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Volkerball posted:A Russian hedge fund manager just walked off with $20 million. 20 million from a hedge fund manager? What a rank amateur.
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A Pale Horse posted:Despite what many of you think about me being a frothing nationalist, this is not a good thing. It shifts the political center further to the right than it is and definitely than it should be and means that any meaningful progress on social issues is likely dead in the water for the time being. Its amazing how bad Leszek Miller is as a party leader and how terribly he's managed SLD over the past several years. Its even more amazing that they can't get rid of him because there's no one better to replace him. Requiescat in Pace SLD, you were mostly poo poo. Oh gently caress them anyway. Every decent person left SLD long ago and they have nothing to offer anybody, plus there's nothing even social-democratic about their policies except "we're not really bros with the clergy". There will be no sensible alternative on that side as long as that bunch of corrupt, lying incompetents bears the mantle of "the only left-wing party" and frankly I can't wait to see them fall below the threshold as they well deserve. Sure, we'll have a period of total right-wing hegemony where nothing even nominally left of center exists, but that's just confirmation of what is already de facto the case. At least the idea of being left-wing won't be associated with Leszek loving Miller.
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steinrokkan posted:I do kind of understand the sentiment that foreigners are "stealing our children". Honestly I'm puzzled that there seems to be very little controversy about the trend of adoptions from Third world countries in general, which are more often than not a way to exploit economic destitution rather than an attempt to relieve it. Unicef takes a pretty nuanced view of the whole thing, specifically that it's an absolute last resort and should be done in compliance with the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of intercountry Adoptions. Cue calls for boycotting Unicef Christmas cards being splashed around in the American press, complete with "war on adoption" rhetoric and much wailing and gnashing of teeth among the adoption community. Hell, here's a great article about it all. quote:Westerners have been sold the myth of a world orphan crisis. We are told that millions of children are waiting for their “forever families” to rescue them from lives of abandonment and abuse. But many of the infants and toddlers being adopted by Western parents today are not orphans at all. Yes, hundreds of thousands of children around the world do need loving homes. But more often than not, the neediest children are sick, disabled, traumatized, or older than 5. They are not the healthy babies that, quite understandably, most Westerners hope to adopt. There are simply not enough healthy, adoptable infants to meet Western demand—and there’s too much Western money in search of children. As a result, many international adoption agencies work not to find homes for needy children but to find children for Western homes. quote:Because the vast majority of the country’s institutionalized children are not healthy, adoptable babies, almost none has been adopted abroad. In the fall of 2007, a survey conducted by the Guatemalan government, UNICEF, and the international child welfare and adoption agency Holt International Children’s Services found approximately 5,600 children and adolescents in Guatemalan institutions. More than 4,600 of these children were age 4 or older. Fewer than 400 were under a year old. And yet in 2006, more than 270 Guatemalan babies, all younger than 12 months, were being sent to the United States each month. These adopted children were simply not coming from the country’s institutions. Last year, 98 percent of U.S. adoptions from Guatemala were "relinquishments": Babies who had never seen the inside of an institution were signed over directly to a private attorney who approved the international adoption-for a very considerable fee-without any review by a judge or social service agency. Like, not to say that Putin isn't using this as a political football, but there is at least some truth underlying Russian concerns.
