Category: Russia

The current U.S. administration made the decision that capturing, interrogating enemy combatants and interning them at “Gitmo” was not politically acceptable any longer, but that simply killing them was acceptable…

While I feel that “Gitmo” is a sin and immoral, I am confounded by the new decision path, as you gain no actionable information from someone killed in a drone strike…

It seems to defy common sense, but then again when did common sense ever apply to political decisions?

Now we try to ignore that “Gitmo” exists and play the new game of drone-der-kill…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

The Russian Communist party plans to change its charter eyeing enhanced discipline and strengthening the position of the leadership – just as it was in the Soviet Union. The KPRF published amendments to its constitution which is likely to be approved at the party’s upcoming XX convention on February 23. Suggested changes are primarily aimed at the creation of a vertical power structure in the country’s second largest party. Federal party bodies will be given more powers, while regional Communist chapters will have less control over the KPRF’s leadership. Under the amendments, the presidium of the party’s Central Committee – made up of 17 Communists – will become the main ruling body. Currently, this role belongs to the Central Committee comprised of 145 members. Besides that, the Communists decided to get rid of the principle of the regular rotation of part of the KPRF leadership. At the same time, the party wants to get tougher on members who break the rules. Communists in leading positions in the party will lose their posts if they fail to perform their duties properly. The expulsion from the party will remain the most severe punishment. However, under the new charter it will become easier to kick someone out…

The communists absolutely have to move to a disciplined clear position in front of the electorate. In their present form they looked like a party gradually waiting for extinction. They started to look like a headless chicken. Instead, if they want to take power, they need to present a positive dynamic clear vision and program, one that is set to capitalize on the more open opportunity laden political environment that has come about here. They need be themselves, a disciplined self, if they have any hope of returning to the major governing force here, and become a viable alternative for international appraisal and free adoption. Whether you agree with these ‘communists’ or not, communism has a rightful position in any political landscape. It is therefore only fair that that alternative, as all other alternatives are organized in such a way themselves (it is their job), such they are capable in terms of gaining a mandate, and are viable following such acquisition to govern. The communists need move away from other groups and be a strong differentiated party on their own, depending on no one other than themselves. This is the clarity that both they need and the electorate. It is amazing and a striking indication of failure, that the second party is not the one creating the agenda on the streets, that it is not them driving pin point peaceful constructive issue led protest to reinforce both themselves and a system that they hope to be part of in terms of leading government…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Lets spend a half of an hour and watch the process of a planned marriage and wedding in the far North of Russia. The dads have made the arrangements and today is the day that they meet to work out the details. I realize that the language is unknown to you, but watch and learn how a young lady is to be married…

Location Naryan-Mar, Nenets, Russia…

She has some say in the process, but the pressure is heavy as she has very little choice…

I found it interesting that she is expected, once married to leave and never look back. Her home is now with her husband and not with her parents…

The movie covers the dads exchange to the final marriage and she is hidden on the sleigh so that she can not see how she gets to her new home. So that she can’t run away…

Loved it and it is a very good documentation of a different life and culture than what we know about…

The site page http://www.chumoteka.ru/2013/01/blog-post_19.html has all the information and just use the translator and read away. The owner of the blog ЧУМотека is a good friend of Sveta’s and I really enjoy the videos that this wonderful lady has on her blog…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

While I have my doubts about the sincerity of most Americans and I have many doubts about the mental capacities of many Americans, this day and age, but I do know a raw deal when I see one and this gun issue in America is being driven from more than just an inside  the country push…

That is why I am posting this article, because maybe out of my thousands of readers a day. Someone will understand and see what is really happening…

While personally inside myself, I see an America that really does not deserve the run amok usage of weapons. I see a country that has abused too many in the world and deserve what it gets, but I am also American and love America. I just wish that we could have gotten ourselves under control before we destroyed all that, that made the USA good…

So while America is squabbling over gun control, abortion and a thousand other things that splinter America like a old glass mirror. The world is silently and medially playing the US governments own propaganda right back in her face and is using that propaganda to undermine America. Funny thing is, is that we have knowingly done it to ourselves…

RT (Russia Today) is a perfect example: They have become masters at posting the truth from both sides. They post the Russian side then they post the American side and the sides 90% of the time go in opposite directions. They post the truth, it just counts of what side of the world that you want to believe is true…

