The stare of the Cold War is back, looking over the horizon…


Contrary to popular belief Russia is much more advanced than what we Western’s like to admit. It just is that Russians really see better places to put money, than always building weapons of mass destruction to counterbalance the Western Empire…

So in response to the Western Empire and her desires: Russia will develop a new 100 ton liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile to overcome the U.S.’s missile defense system, a decision has been made to create a new silo-launched heavy missile that will have enhanced capability to breach a US missile defense system…

So now since Russia is being forced against that proverbial brick wall. They either have to lay down and cry or bitch slap the West back. Since it looks like laying down and crying is a tactic used by the Western grovelers. Russia is going to stand her ground and stop letting the West trying to push her around…

The above excerpt is just one of many little tiny things that are happening in Russia. I see the gears turning as the infrastructure is starting to produce new weaponry and military parts. I have seen that Jordan and Russia are joint producing RPG-32′Hashim’ antitank / multipurpose grenade launchers as another silent type of expansion of military manufacturing. The French Mistral is being built for Russia as we read this. Hundreds of other things are happening and most of all, I see the propaganda at play to try and stir the thinking’s into a anti-American mood within Russia…

It seems that Russia is saddened by the need to do all this preparing against a foe that is considered in much of the world: Just plain crazy, psycho, greedy and power hungry! We really live in a changed world from the olden days and Russia understands this. Russia has all the land and wealth she needs to live happy in this world. Russia is a oil and gas giant. Russia has no desires to rule the world…

But what makes Russia sad is, it seems that there is a certain part of this world that can not live without having enemies and hypothetical evil countries to stimulate their people and government into chaotic actions of malaise. It seems that since the last cold war situation, what should have been taken by the West to cool her jets and start anew, with a fresh thinking out of the box, as Russia has done. Has become a longing by the West to reenter the terrible days of the past cold war as if they were sweet blankets of comfort to spend times of happiness in…

Why can’t we just be friends and get along? I do not remember any cold war happiness when it was related to bomb shelters and nuclear missiles…

Kyle Keeton
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Geopolitics of Peace – 1: by Nadir Mir…


We are honored to have Nadir Mir a retired Brigadier of the Pakistan Army desire to publish on Windows to Russia. He gave me this article to publish for him and I have one more that I published the other day. I have sent him back an e-mail that we will publish any article that he sends to us from this point on. So Nadir Mir will will be a regular part of Windows to Russia from now on…

Nadir Mir: Retired Brigadier of the Pakistan Army talks Iran: is the link to the first article we posted…

So after this point I will simply publish his articles with out fanfare and explanations. He has some very important things to say and I understand what he is trying to convey to the world. I feel privileged that he would like to grace our humble pages at Windows to Russia…

Here is Nadir Mir’s article and may there be many more…

Geopolitics of Peace – 1

Nadir Mir

Author of the book “Gwadar on the Global Chessboard”

Blog: Pakistan and Geopolitics www.pakistangeopolitics.blogspot.com/

The author is a retired Brigadier of the Pakistan Army.

Geopolitics defined in multi ways is also ‘war politics among nations!’ When major powers clash, it leads to a great war. Ironically, the Clausewitzian notion of ‘war being the continuation of policy’ appears to be turned upside down. As detractors and peace advocates lament ‘policy is the continuation of war’! Again Clausewitz interjects ‘if policy is grand so will war be!’ The so called globalists (left over Neo Cons plus new converts) whisper aloud that they want another ‘Grand War’ as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya were not enough. War with Iran was aborted or delayed and has left them heartbroken.

So now Geopolitics is leaning towards a new rumored war against Pakistan and possibly Iran, as is being projected by some US think tanks. This includes the Huttington, ‘clash of civilization theorists’ plus propagandists and balkanists as appearing in the Huffington Post. Even Henry Kissinger the ever green American Geostrategic sage has talked of the ‘Balkans of the next World War’. This war if ever fought would be the most tragic – suicidal war. Without aim and end, with little to gain and a lot to lose by all. Besides peaceful alternatives are available. The futility of a ‘Great War’ or the ‘Reign of Total Chaos’ needs to be understood before understanding the value of peace. The world needs an era of peaceful prosperity; therefore let us dwell on the ‘Geopolitics of Peace’.

