Best Antique Engagement Rings Designs
Posted by Sharif Khan on 11th Jul 2015
Here are some unique unique diamond engagement ring styles to consider. If you have an idea for a custom design, contact us and we will be happy to design it for you at a truly wholesale price.
Bezel Set Halo Engagement Ring:
One of our top sellers, this bezel set engagement ring design with pave set diamonds will surely stand out in the crowd!
Unique Double Halo Engagement Ring with Pink Diamonds:
Beautifully and elegantly designed pave style double halo engagement ring available in several budget ranges. Quality is the best and craftsmanship is top of the line...
Princess Cut Engagement Ring - Three Stone Infinity Design:
A master craftsmanship with twisting infinity shank and premium side diamonds. This three-stone princess cut diamond engagement ring will surely make her say "Yes"!
Unique Halo Flower Design Engagement Ring Design:
Unique antique design and workmanship with exceptional filigree and milgrain patterns...
Two Tone Swirl Diamond Engagement Ring:
Beautiful designed two tone swirl engagement ring with an ideal cut center diamond. This design brings together white and rose gold to make a bold presentation - a truly unique master piece!
Modern Split Shank Halo Engagement Ring Design:
Unique split shank engagement ring elegantly designed to perfection and can be customized in white, yellow or rose gold as well as platinum. Several price range options as available.
Halo Princess Cut Engagement Ring:
A true head-turner. There are not many princess cut diamond engagement ring designs that would compete with this masterpiece. Halo design with pave diamonds and eagle prongs.
Unique Antique Rose Gold Halo Engagement Ring:
This vintage inspired unique halo diamond engagement ring can also be customized in yellow ro white gold as well as platinum. Several price options to choose from!
Vintage Style Halo Engagement Ring:
Exceptional vintage style halo engagement ring with amazing details and craftsmanship. An excellent choice for someone who is looking to blend in style with heritage.
Unique Emerald Style Engagement Ring Design:
One of our finest and elegantly designed emerald cut diamond engagement ring design. Emerald cut diamonds are known for their simple elegance, and this particular design make it extremely appealing...
Halo Swirl Diamond Engagement Ring:
This is one of our top exquisite halo engagement ring available in gold and platinum. Swirl and halo engagement rings are trending these days, and this setting beautifully integrates both to make a bold presentation.
Bezel Set Vintage Inspired Antique Engagement Ring:
Elegant designed unique vintage classic style engagement ring in yellow gold. It can also be designed in white or rose gold and platinum.
Halo Split Shank Unique Diamond Engagement Ring:
A top notch design. If you want something to look out in the crowd, this might be it for you. A truly antique and master piece. The halo round cut diamonds significantly enhances the aesthetics of the center stone.
Antique Style Cushion Cut Engagement Ring with Sapphires:
Vintage inspired antique cushion cut engagement ring with diamonds and sapphires.
Unique Infinity Split Shank Engagement Ring:
These infinity swirl style engagement rings are trending these days and are very popular. There are variety of designs available and each can be customized. Most of our customers love these styles.
Halo Rose Gold Diamond Engagement Ring:
This is a very poplar halo design set with pave round diamonds available in rose, white and yellow gold as well as in platinum. This halo design particularly looks beautiful in a rose gold setting.
Classic Vintage Style Engagement Ring:
This engagement ring combines vintage and classic style with modern designs. If you want a fusion of old and new, this style might be it for you. It also comes with two matching wedding bands. It can also be customized for other shape diamonds.
Double Halo Diamond Engagement Ring:
It is unique and beautiful. If you have a small diamond/budget, considering a double halo engagement ring might not be a bad idea. This setting can also be designed in cushion halo style.
Unique Classic Timeless Diamond Engagement Ring:
Modern design of the classic solitaire engagement ring designed to perfection.
Unique Custom Split Shank Halo Diamond Engagement Ring Cushion Style:
Unique design and solid wide shank made to last. Exceptional craftsmanship!
Unique Princess Cut Diamond Engagement Ring:
Pave set, this princess cut diamond engagement ring will stand out in the crowd. The center diamond set high making it very visible. A unique design for a lucky princess!
Double Shank Halo Engagement Ring:
Diamond ring with double prongs and cushion halo design - a beautiful contemporary design.
Vintage Style Engagement Ring with Baguette Diamonds:
This is a beautiful style that combines classic and vintage styles to make a powerful presentation. The baguette diamonds particularly enhances the beauty of this engagement ring.
Unique Floating Diamond Engagement Ring:
Very popular rings and designs. They have an elegant look and are a good upgrade to the classics designs!
Split Shank Halo Diamond Engagement Ring:
A truly exquisite halo design with a split shank. Definitely a style to be on a short list!
Cathedral Style Engagement Ring:
This three stone cathedral style engagement ring is popular for so many reasons. Not only it shows the center diamond from far away, it also beautifully combines classic and vintage styles with modern designs.
Swirl Princess Cut Engagement Ring:
What is there not to admire about this beautiful swirl style engagement ring. A truly unique design...
Cushion Cut Diamond Engagement Ring:
Unique cushion cut diamond engagement ring design with four round side diamonds. Cushion cut diamonds have incredible fire and are a good alternative to round diamonds if you want something different.
Antique Split Shank Halo Engagement Ring:
A split shank design with a unique touch. The cushion halo also enhance the beauty of this style.
Unique Round Halo Engagement Ring:
With four double prongs, this halo engagement ring will definitely standout among most halo designs. One of our top contenders.
Cushion Halo Engagement Ring:
Very popular, unique halo cushion style engagement ring set with pave diamonds and center round stone.
Classic Cushion Cut Diamond Engagement Ring:
A classic modern design holding a brilliant cut cushion shape diamond.
Round Halo Diamond Engagement Ring:
Unique round style halo engagement ring with round side diamonds and double prongs.
Vintage Style Halo Emerald Cut Diamond Engagement Ring:
Unique emerald vintage style engagement ring with exceptional details and brilliance.
Bezel Set Split Shank Engagement Ring:
Unique half bezel set split shank engagement ring set with brilliant natural diamonds.
Round Halo Unique Engagement Ring:
Round modern contemporary design - halo diamond engagement ring with brilliant details and craftsmanship.
Rose Gold Oval Halo Diamond Engagement Ring:
Unique oval halo engagement ring in rose gold setting. This setting is also offered in white and yellow gold as well as in platinum.
Swirl Kite Style Engagement Ring:
This masterpiece is exceptional on so many levels - if you want something entirely different and stylish, this kite style engagement ring should be one of your top choices.
Swirl Infinity Rose Gold Engagement Ring:
Infinity style halo rose and white gold engagement ring. Simple yet sophisticated!
Princess Cut Engagement Ring with Round Channel Set Diamonds:
This is a very elegant engagement ring design. The simplicity of the one carat round diamonds significantly enhances the beauty of this setting.
Frank Ruebel Antique Diamond Engagement Ring:
If you are looking for something entirely antique, these engagement ring styles might not be a bad choice. If you have a even more antique design in mind, contact us and we will work with you to make it a reality.
Swirl Rose Gold Engagement Ring:
Here is an other unique setting to consider. It should definitely be something on your short list if you want a flower halo design that is very antique looking.
Channel Set Round Diamond Engagement Ring:
Channel set engagement rings are relatively popular and there a variety of styles available. Contact us if you have a particular preference.
Halo Cushion Style Asscher Cut Diamond Engagement Ring:
Simple, yet beautiful. Asscher and emerald cut diamonds are very unique and different! This design can also be customized for any other square shape diamonds.
Halo Radiant Cut Diamond Engagement Ring:
Radiant cut diamonds are beautiful and they look exquisite in halo settings.
Unique Three Stone Diamond Engagement Ring:
Three stone engagement rings are also very popular. This one happens to be one of our top selection.
Classic Platinum Engagement Ring with Side Diamonds:
This is a traditional 4 prongs style engagement ring with side channel set diamonds. If you have a well cut diamond, consider this design.
Five Stone Band or Engagement Ring:
These five stone settings are famous for wedding bands, but can be considered for an engagement ring as well.
Classic Four Prongs Princess Cut Engagement Ring:
This ring goes very well with a matching five stone wedding band of either round or princess cut diamonds, especially a channel set one.
Pave Set Split Shank Halo Radiant Cut Engagement Ring:
A unique design to consider.
Classic Asscher Cut Engagement Ring:
Classic Yellow Gold Diamond Engagement Ring:
If you have a nice diamond and like the simplicity of an engagement ring, this might not be a bad idea. It happens to be one of the most popular engagement rings with traditional six prongs. These settings or semi mounts are also available in white gold and platinum.
