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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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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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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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S-300 missile systems: Why it was just a few days ago that the western media word was out and about that, “Israel talked Russia out of delivering the S-300 missile systems.” Now Russia made sure to counteract the wishful thinking’s of the western world…

“We think this delivery (S-300 missile systems) is a stabilizing factor and that such steps in many ways restrain some “hotheads” from exploring scenarios in which this conflict could be given an international character with participation of outside forces,” said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov…

Other words: It has been proven that if the deterrent is not at a high enough level, then the West will destroy a country to produce the results that they want to happen. Or to gather resources to enable the western war machine to fuel its weapons…

I think it is time that Russia, China plus Iran get together and draw that red line deep in the sand. Make the West think twice before they jump that Rubicon river again…

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Gazprom from Russia:

They say that a dollar does not buy much these days, but I have a gaz (gas) deal for you and it cost a dollar. Now of course there is stipulations that go with that dollar and one of them is that Gazprom will invest $640,000,000 in the next five years to build up the gas infrastructure in Kyrgyzstan. It seems that even with all the gas that Kyrgyzstan has under the ground, none of it is available to the country herself, as it imports all gas needed and Russia’s Gazprom will change that…

The understanding that I get from all this is that Kyrgyzstan needs 500 million cubic meters of gas a year and that will be supplied by Gazprom free of charge. Well not free, Gazprom gets the rest of the gas and sells it to the world. Seems to be a win win deal for both sides and Kyrgyzstan needs energy security, Gazprom will supply that and more…

Putin made this deal late last year and Kyrgyzstan has just now finalized it…

It is how deals are suppose to be done in the world and it helps both parties involved. Belarus has seen the light of cooperation and I am now seeing Ukraine waking up to the fact that cooperation gets much lower gas prices. I also see a world waking up to the fact that countries have to create their own financial, social and military aspects and use these new tools to help protect each other against bully countries that want to steal resources…

Lets hope that the world survives long enough to implement the new system and stop the spread of the false western democracy in its tracks. For if we do not put an end to the cancer, it will be terminal…

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Memorial Day: I sipped that cup of coffee here in Russia and did some thinking’s about Memorial day. The day has several meanings to me and none of them are good. My dad was in Korea, several of my uncles in WW2, Grandpa in WW1 and then me in (Don’t want to talk about it! Silence!)…

I studied the comments all over the world coming from America about this holiday. It is either pretty hateful or very ignorant from what I am seeing and no one, but no one has a real grasp on what memorial day is really about. I see either 49% charge head long into worship of the dead soldiers or 49% worship the BBQ grill, cases of beer and a three day weekend. The 2% left over understand what is really going on… (Silence is best!)

I looked at a photo album of pictures of me and my friends, guys who have all been dead a long time now. They never made it back and they all died because we sent them to fight a war that was a lie… (Silence)

Memorial Day – Let me tell you a  story:

I was shot in the back, upper right shoulder. It was a spent bullet and had just enough oomph to embedded itself into my shoulder, with half of it sticking out. The doc at the time was named Stitches and he laughed at me and said, “Bet you think this is a million dollar wound? Nope sorry, it is a buck ninety five…” Then with that he took a pair of regular pliers and yanked that bullet out. Cleaned it up, dumped sulfur on the wound, finally stitched it up and wrapped my shoulder up. Then slapped me on the bad shoulder and said, “Go kill someone for shooting you!”

Two days later, I was holding a dirty muddy cloth against a chest wound, pumping out blood from a heart that had been hit with shrapnel, on that same doctor Stiches and as he died – he grinned and said, “Now that is a million dollar wound!”

I have a large lump where the bullet hit me and everyday it reminds me of life and how “easy come, easy go” life is…

Now that is a Memorial Day…

Have a safe holiday…
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It is summer and it is also time for a cold salad recipe. In Russia cottage cheese is very abundant and very popular. Cottage cheese in Russia would be better termed “Tvorog” and is ideal for making a salad with. No excess moisture and delicious in flavor…

So as usual there is a million versions of any recipe made in Russia and since tomatoes -n- peppers are plentiful right now in Russia, lets make a salad that is healthy and delicious at the same time…

Ingredients for Recipe:

Tomatoes – 2 medium
Olives – 2-3 Tbs
Sweet red or yellow pepper- 1 each (or some of both)
Dill weed, parsley- to taste
Salt – to taste
pepper – taste (Russians are not big ground pepper eaters, but I am :))
Cottage cheese – 3 Tbs

Preparation of Recipe:

Slice tomatoes and olives. Cut sweet pepper into small cubes. Finely chop dill and parsley.
Mix all with cottage cheese and add salt/pepper to taste. Decorate the Cottage Cheese Salad with olives on top…

Thoughts:

Use any type of raw vegetables that you want. It is really a very simple recipe and as most Russian recipes, it is rich in flavor and protein. Russian usually make this salad at the cook out as it is that easy to make and everyone tries to get at least one serving as the bowl is passed around…

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Did you know that Russia has the largest sailing ship in the world at her command? – Kruzenshtern…

The Kruzenshtern dated 1926, from the Bremerhaven, Germany shipyard. She was initially called the Padua. This sailing vessel is still used as a training vessel for Russia. The video tells and shows what it is all about!

