All posts with 'Politics & Economics' tag

Gold-plated SMG

Who wants to do a drive-by with style? Russian bros could help. They love their guns in gold and leather, just look at Ramzan Kadyrov - he knows how to handle it.

But if the semi-auto is not enough for you, they have something more powerful up their sleeves…

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Peters’ Map of America

Our reader Republicoftexas (a proud Texan patriot, as far as I can guess) has pointed our attention to the interesting map of (alternative) future Not So United States of America in a comment section of Paradoxoff Planet old post Divided States of America.

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Forbidden Palace or Google Censorship

The newly built four-stories high palace in the suburbs of Moscow was wiped out from the face of the Earth… Well, not the actual Earth but Google Earth. Apparently, the forbidden palace owner and Russian natural gas and oil monopoly Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller has enough power and money to convince Google to censor one […]

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Somalian Blogging

Who are they? What do they do there? What grabbed their attention and made them get their cameras out?

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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