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I love what dimitry has to say. wether sailboats or economics, the guy is on point. did the show mention his website? google "club orlov". a ton to read.
what scares me tho is that the oligays watched the ussr fold, and instead of becoming kings of a second rate power want more. I dont know what more is yet.
and did kids in the USSR each have a car, money,TRL and a cell phone? no, they worked. what will be the fate of the usa if all the youth are worthless? we will all be less global? I wouldnt let the average kid shine my shoes, and Im 34!
we are screwed. we dont even have a mafia/KGB controlled country to look forward to.
Yea, his book is brilliant too, I read it a few months back, called 'reinventing collapse'.
What doesnt come across in this interview with him is his brilliant sense of humour. Highly recommended reading.
wait, I thought Fed/GS=mafia/KGB, and yes, we've lost the last of the savings generation too
Gotta hear this John Mayer set, he's dj'n himself http://bit.ly/nll3y keepin the east coast up, is Marla spinning soon?
Ruth, babe, you re smart. If i may, i would like to recommend you some read from Martin Armstrong. Go to Scribd.com and just enter Martin Armstrong in the search and DL everything ...
+1 on Martin Armstrong.
-Rick Blaine
The party's on in South Korea!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8179352.stm
is it just me, or does the world seems to you like Russia in 1917 with all this labour strikes, socialist initiatives, people hating wealth and rich people etc ...
i'm so unaware of 'people hating ...rich people.' we've always admired it in America because it was reasonably assumed that people earned their wealth.
This is a heist that has deprived the American people of career, financial and health care security and the heisters continue with approval from the highest levels of guv
yes, we all admire wealth, but not the kind of wealth which was accumulated by blatant theft ... there is a difference .... and I said the world, not the US in particular .. I'm European but my work ethic and my ideological viewpoints are Anglo-Saxon, and I'm not from England ... but the US became the shadow of what it was, and you can not tell me its not so ...
They're using improvised catapults. Very Mad Max...
Man, looks just like the miners' strike in the UK, when M.Thatcher took on the miners, and after a long bitter strike, many mines closed, and the heart was torn from much of the UK working class.
That period was where the UK really lost it. And here we are, starting to turn the page into the final chapter.
the eagle has landed! they let me off the porch and into the house of Zerohedge, wuhooo....
Nice, thx. Look at him reporting from Paris! Another offshore comrade huh. It won't be long now till the US turns on the great firewall blocking all subversive communications and ideas found on the wire and in the air.
Love Max,
Funny that everytime I watch him, I am reminded of Max Headroom from the 80's...
Stellar. I liked Dmitry's "fans of wildlife will love this" and Max going "this will only add further pain to the misery".
Think of the reaction this post would have elicited just two short years ago, howls of "doomers" and "foil hats". Kinda like what we're hearing now with regards to the coming US debt default.
[8:30am ET] What has become abundantly clear to politicians today is that the public has had it to the teeth with the high probability that the real power in the US government now rests with a web of individuals with close links to a single financial services firm, Goldman Sachs, something I have been writing about for years.
http://caracommunity.com/content/caras-commentary-community-chat-saturda...
Wildlife in the U.S. would disappear in a depression, the deer herd for example would be hunted to where the populations were not self-sustaining. Russia has so much more land mass per person than the U.S. and so might not have experienced this. I understand the wildlife is prospering around Pripyat.
I have no patience for Russian pundits who just want revenge for the U.S. having spent their precious goddamned Soviet system into oblivion and made them suffer through the consequences. They are salivating at the prospect of watching it happen to us. There is no shortage of Russian commentators predicting all manner of dire consequences, including breakup of CONUS into small confederations.
There also is/was no shortage of US commentators predicting the end and the breakup of Russia. Somehow it seems only fair, especially since the US has been shown for what it really is all about.
BTW Pripyat is in the Ukraine.
A sniper, eh? I know Pripyat is in Ukraine, using high quality Russian nuclear technology to render a large land area...a wildlife refuge. I also know the U.S. are not a bunch of choir boys.
We know what's wrong here, we don't need Russian help figuring it out, and we will fix it without any interference from them. At least we are trying to do something about our oligarchs.
