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« Reply #675 on: November 28, 2014, 02:34:57 PM »
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« Reply #676 on: November 28, 2014, 04:36:06 PM »
The Ruble is dropping also.. 49.90 to the dollar.

Arrival of a Canadian Air Force plane delivering equipment for Ukraine's armed forces, tonight, in Kyiv Boryspil airport.   :welcome: :clapping: :clapping:

I also applaud Canada for doing more than any other nation to help Ukraine in this dark hour.  I eagerly await a new Republican Congress in January and sincerely hope they will finally give real weapons to this country so they can properly defend their sovereign territory against the Russian invasion.

And I also hope and pray that the triple whammy of low oil prices, a plunging Ruble and continued economic sanctions might help the Zombies in Russia to finally wake-up and smell the coffee.

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« Reply #677 on: November 28, 2014, 04:59:27 PM »
Gazeta.ru reported this evening that oil prices dropped down to $66 a barrel on the New York markets. The tone of the several articles published on the topic today is approaching panic. It is starting to sink in that this is likely more than a blip. It is truly a "Made in Russia" crisis as one of their pieces put it. Russia will be hit by lower prices that might cost the country half-a-billion or so per day (or more if prices drop even further) and that with capital flight, sanctions and reforms that were never carried out will cost the economy dearly...

I just wonder how the Russian Oligarchs feel who might be able to enact regime change in Russia.  I expect the most powerful ones are whispering plots right now.

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« Reply #678 on: November 28, 2014, 05:10:49 PM »
Jay:
'...Defense Ministry of Russia: There were no Russian soldiers in Ukraine, but the families of the dead will receive 5 million rubles..'

Makes me laugh- so absurd, and it says a lot about Moscow's deception. Funny but sad.

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« Reply #679 on: November 28, 2014, 05:27:49 PM »
Aww Shucks Guys.. Oil might drip to new lows..

Russia might have a problem.  :eeekk:

Oil could plummet to $35 a barrel next year if OPEC doesn't reach an agreement by the spring, oil price tracker Tom Kloza said Wednesday.

The founder of Oil Price Information Services told CNBC's "Squawk Box" that he expects at least a "lip service agreement" from OPEC members Thursday, when they meet to discuss output, but the members will largely ignore it, creating a bigger crisis in about six months.

"When you look at the second half of 2015, that's when you see oil beginning to dwarf demand by about a million, a million and a half barrels a day," he said. "Thirty-five dollars is a possibility if they don't get an agreement next spring because that's when the oil really starts to build and you can have a billion barrels of oil with really no place to put it."




http://www.cnbc.com/id/102219498

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« Reply #680 on: November 28, 2014, 05:55:05 PM »
Why isn't Doll here to gloat about how that midget president is making the economy of her country sooooo very strong?

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« Reply #681 on: November 28, 2014, 05:57:23 PM »
Her silence says a lot! :crackwhip: :crackwhip:

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« Reply #682 on: November 28, 2014, 06:46:59 PM »
I also applaud Canada for doing more than any other nation to help Ukraine in this dark hour.  I eagerly await a new Republican Congress in January and sincerely hope they will finally give real weapons to this country so they can properly defend their sovereign territory against the Russian invasion.

And I also hope and pray that the triple whammy of low oil prices, a plunging Ruble and continued economic sanctions might help the Zombies in Russia to finally wake-up and smell the coffee.


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« Reply #683 on: November 29, 2014, 11:11:17 AM »
Aww Shucks Guys.. Oil might drip to new lows..

Russia might have a problem.  :eeekk:

Oil could plummet to $35 a barrel next year if OPEC doesn't reach an agreement by the spring, oil price tracker Tom Kloza said Wednesday.

The founder of Oil Price Information Services told CNBC's "Squawk Box" that he expects at least a "lip service agreement" from OPEC members Thursday, when they meet to discuss output, but the members will largely ignore it, creating a bigger crisis in about six months.

