Windows to Russia

The West:

You know the upstanding citizens of the free world, the West? The USA is the so called leader! Yes that West….is trying to destroy Venezuela and they admit it…

But we like sugar coating as we destroy innocent countries…

Still the truth gets out and the truth is the truth, even if the sugar has tried to stick to it…

The Trump administration held secret meetings with rebellious military officers from Venezuela over the last year to discuss their plans to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro, according to American officials and a former Venezuelan military commander who participated in the talks.

Source: Trump Administration Discussed Coup Plans With Rebel Venezuelan Officers – The New York Times

We are trying and admit that we (The West) want Syria destroyed…

RICHMOND — Fresh off a sit-down with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Virginia state Sen. Richard H. Black turned up on an Arab TV channel last week making an extraordinary claim about one of the United States’ closest allies.Black said Britain’s MI6 intelligence service was planning a chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people, which it would then blame on Assad.“Around four weeks ago, we knew that British intelligence was working toward a chemical attack in order to blame the Syrian government, to

Source: Va. state senator who met with Assad says British are planning fake chemical attack – The Washington Post

We have been for months, trying to pin a false new fake gas attack on Syria…

WASHINGTON—President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has approved the use of chlorine gas in an offensive against the country’s last major rebel stronghold, U.S. officials said, raising the prospects for another retaliatory U.S. military strike as thousands try to escape what could be a decisive battle in the seven-year-old war.

Source: U.S. Says Syria Plans Gas Attack in Rebel Stronghold – WSJ

Then to put the icing on the crap cake…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is closing the Palestine Liberation Organization’s mission in Washington, the latest U.S. blow against the Palestinians and an international court during the stalled Mideast peace process.

Source: Trump closing Palestinian mission in pro-Israel move

Closed because they (Yes, They!) are the reason for stalled Mideast peace talks…. ??? Yes they are the ones… Stupid is as stupid does America…

So we the moral compass of the world continues our path of freedom and morality…

“The outcome of the president’s policy review should be to determine that the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 revolution will not last until its 40th birthday,” Bolton said. (The 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution will be on February 11, 2019.) “The declared policy of the United States should be the overthrow of the mullahs’ regime in Tehran,” Bolton added. “The behavior and the objectives of the regime are not going to change and, therefore, the only solution is to change the regime itself.” As the Iran

Source: Here’s John Bolton Promising Regime Change in Iran by the End of 2018

Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside…

I think this sums up the USA and her desires pretty good. From day one it has been a country of death to all and all to death, our way or the highway…

United States involvement in regime change has entailed both overt and covert actions aimed at altering, replacing, or preserving foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, and included the Mexican–American, Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars. At the onset of the 20th century the United States shaped or installed friendly governments in many countries including Panama, Hond

Source: United States involvement in regime change – Wikipedia

But we have hit the bottom and it is coup (Regime Change — American Style) time on America…

The campaign to overturn the 2016 election and bring down President Trump shifted into high gear this week.Inspiration came Saturday morning from the altar of the National Cathedral where our establishment came to pay homage to John McCain.Gathered there were all the presidents from 1993 to 2017, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Vice Presidents Al Gore and Dick Cheney, Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and Henry Kissinger, the leaders of both houses of Congress, and too many generals and admirals to list.Striding into the pulpit, Obama delivered a searing indictment of the man undoing his legacy:“So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage. … It’s a politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear.”Speakers praised McCain’s willingness to cross party lines, but Democrats took away a new determination: From here on out, confrontation!

Source: Regime Change — American Style | Patrick J. Buchanan – Official Website

Ride ‘Em Cowboy…

WtR

I wonder about why anyone needs so much money that they could not spend it all? A trillion dollars?