Don't pay attention.
I doubt that the Soviet Union was better prepared than the US for any kind of problems as Dmitry likes to present it. At least not the people. Who in 1989 was telling Russians that there's going to be a collapse, hyperinflation and crime getting out of control? No one. It has struck everyone unexpectedly, very few even realized what was going on.
In 2009 in the US you at least have abundant resources of information warning you that something is coming, in fact, there's too much of them. In addition, Dmitry learned about the collapse of the USSR from the 'extended visits to Motherland' meaning that he didn't live in Russia permanently, which makes his recommendations to me a bit naive.
Not so sure, he may have a point. Russians never knew the livestyle the West had (and still has). Their economy was always crappy, in the economic sense they had nothing to lose. They could win something, however, which was freedom and an improvement in living conditions - at least that was the hope - brought about by market economy.
For US citizens it seems they can only loose in this. There is no hope for a better life after a crash. So it might well be that Americans do not take events as patiently as Russians in general have. And don't forget the the Russian security apperatus has a habit of cracking down on riots very hard, this is not so in the US. This could be an issue with all the US separtists and the ABC weapons stockpile.
This is something to worry about.
Most Americans have never met Russians or Ukranians from that pre-collapse period.
Here's a few things these folk would WTF? about when they visited in the 80's:
- car scrapyards. WTF? full of perfectly good cars that just need a bit of tlc...
- cars. WTF? Even an old Audi 100 was like a spaceship compared to Yugos, Ladas and Zastavas.
- shops that sold the same things. WTF? Distribution of goods in USSR does not work like US capitalism.
- shops that priced the same thing differently. WTF? Baffled! How can the same item be priced differently.
- no lines, anywhere.
Sure, these things mark people as coming from what we would call crappy economy, but they bear out the truth that people in the USSR had a lot less far to fall than people in the US will.
Now that the fag-end of capitalism/oligarchy has spread into the former USSR, they will probably experience a second collapse, though again, not as badly as the US will.
Er.. there are plenty of Americans that want USA broken into smaller countries. Guys like you really make zerohedge a bit of a joke with your commenting
Guys, this is silly. And I'm a tin foil hat wearer.
Keep it in perspective. Bankers are not wealthy, they are well off. No bankers own mega-yachts. Not a single one. Unless you think a mega yacht is anything over 40 ft. They don't run the world. The leach off of it at most.
Oil shipments are not going to stop. Are the Saudi's going to start eating oil as food?
The world is clearly screwed. But this nut is overstating the situation by a 50x multiple.
This is over the edge.
While random MD's may not own mega yachts, many own multi-million dollar homes in NYC and the Hamptons, I'd say that's a little better than "well-off," but you're point is not lost on me. Of course, the likes of Perella, Wasserstein, Greenhill, etc I'm pretty sure do, or could, own such large yachts, but that's neither here nor there.
There good guy's really...wink wink:
http://tinyurl.com/mml8qb
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) German philosopher
Son: Russian don't take a dump without a plan.....smart money buys private jets...less maint...
I think the rich would not destroy a civilization just to buy and extra house or yacht it's rather the poor who would drag everyone to their level..
In a communist society(I have lived in one so I know) the people don't envy someone who have a 1Mill dollar home they envy their neighbour who has an extra bath in their house or can afford a overseas vacation.
I am not scared of the rich I am scared of the poor dragging everyone down with them.
It's not cutthroat capitalism you must fear, it's out right socialism, ther's nothing like socialism to destroy the last glimmer of hope in you're life.
bingo!
You should get your terms right and actually learn how socialism, communism and campitalism actually are defined. Then compare it to what has actually been taking place in the countries you lived in.
Chances are you will find that you have never lifed in a real communist (or socialist) country because such a country simply has never existed.
The semanthical differences might be huge but the practical aren't
hhm, well, in a real communist/socialist society you would not find anyone who has 1 million. This is the same as capitalism without private property.
"a real communist/socialist society" isn't real after all.
