Windows to Russia

What? You never cough?

When Putin coughs? Everyone panics and Putin looks at them like they are…….

MOSCOW, November 18. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s health is perfectly fine, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS Wednesday. “Absolutely fine,” he said when asked about the leader’s health. Earlier on Wednesday, Putin held a meeting with government members and coughed a few times. The president apologized and continued the meeting almost without pausing.

Source: Putin’s health ‘absolutely fine’ — Kremlin – Society & Culture – TASS

~~ Okay now that crises has past and we even made sure one of the largest news agencies in the world posted it. ITAR-TASS has comforted me in knowing that Putin coughed and survived!

So Far… ~~

WtR

For me; to desire a new smartphone has been a strong and endless quest. I was a big Android fan. Therefore, always wanted the latest and greatest Android. Then I met the phone I have now…

Huawei Mate 30 is simply perfect and unbelievable…

Huawei just announced that this perfect phone will be getting their new Harmony OS. Soon I will be able to switch and leave behind for good the system of Android. I cannot support Android anymore, due to the USA restrictions imposed illegally upon Huawei. ZTE is another who has been illegally restricted. The list will grow as the USA is not able to compete on the world market…

I have learned to live without Google:

Huawei Mate 30: Living without Google is so easy and so much better…

Huawei has just implemented a few tricks with their EMUI 11 update and anything Google I ever desired is actually better than any Google App out there….except I don’t care about Google. DuckDuckGo is the only search engine to use and soon Harmony OS will be the only OS worth using for your phone…

Thus, the perfect phone will become more perfect and my desire to find another phone diminishes even more. Nice feeling and better yet; companies that try to control you need to be hurt and hurt bad. Google should be broke up and get the US Gov out of its money pockets…

Exactly as I talk about Gillette:

Gillette: When I said I will, I do…

Long handles, only two blades and smooth shaving for us grouchy bears!

I have tried several razors since then and been very happy, yet the happiest shave is when I just found Wilkinson Sword is now in Russia. Funny how the British moved in silently, when Gillette screwed up. Wilkinson Sword has always had the old time razors in Russia, but now the full line of disposables are available everywhere. Yippy!

The British make damn fine razors and now I get them also…

Gillette has dropped their prices to a tenth of what they were in Russia. They are advertising very heavy and trying to undercut the market in Russia. They failed and now we have a huge whole other market of razors from all over the world. Russia was a Gillette brand name market; Was!

Gillette is hurting in Russia…

Gillette went from 599 rubles for a pack of razors to 79 rubles for the same pack of five. Let that sink in and tell me who is hurting?

I will never use Gillette again!

Just like when Huawei gets Harmony OS into my phone, I will never use Android again….unless Huawei goes on a Social Righteous Campaign….then you find a replacement for them…

Lets be Blunt:

Our world has become a world of no answers, just forced information:

“You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.” – Henry Ford

The youth are fed information 24 hours a day. In a constant stream of data. This data is biased in all ways. This data is under the control of Corporations and Governments all over the world. We have lost and loosing the ability to find truth daily…

Corporations and Governments are in the business nowadays of shaping the future, not as a natural developed future, but as a future to meet the needs of a small few and their desires…

No corporation should try to alter our perception of reality….no government should interfere with basic reality….and never should teamed up corporations/governments be allowed to influence our youth and populaces at all…

For Gillette to single out white males and put the whole white male as a single issue. Is a simple agenda process being used to change perception of the youth and all population. This corporation is hand in hand with a government doing a coordinated agenda…

For the USA Gov to single out Huawei is an agenda. The same as with Gillette it is a hand in hand coordination between Gov and Corp…

There use to be a huge dividing line between Gov and Corp! (Us old geezers can associate by being there and or actually learning history; with Ma Bell, GM was on the chopping block many years ago, Standard Oil, American Tobacco, Northern Securities, Swift & Co, Apple, Kodak and many more.) Now they (Gov and Corp) are actually one and the same…

The government has a win win for its agendas and the corporation has a win win for its agendas. The government for populace control & money and the corporation for profits through government help, such as taxes, funding and support propaganda…

This is called a Corporatocracy:

A society or system that is governed or controlled by corporations.