Now consider how long it would take you to spend $1 trillion dollars. If you spent one dollar every second around the clock, it would take you 312,688 years to spend a trillion dollars. Spending $1 million an hour, non-stop for 24 hours a day, you wouldn’t run out of $1 trillion for 411 years. (I know some women in my past, who would give a trillion dollars a run for its money though…)

Remember when a million dollars was more money than the world? Now a million dollars is considered a poor person. Well this non-millionaire and his sweet pea are poor people and happy to be that poor. For if we had a million dollars, we would travel the world constantly…

Why….Svetochka and I could live the “Life of Riley” and all we need is a $1,000,000 and or actually a whole bunch less…

To live the “Life of Riley” in Russia and or in many other countries around the world, $100,000 dollars would suffice for your whole life….and I mean from birth to death and you would travel, eat good and dance the lights fantastic…

Hmm….you could live off the interest of a million dollars in Russia. Yes Russia pays interest on deposits (10% or so)…

Source: Just nine of the world’s richest men have more combined wealth than the poorest 4 billion people | The Independent

You know? It does not matter if the numbers are skewed somewhat. The fact that over half the worlds populace has less resources of all types than the top nine or ten richest people in the world sucks. Give it a few more years then maybe we can have the top ten richer than everyone! Good idea? No, still sucks…

As of March 2018:
1. Jeff Bezos – $112 billion – United States – Amazon
2. Bill Gates – $90 billion – United States – Microsoft
3. Warren Buffett  – $84 billion –  United States – Berkshire Hathaway
4. IBernard Arnault – $72 billion – France – LVMH
5. Mark Zuckerberg – $71 billion – United States – Facebook
6. Amancio Ortega – $70 billion – Spain – Inditex, Zara
7. Carlos Slim – $67.1 billion – Mexico – América Móvil, Grupo Carso
8 (and or 9). Charles Koch – $60 billion – United States – Koch Industries
8 (and or 9). David Koch – $60 billion – United States – Koch Industries
10. Larry Ellison – $58.5 billion – United States – Oracle Corporation

That equals 745 billion dollars (Net Worth, not Gross Worth), give or take a few hundred million…

It is all good, Sveta and I have enough. We are far from rich and we struggle to make ends meet many times, but it is all good. We have enough to get by….But when I look at…

World hunger, World water shortage, World illness and World basically just living and it all can be eradicated for much less than what these few people have in net worth. Much less than what they are worth. They would still be stinking filthy rich after feeding the world and they could still have tutu parties anytime they feel like, 24 hours a day…

Don’t worry, these people will never give up all the money they have and we will not ever get it. That is uncivilized and just not capitalistic and or democratic…

We cannot all be rich, for then we would still be poor and the rich would be even richer than us, who are rich…

Just maybe we could feed people, house people and give people proper medical attention all over the world. Just maybe instead of hording money, blowing up other countries and steal resources, just maybe we could help some people, like all of them…

I look at life this way…

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. – Kinky Friedman

Never worship money and yet we all seem to do just that….though some of us take it to extremes….at the expense of others…

That nasty asking “why thingy” I do… 😉

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Sergey Sobyanin is the incumbent. He seems to have 75% to 80% of the vote… (?)

This is grapevine talking….not official talk…

But… (Since official talk is very moot on this election? Hmm…)

Grapevines are pretty accurate here in Moscow…

One thing that Russians have developed to a fine art is Grapevining…

Babushkas teach the youth and the youth even use the latest technology and be it texting and or word of mouth, it travels like the speed of light and enters all homes before the days end…

Have a nice day….we will see if the vine knows?

WtR

Update: Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has been re-elected to office after Sunday’s vote, securing the backing of Muscovites for a major program of city renovation. It was, however, more difficult in the Moscow Region for the incumbent governor.

According to official data, Sobyanin garnered just over 70 percent of the vote, meaning he has secured his new five-year term after the first round.

Communist candidate Vadim Kunin was second in the race but his support was much more modest, winning less than 12 percent of votes. A representative of another leftist party – Ilya Sviridov from the Fair Russia – was third with just over 7 percent and Mikhail Degtyaryov of the populist-nationalist opposition party LDPR came in fourth with under 7 percent, still more than twice what he got in his previous mayoral bid in 2013. Professional developer Mikhail Balakin, backed by the minor party Union of City Dwellers came in last in the race with under 2 percent.

