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Kerry Lands In Kiev, Sanctions Against Russia "In Matter Of Days", US Prepares $1 Billion Loan For Ukraine
While the world digests the recent Putin press conference in which he appeared to superficially soften his stance on the Ukraine, US SecState John Kerry lands in Kiev while the state department announced that sanctions against Russia are "coming in a matter of days", and as the US announces it is preparing a $1 billion aid package for the Ukraine, which despite the toned down rhetoric by Putin just lost the Gazprom discount for natgas due to non-payment meaning its reserves will be depleted even faster, suggesting a far greater urgency to providing funding for the Ukraine in what some have said is now a fight between Putin and the IMF, as the latter tries to drain what little funds remain in the nation, while the former urgently seeks to keep it afloat.
Here is how the WSJ lays out the itinerary:
- U.S.’s Kerry Arrives in Ukraine
- U.S. Pledges $1 Billion in Loan Guarantees to Ukraine – Officials
- U.S. to Provide Technical Support to Ukrainian Central Bank, Finance Ministry
- U.S. to Help Ukraine Trace Stolen Assets
- U.S. Sanctions on Russia Likely “Days” Away – Officials
And in pictures and tweet:
US Sec of State John Kerry has landed in Kiev for talks with Ukraine govt pic.twitter.com/hdwq2lsQdZ
— Sarah Rainsford (@sarahrainsford) March 4, 2014
John kerry visits shrine in kiev and talks to locals pic.twitter.com/Dz6IV297WU
— Sarah Rainsford (@sarahrainsford) March 4, 2014
US Sec State John Kerry arrived in Kiev with promise of fin & tech support 4 the interim govt. Working with Congress on $1bln assistance pkg
— Sarah Rainsford (@sarahrainsford) March 4, 2014
US + Ukrainian flags fly at Kiev airport where S/State John Kerry just landed pic.twitter.com/DypZmnITEa
— Sarah Rainsford (@sarahrainsford) March 4, 2014
MORE: U.S. prepares $1 billion aid package as Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in the troubled Ukraine: http://t.co/6k62cw0lNk
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 4, 2014
BREAKING: As John Kerry arrives in Ukraine, State Dept. official says sanctions against Russia coming in a matter of "days"
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 4, 2014
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1$Billion in loans to Ukrain? Gee, that could go a long way towards easing our 25% unemployment, don't ya think Johnny Boy?
geeee, wilbur, these ukrainians sure neeeeed our hlep
i wil give him a bucket of oats to stop giving our money away
i was against john kery being pesident before i was against john kerry being secretary of state
Shouldnt the futures tank because of this??? I mean Kerry is know to fuck things up a lot...he will probably piss off Putin within a few hours with stupid remarks and re-ignite more 'aggression' from Russia.
Also, if I were Putin, that 1 billion dollar loan is just a way for the US to get Ukraine's support against Russia.
GYellen prints another Billion, less than one days POMO.
Add it to the list
US trade with Russia
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4621.html
US imports from Russia $26.96bn
US exports to Russia $11.16bn
US sanctions aren't going to weaken Russia economically, they're trading buttons.
SecState Hillary Clinton and Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych yucking it up just a few years ago.
http://gdb.rferl.org/7E00C5CD-A409-411B-A6C5-9444D65AFF0F_mw1024_n_s.jpg
two guys just having fun
because hillary is a guy
because she has a penis
Hide your apples, hide your carrots.
Long on Ukrainian feed bags
Hillary has a what?
Pop quiz horseface.. who said ? “no foreign entanglements”
..great opportunity for an invasion.
John Kerry said to be "seeking European stables".
I'm hoping that the cocksucker finds poison oats in those stables.
The title of this post basically says that while Russia is bringing men, weapons and determination to this fight, the US is bringing the printing press only, because that is the only tool the US has to control.
KIEV, Please Keep John Kerry!
We do not want him back!
The trade does not count that much, but freezing assets hurts Russians. Too bad the U.S. telegraphs its intentions, so the oligarchs have time to transfer their money elsewhere.
