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Army, PACOM Séance Reveals News: by John Stanton

The US Army Human Terrain System (HTS) will become a “shining star, you’ll see” said a music critic, part-time divinity professor, retired military officer, and former HTS contractor. He was incensed that with the alleged demise of the US Army program, it having been murdered, killed and defeated, the HTS suddenly has new life thanks to “those pro-HTS intellectuals authorized, by somebody higher up in their organizations to take up the HTS cause. Hey! Shining Star. Do you know that song by Earth, Wind and Fire?” the former HTS contractor said. “That should be the theme song for the new HTS ramp-up. And you know what? The HTS rebirth will be like the story of that guy from Greek mythology who was crucified, died, buried and then came back to life. What was his name, again?”

The former contractor went on. “Where were those people when we needed them…You know they were all hiding in the Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict shop in the Pentagon and didn’t want to go public with their support of HTS? Now they work for all kinds of contractors and think tanks and whatever having spun through the revolving door. Man! Can you say that anymore or do you have to say Woman too….Sorry. I got off track there. Anyway they are cashing in big-time now making as much money as they can and just waiting for the next real war—like Iraq–that involves lots of contractors, media analysts, tanks, trucks and troops. Think of the armor battles we could have with the Russians and Chinese! I miss those days” groaned a former HTS staffer who rode along with combat hardened American soldiers who protected him while he asked questions and handed out lollipops, and other types of candy, sure to rot the teeth of the children in Afghanistan and Iraq.

An HTS staffer who works with the former HTS contractor cited above: “You know that song by Earth, Wind and Fire, right? Shining Star is the one I am referring to like my colleague said. The lyrics that go ‘You’re a shining star, no matter who you are, shining bright to see, what you can truly be…That really applies to HTS because, really, it was never given a chance to be what it could truly be. But now we are seeing what it could have been thanks to articles in Foreign Policy, Bloomberg and Front Page Magazine. There will be more to come. Just wait and see.”

Indeed. The woodwork has produced a flurry of pro-HTS articles ever since USA Today broke the story of its apparent demise on June 29, 2015. The most recent is in the increasingly belligerent publication Foreign Policy owned by Graham Holdings Company. The Grahams sold off the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos of Amazon fame preferring to focus on its Kaplan education and standardized testing preparation businesses. The Grahams have an interesting mix of companies engaging in health care, meeting planning (Foreign Policy), social media and combustion and lifting equipment.

But what of the mysterious fate of HTS? “It’s like Big Foot,” said a veteran correspondent. It’s true. The US Army and PACOM will not respond to media queries from anyone. Nonetheless, the demonic media, which is always at the ready to hear-out any source with verifiable information that can’t be found in normal channels, is on the case with the help of US Army and PACOM insiders. “We’ve conducted a number of séances with members of the media,” said insiders. We know that HTS still lives in pieces but will reassemble. Think of the second Terminator and that liquid metal creature that is chasing Arnold and John Conner and Conner’s mom. There is a scene in the movie where the liquid metal thing is frozen then blown apart, its pieces are scattered all over the floor but they reunite into the creature and it is reborn! That’s HTS! And I tell you what! HTS is going to come back like that bad-ass metal creature.”

If that were not enough to make former HTS staffers and proponents jump for joy, they have received significant support from the Dentists for the Resurgence of the HTS (DRHTS) who want to get in on the ground floor of any new HTS, particularly since US soldiers and contractors hand out so much candy to the conquered.

According to a DRHTS spokesperson, “We want to get in on the action too. There are a lot of teeth and gums in the AOR’s [area of responsibility] of the COCOMS [combatant commands] that need fixing. We can synthesize [sic] with the anthropologists: While they are questioning the locals, we can be fixing their teeth and gums. I know this sounds terrible but as we probe inside the villager’s mouths we can aggressively poke around in there causing not insignificant pain which may yield some useful information for the HTS people. You know kind of like that scene in the movie the Marathon Man where Olivier, playing the Nazi dentist, abuses the cavities in Hoffman’s mouth saying, ‘Is it safe.’ Dentists are patriots too,” he added.

