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Putin Responds To US, European Sanctions: Signs Order Recognizing Crimea As Sovereign State
So much for de-escalating. From the Kremlin:
Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On the recognition of the Republic of Crimea." Full text of the Decree:
1. Given the will of the people of the Crimea on the referendum held on March 16, 2014, to recognize the Republic of Crimea, in which the city of Sevastopol has a special status, as a sovereign and independent state.
2. This Decree shall enter into force on the date of its signing.
Surely this will precede Putin's own executive order recognizing Crimea as the latest member of the Russian Federation. And as for those "crippling" sanctions, via the FT, here is the locals reall think and why the Russian stock market is soaring as we reported earlier.
Moscow investment banker on US sanctions: "It's as innocuous as we'd hoped"
— Courtney Weaver (@courtneymoscow) March 17, 2014
One also wonders: how long until Russia freezes all assets of McDonalds restaurants operating in Russia.
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Recognized, bitchez.
You do not sanction Russia, Russia sanctions you.
SITREP = President Obama to draft & release statement as soon as he finishes watching DVR episode of "Modern Family."
Obama defers comments to Victoria Nuland/Robert Kagan in interim.
Herro Zelohedg! I am new and fockuyu. Lemme just like to say...
FOCKUYU, MISTA YELLEN!
and da fockuyu to you, too, miss barack obama!
Hey buddy, how'd those electroshock treatments work out?
Yea fuck you Yellen! Fuck you Obama!
Sanku you for warm welcome, everybody.
I love America!
How old are you? Serious question.
A new low for gimmick accounts. Sad.
I liked it better when we had the wave of Russian apologist-ZOG mongers calling everything a Nazi plot, even posts they were responding to.
Sounds like a Nazi plot to me.
Boris wanna be.
I think you have forgotten Obama's ego. You know how he has manipulated the press and many foreign dignitaries. If you ask him any real question he smirks and chastizes you for asking any critical questions. When he does travel abroad on diplomacy next - if we can even call it that - the United States next he will realize that the rest of the world is laughin at the dollar, at fixed USTs, and the equity of corporations that rely on a fat middle class.
The fat middle class is gone. It left when Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard. The fat middle class in the empire of the United States of America has been treading water for over 40 years. They are tired and tapped out and can't run the treadmill of economic prosperity any longer. Obama will be the POTUS that represents that and it will unnerve him and ignite his temper.
" Obama will be the POTUS that represents that and it will unnerve him."
if by "unnerve" you mean won't bother him in the fucking least than yes, it will definitely unnerve him.
Obama does not like to be told he isn't going to have his way. He is a power hungry sociopath whose ego blows out of proportion when questioned. Haven't you heard how the news media does not get to ask certain questions? Havenn't you seen Obama chastize reporters? He treats dignitaries the same, mind you.
And Obama compares Putin to, "The kid in the back of the class slouching."
"What is your relationship with Putin?" Question:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/09/obama-chastises-nbc-reporter-...
Obama is a fucking puppet, just like every president since Nixon.
what a fucking tool.
He is a puppet in the form of diplomacy and his handlers will run him out and tell him he must stand strong against Russia. And Obama's rhetoric will be one of a need to continue to sanction Russia, even while the economy rolls off a cliff.
Have you forgotten that the economy is in freefall? And these sanctions will only make gas prices - the lifeblood of the economy - increase, putting more pressure on the US backed petro-dollar. It's over man. Game over.
Not sure what Putin or any of that has to with the fact that the middle class has avalanched down the last five years while Obama golfed and Bernanke QE'd the wealth up to the 1%. I'm pretty sure he has, is, and will continue to not be unnerved by it.
Which side of the red line is Russia on again?
Obummer is worse than Bush. Lord help us if Hillary is elected the next president. God knows libtards are dumb enough to do it. It's time for a real conservative or a libertarian.
