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“Timber Smuggling” in Russia: I read Hardy Boys books to Sveta all the time. Sveta just loves those books and we have now read 18 of the books. So with my coffee this morning, I was thinking about an article that I found in the news. Then I smiled as I realized that this could have been one of the last books we read. In fact it was one of the books about Canada and the USA and this real life story is about China and Russia. The main difference being that Smugglers were using the logs in Canada to smuggle jewels and other items into America to sell them. You never know what they are sending to China from Russia in the logs? Interesting in my eyes…

Eight members of an illegal logging gang  have been detained in Khabarovsk in Russia’s Far East, for cutting timber smuggling worth an estimated 30 million rubles ($939,000), local police said on Wednesday. “The organized criminal group, led by the founder and director general of a large company, were in action for a year,” police said in a statement. The criminal group, consisting of Armenian and Azerbaijani nationals, supplied the illegally cut timber to China. A local forestry official is suspected of have been involved in the group’s activities and have warned his accomplices about impending inspections, police said…

Timber Smuggling is big business:

The world never has enough wood to burn, build with or produce paper with. In effect the vastness of the Russian country makes it ideal for the process of “Timber Smuggling.” No other country in the world has borders as long as Russia and that is a formidable undertaking to keep an eye on what comes and goes all the time, across the borders. China has the need for such a tremendous quantities of resources that  “Timber Snuggling” is a natural thing to do. Now that does not make it legal, it just makes it profitable…

I know people think that a few trees gone mean nothing, but there are some very rare animals that rely upon the safety of these forests. One of these animals is the “Amur Tiger,” I also see that the Far Eastern Leopard is about extinct and these timber smugglers endanger the big cats…

So I thought that I would toss this information out today, as it just struck home with the Hardy Boys books that I am reading to Sveta. Many of those Hardy Boys books are about smuggling and that seems to be a natural thing going on in Russia. Be it “Timber Smuggling” or anything else…

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Politician – Be they in America or be they in any other part of the world. They are vain, rude, conceited and egotistical. A politician is a class of human that has no connections with real people and these are the people that we elect to run our world. I have talked about this before (Narcissistic) and nothing has changed. Since that article of mine, I have seen a couple dozen more from big name writers saying the same thing about politicians, from Obama on down the list…

The reason I am thinking of this again over coffee this morning is about what is happening in Turkey. You know – Right?

Politician in Turkey: Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Hundreds of thousands if not millions are taking to the streets in anti-government rallies across Turkey to show discontent with the 10-year rule of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.  This is now in day 5 and is growing. The people want answers! And the answer they are getting?

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says it means nothing, he sees nothing, they are scum in the streets and no one cares. The people who are doing this are thugs. Paid to cause issues and are infiltrating the good people of Turkey…

This is the same politician that has done all he could to start a war (NATO) with Syria and he has denounced constantly and consistently the fact that Syria’s Assad has not stepped down. The fact is, Syria’s Assad has as many people who support him in Syria, as Erdogan has pushing against him to leave in Turkey…

“What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander” – (The old goose cliché means that one person cannot assume to rise above another.)

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Comments about my death is common. I get several a day and sometimes when I write a really good post. I get a hundred death threats. It is really sad that this happens and it happens at its worst, when I talk good about Russia…

Oh! I get good comments, but they are never more numerous than the death threats. I received several thank yous today about he cemetery article earlier this morning. They were from Russians who mainly live out of Russia now (but not all) and they enjoyed the walk down memory lane. I appreciate those comments and they come in many forms mainly on Twitter, Facebook and e-mails. Putting them on the blog is just inviting the demons to come out from America…

So while comments are still a pain, they are under control now and will stay that way. No e-mails that can be tracked, no comments…

Example of Death type comments that came today:

Kyle U Commie – I relish in the pleasure to kill you – one day – Never love another country over the US your birthplace – We will defend the US until our death – We are many – We are strong – People like you make that desire to kill even happier – GOD BLESS AMERICA – GOD BLESS HER PEOPLE – DEATH TO ALL TRAITORS! Russia is the cesspool of life – Only the USA has a right to the worlds resources – Obama has sold out our country – Ones like you help him – The day is near – Death is imminent!

