Category: Russia

I sit here and sip my cup of coffee. It is hazelnut flavored and just makes a dreary day better. That is what I think! I think a cup of coffee makes the day better, but that may not be what you think. I really do not care if you like coffee or not. I have chosen to make a narrow themed blog based on my thoughts and my sipping coffee as I live in Russia. Today I decided to tell what I think about several major issues that are destroying our world…

1. Abortion: Other than a few individual cases due to external circumstances and those cases should be dealt with in privacy and peace for all involved. Abortion is just plain wrong. I am a biology major in genetics. I have real issues with aborting a child after conception. For I know as well as anyone that that child is who and what he is at the micro second of fertilization. He or she is what she is and you are killing someone who already has hair color chosen, muscle mass chosen and a thousand other things chosen. That person is who he or she is and killing them is the same as pulling the trigger on a full grown adult. I believe that the decision to not have a baby is made before you “romp in the hey,” so to speak. Oh I know! You have rights and can do what you damn well want to and will abort if you want to. You are right! I just wish that you would have thought about the consequences of your actions, before you slept with that hot linebacker from the college team or that cute bartender at the local pub, last night. Oh, but I realize that you had a few too many to drink… (Sad!)

2. Global Warming: Is a joke to me! Global Warming is a political ploy and is what the governments want you to concentrate ion and run scared from. The truth is, if Global Warming is all we had to worry about, then we do not have any issues. The point blank issue is that we have Global Destruction going on and it is caused by the human race. We have very little to worry about from warming and CO2 gases. What we better worry about is the whole picture and the whole picture is really bad. I truly believe that Mother Nature will take us down and out, if we continue to destroy this planet. We have no idea about how alive everything is around us and as we terrorize the planet. The day is coming that we will be Shaken off like a bad case of fleas!

“We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!

We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

Plastic… asshole.”

― George Carlin

He is right in the above block-quote and enough said about that…

3. War: Now war is something I know about. It is something I have been trained for. It is something I have lived through and it is something that is so terrible, that I am the only one left alive from my company in my times of past. I am it and there is no one that shared my experiences next to me. In fact most of them never came home and the ones that did, killed themselves, either by fast suicide or slow suicide. Take your pick and lets just say war sucks and if you support it, then I say you suck. Most likely if you support war, you are an armchair general and think that nothing will happen to you as you sit behind your video games or you just are a warped sick person and thrive on the death of others. We have most of those already in the army or such and they stay for life. See you do suck…

4. Drones: Drones are war and where ever we use them we are at war. That is a bunch of places. Drones do not stop terrorists, but they do stop weddings and lots of civilians. Drones are an example of a society and America is one sick society. God Bless you America as the drones are going to be used against yourself and one day you will be thinking “Terminator” movies. (Soon you may need to register that wedding in the US – Or get droned!)

5. North Korea: Leave them alone! Everything that we think we know about them is a lie and propaganda. North Korea is okay and we (west) are the ones who are psychotically obsessed with them. Leave them alone…

6. Gun Control: I do not like gun control, but that said, “Americans scare me with their “high and mightier than you” attitude and having guns is even scarier when you think about it!”

7. Church: I believe in God, but I do not believe in what we have for religion in America. A long time ago I questioned the money aspect of religions and I see it all over the world. But I deal with America, as it is my home country and religious falsehood is rampant in America…

8. Israel: This is simple! Israel is most likely the biggest mistake that we allowed the west to perpetrate and that means Israel is a huge mistake, for we have made some whoppers in the last hundred years or so. Israel should never have been, nor allowed to continue. It is one of the biggest propaganda lies in the world and after having been to Israel several times and snooped around in a car and not a tourist bus. I found a whole world of suppressed real Jews and a political Jew that should not be allowed the title of being called a Jew and I have found a huge group of millions that are transplanted paid for Jew Wanna Be’s (Many from Russia!)… The west is strong in Israel and I actually think that Israel leads the west in terror and evil. I just feel sorry for the people who are trying to be what they think is correct, for as in America the government in Israel has sold out the souls of those it should be working for…

