Windows to Russia
Actually all I can say is, “Oh Wow!”
Sveta fired up the computer, since we do not have a TV and got TV online and we spent three hours watching the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia…
It was a packed house and it was very impressive to watch…
All I can say is, “Oh Wow!”
It was really that good?
A resounding, “Yes!”
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
So it is true that America has intentionally meddled in Ukraine!
I will say it! Now, “I told you so!” I talked about this years ago and got blocked by Ukraine and attacked by US governmental sites after I told you all what I knew from conversations within the American Embassy in Ukraine…
Try the link below and see what I think about the US Embassy in Ukraine. Almost 4 years ago I talked about the meddling…
http://windowstorussia.com/pickpocket-we-all-think-that-it-will_2958.html
U.S. Blames Russia for Leaking Profane Call – Top State Department Official Apologizes for Profane Comment
The U.S. strongly suspects Russian involvement in the leak of a recording of a top diplomat referring profanely to America’s allies,comments that lay bare growing frustrations between the U.S. and Europe as they try to forge a solution to the political crisis in Ukraine. U.S. officials didn’t dispute the authenticity of a recording in which U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, speaking to another U.S. diplomat last…
But! The USA is the one who did this and trying to point fingers at someone else is really a childish thing to do! (He did it! He did it! He did it!)
The USA blames Russia for telling the world that we did such a thing in Ukraine and that it really is okay to try to destroy Ukraine, it is not okay to tell the world that the USA is a piece of crap that is trying to undermine Ukraine and her internal and external affairs…
As far as Russia putting the video online? So what! After all that America is doing and just keeps on doing. I say, “Good job Russia!” It also pays back for the stupid Toothpaste bomb deceleration right before the Olympics. Something that has been known for many years is now brought out as a scare tactic…
I guess Russia has to play those games also and get on the same play ground as America. This became prevalent after the media attacks and lies over the Georgian conflict that Georgia started and the USA instigated…
I say, as I sigh a deep sigh, “The USA is so pathetic and really people, It is time to disband the US government and start over!”
This time we can try to do it right…
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
The word on the street in Russia, Ukraine, Europe and in the USA, is that $20,000,000 dollars a week are being dropped into the hands of Ukraine opposition and the word is that America wants to give a whole bunch more of our tax money to buy off the Ukraine government…
The video I posted yesterday (Link) has driven America and her games into the street and now it looks as though since they have been caught with the hand in the cookie jar, they are too stupid to go away, they will act like they are right in what they do and try to bribe everyone involved…
America is that upset that Russia has helped Ukraine out of a bad situation, that the USA has to try to destroy Ukraine internally and externally…
Shame America has no friends in the world, but they have a lot of paid for, fair weather puppets in the wings and they will bite the hand that can not feed them anymore. One day my friend…
I will keep this updated as I see information come out about it…
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Windows to Russia…
This plain pisses me off! This is a discussion on Ukraine and the issues…
Those talking are Victoria Nuland (the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State) and the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoff Pyatt…
I really like the part “$%#@ the EU!” So stylish, on tape…
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Windows to Russia…
Couple of traditions that I see everyday and live with everyday in Russia. These as other traditions are very important to the Russians…
1. When I first met Sveta, I called her a woman and she took offense at that. She said, “I am a girl not woman!”
I got in trouble! 🙂
Of course being from America and having been beat to death with the fact that calling a female a girl if they were not a small child, was not in my vocabulary. I realized that my life had big adjustments and those adjustments went back in time for me. For we called girls – girls back in my day…
Why in Russia it is common to hear in a restaurant, “Hey Girl!” as a table needs service…
In Russia it is considered appropriate and really an insult to call a girl anything but a girl! (Except maybe a respected very elderly Babushka!)
Now think about that a second and read on to the next tradition for today…
2. When Russians eat a meal, they will sit down, eat, and talk a bunch. Then they will talk some more. Then they will talk some more and if the night or day is early or not pressing for time, they will talk some more…
Sveta and I talk at every meal that we sit down to and even the snacks are a talking session. To a Russian all meals are the time to communicate and meals are in the kitchen. not in the bedroom or living room. Meals are not in front of a TV or out of a TV Dinner. Meals are homemade and soups…
So I was use to a world that ran ran ran and I discovered the world that I lost in Russia…
A meal time is for family, communication and enjoyment…
Both of these traditions are prevalent from my past and no longer accomplished in America where I came from. As a young um we called girls, girls and we ate a a table in the kitchen or dinning room and talked about the day, how ever either way the day was coming or going…
So I have relearned to eat and talk and call a girl a girl…
Fine by me and it is definitely more comfortable because of traditions like this in Russia…
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Windows to Russia…
I tried! I really tried to work with a netbook and until today, I had wished I never bought it. I really tried to find the good and tried to say nice things about it and tried to love it. It was worthless as you know what on a fleas, you know what…
It stunk and grew to hate the little machine with a passion…
Then as I looked at it sitting in the corner and crying the other day. An idea came to me and it was while I was cursing at a Samsung Galaxy Note, “Why not put Android on the netbook and see if it flies?”
