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President Dmitry Medvedev delivering his annual address to the Russian Parliament. He is speaking in the St George Hall of the Moscow Kremlin. The address started at noon Moscow Time…

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President Medvedev says Russia will not allow meddling in its internal affairs. Addressing the Federal Assembly on Thursday, he stressed that every citizen has a right to express his or her opinion, but attempts to enkindle hatred in the society from abroad are unacceptable…

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President Medvedev began his annual address to parliament with his comments on the recent parliamentary elections.

Medvedev said that different people reacted differently to the elections and that a positive or negative response was nothing unusual.

As for allegations of vote-rigging, Dmitry Medvedev pledged to prevent any attempts to drag the country into chaos and said that the government wouldn’t allow any intervention from outside either. People have the right to express their views but attempts to sow discord are inadmissible, the president said.

Medvedev greeted the newly elected members of the lower house of parliament and said he was ready for dialogue with them…

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Commenting on the recent opposition rallies across Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev, who is delivering his annual state-of-the-nation address on Thursday, said that he sees the protests as a sign of a maturing democracy in Russia.

“The fact that our citizens are becoming more active in expressing their points of view and bring forward demands to the authorities, proves that Russian democracy is getting stronger. I think, this is a positive trend, and it will only do us good.”

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised Russia’s efforts on tackling corruption.

“The results of this work [anti-corruption efforts] have seen more than 3,000 Russian officials brought justice over the first six months of 2011,” Medvedev said during his final annual state-of-the-nation address before he steps down as president…

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President Dmitry Medvedev has made several breakthrough statements during his annual presidential address to Russia’s Federal Assembly.

­Chief among them is a proposal to move to direct voting when electing regional governors.

He said that all politically active citizens should be given the opportunity to participate in Russia’s political affairs.

The Russian president also wants to simply the process of registering political parties for elections by reducing the number of signatures required to 300,000.

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Among steps he said he was going to make to implement the reform, Mr. Medvedev mentioned the need to elect governors and cancel a procedure when a candidate has to collect enough signatures to get his name officially registered.

The Russian president also suggested the Duma elections to be abolished and replaced by the proportional representation system across 225 districts so that each area could see its delegate in the parliament. Medvedev also suggested changes to the existing system of forming the central and local election commissions.

“These measures take on a special meaning ahead of the 2012 presidential elections, which must be fair and transparent and meet the present-day requirements for the legislation system”, Mr. Medvedev said.

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Russia’s economy is the sixth largest in the world. President Medvedev told this in an address to the federal assembly in Moscow on Thursday. He stressed that Russia had overcome the hardest economic perturbations and restored the impressive rate of growth. The economy is growing by about 4 percent per year.

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In his annual address to the nation as head of state, President Dmitry Medvedev has unveiled his plan to carry out a reform of Russia’s political system.

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Russia and the EU have intensified their efforts to ease the visa regime, with prospects emerging for visas to be abolished, Dmitry Medvedev said as part of his annual state-of-the-nation address on Thursday. “;Twenty-three partnership agreements have already been signed with the EU member states….

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty works towards strengthening strategic stability. Medvedev said so in his annual address to the Federal Assembly on Thursday.

“One of the biggest achievements is the conclusion /between Russia and the USA/ of the treaty on the reduction of strategic offensive armaments,” the president announced.

“It /the treaty/ works towards strengthening strategic stability. Also, this Treaty launches the establishment of a new architecture of equal and indivisible security,” Medvedev said.

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President Medvedev has reiterated that Moscow is open for a constructive dialogue and partnership on missile defense. In his annual address to parliament on Thursday, the president said that Russia expects the West to demonstrate the same readiness for dialogue so that the parties involved could reach a mutually acceptable decision on missile defense bases in Europe.

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Russia&amp’s President Dmitry Medvedev believes that citizens should get an opportunity to decide on the time of retirement. “; We have to build a long-term strategy of developing the pension system. I think, we have to give to the people an opportunity to choose when they want to retire considering the correlation between their pensions and their salaries.