9. Gay: Now that is a word that pisses me off and it use to be a word for having a good time or having a good feeling. “I am gay,” was associated with good things in life. Then some people went and used the word for people who like their own sex for sex and dislike sex relations with the opposite sex. Nice ploy, use a good word and twist it around to advance your own moral issues. I will never bother a gay and have had many as friends, but do I think it is correct? No! Do I like it? No! (But whether I like it or not is not the issue and tolerance by me is not based on whether I like it!) Do I think that you deserve to live the way you want? Yes! Do I think Gays have a right to be pedestalized and heard above others? No! Do I agree with the Russia way to look at Gays? Yes!

Now that last question was a million dollar question. In Russia we have gays and they are not bothered. It is just that in Russia as with many sexual issues, do not bring these issues in front of the children. Gay issues get very sexual and they get really messy real fast out in the open. I always tell people who come to Moscow and want to know were the gays will be found. A good place is the Gum shopping mall at the Red Square. Go to the top floor and you will find a gay wonderland that will excite you to no end. Sveta and I went there once (top floor) to look around. The top floor is a treasure trove of gay individuals and shops. I said, “Better top floor than bottom floor!”

I am going to end with that bit about gays. I have no religious belief that drives what I think in all the above and I have no political beliefs that drives what I think. I am driven by my experience and my thoughts. I will get death threats for posting this and other hateful things. I could go on all days about issues, like rape! I think that a man or a woman that rapes someone, anyone from kids to adults should be removed from society. Take that how you want…

So I am not here to make your life better by trying to write something that you agree with. If you do not like what I say, start your own blog and tell the world about your feelings. I promise I will stop by and look it over, but if I disagree, I will not be back, nor will I say anything. That is no different than what I expect out of anyone reading my blog. You do not like it, find someone who talks your language and go there…

It is what I believe…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

It is not very long or short for that matter, but it shows part of the processes that the Orthodox goes through at Christmas Eve. It is a very high quality video and it is part of a telecast by RT. There is a commentator who is from another church in Russia and he is trying to give some explanations about what is happening. It seems he is a Russian monk? I have another video this same size and would post it also if anyone is interested…

I had a few people ask me why I would care about the Orthodox processes so much? I care about all religions and maybe a few of you will wake up and see Russia in a whole new light. Orthodoxy is as Russian as you can get and what better way to understand the Russians than to look at what drives them. Morally, culturally and socially…

I think that the video is fantastic and would have recorded hours of it, but I do not have capability on my website to handle anything over 56 megs in size. The video shows you the people that I see everyday in Russia, a person that cares about life, peace and happiness. The stereo type Russians is so far from the truth, that it would be laughable at how the west looks at Russia, except the west believes its own trash talk…

This video is Christmas in Russia and this same process was going on all over Russia on Christmas Eve. I myself have been to experience, in the past, what the Catholics do and this is very much the same experience to me, as I watch…

Hope you enjoy the video for it shows Real Russia and real people that live in Russia…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Many years ago Sveta started to do something that just recently came to light in my mind. We say a prayer before we eat, whether at home or at a restaurant. It is the same prayer and it never varies, but we say it and we mean it…

We say the short version:

God is Great, God is Good;
Let us thank Him for our food…

Amen

I told her about saying prayer before meals was normal as when I was a kid and that people are leaving the prayer in the dust as time goes by. She listened to me, as she always does and that surprises me, for I never had a wife that cared anything about what I said. After she thought about what I said, one day she started to say the prayer. I said it with her and then she never stopped saying it. It was important to her and she has no beliefs at all about that there is a God. The Soviets were just that way in large numbers and besides that past she had, it has become normal for us after all these years, to say grace before every meal. Last night at KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) was no exception. Sveta and I said the prayer. I realized long ago that the food just tastes better after saying thanks and really food is something to be thankful for in this world…

