Moscow warns against panic as ruble plunges to historic lows

[dbackjon]

Russian authorities told people not to panic on Tuesday as the battered ruble plunged to record lows, floored by tensions with the West over Ukraine, new sanctions and falling oil prices.


The national currency fell to 38.82 rubles per dollar after weakening on Monday to below 38 against the dollar for the first time.

It also broke through the symbolic level of 50 rubles per euro for the first time in several months.

The ruble has slumped as investors fret about the impact of ever more stringent Western sanctions on the economy, which is already teetering on the verge of recession.

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Ruble

[Ivytalk]

Russians!

[YoUDeeMan]

Winter comes...we'll see if Europe wants to freeze.

[CAA Flagship]

Winter comes...we'll see if Europe wants to freeze.

We have plenty of Natural Gas. We can send them our coal.

[SDHornet]

Winter comes...we'll see if Europe wants to freeze.

My money is still on this.

[GannonFan]

Winter comes...we'll see if Europe wants to freeze.

My money is still on this.

Yeah, I'm not sure Europe has the fortitude to let morals and principles stand versus having to suffer a little bit. I think they cave too. Shame, because Russia really can be made to feel the pain themselves if Europe was really serious about backing up what they say.

[CID1990]

Well Pootie Poot could always invade another eastern european country or two

[Chizzang]

Well Pootie Poot could always invade another eastern european country or two

And we should continue to NOT CARE as much a possible...
Rebuilding the USSR - its all the rage right now

[BDKJMU]

Winter comes...we'll see if Europe wants to freeze.

We have plenty of Natural Gas. We can send them our coal.

Hell, we have plenty of nat gas, and the amount is drastically increasing every year, in both the # of fields, wellheads, and output per wellhead. We could heat all of Europe. We should get them off Russia's mat has tit and on ours. Benefits us.

[BDKJMU]

Well Pootie Poot could always invade another eastern european country or two

And we should continue to NOT CARE as much a possible...
Rebuilding the USSR - its all the rage right now

If it's a NATO country we will be forced to care.

[Grizalltheway]

He doesn't have the balls, despite all the neocon hero-worship surrounding him right now.

[HI54UNI]

We have plenty of Natural Gas. We can send them our coal.

Hell, we have plenty of nat gas, and the amount is drastically increasing every year, in both the # of fields, wellheads, and output per wellhead. We could heat all of Europe. We should get them off Russia's mat has tit and on ours. Benefits us.

Fuck Europe. Let them figure it out on their own. We should keep the gas here and start converting our economy to use nat. gas instead of oil. Then we can tell the Saudis to fuck off and let China start paying to keep the oil spigot open.

[93henfan]

F-22s just intercepted a six-plane fighter, bomber, tanker group off Alaska and Canadian fighters also intercepted an incursion of two bombers. Pootin is basically poking Obama.

[HI54UNI]

F-22s just intercepted a six-plane fighter, bomber, tanker group off Alaska and Canadian fighters also intercepted an incursion of two bombers. Pootin is basically poking Obama.

I wonder how much data they are collecting on the F-22 during these flights? I also wonder how many of bombers the Russkies have that even fly? These might be the only ones Pooty has.

[CID1990]

And we should continue to NOT CARE as much a possible...
Rebuilding the USSR - its all the rage right now

If it's a NATO country we will be forced to care.

no we wont

we will break our treaty obligations so fast it will make your head spin

and that might not be a bad thing

[CID1990]

F-22s just intercepted a six-plane fighter, bomber, tanker group off Alaska and Canadian fighters also intercepted an incursion of two bombers. Pootin is basically poking Obama.

I wonder how much data they are collecting on the F-22 during these flights? I also wonder how many of bombers the Russkies have that even fly? These might be the only ones Pooty has.

what?

this isnt WWI where you fly alongside an airplane to see how big the cockpit is

besides, you can get observational data on it at any US airshow or at your local Barnes & Noble- no need to play games over Alaska

[93henfan]

I wonder how much data they are collecting on the F-22 during these flights? I also wonder how many of bombers the Russkies have that even fly? These might be the only ones Pooty has.

what?

this isnt WWI where you fly alongside an airplane to see how big the cockpit is

besides, you can get observational data on it at any US airshow or at your local Barnes & Noble- no need to play games over Alaska

Or just buy the info from the Chinese, who have spied or hacked everything we do.

[expandspanos]

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Top 10 Billionaires Cities

1. Moscow
84 billionaires (up from 78 billionaires last year) (#1 last year)
Total Net Worth:$366,650.000
Average billionaire worth:$4,364.88

2. New York
62 Billionaires (up from 57 last year)
Total Net Worth: $280,750.000
Average billionaire worth:$4,528.23

3.(tie) Hong Kong
43 Billionaires (up from 38 last year)
Total Net Worth: $195,300.000
Average billionaire worth: $4,541.86

3. (tie) London
43 Billionaires (up from 39 last year)
Total Net Worth:$159,850.000
Average billionaire worth:$3,717.44

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Moscow is booming

Daily Paul article:

"I Tasted Freedom in.. Russia?" http://www.dailypaul.com/326324/i-taste ... min-russia" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Arrival (SVO Airport)
1. Entered immigration, NO armed officers, just the average immigration workers. I walked up to a friendly and smiling lady, she stamped my passport and waved me on.

2. Wow, that was easy, I thought, surely customs would be more like the U.S. I approached the customs section, had nothing to declare, I started to take my backpack off to show to the official, but she didn't seem to think I required extra scrutiny and waved me through.

3. That was it, in 10 minutes I was let loose in the "Evil Russian" empire.

4. I walked through the airport, searching for armed police/paramilitary, but I couldn't find any! I saw maybe 1 armed police officer in the airport. Very strange.

5. Maybe it was halftime in the war on terror in Russia. There were no stupid "threat level" announcements or battalions of TSA workers...just a chill airport like you might have seen here in the 60s.

During my stay:
1. I can't stress enough how CLEAN and ornate Moscow is, I was blown away. It was expensive though.

2. I did not see much police presence, actually it was rare to see a police officer. My small town police force here in FL is 10 times larger than what I saw in Moscow...and here in the U.S. the police are more like Military.

3. Even at the Kremlin and nearby attractions, it was very low-key and stress-free.

4. I did not see 1 homeless person during my entire trip.

5. I did not see 1 overweight person during my entire trip... granted this is most likely circumstantial and a generalization, but it was strange.

6. The local population, in general, was very well dressed, clean, extremely friendly, and chill (not uptight/apprehensive like most people in the U.S.)

7. The metro system is AWESOME.

8. The architecture / condition of buildings / infrastructure was beyond compare. I was truly impressed.

9. The local population was welcoming and calm, not like our stressed out society where we are conditioned to be afraid of our own shadows.

10. As for the LGBT community, I saw openly affectionate gay couples here and there, and they were not being oppressed by the state like our media likes to report.

Departing Moscow:
1. Passport control: The unarmed official looked at the photo, looked at me, stamped it, done.
2. Security: I put my bag on the conveyor belt, walked through metal detector, done!
3. WTF???? No weird separating liquids, taking out computers, etc. etc.

[DSUrocks07]

what?

this isnt WWI where you fly alongside an airplane to see how big the cockpit is

besides, you can get observational data on it at any US airshow or at your local Barnes & Noble- no need to play games over Alaska

Or just buy the info from the Chinese, who have spied or hacked everything we do.

Who buys things anymore?




Wikipedia, hell even GlobalSecurity.org