Classic Platinum Diamond Engagement ring:
Four prongs classic platinum engagement ring . A very common design - simple yet perfect for an ideal cut diamond.
Classic Princess Cut Diamond Engagement Ring with V Prongs:
V prongs are important for princess cut diamonds as they are prone to chipping and the v prongs protects them.
Unique Styles of Engagement Rings & Solitaires
Engagement is one of the most special moments in our lives. It marks the beginning of a melodious and a memorious journey. Style is often an important aspect of this journey as it strengthens our affection and desire towards our partners.
Diamond is a symbol of love, eternity, passion and emotions. It represents a desire of attachment and affection towards your partner that you have chosen for yourself. It could represent the warmth of your relation and a true devotion towards your partner.
When choosing an engagement ring for your partner, the following information might serve as helpful hints:
Halo Engagement Rings: these engagement ring styles are among the most popular these days. The central diamond in a Halo Engagement Ring is surrounded by mini diamonds that glorify not only themselves but also the central gemstone. This makes it a very different ring and of course a special one for your partner. It's liked by girls who are very fast forward in the fashion and design world. While choosing a ring for your partner, you need to have a strong idea about the lifestyle and personality of your partner. A simple person may like a solitaire ring whereas an unconventional of fast fashion lover might like a halo design.
Swirl Diamond Engagement Rings: These rings are ideal for individuals that are looking for uniqueness in a ring. Swirl engagement rings that represent infinity are particularly popular among consumers.
Solitaire Engagement Rings: usually engagement rings with one center diamond are called solitaire rings. These are the most famous type of engagement rings. This is because the one central diamond, set high with prominence, demonstrates singularity and closeness between couples. Also, the diamond set in the middle of the ring and situated higher increases the magnificence of the ring, giving it an elegant and a royal look. Therefore, it's very well suited to women of classic style and royal touch.
Channel Set Engagement Rings: channel style rings are also becoming increasing popular as they are very crisp yet have simplicity, style, class, and quality all engraved in one ring.
Trinity or Trilogy Engagement Rings: These engagement rings are considered to represent three things about you i.e. your past, present and future, as deducible from its name. Therefore, it has three basic diamonds or one diamond and two color gemstones/birth stones one to each side. Girls with typifying/symbolizing personalities could be great candidate for this type of rings.
Cathedral Engagement Rings: These engagement rings have a very different but protective style that make them good for working women who want to keep their rings all the time.
Vintage Engagement Rings: Vintage rings are one of the most romantic styles of diamond engagement rings that sell high in the diamond market and make many romantic couples satisfied. It engraves many diamonds in several curled and wavy styles giving it a prestigious look that's honored by the recipient of this precious type of ring.
Engagement Rings with Colored Gemstones: there are usually a row of colored stones that surround the center diamond increasing the prominence of diamond. These types of ring are very good for girls with a unique sense of style – style is the key factor in these rings.
Halo Engagement Rings:
ORIGINS OF THE HALO ENGAGEMENT RING
Over the past few years, halo engagement rings have had a serious increase in popularity, with everyone from celebrities and even royalty having taken completely to the style. Basically, the halo engagement ring is a type of setting where a center gemstone is surrounded by several much smaller diamonds, although some styles utilize a distinctive metal halo. The halo engagement ring is deliberately designed to enhance and highlight the beauty of the center stone, with features like cut, clarity and size all gaining a boost in visual appeal.
Apart from their distinctive exquisiteness, halo engagement rings are a style that will connect you to a rich history. The style has its origins in the Gregorian Era where the center gemstone was usually surrounded by slightly smaller round diamonds or pearls. In the Victorian Era, some modifications were made to the style, with a number of other gemstones gaining popularity for the center setting. The popular choices included: blue sapphires, rubies, turquoise and chrysoberyls. The center gems in this Era were also larger than those of the Gregorian Era.
After the Victorian Era came the Aesthetic period, which witnessed a marked return to the simplicity of the Gregorian Era with substantial increases in the decorative effects added to the rings, usually of a symbolic nature. The Art Noveau Movement overlapped with this era and saw popularity shifting towards colored semi-precious stones being the center-pieces of the rings. Also, there was a tendency to place the central gem in an ornate setting made completely of metal, as opposed to diamonds.
With the dawn of the Edwardian Era came a massive reduction in the popularity of the colored stones that were the mainstay of the Art Noveau period. Platinum and diamonds became the norm, while complete metal surrounds continued, though the use of small diamonds took up. Pearls were no longer a trendy choice for rings and north-to-south styles began to gain traction. These types of rings featured as many as three large stones set in a row, with smaller stones surrounding them in elaborate architectural designs.
The subsequent period, the Art Deco Era, is the one where what is classically referred to as the halo engagement ring emerged. There was an increased emphasis on geometric patterns as well as symmetry, which made the concentric circles that can be found in a halo setting very attractive to the aesthetics of the time.
The great depression swept away the opulence and geometric shapes of the Art Deco Era, at least until the Hollywood Glamour of the 1930s and 1940s emerged, resulting in an uptake of large colored stones. The halo engagement rings during this period contained a synthesis of elements from the previous eras. With the onset of the 1950s, square-shaped mounts grew in popularity and North-to-south arrangements gave way to East-to-west settings.
In the 1960s and 1970s, there was a substantial increase in the usage of halo engagement rings, with the popular style being of a round stone surrounded by smaller round stones in order to give the appearance of a daisy flower. Fast forward to today and the classic halo engagement ring style has returned fully, incorporating new styles: A square cut stone surrounded by pave diamonds, as well as the new double-halo style that is currently experiencing a fast growth in popularity.
In essence, whichever style of the halo engagement ring that you decide on, you can be sure that it places you right in the center of a vibrant, distinctive history, much like the center stone itself!
THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN BUYING A CLASSIC DIAMOND ENGAGEMENT RING
The name "classic" is used to describe any design that has solid aesthetic values and has gained and retained massive popularity over time. When searching for the perfect engagement ring to present to your intended bride, there are a lot of styles that you can choose from today. From the new, trendy styles to the antique and vintage rings of yesteryears. Somewhere in the middle, and the sweet spot for a lot of people, are classic engagement rings. These rings exude all the timeless exquisiteness of vintage styles, while retaining all the elegance and other benefits of a more recent style. Classic engagement rings can also be the answer when you are simply unsure what type of ring she would like simply because most people like them, which is part of why they are referred to as classics. The undying popularity of classic engagement rings is reflected in the fact that their sales make up almost half of all rings sold. They reflect sound, elegant but not necessarily adventurous taste.
One of the most popular style of engagement rings that falls in the classic category is the solitaire engagement ring. They are yet to go out of style since been introduced and have been used by intending grooms to propose on countless occasions. Mostly successfully. In order to ensure that your solitaire diamond engagement ring is properly made and fit for your lovely bride to be to wear, there are two basic parts (apart from the diamond itself) that you have to keep in mind and pay particular attention to when choosing a ring or having one made: Setting and metal. The setting is divided into two parts that are interchangeable and are combined in varying styles in order to find the arrangement that best suits your requirements and ideal of the diamond engagement ring you wish to buy. Generally, the goal is to find and arrangement that holds the diamond securely as well as highlights and showcases its best features.
The basket is very integral to the safety of the setting. It is made up of four or six claws (prongs) that are either wire or cut off types. Wire baskets are the lightest and most open, making them the most popular choice for people setting up their solitaire diamond engagement rings. There is a popular, but mistaken belief that the wire setting will allow more light to flow through the stone, thereby improving its appearance. This is wrong because a well-cut diamond will reflect back light that enters from its crown, regardless of any light coming from the back. Well cut diamonds will have the same light performance in either setting. The openness is still of advantage though, as it allows better maintenance in that it holds less grease and is more accessible for cleaning. There is a fine balance between the size of the diamond itself, the thickness of the prongs and the type of metal they are made of. The goal is to achieve a setting where the prongs are as discreet and less visible as possible, without compromising on the strength, for safety's sake. This means that although the prongs are often delicate and thin, they are made of very strong metal.
Gold is the classic metal used for this purpose, particularly white gold alloys. At the same time, it is important to take into consideration that platinum and palladium will allow at least 20% reduction in the thickness of the prongs. While using platinum would result in a noticeable increase in cost, palladium is a viable and more affordable alternative that can sometimes even be gotten for less than the cost of 18k white gold.
Vintage Diamond Engagement Rings
Over the past few years, there has been a marked surge in the popularity of vintage rings. While contemporary rings offer beauty and trendiness, more and more people are drawn towards vintage and antique rings for their timeless class, as well as the feeling of wearing, and being part of history that only antique jewelry can provide. A true vintage engagement ring is one that is between thirty and 50 years old. Engagement rings that are older than this are technically referred to as antiques, though you might find them being sold together under the same name. A lot of people are attracted to these types of rings because of the vast array of styles available and the certainty of fining one that matches their personality, as opposed to the mass-produced engagement rings of contemporary times. Also, they are considered to be of somewhat higher quality than contemporary ones.
