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The Honeymoon Is Over: Ukraine To Stun Citizens With 40% Gas Price Hike
Back in 2011, when as part of the Arab Spring one after another regime were toppled in North Africa following violent coups, not without substantial support by the US foreign service and the CIA, the local population was delighted - after all there is nothing quite like the specter of Hope and Change to lift one's mood, and murder the reigning dictator. Unfortunately, what is usually not discussed, is that within a very brief period of time, usually within a year or two, the post-coup nations promptly reverted to violence and kicked out the ascendent coupy rulers themselves. Hardly new, this is process has been observed in history throughout time, most notably with the French revolution, where the concept of the Thermidorian Reaction was first penned. Most recently, this was best captured by events in Egypt in the past year, when the Hillary Clinton-blessed regime of Morsi was toppled last summer with even more violent witchhunts organized against its Muslim Brotherhood supporters. No wonder one hardly hears a peep about this particular US success story.
So where should we look for the next such process? Why in Ukraine of course. Only right now the general population is still in its euphoric Hope and Change phase. Understandable - the evil regime has been toppled and the new and pure (even though in reality they are just as corrupt as the old ones) politicians are in charge, so why not look to the future with rose-colored sunglasses?
Alas, Ukraine's honeymoon period with its new rulers may end far sooner that most expect, and it will be certainly accelerated with news such as this. A few hours ago, Interfax reported that Ukraine expects to increase domestic gas prices by 40% once discounted import prices from Russia expire, the country’s Energy Minister Yury Prodan told journalists in the European Parliament on Thursday.
Just as we warned a few weeks ago when we were discussing the creeping capital controls gripping the crisis-riddled country with the foundering currency and its rapidly depleting reserves, the first thing that usually happens, with or without foreign aid, is runaway inflation. And a 40% jump in one of the core staples will certainly dent much of the quite brief and tenuous hope and change the population may have had as a result of recent events. Because once the downstream effects of nat gas funnel through the economy, we wouldn't be surprised if Ukraine ends up with hyperinflation of all goods and services within the year.
What is certain, is that the struggling population, most of whom never wanted the recent political overhaul and were quite happy with life as it was, will suddenly demand a return to the living standards under the old, if "horrible" regime, and demand an even quicker overhaul of the current administration.
Something Putin knows all too well.
Why does he know it? Because current events are a carbon copy of what happened in 2007 that led to the infamous 2008 Ukrainian political crisis.
What happened in 2007? This:
Ukraine agreed to pay close to $180 for every thousand cubic meters of natural gas it gets next year from Russia, Russia's state-run gas monopoly said, marking a nearly 40% increase over current prices.
The deal, which comes after months of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev, is part of what Russia describes as an effort to stop giving energy supplies to former Soviet republics at cut-rate prices.
That effort escalated into a full-blown dispute two years ago, when Russia cut supplies to Ukraine. The dispute affected some European countries, raising concerns about Russia's reliability as Europe's main energy supplier.
OAO Gazprom said Ukraine agreed in a deal signed by Ukrainian Energy Minister Yury Boiko to pay $179.50 for every thousand cubic meters it buys from Russia next year. Gazprom said transit prices would be set at $1.70, the price for gas shipping across Russia.
Ukraine currently pays $130 for every thousand cubic meters of gas from Russia.
In October, Russia urged Ukraine to make good on what it said was a $1.3 billion debt for gas shipments, a demand described by some Ukrainian officials as an effort to influence Ukrainian politics after September's parliamentary elections.
The deal comes a week after Gazprom said it would pay as much as 50% more next year for natural gas from Turkmenistan. Russia controls nearly all gas exports from the Central Asian nation.
Funny how history not only rhymes, but sometimes repeats itself. Verbatim.
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Suck it Nazi's!
I think more Ukranians may wish to go back to Russia after today's headlines.
Lets see, Bank tax...Check, Gold Stolen...Check, Fuel Price increase...Check
Next, anything useful will be sold to Goldman Sachs.