Putin can isolate the United States from around the world faster than you can spit. To this end, Putin needed only to declare that Russia sells oil and gas only for gold.
After that, the U.S. is becoming a third world country immediately. Check and mate.
The US went to war when Saddam tried to sell his oil in Euros.
Of course him funding the escalating wave of Palestinian suicide bombers didn't help either.
Point is, the US would 'freak' if he tried to price and sell oil in anything but petro-dollars.
"US would 'freak' if he tried to price and sell oil in anything but petro-dollars"
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CLA410A.html
That article is nearly a decade old.
lol whatever
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve#Officially_reported_gold_holdings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_gold_production
all the US would do is ramp up production and call in notes... not to mention the US is the worlds top energy producer anyway and specifically produces more natgas than Russia... in other words, "whoopty doo"
Top energy producer? The US has been regulated to squeezing oil from rocks and sand, LOL.
No wonder the Germans wanted their gold back. They knew this day would come when Russia would demand Gold for up front payment. It only takes the Russians to do it and then the dominos fall. Why because Russia is a big player in the energy market, and if everyone else sees them getting the gold for the precious hydrocarbons then everyone else with the black gold will want the yellow gold also in exchange.
Whhiiiiiiny, I'm in the Ukreigheigheigheighghghghghn.
I bet he was tossing Heinz ketchup packets out the window while landing too!
Someone's been shot!!! No, that is simply aid packet from Amereeka, Kerry pay for out of own pocket. What a country!
i thought the "loans" usually ran in the 2 Trillion dollar range and came on pallets the can go missing easily??? WTF stick with the plan dudes
Obama is allowing WW3 to unfold, and all he's worried about is his next manslurping date with Reggie Love's feces stained member.
You have one hell of a vivid imagination.
Rex it's funny that you think Ohum has any say in this matter, it's kind of ridiculous that you think a figurehead has any real policy control.
Want a huge pile of money to go missing fast? Just have Jon Corzine stand next to it and it's gone in record time!
Corzine is an amateur compared to Rumsfeld, who made $2T disappear when he admitted this to CONgress on 9/10/2001, and no one has bothered to follow up since.
It also helped that box-cutter wielding Muslim terrorists decided to target the Pentagon's financial records offices and WTC7 which just happened to collapse into its own footprint.
"...no one has bothered to follow up since"
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/gold.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-ys24PCYQ Where Did The Towers Go? A Presentation by Dr. Judy Wood Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eodnnfjWp18 Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r2p5eyg09c Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9r3YwfMULE Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAQ-XVetD3Q Part 5Prains the money is not for the Ukraine economy its to further bribe the politicians and Ukraine military and Kerry gets to stash some of it in his Israeli accounts and he spends the rest on his European Vacation, with lots of fine Ukrainian girls in his bed
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/90643245/fed-frees-israeli-ba...
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/113462
I guess by cracking down on the Swiss the Fed made sure the business got routed to Israel.
"U.S. to Help Ukraine Trace Stolen Assets" LOL I guess the trace gets cold when the money enters Israeli banks. Case cold, case closed.
The USA looks so dumb in the eyes of the world, everyone there heard Nuland's conversation, they know it was a coup by US and NATO, everyone knows democracy is a farce in the USA and in countries where USA says there is now democracy. You can be sure if Nuland had that conversation then there must of been tons of others for all the other democracies the USA has brought about in some cases with direct military intervention, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Grenada, and all the Central American countries getting their Banana republic democracies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars
Really what is the USA, it is and Empire, we have military bases around the world making sure everyone takes the dollar. We print dollars and buy tangible goods for paper without any value. If you dont like it we overthrow your government and put one in that does what we say, or we cause problems on your borders on in your country with armed insurrection or facebook and tweeter your kids into your squares channeling teenage rebellion to our ends.
Socialism is when you run out of other peoples money, does 2+2 still add up to four?
It all adds up for Socialism as long as there are 401Ks, IRAs and savings accounts to seize.