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Friendly Tumour posted:This has probably been posted before, but here's the Finnish band Leningrad Cowboys performing together with the Red Army choir in '93 at the Senate Square in Helsinki. I sincerely hope that everybody has watched the gently caress out of this. [edit] holy gently caress "Happy Together" jesus christ [edit] Sweet Home Alabama  seriously that is pro-click territory there emfive fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Jan 11, 2015 |
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A Pale Horse posted:Meanwhile in Poland the only remaining relevant left of center party is going into its death throes. SLD, the post communist successor party and most successful post liberation leftist group nominated a complete nobody for the Presidential elections in a few month. While there have been calls for months now to nominate Ryszard Kalisz, a serious and generally well like pragmatic leftist politician it appears the infighting in the party made this impossible (Kalisz was kicked out of SLD several years ago for dallying with other leftist groups). Instead they nominated some not very well known reporter and church scholar named Magdalena Ogorek who while very pretty and young, has 0 political experience and almost as little name recognition. Additionally they appear not to have vetted her very well because its emerging that she is a social conservative who supported a Polish medical doctor and professor who openly lied to one of his pregnant patients who was carrying a baby with a severe birth defect (anencephaly [zombaby]) just so that she would be unable to get an abortion (and was later fired from his post by Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, the president of Warsaw). She'll be lucky to pull 3%. With the total collapse of Palikot's movement and now apparently SLD it leaves the Polish political scene completely bereft of left leaning parties. PO is now the most left wing party on the scene (something Kaczynski has been saying for years Anancephalia? But that is like an automatic death sentence? The gently caress?
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Mightypeon posted:Anancephalia? But that is like an automatic death sentence? The gently caress? Yes but you see abortion is murder. That was his literal defense. Abortion is murder in all circumstances. Poland already has very limited access to abortions but one of the few conditions that does allow for it is genetic defect not consistent with survival but that wasn't enough for the good professor. He lied to the mother and told her that the defects weren't that bad and that her baby would live. By the time she got a second opinion it was past the 22 week cut off point allowable for abortions. She had to carry a baby she knew would die very shortly after birth to full term because of the good doctor. When confronted he had absolutely no remorse and of course the church and right wing politicians flocked to support him. It also turns out that the new candidate for president for the major left wing party thought the professor was correct in his actions. Shits hosed up.
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emfive posted:I sincerely hope that everybody has watched the gently caress out of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maOtX4tXyb4 This one's awesome on its own, but when you watch it after you watch this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1VCPoN9GI it's even better.
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A Pale Horse posted:Yes but you see abortion is murder. That was his literal defense. Abortion is murder in all circumstances. Poland already has very limited access to abortions but one of the few conditions that does allow for it is genetic defect not consistent with survival but that wasn't enough for the good professor. He lied to the mother and told her that the defects weren't that bad and that her baby would live. By the time she got a second opinion it was past the 22 week cut off point allowable for abortions. She had to carry a baby she knew would die very shortly after birth to full term because of the good doctor. When confronted he had absolutely no remorse and of course the church and right wing politicians flocked to support him. It also turns out that the new candidate for president for the major left wing party thought the professor was correct in his actions. Shits hosed up. I mean seriously, anancephalia literally means that the baby has no brain. Didnt he also massively endangered the live of the mother because this? My major is in biophysics, but common sense tells me that this kind of anomalies would also risk the mother because they are that anomal and would likely prevent a normal birth from occuring.
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Mightypeon posted:I mean seriously, anancephalia literally means that the baby has no brain. Didnt he also massively endangered the live of the mother because this? My major is in biophysics, but common sense tells me that this kind of anomalies would also risk the mother because they are that anomal and would likely prevent a normal birth from occuring. Yes. Also there's the, you know, massive psychological trauma. Buuut when called on his bullshit he just went "help help I'm being repressed by tyrannical secularists" and that's a great way to rally support from thousands of well-organized crazy people. He got fired from his position in a public hospital, but now he works at a private one - and makes shitloads of money from book deals and speaking engagements thanks to being a ~hero of the right to life~. The Catholic religious right is seriously at an "American evangelical fundies" level of insane at this point, they'll grab tight onto any cause that makes them feel like they're getting martyrdom points.
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emfive posted:I sincerely hope that everybody has watched the gently caress out of this. Like, all of it is blocked in Germany. I should try using my non existent Russian Spy skills to call an artillery strike on Gema.
