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Russia Retaliates; Sanctions 13 Canadian Officials
With the list of high-ranking US officials running dry, it appears Russia has turned its attention, in the tit-for-tat sanction battle, to Canada. Following Canada's sanctions against 10 top Russian an Ukrainian officials last week, Russia has placed travel bans on 13 Canadian lawmakers and officials.
- *RUSSIA SETS SANCTIONS AGAINST 13 CANADIANS IN RETALIATORY STEP
The list includes aides to PM Harper and the head of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, and is, according to Russia's foreign minister, a response to the "unacceptable action by the Canadian side that has inflicted serious damage to bilateral relations."
Russia announced on Monday that it was barring 13 Canadian officials, lawmakers and public figures from the country in retaliation for sanctions imposed by Canada over Russia's annexation of Crimea.
Full list of persons sanctioned indicated on the Foreign Ministry's website :
1. Christine Hogan - Foreign & Defence Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister at Privy Council Office
2. Wayne G.Wouters - public servant and Clerk of the Cabinet. Canada's most senior civil servant.
3. Jean-Francois Tremblay - Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet (Operations), Privy Council Office
4. Andrew Sheer - Canadian Member of Parliament and the Speaker of the House of Commons. At age 32, he became the youngest person to serve in this capacity in Canadian parliamentary history
5. Peter Van Loan - Canadian politician who is the Member of Parliament for the electoral district of York—Simcoe. He has been the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons since May 18, 2011
6. Raynell Andreychuk - Canadian Senator, lawyer, and former judge and diplomat
7. Dean Allison - Canadian politician. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2004 federal election for the new riding of Niagara West—Glanbrook
8. Paul Dewar - Canadian educator and politician from Ottawa, Ontario. He is the New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for the riding of Ottawa Centre
9. Irwin Cotler - Member of Parliament for Mount Royal. He served as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2003 until the Liberal government of Paul Martin lost power following the 2006 federal election.
10. Ted Opitz - Canadian politician and a retired Canadian Forces Lieutenant-Colonel who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election.
11. Christia Freeland - Canadian writer, journalist and politician. Freeland has served in various editorial positions with the Financial Times, The Globe and Mail and Thomson Reuters, where she was the managing director and editor for consumer news before she announced her resignation to run for the Liberal Party nomination in the by-election to replace Bob Rae as the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre.
12. James Bezan - Canadian politician. In 2004, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative.
13. Paul Grod - President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress
Intriguingly, they sanctioned 13 Canadians and only 9 Americans...?!
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All precursers to war.
yeah right
Uh-oh, when is make threat on Canadianers, you are know Putin is serious mad! No borsch for you!
Everything is cool as long as Canada does not ban the export of Molson Canadian to Russia in retaliation.
Things could get serious then.
fonestar is surprised our yappy attack dog Baird did not make the list?
Fonestar is lucky canadian not putin list.
Lindsey Graham wasn't on the list because pussies are known to cower and hide.
Who can drink that piss anyway
Man up Siniv... let me guess; if it isn't Coors light amber colored water it's piss.
There's more to this world than Molson and Coors! Look toward Belgium!
If Putin is serious mad then he takes away the Russian women from the Canadianers.
Russia bride is important component of economy.
Tit for Tats Tat for Tits eventually somebody's gonna get a nipple in the eye.
America bride is return for damage goods is not help export economy.
Welcome to Monday. I poached this from a comment thead on an AP article. Luaghed my ass off and had to share with ZHers.
Fred & ol' Butch
Fred was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young 'pullets,' and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.
This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.
Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing.
Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.
Fred's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!
When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.
To Fred's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring.
He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
Fred was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Brisbane City Show and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.
The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the "No Bell Piece Prize," but they also awarded him the "Pullet Surprise" as well.
Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.
Vote carefully in the next election, you can’t always hear the bells.
ROFLMAO
thanks for sharing man!
The embarrassment that the canadian government has become knows no bounds, at least in the marginally functioning assemblage of ganglions located between my ears. Between the political pandering to certain occupied lands, and Harper's insistence on being that guy who has to try extra hard to toe the international line to make him look tough and cool, to our failed multicultural immigration program, to the police state emerging, to the increasingly pedophile friendly machinations in Ottawa speading - I'd like Ukraine to settle down so I can huury up and move to the eastern region.
As fonestar states, the list is remarkable by some notable absences.
p.s. In other news, our nerd in chief is in an embarrassingly wack band and the drummer is charged with secual assault.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/phillip-nolan-drummer-in-stephen-ha...
Perhaps, if that's the case, China is our "ace in the hole". The oligarchs in China and the West have been on the same page since 1971...
