Category: Russia

Somewhere between when I was a little tyke playing army in the backyard with my GI Joe gun and grenades and as I write this post a whole bunch of years later; Someone decided that infinite growth through unlimited debt was the answer to all the worlds problems…

It is like another ponzi scheme and or pyramid scheme. The first few get all the wealth…

Don’t get me wrong, it would really be cool to just get a million dollars from the bank and when you spend that, you go get another million and keep doing that indefinitely….maybe only paying the interest if you feel like it….and hoping that one day you owe so much money to the bank that they cannot tell you to go away….

If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem. – J. Paul Getty

And that is the biggest issue. They decided to call it, “Too Big To Fail!”

And the world thinks that all is good with unlimited debt?

My money is on the fact that this is a bad thing in the long run…

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I have been stunned by the appearance of road drainage…

This is not a common thing. Yes, Russia has drainage on a few selected big highways, but for the most part, you never see road water drainage anywhere and will encounter huge ponds to drive/walk through…

But…

I am seeing that the infrastructure is actually under the roads and all of a sudden after 12 years of me walking around and driving Russia, we have drainage grates being installed…

That image above is of a new drainage grate near our home. It is one of six I have found recently and I am just amazed. Seriously; I even took a picture of it. It just amazes me. When you thought that you would never see water drainage on a normal side road and drive these roads for years and years and look at roads being paved and they never care if the road has a crown or not to drain water and and and….then they put in water drainage for the roads…

I am one happy bear!

I guess you have to live in Russia to understand…

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Since WtR is a little guy, with huge things to say. It is easy to shut down a site like WtR. It happens and yesterday again, either through a plugin and or through a weakness in the theme of the blog, WtR was torn to pieces…

You see the fact that they can mess up your template effects how Google, googles you. The site gets set back in search rankings for months. Yes it does and, “Oh well what can I do?”

Once again the attacks came from computers sitting in US based guard shacks and US based government offices. Located at military bases and even prisons located around America. I just shake my head when I see how DOD, DOJ, DHS and multiples of other IPs show up in the attack…

These three articles below were the brunt of the hate and vitriol tossed at WtR, either cyberly and or written word wise through emails and comments…

The US intelligence services hunt for Russian citizens…

No wait! Russia asked for what? Run puppy run…

Hotel Amerifornia…

And yes it is Department of Homeland Security, US

I feel good when I hit it on the nail head, but I do not appreciate the fact that because WtR is a little site with big big things to say, that we get attacked and attacked and attacked. Thus, we just take it and pick up the pieces after they are done. I am not a big news site and or a big powerful blog. Funds are limited, much more limited than all the things I have to say… 😉

Therefore, they attacked either through the template or a plugin (most likely both) that I removed. Either way, the back door is gone. For now! The DHS is able to attack WtR because I have no recourse against them…

I kind of look at attacking WtR like this:

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. – Kurt Vonnegut

I love Hot Fudge Sundaes!

Have a nice day and open your eyes and smell the coffee…

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Just some images to show you around. Svetochka has family in from Great Britain and they went traipsing around the Kremlin in Moscow. Being an American, I seem to scare the rest of the family and they do better without me around… 😉

Little known fact in America. The Russians are much more comfortable around the British than Americans…

Just to let you see some pictures of Russia…

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VDNKh is launching a new summer project titled “Music on the Rooftop.” Between June 17 and August 26, Muscovites and tourists will be able to listen to live music on the roof of Worker and Kolkhozwoman Pavilion. The stage and the auditorium, with comfortable chairs and cushions, are located right at the base of the famous 24-metre-high sculpture. It can seat up to 300 people at a time. “Concerts will be held on Thursday and Sunday evenings. On Thursdays, there will be jazz and instrumental music for those

Source: Music on the rooftop: VDNKh gives live open-air concerts / News / Moscow City Web Site

I wanna go…

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I hope the White House corrects the record and denounces in categorical terms this ridiculous request from Putin. Not doing so creates moral equivalency between a legitimacy US indictment of Russian intelligence officers and a crazy, completely fabricated story invented by Putin https://t.co/K1ZvrNwTu3

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) July 18, 2018

Michael McFaul that ambassador that walked into his job and pissed Russia off from day one. He immediately ignored the Russian Government and went and played footsie with the 5th columns in Russia… (January 23, 2012 – I wrote the article below)

McFaul or is it McFart: Russia wants to know…

Hmm….looks like he was a very bad boy in Russia and tried to undermine the Russian Government…. But then I figured that out from day one and so did Russia…

Quote from article: McFart now hides in his Embassy downtown Moscow and tries to contemplate his next move. He sure was caught off guard by the Russian backlash when decided to forge ties with the opposition first and foremost before even unpacking his bags at his new home. Seems that the eagerness to perform his job for his bosses back home in the US clouded his vision and abilities to do his job…

I have said before, “Russians never forget!”

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Trump is demonized by his own country (USA), more than they (USA) demonize Putin. Yet Putin is suppose to be the leader of the most evil country in the universe and Putin is the most brutal dictator who ever lived….and Trump is president of the most “special” country in the world…

Hmm….weird we have become…

Yes we are # 1…

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Actually two water spouts….called one black and one white…

Mother Nature is so cool…

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Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said that Russian embassy is taking every possible step to solve the problem of Maria Butina’s detention in the US as soon as possible.

“There is nothing new in this case. The US intelligence services hunt for Russian citizens not only in the US, but also in other countries,” Antonov said.

The US government announced on Monday that Maria Butina had been accused of conspiring to act as a foreign agent for Moscow. With the latest additional alleged…

Source: Russian Envoy on Butina’s Arrest: US Intel ‘Hunting’ for Russians Abroad – Sputnik International

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Affidavit-filed-for-arrest-of-Maria-Butina – PDF of Official Papers…

In an extremely troubling move three years ago, the Republican-controlled Congress handed the Internal Revenue Service the power to strip individuals of one of the most important and tangible rights possessed by American citizens – their passports. The Service is now starting to use this hammer. What is perhaps even more disturbing than giving the IRS this power, is the manner by which the Republicans maneuvered the legislative language through the Congress – hidden deep within a multi-hundred-page piece

Source: Congress Colluded With IRS to Strip Citizens of Passports – Bob Barr

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Barr rightly points out that, given we already know the IRS uses its power to target political enemies, this new power of the agency is especially troubling.

Source: You Now Can’t Leave The U.S. Unless The IRS Lets You | Zero Hedge

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Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
‘Relax’ said the night man,
‘We are programmed to receive.
You can check out any time you like,
But you can never leave!’

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She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends…

Don’t ever say that I have not been warning Americans and the world to boot…

Hotel Amerifornia…

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