Why Vintage Engagement Rings?
Antique jewelry, by virtue of being as old as they are, are not very common items and very rarely will one come across matching pieces. Vintage engagement rings span across a multitude of styles and designs over many eras. They are vastly different from contemporary styles and being unique and one of a kind, they automatically make the wearer stand out as someone with painstakingly good taste. If your partner has an outgoing personality that likes to be distinctive and apart from the crowd, then you should be seriously considering a vintage engagement ring.
These days, goods that are handcrafted are considered to be of superior quality and value to mass-produced ones. The same rule applies when it comes to engagement rings. As opposed to contemporary rings that are often mass-produced in generic and very similar styles, vintage engagement rings were generally produced individually in the hands of a skilled jeweler. This difference becomes very manifest when one compares a contemporary engagement ring with a vintage one; while the one from today is plain, the vintage engagement ring will often have intricate and distinctive designs that reflect the specific time period in which it was created. Although a valid argument can be made that today's advanced manufacturing processes actually increase quality, the human touch of vintage engagement rings will definitely shine through.
Historical value
The decades or even centuries of history that is embedded in a single vintage engagement ring is one of the factors that make them so attractive to couples. If you know the complete history of the ring, the knowledge will give you a connection to a time far in the past. If you do not, the significance can be left to your imagination. Either way, you have a piece of history around your finger. In choosing a vintage engagement ring, you should take the time to consider the various eras from which those rings are frequently sourced in order to find the one era you like the most and which holds the most significance for you or your partner.
If you're passionate about the environment and are "going green" in other areas, you should consider the fact that the rate at which jewelry is produced around the world today definitely has a considerable effect on the environment. From the depletion of natural resources to the energy required for processing. Vintage engagement rings give you a chance to play a role in preserving our environment.
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Engagement Practices and Traditions around the World
The engagement ring is a common physical token of a commitment in a marriage. It has been a tradition practiced in many cultures and countries throughout history, although the original tokens of engagement did not in any way resemble the diamond ring that is currently the symbol for engagement. There have been many forms and objects that people used to express willingness and commitment to get engaged. Some of these do not even come close to being romantic expressions of love and commitment, but rather marks of ownership, a form of payment, or a way of identification. This article will show the evolution of the symbolic engagement ring and what such symbols meant.
Early Ages:
In prehistoric times, the man used to tie grass around his wife-to-be wrists and ankles as a means of protection from evil spirits. This is also similar to a recent African tradition of tying the bride and groom's wrists together using grass strands.
It was the Romans who first began to use plain iron bands as engagement rings. It was typically worn on the fourth finger on the woman's left hand, because it was believed that a vein in this finger traveled directly to her heart. It was customary then for the men to give gold rings for their bride-to-be to wear during the wedding and during special occasions, and another one made of iron for her to wear every day.
In ancient Egypt, however, rings made of costly metals were ordinarily used as a currency for trade, and a man who placed a ring upon his wife's finger meant that he trusted her with his wealth. Similarly in medieval days, the ring also served as some sort of dowry or payment for a wife.
In the Middle East in Asia, puzzle rings were given by sultans and sheiks to each of their brides. This was their way of "tagging" their many wives, and a way of ensuring their loyalty to their husband.
Prototype of the Engagement Ring:
The first recorded incident of wholesale engagement ring containing a diamond was in 1477. The Archduke Maximilian of Austria pledged his love and commitment to marry his beloved Mary of Burgundy with a gold ring decorated with diamonds making the shape of the lady's initial, M. It was only two years later when another royal, Constanzo Sforza gifted his bride, Camilla d'Aragona, with a diamond ring on the day of their wedding. It was no surprise that only men from wealthy families and royalty were capable of presenting diamond rings to their beloved as these stones were a precious and rare commodity and highly expensive.
In the 1700s, engagement rings called "posie rings" containing lines of poetry and messages of love carved on the inside of the ring were exchanged by lovers. These were initially silver bands, which were replaced with gold ones during the wedding.
For the Hebrews, rings made of gold or silver were the norm, while in Northern Europe, gold, silver, and copper were the metals of choice. It was only in the 1800s when gems and decorative stones were incorporated into engagement rings in Europe. Rings with endearing words like Love, Eternity, and Forever spelled out with jewels became fashionable during the 1800s. But it wasn't only precious stones and metals that the highly romantic and sentimental Victorians used to make their jewelries. They were also using their beloved's hair along with the gemstones and precious metals. All of this romanticism with regards to engagement was greatly influenced by Queen Victoria, who at the time was herself madly in love with her husband, an uncommon thing with arranged marriages among royalty of this period.
It was also during the latter part of this period when diamonds and precious gems were discovered in a mine in Cape Colony in South Africa, effectively increasing the supply of the highly valued gem in the world. It was also during this time, around d 1886, when Tiffany & Co. first released its Tiffany setting, a band with a diamond raised on a six-prong mount which maximized the diamond's brilliance and cut. Since then, engagement rings have taken on this design, and this has become the preference of women all over the world.
The sale of diamonds declined in the 1930s during the lean economic times. De Beers, the sole diamond mining and manufacturing company operating the newly discovered mines in Africa at the time, launched an aggressive campaign to boost the sales of diamonds again. They launched the classic slogan, "A Diamonds is Forever" and immediately saw a boost in their sales. The connotation between marriage and a diamond being indestructible became deeply ingrained in the American psyche with the popularity of this new slogan. It is no surprise then that in most department stores, engagement rings soon became the best sellers in every jewelry lines.
After the rise in popularity of diamond engagement rings, it became a tradition for a man to ask for his lady love's hand in marriage with a ring.
Proposal Practices
The modern custom of proposing marriage to a woman with a diamond ring has become the standard practice among many countries and cultures around the world. However, there are many countries that still have their own marriage proposal traditions that are unique to their culture. Some of these practices have been overtaken by the western practice, but some of them are still in practice today. Some are relatively new practices that have been adapted from modern innovations and from the sheer creativity of men. Some of these unique marriage proposals are mentioned below as they are practiced by different cultures or regions around the world.
Asian Traditions
A new style of proposing marriage is on the rise in many modern countries in Asia. This is known as the flash mob proposal, where a group of people collaborate with the future groom who makes his proposal with a song, and dance, or any other production that involves a big crowd.
In India and Pakistan, where arranged marriages are still practiced, it is not only the bridegroom but his entire family that makes the formal marriage proposal to the bride's entire family. In some deeply traditional families, the couple themselves are not even involved in the engagement rites at all. In Pakistan, once the bride's family accepts the proposed marriage, an engagement party ensues where the future groom can propose to the future bride in person.
In China, traditional Chinese culture is still deeply ingrained in the marriage preparation rites. Weddings for them are a joining together of not only two individuals but families. Therefore, even if a marriage proposal is initiated by the giving of an engagement ring, traditional practices like the woman introducing the man to her family, the man seeking the blessing from the woman's family prior to the proposal, and the two families together acknowledging the engagement and casting their blessing of approval upon the couple are all part of the engagement tradition.
In Thailand, engagement and wedding traditions and customs are still widely followed by families. A ceremonial rite called "Thong Mun" marks the engagement of a couple. Here, the future groom presents a gift of gold to his prospective bride and her family. This is also followed by dowry negotiations between the two families.
European Traditions
In Europe, the tradition of men proposing to women while on one knee, with a ring in hand, is still very much in practice. The engagement ring, however, is normally worn on the third finger of the woman's left hand as opposed to the common practice in the USA of wearing it on the fourth finger instead.
In the UK and Ireland, a peculiar tradition that used to be common is a woman initiating the marriage proposal to the man. This may only be done every leap year, on the 29th of February. This tradition is seldom, if ever, practiced anymore.
Among the British, a couple's engagement must be formally announces through a church bulletin called "the banns." This served as notice to anyone who may oppose the marriage of the couple, and to give legal reason why the marriage must not take place.
In Germany and Sweden, both the bride-to-be and the groom-to-be wear engagement rings during the period of engagement.
African Traditions
In Ghana, an old African tradition is still being practiced in engagement rites. This involves knocking on the door of the woman's home during the proposal visit. The groom-to-be's mother and uncle are the ones who perform the knock on the door during a visit to the woman's family when they propose marriage in behalf of the groom.
In some Kenyan tribes, a man declares his intent to marry a woman by sending her beads. Keeping the beads means the woman accepts the proposal, after which her family will present her with an adornment to add to these beads to signify their acceptance of the engagement between the two.
