. Not sure how long before someone in my shoes will be even able to achieve the acquiring of the precious vaccine?
I am not a rich boy like the famous Snowden, so I have to work through the system and hope. I may never obtain status like Snowden has, I can’t afford the lawyers and I did not grab my 15 minutes of fame to assure my place in the Russian Society. I with my sweetpea, simply do it the hard way….one step at a time and through the proper channels…
I may never get a Russian Passport and or Citizenship. That is up to Russia…
If I was rich, famous, sports figure, movie star and whatnot’s? I would get a passport to Russia…
But, Alas, I would like access to the vaccine for Covid-19. It would help save this old guys life…
Maybe Steven Seagal can help me get one? Nah, I am just a little person among all the little people of Russia. As I live side by side with them for almost 15 years now…
I think Russians might miss me!
WtR
What about the West? Other than hate, hate and more hate upon Russia and China. Maybe we could have worked together and all be vaccinated? Do you see an issue with the Western Mindset right now?
China’s need to both develop and introduce a COVID-19 vaccine has differed from other countries as it has effectively halted the spread of the virus. Although borders are only partially open, and international travel seriously restricted, the Chinese government has been able to get an early handle on the pandemic and has consequently been able to take its time over vaccine development. This contrasts with Russia, which has been criticized in the West for rushing vaccines into development without adequate testing. While outbreaks still occur – most recently in Inner Mongolia – population control and swift lockdowns to prevent mass spreading has worked. This means that other countries have rapidly overtaken China in numbers of cases and have a higher need for a vaccine.
Source: China’s COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Availability
and
MOSCOW (AP) — The city of Moscow opening 70 vaccination facilities where thousands of doctors, teachers and others in high-risk groups had signed up to receive COVID-19 vaccines starting Saturday, a precursor to a sweeping Russia-wide immunization effort.
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The Russian leader said Wednesday that more than 2 million doses of Sputnik V will be available in the next few days, allowing authorities to offer jabs to medical workers and teachers across the country starting late next week.
Source: Moscow opens dozens of coronavirus vaccination centers
Russia and China both are in full vaccination mode…
Yet the west is showing its teeth in several bad ways:
Western Media is hating upon the fact that China and Russia are successful in their roll outs of a vaccine. The only slow spot is finding more time in 24 hours a day and building enough plants to produce the vaccines. Russia and China have been building many plants to produce the vaccines and it is starting to pay off. The West is hating very much on China and Russia for this fact…
Then as the west hates! The West is showing that it cannot keep up. Thus things are not looking good and at the same time refuses to accept that Russia and China have a vaccine and it works…
Wuhan is the capital of China’s Hubei Province is open and thriving:
Wuhan is the capital of China’s Hubei Province and is known for being one of the most populous Chinese cities. The first COVID-19 cases were reported here last December, with the city’s authorities later shutting down a local seafood market after discovering some patients were vendors or dealers there. After cases began to spread, the Chinese government imposed a complete lockdown in Wuhan and other cities in Hubei; later many cities, districts, and counties across the country followed that example. The lockdown was lifted in April, marking China’s successful strategy of tackling the pandemic.
Source: Night Life in Wuhan as City Returns to Normalcy Year After COVID Outbreak – Sputnik International
I hope that soon Russia will get Moscow where Wuhan is right now. Russia is running vaccine plants 24/7 and more plants going online as fast as possible…
Yesterday, I think I saw that light at the end of the tunnel…
WtR
The nemesis: Western Mindset of Hate: China and Russia are inoculating against Covid-19!
I talk about the fear that oozes from the US in all aspects of its existence: Be it media, government and or its people anymore…
The more we learn about the recent hack into dozens of America’s most critical computer networks — widely attributed to Russia — the more it becomes clear that it is massive, unprecedented and crippling. Tom Bossert, who served as homeland security adviser to President Trump, writes, “It will take years to know for certain which networks the Russians control and which ones they just occupy.” (We do know they successfully penetrated the Department of Homeland Security’s systems as well as those of Treasury, Commerce and others.) Stanford’s Alex Stamos describes it as “one of the most important hacking campaigns in history.” The New York Times’ David E. Sanger, who has written several books on cyberweapons, co-wrote an article calling the breach “among the greatest intelligence failures of modern times.”
It is sad to see that the USA Media has become so worthless…
US: Fear, Scared, Blame, Finger Pointing, Whining, Crying, everything but the truth & acceptance of its own actions!
Enough said!
WtR
PS: It goes with this article…
Russian hack of federal government; Do we admit we are this weak?
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.
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.
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…
A Russian Spy!
~~ 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
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