What's the point in talking about it?
exactly
Obama is all about trickle up poverty.
what we really must fear is socialism for financial services (top 1-2%, socioeconomic elite) while the rest of us in the US get to experience capitalism in its purest sense.
I'ts one thing to envy a rich person for owning a house in the Hamptons(ther's nothing to prevent you from working to own one you're self) a different to envy another poor person for having a better meal on theri table.
It's not about envy...it's about right and wrong.
I just want to know..Would these guys have made their bonuses without government intervention? Yes or No..
and don't give me that crap that life's unfair or I would have been worse off if they didn't give them the money...I think they would have been worse off.
You want free market, good..me too, but then free market for everyone!
True, than why vote for a socialist president who promises 'free' health care including the illegals? And calls it hope, what a travesty!
Democracy failed, it's has always failed, it failed Rome and it failed America, cause people aren't smart enough to choose their leaders
Truth is humans are just too stupid still, to early in their evolution to know what's good for them.
We'll have to complete a few more cycles of self anihilation till evolution catches up with us.
I feel the deepest dread when I say we, cause I don't really feel a part of the human race.(So it's just semantics)
How has democracy failed if the system was gamed by the money interests ie lobbyists? The system is corrupted and while you equate free healthcare as socialism for those in need to me thats a "humanity" topic...I'd be more irritated by the underperformers being over-compensated:
Where is the Public Outrage Over Pensions?
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/08/guest-post-where-is-public-outrag...
or
All The Juicy Bank Bonus Details Compliments Of Cuomo
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/all-juicy-bank-bonus-details-compliment...
July 31, 2009
With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07312009/watch.html
Rome was a democracy?
yes, Rome was a democratic republic, until Cesar declared himself an emperor and fucked things up ... he kept the Senate ( the governing body of the people ) as a formality, and because he was afraid of a public backlash, but the Senate had no real power. It was all in the hands of an emperor who was positioned by the army, and not the people. Until the early 1st century AD monetary policy was in the hand of the Senate, and the Senate decided about what weight of silver should be in one coin etc, and had kept the money value and supply steady over the centuries. Rome started to fail when Nero decided to took the monetary policy into his own hands and he debased the value of sestertius and denarius by 98% which in later years caused massive famine and in the end triggered the collapse of the Roman Empire because a) hyperinflation was rampant due to the fact that some Emperor decided to pay the Goths annually so they would not invade the Empire, and soon all " barbaric " tribes were looking for the same b) because the power distribution was distorted and volatility of change was so great that no decision vital to the Empire could be enacted in time .... Furthermore Maximus enacted laws similar to the Patriot Act and had the equivalent of Homeland Security which prosecuted Roman people and charged them, without no trial, for conspiracy, and some 400 000 people were killed because of those laws, oh and one similarity with the US is that when someone tried to sue the Empire, the Empire won in 99% of the cases, just like in the US. And not to be mistaken, historians consider Maximus as the main individual who contributed most to the fall of the Roman Empire ... if you want to know more read the newest paper by Martin Armstrong or just read Historia Augusta.
well, ok I see what your saying. I just wouldn't use the word 'democracy' and ancient Rome (the Roman Repulic) in the same sentence, as it is misleading. True, the Roman Republic did have a democratic element, but the real power was with the Senate which was aristocratic. Senators were named for live and did come only from part of the Roman population - the patricians. The 'Roman People' where only a few natives of the city of Rome, all others could not vote in this vast space later called Roman Empire.
That's a bit like only Washington DCers being able to vote and being elected to Congress, President.
The historical similarities you mention are interesting, got to read up on that.
there weren't elections per se, but it was a census, were the majority of citizenry ( those who were not slaves or foreigners ) made a decision about how something should be done or what law should be enacted ... and the funny thing is that Cesar gained power by refusing to step down from his 2 yr term defined as " defender of Rome " ...
maybe you'd like to find yourself on the highway with a head injury when you've been unemployed for a few years with no health insurance as the ambulance driver negotiates your ability to pay.
And then, if you have the insurance, after you get to the hospital they check with your insurance company to make sure you can afford the life saving chancy brain surgery you need and while they're negotiating that with a telephone clerk your oxygen is cut off and you're left without a functioning brain?
