Moscow Window Jibber Jabber

February 5th, 2010 by stacyherbert

Stacy Summary: Good morning, here’s a view out our window this sunny but cold morning. What’s happening in your neck of the woods?

View out window

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  • brain
    Feb 5, 2010 at 11:42 am

    Looks warmer in Moscow than outside of Atlanta! Of course, seeing how Atlanta and other US metropolitan areas are regressing into pre-1990 Soviet cities, it makes perfect meteorological sense!

  • gb
    Feb 5, 2010 at 11:53 am

    @Stacy, Theresa
    great photo of hank lecter
    & may i add – hic

  • Marc Authier
    Feb 5, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    @Bonn
    Bingo ! Exactly. A Gotham city building. I think It’s the Moscow State University building If I remember. Where is Barman ? Staline loved this type of massive bureaucratic architecture. There in one about the same style in Bucarest called The People’s Palace. Freakin Communists. As tasteless as New-York skycrapers or Dubai Disneyland. Materialist archetecture breeds this type of massives horrors devoid of any grace or inspiration. When you go in the building you can feell the phamtom of Stalin behind your neck. Spooky building like the KGB building “The Lubianka”

  • Marc Authier
    Feb 5, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    @Bonn
    Bingo ! Exactly. A Gotham city building. I think It’s the Moscow State University building If I remember. Where is Barman ? Staline loved this type of massive bureaucratic architecture. There in one about the same style in Bucarest called The People’s Palace. Freakin Communists. As tasteless as New-York skycrapers or Dubai Disneyland. Materialist archetecture breeds this type of massives horrors devoid of any grace or inspiration. When you go in the building you can feell the phamtom of Stalin behind your neck. Spooky building like the KGB building “The Lubianka”

  • Palantíri
    Feb 5, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    @Marc Authier – it is The Ministry of Foreign Affairs building.
    Very nice looking, they don’t make them like that anymore.
    Oooh, the picture has captured a bit of Max’s soul hehe (left corner) :)

  • Palantíri
    Feb 5, 2010 at 12:39 pm

    nooo it’s Stacy’s soul… it got to be the hair.. i’m confused.

  • Giuseppe Bagodonutti
    Feb 5, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    Here’s something for econo-geeks

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
    The point is that you can’t have it all: A country must pick two out of three. It can fix its exchange rate without emasculating its central bank, but only by maintaining controls on capital flows (like China today); it can leave capital movement free but retain monetary autonomy, but only by letting the exchange rate fluctuate (like Britain–or Canada); or it can choose to leave capital free and stabilize the currency, but only by abandoning any ability to adjust interest rates to fight inflation or recession (like Argentina today, or for that matter most of Europe).

  • Rastaman
    Feb 5, 2010 at 1:29 pm

    @Max, Stacy

    It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17426

  • norcalkid
    Feb 5, 2010 at 1:40 pm

    Interesting building, very Late Art Deco, looks like something from Ghostbusters (as long as nothing says “zoool,” you should be okay).

  • stacyherbert
    Feb 5, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    Yes, @Palantíri, everyone refers to the building as ‘the Ministry.’

  • Adam
    Feb 5, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    I can see stacys boobs in the reflection! You guys are a couple of perv’s!

  • stacyherbert
    Feb 5, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    @Adam – you cannot! I’m wearing full winter gear actually!

  • Rob h
    Feb 5, 2010 at 5:16 pm

    I think that building is one of stalin’s ‘seven sisters’, ask the muscovites abut the hisotry of the city, its pretty interesting IMO

  • Marc Authier
    Feb 5, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    The Ministry of horrible technocratic and bureaucratid architecture. Make me think to the Hotel “Rossia”. Now demolished. It has a like a pompous style that I cannot really appreciate. Prefer the orthodox byzantine churches. Will you be visiting the rest of Russia ? I find Moscow somewhat opressive when you compare it to Saint-Petersbourg.

    THIS IS MUCH BETTER ! Russia Golden Ring of dream cities.

    ========================================================

    Golden Ring

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Jump to: navigation, search
    This article is about the Golden Ring of Russia. For other uses, see Golden Ring (disambiguation).

    Kotorosl River in Yaroslavl

    St. Euthymius Monastery, Transfiguration Cathedral, and Belfry (Suzdal)
    The Resurrection Church of Kostroma (1652) is a superb example of the 17th-century Russian art (color photograph, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, 1910, Library of Congress)The Golden Ring (Russian: Золото́е кольцо́) is a ring of cities northeast of Moscow, the capital of Russia. They formerly comprised the region known as Zalesye.

    These ancient towns, which also played a significant role in the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church, preserve the memory of the most important and significant events in Russian history.

    The towns have been called “open air museums” and feature unique monuments of Russian architecture of the 12th–18th centuries, including kremlins, monasteries, cathedrals, and churches. These towns are among the most picturesque in Russia and prominently feature Russia’s famous onion domes.

    Although there are some discrepancies with respect to the names of the cities that are included in the ring, most include:

    Sergiyev Posad
    Pereslavl-Zalesskiy
    Rostov Velikiy
    Yaroslavl
    Kostroma
    Ivanovo
    Gus-Khrustalny
    Suzdal
    Vladimir
    Rybinsk
    Uglich
    Alexandrov

    Many of these cities are to be found along the M8 highway or can be reached from Yaroslavl Railway Station in Moscow.
    =====================================================

    A dream that I am to do eventually. Now this is much more interesting that watching the USA Super “toilet” Bowl.

