Category: Russia

Yesterday Svetochka and I went to the dentist…

Sveta has to get a cap on a cracked tooth. The tooth was done a year or so ago and it finished cracking, not able to be filled or repaired easily again. I lost a cap about two weeks ago and need a new one for myself…

I go this Sunday and in an hour they will make a cap in office and replace the cap I swallowed in the village. Tooth cap…

It will cost me about 5000 rubles. It is an acrylic cap like the other one and is cheap for this poor American living in Russia. The other one was still good, I just swallowed it, while taking my pills one night and never found it again… 🙁

That is about $75 for you conversion needy…

Try that for cost and I get it done in one hour on Sunday and that makes me happy. They will 3D print a new cap and off I go. Also x-rays for checking my tooth was only about 150 rubles. That is $2.20 if you need to know…

You should stop and think about medical costs in America!

I pay full price for my dental work, consultation was free and I really like the dentist. He did not argue about having a acrylic cap as most dentist only like high dollar items. They know arguing with this American goes nowhere…

Svetochka will get a zirconium cap at my request. I want her to have the best and she is definitely worth it. It costs more, not sure how much, but more. I am rough on everything and acrylic matches what my life style is. I learned a long time ago, after several other failures in materials, including gold crowns, that acrylic is the only way for me. I can replace a cap every three years, if need be and still come out ahead. Acrylic is the only substance that melds with me appropriately. It also holds up to almost anything I throw at it, well except swallowing it and the cost makes trying to recover a swallowed crown worth ignoring such a happening… 😉

Most work Sveta has done is free in Russia, she is a Russian you know and a citizen. I wish I was a citizen and had the free medical care available to her. I think she will pay for this crown though, as my dentist is private, but so good that it is worth it…

I have talked about dental care in the past in Russia, as I have talked about my healthcare in general. Nothing but satisfied is how I have been and nothing but responsible pricing has ever been tossed my way. But when I compare to the farce that I dealt with in America, you should understand why it is so good here in Russia…

Dental Care… Health Care… Root Canal… Doctors…

Many more links are available in the website, just search above left…

I just love Russia and she treats me just fine…

WtR

PS: Sveta did say that she thought her price was cheap and she was very happy with my dentist. I am glad for she has needed to get this done for awhile. When Svetochka is happy then my life is happy… 😉

I just love this place. Located on the Red Square across to the other side, from Lenin’s Tomb. It is just as beautiful today as it was then. In fact I saw many of the same type of shops and people just packed the place…

The Gum Department Store located in Downtown Moscow, is a showcase from the Soviet Era! We are always amazed when we go there; The building is old and gorgeous! Sveta use to shop there when it was a Soviet Union Store. Now we go just to see the beautiful sites. It is a high dollar shopping experience with names from all over the world. I just thought that you might want to see what New Years looks like at GUM!

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So many drone strikes on weddings, schools, churches and hospitals on the other side of the world because a couple of people maybe at that building and or function are suspected and assumed to be or having the possibility, of being “terrorists” on the other side of the world…

Why that’s just good old American legitimate warfare?

Get it?

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“I am the wealthiest man not just in Europe but in the whole world. I collect emotions, I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia – I believe that is my greatest wealth,”  – Bloomberg View quoted Putin as saying…

Yes Putin is the richest man in the world. The Russian people “trust” him and that is that…

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I am drinking apple cider vinegar three times a day for three days and then once a week thereafter. I use two teaspoons full of vinegar in a glass of warm or room temperature water and drink it. If it cause issues, then I will put some baking soda in it and that will solve that… (Kidneys produce their own baking soda! info…)

Why am I drinking this sour stuff?

For my kidney stones and it is working…

Apple Cider Vinegar and Water:

1. Add two tablespoons of organic apple cider vinegar to 6 to 8oz. of fresh water, and mix them well.
2. To clear kidney stones, drink this solution regularly throughout the day.
3. Drinking it before your meals will keep kidney stones from building up in the first place, and avoid infections.
4. You will want to keep drinking this once or twice each week even when kidney stones are removed completely, which helps to prevent the recurrence of kidney stones.

