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Sveta is going to whoop me today! So don’t tell her that I went out in -12c and snowing like crazy and went shopping for New Years…

It is so hard to shop for a woman and Sveta is real particular about things, but that does not mean I will not try… 🙂

The photos above are of the huge New Year tree and the main entrance to the store. It is such a pleasure to have this caliber of a company to put a store in within walking distance. They have everything that we need and in Russia this type of store will not hurt all the little businesses that are prevalent everywhere. What this store does is hurt the big shopping areas that we use to drive to and now can walk to instead. I saw that the store will be closed New Year Eve at 8 pm and open back up on January 2nd in the morning. So they get a good holiday compared to what I use to get and then the whole country is basically shut down for over a week. That means Globus is bucking the trend in Russia and I really thing that the future will be much less time for New Years break. Sveta says that in the Soviet Union they never had so many days off as they do now…

Oh and inside the store they were selling fireworks like crazy. Russians love their fireworks and no matter what the temperature is, they will stay outside shooting fireworks for hours tonight…

I always say, “Them Crazy Russians!” as I watch them at -20c below and play chess and shooting fireworks…

Kyle Keeton
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1. Little things are important and
2. Never loose an opportunity to mold a young person in the correct way and
3. Never judge a book by its cover…

Two things stand out very strong in my life as as kid of 9 or 10 years old. These two things are still in my mind to this very day and they look like they will be there guiding me the rest of my life. One of the items hits home as to the stupidity of how the US is acting about the adoption issues with Russia right now. Let me tell you two true stories about what created who I am…

Story one: I was a strange duck when I was little. I could not bring myself to toss trash on the ground. It just felt wrong, but everyone around me always tossed trash anywhere they pleased. I remember as we traveled by car and I would look out along the freeway, the roadsides where littered with trash…

I told myself at around 5 years old, that I would not toss trash on the ground and always find a trash can to toss it in. In those days it was hard to find a place to toss trash and sometimes I had to wander way off my path to throw something away. I remember getting yelled at for having a pocket of trash when I got home many times, for you see I never found a trash can…

Why I remember once getting yelled at by a cop! I was trying to remove a broken bottle from the road I was riding my bike on and he stopped and here was his exact words, “Hey you little shit! Did you break that bottle? Get out of here or I will take you in!”

I was raised to never talk back and I just said, “Sorry Sir!” Then I walked my bike away and never looked back…

That was what I expected and always received from the normal adult…

Then one day all that changed…

I was riding my bike and had a wrapper from an ice cream sandwich. I relished that ice cream and when I was done, I had a wrapper to get rid of. I looked around and saw a dumpster near a local slaughter house! It was owned by a German…

I rode my bike down this long driveway and tossed the wrapper into that dumpster. Then a rough harsh voice in broken English behind me said, “Hey Kid!”

I turned and just about screamed, for standing there was a mountain of a man, with a white blood stained apron on. No shirt under it and a huge meat cleaver in his right hand. He had a cigarette hanging out of his mouth and if looks could kill, I was dead…

I said, “Yes Sir!”

Then what happened next was part of my growth and molding in life…

He pointed that meat cleaver at me and said, “You good kid, thanks for doing that!” and the meat cleaver pointed at the trash dumpster…

He then turned and left me standing there…

I later heard that he told everyone all over town, that I had taken so much effort and tossed my trash away in his dumpster. He told everyone that he just had to walk out and tell me that. Now there was only 489 people in our town so word spread fast… 🙂

I learned several things from him,
1. Little things are important and
2. Never loose an opportunity to mold a young person in the correct way and
3. Never judge a book by its cover…

The second story is more about adoption: I was riding my bike out of town one day. I took the old road out of town and as it was fall and the leaves had fallen pretty much completely off the trees, I could see homes along the road real easy. The homes became less and less, until they disappeared. Then I came upon this huge home, a home so big it could house 50 people easily. I could see the front yard and it had a playground in it and I stopped. I was wondering what the place was?

Then as I sat there on my bike, I watched a kid run out of the house and several adults ran after him with what looked like a broom handle. They beat that kid until blood ran from his mouth and ears… 🙁

Then they beat several more kids, the same way. I stood and watched in shock. I then saw what had to have been 40 kids all come outside and they took the ones they beat and tied them up to poles that were lined along the playground. So while all the kids played, the ones that had been beat where forced to watch and the kids playing were forced to see what happens when you are bad…

I saw at least 12 adults and they all had sticks and rope to tie kids up with…

I then rode to the local police station and told them what had happened. they told me that it was out of their jurisdiction and that those kids are not wanted and sick. They deserve what they get… 🙁

My parents could not be bothered with what happened and then I found out that everyone knew what happened out there, they were just so thankful that we had a place to put kids that are mentally challenged or handicapped in some other form. Most of the kids were just not wanted and the parents paid for them to be kept there…

I learned several things from the orphanage as a kid,
1. Little things are important and
2. Never loose an opportunity to mold a young person in the correct way and
3. Never judge a book by its cover…