The fact is that I sit here in Russia and eat at a KFC and it is a long ways from Kentucky my friend. That fact alone is worth contemplating. I sit in Russia and eat the exact same food that you do as you sit in America. That is something to think about and it does not matter if that food is really that good for you or not! We prayed, we ate, we got full and we had a good time. That was worth a prayer to the Good Lord…

Being this close to a Christmas that stands for the real meaning has made me sentimental and thus this post was produced. I stopped writing on my book and stepped over to Windows to Russia. I really had decided to not write more than the post to Christmas that I did this morning… 🙂

Sveta thinks that it is just correct to say thanks to God and as such we have been doing it for quite awhile now. I think that it is just perfect to say grace myself, before every meal…

Once again have a Merry Christmas from Russia…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

I bet with the cold weather you are having in the USA that you wish you had some real coats and fur to boot. In Russia it is well known that they have fur and wear the fur, to much of the western worlds dismay…

Except maybe Canada this hold true as a statement. Canada has a weather world like Russia and you have to do what you have to do to survive. If that means to wear fur coats of animals, then so be it. Nothing matches a fur for warmth. Ask a bear…

Right now Russians are not wearing their fur coats. It is way too warm and the fur has not come out yet, as we have no need. But in America where the country is being slammed into the cold hell of earth. (Like Russia is normally!) I bet you would change your mind real quick if you had a choice right now. I have been watching images of people in America and they are screaming bloody murder at how cold they are. Then I see what they have on for coats. Many times it is not even a real coat…

I have a coat that is good until -45 below Celsius and no one, but no one should have any less of a coat in Russia, available for when the earth freezes over as it does all the time here. I can tell you that men or women alike in Russia, will bring out a fur coat and not feel guilty at all as they continue with their life and never shut down a single business or school. You just do not care that it is cold and you are prepared for the fact that God will forsake you and leave you with no heat, when you need it most…

I have said many times in articles, “The Russians have many coats and they keep coats on according to the weather outside. These coats range from light windbreakers to a full fledged bear skin thrown over your body. Cold to a Russian is a mental thing only and you do what you do and continue on your business. Russians play chess in -30 below zero!”

I will not say much about the stupid news that I am hearing from America about the cold and I won’t criticize. But I will say that you should have a coat and I mean a coat, fur or not, for I remember well as I grew up in America’s Midwest. It got cold enough to freeze a witches titty and that is no lie!

I grew up in a world that had fur coats in the US and that definitely changed and I also know that you elders dream of that warm fur right now. We use to have this cold weather all the time and maybe it was not as country wide extensive, but it was brutal and not so long ago. I remember a winter in the Ozarks in Missouri during January that stayed at -16 to -20 for the whole month and I burned enough propane to choke a horse. I wore a woman’s fur coat as I tried to save the livestock and my family. I succeeded…

When I see a woman walking the streets around here with her fur on. I always smile and think about the people I saw verbally and physically abused in America, for years and years, over wearing a fur and how terrible it is…

I bet some of you would just love to have a decent fur coat right now, so that you could walk outside and not freeze your ass off. Yes that fur, that went all the way to your feet and had a hood to cover your head…

Damn it is warm and safe..

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Comments that come from the western world are basically based like this:

10% – intelligent and worthy of being a comment…

50% – paid, trolling, pathetic, planted, spam and derisive to any and all websites…

20% – Just plain ignorant…

20% – just plain verbal, bodily and mentally threatening…

Also 80% of the comments circulating the news sites are directional, planted and designed to drive comments away from decent people…

Paid attacking commentators always do many things:

They attack spelling and grammar…

They attack the moral character of the other commentators…

They use name calling as a basic foundation of their attack…

They discredit where you live…

They comment as fast as they can to as many people as they can, to maximize the irritation effect…

They are proud of what they do and being paid helps that feeling…

From Facebook to the local news site, the trolls continue to make the rounds and they only have one object. To soften the blow of bad news against the western governments. Paid lackeys…