"When you look at the second half of 2015, that's when you see oil beginning to dwarf demand by about a million, a million and a half barrels a day," he said. "Thirty-five dollars is a possibility if they don't get an agreement next spring because that's when the oil really starts to build and you can have a billion barrels of oil with really no place to put it."




http://www.cnbc.com/id/102219498

I always like articles that include words like ones highlighted........shows where the 'writers' POV is!!! Where's my crystal ball !!!!  Would be nice to see an 'expect', 'predict' word somewhere there...

I might jump off a cliff if my stocks fall but that could happen only if I follow my crystal ball!! :o
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« Reply #684 on: November 29, 2014, 11:22:54 AM »
That's why they call them oil futures and they predict with available information and trends.

 If they knew for 100% sure they would call it oil history.

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« Reply #685 on: November 29, 2014, 12:11:16 PM »
That's why they call them oil futures and they predict with available information and trends.

 If they knew for 100% sure they would call it oil history.


Don't confuse him with the obvious, Mike.

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« Reply #686 on: November 29, 2014, 12:48:26 PM »
The bad news for Russia is the result of Putin's foolish ambitions. Here's a great article that takes a closer look at Putin's motivations, and his lack of logic.
see:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/putin-will-regret-interfering-in-the-donbass/511964.html

a quote from that article:
'...Putin has now lost the initiative that he seized in Crimea by turning the bloody battle over Donbass into an unresolvable stalemate...'

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« Reply #687 on: November 29, 2014, 01:58:13 PM »
Her silence says a lot! :crackwhip: :crackwhip:
You are right- i am sick of what people say here

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« Reply #688 on: November 29, 2014, 02:15:46 PM »
We're sick of the murder and mayhem that the Kremlin is doing in Ukraine also. You blindly supporting that regime shows your mettle. Enjoy the dirt soup.

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« Reply #689 on: November 29, 2014, 02:40:47 PM »
You are right- i am sick of what people say here

Do you think hubby is going to like Mother Russia when you go back?  Is he also pro-Russian?

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« Reply #690 on: November 29, 2014, 03:03:40 PM »
Putin and the people of Russia need to understand:
The Euromaidan revolution was created by the people of Ukraine, not the governments of the West.

The people of Ukraine choose democracy, freedom, and an end to severe corruption. In Moscow, there is a fake democracy, similar to Yanukovych. In Moscow, freedom of speech is very limited. Do the people of Russia want to own and control the people of Ukraine? Are the people of Ukraine allowed to choose democracy? Russia does not own Ukraine.

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« Reply #691 on: November 29, 2014, 03:18:36 PM »

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« Reply #692 on: November 29, 2014, 04:58:57 PM »
Food Cards for parts of Russia

Due to falling oil prices and sanctions imposed against Russia and it appeared in the country serious problems with food. So the Russian State Duma mass receives letters of appreciation buckwheat flour and other seemingly quite ordinary goods. The government reacted immediately, the country introduced the card for food, according Patriots Ukraine with reference to the Russian media.

To begin to test the card system will be in four regions of Russia, Saratov, Omsk and Ulyanovsk region and in the Republic of Mordovia. According to the Russian authorities approved a project to buy the cards can only domestically produced goods. Alcoholic beverages and tobacco products in the list of socially important products will not be included, but the cards will buy food for guaranteed low prices, social, writes "Russian planet."

The idea of ​​introducing ration cards belonging to the head of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia Nikolai Fyodorov. He identified four pilot regions above and termed project start: end 2015.

It is worth noting that the predecessor of the current Minister Alexei Gordeev performed a similar idea in 2008, when Russia invaded Georgia, and in some regions there was a shortage of goods. Then, however, major Western sanctions have not followed, and the situation in grocery stores failed to normalize without such drastic measures, resulting in project administration decided to postpone the cards "for a rainy day." Now, apparently, it was really a day.