Alas, as Whitney Kassel of the Arkin Group laments, “With the quiet death of the military’s controversial Human Terrain System, America’s soldiers have lost a guiding light that is needed now more than ever.” No question about that. She is right. HTS has its parallel of course. The television soap opera the Guiding Light ended in 2009, a year that saw two beginnings: The catastrophic success of HTS and the failure of the United States to murder, kill and defeat insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

John Stanton is a Virginia based writer. Reach him at captainkong22@gmail.com

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I just love John Stanton’s satire about the Human Terrain System, because I am living proof of the make up of that system and its dismal messed up lifespan…

Post by Kyle Keeton
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Yesterday I was off to the big village and along for the ride was an 80 plus year old man, who was going to get supplies cheaper, than we can get locally at the avto market. It saved him at least 500 rubles and to a pensioner that is a bunch of money. It was a morning exactly like son taking dad to the store and since this man would be the same age as my dad would be if he had lived; It was nostalgic to say the least…

Realization came to me that my dad would be 84 right now if still alive. I believe that Nicolai is 83 and thus the comparison. My dad died at 50 years old, thus my brain kept telling me grandpa, instead of dad, as I talked and interacted with Nicolai. It just mentally could not be helped, for I had two grandfathers who lived to 80 plus, but a dad, who did not. I guess it was natural, but Nicolai could be my dad…

Nicolai taught me things yesterday, I learned that the fields are full of хлеб grain (bread grain and a special short type,) I learned about the monastery we live at and the monastery in the church village, I learned about the lakes that the fish are in around us and most of all I learned that listening to an old person is a wealth of information, that never should be passed up…

I taught him something and the joy was carried all the way to his arm; Russians do not wave, unless I am around. I may not smile, but I acknowledge that you are around by nodding and waving to you as I drive by. It is an old farmer tradition and I can not help it out in the country. I wave to the guys working the fish farm and have been doing it to the point that they all wave first at times. The first wave had Nikolai stunned, then as he saw everyone wave back and even smile at us at times (something Russians and I do very little of.) He started to wave and before I knew it, he waved all the way to the Big Village. He smiled like a little kid seeing a piece of candy in the store window. Nikolia waved to beat the band and we were just waving fools as we went to town. Now that was something to see… 😉

Why do we pass such information up all the time? Why do we allow them to rot in homes for the elderly?

Russians 90+ % of the time care for their elderly at home and respect them. Not always, for there is bad apples everywhere, but the elderly are revered in Russia most of the time…

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Nicolai and I tried the market of babushkas first. He got in arguments with them all, for in his eyes they were charging a price way to high; and they were in my eyes also. I stayed silent and let him argue. We left and he grumbled about rip off babushkas… 🙂

Then we went to the big store called Magnet and he was happy as a pig in a mud waller. He shopped for over an hour and during that time, I shopped, moved the car and came back to push his cart basket around, like a good kid would do. We filled a basket up with produce, canned goods, cheeses and dairy products. He had a list and he checked it twice and then a third time. Yes, he had all that he was told to get…

We left happy, fat and sassy…

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Then on the way home he told me about his family, his life and he forgot I have weak Russian and am an American. I did not even hint at the flow of words were coming to fast for me to decipher and I let him talk, for you could see it made him happy. We got to the fish village and passed through to the lakes. As we came upon a spot where the workers were pulling fish to sell, he got all excited and wanted to stop to get some fish. I gave one of my buddies a hundred rubles, without Nicolai knowing it. They told him to grab two of the biggest fish he could find in the net and Nicolai had so much fun chasing, that I swear he looked like a kid again. He tried to pay, but they said, “Net!” and Nicolai looked at me kinda funny. My fish buddy and actually one of the managers, motioned for me to grab one and with that, Nicolai and I went on our way with our prizes…

So you know, a fish is called, “рыба” Reba in Russia. Fish from these ponds is a prize worth crowing about…

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We got home with our bounty from our trip and later after the day had cooled somewhat; for it was super hot. Nicolai came over and thanked me profusely for taking him to the Big Village. I could tell he had had a blast and I will see if he wants to go every week with me. It saves them a bunch of money and I go anyway. Why not give him a chance to chatter and teach me new things?

Strange how in the village, I have brothers my age such as Vova and if we accept such things, I have a dad in the village such as Nicolai and friends of all ages, who are just plain good people…

No need to wonder why I love the village and never a reason to question why I love Russia. For I have found the home for my soul…

Post by Kyle Keeton
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“To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal!” – Henry Kissinger…

The United States has the most deceitful, treacherous and duplicitous behavior of any regime in known history. Iran as the latest instrument of deceit is starting to understand this complexity and the world should heighten their security efforts because a US attack in multiple forms is inevitable, now that the Americans have said they want to be friends with foes of the past. The issues with Cuba and Iran are just smoke to set the stage…

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Russian Federation Marine Doctrine

Vladimir Putin held a meeting to discuss the new draft of Russia’s Marine Doctrine.

