Windows to Russia

I tolerate a lot in the world and being in a country not of my origin keeps me more tolerant than in my past. Yesterday though something happened that exceeded my limitations and I saw red for the first time in Russia. Seeing red is the ultimate stage of being pissed off for me and that is detrimental to any situation…

Sveat and I were walking to the market. It was a beautiful day and we needed to stock up on veggies and fruits. This time of the year produce is cheap and plentiful. So we were just strolling along minding our own business when something caught the corner of my eye in the bushes and trees off to our left. A man had knock a woman to the ground by slugging her and then proceeded to kick her across the head…

This was a common sight back in America in the inner cities, but this was the first time I had come across it in Russia. Needless to say I was raised that you never hit a woman no matter what the circumstances. I realized that this was a carbon copy of what I was use to in America. It was either a pimp beating down one of his girls or a drug dealer beating down one of his clients…

I am very tolerant of things in life but when I watched this man kick this woman across the head and she was screaming bloody murder. About a hundred deep set memories from a time past exploded. All I saw was one of my men kicking to death a human that simply was just that, a human that deserved better in life…

Time stopped and I transversed the space between us and them and when time restarted, I exploded in a rage. I have not expressed rage in a long time. I know four men right now, that wish that they had never met me. They were sick disgusting individuals that reminded me of so many back home. Just lost, worthless burned out souls, that have no morals in life…

I realized after it was over, that inside of me is a bottled up person that keeps the past hidden from view. I have seen so many innocent people abused by other people who look down upon them. Then I wonder what has happened to humans. We are suppose to be getting better but it seems that all in all, we just stay the same…

I looked through an old photo albums that I have and found a few pictures of my past…

I shake my head in dismantlement at the fact that we have not progressed at all in my life time. In fact it seems that we are getting worse. I found a picture of me standing next to a Lance Missile. A nuclear tipped missile and a tear came to my eye with he realization of what I was at one time. I thank God that I decimated that past by coming to Russia…

So today I struggle with my inner demons…

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell… (Buddha)

Kyle Keeton
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One of the biggest moments in the realization that the Western Press is equivalent to a bottle of cheap perfume, was during August of 2008. In August of 2008 we saw the Georgian military try to crush the breakaway republic of South Ossetia in an attempt to gain re-control of the little republic. If you remember they killed on purpose a number of Russian peacekeepers as they started the attack. Then proceeded to shell and rocket South Ossetia’s capital unmercifully…

The conflict was an eye opening experience for people in the world that were not brain dead. The Western media outlets, who allowed anti-Russian bias to mold their reporting of the war. Fabricated videos, pictures and much falsification of information to support Georgia in her attack. In fact, for most people in the West, the concoction of false stories led to the true beliefs that the hostilities had been kicked off by Russia attacking Georgia. In fact to this day, many in the West never learned the truth that Georgia brutally attacked South Ossetia with a full scale military assault…

Russia shocked the West and retaliated upon Georgia’s actions and in my whole life I have never seen or heard so much lying and whining about Russia in my life. The Western world literally came unglued and wet their pants at what happened in Georgia. But what really happened was opposite of what was report by the Western press and Western governments…

I learned right then during the month of August in 2008 that you could not trust a thing that is written by the main Western media…

I was raised that journalism was about truth and no matter who it hurt you told the truth. That is what we were lead to believe as we grew up. Journalism was an important part of society and a free society at that…

Something has happened to mainstream journalism. It is like an imitation cheap perfume…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

It looks like an interesting week to write some articles on Windows to Russia…

I have an article that will communicate more about why (?) Ukraine is blocking Windows to Russia…

I have to do an update on Russian Visa regulations and interesting changes in the process…

Libya will be a good article later this week because it looks like some big big lies are being told to the sheeple in the West…

I have a new food recipe to present this week…

I am thinking about starting a weekly newsletter that will come out on Monday’s and tell what is coming up important on Windows to Russia. Signup will be required to receive that news letter and then that way you will have a email that will also be used for comments. I am working on this idea right now…

I have a new thinking going: Don’t be a sheeple, life’s too short to drink the cool-aid all day long…

Don’t join the bandwagon, Don’t drink the kool-aid, Don’t be sheeple. If you don’t know what “sheeple” means, here’s one definition:

“Sheeple: persons who voluntarily acquiesce to a perceived authority, or suggestion without sufficient research to fully understand the scope of the ramifications involved in that decision, and thus undermine their own human individuality.”

Earl Nightingale once said something like, Don’t copy it – Create it!

I love getting e-mails from people that have bought fully into the system. They repeat constantly what they hear day in and day out on the main media…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

NATO planes involved in operation Unified Protector in Libya have made 110 sorties over the last twenty-four hours, destroying two tanks, one anti-aircraft gun and several military vehicles of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, the NATO press office said on Sunday.

