Obama: 'Russia Doesn't Make Anything'

[HMS Astute]

List of countries by exports

1 China $ 2,210,000,000,000 2013
2 United States $ 1,575,000,000,000 2013 est.
3 Germany $ 1,493,000,000,000 2013 est.
4 United Kingdom $ 813,200,000,000 2013 est.
5 Japan $ 697,000,000,000 2013 est.
6 France $ 578,600,000,000 2013 est.
7 South Korea $ 557,300,000,000 2013 est.
8 Netherlands $ 551,000,000,000 2013 est.
9 Russia $ 515,000,000,000 2013 est.
10 Italy $ 474,000,000,000 2013 est.
11 Canada $ 458,700,000,000 2013 est.
12 Spain $ 458,000,000,000 2013 est.
13 Singapore $ 410,300,000,000 2013 est.
14 Saudi Arabia $ 376,300,000,000 2013 est.
15 Mexico $ 370,900,000,000 2013 est.
16 United Arab Emirates $ 368,900,000,000 2013 est.
17 India $ 313,200,000,000 2013 est.
18 Belgium $ 295,300,000,000 2013 est.
19 Australia $ 251,700,000,000 2013 est.
20 Brazil $ 244,800,000,000 2013 est.

List of countries by exports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

i never thought the uk would even be ranked in top 15 when it comes to exports. literally thought we didn't produce nor export anything anymore. surprised this so called tiny, insignificant and broken island is still ahead of japan, france, russia, brazil and india.

 

[thethinker]

List of countries by exports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

i never thought the uk would even be ranked in top 15 when it comes to exports. literally thought we didn't produce nor export anything anymore. surprised this so called tiny, insignificant and broken island is still ahead of japan, france, russia, brazil and india.

You people of course export the bulk of banking sector. This is what happens when you invade other nations for a while and control their money supply. Become a master in all things unscrupulous and shady when it comes to manipulating all thing monetary. Reminds of those Mafia folks who have the "money".

Wasn't it William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England in 1694 who stated this :

"The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing."

Speaking of exports, when does India get the interest on the loot you have over there courtesy East India company? At least give us interest first before returning the principal.

 

[HMS Astute]

Fantastic!

http://funny-pics-fun.com/wp-content/uploads/Funny-India-Too-Crowded-4.jpg

 

[thethinker]

Fantastic!

http://funny-pics-fun.com/wp-content/uploads/Funny-India-Too-Crowded-4.jpg

Too bad, it is Pakistan.
Must be a British thing to confuse India with Pak.

Danger Crossing | Kashif Ali says…

 

[thethinker]

Double post.

 

[thethinker]

Englandistan - here we come!

Report finds Islamic plot to control UK schools

 

[HMS Astute]

Too bad, it is Pakistan.
Must be a British thing to confuse India with Pak.

Danger Crossing | Kashif Ali says"¦

LOL all you guys look alike to my eyes! and google says it's in india!

 

[thethinker]

LOL all you guys look alike to my eyes! and google says it's in india!

Funny Bus : Funny PicturesIndia-Too-Crowded-4.jpg

Reverse image search (if you can comprehend what it means and how to do it). Hint : It's not the same as searching in Google. :thumb:

It is very common in India for everyone to wear Islamic attire and have mosques everywhere, no? Don't worry mate, you will find soon enough that UK and the other "guys" will all look the same.

 

[HMS Astute]

Reverse image search (if you can comprehend what it means and how to do it). Hint : It's not the same as searching in Google. :thumb:

It is very common in India for everyone to wear Islamic attire and have mosques everywhere, no? Don't worry mate, you will find soon enough that UK and the other "guys" will all look the same.

no doubt.

http://www.london-attractions.info/images/attractions/eid-in-the-square.jpg

 

[thethinker]

no doubt.

http://www.london-attractions.info/images/attractions/eid-in-the-square.jpg

No doubt indeed!

 

[HMS Astute]

love is in the air!

 

[thethinker]

love is in the air!

Thanks for validating what UK now is.

 

[Ray]

love is in the air!

Elections are close.

Every Englishman's home is his castle. And so they cannot abandon England for some other climes. God for Harry and all that.

And which is the better representation of the English pip pip and what ho, old chap, culture?

Conservatives, Labour or Libdem?

But UKIP will do better. Mark my word!

Yet, I can't blame Cameron for his long lost love for the Pakistanis and other Muslim classes. Britain is not the same good old Blighty. Fish and chips is passé. It's Britain's old Chicken Tikka Masala, which to the Subcontinental palate is glop.

 

[thethinker]

Back to the showdown between a community organizer v/s a former KGB agent

3 Things Barack Obama Got Wrong About Russia

President Barack Obama recently gave an interview to The Economist in which he was pretty clearly doing his best to give Vladimir Putin an aneurysm:

Obama downplayed Moscow's role in the world, dismissing President Vladimir Putin as a leader causing short-term trouble for political gain that will hurt Russia in the long term.

"I do think it's important to keep perspective. Russia doesn't make anything," Obama said in the interview.