The meeting took place on board the frigate Admiral of the Soviet Navy Gorshkov. Participants included Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Commander of the Navy Viktor Chirkov, and Commander of the Western Military District Anatoly Sidorov.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Colleagues, good afternoon.

We have been updating the Russian Federation’s Marine Doctrine. This very complex document’s main aim is to provide our country with an integral, consistent and effective naval policy that will protect Russia’s interests.

The Doctrine has been drafted and approved. This is a big event for our future navy, and for developing our shipbuilding industry, because the main customer – the navy in this case, and the Defence Ministry – formulate their future needs, and the industry must carry out these tasks. Industry adapts to new tasks depending on the needs formulated.

Let me note that for the first time, the Doctrine also includes provisions of a purely social nature. They cover marine medicine, and provisions for improving the health of sailors and the specialists working in the marine field. This is very important. People need to know that from now on, our strategic documents for developing our country’s fleet and navy will address the social aspect too, and will give people what they expect from their service, as they carry out the tasks that face our country today in this very complex and important area.

Let’s now discuss in more detail the Doctrine’s key provisions. Mr Rogozin, you have the floor.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin: Thank you.

Mr President,

This new draft of the Russian Federation Marine Doctrine is a fundamental document of key importance, setting out our country’s naval policy. In other words, it is one of our country’s strategic planning documents.

The Russian Government’s Marine Board undertook the document’s drafting, with the navy playing the leading role in this work. In all, 15 federal executive agencies and organisations took part in drafting the new Doctrine.

We proposed making changes to the Marine Doctrine adopted back in 2001 for the period through to 2020 for two reasons: above all, the changing international situation; and, of course, strengthening Russia’s position as a sea power.

The Marine Doctrine covers four functional areas and six regional areas. The four functional areas are naval activity, marine transport, marine science, and mineral resources development. The six regional areas are the Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific, Caspian, and Indian Ocean, and we have added Antarctica, as a fair number of events involving Antarctica have taken place of late and this region is of considerable interest to Russia.

The main focus is on two areas: the Arctic and the Atlantic. The reasons for this are the following. We emphasise the Atlantic because NATO has been developing actively of late and coming closer to our borders, and Russia is of course responding to these developments.

The second reason is that Crimea and Sevastopol have been reunited with Russia and we need to take measures for their rapid integration into the national economy. Of course, we are also restoring Russia’s naval presence in the Mediterranean.

As for the Arctic, several events motivate our decision. One is the growing importance of the North Sea Route. Mr President, I reported to you that we have begun work on building a new fleet of atomic-powered icebreakers. Three new atomic icebreakers will be ready for work accompanying ships along the northern route in 2017, 2019, and 2020. Furthermore, the Arctic also assures us free and unhindered access to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Then there are the riches of the continental shelf, the development of which calls for an attentive approach.

The Marine Doctrine pays particular attention to environmental issues too, because it is important for us not only to develop these riches, but also to preserve them for future generations.

The Marine Doctrine contains a new section on shipbuilding. This is to a large extent linked to the fact that over these last 10–15 years, we have developed a shipbuilding industry that in terms of naval shipbuilding is doing work on a scale comparable to what was happening during the Soviet period. As for civilian and commercial shipbuilding, we are taking measures to encourage the establishment of private shipbuilding companies, which have demonstrated successful results.

State management of marine activities is an important part of the Marine Doctrine. This section stresses the role of the Government’s Marine Board and clarifies the powers of the other state agencies. Essentially, once you approved the Marine Doctrine, we will be able to start drafting the whole list of planning documents for our country’s marine activities in the short, medium and long term.

That concludes my report.

Vladimir Putin: Are there any comments or questions?

Commander of the Navy Viktor Chirkov: Mr President,

Let me thank you for this Marine Doctrine’s timely drafting and approval. This is a timely document. It places responsibility on us for its future implementation, and we have already begun this process.

Vladimir Putin: Mr Sidorov, what is the situation with coordination between the army and the navy?

Commander of the Western Military District Anatoly Sidorov: Mr President, it is hard to talk about coordination when everything works as single whole and unified command. As far as the tasks before us are concerned, the Baltic Fleet is resolving everything together with the Western Military District’s forces.

Regarding the delimitation of certain powers between the naval chief command and the Western Military District’s command, there is full coordination in this area.

Vladimir Putin: Good, thank you.