The most fun thing about comment trolls is to catch them in a surprise. They many times will assume (With good probability!) that you are just a net surfer that is standing up for the little guy. I get to have the pleasure of this sort of surprise all the time. When I talk about Russia, I talk from experience and there are so many paid trashy commentators that I chose one once in awhile and let him/her hang him/her-self…

They destroy the comment section for real commentators and that is the purpose…

I got one on Facebook yesterday and oh-boy they got pissed. They tried to comment in an obscured India news media and they were sure that they would not be challenged over an article about Russia. They were wrong as I follow hundreds of Eastern news feeds, English or not…

His attack? That I could not live in Russia. That I am not or ever have been to Russia…

Funny! I have heard that for years now and here I am still living in Russia and still loving Russia more and more everyday. I also keep asking these people to meet me! They say they are in Russia and most in Moscow. I really want to meet them and they never ever take me up on my request. I am always up to meeting an ugly sick American that runs around disturbing the social system of the Russians. I am not sure that they really want to meet me though, for I am pretty set on my feelings about Russia and I do not take kindly to paid lackeys running around Russia…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Sorry but I am going to tell it like it is and if you don’t like it, go somewhere else. An idiot is an idiot and just because the idiots are egg head scientist, does not make them free of someone speaking the truth about them…

A bunch of scientist trying to prove global warming took a trip aboard the Russian research icebreaker called the Akademik Shokalsky. These scientist wanted to measure how thin the ice is and how much is melting due to “Global Warming!” Now that is all fine and dandy except the ice is growing and has been growing for the last 5 years in the Arctic and Antarctic and with all the icebreakers stuck every year, you would think that someone smart as these guys would understand that global warming is a farce…

(Oh please tell me that global warming is real and Al Gore never profited from it along with the governments trying to profit, all over the world!)

So the story goes like this: These intelligent scientist got on board a Russian icebreaker and got stuck. Due to what was told to them already, “The ice is really bad down South!” Then once stuck, a Chinese icebreaker got near them and removed the scientist. The men who sail the Russian icebreaker stayed aboard, as that is their home and they can last easily until the summer thaw. The scientist having been made fools of, ran away and had no desire to live all winter on a Russian icebreaker (To measure the ice all winter. They already found out what they needed to know. The ice is getting thicker by the day!). Then after the Chinese icebreaker saved the scientist, that started all this in the first place, the Chinese icebreaker is now stuck in the ice and not able to get out. All because of these intelligent scientist, who ignored all the warnings and wanted to go on a joy ride to prove Global Warming is real and they found out that what is really real, is ice many feet thick…

I think that the scientist should be made to stay and enjoy winter in the ice, but I realized that the crew members of the icebreakers would most likely kill them to shut them up. As the scientist would whine and cry all day and night about being stuck in the ice that they were to measure in the first place. So it is better to get them home to their families and their families can put up with them…

Do the scientist have to pay the millions of dollars in rescue fees? They should…

The scientist are now safe aboard the icebreaker Aurora Australis! This ship was able to keep free of the ice that is expanding at a fast pace and is sailing to safe waters with the scientist. The only issue is that the Chinese icebreaker has food for only a few weeks and that puts them in a worse position than the Russian icebreaker. The Russian icebreaker knew the area and went with provisions and fuel for the duration…

Another touch of irony is: The mission of what the scientist went for has been changed to protect the innocent and now they claim that they were there to celebrate the 100th anniversary of an Antarctic journey led by famous Australian explorer Douglas Mawson! Yes I believe that and I know all you people on the edge of your seat worring about the scientist are believing this latest story also…

The truth is out and has been posted, but the main stream news acts like this is all new news and that these special scientist on a special mission with a special mentality level all are heroes and deserve the band treatment when they get home…

I guess the lie sounds better than what they originally told us on this side of the world that they were doing there (global warming proof) and hey, either mission was plain stupid. They got what they deserve, but now men who either said not to go or had to help, are now stuck for a long time, due to trying to prove something that is false. Truthfully the men on these ships are paid to sit there or sail either way…

