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"Alejandro Magno" wrote in message om... (robert arndt) wrote Thanks for amusing us with that cleverly documented joke Alejandro. Now the facts. No funding, no fuel, no pay for your troops, rotting rusted navy, non-flying aircraft, electronic obsolescence, reduced to third place arms exporters, no supersoldier program, no firearms replacements, no new tanks, aircraft, etc... except a few new subs and missiles that hopefully won't explode while undergoing sea trials. Add to this the botched theater rescue, the inability to stop terorist bombings in Moscow, and the inability to control Chechnya... wow! Newest thing the Russian Army did for its troops was throw a "beauty contest" to recruit women! Nice. Rob http://www.russianeconomy.org/comments.html Russia has a flat-tax system of 13%. America has a progresive (communist) fiscal system. 13% of nothing is nothing. Too bad there are only a handful of Russians that make money AND pay their taxes. How is the US Dollar doing ? 1.25 US Dolar = 1.00 Euro In case, you do not understand, Euro is 25% stronger than US Dollar. Yep. It means US goods are cheap and European exports are effectively blocked from US markets...so who needs the WTO? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The Sunday Telegraph (UK) 4 January 2004 Why they're rushing into Russia By Liam Hannigan Liam Halligan is Economics Correspondent at Channnel Four News Had you invested in the Russian stock market at this time last year, you would be sitting, in dollar terms, on a tidy 50 per cent profit. But had you sold those same Russian investments back in October, after 10 months rather than 12, you would have made even more, reaping closer to 70 per cent. What happened in October was the dramatic arrest, at gunpoint, of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man, who was chief executive of the oil giant Yukos. One of the controversial "oligarchs" who grabbed immense wealth during the chaotic and often lawless privatisations of the mid-1990s, Khodorkovsky had taken to bankrolling parties opposed to the Kremlin and had therefore become a nuisance to President Putin. The decision to jail him - on charges of tax evasion - raised eyebrows among the international investors who dominate Russia's stock market. For a few weeks shares fell, amid talk of "renationalisation" and a return to the "bad old days" of post-Communist chaos. But investor unease is starting to evaporate. Having flinched, the money men are focusing on Russia's new and coveted "investment grade" credit rating from Moody's. No matter that Khodorkovsky will remain in jail at least until late March (or after the presidential elections that are likely to give Putin a second term), the Russian market should continue to surge this year because there are many good reasons to put money into the economy. The obvious draw is the booming economy. Having spluttered since the break-up of the Soviet Union, Russia is getting into gear. The closely watched Moscow Narodny Bank manufacturing and services indices broke records last month, pointing to gross domestic product growth of 8 per cent. The economic performance has been "awesome", according to the latest analysis by UBS investment bank. "A conservative fiscal policy, huge external surpluses and rapidly rising incomes have combined with higher productivity and tax reform to transform Russia into one of the most dynamic emerging markets," it says. Since the 1998 rouble collapse, economic management has improved no end. Inflation has been squeezed and hard currency reserves hit a fresh high last month, despite fears that Khodorkovsky's arrest would spark a flight of capital. Sceptics say this success has been too dependent on high oil prices. Russia emerged during 2003 as the world's leading crude exporter, ahead of Saudi Arabia. And at near $30-a-barrel oil, Russia's energy giants - the likes of Lukoil, Gazprom and Sibneft - have bolstered equities overall. But the likelihood is that continued global recovery should boost energy demand in 2004 too, particularly in Asia, keeping oil prices firm. If that happens - and expected Opec quota cuts suggest it will - Russia's energy sector will deliver anew for investors. "The big commodities outfits here are simply faster growing and better value than any similar companies in the world," says Mattias Westman, the co-founder of Prosperity Capital Management, which runs several Russia-dedicated funds. You can see his point: Gazprom boasts a third of the world's known gas reserves, and yet is valued at only $20bn (a fraction of what a comparable Western company, if there were such a thing, would be worth). Meanwhile, there is momentum beyond energy. "The oil and gas sectors are shamed by the rates of growth in consumer spending, retail and services," says Roland Nash, the head of Research at the Moscow-based Renaissance Capital. "Each day that passes makes the economy a little less vulnerable to oil shocks." Impressive non-oil growth is seen in telecoms. Higher incomes mean 23 per cent of Russians now have mobile phones, up from just 10 per cent last year. Vimplecom, a major operator, has posted a 78 per cent rise in third-quarter profits. Russian telecoms, along with utilities, offer investment opportunities. So while the pre-trial incarceration of Khodorkovsky should not be regarded as irrelevant, international investors are more impressed by Putin's economic record than they are outraged by a bit of oligarch bashing. Anyway, investing in emerging economies has never been for the squeamish. Russia's new generation of billionaires such as Khodorkovsky are not heroes of the narod, or ordinary voters. Keeping him in jail for the presidential campaign will probably help Putin win more votes - and the unedifying truth in a country not famous for stable democracy is that that will probably add a few more points to the stock market. |
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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" wrote
How is the US Dollar doing ? 1.25 US Dolar = 1.00 Euro In case, you do not understand, Euro is 25% stronger than US Dollar. Yep. It means US goods are cheap and European exports are effectively blocked from US markets...so who needs the WTO? Wow!!!!!!!!!, Americans think like a Fifth World nation. That is how poor countries think. If the Euro were losing value against the US Dollar, you would be crying how stupid the Europeans are. http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=1388 Magno |
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"Alejandro Magno" wrote in message om... "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" wrote How is the US Dollar doing ? 1.25 US Dolar = 1.00 Euro In case, you do not understand, Euro is 25% stronger than US Dollar. Yep. It means US goods are cheap and European exports are effectively blocked from US markets...so who needs the WTO? Wow!!!!!!!!!, Americans think like a Fifth World nation. That is how poor countries think. If the Euro were losing value against the US Dollar, you would be crying how stupid the Europeans are. Europeans are stupid all the time. They don't need a special occasion for that. http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=1388 Magno |
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You don't have a clue about economics do you.
