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I was sipping that great cup of coffee this morning and doing some thinking’s on what I have watched developed during the last year between Russia and China. It has been a low key development and the Russian news has been giving tidbits of information about the energy plans being geared toward China by Russia. Low key on the news front but huge on the energy front…

An example of this information is this : Russian Deputy Prime-Minister Igor Sechin said on Tuesday following the seventh round of the China-Russia energy negotiators’ meeting that Russia will finalize a 30-year deal with China by the 10th of June to supply a total of 68 billion cubic meters of gas annually… (Read More >>>)

Now my thoughts over that morning cup of coffee were about all the new pipelines for oil and gas lines, that have been built or being built to China. This weekend I watched trains with oil tank and coal cars going toward China. The trains had hundreds of cars attached full of oil and coal. I am here to tell you that China is taking all the oil and gas that Russia will give to her and if China could get all of Europe’s oil and gas they would take that also. The only thing that has stemmed the flow of gas is a price haggling between Russia and China for now and that will soon be overcome…

I did an article a year or so ago about how all oil was transported to China by train car from Russia. Then Russia opened a oil pipeline. The pipeline is flowing and the train cars are still rolling… (That should tell you something!)

Russia and China are also close to an agreement to build a joint oil refinery and that will signal a beginning of a new market era in oil byproducts between Russia and China…

China is an energy consumer and Russia is an energy supplier. That alone ensures that they will be in bed together and they live right next door to each other to boot…

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The World’s BreadbasketBy Andrew Roth

Russia Profile06/01/2011On July 1 Russia will not renew its export ban on grain products that has been in place since August 2010, Vladimir Putin told reporters on May 28. The possibility of an additional 15 million tons of grain for the world market, as some have projected, would come at an important moment when American and European countries are facing poor harvests and the world market is looking for additional supplies. While analysts are optimistic about grain exporters’ reentry into foreign markets, obstacles include possible future tariffs and export quotas, as well as questions about Russia’s future reliability as a grain exporter.

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Obama’s Russia ‘Reset’: Another Lost Opportunity?
By Stephen F. Cohen

Obama’s decision to base his Russia policy on a partnership with the presumed “liberal” Medvedev, in the hope of promoting his political fortunes over Putin’s, has further limited support for the reset in Moscow. (Like the US media, Obama and his advisers continue to denigrate Putin as a leader with “one foot in the old ways” and even one who, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once remarked, “doesn’t have a soul.”) This political wager on Medvedev repeats the longstanding White House practice of mistaking a personal friend in the Kremlin—“my friend Dmitri,” Obama calls Medvedev—for broad support in the Russian policy class. Indeed, openly backing Medvedev for the Russian presidency in 2012, as Biden did so improperly while in Moscow in March, has revived the Russian elite’s resentment over US interference in its internal affairs and reinforced the view that only Putin can be trusted not to “sell out Russia to the West.”…

Article source: http://www.thenation.com/article/161063/obamas-russia-reset-another-lost-opportunity

Oops – You should have a good read on this article. It is what I have been saying for over a year now about what is happening in Russia and the American reset farce…

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The news media is working up the frenzy against Yemen. This change in tactics came about on the heels of China telling the dogs to back down over Pakistan and Russia telling the same dogs to go home over Syria…

Fighting continues in Yemen capital: (Link)
Days of armed clashes between tribal fighters and government troops have turned Sanaa into a battleground…

Yemen Worse Than Libya: (Link)
Diplomats describe Yemen as “worse than Libya” as dozens die in clashes…

Plus hundreds more links of total disparage and death in Yemen…

Maybe the West can do a humanitarian (war) mission in Yemen also. I am sure the people deserve to be saved and murdered just like the people in Libya are being saved and murdered by NATO…

Wow – maybe we can get into another short war. Like Libya…

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Sveta and I just had a wonderful long weekend at our village that is called Sunrise to Freedom. I have written many articles about this village. This is a link to our articles on Sunrise to Freedom… (Read More >>>)

So this morning as I was drinking that wonderful cup of coffee. I was thinking about the village and how nice it would be to live there. It is so much the same as when I grew up in America that it really makes me homesick for the old days…

We have electricity in the village house, but that is where the niceties stop. You walk to the well and fill up buckets with water and wood is the fuel of choice to heat water, unless you are fancy like us and have propane. But propane is in small tanks and you have to haul those tanks yourself. Also finding propane is easy but finding someone with enough energy to fill it is another story all together. You also have the modern convenience of outhouses to let you know that you are in the modern world…

Speaking of outhouse ours survived the winter. Sveta and I rebuilt the outhouse and after the tons of snow that fell this last winter, I was sure that it would be crushed into the ground. But it was not! We also had re-supported our back overhang on the house and Sveta was sure that that would be on the ground. But it looks like Sveta and I are pretty good at “Jury rigging” because it all still stood strong and solid… 🙂