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Russia is tired of NATO/USA games; Russia never threatens, they just get their ducks in order…

Post by Kyle Keeton
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Victoria, Alexander, Ruslan, Yana and Anastasia stopped by our village home yesterday and asked about the monastery. It was a fantastic opportunity for me to chit chat with Russian youth of the university levels. Victoria is a Moscow State student in Moscow and the other four are local kids from the Big Village. They are in a college somewhere probably in Ryazan near by…

Boza heard them first, for I was deep in thought working on a issue that I need to fix and he jumped up barking to let me know someone was in the yard. So Boza and I went to the door and too my surprise there were five young adults standing there and Victoria was the first to step forward and express their needs. Then as she talked, she exceeded any ability of mine to communicate properly in Russian and that does not take much. I explained that I speak English and am from America…

After a moment of total disbelief as to finding an American in a village as tiny and remote as this village and one that has such a powerful monastery (that part gets me,) and my goodness, why would an American be all the way out here? They settled down and as intelligent kids can do; they all turned on their English parameters and I told them the tale of the Monastery…

Victoria was very educated in English and Alexander was almost as educated in English. The others could with the help of those two understand what I was saying. But the point is that all five could speak and understand English to some point and as a matter of fact, they could speak better English than many Americans I had working for me in the States…

Russia has some youth that is a product of bad parents and other issues, but the five that were present with me yesterday, is a common occurrence and not just a fluke of a chance to have such an opportunity for discussion. Living in Russia, traveling by train, by car, walking and what ever, I find the the youth of Russia is vastly intelligent, very fluent in multiple languages and just plain polite, respective and good looking kids…

The kids where a mixture of pure Russian grey eyes to black as coal Asian eyes. As such their perspective races showed the same. Russian is a wonderful blend of cultures and actually the only missing link is African. They are present in Moscow some, but out in the villages like I am, blacks are non existent. Would they be accepted? Yes, very much so…

Yesterday was a perfect example of the real Russia. The Russia that I see everyday, not the Russia that you see on the news and hear about from the brother of the brother of the cousin who has a Russian friend in New York. These are the everyday Russians that pass through my life and I never am but amazed to see such intelligence and a quest for life, from young, old and all the Russian people…

They desired information about the monastery, but they held a fear of the unknown as they asked and talked about the monastery. To them and to many Russians, Orthodoxy is still a hushed word. This hold over from the Soviet era is strong and they refused to step upon the monastery grounds. For they were not properly dressed and the fear of repercussions is strong. These young adults were dress in shorts, t-shirts, hats, tennis shoes and backpacks. Normal for many in these parts, but not appropriate for a full fledged monastery. Thus, they would not go…

Therefore, I spun the tale of the Monastery and the tiny Russian Village for them. A place that even though they lived right nearby, they have never been to see, for the power of the Bell Tower over looking the valley is strong and the awakening of the monastery is starting to seep into the reaches of the villages nearby…

As the kids took off down our hill on their bikes, I could hear them chattering all the way, until they disappeared into the valley. They were on their way to see the Holy Well and tie a rag in the trees (that I gave them in five strips,) after they wiped away their sins. The laughter and chatter was akin to a bubbling brook, as it flows merrily away from you, as you stick your toes into the cool stream of flowing water…

If you allow them, youth will energize your soul and bring memories of worth to the surface…

Have a nice day…

Post by Kyle Keeton
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Sveta sent me some pictures of her Sunday in Moscow. She took her new bike and decided to cruise around and see the sights…

She found a bunch of raspberries and no one cares…

She found a lake with sun worshipers…

The bike trail is busy and last but not least dinner at our Globus. Two pieces of fish, a cup of borscht, a cup of tea and a big jelly doughnut. Now that is a meal and it cost her 213 rubles. That is about $3.58 in US money…

Tea is unlimited quantities, thus, it looks like a good deal to me and yummy also…

That is what Sveta was doing while Boza and I are slaving away at the village… 🙂

Post by Kyle Keeton
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I walked out the door this morning, later than usual, I cut grass yesterday and it was hot. The effect is to make me shut down a little longer than normal at night. So at 5:30 a.m. I finally got out the door with a cup of coffee. Boza followed me and we immediately realized that a party was going on in the newly uncovered side yard. Now you understand that these parties may have been normal until now, for I have cleared the mess that was there and they are exposed. But I also left a bucket full of water to douse an out of control fire…

I stood there staring at a water bucket surrounded by birds. Momma birds, daddy birds, baby birds, little birds, fat birds, skinny birds and just birds and birds and birds. All a scrubbing and partying to beat the band…

Then the song;

Splish, splash, I was takin’ a bath
Long about a Saturday night, yeah
A rub dub, just relaxin’ in the tub
Thinkin’ everythin’ was alright

Well, I stepped out the tub
I put my feet on the floor
I wrapped the towel around me and I
Opened the door

And then a-splish, splash
I jumped back in the bath
Well, how was I to know
There was a party goin’ on?

