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Belarus In Full-Blown Hyperinflation Panic: Blocks News, Online Stores; Bans All FX Trading For 2 Years
"We have to do something with these Belarussian rubles," exclaims one Belarussian as she shops to turn worthless rubles (BYR) into physical assets. As AFP reports, The Belarussian currency was dragged down by the slide of the Russian ruble last week, leading authorities to impose draconian measures, forbid price increases even for imported goods, and warn people against panic. Now, however, in an effort to stem the flood of hyperinflating domestic prices, authorities have blocked online stores and news websites to stop the run on banks and shops as people scramble to secure their savings. One of the blocked news websites noted, it "looks like the authorities want to turn light panic over the fall of the Belarussian ruble into a real one," calling the blockages "December insanity."
And indeed they have stepped up the insanity, extending the halt in FX trading...
Today the Belarus central bank shocked its own population when it also announced full-blown capital controls designed, releasing additional measures to stem the "negative trends of currency and financial markets " including raising mandatory sales of FX revenue to 0%, suspending all OTC FX trading (so pretty much all FX), introducing a 30% fee on all FX purchases, "recommending" that banks halt BYR lending until February, and sending 1-yr interest rates on liquidity operations with banks to a eyewatering 50% in hopes this leads to an increase in BYR deposit rates. It will. What it won't lead to is stabilization in the deposit market as the natives realize they too are next up on the hyperinflation train.
End result:
through 2017...
- BELARUS HALTS OTC TRANSACTIONS IN FX UNTIL 2017: INTERFAX
UPDATE: Belarus Overnight Deposit Rate surges to 49%
Belarus blocked online stores and news websites Sunday, in an apparent attempt to stop a run on banks and shops as people rushed to secure their savings. In a statement Sunday, BelaPAN news company, which runs popular independent news websites Belapan.by and Naviny.by, said that the sites were blocked Saturday without any warning.
"Clearly the decision to block the IP addresses could only be taken by the authorities because in Belarus the government has monopoly on providing IPs," it said.
Other websites blocked Sunday were Charter97.by, BelarusPartisan.org, Udf.by and others with an independent news outlook. The blockage started on December 19, when the government announced that purchases of foreign currency will be taxed 30 percent and told all exporters to convert half of their foreign revenues into the local currency.
"Looks like the authorities want to turn light panic over the fall of the Belarussian ruble into a real one," Belarus Partisan website wrote, calling the blockages "December insanity." Internet shopping websites were also blocked en masse. Thirteen online stores were blocked Saturday for raising their prices or showing them in US dollars, deputy trade minister Irina Narkevich said, Interfax reported.
The government announced a moratorium on price increases for consumer goods and ordered domestic producers of appliances to "increase deliveries" and keep prices the same at the risk of their management being sacked. Belarussians lined up for hours to clear out their bank accounts and swept store shelves to secure their savings, stocking up on foreign-made appliances and housewares.
The Belarussian ruble has lost about half of its value since the beginning of the year, having been hit hard by the depreciation of the Russian ruble since its economy is heavily dependent on its giant neighbour. With foreign currency swiftly depleted in exchange offices, Belarussians even launched a black market website dollarnash.com where individuals could buy and sell dollars and euros.
This follows the previously noted implementation of a 30% FX transaction tax, which however now that all OTC FX trading is banned for 2 years or longer, will hardly be collected.
$ 460 million will bring to the Belarusian budget introduction of a 30% tax on the purchase of foreign currency in Belarus. This is the TV channel "Belarus 1" said First Deputy Minister of Finance of the country Maxim Ermolovich.
"Given the daily supply and demand in the foreign exchange market budget revenues will amount to about 5 trillion Belarusian rubles, or $ 460 million at the exchange rate of the National Bank", - he said. Recall, December 19 NBB announced the introduction of December 20 temporary levy of 30% on the purchase of foreign currency for individuals and legal entities in connection with the sharply increased demand for foreign currency in the domestic market of Belarus. Legal persons will pay the tax on the stock exchange, and individuals - in the form of bank commission when buying foreign currency.
As a result, expect to see more of this...
Keep in mind that the scenes shown above are what the BOJ, the ECB and the Fed would dub "success."
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I NEED EVERYONE TO STOP PANICKING!!!!