It is assumed that the card while delivering not all Russians, but poor. These sponsors enrolled incomplete and large families, single mothers and disabled people of different groups. If successful, the card project in Mordovia, Ulyanovsk, Saratov and Omsk regions, this experience is proposed to extend to the whole of.
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« Reply #693 on: November 29, 2014, 05:04:35 PM »
Putin and the people of Russia need to understand:
The Euromaidan revolution was created by the people of Ukraine, not the governments of the West.

The people of Ukraine choose democracy, freedom, and an end to severe corruption.

Let us see where this goes in the coming year/s.
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« Reply #694 on: November 29, 2014, 05:22:42 PM »
With time and work it'll get there.

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« Reply #695 on: November 29, 2014, 11:36:06 PM »
Russia Makes A Desperate Plea To The EU

Russia urged the European Union on Saturday to lift sanctions against Moscow and promised to waive its food embargo, but a top EU official rejected such a move as the bloc imposed fresh measures on Ukrainian rebels.

The European Union and the United States imposed economic sanctions on Russia in late July, targeting the Russian energy, banking and defense sectors to punish Moscow's support for rebels in eastern Ukraine, the West's toughest steps yet.

In retaliation, Moscow has banned most Western food imports, worth $9 billion a year.

"We don't expect anything from our European partners. The only thing we expect is for them to leave the meaningless sanctions spiral and move onto the path of lifting the sanctions and dropping the blacklists," Russia's deputy foreign minister, Alexei Meshkov, was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.

"This, in turn, would allow us to drop our lists."

The gesture from Moscow came as the European Union imposed sanctions on 13 Ukrainians accused of organizing rogue elections in eastern Ukraine on Nov. 2, hitting the separatists and their organizations with asset freezes and travel bans.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-asks-eu-to-lift-sanctions-2014-11#ixzz3KWzrfPKX

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« Reply #696 on: November 30, 2014, 12:04:16 AM »
You really can't make this stuff up!  :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: :clapping:

Russia Wants Bulgarians to Stop Vandalizing Soviet Monuments To Look Like American Superheroes

The Moscow Times is reporting that Bulgarian pranksters are repainting Soviet-era monuments so that the Soviet military heroes depicted are recast as American Superheroes (h/t to trans-atlantyk posting at reddit’s /r/worldnews):


Russia is demanding that Bulgaria try harder to prevent vandalism of Soviet monuments, after yet another monument to Soviet troops in Sofia was spray-painted, ITAR-Tass reported.

The Russian Embassy in Bulgaria has issued a note demanding that its former Soviet-era ally clean up the monument in Sofia’s Lozenets district, identify and punish those responsible, and take “exhaustive measures” to prevent similar attacks in the future, the news agency reported Monday.

The monument was sprayed with red paint on the eve of the Bulgarian Socialist Party’s celebration of its 123rd anniversary, the Sofia-based Novinite news agency reported.

The vandalism was the latest in a series of similar recent incidents in Bulgaria — each drawing angry criticism from Moscow…
- See more at: http://disinfo.com/2014/08/russia-wants-bulgarians-stop-vandalizing-soviet-monuments-look-like-american-superheroes/#sthash.31hQs5bW.j2x91a1Y.dpuf

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« Reply #697 on: November 30, 2014, 12:33:08 AM »
Russia Makes A Desperate Plea To The EU


I wonder if that plea was made while kneeling down...  :-\

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« Reply #698 on: November 30, 2014, 12:38:00 AM »
LOL, I doubt that!  :crackwhip:

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« Reply #699 on: November 30, 2014, 01:15:48 AM »
Ah, but the irony is that Europe is exporting to Russia via Belarus  :-X  It is even causing a tiff between the two countries as Lukashenko reacted quite strongly to Russia's actions trying to stop the flow of goods, thus undermining the "Eurasian Union." If anything, the sanctions are working better than planned... 

 

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