I always smile when I get these type of comments. I think of someone who forgot to take his meds or maybe he is taking them and getting sicker in the head like the rest of the nut-jobs that are becoming prevalent in America. I see all caps as screaming at me in text and most people I know take it the same way. Besides this nut-job added a bonus and equated me with Obama…

You know that you are important and stepping on nerves when you get threatened all the time and I get threatened in many ways: Why now I have to pull Google Adsense off of all articles on Windows to Russia News site that have to do with the Pussy Riot issue. I started by only pulling the ads on the ones they force me to do, but now they are trying to censor all those articles (hundreds) and it is mainly on Russian News From Russia and I have had to simply for the time being. Yank the ads completely from that site. Otherwise Google said they would block my Adsense. Cool huh? I would miss out on 50 cents a day in money…

No lie! I get threatened about that stuff all the time. I get death threats, letters from lawyers, hate mail and blow up Russia stuff all the time. Then I get something like this on Twitter…

Started: I’ve been lucky in these cemeteries, with butterflies rather than mosquitoes RT ‏@kylesvet Cemetery Russian Style.

Back at: @RussianKnows Yes there was a lot of butterflies also 🙂

Back at me: @kylesvet Glad to hear it. Butterflies & bees add peaceful touch to these resting places. Thanks for bringing back memories with your post.

Now those comments were worth all the damn death threats and that is why I love Russia…

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Cold War: This time Russia has nothing to lose and everything to gain:

That cup of wonderful coffee this morning led me to do some thinking’s and those thinking’s went down the path of the old cold war. The new cold war that I am seeing developing and it is being finagled a little bit by Putin. Remember to think Chess not Checkers as you play the game! Oh and also throw a little Shell Game in once in awhile and you have the makings of a new cold war…

I am not going to go into the details and explain what a cold war is, but you can Google and find out all that you want to find out and make your own conclusions. I am just saying that the world is beating America at her own games and it is a multifaceted attack going on…

The US is broke and yet at the same time she is spending money like there is no tomorrow. We bribe terrorists, we bribe countries, we bribe to buy friends and allies, we bribe with money and weapons and we live in fear as we play the game of buying our friends. Everyone knows that bought friends are fair weather friends at the best and a knife in that back at the worst…

Russia under Putin, knows that America is flat busted and that if the USA is kept spending money she does not have. One day she will crumble. Putin is slight of hand undermining things by playing into the hands of the lovers of cold war in America and that, America has plenty of. Then the terrorists all over the world know that nothing is forever, keep pushing the right buttons and the US spends money like crazy as she cowers in fear of “Terrorist Attacks!” Why the “Terrorists” just made new threats the other day and it all is to drive that spending of money, that is not available to spend. The whole world is holding out her hand and taking all that she can get, while the getting is good. For they all know that the USA is like the Titanic and while it may take awhile to sink, sink it will and the band will play as it is going down…

Have you ever noticed that the terrorists say, “We will get you when you least suspect it!” Then when they say that. We spend more money, lock more doors, install more cameras, pay more bribes and take a few more freedoms, all in the name of “The War On Terrorism!” Putin and now China are talking about weapons and army and warships. So while the terrorist are hitting the low buck issues, Russia and China are smacking the high dollar issues. And America is like a Bluegill, after that worm and has caught herself on the hook…

We need another “War on Something!” Like we need a hole in our head…

Lets see as I think about how many wars I heard about in America:  War of Drugs, War on Terrorism, War on Poverty, War on Drunk Driving, War on Cancer, War on Teen Pregnancy and War on Email Spam (Just to name a few! Lets not forget “Cyber War!”). These wars are spread all over the world and cause more wars as we piss the world off…

Now we can add a “Cold War” back to the list of wars. We (The warmongers!) missed that war and Putin has done the war mongers a favor and pulled their strings. The “Cold War” is coming back and it is in the form of Syria. You know that proxy war I have been talking about for two years on this website…

Russia is no longer the Soviet Union, but the USA is no longer the America we knew in the old cold war. The US is now much more like the old USSR and Russia is much more like the old America. The term USSA is becoming very common in the world and believe me, the people of the world see it…

Want to know what is strange: The US government falls for it all “hook, line and sinker…”

Now I have a question and a thought! Does the USS of A think it can go into a “Cold War” against Russian and China at the same time? That is what it is starting to look like…

Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay!