Is this when the oceans turn to lemonade, like the Soviets promised?
Don't assume it's lemon flavored just because it's yellow....
But....but....but this could never happen in the USSA. So what's the big deal?
/sarc
And a word to the wise. Don't eat the yellow snow.
Remain calm - All is well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro
Bans All FX Trading For 2 Years
What's that in doggy years?
...What's that in doggy years?
What kind of dog? ;-)
Looney
dup
Western banks are now fully integrated into the government and are overtly functioning as implements of foreign policy.
World War 3
hehe, 30% fee to switch one worthless paper for another? Get real sheeple, metals, food an crypto, that's the MAJOR wealth.
There are no grounds for the acceleration of inflation in Belarus
-Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich
http://eng.belta.by/all_news/economics/PM-No-grounds-for-acceleration-of...
If the first thing you do when hyperinflation hits- is go buy a big screen tv, you deserve whats comming to you!
Zh'ers buy gold lead and food and water.
Good thing Belarus is an exporter of tractors and ag products, they probably have food laying around already.
We made some folks poor
The situation is a little more complicated than the article suggests. Belarus can still buy items which Russia cannot due to economic sanctions. The Belarus citizens are buying everything in sight to sell at a big mark up to the Russians.
http://news.yahoo.com/belarus-enjoys-bonanza-amid-russia-west-tensions-0...
what would hsn and qvc sell?
REMAIN CALM! THIS IS ONLY A TEST!
I wish I wouldn't have to look at the celebrity with the screwed up lips every time I come to this website..
Try NoScript
First-world problem.
To me it looks like a perfect example of public foolishness and mis-information. The Russian Ruble is up sharply from it's bottom two weeks ago; basically their stategy to raise bank rates to 17%, (shock and awe); can only be counted a success. The long position FX traders are the ones with the "money made" at this time, and there's no indication whatsoever that the Russian Ruble is going fall again or make any new lower low. So why panic this week? Mass Mind. Poor information. I would open a bank accouint if I was in that part of the world; if you study these examples one by one, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, etc. in the twentieth century; after the central bank panics and puts the interest payment up to a certain point, the deterioration stops and you can actually make a net buying power profit on your one year CD; for instance. I had one at the National Bank of Mexico at one time for over 2 millionn Pesos; that paid 98% per year; interest. It worked out fine for me; even tho the peso did devalue somewhat more after I opened the contract.
Yeah; exactly. It's not a defunct economy by any means. The government might have overreacted a little; or maybe not; but basically the actions they're taking are to prevent the foolish population from ruining their own currency. They're "shitting in their own garden" as an old Ukraine proverb says.
Thats what i thought last week when the Russians were doing the same. Its just like AR sales post sandyhook. They dont expect stocks to be replenished soon and think they can turn a profit by selling that tv or bmw even in a month or two.
Totally agree, I would be buying PM, rice and beans or farmland with their life savings rather than TVs. Guess they just want to watch blank screens when the govt closes down the tv stations too lol.
I've looked into this Belarusian hyperinflation issue and there is no doubt North Korea is behind it.
and who do you expect to be selling farmland, rice and beans for useless paper?
Something tells me if you must buy rice, beans and farmland during a hyperinflationary event, you are completely fucked and may as well stare at a blank TV screen. But I have a tendency towards cynicism.
Miffed
The thing is it's not a "real" hyperinflationary event. It's an example of public all running in one direction at the same time. They're going to continue to have trade with Russia; the Russian Ruble is not dying; they have an economy they're not a defunct country; "Great Britain" has more to be afraid of than they do. It's all just public opinion. I predict they'll come to their senses in a couple of months and just sheepishly go back to business as usual. The key is, there is still a busines to go back to; they export agricultural product and the Russians are going to paying for it. It's kind of ridiculous, really.
We inflated some folks...!
I had the same thought. But maybe that's all the reporter knows. Didn't occur to him to check out the local gold coin dealer.
Blind leading the blind.
Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarussians have been showing up at the Mint in Vienna Austria where they sell Austrian Phillharmonics, the one ounce bullion coin, to all comers. They usually show up with a main guy and a bodyguard type; and the bodyguard will whip out a driver's license made out to "Alexander Alexandrovich" at some address in Ukraine' which probably doesn't exist; and the clerk carefully writes down the details on the "ID"; and counts the stacks of 500Euro bills and gives them a sack of coins. Everybody knows its a joke, but it's "business"; nobody cares.