The two stuck icebreakers will supply help to each other as they are only a few kilometers apart. They say that they do not need farther help and that this is what they do for a living. That my friend is why they even took the scientist in the first place. 52 scientist on a wild goose chase. The icebreaker crews are permanent members of the ships and live there most of their lives. The scientist had no real reason to be there…

I find it interesting that global warming people refuse to look around them. If is is hot, they blame global warming. If it is cold, they blame global warming. If is just right, they blame global warming…

So scientist looking to see the global warming first hand! Get stuck first hand by the growing ice down South…

That is “Perfect Irony…”

Posted by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

By John Stanton:

The USA and European Union (EU) continue on their downward trajectory in the 14th year of 21st Century. The perpetual state of war against terror, drugs, immigrants, the press and whistle-blowers moves on uninhibited. Another war, this time named Austerity, is being waged by USA and EU leaders against the middle and lower classes. Youth are particularly hard hit with the average unemployment rate in the EU at 23 percent. In the USA the figure is 17 percent according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But never mind that.

Cutting benefits, or, rather, throwing people away, will reduce the unemployment rate and that’s good for the economy. Such is the mindset of the financier class as reflected in the comments of Joe LaVorgna, chief economist at Deutsch Bank. He noted that in the USA, 23 percent of the 1.5 million who are losing their unemployment benefits will simply exit the work force, and another 850,000, at the state level, would give up on trying to find employment. LaVorgna stated that the unemployment will drop to 6.7 percent. Yippie!

Isn’t Economic Security Supposed to be Part of National Security?

So the middle and lower classes are being wiped out by politicians and finance/business interests that, in the main, control what remains of representative democracy in the USA and the EU. Those powerful interests want nothing less than the purchase of the nation state and all the souls within it. Worse still the elite/upper classes are casting out men, women and children by sanctioning the cutting of the Achilles Tendon of social programs meant to ameliorate unemployment and hunger, and limit the effects of life’s unanticipated disasters.

Evens as Austerity works its dark magic, the businesses and their politicians that promise a “new day” can’t produce enough jobs to to match civil society’s needs.

Where did all the cash go to fund domestic programs? In the USA no mention is made of the trillions of dollars borrowed from social security funds by the US government, or the many trillions of dollars expended on wars and weapons programs, or tax cuts that rob from the poor and give to the rich, or the cash hoarding and outsourcing of jobs by US corporations. But reading the economic news on Reuters as 2014 starts, one would think that an economic recovery—even boom—is on schedule for 2014. But the coverage at Reuters, which is based on US government reports, does not match life on the ground in the USA.

Every day the semi-official organs of the USA (New York Times, Washington Post,, Wall Street Journal and mainstream news outlets like Fox, CBS, ABC) run stories of the economic carnage taking place in the USA and EU. Accompanying those reports are false messages of hope in sidebars which state “employment is up, housing sales are up, manufacturing is up and the future is bright.” Likewise the exploits (covert and overt) of the American and European national security machinery gets big play, as it should. The blood thirsty civil wars ongoing in Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, the Sudan’s, and Egypt all owe their current states of chaos to the USA’s and EU’s 21st Century colonial strategies and tactics. For example: Invading Iraq where now Sunni and Shia slaughter each other (Christians have abandoned or are under assault); forcing the creation of South Sudan simply for oil and military basing purposes to counter China’s presence; approving a military coup in Egypt; and supporting psychopathic anti-Assad factions in Syria who relish in all forms of execution. It is interesting to note that in Iran, Jews and Christians (each allowed a seat in Iran’s parliament under its constitution) are safer than in most of the countries in Iran’s neighborhood.

