“Behind me is toothpaste which CNN said does not exist in Venezuela,” Blumenthal says. The remark is followed by an expert from the broadcaster’s reporting about US ‘humanitarian aid’ which contains the precious commodity that President Nicolas Maduro has supposedly deprived his people of. “We all are in peace here. Here we don’t want war,” a woman at the market says, adding that she doesn’t want “foreigners” to spark war. “And tell the news that we don’t need anything. What we want is for the US to lift the blockade it has put on us in Venezuela. We are free….
This is the way it has been for many years. Venezuela just wants to be left alone and not constantly attacked by the US for just wanting to be happy…
Again all that is being told to you by the western media is 90% lies….all for agendas…
At least we temporarily stopped accusing Russia of meddling in democratic elections. Kinda hard to do while we are meddling in other people’s (Venezuela) democratic elections. But I am sure we will try to figure out how to blame all on Russia…
WtR
PS: If the USA wants to sincerely help the Venezuelan people….Then why not just give the food directly to the Venezuelan government to distribute to their people?….what do you think they’re (Venezuelan government) going to do? Destroy it?
Some more questions: Explain why this so called “new leader” (Juan Guaido) graduated from George Washington University in D.C. on a U.S Gov. scholarship? (Publicly available info…)
Third question: If the U.S so desperately wanted to help the Venezuelan people….why are they sanctioning them? They get hit the hardest from US economic sanctions, not Maduro…
And one last question: Why are there no videos of people starving to death? If they have no food like we report about Venezuela. When there are real millions dying of starvation in the U.S.A. backed bombing of Yemen! And videos to prove it…
It is time to wander to Ukraine. I have my new passport and now I need to take both, the old one with a visa and the new one, to the Russian consulate in Ukraine. It will be as always interesting to cross the border, since I get to see how Ukraine treats people as they travel. Last time it was really atrocious…
I hope Kiev has gotten a bit of common sense back, but I seriously doubt it….not with elections coming up. It should be interesting to see the Yulia supporters running around. I have been there and seen that…
Got my train tickets: Yes, I 90% of the time travel by train. Yes, it confuses Russians as much as Americans. But it really is the best way to travel around Russia and you get to see real Russian society and that is cool to say the least… (Remember I say, “Moscow is not Russia.” and I know…)
Therefore, March 2nd, 2019 I take off from Moscow and get to go play in Kiev, Ukraine…
I get to retire one more passport full of stamps for a dozen countries. A old passport (If you use it!) is history for its owner. Don’t use it? Then you have history of being stuck in the mud, as they say. Mine is nice and full. If I did not have to renew my passport, I would have had to get more pages put in it…
I realized today that I have four passports now as history of my travels…
It has been a warm winter. Okay, it is by Russian standards. About every ten years we have a warm winter here. Okay, I know, the snow is flying today, it is -12 below and the wind is whipping the snot out of everyone and mothers have ropes tied to their kids and fly them like a kite to school… 😉
Thought you would find this interesting….Frozen Putin…
Putin is a traditional leader and he does a good job to honor the traditions of Russia which is a great country…
Trump is correct many times, yet he is also a typical ignorant American: But now you know how far behind the US is in normal technology world wide… and you understand that we have been trying to stifle the competition by illegal means… (Par Huawei, ex…)
I want 5G, and even 6G, technology in the United States as soon as possible. It is far more powerful, faster, and smarter than the current standard. American companies must step up their efforts, or get left behind. There is no reason that we should be lagging behind on………
….something that is so obviously the future. I want the United States to win through competition, not by blocking out currently more advanced technologies. We must always be the leader in everything we do, especially when it comes to the very exciting world of technology!
The USA should have been doing just that 50 years ago. Instead of taking the quick buck and running amuck. That is what happens when you spend all your time playing war games and not working on investing inside the country… Sad really…
My thought: Now the USA will have to copy steal Chinese tech to get caught up! Will we badmouth ourselves for doing just that?
Trump really is between a rock and a hard place, but that is American politics and that sucks. Trump either cleans out the scum and or becomes the scum also. Looks like scum is winning…
It is now or never. If America’s great but declining power does not subjugate the rest of the world quickly, the rising powers of Asia will swamp it. Even India grows. Either sanctions subdue the world, or Washington starts a world war. Or America becomes just another country. To paraphrase a great political thinker, “It’s the Empire, Stupid.”