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I was thinking the same. The country is on the edge of collapse so let's throw every kopeck we have at electronics! Morons. The real entertainment will be on the streets hanging pols and bankers.
Can't wait to see that on youtube!
they are panicking. they are buying anything of value that they can spend their folding green on. if gold coins or jewelry were available, they would certainly favor them over TVs. in places like that, you don't go out shopping for something, you go out shopping to find out what is available. as the flatscreens disappear, they'll be working their way down the chain of rubles/cc to get rid of their cash.
Think you buy water storage and filtration, not "water". Maybe a case or two of Distilled Water if you have wet-cell batteries to tend...
Pay "money" for water? Get a rain barrel for your roof, some empty blue plastic soda-syrup barrels for $15ea and cleanse them with bleach solution. Get a drip filter like a Berkey or Katadyn that uses gravity feed and needs no electric to run. Maybe a new waterbed mattress to store 300gals under each bed in your house (on main floor, if slab construction).
Food? Stuff that lasts.
Maybe a generator and storage battery with inverter and solar cells for your own electric.
Maybe a chemical toilet and treatment chems on season close-out in RV section.
Frigging "bottled" water gets you that treated plastic and water quality usually below marginal municipal standards. The majors are Pepsi, Coke, Nestle' and all use municipal water to fill their shitty bottles. Maybe buy a distiller and be sure you aren't poisoning yourself...
Too stupid to live? Got to fill the landfill with the throw-away water bottles?
Warm, Dry, Hydrated, Fed, and Capable of self and property defense; those are you major concerns.
Lie somewhere you get rain? Maybe you got a chance, if you don't own your own well...
Then after we buy, then eat the lead, food and water, we leave a massive collective steaming lead filled pile of shit on the desk of Obola, and say "yes we can mother fucker you fucking stool eatng cocksucker"
"I guess we lead filled excrement on some folks"
The Great Cornholio!...TP for the bunghole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HilVFpvzuBM
The IMF and World Bank will soon come to the rescue with the words, "Come to Papa..."
This economic war is really starting to heat up.
As far as I know, and i don't know much; that;s probably true. It's mass foolishness.
when belarus go negociate stuff under the belt with ukraine... hmm.....
naaah, u know what, let me eat my christmas shit, we'll talk about war in january, would you.
Sheeples...muppets...99%, or whatever you call yourself,
watch and learn,
and be knowledgeable and expectant.
If and when that happens here in Murica we can all sip on our morning coffee and enjoy the clinking sound of real money in our hands.
I think most of us did our run on the banks long ago.
Amen
You forgot something very important on that list of yours maskone...
MEDICINES and Toiletries...Antibiotics...Ointment salves and pills if you can get them.
Toliet Paper...Soaps...
You know it as well as I do.
Batteries is another must.
Cigarettes and Alcohol...even if you do not smoke nor drink will be good for barter.
That is just the beginning. It can happen in the USA.
Good luck.
Wanna be the most popular guy in the neighborhhod after the 'Pocyclypse?
Stockpile toilet paper.
...and lead to protect it - otherwise someone wil just take it from you and then you will try to buy it back.
...and femenine hygiene products...toilet paper can be substituted for in a variety of hygenic ways, not so easily the Red Sea.
"If and when that happens here in Murica..."
If? When? Got 2 words for you: "Reserve Currency." I'm sure you can figure out the rest. :-)
Thank you.
When that happens in Murica.
Most of "Us" Muricans got no money at the bank to run for...
Got money? You're one of "them" as in US vs THEM...
What's really funny are the guys investing in tobacco and alcohol for "trade", expecting to make-out economically by pandering to people's addictions. Smokers are way more hooked than drunks or druggies. Don't want any of either coming round your house...
Mostly, people with funds have them tied-up. Those are already gone... You may only think you have $$... Wait for the "natl emergendy" closes all banks and markets. Maybe the banks reopen in timely manner? Unlikely the exchanges will for years to come.
US Federal Acknowledged "national debt" was bumped by $300T with the TBTF banker derivative bail-out piece of the Govt Funding bill. HAD To Keep Govt Funded, but gonna cost you another 1/3 Quadrillion $ to keep them solvent...