Now in a case like gun control, RT posts the governmental dribble that comes straight from the horses mouth, the USA government. This dribble is definitely not for international ears theoretically, but in this day and age, everything is for international ears and the USA administration and RT makes sure of it…

The American readership at RT is huge and when a reverse propaganda article is posted, the Americans are to the point of violent and rude. The Russians and other world commentators have learned from the Americans and now slap back full force against the hate. RT has discovered a win win situation for themselves and stir that American made propaganda like a witches brew stewing in a pot…

The drums have been turned on America over gun control and countries like China are beating the Gun Drums, Boom Boom Boom Boom go the gun drums, as they repeat over and over…

Disarm America – Disarm America – Disarm America….

They do not mean disarm the military, they mean take those damn guns away from the civilians…

Guess what? A whole hell of a lot of you are playing the same tune that Russia, China and many many countries are striving for. So as you play games with wording on gun control, the rest of the world is playing right there with you and for what it is worth. They try their best to make sure you hear those drums that are beating for you to remove those guns from civilians hands…

We like to confuse people with using phrases like, “The gun killed those babies!” or “Guns Kill!” It is as if those guns have intelligence and killed on purpose…

As I said above, “Someone will understand and see what is really happening…”

So what is really happening?

Very simple! The UN does not like Americans having weapons, like they do now. The world does not like Americans having weapons, like they do now. The worst of all this is not what the world wants, but the fact is that the US government does not want civilians to have the weapons they do now, so the American government has recruited the help of the world’s media, like RT and RT is more than happy to drive ratings and post American propaganda, being used against America…

Against America from America.

“Made in America” propaganda!

No Chinese factory needed, nor is it outsourced to India…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

The State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, overpoweringly approved in its presentation on Friday, a well outlined bill that will ban the promotion of “homosexual propaganda” across the whole nation. Just one deputy voted against the bill and one abstained, whereas 388 voted for it…

Police, meanwhile, removed twenty people who radicalized the situation outside the Duma building as the bill was passed…

Hmm! Russia is nipping it in the bud, before it gets out of control. If you do not like something and it is against 99% of the population’s desires, then deal with it and don’t look the other way as society is being undermined…

If you are gay and hate Russia for it! Then go to the Western Empire and “suck hind tit” there…

That is why I love Russia!

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

I had a good laugh today and it felt great to laugh! I have been cooped up inside for so long that I was getting stir crazy and today Boza said, “I have to go and you will be sorry if you do not take me out!”

So I took Boza out and hope that I do not get in a bunch of trouble, because I have been told to stay inside due to my very bad case of the flu…

But out I went and Boza was saved…

The laugh came from when Boza and I went near the playground. The snow is piled 20 feet deep in places and it is literally mountains of snow. Well as it always happens, I did not take the camera and this little boy about 4 years old in a bright orange coat had climbed to the top of the highest peak…

He saw Boza and yelled, “Sobachka” which means “dog” in Russian and then beat his chest like Tarzan and went “Ah-ah-AHHHH, ah AHH, ahahahahahhhhh!!!!!!”

Then he slid down the opposite side, away from us and was yelling, “Sobachka” – “Sobachka” – “Sobachka” all the way to the bottom. He was never seen again as the mountain is growing deeper by the second, due to it snowing like crazy…

Boza looked at me as if to say, “Was that a monkey?”

I shrugged and said, “Lets go boy, it is not safe out here!”

Hope your day is good, because my day is fabulous as Tarzan is loose amongst the snow mountains here in Russia…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

I am sipping that great cup of coffee and this time it is a German branded coffee. I try coffee and thinking’s from all over the world and I find that in general, coffee is coffee, but thinking’s are not just thinking’s…

According to where you are from and how much you allow the media to alter your thinking’s. The simple fact that killing children can be either a wondrous thing (Such as predator drone killings all over the world) to the end of society (such as the Sandy Hook massacre)…

I guess I am an old fashioned and you “can not teach old dogs new tricks,” kinda guy! Killing children anywhere in the world is a damn bad thing and “that is that”. But times have changed and we seem to be very happy to kill children all over the world in the name of national security of the USA…

So: coffee is coffee and my thinking’s are what count as I write this! That my friend is what this article is about, “My Thinking’s!” Be those thinking’s are different from yours, is your problem and not mine…

Apart from the first thought above, that second sip of coffee made me contemplate the gold issue between Germany and the USA. Germany is asking for some of her gold back and America has responded that it will take 7 years to get it returned… !!!???