Russia’s reserves fully cover nation’s internal & foreign debt for 1st time ever – Putin — RT Business News
Russia’s foreign exchange reserves can now cover all of the debt owed by both the government and domestic businesses, Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced. “For the first time in history our reserves fully cover foreign debt, including government and commercial sector debt,” Putin said addressing the Federal Assembly in Moscow on Wednesday. The country’s external debt amounts to $453.7 billion, while its international reserve funds stand at $475 billion as of February 8, 2019…
Seriously; can the country you live in say that? Or does your country that you live in, borrow money, print money and steal money to try to make ends meet. Do you live in a debt society?
It is nice living in Russia, almost all people are debt free and if they are not then they fell for the propaganda and borrowed money to buy something they did not need…
Svetochka and I live totally debt free. We do not borrow money to buy anything. We could borrow money….Sveta and I both have immaculate credit. But why go into debt?
WtR
PS: Foreign-exchange reserves (also called forex reserves or FX reserves) is money or other assets held by a central bank or other monetary authority so that it can pay its liabilities if needed, such as the currency issued by the central bank, as well as the various bank reserves deposited with the central bank by the …
PSS: Give Russia lemons they make lemon aide, give the U.S. lemons and they throw them at you…. Hmm…
It has become very clear that China and Russia plus a gaggle of more countries realizing what is happening at an accelerated pace, are working overtime to step on eggshells around the USA….If I were China and Russia, I would be very mindful and deliberate with the US now. A wounded Eagle that is dying can still take your eyes out and kill you. Especially when it knows its dying. It is common knowledge that you have nothing to lose at that point, since you will die anyway…
I wouldn’t be so afraid of the US War Machine par-directly:
There is really so much more common sense in the military than you realize. Besides if they decided to attack a country like China? or Russia? They would have to spend months building up a serious force and supplies and as we watched with Iraq. The world knew we were doing it and in the case of China and Russia….well you know…
We have stalemated too many times in small weak countries to think we could waltz over and take Russia and or China and or Iran and not get our asses handed to us. That is why we are blustering at Venezuela, pick on the little guys…
Who I would be afraid of:
Are the psychopath politicians (The exceptional mental cases we have elected and many times not elected.) in Washington that would use a biological/nuke/conventional weapons in China/Russia/Iran and etc….and or on ourselves as we have done in the past to stimulate war feels among the masses….these politicians for the most part have never seen military service and are in charge of the US military. It is the system and that way…
Believe you me, it is a rare nut case that wants to run up the hill directly into the 50 cal machine gun nest fire and think he is invincible….but that idiot behind the scene on the radio likes to tell you to do just that. All for country and flag….Ali Baba for the Virgins maybe, but not me…
You can act and say what you want, but any country that supports/grows/trains terrorists, tries to manipulate other countries and brutally slaughters innocents as bad as the USA does around the world, while using phosphorus and depleted uranium ammo….and all the while not supplying true free healthcare, housing and a good life for her people….is a very sick puppy to say the least…
Tidbit for Thought:
I asked Svetochka, “What would Russia do for her people, if a village burned down?”
Svetochka responded, “They government would build their homes for them again, Free!”
Then she thought a second and said, “Unless they had two homes or something (Like one in Moscow also.)….if their only home burned down it would be replaced free!”
This of course made this American think about what would America do if my and or your home burned down? A whole town? No not insurance, that is not in the equation in Russia. What would your country do for you?
