Three men, two of whom were police raped a woman who was on her way home from a disco. As is common in Ukraine, the sociopaths are relatives of important politicians. The police made no arrests. An angry mob went and ransacked the police station and continue to protest there.
Story: http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2013/07/1/6993327/
Pictures/Video: http://vikna.if.ua/news/category/ua/2013/07/02/13633/view
http://real-economy.com.ua/news/40135.html
Translation:
“Law firm Yuskutum plans to make virtual currency Bitcoin as payment of legal services.
This was reported in the company, reports the “League”.
“Emission and turn Bitcoin is fully decentralized and does not depend on any regulatory authority, the course currency known to all participants in advance” – said Artem Afyan, managing partner of the Bar Association Yuskutum.
“Ukraine is not allowed as a revenue gain any benefit. A person can get a car grain services. That is Bitcoin, which is objectively valuable. Requirements of the global market can not be ignored, as well as the fact that Bitcoin used worldwide as a means of payment “- the Afyan.”
Dear Ukrainians, please stop agitating for Democracy. You’re making a big mistake. Agitate for property rights!
“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.” ~ Thomas Sowell (1992)
I posted about the physical attack against the business last week. Now this:
http://real-economy.com.ua/publication/22/38988.html
Secession is the best thing that can happen to any country.
http://shadowsofaforgottenworld.blogspot.com/
Areta’s account of diaspora Ukrainian words versus their modern Ukrainian counter parts is much more comprehensive then mine.
“Ukraine plans to almost triple the excise tax on beer in a bid to boost annual budget revenue by as much as 1.7 billion hryvnia ($209 million).
The tax will rise to 2.43 hryvnia per liter from 0.87 hryvnia, according to a draft law published on the Revenue and Fees Ministry’s website today.
The government is in talks with producers about increasing the tax and plans to submit the proposal to parliament this autumn, Revenue and Fees Minister Oleksandr Klymenko said June 7.
“As of today, in Ukraine, beer is not an alcoholic drink and that’s why its production and distribution are not subject to licensing,” the ministry said.
“Lack of control of beer production and sales, which is accompanied by low taxes, led to low beer prices, while the price of water, milk or juice is much higher.”
Ukraine, which is in talks with the International Monetary Fund over a third bailout in four years, had a budget deficit of 5.1 percent of gross domestic product in the year through April, Dragon Capital (VIETENI) said June 3.”
http://news.kievukraine.info/2013/06/ukraine-plans-to-triple-tax-on-beer-to.html
This tax is being advertised as necessary to help children dying of cancer — a transparent gimmick instantly ridiculed on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/561519530555123/?fref=ts
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2013/06/18/6992435/
It happened in the village of Chausove in the Mykolaiv Oblast. The owner of the raided agriculture business is an opposition politician.
It’s crazy that there seems to have been a definite “order of battle.”
It says guards and farm workers repelled the first attack. Then the attackers brought out pistols and shot guns and split into two groups — one continued pressing the front gate, and the other went around the side.
The owner wrote that he called the police, but they ignored the incident.
He wrote on his Facebook page that there were 80 attacked with pistols and shotguns. He accuses Mykolaiv region governor Mykola Kruglov and general attorney of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka of orchestrating the raid.
It says the arrived in buses.
No on was killed, but many were wounded, five seriously.
I hate injustice. It’s hard for me not to imagine the defenses I supervised in Afghanistan, and how easily we would have slaughtered these attackers.
Just one machine gun, hell, one rifle could have stopped this attack. The hooligans are usually poor guys who work out a lot. They’re not invested in their crime. So simple. One marksman on the roof of the factory, and everything would be fine.
Of course, I had different rules in Afghanistan. I’m only thinking tactically. That’s a very narrow view. Here, such a defense would likely prompt a repose from the Ukrainian military on behalf of the corporate raider.
Where the hell is that “Zbroya” organization? They should be promoting gun ownership as a solution to this problem instead of masturbating to pictures of uniformed soldiers.
I had the opportunity recently to sit in on a sales presentation of a company that sells boxes in Ukraine. I loved every minute of the three hour meeting — absolutely fascinating. I learned not just about boxes, but about the business who use boxes. What a fantastic perspective on the Ukrainian economy. The next day, I noticed these beauties in the supermarket:
Jazz Festival in L’viv.
There’s one short street in L’viv with no addresses on it. All the buildings have their addresses on adjacent streets. Every year during the city’s film festival the street gets one more name. All the names so far are of movie directors.
The childhood home of Ludwig Von Mises is, as far as I know, the only building in L’viv with rails in the entrance way. I was told by a tour guide that there had been a small factory in the building. Perhaps they used the tracks, which are only about 20 meters long, to move a cart for coal from the street where it was loaded to the factory inside.
So, apparently, this is what a diploma looks like in Ukraine. It’s a hard identification card with holograms on it. It’s also too big for one’s wallet. So strange. Would it be more efficient for university to simply verify records of graduates for curious potential employers. It’s hard for me to understand this thing.
L’viv at night:
Two sirens near the city center:
Bandurists in Lviv from Roman in Ukraine on Vimeo.
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The state hates it when people are able to defend themselves.
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Ukraine’s Zbroya club should promote stories like these instead of worshiping images of various uniformed militaries.
Gorgeous!
The last two sentences of this article are the most interesting. They are in Russian:
В октябре 2012 года парламент принял закон, ужесточающий контроль за функционированием систем «электронных денег». Эмитировать их отныне могут только банки.
Translation:
In October 2012, parliament passed a law that would tighten control over the functioning of the system of “electronic money”. Their issue can now only banks.
Dear NSA,
I love technology, but (as you probably know) it is also confusing at times. It creates opportunities for silly errors. Do you know what I mean?
Anyway, I recently deleted a whole bunch of my telephone’s contacts. I think it happened totally by accident while the phone was in my pocket, like pocket dialing. Has that ever happened to you? I probably left the phone on the “synchronize accounts” screen because I’d been messing with that. What’s worse is that my contacts weren’t automatically backing up as I thought they were.
So, I know you’re probably really busy, with . . . well . . . doing whatever it is you do . . . but it’d really, really, really save me a lot of heart ache if you simply sent my old contacts to me.
Thanks, guys!
This is a story about division of labor.
My friend sold one apartment and bought a smaller one in Kyiv. During a recent visit, she complained to me about the contractors. They would argue with her about details like the color of the walls, insisting they were right. They’d be late, or drunk. One guy smoked pot and talked to her all day long, then apologized for not working. (He brought his own pot.)
So what’s the deal?
Ukrainians are famous all over the world for their building skills. A cousin of mine travels as far as Portugal and Moscow to work. I know of a small businessman of Ukrainian descent in the US whose making a killing and building a great reputation for quality. It seems like every other Ukrainian I meet is building or renovating his own home.
Why the hell haven’t Ukrainians figured out how to sell their labor to each other?
Here are some possibilities:
1. This is a low trust society.
2. There is a severe lack of entrepreneurial talent. It all fled, or was killed or deported. A massive bureaucratic burden prevents its re-emergence.
3. Ukrainians are suspicious. This is a golden opportunity for people who know how to build brands. The success of brands in Ukraine is obvious.
4. Ukrainians can’t afford each other’s labor. (This seems unlikely, as there is great desperation to work.)
What I hope more Ukrainians realize is that a division of labor is necessary for wealth creation. If you’re growing your own food and building your own house because it’s gratifying, fine, but you’re not going to be as rich as someone who does one thing very, very well and sells it.