I realized that one of the attractions of the village is the fact that what you do is up to you and know one is there to tell you that you can not build that, or cut that, or smash that and or eat that…

Another true pleasure in the village is fresh goats milk. Our neighbor almost always supplies us with goats milk. That is as long as she has extra. This year momma goat has had four kids and by that fact she is producing a ton of milk. The kids are eating solids now and so momma goat is a milk producing machine at this particular moment. Sveta and I got several liters of goats milk while we were there this time and that makes for a perfect weekend. Raw goats milk is the best bar none. Real cream for the coffee and just shake the rest up good for the best glass of milk that you can find…

Our village is located near a fish farm that produces literally tons of farm raised carp. Carp is a delicacy in Russia. So there is always people coming and going taking care of the fish. Several of the men that still live in our village work on the fish farm…

So Sveta and I had a wonderful weekend and when we got home I realized that it was Memorial day weekend in America. But for Sveta and I, it was a weekend full of special memories and fun. For me it was also another trip back down memory lane to a time that was definitely cleaner, better and more fun than what the world has turned into…

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PS: Sveta and I will make several more trips to the village this year. We have lots of work to do on the old village home and we need to make sure that she will be a good village home for years to come…

Something that is very interesting while traveling Russia is the unheard of growth everywhere that you see while traveling. I mean unbelievable growth of businesses. Businesses from all over the world…

The real interest in this growth for me started the last train trip to Ukraine. I was on a day time train and had a good window seat. I was stunned at the factories being built and warehouses being built. There had to have been at one point 50 km of nothing but newly built warehouses in various stages of completion. I recognized many German names among the companies and one of the biggest warehouses that I have ever seen in my life belonged to the Broen company of Denmark. I quit counting at a hundred docks for big tractor trailer rigs in a row…

This interest that I filed away in my head, extended over into this latest trip that Sveta and I just took to our village. I spent the driving part of the trip studying the changes in business along the way to our village. Now we travel about 400 km on way so we get a good look at what is happening way down south of Moscow…

Sveta and I saw many upon many new warehouses being built and all kinds of new economic growth happening on our excursion to our village. One thing that was a pleasant surprise was the amounts of new roads being built and the highways that we traveled this time were tip top modern highways. Road construction everywhere…

One village near the little village that we go to had a huge chicken farm. It was brand smacking new. I saw it last year when the beginnings of the farm was being started and I had no idea at that time what it was. But now it is clear that it is a chicken farm. It looks like a modern American chicken farm in America. They have neglected to put up a sign telling us who owns this farm. But it is fenced and guarded and I know what a modern Chicken farm looks like. This is in fact a antibiotics fed chicken farm for mass produced very fat unhealthy chicken meat. Looks like someone has figured out how to get by the Russian rules on chicken. And I will lay money on the fact that an American company is behind it… 🙁

The plain fact is that everywhere Sveta and I went this weekend we saw new buildings, new businesses, new construction and thriving older businesses. I saw lots of new tractors in the fields and a whole bunch more old fields opened up and planted this year. In fact Sveta and I saw hundreds of new farm trucks running the roads from farm to farm. They are Russian made (KAMAZ) and orange in color. There also is four new John Deere dealers and two new Cummins dealers (Plus a Cummins factory) in the various small towns. If that tells you anything at all. (It tells me something!) It is strange to see John Deere green in the Russian fields…

I have a head for noticing things and that is what insured my survival in many past situations and excelled my business escapades. I can assure you that lots of money is being circulated in the farm arena in Russia…

On top of the money being circulated. Sveta and I noticed this time that there is kids everywhere. We are out in the middle of nowhere and we see 4 or 5, (around 8 to 12 year old) boys fishing and shooting BB guns. The classic moment was seeing three boys sitting on a creek bank with fishing poles and a little Dachshund dog protecting them and telling them how to fish… 🙂 They were 10 km from the nearest village…

That is what I call fishing…

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NATO said on Wednesday it had extended its Libyan mission for a further 90 days, after Muammar Qaddafi made it clear he would not step down, dashing hopes of a negotiated end to the uprising against his rule…

Of course we will only be there for a few days at most…

Libya: NATO bombings killed 718 civilians “718 people have been killed and another 4,067 injured since NATO Alliance started bombing Libya on March 19. 433 people are still in hospitals, with their conditions described as critical, said Mussa Ibrahim, an official spokesperson of the Libyan government at a news conference, citing data from local medical services.” For its part, NATO stressed that it had targeted only military objects and equipment. Ibrahim added that Qaddafi’s ousting, which, the international community is pushing for, would be “the worst possible scenario for Libya.” NATO has a proven history of killing civilians and now it is insisting its prerogative to keep on killing civilians in Libya…

