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To: TobagoJack who wrote (105296)	3/28/2014 7:26:03 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219784

To understand how deep the hatred of between the Russian and Ukrainian are I received this comment from an Electronic engineer on Skype who lives in Sevastopol, after posting to him the link below. telegraph.co.uk Crimea - is Russian land. I am Russian and I live now in the homeland. Propaganda in the minds of Obama's ilk. It is not necessary to administer our destinies. We, in the Crimea, Russian, know what we do. We will never Ukraine. Just like Israel, will NEVER be Palestine. And about who will collapse soon, so wait and see. Russian saying, do not dig a hole to another, you will get there myself. This is the answer of supposedly an intelligent well educated person that graduated university..(text was written obviously in Russian and computer translated.) Until now my impression was of a nice intelligent person with similar interests, but I never realized the amount of hate lurking inside. To better understand the issue I would remind everyone that Putin in his speech reminded the world of Kiev as the "mother lodge" of what he defines the Russian people. I only hope that the EU and the US understand that 45 million people will go through hell if Putin and is imperialistic army will put foot in Ukraine. Sufficient to ask the Crimean Tatars, or go back in history to the time of the start of the enslavement of the Slavic people by the Ruriks of Olga and her son Sviatoslav of Kiev I do think that once in her life time Hillary Clinton was right. en.wikipedia.org In 2005, reports circulated that a village in the Belgorod region had erected a monument to Sviatoslav's victory over the Khazars by the Russian sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov. The reports described the 13-meter tall statue as depicting a Rus' cavalryman trampling a supine Khazar bearing a Star of David and Kolovrat. This created an outcry within the Jewish community of Russia. The controversy was further exacerbated by Klykov's connections with Pamyat and other anti-Semitic organizations, as well as by his involvement in the "letter of 500", a controversial appeal to the Prosecutor General to review all Jewish organizations in Russia for extremism.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (105296)	3/28/2014 12:48:04 PM
From: Logain Ablar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219784

TJ: Just some nice video charts on gold and silver to kill some time while you travel. 321gold.com Unfortunately in the U.S. the media seems to be taking the side of our meddling state department. Troubling times are ahead.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (105296)	3/29/2014 4:20:47 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219784

The most important country to follow to understand where the rest of the world's fiscal, social and market situation may be headed is Japan Abenomics' Failure Is the Global Canary By Roger Arnold \| Mar 21, 2014 \| 11:00 AM EDT . *This article originally appeared on RealMoney.com.* To read more content like this AND see inside Jim Cramer's multi-million-dollar portfolio for FREE, Click Here NOW. The most important country to follow to understand where the rest of the world's fiscal, social and market situation may be headed is Japan. It's been more than a year since that country launched its latest and greatest government policies targeted at reinvigorating the economy: Abenomics. The essential policy tools of Abenomics are massive monetary and fiscal stimulus aimed at forcing the yen lower, which should cause exports to rise and domestic production to increase, leading to increased domestic job production and consumption: the virtuous cycle. In the process, Japan also increased sovereign debt, which must be serviced by the government. The servicing of that debt is supposed to come from an increase in tax receipts to be made available by the increased domestic production and consumption. But it isn't working. The failure of Abenomics to stimulate economic activity and raise tax receipts enough to pay for the stimulus is now causing the government to double back on these programs with a counter-cyclical consumer tax increase of about 3%, which will be implemented in April. In other words, Abenomics is making the real economic and fiscal situations in Japan worse, not better. They are digging a bigger sovereign debt hole and accelerating the trajectory toward insolvency. Nobody will discuss this insolvency trajectory, however. Economists and government officials prefer to use the more opaque and nebulous term " crisis" as they debate how long Japan has before that crisis occurs without saying what that crisis entails. That crisis is sovereign default and insolvency, which is now inevitable. I first addressed this in 2010 in a column that is no longer available in the archives (if you would like a copy, email me rogerbarnold@gmail.com). I also addressed it a year ago in " Why Japan Is Doomed to Insolvency." That doesn't mean that you can't trade the Japanese markets profitably, as I wrote in " How to Play the Impending Yen Depreciation" in January 2013, when Abenomics was getting started. The two issues I discussed in that column, Sony ( SNE) and Panasonic** ( PCRFY), went on to more than double over the next 12 months. They've pulled back as speculators and investors have begun to question the ability of Abenomics to be successful, but both are close to twice what they were when I wrote that column. The broader issue, however, is that many economists are beginning to realize that insolvency for a country issuing its own currency is possible and that Japan either is, or may be, on that terminal path. At some point soon, it is probable that these same economists, along with global government and private sector financial leaders, will have a "simultaneous collective epiphany" borne out of the empirical evidence of policy failure -- that not only is it possible that a currency-issuing country can become insolvent, but that Japan cannot avoid it. And all policy prescriptions not only won't alleviate the concern in the near term, but will accelerate the trajectory toward insolvency. The policy and market implications of this realization for all other world governments cannot be overstated. It's like following the smart kids in your geometry class, copying their work, and realizing when they arrive at the wrong conclusion to the proof that your work will eventually result in the same erroneous conclusion. The question then becomes did the Japanese do something wrong, or is their situation indicative of the trajectory of all of the other large sovereigns with increasing debt levels. I'll address those issues as this process unfolds further. But, for now, the prudent action for speculators in Japanese equities is to sell. Policymakers in Japan will logically have no choice but to force the yen even lower; playing the currency markets that way looks safe. Investors would be wise to avoid Japan altogether now, and probably permanently. Editor's Note: This article was originally published at 6:21 p.m. EDT on Real Money on March 20.