So the grapevine was accurate…

For mayor of Moscow…

Mikhail Balakin, Mikhail Degtyarev, Vadim Kumin, Ilya Sviridov and Sergey Sobyanin…

Sergey Sobyanin is the incumbent. I do not have much care for him, but he will probably be voted back in….I like Vadim Kumin, but…I also like Mikhail Balakin…

Sergey Sobyanin is just someone I cannot trust…

But I cannot vote anyway, so it does not matter…

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Russian citizens are going to the polls on Sunday to elect the heads of 22 regions, including the mayor of the capital, Moscow. They will elect lawmakers in 16 regional legislatures and thousands of municipal councils. The Moscow mayoral elections are probably the most important event of election day, with five candidates running for the post, including incumbent Mayor Sergey Sobyanin. The other candidates in the race are billionaire real estate developer Mikhail Balakin; lower house MP representing the po

Source: 22 regional Russian leaders including Moscow mayor to be chosen by voters on single election day — RT Russian Politics News

Getting cold though!

Yesterday, Sveta and I rode 32 kilometers in a round trip. We followed one of the main water sources for Moscow. It was a beautiful trip…

It is simple a wonderful place to ride bikes…

I am trying to get Sveta to take a ride next weekend. We travel 50 kilometers one way and stay all night at a hotel, after looking at the sights and come home the next day…

Sounds like fun to me and if we go to where they have a monastery, we can eat and even stay all night at such places. Food for thought…

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The video…

The title song in full (below)…

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My personal phones ring tone (below) if you like to use it? Yes I use it!

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Some translation of the words…

If I scratch the back of my head, it’s okay!
There is only sawdust in it, yeah, yeah, yey!
But although there’s only sawdust,
All these shouties & those screamies,
And also the noisies, pantloudies and sighpuffies…
I compose them rather nicely on some days! Yes.

Winnie-Pooh lives quite a good life in this land,
That is why he sings these ditties all aloud!
What he’s doing doesn’t matter,
If he doesn’t grow much thinner,
And I know that he won’t get there…
If he doesn’t skip the dinner…

Yes.

*****

Если я чешу в затылке –
Не беда!
В голове моей опилки,
Да-да-да.
Но хотя там и опилки,
Но Шумелки и Вопилки
(А также Кричалки,
Пыхтелки и даже
Сопелки и так далее)
Сочиняю я неплохо
И-ног-да!

Хорошо живет на свете
Винни-Пух!
Оттого поет он эти
Песни
Вслух!
И неважно, чем он занят,
Если он худеть не станет,
А ведь он худеть не станет,
(Если, конечно,
Вовремя подкрепится…).

Да!

Have a nice day…

WtR

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 camaraderie held. There were rules. On an onramp it was first come first served, no butting in line and anybody with his thumb out was taken as a friend, or at least friendly. “Hey, man, got any shit?” was a common question. This meant grass, pot, ganja

Source: How We Were: The Years of Hitchhiking: Recollectons of the Social Cryogenian | Fred On Everything

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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 the sock monkey makers from worry about what our leaders are up to…

One day soon they will succeed in starting that war…

And then you will say, “What happened? I didn’t no Nuffing!”

Roses are red so is Russia, the answer to everything is – Russia, Russia, Russia…

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Not original color!

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 centered on southern Tripoli. At least 61 have been killed in the fighting, including a large number of civilians, with another 159 wounded.

Source: Another Libya Ceasefire Announced After 61 Killed – News From Antiwar.com

Hmm…

Is this true. Seems to be close enough!

Five months into the year, more than 1,000 people have been shot in Chicago and there have been more than 200 homicides, according to data kept by the Tribune. As of early Monday at least 1,071 people have been shot this year, below the last two years when violence hit record levels in the city but well above other recent years. There have been at least 202 homicides, the data shows. Chicago crossed the 1,000 mark after the long Memorial Day weekend, when seven people were killed and 32 were wounded by gunfire.

Source: More than 1,000 people shot in Chicago so far this year – Chicago Tribune

Just two weeks in Tripoli? (Actually endless in Libya, due to USA involvement.) …. (Yet) Endless in Chicago? (Also) Each city is a war zone! (Yes?)

Looks like a cease fire is needed in Chicago?

This is just one American city; How about others in the same boat?

UN officials are once again expressing hope that fighting which has raged in the Illinois capital of Chicago over the past several years, with the expected announcement of a new ceasefire between the UN-backed “Pro American” government and a inner-city militia…

Interesting thought…

Yes, Chicago and many US cites are a war zone according to technicalities that enforce said behavior…

WtR