Who is loaning us the billion? Maybe Ukraine should go directly to China for a handout. Take out the middle man.
I was wondering the same thing. Where the fuck is this money coming from.....oh, right.
More importantly, where was the TSA to detain this asshole for having WMD on him (whiney mass delusion)? The radiation machine could surely see he was keeping it in his horse head.
This guy needs to disappear.
The money isn't coming from the Free Shit Army, that's for sure.
Putin's adviser on economics Sergei Glazyev said:
- Russia will abandon the dollar.
- And also Russia will create its currency system , together with China and other countries.
- And also Russia will abandon all public U.S. Treasuries.
- And also Russia will refuse to return any U.S. loans.
- And also Russia will arrest all assets of the United States and the West.
- And also Russian will stop all Russian oil and gas supplies to Europe. Oil and gas from Russia will go to China.
- And also Russia already has banned the import of meat from the United States.
Goodbye dollar, hello gold. Goodbye to the United States and the West, hello China and East.
http://x2t.com/287425
I think China has also hinted to abandoning the Dollar in case of sanctions against Russia.
i picture this all as a game of chess
they have expended a pawn
we have a king a pawn and a rook
check to you mr president
It would be stupid and suicidal for Russia to sever all ties to the EU and become totally dependant on China.
They merely need to price and sell oil in anything but petro-dollars, when they sell to EU and China, and the petro-dollar is fucked, due to the avalanche effect.
AFTER the dollar is dethroned and broken, and the US is bankrupt, they can do whatever they please.
The key is DETHRONING the dollar.
But the US will just start an all-out war. It needs to be a coordinated effort with China and some larger players will shift in the wind and carry momentum.
$1 billion loand will be used to buy $1 billion from US weapons manufacturwers.
LOL - $1 Billion doesn't even cover what they owe in back fees for Nat Gas from Gazprom!
Not sure about flag protocol, but does the flag on top mean whose country your in?
At this point one should be glad there are no swastikas waving from the flagpole...
you would prefer something with some blue in it?
Not a fan of six-pointed stars either, if that's what you're insinuating... I'm long past the false Zio vs. Nazi dichotomy
Yes it does.
The only time a foreign Flag flies above your own is when you are "under" the protection of that Country.
This is the flag protocol for a surrender.
wrong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_protocol#United_States
Methinks Kerry should have stayed home. The US is causing more trouble there than it is worth,
especially with the female horses
OT: This may not mean much of anything but it appears another one has bitten the dust. Why would a 28 year old, attractive, CEO of a bitcoin exchange commit suicide? http://newswatch.us/28-year-old-ceo-of-bitcoin-exchange-dead-after-possi...
Oh no! Not Fonerats!!
Was it something we said??
Mares... But LMAO!
If he talks too much, he'll sound hoarse.
He could still neigh Russian proposals though.
Whoa a billion dollars? I'm not certain old Yeller's printers can handle that.
they keep that much stashed behind the vending mach in the hallways
David Burge @iowahawkblog Feb 28
Crimea "mostly Russian-speaking." Sudetenland "mostly German-speaking." #Iveseenthismoviebefore
Billions to the interim government, who will spend it on their cronies, leaving the people of Ukraine with the bill and nothing else to show for the transaction.
The Golden rule to keeping power. Pay the King's court and pay the King's guard.
Today they'll pay the King's jester, next week they'll be paying (a visit to) the King's lackeys (in Brussels).
That's okay because the debt to GDP ratio will prevent a hard bankruptcy landing, the type the west can no longer afford.
It's going to cost a fortune to spruce up and delouse the old presidential palace after the 'common folk' walked all over it dontcha know...
...and cutting checks to Putin, which will be used to underwrite any further Russian actions in Ukraine.
Would someone please explain to me how a bankrupt US can 'loan' anything to the Ukraine? Who the hell keeps uping the USA's credit limit?
This is simply to prevent a western style bankruptcy, our currency is no longer backed by gold. It's backed by gvt produced fiat talk, five and ten dollar bills with a purple or gold emblem in the SE corner.