Good Job dipshits...
Freedom was never free.
'Free' Market (Crony) Capitalism Baby.
Got a love it.
I guess those fiat worshippers will be happy since price inflation mesans growth!!!!
What honeymoon? I don't see how the analogy works, except for the fact that the USSA got fucked.
Just the beginning of the IMF/Nuland fuck job. I guess those Crimeans weren't so stupid for joining Russia.
Whew! Crimea got out just in time ...
The real Ukrainian shitstorm hasn't even started yet...
Wait until those eastern factories that produce most of the nations exports (to Russia mainly) shut down. Lots of jobs will be lost and trade imbalance will kill the currency.
Then while the bankers suck the remnants of the carcass dry... the fertile farmland in the west will be auctioned off to German and US agroindustry.
Totally fucked. Good luck.
All the US and western media is silent about the Nuland NWO ZATO Neo Con Nazi thugs running the coup. Even places like National Review will delete any posts within seconds. It is all eveil Putin.
Eastern Ukraine, exit stage right.... I meant to the Russian stage.
< East Ukraine will leave
< East Ukraine will stay
As conditions are primed to deteriorate that is exactly what those in the East will soon be thinking... even the Ukrainian speaking ones.
Could you imagine Putin saying 'No' ?
Could you imagine Obama saying 'OK' ?
repost:
Cruise Russia and Ukraine
Crimea should and is deciding its future based on security! Russia should and is supporting the east of Ukraine to protect is notational security. It will never back down from this.
Russia will end up with the industrial east, from Chernihivs’ka , taking Kiev airport (missile batteries and transportation) and downstream to east of Ukrainka (artillery).
Continue down the central river systems to Kremenchuk and Uvileine (more airports goe to Russia). Follow the water flow to complete control over Zapariz’ka and all the way to taking Kherson, complete the new(old) western Russia.
2/3 of Ukraine aligned with Russia, some by election, some by the USUK sanctions that will lead to civil war. The eventual invasion forced by israeli acts of war.
so the bread distribute to ukrainians by jewish Victoria Nulland in Maidan Square was poisened.
40%?...That's a peach of a price! That should send the Dow to 20,000 in a hurry...In a faster hurry I mean.
All news is good news! To the MOON Alice!!!
Lets see, Bank tax...Check, Gold Stolen...Check, Fuel Price increase...Check
Exactly. Welcome to the EU, citizens! Give us your money!
The mafia is intellectually honest about what they do, which is more than I can say for these kleptocrats.
Looks to me like the 'West' which brags about operating under the principles of democracy....BUT in reality only cares about money (tax levies, gas price hikes, stolen gold like fighty above mentioned)
while Russia (Putin), which the 'West' has labeled as a rogue evil empire, spent so much money in mobilizing its troops to protect his people, which depicts more of a democracy than what we find in the US.
The word 'Democracy' is just a load of baloney.
When i came to power, i took over a nation which was a democracy. Indeed, as long as Germany was a democracy we saw that everyone in the world came to their help and aid. Yes, the German people used to live in a democracy, and had been plundered and squeezed dry. No, what does democracy or authoritarian state mean for those INTERNATIONAL HYENAS? They're not interested in either!
They are only interested in one thing: Is anyone willing to let themselfes be plundered, yes or no? Is anyone stupid enough to keep quiet in the process, yes or no? And when a democracy is stupid enough to keep quiet, then it is good! And when a authoritarian government declares: "You do not plunder our people any longer neither from the inside or outside, " then that is bad. (today: think about all the authoritarian states in the arabic world, that are alliies of the west)
If we, as a so called "authoritarian state", which differs from the democracies by having the people behind them - (applause) If we as an authoritarian state had also complied with all the sacrifices that the INTERNATIONAL PLUTOCRATS burdened us with; if I had said in 1933, "Esteemed Sirs in Geneva what would you have me to do?" "Aha! We will immediately write on the slate: 6 billions for 1933, 1934, 1935, excellent, we will deliver! Is there anything else you would like? Yes, ofcourse, Sir, we will also deliver that!" Then they would have said: "At last a sensible regime in Germany."
