Petro Yuan

Today is the launching date of Oil futures trading in Chinese Yuan convertible to Gold. The US Petro Dollar is no longer King.

Precious Water

In the news, three million gallons of metal-contaminated wastewater has turned the Animas River in Colorado into mustard color. It looks bad. The U.S. Federal Government says that 40 percent of west coast headwaters are contaminated by mine runoff.

There are so many such water-contamination incidents, oil spills and man-made environmental devastations in the world. When will the humans learn that water is more precious than oil and gold?

3 Attitudes in the Olympic Games

There are 3 interesting attitudes in the Olympic Games: American: it doesn't matter whether we've won or lost. We are always the best. Chinese: what, a Bronze ? Only a Silver ? Sorry, they don't count. Winning means GOLD only. Canadian: whao, we are so happy, we've won a Bronze. In my opinion, all Olympians are winners. The losers are those who cheated.