The pounding of complex national security matters—which has merged with national economic security–into the heads of Americans and Europeans is unprecedented in scope. For example, each month dozens of electronic media outlets bring news of remotely piloted aerial vehicles (RPV’s) offing some ten cent rebel in Yemen. Unfortunately, in order to get the bad guy, national security officials say, “we had to kill the entire wedding party.” Consider the cyber version of that: in order to get the bad guy, national security officials say, “we had to sweep up all meta-data and our link analysis identified your computer working within the link net. “You may be innocent but we still have to raid your home and take you to jail.” It is a nightmare scenario in which American civilians would be subjected to the jurisprudence of Guantanamo Bay. The precedents are in place.

American security and intelligence failures have forever linked the Boston Marathon and Sandy Hook School with “horror and moral terror,” as the line goes in the movie Apocalypse Now. With the USA still officially a nation at war and operating under a state of emergency since September, 2001, it is no wonder that Americans have made friends with “horror and moral terror”.

Nowhere is that more evident than in the “Breaking Bad” capitalism that both the USA and EU are openly pushing on their populations;they seek the same in the Ukraine, even Russia. The presence of US officials at the site of demonstrations in the Ukraine show the extent to which the US is actively engaged in destabilizing governments friendly to Russia. According to the Christian Science Monitor, “Victoria Nuland, US Assistant Secretary of State, offered cookies and bread to pro-EU activists as she and US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt walked through Independence Square in Kiev [Ukraine]…”

Cold War warriors (neoconservatives and neoliberals) were clearly not satisfied with the USSR’s collapse. They wanted, and still long for, Russia proper: its land/resources, infrastructure, and human capital. By ringing Russia with missile defense systems, which can be converted to offensive uses for targeting, the USA/EU continue their warring ways. Without President Putin, who knows what Russia would like like. As it is, he has managed to keep his nation state intact in spite of psychopathic fundamentalists, hiding behind Islam, who recently engaged in the killing of civilians in Volgograd. It must irk Putin to no end to know that the USA/EU instigated for the creation of Islamic fundamentalists during the Cold War to fight the Godless USSR. It appears that is continuing today with the help of Saudi Arabia.

The USA’s Pivot to Asia is more of the same. The USA is prepping for war in Asia, the site of 60 percent of the world’s population. It is a dangerous US national security strategy only profitable for arms manufacturers.

Austerity means squeezing the life and profit out of many millions in the middle and lower income classes in the USA and EU. Workers in both assemblages and classes were once silently content to labor 40 hours in a week—maybe a few more– with health insurance benefits and some paid holidays. Now they are anxiously looking over their shoulders. It is not enough any longer to work hard, pay the bills on time, and have two days off during each work week. The vaunted middle class so prized by every national economy on the planet is fading. There is no longer Economic Security; in fact, there is no security at all.

Making Matters Worse:Digitally Concussed

The USA and EU adoption of a sort of Meth-based Capitalism has far greater consequences thanks to the Internet/WWW and the mobile communications revolution. If one carries a mobile device or uses a laptop, one can be found, fixed and targeted, even scooped up as collateral damage. God—in the form of a security-military-capitalist dynamic, is watching.

It is a return to the Medieval Consciousness (from Obama of the Digital Inquisition by John Stanton):

“Christ stated that “God works in mysterious ways. Who else do you think controls the electromagnetic spectrum, gravity, thermodynamics, synapses, neurons. You can call God the NSA, CIA, PRISM, Big Data, Tempora or whatever silly name you want, but that’s just evidence of God’s good work. You all have made the human mind more susceptible to His will than at anytime in humanity’s existence. God thinks; no, He knows that the vast majority of citizens in the Holy American Judeo-Christian Empire will set aside their individuality and this ‘nonsense called free will’ and henceforth, in a blessed moment of uncertainty, ask Is God-NSA listening in? Can God see me when I am sleeping? Can God see my anti-God dreams (punishable, of course)? Oh what joyful compliance will ensue when war and austerity are the norm!”