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Mightypeon posted:I mean seriously, anancephalia literally means that the baby has no brain. Didnt he also massively endangered the live of the mother because this? My major is in biophysics, but common sense tells me that this kind of anomalies would also risk the mother because they are that anomal and would likely prevent a normal birth from occuring. The defect itself is not dangerous to the mother but there is always the chance that such a baby will die in utero and the mother won't notice which can lead to severe medical complications. But like Guildencrantz said, what is certain is the psychological trauma of the fact that you're carrying what is destined to be a corpse very shortly after birth for 9 full months compounded by the fact that you've been the victim of severe malpractice. The person you entrusted your health to lied to your face then implied you're a bad person because you wanted to remove the brainless baby from your womb. The man is a disgrace to the medical profession and should have been charged by the prosecutor for endangering his patient, lying to her and general medical malpractice. But of course he's the darling of the right wing so nope! Its situations like these that need a left wing to fight for the victims of such casual, thoughtless brutality and why SLD nominating a person for president who supported the professor is such a slap in the face.
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Mightypeon posted:Like, all of it is blocked in Germany. drat. It's called The Total Balalaika Show if you wanna try searching on  sites.e: http://vdownload.eu/watch/11438091-leningrad-cowboys-total-balalaika-show-hd-1994.html
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I've just finished a long piece on the "SU-25 shot down MH17" narrative, SU-25, MH17 and the Problems with Keeping a Story Straight. Here's the opening and closing paragraphs which is the only thing most people read anyway according to fancy journalism studiesquote:While the investigations in to the downing of MH17 continue there’s been much debate about who was responsible, and the weapon system used to down MH17. These theories can be generally split into two broad groups, one where a Buk surface to air missile system was used to shoot down MH17, the other where a Ukrainian military jet, usually specified as a SU-25, shot down MH17. As part of that piece I had this video put together showing how another of the claims made in the Russian MoD press conference on MH17 from July 21st was bullshit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLKOpZycXnQ I plan to revisit the whole press conference and go through each claim one by one to see if the entire thing was horseshit, or just parts of it.
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eigenstate posted:Do you have any plans of getting your work translated into Russian? Some blogs have done that off their own back in the past, and I'm working on a project I plan to get translated in to Russian and other languages if I get the funding needed to do so.
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A Pale Horse posted:The defect itself is not dangerous to the mother but there is always the chance that such a baby will die in utero and the mother won't notice which can lead to severe medical complications. But like Guildencrantz said, what is certain is the psychological trauma of the fact that you're carrying what is destined to be a corpse very shortly after birth for 9 full months compounded by the fact that you've been the victim of severe malpractice. The person you entrusted your health to lied to your face then implied you're a bad person because you wanted to remove the brainless baby from your womb. The man is a disgrace to the medical profession and should have been charged by the prosecutor for endangering his patient, lying to her and general medical malpractice. But of course he's the darling of the right wing so nope! Its situations like these that need a left wing to fight for the victims of such casual, thoughtless brutality and why SLD nominating a person for president who supported the professor is such a slap in the face. Just to fill in some missing details: In Polish law, there's a "conscience clause" (as yet another concession to the Church) that says a doctor may refuse to perform a legal abortion, but he's obliged to provide contacts to other doctors who will. Dr Chazan circumvented this by lying, but it's already really hard to get a legal abortion when you have the right, as many doctors are reluctant to get on that list because they'll be named-and-shamed by pro-life circles. Also in the immediate aftermath of the whole affair, a "Union of Catholic Pharmacists" suddenly popped up, demanding that they, too, should be given a conscience clause that allows them to refuse to sell contraceptives and the day after pill - which is already prescription-only and a religious doctor will usually refuse to prescribe it  (or only do it in their private practice, the abuse of which is the big form of de facto corruption in healthcare)The SLD presidential candidate lady did react to the backlash on the left for that blog entry supporting Chazan: she surreptitiously deleted it and is pretending it never happened, because that's apparently how the internet works. She also made comments, in the same entry, that shes's a feminist, but "feminism to her means helping educated middle-class women get into managerial positions" which holy poo poo I thought that was just a strawman and not an opinion people actually hold. I'm beginning to suspect that her nomination was because a bunch of gross old dudes voted for the hot blonde, or they're cynical enough about society to think people will vote based on that. Probably a combination of both, because holy poo poo she is bad at this. Leszek Miller has officially become a washed-up evil mastermind heading an army of bumbling goons.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Cagle needs to explain why the Russia bear is sticking Latvia and Estonia voodoo dolls with pins. Russia... bad.
