Write Everyday…

read-writeI write everyday. Most is not on Windows to Russia and actually most is within 4 novels I am writing. Three are near completion and I hope that within a year. One of them will be done. I have had to learn much patience when it comes to writing. That is my cup of coffee thinking this morning…

Some days I write 10,000 to 15,000 words and that took me a few years to get to that point. When I first started it was like running for the first time. 200 to 300 words and the well dried up. Now 200 to 300 words is just a fart in the wind of life. I have learned how to put a bunch of farts together and make a big fart and that makes it more fun… 🙂

Today I am going to write about writing. I have a million things that I could and want to write about, but I am in no mood to get all political and upset. The bottom line is that I am going to sip my coffee and ignore how pathetic we treat our planet and fellow humans. I enjoy writing and I am doing just that. Now I will tell you a few things to think of, if you desire to write. I do and have discovered my dream. I write and write and write…

But writing takes time to build up to speed…

Start just writing: Just write. Just read and write. Just do it and do it and do it. Do not care what anyone thinks and do it. Write and write and write. If you have a hangnail on your right thumb? Then write about it. Open a blog and write…

But my grammar and spelling is terrible: So what! Write and write and write! While you write and write and write, learn some basics and please use a spell check. Regardless write and do not allow anyone to upset you. The grammar.spelling police are some of the main people who never write over 10 words at a time. It is much easier to write if you call writing 10 words. I turn out 10,000 words and then go back over the next few days and correct things. Or maybe I go back a year later and correct stuff. The bottom line is write and do not worry about the grammar police…

My Blog does not have readers: Again, “So What!” It takes time and besides you are worried about your grammar and such. Write and write and write. You will get better – Practice Makes Perfect! Besides write it your way, for burgers at Burger King are not the only thing you can have your way. One day if you keep writing, you may find a bunch of readers that never say anything, are reading everyday. This blog you are on right now runs about an average of 3000 unique visits everyday (Unique visitors refers to the number of distinct individuals requesting pages from the website during a given period, regardless of how often they visit. My records record someone as new every 12 hours. So if you came 10 times an hour, you are still only recorded once in 12 hours.) and that is about a million unique hits a year, nothing to sneeze at… (Hits are different and I run over 6 million of those per year!)

Everyone writes: Sorry hardly anyone writes compared to the non-writers. I have no idea the discrepancy but I know that non- writers out number us writers by a whole bunch and there needs to be more writers. For reading and writing go together and that is what the world needs, more reading and writing. Not war…

I do not know what to write about?: Excuse me, but you really like to make any lame excuse not to write! What did I say earlier?

“If you have a hangnail on your right thumb? Then write about it.”

Just write and write and write! For if you do not, you will never get big enough writing muscles to write properly and you do want to write or you would not be at this point of this blog post reading about writing…

As I end this post today, “It is simple!”

People ask what came first the chicken or the egg? Writing does not have such a paradox. You can not read without writing first, for Reading is what follows writing…

To read, someone has to write!

So write…

To read…

Post by Kyle Keeton
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From Russia: America Needs a Boss – The Buck Stops Here…

pass-the-buckI was raised that when we are in charge of something, anything, that we as the boss take the blame no matter what anyone under us does. We may deal with that person after the effect, but we as the boss takes the heat…

I had a sign on my office door,

“The buck stops here! Do not pass this door for another door, for if it is wrong it is my fault and I will take care of it, No one else is to blame! – Welcome…”

It seems that we are doing nothing but passing the buck as things get worse and worse in the USA…

Good or Bad: We (America) need a boss…

Post by Kyle Keeton
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Recipe from Russia: Baranki – Russian Biscuit…

tea and barankiBaranki were first introduced to me, Sveta and I were traveling to Ukraine by car. We stopped at a quick stop and picked up these doughnut looking things. I had no idea what to expect and I will tell you that while they are shaped like a doughnut, they taste like a slightly sweet pretzel without the large grain salt on them. They are not deep fried. they are boiled in water, then baked and many times come with poppy seeds layered on them. Russians love poppy seeds…

They are a mainstay during the times we stay in the village. They are perfect for tea or coffee as you discuss life around the kitchen table…

Lets make Baranki.