These are just among the many practices and traditions associated with engagement and marriage. Every culture holds their own views on how a couple's engagement must proceed, and even with the advent of modern styles and practices, celebrating the engagement between two people always brings families and communities together in one way or another.


Americana Grammy Winners Announced
Steve Martin, Emmylou Harris Add to Grammy Collection
by Craig Shelburne 1/26/2014
Seasoned musicians like Steve Martin and Emmylou Harris continued to add to their Grammy arsenal on Sunday (Jan. 26).
Martin and Edie Brickell won in the category of best American roots song for "Love Has Come for You." This is Martin's fifth Grammy, including his two wins in the comedy field.
"Well, we are truly stunned, if I can speak for Edie — and I will — especially [in] such a distinguished group of nominees. We started doing this as a sport, really, and we kept doing it. And we are really, deeply honored. Thank you very much," Martin said.
"Thank you so much. Thanks to Steve for inspiring me. And thanks to everybody," added Brickell, who marked her first Grammy win.
"I also wanted to add that working with Edie is incredible. She's one of the greatest lyricists I've worked with," Martin stated.
Harris and Rodney Crowell collected the trophy for best Americana album with Old Yellow Moon. This was Harris' 13th win and Crowell's second, following his win for "After All This Time" earning the 1989 best country song.
"Yeah, this is good. I want to thank [album producer] Brian Ahern. I want to thank the Americana Music Association. I want to thank all of the musicians that recorded with us. We couldn't have made a record without them," Crowell said. "Emmylou couldn't be here tonight because her brother has had a surgery, and she's a good sister, and she stayed home to tend to him. I dedicate this to my four daughters and my lovely wife, Claudia. Thank you."
The Del McCoury Band also picked up their second Grammy win for best bluegrass album with The Streets of Baltimore. Their previous win was a 2005 Grammy for their album, The Company We Keep.
Leading the remarks, Del McCoury said, "Thank you, folks. First I'd like to thank my Lord for the talent to sing and play music. And I'd also like to thank my wife Jean for listening to me sing all these years. I would've probably gotten tired of listening to me. I'd like to also thank all of these guys onstage with me. … They're the ones that made this record possible and made it sound great. I just did a few parts here and there, you know. I'd like to also thank my Grand Ole Opry family back there in Tennessee."
Ronnie McCoury, one of his two sons in the ensemble, added, "I'd just like to say, very few people get to experience what we do. We've traveled the road with my father all these years. So to be up here with him and to celebrate this with him is an incredible honor that very few people ever get to have. Thank you to the Academy and all of our families. We love them so very much."
Rob McCoury, the other son in the group, noted, "Thanks, Dad. This is all you. You did it all. You found the material, you sung all the songs, you produced the record, you mixed the record. This is all you!"
The Del McCoury Band also features Alan Bartram and Jason Carter.
Guy Clark, who was not present, won the best folk album award for My Favorite Picture of You. This is Clark's first Grammy.
Meanwhile, the Civil Wars were surprise winners in the category for best country duo/group performance with "From This Valley." Among a strong field of contenders, they were up against Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's recording of "You Can't Make Old Friends."
The Civil Wars' John Paul White accepted alone.
"I want to apologize to Dolly Parton for depriving her of anything at all. She's one of my biggest heroes and it's an honor to be nominated with everyone in this category," White said. "I want to thank my beautiful wife and my four kids. My wife has me at home a lot right now, and I hope she's still happy about that."
In addition to thanking a friend for tending his chilly pipes at home and Phil Madiera for co-writing the song, White did not thank his duo partner, Joy Williams, who was also a co-writer on the song. The duo split in the summer of 2012 and released their self-titled project last year.
The duo won two 2011 Grammys for their debut album Barton Hollow — one for best country duo/group performances, the other for best folk album. Last year, they shared a win with Taylor Swift for co-writing "Safe and Sound," in the category of best song written for visual media, in this case, The Hunger Games.
Other winners during the pre-telecast included Darius Rucker's "Wagon Wheel" for best country solo performance and Kacey Musgraves' "Merry Go 'Round" for best country song. Musgraves shared the Grammy with her fellow co-writers, Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne.
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analyze the effects of accounts receivable transactions using the percentage of sale 494424
Evaluate the following scenarios, assuming both companies use the net credit sales as the basis for estimating bad debts expense:
a. At year end, Bonnie Company has accounts receivable of $112,000. The allowance for uncollectible accounts has a balance prior to adjustments of $(400). In other words, there were fewer specific write-offs than estimated., leaving an excess in the allowance account. Net credit sales for the year were $315,000 and 3% is estimated to be uncollectible.
b. At year end, Clyde Company has acounts receivable of $220,000. The allowance for uncollectible accounts has a balance prior to adjustment of $200. In other words, more specific accounts were written off than estimated, so the allowance was short by $200. Net credit sales for the year were $1,525,000 and 1% is estimated to be uncollectible.
for each situation compute the following:
1. the bad debts expense for the year
2. the balance in the allowance for uncollectible accounts account at year end
3. the net realizable value of accounts receivable at year end
4. assuming Bonnie company had an accounts receivable (net) balance of $105,000 at the beginning of the year, what is Bonnie accounts receivable turnover ratio for the year
5. Assuming Clyde Company had an accounts receivable (net) balance of $226,000 at the beginning of the year, what is Clyde's accounts receivable turnover ratio for the year?
Sheet3 Sheet2 Sheet1 A B C D E G H Name Section F End of Problem Situation a. Accounts receivable Net credit sales Percentage estimated to be uncollectible Bad debt expense for the year Situation b. Balances at year end: Allowance for uncollectible accounts (credit balance) Allowance for uncollectible accounts (debit balance) Allowance for uncollectible accounts balance Net realizable value of accounts receivable Bonnie Company Clyde Company Accounts receivable turnover ratio Average net accounts receivables Problem 4-49A Beginning accounts receivable balance for part 4 Beginning accounts receivable balance for part 5 Formula 1 Formula 2 Formula 3 Formula 4 Formula 5 Formula 6 Formula 8 Formula 7 Formula 9 Formula 10 Reimers, Financial Accounting 3e 5.00 6.00 7.00 $112,000.00 8.00 400.00 9.00 $315,000.00 10.00 0.03 11.00 $105,000.00 12.00 13.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00 20.00 $220,000.00 21.00 200.00 22.00 $1,525,000.00 23.00 0.01 24.00 $226,000.00 25.00 26.00 27.00 28.00 29.00 30.00 Sheet3 Sheet2 Sheet1 A B C D E G H Name Section F End of Problem Situation a. Accounts receivable Net credit sales Percentage estimated to be uncollectible Bad debt expense for the year Situation b. Balances at year end: Allowance for uncollectible accounts (credit balance) Allowance for uncollectible accounts (debit balance) Allowance for uncollectible accounts balance Net realizable value of accounts receivable Bonnie Company Clyde Company Accounts receivable turnover ratio Average net accounts receivables Problem 4-49A Beginning accounts receivable balance for part 4 Beginning accounts receivable balance for part 5 Formula 1 Formula 2 Formula 3 Formula 4 Formula 5 Formula 6 Formula 8 Formula 7 Formula 9 Formula 10 Reimers, Financial Accounting…
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Actor Kurt Russell Talks About The Family Business: Baseball David Greene talks to actor Kurt Russell about the Portland Mavericks, a 1970s independent baseball team created by Kurt's father Bing. Battered Bastards is a documentary about the team.
Actor Kurt Russell Talks About The Family Business: Baseball
Actor Kurt Russell Talks About The Family Business: Baseball 4:28
David Greene talks to actor Kurt Russell about the Portland Mavericks, a 1970s independent baseball team created by Kurt's father Bing. Battered Bastards is a documentary about the team.
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
The Portland Mavericks were a minor league baseball team that played in the 1970s. Their story is told in a new documentary on Netflix. It's called "The Battered Bastards Of Baseball." This team was irreverent, unorthodox. The roster included a bunch of hopefuls and has-beens.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
The Mavericks were founded by a baseball outsider, the actor Bing Russell probably best known for his role as Deputy Clem on "Bonanza." But he was also a serious student of baseball.
GREENE: And when "Bonanza" ended, he left LA to create what was at the time the only independent baseball team in the minors. All the other teams were affiliated with major league clubs. This was in Portland, Oregon, in 1973.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
BING RUSSELL: It was an exciting, exciting year, and this is just the greatest baseball city in the world if it's not the greatest city in the world.
GREENE: This actor's obsession with baseball was no surprise to Bing's son, Kurt Russell, also an actor. And it turns out, also a ballplayer. Kurt played for the Mavericks, and he was vice president of his dad's team. When we caught up with Kurt Russell, he told us baseball was always the family business.