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Tomorrow, Sveta and I go to the dentist and get some work done on our teeth. I have to have a new cap done, as I swallowed my other one after it slipped off while taking pills for the night…

“What Ever!”, I say and throw my hands up in the air…

I am glad Svetochka is going. She has a issue and I have buggered her for months to get the tooth fixed. That makes me less grouchy…

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I can not find my electric hair trimmer for nothing. Have you ever lost something and knew it was there, but it simply is not there anymore?

I will go tonight to get my hair cut, but I was going to do it myself and I tore the village home apart and now looking around our flat in Moscow. I simply do not have my hair cutting tool anymore! 🙁

That makes me grouchy and grumpy again…

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When you say, “Do not cross that line or you will feel repercussions!” That is called a “Red Line” and a Red Line is something that we, or at least I was raised to believe, that if you crossed said Red Line, then you got your nose punched and or a black eye. A Red Line is for situations that are extremely important. So important, you would die for those thoughts, actions and or feelings…

A Red Line is a warning…

Does not matter how big you are, whether you are a bully or not, how big your weapons are, you cross someones Red Line and you have crossed the Rubicon…

Watching the eastern news I realized that Russia has drawn the Red Line in the sand of Syria. What with the draw down of certain military functions to have been replaced with more and much more powerful weapons…

I have watched for months as Russia has made chess moves in Syria and this is what I talk about when I say, “Russia plays chess and America play checkers!”

To get some understanding about the difference; A Red Line to an American is a line to show seriousness, but that line is just a facade and can be moved as needed all over the place. America does it to suit the time and needs…

To a Russian a Red Line means; the bottom and final line. Pass the Red Line and you step over the Rubicon…

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In Russia you see the brandishing of all that is Russian and much more. This is a wonderful thing to feel and watch. Russians are remaking Russia and Russians are rebuilding Russian items. It is simply astounding to witness. For Russia had falling into that trap of buy Chinese and to hell with the internal production…

Then I look overseas and see something that makes no sense at all. It makes no sense in any aspect, for a company that was made rich by the American way and now it leaves without a fight. For to make Oreo Cookies in Mexico is blasphemy…

While not all manufacturing of Oreo cookies is being moved to Mexico. The first step has been done and that means following steps will follow as Nabisco finds it much cheaper and easier to make cookies in Mexico, becomes predominate on their bottom line…

Therefore, while Russia is cranking up manufacturing and making delicious foods and that includes Russian cookies and such…

America is sending basic jobs out of America and the politicians are spouting revenge, but nothing will be done…For those same politicians are on the lam with big business…

The American cookie called Oreo will be made in Mexico, at least some of them will be. Soon though, all will be made in Mexico…

There was a time when the working class of America was the subject of happier tales. Dreams of manufacturing anything and everything. There was nothing that we needed outside people for. We built America and made huge iconic goods that still rock the world, except these items now are made somewhere else and not within the borders of America. A job lost is a job never coming back, unless we change the attitude and thoughts of America…

The easy life and cheap goodies has brought us to our knees…

1. Rawlings baseballs, which are the official balls of the MLB, are handmade in Costa Rica. Up to 2.4 million balls are made each year.

2. Production of the iconic red wagon moved to China in 2004 due to unsustainable maintenance costs at its previous Chicago plant, MSNBC reports.

3. Mattel manufactures many of its most iconic American toys like the Barbie doll in places such as Hong Kong.

4. Converse, maker of the iconic Chuck Taylor All Star sneaker, was purchased by Nike back in 2003, which promptly outsourced production to China, Thailand and India.

5. Levi jeans, which the company describes as the “ultimate icon of American culture,” are in fact manufactured outside America with the exception of one particular line that is made in North Carolina, Global Post reports.

6. Etch A Sketch outsourced manufacturing of its never-ending doodle machine to China in 2000 to save on costs.

7. Polo Ralph Lauren found itself in hot water when it was discovered that the uniforms it made for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team were actually manufactured in China.

8. Five Rivers Electronic Innovations, the last company to manufacture TVs in America, went out of business in 2004, according to Business Insider.

9. Huffy Bikes, that first bike of many American kids, haven’t been manufactured in America since 1999.

10. Despite widespread criticism, Apple continues to manufacture its popular iPad in China for cost-cutting purposes, among other reasons.

11. Monopoly, the game that embodies the spirit of American capitalism, produces many of its game pieces overseas, including the green and red houses which are made in Ireland, according to The Street.

