Windows to Russia

In the Russian Village it is only one way when it comes to men and women. The men are up very early and the women sleep as long as they possibly can. Sveta and I are the same way and when our women leave us alone, then we get up even earlier. Today as I walked the village it was no different and as I was nodding and saying dobroe utro (good morning) to the locals in the village, I realized that they were all men and older men like me. That gave me a thought for today and here I am writing about it, over a cup of coffee…

Oh, it was 6 am for those that are wondering what time it was that I was walking…

Han Ximin

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SHENZHEN officially signed a deal yesterday with Beijing Institute of Technology and Romonosov Moscow State University for the cooperative China-Russia University, which will be built at Universiade New Town in Longgang District.

With the expertise of the two universities combined, the Shenzhen campus will cultivate talent required for cultural, educational and technological exchanges between China and Russia as part of a strategic cooperation plan between the two countries.

This morning a new load of beams was delivered to the Ukrainians working on the bell tower. They have installed new beams in two complete floors of the bell tower and they are working on the third today. They have used all the bricks lying around and have rebuilt walls all over the place inside the bell tower. They are three-quarters of the way to the top and it looks like roofing will start before long, for I am sure they want to get a roof on it before winter to keep the new floors from being ruined…

Everyday somewhere between 40 to 50 times a day, a single biplane transverses the sky. It is different in color and style, but it is always a biplane. Now we are located on a jet flight path, but they are way up in the sky and these biplanes are sometimes just above our heads…

Boza and I again are bachelors and we are sad bachelors!

Sveta left the Russian village last night back to the big city and bright lights. Moscow is just too big for me, but Sveta was born there and her son who is getting married on August 14th, 2014, is there and needs her to help him get ready with the finishing touches…

I am not a good photographer and never will be. I have too much damage done to my system over the years by wars, fighting and illnesses. I shake too bad and reflexes are shot, but that never stops me from trying and I caught these images that came out pretty clear…

The heron was standing on a pole driven into the lake bed. He posed just long enough for Sveta to get a few shots of him as he was bathed in the last rays of the evening sun…

He obliged and then flew away to what he considered safer territory. For we all know a Russian woman and her camera is dangerous… 🙂

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

“Piss into the sea, you will find it in your salt!” said by a monk in Cambodia…

I was told this in answer to a question I asked many years ago and the answer fits more so nowadays than then. Iraq is what I was thinking about this morning as I sipped a wonderful cup of coffee and the fact that we have started to bomb Iraq again after declaring the war over many times. I never accepted this “War Over” aspect and have stated a hundred times many places, just as on this website, “I thought we said the war was over in Iraq?”

Well; didn’t we say it was over?

I asked the monk on a beautiful overlook at the sea, “What happens when we (U.S.) run home and leave our waste behind?”

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Oh how Iraq now once again fits that answer multiples of times and then so does Korea, China, Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, Guatemala (again), Congo, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Guatemala (again), Grenada, Lebanon, Libya 1986, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Panama, Iraq 1991, Kuwait, Somalia, Bosnia, Sudan, Afghanistan 1998, Yugoslavia, Yemen, Iraq 1991-2003, Iraq 2003-present, Afghanistan 2001-present, Pakistan 2007-present, Somalia (again), Yemen (again) and Libya to name what I remember…

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“Piss into the sea, you will find it in your salt!”

Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…

Snowden does not get an asylum permit, he bypasses all that and gets temporary citizenship in Russia for three years. Then he can apply for permanent residence and become a Russian citizen. This is what I am doing for the long-term also and staying for life in Russia is the goal…

Several years ago in India, the Agni-V was launched from a site off India’s east coast and took about 20 minutes to hit its target somewhere near Indonesia in the Indian Ocean. The missile has a range of more than 5,000km (3,100 miles), potentially bringing targets in a huge chunk of the world within focus. This was interesting to me while I drank a cup of coffee this morning. It actually stands out like a sore thumb and yet no one hardly has a fit about India and nuclear missiles…

Now I could careless that India is trying to protect itself and develop Nuclear tipped missiles. In fact I am all for the whole world having them. If one can have them, than all can have them and the only way that anyone can say you can not have them, is if you do not have them. Other words all countries have the same rights as any other country and the only answer is to remove all nuclear weapons from all countries. Other words it just ain’t gonna happen because some countries like having the ability to blow the crap out of you and all you can do back is to spit at them, in comparison…