The predictions thread

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SIGNYM

Saturday, January 17, 2015 11:21 PM

FWIW, I apologize on THUGR's behalf.

Carry on!

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

SIGNYM

Saturday, January 17, 2015 11:32 PM

Well, who could have predicted???

Russia's Modest Proposal To Greece: "Exit Europe And We Will Lift The Food Import Ban"

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It has not been a good week for Greece: first we learned that its treasury has run dry as Greece have stop paying all taxes ahead of the elections (and likely after), making further reforms virtually impossible as the government simply does not have the cash to promote economic changes; then we found out that first two then all four of the largest Greek banks have submitted Emergency Liquidity Assistance requests to the ECB to preserve liquidity in light of a deposit run that is picking up pace. And yesterday, adding insult to injury, Spiegel leaked that while seeking preapproval from Merkel for his QE program to be announced next week, Draghi told the Germans that Greek bonds won't be among the securities monetized by the ECB.
It almost makes the Greeks wonder what's the point of staying in the Eurozone and keeping the Euro if all it leads to is 50% youth unemployment, 25% total unemployment, and unprecedented pain and suffering as a result of the internal devaluation that will continue indefinitely since Greece, courtesy of the Euro, is unable to engage in an external one.

Of course, the Greek population will be able to voice its opinion next Sunday when it holds general elections, which will almost surely be won by Tsipras who has threatened on numerous occasions to renegotiate the Greek bailout, something Germany has made quite clear is not a topic for debate, and that a Grexit is assured if Greece thinks it can hold Europe hostage with threats of Eurozone collapse.

And just to make things interesting, overnight Russia told a beleaguered Greece, and specifically its hurting farmers, that it "may lift its ban on food imports from Greece in the event it quits the European Union" according to Russian Minister of Agriculture Nikolai Fyodorov who spoke in Berlin on Friday.

“If Greece has to leave the European Union, we will build our own relations with it, the food ban will not be applicable to it,” Fyodorov said as reported by Tass.

In other words, Russia has casually thrown out feelers to Greece (and any other peripheral European country) and given it the option of joining the greater Russian sphere of influence (because the USSR 2.0 and satellites is still not trademarked), should it decide that 5 years after the first Greek "bailout" things for the country caught in an endless depression are as good as they will get with a bunch of Goldman bankers in charge.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-17/russias-modest-proposal-greec
e-exit-europe-and-we-will-lift-food-import-ban

Do I get points for being close?? Anyway, gotta go for the while. Duty really DOES call.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

THGRRI

Sunday, January 18, 2015 1:23 AM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Gorramit Sniggy, that obnoxious imbecile is forcing me to side with you. It's just not fair.

Wow, you actually put together a complete sentence. I hope you didn't hurt yourself?

THGRRI

Sunday, January 18, 2015 1:48 AM

SYGNYM it is that you change the reporting of others by adding things into it as though they're saying this, when they're saying no such thing. If they report something that includes several countries you will include your own as though it is a part of the original content. You will also add your own comments and subtly change the context from it's original meaning.

Hey, you know all this. After all it's you doing it. Posting back to me what the definition of plagiarism is only gives me a chuckle. If you want to impress upon all here your understanding of what the global market is doing and what that means. Try using your skill set to explain it instead of cutting and pasting 81% of someone else's researched information. Don't twist it with 19% of your delusions mixed seamlessly in, manipulating the content.

JONGSSTRAW if you need help understanding any of this, ask someone else.

SIGNYM

Sunday, January 18, 2015 8:57 PM

I'm going to repeat this, but probably the last time.