First the global geopolitical environment must be grasped pragmatically. The Western World’s dominance in world affairs appears to be fading. At least the global economics balance is tilting away from the Western World. Much before 2020, China may rival the US economy. America today faces a serious debt default. If the US economy has slowed down the EU has its own ailments. In a nut shell, Western monopoly on global wealth stands challenged and rebuked by Eastern and other global economies. Strategically – militarily, Russia has made a comeback. Though there can be no invasion Soviet fashion, post Georgia, Moscow has drawn the Rubicon. Heart land Russia is confident, tactically cooperative yet strategically hostile to the West.

By contrast US – NATO spent a decade chasing elusive, asymmetrical Islamic antagonists. Bogged down in protracted war, US – NATO, after facing resilient Taliban in Afghanistan and stoic Iraqi resistance, forayed into the Libyan adventure. US unilateral raid in Abbotabad, Pakistan has surged Anti Americanism. But Anti Americanism is not confined to Pakistan, but shared in Iran, Turkey, Arab World and a large global swathe.

The Western world’s decline and rise of the rest (Farid Zakriya) has been further compounded by the Middle East revolutionary fervour. Yet US hyper war military remains pre-dominant, even as Robert Gates “avoid land war in Asia” warning must be heeded. American Geo Strategy is at a turning point. Pakistan – Iran – Afghanistan – Turkey – Saudi Arabian Peninsula – India are all Rim land players. A new contest may be starting. If the Bush Neocon era symbolized the –‘encirclement of Russia’, a new era may be on the horizon. The Obama Admistration cajoled by left over Neocons, friendly India, and persuasive Israelis is in a bind over Pakistan – China. The Geopolitical question is to relent or escalate? Yet Saudi Peninsula – North Africa also beacons Western – American attention. Post Osama period marks a defining moment for America. Logic, US economic malaise and war weary American public want the troops back home. The globalists want ‘perpetual war’. Peaceful deinduction is the logical step from Afghanistan. Still hubris, miscalculation, greed and ill advice can lead to a Cold War with China and Hot War in the region. Though the global environment may not replicate a century earlier but still Mark Twain was apt ‘history may not repeat but it does rhyme’.

Historical perspective

First World War (1914 to 1919)

The final spark was the murder of Arch Duke Ferdinand. Yet the real cause of the ‘Great War’ was intra European Geopolitics. The power plays of many nations and empires but finally the rise of Germany and Britain’s avowed ‘policy of confronting rising powers on the continent’, all led to this catastrophic world event. The roots of the ‘Great War’ may have gone a hundred years to the fall of France after Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo in June 1815. The European War turned into a World War, bleeding the youth of Europe and destroying a generation. European empires fell, societal and revolutionary upheaval followed. Who gained, not the direct contestants. In any event, the seeds of the next World War were laid.

Second World War (1939 to 1945)

After twenty years of uneasy peace and turbulence in Europe, the Second World War began lasting from 1939 to 1945. The Treaty of Versailles and Hitler’s proclivity for brinkmanship were not the only reasons, for the Second World War. Hitler despite being the great propagandist did not have a flair for Geopolitics. The Western World was saved more due to Hitlerian blunders than its own prowess. In any event, from the ruins of Berlin and millions dead rose the Cold War.

Cold War till 1991 and beyond

Practically, the Soviet Union contest lasted from 1945 till 1991, leading to the demise of the Soviet Union and victory for Washington’s Alliance. Still Francis Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ was to prove illusionary and he was forced to rewrite ‘After the Neo Cons’. The Bush Administration and Neo Con Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq led to a global human disaster, besides Geopolitical remaking. Neither did it benefit the image or treasury of the United States to put it mildly. (Some claims figure in terms of 2,25000 total fatalities and $4 trillion direct and indirect expenditures – losses).

1991 was in a sense the high point of American power and prestige. 1991 to 2011 is ironically again a twenty year gap like between First and Second World War. Another Great War or even Cold War does not make sense. This time there is no Hitler not even Saddam, Bin Laden or even Gaddafi as sparks to a larger conflagration. Merely, successful politicians! Like President Zardari and his friend President Karzai, both democratically elected!

So where are the Balkans of Mr. Kissinger? Where does the new war start? And for what — Afghanistan – Pakistan – Kashmir – Iran. Instead of US withdrawal from Afghanistan, it is being goaded in the ‘denuclearization scenarios’ of Pakistan by some US globalists and Indian extremists. Even as good hearted, charity giving Americans are seeking withdrawal of their forces to end Afghanistan’s endless war and its outrageous expenses. Any American attempt to denuclearize Pakistan would also extend to Iran, which is considered a greater existential threat by Israel. This would result in a larger war against Pakistan and Iran.