Our government is hand in hand with corporations on virtually everything. The money is handed handily and efficiently between the two. Just like you pay for your meal at the local cafe after you eat…

What was once unheard of is now the norm in our modern world. Governments did not openly embrace corporations (& vice versa) and flaunt it full in the face of us peasants…

I seriously started to realize that we failed when we bailed out companies like GM and well too many to even think about…

Bailout Recipients Last update: Nov. 9, 2020 We’re tracking where taxpayer money has gone in the ongoing bailout of the financial system. Our database accounts for both the broader $700 billion bill and the separate bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Source: Bailout List: Banks, Auto Companies, and More | Eye on the Bailout | ProPublica

I guess I was wrong to think that companies should sink and swim on their own merits?

** You have seriously got to be kidding at the list of bailed out companies on that webpage above. I mean talk about dirty pool at the local parlor! **

I was very wrong…

Yes I am looking forward to Harmony OS and a much less controlled future for us peons….like now, I can shave with Wilkinson Sword in Russia, until the British try to tell me that I am a worthless man, for simply being a man!

I want to thank Google and Gillette, you help broaden my horizons (maybe you can also) and I do not accept what is in my face as a product and or service, just because you are the easiest and handiest to use and get and have an agenda attached to it…

WtR

PS: Remember Gillette doesn’t sell anything in actuality. “Proctor and Gamble” sells the product with the brand name Gillette. So I am smart enough to look up what and whom “Proctor and Gamble” have as assets in this world…

“Proctor and Gamble” nuff said…

Sveta grabbed a taxi, because Sammy has an issue still in the drive line and took about 70 kilos of potatoes to the family. Sveta is trying to get a video for Pro-Babushka (про бабушка), her mother, Sveta is now babushka (бабушка) of the family…

Babushka is grandma and pro-babushka is great grandma, for those interested about Russia…

The daughter in-law is making a torte – tort (cake like dessert in Russia) as a thank you. So I guess TRV grown potatoes really are the cats meow in Russia?

Potatoes are only 12 to 15 rubles per kilo, yet village grown are the desired when available. I was not going to grow them next year, now I will rethink that plan. If the family is happy, I will oblige…

Always nice to be appreciated when you do something for others. makes you want to do it again and again. Even if I cannot eat the potatoes that I grow due to my diabetes…

Except, I really cannot also eat a torte: But I will! 😉

WtR

PS: Tidbit: What does WTR stand for on the internet?

https://www.acronymattic.com/Window-To-Russia-(WTR).html

I am getting there…

Sammy the Volga is a great car. Not many left like her. An old Soviet car.

The day before we left the Tiny Russian Village Sammy got some last work done…

But we still have an issue and need to find a way to get her up in the air again. This is what is nice about the Tiny Russian Villages. Easy and cheap to find a spot to get a way to look at what is wrong. In Moscow it is hard to cheaply find a spot to get under her….the spot is at the hospital in the Big Village and it is first come first serve, so to say and free…

Water way, pipes under the surface of an old river. This is a main water supply for Moscow itself…

This morning in pitch darkness my Huawei Mate 30 takes an image that looks like I could actually see where I was going…

I can now that I see the image and as you can see, no one, but no one is around. I am good at finding the isolated spots in life….I could only see a bit of light in the distance as the sun was starting to peak above the horizon…

Just some images of our life in Russia…

WtR

I have adapted:

Yup, I guess so!

And getting around is easy if you accept that younger people have no idea about courtesy. It seems that all over the world we are neglecting to teach our youth in a general sense to have respect and courtesy for the elder as you go through life…

I am not saying that all youth are this way….but when you see someone walking your way and they are absorbed in their smartphone and or listening to music? They have lost the ability to comprehend their surroundings. Their minds are preoccupied with things other than reality. Okay, maybe that is their reality, yet it does not work when you should be paying attention to the surrounding world…

I walk and observe the people walking around me and I shift myself to paths that do not intersect the wayward mental midgets walking around…

I watched a young gal about 25 years old almost get hit by a car this morning. She was so absorbed in her smartphone that she stepped in a crosswalk that was red lighted for us to not cross and she walked straight into the flow of traffic. The driver saw her and lucky for all so did the dozen or more cars moving and everyone stopped and no death and or wrecks…