What a party it was!

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So in my mind became this article and how easy that nature is made happy. Little creatures big and small all know how to enjoy life, when allowed to. Life finds its ways and I have decided that humans must get back to nature or we will become lost souls on this planet. Regardless of how wonderful we think we are, we must not, can not, should not, lose touch with Mother Nature. For our beginnings are from the earth and from the earth is the only place that we can gather the necessary ingredients of life to fulfill our destiny. Inanimate objects of tech, just drain our energy and anyone who allows half a chance, will find that a stroll in the countryside, will send shivers of energy to deep recesses of your being…

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I know, for everyday, I get stronger and stronger. This is an issue to me for when I had all my heart attacks and other issues, I lost a lot of strength in my main arm, the right side to be exact. Doctors told me not to worry for I was still stronger than most people and I use to get upset at such a stupid thing to tell someone. I could care less how strong you are and they are, I just know that what use to be is no longer available to me…

This time in the village, I am feeling the change. My left arm and hand is still vastly stronger than my right and I have had to adapt certain issues to that commonness for me now. I am finer tuned with my right, but much stronger with my left…

I force myself to lift equally with the water buckets and my heart issues show up at that point; I have two 15 liter buckets when full of water and they weigh about 17 kilos full to the top. 17 kilos is about 37 pounds in America. I can lift one 90 degrees to my body with my left arm straight out from my side, but while I am able to almost do the same with my right, the right arm starts shaking and even if I get it up level, it is too short of a span of time to call it successful. The shakes and jitters really get out of control…

This is the same for my legs and other such parts of my body…

I had a special issue that cropped up when I had such multiple heart attacks, and I spent days in a special treatment that dealt with capillary blockages. Therefore, that is when is when the full discovery of how much blockage I was dealing with and thus my last stint to alter blood flow in my body was born from that moment and it worked…

But a 100% it never became, though this year, I feel a change happening and this year after the improvement from last year, the change is exponential…

All in my head or not? Does not matter, because healing is mostly from inside and I have discovered that if you want to die you will, if you want to heal you will, a majority of the time. The mind is a very powerful tool and we need to learn how to use it properly… 🙂 Good luck with that from what I see in the world…

The gods gave us what is necessary and we need to figure out how to use it all…

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Life is a bucket of water!

It really is that simple and when you watch animals rejoice in a simple bucket of water left outside for them to find, you realize how important it is. Water is the one substance that has to be pure or we all die. Water is the essence of life and without it on earth, we would cease to exist. Water is what makes our earth perfect and we better learn that tidbit of a fact…

Post by Kyle Keeton
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My neighbors; Nikolia and Larissa, are what I call kinda shy and worried about people around them. They are wonderful people, but they hide when most people approach and really hide when I approach. Thus, it has taken me all last summer and part of this one to gain their trust. I talked with the boss of the family today (always the woman,) and finally was able to connect and Kolia (short for Nikolia,) will go to town with me on Tuesday this next week…

I have to go every Tuesday to pick up dog food for Boza, special order from the pet store, then I go shopping for groceries. This week when I go at 9 a.m., I will have company… 🙂

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This year, the fact that I am an American and from the west has become mute and in the backseat. The people in the village now understand that even though I am an American and western, I am not the typical westerner. In fact I am more Russian than the city folk that wander down to our village and do nothing but party, then leave a mess behind them. Though many city folk have embraced me now as their country folk explain to them that I am okay and trustworthy…

Don’t kid yourself and think country bumpkins do not know what is going on in the world. They all have radio, TV and many internet of some type, either through their kids, grand kids or smartphones that they own. Why just the other day, I watched an old babushka messing with her new Note 4 – Samsung. She had internet and she was laughing as she watched a video on YouTube on it. It made me smile and realize that tech is a powerful tool…

My response to people when I am asked about how stupid America is; I give a thumbs down and say, “Net America!”