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Cemetery: a place that really is not a whole bunch of fun to be in, but yet still interesting and catches the soul, mind and thoughts like no other place on earth. That is how I look at a cemetery and yesterday Sveta and I spent most of the day running around a cemetery…

Sveta has been talking with her Uncle who is in his 80’s and he wants to have a head stone put on a family members grave. Sveta has purchased the head stone and it is in our flat waiting to be installed. I am going to install it and yesterday Sveta and I went to the cemetery to see what I would have to gather together, to allow me to install the head stone…

It was a very interesting trip and the first time that I have been to one of the family grave areas. Lucky it is cool, but 10,000 mosquitoes made a meal of me and seriously, I had to take an anti-allergy pill, plus I got very sick. I was bit that many times…

Cemetery:

The first image is the Graves that we were looking for. There are three people buried here in this tiny spot. Two people are on the stone that is visible and we will install another stone laying flat to remember Sveta’s aunt by. The other two photos are to show you how different a Russian cemetery is from one in my native homeland the USA…

There is no pattern and rhyme or reason to a normal Russian cemetery. I realize that Russians may see a sense to it all, but I do not. It is almost impossible to get around in and everything is fenced and gated. It was definitely a trip for the brave or a normal Russian…

I have discovered that Russians definable look at life different than Americans. That is what I love about Russia. The trip to the cemetery was wonderful and it is very close to our home. We have a list of what we need and a trip to the home store will get what I need…

I feel honored to be able to do the work, it just might have to wait until the mosquitoes go away. They just loved this American in Russia…

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Shell Game is a gambling game that makes it hard for the player to win. Unless you are able to see through the shell, the odds are that you have no idea where the ball is at. That ball in this case is S-300 missiles and as Russia shuffles the Shell Game during her chess moves. Those S-300 missiles are somewhere under those shells…

Like a Shell Game. Russia has made it clear that those S-300 Missiles Systems are in Russia, on the ocean, in a shipping crate , in Syria and or all the above. Russia has made her own version of the Shell Game and it includes a half dozen shells…

Take your pick Western Empire, for Russia is playing with you and you deserve it…

Today adding to the Shell Game, Russians Generals have been talking about how many S-300 missile systems that are needed for Syria to kick anyone’s ass, if they try to invade Syria. It has become accepted that 10 S-300 missile divisions would do the job and that is what needs to be – sent to Syria? Or is in Syria? Or is on its way to Syria? Or, Or, Or and more Or…

Shell Game – Who knows what?

Israel acknowledged that they will deal with the missiles once they are in Syria and not stop the shipment. America does not know what the hell is going on and was lost at the first shuffling of the Shell Game. The rest of the western world is in riots and the largest part of the whole world is running around cheering for Syria and Russia…

Kinda embarrassing for an American like me, to tell the truth…

I have to say that I have watched Russia change big time on media instigation and media propaganda. It has never been a strong point for Russia and or the Soviet Union and times are changing. Russian media is getting smarter and sneakier…

Russia plays Chess and now has learned to play Shell Game at the same time…

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The copy scores 77.5 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly easy to read.

Ractopamine has crushed the US pork industry: I have watched this transaction by China to buy the US company called Smithfield Foods. Smithfield is the largest producer of pork in the world and it should make you do some thinking’s as to why the so called largest pork producer in the world needs to be bought and saved by a Chinese company?

Russia was a key player in this whole transaction and when Russia killed the import of American beef, pork and turkey imports owing to the use of the chemical called ractopamine. I understood then that the wind was blowing in a different direction on world food production. I have several articles about food items being shipped out of America and none of them are a good thing, like in a bad thing. The battle over illegal food substances is a world problem and as usual the US is in the front of the word, “Bad!”

Ractopamine, Russia and China work together:

Smithfield went under when Russia, literally its biggest buyer of ractopamine laced pork said, “No more meat until you give proof that ractopamine is not used in the production of that meat…”

At the same time and not expounded upon very much in the press,

“China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine told US agencies in Beijing that exporters had to provide additional documents to certify the US pork is ractopamine-free…”

Oops! And I am sure that those documents were provided as fast as possible? (No? Seriously?)