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A Pale Horse posted:Meanwhile in Poland the only remaining relevant left of center party is going into its death throes. SLD, the post communist successor party and most successful post liberation leftist group nominated a complete nobody for the Presidential elections in a few month. While there have been calls for months now to nominate Ryszard Kalisz, a serious and generally well like pragmatic leftist politician it appears the infighting in the party made this impossible (Kalisz was kicked out of SLD several years ago for dallying with other leftist groups). Instead they nominated some not very well known reporter and church scholar named Magdalena Ogorek who while very pretty and young, has 0 political experience and almost as little name recognition. Additionally they appear not to have vetted her very well because its emerging that she is a social conservative who supported a Polish medical doctor and professor who openly lied to one of his pregnant patients who was carrying a baby with a severe birth defect (anencephaly [zombaby]) just so that she would be unable to get an abortion (and was later fired from his post by Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, the president of Warsaw). She'll be lucky to pull 3%. With the total collapse of Palikot's movement and now apparently SLD it leaves the Polish political scene completely bereft of left leaning parties. PO is now the most left wing party on the scene (something Kaczynski has been saying for years SLD going against their professed ideology is a long tradition - Leszek Miller, as the Prime Minister, wanted to implement flat income tax and made a lot of concession to Catholic bishops while trying to get their support of EU accession. For some reason, there are people who still view SLD as a social-democrat party, but those usually tend to think the same about every party on the Polish political scene but KNP and neonazis. Most of the others moved on. The most likely reason why they did nominate Magdalena Ogórek is because everyone else would have been worse. Everyone pretty much hates Miller's guts and, as the previous party leaders shown, SLD is completely devoid of charismatic, likeable politicians. Even if they somehow got Kalisz to return, he's an obese guy with an expensive taste who famously arrived on an anti-austerity manifestation by a luxury Jaguar and recently whined that MPs in Sejm don't earn enough - the exact opposite of someone whom you would imagine as a de facto leader of the left. Ogórek is pretty much the most likable person they could find and that speaks for itself about the condition of the party.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Geore Soros made a secret visit to Kyiv. Soros recently also has written several appeals/doomsday predicts in the New York Review of Books recently, here is the most recent one: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/feb/05/new-policy-rescue-ukraine/ . One big worry on his mind is that Ukraine currently may not be financially salvageable and that the EU and most Western institutions (in his mind) are going to have to use much of their financial might to save it. It is unclear about Soros' stake in all of this, hey maybe it is purely altruistic. quote:
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If I understand correctly, it's mostly meant to reduce corruption opportunities, though I am completely at the loss for specifics.