Similarly, any attempt at Baluchistan balkanization would again involve Pakistan and Iran as the Iranian part is called Seastan bordering Pakistani Baluchistan. This would bring Pakistan and Iran in a holy alliance of national survival, something which American Geopolitics is loath off. Some extremists in India and so called globalists think tanks want Baluchistan Balkanized or Pakistan cut into four pieces. So Indian hegemony and American presence can share common borders in West Asia – South Asia! Apart from the moral and international, legal question of advocating cutting a country into pieces, this does not look like Geo strategy but ‘naive hallucinations’. Forced into a corner, Pakistan and Iran will defend themselves and probably combine their assets; it will lead to a radical realignment not suited to American Geopolitical interests. Those who are pushing the ‘war agenda’ are not Geo politicians or Geo strategicans, but merely propagandists. Hitler was the best propagandist but naive at Geopolitics – the world knows his fate and the suffering of the world.

Predictable Scenario

If Pakistan is squeezed by US – India nexus, it would logically be forced into a new Geopolitical arrangement. In the event, Pakistan would fully embrace China, Iran, SCO – Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia in a maximalist mode. The low intensity war with prospects of converting in hot war would include the Geopolitical space of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Kashmir – India. This could lead to an extended /all out war – nuclear war.

A New Cold War?

The Geopolitical realignment might see SCO with new members, Pakistan and Iran or linked to SCO as a strategic new entity. It could lead to a Cold War between America and NATO on one side and China and Pakistan, Iran on the other side. SCO and Russia would most likely join China. South Arabia and Turkey both close to Pakistan would oppose US/NATO conflict with Pakistan. India though a strategic partner of USA may not confront China, more so, if Russia and SCO were aligned with Beijing. The great Chinese in their eternal wisdom already talk of a ‘new security architecture for Asia’. NATO rather EU is not keen on confrontation/Cold War with Russia – China. An extreme version of this scenario in future could be a new SCO vs. old NATO. Such a Cold War spreading would convert the world again into the Bi Polar World. With a difference, that a declining Western World faces China – Russia combined. Heart land Plus supported by many Rim land powers, no longer allied and controlled by the Americans. Such a contest would hasten America’s own decline, regardless of the damage American power can inflict on others.

Even if the contest is focused on a smaller region that is Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan and by extension India, Saudi Peninsula and Turkey, it would not be in America’s Geopolitical interest. These vast geographic spaces, exploding demography, military resistance, asymmetrical potential and nuclear destruction would create a giant black hole for America. War and radicalization would extend to the Middle East and to some parts of Africa. If the American cause in Afghanistan was a few thousand militants, radicalizing hundred of millions may prove counterproductive in Central – Southern Eurasia and Africa. This may even prove overwhelming for US and NATO in the medium to long term. Dealing with a few thousand Yemeni militants is one thing and confronting millions in Pakistan – Iran is another.  Asymmetrical war has no front, flank or center. This war could well extend to Europe and America itself which is in nobody’s interest.

In such a war scenario, US/NATO would sink in a deepening quagmire in Southern Eurasia. After ten years long war in Afghanistan, it would be a much greater geopolitical disaster. With the US economy in severe recession, it could be termed as not misadventure but simply absurd. Direct American military intervention would confront the numerous demography of these vast regions. The losers would be the direct contestants (US and NATO) besides the nations of these regions, as happened in both First and Second World Wars. The winners would obviously be Russia and China – SCO.

So what is the solution? The answer is ‘Geopolitics of peace’. A new Geopolitical paradigm is the solution. Numerous state actors some non state actors and lobbies are involved in this affair. Still the minimalist — doable aims of US, China, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, EU and even Israel have to be factored in to achieve consensus for peace. Not only in Afghanistan but the regions around. Pakistan cannot be expected to compromise on its national interests nor China on its global rise. Still there is everything to gain and nothing to lose from a negotiated, durable, peace settlement. Not only for the regional countries but the world at large. The Geopolitics of peace is the way forward. A civilized and prosperous world and not the prospects of another World War or even a New Cold War.

