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Monthly Archives: December 2008
vodka.IMPORTANT, and other things that define Sublime Oblivion
Siberian Light found a nifty site called Wordle, which lets you generate “word clouds” from your site. Here’s the word cloud for Sublime Oblivion.
I particular like the vodka.IMPORTANT juxtaposition. Truer words were never spoken – let’s drink to that!
Communism is our Road to Redemption
Green Communism is humanity's last and only chance to avert environmental catastrophe.
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion Tagged climate change, communism, culture, economy, education, energy, finance, history, politics, science, singularity, vision 6 Comments
X-Mas Special – Zen and the Art of Vodka Drinking
The method, art and philosophy of drinking lots and lots of vodka.
Russia Economic Crisis III: On the Importance of Self-Sufficiency in Liquids
IMPORTANT: I have since corrected, slightly revised and released An Analysis of Russia’s Economic Crisis: On the Importance of Self-Sufficiency in Liquids in pdf format.
In this essay, I analyze three major areas of concern about the current Russian economy – the debt burden, balance of payments and future fiscal sustainability. Although on paper Russia is [...]
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion Tagged baltics, china, demography, finance, international relations, politics, russophobes, ukraine, usa, western media 15 Comments
Russia Economy Crisis II: Anatomy of the Crisis
As promised in the last post, here is a follow-up about Part II of the 17th World Bank Russia report, the reading of which cannot be stressed as too important in the current climate. Like in the last post, I summarize the main reports, using a lot of unattributed straight-out quoting of salient phrases and [...]
Russia Economy Crisis I: How Red will Russia Get?
Recently the World Bank’s November issue of the biannual Russian Economic Report came out. At the time I was busy with other things, amongst others planning the move from Blogger to self-hosted WordPress; as such, I did not give it the comprehensive treatment that it deserved at the time. Of course, reading about these things [...]
Victimized Venezuela II: Beware of Schadenfreude
Much like Putin’s Russia, Venezuela has been unfairly victimized by Washington’s foreign policy elite and savaged by the Western MSM, which have caricatured Chávez as a run of the mill Latin American populist strongman. In a previous post on this matter, I drew attention to the work of Mark Weisbrot at the CEPR, who has [...]
Posted in Coffee House Tagged economy, finance, international relations, latin america, usa, western media 2 Comments
New Year Update: Russophile Predictions