There are no boundaries or balance between public and private space. The notion of solitude, of an impenetrable private space for contemplation, or even talking with one’s God, has been overwritten by the need to feel part of a digital collective. Suchmembership eliminates the work effort required to go out in the community and participate in collective action where all manner of human motions, emotions and senses are encountered. Of course, all participants in the digital collective can be surveilled, tracked with ease. In a sense, their unseen digital masters/influencers are the Gods and Angels of the cyber world ensuring that one’s life is filled with product placement advertisements, advice on this and that emotional problem, and thoughtless information and mind-numbing, violent video games. Digital denizens have put their faith not so much in the machines as in the humans who control the machinery of the Internet and program the content that appears on the World Wide Web.

The digital collective is a sterile thing. Individuals lose their consciousness and memory of life on the other side while in cyber space. The news of the day, the workplace, the children, the bills are all one big blur. But the Internet machines provide access to the World Wide Web and there is where one finds peace away from the gritty, mundane life outside of cyber space, and where the world is crystal clear, quiet and there is no face-to-face human contact.. It is as if the digital denizens have suffered some sort of concussion—a sort of digital concussion that jolts portions of the brain, removing empathy; thought and memory of the handshake; the challenge of face-to-face interpersonal relations; the necessity of vigilance in watching the overlords of society; getting out into slums to help the poor; and, more to the point, taking the chance to find the soul, and a contemplative space not in the I-Phone (a machine), but in the lively and colorful world. In short, the fear of solitude and privacy, or being alone in thought, is in the ascendency. One is never alone when connected to the Internet/WWW.

Soldiers: Pope Francis and Malcolm X

The Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelli Guadium of the Holy Father Francis, lays out the darkness of USA/EU culture, governance and its brand of Capitalism. In a time gone by Malcolm X said much the same. In his closing statement at the Oxford Union in 1964 he maintained that “when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings, I say he is a sinner….And in my opinion the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, and whatever else there is, your are living in a time when there has to be a change…a better world needs to be built…And I will join in with anyone, I don’t what color he is, as long as he wants to change the miserable condition that exists on this earth.”

The former big-city bouncer, and the first Jesuit Pope, channels some of Malcolm X. In doing Pope Francis is being true to the missionary history of his order in taking to task the soulless, brain damaged human capital in the USA and EU. These damaged human beings—those who lead and the blind who follow–are the products of 13 years of global conflict, class war, propaganda, greed and exploitation of every conceivable kind. The Pope’s message was desperately needed and is a universal one that transcends the garb of religion–Catholic, Muslim or Buddhist. As Malcolm X said, “it is simply a matter of justice for [fellow] human beings.”

As a Jesuit Soldier of Jesus, Pope Francis is well aware that the quest for a better world will be a long and difficult struggle. His training prepared him for the campaign. Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order, was a former military commander. It is no surprise that the Jesuits are sometimes referred to as the US Marine Corps of the Catholic Church, or that Pope Francis used a military metaphor in his Exhortation “…fervor is replaced by the empty pleasure of complacency and self-indulgence. This way of thinking also feeds the vainglory of those who are content to have a modicum of power and would rather be the general of a defeated army than a mere private in a unit which continues to fight.”

Pope Francis would seem to have enough to do in cleaning up the many well publicized troubles in his organization. He also has to convince some 1 billion-plus followers to stick with the Catholic Church. Even with all that on his plate, this Jesuit, this soldier, is compelled by his order to build a better world, not just a better religion. That’s a transcendent goal really. It requires souls filled with passion for the world and life. Is a God really needed for that to be achieved? Many believe so.

As Malcolm X said “it is simply a matter of justice for [fellow] human beings.” That’s a religion isn’t it?

Excerpts from Pope Francis’ Exhortation: “Our world is being torn apart by wars and violence, and wounded by a widespread individualism which divides human beings, setting them against one another as they pursue their own well-being. In various countries, conflicts and old divisions from the past are re-emerging…The current financial crisis can make us overlook the fact that it originated in a profound human crisis: the denial of the primacy of the human person! We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.