I simple love these huge sailing ships and acquired a desire to sail from my Dad on a several small sailboats when growing up. (A windmill and Flying Junior – I know tiny!)

Lets see what Wikipedia has to say about the Kruzenshtern sailing vessel:

The Krusenstern or Kruzenshtern (Russian: Барк «Крузенштерн») is a Russian four masted barque and tall ship that was built in 1926 in Bremerhaven-Wesermünde, Germany, as shipyard number “S408” under the name Padua (named after the eponymous Italian city). She was given to the USSR in 1946 as war reparation and renamed after the early 19th century Baltic German explorer in Russian service, Adam Johann Krusenstern (1770-1846).

Of the four remaining Flying P-Liners, the Ex-Padua is the only one still in use, mainly for training purposes, with her home ports in Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg) and Murmansk. After the Sedov, another former German ship, she is the largest traditional sailing vessel still in operation.

Originally, like all P-liners, Kruzenshtern was painted according to the colors of the German national flag of the German Empire era, black (hull above water, topsides), white (waterline area) and red (underwater body).

The Kruzenshtern led the majestic international procession of tall ships into New York Harbor for Operation Sail on Sunday, July 4, 1976.

The only thing that information lead me to do was see what a barque type ship is:

By the end of the eighteenth century, however, the term barque (sometimes, particularly in the USA, spelled bark) came to refer to any vessel with a particular type of sail-plan. This comprises three (or more) masts, fore-and-aft sails on the after most mast and square sails on all other masts. Barques were the workhorse of the Golden Age of Sail in the mid 19th century as they attained passages that nearly matched full rigged ships but could operate with smaller crews.

Any young man training on this craft will have many stories to tell later in life. I would have loved to have been on the crew of this ship (Kruzenshtern) when I was in my youth.

Photoshop the new window into the virtual world we now live in:

I was working on a photoshop image for the website. To do that you have many options and one of the best is to use “Gimp!” I was happily altering a photo to meet the conditions that I set for it and then all of a sudden, I stopped and realized something…

I just took a sip of that wonderful coffee here in Korolev, Russia and I then decided to start this article…

The term photoshop needs to be expounded upon. In the situation that I am using it in, means, “Any altercations in the “real world” by technical manipulations to accomplish the goals set at hand. These goals could be something as simple as just a photo to make yourself look like Superman, to manipulations of data to make a whole country believe in going to war. This twisting of data is not held to just photos, but it is expanded to all carbon based/non carbon based existence and more…”

We photoshop whole countries – Libya, Syria, Russia, America, Europe and in fact we alter the reality of everything on the planet. We do this even if it is a flagrant lie. We do this to create the reality that we want to present and effect the minds of everyone about what we present. We want everyone to see the world through our eyes and to believe like we do. So we manipulate the data when we can and hope one more person falls into the trap and follows our way of thinking. We – in this case is any one individual to a whole country of individuals that are being herded to a common goal…

I watched the manipulations happening all the time: Boston, Washington DC, Moscow and now look at London! A man with a meat cleaver and a knife in his dripping bloody hands, expresses sorrow at what he had to do and he politely gave what seems to be an amazing interview to a person who just was on his way to a job interview and filmed all that happened like it was a reality show on TV… (All the while 50 people stood and watched it all happen…)

All this spouting about photoshop by me is just my way of saying that nothing is real anymore. What you see as feelgood or feelbad images, articles and data is nothing more than a manipulation of qualitative or quantitative variables, that perform a needed function to arrest and desist a real flow and reality of perceptions. To be guided to the false premises that all is wonderful or terrible, whatever fits the requirement for that given second in life…

I am going to sip my coffee and return to my “Gimp” photoshop and alter a photo to try to change your reality and perception about the death you ignore, and actually you demand that death of millions of innocent people, all over the world, by silence is approval of your governments actions…

Now that is reality…

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Wild Roses are some of my favorite flowers.

I have waited and waited for them to bloom around our place in Russia. So I was really excited today as I found some wild roses blooming and the pictures came out wonderful. Boza did not care of course and he tried to ruin the pictures, as he found a cat to worry about, but you got to love that Galaxy Note camera…

Then lets have one that is open all the way…

It has been raining and really dreary for days. But today a little sunshine opened up in the form of a wild roses. Now that is sunshine without the sun shining…

I missed the blooming of the lilacs in the village, as they were just starting to flower as we left this last time. So I have enjoyed the lilacs blooming around Moscow. That is another one of my favorite flowers. They smell is heavenly…

So today while walking the dog, my soul uplifted and smiled. The wild roses are a testament to the beauty of nature and the ability to produce beauty if just left alone…

I also say that as the world looks at Moscow and Russia herself as dreary and dim. I say, “For those that look any place on the planet will be found beauty and sunshine as wonderful as the wild roses…”

I think of this poem by Wendell Berry as I think of Svetlana my sweetie:

Sometimes hidden from me
in daily custom and in trust,
so that I live by you unaware
as by the beating of my heart.

Suddenly you flare in my sight,
a wild rose blooming at the edge
of thicket, grace and light
where yesterday was only shade,

and once again I am blessed, choosing
again what I chose before.

Have a nice day and go out and smell the roses…

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