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OddObserver posted:If I understand correctly, it's mostly meant to reduce corruption opportunities, though I am completely at the loss for specifics. Yeah but it is unclear exactly if that makes a difference if Naftogaz is broken up, privatized and charges whatever rates it wants. Fine, you could say it isn't "corruption" rather profitization but I don't see end users really benefiting. Also, the type of efficiency improvements Ukraine needs may very well more than 10 billion dollars if they actually want to completely re-do the Soviet era district heating system, which has always been known as being inefficient (lack of maintain and investment for decades also helps). Also, who is going to pay for paying off the bonds? Also, if it is going to take the EU to really reach in its piggy bank to bail out Ukraine, I don't know if it is going to happen considering the EU might be looking at issues closer to home in the not too far off future. Also it doesn't help that Ukraine has a worse credit rating than any member of the EU including Greece. That said on the other hand Ukraine is between a rock and hard place, so I guess they may hope for a hail Mary. Ardennes fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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Vučić is an rear end in a top hat who likes playing the victim. EU is financing BIRN, as a part of it's NGO financing programs, so Vučić is basing his argument on being technically correct, but with a spin that favors his side. As for the situation, his official explanation given in our media is that the local company that won the bid offered to do the job for significantly less money than the foreign company that lost the bid. It wouldn't be the first time EU raises a fuss when a EU company doesn't get what it wants, but I'm loathe to trust Vučić's explanation, particularly when his side of the story was given so much media time here. I still find it hilarious in a dark way that his party was the only one that could gather a wide-reaching coalition (that included minority parties) to take down the ridiculously corrupt previous government. Some of you probably remember how happy I was when that happened, and it probably weirds out those of you who noticed. Well, the previous government was just that ridiculously corrupt, there genuinely was a lot of improvement after elections, and I didn't expect Vučić's party to get so many more votes in another election that happened a year later. I was hoping that we'd have a barely-a-majority coalition that had to resort to political compromise. Of course, now that he's managed to set himself up nice and cozy, he's bound to try and catch up to the guys he replaced. At least he's being public about the austerity measures, unlike the stealth approach taken by the previous guys, so he can actually be criticized about them. I dearly hope he'll lose the next elections, but I don't really think he will. The situation isn't helped by the Croatian election campaign either. Basically, every time a Croatian party says an incredibly dumb nationalist thing (and I don't know how much Croatian goons may have noticed it, but there's been a lot of dumb nationalist rhetoric coming from your country these last few months), a bunch of people give up on giving up on Vučić. Now that a HDZ president is in charge of Croatia again, we're in for some fun times.
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Ardennes posted:Yeah but it is unclear exactly if that makes a different if Naftogaz is broken up, privatized and charges whatever rates it wants. Fine, you could say it isn't "corruption" then normal profits but I don't see end users really benefiting. Also, the type of efficiency improvements Ukraine needs may very well more than 10 billion dollars if they actually want to completely re-do the Soviet era district heating system, which has always been known as being inefficient (lack of maintain and investment for decades also helps). Also, who is going to pay for paying off the bonds? The basic problem with gas is that it's subject to a bunch of market distortions and subsidies, and even then, lots of people still steal it. They have no non-mechanical system of measuring it in most places and it's incredibly easy to tamper with the meters. Furthermore, in some ex-communals the gas is still measured per 4-6 apartments, by the floor, or even by the building, which makes it awkward to regulate usage. Where it's used for heating, it comes on in October and doesn't turn off until March--during that entire time it's going 24/7 and if your apartment gets too hot, your only option is to open a window. It's an incredibly wasteful system, but I don't see how breaking up Naftogaz will help. The theory might be that you can give all the successor companies a roughly equal share of the liquid assets and market share, then immediately cut all subsidies, the few that figure out a viable business model will eat up the ones that fail. Of course, that sounds exactly like shock therapy, which was not great. The other part of the Soros idea seems to be to cut the subsidies and charge users market rates then give cash to needy people so they can pay those rates, but that's unlikely to work, and the government knows it. The elderly and (some) indigent in Ukraine are on a fixed pension, but when the currency lost half it's value in 2008/2014, those pensions didn't double. In fact, those pensions were actually cut in half as part of the austerity program, while losing half their value from inflation. It's totally understandable that Ukrainians would rather be compensated in subsidized goods than in cash, because the cash payments are highly unstable and tend to decline over time whereas gas that's nearly free is a reassuring constant. It's a needed reform but it's not a neutral one and there will be massive resistance to it. Even if Ukraine revalues their currency and does something like what the Brazilians did with the Real, no one trusts the government not to gently caress them over in the long run.