KURT RUSSELL: I learned to pivot and turn to the left and right. I learned how to get a good start stealing second base. My mom didn't have a backyard with a pool and beautiful grass and trees. Our backyard was a batting cage. It was how I grew up. I just happen, you know - our other business was the picture business and television. That was how he made his living, and that was how I later started, you know, to make my living. But baseball was always the family business.
GREENE: But the business of baseball is exactly what the late Bing Russell was up against. Especially the 1970s, baseball was an establishment. The idea of an independent team was an affront. Even the city of Portland had doubts. Carren Woods, who became the assistant general manager of the Mavericks, recalls in the movie the reaction to Bing Russell coming to town.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASEBALL")
CARREN WOODS: Oregon is pretty provincial. We don't like outsiders. So when this guy from Southern California who is an actor was going to come to Portland, there was a lot of skepticism.
GREENE: And probably for good reason. Bing Russell put an ad in a trade paper and held tryouts that resembled a casting call. The hundreds of players who showed up were one motley crew. There are archival interviews with some in the film.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN 1: I think it's the American dream, you know, to just have the chance to play. And being a major league baseball player is not necessarily a worthwhile goal, but being a professional baseball player, I think, is a worthwhile goal.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN 2: How long did it take you to get here?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN 3: About four and a half days.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN 4: I don't care, you know, about the money. I just want to play ball.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN 5: Baseball is my first love. I always got that dream that I'll make it, but I'll probably have to tell myself I won't.
K. RUSSELL: He caught a lot of flak for that a little bit because it made it look like, you know, a circus time. And he said, I like a little circus.
GREENE: And this team has been compared to a real life "Bad News Bears." But Kurt Russell says, that's just not fair.
K. RUSSELL: "Bad News Bears" was a Hollywood version of people who can't play who win. That doesn't happen in real life. These guys were good players. They had been passed over. They'd hit a manager. They, you know, had sex with a manager's wife, anywhere from, you know - I mean, these guys, you know, were wild guys, you know. Some of them had drinking problems, drug problems, who knew what.
GREENE: And the team really embraced this image.
K. RUSSELL: They'd literally come into town at 4 o'clock in the morning and get the bull horn going and say, lock up your wives and daughters, the Mavericks are coming. The Mavericks are here.
GREENE: Their home games were something to behold. When they were on the verge of sweeping another team, they'd bring out a broom lit on fire. Fans started bringing their own brooms. And there was the team dog, who would occasionally be released onto the field, perhaps some thought at strategic moments to give the Mavericks' pitcher a breather in the middle of a game.
K. RUSSELL: They'd throw a ball in the field. The dog takes off and, of course, the crowd is laughing and, you know, whatnot. And the other team is just pissed off as hell.
GREENE: Despite all these antics, though, the team won. They made the playoffs, and in their five seasons of the existence, they caught the attention of the baseball world and took on the establishment.
K. RUSSELL: The David versus Goliath story that my dad was definitely David. He was the underdog, even though he never saw himself as one. He was.
GREENE: And Kurt Russell says his late father's legacy lives on.
K. RUSSELL: The legacy is that sometimes there's a diamond in the rough that you miss, and they deserve a chance again to show people what they can do. And four of them made it back to the big league off the Mavs and now there are lots of independent teams and independent leagues where guys have the opportunity to do what those four guys did.
GREENE: The documentary on the Portland Mavericks is called "The Battered Bastards Of Baseball," and it's on Netflix right now.


TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT > Project Report
The list of completed and ongoing projects in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus is as follows. (as of December 2020)
As a rule, ex-post evaluations by third-party experts are conducted in relation to the concluded projects. The criteria used for the evaluation are based on those developed by the Development Assistance Committee (relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability).*
*For further information click "Completed" in the column "Ex-Post Evaluation".
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Ex-Post Evaluation
Construction of a Low-level Liquid Radioactive Waste Treatment Plant "Suzuran" 4.15 bn Aug. 1994- Nov. 2001 Completed
Program for Dismantling Decommissioned Nuclear Submarines "Star of Hope": 5.801 bn Completed
Victor-III class NS 794 m Dec. 2003 – Dec. 2004
Victor-I class NS 870 m Sep. 2006- Nov. 2008
Charlie-I class NS 994 m Jan. 2008 – Apr. 2009
Victor-III class NS (x3) 3.193 bn July. 2008 – Dec. 2009
Construction of a Long-Term Storage Facility for the Reactor Compartment Units: 4.494 bn Completed
Floating Dock "Sakura" 2.538 bn Aug. 2010 – May 2012
Jib Cranes (x2) 1.270 bn Aug. 2010 – Nov. 2011
Tugboat "Sumire" 350 m Sep.2010 – July 2011
Procurement Services 336 m Oct.2009 – May 2012
Assistance in Constructing the Blast and Paint Facility 726 m Feb. 2013 – Apr. 2014 Completed
Cooperation on the Construction of the Regional Center for Conditioning and Long-term Storage of Radioactive Wastes in Primorsky Region 1.86 bn Oct. 2019 – -
Assistance in Establishing the SSAC and the PP 530 m Apr.1995 – Apr.2000 Completed
Provision of Medical Equipment to the Military Hospitals of the Ministry of Defense: 1.4 bn Completed (Japanese)
First Supply - Nov. 1994 – May 1997
Second Supply - Nov. 1997 – Aug.1998
Third Supply - Aug.1999 – Apr. 2000
Forth Supply - July 2000 – June 2001
Project for Strengthening Nuclear Security of Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology 173 m Apr. 2011-
Dec. 2014 Completed
Assistance in Establishing the SSAC and the PP 540 m Sept. 1994 – Oct. 1998 Completed
Provision of Medical Equipment to the Republican Clinical Hospital for War-invalids 450 m Aug. 1996 – Oct. 1997 Completed (Japanese)
Provision of ESR of the Institute of Nuclear Physics 90 m Dec. 1995 – Feb. 1997
Assistance for the establishment of a remote medical diagnostic system 70 m Feb. 1999 – Aug. 1999
Project for Strengthening Nuclear Security in Kazakhstan: 432.3m - -
IAEA Nuclear Security Training 6.3m Nov. 2011 – Apr. 2012 Completed
Nuclear Security Upgrade for Institute of Nuclear Physics 89 m Feb. 2012 – Feb. 2013
Nuclear Security Upgrade for Ulba Metallurgical Plant 337m Feb. 2012 – Feb. 2015 Completed
Assistance in Establishing the SSAC and the PP 240 m Sept. 1994 – Dec. 2000 Completed
Supply of Training Equipment to the Vocational Training Center for the Retired Military Personnel 310 m Apr. 1998 – Feb. 1999 Completed (Japanese)
Project to Deter the Illicit Trafficking of Nuclear and Radioactive Materials at the State Borders of Belarus 76 m July 2010 – Aug. 2011 Completed


Clippers open favorable stretch of 10 games with a 122-95 rout of the Kings
Clippers forward Montrezl Harrell fights for a rebound with Kings center Willie Cauley-Stein (00) and guard Malachi Richardson during the second half Tuesday night.
(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)
By Broderick TurnerStaff Writer
The Clippers' schedule is less than daunting over the next few weeks, putting them in position to make a move in the Western Conference standings.
But even with help on the way, the Clippers knowing that Blake Griffin might be able to play against the Lakers on Friday night after sitting out 14 games because of a knee injury, they still must compete no matter the opposition.
Their 122-95 romp over the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night at Staples Center was the first of seven games against teams with sub-.500 records over a 10-game stretch.
It was an easy win for the Clippers, who dropped 71 points on the Kings in the first half, the most points they've scored in the first 24 minutes of a game this season.
"Tonight was a huge game, a huge game," Austin Rivers said. "We needed to win. We need every win. So we can't just show up and play. That's how you drop games.
"We're not in position where we can drop games, or else we'll get further and further behind. We don't want to be playing catch-up the whole season."
Five players scored in double figures for the Clippers, who at 14-19 stand 10th in the Western Conference, three games out of eighth.
The Clippers had 31 assists on 44 made shots.
They made 55% of their shots, 13 of 31 (41.9%) from beyond the three-point arc.
"Actually, I just liked how hard we played, honestly," Clippers coach Doc Rivers said.
It was easy to enjoy watching rookie Milos Teodosic produce a career-high 10 assists, matching a Clippers season high.
It was fun to see Jamil Wilson, who is on a two-way contract, score a career-high 17 points on six-for-nine shooting, five-for-seven on three-pointers.
It was nice seeing DeAndre Jordan produce another double-double with 13 points and 15 rebounds in only 26 minutes.