List of Ingredients:
8 eggs
1/2 cup olive oil
1 tsp. pure vanilla
1/2 tsp sea salt
3 cups unsifted flour
1/2 cup raw sugar

Egg Wash:
1 egg
salt two pinches

Recipe:
Separate eggs…

Whip the egg yolks and sugar together and slowly add the oil, vanilla and salt. Mix well…

BarankiThen beat the egg whites and add to the creamed egg yolk mixture made above. Gradually add flour until dough forms, you may need to add more than the 3 cups indicated above. Counts on egg size etc…

To make baranki: roll dough between your hands to make a rope and twist together and form a doughnut shape… (Picture to left!)

Boil pot of water: Then add baranki to boiling water and cook for about 5 minutes. Drain on a clean cotton tea towel until all water drains away…

While water drains, whip egg wash in a bowl…

Then put on a greased or papered cookie sheet, egg wash the baranki. Turn oven on to 425 and bake the baranki for 15 minutes. Turn oven down to 375 and bake for about 45 minutes. Until they are golden brown…

Oh! Yummy!

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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Russia and Iran Using the Barter Method…

barter500,000 barrels of Iranian oil a day for Russian equipment and other goods. This program using barter methods is worth around $1.5 billion US every month.  This is designed to undermine western sanctions and this same process is also being used by India and China already…

We will see about this as Russia and Iran are in discussions right now over this very issue…

The west is not happy about what other countries are doing to skirt the sanctions…

I have talked several times about how countries are going to have to start bartering to get by in the world and the more barter that happens the weaker the west becomes. For once the dollar is undercut enough by other methods. The dollar will crush the US financial system, as it flows upon the shores by the trillions and trillions. The trillions that are now hidden all over the world to keep the US afloat. For it is simple math, trillions of pieces of paper worth zero do not buy food and goods when the truth is finally realized and the game is over…

But then I will say again, the sanctions by the west against Iran are illegal and morally wrong. They are an act of war against a peaceful country. Maybe the US deserves what it gets and that is sad. For we do not deserve to be brought down by a small percent of the population. Though we have allowed it…

Oh! I forgot you do not believe that! Do You?

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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“Against All” or None of the Above: Russian elections…

vote-for-nobody-originalA couple of years ago I talked about this and I thought that this would be a great idea. On election ballots the people in Russia have a chance to vote, “Against All!”

Other words, if you think that all candidates suck, then you can vote that they suck, by telling everyone, “I am against All of them!”

I understand that this was part of the older system to vote and now the Duma is talking over bringing it back on a federal level. It is now already being allowed on a local and regional level. Six regions have already voted it in and now the much longer process of being on a federal level will have to start…

I wish the west would do this. Could you imagine the turn out to tell the idiots in office that we do not want any of you. For when you have a vote for “Frick or Frack,” there is nothing to vote for and I remember the last few presidential election is America. It was truly a vote for the lessor of the two evils and both candidates are and have been pathetic…

I am glad Russia is doing this for you have a right to vote for no one and that vote deserves to be heard. For “Nobody” is and can be a powerful candidate…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Cup of Coffee: Wonderful Weather is ending…

cupcoffeeWow we have had fantastic weather these holidays, but it soon will end and outside now it is starting to drop, both the snow is blowing and the mercury is going down. I will not complain as we have had wonderful weather and the ground was almost empty of snow. Sometimes we get a break here in Moscow and this year that break from the weather was extended. Those are my thoughts as I sip a cup of wonderful coffee…

I see thousands of articles about how the weather with Russia and America have switched. I see thousands of articles that proclaim Global Warming is to blame. I see thousands of articles blaming HAARP. I see just thousands of articles that blame anything and everything there could be and I see thousands of articles about how terrible it is in America. I realized that all these articles are to distract people and it is working…

I have to say that the Americans are crying as loud as the Russians did years ago when the temperatures in Russia hit record highs and we burned up half the country in wild fires. Seriously the Americans are acting like a bunch of wimps who have frozen butts, just like the Russians acted like a bunch of wimps years ago as they thought their hair was going to catch on fire from the heat. I swear people complain about everything and I hear people complaining about the weather we have had in Moscow, but not me! I won’t complain and I can tell you that Sveta has loved this warm weather…

Oh no! Here comes the cold weather… 🙂

Everyone get warm or cooler! Whatever the need is where you are located and have fun. Have a nice day…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Simonov Monastery… (5)

Simonov Monastery 1917

Simonov Monastery (Russian: Симонов монастырь) located near Moscow was originated around 1370 by Feodor the monk, who is a nephew and disciple of famous St Sergius of Radonezh. During the 15th century, the monastery was the wealthiest and most renowned in all of Moscow. Among the famous monks who lived and worked there were Vassian Patrikeyev and Maximus the Greek. The monastery was heavily fortified and as almost all monasteries, it defended the cities that it was near. This monastery defended the south side of Moscow…

The monastery was destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1923, as were most monasteries in the Soviet Union. This monastery became an automobile plant. Some structures survived and not long ago the Moscow government created plans for a reconstruction of the monastery…

I could have used a picture from today and you really do not see the monastery in her splendor. So I used this beautiful painting of the monastery to show how she looked in the early 1900’s before it was destroyed to make room for the Soviet industrial world…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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Litvinenko and Russia: Britain Changes her Mind (MP3)

Click player to listen to article:

The Truth is that
Britain killed
Litvinenko!

