I could only dream of being bankrolled by some entity to write this blog. Except one issue, “I write what I see as the truth and no one, but no one will change those coffee thoughts with money.” You might change my mind with facts, data and truth. But money does not buy a spot to lie on my blog…
MOSCOW, January 10. /TASS/. Bloggers receiving funds from foreign governments may be recognized as foreign agent media outlets, Russian Deputy Speaker of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, Pyotr Tolstoy said.
“These are individuals who act as mass media, including bloggers, if there is evidence of funding from abroad and signs equating them to foreign agent media outlets,” Tolstoy said.
This refers to bloggers bankrolled by foreign governments through a foundation based in the United States and who receive funds to disseminate information from their sources, he said. “So, they receive money from a foreign state, not from a private person.”
I realize that there are blogs that are being paid to write squalid text about Russia. Just as there are sites that call themselves news sites of Russia in English, that are funded heavily with western money. But they are easy to spot, it is obvious when someone is bankrolled…
Seriously though:
The dream is after all these years of daily posting and persistence in the subject matter within its pages. Is a dream that WtR would have made a living for me. But it seems that is alas. I never picked up the pen, never strike the keys on the computer to speak what everyone else wants me to say and you to hear. I do not follow anything and or anyone, but my heart…
But Alas:
If I was paid to do this (other than some donations through readers,) I would be obligated to say things that did not mean anything to me. A paycheck has the advantage of buying a form of loyalty to the employer. Good or bad, obligation is merited when they pay you to write for them. No one has a thumb on my ass and tells me what to write, though many have tried and WtR has paid the price dearly…
To put it mildly, “You do not get rich writing how you feel, money comes from writing how they feel!”
I am really not sure how I am suppose to take this information. Should I be happy? Should I dance in the streets? Instead I think I will ask…
What the hell does someone need 100,000,000,000 + dollars and or for that matter, 100,000,000,000 of any damn thing on Earth? With the exception of cells in your body, stars in the universe and total combined stupidness on the planet: that kind of number is obscene….and when you make it pieces of paper, it really becomes obscene…
If I had a 100,000,000,000 toothpicks? I would be rich after selling them, seriously, 100,000,000,000 of anything is crazy stuff…
If we all stay alive? I predict that by 2020 we will see a person worth $1,000,000,000,000 bucks or whatever form of money we are using…
Now I call bull on anyone needing that much money….and I just want $100,000 to live the rest of my life happy a pig in a mud waller…
Now this all to me says one thing, “The value of the dollar and all money on earth has no value. When in the old days a millionaire is now a billionaire equivalent, we got problems coming in the future!” (Much less the issue we have now…)
Ask yourself a question. Oprah as president? Dancing in the streets and such, go go go….We are crazy, lets just appoint a King or Queen and get it over with….better yet a dictator is right up our ally…
In order to develop the market principles of price formation for natural gas, the signed resolution allows Gazprom and its affiliated parties to sell extracted natural gas at non-regulated prices to legal entities for the production of LNG for further export, as of 1 January 2018.
Something that is sneaking up on the world is LNG. I have watched for years and I have little abilities to see what is so important about this process of producing LNG, but it seems to be a source of strife in the world…
The USA is a desirer to sell exceedingly expensive LNG to Europe. Russia is building and investing huge time, data and money into development of LNG processing plants. It seems that there is a future of LNG being shipped around the world and the players are gathering a storm to express the end results…
It has kind of caught everyone in general off guard. The layman says, “What’s LNG?” and or “Who cares?”
I have talked in the past about gas (gaz) taking the spot of king away from oil, but in my mind it is the more liquid/gaseous form (NGLs), not the extreme liquefied form (LNG), that I was thinking about. But it is gas regardless and it is becoming seriously more prominent in the world, literally everyday. It is looking like wars are stirring over “gas” not oil…
The above information is some of my thinkings about the gas/oil situation. I watch, study and contemplate on the subject. It interests me to see the chess and or checker moves being made by the players of the world…
Many countries have entered the LNG market. Many countries want to enter this market and many countries see the future happening in this aspect. Qatar the leader in the world in LNG has been slapped silly lately. Now we know why…
100 pages of interesting reading….which gives me the reasons why things are happening in the world to somewhat to the extent of issues being propagated. The thing I have lack of understanding in full context, is why we have to have world chaos over just simple items of what is all of our rights to have. Gas, Oil and many other items is something that has been given to all. Yet we kill like we want it all to ourselves. This is everywhere in the world, not just one specific country doing this…
Qatar is number one LNG producer in the world…. Australia is number two…. Malaysia is number three…. Nigeria is number four…. Indonesia is number five…. Algeria is number six…. Russia is number seven… (So you see the big boys (USA and Russia and Canada and Mexico!) have not entered the LNG market, until recently!)
