Friend of the BLOTT Jake Broe today describes the BRICS summit. BRICS is ostensibly a trade organizations for countries who can’t get in to the G7 (due to those pesky democracy requirements). But eagle-eyed Jake notices something that may be a KGB/FSB/GOP secret communication. An excerpt from Jake’s YouTube video of 10/24/2024 (below): Fun starts […]
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On August 6th, 2024, Ukraine made a well-planned incursion into Kursk. The Kursk Oblast (or state) is an 11,582 sq. mile area that borders eastern Ukraine. It has a population of just over a million, and has been populated since the last ice age. Eduard Mykhailovych Moskaliov (Ukrainian: Едуард Михайлович Москальов; born 22 December 1973) […]
On his birthday, UC#3 shared with us his admiration for monolithic concrete structures. We had brunch at Rudder Tower. They had some dining room set up at the top floor – was a fave for parental units when they visited. I will note Rudder Tower at A&M and the Stalin Seven Sister Towers are widely […]
In the United States, one guy – ONE GUY – has hijacked our foreign policy. By holding up a simple vote for Ukraine, Mike Johnson is causing profound suffering and death in Ukraine, single-handily destabilizing Europe, and causing our allies to wonder where we have lost our way. There are many theories why Johnson is […]
Russian Implicated in Olympic Scandal And of Course…. How Did an Alleged Russian Mobster End Up on Trump’s Red Carpet? And here’s a coincidence: The guy was indicted for being part of a global gambling ring run out of Trump Tower. [Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov] since being indicted in the United States a decade earlier for allegedly […]
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Saskatchewan Soviet
The buzz this week is about (aboot) a Saskatchewan family that moved to Russia to escape woke-ism, gays, freedom of speech, etc. Things are not going well. The universe can often speak to us in unique and mysterious ways. Other times, if answers our questions by laughing in our faces. That was the case with […]
Wildberries – the Amazon of Russia A fire has broken out at a warehouse in St. Petersburg, days after workers were involved in a brawl at the site, with arson a suspected cause. Despite the encroaching flames, a guard continued to inspect the workers to make sure they were not stealing anything, Baza added. Eventually, […]
Russia is having trouble keeping the lights on. I remember the optimism of the late ’90s, when we naively thought that Russia would be a grown-up country, we would all work together to make the world a more stable place, we could turn our nuclear swords into nuclear plowshares[2]. But greed and lust for power […]
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Baymak, Siberia
In a town of 17,710 people, 10,000 came out to protest the sentencing of an anti-war activist. The protesters were armed with snowballs. The goon squad was armed to the teeth. The unrest on Wednesday – one of the largest reported demonstrations since the war in Ukraine began in 2022 – erupted amid the trial […]
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Friendship Bridge
The Korea–Russia Friendship Bridge is a rail bridge over the Tumen River. It was commissioned in 1959 as a replacement for a temporary wooden bridge. Located immediately downstream from the China–North Korea–Russia tripoint, the bridge is the sole crossing point on the 17 km long North Korea–Russia border. Planks are laid between the tracks making […]