What is news is that courtesy of the supplied calendar of events in the Buba statement, it will take the Fed some seven years to procure Germany’s 300 tons of gold. This is the same Fed that, in its own words, holds some “216 million troy ounces of gold” or some 6720 tons, in its vault 80 feet below ground level. (Source >>>)

Hmm! Seems fishy to me…

That third sip of coffee brought this revelation: Hillary Clinton is a Psycho and she is loosing it as she is set up to be the fall guy in Obama’s world of fantasy as president. Did you see Hillary at the inquest of Benghazi? Hoo Hoo Hoo is was a trip and she is not happy with taking the blame and being the fall guy, or should I be politically correct and say, “Fall Person?”

That fourth sip of coffee as I shook my head in realization of what is happening in the world. Was centered on Mali and the Western Empires faltering system and finances. We destroyed Libya and now those wonderful rebel people who we armed to the teeth, to kill Gaddafi, are trying to bite the hand that feeds it. We must have done a poor job of feeding the wonderful rebel people?

Notice how Syria has taken a back seat to Mali? By the time we come back to Syria, maybe we can claim that 10,000,000 people have died there at the hands of the Syrian government and that the rebels are so innocent that they are born again Christians twice over…

That fifth sip of coffee saw me looking at a shot over the Empires bow! Here is one of many things that Lavrov said yesterday: Lavrov warned the Western Empire, who are led by the United States, against any military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities to prevent Tehran developing nuclear arms. This, he said, was a “Very, very dangerous idea.” This is a red line being drawn and formed…

That sixth sip of coffee saw me looking at, Report: Top al Qaeda leader killed – CNN…

Do you realize how many al Qaeda leaders that we have killed? It seems to be in the thousands. Almost every damn al Qaeda must be a leader! No wonder they are winning! I read these reports as this: Today Afghanistan news sources said three children killed in illegal drone strike and the next day American news says, Three al Qaeda leaders killed in drone precision drone strike in Afghanistan…

The seventh sip of coffee saw me looking at: “Women in combat: Pentagon to overturn military ban!” Okay, I guess our women need to get in on the action and kill some children also. That just makes the circle of life complete. Go women and then you can have a extremely high suicide rate also, just like the men you so wanna be…

That eighth sip of coffee had me thinking about the way China is showing massive support for disarming America. Oh yes for those of you mentally incapable of seeing outside the box! The world outside the box is dancing at the thought of America disarming her civilians. In fact I have seen article after article from China, Russia, Asia, Europe and many many other places, that is Gung-ho in support of Obama taking away those weapons of mass destruction from Americans. Sneaky world and you will not see this unless you dig deep for the Western press really ignores it… (Example: China Calls for ‘No Delay’ on Gun Controls in U.S.) or (China to Obama: Gun Control Works!!!)

That ninth sip of coffee had my mind wandering back to women on the front line in the military! Seems kinda stupid as I think back to what I have seen! God Bless America, because she is going to need all the help with morals she can get, when we have women being subjected to the quagmire of ^%$& that entails a front line assault and you are shooting children with hand grenades as they advance upon your line of defense. The children do this because we are invading their land and that is what you do when someone invades your land. Kill at any and all cost, for they have all to gain/lose and we are the invaders…

I guess I am too old fashioned! What happened to the desire to nurture babies instead of killing them? What happened to protecting women and children? What happened to “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle!” Oh I forgot! That is discrimination to think women should raise children, so that societies will be better. Also we want to disarm civilians and at the same time lets make better killing machines out of our women…

It is said that if you corrupt a man – you corrupt a man. But if you corrupt a woman – you corrupt society…

What indeed did happen?

I sipped another sip and decided that I will stop! My blood pressure is up and I despise what the world is doing to the innocent people and I really do not want to talk about how we are marching a path to war and Russia just set a red line in the sand…

I thought about the song: “Why Can’t we be friends…”

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

It looks like it would be better for the tourists to stay home at this time of the year during winter. Unless that is, you would like to help shovel snow over your head?

