Yesterday morning was interesting.
Numerous media outlets published stories saying that Russia was cutting off oil supplies to Belarus, and thus with it, supplies to markets in West Europe. These stories were all released around 5-7 AM EST, just in time to panic the US futures markets.
This caused a healthy spike in oil prices hitting almost 82 dollars a barrel. By 10:30 the press was recanting the story. No worries all is well! Belorussian oil refiners say there’s been no stop or slowing of supply, and it looks like an agreement is forthcoming for 2010.
So oil starts to fall back, Read Full Article [...]
By Aleksandr Aleksandrovich
While politicians in America work overtime to try to deflect attention from their embrace of socialism one might thing that parties are divided on all issues. This would be inaccurate however for one issue has managed to unite all sides from the idealists who supported Ron Paul, to the Neo-Cons who backed McCains attacks on Russia, to Democrats, once again bemoaning murdered journalist as though Vladimir Putin stalks them himself every evening. Not buying it? Consider what has come this week.
FoxNews, a leading NeoConservative outlet this week suggested that Russia was defending Nazism, as well as Stalinism Read Full Article [...]
Recently Russia decided that Casinos do not have the right to operate anywhere they please, and that as such many would have to close their doors. Also the Russian Orthodox Church has come out in support of this decision, which is not surprising given that gambling is considered sinful, and these casinos have seduced many Russians into throwing away their lives on the un-Christian culture casinos promote. Some in the west however have suggested that this is ‘puritan’ in nature, and not the realm of government to decide. Let’s look at the facts.
Firstly the westerners saying that government shouldn’t Read Full Article [...]
