Windows to Russia

Where to complain if the hot water is turned off for more than 14 days:

Летнее отключение горячего водоснабжения на две недели – давняя традиция коммунальных служб, которая заставляет россиян вооружаться тазиками, ковшами, чайниками и кипятильниками. Но что делать, если горячей воды нет уже более 14 дней? В вопросе разбиралась корреспондент «РИАМО в Королеве».

The summer off of hot water for two weeks is a long tradition of public utilities, which forces Russians to arm themselves with basins, ladles, kettles and boilers. But what if there is no hot water for more than 14 days? The correspondent of “RIAMO in Korolev” understood the question…

Source: Куда жаловаться, если горячую воду отключили на срок более 14 дней – Советы – РИАМО в Королеве

Thus, if there is no hot water for more than two weeks, then you can write complaints to various authorities, referring to Federal Law No. 416-ФЗ dated December 7, 2011, Government Decree No. 354 dated May 6, 2011 and SanPiN 2.1.4.2496- 09 (paragraph 3.1.11).

Yes people it is that time of the year again…

No Hot Water Every Year is Normal…

But….if you get testy enough about it….follow the rules and make a big fat complaint…

We have to deal with it around the end of July or so…

Two weeks with no hot water! I guess I need to go to the village? Wait, they hardly have any water at all…

Sounds good to me…

WtR

PS: Poll by topic in image below from website above…

How do you experience the shutdown of hot water?
The old-fashioned way: saucepans, basins, immersion boilers – 46%
I go to visit relatives and friends – 6%
I have a instant hot water tank installed – 26%
I take a shower in a fitness club – 7%
I go to the sauna – 10%
I am tough and take a cold shower – 5%

and I am a bear… .01%

Oh Yes!

WtR

“We urge Russia to work with us to change the trajectory of the relationship for the benefit of both nations,” asks Pompeo…

“Today’s meetings were a positive step forward,” Pompeo said via Twitter on Tuesday. “US and Russia have demonstrated in the past that we can cooperate on key international issues. We urge Russia to work with us to change the trajectory of the relationship for the benefit of both nations.”

Source: Pompeo Urges Moscow to Work With Washington to Change Path of Relationship – Sputnik International

Oops sorry, we lied about wanting to work together. I guess we will sanction you again and again and again…

The US Treasury Department announced the sanctions days after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited the Russian city of Sochi and held talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin.

Source: Moscow Vows to Respond to US Sanctions Against Chechen Special Team Terek – Sputnik International

Yes Russia, the USA is two faced and never in a million years trust worthy…

Russia as an American I will give you a hint; the US Gov will turncoat and cut their own peoples throats. Do you seriously thing that they will treat people from other countries, much less other countries, better?

How is that USA wanting to work with you Russia?

WtR

Checking out my rebuilt s7 Edge phone and the camera in it. Bad update destroyed it and after much salvaging, I am back on the original ROM….updates are not always good…

I just love the fact that almost all brooms you see being used in Moscow are branches and handles. Home made as I call them. Usually the handle is from a regular broom bought at the store and once that wears out they use the handle and rebuild the broom a thousand times. Plenty of twigs/limbs and plenty of handles…

I stay as far away from treats as I can. But, when Svetochka goes to her mom’s, she always munches treats. She is good around me for I am diabetic, but her mother loves her treats and tea and Russians in general, get very grouchy if they have to sip a tea with no treat…

That cake looking thing is called a Tort…

WtR

The USA, NSA, CIA, Pentagon, MIC, MSM. . . etc, has de rigueur by force if necessary, every western tech company to install backdoor and malwares on their equipment (exemplar – iPhone,) except Huawei…

The US and other three letter demons, tried to force Huawei to install those NSA backdoor and malwares, in 2014, but the company categorically refused. That set up what you see happening now…

The NSA’s global spy operation may seem unstoppable, but there’s at least one target that has proven to be a formidable obstacle: the Chinese communications technology firm Huawei, whose growth could threaten the agency’s much-publicized digital spying powers.