Draft Dr. Ben Carson for President 2016. www.runbenrun.org
Draft Forrest Gump for President 2016.
www.runforrestrun.org
Draft is the key word. Men who are not corrupt, power hungry bastards don't run for office because they don't desire power over others. Forrest Gump would be fantastic
how bout we just get rid of the presidency altogether, and put the Chairman of the FRB'system in charge. i mean c'mon... they've been running the country for a century now? afterall, china and russia had rid themselves of that kind of apparatchiks, and look how destitute they have become in the last decade or so (inverse reality?), eh?
I heard the chairwomen just about lost her voice the other day.
And just who the Devil is a "real conservative or a libertarian" in the US? They're all, and I mean every single one, a Liberal (with a large "L"). I get so frustrated when I see people call Obama "Socialist," or "Communist," because apparently those words only mean "Somebody I Don't Like." He's just a garden-variety Liberal, just like McCain, Bush I and II, Clinton (either one), Kerry, and take your pick of the GOP contenders (Christie, Cruz, Rubio, Rand Paul, etc.). All the same, varying only in which diversionary "social issue" they champion, to pander to which group of rubes' biases. If anything, they're all Fascists, suborned to the merger of State and Corporate power. People say Obama "nationalized" General Motors and the Banks? Bullshit. The opposite. He privatized the US Treasury for the benefits of the operators and bondholders of those entities. 180 degrees removed from socialism or nationalization.
Yes, Obama is worse than Bush. Bush at least was constrained by the people who believed the red/blue puppet show. Obama isn't. Hillary, even more so.
"And just who the Devil is a "real conservative or a libertarian" in the US?"
In Washington? Paul, Amash, Lee, Massie...perhaps few others I'm forgetting
Of those in the running for POTUS 2016? Paul
Rand would be a great choice. Libertarians and conservative can get behind him. The liberals and RINOs can screw off.
Rand Paul is not a liberal. He is a conservative. You should give him a look.
Obama is down to playing chess with the king, i.e., the Fed.
Putin: "What is best in life is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women. Bitch-slapping President Mom Jeans is pretty cool, too."
Ah, so you know the Riddle of Steel, too, don't you?
Q: Do Wookies "lament"?
glad to see that you are on the ball today. (as always)
Arrowed up for many reasons.
Along that same meme...
Score one for Puppetization, and against Muppetization.
Once again, the Ukrainian nationalists learn the value of American and EU assurances. Their country is bankrupt, Crimea is lost, south and east ukraine will not recognize the Kiev Kriminals, and no visas to the EU. When Nuland was handing out cookies, you should have tested them for LSD, since only deluded and stoned fools would have trusted her.
Is that some kind of aquatic invertabrate?
Naw, just the most dangerous and ruthless heterosexual male predator.
No no, the avatar. Clearly it's some form of oceanic wildlife but I can't tell which one. Can you be more explicit, what is that?
A bearded clam, sans the beard...
Kiev coup plotters are just starting to understand what a REAL siege looks like, and they are going to be on the receiving end of it this time.
The horrors of unintended consequences.
Once you open the floodgates you cannot tell the water where to go.
Will be interesting to see if Putin does the phone-a-friend to other heads of Heads of State and demonstrates some unintended consequences with unexpected announcements recognizing Crimea's sovereignty before Russia annexes it...
The no visas to the EU was such a slap in the face. I am sure the dual citizens can get one but the rest of the Ukrainians are treated like scum by the EU. Fools.
"And the 2014 Winter Olympics go to..."
"And the next NOBEL PEACE PRIZE goes to..." [Drum-roll]
Crimea river, Obama.
Putin's executive order is a bitch - ain't it Obama?
Putin actually had a real election behind it not a phony State Dept coup.
I noticed something about this decree (law)...overtaking an entire country is only 2 lines on 1/8 a page of paper...reminds me of old US laws....before all of the special interests got involved.
Nooo, NOT the beeg max!
Da da da
Your move Mr. CIA Obama. LOL
Man of the year 2014! Again
Russians are thinking which red line they can cross next if thats all Obummer can do
You know, on that subject, I'd pay real cash money if Obama would just shut the hell up for the rest of his presidency. I think we'd all be better of if he did, himself included.