Adolf Hitler, Nov. 8th 1940, Munich
Putin will NEVER get a good Jewish press - as long as he stays the old Putin.
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/9668529/_quot_Hitler_s_Table_Talk_quot_
http://thepiratebay.se/search/hitler/0/7/601
Just like Michael Corleone and Hyman Roth
Next, anything useful will be sold to Goldman Sachs
Expect to see a huge influx of Ukranian "massage therapists" on backpage.com in the coming weeks.
If there's a massage therapist that's tall, lanky, and blonde, a sort of Ukranian version Taylor Swift, send her to me please!
:)
Contact Blankfein, he's the pimp.
Now if Russia goes to Latvia, Moldova, etc., and says "become part of Russia and we'll "cancel" your debt to the EU and Western banks", what do you think they would do?
global debt holiday coming.
I smell the EU will step in and pay for the 40% what will cost the europe taxpayer.
Welcome to America!!!
Like the poor guy in the picture, not only is he about to get his head lopped off, he is going to get buggered at the same time.
Welcome to the European Central Bank Hell. Comes at you from both directions.
Now you know why he kept the tanks rolling..
He knew this was coming.
After today, i would expect every break away country in the region, to raise both hands and start waving.
This is how the EU comes apart.
Doubtlessly when the people revolt, it will be Putin and his evil cadre of neo imperial demons who were busy sowing foment. how dare putin question deposing a legitimately elected government and installing billionaire oligarchs and neo nazis illegally.
Auterity is good for the soul and the waist line hey comrade?
"Coups have consequences."
this is one of those 'cost' things that the obama puppet is always going on about...
Barry, Barry, you're quite the fairy,
Look at how well you lie...
...fairy, and your wife is SO damn hairy!
it's hard to make demands when your beholden to another nation for something as socially structural as your source of fuel for heat......the entire episode seems ludicrous...... Why antagonize your provider when you have no other alternative. Create an alternative then deal with your oppressor. It's all ass backward and could eventually lead the US to be able to manufacture their ultimate end game.....start a war involving Iran and engulf the entire globe in a killing field so they can reset their economy.
It makes perfect sense when you realize Ukraine is unwittingly just a pawn to be sacrificed.
politically yes but man on the street ukranian I'd say, no. they're not so unwittingly going to be sacrificed. Maybe they didn't run the entire end game through their heads when they ousted their resident gangster but I'd be surprised if they hadn't started to wise up to what the russian and american wise guys are up to now.
I would hope so, but never underestimate the gullibility of most human beings. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.
Eastern Europeans have been living under the jackboot of one gangster or another for all of modern history. Pretty sure at this point they've worked up an immunity to the propoganda drug. Less sure they have the real means to actually do anything substantial. We can take heed in the west and watch to see what the people can come up with as a real solution, if any.
Ouch.
Wait a minute. This article has a problem. There are two factors in play.
1) The IMF has DEMANDED that countries stop subsidizing energy costs for their citizens, if they want bailouts. This was done in Egypt. It was done to a small extent in Greece. Subsidized fuel gets burned. Period. If the price is high, consumption falls -- and if you're not an oil or gas exporter, consumption kills. Ask Japan. So the undoing of those subsidies are going to jack up price and that's probably what this 40% is about.
2) GAZPROM cut the price of gas to the Ukraine in November by 1/2, as reward for embracing the Russian option and rejecting the EU option. That choice of who to join is what set off the riots. But the point is, Ukraine has broken the deal. GAZPROM has to double their current price to get them back up to Europe prices. They reneged so they have to lose that price cut.
So the price increase coming to consumers should be FAR more than 40%.