12. $3.2 million worth of American flags were imported by the U.S. in 2010, with the vast majority being made in China, the Washington Post reports.

Twelve items that just scratch the surface of millions of items that we grew up with and have lost and or just do not care if and how we get them. Made in America is almost history, when we buy American flags from someone else…

Summing up of America…As it falls…

WtR

Reporter asking: Mr. Putin, how is it to be the president of the most aggressive, evil, despicable empire in the world?

Putin’s reply: I don’t know. I’m not the president of the United States of America!

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I will be honest. I did not think we were going to make it out of the village. It had snowed, rained, sleeted and rained a whole bunch more. The puddles on the village road looked more like the lakes filling on the fish farm and mud was deep, axle deep…

Sammy the Volga crawled through it all and even crawled out of the middle of a field of mud in pouring rain, for the road was worse than trying to cross a field. Either way was terrible, but, the field ended up the way that Sammy was able to keep digging and forced her way to the better road. About two hundred meters of grass and mud. Not fun, but bless Sammy’s heart, she made it…

Sammy is getting tired and she needs an upper engine rebuild. It is hard to believe that we have been driving her for six years now and she still tries to do the best she can. We have put a lot of kilometers on her and she had at the freezing of the odometer five years ago, 155,000 kilometers at least the second time around, before it died. She takes a licking and keeps on ticking…

The trip to and from the village is hard, but going to the village is much easier than coming from the village. For going you get the worse part over with; the dreaded Moscow death race. Come from the village, the dreaded Moscow death race is the last and most formidable part of the trip. When entering Moscow after hours of driving, the drivers in the big city just plain suck and are, as Svetochka puts it, “They are stupid!” Oh how right she is. As they cut you off, pull in front of you and slam on the breaks, drive in the wrong lane and or just plain simply are stupid as Sveta puts it… 😉

It also does not help that I am living in a peaceful village and not having to deal with these idiots all the time like I use to. I am not tuned to driving with them anymore. My biggest thing is pulling Vova’s Niva out of the mud and snow all winter…

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I believe that Svetochka saw the need to get a few things done to our Volga. It is time this summer, before next winter, to get some major engine work done and a new rear axle. She has already called her son to get information about having a limited slip rear end installed and I have already got the steel pieces to weld the frame in a few weak spots. Then we have to take her in and have, most likely, a valve job done. I do not think just running the valves will do the job. The usage of propane has eaten the vales away over time and we actually are just idling on three cylinders. Running on 3 and a half is how I put it, but the vales are so worn in cylinder one, that at idle it does not fire…

Time to put up or shut up and I see the look on Sveta’s face. She loves her Sammy the Volga and after it made it out of a mud bath and drove home. Sveta was impressed. but worried at how she is starting to fair…

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““Panama Papers” — a trove of 11.5 million leaked internal documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca…”

http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/en/

I thought cool! Lets see how many western leaders and such are listed. Then as soon as I looked at the main news articles and realized that they simply forgot to mention virtually anything about the most corrupt people in the world and all in the list was western hated people. It became clear that this publication as another western driven propaganda issue to smack against mainly Putin and Russia, even though Putin had nothing, literally, to do with the whole damn thing…

And when I saw these names popping up on a regular bases: Panama Papers reporting team: Juliette Garside, Luke Harding, Holly Watt, David Pegg, Helena Bengtsson, Simon Bowers, Owen Gibson and Nick Hopkins: the haters of Putin and Russia…

I knew that this was crap of the diarrhea type and regurgitated stinky news just to attack the evil Russian Empire of death. Of course attacked by the angels of the western world and the ones who bring love into your life. The ones not mentioned in the report are there for your health and benefit…

What….no Americans mentioned here..?

Biggest leak in the history of data journalism just went live, and it’s about corruption. https://t.co/dYNjD6eIeZ pic.twitter.com/638aIu8oSU

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 3, 2016

Read between the lines on the articles where the Americans are not listed and you get the picture…The Sock Puppet Media has saved us the heartache of seeing the American names. Very considerate of them. Of course, they are protecting the kleptocracy governmental names of the innocent western countries…

Yessiree!