China was going to block imports of pork also and then when Smithfield who went way over their head in debt, because Russia quit buying that non-certified pork and other meat products and Smithfield could not produce legit guarantees that the chemical was not in the meat. The scenery unfolds as you see it today…

China has many reasons to do this and some of those reasons are – Food demands, control of markets, dumping dollars and resource allocations. Russia had good reasons to go along with this undermining, in the fact that they are developing their own hog market and it is now self sufficient to supply the Russian people with pork. Like Chickens, Pork no longer needs to be imported to Russia. Soon beef will follow that pattern…

It is a classic “give enough rope and hang yourself” deal and that translates into a China who is flush with funny monopoly American money and looking for a place to spend it; Why not at the funny money home?

A parting thinking: “The USA has shot itself in the foot over GMO foods, antibiotic laced foods, ractopamine laced foods and Monsantosizing the country. Just take the latest wheat fiasco – Rope + Time = Hung!”

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The copy scores 57.7 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly difficult to read.

If the world was a cookbook it would be called “Recipes WW3” and if it was an info-commercial, they would throw volumes: “Recipes WW1 and Recipes WW2!” in as a bonus – “To buy now…”

Recipes WW3:

So it is time to buy that book of delicious recipes and make yourself a “Seven Course Meal!” For you do not want to miss out of the taste treats that are being served up to the whole world…

The lies are flying,

the world is in a haze,

the people are dying

and we avert one’s gaze…

The old saying by Einstein: I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones…

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The copy scores 84.4 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered fairly easy to read…

S-300 Missile System: Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has made it clear to AL-Manar TV Lebanon that Syria has received the first batch of Russia-made long-range surface-to-air missiles. It seems that they were received about the time that Israel’s Prime Minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) paid a visit to Russia to speak to Putin about those same missiles…

From what I understand through the grapevine in Russia is that Putin made it clear that Israels sneaky attacks into Syria were unacceptable. Little known is that Netanyahu was called to Russia by Putin and Netanyahu did not waste anytime getting to Russia. The game changers have been put in place by Putin, such as warships near Israel and doubling the fleet in Syria. The S-300 Missile System is to ensure that the west plays fair and this missile system is shipped in a cargo box that is common all over the world…

See this link: Interesting Russian Weapon I Found: Club-K the cargo ship defense…

S-300 Missile System, is it a game changer? We will see…

I might add that the next shipment of advanced S-300 missile system is on its way as we read this, according to local news?

Russian news has said, “This news is as a wake up call for Russia’s global partners, but underscored how Moscow was not going to revise its stance.” As such, the news that the EU is lifting the offensive weapons ban on Syria definitely allows Russia to do as she pleases and arm the Syrian government to the teeth…

And I was resoundingly attacked over the fact that I said, “Syria is a Proxy War between the east and west!”

So did the S-300 Missile System get delivered? We may never know, but really we need to hope that we never know…

Remember: Russia Plays Chess and the West Plays Checkers…

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The copy scores 65.6 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered OK to read.

Media Concentration: Concentration of media ownership (also known as media consolidation or media convergence) is a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media. Contemporary research demonstrates increasing levels of consolidation, with many media industries already highly concentrated and dominated by a very small number of firms…

Degree of Media Concentration in G8 Countries:

Below the percentage represents value of TV distribution market (cable companies, satellite dish companies) controlled by companies that also create TV content (broadcasters, production companies). In order of outstanding to unpleasant and the more diminutive the percent is, the more desirable the outcome…

8. Russia – 0%
7. Germany – 7.1%
6. United States – 23.1%
5. France – 27%
4. United Kingdom – 31%
3. Italy – 33%
2. Japan – 37.5%
1. Canada – 81.4%

Well, well, well and some more well!

Just look at Russia and you will see some of that freedom and liberty that I am talking about. Remember this is the G8 that we are talking about and media concentration is a very important tool used by the west to control the population, within the countries boundaries…

I was not surprised by Germany, but Canada was a surprise to me. Freedom is not a controlled press or media of any type. It is strange because this is the most important type of control that I see affecting our world and we do not even look at it as a serious issue; Shouldn’t that mean anything to us?

Media concentration is a “Big Brother – 1984 phenomenon!”

Yes we have lots of degrading of our freedoms and they are being done right under our noses, during our normalcy induced state of inactivity resembling, unconsciousness, dormancy or hibernation on our part…

Media concentration is a bad thing…

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The copy scores 46.7 in the Flesch Reading Ease test, which is considered difficult to read…