When I got much older and had come back from the army and done my national duties by killing people. I decided one day to make a trip to this place again. I drove my 1969 Mercury Cougar to the hill over looking the place and sat down and watched. I had not ever even one day forgotten what I had found at this place and I never forgot what the cops said…

It (The orphanage) was still in business and had all kinds of new playground equipment and such. But the poles were still there and there was many more of them, 5 of them had kids tied to them. The facility had been expanded and could now house over a hundred. I was not a scared kid anymore and the longer I sat there, the madder I got. They still tied kids up in the yard. They still beat them and no one still cared…

So I went back all these years later to the police station, as we now called it. There was 6000 people in my town now and I asked about the jurisdiction on the orphanage out in the country. They laughed and told me that it was out of their territory and that was how the orphanage wanted it. You know! So we mind our own business… (Ha Ha Ha)

I drove back out to the orphanage and went to the front door and knocked. As I went to the front door I took pictures of the kids tied up and then I stood waiting as I looked at 5 kids tied up to poles in the yard. The door was answered by a man with a baseball bat and he asked what I wanted…

I pointed to the five kids and I saw in their eyes, the anguish that I felt for them. They were kids, by god, just kids, Kids with mental issues and kids with health issues…

The hour it took for the State police to arrive, because that was the only ones who had jurisdiction, I used that hour and beat 5 grown men and tied them to the poles. The women working there sat on the front porch of the place and just watched. I brought all the kids out of the home and then I took more pictures with my camera. There was 87 kids in this home and they all had black and bruise marks all over their bodies. They were malnourished and it was just plain sick. I took three rolls of 24 pictures that day and removed the film rolls and held them to give the State Police…

I spent 1 week in jail! My first but not last time that I sat in jail. I had handed the rolls of film to a State Patrol Officer and I was lucky. He was not paid off at all by the orphanage. The pictures got into the hands of many people and at the end of 7 days I was released, I was released with a warning to never do that again…

The embarrassment to the state officials was precinct at that time in life and the home had been hurriedly incorporated into my cities boundaries and tax base. So the local police then looked after it…

1 month later the place had been emptied of kids and it accidentally burned 1 year later, according to the local newspaper. I had never been back, I was told by a judge that I was to never go near the place and if I had to drive down that road and stop, then I would not stop at go and I would not collect a pay check. I loved the old days and the Monopoly remarks…

I learned several things from this incident,
1. Little things are important and
2. Never loose an opportunity to mold a young person in the correct way and
3. Never judge a book by its cover…

So I shake my head at Americans telling everyone about Russia and how Russia treats their kids in orphanages. I guess Russian need to learn how to hide the truth better…

So while we stack the Internet or deck as we use to call it, against Russia, with lies and games from the Western world. We still have a long ways to go in America, before we can talk about others. I realize that we covered up the orphanages with the foster care home, but the fact remains, we just applied one facade to cover another and it was done to play the statistics on the truth…

So maybe I know your little dirty secrete and I do not like it at all…

I learned several things early in life,
1. Little things are important and
2. Never loose an opportunity to mold a young person in the correct way and
3. Never judge a book by its cover…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Found this tidbit of info laying around the ignore trash pile, of the news section of the Internet…

Military and intelligence sources report: The Russian foreign minister’s statement was a message to Washington, DC that the transfer of Syria’s weapons of mass destruction to one or two protected sites was under Russian control. This had removed the danger of them falling into the hands of the al Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra ,which had come ominously close Friday, Dec. 21, when the Islamists spearheaded a Syrian rebel assault for the capture of the al-Safira military complex and Bashar Assad’s chemical and biological stores.

Lavrov did not go into detail about how this arsenal was removed and to which locations. But his reference to “Russian military advisers training Syria’s military” clearly indicated that Russian forces were directly involved in removing the WMD out of the reach of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists. His assertion that they were “under control” indicated that Russia was also involved in safeguarding them.

Moscow sources also add: Russia’s military intervention in the Syrian civil war achieved four objectives:

1.  The prevention of Western or Israel military action for seizing control of Syria’s chemical and biological weapons arsenals;

2.   The prevention of Western military intervention in the civil war behind the forces dedicated to the removal of Bashar Assad. The Russian military is now engaged in the dual mission of guarding his WMD arsenal and his regime;

3.  The Russian military presence in Syria delivers a heavy swipe to the rebels;

4.   Russia’s intervention and military presence have laid the groundwork for Moscow and Washington to work out an accord that will bring Syria’s civil war to an end.

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Sri Lanka during the war years bore the brunt of the global phenomenon of the growth and proliferation of the so-called Non-Government Organisations (NGOs). The secessionist war provided the opportunity for international NGOs to establish themselves in the country and to forcefully intervene in national affairs under the guise of humanitarian and anti-corruption activities and purported rural development projects.

Behind the scenes the NGOs were the ‘eyes and ears’ of the mythical ‘international community’ made up of just a few western governments and the United Nations (UN) organs controlled by them. They fed the western corporate media and western governments with manufactured news, analyses, and ‘advice’ that were designed to improve the prospects of dividing the country through international intervention.