Funny. The countries in question were not subsidizing their energy, they were simply selling it to their own citizens at cost (you know, maybe because their leaders thought their countries energy was their peoples to begin with).
Guess that's a no no.
Though I notice that Saudi Arabia has been doing this forever and yet we hear little about the IMF having any problem with it.
Hmmmmm............
The Saudis don't import oil. Nor do they borrow from the IMF.
The issue is consumption. Iraq this summer will have Honda generators out on street corners burning gasoline to make electricity for the city block and power air conditioning. Why? Because they domestically subsidize gasoline. If it's cheap, it becomes the solution for problems -- and up goes consumption.
If you're an oil exporter, you can subsidize for your people and the only thing it costs you is export revenue -- and if you have enough of that you don't care, because you have saved oil for your people's future.
ZH is sloooowly evolving to realize that money and debt don't matter. Only oil does.
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"Money and debt don't matter eh"
Crap!
Tell that to a farmer who has been forced to take on more and more debt due to being further down the inflation chain I.e (further from the source of the new money).
Due to the lag between production decisions and the sale of farm produce, which often run to several years. Higher monetary inflation means higher land value therefore higher taxes, also requiring increased farm production
"Get big or get out" is the rallying cry. Which translated means "take on debt and become a Banksters slave"
The sad day often arrives when the sale sign goes up out the front.
Money and debt DO matter, just as chains and shackles matter to the
prisoner. Looking at the prisoner you could argue that food and water is their main requirement, but remove the shackles and free them and they could simply feed themselves.
Energy is a much greater problem than it otherwise should be, in part because the purchaser demands to pay only with colored confetti printed out of nothing...
I beg to differ. It was NOT done in Egypt, ask BG Group about that one.
thank you CIO, as always your comments clear some of fog.
Bullish!
OT: Reporter: WH Press Secretary Gets Questions from Reporters Before Press Briefing
It's just a show.
8:43 AM, MAR 20, 2014 • BY DANIEL HALPER
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/reporter-wh-press-secretary-gets-que...
total shock.
about wait, there's now more (sounds like she's being threatened):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2585306/White-House-Press-Secret...
"My mistake and I own up to it": Phoenix reporter reverses course, says White House Press Secretary Jay Carney DOESN'T get daily briefing questions in advance
Catherine Anaya of KPHO-TV in Phoenix claimed Carney told reporters that White House correspondents often tell him their questions ahead of time
'If only this were true,' Carney told MailOnline
Anaya later walked back her story, but said that she was asked to submit a local-news question in writing before Wednesday's White House briefing
She conceded Thursday that she shouldn't have said the practice is common
Anaya also broke protocol by telling viewers about an 'off the record' meeting with Carney
**She said in a statement that she was mistaken about that also, but the statement disappeared from KPHO-TV's website in less than 30 minutes**
By DAVID MARTOSKO, U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 10:16 EST, 20 March 2014 | UPDATED: 14:21 EST,
20 March 2014
Theatre for the masses.
The "Press Conferences?"
Indeed. And well scripted theater.
Shulda gone with Putin guys...it still isn't too late!
Actually they did. But the US/IMF sponsored "uprising" took care of that.
I'm sure the Brussels Bandits and the Wall Street Warlocks can help them out.
NatGas Default Swaps (NDS's) or Gas Backed Securities (GBS's) tied to pension funds and individual account deposits.
If things don't work out too well the IMF will be there to enforce austerity, bail-ins, and Gold confiscation.
Welcome to the West.
Looks like a great market for our gas. Let's sell sell sell baby.
The half life for the counter revolution seems to be getting shorter and shorter.
Ukrainian parliament making plans to denounce Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=...
Is Israel going to bomb them, I mean they are neo nazis and hate Jewish people, and they have some nuclear reactors that are operating. They are further along than Iran, maybe Israel should bomb them first.
Putin's a bitch of a bill collector. Ukraine's in over their head and they're depending on the 3 Stooges from the US(O'Brownie, McStain, and Ketchup Kerry) to 'help' them out. Good luck with that.
