Timing of the Ferguson Grand Jury Decision Announcement

H.M. Murdoch

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The Ferguson grand jury decision announcement of "no indictment" will be timed by the Ferguson DA and the White House so as to minimize public outcry and rioting. And wisely so.

I suspect the announcement could have been made this past Thursday or Friday. But the authorities found "some reason" to carry the jury over, so as to prevent protesters from having all weekend off from work to watch news coverage and cause trouble.

But even if the jury is really still considering evidence, the decision will be announced early during a work week.

This coming week's best day is Monday, since more and more people will be off from work as each day passes towards Thanksgiving. They may even wait until the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Just some speculation on my part...
 

heckler73

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It's a sad testament of societal health when a riot is predicted in advance of a court decision. Not only does it demonstrate the regressive nature of the participants, but it also shows how futile "leadership" can be in failing to mitigate this situation from fomenting in the first place, instead relying on higher degrees of brutality as a post hoc solution.

That's so civilized...but whose fault is it?



The Original Bacon&Eggs Jihadi
 

spandy

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Pffsshh, has nothing to do with anything but the new Air Jordan's that are coming out. Join the riots, and you get them for free!
 

heckler73

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With the latest bit of global warming causing all this cold I'm long Molotav.
I think that's one of the worst investment ideas, unless you're trying to play a dead-cat bounce.

Currency reserves are at a four-year low of $454.7 billion, down a whopping $57 billion this year, as the Bank of Russia tries desperately to prop up the sinking ruble, which has lost more than 17% against the U.S. dollar in 2014. The central bank’s head admitted this week it would be unable to stop further erosion in the currency’s value.

Further, oil and gas exports comprise more than half of Russia’s fiscal revenues, and some estimate it needs oil prices of $117 a barrel to break even. Looks like barrels and barrels of red ink ahead.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-the-worlds-worst-market-avoid-it-at-all-costs-2014-10-15

Canada is fairly resource dependent (duh!) but with margins like that, the oil sands wouldn't even be inhabited.
 

NoDrama

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I think that's one of the worst investment ideas, unless you're trying to play a dead-cat bounce.

Currency reserves are at a four-year low of $454.7 billion, down a whopping $57 billion this year, as the Bank of Russia tries desperately to prop up the sinking ruble, which has lost more than 17% against the U.S. dollar in 2014. The central bank’s head admitted this week it would be unable to stop further erosion in the currency’s value.

Further, oil and gas exports comprise more than half of Russia’s fiscal revenues, and some estimate it needs oil prices of $117 a barrel to break even. Looks like barrels and barrels of red ink ahead.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-the-worlds-worst-market-avoid-it-at-all-costs-2014-10-15

Canada is fairly resource dependent (duh!) but with margins like that, the oil sands wouldn't even be inhabited.
Teh Fux??

Molotov, is a generic name used for a variety of bottle-based improvised incendiary weapons.

I wasn't talking about going long Russia

Get out more.

I'm still scratching my head on how a ferguson riot thread got you to think we were talking about Russia.

Molotov is a Finnish word, so I still don't see the relation to Russia there.
 

SmokeyDan

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The Ferguson grand jury decision announcement of "no indictment" will be timed by the Ferguson DA and the White House so as to minimize public outcry and rioting. And wisely so.

I suspect the announcement could have been made this past Thursday or Friday. But the authorities found "some reason" to carry the jury over, so as to prevent protesters from having all weekend off from work to watch news coverage and cause trouble.

But even if the jury is really still considering evidence, the decision will be announced early during a work week.

This coming week's best day is Monday, since more and more people will be off from work as each day passes towards Thanksgiving. They may even wait until the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Just some speculation on my part...
Given who the rioters are, I doubt they hhave jobs. If they do, they're likely service jobs that work on weekends.
 

SmokeyDan

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Teh Fux??

Molotov, is a generic name used for a variety of bottle-based improvised incendiary weapons.

I wasn't talking about going long Russia

Get out more.

I'm still scratching my head on how a ferguson riot thread got you to think we were talking about Russia.

