World Politics

[FoxxyBrown1111]

You're mixing up two things. I was talking to you about how a currency that lost some value can actually be a good thing. It's not a zero sum game. If you're raw material costs make up 20%, and labour 60%, how can that be zero? Have you heard CEOs of euro-firms depending on export about the euro weakening?

OK, I give you that... Depens on how much you are dependend on raw materials.

But I guess you are not a business man selling things outside your country.
A currency that loses value can be a good thing. OFC it can. No doubt about it. Good for currency traders, good for multi national co-orperations, good for people/nations/companies having debts in exactly that currency.

But for the majority it is really bad. Those who work for their money, can´t export their manpower, can´t gamble in currencies, can´t invest in stocks, but having to pay (rising) market prices for house rents, food, clothes, holidays once in a while, daily things... a currency getting soft is always going to explode in inflation. Always!

The lie to us was that the Euro is going to be a hard currency like the old DM (I never bought that story BTW. If they sell you things like a barker, you have to assume you get cheated). In reality we got a soft one like the old drachma.

And finally, if your business is export depending, you know something is going really bad in your country. That is the case for Germany with major problems of domestic demand.
Now what was/is good about being "export champ"? Aside from big business: NOTHING!
First we produce, then we sell to others, then we pay the things we sold (while the profits went to big business). What a farce!

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

the freedom fighters leader said he's done talking to porky and has declared a wide offensive.

Corrected for you. Please not you. Don´t get manipulated by MSM speech. Always remember who started the war: USA and their puppets helping the imperialists...

 

[blutto]

long gone from everyone's radars, the situation in ukraine appears to move from bad to worse by the hour... the civilians in 2 major cities are now being slaughtered daily by the dozen via the use of artillery and the multiple launch rocket systems.

..i became thoroughly disoriented trying to follow the warring sides reports. they are reporting the exact opposite of each other - it is almost humorous if it was not so tragic.

then i switched only to reading al jazeera as they seem not to care playing sides. they said the porky (poroshenko) is cutting short now his 2nd trip abroad (1st was davos and now the saudi funeral), b/c his army was pushed back from several towns and the donets airport.

the rebels leader said he's done talking to porky and has declared a wide offensive.

looks like the chaps decided to warm up things in mid winter

...find below a wee look inside the mess that the "forces of freedom and democracy " are supporting in The Ukraine....caution, you may have to take some Gravall because this tale will really make your head spin....and this is not an isolated incident this is just business as usual in that neck of the world...

http://johnhelmer.net/?p=10940

Cheers

 

[python]

...find below a wee look inside the mess that the "forces of freedom and democracy " are supporting in The Ukraine....caution, you may have to take some Gravall because this tale will really make your head spin....and this is not an isolated incident this is just business as usual in that neck of the world...

http://johnhelmer.net/?p=10940

Cheers

that tale indeed got me confused.

not b/c i had any positive vibes about stepan kubiv (whose name, frankly, i heard for the 1st time) but b/c i thought the imf has an image (if not a charter) to conduct its business more professionally.

i have this strange habit of seeking my own answers to things that seem irrational...so, i once delved into the little project of understanding who and why is resisting the imf governance revision. a long story...the current model is very complicated but the de facto last word is...you guested right - america, despite being urged from every side (incl inside the us) to accept the new economic and financial reality. they all say ,' America pls share - you will at the end uphold its stated values and will benefit. the american hawks still block the revisions...

why do i say this ?

simple. the imf governance resistance is but one more example of how artificially the us is trying to keep its world dominance. add the dollar reserve currency status to this and multiply it by the overwhelming military expenditures and get what the us is really - the last decaying empire.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Corrected for you. Please not you. Don´t get manipulated by MSM speech. Always remember who started the war: USA and their puppets helping the imperialists...

2015. Imperialists? Really? Who is running an Empire these days?

 

[Echoes]

The United States of America

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

2015. Imperialists? Really? Who is running an Empire these days?

U. S. A. ,protecting and widening it with the highest military buget. It´s so big, that they spend more than all other states (circa 200) combined.