Inflation expectations remain firmly anchored. Yep.
Hummmm...what goes up...must come down.
The world focuses on the distractions in the Ukraine, while the economy at home declines.
Meh, go figure.
Nationwide Home Sales Collapse: There Is No Recovery and This Chart Proves It:
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/nationwide-home-sales-collapse-the...
Welcome to USA-style slavery. Welcome to Zionism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjkiUxSA6u8
you mean all this mess around Ukraine was predicted by russians back in 2009 ?
Whoa... didn't see that one coming from the nazi fucks, now did you?
Ukrainian will pass on the hike to the EU. Timoshenko will soon be back to do the deal.
fucking neo-nazi ukranian cro-magnum morons...
as Kool Moe Dee would say -
'How you like me know....?"
enjoy your European Monetary Union honeymoon...
YOU SUCKA'S.....
Thursday humor as reported by The Saker:
Ukraine accellerates its national suicide, but then decides to think it over
"First, they passed a law introducing visas with Russia. Then, somebody realized that the amount of money sent home by Ukrainians working in Russia was roughly equal to 12% of the Ukrainian GDP. Then, somebody also realized that most of the folks working in Russia are not from the eastern Ukraine, which actually has a semi functional industry and economy, but from the poor western Ukraine and that the only people hurt by the passing of such a visa regime would be the western Ukrainians amongst whom the vast majority of the neo-Nazis from the Right Sector and the "Freedom" Party are recruited. So they "suspended" that decision."
Seems like there are many bizarre forms of national suicide taking place.
Most of them are so slow that the participants can't even see it.
Let me be perfectly clear that +40 per cent are absolutely necessary to establish a strong western-style democracy.
Can they pay in Euros....bitchez..
the Russians operate on a totally different set of algorithms.
Long on dried up horse shit!
Promises...or fuel?
LOL you are so close to the truth Starman, back in the days when the Tatars enslaved the people of the Ukraine they would make them walk the steppe and pick up cow and horse dung which would be used for fuel since there are no forests there. If you go to some places in Turkey they stack the cow dung on the side of the houses to dry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_animal_dung_fuel
This is not the first consequence. Don't forget the West put the former central bank president in charge. He already planned to raise retirement age, reduce pensions of 50 % for those who continue to work, end of free care in hospitals... energy prices in general will skyrocket.
And here is how members of parliament from Svoboda forced the director on Ukrainian national TV to resign : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvcoFvdlwJE
Democracy, right ?
Re: end of free care in hospitals
You mean FuzzyEyebrowCare? They have that there too? Most people on here don't like that either.
the cabbage is a miracle food.
the leaves can be sown together to make a jacket or blanket.
it can be made into a very nice soup.
can be roasted or braised like steak.
made into a milkless tea or coffee.
made into a yummy cabbage,earth and excrement vienna torte style cake.
it can generate methane in the stomach and bowel to generate gas.
are nazi engineers can build methane capture device backpacks with boston strong pressure cookers inside.
we do not need primitive russian gas when we have a 1000 years of right sector ideas like this..
lovers of the fuhrer rejoice today in this glorious nu land rothschild reich..
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I dont know if the USA applies the same currency anomoly as the UK ... but in the UK you would be mad to buy anything except gold Britannia's... why? Because the Britiannia is legal tender in the UK. A 1oz Britannia is a £100 coin. That makes it VAT and capital gains tax exempt.
So any upside re-pricing (like we are all expecting) is tax free. Hold Krugerands (for example) would incur a capital gains tax.
Is the American Gold Eagle in the same position tax wise?
That was a cute revolution..how long until the "NEW UNELECTED" President is putting down rebellions with tear gas, rubber bullets, arrest and eventually murder of citizens? Obviously they are going to attempt to blame Russia but in the independent media world that will only go so far.