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Original Source: wwwpakistangeopolitics.blogspot.com/

Pros and cons of WTO membership…


Russia is finally joining the WTO – 18 years after it filed its application for membership. In an interview
Russia is finally joining the WTO – 18 years after it filed its application for membership.In an interview given exclusively to the Voice of Russia, the head of the Russian delegation to the talks on Russia’s accession to the WTO Maxim Medvedkov said:

Official Report on Russian population Decline and Status from Census – Released…


Russia’s population stands at 142,857,000 people, aged 39 in an average, according to the Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily, which published on Friday an official report of the 2010 population census…

Thus, Russia has dropped one step down in the world population ratings. According to the previous census of 2002, it occupied the seventh position, now it is eighth, after China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, and Bangladesh…

Population decrease rates in Russia are growing. Thus, in the period of 13 years from the last Soviet-era census of 1989 and the first Russian census of 2002, the number of population decreased by 1.8 million. The figure grew to 2.3 million in the past eight years. The biggest drop is registered among the rural population…

Not only do people vanish, but entire settlements vanish, the Rossiiskaya Gazeta writes. Since 2002, as many as 8,500 settlements have ceased to exist…

Granted some of villages have been incorporated into nearby towns and cities. But some have been actually deserted after their dwellers moved to other populated localities. Moreover, according to the census, there are 19,400 villages that exist on a map but have no inhabitants. The figure is 48 percent bigger than in the previous census…

The proportion of males and females has changed but women still prevail. Now, the number of women is bigger than the number of men by 10.7 million. The population aging tendency is older. The mean age of Russia’s subjects is 39, while in the 2002 census it was 37.7…

Family-related tendencies are also changing. Thus, the number of married couples in 2010 was 33 million (34 million in 2002), of which 13 percent are not officially registered (9.7 percent in 2002). The number of divorces, both registered and not, is also on the rise. However, the number of young-age marriages has gone down. In 2002, a total of 3,700 young people aged under 16 said they were married. In 2010, the figure halved…

As for ethnic identity, a total of 5.6 million refused to answer nationality questions (some 1.5 million in 2002). As many as 80.90 percent identified themselves as ethnic Russians (80.64 percent – in 2002). The number of ethnic Tatars remained practically the same – 3.87 percent, while the number of Ukrainian has dropped for 2.05 percent in 2002 to 1.41 percent in 2010. The census showed a growth in the number of ethnic Chechens, Avars, and Armenians…

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Time for Debt thinking’s over Coffee on a wonderful Thursday in Russia…


It is a thinking time while sipping that wonderful cup of coffee or chicory in my case…

CNBC on 20 Sept 2011 had a report about “The World’s Biggest Debtor Nations!” This was not so very long ago and I found this interesting and compiled the facts and ignored the pictures and 22 different pages that they spread it out on. I find it better in life to be able to comprehend stuff if we don’t try to get all fancy and such…

Lets start with number twenty on the list and work our way to the grand number one spot. I think that you will be shocked but not surprised at the numbers. I know that this is a small part of the real debt but there is something here that is beyond just money and debt. While debt is the crux of it all, when you are done looking at the list you tell me what all these countries have in common?

20. United States – 101.1%

External debt (as % of GDP): 101.1%

Gross external debt: $14.825 trillion
2009 GDP (est): $14.66 trillion

External debt per capita: $48,258
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19. Hungary – 120.1%

External debt (as % of GDP): 120.1%

Gross external debt: $225.24 billion
2009 GDP (est): $187.6 billion

External debt per capita: $22,739
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18. Australia – 138.9%

External debt (as % of GDP): 138.9%

Gross external debt: $1.23 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $882.4 billion

External debt per capita: $57,641
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17. Italy – 146.6%

External debt (as % of GDP): 146.6%

Gross external debt: $2.602 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $1.77 trillion

External debt per capita: $44,760
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16. Spain – 179.4%

External debt (as % of GDP): 179.4%

Gross external debt: $2.46 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $1.37 trillion

External debt per capita: $60,614
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15. Greece – 182.2%

External debt (as % of GDP): 182.2%

Gross external debt: $579.7 billion
2010 GDP (est): $318.1 billion

External debt per capita: $53,984
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14. Germany – 185.1%

External debt (as % of GDP): 185.1%

Gross external debt: $5.44 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $2.94 trillion

External debt per capita: $51,572

2010 Country NIIP (Net International Investment Position) statistics by the IMF. NIIP is defined by a country’s total domestically owned assets minus its foreign owned assets. All figures have been adjusted to nominal US dollars…

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13. Portugal – 223.6%

External debt (as % of GDP): 223.6%

Gross external debt: $552.23 billion
2010 GDP (est): $247 billion

External debt per capita: $51,572
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12. France – 250%

External debt (as % of GDP): 250%

Gross external debt: $5.37 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $2.15 trillion

External debt per capita: $83,781
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11. Hong Kong – 250.4%

External debt (as % of GDP): 250.4%

Gross external debt: $815.65 billion
2010 GDP (est): $325.8 billion

External debt per capita: $115,612
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10. Norway – 251%