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President Dmitry Medvedev has hit Twitter’s Trending Topics during his address to the Russian Parliament. The address is the last one for Mr. Medvedev as President. Twitter’s Trending Topics feature hashtag used in at least 10-20 thousand tweets in one hour. Dmitry Medvedev’s name appeared as a hashtag in Cyrillic. (RIA Novosti)…

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President Medvedev has said that the current system of state purchase contracts will be replaced with that of federal contracts as a measure to combat corruption. During his annual address to parliament on Thursday, the president said that a corresponding law would come into effect in the first half of 2012. (RIA Novosti)…
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President Medvedev said in his annual address to parliament that most of defense ministry orders are being placed with companies of the military industrial sector for several years ahead. This, he said, should prop up defense enterprises. In their turn, the businesses working for the defense sector should meet their deadlines with maximum efficiency and according to schedule. (RIA Novosti)…

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President Medvedev has suggested creating public television on one of the federal television channels. “To improve public communications modern technologies should be used,” Medvedev declared.

“I suggest that the problem of creating public television, possibly on the basis of the existing federal television channels, should be resolved in the near future,” the president said.

“Neither the state nor any owner of new public television shall exercise any influence on the adoption of any decision,” Medvedev said. “In that case none of the owners of public television should have a decisive influence when making decisions,” Medvedev explained. “Neither the state nor any private owner,” he reiterated.

“I am confident that such public television will make our media environment more competitive and more interesting,” the president declared.

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Well the train tickets that we could get, have us leaving on the 22nd of December at 9:30 pm and we will be back in Moscow on the 26th of December at 5:00 am. Two nights reserved and was just verified by the hotel for the nights of the 23rd and 24th of December. That is my thinking’s this morning as I drink that cup of coffee…

I am really looking forward to visiting Kiev, Ukraine. It is one of my favorite places in the world to visit. The people are wonderful and Kiev is just a joy to run around. It is a large city but tiny compared to Moscow and that makes it easy to get to and to see things. Sveta was wanting to go see a theater (play) show or something in Kiev and that is fine by me. So after business is done then the fun begins…

So it looks like we will be spending Christmas in Ukraine and as Sveta would say, “That is just right!”

Kyle Keeton
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PS: Don’t worry people because in Russia our real Christmas starts on the 31st of December till the 7th of January. So that is when we will celebrate Christmas / New Year in Moscow…

How US can improve its image in Pakistan? by Nadir Mir:

Regardless of US, Pakistan remaining allies or not, they were never destined to be enemies. Yet anti Americanism grows in Pakistan and frustration with Pakistan increases in America. Even though ‘disenchanted allies’ for long, the last decade, post 9/11 has resulted in a growing animosity. This is a result of American geopolitical naiveté, Pakistani wishfulness and Indians deceit creating an explosive brew. Yet there is a clear distinction between US and Pakistani global perceptions. US being a global albeit sole super power has to worry about a long list of geopolitical rivals, allies, surrogates and fence sitters.

Washington has to relate to Putin’s Russia, China’s rise, the Middle East Arab Spring, Turkish growth and independence, keeping Israel on a tight leash, Iran’s defiance, North Korean wild card antics, European economic gloom and doom (of EU), India unreliable both as friend or foe etc. Besides the mess American Neo Con policy resulted in at home and abroad (bankrupt at home and over stretched abroad).

Pakistan’s case is much simpler. Its geopolitical world is limited. Indian threat, Afghanistan issues and American relations are key subjects for now. Afghanistan the geopolitical square on the global chessboard for testing both! American stock in Pakistan has plunged to the lowest depth. America needs Pakistan, while it is in Afghanistan. But Washington will need Islamabad even more later. Pakistan’s geography is globally pivotal. (This scribe’s book ‘Gwadar on the Global Chessboard’ makes it quite evident). Pakistan’s demography will be the most numerous in the Muslim world (3 billion Muslims by 2030). Pakistan may be the world’s 3rd or 4th most populous state decades from now. According to Mr. Bruce Riedel (former CIA and advisor to President Obama) Pakistan will possess the world’s 4th or 5th biggest nuclear arsenal in the next decade. The key question Americans should address – how to improve its image in Pakistan?