LNG/NG is the most abundant non renewable fuel other than coal on earth it seems. Oil has lost its crown, but it is not being expressed that way, yet…
LNG is just another part of that Geopolitical puzzle that is threatening the world stability….
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I dread the day that someone actually garners a way to efficiently utilize the suns energy to power the world. That will be the day that the sun will become something we have to pay to enjoy and see…
Russians have no choice but to accept that America is a chaotic mess of a country and some Russians are drawn to that about America. Though, in general the idea of trying to interfere in another countries internal politics is just a taboo thing to do. Life is hard enough without trying to make the world hate you, while you are simply surviving…
Much less Russians, I do not understand what is happening in America. I do not get the fact that so many are so complacent about what is happening! As a Russian, I feel that fence put up to corral us, is something to cut a hole in and escape…
Maybe that is what is wrong with America? Maybe that is what is right about Russia? That fence is freedom or the lack of it thereafter…
Maybe life has been boring and easy for too many, for too long in America…
There is a saying…
For me, the opposite of happiness isn’t sadness but boredom. – Sushant Singh Rajput
Does money buy happiness and does happiness remove boredom?
Then I thought of this quote as I am thinking of what is happening to America…
Boredom is rage spread thin. – Paul Tillich
I can honestly say that in America I would find myself bored many times. I can also honestly say that once I came to Russia, boredom became a thing of the past. A past I was glad to leave behind actually. I did not know as I traveled the world that boredom was so deadly…
I never have enough time in the day to get everything done in my life anymore. If one thing stalemates? Another thing blossoms and grows in its place. There is never a time that I do not find something so absorbing too challenge me that I am bored. In America, too many times things where taken out of my hands and became boring very quickly…
Good thought for today. We Americans need to get this one saying stuck in our heads…
Rules, regulations, constant supervision, nanny effect has that as a result. As a child, I was not bored. I did things that maybe I should not do, but I did them and expected to be able to always do them. Eg.- I tossed sticks of dynamite as a kid. It was dangerous as hell, but life was free and effeminately not boring. I emptied thousands of firecrackers and used the gun powder to create bombs of my own making and never dreamed that I was doing wrong, for at that time of my life, I was not doing wrong. I was not bored doing these things, I was experimenting with life. I built engines for my cars, just to see and say, “I did it and mine is the best!”
But as I grew up with more and more regulations, people who thought they knew better than I, took away my freedoms to experiment. Because, it was dangerous. But I was never bored….I found new things to skirt the regulations and kept growing…
I did not do things destructive, I did things and went through stages of doing things to learn. I learned how much was just enough gun powder to make my sniper rifle function at its best. I drove my car to its limit and realized that I needed a new car to grow farther and push harder. I learned that 300 horsepower was not enough to satisfy my limits. I learned that kids and or people who had things handed to them on a silver platter, never were satisfied. They did not appreciate what they had, but if they were made to create out of thin air, they appreciated what they had…
Life has become boring in America. We are too afraid to upset the status quo? Are we?
Maybe I was a weird kid and young adult?
Then life changed and every time I turned around, someone was telling me to put on my seatbelt. Put on that helmet as you ride the motorcycle. I found that kids opening up a Lemonade Stand where at odds with the law. I found that feeding poor people was a bad thing. I found myself struggling to be good in the eyes of the society that I had been born and raised in. I found that people were scared and feared someone who thought outside of the box…
Just like when I watch this new craze about driver less cars. What kind of people want to let the car drive for them? The same people who want a chafferer to drive them? A person that sees no life in life itself? Is the fact that we have no freedom to live life, affecting our ability to let others live life?