She even took two more steps, before she realized that she was in danger and her reaction was to freeze in place. The saying all is well that ends well fits this occasion…

This is not a one off happening. People are so absorbed in that smartphone and or the music blasting in their ears, that they do not see and hear anything around them…

It is getting worse as I watch the years go by…

Therefore, I watch these people and all people, if they have a faraway look about them and or they have their faces buried and at night a face that is lit up by a smartphone, you shift your pace and path to safely maneuver around them…

The pandemic has made me much more sensitive to how and why people react to their surroundings. I do not want anyone in my safe space and how close I allow them is whether they are alert and wear a mask…

They will simple walk right into you if you do not adjust….Muscovite’s are already non safe space ignorant. Mass transit overload has seen to that. Until you have experienced the Moscow Metro at peak hours and been crushed like sardines in a can, you will have a lack of understanding Russians and safe spaces. Russians do not know about staying out of your face…

They are learning, yet an eternity of history is hard to end in a few months and or years. The elder learn faster in this case. Old dogs can learn new tricks, I guess…

So I walked 7 kilometers this morning and met very few people. I enjoyed my walk and wished my sweetpea was with me. Sveta is at the grandkids and getting ready for great grandma’s birthday this weekend and I had to walk alone this morning…

I wear a mask the whole time, to buffer the mishaps with the ignorant smartphone sidewinders as I walk and it works, for me…

King Corona Covi-19 is partying hard in Moscow right now and I prefer to be safe. Whether it is real or not does not matter to me….mask is vital and besides, at -7 degrees, the mask is rather nice and warm to be truthful…

But Sveta and I know too many people who have had close calls with the virus and several will never be the same, if they live…

Another interesting thing I am seeing in the woods:

It is obvious to me that people in Moscow did not travel elsewhere like they use to in the past. Park benches have been built all around the local woods, fire pits everywhere, localized trash piles from parties, many many new paths, tons of cut wood, so many bird feeders and masks thrown away are the new McDonald’s wrappers of the past. It is a shame that used masks are not worth money; I would be rich, I find so many…

A glut of discarded single-use masks and gloves is washing up on shorelines and littering the seabed

Source: ‘More masks than jellyfish’: coronavirus waste ends up in ocean | Environment | The Guardian

I can say that this is not fake news;

Mask, Mask, everywhere a Mask
Blockin’ out the scenery, piling up fast
Don’t toss, don’t toss, can’t you see the Mask?

But, in the same token, broken bottles are almost gone, cigarette butts gone, druggy needles gone and fast food wrappers are literally history as trash in general is way down…

Now if there was just a used mask market?

I would be rich!

WtR

You do not have to agree with what I say and think. But you do need to realize that things are changing and that things are changing beyond our control as individuals. Societies are entities that grow as we as individuals grow. Societies are given birth and then all the stages that we ourselves go through as individuals….inevitably happen as a society grows up and matures…

China walks the walks and talks the talk of a huge mass society….Russia really tries to walk the walk and talk the talk, as all small societies do….The USA walks and whines as they cry foul all the time! Just as a teenager does when life sucks…

These three countries are all in very different circumstances of growth in their life cycles…

The main difference between the three countries is very simple!

It is called discipline: the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience.

China with its 1.5 billion people have acquired “discipline” as a survival trait. Russians use to be disciplined Soviets and it is still embedded within the society by the elder and half way by its youth, yet they are small enough to flaunt discipline still. The USA has no discipline in any form anymore, due to its circumstances…

Good or bad in your eyes; Societies must have discipline to survive. In a case such as Russia vs China vs USA during King Corona Virus’s rein of terror; It shows forefront about the discipline of the society within their respective borders…

It also brings forth a stipulation about the size of population and what are the factors that happen when a population reaches a size that means past society regulations no longer meet the needs of the present?