No you have private health insurance with a private hospital, you press the emergency button on you're mobile and a private ambulance gets you. If you don't have it the're would be a government option, but that's just for emergencies like accidents not when you have a stomachacke. I have nothing against the government saving a life in a accident, but handling 100% of health care is a sure road to missery and banckrupcy
First, Obama isn't a socialist. Far from it. Second, "free" health care? Mainly because we don't have the social network to aid those that are/will suffer(ing). Third, "humans are just too stupid", sounds elitest.
Look I have been born in a poor family with no one giving me anything, all I have today I have paid in blood, sweat and tears and yes I am Elitists cause I succeded where others failed
really. maybe you are where you are because others have opened doors for you and not because you worked so hard. think about that for a minute.
+1
No no one did do anything for me I wouldn't do myself
Why is it so hard to believe that a person worked hard for what he has?Has the society sunk this low alredy ?
unfortunately yes ... and i will try to explain why ... it is mostly because most of the people got fucked over one or more times in their lives, and they think that because someone benefited from their hard work all who have gained something fucked over someone to be where they are ... when i was 18 i proved that one of Godel's theorems was, false, and i wrote a big paper about that and submitted the paper to a guy who was then working as a assistant professor in the philosophy department. and guess what, the guy fucked me over and stole the paper, and published it under his name and today he is the dean of a major university here in EU and has won some prizes because of that paper ... and where the fuck am i .... typing this shit on a blog wondering what the fuck was i thinking back then ...
perhaps when you submitted the paper to the asst prof, you were such a cheeky bastard about it that he decided to screw you over. or perhaps you just trusted too much in the basic "goodness" of your fellow man.
make that +2
Believe it nor not, I was homeless for a short period , I did not beg and did not asked for help, I helped my self
Most people don't know what privilege it is to sleep in you're own bed and have a shower when you need it
And no I didn't get lucky I make my own luck anyone counting on luck or the government will be severely disapointed
brother + hundred million thumbs up from me .... things like this always cheer me up ... thanks .. and i hope you are doing well now ...
Believe me when I say, no insult was intended.
e⋅lit⋅ism1. Practice of or belief in rule by an elite.
2. Consciousness of or pride in belonging to a select or favored group.
In this case my intention was "rule by an elite."
"I succeded where others failed" apparently, that was not in grammar/spelling class.
And another point, I am no elitest. I don't intend on getting into competition about who was poorer but all I have, also, was obtain through conscious effort. It has been my experience, though, that there exist individuals within our community, and from without, that do not have the faculties to conduct or navigate life the same as I, or you for that matter. For that reason I wish to help. And yes, I've been fu*ked over by some of those same individuals. I'd still rather be a part of the masses than an elite group because with the masses you know where you stand. I, again, don't judge you. I hope you do well. The happiest times in my life were when I was the poorest.
I understand why people act like this, it's simple behavioral conditioning.
People know that nothing's for free, they understand that by taking from the rich they make society poorer, so it gives them an 'advantage' cause it brings more people down to their level, so they can 'compete' with others who are better than them, it's like ting down a proffessional athele's feet and starting a race with them, so people vote to make the system more 'equal' for them, cause more and more people get dragged to the lower levels more and more people vote to destroy the upper level who are less and less and the end result is a race to the bottom and destruction of society.
The only way to counter this is by playing unfair, so the rich play unfair cause the poor try to get their money by voting crooks into office(who than get bribed by the rich), it's a fair game where everybody looses eventually
Democracy always lead to self anihilation through attrition
Ther's no escaping it, just make sure you play on the right side, which side is that, you're own dummy
they understand that by taking from the rich they make society poorer
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Huh? In your logic society would be wealthiest when only one person owns everything and all others have nothing. WTF!
So now you're on the edge. Let go. Read this post and get ready.
http://members.cox.net/theprof/UrbanSurvival/Thoughts%20On%20Urban%20Sur...
For more fun and yucks, pick up a copy of The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe.