 

[Bustedknuckle]

Corrected for you. Please not you. Don´t get manipulated by MSM speech. Always remember who started the war: USA and their puppets helping the imperialists...

Vlad and his army snatched Crimea and now wants a big chunk of Ukraine and the US are imperialists?

From a German no less. This conflict dates back to the 30s, ya know, when that other 'German'(actually Austrian) was throwing his weight around in Ukraine. AND protecting them from the Russians.

Take a look at a map of the USSR, from about 1985, I wonder which independent, sovereign nation is next on Vlad's list?

Course, he will have an air force as soon as he can get them from flying drunk.

 

[movingtarget]

Vlad and his army snatched Crimea and now wants a big chunk of Ukraine and the US are imperialists?

From a German no less.

Take a look at a map of the USSR, from about 1985, I wonder which independent, sovereign nation is next on Vlad's list?

Course, he will have an air force as soon as he can get them from flying drunk.

Vlad wants his land corridor through Mariupol to Crimea and he will probably get it unless something unexpected happens.

 

[Echoes]

Take a look at a map of the USSR, from about 1985, I wonder which independent, sovereign nation is next on Vlad's list?

On Nato's (the Empire's) list, there have been Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Congo, Iraq, Lybia, Syria, Mali, Central African Republic, etc. Who's next?

 

[hrotha]

For all its imperialist tendencies, the US wasn't the party who started annexing provinces or sending troops. It's amazing what Putin gets away with in some circles just because he's an enemy of the big bad US.

 

[Echoes]

For sure, when I see who is supporting Putin here, I remember what I already knew, which means he's a counter-imperialist who created a Eurasian Union, which is meant to be supranational (just like the current European Union is supranational) that is meant to spread from Lisbon to Vladivostok. If there's no frontier in between, the European liberal ideas may spread too.

He just has the philosophy, just wants a bigger share of the cake than the US had thought. It's a bit like Chicago in the 1930's when you had gangs fighting each other: Capone vs Moran. No goodies and vilains. Only opponents. Winners and losers. Or when the French Republic and Britain colonised Africa. They clashed in Fashoda: The Brittons won, does not mean the Republican Frenchies were good.

However, the US in Ukraine orchestrated a coup d'état against a democratically elected government. And Putin has done a lot of things right since he came to office. The way he handled the Oligarchs, the ***** Riots, etc. We should also remember what Russia was under Eltsin.

 

[python]

However, the US in Ukraine orchestrated a coup d'état against a democratically elected government. And Putin has done a lot of things right since he came to office. The way he handled the Oligarchs, the ***** Riots, etc. We should also remember what Russia was under Eltsin.

i got it all wrong. the ukraine borders the united states. russia moved its military bases to cuba, ukraine and mexico to surround america - the land of freedom. that's why the vlad supported govt had to go

 

[Echoes]

What ? (6 thousand characters)


Edit: Okay, I got it. Lol

 

[Bustedknuckle]

On Nato's (the Empire's) list, there have been Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Congo, Iraq, Lybia, Syria, Mali, Central African Republic, etc. Who's next?

Really? Syria's only friends in the world are Russia and Iran. Great bed fellows.

AND last I looked, the counties mentioned that aren't in Europe aren't members of NATO. Ya know who has HUGE footprint in Africa. A lollipop is you can guess. Not militarily, but economically. "We will give you billions of Yuan(hint), but you have to have a political system to our liking..including no religions." AND we get rights to your HUGE mineral/oil reserves...

 

[Echoes]

US wanted Assad out and played IS against him.

NATO is the Empire (with the EU being its political side). European nations are the colonies.

China capitalises on our arrogance and deals with Africa on equal terms. We are the only one to blame for it. US (+ UK, Canada, South Africa with Mandela) supported the coup d'état by Kagame in Rwanda (on some other forum, that is tabu), which was a springboard for the invasion of neighbouring Congo, still supported by France (when France still enjoyed some sort of independence).