Naturally, the NGOs resented the end of the war for the loss of opportunity, power and influence they had to suffer. Founded on their collective assessment that the current Sri Lankan government is politically too strong, and too popular for a developing country such as Sri Lanka, they are currently trying to undermine the government and the Sri Lankan nation through sponsorship of, and participation in, ‘protests’ on largely contrived issues. Their underlying concern is that the government’s vision of a truly independent Sri Lanka could, if copied by other developing nations, spell trouble for them and their backers at a global scale.

The purpose here is to throw some light on the NGO modes of operation globally and in Sri Lanka, with a view to place their involvement within the broader framework of the global growth and proliferation of the NGO ‘virus’ over the last four decades. The world is now ‘waking up’ to their nefarious activities, and is taking steps to curb their business through the introduction of new legislation, and censure and expulsion.

NGOs are not NGOs at all

Cutting through the NGO web of conspiracy that began to inflict the world since the mid nineteen seventies demands skills in deciphering the deceptive use of language: from the very beginning, the NGO movement stole the terminology of the Marxists such as “solidarity”, “people power,” “grass roots empowerment” and “gender equality” for camouflaging their operations and sloganeering.

The “NGO” label itself is the best example of deceptive nomenclature they adopted: in reality NGOs are not ‘non-governmental’ organisations at all as the name implies: they receive funding from foreign governments, in addition to the vast amounts of funding they receive from multi-national corporations (MNCs), international money lenders and corporate-funded private Foundations.

Leading international NGOs such as World Vision, CARE, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and Oxfam receive 80 – 90 per cent of their income from western government sources, the dubious Soros, Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, and the EU. But they have successfully spread the myth that they are “non-governmental”.

Contrary to their rhetoric about “grassroots” involvement, most NGOs are located in posh offices in urban areas, do not have a membership base, and are run by a self-appointed core management team with permanent tenure and absolute control while drawing lucrative salaries and enjoying extensive perks. In structural and operational terms, they are undemocratically operated entities only accountable to the foreign financiers.

The NGOs’ claim to be representing “civil society” obscures the existence of divided ‘classes’ of people in civil society, making it impossible for any ‘one’ group, other than established political parties, to meaningfully represent significant numbers of people in civil society. But they present themselves individually and collectively as civil society.

The term “solidarity” the NGOs have stolen from Marxists essentially means, in their context, channelling foreign aid to designated groups through mechanisms that resemble nineteenth century Christian missionary activity. This approach is totally alien to the original Marxist concept which meant solidarity within oppressed groups (women and people of colour) for common action against their foreign and domestic exploiters. NGOs on the other hand serve the neo-liberal aim of pulverising such groups to be manipulated to serve their interests.

Such deceptive use of language by the NGO movement helped them hide the real nature of the activities they were engaged in for several decades.

NGOs have created a new elite and shadow governments

NGOs world-wide have become the vehicle for a select group amongst the ambitious intellectuals, academics, lawyers and other professionals as well as journalists in developing countries to earn exorbitantly high incomes in hard currency, provided they are prepared collaborate with foreign governments and intelligence agencies to carry out their ‘dirty work”. Such participation has enabled the collaborators to reach a new elite status, distinct from that is defined by inherited wealth or high level government jobs, and from the “nouveau riche”.

Professor James Petras brands the new class as a “neo-comprador” group that trade in domestic poverty for personal benefit. Lacking solid organic support within their native societies, this new petty bourgeois thrives on international endorsement and rewards received in return for acting as the new viceroys who ensure conformity with the goals, values and ideology of the donors.

NGOs play an insidious political role in developing countries: they enter into collaborative relations with foreign neo-liberal elites and serve their agenda of criticising national governments of human rights violations and other crimes against humanity on flimsy grounds, as required by their masters. The humanitarian NGOs never denounce the free market policies of the IMF or the World Bank that impoverish the masses in their home countries.

Through such collaborations, NGOs foster a new type of cultural and economic colonialism in that the objectives of the programs they implement are restricted to the priorities of the Western funding groups; The projects are never voted on but ‘sold’ to the communities they purport to serve. The only accountability the NGOs display is to overseas financiers who oversee and review their performance according to objectives and criteria set down by foreign governments.

The most sinister aspect of NGO activity is that they compete with elected local leaders and other socio-political movements in developing countries for influence among the people, with particular emphasis on ethnic and other minorities, the poor, and women. They intervene in the domestic politics under the guise of forming ‘solidarity’ with minorities, clamouring for international intervention in conflict resolution.

Through these processes NGOs undermine democracy in developing countries by taking social programs and development projects out of the hands of elected local leaders, creating dependency on non-elected anointed local operatives of foreign governments. During any internecine conflict, they campaign for the division of countries under the pretext of ‘devolution’.

The NGO ideology depends heavily on identity politics, engaging in the dishonest polemic that poverty in developing countries is always caused by ‘exclusion’ and ‘gender or racial discrimination’ by their national governments. They routinely choose to ignore the obvious fact that poverty in poor countries cuts through racial, ethnic and gender identities. NGOs totally ignore the structural conditions of the ruthless globalised market economy, IMF privatisations and MNCs due to the handsome payments they receive from such free market operators.