I have talked about this before!
What good is life if you have to lock the door when you leave? Do we live in such a bad situation that your neighbor is going to rob you when they see you gone? Has life become so dull and boring that we have to strike out at all around us? Do you need more than one bathroom? Do you need ten locks on your door? Do you need cameras telling on you at every step of you existence? What is life if you are being watched all the time?
Do we grow when stifled?
Do we grow as we fear? Does scared feelings about life make you strong? Does make all equal cause growth? Is everyone the same? Am I better at something than you? Should I be chastised if I am better at something than you? Are hurt feelings detrimental or helpful to growth of a person? Just because I do not call you a girl, does that mean you are not a girl? Is being a waitperson better than being a waitress? Does associating with being black mean I am in touch with my feelings, even if I am white?
I though I was human first and foremost!
But now I understand that my being white is destructive to you as a individual. Are you that weak and worthless, that your own two feet cannot support you in life?
I am not better than you!
I am not better than they are. I am not better than those people over there. I am not better than all of nature and in fact may not be good enough for the planet, but I am a human and I want to live and learn daily….so that maybe I can be better. I and you and we and them and those have to grow and or we stagnate and waller…
Russians are wondering about America…
I am thinking…
America is that favorite soap opera. It is always changing directions when you least suspect it to, yet you know that goodness will not last. Like….the new couple who just had a kid and have a wonderful life ahead of them, decide that cheating on the other with the new kid in town is more important than living life and holding hands while you do it…
Are we bored? Are we stupid? Or are we crazy?
I am just thinking. Maybe I shouldn’t think? Does thinking help?
This morning we had a mad as a hornet woman, she was on her way to work and someone parked in her way…
She had a tort and decided that smashing it on the window of the car blocking her was the best solution and as she got another ride, she tore the tort out of the box and whop against the window…
I had to smile, but since I was too near as it happened, I did not laugh, for she might have sent the tort straight at me… 😉
Life is fun in the city, unless your car is blocked as many are all over the place. people are really uncaring about how they park. Sveta and I have had many times of interesting fun trying to get out…
But I could have gotten out of this spot, she could not and she was mad as a hornet to boot….I found the situation too late…
EDITOR’S CHOICE: Many Iranians observing the current US-North Korea nuclear standoff will wonder if their nation was not better off continuing its nuclear program and holding the Saudi oil fields at risk to deter a US attack. Trump’s wild, inconsistent and often infantile responses on this issue are making matters murkier…and ever more dangerous.
American special services supported by NATO initiated a special operation directed against the Government of Finland. In particular, the agents of the CIA and British intelligence in Helsinki began a campaign to discredit President Suomi Sauli Niinistö, in order to disrupt the neutrality policy of Finland within the anti-Russian course of the West and to spoil its relations with Russia as much as possible.
Actually today is still a holiday, but Svetochka, who is responsible for the servers in one of the largest banks in the world, needs to go in and see if the servers are happy and or sad…
Lets hope they are happy!
It has been nice for Boza and I to have our sweet girl hanging with us as we traipse the holidays fantastic. Svetochka has walked Boza several times and that was a help for me. I needed a break from Boza…like I need a small break from WtR…
I got the break and feel good again. Life gets dragging at times. Svetochka got a break from her busy schedule and we all got to spend time together…
We have some Tiny Russia Village changes coming, but I will talk about that off in the future. Got to get back to the village, there is much I have to do and it does not get done sitting in Moscow watching the snow fall and melt…
Svetochka said, “I like Linux!”
Phew! It was a hard sell job at first. Windows OS has that hold on people and people do not like new, they just want to start their computer and get to work….Sveta has found that Linux is as capable as Windows and even better in many aspects…
Lets get with Linux! It is really just a step toward freedom…
MOSCOW, January 5. / TASS /. A recently discovered vulnerability in the processors by the Intel company may require corporate users of computers with such processors to make large-scale investments to ensure security and maintain the performance of their devices, Sergei Nikitin, deputy head of the computer forensics laboratory of the company Group-IB, told TASS
According to him, the hardware vulnerability affects almost all Intel processors released since 1995.
Well that means I am safe!