When I use "the reporting of others" I use the QUOTE function.
When I use "the reporting of others" I post a link as to where the original may be found.
When I use "the reporting of others" I post it unmodified.
If I find comments in, or add comments to, "the reporting of others" for whatever reason the comments [are placed in brackets, followed by a name -SIGNY] so that everyone can see what was added and who added it.
When I use a foreign language, or borrow a particularly trenchant phrase or quote from someone else, or a title, I often use italics rather than quotes, as I find it much easier to locate italicized phrases than quotation marks, n'est ce pas?.
I also use italics for emphasis, so context is important.
When quoting previous posts, I tend to use a "flat format" ... that is, only one level of the QUOTE function, but everyone's thoughts on the topic posted in linear fashion followed by their name (or some version of it) so that the context is clear.
I try to be exceptionally visually clear with formatting and attribution so that anyone with reasonable scanning and reading skills can tell where one person's ideas end and another's begin.

If I post an opinion or a thought and it's not in quote format, it is MY opinion or thought, not someone else's. If it is a commonly discussed topic (common in the larger world, not necessarily on this website) my posts will necessarily refer to the SAME FACTS as other sites, and will probably have phrases that are in common with DOZENS of other articles or opinions on the topic. I'm neither borrowing nor lending intellectual property, this is simply a product of many people discussing the same topic. So when I post ideas or thoughts as mine, they are MY opinions or thoughts, not anyone else's.

How you can even imagine that I would bother to go to dozens of articles and put together even one paragraph by cutting and pasting random words and phrases together, like some insane whistleblower who is pasting together a letter to the editor from magazine clippings, is beyond me. It would be a lot of work, and completely pointless.

I really have no idea what you find so disorienting about my posts. I use commonly-known facts, and commonly-used phrases and definitions, but I have my own ideas. I'm not trying to pass off anyone else's ideas or opinions as mine, or my opinions or ideas as anyone else's. You're a very confused person, I really think you should take time to try and understand the source of your own confusion.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

THGRRI

Sunday, January 18, 2015 10:01 PM

Guns and bombs help keep Russia out, do you have enough???

KPO

Saturday, January 31, 2015 4:51 AM

via Signy:

Many pro-separatist analysts are predicting a "false front" so horrific as to lead to the complete dissolution of Ukraine, with direct street-to-street fighting across much of the nation. In their opinion, the Kiev army is so thoroughly diminished, and the aid that Kiev so desperately needs won't be forthcoming, that the only answer for the USA (since it can't win) is to have Ukraine burn itself to the ground, since the USA doesn't want Russia to "take over" a functioning nation either.

I can't say that I believe this scenario, but it's been mentioned so often by so many on the other side that it seems to be a real fear, so I thought to pass it along.

Also, not sure if I've posted this here yet: "Ukraine: Closer and closer to major-powers war" - http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=58859

It's not personal. It's just war.

KPO

Tuesday, February 3, 2015 3:19 AM

Signy:

"Uglegorsk was taken two days ago, Debaltseve supposedly just fell today. That means about 8000 UKROP troops are now surrounded.

Kolomoysky, an dual Ukrainian-Israeli citizen, has a 5,000-man personal guard, and is busy selling defective body armor to UKROP at vastly inflated prices.

Various state assets and enterprises are being grabbed by whichever oligarch has the most power.

Hospitals and the army are NOT to report casualties to anyone except the military central command.

Potential conscripts are running away, over any border to anywhere.

The government has declared a state of high alert, controlling media and travel.

Various rightwing militias are gathering in Kiev. There are many rumors that Poroshenko will be overthrown.

Anyway, here a Russian post I found which seems very specific and fairly disturbing in its assessment of what is happening in Ukraine:

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Ukraine After Poroshenko--Analysis by Aleksandr Rodzhers..."

It's not personal. It's just war.

KPO

Wednesday, February 11, 2015 5:51 PM

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THGRRI - "Look how much of the world is in league with the West and what is left of your precious Russia comrade."

Sigy - "Get back to me about that in ten years."

It's not personal. It's just war.

SIGNYM

Saturday, February 14, 2015 3:16 AM

KPO, at one time your thread served a useful function, but you're quoting posts of mine that aren't even predictions. That's just biased and mean-spirited.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

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