Source: Caution: there is a desire to use the church factor in the political struggle
And they call me a dictator!
USA, a land of a 1000 dictators. Public cannot change them but only pay them taxes…
I received the email above. Simple to the point and very accurate…
I have talked about the US Gov. as wannabe Napoleons and Hitlers….I have many articles about this subject and it is how many Russians view the USA…
You wonder who really is running the U.S., because it sure is not our president and it makes me claim once again, “The USA is run by thousands and thousands of wannabe Hitler’s and Napoleon’s!”
Really people, the world has enough issues! Why the hell do we need a bunch of “wannabe Hitler’s and Napoleon’s” running loose?
Does it make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
WtR
PS: We have lots of popcorn in Russia, it is good to watch the chaos with…
Look familiar? That is because it is Colonel Sanders and his famous chicken. KFC…
I say we are a third world country in Russia, because, we have KFC, McDonald’s, Subway, TGiF and Burger King. Without such western delights we would be a whole bunch higher on the list of non rotten places to eat… It is true…
I see that the UK is freaking out over some low temperatures. I hate to tell them this but they do not know what cold is. Lets go to Canada, Russia, Finland, Sweden and that Norwegian spot on earth. Then they can have fun…
Stores are wiped out in the UK of breads and such. I even saw a person on a video buying 7 gallons of milk and then everyone got into a fight (Pissed people off at the hoarding.) What the HELL is wrong with people? Schools are closed and all that. In Russia they do not even think about closing schools until it gets into the -40’s and most of the time -50 and the kids are still trudging to school, not bused, walking…
It is cold people and the trucks still run, the stores are full of food and people are everywhere walking…
Different strokes for different folks….we need to toughen up in some parts of the world….Maybe the whole world?
10,000 steps again. Walked from 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Freezing my little piggy’s, but now they are happy again….actually I have great boots and they do a good job. My feet were warm. But running around barefooted would be really stupid out there right now… 😉
But….I saw a crazy Russian. Yes Russians can be a little bit nuts at times. This guy was running to exercise. Black Speedo and shoes. Starked naked as a Jaybird otherwise. He was in good shape, but I had to wonder a little bit about his mental condition, but then Russians go jump in a frozen lake after cutting a hole in the ice, even if it is -50 below…
Oh Well! Not me…
Lats talk about tough Canadian women…
Leave it to the guy to narrate, watch and film…
Worth Reading: https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201802251061983205-us-collapse-spectacle-of-our-time/
I am going to have another cup of coffee….see you later…
WtR
Yes it scares me: 100 megaton nuke…
I will be honest with you. Having trained as a nuclear specialist at one time many many years ago in the army, this weapons scares the bejeebees out of me. I cannot get enough information to tell if this is totally true, but as with much of the Russian weaponry and the advanced state of its weaponry, I would say it is a very good chance that “Status-6” is a fact…
It follows the massive submarine building that Russia has been doing. Russia is turning out subs at a unbelievable rate…
Popular Mechanics writes the link below…
Kanyon is designed to wipe out the enemy’s coastlines and make them unlivable for generations.
Source: Pentagon Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo
From a Russian websites below, translated…
Ocean multi-purpose system “Status-6” (Kanyon)
“Status-6” is designed to defeat important fleets, ports of the enemy’s economy in the vicinity of the coast and cause unacceptable damage to the country’s territory by creating zones of extensive radioactive contamination that are unsuitable for military, economic and other activities in these zones for a long time. “Status-6” is capable of destroying the Navy bases or carrier-based strike groups…
Status-6 is a remotely controlled automatic underwater robot carrying up to a 100 megaton-class nuclear weapon possessing computer intelligence and capable of acting independently at a distance of several thousand kilometers from the carrier. The maximum speed of the device allows you to escape from any existing enemy torpedo. The choice of speed and drone maneuvering exercises independently. (I understand that steady 55 knots and faster for a short burst…)
Status-6 refers to deep-sea uninhabited underwater vehicles (NPA), which can dive to a depth of 1000 meters and is a large high-speed torpedo with an atomic reactor and a huge nuclear warhead…
As a deterrent, the NPA can come to the destination and lie to the bottom, waiting for a signal to undermine the military unit. The signal can be fed along the long-wave channel, since long waves penetrate the water column. In this case, Russia receives a deterrent weapon with a 100% guarantee of operation…
The nuclear-powered submarines of the special purpose of projects 09851 Khabarovsk, 09852 Belgorod, 09853 “Until Untitled” should be the carriers of the ocean multipurpose weapon system “Status-6″…
The development of projects is also handled by JSC “TsKB MT Rubin” (Russia)
The construction of the submarine SN 09851 “Khabarovsk” and 09852 “Belgorod” is carried out by JSC “PO” Sevmash “(Russia)
On November 27, 2016, a successful test launch was made from the Sarov submarine.
Characteristics:
Diameter 1.6 m
Length – 24 m
Working depth – up to 1000 m.
