Svetochka and I made a trip to the heart of Moscow. We went to the huge automotive market to try to find some parts for Sammy the Volga… Parts are becoming harder to find. As with many fabulous cars in the past around the world, time and technology sends models to the graveyard and they […]
I made a wonder cup of coffee this morning and started to sip it while I was doing some thinking: The world is full of well guarded closed doors… It seems that my mind is stuck on the flagrant squelching of literally all our rights, freedoms and liberty. This is becoming more the norm in […]
We are like chickens and the illusion of freedom is important. I take my freedom to live outdoors serious. While I may die in the end as you will, I will scratch for my food and run when I can to play. The cages of life are not the way to live… I am a […]
Is nothing sacred for being a male anymore? Boy Scouts Will Drop the ‘Boy’ in Its Namesake Program, as It Welcomes Girls Next Year – The New York Times: In recent years, the Boy Scouts of America has significantly loosened its membership requirements, announcing in January 2017 that it would accept transgender members. In 2013, […]
Twelve years I have lived in a country that is the largest on earth: Traveling Russia to sightsee is an undertaking of magnanimous proportions. I know, I have traveled many many thousands of kilometers around Russia. It is simply massive and beautiful to boot… But: It has dawned on me that Russia is just not […]
I find it amazing how polarized people are one way or the other in politics. Either my way or the highway! When in actuality: There is not a damn difference between anything any and everyone thinks is important… Politicians all get together behind our backs and laugh at us… — Kyle Keeton (@kylesvet) May 3, […]
In 1918, May 1 became an important public holiday, known as the Day of the International Solidarity of Workers, in the Soviet Union. Most Soviet cities had parades and obligatory workers’ marches on this day until 1990. The Russian Parliament renamed the holiday as Spring and Labor Day in 1992… People are planting gardens, trees […]
Media Fusses as Russia’s Floating Nuclear Plant Sets Sail – Sputnik International As Russia’s state-of-the-art mobile nuclear plant embarks on its first voyage across the Arctic, Greenpeace activists claim that the vessel may pose an environmental threat to the region. Akademik Lomonosov, Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant, has set off from St. Petersburg to […]
Netanyahu knows War with Iran means WW3 with China and Russia – they come as a package. Netanyahu also knows he is lying for the umpteenth time about a non-existent Iranian bomb. He doesn’t seem to care that his lies could start WW3 & end all intelligent life on the entire planet pic.twitter.com/187HEPt7GP — Ian56 […]
Gazprom completes construction of first leg of Turkish Stream gas pipeline https://t.co/DsvZZUhAF7 — Kyle Keeton (@kylesvet) May 1, 2018 Russia is a very reliable energy partner. Even in the Soviet days, they always fulfilled their obligations. They even try to do the best they can, when other countries steal and block the transfer of the […]