 

[blutto]

Vlad and his army snatched Crimea and now wants a big chunk of Ukraine and the US are imperialists?

....what a bunch of hooey....this from a "Ukrainian" no less....

Cheers

 

[blutto]

Really? Syria's only friends in the world are Russia and Iran. Great bed fellows.

....and the opposition's bedfellows, Israel and Saudi Arabia, are just great in bed?....

Cheers

 

[python]

....what a bunch of hooey....this from a "Ukrainian" no less....

Cheers

dont know if you realize it, but loosely translated this sounds in ukrainian 'as a male member of a ukrainian extraction'

 

[Echoes]

For some here, I'm sure, Putin is the choice of who is crushing more Muslims compared to the US.

It's not even that obvious though but it must be their opinion.

 

[blutto]

dont know if you realize it, but loosely translated this sounds in ukrainian 'as a male member of a ukrainian extraction'

...which bit?....I ask because my first language was Ukrainian and I grew up in a household where Ukrainian was spoken ( western and central dialect variations ) and thru my family connection to the Ukrainian diaspora was exposed to all manner of Ukrainian dialects....and nothing in my experience matches up to "'as a male member of a ukrainian extraction"....


Cheers

 

[python]

...which bit?....


Cheers

I am not (fixed a typo)a ukrainian nor a slav, but this part a heard from many ukrainians i met

'hooey'

 

[blutto]

I am a ukrainian nor a slav, but this part a heard from many ukrainians i met

'hooey'

...hmm....may well be a more recent colloquial expression that never migrated to the diaspora here....I will say that when I have visited The Ukraine I found the language very Russified compared to the language I grew up with and sometimes almost impossible to understand ( especially when the conversation became slang heavy )...

...anyway, I used "hooey" which is slang because it was a more polite way to say bull$h!t....sorta like saying heck when you could say hell....or say fudge instead of F#%K...

Cheers

 

[python]

...hmm....may well be a more recent colloquial expression that never migrated to the diaspora here....I will say that when I have visited The Ukraine I found the language very Russified compared to the language I grew up with and sometimes almost impossible to understand ( especially when the conversation became slang heavy )...

...anyway, I used "hooey" because it was a more polite way to say bull$h!t....

Cheers

it probably was not my best tongue-in-cheek nor is this worth out time...any ways, take a look at this link 3d line:
http://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=Ukrainian#.VMUiYC79nIU

i live 10 blocks from 'little ukraine'...i met there many ukrainian people speaking mostly western dialect. because i can get by in czech , which is close to polish, which in turn is close to western ukrainian, i sometimes try to 'impress' the locals...

btw, the western ukrainiasn use the very word when referring to vlad quite freely, i heard it personally and many times ,

 

[Echoes]

Many new elements in the Charlie Hebdo affair.

Worth mentioning for me, for further investigation; the "suicide" of a police commissar in Limoges on January 8.

http://www.panamza.com/250115-charlie-fredou-autopsie

So the family of the "suicided" commissar - Helric Fredou - won't get access to the autopsy, while it's provided for the French law.

Fredou's gun was not equipped with a silencer and he "committed suicide" in his office. Yet nobody heard it while it was about midnight. "his office was very well isolated" was a brief answer.

According to his mother, Fredou wanted to make an important phone call after having debriefed with three investigators from Paris about the close family of a CH cartoonist (i.e. the parents of Jeanette Bougrab, who claimed to be Charb's partner and former secretary of state under Sarkozy). Fredou seemed to have made an important deduction, hence he wanted to work more.

His GP refused to claim he was depressed nor had a nervous breakdown.

The mother wanted to know who was the addressee of his last phone call and was responded "we cannot know" before they told her there were no phone call.

Not a single French journalist interviewed the family of this police investigator, but the web-journalist in my link. Only an Indian TV-show told that story.

Very weird.