The feminist NGOs’ fight for gender equality is confined to the micro-world of the household, and only addresses humdrum social and cultural issues such as patriarchy, sharing of domestic workload, family planning and divorce, portraying the equally exploited and impoverished male peasant the villain of the piece.

Transparency International, the model NGO

No other NGO embodies the above characteristics than the international NGO Transparency International (TI). Created by a person named Peter Eigen, a World Bank official who worked to create the organisational infrastructure for Globalisation, the expressed objective of TI is to ‘fight against corruption at the national level’. However, its funding comes from MNCs renowned for bribery and corruption in the developing world, and Western ‘development agencies’ renowned for subversion.

The disgraced former US energy company Enron, Shell Oil, which admits to have fuelled corruption in Nigeria, and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, who were ordered to pay billions of dollars in damages for their involvement in the largest health care fraud in the history of the US are some of the MNC financiers of TI. The Ronald Regan created notorious CIA front organisation, National Endowment for Democracy, with a record of attempting to destabilise legitimate elected governments in the developing world is also a big donor to TI.

TI’s Managing Director Cobus de Swardt is a former chair of the World Economic Forum (WEF). De Swardt replaced David Nussbaum who holds degrees in theology from Cambridge, and is an accountant with a background in venture capital firms. Previously he was a Deputy Chief Executive of Oxfam.

An intriguing aspect of TI’s existence is its total focus on the developing world, and more particularly on the Middle East; a large study it sponsored to evaluate the “systems of integrity” in a selection of countries in the Middle East did not include Israel, but included the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), just a territory under Israeli military occupation.

TI also puts out a global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) annually. The 2012 CPI deems more than two-thirds of the countries surveyed, predominantly the developing countries, as “very corrupt”. Only 53 of 176 countries surveyed attained a “passing grade” of 50 out of 100, with Scandinavia sweeping the board as usual, and not surprisingly, Somalia, North Korea and Afghanistan share the lower end. The UK and the US managed the 18th and 19th standings respectively with China pushed down to the 80th place. Within the EU, sovereign debt struggler Greece was the “worst performer”.

A cursory look at the methodology adopted by TI in its ranking of corrupt countries shows the fraudulent nature of the exercise: the Index is an indicator of “perceptions” and TI is not being transparent about on ‘whose’ perceptions they base their rankings. Data is supposedly sourced from “independent institutions specialising in governance and business climate analysis” and the raw data or information on the sources is not readily available. Another hidden feature of the Index is that it only measure perceptions of corruption in the ‘public sector’. Reasons for not focusing on corruption in the private sector are not explained.

The ridiculous nature of this methodology is made patently clear by the results of a recent survey of 500 financial services professionals, conducted by the US market researcher Populus. They reported that nearly 25 percent of those surveyed believed that financial services professionals may “need to engage in unethical or illegal conduct in order to be successful”. Nearly 35 percent felt “pressured by bonus or compensation plans to violate the law or engage in unethical conduct.

The true objectives behind the totally disingenuous TI corruption prevention campaigns and the totally meaningless nature of the ‘pseudoscience’ behind concepts such as National Integrity System and CPI are now beginning to attract the attention of genuine university academics, exposing the MNC serving purpose of CPI.

NGOs and TI are facing a Backlash

After nearly forty years of uncontrolled growth and increasing levels of influence in international affairs, and domestic affairs of developing countries, the NGOs are beginning to get their ‘just deserts’.

Russian authorities have been concerned for some time about the thousands of NGOs using foreign funding to foment political unrest in their country: in 2006, The Russian security service, the FSB, broadcast a film showing four British spies, working as diplomats, and a Russian national attached to the human rights NGO ‘Moscow Helsinki Group’ downloading classified data from a transmitter hidden inside a fake rock left on a Moscow street.

In 2011, the head of the FSB accused US and other foreign intelligence services of using NGOs to spy on Russia and foment political upheaval in ex-Soviet republics. President Putin alleged that protests surrounding his re-election were orchestrated by US-funded NGOs via cash transfers from the US State Department.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) was expelled from Russia with effect from 1 October 2012 for “meddling in politics” through its grants. The termination of the USAID’s work in Russia is bound to seriously harm the operations of the election monitoring NGO ‘Golos’ and Russia’s largest human rights group, ‘Memorial’. Russia has also given UNICEF until Dec 31 to conclude its projects in Russia because Moscow “no longer requires the services of the international fund.

As of November 21, 2012, NGOs in Russia that receive finances from abroad and engage in political activities, defined as activities aimed at influencing the decisions of government, will be treated as Agents, and espionage statues of the Russian Criminal Code have been strengthened.

In addition, all receipts over $7,000 from abroad for use by Russian NGOs will need to be reported to the “Committee for Corruption and Anti-Terrorism.”

President Vladimir Putin also proposed bringing NGOs under closer government supervision, with the introduction of a set of criteria for evaluating the quality of services provided by them, as well as a public ratings system, to be finalised by April 1, 2013.Russiainsists that the new laws are about bringing order to the jungle of Russian NGOs and enforcing rules of financial transparency.