They will have a world where everyone works for chinese wages, if we let them...
hedge accordingly.
China has little interest to keep the debt ridden west afloat. It's a liberal and Wall Street pipe dream.
Now that China has gained the manufacturing and technology it's time for China to join it's comrade, Russia. Both Russia and China are next to each other.
Russia wants China to be the world's reserve currency. Time for the countries to take away the reserve currency title from the US.
Please, China wants nothing to do with the reserve currency. Much much easier to manipulate "markets" when you are not under a microscope.
If you really believe that China hasn't been out-printing the rest of the world, I know of some apartments and bridges for sale that I am sure would interest you.
yes, they printed alot of Yuan to suppress the appreciation and to lift exports. But you are dead wrong to assume that China wishes to continue such path. They are right now doing everything to rein in the shadow banking mechanism and to clean up the mess that was created via QE. Why do you think various indicators are contracting? If China were to play ball with the US, the rounds of musical chairs would probably still have some way to go, but that is not the case. Also, since musical chairs is coming to an end, "HE WHO HOLDS THE GOLD MAKES THE RULE" will no doubt appear. The West need to realize that the currents have changed and a new financial system is in the works and will no doubt have a difficult birth due to the obstacles presented by the West, but be in NO DOUBT, it will appear. Why do you think you have the Ukraine conflict (democracy, pls don't make me laugh)? Why do you think the Arab spring was created (democracy/freedom of speech - yea right)? Why is there now protest in Taiwan about the trade deal strut with China (timings about perfect after China reaffirms its allegiance to Russia)? Why all the fuss about that stupid island between China, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines etc. Its the SIS/MI6/CIA apparatus working overtime to delay the reset. Look at the USDX, its dying, even the ESF can't prop it up forever. After they tapered an additional $10B it spiked to around 80.4, just a few days and its bleeding below 80 again. All Russia has to do is announce that payment for oil/natgas can be in any CCY+gold and the USD is finished, NUKED. To the people that designed the system, they don't give a rats because they are positioned with the conflict in mind. Only the SHEEP think that this is a US/RUSSIA/CHINA issue. Its not, the families that control in the shadows are the only winners. So sad though, the world has been duped so many time by these brilliant minded scum that even today there is not a critical mass of NON-SHEEP to remove the true evil of the world. SAD, VERY SAD.
This +100.
What people dont seem to realize is when the reset and equalization comes, the wages in china wont increase. .the wages for the rest decrease to meet china.
Now divide that across the board and do the math on what wages will be.
We will long for the days of when people made what chines factory workers made in 2014.
If ever manufacturing comes back to the rest of the world..it will be a little more equal than it is now. Yes..it sucks...for the west.
It's like Oprah: "You get a sanction! And you get a sanction! And you get a sanction!"
1+ lol.... Where's my sanction? I'm entitled to a sanction damn it!
You like you are sanction? You are can keep sanction!
Oprah is care only if can keep sandwich.
The truly sad part comes when they find out ( like on ORCAH's program ) they have to pay taxes on the sanctions that they can't afford.
Is it me or saying this is giving Putin the go ahead??
Obama deputy natsec advisor Tony Blinken: US unlikely to prevent an invasion of Ukraine, which is not part of NATO
Obama pretends he is George H,W. Bush, Putin is Saddam and Crimea Kuwait.
The power of nostalgia.
What Barry is really say:
"You are like your Crimea? You are can keep your Crimea!"
And it'll be the first time Obama actually keeps his promise
How did Canada get mixed up in this?
Our illustrious PM - Harper, truly a legend in his own mind, is a rabidly pro ziocon stooge.
You can thank the lobotomized electorate in Calgary west.
I'm a Canuck as well and I agree. The problem here, (largely the same everywhere) is the prozioconstooge that he is, atleast he is shrinking the budget, and is very marginally non-antigun as shown by eliminating the federal long-gun registry, What are our options? Imagine a Trudeau government or a worse an NDP or Green. We are screwed
The only question remains.
Why is there a need for Ottawa anymore? There isn't.
Drone their ass.
Actually I think Greens would really rapidly shrink the government, the budget, none of the others.
they ban sell vodka
Our ignoble chubby chasing ( I met one of his former dalliances at the rose & crown in calgary some years ago who looked like a bloated sheepdog in drag ) nerd in chief went to the Ukraine in try hard fashion to show what a badass he is.
HEre he is with the stooge of ukraine, arseniy "the AIDS victim" yatsenyuk. In othernews why does that little bonhunk twizzler always look unshaven and disheveled?
http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/topvideo/2014/620-harper-ukraine-06060032.jpg
Sanctioning Canandians? Who cares.