Jarg "Alejandro Magno" wrote in message om... "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" wrote How is the US Dollar doing ? 1.25 US Dolar = 1.00 Euro In case, you do not understand, Euro is 25% stronger than US Dollar. Yep. It means US goods are cheap and European exports are effectively blocked from US markets...so who needs the WTO? Wow!!!!!!!!!, Americans think like a Fifth World nation. That is how poor countries think. If the Euro were losing value against the US Dollar, you would be crying how stupid the Europeans are. http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=1388 Magno |
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"Schelkunchik" wrote
You could take the Argentinian military from the Falklands war and kick Russia's butt. Only 200 Holy Russian warriors were sufficient to humilate the entire zio-NATO: http://www.lebensraum.org/english/zgrams/zgram_toc.html Is that funny for you, kike ? Magno |
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"Alejandro Magno" wrote in message om... "Schelkunchik" wrote You could take the Argentinian military from the Falklands war and kick Russia's butt. Only 200 Holy Russian warriors were sufficient to humilate the entire zio-NATO: http://www.lebensraum.org/english/zgrams/zgram_toc.html Is that funny for you, kike ? Magno Why are you so ****ed up? Are you from Barcelona? |
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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" wrote
"Alejandro Magno" wrote in message Only 200 Holy Russian warriors were sufficient to humilate the entire zio-NATO: http://www.lebensraum.org/english/zgrams/zgram_toc.html Is that funny for you, kike ? Magno Why are you so ****ed up? Are you from Barcelona? God Bless Generalassimo Franco !!!!!!!! God Bless Generalassimo Franco !!!!!!!! God Bless Generalassimo Franco !!!!!!!! God Bless Generalassimo Franco !!!!!!!! God Bless Generalassimo Franco !!!!!!!! Franco, Pinochet, Mussolini ---- Heros. Had Bush been Pinochet, America would be again a great nation. http://www.nationalist.org/alt/2003/nov/pinochet.html Magno http://www.imperium-europa.org |
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(Alejandro Magno)
Date: 1/5/2004 4:43 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: "Schelkunchik" wrote You could take the Argentinian military from the Falklands war and kick Russia's butt. Only 200 Holy Russian warriors were sufficient to humilate the entire zio-NATO: http://www.lebensraum.org/english/zgrams/zgram_toc.html Is that funny for you, kike ? Magno Aha, magno shows his true colours. Now tell us ALL about ZOG and the great international Zionist conspiracies. Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired |
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(B2431) wrote
Aha, magno shows his true colours. Now tell us ALL about ZOG and the great international Zionist conspiracies. Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired A CATACLYSM The Russians already started to roll the ball: http://www.lebensraum.org/english/zg...06/990614.html The sound of their brave singing is heard! We are coming, brave comrades! Your White Aryan brothers in England, Greece, Sweden, Nigeria, Iceland, America, South Africa, Italy, France, Denmark, Argentina, Chile, Mother Russia, Scandinavia, Brazil, Canada, Serbia -- EVERYWHERE -- hear you! We are COMING! MARCHING! FIGHTING! The Great Day of JUSTICE DRAWS NIGH! THIS TIME the traitors will not be able to find any group of White Men anywhere who will listen to their lies and go and murder the Jews' enemies for them. There will be no place to hide...no place to start their eternal game of friendly subversion of their unsuspecting hosts...no place to generate their infernal hates and fratricidal wars .... no place to set up their anvil of capitalist exploitation and their hammer of Communist revolution and slaughter. THIS TIME the traitors will have only one place left in which they can at last find respite from the insane hate-monster which has been eating out their diseased hearts for six thousand years! ... And we shall provide that final solace. With deadly, incredible irony, fate is now repeating what happened in Germany -- on a world -- wide scale! THIS TIME we shall not be soft-hearted and gentle like the Great Man who refused to use his tanks to slaughter the helpless British at Dunkirk because he believed even Churchill had some honor and loyalty to Britain and the White Race left. THIS TIME we shall not be content with "minding our own business" here while the Jews stir up another, world war to wash us away in oceans of irreplaceable White blood! THIS TIME we shall not permit traitors to "escape" so that they can move in and betray them as the German Communist Jews did to America. None shall pass or escape retribution, not one! THIS TIME we shall not put our faith in anything or anybody but ourselves, and our unshakable will, impelled onward by an inscrutable destiny which has already demonstrated its determination to resurrect the good whenever it is crucified by evil, as it is now all over the wretched planet. THIS TIME we shall not rest nor lower our arm until the very last human rat and red snake is beaten to death, no matter how they squirm and crawl from pole to pole or from mountain top to jungle swamp! THE LAST TIME our leader showed the way to victory in one single area of the earth. "Today Germany!" he predicted "TOMORROW THE WORLD!!" The result --- http://www.imperium-europa.org References: http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=1382 http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=1073 http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=1388 Alexander the Great !!!! (I want my Empire back) |
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