On November 21, following the new NGO laws coming into force,the Russian branch of TI was picketed by youth groups, with signs and slogans that urged it to register as a “foreign agent.” According to a public opinion survey conducted in July 2012, 64 percent of Russians expressed the view that it is unacceptable in the political life of a country to have NGOs financed from abroad.

It is happening in other countries too: in March 2012, the U.A.E. shut down the local office of the US based NGO National Democratic Institute, and the Gallup Poll Centre, and the German think tank Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. These expulsions from the Gulf came after these groups and other human rights and pro-democracy NGOs were expelled from Egypt last year following the Spring.

In Bolivia, President Evo Morales, the country’s first indigenous leader in its 500 year history, accused some of the NGOs in his country of being “the fifth column of espionage”. According to journalist Eva Golinger, USAID poured at least $ 85m into destabilising the Bolivian government by training separatists from the predominantly white Santa Cruz district and to court the Indigenous communities through the environmental NGOs. In June 2012, foreign ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) bloc countries passed a resolution that: “USAID openly meddles in sovereign countries’ domestic affairs, sponsoring NGOs and protest activities intended to destabilise legitimate governments. USAID operates via its extensive NGO networks, which it runs outside of the due legal framework, and also illicitly funds media and political groups.” The resolution was signed by Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

In September 2012, Pakistan expelled foreign staff of Save the Children, due to government suspicion that they helped US spies hunting Osama bin Laden to recruit Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor, who helped the CIA locate bin Laden. Afridi was charged with treason for helping the US and was sentenced to 33 years in jail.

In December 2012 Laos expelled Anne-Sophie Gindroz, the country director of Helvetas Swiss Inter-cooperation for slandering Laos in a letter, just prior to the 2012 “Implementation Roundtable” of donors, accusing the government of creating a hostile environment for civil society groups by stifling debate and freedom of association. The government viewed Gindroz’s letter as demonstrating her explicit rejection of the Laos’ Constitution and law, and its political system. She was given 48 hours to leave.

In India, the crime branch of Tamil Nadu Police and CBI have filed cases against four NGOs for violation the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, diverting funds meant for charity to fuel protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP). A German national with links to the NGOs was deported for assisting the agitators. The actions came days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in an interview to ‘Science’ magazine, accused NGOs based in the US and Scandinavia of funding anti-KNPP protests.

These developments show that at long last, the world is beginning to see the NGO conspiracy for what it is, and are taking remedial action. The NGO cabal in Sri Lanka is one of the most ‘engaged’ by international standards and may be the Sri Lankan government needs to take a careful look at their activities and the roles of local collaborators.

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“Measures against persons involved in abuse of fundamental human rights and freedoms including those of Russian citizens”

Approved by the State Duma on December 21, 2012 and approved by the Federation Council on December 26, 2012.

Article 1

Measures against persons involved in abuse of fundamental human rights and freedoms of Russian citizens shall include:

1) a ban to enter Russia for those citizens of the United States of America

a) who have been involved in abuse of fundamental human rights and freedoms;

b) who have committed or been complicit in crimes against Russian citizens abroad;

c) who hold public office and by their actions or lack thereof have exempted from responsibility for persons who committed or aided to crimes against Russian citizens;

d) who were supposed to take decisions which exempted from responsibility persons who committed or were complicit in crimes against Russian citizens;

e) who have been involved in kidnapping and arbitrary imprisonment of Russian citizens;

f) who have passed arbitrary and biased sentences on Russian citizens;

g) who are engaged in arbitrary prosecution of Russian citizens;

h) who have taken arbitrary decisions that violated the rights and justified interests of Russian citizens;

2) seizure of financial and other assets owned by the US citizens who are prohibited from entering Russia and a ban to conduct any deals involving property and investment of these citizens.

Article 2

1. The list of the citizens of the United States of America forbidden from entering the Russian Federation and organizations, the activity of which has been suspended in compliance with Article 3 of this Federal law, is kept by a federal executive body in charge of developing and implementing the state policy and legal regulation in terms of foreign relations of the Russian Federation..

2. In respect of those citizens of the United States citizens, included into the list, provided by Part 1 of this Article:

1) they are forbidden from disposing of property located in the Russian Federation;

2) activity of legal entities run by these persons is suspended in the Russian Federation;

3) membership in board of directors or other governing bodies of organizations, registered in the Russian Federation, is suspended.

3. Amendments into the list, provided by Part 1 of this Article, are to be submitted to a federal executive body in charge of developing and implementing the state policy and legal regulation in terms of foreign relations of the Russian Federation, by members of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, members of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Human Rights Ombudsman of the Russian Federation, political parties, the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation as well as by government bodies.

4. Procedure for keeping the list, provided by Part 1 of this Article, is determined by a federal executive body in charge of developing and implementing the state policy and legal regulation in

terms of foreign relations of the Russian Federation.

5. Head of a federal executive body in charge of developing and implementing the state policy and legal regulation in terms of foreign relations of the Russian Federation is to report on the course of this Federal Law to the chambers of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation at least once a year.