Source: How a Chinese Tech Firm Became the NSA’s Surveillance Nightmare | WIRED

Nothing has changed since a 2014 report from The Register that Huawei categorically refuses to install a USA backdoor into their hardware to allow unfettered intelligence access to the data that crosses their networks…

Chinese hardware manufacturer Huawei says allegations it provides backdoors for espionage in its kit remain unproven and would be “commercial suicide”. “The hypothetical – that our equipment could be used for espionage by the Chinese government – has never been proven,” spokesman Scott Sykes told press at the company’s annual global analyst event in Shenzen this week. “If it were ever proven, we would lose 65 per cent of our business overnight. That would be corporate suicide.”

Source: Spy back doors? That would be suicide, says Huawei • The Register

All our emails, text messages, phone calls, internet searches, web browsing, library records, . . . etc, are recorded and stored by the USA’s vast server storage farms. Every second, minute, everyday and non-stop endlessly…

The secretive spy agency, the National Security Agency (NSA), has greatly expanded it’s footprint within the United States over these past years. Especially in their apparent efforts of massive collection of electronic data. The following is a list of known NSA locations within the United States, acquired from publicly available sources of information…

Source: NSA Locations In The United States

Now the crux of the matter in question, Huawei is not only the leading 5G wireless provider, but it is the only one, capable to do so far. The other companies like Nokia and Ericsson are far behind, as in many years…

5G is going to completely replace 4G and 3G. It is about 200 times faster than 4GLTE, in download speed…

In a statement to CNBC on Thursday, Huawei said that further moves to block it from the U.S. market could have a damaging impact on America’s 5G development. “Huawei is the unparalleled leader in 5G. We are ready and willing to engage with the US government and come up with effective measures to ensure product security,” a spokesperson for the company told CNBC. “Restricting Huawei from doing business in the US will not make the US more secure or stronger; instead, this will only serve to limit the US

Source: Huawei: US will lag in 5G if it is blocked after Trump executive order

The fact is…

NANJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — Southeast University in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province said Thursday that a team has begun to research 6G mobile networks.You Xiaohu, a professor with the university and the team leader, said they have set sights on the early research and development of 6G mobile networks, based on the 5G technologies.You said that compared with 5G technologies, 6G will cover a wider range of fields with higher speed and greater security. The early research and development will mainly focus on intelligent mobile communications, massive wireless communications, millimeter wave/submillimeter wave wireless communications, optical wireless communications and broadband satellite mobile communications.”There’s still a long way to go in applying 6G technologies into our daily life. Experts predict that 6G technologies will go into commercial operation by 2030. However, the 6G competition has already begun among many enterprises,” You said.

Source: Chinese experts set foot in 6G research – Xinhua | English.news.cn

What this means is that if the world adopts the Huawei equipment and standards, it will threaten the vast global surveillance network of the US….because Huawei lacks the backdoor to watch you, by the “US of A”….this is compounded, as the Chinese are already way ahead of the rest of the world going toward 6G and beyond…

This is what really terrifies the US. Their vast Global Surveillance Network is the basis of its power, and tools to do what it does behind our backs…

But all this above is just the denouement, because the real reason the US is going bonkers over Huawei is…

As  good Chinese online friend of mine says, “Why would we steal tech from the USA? They are at least five years plus behind us now!”

That my friend is the real reason that we are seeing just another form of Crazy Americanism going full tilt half-arsed backwards…

How about less war and more real life promoting advancement?

WtR

Source: Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations

Us unenlightened westerners should be up to date on things like this….this new future…

As the beat goes on…

WtR

Nothing much…
Up at 4 a.m.
{Coffee, contemplating life and blog time.}
Walking by 6 a.m.
At Globus breakfast at 7 a.m.
Home by 9 a.m.

Svetochka at the grandkids home today. Her and little Ernie like to walk and walk and walk….Mom and Dad have to see the doctor about the new little one on its way. I am getting hints that it just may be a girl. Maybe we will know after today?
Next year I want to get little Ernie at the Tiny Russian Village…

There are things to teach him…

WtR

PS: Speaking of village. Sveta and I will leave this weekend and then I will decided how long I will stay. A village neighbor said that Vova is looking kinda rough….and I will stay awhile to keep an eye on him…

In a general way to look at it all….The comment section of American news and websites has become, “Dumb and Dumber” …

Everyone loses short term and everyone wins long term….if they do what is necessary to strengthen their country…

China needs to bite the bullet and remove itself from sucking the always exposed USA $ nipple on the teat…

The USA needs to quit taking the easy credit road, by whoring and bullying, all the time…

But the track record for the USA is not good in this aspect. The Administration during Obama really thought Russia would fold when they attacked with sanctions and all that happened was Russia started, “Made in Russia” and go to the rest of the world to fill in the blanks…

Now we are trying to do the same, but a different form of financial attacking against China…

But Russians and the Chinese are a whole different people than the Americans in the USA..