External debt (as % of GDP): 251%

Gross external debt: $640.7 billion
2010 GDP (est): $255.3 billion

External debt per capita: $137,476
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9. Austria – 261.1%

External debt (as % of GDP): 261.1%

Gross external debt: $867.14 billion
2010 GDP (est): $332 billion

External debt per capita: $105,616
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8. Finland – 271.5%

External debt (as % of GDP): 271.5%

Gross external debt: $505.06 billion
2010 GDP (est): $186 billion

External debt per capita: $96,197
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7. Sweden – 282.2%

External debt (as % of GDP): 282.2%

Gross external debt: $1.001 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $354.7 billion

External debt per capita: $110,479
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6. Denmark – 310.4%

External debt (as % of GDP): 310.4%

Gross external debt: $626.1 billion
2010 GDP (est): $201.7 billion

External debt per capita: $113,826
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5. Belgium – 335.9%

External debt (as % of GDP): 335.9%

Gross external debt: $1.324 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $394.3 billion

External debt per capita: $127,197
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4. Netherlands – 376.3%

External debt (as % of GDP): 376.3%

Gross external debt: $2.55 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $676.9 billion

External debt per capita: $152,380
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3. Switzerland – 401.9%

External debt (as % of GDP): 401.9%

Gross external debt: $1.304 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $324.5 billion

External debt per capita: $171,528
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2. United Kingdom – 413.3%

External debt (as % of GDP): 413.3%

Gross external debt: $8.981 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $2.173 trillion

External debt per capita: $146,953
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1. Ireland – 1,382%

External debt (as % of GDP): 1,382%

Gross external debt: $2.38 trillion
2010 GDP (est): $172.3 billion

External debt per capita: $566,756…

Now that is amazing and I think you see it now! These are all self proclaimed Western countries that have spent beyond their means like a shopaholic with an unlimited credit card…

Where are the Eastern countries in the top 20? China, Russia, Brazil etc etc etc…

Remember this is debt ratio so that has nothing to do with who is rich or not, it has to do with who spends more money than they bring in…

Want something really pathetic about all this? These countries are still piling on the debt and not showing a sign of slowing down. Why is that?

So where is Russia and China in all this mess? Russia and China are considered a creditor nation, that much I understand…

Okay – done thinking today and that made my head hurt with numbers beyond imagination… :)

Kyle Keeton
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Good morning – Something to Read Over a Cup of Coffee: America the Farce…


Sometimes I read an article that just has to be re-posted and this is such an article this morning from  LewRockwell.com. It is really is how I feel also and I know many more that feel the same. So grab a cup of coffee and enjoy an article that tells it like it is. Jack D. Douglas is correct when he says, “No intelligent person who follows world events believes anything the U.S. says unless it is verified by really independent sources.”

So think and ask yourself after you read this article, “What is your intelligence level?

The US Farce of the Drone…

by Jack D. Douglas

The U.S, Lies about the top-secret U.S. Stealth Drone the Iranians have now put on world display completely in-tact is typical of the U.S. Big Lies about almost everything important to their Global Empire, obviously including the existence of that U.S. Global Empire. First they denied it in non-denial denials in case the Iranians did have it, then they said it crashed somewhere unknown to the U.S., then they said it must have drifted by malfunction into Iran, then when the Iranians showed the first pictures of it in-tact – not all crumpled up as it would be if it crashed from high altitude malfunction – the U.S. said it was not the right color or size, and finally when it was fully displayed they demanded its return on the presumption that they were not violating international law by spying in this way on Iran.

The whole U.S. Farce of the Drone exposes the U.S. once again as run by fools and total Liars routinely violating laws, treaties decency and every other human standard.

But this is merely a somewhat more ludicrous U.S. display of what it has really become. This is SOP for the U.S. Every time it slaughters women and children in Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and around the world the U.S does the same ludicrous display of denials, counter-charges and on and on. SOP.

No intelligent person who follows world events believes anything the U.S. says unless it is verified by really independent sources. I doubt that anyone I know and take seriously even bothers laughing at the U.S. ludicrous displays of lies these days. It’s all so routine it’s boring – but utterly evil and ghastly, so no one really wants to think much about it.