"Immigrants aren't rushing to Moscow in search of opportunity. The life expectancy of the Russian male is around 60 years old. The population is shrinking," he said.

Obama has managed to compress a pretty startling amount of factual inaccuracy into just 3 short sentences. Let's take his claims in order.

1) "Immigrants aren't rushing to Moscow in search of opportunity"

One of the first things that anyone notices when they are in Moscow is the enormous number of immigrants from Central Asia. Probably the single most noteworthy and inescapable feature of modern Russian life is the prevalence of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people who have already rushed to Moscow "in search of opportunity." It's impossible to miss them.

If for some reason you distrust the official statistics that demonstrate the huge numbers of immigrants moving to Russia, maybe you'd be willing to listen to liberal darling Alexey Navalny. Navalny, you see, is actively agitating on behalf of aggressive anti-immigration policies, recently writing yet another blog post bemoaning the massive numbers of Muslim "guest workers." Navalny's (popular) campaign only makes sense if there are large numbers of immigrants. Indeed a media outlet fully funded by Barack Obama's very own government recently produced an interesting video showing how Eid Al-Fitr was celebrated in Moscow by the throngs of immigrants that are (you guessed it) there "in search of opportunity."

Russia is widely acknowledged to be the world's second most popular destination for immigrants after the United States, and several of the most consequential political disagreements in Russian society revolve around the question of how to deal with immigration. Anyone who thinks that Russia isn't dealing with a significant debate over immigration simply doesn't know anything about the country.

2) "The life expectancy of the Russian male is around 60 years old"

The life expectancy of the Russian male isn't a subject of conjuncture or obscure philosophical inquiry, it is a number that is very easily found on the public-facing website of the Russian state statistics service. In 2013, the average male life expectancy in Russia was a little bit above 65 (technically it was 65.14). When Obama says that life expectancy is "around 60"³ he's off by about 8%. With a similar margin of error we could say that Barack Obama is the 41st president of the United States, that he won 47% of the vote in the 2012 presidential election, and that he was born in 1957. 8% is a margin of error that people rarely feel confident using, because it very quickly makes you sound rather ill-informed and ignorant.

It is still possible, of course, to argue that Russian male life expectancy is low. In comparison to other countries in the region it is rather low. But there's a difference between 65 and 60. One is factually accurate and one isn't. For some reason Obama chose to go with the inaccurate one, and it's worth pointing out as much.

3) "The population is shrinking"

Obama's statement is a perfect example of why I so frequently write about a topic as seemingly obscure and boring as Russian demography: people from the US political elite almost always make huge mistakes when talking about it. Russia's population is not shrinking, it is growing. The Russian population isn't just growing in 2014, it also grew in 2013. And 2012. And 2011. And 2010. And 2009. Unless you get into a Bill Clinton-like debate over the meaning of the word "is," it's impossible to argue that Russia's population is shrinking. It was shrinking in the past and it is likely to shrink in the future, but it is not shrinking at the present moment. Not a very complicated concept.

I'm fully aware, of course, that Russian demography is not the most important issue in the world. Countries will not rise and fall because Barack Obama used out of date information on Russian life expectancy. But it really does not say anything good about Obama's team that they allowed not one, not two, but three blatant factual inaccuracies to sneak into a sit-down interview with the press. Before doing an interview like this, someone as powerful as Obama will have a small army of researchers and assistants running around to help him prepare. Apparently none of them could be bothered to do a few basic Google GOOGL -1.49% searches.

In today's world, it is not that difficult to get accurate demographic information, and it's a little bit disconcerting that no one on Obama's team was able to do so.

 

[HMS Astute]

Fancy phallus?

 

[jackprince]

LOL all you guys look alike to my eyes! and google says it's in india!

There you go! See, that is the level of your intellect! Your argument is 'Google says'? If you represent even the most average of the educated Brits, I would say marvelous! No wonder that you give birth to the leaders like Cameron or Obama.

 

[jackprince]

Fancy phallus?

Sore loser alert, any one?!!!!

BTW, AFAIK gay marriage is legal in UK when it is not so in Russia. May be it is your suppressed urges that make you vulnerable to such extent that you are trying to deny too much, perhaps. I would say that you should not hide, but be open about it. After all a quarter of your people who are not from Mid-East or Asia, would soon be out of their closet and join you.

Well, there are plenty of Psychos - err Psychiatrists here who can help you.

You can try @atheisthindu. he can perhaps give you some 1st hand suggestion.

 

[HMS Astute]

Sore loser alert, any one?!!!!

BTW, AFAIK gay marriage is legal in UK when it is not so in Russia.

this one sentence summarizes the whole image of russia. of course, you can be gay, lesbian, black, white, brown, disable, or bisexual. unlike russia, we have freedom!!! don't know who the loser is and what that means, but the uk is the fastest growing major advanced economy in the whole world, whereas russia is growing at 0%.

 

[pmaitra]

@HMS Astute, thank you for sharing this excellent piece of revelation.

I think they should send you to the International Space Station, and then retire the Soyuz.

 

[angeldude13]

Fancy phallus?

Ontopic-
Why are you so pissed at putin goraa????