IMO, read "The Long Emergency" by James Howard Kunstler first. I've read them both and, while I acknowledge the accuracy of "The Fourth Turning," I do not see late auth9or Strauss and author Howe acknowledging the problem of finite fossil fuel resources anywhere in their treatise. Again, IMO, the finiteness of fossil fuels makes one or two of their predicted outcomes of the current fourth turning much more likely than the others.
Thanks for the recommended read. While the just of the Fourth Turning could have been stated in, I don't know, 30 pages, the majority of the book develops their case. To include "hydrocarbon man" into their analysis would've added another 200 pages. However, wouldn't the fossil fuel affect been more of a catalyst than the actual crisis?
Marley,
Thank you for the reply. Actually, it doesn't matter which you read first (I read 4th Turning first) as long as both are read. Both are quite good. However, once both are read I think you get a more complete picture of the current saeculum than if reading only one or the other.
The current saeculum has been predicated/has transpired on the presumption of inexpensive, never-ending supplies of crude oil. If those supplies, like other natural resources, are finite, this then has direct implications on how the current 4th turning likely plays out/resolves.
More simply put, because the notion of a cornucopia of fossil fuel supplies underlies the entire current saeculum, the fossil fuel effect (or more accurately, the post peak depletion of these) can be both the catalyst AND the crisis itself. All just my opinion, of course. Enjoy the read.
Marley,
I would very much like to share ideas with you about these books (and probably much else), if you are interested. In the interest of not cluttering threads on this site, you can email me if you wish at Buddhariffic66@comcast.net.
I love to read stories of people in the Argentinian trenches in early 2000. Nice read thx Marley.
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind." -
-- Bob Marley
This is like watching Kudlow in July 07.
I don't buy it. Radicals are mostly wrong. Dr. House Bubble has some good points though.
Radicals brought you the Declaration of Independence
Views of founding fathers that brought the Declaration of Independence were not radical, they were reasonable. The View of Mr. Orlov is radical and not reasonable. There is a huge difference between USSR & USA. The majority of the USSR population have never viewed themselves as "Soviets", they though of themselves as Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians, etc. Majority of population in the US think of themselves as Americans. In addition each of our states has more independence than any of the USSR republic had.
I guess this guy is a radical....what don't you buy?
WILLIAM K. BLACK: Fraud is deceit. And the essence of fraud is, "I create trust in you, and then I betray that trust, and get you to give me something of value." And as a result, there's no more effective acid against trust than fraud.
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http://www.fundmymutualfund.com/2009/05/william-black-on-yahoo-techticke...
i don't buy you - you're absolutely wrong
TD, bored at 3 a.m.? Next time try Pacha.
I'm a perma bear, but equating USSR and USA is just silly. The comparisons are superficial at best. This is one of those thesis-first observations that then looks around only for supporting evidence and ignores everything to the contrary.
We have ELECTIONS. It is slanted towards big money, yes, but to equate with Soviet Russia is hyperbole.
TD, love ya, but don't go over the edge--it undermines cred.
Anon,
The USSR had elections, too. The last I looked the Democratic/Republican party won something like 99.9% of the time. This may be higher than the Communists in the USSR.
You all have it totally wrong. Orlov is not equating the USA to USSR, he is comparing the collapse of each and they are strikingly similar. By the way, the US is not a democracy, it is a republic (just recite the pledge of allegiance). Well it was set up as a repbulic, now it seems more like an oligarchy.
I think Ben Franklin described our current situation:
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
wazzup older me ...
collapse? does it matter when the human greed factor churns the equity bubble up up up
This comment is a value-added experience.
When I was listening to Obama plug his health care plan for the umpteenth time, something struck me in his words, "20% of our nations GDP is devoted to healthcare, and that's wrong". Maybe it's not wrong.
We damn well better stay fat and lazy and smoke alot, otherwise GDP is going to tumble. Can you imagine if everyone in the US goes on a health kick? GDP tumbles 10%, and we're in a Depression. Can you imagine the size of the economy in China or Japan if they hit the Scottish Embassy everyday for a Big Mac, fries and a shake, went to Cinnabun for dessert, then bought a bag of Doritos and a quart of rootbeer for an afternoon pick-me-up? Their economies would dwarf the USA.