They then know how I feel about the way America is treating Russia and they say no more…

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The above thought brings forth something else in me…

I am fed up with millions of Americans trying to pass the blame for what our country is doing to the world. It is comment after comment and post after post and whining after whining of passing the buck. It is always, not that we should do something about the problems, just that it is not our fault that our government is so terrible. We are helpless against our governmental procedures and we are poor pathetic wards of the big bad state…

Well I am doing something about it and if all you whiners would get off your asses and start screaming about the issues. Things would change quick…

Ain’t gonna happen and soon you are going to be locked inside the borders of the USA, the bills are floating now and the gates are being locked, not against people coming into America, but leaving America…

H.R.237 – FTO Passport Revocation Act of 2015

Finance Highway Offset Summary : Nice name for something that has the power to take away your rights to leave the country…

edw15730 : Another new bill on the same subject…

Oh Well… And you all use to and still do point fingers at East Germany, Russia, North Korea and many many more countries and the exact same thing is happening to us as we watch TV and all its propaganda trash…

Now I feel better and you of the 4000 to 5000 people who will read this article have no reason to play the blame game, for you are to blame, just as I am. If you saw how many innocent people I killed in the name of freedom, liberty and righteousness. Then you would crawl into a hole somewhere and hide. We invade and we kill ruthlessly…

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50 onions medium sized are drying and curing at this moment. I have 10 little ones that I will eat in the next few days. They would have been better in size, but the weather went cold and they said, “We are done!”

The beets are relishing in the cool weather and I hope that they will grow another few weeks. They are getting big and I want to make sure that they do not get woody and tough. They are beautiful…

The carrots are short and fat, but good. I am going to pull them this week and eat a huge carrot salad, just like what I call a Korean Carrot Salad…

Our apples suck, the whole village is apple poor. What apples we got were riddled with worms and this is as far away as I can walk and see. The apples this year, just plain suck. Did I say the apples suck? Plums are non existent, unless you count two or three shriveled green things on the trees. There is a small round plum, but yuck, it is terrible…

Trees have to rest some years and after the bumper crops produced last year, I can see why. But still, I have enough apples to munch on for me, myself and I; so eat my apple a day, keeps the doctor away! Oh a banana also helps in that area… 🙂

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Bells are ringing today and the people walk up the hill to the monastery today. It is a Orthodox holiday of some kind and the flock is gathering. It is pleasant to the eyes and ears as the families, from children to the aged make their way up the hill. I have to get a couple of bench seats installed for these older people to rest as they climb our terribly steep hill. The kids dance up the hill, the teenagers skip up the hill, the parents walk up the hill and grandma and grandpa inch their way up the hill with help from the others…

It is as it should be, but why do we have to get old?

Have a nice day…

Post by Kyle Keeton
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The other day the power company came out and finished the job of installing power poles. Three to be exact; now I should explain that the infrastructure of the village is non to barely existent and we rely upon ourselves and others nearby for help on important issues. Power goes out, we fix it ourselves…

Until this year; the power company has now been rebuilding our electrical infrastructure. Our line of the electrical trunk is now 100% concrete poles and totally new wire. Why before all this we even had one pole so rotted out, that we had to lay a thin pine tree stripped of its limbs and wire it against that pole, buried in the ground to keep our electricity on…

Other words, we made our own telephone pole and make shifted (called nigger rigging in my world) it to at least have some mimeograph of a power supply…

I feel blessed and modernization of our electrical system is the only issue that I care to make sure is up to date and I know the village people are very happy and satisfied with the electrical lattice in place now…

I am… 🙂

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Yesterday I was having a conversation with a man who is a college professor in Moscow, he speaks good English and is very intelligent. His wife is a English teacher in a university also in Moscow and it is nice to be able to communicate in English to have a discussion. I also feel better having someone near, who can better understand me if an accident happens. My Russian is weak and when I have to get excited, I just forget it all in a hand basket…

He told me that he is here to heal! I am gathering that he has had some health issues and he has been down in the dumps over it. While he did not tell specifics and asking is not the way it is done here, for fear of being rude and nosy. I picked up pieces of conversation and realized that he must of had an operation of some type. Thus he is good, but not a 100%…

We talked about how being in the village heals you and it has to do with air quality, water quality and most of all, the monastery is a healing monastery from the female monastery beginnings. Russians are superstitious and believe things like that; but as I have found out, the monastery has healing properties and I even keep a brick and a tile from the original buildings in the village home…

Maybe I am full of it and it is all mental attitude, but who cares? For if it works, do not mess with it and I am simply in great shape now mentally and physically…

I have also watched this intelligent, wonderful and wise man; go from sitting in the shade and staring lifelessly; to mowing his grass and digging in the garden again and he says, “Thank the Good Lord for giving my health back!”

