I'm sure you have heard about all the Russian mothers complaining about not knowing where their sons were, and only finding out they were in Ukraine after they died. Here is the official website of the Union of the Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia (Союз Комитетов Солдатских Матерей России): http://www.ucsmr.ru/There are no complaints here about their sons fighting in Ukraine. Remember that at the time of the Chechen wars, the СКСМР was very active in publishing the plight of the soldiers. This is official Russian information, and you can't trust it. All the media are under government's control in Russia. That's not the case in the West, and the BBC tells the exact opposite: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28968526The war against Chechnya was more official than the one in Ukraine, I'll agree with you on that point. Incidentally, I remember talking with Ukrainian guys about what was happening in Chechnya during the war. I was in Paris back then, in 1995, they had nothing good to say about anything Russian. |
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Well, this happens in many countries. Now that most transactions are immaterial, having substantial cash with you makes you look suspicious. In most of Europe, there's a 10,000 euros legal limit to what you can carry with you, and it's illegal to make cash transactions above 3,000 euros.
As I travel quite a lot, I always carry some cash, and most of the time I'm hiding it. I remember, long time ago in California, I was walking down the street, doing nothing, but there were police looking for someone, and I made a big mistake when by accident, I've shown to a officer a roll of bank notes while getting my passport out of my pocket. I had $1,000 with me and the police officer said it was a lot to carry around, but since there was nothing wrong about me, I said I was a foreigner visiting, he let me go. Maybe I was lucky... I don't know, but I've learned to get my passport out without showing anything else.
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Big corporations do die. I once had a Pontiac car and a Compaq computer. Both are gone. I agree that some corporations are very good at perpetuating themselves, but times are changing, and I'll be happy to see BTC kill Western Union and Paypal.
Countries should die too. Yugoslavia died recently, I'd like to see all countries disappear.
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‘No country can legally invade another country without the UN approval’
Definitely, Ukrainians would love to see all the Russians on its soil leaving. Back to IS, I really find it strange that with ten Arab countries backing the US/EU coalition to fight IS in its stronghold, in Eastern Syria, it was a great opportunity for Russia to look like it wants peace in the world, and that it's ready to help the good guys fighting the bad guys, but it didn't seize it. Sorry, but that's bad for image. I've found a very interesting article about Russia' strategy in Eastern Europe: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29078541 |
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What are your fees?
There should be a link on all pages explaining what are the fees for buying or selling each cryptocurrency.
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So what's wrong?
I'm always surprised to see people surprised when they discover there are places in the world which are different from the place they live.
None of my friends is on facebook. That's normal to me. I haven't used any of my credit cards for more than a month. That's normal for the place where I am. I hope there will be big differences between countries forever.
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Has anyone made a comfortable living only investing in crypto trends? I hope nobody does. For the sake of bitcoin, it must not be seen as a successful currency for speculators. |
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It's getting worse and worse, it seems Russia and IS are becoming partners. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/assad-moscow-tehran-condemn-obama-isis-air-strike-planI understand it would be difficult for Russia to work arm in arm with America and all western countries against IS, but IS is fighting against Syria, which is Russia's friend. Logic says my friend's enemy should my enemy too, but Russia doesn't understand it that way. Russia, Syria and Iran are united against air strikes to fight IS. So things are clear now, all the bad guys are together. |
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If this was a good idea, there should be plenty of websites marketplaces for news websites, cars websites, adult websites...
Please list below all the successful website marketplaces.
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No Russian national asset has been stolen that I know of. What are you talking about? Russia sells natural gas to the West, but that isn't stolen, and Russians are happy to get the cash.
Western puppets such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev, Mikhail Brudno, Vasily Shakhnovsky and Leonid Nevzlin fraudulently seized Russian national assets including oil and gas fields using a variety of means (including murder and intimidation of government officials) and later sold them to bankers and investors from the EU and the US. I can't say it those people are western puppets or not, but I don't see any theft in what they've done. Everything was contractual. They signed agreements with plenty of lawyers on each side and money changed hands. Everything was legal. The same thing has happened in Africa with Chinese businessmen. It's still happening today, the Chinese are buying huge part of Zimbabwe, much more than what the "West" owns in Russia, and there's nothing wrong in having some assets in foreign hands. Many rich Russians own a house in South of France, or in Italy, and do you know why? Because those regions are attractive. Having many foreigners visiting, or investing, is the best possible sign that a country is successful. |
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Freedom of press makes educated people. Freedom of enterprise makes people proud of themselves when they are successful. Free elections make responsible citizens. Etc... There are monkeys in zoos which are perfectly happy when they are well fed, but human beings deserve more than that. Monkeys too, when I think of it. Can you live a normal life, a happy life, when you can't decide your children's education, how many hours you work, what doctor you'll see if you're ill? A happy life is having choices. The Western rulers are just angry because they can't steal the national assets of Belarus, unlike what they did in Russia and Ukraine. No Russian national asset has been stolen that I know of. What are you talking about? Russia sells natural gas to the West, but that isn't stolen, and Russians are happy to get the cash. |
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Should we stop all Muslims from entering America? That is against the law, my friend. No one shall be discriminated because of race, religion, sex... |
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Hey, it isn't done yet! Paypal will very probably allow BTC transactions, but what's the point?