Narcissistic Fudge Packer in chief is too arrogant to do that... too busy enjoying its grand imperial golf life style with $17K dresses for its wookie Ho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-konSUS_TA
define 'redline'...
is it an arbitrary 'don't go there', or is it a rhetorical`palindrone of a colonilaization throw-back too an imperial age long fozzilized?
just asking!
They are not thinking, they know.
This act by Putin has to be good for the American dollar as it is backed by the bark and the brains of bathhouse Barry.
Next headline as follows: U.S. unfriends Russia on Facebook.......
The US will spend a billion dollars buying a few million Facebook likes for Barry and the land of the free - that will show Putin:
The State Department spent over $630,000 to increase Facebook “likes” for four of its pages on the social-networking site, according to an inspector general’s report.
The efforts, which involved advertising initiatives between 2011 and March 2013, increased the fan numbers for each page from about 100,000 to more than 2 million, the report said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/07/03/ig-report-...
Obama is reverting back to his youth and smoking some of that Colorado pot.
He will dope up the US into submission.
A Lunatic,
On so many levels...one of the best posts I have ever read on ZH.
Awesome.
+1 good one.
Next headline: "Obama unfriends Putin on Facebook, sends Friend invite on A$$book."
Is it Un-friend, or De-friend? Or do you say "Enemied?"
Oh and "like"
Great minds drink alike: 4558418
Lol, interestingly enough I had not seen that, which leads great credence to your great minds theory. It is amazing how similar the minds of a lunatic and a cigarette smoking chimpanzee are.......
KrispKritter: "Thanks, I think..." :>D
President Zero responds with a resounding "FORE!"
At this point I've no confidence that he can even count that high...
courtney this is only the first round of sanctions. shirley our esteemed leader and his merry men in congress wouldnt just allow yet another victory for putin? first its snowden, then syria, then the olympic medals count, and now this!!!!!!!!!! the u.s. must press onward!!! all the way until....the u.s. empire collapses!!!!
He would, and stop calling him Shirley.
i knew a shirley once. had more balls than obama.....
heh...seemingly nothing but bullish news for gold and yet the price dops like a rock...go figure...and then of course...there's this interesting tidbit:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101497635
from cnbc no less...apparently up is the new down...
Warning: There is a closup of Mr. Yellen if you hit the link. I almost puked when I saw it.
She is wearing eyeshadow and lipstick. I should not be catty but if she wants to wear makeup she needs to get some advice. The eyshadow is BAAAAD.
The makeup and utilitarian hair cut really deliver cross purpose messages.
Here is her and her husband, though not Mr. Yellen: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xMPOUXwFqF8/UlbSQu4FitI/AAAAAAAALOg/fLqv_w2KC5...
To be fair, she was pretty:
Highschool: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/a-glimpse-of-yellens-career...
Later:
http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2013/10/janet-yellen-to-be-named-head-of-f...
Rather than Yellen's makeup, I thought the more salient bit: "In the course of February, the Fed's monetary base expanded by a whopping $104.8 billion, the third-largest monthly increase since the beginning of its asset purchases." ...apparently, expanding is the new tapering.
Good God! That's the worst thing I have ever seen, between her and Chewbacca I want to blind myself with a stick!
/here's a stick.
No, not "pretty"--I might go along with "presentable" or "decent-looking" when younger.
Obama was heard to tell Valeri Jarrett, "You think that website was awesome take a look at this."
FAIL
Hahahaha!
https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/1920163_10151961...
Medvedev snapping the pic is HighLarious!
One of the funniest things I Have ever seen. Goddamn, Banzai would love it.
Na na na NA na...
anyone else getting the lulu's girl ads?
"Fuck me??? NO MOTHER FUCK YOU..."
VLAD
and as usual....this all MUST BE BAD FOR GOLD AND SILVER....roll tape...
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html
My country right or wrong.
Love it or leave it hippy, and get a goddamn haircut.
What side is Jane Fonda on in this case?
@Notrealamerican
Same side that she was on back in 'Nam.....globalist.
Once a Hanoi Jane always a Hanoi Jane.