Let's rethink this healthy lifestyle stuff. Maybe, just maybe, obesity is patriotic.
LOL
i love your pseudo-logic and its pseudo-arguments ... it makes pseudo-sense ...
We can't win for losin'.
Contrast with China, where there's millions of unemployed, college-educated kids willing to work for peanuts.
SWRichmond "At least we are trying to do something about our oligarchs."
-and just how are we are trying to do it?
So in a free market economy this quote would not exist, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market
"
Outrage over Wall Street pay was reignited this week after New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo reported that nine banks getting U.S. aid paid $32.6 billion in bonuses last year. Cuomo’s report showed the nine companies paid 4,793 employees bonuses that exceeded $1 million last year."
so I guess it is an oligarchy?.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
I mean you can dress it up any way you want...but if your going to be honest with yourself/others...what went on here is not any different from the ideology behind a street crime except this was done in fancy offices and penthouse suites.
You may not agree with all of Dmitry Orlov's comments but he does make some good points.
As a daytrader (with a pre-existing condition)I welcome any meaningful health care reform :-)
Getting raped with my existing crappy plan premium.
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Anybody heard of the movie Eagle Eye??? Lost me at the FBI can hear everything you say on your cell phone even with your cell phone turned off.
Stupid movie, stupid to even reference FOX who got their source material from the movie... move on, no credibility here.
Actually, that Fox news story was out over a year before it was mentioned in the Movie Eagle Eye you dope.
So let me see... Based on Argumentum Ad Verecundiam, I'm suppose to take Max Keiser's interview with Dmitry Orlov seriously because FOX news sensationalizes a wiretapping story for ratings, which somehow plays into Keiser's self-serving agenda (scaring people is a great business model for propagandists) that "the gov't is out to get you" and is purposely destroying the American economy in collusion with bankers so that bank executives can through outsize bonuses redistribute wealth from the average citizen to said bank executives' own personal bank account and meanwhile destroy the US in which said bankers' wealth is ultimately reliant?
Okay, I stand corrected. My bad for not staying on top of what FOX, MSNBC, CNBC and CNN deems newsworthy. For the record, here is the real story:
Source: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html
The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.
The technique is called a "roving bug," and was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.
Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off." Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery; for instance, some Nokia models will wake up when turned off if an alarm is set.
Details of how the Nextel bugs worked are sketchy. Court documents, including an affidavit (p1) and (p2) prepared by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Kolodner in September 2003, refer to them as a "listening device placed in the cellular telephone." That phrase could refer to software or hardware.
This week, Judge Kaplan in the southern district of New York concluded that the "roving bugs" were legally permitted to capture hundreds of hours of conversations because the FBI had obtained a court order and alternatives probably wouldn't work.
Bill Stollhans, president of the Private Investigators Association of Virginia, said such a technique would be legally reserved for police armed with court orders, not private investigators.
Surreptitious activation of built-in microphones by the FBI has been done before. A 2003 lawsuit revealed that the FBI was able to surreptitiously turn on the built-in microphones in automotive systems like General Motors' OnStar to snoop on passengers' conversations.
When FBI agents remotely activated the system and were listening in, passengers in the vehicle could not tell that their conversations were being monitored.
Malicious hackers have followed suit. A report last year said Spanish authorities had detained a man who write a Trojan horse that secretly activated a computer's video camera and forwarded him the recordings.
Watch out! Your computer is a listening device!!!
When I got my laptop, the first thing I did was cover the video camera with duct tape.
Been there... done that.
Part II is the most important video you will see.
Part II is the most important video you will see.
I doubt that first floor versus twentieth floor comparison. We have fallen hard in America and I fully expect us to fall much farther, but I wouldn't trade it here for anywhwere else, least of all ex-Soviet bloc. I was just on vacation in Pensacola and the resort's house cleaning staff was all young Ukrainian women. My wife and I were bemused and asked another resort employee. He said that the Ukrainian influx started this year and that they were working at more places than just the resort. In the words of Neil Diamond, there all still "Coming to America."
I like that chart, but it's small. Does anyone have a link to it? Thank you.
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