All posts with 'Politics & Economics' tag
Who’s To Blame For The Crisis
This is a sticker on the door of the home appliances and electronics store in the Siberian town of Yekaterinburg. It’s written, in not-so-grammatically-correct English, “For Americans only! If you want to buy in this shop, you must pay 50% extra. This money will be used for Christmas discounts for other people.” I think, there […]
Read More..>>Ramzan Kadyrov Cars
Ramzan Kadyrov - the president of the Chechen Republic (or Chechnya), a Russian autonomy burned down during ten years of war - is a big fan of sports cars. His car park is really fascinating. Especially, when you will calculate it’s value. While the Chechnya (of which Ramzan Kadyrov is intended to take care) is […]
Read More..>>North Korea Night Map
How to spot North Korea on the night map of the Asia region? Very easy. It looks just like the rest of the Pacific Ocean! However, it’s equally easy to mix up North Korean city with the South Korean oil tanker.
Read More..>>How To Make Billions In A Few Minutes
The king’s ransom in this boy’s hands is just a 60 United States cents (literally, US$0.60). Not so long ago Zimbabwe - pretty large and populated country in the southern part of Africa - issued a brand new banknote with 500,000,000 value trying to fight 8,000,000% annual inflation. I wrote about is before in the […]
Read More..>>Gasoline Prices Around The Globe
Gasoline prices in the major capital cities. Per gallon, in US dollars.
As you can see on the chart above, gasoline prices in the world are quite different. Londoners have the most expensive gas on the planet, what is quite explainable for the island with a high standards of living. Fortunately, their distances are shorter than […]
Faces of Africa
You has a hundred people but the food enough only for ten of them. What should you do?
Ask for food for 90 people.
Ask for a gun and 90 cartridges.
Zimbabwe Inflation
10 million Zimbabwean dollars and the grocery market prices in Harare. Photos by Bishop Asare / EFE and Reuters respectively.
Being under the Mugabe’s regime for over a twenty years Zimbabwe (a not so small and pretty populated African country situated to the north of South Africa) experienced the most crazy inflation in XXI century word. […]
No more magic mushrooms in Amsterdam
Boing Boing linking to BBC’s story about magic mushrooms ban in the Netherlands. Sad news.
The Netherlands used to be the only country in the world where government haven’t abused people with the stupid precepts on what they should do and what they shouldn’t with their own lives and with their own bodies. The Netherlands […]
Divided States of America
European analyst Vsevolod Istomin has predicted the break-up of the United States into 19 independent states. As designated on the map:
Read More..>>Gun self-defense posters
Oleg Volk has a large collection of pro-self-defense posters in his Livejournal blog. Here I have picked up three of them that I liked a lot:
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