This is true of intelligent and knowledgeable Americans in general. It is only roughly the lower half of Americans in intelligence and knowledge who are so cut off from the real world and so incapable of thinking clearly who even bother to discuss these U.S. ludicrous Lies. A perfect example is the big front page article in the San Diego Union-Tribune today marking the “withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq” about whether invading Iraq and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people over the past eight years was “worth” it. How stupid can you get? No intelligent person in touch with the world would imagine that this vast disaster and evil slaughter could possibly be worth it to anyone other than a sadistic fool. Most returning U.S. troops keep their mouths shut or hem and haw. They are not that stupid and they want benefits. But some journalists and a few brainless grunts say maybe it will prove worthwhile. Most are probably lying, but some Americans really are that ignorant and that stupid, though I don’t encounter any in my everyday life.

Even NBC News and other Media keep muttering, as Koppel did last evening, that the U.S. is not really “withdrawing” from Iraq, but is leaving 16,000 mostly “security” people and huge numbers on bases all around southern Iraq and building the largest “Embassy” in the world in Iraq and on and on. They don’t come right out and say this is all SOP Obama Lies and Bull Shit, but that’s what they mean.

SOP U.S. Lies and Bull Shit. That’s what America is to the world now and even the intelligent and knowledgeable Americans now take it for granted. SOP.

America has become an incredible farce to the whole world.

December 15, 2011

Jack D. Douglas [send him mail] is a retired professor of sociology from the University of California at San Diego. He has published widely on all major aspects of human beings, most notably The Myth of the Welfare State.

Copyright © 2011 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.

Source: http://lewrockwell.com/douglas/douglas47.1.html

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Windows to Russia Recipes all in a nutshell…


I thought that I would get together some of the posted recipes that are on Windows to Russia. They are a big search engine item and if the numbers of people who have looked at the recipes are an indication. Then lots of people in America are trying to experiment with Russia style foods…

I think that is wonderful because the Russia food is really good and easy to make. Food is an important part of society in Russia and certain foods are for special occasions and things like that. Just as we have that potato salad for that Fourth of July picnic, so do the Russians for other occasions…

Just have a look through them and you will be sure to find something to tempt your taste buds…

Recipe From Russia: A Simple Borsch! (Yummy)

Recipe From Russia: Chanterelle Mushrooms and Sour Cream! (Yummy)

Recipe From Russia: Simple Russian Vinaigrette Salad!

Recipie From Russia: Here in Russia it is Shashlyk Time!

Recipe From Russia: Simply a Golubtsy!

Recipe From Russia: Simple Draniki! (Potato Pancakes)

Recipe From Russia: Simple Russian Chicken Hearts, Gizzards and Livers!

Recipe From Russia: Selyodka pod Shuboy (Dressed Herring) recipe!

Recipe From Russia: A Simple Delicious Pelmeni Recipe!

Recipes From Russia: The Simple Ground Meat Cutlet – Russian Style!

Recipe From Russia: Simple Russian Style Goulash

Recipe From Russia: Simple Cheese Rolls!

Recipe From Russia: Simple Vegetable – Fruit Paste!

Pickled Mushrooms: Recipe from Russia!

Recipe for Grechka: Russia’s Brown Rice (Buckwheat groats)

The Russian Potato is a Dessert…

The Christmas Eve, Sochivo recipe…

Recipe: Cabbage with Tomatoes Stew…

Salmon and Potato Salad… (mimoza)

Stroganoff a Russian Favorite…

Easy Salmon Cheese Soup Recipe from Windows to Russia…

Well not all of them but a bunch of them all together so that you can try to cook like a Russia… :)

Kyle Keeton
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Easy Salmon Cheese Soup Recipe from Windows to Russia…


One thing that Russians love is fish and one type of fish that is extremely popular in Russia is salmon. Well Sveta is no exception to the Russian and fish lover theory and she gets the biggest smile on her face when I make a soup of mine that she has never had before she met me. Russians have lots of different types of soups with fish but I have never see them make this type of soup. So this is my recipe for Salmon Cheese soup…

Ingredients:

two liters or 2 quarts of water
6 oz of fresh salmon
1 medium white onion
1 green onion stalk
4 to 6 oz of Velveeta Cheese (or equivalent)
salt and pepper to taste

Lets Make:

Take a large pot and add two quarts of water to the pot and start heating to a medium temperature. There is no need to boil this soup… (unless you use water that needs to be boiled for safety reasons)

As the water is heating – take salmon and pull off skin and fat (if it has any). Cut the salmon into cubes as you desire in size…

Add cubes of salmon to water when it is starting to steam in the pot…

Salt and Pepper to taste and allow to cook half an hour at medium temperature…

After the half an hour add the Velveeta. I cut the cheese into chunks to help the melting process…

Stir easily until all the cheese is melted, try not to turn the fish into mush…

Then peel a medium onion and slice it up into the hot soup. With this take a green onion stalk and cut all the green stalk up and the little bulb of an onion to boot…

We are almost done at this point and it can be eaten as soon as the onion turns translucent…

This is so easy and so yummy!

