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  1. When people who are just a little bit rich travel, they fly first class. When you're really rich, you rent a private jet. When you're insanely rich, you fly on your very own private jet with your name painted on the wings. When you are a multi-billionaire Saudi Prince, you fly on a mind blowingly lavish $500 million customized Airbus A380. Recently it was revealed that Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, who has a net worth of $18 billion, purchased a $300 million Airbus A380 and is spending an additional $200 million remodeling the plane into a flying palace that makes Airforce One look like a hunk of junk…. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal is one of the wealthiest people in the Arab world. Thanks to thousands of extremely shrewd investments, the Prince was able to turn a modest fortune into more than $18 billion. Through his investment firm Kingdom Holding, Prince Alwaleed has bought up large stakes in companies like News Corp, Apple, Citigroup, Twitter and more. He owns luxury hotels like The Savoy in London, the Fairmont in San Francisco, the Plaza in New York and the Four Seasons. He owns several yachts, more than 200 cars and three incredible palaces that cover a combined 5 million square feet. When Prince Alwaleed takes delivery of his $500 million Airbus, it will be one of four massive private jets. It will also be the largest and most expensive private plane in the world. The base Airbus A380 costs $300 million and normally fits around 800 passengers. Prince Alwaleed's Airbus A380 is being completely stripped and remodeled with the following mind blowing luxuries: - One parking space for his Rolls Royce - Concert hall with grand piano, seating for 10 and stage for private entertainment - Marble tiled steam room with spa treatments - A "wellbeing" room complete with flat screen TVs on the walls and floors that shows passengers what they are flying over - Five master bedroom with king sized beds, private bathrooms and showers - 20 smaller private rooms - Private elevator that connects the master bedroom to the tarmac for quick entrances and exits - Boardroom with holographic monitors - A prayer room with computer monitored prayer mats that automatically adjust to face Mecca http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/...a380-blow-mind/
  2. I'm more surprised that he has 20 friends that know how to drive a stick.
  3. Thanks! I'm going to place ads on facebook/google/yahoo, I'll see what happens.
  4. Nothing yet, it only a hobby right now, just hired a Indian company last week to develop a financial management app for ios and andriod.
  5. If it's for fun/hobby then yes learn how to develop the apps/webpages. But if your looking to create a business then just hire a freelancer in India to get things moving.
  6. TRANSAMERA, do want to learn how to build a app/webpage for a business idea or are you just doing this for fun as a hobby?
  7. The West should forget about punishing Russia and do more to help Ukraine The United States and the European Union both announced aid packages for Ukraine last week. But with the new government in Kiev struggling to clean house after the corrupt rule of Viktor Yanukovych and face down a belligerent Russia, the aid packages are too small and will disburse too slowly to provide the immediate help it needs. Ukraine’s current crisis is typically miscast as a political conflict between East and West—between pro-Russian Yanukovych and Europhile opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko; between the country’s Russian-speaking eastern regions and its Ukrainian-speaking western half; and between Russia and its old Cold War adversaries. These political clashes are, however, byproducts of a much more profound, long-simmering Ukrainian economic crisis that has been decades in the making. Since its independence in 1991, Ukraine hasn’t been economically viable. Though it is one of the world’s top cereal producers, its manufacturing infrastructure is tired and its steel industry is obsolete. It adds to these woes by rigging its currency at artificially high levels, making consumer imports cheap, but exports uncompetitive. The economy is also dangerously dependent on natural gas imports from Russia that power about 40% of Ukraine’s electricity production. The supply contracts for Russia’s natural gas provide a cover for massive corruption by Russian and Ukrainian interests, as Quartz’s Steve LeVine notes. The problem is compounded by huge Ukrainian government subsidies: Kiev pays about 80% of the cost of Russian gas imports. In theory, it passes the remaining 20% on to consumers and businesses, but the government’s collection efforts are spotty. As a result, the Ukrainian state has racked up debt equivalent to about 40% of GDP. That’s not massive compared with other troubled countries—Greece’s debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 150%—but it’s more than Ukraine and most emerging markets can sustain. Ukraine is living on borrowed time Through the 1990s and early 2000s, foreign appetite for Ukrainian grain and steel kept the country afloat. But with the 2008 