A few cardinal points to ponder are presented here:

People:

The only people who are duped by Fox TV, Neo Con plus Globalists Media etc are some gullible Americans. The rest of the world including Pakistanis are quite clear about these issues. Even if the majority of Pakistanis lack high end education, there is ample rustic wisdom in the Pakistani Nation. America’s constant reference to Pakhtoons, Baloch, Punjabis, Sindhis, Sunni, Shia etc, are seen as attempts to divide the Pakistani people. As is US patronage of dictator dispensation and elite, viewed as corrupt plus treacherous by many in Pakistan. Washington’s investment in Pakistani liberals is also a complete waste as far as containing extremism is concerned. Pakistani Nationalists with moderate views are the best recipe for dealing with extremists of various hues. Pakistan’s liberals are frequently and often correctly seen as puppets with self aggrandizing agendas. Many NGOS have been discredited due to American links. Even European or other western NGOS, organization have fallen in disrepute (for no fault of theirs) as being fronts and full filling US agenda.

Bottom line: ‘Befriend the people of Pakistan’.

Nukes:

Pakistani nukes though guarded by its military are the pride of the nation. In a country of corrupt elite, hungry and angry people, internal and external threats, the nukes are seen as deterrents, equalizers and symbols of national pride.

Relentless American inspired propaganda against Pakistani nukes – missiles (even if contributed by India and others) is threatening, shocking and pride snatching for Pakistanis. Indo – US nuclear deal is nuclear apartheid for Pakistan. (Regardless of what Americans say about AQ khan’s affairs). Pakistani Nation would prefer nukes to be used if it ever faces – ‘use them or lose them scenario’.

The average Pakistani knows that India does not have the capability or courage to attempt nuclear defanging of Pakistan. But the Gungho – cow boys might attempt it, resulting in a regional – global catastrophe.

Bottom line: US should accept ‘Nuclear Pakistan’ or at least stop its tirade against it.

Centre of Gravity:

Geopolitically speaking ISI – Pakistan military is the center of gravity. Though over all historically speaking, it is the freedom spirit of the Pakistani Nation. A concerted campaign against ISI and Pakistan military, amounts to degrading its center of gravity. (After ten years of Pakistanis sacrifices in blood, treasury, infrastructure, national emotions in the so called global war on terror).

Bottom line: US should abandon attempts to divide Pakistani Nation from ISI – Armed Forces and forgo demonizing them.

Kashmir:

Genocide in Kashmir by Indian Army has resulted in hundreds of thousands of Kashmiris killed besides thousands of Kashmiri women raped. US intervention in Bosnia, Libya and numerous other places was for much less. Unresolved Kashmir is the core issue preventing peace in South Asia. By condoning Indian war crimes (2000 plus in unmarked graves recently identified in Indian held Kashmir), US is aggravating the problem.

Bottom line: Help resolve the Kashmir issue.

Afghanistan:

The majority of Pakistanis want peace in Afghanistan. Peace cannot prevail until foreign forces leave Afghanistan, whether by agreement or other quick exodus. As long as foreign forces remain, the Afghans will resist. It is not a question of Haqqanis involvement or anyone else for that matter but of US departure.

Bottom line: US should relent and withdrawal its forces from Afghanistan. A negotiated peace agreement in Afghanistan involving Pakistan is the solution.

National Emotions:

A history of US betrayal haunts Pakistani minds. The current issue is not only US walking away from Kabul but installing Indians before departure. As American drone strikes killing many innocents and attacks on Pakistani Soldiers signify US hubris, entrenching Indians in Kabul would once again prove American betrayal. If Washington does this, it will lose the Pakistani nation’s confidence. Any US or US sponsored attempt, be it diplomatic or military against Pakistan’s nukes, would end Pakistani nation’s relations with USA forever. (Lead to a conflagration and create a sea of radioactive hostility).

So far the PERCEPTION of American strategy towards Pakistan has been:

§ Patronize liberal puppet elite

§ Divide Pakistani nation

§ Demonize ISI, nuclear, military in Pakistan.

§ Support the enemies of Pakistan to destabilize and encircle it.

§ Aim to denuclearize and balkanize it.

Obviously this has resulted in the lowest level of US – Pakistan relations in history. Going further down can best be summed up by the German philosopher’s famous quote.

“When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you” Friedrich Nietzsche

Geopolitics of Peace: by Nadir Mir. Author of the book “Gwadar on the Global Chessboard” Blog: Pakistan and Geopolitics wwwpakistangeopolitics.blogspot.com/ The author is a retired Brigadier of the Pakistan Army.