Feeds 5 to 6 easily and if you boil off too much water then just add some more water and heat, to make it go farther before you serve it. Also it is excellent to use a smoked salmon… :)

Kyle Keeton
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Putin Questions and Answers… (12-15-2011)


“It is probably more difficult to live in a multi-polar than in a one-polar world,” the prime minister said, “but people are tired of the attempts of the US to dominate in the world’s policy. Sometimes America seems to look upon other countries as upon servants, not full-fledged partners.”
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“At the same time, some changes can be witnessed in US society,” Mr. Putin added. “The US government may still stick to the old policy of dominating in the world, but rank-and-file Americans don’t back this idea any more – the more so because they know that Europeans are not happy about the US’s domination. This is a good sign that, most probably, the idea of the US’s domination will soon become a thing of the past – and this is why Russia does not intend to stop cooperation with the US.”
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Vladimir Putin considers it politically incorrect to limit the Internet. “I believe it impossible to limit the Internet,” he said during a call-in session on Thursday. “It is complicated technologically and incorrect politically.” “That environment is very free, super democratic,” he added.
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“The results of parliamentary elections undoubtedly reflect the country’s political landscape while the opposition will always consider the election outcome unfair,” Putin said during Q&A session.
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asks the Central Election Commission (CEC) to install video surveillance at all polling stations and to ensure live online transmission of the voting process. He believes the move might help pull the rug from under those who want to delegitimize the government.
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Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the opposition parties should get the opportunity to closely monitor the polls during the presidential elections.
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“Without sticking [our] head in the sand and leaving [our] butt exposed, [we] should have insistently, fearlessly and consistently striven for the territorial integrity of our state,” Putin said during his live Q&A session when asked about his possible moves if he was ruling the country during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Timely economic reforms and democratic transformations could have saved the USSR, Putin said.
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“As long as their actions comply with the law, people are free to express their views over what is happening in the country’s economy, social sphere and political life. I hope that it will be so. I saw on TV that the rallies were attended by mainly young people who have clear-cut positions and are not afraid of expressing them. If this is the result of Putin’s policies, then it’s a good sign”, – Putin said.
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“The results of the parliamentary elections in Russia should be argued in court”, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said during his Q&A session on Thursday.
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Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is currently dominating Twitter forums and the live call-in session given by Putin for two television channels and three radio stations on Thursday has topped Twitter trends.
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Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the former Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin has never left his team and is still working together with him. “We need people like Alexey Kudrin in the future government. He will be in demand and will certainly find his place in the power”, Putin says.
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“I want to address those who are ready to vote for me as the presidential candidate. You should not follow the wrong logic by thinking that we could vote for him, but everyone is going to do this anyway, and we need to go shopping or go to the country. No one can decide anything, but you”, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told this in the “Conversation with Putin” show.
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“You are the ones who have to decide on who will be running foreign policy and representing our country abroad, who will be ensuring the country’s security, who will be solving social problems, who will be developing the economy. No one, but you”, Putin added.
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Speaking during his Q&A session, Russia`s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that courts dealing with alleged election fraud complaints must be objective.
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Mr. Putin stressed that before the final results of the elections were announced, local election commissions had the right to recount votes. “This is what was done in some cases, for example, in Saint Petersburg. But when the official results are published, a way to argue them is in court. And judges must deal energetically with these issues and be objective”, Mr. Putin said.
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Speaking during his Q&A session, Russia`s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that courts dealing with alleged election fraud complaints must be objective. Mr. Putin stressed that before the final results of the elections were announced, local election commissions had the right to recount votes. “This is what was done in some cases, for example, in Saint Petersburg. But when the official results are published, a way to argue them is in court. And judges must deal energetically with these issues and be objective”, Mr. Putin said.
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Russia has restored its grain export volumes to the number three among the world’s top grain exporters. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin described this as “unprecedented” during his Q&A session on Thursday. Putin praised the farming sector for reinstating the country’s grain export potential to its previously high levels. Grain export volumes were also restored due to support from the state, Putin said.
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Speaking during his Q&A session, Russia`s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called on those citizens who attend protest rallies not to get themselves involved in provocations aimed to undermine stability in the country. “Protests must be lawful. People are often treated unfairly, and they must react to this but avoid being involved in any destabilizing schemes”, the Prime Minister said.
