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I thought you might find it interesting about what Windows to Russia and Russian News From Russia are doing statistic wise…

As you can see we are commented to oblivion and I just let it go now. It has become impossible to filter and keep up on every comment that gets posted on these two blogs. I do try to catch regulars and that is getting harder by the day as the volume of comments increases daily…

What with 2,679 posts and 16,709 approved comments on Windows to Russia. Then 10,787 posts and 36,387 approved comments on Russian News. I just went crazy trying to keep up with the mess…

I just put Akismet on the news blog a week ago as I was using another type of spam killer that failed miserably. Akismet is trying but I am not sure if it can do the job either. The volume of comments on Russian News is very overwhelming and I have just set to moderate any and all comments…

I also just reinstated Akismet on Windows to Russia as the last comment system, that was another outside source decided to put ads on all their comments and I said – NO Way! So Windows to Russia has 414 new spam and News has 129 new spam that was caught in the last two hours since I cleaned it this morning…

Oh, by the way, all the cussing and death type comments are still coming by huge proportions, but they are filtered and never see day light anymore. Life is just too short to be told how you need to die and be assassinated just like Qaddafi needs to be…

Comments a window to a sick world of rejects…

Thank God not all comments are that way and the few that are nice make life great…

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Yes of course – no civilians ever work in any Government and military buildings anywhere in the world. Of course NATO has only bombs and missiles that kill bad people…

Yes of course – we are killing hundreds of civilians in the name of humanitarian help…

Yes of course…

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PS: 60 bombs last night pounded the Libyan capital: Yes of Course…

Why is Russia not condemning the protestors who reportedly killed 120 Syrian law enforcement soldiers? Do I sense Russia is already preparing itself to follow the Libya none voting UNSC resolution strategy on the coming NATO war on Syria?

Does Medvedev have the desire to do what is right or will he fold and be a yes man?

Is Syria the next NATO war? (Soon to be followed by Yemen!)

Is Russia going to stand her ground as she knows she should? (Medvedev?)

Stay tuned because we have Yemen, Sria and Lybia as battle grounds of the falling Western Empire…

I hear the Boom Boom Boom of those war drums and they are getting louder…

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It seems that once a long time ago they drained the peat fields around Moscow. It seems that as early as 1918 Soviet engineers drained swamps to supply peat for electrical power stations. But in the late 1950s they stopped using peat for fuel, after natural gas was discovered in Siberia. Well, these drained peat bogs caused a whole bunch of issues in 2010 when we all suffocated from smoke during the forest fires that also became huge peat fires…

So the answer to keep that from happening again is to fill the bogs back up again…

MOSCOW, June 7 (Itar-Tass) — Over three years the Moscow Region plans to water 45,000 hectares of peat fields, Governor Boris Gromov told Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov during their meeting on Tuesday.

I can tell you from experience that a peat fire is a real issue. What with peat’s ability to trap air underground. A peat fire burns forever literally. Why you can walk over top of a peat fire and never know it is there until to late…

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Several years ago I wrote a small article about Natural Gas (or as it is known in Russia, Gaz) would start taking the lead against oil. I said that oil is loosing its crown. The supply of gas is vast in comparison to oil…

I remember well that it was not received well by what I said and I ended up with several comments and emails about basically how stupid I was…

Ok – Wall Street Journal now has posted an article and of course now the world will start believing that Gas has huge future potential…

Natural Gas Entering “Golden Age”…

New York, June 06 (QNA) – The increasing abundance of cheap natural gas, coupled with rising demand for the fuel from China and the fall-out from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, may have set the stage for a “golden age of gas,” the International Energy Agency said Monday. Under a scenario set out by the IEA, global consumption of natural gas could rise by more than 50% over the next 25 years, with it accounting for more than a quarter of global energy demand by 2035, up from 21% now, reported the Wall Street Journal Monday…