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The views of the above author are not strictly only the views of Windows to Russia. They are an independent view from an outside source that brings a better light on the world in general and Windows to Russia is pleased to have Nadir Mir’s thoughts on its pages today and in the future. So take a look at his site and read a few articles. – Kyle Keeton

Once during the old days in a little Russian city, there lived a old lady known as Babushka. Babushka invariably had worked hard to try to to clean her house by sweeping, polishing, dusting and cleaning. Her house was the most effective kept, most tidy house within the whole village. Her garden was stunning and her cooking was wonderful. One evening she was busy dusting and cleaning, therefore so busy that she did not hear all the villagers outside, within the village square talking regarding and searching at the new star in the sky…

She had heard regarding the new star however thought, ‘All this fuss over a star! I do not even have the time to appear to see it as a result that I am behind with all my work. I need to work all night now!’ Therefore, she missed the star because of work as it shone brightly, high overhead. She conjointly missed the small line of twinkling lights coming back down towards the village at dawn. She also did not hear the sounds of the pipes and drums. She missed the voices and whispers of the villagers wondering whether or not the lights were a military or a procession of some type. She missed the sudden quiet of the villagers and even the footsteps developing on the trail to her door. However the one issue that she could not miss was the loud knocking on her front door that erupted and disturbed her cleaning!

‘Now what’s that?’ she questioned, gap the door. Babushka gaped in amazement. There was 3 kings at her door with one amongst them as their servant! ‘My masters would like an area to rest,’ the servant said, ‘and yours is that the best house within the village.’ ‘You need to remain here?’ asked Babushka. ‘Yes, it might solely be till night falls and therefore the star seems once more,’ the servant replied. Babushka gulped. ‘Come in, then,’ she said…

The kings were very happy once they saw all of the of the home-baked bread, pies and cakes. She dashed regarding, serving them, asking many queries. ‘Have you return a protracted way?’ ‘A terribly ways,’ sighed Caspar. ‘Where are you going?’ ‘We’re following the new star,’ said Melchior. ‘But where?’ The kings did not hesitate, however they believed that it might lead the to a new-born king, a King of Earth and Heaven. ‘Why do  you not go along with us?’ asked Balthasar. ‘You may bring him a present like we tend to do. I bring gold, and my colleagues bring spices and perfumes.’ ‘Oh, I am undecided that he would welcome me,’ said Babushka, ‘and what may I bring for a gift? Toys! I do know what I would bring as a toy. But I’ve got a cabinet choked with toys,’ she said sadly. ‘My baby son, died when he was little.’ Balthasar stopped her as she visited tidy the kitchen up. ‘This new king may be your king too. Go along with us when the star seems high tonight,’ he said. ‘I’ll have faith in it,’ sighed Babushka…

As the kings slept, Babushka tidied up as quietly as she may. ‘What plenty of additional work there was!’ she thought, ‘and this new king, what a funny plan, to travel off with the kings to seek out him.’

Babushka shook herself. There was no time for dreaming, all this washing-up and putting away had to be done. ‘Anyway,’ she thought, ‘how long would she be away? What would she wear? What regarding the gift?’ She sighed. ‘There is such a lot to try to to do. The house has to be cleaned to be cleaned when they’ve gone. I could not simply leave it.’ Suddenly it had been night-time once more and therefore the star was within the sky. ‘Are you prepared, Babushka?’ asked Balthasar.  The Babushka said, ‘I should simply tidy here some and realize a present.’

The kings went away sadly. Babushka ran back to her house, keen to urge on with her house work…

Finally, she visited the little cabinet of toys, opened the door and gazed the least bit at the toys. however they were terribly dusty. They weren’t fit for a baby king. They might all need to be cleaned. She cleaned all of the toys till every one shined. Babushka looked through the window. It had been morning! The star had came and gone. The kings would have found elsewhere to rest by currently. She may simply catch them up, however she felt therefore tired. She had to sleep. Consequent issues she knew, she was then awake and it had become dark outside. Oh my! She had slept all day! She quickly pulled on her cloak, packed the toys within a basket and sped down the trail the kings had taken…

Everywhere she asked ‘Have you seen the kings?’ ‘Oh yes,’ everybody told her, ‘we saw them. They went that approach.’ For a day Babushka followed the path of the kings and therefore, the villages got larger and have become big cities. However Babushka never stopped in her pursuit. Then she came to a town. ‘The palace,’ she thought. ‘That’s where the royal baby would be born.’ ‘No, there’s no royal baby here,’ said the palace guard when she asked him. ‘What regarding 3 kings?’ asked Babushka. ‘Oh yes, they came here, however they did not keep long. They were soon on their journey.’ ‘But where to?’ asked Babushka. ‘Bethlehem, that was the place. I do not imagine why. It is a terribly poor place. That is where they went.’ replied the guard.