I said a silent prayer for him right then and then this morning, awhile ago, as I walked Boza and we walked across the crest of an old sand dune, overlooking the valley of the Para River. I realized that God speaks in may ways and many styles; you have to find the way for you to get in touch with him. You do not even have to really believe all that strongly in him, just allow a little touch of sanity to get to you and you will find that life flows in a more unified pattern all on its own…

I am not a religious man by any means, but I do believe that we are all here on earth as a byproduct of intervention from a higher source. I do believe that we need to have some enlightenment and even if it is in our head, that direction is always there and we need to tap it to get our lives together…

Religious in one particular sect, I am not a believer, but believing in spirituality, soul and power of healing in many forms, I do accept…

There are things above and beyond our understand in our infancy period, we will either survive this infantile times or be destroyed. If we survive, we may become something wonderful, maybe something that only God can see at this stage of our existence…

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Now I am tearing the other side yard apart. I am saving the back for last, for it has too many surprises in store for me and I have to be very careful in the back. I am finishing the fence around the home and to do that, you have to clean first. What you see is a huge difference from what was there; I am going to plant white lilacs and currant bushes. In a few days I will fence the back side of this section and I have an idea for separation of yard and garden, in my mind at least for now. I am running out of decent fence posts and really need to go cut some in the next week or so…

The fire is a spot that we had a huge terrible cherry tree. It had no flavor and few cherries. I remember Vova’s face a few weeks ago as he grabbed some of the cherries and tried to eat them. He spit them out and made terrible faces. I laughed and laughed…

One thing that is starting to become prevalent to me; the more I clear. The more yard I have to keep trimmed… 🙂 Oops…

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This is peacefulness at its finest…

I work, he rests and guards the yard…

Now that is life at its finest…

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That is it for today; I am going to take it easy, lots of people in the village this weekend and it is time to relax and enjoy the fruits of my labor to this point…

Have a nice day…

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Pilot Program will Begin in US Pacific Command  by John Stanton

In an exclusive interview with General Joseph Dunford, likely to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 1 October 2015, he discussed the Pentagon’s newest and boldest program: The Aquatic Terrain System (ATS). “Look. With a successful ATS we could joint-operate with Black Sea Sprat and F-&^% with Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. But first we have to understand the way they operate and what they want in return for working with us. It’s a plus-plus situation. That same logic applies wherever there is water. Did you know that 70 percent of the Earth is water? I’m going to push Northern Command to get going with ATS with a focus on the Great Lakes and the Mississippi. The Longnose Sucker, for example, is a real force multiplier, you know. We can work with them here and in Russia. And who doesn’t know about Catfish in the Mississippi? We’ll get it going in Pacific Command because there is a lot of water out there and a lot of different cultures. Imagine if we had this going full steam ahead in the Indian Ocean. We’d have found that Malaysian airliner by now. There is so much good that will come out of this. We are thinking a Marine Corps three-ocean-war kind of thing, like the land base three-block-war. You know we’ve got to stop killing off all the marine species…We can’t achieve full spectrum dominance without them.”

According to Pentagon officials, the Aquatic Terrain System has been “stood-up” with initial funding base of $70 billion. Lessons learned during the US Army’s land-based Human Terrain System (LBHTS), a program valued at nearly $1 billion (deemed a stunning success by independent auditors like Horowitz, Dearing, Lee and Metz) will provide “lessons-learned, baseline, jump off points, sort of like a diving board for the ATS, so that we don’t have to have catastrophic growing pains until success is created, because we saw what went on with LBHTS” said one unnamed official in SECDEF Ashton Carter’s office who did not want to be quoted for this piece due to the sensitivity of the matter. When asked to clarify the statement, the Pentagon official said “it speaks for itself.”

A US Army Civil Affairs official, speaking way off the record, was asked to comment on the ATS. He stated, “F-&^%! the ATS and F-*&^%! the LBHTS. All that F-*&^#$@! cash should have come our way. Our people could be trained to do that stuff and, besides, we’ve got a long history dealing with other cultures dating back to WWII. SOF doesn’t need a F-*&^^% new tool, they’ve got it in us. We just need to be sharpened up a bit for the specific tasks. Dealing with marine life as a cultural paradigm? Are you F-^%%$ kidding me. Well, orders are orders I guess. The same kind of people that wanted to test a nuke on the moon during the Cold War are back….S-#@#! They never left. Here…Here is an image for you: All those F-&^^%$! Academics and Contractors that suck onto this thing are like those, what? Those fish that suck on sharks. WTF!!! And some of them liken themselves to Vietnam Vets! I think I’ll go to Crimea!!!”