Since March 31, 2011, when NATO assumed control of the operation to ensure a no-fly zone over Libya and protect civilians, following a UN resolution, NATO planes have conducted 18,884 sorties, including 7,174 strike sorties in Libya, the press office said.

A total of 17 ships under NATO command started patrolling the Central Mediterranean on Saturday to fulfill a UN resolution on the embargo of arms supplies to Libya, the NATO press office said.

Libya has been rocked by fighting between pro- and anti-government forces since mid-February. An international military operation “to protect civilians” began on March 19 following a UN resolution and has been extended until September.

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution imposing a no-fly zone over Libya on March 17, paving the way for a military operation against Gaddafi, which began two days later. The command of the operation was shifted from a U.S.-led international coalition to NATO in late March.

Source:  http://en.rian.ru/world/20110814/165774762.html

Does anyone look at the numbers? I have been following the numbers and these are about as close to what is correct that you will find. They are actually undercut because the main source is from the Western world but they are good enough to cause a person to do a double take…

In the name of humanitarianism we are bombing Libya into the stone age. On purpose to try to cause an overthrow of Gaddafi. In this same cause we are cheating, lying, decimating and under handing facts and figures to portray a situation as one way when it is another way. You are all sheep that believe what you are being told…

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Stay tuned for tomorrow (Monday). This spot will be on what has just come out of Medvedev’s actions about Libya. I am going to let it ride a day and see what happens. I can tell you first hand though. There are some upset Russians running around…

Russia joins UN sanctions against Libya and Muammar Gaddafi:
Russia has joined the UN sanctions against Libya and Muammar Gaddafi. President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on Russia’s implementation of the resolution on Libya, which was approved by the Security Council on March 17. The presidential decree in particular bans flying to Libya via Russia’s airspace…

Russia ‘backs’ NATO action in Libya:
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday gave his backing to a UN Security Council resolution which authorized international military action in Libya…

Medvedev imposes sanctions on Libya:
President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree to implement UN Security Council resolution 1973 that introduces sanctions against the Libyan regime…

This is a Medvedev decision and only a Medvedev decision. So lets see what is happening tomorrow and I will update this article on the word, that is out and about…

Hummm…

Windows to Russia!

Update: The answer is YES! For someone that might contemplate a run for president again he has a knack for shooting himself in the foot. The bottom line is that Libya is considered by many to have been a partner with Russia, just like Iran, Syria, Cuba and  Venezuela. Libya was a huge arms sale country for Russia. The fact that Medvedev kisses up to the West has now become a major topic of discussion and I run into the topic everywhere I go. Even when I traveled to Ukraine it was a serious topic for Ukrainians. The mind set was like this, If Russia turns a blind eye on partners then what good is a relationship with Russia. Russia needs to be the beacon of balance against the West…

Humm I found that thinking interesting and truthful…

Kyle

Picked up the visa to Russia and my passport and now I am sitting in the train terminal waiting for the train to Moscow to show up. I have a few hours and they have a great WiFi spot that has really good food. So I grabbed a bite to eat and now I am posting through proxy, a small article…

I always smile to myself at the place that I am working on this article. It is a huge hall of the train terminal and very beautiful. I have posted pictures of it before with the huge chandeliers on the ceiling. This place is full of birds. They have wandered in from the outside over the years and actually have multiplied. No one minds and in fact everyone feeds the birds. I always smile thinking about all my years in food service in America and think about the reaction that the people would have there. I do know that health inspections would never pass with 30+ birds flying all around and sitting on the tables and food counters…

But as I have said many times. There is a different mindset that the people have on this side of the world. The people here are not spoiled…

Yes, that thought came to me and it is as true as the sun rises. I realized what makes the rest of the world so much more fun than the Western world. The main part of the world is not spoiled. They have expectations that are not molded by years of selfish behavior created by a controlled and pampered society…

That is my thinking’s for today…

Next post from Russia…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

I have a good article coming up once I get back to Russia. It involves information that encompasses several countries and what I see as a serious impedance to Internet freedoms…

That article will have to wait for a few more days…

Windows to Russia has had to do serious things to stay on-line. I remember that my grandma said once, “You will know when you figure something out, someone else will not like what you say…”

Other words when you hit the “nail on the head” people try to get that nail removed before you drive in all the way in. Because once it is driven in flush it is very hard to remove without everyone around knowing about it…

If you ever have issues getting to Windows to Russia, then there is a simple trick that will work on any website being blocked in the way that Windows to Russia is being blocked in Ukraine. I think that if you use this trick on other websites that you have seen “server not found on” you may be surprised to find that they have been blocked also. The US government does these same tricks also and blocks sites to stymy the flow of information…

Use one of these sites to find a free proxy or wash the page and use it to find out if your favorite site is being blocked or not…

PageWash is recommended by many servers for you too look at your own webpage while the DNS is propagating. It also makes a great proxy bypass to see if the rest of the world can see the site but you can not…