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Smerdyakov posted:The basic problem with gas is that it's subject to a bunch of market distortions and subsidies, and even then, lots of people still steal it. They have no non-mechanical system of measuring it in most places and it's incredibly easy to tamper with the meters. Furthermore, in some ex-communals the gas is still measured per 4-6 apartments, by the floor, or even by the building, which makes it awkward to regulate usage. Where it's used for heating, it comes on in October and doesn't turn off until March--during that entire time it's going 24/7 and if your apartment gets too hot, your only option is to open a window. It's an incredibly wasteful system, but I don't see how breaking up Naftogaz will help. Absolutely there are vast problems with how gas usage is gauged, but many of those improvements will still take time, money and attention and that is just for residential gas usage. In addition, the very nature of how the district heating system works in Ukraine is quite rigid and if you want to see European style efficiency then you are going put in serious capital investments into it. I think there is a lot of efficiency to be gained there but at the same time those private companies are going to want to make a profit and they are going to be charging a captive market. quote:The theory might be that you can give all the successor companies a roughly equal share of the liquid assets and market share, then immediately cut all subsidies, the few that figure out a viable business model will eat up the ones that fail. Of course, that sounds exactly like shock therapy, which was not great. The other part of the Soros idea seems to be to cut the subsidies and charge users market rates then give cash to needy people so they can pay those rates, but that's unlikely to work, and the government knows it. I think you are spot on here, cash remedies work when prices are relatively stable and predictable, not when a country is facing sudden devaluation. The problem for revaluation at the moment is they really have nothing to back a new currency with, but the word of the government. Without reserves there isn't going to be any faith in the new currency, and on top of that as outlined in that quote, Ukraine has a considerable amount of repayments that are coming up in the near future. Admittedly, Ukraine doesn't really have anywhere to go and I guess Soros is right on the one point, that Ukraine is going to need a lot of help one way or another. Ardennes fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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Gantolandon posted:The most likely reason why they did nominate Magdalena Ogórek is because everyone else would have been worse. Everyone pretty much hates Miller's guts and, as the previous party leaders shown, SLD is completely devoid of charismatic, likeable politicians. Even if they somehow got Kalisz to return, he's an obese guy with an expensive taste who famously arrived on an anti-austerity manifestation by a luxury Jaguar and recently whined that MPs in Sejm don't earn enough - the exact opposite of someone whom you would imagine as a de facto leader of the left. Ogórek is pretty much the most likable person they could find and that speaks for itself about the condition of the party. rip in pieces Agent Olin
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So, someone asked me why I refer to a 2nd cousin as sister, and why my father calls my mother's sister "a swastika[SIC]", and after a long, failed attempt at an explanation, I figured I might share this monstrosity with you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian_kinship
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Cat Mattress posted:Anything with "brat" will sound funny to English speakers; even though the cognate with "brother" is obvious.
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Banks in Belarus have stopped issuing loans for real estate. quote:January 12, Minsk / Correspondent. Learned /. JSC "Belarusbank" has suspended the issuance of loans to finance real estate. This information is available on the official website of the financial institution, BelTA informs. explains why and comment on the situation in the bank until stali.-0- That seems like a big deal. The Belarusian Ruble has really tanked over the past month. And trading on the Moscow stock exchange was halted for 50 minutes to correct a "fault" http://lenta.ru/news/2015/01/12/forts quote:Trading on the futures market of the Moscow Stock Exchange was suspended from 14:00 to 14:50 MSK, said in a stock exchange . To correct the failure was held restart trading system. HUGE PUBES A PLUS fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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New Croatian president targets government over economy.quote:Croatia's new center president signaled on Monday she meant to hold the Social Democrat-led government to account over the economy, in comments that could herald months of tense cohabitation before a parliamentary election.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V3pwvjr9Xg Right now, 6:10 AM Pacific Standard Time, Donetsk is getting the everloving gently caress shelled out of it.
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