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" Who the hell keeps uping the USA's credit limit?"
US Federal Reserve "Bank".
Simple, CD, the USSA just borrows MOAR.
I see our Economic Hitmen are already at work in the Ukraine
How much will it cost for them to keep Mr. Ed there? I'll donate $100.
I'll throw in a bag of oats. Or maybe we can ship him to China? It's the year of the Horse so he'd be real popular...
We all chipped in for a bag of cement.
Willlllllburrrrrrr
Realistically, what would happen if Russia dumps all their US Bonds in response to Sanctions?
Except the Fed printing some more?
As long as the herd stays grouped together the herd is safe. If Russia dumps USA bonds and no one else follows it is Russia who will be hurt. In fact the herd will rush in to buy those bonds Russia is selling to protect the herd which protects themselves.
Now if Russia AND China decides to dump all together...that may make a difference but yes, in times of unrest, US Treasuries are considered the safe haven and its not because of the USA's pristine balance sheet but because of their military presence all over the globe.
...and their dollar presence all over the globe. It's in most countries' best interest to keep the dollar afloat.
At least in the short term.
You're close. A panic is not a one-step, as many here (American mindset) seem to favor. Rather...
You create a panic (with massive series of dumps) AFTER a sell-off has already started.
You start the sell-off by switching sales of oil (and its pricing in gas) away from the petro-dollar.
IOW, first inflict a mortal wound and then finish them off fast when they're down. Tap, tap-tap.
To do that, both Russia and China and maybe a few others need to act in concert.
They might as well use the G8 date and venue in Sochi this June to work towards that (accelerated?) goal.
There's always Belgium.
The Ukraine will use the $1B we give them to reduce accounts payable to Russia.
Nothing to see here.
The day is about to start.
Let's go trade this thing.
Yeah a billion dollars to Ukraine and I just topped two thousand dollars for my home heating oil bill for 4 months. What a fukin arrangement:-[
You didn't heat that!
WHY did Obama give the protesters millions of dollars in aid, then hang them out to dry when they overthrew the overnment?
Because Obama!
For a country that we had NO involvement in we are sure quick to the draw.
Where are we getting the 1 Billion from?
Your grandkids.
Radio Shack has a better chance of being independant and surviving the next 12 months than the Russian speaking part of Ukraine.
mr. ed is going to bloviate them to death. he sure likes giving away MY MONEY.
So in the meantime the Ukraine is still in need of loans. Russia still has bases in Crimea, and sanctions (?) are still going to be applied. How long will that Billion last? What happens when that is looted? Thank God everything over here is just peachy GM can stuff more cars on dealers. FB can sell more fake likes. Gas prices can hit $4.75 a gallon this summer, and the S&P can trade at all time highs.
US import tax on Vodka to be increased by 3%. Then Kerry can go to CNN and talk about how he really showed the Russians who's boss.
Gas supply interruptions coming for the EU in a matter of days.
Kerry closing the loan deal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jygJiYHcuc
Now that is funny!
That poor closing table... but hey when in rome!
A billion here, billion there....mere chump change from folks with a money printing press. Let's see.......$14,400,000,000,000 in the hole and still printing and giving it away. What could go wrong?
The real question is, when did the House authorize this gift? Does the Chairman MaoBama just have an unlimited check book and the right to do anything he desires?
Secede or die.....free yourself from suicidal statist's.
JK gonna make it rain on the Ukraine. Farcism, the gift that keeps on giving!!
Putin the Statesman vs. Kerry the Brzezinski Puppet. Why doesn't Putin assassinate the puppet masters? It would be so much easier, and efficient, to take out the men behind the destabilization policy.
How long is Russia and China going to tolerate interference from this little Pollock? IT'S COMICAL!
Good point. Brzezinski persuaded Carter to back the Afghan Islamists, and look what that did. It demonstrates the error of listening to people with divided loyalties whether they be Polish patriots or Zionist zealots.
How about a billion to fix the freaken pot holes. The roads in the northeast have more craters than Danny Trejo's face.