But while natural gas is more clean-burning than coal and oil, it is still a fossil fuel, and its increased use will lead to higher emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, the IEA warned. More gas will also mean less take-up for low-carbon energy sources like renewables and nuclear power. “An expansion of gas use alone is no panacea for climate change,” said Nobuo Tanaka, the IEA”s executive director. The global natural gas market is in the midst of a revolution that has huge implications for the future of energy. In the U.S., technological advances like hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” in which water laced with chemicals is injected into the ground to crack open dense, gas-bearing shale rock have fueled a surge in production from vast new gas reserves stretching from Texas to Pennsylvania. Such techniques are now being applied in other countries with big shale-gas resources, such as China…

The IEA says that over the next 25 years, 40% of the growth in total gas production will come from unconventional gas. The shale revolution has led to substantial upward revisions in estimates for total global reserves of gas. The IEA says there are enough gas resources to sustain current production levels for more than 250 years. And unlike oil, which is concentrated in the politically fragile Middle East, gas is widely dispersed geographically, making it attractive from an energy security perspective. The rise of shale has coincided with a massive expansion of the global trade in liquefied natural gas or LNG, which has vastly increased the availability of a fuel that for decades could only be pumped via pipelines…

Gas has also benefited from the repercussions of Fukushima. Japan”s gas demand has shot up after the disaster forced it to take much of its nuclear capacity off line. And long term, Germany”s gas consumption is also expected to grow strongly after it decided last month to shut down its 17 nuclear reactors. But the biggest factor in the development of global gas markets over the coming years is likely to be China, the IEA says. There, demand is expected to soar as the government moves to improve air quality in the country”s heavily-polluted cities by switching from coal to gas in power generation, and running more commercial vehicles and buses on natural gas rather than gasoline…

Under the IEA”s new “golden age of gas” scenario, China”s consumption of the fuel would rise from the level of Germany in 2010 to match that of the entire European Union in 2035. To meet the growth in demand, annual gas production would have to increase by 1.8 trillion cubic meters by 2035 about three times the current output of Russia…

The IEA sounded a note of caution on the boom in shale gas, saying concerns about the possible environmental impact of fracking made the outlook for unconventional gas production “uncertain.” Some conservation groups fear fracking can contaminate drinking-water supplies, though the industry insists the technique is safe when performed properly. Fatih Birol, the IEA”s chief economist, said the agency”s high gas consumption scenario depended on a number of factors among them, the industry”s ability to fully address public concerns about fracking, excessive water use and the risk of contamination. “If gas companies want to see a golden age of gas, they need to apply golden standards for…producing gas,” he said. (QNA)

You would think that people would be estatic with natural gas already. It is simple molecule and produces only half the greenhouse gas emissions of oil byproducts, and is easily available in large quantities in the modern countries though a web of all ready installed pipelines and where it is not available, that is easily solved. The byproducts of its combustion are mainly water and carbon dioxide, not the deadly emissions that gasoline and diesel fuel emit. I was personally part of a team in high school back in the 70’s that converted a car to run on natural gas and also propane (hence my love for running propane now on my Russian Volga Wagon), and while it had short comings due to our limitations back then. A corporation could have easily clarified issues and created natural gas cars for us laymen to use…

I do have issues with fracking, but that is another whole article…

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Abkhazia recognized by one more state:
One more state – the island state Vanuatu in Oceania – has recognized the independence of Abkhazia.The Voice of Russia has a copy of a diplomatic agreement signed on the 23d of May…

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Source: Voice of Russia.

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Update: Vanuatu’s FM has confirmed the recognition of Abkhazia, a press-release on the government web-site says. Earlier, Georgia claimed that the island’s government denied the recognition.

The South Pacific Island announced the recognition in late May despite the fact that its envoy to the UN denied it.