So fucking essential.
America has been ass-raped beyond any understanding. Those who think "we're next" don't know we already been "done". America is now MK-ULTRA NATION..... Which personality are we today?
What does Belarus have to do with Malaysia in 1998? Naked short selling on foreign markets will cause a rapid collapse of currency – this is also called a bear raid. Betting downward pressure accelerates that pressure in a positive feedback loop. George Soros (Jew) uses this economic warfare method in order to steal his money, to then fund his NGO operational arms, to re-inforce the scheme. It is a rent seeking mechanism passed off as a necessary “free market” device.
ALL HYPERINFLATIONS are a function of exchange rate mechanism, this includes the Weimar Hyperinflation. Zimbabwe aka Rhodesia is exception.
It is also curious that Malaysia has been suffering War By Deception, Mossad like attacks with downed airliners, etc. ever since they showed up the IMF and International Banksters. At its root, money is law, and a sovereign prerogative of a nation’s law abiding people. Money is not international credit, even though our world is now an inverted psycho bubble that maintains this lie through Orwellian “war by deception” means.
Quote from .pdf link page 9
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/drodrik/Research%20papers/Malaysia%20controls.PDF
Offshore institutions (mainly in Singapore) borrowed ringgit at premium rates (double or triple the prevailing interest rates in Malaysia) to purchase dollars and bet in favor of the ringgit's collapse. The economy's decline continued. This was the background against which the controls were instituted on September 1st.
The primary objective behind the capital controls was to end speculation against the ringgit. Most of that speculation was coming from short-selling of the ringgit in offshore (mainly Singaporean markets). These markets were offering high interest rates to attract ringgit deposits that in turn served to fund the shorting of the currency. To shut down offshore trading, the government mandated that all sale of ringgit assets had to go through authorized domestic intermediaries, effectively making offshore trading illegal. All ringgit assets held abroad had to be repatriated. Worried that these measures would lead to an outflow of capital and further depreciation of the currency, the Malaysian government also banned for a period of one year all repatriation of investment held by foreigners.
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My prognostication: Belarus will join BRICS in a hurry. Their currency will be stabilized with swaps, probably even with China helping with dollar injections. FX controls are necessary to prevent Bear Raids by foreign dollar holders.
WW3 is moving into a more earnest phase.
Preventing speculation helped Malaysia, but let's be a bit mote brutal about the fundamendals. Malaysia and many other Asian countries that got hit by the crisis in 1997 were running consistent current account deficits, in Malaysia's case all the way back since 1990. Since 1998, Malaysia has recorded current account surpluses in every single year. Hence, one could also argue that their economic model changed as well. Go and check Thailand, Korea, Indonesia; you will see the exact same watershed event reflected in the current account figures. They were simply overvaluing their currencies massively vis-a-vis their export competitiveness.
Belarus as of 2014 is a very similar case. Except for one year, 2005, it has been running persistent current account deficits since 1993 (!) and their currency is not a reserve currency. If you keep doing so, where are you going to get the forex to fund your reserves.
Therefore I disagree that swaps or temporary liquidity will help Belarus now. Calling in IMF would deprive them of valuable sovereignty and should be avoided as well. It will only postpone the inevitable crash, while making it far more spectacular. Their economy simply is not generating enough forex to keep their currency credible. And for the avoidance of doubt; if I was living there, I would not hesitate a second to buy gold or USD banknotes and keep it outside the financial system, avoiding deposits (i.e. making loans to domestic banks). The government should consider to devalue the currency instead and fiercly seek improve domestic economic conditions to promote its competitiveness.
If Belarus does not act decisively now, it could prove destabilizing for the entire region. Now bear in mind its strategic location, in the middle of Russia and Ukraine. Why is it suddenly, that Belarus is in deep trouble, right at the same convenient time as Ukraine suffered a government coup, one may ask. If Belarus falls, Russia's borders will soon be completely surrounded with NATO-allied governments. Bear in mind the Baltic state's relatively recent joining of NATO, Estonia and Latvia, bordering north of Belarus. Hence it makes perfect sense to destabilize it, and hence make Belarus ripe for a foreign takeover, by stealth or otherwise.