It was good to see reserves Lou Williams (21 points), Montrezl Harrell (season-high 22 points) and Sam Dekker (10 points and six rebounds) provide a lift.
"We try to put an emphasis on playing harder than most teams," Wilson said. "I know Doc tries to use that as one of our main talents, just to play harder than other teams.
"We still have guys out. Guys are just going to have to step up."
The Clippers will play the Kings (11-22) two more times during their next 10 games.
They'll also face the Atlanta Hawks, who at 8-25 own the NBA's worst record.
The only teams with winning records they'll face are the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors, who they'll play twice, and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Moreover, the Clippers will play only three games on the road during the stretch, and they won't leave California.
One of the "road" games is against the Lakers at Staples Center, the other two at Golden State and Sacramento on consecutive nights.
"It's not easy to get a win," Jordan said. "It's hard as hell to get a win in the NBA, man.
"We came out at the beginning of the game a little sluggish, but that was on us. We came out in the second quarter with a different kind of intensity and mind-set that we wanted to be physical and attack the glass."
broderick.turner@latimes.com
Twitter: @BA_Turner
Broderick Turner
Broderick Turner is a Los Angeles Times reporter who covers the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers.
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What Should Be the Fate of the Bilderbergs?
July 5, 2016 by Phil Butler 1 Comment
I found a story buried beneath ten tons of garbage today. Brilliantly revealing, is the scathing photo essay on The Guardian by Charlie Skelton, with gripping images by Hannah Borno from 2014. Looking at their coverage of the notorious Bilderberg summit in retrospect, we can now see the sad shape of dirty geo-strategy business. Skelton nailed the elite warmongers and money grubbing psychos we live and die for aptly calling Bilderberg 2014:
"A gathering of those who stand to make a killing out of knowing where and when the bombs might fall, how many and on whom."
For those of us researching, reporting, and begging the world to see the truth of Ukraine and the Donbass, the debacle that is Bilderberg is a resounding opera of evil caricatures. NATO bosses, the US military establishment, great big business, lords, ladies, and supposed gentlemen dressed up and under guard… All that was missing at the Marriott hotel in Copenhagen was a dark an ominous cloud with big red horns, and evil Satanic eyes looming over the city's "Little Mermaid" statue on the harbor. There are no words, but somehow Skelton seems to utter a soliloquy to accompany the damnable scenery Borno captures with her camera.
BILDERBERG: Generals, Arms Bosses & Billionaire Speculators https://t.co/W9AcBi6ZAr Loyalty to whom? @RussiaConnects@robinmonotti
— Nico DAgris (@NicoDAgris) July 4, 2016
General Breedlove, the desk jockey commander who many say tried to incite a war with Russia – now the hypocrite tells media we need a Russia reset
I am not even sure how I missed this iconic reportage back then. Perhaps the last unbiased CNN report from the region caught my attention when the Donetsk Airport fiasco began. Maybe this rare CNN piece's cousin over at Forbes caught my eye? Or maybe somebody is already reshaping the historyffo of mainstream media reporting on those events? As I "Google" the term "Ukraine" now, and set the custom date to May, 2014, it's amazing how many moderate results appear!
This is amazing because in May of 2014, finding something unbiased about the Ukraine mess was near impossible. I am led to recall my own participation in the dissenting view, my becoming an analyst to show the other side of this horrible story. Even if Google conspired to help rework media history though, finding articles like this TIME one will always be possible. Those damnable Russkies, doing all that "dirty work" down yonder in Ukraine, you recall the US State Department line I know. "Meet the Cossack 'Wolves' Doing Russia's Dirty Work in Ukraine", it is emblematic of the "big lie" that started a brand new Cold War with Russia.
My readers and colleagues are fully aware, of the big business people behind the slaughter of innocent civilians in what became known as Novorossiya (which from the Russian is Новоро́ссия, or Romanian: Noua Rusie, or literally New Russia). Some reading this will not know much about the regions east and south of Kiev. Primarily Russian speaking these people are. So, the new Washington backed Kiev regime announcing Russian language's demise, only days after having taken power — well, imagine Russia taking over Texas, banning English and making Spanish the official language. Crime and the Donbass got the message clearly, and begged Vladimir Putin for help. This is irrefutable, the truth, and the simple fact of the matter of what happened from the Russian perspective.
NATO's former head mashed up into a Fonzi photo – Happy Days NOT
On the Bilderberg perspective, we have goddamned killers and soulless profiteers. Now that US supreme allied commander in Europe, General Philip Breedlove has been forced to resign over leaked emails where he plotted a NATO conflict with Russia, the picture of collusion and graft, of merciless men and women using us all, it becomes ever more clear. Breedlove, who most of us characterized as a paper warrior from the start, was neck deep in the Bilderberg discussions, along with then NATO boss Anders Fogh Rasmussen (younger version above), who Charlie Skelton calls a miniature "Fonzi", of hit TV show "Happy Days" fame. Just why human beings put pipsqueaks in charge of anything, is anybody's guess, but Skelton hammers this evil little woodpecker on the head. God, for the chance to body slam such narcissistic clowns.
VP Joe Biden with Poroshenko
But my point here is, they were all there. Weapons makers, policy makers, war makers, the world's worst evil doers, if only Zeus had any lightning bolts left, there could be peace on Earth for once in 50,000 years maybe! Yes, we should hate them if only for the blown to pieces kids of the Donbass. The children my Novorossiya pals like war-fighter Russell Bonner Bentley, or brave independent journalist Graham Phillips have shared with me, their truth is the only truth. You see the American side of this war horror story has no heroes or victims to speak of. BBC and Reuters cannot even drum up, a civilian population shelled in the night. There's not blown to pieces kids west of Donetsk, you see. The one million refugees that fled President Poroshenko's artillery were not from Kiev or Kharkiv, I know, I have friends there too. The artillery shells fall on the homes of people in pro-Russia territory.
But nobody tells you this.
A vice president's son takes on a board role with one of Ukraine's biggest natural gas companies. Some will remember the tiny flurry of reports on Joe Biden's boy Hunter joining Burisma Holdings in April of 2014. The shady dealings did not rub off on Biden, or the Obama administration then, but they should have. The company's big boss, Mykola Zlochevsky is on everybody's most wanted list for corrupt practices, including Kiev's. Speaking of "shady" deals and this Bilderberg meet-up of 2014, here's some interesting news following that summit.
In October of 2014 attendee Saab announced an $800 million plus Gripen E fighter development contract
Saab also announced 36 Gripen NG fighter aircraft for the Brazilian Air Force about the same time
Saab was also mentioned in a key drone development program with BAE, Finmeccanica SpA, and others in the European Neuron drone project.
Spanish activists question the role of Bilderberg attendee Mercedes Millán Rajoy, calling her a spy. There is speculation about dossiers she's seen carrying, depicted in The Guardian photos. Then days after the summit King Juan Carlos abdicates?
Key Bilderberg attendee in Copenhagen, KKR Global Institute is where former CIA Director David Petraeus migrated to. In July 2014, the director of policy and research at the KKR Global Institute, Neil Brown (quote below)penned this report "announcing" the west's competition with Russia for the Southstream pipeline.
Charlie Skelton's Bilderberg report makes special mention of Airbus Thomas Enders. It's probably just coincidence (number 2000) that Airbus Defence & Space was assisting in the investigation of the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 later on that year.
A report by Oakland Institute released in July 2014 reveals Monsanto, Cargill, and DuPont, and other corporate investors swooping in to grab up Ukraine's agricultural operations. The Rothschild interests and many others were also implicated.
From the shadows, Barack Obama gives Ukraine's Poroshenko his marching orders
And as the saying goes, "the list could go on, and on." Land speculation to the business of making killing machines, all we glean of chaos on our planet today can be traced to these elites and their henchmen. As corny as it sounds, the seeds the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, and even the Vanderbilts planted generations ago, sprouted the horrendous weeds before us today. Neil Balfour, he is a direct descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and his Landkom International PLC owns hundreds of thousands of acres of Ukraine farmland. Today the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is doing it's PR best to promote organic farming investments.
"The most viable alternative route for natural gas supplies to Europe is the planned Southern Gas Corridor, which is made up of three pipelines. The project will include the South Caucasus Pipeline, which is currently being enlarged, running from the Caspian Sea to Turkey. From Turkey, the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) and the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) will transport Caspian natural gas to Austria. To undermine the Southern Gas Corridor, Russia has undertaken the South Stream Pipeline, which would bypass Azerbaijan and Turkey to terminate in Austria. However, the economic viability of South Stream is in question and, according to Ms. Assenova, the project unlikely to be completed." — from Energy Security Concerns in South Eastern Europe – by Neil Brown —
Henry Kissinger has been a part of it all since before Nixon, Chile, the Middle East, Yugoslavia, part of it all. He was at Bilderberg 2014 too.