financial crisis, demand for Ukrainian exports crashed. Rather than adjusting their spending, successive Ukrainian governments flirted alternately with Russia and the West to paper over the country’s financial cracks. With IMF support, the government set reform programs in motion in 2008 and 2010 to put the country on a sounder financial footing. But both IMF loans were suspended when Ukraine reneged on promised reforms. Accession talks with the European Union stalled. Kiev turned to Moscow for help, and replaced Western financing with $15 billion in support from Russia combined with $7 billion of natural gas discounts. All of that got pulled when Yanukovych fled office a few weeks ago. Ukraine is now living on borrowed time. Around $20 billion in debt comes due over the next two years. That’s $20 billion the Ukrainian government can’t finance. Its other financing needs are murky: No-one trusts the Kiev authorities’ numbers. An IMF mission arrived in Kiev last week to set the facts straight, but it won’t report back to Washington for another week. In any case, a crisis two decades in the making can’t be undone in the 18 to 36 months of a typical IMF-supported reform program. As for the American and European aid, it will also likely carry conditions the fledgling Ukrainian government can’t fulfill in the coming months. The government has already started slashing pensions and social spending to meet the West’s demands. Rather than shoring up the interim administration, this is a recipe for disaster ahead of May elections. Kiev needs more money, and sooner Ukraine needs more time to reform its economy and put it on a sustainable path. The West should make its offer of aid more realistic. First, the US and EU need to front-load their aid packages and make them richer. The American offer of $1 billion in loan guarantees would make only a dent in Ukraine’s financing needs. Europe’s $11 billion aid package would release only about $1.6 billion this year, and then only on agreement to widespread reforms and a deal with the IMF. To dispel any fear of a debt default and defer crippling spending cuts, the US and Europe should offer Ukraine $20 billion over the next two years, of which $7 billion to $10 billion should be upfront in liquid non-project financing. Second, the West needs to ensure that IMF money carries fewer strings and disburses faster than past loans. The Ukrainian government has requested $15 billion from the IMF, but this is likely to come in two parts: perhaps $1 billion under an emergency facility, with the rest over the next three years once Kiev has agreed to tough conditions. Third, the West needs to open unilaterally and immediately its markets to Ukrainian goods by dropping tariff barriers. Punishing Russia won’t achieve anything Diplomatic isolation, asset freezes, and travel bans may be appropriate, but are unlikely to have much impact on Russia. Economic and financial sanctions that would actually bite aren’t credible. Russia does $100 billion in annual trade with Europe. One-third of European natural gas comes from Russia. The $3 billion in transit fees on that gas constitute Ukraine’s largest service export. And London’s banks house billions in oligarchs’ assets. Europe needs Russia and Vladimir Putin knows it. Likewise, musings about the US using its abundant shale gas or releases from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to drive down global energy prices and hurt Russia’s exports are fantasies. It will be years before the US has the infrastructure needed to export its gas surplus. And SPR releases turn the screws on Russia only if OPEC, or at least the Saudis, check their production too. Finally, helping Ukraine is diplomatically easier than sanctioning Russia. In contrast with the UN Security Council, where Russian and Chinese vetoes hamper action, the US and Europe have enough voting power on the IMF Executive Board to approve a large loan with few strings to Ukraine. They should use that power. Solve Ukraine’s economic problems, and you stop Kiev’s oscillating tease between East and West. Help Ukraine’s emerging leaders make the country economically sustainable, and you make Ukraine a bridge between East and West rather than a flash point of tension. Henry Kissinger asks how the Ukraine crisis ends. The answer: When we start sending real money to Kiev. http://qz.com/185767/the-west-should-forge...o-help-ukraine/
  8. American anchor Abby Martin working for Russia Today Piers Morgan Interviews Abby Martin on CNN