Article 3

1. In accordance with the current federal law, activities of non-governmental organizations that take part in political activities carried out in the Russian Federation or get grants in cash or other kind of property from citizens (organizations) of the United States of America or implement projects, programs in the Russian Federation or get involved in other activities that pose a threat to the interests of the Russian Federation are suspended by a federal executive body in charge of working out and implementing the state policy and of legal regulation in terms of registering non-governmental organizations. The federal executive body in charge of working out and implementing the state policy and of legal regulation in terms of registering non-governmental organizations forwards the information about the non-governmental organizations the activities of which are suspended, to the federal executive body in charge of working out and implementing the state policy and of legal regulation in terms of the Russian Federation’s’ international relations.

2. A Russian Federation citizen who has a United States of America citizenship cannot be a member or head a non-governmental organization, its structural division or of the structural division of an international or foreign non-governmental organization (department, branch, or representation) engaged in political activity carried out in the Russian Federation. An infringement of this ban entails a suspension by a federal executive body in charge of working out and implementing the state policy and of regulation in terms of registering non-governmental organizations and the activity of the said non-governmental organization or its structural subdivision.

3. Suspending of the non-governmental organization’s activity (or its structural division) in accordance with Parts 1 and 2 of the this Article entails consequences envisaged by paragraph one of Item 61 of Article 32 of the Federal Law dated 12 January 1996, No. 7-ФЗ On Non-Governmental Organizations.” As regards the property of non-governmental organizations (or structural divisions) the activities of which are suspended in accordance with Parts 1 and 2 of this Article, the said property is seized following a court ruling in response to a request of the federal executive body in charge of working out and implementing the state policy and of legal regulation in terms of registering non-governmental organizations.

4. If a non-governmental organization the activity of which is suspended in accordance with this federal law, stops receiving grants in cash or other property from citizens (organizations) of the United State of America or stops implementing its projects, programs or doing anything in the Russian Federation which poses a threat to the interests of the Russian Federation, the operation of this organization is resumed following a decision by a federal executive body in charge of working out and implementing the state policy and of legal regulation in terms of registering non-governmental organizations.

Article 4

1. It is forbidden to pass children, citizens of the Russian Federation over for adoption by citizens of the United States of America. Operation of organizations and bodies involved in selecting and passing children, citizens of the Russian Federation over for adoption by citizens of the United States of America willing to adopt the indicated children is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.

2. Due to the prohibition on passing children, citizens of the Russian Federation over for adoption by the citizens of the United States of America as imposed in Part 1 of this Article, on the part of the Russian Federation terminate the operation of the Agreement between the United States of America and the Russian Federation Regarding Cooperation in Adoption of Children that had been signed in Washington, DC on July 13, 2011.

Article 5

To amend Subparagraph 7 of part one, Article 27 of the Federal Law of August 15, 1996 # 114-FZ ‘On the Procedure for Exit from the Russian Federation and Entry into the Russian Federation’ ( Collected Legislation of the Russian Federation, 1996, #34, Article 4029; 2003, #2, Article 159; 2006, #31, Article 3420; 2007, #3, Article 410; 2008, # 19, Article 2094; #30, Article 3616) and lay it out in the following edition:

“7) in regard to foreign citizens or individuals without a citizenship, a decision is taken on undesirability of their stay (residence) in the Russian Federation, including citizens on the list of citizens of the United States who are prohibited from entering the Russian Federation;”.

Article 6

This Federal law and Subparagraph 7 of part one, Article 27 of the Federal Law of August 15, 1996 # 114-FZ ‘on the Procedure for Exit from the Russian Federation and Entry into the Russian Federation’ (this edition of the Federal law) is applied to citizens of countries that had taken the decision on forbidding entry of citizens of the Russian Federation to their territories, and on arresting assets of citizens of the Russian Federation based on involvement of these citizens of the Russian Federation in human rights violation in the Russian Federation.

Article 7

This Federal law comes to force as of January 1st, 2013.

Vladimir Putin

President of the Russian Federation

MOSCOW, December 28 (Itar-Tass) — The Russian emergency airplane is flying to Egypt to take a Russian woman, who had the premature delivery during her vacations.

The airplane Il-76 took off at 11:23 Moscow time on Friday from the Moscow regional airfield Ramenskoye to Cairo, the information department of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations told Itar-Tass on Friday. “The emergency airplane is carrying the doctors from the emergency task force Tsentrospas and the all-Russia emergency medicine centre Zashchita. This special flight to Moscow will bring a Russian woman and her child, who need further treatment at the Russian clinic,” the information department said.

Meanwhile, the medical circles noted that the Russian citizen and her husband were on their vacations in Egypt. The woman was on the seventh month of pregnancy and had the premature delivery. The twins – a boy and a girl were born, but the boy did not survive.

