Windows to Russia

How We Were: The Years of Hitchhiking: Recollectons of the Social Cryogenian The big roads were safe then, or we thought they were. Many of us, the more adventurous, poured onto the highways, just going, moving, looking. We were devotees of the long-haul thumb, crossing and recrossing the continent, dropping into Mexico, whatever. A camaraderieContinue reading Today the roads are empty. I’m glad they weren’t when they weren’t. – Fred Reed…

And if you live in the so called western world, your leaders lie! Simply lie… They just lie, lie and lie….and you let them lie, lie and lie… https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/russia-gru-salisbury-attack-un-us-france-germany-france-canada-uk-theresa-may-a8525971.html This lying above goes hand in hand with this lying below… https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180907-us-has-seen-evidence-of-syria-preparing-chemical-weapons-in-idlib/ Because we really like our wars and need one bad to distract all theContinue reading Roses are red so is Russia, the answer to everything is – Russia, Russia, Russia…

Between 1956 and 1970 Gorky Automobile Factory or GAZ, located in the Soviet Union, produced a 3 part series of vehicles all variants of the name Volga GAZ-21. Russia: Volga Automobile, Part 1 (History) Love it… WtR

UN officials are once again expressing hope that fighting which has raged in the Libyan capital of Tripoli over the past two weeks is over, with the announcement of a new ceasefire between the UN-backed “unity” government and a militia. The two sides have been fighting through several ceasefires in that time, and has centeredContinue reading Maybe the UN should express hope about Chicago?

Amazon stock briefly hit a $1 trillion market cap Tuesday before falling off and leaving Apple as the only publicly traded U.S. company above the benchmark. Source: Amazon falls off $1 trillion in market value Soon we will all be Zimbabweans… Welcome to the real world… WtR

Still struggling from the flue and other issues in the last month, but this morning I was able to walk again and it felt good….it also is getting cooler. Fall is here the trees are starting to change and I still never found summer. I called, I looked, I even turned over rocks and logs.Continue reading Walked 12,000 steps this morning…

“The weather whispers…” by Svetlana Prostova “The weather whispers to borrow but jump.” Saying in Russian aeroclubs. Hi, That was a sunny day… I was one in the group of thirty, people who was ready to make there first parachute jump. I knew I was crazy but I knew I would make it. I wasContinue reading The Weather Whispers!

Could someone please remind Pompeo and Bolton that al-Qaeda are the bad guys? After six years of a foreign-backed regime-change operation in Syria, where hundreds of thousands have been killed and the country nearly fell into the hands of ISIS and al-Qaeda, the Syrian government is on the verge of victory. Assad is hardly aContinue reading The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Can’t We Just Leave Syria Alone?

That world is Russia… August is vacation month and I mean vacation month. Yes, Russians have lots of holidays and lots of other vacation times, but August is almost like a mandatory, take a vacation month and many take the whole month. In Russia people get a full month or more of vacation off ofContinue reading Imagine a world where almost everyone goes on vacation…

Svetochka loves her Sammy the Volga and no other car matters! And that is just right….but… The largest Russian automobile exhibition, the Moscow International Automobile Salon – MIAS 2018, started on August 29 in the capital’s exhibition complex Crocus Expo. The leaders of the mass segment are returning to the exhibition, promising premieres and novelties,Continue reading Be nice to go see, but Svetochka would probably not like to look at cars?