  9. ameer, it's not as simple as it sounds. The world is becoming a smaller place, every year the world economy is being linked into the Russian economy while it's GDP is growing. In 2002 Russian GDP was $345 billion USD and it grew to $2 billion within 10 years, that's a growth of almost 6 times within 10 years and for the past ten years the news media has been telling the world that Russian economy is going to collapse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_count...n_2000_and_2009 Every year the economy grows in Russia the less it depends on natural resources for growth, oil is not important for Russia as important it is for UAE, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and so on, oil is important for Russia but not as much as important as those middle eastern countries since they do have smaller populations. Every year the Russian economy becomes diversified. By the time shale oil becomes a big player in the world market, the Russian economy will even be more linked into the European economy and Russia will have it's own large internal economy also. European retailers are doing billions in business in Russia, Americans have auto manufacturers and many other businesses there, Russians buying real estate in New York, Miami, London and so on. It won't be easy to walk away from Russia. 41.1 million tourists traveled from Russia in 2013. Of these, 31.6 million (77.0%) traveled within Europe, while only 9.4 million traveled to destinations outside Europe. http://skift.com/2013/11/28/forget-the-chi...nvading-europe/
  10. Ukrainian Feminist Group Goes Topless in NYC https://news.vice.com/articles/ukrainian-fe...age-in-the-news
  11. Obama vacation plan in doubt because of Ukraine http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-03-06/...ause-of-ukraine
  12. Yes I hope so too. Do some research about the Georgian and Russian conflict of 2008. UN court rejects Georgia case against Russia over war In September 2009 an EU-sponsored report said both sides had violated international law. It found that Georgia had attacked the Russian-backed South Ossetian rebels, triggering the war, after months of provocation. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-12935149 Georgia's shameful attack on South Ossetia http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew...y#axzz2v7qc9IhB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgia...ing_of_7_August
  13. Looks like that wet dream won't happen after all. Ukraine has accepted to start direct talks with Moscow and to receive soon an international observers’ mission in the Eastern areas of the country and in Crimea. The decision was taken today in Paris, during a meeting between the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, William Hague, and the Acting Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Andriy Deshchytsia. Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Wednesday he wanted to press for a peaceful solution to the conflict with Russia as Russian Foreign Minister, Lavrov, said “Russia doesn’t want a bloodshed in Ukraine”. http://www.euronews.com/2014/03/05/live-up...iles-in-crimea/ Russia, West agree Ukraine should stick to EU-brokered peace deal Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow and Western powers agreed that the Ukrainian government and opposition need to stick to the EU-brokered peace deal after meeting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday. Speaking to media after talks with Kerry in Paris, Lavrov said the two sides agreed to join efforts to help Ukraine to reach the agreement signed in Kiev on Feb. 21. Since the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovich, Russia has accused Ukraine's new leaders of violating the deal. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/03/05/u...N0M24HF20140305
  14. Ukraine’s statement at the UN that ‘16,000 Russian soldiers had been deployed’ across Crimea sparked a MSM feeding frenzy Especially unwelcome is the fact that the so-called ‘invasion force’ has been there for 15 years already. http://rt.com/news/russian-troops-crimea-ukraine-816/ Ukraine made a false statement without confirming any facts and the media ate it up without adding details. restoring Russia's glory? lol, this has nothing to do with that.
  15. Worldwide media is believing everything the Ukrainian opposition leaders are saying, they are trying to create a war between Russia and the west, I think the west is catching on to this now. I'm sure Ukrainian opposition leaders want Russian military base removed from Crimea which is understandable. Just like Japanese want the American military base removed from Japan.
  16. ameer, first we need to find out who these troops are, they came from within Crimea. Are they from Russian military base? or Are they Russian speaking Ukrainian citizens that are being financially supported by Russia as a protective force for Crimea. “No, absolutely not,” he responded when asked by Kremlin pool reporters if there were any Russian troops in Crimea outside their own bases. Even though videos show troops in Crimea admitting they are Russian, despite wearing uniforms without any insignia, Shoigu echoed statements made Tuesday by Putin, who insisted the troops were exceptionally well-trained Crimean self-defense units. “Of course, these are provocations,” Shoigu said, regarding the videos. When asked how Crimean self-defense troops could have come into possession of Russian Tiger and Lynx armored vehicles, he said he had no idea, the Interfax news agency reported. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe...60b9_story.html
  17. American media is blowing this up because the republicans don't want to make any pentagon budget cuts, this story will help a lot with this case to either keep military budget the same or maybe even increase the budget.
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