She went off towards Bethlehem. It had been evening when Babushka found Bethlehem and she had been travelling for a protracted amount of time. She went into the native inn and asked regarding the kings. ‘Oh yes,’ said the owner, ‘The kings were here 2 days ago. They were terribly excited, however they did not even keep the night.’ ‘And what of a baby?’ Babushka cried. ‘Yes there was a baby.’ Said the owner. The kings asked a baby, too.’ When he saw the frustration in Babushka’s eyes, he stopped. ‘If you would like to examine where the baby was,’ he said quickly, ‘it was across the yard there. I could not provide the couple something higher at the time. My inn was extremely full, in order that they had to bed within the stable.’

Babushka followed him across the yard. ‘Here’s the stable,’ he said. He left her within the stable…

‘Babushka?’ somebody was calling her from the doorway. He looked kindly at her. She questioned if he knew where the family had gone. She knew currently that the baby king was the foremost necessary issue within the world to her. ‘They have gone to Egypt, and safety,’ he told Babushka. ‘And the kings have gone to their countries. However one amongst them told me regarding you. I’m sorry however you’re too late. It had been Jesus that they found, the world’s Saviour.’

Babushka was terribly unhappy that she had missed Jesus and it’s said that to this day Babushka remains looking for him…

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This morning the thinking’s over that wonderful cup of coffee (chicory) looks like Sveta and I are traveling to Ukraine this Christmas. We are leaving Thursday or Friday and will be back around Monday morning! It counts on when we can get tickets on the train to go to Ukraine. Since there is no Christmas in Ukraine or Russia on the 25th of December it is just in my head that it is Christmas. In this part of the world it is business as usual and since Sveta and I like to enjoy life we are going to take an extra day and see some sights of the Ukraine capital, Kiev…

It is nice not worrying about a visa this time and since I got a multiple entry visa last time, I have been able to come and go already several times from Russia and I do not have to count my trips any more. It costs very little more to get a multi-entry visa to Russia and it makes a big difference if issues come up that you have to leave several times to do things outside of Russia…

So that coffee is wonderful and it makes the thinking’s extra special today. I am looking forward to going back to Ukraine because there is a gentleman there that I want to try to look up. He was a wonderful person and I really liked his philosophy in life…

Of course we will stay at our usual hotel the Slavutich. as that is the best deal in Kiev. There also is a little pizza place right around the corner from the Hotel that I have already made dibs on for Christmas dinner. It has the best pizza in the world and that is coming from a guy who worked for upper management with Pizza Hut for 8 years. So eating pizza is not high on my list even all these years later…

I will keep everyone informed and may even take the little computer to post while I am there. I still have my modem and Sim card for Kiev and that will allow me to post…

One last thought before I finish my coffee and wind this post down today: Windows to Russia has set all records in views for the last few days. It looks like December will be the largest month in the domains history. If it holds up to the end of the year we will top 16,000,000 views for the year. To be honest I am just stunned and hope that I continue to produce what you want and need for you to keep coming back to Windows to Russia. I could not imagine a better Christmas present for me than to see windowstorussia.com finally come into her own after all these years…

One thing that I am struggling with is whether or not to rent out ad space. I really have never been much on ads and use ad-sense just to pay the servers. I will have to decide what to do because I have a slew of desires to have ads of various types on Windows to Russia. I just personally hate ads and find them unattractive to a site. I would love to get rid of ad-sense but really have to have the money to keep the sites on line. Three servers and possibly a forth is in the works to mirror everything and create a place to store videos and images. With the disaster that America is causing the video industry and keeping videos online almost impossible. A little known or talked about issue is that many, many and many videos from America are blocked so that Russia can not view them. I know because I live in Russia and it is a constant issue for me to deal with. We have to create something to counter the internet stifling by America…