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Russian said that they would be attacked in the media and yes; they are being made the brunt of this whole report mentioned above. Even as they say later in their article, Putin did nothing wrong and or Putin only had two billion dollars associated with his name? Friends! OMG, 2 billion dollars of almost able to associate money with Putin (Association is possible if you have issues with hating Russia and or Putin!) against trillions of dollars in America and the EU of corruption…

Oh and did not you know that Putin is literally dating all women on earth?

Putin is some manly man! Dating all women on earth and hiding from plain view and the western world, enough money to make him the richest man in the universe. What a manly man, Putin is…

Yessiree!

WtR

Last day in the village for a few weeks. It is snowing today and getting colder by the second. Looks like Old Man Winter wants me to remember him for all the fun we had this winter. But I will be back to see if he leaves the village alone after awhile. Got to leave Russia and get some business done…

It will be a busy few weeks in Moscow and I need to have a checkup by my doctor. There is a clinic near our Moscow home that has very good doctors and I need to go there to have a few issues checked out. Life is interesting, cure one thing and have another problem pop up to deal with… 😉

Svetochka, Boza and I took a drive yesterday and made it out of the village area. It looks good and we should not have any issues getting out, even if it snows and rains. We have good tires, it will stay above zero degrees and if we do get stuck, the Fish Farm guys are always willing to help pull us out, if need be…

Thus, tomorrow we hit the dusty snowy trail. After a coffee of course…

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I was raised that media was unbiased:

They were to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, even if it hurt feelings and caused issues. Media had a job to do and getting the truth out was the rule and expected. Never take sides and never lie. That was the media I grew up to believe in. A Journalist was a respected position, if not upsetting people a times, but truth hurts and respect was given to media, even if the truth hurt…

Now media in the mainstream of most of the world and definable in the western world. Is extremely biased and extremely controlled. Nothing is printed to give the truth, all is printed to use as propaganda and weapons against the evil of life. Even when that evil is made up by the western world. Now we have embedded the tactics and destroyed even the truth within America itself. Internally, you would think that true should rule, but the days of Clark Kent as a mild mannered reported and caring about the truth and justice for all (?). Is history and a journalist is just a puppet on rubber bands bouncing all around the place and lying to gather a paycheck. Truth has become the mother in-law who is a backseat driver who tells you to slow down and you tied her up and taped her mouth shut. And in most cases, she has been pushed out of the car at high speed over a bridge and no one looked back as she hit the earth far below…

Glee of being free of morals, truth and other interesting evils to curtail governments and corporations of destruction of our country, has become the norm. Writing pure lies and having it printed in major publications, is not only accepted, it is expected and desired. In fact telling the truth will not get you a job as a journalist anymore. Just the opposite…

As long as what you say feds the agenda of the wannabes, you are in like flint and have a job as long as you lie instead of telling the truth…

Western media is either presented as two ways;

1. Crickets chirping as it ignores all truth and facts…
2. A Screaming Fat Lady, as she expresses herself and does not shut up for weeks at a time…

Nothing between is desired for it might change the scenario and upset the balance to fight evil and demons and also fight the truth and not allow the public to really know what is going on. That is the part that you like, as you eat up lies like a puppy drinking milk from a saucer and then realize that milk gives it diarrhea. Oh Well… A puppy can not learn such issues and repeats over and over lapping up that milk. The milk which is not good for it and will always due to greed lap the milk up and then have diarrhea…

The big issue is that humans still give that puppy milk, time and time again, and they do it even when the puppy has issues drinking it. So we are our own plight…

You know when Clark Kent quits The Daily Planet because of journalist issues and he was the king of lying journalists, due to his Superman issues. (Maybe Peter Parker (Spider-man) is the King or maybe prince of lying journalists?) Then you know that the world has lost the journalist edge. Even Clark Kent refused to cover up anymore…

A spokesman for DC comics confirmed the departure: “This is not the first time in DC Comics history that Clark Kent has left the Planet, and this time the resignation reflects present-day issues – the balance of journalism vs. entertainment, the role of new media, the rise of the citizen journalist, etc.”

It is simple people!

When what you read is so far from the truth and you turn your back and or laugh about the way the truth has been bent and twisted to fit the agenda. Then again I will say. “We are the issue and the problem and if we do not start demanding truth and accountability! We will have nothing to get truth and accountability from or for!”

We need a Hippocratic Oath for Journalists and we need it now or they do not work again. If they refuse to abide by it…

WtR