“Think about how critical ATS is to the security of the United States,” said an official with knowledge of the program who holds two PhD’s and once worked in a LBHTS reach-back center in the basement of a church in Ellis, Kansas. The double-plus PhD, in an off-the-record interview, who now bills hourly to Front Page Magazine and the National Defense University, and claims he will play a key role in ATS, said in an interview conducted on a bleached picnic table on an arid, windy day in the cozy community.

“Almost 70 percent of the Earth is water. Did you know that? Thanks to LBHTS in Afghanistan and Iraq and Africa, we’ve got a pretty good idea about how to infiltrate groups and coerce stinky men, women and children into giving up the identities and locations of bad people. If that doesn’t work we just bribe them with US dollars. Anyway, we are going to apply the same methodologies to the indigenous cultures and inhabitants of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers of the world.”

According to unnamed sources in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the funding for ATS will also come from the National Oceanic and Space Administration (NOAA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), and the newly established Clinton-Bush Foundation (CBF). “Austerity has been a real blessing for ATS,” said an accountant with OMB, “We’ve been able to use savings on federal programs that were used to support unemployed and impoverished Americans for ATS. I mean, that sounds kind of bad, but think about it: If we don’t understand and secure the aquatic environment, those out of work and starving would lose their freedom of choice and could be killed in an attack.”

ATS has the support of members of the Research Universities Futures Consortium (RUFC) whose website states, “Collectively the universities of the Consortium have annual research expenditures of more than $11 billion which includes external grants and contracts as well as self-funded research, and educates thousands of students in all fields.” A representative of one of the universities stated that of the 29 top American research universities, all 29 are shifting their priorities to oceanography and marine biology. The anonymous representative went on: “The next president is going to roll out the whole-of-government, whole-of-society Fish Analysis and Counter-Terrorism strategy (FACT). We will be working with our Mammalian Allies in the Ocean (MAO) to more effectively utilize the aquatic identify-kill-pacify chain (AQIKPC). We finally were able to stand-up an acronym in honor of Chairman Mao—MAO—that really defines what we are trying to do here.”

On a gray, damp, misty day aboard a NOAA vessel, rolling to and fro–and bobbing up and down–on the distressed Atlantic Ocean, a NOAA official and I sat comfortably inside the crew lounge discussing ATS. She was candid. “Look, the Pentagon has all the cash. They are not accountable no matter how much cash goes down the tubes. And besides, there is no such thing as taxpayer money, it is all printed, fiat #$%^. NOAA will play this ATS card to get as much cash as it can. Half of our money goes to fund spy ships that track Chinese and Russian vessels. If we can get some cash to do some actual marine biology, we are all for it. There is a lot of water out here and, well, this FACT **&&^%$# may have something to it. If a Corporation can be a person, why not a Fish? They have cultures too. I’m not talking about our mammal friends, we already have got them on our side. It’s the coral, sharks, sting rays and even mollusks that we’ve got to understand.”

ATS, like LBHTS, has its detractors though they are hard to find. Even so, two academics, one from the West Coast and one from the East Coast of the United States spoke on condition of anonymity as they are employed by two of the 29 research universities identified above and feared reprisals from university administrators beholden to federal funding. The two academics are part of a structure that is viewed Horowitz, Dearing, Lee and Metz as “left wing” Marxist, communist hippies who don’t like the military and, in particular, LBHTS and, now ATS.

“Come on!” said one of the academics incredulously. “The aquatic human terrain? Lessons learned from the LBHTS? It is insane but here we are I guess. How can you argue against $70 billion? It’s LBHTS all over again! And now I hear from insiders that there is a new professional association being created to siphon off pro-torture and pro-ATS, LBHTS people from the anthropology and psychological associations like APA and AAA. My sources tell me the money is going to come from the Pentagon and be funneled through the Clinton Bush Foundation. It sounds unethical but what else are non-profits for? The new association is supposedly going to be named Aquatic Land Terrain System Association. On the practical side, I guess it does make sense in terms of national security and the social sciences, and what-not.”

Asked for clarification, the other academic said, “If you had a PhD in anthropology and done field work you’d understand exactly what I’m saying. If you haven’t studied it and been there you just can’t understand.”

When indicating to the academic from the East Coast that this is the same condescending argument used by the military from its God-blessed perch to brush off pesky inquiry that challenges, the academic replied, “No it isn’t! And besides, who is going to listen to you, you are just some blogger.”

John Stanton is a Virginia based writer. Reach him at captainkong22@gmail.com

Warning: Satirical Piece on Human Terrain…