The question is, “Will the US try to sit on her long past laurels and rot, or get off her ass and rebuild all that has collapsed?”

Oops, that long term is the real issue and from where I sit watching, the US has a whole bunch of growing up to do after years and years of regression…

For my and your future, I hope Americans get off they ass and rebuild the country. Maybe we can start by getting ride of crap politicians with only “their agendas” that they care about. Then next realize that we did this to ourselves and until we get rid of who, what and how it all got to the hailstorm you see now, nothing will change for the better…

Bottom line, unless the USA will “bite the bullet” as we say and believe you me, countries like China and Russia all will “bite the bullet” and I don’t see that happening in the US…

The US needs to get down and dirty again, rebuild and quit robbing “Peter to pay Paul!”

Otherwise hate on each other as you try to defend your side of the stupidity and realize that you are just playing the game that has been laid out for you and all I see are a bunch of Bluegills after that worm…

PS: There is a reason we have so many good sayings and I used them. The people in the past were wise as they built our country and these sayings should be used and followed…

Like: Debt is the worst poverty. – Thomas Fuller

WtR

It is all up to China at this point, either way they go, they win long term…

I hate to interrupt the news to China and or Russian theory-bashers, however the trade war and the Sanction war with the United States of America is all but over and as I see it, The Fat Lady is singing loud and clear!…

I’ve maintained for months that Trump has no leverage (never did) in trade talks with China. I have contended that this was all started a day late and a dollar short. If we did have leverage China would have done a deal way before now and currently they are getting pissed as we flounder like a fish out of water as we try to stick a fin into their hand…

They haven’t really tried to deal and they probably won’t unless you’re talking some variety of deal that permits Trump/USA to save lots of face here and there, temporarily. However to be honest I’m getting down to doubt whether or not anyone within the White House gives a crap. This is often concerning the Political Powers Game and therefore the individual concept for one country to win in trade, another must lose. Is a pathetic policy for all involved…

What attempts they made to deal have been met with an attitude from the US, such as putting the CEO of Huawei in jail in Canada…That is kinda a trade negotiation bummer thing…

Therefore, a Conference intended to bring Asian countries into closer alliance, starts tomorrow in Beijing. The Conference will propose “Civilizational Harmony” through China’s development of Pakistan’s economic corridor and China’s Belt and Road infrastructure already expanding through Europe and Africa…

Asia is in confrontation, not by choice, with the West/USA!

Civilizational harmony versus tariffs, sanctions, threats of war…

What is innovative confronts the out-worn imperial negativeness…

The members of the western elite have to chose sides now and not ride the fence for much longer…

WtR

PS: Much less noticed is the rise of a new political entity, the civilizational state. In this pioneering book, the renowned political philosopher Christopher Coker looks in depth at two countries that now claim this title: Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. He also discusses the Islamic caliphate, a virtual and aspirational civilizational state that is unlikely to fade despite the recent setbacks suffered by ISIS. The civilizational state, he contends, is an idea whose time has come. For, while civilizations themselves may not clash, civilizational states appear to be set on challenging the rules of the international order that the West takes for granted. China seems anxious to revise them, Russia to break them, while Islamists would like to throw away the rule book altogether. Coker argues that, when seen in the round, these challenges could be enough to give birth to a new post-liberal international order.

The Rise of the Civilizational State · Christopher Coker

And lets talk about why Russians still understand what war is and why war sucks…

Mainly the women, by hand, dug hundreds and hundreds of miles of anti tank ditches…

Babushkas dug and dug and dug for the Mother Land…

The older men helped, but most men who could fight were at the front line dying by the millions…

WtR