So I gave one more shot at “Love” for the little piece of crap…
I am not going to tell you how to do it, but I will tell you what to get…
1. Flash drive at least a gig…
2. Unetbootin download…
3. android-x86-4.3-20130725.iso download
Google and look for how too installation sites. Then install. To rewrite all that is on the net is plain stupid and there is a bunch of how-to’s on this subject…
Now I will tell you a couple of issues that I had or still have…
1. Had to reboot 5 times before the system accepted all the initial data. Like time, name, Google stuff and all the things that Android asks before finishing your phone. looks like it was upset at missing internal issues, but it came around and I just rebooted as it froze and it was good, 5 times later…
2. Can’t wake the damn thing from sleeping. I have tried everything and it will not wake up, after it goes to the lock screen and turns the screen off. So remove lock screen and screen awake to 30 minutes and I am happy…
I have working Play Store and most any app I want. It is cool and it uses the internal mouse pad or plug a mouse in and it is just as happy. WIFI worked right out of the box…
Yes I love my EEE PC again and it is one huge android phone with no reception…
So grab that terrible netbook and grab a mouse while you are at it. Then experiment on a day off. It is serious fun and works like a champ…
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
P.S. – I did use Puppy Linux on a flash setup and clean and reformat the whole hard disk. I figured that would be the easiest way. But if you want to keep Windows around? The installer allows you to keep and boot Windows also…
I was out of milk and another cup of coffee just was not going to happen, unless I had my milk. I had to walk the dog and he suggested to “Buy milk while we were out…”
Oh yes he did! Find any excuse to get out of the house and he uses it… 🙂
So I interrupted a Android Net-book conversion, a website rebuild, my latest book rewriting and went to get milk with dog in tow…
Wallah we have milk! 1 liter sitting on shelf…
These machines are everywhere and I like them. But there is another way to get milk, actually two more, but one is in a market and I was not in the mood today. So I saw behind the milk barn place…
I was in no mood for that also (The line was wrapped around the back of the truck and all the way to the main road! ) and even less in the mood when I got near them and saw that the price on the sign was only 10 rubles less than what I paid total and I paid for a bottle also. These people want you to have your own bottle and I prefer a sanitized bottle…
Besides, when the big milk truck is there, I do not have to wait at the little milk barn…
Have a nice day! “and” Oh! Did you get your delicious raw milk today?
I did!
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Windows to Russia…
Get the cure before you become part of the swarm.
Antidote #1: The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Astra Taylor, Metropolitan Books, 2014.
Antidote #2: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press’ Semiotext(e) Intervention Series: Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity, Gerald Raunig; The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance, Franco Bernardi; Theory of the Young Girl, Tiqqun; and The Agony of Power, Jean Baudrillard.
Antidote #3: Global Interdependence-
“A network is a plurality of organic and artificial beings of humans and machines who perform continuous actions thanks to procedures that make possible their interconnection and interpretation. If you do not adapt to these procedures, if you don’t follow the technical rules of the games, you are not playing the game. If you don’t react to certain stimuli in the programmed way you don’t form part of the network. The behavior of persons in a network is not aleatory because the network implies and predisposes pathways for the networked.
A swarm is a plurality of living beings whose behavior follows (or seems to follow) rules embedded in their neural systems. Biologists call a swarm a multitude of animals of similar size and bodily orientation moving together in the same direction and performing actions in a coordinated way….In conditions of social Hypercomplexity human beings tend to act like a swarm. When the Infosphere is too dense and too fast for conscious elaboration of information, people tend to conform to shared behavior…In a broader sense we may say that in the digital age power is about making things easy. In a Hypercomplex environment that cannot be properly understood and governed by the individual mind, people will follow simplified pathways and will use complexity reducing machines.