Drivers – water jet
Nuclear reactor – 8 MW, small-sized on liquid-metal coolant
Cruising speed – up to 55 km / h
The maximum speed is 100 – 185 km / h.
The range is up to 10 thousand km.
The warhead – with a cobalt section, for maximum radioactive contamination of a huge territory.
The power of the warhead is 100 Mt.
Low-visibility for hydroacoustics SOSSUS – up to 2 – 3 km at cruising speed of the vehicleRussian specs below…
Разработкой проектов также занимается АО “ЦКБ МТ “Рубин” (Россия)
Постройкой АПЛ СН 09851 “Хабаровск” и 09852 “Белгород” занимается ОАО «ПО “Севмаш” (Россия)
27 ноября 2016 года с подводной лодки “Саров” произведен успешный испытательный пуск.
Характеристики:
Диаметр – 1,6 м
Длина – 24 м
Рабочая глубина – до 1000 м.
Движители – водометные
Ядерный реактор – 8 МВт, малогабаритный на жидкометаллическом теплоносителе
Крейсерская скорость – до 55 км/ч
Максимальная скорость – 100 – 185 км/ч.
Дальность – до 10 тыс. км.
Боеголовка – с кобальтовой секцией, для максимального радиоактивного загрязнения громадной территории.
Мощность БЧ – 100 Мт.
Малозаметность для гидроакустики SOSSUS – до 2 – 3 км при крейсерской скорости аппарата
I really think it is time to stop poking the BEAR…
Russia is vastly more advanced in weaponry than the West wants to admit and lets not even talk about China…
Here, one more link to wet your whistle…
https://sputniknews.com/military/201612121048455835-status-6-drone-sub-analysis/
I don’t like the destructive power of such a weapon and stopping it is not possible. Even to set it off offshore is to send a tsunami of death to the shore…
Would be nice to just be friends, I get along fine with the Russians and I am an America. Why can’t the rest of us Americans, quit poking the bear?
Say something before it is too late.
100 megatons is one big hello and goodbye in one act…
WtR
I am thinking…
The United States just can’t seem to come to grips with a new reality – that most of the world’s people live in the ‘Old World’ on the other side of the planet, that Russia, China and some other nations have decided to assert themselves as regional powers, that China eventually will be a superpower, that nations over there have decided and want to manage their own affairs without the interference of the US, and that there are now limits to what we can control “over there.” It has reached the point where the bunglers who manage foreign policy in this country (USA) feel that we have to do something over there, even if we don’t know what we are doing and even if our actions usually produce outcomes that are worse for our interference. The cold war is over and the US is trying to revive it, even though the “Red Menace” no longer exists. If this country can’t come to grips with the reality that it is no longer the big dog in every corner of the world, it will slide into irrelevance or, worse, start a nuclear war. American exceptionalism will render the country a has-been, third world, banana republic. It’s long past time for this country to extract its head from its posterior and come to grips with its new role in the world, before we further bankrupt ourselves in more hopeless military quagmires…
WtR
It was more than -20 this morning as we took off to get Svetochka to the train station….I am walking no matter what….I ran a 38.8 temperature yesterday, as I fight with very bad arthritis that gives me fevers. Just do it people….walk…
As I write this article after almost 10,000 steps this morning, it is still -19, But that is really nothing new to a Russian and they are out in groves getting on with business. Guys are on the roofs removing snow, knocking icicles down and children are going to school. Cold is just another obstacle in a normal life for a Russian. Builders build and children go to school. It does not slow down until you see -40 to -50 and then they might play chess inside instead of outside. 🙂
This morning I watched four guys sitting on the edge of a tall building, they were dangling their feet over the edge and sipping coffee and eating sweet rolls. They waved at me and I waved back. They were enjoying life…
Isn’t that what it is all about?
Therefore, if you have two good feet and can walk, just walk and get better…
Lets look at some more images…
These were taken with my phone… Click to get away from thumbnail size…
The Russians had every reason in the world to bitch about the Olympics (with all the political issues tossed at her) but, I see the west and particularly the USA is bitching to beat the band. I was kinda pleased to see Russia took the most important event of the Winter Olympics. Russia played hockey and went to the end in style…
Somethings are meant to be…
You need to read this….and think, grab the link and read…
As usual, the West has demonstrated its ability to fire off a quick response when it comes to slamming Russia for something it has not done. This time it’s about Eastern Ghouta, a Damascus suburb under terrorist control. The accusation? Russia and its ally Syria are guilty of killing innocent civilians, thanks to their “devastating” attacks and “siege-and-starve tactics.” It’s the same old story – no actions against terrorists are permissible because of the risk of collateral damage. The Western media have jumped on the anti-Russia bandwagon as readily as if they were orchestra members carefully following the tempo of their conductor’s baton. US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley wasted no time chiming in.