Do not be surprised if you soon hear something about the Belarus government collapsing and a "liberation" being made. This is not a simulation.
When John (Angel of Death) McCain shows up in Minsk.
It's time to panic...
Right on the money with that analysis, they are setting fire to another one of Russia's daughters and hoping the fire spreads to mother Russia.
Either way more Lebensraum for the Euro and the Europeans.
more Lebensraum for the Euro; or more graves for everybody. Damn, I hope you're wrong about that outcome. I see what the posters are saying tho. damn I hope those crazies in Washington aren't going to show up here too.
Well said, zero debt
"Do not be surprised if you soon hear something about the Belarus government collapsing and a "liberation" being made. This is not a simulation."
Or, like Crimea, they could simply vote to join Russia.
"Calling in IMF would deprive them of valuable sovereignty..."
Shhh. You let the cat out of the bag.
And, since USA Congress passed the Crimenibus last week, if the people of Belarus do manage to survive the crisis, and their currency recovers, Wall Street FOREX traders now shorting the currency can dump their losses on USA taxpayers. Therefore, FOREX traders can pile on Belarus currency shorts to infinity and beyond, because "heads they win; tails the USA taxpayers lose". Ain't free market capitalism great?
"Don't eat yellow snow."
Ask any eskimo
That song came to my mind, too, when I read the comment. Zappa forever!
There is nothing to worry about in my country. The IYR just hit a new all time high. Real Estate is a great "investment"! Oh, I forgot, the Banking sector just is in super profitability.
Ahhh, it is so satisfying. I think I'll take my afternoon nap now.
All our nation's leaders want is love. :-)
... Just A Dry Run For The Real Coming Event, FEDie Losing Control Of The Grand Keynesian US Fiats...
please don't worry
Wining
Winning or Whining?
Rhymes with dining. English is a fucked up language.
Not nearly as bad as French or Polish.
I think English has more words than any other language - probably on account of the English loading up on good words everywhere they went and adding them to the language. I doubt there has ever been anyone who knew all the words in the English language.
That escalated quickly;)
This looks a lot like my local Best Buy, lots of stuff sold for the Christmas holiday. Why no pictures or comments on grocery stores being stripped bare? Recent articles out of Russia talk about people buying cars and electronics as the ruble falls in value there. What'll they eat and how will they heat their homes after buying electronics, cars and other non-essentials and non-edibles. Although there was that one episode of MASH where Klinger tried to eat a jeep in order to get a medical discharge....
Why worry about food? I mean, geeze, you can go 2-3 weeks without food. Most people these days can't go 3 hours without some kind of electronic device telling them about their favorite celebrity's latest attention whore attempts.
Remember when ZH wrote back in June on a celeb. investment guru who claimed Russia and CIS countries were a screaming buy based on 'cheap valuations' and all the gold Belarus held + special trade relations with the RUS/Sino pact ?
Yeah. This place looks like a screaming bye. Hope nobody was dumb enough to invest in this cesspit.
I doubt you know anything about Belarus.
Streets are clean.
Better worry about your own country.
Not sure why that one merits down-arrows. Too close to the bone?
Clean streets doesn't scream "buy".
You need blood on 'em before the buy is really good.
Many people in Russia have large gardens, so they have food. And live in cooperative apartments where they share a kitchen and the whole building complex is heated by steam from a furnace in the complex, which I imagine they have worked on enough that it is pretty efficient, so they have heat. And the complex has bus service, so they don't need an expensive family car. They don't have 3 bedrooms, 4 baths, and a swimming pool, but they can survive.
So, since it's cold, why not stay in some, and watch good Bollywood movies, Japanese horror, Downton Abbey, and NFL playoff games?
"... Just A Dry Run For The Real Coming Event, FEDie Losing Control Of The Grand Keynesian US Fiats..."
Yup, yup, yup. Like a large sun that begins to run out of fuel an is about to go supernova, so too the USD burns hotter as it feeds off all the other currencies. And just as the dying sun fuses lighter elements into Iron (a net energy loss process) that brings about its end, so too the BRIICS and EMs need to do the monetary equivalent against the Dollar: They MUST anchor their currencies against assets... like oil gas or gold, silver or platinum. As one step (easiest and fastest for monetary stability), they can link it to their strongest regional currency, as this helps mitigate he "Divide & Conquer" attacks of the USD (via Fed, DOD and GS).
