US imposes new round of sanctions on Russia over Ukraine

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Yah, well, Putin's daughter is hot, so that makes up for a lot.
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Going with that what would be the opening line you would most likely practice in the mirror. I made it as far as, 'Hi Dad, . . . yes sir, I'll make sure that doesn't happen to that part of my body as I depart, gday your highness.' Sometimes a short relationship is good.' . . . He's the outdoor type, right???

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tbrLDA18C4

Who pick her guards, her or dad? Not saying that bunkers might be like igloos in the winter but bunkers might be like igloos in the winter. Most common phrase, 'I don't know, what do you want to do?'

Russia has the oil and the gas and friends the USA is so bankrupt it will never recover. Now I ain't happy about that because one of the solutions will be North American Union. Which means open fascist rule instead of the hidden rule we live with now.
Did anybody actually do the math for the US to ship over the NG that was being imported into the Ukraine from Russia? (plus the proposed expansions)
 

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....and then I take my thumb and make small circles with it .....
 

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Dollar Collapse

If the USD is deflated, the US Debt becomes unplayable.. which under Obama.. well, why bother, the Obamabots will just start crying..

In this regard, the US is making a smart play... Flooding the market with lots of greenbacks 'should ' have a deflating effect.. The debt owed overseas is then paid back with cheaper USDs.... In theory.

Right now, the greenback is getting stronger. The question is: for how long?

Gerard Depardieu moved to Russia to escape high taxes. If what you are saying is true, it proves how fcuked up it gets when a society refuses to impose taxes on the elites and allows them to engage in parasitism as others pay for society's problems.

Buddy chose and moved to Russia specifically to escape the heinous marginal tax rate that the French legislated for high income earners... Probably made the decision not to relocate to NorAm for the very same reasons.

Probably a good chance that Depardieu still lives in France(part time), owns a house, etc. but has identified his principal business interests somewhere in Russia.. All he has likely done is move his income and asset base outside of France.

He is not alone, this is what happens when the gvt decides to sacrifice the high income earners in a nation
 

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Right now though, the only currency that has the actual volume that could act is the global trading currency would be the Chinese yuan and they ain't interested (so far) in having it traded on the world stage
 

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Right now though, the only currency that has the actual volume that could act is the global trading currency would be the Chinese yuan and they ain't interested (so far) in having it traded on the world stage

They need to keep it devalued or exports crash.
 

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Yah, well, Putin's daughter is hot, so that makes up for a lot.
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If that made your eyes bulge this will make them pop. Awhile back the 'child' of the Govt of Alberta leader got busted for cocaine. Suddenly a $2,500,000 cocaine addiction clinic opened up with him as the star patient. Fast forward to Putin's nice looking single daughter who lives in a 'free country with "a friend'' ' and 'at home' Papa is outlawing being gay entirely. If that doesn't make the light bulb ring like a church bell nothing will. Even Snowden wouldn't dare let this out if he expects his next meal to be in Russia.

What does 'precision' mean in terms of the military and the way battles are fought in the Ukraine. Tanks and artillery so what is the latest there, the shells are very new and the 'launch platform can date back to WWII', 105MM firing projectiles that are optically guided in the last distance as this is what it takes to 'avoid mistakes' and the hits on civilians that cause the most damage can be said to be a shell that 'went off course' and the 'wind sort of carried it through the front door instead of hittint the rienforced wall on either side of it. Same bad luck 10 times in a row.

Right now though, the only currency that has the actual volume that could act is the global trading currency would be the Chinese yuan and they ain't interested (so far) in having it traded on the world stage
You let each country use it's own currency but rather than set the price today and deliver take place 6 months from now the sale and price can be set and on 'payday the current values are used' A 1% rise or fall would be a huge move in that period of time so the amount on the check will not be far from the contract price and it eliminated the need for any 'global currency' what it requires is the globe have electricity to all parts. To be fair if one country defaults the whole globe should and debt to the world bank is not only eliminated the money taken in for the last 500 years is returned. Now that money is in the economy you need big projects that use all that new wealth. The Mid East needs to go on a civil reconstruction project and the agricultural upgrades need to include the places the water comes from as all being part of one project. In North America fixing the 'old things' will take 50 years but then they are maintenance free for 150 years. JFK showed the banks we can spend a lot of money without any war being involved. Some a little more down to earth might be just as much fun as 'going to the moon' because they would certainly be that expensive. Canada should say FU to TEPCO and start hauling tar-sands to Japan in a plan that will bury the place under 1/4 of that black goo, then get the US to drill down and set off about 10 nukes to collapse the aquifer and then put another layer of goop on so the weight compacts all the voids into something solid and the particles are far enough apart that they can't 'migrate'. How about a new fish farm in the Hudson Bay now that the GOM is 'past it's prime and the Pacific is a garbage dump as far as edible things goes. Tada, 800Mi circle that is fully within the borders of one country and it truly is a land without a people. The GOM crowd could use some pristine water and Japan has fishermen and no fish. With the long winters in 100 years the population will be Cajan/Japanese/ who speak Eskimo most of all. More than a pound of flesh for the banksters.
If one works another one will be an easy sell. After all, zero people exactly said, 'That was fun , we should do this again real soon. ' at the end of WW1.
Heaven forbid the Jews should ever find out all their candles can be powered by salt-water energy cells, a battery by any other name. (called a power plant if it is at the Dead Sea)

Gerard Depardieu moved to Russia to escape high taxes. If what you are saying is true, it proves how fcuked up it gets when a society refuses to impose taxes on the elites and allows them to engage in parasitism as others pay for society's problems.
You welcome ES back from the Bahamas yet?
 
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It took thirty years but it worked in South Africa, but then we have
thirty years to talk about it. Is anyone proposing we send troops?
Pick a war with Russia? Great the Arab world and North Korea
would all act up at once
 

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captain,

Buddy chose and moved to Russia specifically to escape the heinous marginal tax rate that the French legislated for high income earners... Probably made the decision not to relocate to NorAm for the very same reasons.

Probably a good chance that Depardieu still lives in France(part time), owns a house, etc. but has identified his principal business interests somewhere in Russia.. All he has likely done is move his income and asset base outside of France.

He is not alone, this is what happens when the gvt decides to sacrifice the high income earners in a nation



A lot of good a no tax policy does for job creation in Russia as the earlier post explains.