BTC are nearly anonymous with a very low fee. If paypal makes them official person to person transactions with a high fee, I'm not sure it's an improvement. Still it could be great news, if paypal becomes an exchange. Most exchange companies today are small companies which can go bust (MtGox), none would stand up against paypal, which would become the dominant player. I'd say this is what they have in mind.
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It's a negative sign that Russia doesn't enjoy friendly relations with any of its neighbor. Well, Belarus is an exception, but that isn't a free country.
Well, for your information, Russia is a trans-continental country, sharing its border with 16 sovereign states. With some, it enjoy quite frosty relations (such as Poland and Latvia). But with others, there is no lack of warmth in the relationship (Kazakhstan, Belarus, Mongolia, DPRK, China.etc). And coming back to Belarus, I personally don't care whether it is a free country or not. After the breakup of the USSR, Belarus was the only country which remained stable. It's president refused to nationalize the public assets (i.e selling them to the oligarchs at 1/100th of the original rate). In the late 1990s, when millions of Ukrainians and Russians were dying from alcoholism and other external causes, the Belorussians enjoyed a modest but stable lifestyle. It is evident from looking at the death rates at that time. Death rates in the Russian and Ukrainian regions bordering Belarus shot up to around 25/1000, while the same in Belarus was around 15/1000. The reason was that drunkard Yeltsin and Kravchuk / Kuchma never bothered about the silent genocide of their people, but Lukashenko did his best to prevent similar incident from happening in Belarus. I have a great deal of respect towards him for that. I know Russia is a trans-continental nation, I've flown over it quite a few times. I also note you conveniently forgot to reply to the main part of my last post, but that's all right, we can talk about Belarus is that's people want here. How about press freedom? Is it possible to print in a newspaper that the president of Belarus has a tiny, tiny willy like Putin? (I'm only joking, don't get angry). How about economic freedom? How easy is it to start a business in Belarus? Any fair elections there? What are the democratic institutions in Belarus? How many political parties in the opposition? Yes, please. Let's talk about freedom in Belarus! |
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I wonder who is the most dangerous to world peace, IS or Russia. To all countries in Eastern Europe, this is Russia.
The most dangerous country to world peace is the United States of America. IS has invaded 2 countries in the last 50 years. Russia has invaded none. On the other hand, the US has invaded dozens of nations ever since the end of WW2. Here is the list: 1949 Greece 1952 Cuba 1953 Iran 1953 British Guyana 1954 Guatemala 1955 South Vietnam 1957 Haiti 1958 Laos 1960 South Korea 1960 Laos 1960 Ecuador. 1963 Dominican Republic 1963 South Vietnam 1963 Honduras 1963 Guatemala 1963 Ecuador. 1964 Brazil 1964 Bolivia 1965 Zaire. 1966 Ghana 1967 Greece 1970 Cambodia 1970 Bolivia 1972 El Salvador 1973 Chile 1979 South Korea (Pro-USA government wanted) 1980 Liberia 1982 Chad 1983 Grenada 1987 Fiji 1989 Panama 2001 Afghanistan 2002 Venezuela 2003 Iraq 2004 Haiti 2009 Honduras 2011 Libya 2011 Tunisia 2013 Egypt 2014 Ukraine Seems you give a new meaning to the term "invasion". Viet Nam was a real invasion, but you can't say America has invaded Ukraine, nor that it invaded Tunisia in 2011. I know that for sure, since I was there at the time. Whereas in the nineties, Russia had been at war in Georgia and Chechnya, but that's not what I want to talk about. My point is that people see the biggest danger as the one closest to their home. To a Pole or a Lithuanian watching the news about IS, he will see sunni muslims killing shia muslims, and behading two Americans. That sure is bad, but he won't see any relation between that and himself, nor with his country. But talk to a Pole about what's going on in Ukraine, and he will have plenty to say, all bad about Russia. It's a negative sign that Russia doesn't enjoy friendly relations with any of its neighbor. Well, Belarus is an exception, but that isn't a free country. |
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How imprisoned are we by money? Correction, nobody's imprisoned by money, but the lack of it. Is not having money an excuse to not live the way you would like to live? I have a problem here. I would like to drive a Ferrari but I can't afford one. I have no excuse. Seriously, there are many things wrong in this world, but money in itself isn't wrong. |
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I wonder who is the most dangerous to world peace, IS or Russia. To all countries in Eastern Europe, this is Russia.
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What about debt? If Scotland gets independence, it will get its share of UK's debt in British pounds. If it has its own currency, would the debtors accept it as payment?
Those things are not easy, and solutions will take years to implement.
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All he has to do is leave the embassy on a diplomatic helicopter.
And when the helicopter lands? Can't think of too many places where they wouldn't be able to arrest him as soon as he gets out of the helicopter. Honestly don't know if it's possible to make it to international waters on a normal fuel tank. Anyone care to do some research? Flying over London in a helicopter, if it was legal, isn't a way to go unnoticed. |
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