This is why social behavior today seems to be trapped in regular and inescapable patterns of interaction. Technolinguistic procedures, financial obligations, social needs and Pyschomedia invasion: all this machinery is framing the field of the possible and incorporating common cognitive processes in the behavior of social actors. In a swarm it is not impossible to say no. But it is irrelevant. You can express your refusal, your rebellion but it is not going to change the direction of the swarm nor is it going to affect the way the swarm’s brain is elaborating information.” (Bernardi)
If everybody jumped off a bridge, would you too? In the future human beings may not even be cognizant of having jumped off a bridge or understand why they think and act the way they do.
The “bridge jump” line is one of the favored of parent’s when dealing with their offspring who want to follow the pack. “Think”, the parents say. “Look before you leap!” The advice is sound, of course, and the point is that there is, or should be, a conscious, contemplative and critical choice that the youngster can make: run with the pack and court trouble or break away. This is time tested advice that both today’s youth and adults seem to forget.
The key words here are conscious, contemplative, critical and choice. The words and concepts they represent are disappearing in today’s overhyped 21st Century. The cyber/virtual swarm is advancing rapidly and is absorbing and re-territorializ
The theology of the moment in many parts of the globe is the faith and belief in the development and realization of a sort of technologically driven Nirvana where everyone and everything will be connected and interconnected via the Internet, World Wide Web and mobile devices. Interdependencie
It is believed and proclaimed by the high priests at Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Wall Street–and US government technocrats–tha
That’s not happening for women and minorities though, particularly in the world of the techno-priesthoo
Mountains of E-Waste on the Ground
The sales pitch by technocrats, venture capitalists, financiers, engineers, politicians and alternative media is far more suspect, complex, violent and environmentally unsound than they, and the New and Mainstream Media. care to publicize. They keep a close hold on the fact that a public internet does not exist and that purity drives the manufacture of the communications infrastructure.
As Taylor points out “There is no such thing as a public internet: everything flows through private pipes …The weightless rhetoric of digital technology masks a refusal to acknowledge the people and resources on which these systems depend: lithium and coltan mines, energy-guzzling data centers and server farms, suicidal workers at Apple’s Foxconn factories, and women and children in developing countries and incarcerated Americans up to their necks in toxic electronic waste…It is estimated that mining the gold necessary to produce a single cell phone—only one mineral of many required for the finished product—produces upwards of 220 pounds of waste…In the United States data centers account for approximately 2 percent of the country’s energy consumption and climbing with each center guzzling as much electricity as a small town and the power overwhelmingly provided by the burning of coal, a cheap but filthy fuel source.
And so our mountains of e-waste grow three times faster than the piles of regular garbage accumulating all around us. Hundreds of millions of still-functionin
The 21st Century Gods of the Anthropocence at Apple, Verizon, Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street Journal and the Office of the US President make feeble attempts to dip their toes into the mixed history of technological wizardry like railroads, the telegraph and undersea cables. No private or public concern wants to talk about the grimy backdrop to it all. The awful reality of pulling the globe together in the 1800’s, for example, was the destruction of localities rich in plant life and, sometimes, indigenous peoples and their languages and cultures. All of which was wiped out for the sake of a 60 second telegraph message. Today the value of destruction is a 15 second “text”.
“As entrepreneurs raced to lay oceanic telegraphic cables during the second half of the 19th Century, the demand rose sharply for a natural rubber like substance called gutta-percha which could protect electric lines from sweater corrosion. Found in Southeast Asia…the gutta-percha boom deforested land and changed the power of relationships and living patterns of nearby people. This ravaging of specific Southeast Asian forestland enabled both a European centered revolution and also a global network of connectivity. It helped draw people together even as it created inequalities. Thinking simultaneously about the forest dwellers living locally and the near instantaneous telegraphy which obliterated space and time helps suggest the many unpredictable relationships within this era’s local, national, imperial, international and transnational networks of people, goods and ideas…Such networked processes epitomize the invisible and irregular currents of global change within transitional space during this period and they foreshadow the complexities of power that would characterized the late 20th Century and beyond.”
Techno-Corporati
The Pentagon and the National Security Agency are pilloried for designing and executing doctrine that seeks to shape and alter the geopolitical landscape in favor of US interests, whether in or out of cyberspace. These national security precedents are located in so many words in the Constitution of the United States.