Molotov is a Finnish word, so I still don't see the relation to Russia there.
Didn't a Finnish colonel named molotov invent them to disable soviet tanks in the winter war?
 

NoDrama

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Wiki:
The name "Molotov cocktail" was coined by the Finns during the Winter War.[1] The name is an insulting reference to Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who was responsible for the setting of "spheres of interest" in Eastern Europe under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939. The pact with the Nazis bearing Molotov's name, which secretly stated the Soviet intention to invade Finland in November 1939, was widely mocked by the Finns, as was much of the propaganda Molotov produced to accompany the pact, including his declaration on Soviet state radio that bombing missions over Finland were actually airborne humanitarian food deliveries for their starving neighbours. The Finns, far from starving and engaged in a bitter war for national survival with the Soviet forces, sarcastically dubbed the Soviet cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts. When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with the food".[2] Molotov himself despised the name, particularly as the term became ubiquitous and generalised as Soviets faced increasing numbers of cocktail-throwing protesters in the Eastern Bloc in the years after World War II.[3]

In hind sight, I guess it does have something to do with the Russians. I was wrong about that.
 

SmokeyDan

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Wiki:
The name "Molotov cocktail" was coined by the Finns during the Winter War.[1] The name is an insulting reference to Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, who was responsible for the setting of "spheres of interest" in Eastern Europe under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939. The pact with the Nazis bearing Molotov's name, which secretly stated the Soviet intention to invade Finland in November 1939, was widely mocked by the Finns, as was much of the propaganda Molotov produced to accompany the pact, including his declaration on Soviet state radio that bombing missions over Finland were actually airborne humanitarian food deliveries for their starving neighbours. The Finns, far from starving and engaged in a bitter war for national survival with the Soviet forces, sarcastically dubbed the Soviet cluster bombs "Molotov bread baskets" in reference to Molotov's propaganda broadcasts. When the hand-held bottle firebomb was developed to attack Soviet tanks, the Finns called it the "Molotov cocktail", as "a drink to go with the food".[2] Molotov himself despised the name, particularly as the term became ubiquitous and generalised as Soviets faced increasing numbers of cocktail-throwing protesters in the Eastern Bloc in the years after World War II.[3]

In hind sight, I guess it does have something to do with the Russians. I was wrong about that.
You're not allowed to be wrong here, you'll now be labeled a liar and goalposts mover.
 

ricky6991

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Wasnt there BIG names in fed goverment giving guilty verdict publicly for cop before jury... feeding the fire of protestors.
 

heckler73

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In hind sight, I guess it does have something to do with the Russians. I was wrong about that.
:lol:
Sorry for the confusion (but not really). It just so happened the topic of investing in Russia was on my mind at the same time I was reading your post. I just gave the train a gentle nudge, laterally. Please continue your dissertation on the racial divide which still permeates American culture and politics. It's only been...what...150 years since that tall guy who caught bullets with the back of his head gave everyone 40 acres and a mule? Of course, it's only been ~50 years since the black panther stuff happened, and that whole JFK/RFK/MLK/KKK episode...
And then there was OJ...


Yup...progress !!!
 

NoDrama

Well-Known Member
:lol:
Sorry for the confusion (but not really). It just so happened the topic of investing in Russia was on my mind at the same time I was reading your post. I just gave the train a gentle nudge, laterally. Please continue your dissertation on the racial divide which still permeates American culture and politics. It's only been...what...150 years since that tall guy who caught bullets with the back of his head gave everyone 40 acres and a mule? Of course, it's only been ~50 years since the black panther stuff happened, and that whole JFK/RFK/MLK/KKK episode...
And then there was OJ...


Yup...progress !!!
What dissertation on racial divide?
 

heckler73

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What dissertation on racial divide?
The one that seems to be an ever-present theme amongst ~50% of the threads in Politics?
I don't mean yours, in particular. I mean the general vector of discourse which inevitably results from these types of threads. To which, I'll step out of this thread now before it becomes too predictable.

 
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