  • Marc Authier
    Feb 5, 2010 at 6:10 pm

    20th century architecture is always an Ayn Rand nightmare, even in Russia. If you want inspiring architecture. Try this. Nijni Novgorod is also quite spectacular. Ii beats the Walt Disney style and Batman style of the Mnistry.

    http://www.travelallrussia.com/golden-ring/

    The Russia that Communist almost destroyed is much more charmng and inspiring and peaceful. Don’t remember the exact number. But I think Lenin and his bunch destroyed something like 20,000 of these exquisite churches. Murderous matarialist fool. This is the cultural and historical base of Russia and it is soo beautiful and strangely peacuful. I know it’s strange knowing the history of the country.

  • Giuseppe Bagodonutti
    Feb 5, 2010 at 6:36 pm

    I LOVE IT!!!!

    It’s fuckin CHAOS in the Financial world right now…

    From Fox to CNBC to Bloomberg to BNN to Unkatunktunk on Mongolian Shadow Puppet Broadcasting…

    All the Ass Munching Turd Tokers are trying to figure out what is going to happen next…
    and NO ONE has any idea…

    This is the beginning of FIAT ARMAGEDDON!!!!

    TECHNOCRACY FOR THE WIN!!!!

    (like that will ever happen….)
    :D

    BTW Jim Willie posted a fairly provocative article a couple days ago
    http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/willie/2010/0203.html
    London is the center of the Gold Price Manipulation Machine ????

  • Giuseppe Bagodonutti
    Feb 5, 2010 at 7:00 pm

    As a sidenote…

    I went to my Union’s monthly meeting last night…

    And the ship-building industry is practically dead…

    There are several reasons for it… the main one on the MACRO scale is there is NOT ENOUGH COMMERCE to support the SUPPLY…
    I can see it when I go to http://www.vesseltracker.com
    Ships are MOORED all over…

    So all these Global Contracts for NEW ship construction are being pushed OUT into the future, since the old ships are NOT getting used (ergo decommissioned)…

    On top of that, FERRY repair in British Columbia is being out-sourced to Washington State in the USA, since they only pay their workers $15-18/hr

    UNIONS ARE DEAD!!!!

    which sucks for EVERYBODY…
    becuz if unions die, then YOU as a free-lance tradesman have no way to measure yourself to industry… you essentially become a slave to the oligarchs’ demands…
    take it or suffer…

    DEFLATION?!?!?!

    In British Columbia, DEFINITELY!!!
    I even see it in the Private Industry… Wages are GOING DOWN!!!!
    there are wild-cards, but they tend to be more specialist in their demands, to which, one would’ve commanded a 20%+ higher wage just a year ago…

    Something is definitely up (most likely DEBT)

  • Marc Authier
    Feb 5, 2010 at 7:22 pm

    What’s next. Total paralysis.

  • California Doctor
    Feb 5, 2010 at 7:47 pm

    http://rawstory.com/2010/02/kill-americans/

    This story is sick. It’s about contract killing/assassination of Americans abroad by American agencies and the US gov’t.

    Scary minority report.

  • Marc Authier
    Feb 5, 2010 at 8:28 pm

    Think I was kidding when I was talking about fascism and Nazi Germany. They never ceased to do it. Now it’s just an official policy. In the past this treatment was reserved to african leaders and south american politicians not collaborating with the empire. Today the empire says. From now on if we decide we want you dead because we have put the label “terrorist” on your file, WE CAN KILL YOU.

    Don’t forget the OBANANA slogan. YES WE CAN…….

    YES WE CAN KILL YOU (and we will.)

    A new refinement to The Patriot Act. Permit to kill US citizen. What you as US citizens allowed to be done at Irakis, will from NOW ON be applied to you. Welcome to USSA.

  • Marc Authier
    Feb 5, 2010 at 8:35 pm

    It is said that your “democratic” US government has about 53,000 contract killers across the world. Surprise ! Most of them operate in the good old USA. When not killing in the USA or in Irak or Afghanistan. they occupy themselves selling coke and opiun in US streets. I don’t doubt it at all.

  • nobody
    Feb 5, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    @ Phil/Germany

    Thanks for the link of fofoa. It’s a good read.

  • Rastaman
    Feb 5, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17426

  • Rastaman
    Feb 5, 2010 at 8:51 pm

    It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17426

  • Sam
    Feb 5, 2010 at 9:39 pm

    Cool shot! Moscow University!

  • Max Power
    Feb 6, 2010 at 12:54 am

    The building in the photo does look a lot like:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Liver_Building.jpg

    but your image is such that doing a “blink comparator test”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_comparator

    is difficult.

    However, the buildings do never the less have very similar design fundamentals and principals.

  • stacyherbert
    Feb 6, 2010 at 1:28 am

    @Max Power – except if you look at that area where it looks like there should be a clock on the face of the building, it is actually a hammer and a sickle

  • RobH
    Feb 6, 2010 at 4:53 am

    they used to say that the Lubianka had the best views in Moscow during the soviet times – from the basement you could see all the way to siberia.

  • Marc Authier
    Feb 6, 2010 at 6:48 am

    Like Bonn said. Gotham city architecture. Specially gloomy at night. This is a mini version of the Ministry. The Palace of Culture in Warsaw. These building have something so Stalinian. A lot like some US buildings.

    http://cequetulis.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/palais-de-la-culture.jpg

  • Marc Authier
    Feb 6, 2010 at 6:54 am

    http://www.yaei.com/images/LACity3.jpg

    Crush the eye. Bureaucrats always loves this type of building. You have good examples in USA too. Statist architecture.

  • Adam Gibson
    Feb 6, 2010 at 7:12 am

    Moscow was built to intimidate, and Stalin’s seven sisters (of which this building is one) are the perfect crystallisation of this intention.

    I have almost the same photograph from late 2001 :)
    Been to Moscow 5 times and also to the Urals and the Trans Sib. Rossii umom ne ponyat’, tolko nado verit … :)

  • Joe
    Feb 6, 2010 at 11:47 am

    Russian women. Yum. :)

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