Russia has land vastness and only around 150 million people to corral. While China has 1.5 billion people to corral. Yet we are watching the tipping point for the USA as it approaches 350 million people and the ensuing changes that have to be enacted when the population goes from “small town mentality to big city mentality” in size….China reached this point a very longtime ago and Russia has never reached that point yet…

Therefore, Russia has size of society as a benefit for now, China has walked the walk and talked the talk long ago. The USA use to be like Russia (In my lifetime the US has gone from small town to big city.), yet somehow lost that ability to walk the walk and talk the talk & decided that using a big stick is easier than corralling a fast and soon to be vast, growing society. The USA has terrible growing pains…

Pretty simple actually in reality…

Russia can still look the other way due to its circumstances (not enough people to overwhelm the system yet), the US has to accept the reality of new and necessary circumstances (The anachronistic system needs help.) and China simply has to keep doing what it has been doing. China long ago passed that 350 million human mark and dealt with the growing pains, long ago as a result…

Regardless; the only way forward is…

“When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.”
― Roy T. Bennett

Sadly:

There is no choice for the USA, but to change….because no one likes a floundering big baby, swinging a big stick and crying about how “you hurt him” as he beats on you! – me

If the USA wants to stay as it is, it must change its society discipline system. If it does not change? Then it must break up into smaller society systems. There is no other choice….Take the Chinese path and or become smaller more society controllable entities…

Good failed example: Look at the EU? Doesn’t work and should be put back as just the countries themselves. Europe is multiple entities, not one power entity…

Just doing some thinking today from Moscow, Russia…

WtR

Biden wins election, while Georgia recounts, and Trump refuses to formally concede despite tweeting about opponent’s win

Source: US election results 2020: Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump to win presidency | US news | The Guardian

Interesting: The best of the worst won and or did the best of the worse lose?

I find it unquestionably interesting that Trump would and or could have won, if he had done even one thing important, that he said he would do as he ran for president the first time in 2016. Yet so many ignored what he said he would do and latched upon anything he did do…

What he did do was all a nothing burger for the real America, but he did help Israel in a whole bunch of escapades that should have never been brought to the surface….Eg. moving the Israel embassy! (Trump should have run on MIGA not MAGA.)

Trump: No matter how you spin it. Lost the election because he failed to deliver even a tiny bit of important stuff he said he would. I mean stuff that makes a difference and then he hung himself out to dry as King Corona danced around the USA unhindered. Besides, the people left with a ample supply of brain cells left know that the US was caught in the crossfire of its King Corona escapade against China and it was not China against the USA…

Yet as millions have said: “If Trump had put the witch Hillary behind bars? If Trump had built the wall? If Trump had pulled out of all wars?” & If Trump and if Trump and if Trump had….He would have waltzed back into the White house!”

I find it just as interesting that Biden won:

Now we have someone? (Biden) who will employee Hillary, Obama and all the rest of the whatnot’s (I could see that John Bolton will be back in the saddle soon! Oh Lordy, Lordy Be, lets resurrect McCain!) to do exactly what “Trump said he would not do” and “he did do” anyway against what he ran upon in 2016 as promises that he would do and all that nothing burger becomes more icing on the proverbial burnt cake in the Empire Oven…

Trump and Biden both are losers in the soap opera called the USA…

From Russia the USA is all about Soap Opera…

It does not matter what you think:

You can think it is unfair? In 2016 there was so much wailing that the world thought the USA fell on a floor covered in broken glass….in 2020, everyone is breaking the glass and tossing it all around, on the floor, as they whine about everything but what is important….whining instead of wailing….not much difference really!

Both sides are tossing propaganda around like candy at a parade to the children and both sides hope you pick up that candy and eat it…

The USA is, as I have said for years on this blog, the most corrupt and (worse) psychotic nation on earth…

1. https://windowstorussia.com/not-just-what-but-when-psychopaths-fear.html
2. https://windowstorussia.com/the-last-thing-china-and-russia-want-the-usa-eximploding-and-going-full-psychopath.html
3. https://windowstorussia.com/when-you-wake-with-the-realization-that-the-psychopathic-countries-have-unhinged-into-an-alternate-reality.html
4. https://windowstorussia.com/trumps-psychopathy-threatens-the-internal-stability-of-the-united-states-and-the-world.html
5. https://windowstorussia.com/example-of-true-psychopathy.html

I am not shy about telling it like it is and a form of psychosis is not hindering the psychosis that is in your face and destroying you!

Someone who develops psychosis will have their own unique set of … are manipulative; often have a total disregard for the consequences of their actions. Psychosis is an abnormal condition of the mind that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real… That is America!

