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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Off the Cuff / My Other Journal #537350 added September 24, 2007 at 11:26am
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War over the Arctic?
According to an AP news article by Mike Eckel: “Russia: Tests Show Arctic Ridge Is Ours,” Russia has sent scientists to the arctic, to claim that the mountain range--which will be made to appear by the melting ice--belongs to it. Since the soil samples the Russian scientists gathered show that the Arctic’s land mass is part of Russia’s continental shelf.
"'Results of an analysis of the Earth's crust show that the structure of the underwater Lomonosov mountain chain is similar to the world's other continental shelves, and the ridge is therefore part of Russia's land mass,' the ministry said.”
Last month, after Russia set its flag undersea, --according to what Mike Eckel writes, “Canada vowed to increase its icebreaker fleet and build two new military facilities in the Arctic, while Denmark sent a team of scientists to seek evidence that the ridge was attached to its territory of Greenland.
A U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker also set off late last month for a research expedition, though the expedition's chief scientist said the trip had been planned well before the Russian move.”
To me, this whole thing sounds so ridiculous. Every piece of land on earth is connected or was a piece of a big mass that broke off.
Does this mean those weighty countries with muscle could claim the entire earth?
I wonder why Russia can never give up its dream of world domination. Surely, the Russian people who are so respectable, hard-working, and strong could have nothing to do with this preposterous idea.
Come to think of it, maybe it has something to do with the impressions his KGB days left on Putin.
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