You’d think the rulers of the Western World – the greatest Empire the world has ever seen – would be smart enough to realise when they’ve gone too far. Don’t they watch the World Series of Poker on the Fox channels? Professional card-players know that they must maintain a reputation for honesty and caution, before they can expect to get away with bluffs and other bullshit. Nobody wants to get called on a busted flush.It’s card-games like bridge and whist that have given us the expression “overplaying one’s hand” to describe the situation where somebody pushes harder than he should prudently do.The little boy who cried “Wolf!” is a classic example from children’s literature; Butch Cassidy and Sundance in Bolivia, from the movies; the German Army’s invasion of Russia in the winter of ’42, from real life. The rulers of the USA in the years following JFK’s assassination… Hmm. Up till then, we outsiders bought into the bullshit; afterwards, not so much. Today, too many of us are skeptical of the official versions of everything.
Notice how there have been no Syria/Russia media/political attacks or even garish language coming out of Israel, Britain, France and or the U.S. in the past few weeks? Notice how quiet the media yappy dogs have become about Syria? Is the failure of the British/French/Israeli operation to sucker America into an invasion of Syria now complete?
They almost got Obama/Admin to fall for it and they came very close to getting Trump/Admin to fall for it…
Don’t forget that British/French/Israeli are lapdogs and lapdogs have lots of power over their master, who carries them all over…
Yap Yap Yap S-300 Yap Yap S-400? Yappy Yappy
In 2014 over the reunification of Crimea and during the Ruble crisis;
Putin/Medvedev shifted state subsidies away from the petroleum sector which had thrived and gotten spoiled during several years of $100+/bbl oil and shifted that money wisely to agriculture…
Russia’s food production across all sectors in the country are flourishing thanks to a cheap ruble, which (thankfully) the U.S. keeps beating down via sanctions, and the Russian state (thankfully being smart) has gotten out of the way of investment…
Russia knows the U.S. is at a dangerous crossroads,
And has made peace with whatever comes next…
The question is, “Have we Americans?”
“Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.” – Frederick Buechner
WtR
The Russians call it the “Golden Fall” this year…
The image is kinda golden and it is definitely autumn…
Already in long johns and sweat shirts full time… 😉
WtR
Years ago I watched as Windows to Russia was attacked left, right and then straight on. Sued, blocked and death threats were common….it got really rough at times…
http://windowstorussia.com/comments-system-attacked-by-my-friends-in-the-usa.html
http://windowstorussia.com/wdcsun19usdojgov.html
http://windowstorussia.com/attacked-and-crashed-by-the-gate-computers-located-at-the-us-space-and-naval-warfare-systems-command.html
http://windowstorussia.com/windows-to-russia-was-attacked.htmlhttp://windowstorussia.com/script-attack-again-by-the-department-of-homeland-security-of-the-usa.html
http://windowstorussia.com/us-gov-does-not-like-what-i-say.html
http://windowstorussia.com/i-said-russia-and-a-cup-of-coffee.html
http://windowstorussia.com/ouch-not-like-said.html
http://windowstorussia.com/wtr-starting-to-recover-from-the-hack-attack.html
http://windowstorussia.com/have-to-pardon-windows-to-russia-for-today.html
http://windowstorussia.com/make-it-easy-for-the-american-drones-to-find-me.html
http://windowstorussia.com/tsa-dhs-pounding-windows-russia.html
http://windowstorussia.com/script-attack-again-by-the-department-of-homeland-security-of-the-usa.html
And a hundred plus more links than above. Everything from death threats to myself, Sveta and our long gone doggy Boza. It has been a very hard many years and I have thought about giving up many times. I had a good break from it all for about a month now. I did a bunch of thinking and came to a bunch of conclusions…
I have watched the big boys get what happened to me and watched how it has become important to a lot of people now that they are hitting the big sites…
Hard for me to feel sorry for anyone, when I have talked about this very same thing for many years. From being blocked in Ukraine (Ukraine Blocking), attacked by DC (DC Attack), turned off by GoDaddy, Blogger Blogspot tried to stifle me and dozens of others have tried and failed. Granted they sorta won, they pushed me out of my home base and made me relocated finally in Iceland…
I have spent many years being destroyed by the status quo and it gets tiring after awhile. I have always walked alone and still post alone after all these years. But everyone (readers and website acquaintances) scatters like rats when Big Gov comes after you….just like everyone will run and hide when ZH gets censored…Get ready for it. I am just a little site that at one time reached millions of unique views monthly and DC destroyed me and burned me to the ground. I am surviving as a site, because I moved the domain to Russia and the hosting to Iceland. That stopped the lawsuits and blocking from guilty until proven innocent…I started years and years ago on Blogger Blogspot and got banned there. Had domains on Godaddy and got destroyed there. Had hosting on HostGator and got banned there. I spent a year trying to survive with India hosting and got banned there. French hosting burned my ass. Russian hosting sucks but safe, don’t try Canadian hosting and Iceland just saved me and WtR. By the way 1984 hosting is the name and you should understand what the 1984 is about…I have been posting for over ten years and no one gives a damn, you all run when the shit hits the fan…
Source: Ultimately you will all be censored… | Windows to Russia
Therefore, I smile and watch the big boys run around and cry….someone has been telling you all about this problem. I told you recently as they shut down my Facebook and Twitter accounts… (Facebook, Twitter)
But, after I smile, then I am sad…
For no one listened and I am reminded of a saying, just add the appropriate characters…
Martin Niemöller is most likely best remembered for the quotation that he varied at times in his talks, as this one…
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a (socialist.)