The moment he starts killing Pro-Russian protestors or simply anti-Ukraine new govt protestors Putin is gonna ride in on T-90's to save the day at that stage he should have most of the Eastern Ukraine anyway.
yeah, it's almost guaranteed that CNN & the BBC will blame Russia when the newly reformed Ukrainian security forces (jam packed with neoNazis) start mowing down protestors in the streets and dragging people out of their homes.
its a LOL moment ot hear Kerry, who threw his battle medals away in disgust over Vietnam, supported the illegal and misleading takeover of IRAQ can be seen babbling on about "Russias Tyranny"! ROFL
Next up: we're going to give them Obamacare
'Man, that's just MEAN. That's MEAN, man.'
I would be happy if we just gave them Obama.
Victory has a strange face.
"... usually within a year or two, the post-coup nations promptly reverted to violence and kicked out the ascendent coupy rulers themselves ..."
And that was in still mostly in the "good times," when it was yet possible to discover and develop more natural resources. However, those halcyon days of being able to strip-mine a fresh planet are now gone, having disappeared at an exponential rate, which were hitting various turning or tipping points recently. Therefore, from now on not only will we notice that "Victory has a strange face," but moreover, it will more and more have a grotesque and monstrous face.
The days when it was possible to win wars in profitable ways have been disappearing faster and faster, throughout the exponential development of the potential of the industrial revolution. Today, although there are still the dominant delusions, due to thousands of years of history, reinforced by the ruling classes at the top of the social pyramids still making fantastic profits from wars and other kinds of social volatility, THE BASIC PROBLEM APPEARING NOW IS THAT EVERYONE OVERALL IS LOSING WHEN THERE ARE WARS AND REVOLUTIONS.
Therefore, indeed, these days "Victory has a strange face!" The reasons are that there are no longer any real "victories." The days of being able to fight for a bigger piece of a bigger pie are over. Now, we are fighting over smaller pieces of smaller pies, and that fight only makes the smaller pie smaller still. The human species has not generally gotten used to that situation. (Perhaps a few of the Pacific Islands were isolated illustrations of that.)
Although the theoretical general energy systems considerations at play here are understandable, they have almost nothing previous in known human history to compare them to. People are NOT adapting to the limits to growth, and therefore, they do not understand why "Victory has a strange face." Although it is quite reasonable to expect criminally insane people will continue to try to wage total wars and armed revolutions, the basic facts that everyone will be overall losing through those conflicts will increasing drive the recognition that "Victory has a strange face!"
As we find ourselves flipping through to the other side of the Bizarro Mirror World Fun House that we have been living in for so long, we are surely going to discover more and more that "Victory" ends up looking like losing. The most obvious symbol of that is that everyone would lose a war fought with atomic bombs. That illustrates the problem that all other kinds of old-fashioned fighting are more and more going to result in everyone overall losing. We have only barely begun to recognize that "Victory has a strange face!" In the foreseeable future, that face is surely going to become stranger and stranger, and more obviously the opposite to what was expected.
This Ukraine government will be overthrown the same way it came into power. There will be riots a (real) revolution, the idiots in charge will be gone and the new government will have to adopt a pro Russian position out on necessity if nothing else.
And now for the LOL part.
The US and EU will refuse to recognize the next Ukrainian government claiming it came to power through a coup, you now like the government they installed.
You cannot make up the shenanigans of these inbred assholes.
Ukrainian zionists ftw!
If gas went up 40% here in America, the BLS would substitute in the falling price of furniture that nobody could afford but which people already own and are now burning to stay warm... and the CPI would show falling energy prices.
Poor Ukraine People, once they are under IMF (Adios Mother Fucker), austerity for the people begins and the resource sacking begins.
Chevron/Shell fracking and pipe lines, German outfit coal and steel, Monsanto, farm land
The Ukrainian People will be begging Russia to save them from becoming debt slaves!
Don't cry for me much, Argentina; soon the USSA will be under the IMF as well... Time to cut all those pubic pensions by 75%!