Evercore investment's CEO, Roger Altman was in Copenhagen, and in late 2014 his firm advised big pharmaceuticals that the ruble fall would not affect their win. Douglas Flint of HSBC was there, and later in the year that investment group's predictions of the assault on the Russian ruble came true. But like I said, I could go on and on. The point is all too clear. These notorious elites really do run our everyday lives and Earth's wars too. And yes, they do make me physically sick to my stomach too.
Vanya Voronov was air lifted to Moscow, some say on the orders of Putin himself, after having been hit by URKOP artillery fire in east Ukraine. Today this amazing boy wears a smile still, a true hero of a people's fight with imperialism and the profit mongers of the west. The BBC never so much as mentioned this boy.
My Mom used to have this saying when we were kids. She was a southern lady, and like Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind fame, she could be a bit, callous and cruel sometimes. "That scallywag ain't worth the powder and lead it would take to blow his brains out," she'd exclaim. "Not worth killing", she'd sometimes proclaim. If the low-down wheeler dealer was low enough, that is. To these people, a little kid with one limb left, sitting alone at a victory day parade in Moscow, he's nothing. Vanya Voronov (above), like hundreds of thousands of other children in the path of these sociopaths, he's just something stuck to the bottom of their expensive shoes.
But I don't think we should kill them, they are not worth it, just like Mom said. But dragging them out into the streets, naked, and tarring and feathering them one-by-one? Yeah, this seems more fitting. Oh, and confiscating their cumulative wealth to distribute to the poor…. Yes, I am for that.
When do we start? This is my final remark.
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Joe Biden and the other traitors amongst us
April 3, 2016 by Phil Butler 7 Comments
Joe Biden is the oozing sore on the body of United States politics and government. I neglect including his official title out of respect for the office of Vice President of the United States of America. Wherever in this world there is wholesale killing over money and oil, Biden is there, neck deep in the shit. Now Armenia is in the crosshairs, and Biden is the neocon cheerleader again.
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." – Article III of the Constitution of the United States of America
Delaware politician Joe Biden is an American traitor, and I use this term sparingly. His most recent "official" lunacy, his siding with Azerbaijan on opening hostilities with Armenia on the frontiers of Russia, it's a fascist form of madness. Azer News reports:
"Biden at a meeting with President Aliyev once again voiced Washington's strong support to the Southern Gas Corridor project, which will carry Azerbaijan's blue fuel to the European market."
Here are your conspirators in this May 1, 2011 file image released by the White House and digitally altered by the source to obscure the details of a document in front of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington. Hidden from view, standing just outside the frame of this photograph was a career CIA analyst whose job for nearly a decade was finding the al-Qaida leader.
Gas. How many times have we seen this unconscionable liar chime in where energy meets the dollar bill? In America, the media and political allies portray Biden as the champion of alternative energy and environmental issues. This is a classic redirect, pure Machiavellian larceny, Biden is anything but the Don Quixote of renewable energy. He and Obama, the people behind, pretend to be one thing in order to steal America blind. Here's one example, a joint declaration by the president and vice-president entitled "New Energy for America". The document even contains an answer to all American's prayers in the section "Immediate Relief from Pain at the Pump." You read that correctly.
Earlier today, @VP and @DrBiden greet @IsraeliPM and Sara Netanyahu. Follow along → https://t.co/hA4FtslAQi pic.twitter.com/yTfCrSgTz9
— VP Biden Live (@VPLive) March 9, 2016
Biden, the Obama team, use the lie as a form of Sunday-go-to-meeting preaching for the god of excessive-ness and greed. Fracking and shale oil interests in the US aside, the energy war that is blazing worldwide has been instigated by these people. "Relief at the gas pump" is simply a way to placate the dying American middle class – period. GQ's Jeanne Marie Laskas called Joe Biden "the most quietly effective politician in D.C." back in 2013, and boy was she right.
Obama, Erdoğan and Biden
Quietly, in the sneaky sense, Biden has framed the portrait of himself as the Holy Roman Catholic cool guy and martyr, a politician's politician, dad, husband, and basketball fan laboring to save the American Dream. He's epic as the ultimate diabolical impostor, a big red fox in America's most precious hen house. Biden is sinister, arrogant, powerful, and absolutely one of the most dangerous people on Earth. He's dangerous because he's been empowered, and because the American people have not already tarred and feathered he and Barack Obama on the White House lawn. And they will both go on being dangerous, in the way the Clintons are. The Tweet shared above, it shows how these neocons operate within the click. If you look at Biden's wife, educator Dr. Jill Biden's Twitter has the second lady in refugee camps in Jordan, revealing the horror her husband and the other neocons created with Arab Spring and the anti-Assad campaigns. The hypocrisy of these people literally knows no bounds.
You've already seen America accept Biden's alter ego in mainstream media, the CNN Biden, that is. Now let me show you the real Vice President.
When Joe Biden was in law school he was accused of the worst kind of lying for a law student, a plagiarist is simply a cheater, and nothing has changed in his demeanor that I can see. His academic beliefs also seem to mirror his religious ones too.
The kiss of Judas
Biden the Catholic is a paradox. He says he believes in "life starting at conception", but has supports vehemently Roe v. Wade. His faith is, therefore, a diplomatic lie, he's voted like an atheist on key issues surrounding abortion, such as; stem cell research on embryos, minors crossing state lines to get abortions, he voted "no" on notifying parents of their child's abortions, and other key issues. If Biden has any convictions at all, they have nothing whatsoever to do with God and faith.
Joe Biden is a powerful member of a new world order that believe hegemony is the only path for humanity. What a paramount lie this is, for any leader of the United States of America. Under the guise of an American idealist, Biden and his fellows truly are the new tyrants. In the early 1990s, with Bush I on the doorstep of Iraq, Joe Biden cast his lot before Congress in this speech. If you'll allow me to quote directly on his view of Iraq after Operation Desert Storm:
"…(Bush) captivated by a bizarre concern to maintain Iraq's territorial integrity, the President failed to drive Saddam from power, instead ordering our forces to stand idle while Saddam–whom the President had equated to Hitler– regrouped his defeated army to massacre tens of thousands of Kurds…"
Biden goes on to proclaim that the only viable foreign policy of "our" democracy is one based on this new world order of things. This psychopath goes on to characterize the American people as a willing mob in expanding his American Dream, an expectation of prosperity far over the horizon from the picket fences of 1990. Biden is, in effect, a podium pounding agent of extremism, a new age Mussolini in cahoots with crazy think tank fascists and ultra-wealthy plutocrats. But even these people's vision is a lie, convoluted, impossible in its devious purpose, and Biden knows it. He is, you see, the Devil's Advocate in real life, a hapless money-grubber who acts out the scene from his script. The new world order is only that, a shakeup to allow for even more control by the "controllers" – but let's move on.
Biden's speech back then speaks against such logical public assertions as "neo-isolationism", which would be the death march for this NWO of which he speaks. "America First", as Joe Biden characterizes it, would have shored up our country, leaving the world to handle the world's progress for a time. As we can see clearly now, the energy magnates, the Israelis, and the broad structure of puppet nations Washington leverages would not allow this. If America's best interests were best served building a better America, then Joe Biden is the traitor I roast in this story. He and Barack Obama, they first coddle, then lie, then inject fear into the rhetoric – it's a playbook you see. Another quote illustrates this, here Biden tantalized with the dawn of high tech in our lives, then casts the same old dreadful net:
"The full panoply of threats to our future security and prosperity, the proliferation of deadly high-tech weapons, the accelerating degradation of our planetary environment, economic protectionism and unfair competition, overpopulation and migration, narcotics and AIDS all require global solutions."
There it is, the real new world order, calling the people to task over the misuse, greed, un-sustainability, and human disaster the elite caused us in the first place. Biden is a goddamned visionary! The soon to be vice president predicted it all! God bless him, he must have fought hard all these years to put a stop to our misery! Seriously, I hope the reader sees the writing on the wall here. These criminals knew all along they were killing us in the millions, and their solution for stopping the killing is to kill still more – until we are totally under their thumbs, until all the resources are gone, gone, gone. The new world order operates in the same corredors as the necons, they are the elites, the people behind Obama's "War Room", and those Rolling Stone framed in this article about Biden and the rest. Hidden in plain sight, Arab Spring's revolutionaries metamorphosed into ISIL and terror.