Windows to Russia…

But that is not what you would believe as you look at the news all over America. Lets look at the headline news for the USA, in fact lets look at something that seems to be a better show of what really is going on in the minds of Americans…

Twitter: The five biggest stories of 2012: (Link)

1. War with Instagram…

2. Twitter Cutting off Outside developers…

3. Big Bird and the presidential election…

4. Hurricane Sandy…

5. Twitter goes fully mainstream…

Well lets see…

Except for number “4. Hurricane Sandy,” I am flabbergasted at what is considered the most important stories in the US!

Why “Sandy Hook Elementary School” fresh in everyone’s mind did not even make the list, but heaven forbid! “War With Instagram” is number one and rising. We all know the guy who killed all those kids, but I bet you could not name one kid killed with out thinking hard first. You know those kids… Hmm!

Okay well that is Twitter and Twitter is full of Tweety Twits!

So lets go look at Google News…

The latest craze of Instagram: Is it safe?

Moderates key to budget deal…

Report: Nets want Phil Jackson…

Twitter: The five biggest stories of 2012…

Clippers Roll Past Celtics 106-77…

Local couple fears for children if Russia passes US adoption ban…

Jessica Simpson’s pregnancy puts her Weight Watchers campaign on hold…

Tom Cruise seen dirty dancing with woman half his age: Hottest May-December…

When I asked Google for head line news that above is what I got and look even Twitter/Instagram was in the headlines… 🙂

I then asked Google about news for the fact that we (USA) will in 2013 most likely exceed 18 trillion in debt as a country. granted this is a way under reported debt as every government statistic is under reported, unless it behooves them to over report it and gain brownie points with propaganda…

I received a few off the wall articles, that have as much clout as Windows to Russia and so they will not get any Main Stream Press what so ever. Point being made is that no one cares that we are flat busted and broke! No one cares that instead of cutting spending we are going to tax our lives to death. No one cares that we are going to lose gun rights. No one cares that we kill children all over the world. No one cares about a damn thing, unless it satisfies your cravings for that given second…

The world view of America is this video (going on 8 million views): I got my Obama Phone…

The victims are always the last to be remembered and the wrongs we do as individuals or as a nation are pushed aside just like we push aside the names of the ones who died at Sandy Hill…

– Charlotte Bacon, 2/22/06, female
– Daniel Barden, 9/25/05, male
– Rachel Davino, 7/17/83, female.
– Olivia Engel, 7/18/06, female
– Josephine Gay, 12/11/05, female
– Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 04/04/06, female
– Dylan Hockley, 3/8/06, male
– Dawn Hochsprung, 06/28/65, female
– Madeleine F. Hsu, 7/10/06, female
– Catherine V. Hubbard, 6/08/06, female
– Chase Kowalski, 10/31/05, male
– Jesse Lewis, 6/30/06, male
– James Mattioli , 3/22/06, male
– Grace McDonnell, 12/04/05, female
– Anne Marie Murphy, 07/25/60, female
– Emilie Parker, 5/12/06, female
– Jack Pinto, 5/06/06, male
– Noah Pozner, 11/20/06, male
– Caroline Previdi, 9/07/06, female
– Jessica Rekos, 5/10/06, female
– Avielle Richman, 10/17/06, female
– Lauren Rousseau, 6/1982, female (full date of birth not specified)
– Mary Sherlach, 2/11/56, female
– Victoria Soto, 11/04/85, female
– Benjamin Wheeler, 9/12/06, male
– Allison N. Wyatt, 7/03/06, female

Now who killed them?

I don’t give a crap who killed them, he is dead and gone and that is good! What I do care about is that we ignore these deaths and just like these deaths we ignore millions of deaths we have caused or been part of all over the world. The problem is that we are not gone and we are not dead and that means that we will allow and cause many more children to be killed, maimed and disfigured. Everyday we send a drone to blow up a suspected insurgent. I have news for you…

Insurgents have families and insurgents, 90% of the time are just protecting their home and land. Just like you would do…

We need to remember that we are killing kids all over the world and just like the guy who slaughtered innocent people in a elementary school, we need to make sure that the reasons that children and people are being killed all over the world is ended. That means to do what ever it takes to remove the crap that runs our country and keep them from giving orders to kill and kill and kill and kill and kill…

We are so broke that we should not even be able to do all this killing, but we got ourselves as holder of the world currency and finance wars by the printing press. No other county can finance war like we do! They do not have the money even if they have the desire…

Yes I am mad and yes I am disgusted with people…

We worry about what China does! We worry about what Russia does! We worry about what Syria does! We worry about the whole world, while our world called the US is collapsing around us and all we care about is: What movie star is loosing weight and how they loose weight, who is the next big sports star and what happens when an imaginary Fiscal Cliff is met and we fall off? The fiscal cliff was met and we fell off a long time ago. We just play games like little children do when they play house on a rainy day….

Sorry to tell you this but raising the debt limit is like the old Popeye character Wimpy!

“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!”