Lets have a good quote to help the thinking…
We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you. – Christina Ricci
Lets end with that quote…
WtR
Well, it seems, some nations have specific problems. Like Norwegian winter Olympians all seem to have Asthma. And they get the appropriate medicine? I call foul on such practices…
Norway’s cross-country skiers will arrive in Pyeongchang hoping to continue their recent dominance in a sport that doubles as a national obsession, but even at home there are questions over the ethical use of medicines by athletes.
Source: Norway’s cross-country Olympic success clouded by asthma drug ethics
Its tough to be an Olympian and be so allergic to “fresh cold air” that you need 200 doses of asthma medication for a week…
Olympic doping: Athletes turn to common nasal spray, asthma inhalers, for edge
Like Norwegian winter Olympians all seem to have Asthma and it is a chosen problem, to enhance with legally…
Such hypocrisy. I was not aware that people with asthma, are so good at long distance sports. Russians get a blanket ban on their entire team and life bans (literally) for lessor issues. Even when the Norwegian three-time Olympic medalist Martin Johnsrud Sundby was caught by WADA with almost 10 times the allowed limit of “asthma medicine”, he gets a 2 month suspension and is ended up competing in PyonChang? (With very little fanfare and full blessings!)
Sorry but, it count as steroids if you don’t have asthma, if you do have asthma….well, you don’t do long distance endurance sports…..and that is the issue….giving drugs for false health issues to enhance the athlete with and only allowing certain countries to indulge in such practices…
The rules have to be applied to all and all equally! But as with the way of the world in general….they are not and have never been applied properly…
EG: Now, it turns out that there are figures, hidden in WADA’s own reports no less, showing not only that the number of Russian athletes caught doping is well within international norms, but that the Russian National Anti-Doping Organization RUSADA has one of the highest rates of testing in the world. The figures, found in the organization’s ‘2014 Anti-Doping Testing Figures Report’, show that RUSADA carried out 12,556 anti-doping tests on its athletes in 2014, with a total of 0.9% (114 cases) testing positive for prohibited substances. As a percentage, that figure is actually lower than the global total calculated by WADA (which amounted to 1.0% of total testing). (wada_2014_anti-doping-testing-figures_full-report_en)
Either allow everything and or allow nothing and nothing is the best. If you have to be drugged to perform, then maybe you need to get a desk job…
Very simple!
WtR
Why doesn’t the US just slap sanctions on everybody, open up multiple war fronts with Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Turkey, Yemen, Ukraine, and declare trade wars with everybody else….oh wait…
WtR
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- What a momma does in winter…
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- How do you feed hungry guys?
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- Time to eat…
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- They start chess early in Russia…
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- Yup…
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- Museum…
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- Walking around the Cathedral…me red coat
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- Yummy…
1. In Russia you see mommas pulling their kids on sleds everywhere. Not many fat and lazy moms in Russia…
2. Only two girls at Svetochka’s work, Men’s Day and the guys are hungry. What do you do? Why the two girls buy pizza and goodies and get the heck out of the way…
3. Yum Yum… Never fear, guys love pizza…
4. Chess learning center near our flat. Russian Kids love playing chess…
5. Svetochka and I went to see a classical music thingy and it had a museum it was playing within. We did not get too excited about the music thingy, but the museum was fantastic…
6. All located at the “Cathedral of Christ the Saviour” I like the place…
7. Then we had to feed a hungry bear and his sweetie….at a monastery it is called a Trapeznaya or in easier terms, cafe…
The pictures are in thumbnail mode, so you need to click on the images to get the whole picture…
I love the inviting and elegant door to the cafe! Kinda homey isn’t it? Perfect example of what I say about Russian presentation! They have none and no one cares…
WtR
I am thinking…
Most are dying in their 50’s, and for me, who is older than them, makes me sad. Kinda like outliving your kids. That I myself have experienced personally and hope to not outlive anymore. But, people (men and women are in this same boat) I have taught and watched grow into fabulous managers and become at the top of their field, are dying and that makes me look at what I and they did for a living…
It is a given that no one but no one is left from the early days of war. There are still many left from my high school era and the university. But it seems that being a manager and in food service is a nasty combination. That combination almost got me also…
I could say that youth has taken over my past in food service, but it would actually be sadder to say the truth, death has taken the old and had to be replaced with the new…except the old was simply not that old…
Fast pace, eating wrong, drinking, smoking and stressing to the max. Is the basic traits for a manager in food service. Most that have died recently are people who had to keep working, even after having heart attacks. Many have made it to retirement and died soon thereafter…
I find it interesting to look around me at people I knew and or still know in the US. The number of people is dwindling, even as I write this, yet they are not that old…
How do they cover up in the statistics the young deaths of 50 to 60 years old and keep the average lifespan so high?
That’s not really meant to happen in developed countries
Source: Life expectancy in America has declined for two years in a row
Hmm…
Maybe they can’t! Maybe it is too prevalent to cover it all up?
WtR