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Export to Eastern Europe is by pipeline. To Rotterdam transport is by tanker and it is probably most of the export to Western Europe. Those tankers can easily be sent somewhere else. Tanker rates are low nowadays.

BREAKING NEWS would be if Russia's share of Chinese oil-import became many times higher than nine percents (which is the figure for 2013 according to
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-- or is this source wrong maybe?)
 

SteelBird

Colonel
shanghai stampede 35 dead 43 injured

New Year's revelers jammed along Shanghai's historic riverfront stampeded about a half hour before midnight Wednesday, killing at least 35 people and injuring 43 others, Chinese media reported.

City officials said they had not yet determined what triggered the stampede about 11:35 p.m. in Chen Yi Square on the Bund, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported early Thursday. Many of the dead and injured were students.

A brief report on Xinhua's English-language site said celebrations "went astray" and "a stampede resulted in casualties."

A witness said people had scrambled to grab coupons resembling U.S. dollar bills that were being thrown from a third-floor window near the Bund.

It is the worst disaster in Shanghai in recent years.

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no_name

Colonel
RIP.

Although not something under their control, I feel that the Shanghai party leadership just saw the end of their political climb.
 

no_name

Colonel
On the contrary, the people who threw down the fake notes will be bent over the barrel, regardless of their intention.

That too. Netizens have already identified 3 possible suspects, with photos of them holding the notes. (The notes are M18 bar vouchers rather than money). Two girls and a guy.
 

Phoenix_Rising

Junior Member
The rumor of notes propbably not true. Look at this:

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The stairs is where the massive stampete happened.

The building where the "notes" were thrown down is located across the street.
 

Piotr

Banned Idiot
US whistleblower Edward Snowden recently gave an interview to German television network ARD:
Media Blacks Out New Snowden Interview The Government Doesn’t Want You to See
Mike Fleming Jr
02 Jan '15
Politics
This past Sunday evening former NSA contractor Edward Snowden sat down for an interview with German television network ARD. The interview has been intentionally blocked from the US public, with virtually no major broadcast news outlets covering this story. In addition, the video has been taken down almost immediately every time it’s posted on YouTube.

This past Sunday evening former NSA contractor Edward Snowden sat down for an interview with German television network ARD. The interview has been intentionally blocked from the US public, with virtually no major broadcast news outlets covering this story. In addition, the video has been taken down almost immediately every time it’s posted on YouTube.

In contrast, this was treated as a major political event in both print and broadcast media, in Germany, and across much of the world. In the interview, Mr. Snowden lays out a succinct case as to how these domestic surveillance programs undermine and erode human rights and democratic freedom.

He states that his “breaking point” was “seeing Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to Congress” denying the existence of a domestic spying programs while under questioning in March of last year. Mr. Snowden goes on to state that, “The public had a right to know about these programs. The public had a right to know that which the government is doing in its name, and that which the government is doing against the public.”

It seems clear that the virtual blackout of this insightful interview is yet another deliberate attempt to obfuscate the truth from the view of the American public. The media has continually attempted to shill the official government lies about mass domestic surveillance programs, justifying them as necessary to fight the “War on Terror”, while attempting to painting Mr. Snowden as a traitor.

In regards to accusations that he is a traitor or a foreign agent, he states, “ If I am traitor, who did I betray? I gave all my information to the American public, to American journalists who are reporting on American issues. If they see that as treason, I think people really need to consider who they think they’re working for. The public is supposed to be their boss, not their enemy. Beyond that as far as my personal safety, Ill never be fully safe until these systems have changed.”

The attempt to bury this interview by the government/corporate symbiosis has extremely dark implications. Additionally, the fact that government officials have openly talked about assassinating Mr. Snowden cannot be taken lightly, and Mr. Snowden obviously takes these threats to his life very seriously. Sadly, the reality of the US government assassinating an American citizen is not beyond the realm of possibility in the age we live in.
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