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Brazil discovers major potsah reserves . Really good news for Brazil .For what kind of ressources we shall see wars in the next decades ?Energy ( oil , gas , uranium ands lithium ) , water and food ( farm lands and potash ) !Which countries are ” pivotal states ” and totally self-sufficient and even can export ?Russia , Canada and now Brazil with its oil and potash discoveries .Throught these dicoveries , Brazil will be ale to developp an independant agricultural policy as it will not be under the dependency of fertilizers producers .It’s also for this resaon that the Us tries to built bases on the Guarani aquifer , under the pretext of terrorism , in south america .http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2003/2003-05-29-03.asphttp://www.tierramerica.net/english/2004/0320/iarticulo.shtmlRussia can also divert a part of its Siberian waters and expOrt them to central asia .Yes ! Really the ” good old wars ” of the XIX th century are far from being over . They just begin .Geopolitics of natural ressources relies on four questions for the Us and the so-called ” western world ” ?1- Which countries hold the reserves ?2- How can the ” western world ” weaken the sovereignity of these countries on ressources rich aereas throught local separatisms ? ( A question as valid for Brazil as for Russia throught the manipulation of indigenous tribes and nations )3- Are theses countries and theit govts sufficiently resilient to a western grab ?4- Throught which countries these ressources can be driven to the ” westen world ” ?On all these points , the ” western world ” will have to compete with an energy and food hungry China , even in the Us ” cellar” of Latin Ameica .The building of the floating NPP are good news for Russia .It’s ” simple ” like 2+2 = 4 !Floating power plants exist since WWII ( they were used during the Normandy landing ) and are currently used on the amazon river .” Just ” replace the good old diesel electric generator by an atomic recator and here you are .Its perhaps why Russia IS really building this FNPP that the ” Guardian ” , the best exemple of Russophobic British ” Yellow journalism ” , speaks and barks about it . Throught the barkings of the ” Guardian ” you can mesure the progress of Russia in each fields .And let’s correct its article . ” Bellona ” is not a ” Scandinavian ” NGO but a Norwegian GOVERNEMENTAL organization which is lobbying strongly for the ” Scandinavian wind cluster ” – I put a copyright on this expression ! ;0) -http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssEnergyNews/idUSL2648359020080526?sp=truehttp://www.investindk.com/visArtikel.asp?artikelID=10358