People have such a Normalcy Bias (to the USD and everything it does for them), that they confuse the short-term symptoms with natural steps in a long-term process.
If only more "folks" would TRULY understand the making and manipulation of money and currencies... eh, Redshield & Sons?
it's yellow and it tastes salty.
Keynesian wet dream
I notice Sony products left on the shelves.
Hey, I was cleaning out my garage and bumped into my 20 year old Sony Walkman - the last thing Sony did right!
You rich bastasrd i always wanted one of them.
20 years old? I sold my 35-year-old Walkman on ebay a year ago to some guy in China. Still worked.
u should have kept it///
Those are just cheap North Korean imitations.
Long electrical power strips.
The AP is calling it a "bonanza" that Belarus is "enjoying." You had to figure there would be a "retail therapy" spin.
http://news.yahoo.com/belarus-enjoys-bonanza-amid-russia-west-tensions-072726365.html
The United States should send them a new ambassador. Maybe a former gossip columnist or how about a minor league baseball manager. Just choose from the list of high dollar Obama campaign donors. Pick a good one!
Delaware Joe's got a few more kids he could send. How about Beau?
Why not Sarah Palin? She has experience dealing with Russia, which she can see from her window. She looks good in a parka. And she can teach Belarusians to hunt and fish and pray and speak in pigeon English. :-)
If you're gonna panic, it's best to panic first bitches!
Kreditanstalt redux? What will you need tomorrow that you do not have today?
I already have it! Do you?
How many meters will I need to hang all the bankers on Wall St?
There are much cheaper ropes out there for this purpose.
I'd want quality assurance to make sure the job got done properly with no foul ups.
You use piano wire, not rope.
I think bungee cord would be more appropos for bankers.
bungee corded over a pit of hungry pitbulls
HO HO HO
Merry XMas
Bankers? Hanging is too easy. I'd poor kerosene on em and set those bitches on fire and let them run down Wall st all ablaze.
Panic? Why? It's an electronic store how about a couple pictures of the grocery store shelves.
My thoughts exactly
this kind of news will never even make a mention on msm. no one in the ussa will care until it happens to them. then they will act as if this is some kind of new development from left field.
And everyone seems to buy a fancier newer TV. Just to be brainwashed in 48 " HD with brilliant colours.
Sometimes I think people are stupider than allowed by law.
Alexander Lukashenka was not joking in 1995, when during an interview to Handlesblatt magazine he praised the concentrated official powers of Hitler. One year later, a rigged referendum made him something akin to a super President.
Why panic? They have a super President! And he thinks Hitler was awesome!
This is what happens when people have actual savings and money to spend. In America if anything like that happened what would be people using? Their maxed out and cancelled credit cards? EBT's that are sure to go offline the moment SHTF?
When bank runs happen, foreigners do the buying. We do the looting.
Coming soon to a central-planned state near you...
"Coming soon to a central BANKED state near you..."
Fixed it for ya!! You're welcome.
Bad news for our friends of Belarus
However, I hope China and Russia will help them
They'd better hope the US doesn't "help".
Maidan 3.0
Maidan 3.0
I hope your remark was offered sincerely- if so thank you.
That's what they run out and buy, is electronics?
my only guess is because plentiful, easy to store, and relatively straightforward to trade without a huge counterfeit market.
They lost 1/2 their value the minute they walked out the door with it, food on the other hand.
Apparently these people are as stupid as your average American. Weve been seeing stories like this for some 2 weeks, I think, and not once have I heard it mentioned that food and other useful commodities are being purchased en masse. Im sure theres some who have a better understanding of the situation and who are buying food, water, etc but, apparently, not enough to warrant an article. All that plastic shit theyre buying, though, burns good for a few minutes when their heating bill doubles. Id be buying cigs, booze, and clothing (since Ive plenty of food and what not). The cigs would be for bartering for a big shiny tv at about 5% of its original cost...then I wouldnt feel as badly about making a fire with the pos.
I bought a bunch of cast iron friring pans. You are going to pay my inflated price when you need my pan to cook your food.