I see that China and Russia have coordinated:
Aand are trying to subtly assist the USA Western Empire into a controlled de-growth phase. They are doing everything in their power to keep the situation in the world from exploding and or imploding….I cannot blame them, for the USA has this old fashion and hateful attitude about the world and her own people: “To the victor goes the spoils!” And the US has made its bed and will have to lie in it for many years after hell breaks loose….that is if they keep up the idiocy that is going on now…
Right now as the Empire staggers, we are watching the USA tell, NO, Demand other countries Do as they say, Not as they do. Soon Europe will see that the US is not the ally they thought. They will see that with friends like America, who the hell needs enemies? This will happen in the EU when the politicians fully realize that the US is actually trying to destroy them, not Russia and China. The direct short term competition for the Empire is the EU…
The last thing long term thinking countries such as Russia and China wants is the short term child, USA imploding and going full unadulterated psychopathic crazy. The problem is that we are showing signs of just that situation…
My sweetpea loves peanut butter. It was not something she grew up with, so it is special to her. I grew up with peanut butter and jelly as a kid mainstay. Never thought twice about running around with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Not jam, jelly….Welch’s Grape Jelly…
But, Svetochka has fallen in love with…
Peanut butter, real butter and toast…
Svetochka loves this…
Forget the jelly, just toss some butter on first and then after it melts some on the toast. Put a layer of peanut butter on the still warm toast…
Peanut butter has until recently been very expensive and I tried to stay away from the taste treat of peanut butter. But then I noticed, along with the drop in many food items in Russia, that roasted peanuts are dirt cheap and I thought, “What about peanut butter?”
Good question….Maynard…
And I discovered before Christmas in this article below…
Therefore, I keep a stock of cheap peanut butter now and little Miss Sweetpea likes to eat peanut butter for breakfast and supper/dinner. Breakfast is on toast and dinner is on crackers. It is her new dessert at night and a happy start to the day at breakfast…
Svetochka spent the weekend at her mom’s and she came home a tidbit grouchy. Sveta took a jar of peanut butter, but her mom decided that she did not need it and Sveta did not get any all weekend. But…
Last night she ate several crackers with peanut butter and this morning I made her two whole wheat toasts, with real butter and yummy peanut butter…
On the 14th of February 2019…. Forbes printed an article about (Want To Find A Rich Person In Russia? Look For The Lemons) Well to the cringing of Forbes and the lying Lizzy Saxe, Russians did not take long to discover how to find a Rich Russian…
Forbes объявил лимоны символом богатства у россиян — В американском журнале Forbes вышла статья под названием «Хотите найти богатого россиянина? Ищите лимоны» (Want To Find A Rich Person In Russia? Look For The Lemons). Как пишет автор статьи Лиззи Сакс, присутствие этих цитрусовых в рационе россиян является признаком богатства. —– Forbes announced lemons as a symbol of wealth among Russians – Forbes published an article titled “Do you want to find a rich Russian?” Look for lemons ”(Want To Find A Rich Person In Russia? Look For The Lemons). As the author of the article, Lizzie Sachs, writes, the presence of these citrus fruits in the diet of Russians is a sign of wealth.
Now thanks to Google and its cach system. I found the original, before it was erased forever from the internet. This is it below…
Hi Lizzy Saxe…
Feb 14, 2019, 10:31am
Original title: Want To Find A Rich Person In Russia? Look For The Lemons – By Lizzy Saxe
I write about the future of food, business, and culture.
Fresh fruit has been a status symbol since time immemorial.
The Greek god of excess, Dionysus, is often depicted swathed in grapes. Southern mansions are graced by pineapples, a symbol of hospitality. Pomegranates, figs, apples, pears, peaches: You name it, it probably represents fertility, beauty, abundance or even immortality.
And now, some new data is showing that nothing has changed in the 21st century.
What do you associate with lemons? Freshness? Summer days? Coastal climes? Well, it seems that in Russia and Southeast Asia, they’re using them to show off.
See, back in January, I attended the ICR Conference, a huge venture capital event where I was able to sit down with Harold Edwards from Limoneira, a gigantic, fascinating company that has been growing lemons and other citrus fruits in California since 1893. Limoneira started buying land and water rights from the very beginning, and today it owns a staggering 14,500 acres of California land where it grows everything from avocados to cherries. As such, it sells internationally.
Harold Edwards, is President and CEO of Limoneira.
Harold and I talked about a bunch of things, from how Limoneira’s investing in its employees to the sustainable solutions (Insects! Solar! Smart water management!) it uses to keep its trees and the planet healthy. But what really sparked my interest was the story Harold told about how tracking global buying patterns have led him to discover an unexpected trend.