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a (trade unionist.)
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a (Jew.)
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for (me.)
Well everyone!
They came for WtR and you all laughed…
They threatened me and no one cared…
But, now that they are taking out the big guys?
You all whine, yet, still look the other way!
Who will speak out for you? (cnn-bbic-nbc-npr-fox-o-abc-news-nbc-news ???)
That is what I thought…
WtR
PS: I do speak out for you and I get beat up all the time. From both sides…
An export economy can be very strong as long as there is a strong economy to import your goods. The problem is that an economy that produces nothing can only import product through expansion of debt. Debt is not prosperity because it steals money from the future to pay for things now. Without a strong market for the import of exported product, the exporting nation fails within time…
Now everything visible has failed. But things not visible have been failing for sometime now…
The end result of globalization is absolute failure and an end to pseudo commerce…
The only way to fix the downward spiral is to hit bottom and rebuild making only what is deemed necessary by the people who also produce what is consumed. This creates the balance that is sorely lacking in the finacialized fictional economy…
Somehow the world exports hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods that are never imported. This has been confirmed from trade reports and published numbers. Did the goods ever exist? Or was is just fictional commerce to pad earnings reports for stock market gains?
Everyone today has the opportunity to witness a very rare event, the total end to a way of life. The Mayans were right, it isn’t the end of the world and the death of all, but an end to a cycle that started thousands of years ago. When the concept of usury was thought up and forced on the world. We are witnessing the end game of interest and debt, a global wipeout that resets the game…
Therefore, What should not be lost on us is that apart from those of a certain age and therefore memory of things gone past, the newer generations coming through will accept how things are as being normal particularly as they have been dumbed down by a pitiful education and poisonous diets…
So things will just get gradually worse and their fate will that of the proverbial frog in the boiling water wile being led to believe that they are in a Jacuzzi…
Slowly slowly we are on the way down and then suddenly a big drop. What should not be lost on us is that apart from those of a certain age and therefore memory of things gone past, the newer generations coming through will accept how things are as being normal particularly as they have been dumbed down by a pitiful education and poisonous diets…
Dance with the Devil…
WtR
You will find more infographics at Statista
When Russia’s conventional armed forces remained weak and outdated in the years following the Cold War, it attached a high priority to its nuclear weapons as the cornerstone of its defence. The country has now embarked on an ambitious plan to modernize its entire military under the 2011-20 state armament program.
Alongside conventional systems, Russia is upgrading its intercontinental ballistic missiles and strategic bombers. A recent Sipri report has revealed how much Russia is paying for its nuclear weapons. In 2010, the country spend just under $7 billion on nuclear weapons (13.4 percent of total military spending) and by 2016, that had increased to just under $11 billion (13 percent of total spending).
https://www.statista.com/chart/15810/russian-military-spending-on-nuclear-weapons/
Tidbit time…
WtR
Nothing like scary info to scare the masses!
Except just compare to USA spending…
Russia the last refuge of freedom loving patriots…
Who woulda thunk it?
The documents show that the plan was being pursued as recently as 2017, and involved Assange being transferred from his Ecuadorean embassy hideout — where he’s been stuck for the last six years — via a politically sensitive process whereby Ecuador would name him as a political counselor to the country’s embassy in Moscow.
Source: Leaked Files Confirm Julian Assange Plan To Move To Moscow | Zero Hedge
So the UK/USA blocked it, Russia would have allowed him in, just like they did with Snowden and Ecuador would be out from under the end of the gun pointed at their head…
Who woulda thunk it? (I woulda!)
Video could be about Russia now, as I walk, talk, drive and live daily in it….
“We don’t want to…”
Russia the last refuge of freedom loving patriots…
Strange world we live in, as we watch the west become the Soviet Empire of old times and Russia becomes the new haven for freedom…
Who woulda thunk it? (I woulda!)
WtR
PS: LOL, if Assange and Russia had a deal, true or not, we will never really know! I wish he would have been smart enough to get to Russia in the first place. Britain was never going to be a bastion of freedom for him and the truth….for anyone for that matter…
SOCHI, October 18. /TASS/. The tragedy in a college in the Crimean city of Kerch will be thoroughly analyzed to hammer out effective measures to reduce the risk of their recurrence, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters when asked whether urgent measures were needed to prevent such incidents in the future.
WtR
Svetochka likes to irritate me with pictures of my irritation…
I realize that I am not a starving guy. I do not look like I am starving and I will not die from lack of food anytime soon…
But….when I got breakfast on the jet, I kinda had a sad face moment and then a grouchy face moment and then I ate the sandwich…
I guess it was a sandwich?
I want the sad face award… 9 out of 10 rating at least…
WtR
PS: I got Svetochka’s sandwich also. She is a good girl and she brought sweet rolls and boiled eggs for her, stolen/kidnapped/removed/extracted from the cafe at our hotel restaurant… 😉