Maybe everyone could be saved if they all would agree to agree that the two men who ran for president of the US in 2020 are worthless and we need to start everything over to find someone worthy of being president of the USA?

Otherwise the circle of life is gonna slap us silly until we either stay in the bottom of the barrel and or we kill each other…

For so many presidential elections in the USA lately, the person who won only won because they are better than the trash they ran against. You can not find anyone who has won, who did not run against someone who was worth a hill of beans and the one who won was not worth a hill of beans…

Biden (Democrat) defeated Trump (Republican), Trump (Republican) defeated Hillary (Democrat), Barack Obama (Democrat) defeated Mitt Romney (Republican), Barack Obama (Democrat) defeated John McCain (Republican), George W. Bush (Republican) defeated John Kerry (Democrat), George W. Bush (Republican) defeated Al Gore (Democrat), Bill Clinton (Democrat) defeated Bob Dole (Republican), Bill Clinton (Democrat) defeated George H. W. Bush (Republican), Ronald Reagan (Republican) defeated Walter Mondale (Democrat), Ronald Reagan (Republican) defeated Jimmy Carter (Democrat), Jimmy Carter (Democrat) defeated Gerald Ford (Republican), Richard Nixon (Republican) defeated George McGovern (Democrat)….I listed 1972 to 2020…

You cannot find anyone in that list above who is worth the title of being president (winner and or loser) of the USA…

I did not vote for a single one of these people except Trump in 2016. The rest I voted independent and after voting for Trump one time….never again vote for Republican and or Democrat….I really hoped Trump was the real deal!

The rats are all sailing on the same ship and they all eat from the same pails and they all answer to the same owners…

Including Trump and Biden who just puppet danced the most pathetic election display in the history of the USA….and that says a lot!

Long popcorn…

WtR

And they did not care that the American people got back lashed upon, even worse…

Bastard of a country USA…

WtR

We are lucky to have dogs put up with us!

“All his life he tried to be a good person.

Many times, however, he failed.

For after all, he was only human.

He wasn’t a dog.”

― Charles M. Schulz

Truth is we have a lot to learn from the animals of our planet. If we are to survive? We must listen, watch & learn!

WtR

Everything that the USA does and wants to do is always in hidden in full view. The reason we do not see the plans of attack are because we Americans are way to occupied to care; occupied by our own physical/financial/chaotic country and occupied by the constant barrage of propaganda 24 hours a day…

To understand you must look, see and read what is being put out. That is the problem; we only see what is controlled played across the screens of our life. Use to be TV and now Smartphones!

I read it and I see it as it is: “We (USA) are good and China is evil”:

elements_of_the_china_challenge-20201117

I found it very much like a 1940s foreign-policy report by ex-US ambassador to the Soviet Union, George Kennan. Another propaganda and misplaced policy report…

This is the, “We (USA) are good and Soviets are evil” report:

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//coldwar/documents/episode-1/kennan.htm

The new fear mongering paper about China in a nutshell says:

1. Promoting the (US) home front in various factors.
2. Building and keeping the world’s strongest military at all odds.
3. Enforcing the USA way upon international order.
4. Changing US allies.
5. Creating, changing the USA international organizations to promote USA style democracy and human rights.
6. Being nice with China when possible and not nice with China when the USA decides it is necessary.
7. Propaganda spread in Americans about the Chinese and the Chinese want for power.
8. Install within the US government system a new line of thinking about containing China.
9. Revamp the US public education system to make the youth in America fear the rest of the world
10. Propaganda spread about how the USA is based upon the principles of freedom in not just its word but in its deeds also.

The Elements of the China Challenge: download

This site, WtR, has always told it like it is. WtR is constantly attacked because I do not sugar coat and just tell it like it is…

The USA system writes things like these reports because of fear, warmongering and desire to rule the world in whatever form they see is proper. This is basically a USA psychosis, most other countries are very happy to get along in the world and if they don’t it is a border contained issue…

Empires, especially Empires that transplanted from one failed British Empire to the new American (Western) Empire. Will do anything to stay afloat and damned to the rest of the world…

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power. — John Steinbeck

Steinbeck saw the truth!

WtR