Russia will abandon the US dollar as a reserve currency if the United States initiates sanctions against the Russian Federation, Presidential advisor Sergey Glazyev told Ria Novosti news agency.
“We will be forced to go to another currency and create our own payment and settlement system. We have a fantastic trade and economic relationship with our partners in the east and south, and we’ll find a way to not only reset our financial dependence on the US, but come out from these sanctions with an advantage for ourselves,” he said.
“Efforts to declare sanctions against the Russian Federation will result in the collapse of the US financial system, which will entail the end of US dominance in the world financial system.”
This is why Putin is backing off. I knew it!
Nobody in Europe wants to touch this expensive Ukrainian Old Maid Card and liabilty. Russia will park itself in Crimea and a few predominately ethnic Russian cities like Sumy, Donetsk, and Kharkov.
Red is ethnic Russian:
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7826/96pr.png
Any civil war that emerges wiil be if Ukrainian neo-nationalists show up to take back the red areas. It will be paramilitary in nature, and Ukraine can't win unless the US neo-cons supply and support them.
Relax, it's just bizness. A Billion $'s to buy weapons from the arms dealers that pay off the DC bandits.
Good bizness, the bankers get collateral + interest, the arms dealers make bucks, mil/ind complex sells inventory and the tax payers gets fked when that particular treasury bond eventually lands in their MyRA account.
Now how's that not good bizness for the mafia, er, I meant bizness man?
A moron could better. This is treason.
George Soros made his money back on the short sale. The American taxpayer is left holding the bag.
That's less than the (annual) extortion payment to Zisrael, isn't it?
So for the Ukraine it's political puppets and out of the fat and into the fire. Goldman Sucks here you go, one more lamb for the slaughter.
I think consuming all this Frankenkerry debt will give the Ukraine and EU gas pains.
China has long ago called for de-Americanisation of global trade. Vladimir Vladimirovich has stated that Russia will retaliate to any US economic sanctions by dumping the US$. US seems to be more than eager to oblige.
I guess the BRICS bank, with its own fiat currency for international trade, announcement is just a few weeks away. The recently concluded G20 meeting finalised IMF reform (and possibly the SDR as the international trading currency instead of the US$), but was awaiting the US approval for it to be put into action. It was unlikely that the US would voluntarily surrender its privilege of purchasing anything on the world market in its own currency and restrict its imports to what it can export and what it can earn as invetsments from export surplus countries. They can only accept that when forced to do so. The world cannot stop using US$ for international trade until there is a viable and superior alternative. The BRICS currency will provide exactly that when China and Russia switch to conducting their external trade exclusively in that currency.
The sooner, the better.
Kerry Lands in Kiev
Your tax money hard at work To start WWIII!
A billion? I guess that'll cover half the Gazprom bill. Then what?
$ 1 billion loan. Why ? That tells how much Ooobama think of those Nazis - about two Solyndra worth.
IMF wetting its pants for more debt... Another bn for Fed to charge interest to taxpayers? If bankers disappered, would things work out nonetheless?
Nice! One billion moar federal reserve notes created out of thin air...
GOLD bitchez! It's on sale.
obama = empty suit
kerry sec of state = empty wallet and empty head
putin and china are lining the USSA up for the ko... when china says no mo dolla...send gold... thank you very much
were sending printed or borrowed dolla to ukraine.... what a joke
Russia has a long history of losing then getting Crimea back while the world's competing interests vie to influence the outcomes, be they Turkey, UK, France, Austrians, Germanic (various states), NATO, God knows who else. I can't imagine Vlad thug Putin outlining this last week as his master plan to, once again, "capture" Crimea. "...But first, we have to hold a winter Olympics in the tropics! They'll never expect that!"
This thing is organic and as such it isn't thought through by anybody. These idiots are making it up on the fly. Not good. Not good.............
A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse, of course,
Unless, of course, the horse, of course,
Is the famous JohnKohn horse!
Just sign right HERE on the line under the heading 'GoldmanSachs is entrusted to fund this loan'.