I use something like these sites and there are thousands of sites like this all over the world. Now you know how your kid gets by the school filters that are in place to stop so called bad sites and such…

Thanks for all the readers in the last week. We have hit all time highs in page-views and as you can see the article about all the Ukraine readers and e-mails caused a blockage to occur and this time it was not keyword driven…

Hummm…

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

Ukraine has blocked Windows to Russia again and that is okay. I only have a few days left till I get to go home and then I will present the whole details. Of what is going on…

So for now I have to post through a proxy again and like I said before it does not stop me and posts will happen anyway. It just makes it much more difficult…

I have lots to say today but it looks like it is going to wait. But I will say that I am enjoying that wonderful cup of coffee and the weather in Kiev is fantastic…

My thinking’s today are real simple: Maybe the whole world needs to stop and grab their favorite drink. Be it coffee, tea, coke, beer, vodka or whatever. Then everyone sip their drink and do some thinking’s. For a long time…

Maybe the world needs to stop playing games one day and take a break because after what I see on the news this morning. The world needs to have a break. It is just plumb crazy right now and being whipped into a frenzy by the media. The headlines are just terrible and if half true we have entered a new stage of stupidity…

Gold in new territory ($1718), DOW crashed -634, London is riot city, the Taliban have found new status as the tough crowd again, America is pre-revolutionary and thousands of other headlines that just gobble up reality with a ferocious endeavor…

So take a break and sip a cup of coffee or what ever your beverage choice is. Because it looks like, “Chicken Little” will have a heyday today…

Kyle posting from Ukraine…
Windows to Russia!

This morning when I woke up and made that cup of coffee. I fired up the laptop and after it was warmed up. I clicked on my mailbox and I thought that my e-mail box had been spammed. I had an unbelievable amount of e-mails from Russians and Ukrainians that told me where they are from and that they could see the site okay now. They expressed about how good the blog was and that they feel that being blocked was a poor example of a government for Ukraine. Some expressed that it had to be a technical malfunction because they do not want to think what the world would be like if governments start censoring the Internet all over the world…

I can not answer all of these e-mails personally. So I am writing this article in response to these e-mails. So I did a lot of reading this morning. These e-mails came from as far away as Siberia in Russia and a slew of them came out of Odessa, Ukraine…

It is strange because I got a dozen or so e-mails from America and they were derogatory and degrading about Russia and Ukraine. I got one nice one from America, from a wonderful older lady who sends me a note now and then. But her opened eyed response is very rare for America…

I was just about ready to pull the contact page from the blogs, due to spam. But I think that now I will leave it. I was stunned by the positive e-mails for once and now know that people are out there who care…

It is strange that every time I get to the point of not caring and think that only people out there reading are people that try to find fault no matter how tiny and they like to put words in your mouth. That is when I get fed up with putting up with people and their idiosyncrasies…

But along comes a huge response to my Ukraine articles and that makes me smile. It also gives me much reason to keep on writing. Oh I know, some of you will shake your head and say, I wish he would go away. But for over 4 years many have wanted me to go away and some even predicted rudely that I would go away. But now I have outlasted expectations and realize that Windows to Russia has a place in the blog sphere now. It has a huge base of followers that come by in the thousands and thousands a day…

So I want to thank everyone for the great e-mails. They made my day… 🙂

Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia!

I have discovered that you will always find a place of quiet and peace if you just walk around and let it come to you. I found this wonderful bench nestled by the front door of some flats. It is surrounded by flowers and the love of people that care for the little spot of peace on earth…

I stopped for a rest and enjoyed the birds, cats and the dogs wishing to catch the cats that wished to catch the birds… 🙂

Some people have a talent for creating out of nothing and the front of a flat is not the best canvas to paint on. But in this case someone has created a spot of peace and tranquility and I enjoyed it…

I had my coffee with me and decided to enjoy that cup of coffee at the same time. I was doing some thinking’s at the same time and was thinking about all the police that are walking everywhere these last few days. Ukraine is sorta at a boiling point, what with the arrest of the ex prime minister Yulia…

Yulia has a huge following and it is showing when you are out and about around Kiev. I have decided to stay away from the center of Kiev and will hang around my part of town. Today they have expressed that all the supporters of Yulia in the center of Kiev are illegally assembling…

It is a shame that we live in a world of such turmoil. It is not getting any better either. Israel has 300,000 protesters as we read this. Syria is just about to be hit by NATO (Lets hope not), Libya is still being bombed wrongfully, the Taliban just devastated the US Navy Seals and that is just a few things in the last day…

But I also got this shot of the river near our hotel. The hotel is in the background. on the right. The tall building. I really wish to catch the fountains going. (yellow things in water) But they seem to elude me when I have the camera. Another spot of peace and quiet

But hey that coffee is really good this morning and the little spots of peace and quiet have made my heart better for another day. Maybe that little spots of harmony will help me live a little longer… 🙂

Just some thinking’s from Ukraine for today…

Kyle
Windows to Russia!