Europe’s glitziest 'Christmas tree' made of pure gold unveiled (PHOTO, VIDEO)
Ahead of the much-anticipated festive season German gold dealer Pro Aurum has erected the most expensive Christmas tree in all of Europe. The unusual decoration is made of gold coins worth €2.3 million ($2.6 million).
According to the dealer, the tree could’ve been worth more, but gold’s value declined during the second half of the current year.
https://www.rt.com/business/445994-gold-christmas-tree-munich/
Bye-bye dollar: India & UAE agree to trade in local currencies
New Delhi and Abu Dhabi have inked a currency swap agreement to boost trade and investment without involvement of a third currency like the US dollar.
The swap is for an amount of two billion UAE dirham or 35 billion Indian rupees (US$495 million), according to the Indian Embassy in Abu Dhabi.
“The bilateral currency swap agreement between India and UAE is expected to reduce the dependency on hard currencies like the US dollar,”the embassy said.
It is also expected to give a push for the local currencies of the two nations and may reduce the impact of volatility in exchange rate arising from the dependency on a third currency. It is also expected to reduce the transmission costs arising from exchange rate risk,” the embassy added.
The sides also discussed cooperation in energy, security, trade, investments, space, defense, and so on.
With more than $50 billion in bilateral trade, the two countries are each other’s largest trade partners. India’s foreign direct investment into the UAE was $6.6 billion in 2017, while the UAE’s investment in India stood at $5.8 billion.
UAE is the sixth-largest oil exporter for India, with non-oil trade between them accounting for $34 billion.
Earlier this year, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and an Indian consortium led by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) signed a 10 percent offshore concession agreement giving Indian companies the opportunity to develop Abu Dhabi’s offshore oilfields, which produce about 1.4 million barrels of oil per day.
Adnoc is also investing in India’s $44 billion Ratnagiri petrochemical complex in cooperation with Saudi Aramco. It is exploring the possibility of storing its crude oil at Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL)’s underground oil storage facility at Padur in Karnataka.
https://www.rt.com/business/445987-india-dollar-free-agreement/
The dollar is being dropped like a hot potato.
Tell your President.
You still think this is about Q?
Lol. The U.N has been the enemy since it's inception.
Nobody said anything about them winning.
Vive la France! Vive Jeanne d’Arc!
The spirit of reconciliation that St Joan had brought about in France in 1920 was remarkable, but there were vociferous groups in France that did not want to be reconciled. As French armies were brushed aside in May 1940, many on the French Right assumed that it alone stood for Joan’s vision of France. The collapse of the forces of the atheistic republic before the onslaught of Panzers and Stuka bombers proved that if France recovered, that recovery would be thanks to an ageing marshal, Joan’s true representative.
The Vichy government over which Pétain presided and which Laval tended to run was meant to stand for French values distinct from those of the republic it had replaced. In the place of the internationalist and universal Liberté, Egalité et Fraternité Vichy’s motto was the cosy Travail, Famille, Patrie (work, home, country). Before the war Pétain approved of conservative movements that defended the family; and like many on the Right he linked attachment to the family with attachment to the soil. When Rouen celebrated Joan’s fifth centenary in 1931, he wrote: ‘Joan of Arc incarnates patriotism in its most complete sense.’ Her great lesson to her own and his fellow countrymen was ‘unity in the service of a country’.1In 1940 his role would be to foster such unity.
The ethos of the Vichy government opposed the economic, political and social results of modernity. It admired folk song, folk dance, quaint customs, local patois, regional writers. Joan’s feast at Orléans was an excuse to praise the Marshal. The preacher in 1941 called Pétain’s arrival in the city ‘an unexpected joy’, as the people cried
‘Vive la France! Vive le Maréchal! Vive Jeanne d’Arc!’
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Key words. Pay attention