Re: Same side that she was on back in 'Nam.....globalist.
The North Vietnamese were globalists? I thought we were always the globalists?
Same league it's just that Jane played on a different team.....Play Ball!
Our government is now being run by her ilk.
"Russia 1, Regime Changers 0" 3/17/14 by Pepe Escobar http://atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-170314.html
You have to read this fascinating article to see how Putin and Russia thinks years ahead of time. Paying off all the debt when the going was good, who would have thunk? Less reliance on IMF and World Bank....wow!
Despite being a one man show, majority of Russians support him and according to the video in the previous post, Americans love him too! Over 71% of Russians like him. http://en.ria.ru/russia/20140313/188382354/Putins-Rating-At-3-Year-High-...
http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2014/03/16-putin-art-of-offen...
In foreign policy, Mr. Putin no longer sees the West as a model worth emulating. In his view the United States is politically gridlocked, mired in debt and overextended in foreign entanglements. The situation in Europe is no better. Russia, Putin has concluded, needs to go it alone—now more than ever. Russia must emphasize its own model. This further complicates efforts to deal with Russia on the diplomatic front in Ukraine, all the more so because, since the 2000s, President Putin has personally taken charge of Russian foreign policy. Vladimir Putin has repeatedly asserted, and seems to believe, that he is the only person capable of effectively countering the threats to Russia. This reinforces Putin’s conviction that he has to maintain his grip on power to counter all the threats Russia faces.
The current crisis in Ukraine was triggered by Putin’s attempts to bolster the Russian economy in response to a significant slow-down in GDP growth. When he first came into power, Putin was fixated on cementing Russia’s status and its global standing on the basis of GDP growth and superior economic performance. In the 2000s, largely thanks to high and rising oil prices, Putin not only paid off the Russian state’s debts, but he also presided over a period of economic growth that put Russia on track to become the world’s fifth-largest economy. GDP growth replaced military might as Russia’s most important indicator of success. Russia’s growth boosted jobs and incomes and contributed to a decade of domestic stability.
" In his view the United States is politically gridlocked, mired in debt and overextended in foreign entanglements." - Yes, just like the Soviet Union was in the 80's.
Let me be clear; the outcome for the U.S.S.A will be no different.
"how long until Russia freezes all assets of McDonalds restaurants operating in Russia"
- Breaking News - Russia's life expectancy surpasses that of the United States.
"I'll have a McVlad with cheese...hold the Ketchup."
Glad that's all over. Now back to studying so I get my FAFSA on time.
Coming up next..referendum in Donetsk.
He may shut of the gas pipelines by Friday suppose we will see. Let's see how long it takes this new Coup government to anger the folks in Kiev and Western Ukraine while they witness the total mess and theft that is the EU/US imperialists. They will be running to the ballot box by end of year to rejoin with Russia...Putin was never going to let that buffer from NATO go nor should he.
Without question they are going to dump all EU/US bonds now and make a statement of cessation of any future purchases...AND LETS REMEMMBER..He has China right along side him. These guys better tread carefully...but I think it is too late for that.
Going on now: Referendum in VENICE, Italy. http://rt.com/news/veneto-referendum-unnoticed-eu-318/
Didn't ZH or the MSM/LSM tell you?
Good call. Now please predict the same for the southern states here. We await your wisdom.
JM, clearly you and your friends either never had a real business of your own, or don't understand "Debt-as-Money":
You do NOT shut off the gas! Rather, you use it as Leverage... for more Debt, or "better" Debt.
E.g., "Gas for Gold", since the ECB and Fed bitches can conjure up fiat-currency at will. Gold payments short-circuit their entire Ponzi. Think Strategic (like a general), not Tactical (like a soldier).
ps. Note that did not junk you, but provided a civil and well-reasoned alternate-argument. :-)
I own my own business and live in Manhattan and leverage is all but I think they do not believe he will shut the gas off... Why would they?
His leverage comes when he shuts off since the rain drop walkers are to accustomed to living in rhetoric land..then they will get it.