Sounds a lot like what I insisted would happen. Lets rejoice and party over our humanitarian help for the Libyan people. For without our help they would have never had this war to their deaths in the name of HELP…

I don’t blame Libya for fighting. The West is trying to control the country…

CAIRO — Al Qaeda’s likely next leader says NATO’s operations in Libya are meant to topple Moammar Qaddafi so the West can install a puppet government and control the country’s oil wealth…

So that short war of humanitarian help, that control of just the airspace over Libya has turned into a slaughter of innocents trying to kill Qaddafi. Most people in Libya do not want him dead, except after NATO kills thousands and thousands over many months. The Libyans then will want Qaddafi gone. The bombings have extended to the seas and all over the Libyan lands. The very thing that Obama and others said we would not do, has happened. We opened mouth and stuck foot into it and then realized that Libya does not really want Qaddafi gone. So we are bombing Libya to get the results that we want the people of Libya to accept. Qaddafi out of power…

I will say that the West has lying down to an art…

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PS: Nato aircraft have flown more than 5,300 bombing runs Sorties since the no-fly zone was put in place in March…

Data summary
Nato operations in Libya by country (May 22nd, 2011)

It is interesting that Canada is all over the news because they have had to order more bombs. America and Britain have resupplied numerous times already and it is looking like hundreds of billions of dollars will be spent on this short war…

We are bombing the Hell out of the Libyan people…

After what I have seen in my lifetime I realize that we never learn and people are so happy to follow as we kill and kill and kill…

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Is there a war on RT?
I had an article a while back that expressed this issue that RT is dealing with today. The Western Media is lambasting RT and trying to discredit RT as a legit news source. The bottom line fact is that RT has growing ratings and that is starting to affect the Western Controlled Trash Media such as CNN, Fox, USA Today, Time and a whole bunch more…

Good video and RT has a right to start firing back at the accusers. Russia Today is great news about Russia and the world. It is the world part that is stepping on some toes… 🙂

You should watch RT you might have an eye opening experience…

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Could this be true or just smoke in the wind? If it is true then at least the G8 sidelines got something important done, because the main G8 meeting was a joke as usual…

As a first major step, we have instructed our officials to concentrate on visa liberalization on a reciprocal basis for the largest segments of our traveling nationals – business travelers and tourists, traveling both as individuals and in groups, and official representatives.  Taking into account the significant progress achieved by our negotiators, we are working on a new agreement to issue, as a general rule without unduly formalized invitations and justifications, multiple-entry visas for eligible business travelers and tourists of 36 month validity at a unified and reciprocal fee, as well as the issuance of 12-month, multiple-entry visas for official representatives of our countries.  We aim to settle these issues and sign the agreement in the very near future, consistent with domestic procedures in both countries.

Now that is interesting and lets see if they mean what they say. Wonder what “very near future” means to the governments? It means like tomorrow or next week at the latest to me… 🙂

Hummm… 36 month visa! Wow – what a dream…

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PS: Update

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 26, 2011

Joint Statement by the Presidents the United States of America
and of the Russian Federation
Regarding Cooperation on Visa Issues

Last June, when we met in Washington, we expressed our determination to establish stronger bilateral ties on the basis of mutually beneficial cooperation.  We are seeking to expand our economic and trade relations, and also to strengthen contacts between our citizens.  As has been highlighted in many of the meetings of the Working Groups of the Presidential Commission, the current state of visa procedures between our countries does not correspond to the present level of collaboration nor to the development of bilateral relations that we hope is to come.

We continue to seek ways to facilitate travel between our countries, consistent with the laws and regulations of both countries.  Over the past year, our officials have clarified the requirements for travel for purposes of tourism, work, and study, and we intend to streamline this process in order to make travel easier.  As a first major step, we have instructed our officials to concentrate on visa liberalization on a reciprocal basis for the largest segments of our traveling nationals – business travelers and tourists, traveling both as individuals and in groups, and official representatives.  Taking into account the significant progress achieved by our negotiators, we are working on a new agreement to issue, as a general rule without unduly formalized invitations and justifications, multiple-entry visas for eligible business travelers and tourists of 36 month validity at a unified and reciprocal fee, as well as the issuance of 12-month, multiple-entry visas for official representatives of our countries.  We aim to settle these issues and sign the agreement in the very near future, consistent with domestic procedures in both countries.

As relations between our countries grow stronger, and the ties become more intense, we will seek even greater simplification and liberalization of our countries’ visa systems on a reciprocal basis, aimed at providing entry of U.S. citizens into Russia and of Russian citizens into the U.S. unencumbered by unnecessary formalities, in accordance with domestic legislation of each country. We are instructing our government agencies to work in this direction.

Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2011/05/20110526090353su0.6149822.html#ixzz1NXUSTDUE