How come we embedded this line in our kids brains and now we do not follow the meaning behind it? Oh maybe that is the problem, we take this as being correct instead of satirical and that is how you run life…

Oh, I have got to worry about Instagram! Even though I do not have an account, it is the most important thing in the Universe right now… 🙁

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

I keep reading how Americans are “baffled” that the Russian government would “use helpless children as pawns”…

Now you know how Russians felt when the U.S. government insisted on passing the Magnitsky Act, and when they saw that government apparently willing to expand the secret list to include officials who are perceived to be guilty of oppressing the political opposition in Russia, or lawmakers who supported the law forcing NGO’s who receive foreign funding to register as foreign agents. Neither of those have anything at all to do with the death of Sergei Magnitsky, who may well turn out to have been a criminal after all. It soon became obvious that the U.S. government was running a blacklist, to which people could be added at a whim or as a result of pressure from the political opposition in Russia…

Blame your own government (USA). A delegation of Russian senators visited America, bringing their evidence to date in the investigation against Magnitsky, in hopes they could head off the unfair legislation. Nobody (but nobody) would even look at it, and they were denied an audience with Senator Ben Cardin, co-sponsor of the law…

Tit-for-tat legislation is not supposed to make sense or to be fair. It is a retaliation to something that is itself perceived to be senseless and unfair. America has plenty of children internally awaiting adoption. If that doesn’t seem like a reasonable compromise, lobby the U.S. government to withdraw the Magnitsky Act…

There is a simple solution. The American congress repeals the Maginsky Act, and then the Duma repeals the Adoption Law. Your move America…  🙂

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

A few days until the end of 2012! That is what is going through my mind as I sip that cup of coffee and contemplate my life. I realize that I have had a full life and I also realize that I am lucky to be here on earth. There seems to be a thousand reasons why I should not be here…

My mind started to wander about how simple my life has become in Russia and how I feel that being here in Russia has extended my lifespan, a whole bunch…

I guess that 6 heart attacks is enough to deal with in a lifetime but I have had several other escapades that have molded my life to what it is today…

I never figured that I would live this long, my dad died at 50 years old and so did his four brothers. They all passed at around 50 years old. Now my grandpa’s lived to their 80’s, so I guess maybe it is true that you look at lifespan at the grandpa’s side of things. Besides 6 heart attacks, I have had a brain tumor and spent 28 weeks in a pathogen treatment. That was 10 years ago and it has never come back. I have been shot two times and stabbed three times. I have had literally every bone in my body broken at one time or another. I have had pneumonia 6 times in my life and I remember the first time, I was 3 years old. I do not remember much at three, but I do remember that and it sucked. Pneumonia always came around because I never stopped, never rested and never cared about myself. Of course I spent 30 plus years smoking and drinking and doing what ever guys seem to do and get in trouble all the time…

I have been in a dozen serious car wrecks personally (Some my fault and some not!) and I have pulled people out of over a dozen burning twisted car wrecks in my lifetime. I have been robbed of very large sums of money, 6 times and I have stopped four robbery attempts in progress, in my life time. I have been mugged 3 times at gun point for less than $20 dollars, I always think of the Hank Williams Jr. song that talks about getting killed for $43 in New York City. I think it is called “A Country Boy Can Survive!” I need to look it up someday…

Now all the above is ignoring being an Airborne Ranger for years. What happened during those years is a whole other story…

I have held people as they die and I have held people dieing because of what I did. I have been in jail, for things I did and things I did not do. I have been blackmailed and cheated on. I also have stood my ground when no one else thought it was correct to do so. I have been vindicated every time when I did stand up for what was correct and not give into the “status quo…”

What is sad is that I left America a broken man! I was broke financially and spiritually! I was over medicated on way too many prescription drugs, which included not the least of, what I call happy pills. You know those wonderful tranquilizers that are so prevalent of all types in America. When you have 6 heart attacks they have a tendency to dope you up the rest of your life…

The last of my wealth, bought my way out of a burdensome and overbearing society of suppression…

I have talked about before what I had to do to get out of America and I will always have tremendous thanks to several officials in the government that pulled some strings for me, but hey they owed me and I collected…

So I am contemplating my life today and thinking that we are almost at 2013. I have another birthday in January and it seems that time just keeps rolling on…

“You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.” ― Geraldine Brooks…

I guess it is time once again to follow one of my favorite quotes that is written above…

I like to say that, “The past is as a book and you must close that book and put it back on the shelf once in awhile, for it will keep calling to you, until you read again, if it lays open on the desktop!”

Time to close the book for a few days…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

All the senators unanimously voted in support of the bill…

The bill, dubbed the “Dima Yakovlev Law” also imposes a visa ban and asset freeze on US officials who violate the rights of Russian citizens abroad, and bans the US sponsorship of NGOs that operate in Russia as well as the work of US citizens in Russian NGOs.As the bill was passing through the Lower House it was also amended with a provision that it can be applied to any nation that violates the rights of Russians, not just the USA…

Dima Yakovlev is the Two-year-old Russian adopted boy who died after being left in a locked car by his adopted American father on a hot day for nine hours. The father was not held responsible…

This bill leaves approximately 46 people from America that have bought children from Russia, left out in the cold, so to say. If Putin signs the bill then Americans will theoretically never again adopt a Russian child…

Russia is correct on this issue and Russian children should be kept in Russia…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…