I'd laugh if the buyer of UST was actually the IMF; what hilarity would ensue...
Check it out, this is the IMF's original terms to Yanukovych, which he rejected and was deposed for, being applied anyway:
So it was intended to REMOVE GROWTH and generate intense austerity.
Welcome to IMF EU freedumb ... suckers! ... just sign down there and we'll free you from your debts.
Can't they just heat their homes with Hyrvnas instead?
The US is clearly the world leader in "Iraqization"...beating the snot out of a society and leaving it braindead and comatose, hey, it's the only thing we know!....Fuck you Barry and fuck you Lurch....
The stated 1.5% is a ploy to make it seem harmless, just wait for its actual application when the decimal point is moved.
The funny thing is Putin has taken away the juicy bit and left the Ukraine and the west with a total basket case.
The new Ukrainian rulers, which of course were elected by no one but still are totallhy legit according to Obama and Merkel! How freakin nuts has the world become? Welcome to crazy town where we make this shit up on a daily basis.
In reply to Count: It is surreal how the roles of the USA and Russia have reversed in the 21st Century.
The tyranny of the old USSR is gone and now Russia stands for self determination, Freedom and Democracy.
The USA Freedom (Free Enterprise System “Competitive Market” and Fair Trade free from monopolies), American Constitution, Sovereignty and Democracy have been overthrown and replaced with a police state of tyranny and the global multinational Empire of warmongering (7 on-going wars) Banksters, Big Oil and Free Trade “Free Market” monopoly (FREE to steal what ever they want legally).
This is the very reason Yanukovych rejected the IMF loan and EU Association Agreement on Nov 21st 2013!
So here we are. The guy who rejected this IMF condition in the past, got exiled under gunfire, while the freedumb lovers impose the same yoke which Yanukovych would not.
And in crawled the maggots.
And any 'popular vote' on anything anti EU in Europe that actually got enough votes is and was redone until the outcome is the desired one. Neither congress/white house nor parlament in the UK is where the actual power is and the actual decisions are made. Look more to the services with a couple of letters in their name...
pigeon politics
ahem,
THE PETROLEUM GIANTS rose the prices, as they do everywhere in a concerted monopolistic way. The recession in the USA will end when the gasoline price returns to $2.65 per gallon. They started it, they can end it.
These advatage taker pecker-woods make up any excuse to jack up their victim/customer. They have fake fires, rail accidents, scheduled maintenance, ALL BULLSHIT and you have to stop bending over for their drilling sludge encrusted dicks.
Unless you really like that sort of thing.
EXCELLENT! So I guess the Fed is going to bail out the Ukraine now that this breaks the camel's back. Of course bail out means enslavement hahaha... Wonder how that will go down with the rioters who spit on Mr Putin and kissed the ass of the CIA
GOOD FOR YOU FUCKERS - I HOPE YOU EAT DOGFOOD because you got what you wanted - RIGHT?
Stupid...why don't they go ask Lagarde or Merkel to subsidize their cheap gas entitlement.
Average per capita GDP in West Ukraine is around $2,000. In the industrial East it was around $4.000. Industry in the East is now evaporating.
Forget the gas... If I were Ukrainian I would be desperately trying to get out of the Ukraine.
Maybe to Germany or America since they care the most about them.
Eef you vant your gaz prices you kin keep your gaz prices!
(what's LOL in Russian?)
Its sad that Ukraine, one of the world's great breadbaskets, is a functional 3rd world country. Guvmint will do that.
Now Ukraine will pay for Russian gas routed back through the West and extra 40% more than present.
Of course in the bargain, the banksters make money of them.
That anyone woould wish to join the dying American empire beats me
For the misery they will be facing soon, the Ukranians need to order Laughing Gas too to tide over that crisis.
40%? So they have to wait until AFTER the honeymoon to get fucked?
Didn't I see this movie. It was called Quantum of Solace.
The coup was designed to steal from the people.
Ukrainians aren't very smart.