Maybe a donation button would allow me to remove ad-sense completely and keep enough money flowing to support the servers? It is something that I have to think about and it might be worth it to enough readers to have a totally ad free environment. Now this would be the whole domain of windowstorussia.com. Russian News From Russia, Fresh Coffee News, Thoughts of Moscow and Windows to Russia would be ad free if I could get enough money generated by other means than ad-sense to keep it on line…

Good time to think about it is over a good train ride to Kiev and Sveta and I have just such a ride coming this week. In the mean time leave me an e-mail in contact and let me know what you think about a donation button…

Kyle Keeton
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PS: Misha Svetas son will watch Boza and I have so much to do to get ready to leave. I love train trips in Russia and Ukraine…

I am utterly ashamed at what I am seeing coming from the Western people in the press and comments about Kim Jong-il death. It is embarrassing to read the hateful, spiteful and immoral comments and statements that are being said about Kim Jong-il…

We as a society once again are celebrating a death. That seems to be the normality with the Western world in this day and age…

The news of the North Korea’s leader death has put the 24-million population on the verge of insanity, hyped up by unceasing TV broadcast of mass mourning throughout the country.

­North Korea’s national flag is flying at half-mast today on every flagpole in the country.

Today Korean men are not ashamed of tears flooding from their eyes. People representing every segment of the North Korean population, from field workers to academics, from soldiers to very young school children, are flourishing arms, expressing their endless love to the departed leader.

Many mourners are sprawled on the ground, following an ancient tradition of devotedly wailing for dead.

The North Koreans are sincerely in a state of shock and how we look at life has no matter. This is their life and their existence and we have no right to criticize how they mourn Kim Jong-il’s death…

I really am appalled at the West! Either everyone is so worried that North Korea is unstable, that North Korea is so much more a Nuclear threat now, that North Korea will so flood into South Korea and then top that off with comments that are a sad stipulation of a Western society that is in bad decline in morals and politics…

The man is dead! The people are suffering! Time will heal! Leave it alone!Leave North Korea alone right now! The best way to help North Korea is with open honest arms and from what I am seeing, a nuke is what the West feels they need. Kick them while they are down…

If you can not say anything good about a dead person! Then, by God, Say nothing at all………..

Kyle Keeton
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China supports Russia’s draft resolution on Syria presented at the UN Security Council on December 15, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told a briefing on Monday. Also India may support a surprise Russian UN resolution on Syria…

These statement should not be a surprise and hopefully you have heard that Russia has a UN resolution on Syria and the main purpose of this resolution is to get guidelines down about the violence happening in Syria and (Drum roll please!) prevent a US or EU draft that could make a case for outside intervention in the violence-ridden country…

(This is the start of my thinking’s while I am sipping that cup of coffee (chicory) today as we wind down to Christmas…)

It is the last part of above statement “US or EU draft” that has big importance. It is this importance that has set the US and the EU on edge right now. The hate being spat at Russia and China by the Western Empire is unprecedented as Russia and China try to help Syria but keep a “Libya Syndrome” from happening. That is exactly the opposite of what the Western Empire wants. The West wants to roll over Syria and bomb the hell out of it…

Except it seems that we are starting to see lines drawn in the sand. It also seems that Libya was the last trusting of a Western escapade by the East. From now on the East only sees lies in what the West says…

I see a huge mental and physical change in Russia, India, Pakistan, China, Brazil and many others. These changes were brought about by the deeds and morality of the West especially to be pinpointed on Europe (Britain – France) and America (USA)…

The resolution that Russia has proposed is detrimental to the US views on Syria. The Russian resolution takes a sort of circle degrees view of the situation, condemning both Assad’s military action as well as actions by armed opposition groups. Along with other BRIC nations, India has come to the conclusion that the unrest in Syria is being exploited by different interests. For instance, officials tracking Syria note that the violence is now most concentrated in Homs, which is the headquarters for the Muslim Brotherhood…

Russia has also seem plenty of weapons being brought into Syria and attempts to materialize the opposition through outside interface. This is how we know that the Western Empire has her claws digging at the infrastructure of Syria…

I myself see nothing but destruction out of all this undermining by the West. I have to commend Russia and China for finally making the beginnings of a stand and I guess when all is done in the next year (2012) we will see how totally insane the West is for power, death and control. Is it too late?