President Obama, just like every other prior American president, has been very clear about how the United States will use its instruments of national power (diplomatic, informational, military, economic, financial, law enforcement, intelligence and its people) to ensure the country’s preeminence on the planet no matter who or what gets in the way. “The United States will protect its people and advance our prosperity irrespective of the actions of any other nation…”
In short the US national security apparatus states very publicly, and in readily available policy and doctrinal online documents, exactly what they intend and, in the main, how they are going implement strategy and tactics ( for example the President’s National Security Strategy and the Pentagon’s National Military Strategy). That’s not the case with Facebook, Yahoo, or AT&T and their legions of marketers, propagandists and hired academics. Their policy, doctrine and user data/trends are all labeled “corporate proprietary” even as they seek to manipulate individual and collective consumers through marketing practices (now based on the latest neuroscience) to adopt the latest clothing fashion or tune in to a new television sitcom.
Techno-corporati
The 21st Century Cyber Magnates have built on practices and visions based on 19th and early 20th Century corporate and industrialist practices endorsed by both representative and fascist governments alike and an enthralled and fascinated public. There is a key difference though: Cyber Industrialists now have the manipulative neuroscientific tools and the medium to go far beyond the dismal education of the past to legitimize the clearing of forests, the pollution the oceans, and the suppression and mechanization of creativity and ideas.
The 21st Century Robber Barons/Mind Thieves now have the technological, social and financial capital to clear-cut axons, dendrites, neurons, genes and, consequently, conscious life to make way for global conformity/obedi
“I’m so happy I could give a shit about being free!” (Tiqqun)
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The Russians had this man figured out at the get go and he tried to play the games that the US wanted him to play, but Russia was on him like a “Fly on Stink!”
I have to say that as I pointed out many months ago, “He was wrong for the position!” He had no desire to work properly with Russia and he had no desire to be here in the first place. Russia knew this and Russia immediately went after him. He walked into Russia and showed weakness and a lack of respect and hence he never had a chance…
Lets see what I posted in the past:
Here is something that I wrote awhile back…
The newly-appointed U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul came to Russia and instead of going to work and meeting the Kremlin, he immediately called together the Russian opposition and the opposition media and had a meeting. He seemed to have forgotten why he came to Russia! Or did he?
A long time ago I named McFaul, The McFart, because there always was a bad smell in the room when he appeared. It looks like that nickname holds true and this is the person that America sent to Russia, to continue the reset…
Looks more like he was sent to Russia to continue the payoff of the opposition and reignite the games of politics. I know that Russia is on to him and his stink and I really do not think that unless he changes his attitude and tactics that he will last long…
He has a past with Russia that may catch up to him. His ties with Yeltsin have deep roots…
I did not mix words and even try to give McFaul a benefit of the doubt. I knew him from the past and I knew why he was in Russia. He has played games for months here and I really though he was smarter than to come to the enemies territory. He must of had some serious debt to pay back to someone in the States…
Michael McFaul wrote in his Twitter that he will quit the post of US Ambassador to Russia soon after the Sochi Olympics.
I thought Twittering a goodbye, it was a fitting end for McFaul!
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Windows to Russia…
When Sveta and I travel there are certain things that must be done. Things that are more important than anything else. Sveta taught me these things early on and we make sure we do them. Two important traditions below…
1. After packing and getting everything ready to leave out the door on a trip, especially a trip that goes a long ways. You must stop and sit down…
The sitting last about a minute and during that time you relax your mind and soul. You may ask,”What is wrong?”
Nothing is wrong, Russians sit for a minute, no matter how pressed for time you are and they sit. You most likely will find you have forgotten something and during that minute of sitting, you remembered. Just like you remember as you ride off in the taxi and then it is too late to go back to get it…
So even if the taxi is honking, the passengers are grumbling and or you are running too hard. You must stop and sit before leaving out the door.
That is a Russian tradition…
2. When the airplane lands safely at the destination. Russians clap and cheer. This is the other end of the stopping and thinking at the beginning. This is the point that you do not have to think and hope the gods protect you. This is the point that you show happiness and you understand that the gods protected you…
The first time that I traveled out of Russia and was on an aircraft with a hundred other Russians. When we landed a thousand miles away. The Russians started to jump around, clap their hands and cheer. I was shocked!
That was when I found out that clapping at the very least was extremely important and I guess psychologically it is pertinent…
I gathered after all these years that Russians are very superstitious and just like they all carry an Orthodox icon picture in their cars (As I do also!), you appease the gods no matter whether it is true or not…
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Windows to Russia…