Harold noticed that “Russians consume a lot more lemons per capita than many other parts of the world. I was wondering, is that because they drink a lot of vodka? Is it because they’re big tea drinkers? Why are they using so many lemons?” He started to investigate. He discovered that the answer wasn’t quite that universal.
Unsurprisingly, lemons don’t grow in Russia. It’s too cold to produce them, so you have to buy them from far, far away. That makes the sour yellow citrus expensive. So expensive, in fact, that, “wealthy Russians really like to incorporate lemons into their lifestyle. It communicates to people that they have the means to be able to afford them. They call it the bling of produce.”
A lemon tree, definitely not located in RussiaGetty
As Limoneira started to dig into this, the team found that lemons that were perceived to be higher quality – California has a certain caché – were being purchased far more than lemons in general: “We then started to see similar things in parts of Southeast Asia. I thought it was just because there were a lot more restaurants that were cropping up, a lot more retail shopping opportunities, more disposable income. I thought that was driving all this demand, and certainly, that is part of it. But it’s also become an aspirational item… as more people are starting to have money in these burgeoning middle-class economies, you’re starting to see a lot more consumption from them because they can.”
I asked Harold if he thinks this aspirational citrus boom had anything to do with a fetishized idea of Westernness, and his answer was careful, “I don’t want to be culturally insensitive or say that our culture is superior because it’s not. But I was in Hong Kong yesterday, and as you go around you see a lot of Western brands all throughout China now. Obviously, there’s the Kentucky Fried Chicken story, there’s the Starbucks story, these Western brands that become iconic and coveted as aspirational.” That said, he thinks that ideas of how great California may or may not be only go so far in explaining this, “I went to a couple of grocery stores while I was there, and it’s interesting. You go into these retailers, and the biggest section by far is the produce section. It’s packed. That’s where every consumer is spending their time.”
By tracking the buying patterns of lemon-eating consumers around the world, Limoneira has found that lemons are a remarkable indicator of upward mobility. Americans say that the “world is your oyster,” but to these buyers, the world is more like a lemon, easily in reach, even across oceans.
Then they realized how simple-minded it all looked and hurriedly changed the article. The article is still pathetic and is still of a mindset of We The West are Perfect, but they did change witless to less empty-headed (Lizzy Saxe seems to be empty-headed! Forbes is witless!)…
This article was updated on 2/17/19 to more accurately reflect social status in Russia. Fresh fruit has been a status symbol since time immemorial. The Greek god of excess, Dionysus, is often depicted swathed in grapes. Southern mansions are graced by pineapples, a symbol of hospitality. Pomegranates, figs, apples, pears, peaches: You name it, it probably represents fertility, beauty, abundance or even immortality. Now it seems to be an indicator of upward mobility.
This article was updated on 2/17/19 to more accurately reflect social status in Russia. (Oh really?)
Thank God for Forbes and Lizzy Saxe. I have lived in Russia for 13 plus years and never knew how to find a rich person. You see almost all Russians drive fancy cars, eat caviar, take lots of time off, party constantly and throw money around like there is no tomorrow. Damn, we have fireworks popping off almost every night. The Russians are so rich they love them fireworks, as they eat black bread with caviar and sit on the hood of their Mercedes……
But I could never tell the really rich ones from the average Russian….You see they use to have Blue Lights on their cars, but they had those taken away from them and now we all look the same…
My Svetochka loves lemons and puts it in her hot tea…
Damn people, a lemon costs about 8 rubles (middle of winter remember, in summer they are dirt cheap) each at the local store and they have hundreds of them at all stores (They even have them in the Russians Villages!)….Oh by the way, that is 12 cents for you poor Americans… 😉
Just gotta record all this crazy stuff from the west…
Coverage of Russia in US media is frequently lazy, misinformed and inaccurate, but sometimes it dives off the deep end into bat s*** crazy absurdity. This was a real Forbes headline: “Want To Find A Rich Person In Russia? Look For The Lemons.” Below the line, one Lizzy Saxe wrote “wealthy Russians really like to incorporate lemons into their lifestyle. It communicates to people that they have the means to be able to afford them. They call it the bling of produce.” Yup, lemons…
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