The need to resolve the structural causes of poverty cannot be delayed, not only for the pragmatic reason of its urgency for the good order of society, but because society needs to be cured of a sickness which is weakening and frustrating it, and which can only lead to new crises. Welfare projects, which meet certain urgent needs, should be considered merely temporary responses. As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality,no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems. Inequality is the root of social ills.

The dignity of each human person and the pursuit of the common good are concerns which ought to shape all economic policies. At times, however, they seem to be a mere addendum imported from without in order to fill out a political discourse lacking in perspectives or plans for true and integral development. How many words prove irksome to this system! It is irksome when the question of ethics is raised, when global solidarity is invoked, when the distribution of goods is mentioned, when reference in made to protecting labor and defending the dignity of the powerless…Casual indifference in the face of such questions empties our lives and our words of all meaning…”

John Stanton is a writer from Virginia. Reach him at captainkong22@gmail.com

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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Image from Zero Hedge…

As a reminder to readers. I post occasionally about Russian gold buying. I follow many sites that follow the gold buying by China and Russia and you should be, as I have always said, “Worried…”

The western driving of gold prices down by any means, is a two sided coin. On one hand it is a short term help to the west and on the reality side, the long term side, it makes life so much better for the buyers of gold…

Russia and China buy as much gold as they can and mine as much gold as they can. Look at the graph above. Look at the dates and look at the gold buying spree, by Russia. China has a similar and much larger buy spree. China has many more dollars to use up and hence a larger amount of gold bought. They both use dollars to buy gold with and it allows them to have a way to get rid of the toxic money…

Russia and China are buying gold on the low down. They do not want this process to go mainstream and it seems that the western press is helping them, because the west does not want the truth out also. Since the west is trying to stay afloat by selling all her gold and she is flat broke…

So look to see a big jump in gold buying by countries all over the world as price goes down. No one is fooled by the games being played and gold is the only answer to a stable currency…

Good job west! Drive those gold prices down and let the world buy it cheaper, because sooner than later, it will reverse and then you are in trouble. I guess that is just more trouble on top of the tons you are already in… 🙂

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Everywhere you look there is a church steeple…

Artist are allowed to paint the utility buildings and they do a fantastic job…

Ice Cream and Money: Russians love both. I love this picture and it is “So Russian!”

To me Russia is so beautiful and when you walk around you never know what you will find. The Ice Cream place is so perfect and talks to your soul. Russians love ice cream and it can be -30 outside and they will walk by you with an ice cream cone. That is a hardy person and I always smile as I watch then walk off into a snow storm munching a frozen ice cream, as icicles hand from my nose…

I am not that tough…

But then life is what you make of what you have!

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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I think that a start to the new year is important and how it starts, is how it is going to go for the rest of the year. Financially America just started really bad and it has nothing to do with the inflation driven stock market. It has to do with real world happenings and an Italian company buying an American icon company after it was bailed out by the USA government to the tune of billions and billions of dollars, is a sure sign of the future, during 2014…

America just got itself a new Italian automobile company: Chrysler. Fiat agreed to buy the 41.46% of Chrysler shares held by a United Auto Workers (UAW) union’s health care trust for $3.65 billion in cash plus $700 million in future payments for a total of $4.365 billion. It gives Fiat 100% ownership of the U.S. auto company and completes Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne’s grand strategy to combine the two companies into a more competitive global automaker. Benvenuto, Fiat-Chrysler.

I think that I need to not even look any farther, as I see how the US has been sold down the drain. Good thing we bailed Chrysler out with sheeple tax money and kept the home fires burning for Italy. I definitely was against that from the beginning and it looks like we hung ourselves with the extra rope we were given…

Bottom line, it is the principle of the matter and this plain stinks. I could careless that it makes a 7th largest car maker in the world out of the deal. Chrysler is an American icon, but all the icons are dying as you read this and being bought by the world…

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year America…

Posted by Kyle Keeton
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PS: How many times did we bail out Chrysler in the past? Obviously loyalty does not play a part in the finance world…