Who has the high tech weapons? Russia stopped building them in the 1990s. Who destroyed the climate, and who betrayed the chance to half global warming in Copenhagen? Who created the competition for American jobs, who sold out the American worker? Did Joe Biden know about the refugee crisis today, way back then? Maybe the NWO created AIDS! Maybe our armed incursions in Afghanistan and elsewhere enhance the world drug trade! This is damnable, and I know the reader sees it now. Joe Biden and his ilk, they are our problem, not weapons of mass destruction. Biden ends his speech to Congress:
"Our challenge demands that we conceive a new world order that encompasses, and builds upon, the concept of collective security that Woodrow Wilson first advanced to a nation and a world not yet ready to comprehend its necessity.
Our circumstances today leave no choice: America must propound a new and expansive form of the Wilsonian vision and then lead the world in bringing that vision to reality."
Aerial view of the Zaatari refugee camp near the Jordanian-Syrian border, now home to 160,000 Syrians
Biden, the whole Obama White House, in fact, is completely suspect for everything from out and out war crimes to internal blackmailing. I've no time this morning to characterize the relationship in between Biden and Obama, and Hillary Clinton too, but most people wondered why the hell Barack chose Biden in the first place. Other authors hint at a sex scandal Obama was implicated in, at Biden's Delaware power base, and the legal woes of one Larry Sinclair, the man who said he had sex with Obama. I shudder at the implications in total here…. I wonder why, if Sinclair were lying for instance, how come his book "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies and Murder" is still available? Despite a 6 year long, $30 million dollar defamation suit against Sinclair, the author claims not even the United States District Court in DC can disprove what he says.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (R) welcomes U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Kiev, Ukraine, December 7, 2015.
Today Joe Biden is stressing the strategic importance of Azerbaijan to the US. What does "strategic importance mean", should be your next question. A day into renewed Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict, and the US leader is already taking sides! This is just like when Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down, Biden chimed in instantly with "Putin's Missile" theories. The trend and evidence are clear. As soon as Joe Biden speaks, the plan for world chaos and the new order is revealed. No sooner had the Kiev junta started it's Russophobic cleansing of Ukraine, Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden took up a position with Ukraine's largest natural gas companies, Burisma Holdings. But the list of Biden "curiosities" is actually endless. I'd rather leave the reader with the man's most damnable quality, his cowardly role as betrayer of even the NWO. Biden has now turned in his "impeachment" insurance, his truth telling session at Harvard University over the administration's arming of ISIL. Speaking of funding terror, Biden drops a dime on his president and American allies:
"Where did all of this go? (money and arms) So now what's happening? All of a sudden everybody's awakened because this outfit called ISIL, which was Al Qaeda in Iraq, which when they were essentially thrown out of Iraq, found open space in territory in eastern Syria, work with Al Nusra who we declared a terrorist group early on, and we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them."
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and UAE Vice President receives U.S. Vice President Joe Biden
Joe Biden is actually a sad example of our own mediocrity, America's new penchant for laziness and carelessness where leadership is concerned. Apathy is rampant today, consumerism ideals on the rise, the free lunch the "easy way" of things has taken over. This quote from long ago reveals an undeniable truth:
"We (modern society) make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." – C.S. Lewis
Since before 1990, we've watched leadership in America degrade to the point of being comedy. Liars and thieves rule us completely, but still, we prefer to plod on into cataclysm, zombies of a clear apocalypse. Clear for the sane, that is. And the rats? Well, they convene before the alter of cover your ass (CYA) as usual. The Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey having already resigned over his Congressional tattling about Obama, Biden's only protection, if American hangs Obama, is to say he "tried" to tell the truth about his treachery. As for Dempsey and many others, involvement in the whole Iraq war situation led to many a meteoric rise to power. Biden, Obama, McCain, the whole mess of Washington now is owing to these energy wars, and now Armenia is the target.
So there you have it, proof I am not just having a rant over another neocon moment in our history.
Filed Under: Editorial, People Tagged With: Al Nusra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Biden, Desert Storm, Erdogan, Euromaidan, Jill Biden, Joe Biden, Martin Dempsey, New World Order, Obama, oil wars, Poroshenko, The Clintons, Ukraine, war
VP Joe Biden proves, Washington can get by with murder
October 6, 2014 by Phil Butler Leave a Comment
How about this, Vice President Joe Biden busts loose and admits ISIS has been armed by our allies, right under our noses, in plain view?
At Harvard's John F. Kennedy Forum last week Biden talked openly about the part US allies in the Middle East played in empowering ISIS to overthrow Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, and in so doing creating the current monster. This report from Global Research outlines the details of what has to be the most amazing gaff by a politician in decades. Biden, for all intents, blows the whistle on the Obama administration, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
But what's more concerning, more dangerous, is the fact the administration has not been called onto the carpet over this and other foreign policy and meddling. Given the revelations over the past couple of years, it's almost as if the American public could care less what happens, or what position the current administration puts our country in in any regard. The US has lost a great deal of credibility and influence on account of NSA spying, meddling in Ukraine and now Hong Kong, and sanctions on Russia that have hurt more than helped the European situation.
Patrick Martin of Global Research calls the revelation the latest stain on this administration, a "testament to the degeneracy of the American political system." And he's spot on. Even the Obama owned mainstream is on Biden's case, albeit letting him off the hook as just some idiotic bigmouth. The Washington Post fails to amplify the obvious story, but instead alludes only to Biden's lost chances at a Presidential bid in 2016! And right there is the problem America has, a candidacy is more important than world peace or world war.
The underlying story of a government with strategies and concerns far off the track from what Americans want or need, this is our major concern. As presidents go, we could elect Mr. Bean and do as well as funding terror, watching it turn on us, then breaking our bank bombing it. America is turned upside down, and most Americans are asking the pharmacist for a headache pill.
If you think for a moment we're not in the soup reality wise, New Day host Chris Cuomo said he admires Biden even still, and get this, for his candor. So if Biden admitted Obama is the anti-Christ, Cuomo and half of America would be okay with it, as long as he was stupid enough to spill the beans? Wow. Let me say that again, Wow.
Photo credit: Joe Biden charicature by DonkeyHotey
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SCOTUS Deals Blow to Planned Parenthood
Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 by Susan Brinkmann
Arkansas State Capital (Wikicommons)
In a surprising move, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Planned Parenthood's challenge to an Arkansas law which will ban medication abortions in that state.
The Stream is reporting on the decision by the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) not to hear Planned Parenthood's challenge to a new law that requires that any physician who "gives, sells, dispenses, administers, or otherwise provides or prescribes the abortion-inducing drug" must have hospital admittance privileges. This common sense law will insure that women who take the drug and experience complications are able to receive the medical care they need.
Even though a federal judge initially barred enforcement of the law, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that decision citing a failure by the judge to make essential factual findings.
Planned Parenthood claimed that it made every effort to comply with the new law but couldn't find a single physician in the state who was willing to fulfill these duties.
"Planned Parenthood contacted every OB-GYN it could identify in the state, and none agreed to enter into the required contract," their petition reads. "As the district court recognized, this is not surprising because 'physicians who provide abortions or associate with physicians who provide abortions' in Arkansas 'risk being ostracized from their communities and face harassment and violence toward themselves, their family, and their private practices.'"
However, even the manufacturer of Mifeprex, also known as RU-486, the medication used to induce these abortions, has a long list of warnings on its website.
They claim that fatal infections and bleeding occur very rarely following use of the drug but insist that "Before prescribing MIFEPREX, inform the patient about the risk of these serious events. Ensure that the patient knows whom to call and what to do, including going to an Emergency Room if none of the provided contacts are reachable, if she experiences sustained fever, severe abdominal pain, prolonged heavy bleeding, or syncope, or if she experiences abdominal pain or discomfort, or general malaise (including weakness, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea) for more than 24 hours" after taking the drug.
Of the 1.52 million women who took the drug between the years 2000 and 2011, there were 2,207 reported cases of adverse events. These included 14 deaths, 612 hospitalizations, 58 ectopic pregnancies, 339 cases of blood loss requiring transfusions, and 256 cases of infections of which 48 were considered severe.
In spite of these alarming statistics, Planned Parenthood's Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens chastised the Supreme Court for its decision and insisted that, despite the facts, the Arkansas' law interferes with a woman's right to "safe, legal abortion."
"Arkansas is now shamefully responsible for being the first state to ban medication abortion," Laguens said. "This dangerous law also immediately ends access to safe, legal abortion at all but one health center in the state."
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who has no monetary interest in the abortion industry and, therefore, no reason to promulgate baseless talking points, regards the law as a way to insure that those women who experience complications after using the drug can receive the care they need.
"As attorney general, I have fully defended this law at every turn and applaud the Supreme Court's decision against Planned Parenthood today," said Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge. "Protecting the health and well-being of women and the unborn will always be a priority. We are a pro-life state and always will be as long as I am attorney general."
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