The breakaway republic has also been recognized by Russia, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Today Russians mark International Russian Language Day, as well as the 212th birth anniversary of the Great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin…

Alexander Pushkin is considered by many all over the world to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature…

I do know that as Sveta and I travel Russia and Ukraine, we see lots of statues erected in his honor…

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Coffee this cool morning in Moscow was excellent. Nothing better when the temperature is around 10 degrees Centigrade (50 F.)…

I was doing some thinking’s about Medvedev, the Russian president. I realized that he has become basically (and by his own actions) a lame duck as president. He has lost much of the respect that he had garnered and now he puts a coup de grâce on what was left of his reputation by doing an about face and stabbing China in the back. Medvedev once again showed that he is too immature and weak to handle the helm of Russia…

I have given Medvedev all the chances in the world and supported him for years on this blog. But I see the writing on the wall and can no longer ignore the foolhardy actions of a man in control of one of the most powerful countries in the world. With that power comes responsibilities and moralities…

When Medvedev waltzed into the recent G8 meeting, the Russian people had expectations that needed to be addressed and they where watching Medvedev to see what he would do. They got their answer as Medvedev turn coated and kissed the Western Ass again over Libya. It was as if a collective moan of disbelief crossed Russia at the same moment when it was announced that Medvedev made the statement that Libya needs a regime change…

The murmurs of Medvedev is a Western Puppet have just become louder…

With all Medvedev’s anti Bribery and Anti Corruption talk, who would have thought that he would allow the West to buy him out…

No wonder the West is pushing Medvedev for Russian president…

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From what I see there use to be an option on Russian election ballots that allowed Russians to vote against all parties involved in said elections. They could express that all options to vote for were so bad that they did not want to vote for anyone…

A Just Russia party leader Sergei Mironov, the former Federal Council speaker, called Friday on President Dmitry Medvedev to again give Russians the option to vote “Against All” in elections.

“We consider it necessary to return the Against All option to the election law and the voting ballots. People with solid citizenship want to express their point of view, and now we are depriving them of this right,” Mironov said during a meeting with Medvedev.

Mironov said that when there is no suitable candidate on offer and no Against All option on the ballot, people see no sense in going to the polls. He added that the Against All column is a “barometer of society’s well-being.”

There was no information about Medvedev’s response.

Now this is a great idea for Russia to reinstate and for America to add to her ballots. Instead of voting for the best of the two evils you can vote – “Against All”… 🙂

Can you imaging 51% or more of the people vote against all? Looks like it would be time to find some better candidates…

That could be a powerful tool to have on a ballot…

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Looks like Russia is on a roll: What with a June 15th 2011 deadline. Russia will put a ban on the import of all beef from Brazil for “sanitation worries.” (?) Russia has also banned the import of potatoes from Egypt because of “sanitation worries.” (?) Then of course we have all heard that because of the outbreak of E. coli found in European vegetables, Russia’s sanitary watchdog has banned all imports of vegetables from Europe…

Is there a master chess move behind all thee banning of food imports? Or was someone bored and need to spice international life up around the world?

Maybe Russia will ban chicken again from America and is German pork still banned in Russia?

I guess we will just watch and see what comes out of all this… 🙂

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Update: Russia’s ban on vegetable imports from the European Union goes against the norms of the World Trade Organization, EU representative in Moscow Fernando Valenzuela said on Friday. Valenzuela said that the EU believed that Russia was on the final stage of talks to join the world trade club, which implies accepting WTO agreements on sanitary norms. Valenzuela said Russia’s vegetable imports from the EU amount to 600 million euros and play an important role in bilateral trade relations…

Well it all makes sense now! One thing that Putin has made clear is that Russia is not in the WTO and does not need to follow the rules. It costs Russia money to follow the rules and not be a member. So until Russia is made a member. Putin told everyone to quit following WTO rules. It just makes sense and Russia being the last powerhouse of an economy to be blocked form joining the WTO really has no financial reason to obey the WTO rules. If WTO wants Russia to follow the rules then WTO needs to make Russia a member and not expects something for nothing…

Putin on acquiring WTO and obligations: Putin said, Russia is being forced to “sustain losses” and “gets nothing out of a membership that isn’t,”.

“Why in hell would they admit us (WTO) if we do everything anyway? Russia is doing for free that which costs money!”

He then said, “Here is a direct order – don’t do that,”.

“I am asking you – and also tell this to our partners: We will not fulfill anything until we become full fledged members,” Putin said.

http://windowstorussia.com/quote-of-the-day-russias-putin-04082011.html

Just plain makes sense now… 🙂