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I was sipping that morning cup of coffee and realized that humans have just put a real hurt on things in this last few years or so (OK, so maybe the last thousand years or so!). What, between the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Those two escapades alone have evenhandedly affected the world in a downward direction…

The repercussions are unknown still from the Gulf oil spill (and that does not look good) and we are just starting to see the beginnings of the effects of Fukushima. These are literally the largest environmental disasters ever on earth and it is starting to show. One more disaster may break the camels back…

I am not even caring about the financial effect. That is all a game because the financial world is a farce anyway and we should all know that by now… (Though the financial will affect what I see as most important.)

I am talking about the food crises that seems to be looming ahead on the horizon. These two events alone have put a real hurt on fishing and food production in the world…

I know that the whole world has been polluting and destroying the planet forever (Including Russia big time!) and we seem to not be capable of getting that part of us under control. We have gotten good at covering things up, but the issue is still there and it looks like we are reaching a saturation point…

So as it (food issues) sneaks up on you while you sip your cup of (more expensive by the day) coffee. Just think about the hundreds of food items all over the world that seem to be in a bind right now and it all seems to have started with grain shortages several years ago…

I really think that this is a serious problem that has been building a long long time but it came to a forefront when countries like Russia and Ukraine had a drought that stymied grain production. But now with fishing capabilities being put under attack by man made disasters. The problem has become compounded. Would you eat fish from the (Corex) Gulf of Mexico? Would you eat fish from Japanese radioactive waters? Fine – but do so at you own health and risk… (I would not!)

Coffee gets too expensive! I will drink chicory without hesitation… 🙂

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PS: I heard a good statement: (The world wastes a billion tons of food every year!) My, we are amazing creatures aren’t we…

The rules for getting a Russian visa of any kind need to be corrected to the better not the worse like what seems to be common here in Russia…

The Russian government should review its strict visa policies and take more efforts to make traveling in Russia easier in order to attract more tourists, the head of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) said. Read More >>>

I resemble this statement by the UNWTO, after what I have just gone through getting a visa for Russia! 🙂

While Sveta and I traveled Ukraine this last few weeks. Sveta came up with a statement that made a whole bunch of sense, “Ukraine does not have a visa needed for 90 days for Americans and you do not see a bunch of hooligan Americans rampaging Ukraine. So why would Russia want to keep doors closed to Americans either tourist or business? It is not like Americans will come and affright Russia!”

Once again she is correct. Russia has nothing to loose and everything to gain by setting up even a 30 day no visa with America…

I realize Russia does a Tit for Tat on the visa, but in this case with countries like Britain, America and other scared of Russia countries. Russia needs to show that they are the adults and not play games. Open the doors and let the good times roll…

Ukraine does…

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Where is the ‘reset’?
What the world has come to understand by ‘reset’ is the political course aimed at putting US-Russian relations on a new track, as coined by President Obama as he waived George W. Bush’s much beloved project of deploying American missiles in close proximity to Russia’s borders on the territory of Poland and the Czech Republic. That was a serious move, paving the way for settling a number of other, equally important issues, in relations between Russia and the United States. The signing of the START 3 Treaty marked a major step in this direction. Good will and political honesty are needed if this reset is going to be more than a catchy phrase and become a full-blown political program…

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Source: Voice of Russia.

The Russian press has been all over this reset issue. I would say instead of a 50/50 split as in the past, over whether it (reset with America) was a good thing or not. That split has become 20/80 now against the value of said reset…

We have a saying: Fool me once, shame on you – Fool me twice, shame on me…

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