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Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called “color revolutions” a developed scheme to destabilize countries. “I think this idea did not come out by itself”, he told the audience while answering citizens’ questions. “Some of our opposition leaders officially served as aides to the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko during the orange revolution in that country. Now they are using that experience in Russia”.
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During his tenth annual televised Q&A session on Thursday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he saw nothing terrible in the protest rallies held in the aftermath of the December 4 parliamentary vote. “If this is the result of the “Putin regime”, I am pretty much happy about that, Putin said. “The outcome of the December 4 vote fully reflects the people’s political preferences and there is nothing surprising in that the opposition is unhappy about the final outcome. This is something you can always see everywhere,” the PM added. Admitting that the governing United Russia party had lost some of its clout, due, among other things, to the economic crisis, Putin said the party had still managed to retain its parliamentary majority.
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said he was sick and tired of election-related questions. Most of the questions that Putin received during his call-in show on Thursday concerned the elections. When asked by the host about his photo in the Vlast magazine which was provided with an obscene phrase calling on him to resign, Putin said that he found it amusing. The prime minister said that the inscription was made on a bulletin in London and that he knew who could have been behind it. These are people who cannot return to Russia as long as Putin is at the helm, he added.
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“Some people want to move Russia aside so it does not interfere in the ruling of the world,” Putin said during his Q&A session, referring to Western countries that are “afraid of Russia’s nuclear potential.”
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“It is not a secret that McCain took part in the U.S.-Vietnamese war…he’s got enough blood of peaceful civilians on his hands. He probably…can not live without these disgusting scenes of Gaddafi’s murder [Libyan late leader Muammar Gaddafi] when all the world’s channels broadcast how he was killed.”
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“They showed Gaddafi, covered in blood, to the whole world, showed how he was being killed”, Mr. Putin said. He added that Gaddafi was killed by US drones, and said that the operation cannot be viewed as democratic.
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“It’s well known that Mr McCain was captured in Vietnam and was locked not just in prison but in a hole, where he was imprisoned for several years. Any person would have bats in the belfry after that,” Putin said.
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed to bring back governor elections which he abolished in 2004.
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Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says if he becomes President he will try to strengthen the stability of the political system and free the country of the influence from abroad. Answering citizens’ questions live, he stressed the need for a sustainable and secure system that would be exempt from the influence of those who want to meddle in Russian internal affairs. “These attempts should be immediately suppressed”, Putin says.
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Vladimir Putin said that in case there is no support from the people he will not stay in office for a day. “In the early 2000s I said several times that I consider myself to be a person hired by the people,” he said during a call-in session on Thursday. “It is possible to rely on the Russian people only. If I do not feel the support of the kind, and it is clear not from sites, but from elections, I will not stay in the office a day.”
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What Russia needs is not the fear of Stalin’s time, but effective laws and ability to observe them, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday during a call-in session. “We should manage everything so that law were fair, and demands from the power were proportionate to the objectives the people are facing,” he said. “We do not need fear.”
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has pledged to continue a tough fight against corruption. During a question-and-answer session, anchorman Vladimir Solovyov recalled Putin’s appeals to imprison corrupt officials and asked whether imprisonments will begin. So let us start with you, media people, Putin joked. “Many people have appealed to me concerning media using its monopoly situation in certain segments in order to settle economic issues among many others,” Putin said. He added that corruption can exist at all levels of power, as well as in media, the education and healthcare sectors. “This is a trouble of the whole society,” he stressed. “But the desire to swim on the crest of the wave, to be liked and, I am sorry, to shut down somebody, put somebody behind bars at any cost demonstrating one’s toughness – is the most simple thing that a person in my position could do,” Putin said.
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“In regard to improving conditions in orphanages and solve other social issues concerning children without parental care—I mean first of all providing them with housing—conditions need to be made for reducing the number of foreigners who adopt Russian children, to reduce it to zero in the near future, and encourage Russians to adopt children,” Putin said during a televised Q&A session with the nation. The prime minister added that he was not in favor of foreigners adopting Russian children.
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Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan may introduce a single currency in the future within the Eurasian Economic Union between the three former Soviet republics, a new entity meant to promote cooperation both with Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
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Russia wants to build up further cooperation with the U.S., the country’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin said during his televised Q&A session on Thursday. “Sometimes I think that the U.S. needs no allies but vassals. Nevertheless, we will keep on building our cooperation with the United States”.

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