As happens every year, it is always an issue of where to put the snow? The snow does not melt, because the temperature never gets above freezing. So we have two (3) ways to deal with it, 1. Pack it down and hope the 6 foot solid ice packs melt by next winter, or 2. scoop it up and pile it to the sun in an obscure spot of the parking lot. Now in Moscow, center they have a third way that we do not have, 3. Scoop it and melt it… (Video)

So if you do not move it, ultimately the pathways get so packed up that two legged people have serious issues to get around. Much less cars and trucks and 4 legged doggies…

Boza is having a rough time as he tries to figure out where to do his doggy business. As he stops to try to do the call of nature, he sometimes sinks out of sight in the snow surface he was just running across, Then he has the urge to jump like a deer to get out of that sinking feeling. This makes for less desire to do doggy business and more desire to survive and imperious death of snow drift…

The world of Russia is made up of sleds, skies, snow shoes and lotsa darn luck…

It is strange to walk your regular paths and sidewalks. The tree limbs that were way over your head in the summer are now at eye level. So you trim the trees as you walk and since I am tall, I am first to trim most of the time. I have to really be careful as the limbs will be eye level many times for me and can put an eye out. Then after it all melts come summer (notice I said summer not spring) the tree limbs are way way far above your head again. Then they can start to grow again and we get to play the same game all over, next winter…

I just love Russia…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

POLITICS:

An interview with Russian children’s ombudsman Pavel Astakhov on the possible consequences of the recently introduced law banning US residents from adopting Russian children… (Kommersant)

A draft law on inefficient budget spending was submitted on Monday to the Russian parliament’s lower house, the State Duma… (Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

A presidential election in Russia is not scheduled for another five years, but the people who will run the polling stations and count the ballots are already being selected… (The Moscow Times)

Russia’s lower house of the parliament, the State Duma, is set to debate a bill allowing policemen to break into private premises where they believe a crime is taking place or a criminal is hiding out… (Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

ECONOMY and BUSINESS:

Moscow Region authorities say they need 131 billion rubles for road construction… (Vedomosti)

US-Russian joint venture Ford Sollers begins manufacturing a new minivan, the Tourneo Custom, that can carry eight or nine passengers… (Vedomosti)

The Moscow Exchange will hold its initial public offering (IPO) on its own trading floor, Russia’s leading stock exchange said in a statement on Monday, without disclosing the size or time of the flotation… (The Moscow Times)

SPACE the Final Frontier:

The government will this year finish building the infrastructure needed for the Vostochny space launch facility, an alternative to Kazakhstan’s Baikonur space center… (The Moscow Times)

DEFENSE:

Russia sold a record $15.16 billion worth of arms in 2012, and expanded its foreign client list, the Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Service (FSMTC) said… (Rossiiskaya Gazeta)

Russia has started the largest naval exercises for the past few decades in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, as momentum builds in Syria’s civil war… (Nezavisimaya Gazeta)

WORLD:

On Monday Georgians gathered in central Tbilisi to demand President Mikheil Saakashvili’s resignation… (Nezavisimaya Gazeta)

SOCIETY:

Moscow City Court on Monday rejected an appeal by a family seeking a harsher sentence for Rasul Mirzayev, a martial arts world champion who was convicted of causing a student’s death… (Kommersant)

Russia urgently needs to attract immigrants over the coming years to avoid labor shortages, the country’s top migration official said… (The Moscow Times)

CYBER:

President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) to create a system to detect and prevent cyber-attacks against information resources in the country… (Kommersant)

Windows to Russia…

First batch of oil pumped through the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline delivered to Japan and it all happened so quietly that you never knew it was happening…

TOKYO, January 21 (Itar-Tass) — The tanker Diamond Aspire delivered the first batch of oil, which was pumped through the second stage of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline system, to Japan on Monday. The vessel flying the flag of Singapore carried 100,000 tons of oil. Now it is being unloaded in the port of Kashima in the Prefecture of Ibaraki in the north-east of Honshu Island, informed sources told ITAR-TASS.

In less than 48 hours a ship from Russia can supply oil that takes Saudi Arabia weeks to deliver…

Damn Russia is just killing the West softly…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…