The Russian tie to Litvinenko’s death has been removed. It vanished after years and years of main stream news credibility being destroyed, as they insisted that Russia was the sole reason behind Litvinenko’s death. But all the power of the propaganda press is gone, now that they have done their job and lied. Now the truth comes out and everyone puts the truth on the back pages…

It’s the end of a deliberate lie. It is the end of a lie to deceive people and their attitudes toward Russia. It is a lie to cove up the real reason behind Litvinenko’s death. It was a lie to cover up the British involvement and it worked as far as the west was concerned, but then the west is always spouting, “Damn with what the east needs, wants or cares…”

Witch Hunter
Witch Hunter – Coroner Sir Robert Owen

Coroner Sir Robert Owen has been allowed to carry the immoral torch of Britain’s greater than thy attitude about Russia over this case, by looking for false facts against Russia in this case…

Then suddenly he did an about face – 6 years later and on December 18, he officially issued a formal ruling that removed the Russian involvement from his inquest.

Guess that means the case is dead, for if Russia did not do it. Then who did? (Good question and it should have been thought of before now!)

The case is cold and dead just like Litvinenko and the investigation with Russia’s help should have been in 2006. Instead it was a witch hunt like the world sees all the time from the west and that witch hunt is always there to cover up the facts…

Once again Russia has been proven to have the moral high-ground in world affairs and the west has proven their corruption is reaching its peak…

The Victim
The Victim – Litvinenko – Expendable

Lets hope that morals enter the situation in the west before to long…

Just a few of my articles from this case…

http://windowstorussia.com/russia-tried-to-stop-the-litvinenko-poisioning-but-britian-said-no.html

http://windowstorussia.com/russia-was-polonium-210-used-as-weapon_11.html

http://windowstorussia.com/get-over-it-britain-somethings-need-to-be-left-alone-signed-russia.html

The truth is that Britain killed Litvinenko and used games to cover up the truth. I have said this from the beginning…

Sad world we live in…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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Windows to Russia is going to Metamorphosis…

hot-cup-of-coffeeI realize that you do not look at Windows to Russia as a living breathing creature, but I do and Windows to Russia has a soul all its own. Things are changing slowly on Windows to Russia, but they are going to change…

You may have noticed MP3 soundtracks on some posts. You may have noticed videos ignoring YouTube and such. You will be seeing video broadcasts done by yours truly and other changes will happen…

Windows to Russia is a long term project and never was it expected to be easy or profitable. I would like it to be profitable and maybe one day we will reach that issue head on. Easy it has never been and never will be, for I am alone on this project and will most likely stay that way. Unless someone with serious work ethics wants to come aboard?

The site has been destroyed more than once and by shear tenacity and realization that she had a spark of life left. I kept going and kept pouring money into a whipped entity. I do not think that anyone who has a website would disagree with what I say. A website takes on a life of its own and that site is demanding just like any other living soul. For as with ignoring your cat and not feeding it, a site will die just as fast as that cat. It takes a lot of effort to have a functioning site…

Bottom line is that Windows to Russia will become a variable faucet website that will bring you information in a variety of ways. As always it will be from a perspective of an American living in Russia. Though I admit that more and more I am fed up with the western way of life and one day I may turn away from the west completely. That is my growth and development as per the future and when that day comes, that will be part of what Windows to Russia has been about..

My growth and development in a new world with new people and becoming one of those people…

Stay tuned for the changes…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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Russia’s Lake Baikal and Drumming…

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Lake Baikal is situated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It also is the place that has a unique music practiced, after people discovered that ice resonates like a drum…

The next video will give you some serious information about the lake. Like did you know that Lake Baikal grows larger every year? I did not know that, but now I do…

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You just learned something about Russia. Something that you may not have known. I did learn a bunch and that is what makes life interesting. Learning something new everyday…

Lake Baikal a natural Russian wonder…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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