Russia is growing and so are the shadows that are cast over the business goings on there.
The bureaucracy is still extremely burdensome and growing. And laws are a matter of convience and seemingly ci…
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Motorola Takes on Russia
Duck! North Korea is Throwing Things
North Korea is getting reading to launch a missile and everybody is running for cover.
Nobody in particular mind you. Everybody everywhere is running because nobody is sure what they are aiming at an…
Mt. Bulusan in the Philippines is Getting Angrier
The PI has a very restive volcano…Mt. Bulusan.
Recently it spewed ash and pepples in another new explosion forcing some 40 families to be evacuated.
This is the eighth time since March that the…
Oil’s New Ball Game
In the 1960’s 85% of the oil in the world was available for ownership, development, partnerships and such. At the time, 14% of the oils reserves belonged to the Soviet Union.
Today it is the rev…
Where’s the Oil in Asia? China and India Team Up
Asia has a pultry 5% of the world’s oil reserves.
Compare that to the former Soviet Union which has more than one fifth (20/8%) and Africa and the Middle East which has nearly 2/3s of the oil re…
Sakhalin Island (part 3) Nervous as Shell
When Shell started shelling out mega bucks to drill for oil off the coast of Sakhalin island, Russia wasn’t one of the global oil suppliers. Russia is now.
It is just plain costing too much for …
India to Double Exports
$100 billion in annual exports is India’s new target.
Add to that 25 million new jobs within the next 4 years. These are India’s new economic goals.
India expects its low-cost labor …
Sakhalin Island (part 2)
There is a lot of oil off the coast of Sakhalin Island located in the Sea of Oshkosh, off the coast of Far East Russia and seven time zones from Moscow.
I almost went there once but got stuck in the i…
Russia’s Positive View of the US Drops
The Washington Post Pew Research Center polled people in 15 different countries.
Nearly all of them have worse opinions of the US now than they did a year ago….and they didn’t like the US …