Think Strategic (like a general)
You shut off the gas for non payment. Why they have reservoirs at the pumping stations to still bleed out first before the gas really runs out. Force the interim government to fuck the EU or fuck the Ukrainian people depending who they divert those reservoirs to. Put them between a rock and a hard place. You can turn the gas back on later after the chaos ensues. They don't ultimately lose revenue since the whole system can be diverted to other pipeline infrastructure outside the Ukraine. I'm sure China or the countries like Finland could easily pick up the slack.
The gas game gets real for the EU only if they cut off the Nordstream feeder. The slavs don't matter as long as Western Europe especially Germany gets it's alloted share without disruption which happens as long as the Nordstream line is running.
Hmmm...
Wonder when Snowden gets citizenship?
I would like to sign a sheet of paper and then have a country become mine..that is pretty cool....shows you who has the balls and the power..
Re: shows you who has the balls and the power
It also helps when the country you acquire has people with the same bushy eyebrows.
The US had "the balls and power" in Vietnam, but the eyebrows didn't line up, so it didn't matter.
"Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool." –Clinton presidential aide Paul Begala, July 1998.
Works for the US prez .... why not the Russian prez?
I'm waiting for Obama or Lurch to give the "Peace In Our Time" speach after Easter vacation of course.
Would that be a time sheet? Or an invisible ink one.
Like a ChessMaster
http://www.xoxol.org/chess/putin-chess-obama-435.jpg
Obama wants to know if he is able to use a Mulligan.
I was wondering if the US also plans to imposing sanctions on Venice, which is trying to declare independence from Italy? Or Catalonia from Spain? Or Scotland for that matter?
Only if they plan to tell the EU to fuck off.
You bet he is!
Threats in the eu are flying around to wannabe states.
Sticking to his 18th-19th century ways right to the end. Not cool! Not cool!
Balls meet chin
Ukraine has reacted by transfering troops to the east, several military trains and convoys were forced back by angry residents. Several demonstration by Euro Midan Right Groups had the almighty shit kicked out of them in major East Ukrainian cities.
The central banker the mob turned into Prime Minister has vowed to destory the people responsible for Crimea Freedom Movement. He said they have the names and will be coming to get them. This will be fun to watch a central banker trys and take on the Naval Forces of Sevastopol on the narrow entrances to Crimea. Perhaps 1 well place Iskander Surface to Surface missile with cluster bomb warhead has this central bankers name on it.
Lets get real. A major right wing mob, paid by the EU and USA a steady paycheck to lead revolution in Kiev, and the mod installs a Central Banker and IMF lover as Prime Minister. Do you want to know how stupid a Ukrainian is, just note the Western Central Bank IMF whore they put into power.
The focus now shift to the East, they too seek entry into the Russian federation, for a long list of good reasons. Number 1 to escape EU central banker's austerity. Ukraine has vowed to subjegate the people of the east by forces of arms. If they try, then WWIII becomes real potential.
For all you Obama bashers, Do you really think Obama runs the government? No, you can't seriously believe HE is in power. That fucking puppet dances on teh strings of the elite deep state rulers. His mouth opens and the elites words come out. Obama is a central bankers whore, and a total black slave to the military industrial complex. To call him an independent agent is laughable in the extreme. Bush, he was the same, he never made a real decission in 8 years, another puppet. The elites dupe you with this fake Demo versus Republican fake democray. It is one party rule. You know that, you that in your hearts.
The "IMF/central bank whore" you mentioned, the so called "PM" of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk has recently broadcast to his people that he is going to hunt down the separatists and burn them. "Find the ring leaders and burn the ground beneath their feet". This guy is a genuine psychopath, a real clinical case - the same nutjob was seen shaking hands with the leaders in the EU and the US last week.
Http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/ukraine-prime-minister-i...
In the meantime, various "ministers" of the Kiev regime are threatening a nuclear strike against Russia (when they have it in 3-6 months). These are the people our governments are supporting? If anyone in government was remotely sane, we should be bombing Kiev right now instead of punishing a bloodless democratic transition of statehood in the Crimea.