Lets look at what France said: France on Friday attacked Russia’s proposed UN Security Council resolution on the SYRIA crisis as “totally unbalanced” and no immediate talks were called on the measure. America is saying: The Russian stance of treating the opposition as a guilty party will not stand in our eyes. (5000 dead and climbing!) The opposition in Syria are civilians and must be treated as such…

Now were have we used the “civilian, opposition, innocent and pathetic” card before? Yes with Libya and we all know how that turned out. (Remember 10,000 dead civilians and we found out it was a flagrant lie?) It is how we in the West are brought up. We are brought up to exploit weaknesses in the enemy and when they falter, cut their legs off and keep them down on the ground. We are raised to believe that lies are a motivation force and there are times when lies are acceptable…

Sveta still does not have a grasp on the way I was brought up in America. She tries to listen and comprehend but when the things that I say are so opposite of what she lived and was taught, it is hard for her to accept that a saying like “Dog eat – Dog World” is normal in the US… *

Or this is one of the quotes we taught to corporate manager newbies: “A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor’s throat without having his neighbor notice it.” **

But it really does not get anymore “Red Blooded American” than this quote by George Bush: “We’re taking action against evil people. Because this great nation of many religions understands, our war is not against Islam, or against faith practiced by the Muslim people. Our war is a war against evil. This is clearly a case of good versus evil, and make no mistake about it., good will prevail. (George Bush)

Make no mistake about it. That sums up the American thinking’s in a simple statement by a man who led our country for eight years. He was able to do that because so many people in America agree with what he says. Why if he had been smart, all he had to do was toss a little Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet in that mix and I am sure that God would have appeared to bless him…

“This is clearly a case of good versus evil, and make no mistake about it., good will prevail.”  – That is what Hollywood has told us and that is what the news tells us, that is what our leaders tell us and that is what our preachers tell us in church. It is simple: America is the only good on earth and all others are evil. We must at any and all costs “prevail”…

If I was France and Britain, I would rethink my relationship with the USA! I would watch my back because as Mexico and Canada have found out. The US is not a good bed partner…

I will tell you one thing that is fact: Sveta is glad that I am not the person that I was in my past and now that I have seen real life outside of the walls of durance of the USA. I am very grateful that I finally grew up and am not that person I use to be also…

Kyle Keeton
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* Dog-eat-dog describes a world in which people fight for themselves only and will hurt other people to get ahead. It’s a dog-eat-dog world means that you must first watch out for your own interests, because other people will be watching out for theirs. Example: “I have been in this business for twenty years. It’s dog-eat-dog. The competition is always trying to steal your customers.”

** “A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor’s throat without having his neighbor notice it. –  Trygve Lie“

Reset dead End…

“Rebukes in the worst traditions of the Cold War, it is inadmissible. It is not a reset at all,” said Medvedev…

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a Friday’s telephone conversation with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama said that Washington’s comments over Russia’s allegedly rigged parliamentary polls were inadmissible, Russian president said on Saturday.

Speaking at the meeting with the members of the ruling United Russia party, Medvedev said that on Friday he told Obama that the U.S. officials’ assessment of Russian elections “does not have any significance for us.”

On December 6, two days after Russian parliamentary elections that sparked criticism across the country over the alleged mass ballot stuffing and vote fraud in favor of the united Russia party, the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Russia’s polls were “neither free nor fair.”

“When on the next or the second day [after the elections]… there are rebukes in the worst traditions of the Cold War, it is inadmissible. It is not a reset at all,” Medvedev said.

Obama and Medvedev had a telephone conversation on Friday, Kremlin said. Obama congratulated the Russian leader on Russia’s admission to the World Trade Organization and voiced the United States’ intention to continue cooperation.

Medvedev reiterated on Saturday that Russia would act on the international political arena according to its interests, RIA Novosti reported.

“We will not allow to be intimidated,” the president said.

Speaking about nationwide protest rallies, Medvedev told the United Russia members that the protests should be carried out within the law.

“Any meetings, demonstrations are the signs of democracy and we realize it…It should happen in a strict compliance with the law,” the president said.

Protests over alleged mass electoral fraud at the December 4 parliamentary elections continued in Moscow on Saturday, as more than a thousand people attended a rally near the Kremlin.

It is the third authorized mass protest in Moscow. The next rally is scheduled for December 24 at the Sakarov Avenue. More than 25,000 people have signed up so far to a Facebook page announcing the rally.

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