Thats what Ive been doing wrong for decades...not using pots and pans to cook my food in. Thanks
Cooking in aluminum is better... makes you calm and easy going, and helps you follow orders.
Also helps you as you get older - makes your mental processes just fade away so you don't suffer!
And, aluminum is highly recommended as "ecologically friendly" by Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Georg Soros and other people who matter.
Aluminum was replaced by ptfe coated (Teflon) aluminum...more toxins for your buck.
good choice
next: crosscut saw
Dude, you can't use cast iron in a microwave. What's the matter with you?
What I dislike about most of these comments is the hubris with which they are offered. None of you live in this country. You have no idea what is going on there. This is one artcle with some photos that in some cases are of the same store but a different angle. You don't know how you would react if you lived there because you don't know what their lives are like. I don't hear any sympathy, any worry, or concern for your fellow human beings. This site wails about the injustice that is perpetrated by the bankers and government officials but seems to gloat when those at the bottom suffer real consequences. You are no better you know and once those at the bottom of the economic ladder are dealt with they will be coming for you. All your guns, ammo, canned goods and water kept in poison plastic bottles will do you no good. Can we not temper remarks to include that these are real people, probably freightened out of their minds. Fear interrupts clear thinking- you will face it soon enough. I wouldn't gloat about your prowess of preparedness.
Amen Disgruntled. Let's please differentiate between the cabal and citizens. All of us are going to have hardship ahead. I feel for all the innocent citizens.
Agreed there is no empathy. On the other hand it is these "mental midgets" who need to wake up.
It's called "whistling past the graveyard."
In the USSR they had a saying: Today me. Tomorrow, you.
I think most people here understand that.
*golf clap* for the "humanitarian". Being stupid = being a victim.
the more people understand what may happen to them the more they can prepare. Truth = compassion.
"They lost 1/2 their value the minute they walked out the door with it, food on the other hand.a"
The currency is also likely to fall in half, making the used value in currency units the same as what was originally paid. and the new ones will then cost twice as much.
"They lost 1/2 their value the minute they walked out the door with it, food on the other hand."
Apparently no country has a shortage of dumb and uninformed people, when it comes to truly understanding the concept of "STORE OF VALUE".
Sheeple is as sheeple does. And the herd instinct is strong in most "Folks".
Transistors, yum. And the good news is that there's plenty of cords left, in case you need one.
The cords will be gone soon.....When the hoards come back needing something to hang themselves with...
Hoards with cords.
maybe electronics are the most expensive imports people use in their daily lives
or maybe Belarussians are apple fanboys, who knows
That couldn't happen here.....oh wait!
Seems like someone's about to be smoked out. Lukashenko and Putin, two birds with one stone after already gaining control of Ukraine. I bow to thee oh mighty western kings. Finally freedom is about to engulf the last bastions of totalitarianism in Europe.
Because the choice between Belarus totalitarianism and Amerikan/Western "freedom" is really a choice !?
Well, he didn't say it was a good choice.
Belarus is just fine as long as follow law and don't say any against govt.
Very clean streets, hard workers and very small public debt.
Not foreigner infested..
Little foreign debt? Hmm, where have I heard that one recently. Oh yeah, Russia. Seems that lack of debt is the death knell for a currency at the moment. Now why would that be?
Starting to see a pattern here. EVERYONE must have debt. Or else.
I'm on your side. For what it's worth. Which isn't much. Let's hope and pray it doesn't become "foreigner infested". God Willing.
It appears that blue pill is working out just fine, Cypher.
Putin has already won the big game, the only ones that do not get it, are NWO and Obama!
Ukraine is under bloody assault by the modern American "freedoms". We must pray that God has mercy, intervenes and defeats the Nazi government and mercenaries waging the war to enslave and to "democratize" Ukraine!
I think we just need the Virgin Mary to appear in the sky over Kiev and tell the people they're being very bad boys; and they should all join the Russian Orthodox Church immediately and vote to join the Russian Federation. Before God gets tired of their nasty Fascist Ases and buries them all. Unfortunately it's not clear how to arrange this.
The Nazis considered half of Belarus as part of Ukraine in WWII. So why shouldn't today's Nazis in Kiev also want a big shred of their friendly northern neighbor to compensate for the loss of Crimea?
Because Luka will kick their pollack asses running back to Lvov.
That is main reason.