If "Yats" weren't a fucking psychopath, the Nuland-Kissinger-Brzezinski cabal wouldn't have any use for him. Why do we love us them Al-Quaedas so much? Because they're horrible crazy people who love to kill and won't ever, ever negotiate with anybody in good faith. When your goal is to burn the world so you can take what's left, there's no room in your world-view for reasonable people.
All the better out in the open...tell world they come to kill Russians
wolves mistake
Mails from eastern locals show small number. From photos is obvious equipment is run down condition..
They tell conversations is the Ukr troop want no part...very subdued countenance...are caught in the middle. Likely to pull up shop and go home at first excuse.
"In my club, I will splash the pot whenever the fuck I please." - Teddy KGB
if you want to keep your crimea, you can keep your crimea
What's the old expression - as useless as a one-legged man in an ass kicking competition.
On another note, apparently the Ukrainian gold is already being dumped onto the market. Nothing like a good international crisis to drop POG.
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/896/9514/original.jpg?w...
Funny how France still hasn't canceled their military deal with Russia...
http://www.dw.de/eu-and-russia-on-the-brink-of-sanctions-war/a-17496791
"Sanctions against Russia are double-edged. France expects to earn one billion dollars for two Mistral-class helicopter carriers. Would it sacrifice this on behalf of an unreliable government in Kyiv?" the head of Russian parliamentary foreign affairs committee, Alexey Pushkov wrote on Twitter.
If the deal fell through, it would hurt French shipbuilders and arms manufacturers, as well as their European suppliers. At the same time, Russia would save a lot of money.
The boyz in Big-MIC are above petty politics.
Everybody loves cool war toys. Big-MIC, the "Keynesian" prosperity that everybody loves.
The french are all over the ME... esp, SA, and Iran.
Without further comment...
The french are, and have always been whores.
Dear V. Putin, Venice, CA would like you to sign them in too.
Thanks for all the assistance in the fight against bankster occupation.
VLADIMIR, take the Ukraine next. It's all yours.
Obama and the joke Kerry will start with their red-line talk again and the stock market will go up after you take the Ukraine.
How would you like to be those US guys on the space station knowing the only ride back to earth is Soyuz? I'll bet they don't think much of Hopey and Horsey.
Has this been confirmed? I took a quick look a Google News and I did not see it yet. If so it is major. This is no longer simply headline fodder for the business-as-usual US of A.
I did note in passing, however, that Satoshi Nakamoto denies ever having anything to do with Bitcoin and that Mick Jagger's girlfriend is dead. (When are we going to get the headline saying that Mick Jagger is dead?)
But back to the point. If Putin has recognized Crimea it can only mean that he thinks he can win the whole game, and Putin is not known for rash miscalculations. This move will eventually shatter the EU. Without continuous blood transfusions in the form of Russian resources, the moribund national economies of Eastern Europe will be forced either to side with Moscow or to beggar their Western neighbors. In both cases the EU will come under unbearable strain; and realistically speaking, the Western neighbors can't afford to be beggared, so Moscow is looking pretty attractive right about now.
It would be a good idea to remember where you were when you heard this news. I"ll safely wager that St. Patrick's Day, 2014 will be looked back on as the last day of the American Century.
One here: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_17/Putin-signed-decree-on-Recognit...
another: http://rt.com/news/russia-recognize-crimea-independence-410/
Thank you. It looks legit so far.
“Gerald Celente is interviewed by This Week in Money to discuss the economic impact and tragedy of the USG’s endless and brutal intervention all over the world.” -- March 17, 2014
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/03/no_author/the-first-great-war-of-the-21st-century/
The First Great War of the 21st Century?Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin... Vladimir Grozny.
KGB vs Chicago thug
KGB vs a Chicago Hyde Park hustler.
OT: Gold diving like a Malysian Airliner, wazzup?
Was it hijacked by terrorists (Insert CEO or Cental Banker's name here)?
Was the altitude too high and auto pilot corrected it automatically?
Was it shot down?
Knocking it down for final stacking before UST dump next week and dollar hegemony funeral to come.
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd it's gone. Yeah the entire penisula, it's gone.