Sanction is just excuse for shoot down Canadia goose for dinner when enter Russia air space.
I saw 5 just blithlely sitting in a fallow gran field while in lethbridge on the weekend but I only had a collapsible police baton handy. I settled on a donair.
Donair is sound like humorous air fill toroid pastry...
Next up the Canadians retaliate with little weenie tweets about things they can't do in Russia.
I thought Bieber was the little weenie tweet? Can we sanction Canada until they take all their singers back?
Now THAT would be war.
Bieber is YOUR problem now. Lol.
Exactly, who wants Bieber, Celine, Avril, Nickleback, Barenaked Ladies, Buble, Furtado, Feist.....you can keep 'em
The List of America's that would be on my List would take a long time to type but, Bieber...
You can Keep to listen/read about , between watching "Naked and Scared in Detroit".
Now really....we're joining in if you'd care to view the comments....Good....Fkng.....sir.
Harper should stay out of it...the putz.
as opposed to the US weenie tweets and the Russian dobre dobre weenie tweets?
Time to release the Secret Canadian Weapon from Elsinore Brewery...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBOxGFA7Oig
Canadia is now weak like USSA, is long ago cease making powerful deterent:
http://www.stubby.ca/bottles-view.php?id=071
But maybe all is not too being lost:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/lethbridge-man-keeps-the-spudnut-t...
No Rob Ford?
No more moose for you. Oh wait
I don't see Mike Babcock on the list. What a relief!
Israel just closed down it's embassies worldwide because of a "diplomatic strike". Meanwhile we're still having these silly tit-for-tat sanctions. What the fuck is really going on?
like, how dreadful eh?
Where are those neocon Inuits?
double Post.
but will add
Please and Thank You.
I work with Inuit people. I wish you could keep them out of this mess. They do not even understand what personal Property means. They use they share.
Not the skinning knives. I once had a Kung Fu instructor who was married to an Inuit woman and it was made very clear: not only is it hers but he, as a male, better not ever touch it and that's that. I guess that's a cultural thing but he showed deep respect for whatever crap he'd ever be in if he did touch it.
"The Ukrainian Canadian Congress welcomes the announcement by the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper to visit Ukraine on March 22. He is the first leader of the G7 countries to travel to Ukraine since the beginning of the crisis currently facing the country.
Prime Minister Harper announced that he will meet with the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and the interim government of Ukraine to 'discuss the evolving situation there and how Canada can, along, with its allies, continue to provide support.' "
http://www.ucc.ca/2014/03/20/ucc-welcomes-prime-minister-harpers-visit-to-ukraine/
Apparently, there are 1.2 million former Ukranians living in Canada.
Harper's visit to kiss up to the putsch members explains this.
Canadians either are or should be deeply ashamed of Harper as their PM.
The guy is a TOTAL whore, a smegm-licking lackey of anything the NY or DC even wishes.
and where is the Canadian Fed opposition to Harper's conduct?
Liberals? NDP? Green? Beuller? Anyone?
I contacted my Lib MP 3x on the issue and got no reply, not even an acknowledgement.
I thought the Fed.Libs didn't like Canada being the US' sock puppet?
Jack Layton conveniently died and was replaced by an establishment lawyer.
Highly suspicious. I have no doubt he was sick & knew it but he got something, a near-win for the NDP, getting them to official opposition.
I can't help but suspect a deal was brokered: more power for the cons, more power for the NDP, unlike ever before for both in those ridings, and a final victory send-off for Layton.
The libs messed up, no question, but their party's drop looked almost rigged. It's like Ignatieff did his very best to make the Liberal(tm) party look like the Conservative Party(tm) so that no one had any reason to switch a vote unless they were already pissed at the Libs (and were) and dump them (and did), plus the Pierre Poutine nonsense.
Harper is a spineless little maggot, sucking off American garbage-boy Yatsenyuk. Exactly how did Yatsenyuk, this yamulke wearing bankster become the leader of the interim government? Oh wait, I recall hearing something about this in that "prophetic" leaked Victoria Nuland phone call. And there you have it, another popular revolt has been usurped by the Rothschilds of the world.
true no matter what he does. However, Ukrainians have a stronger presence in Canada than Russians do so... I can't see how another Prime Minister would feel he has a choice except to have "no comment" but even that would cause an uproar with Ukrainians in Canada & family in Ukraine.
...and Russian forces cross into eastern Ukraine in 3, 2, 1...
Russia and China with others can join together to kill the petro-dollar.
China has all the manufacturing and technology. If China and Russia works together they can swipe the financials as well.
The way to destroy the west is to do it financially, not militarily.
Sorry, that is the FEDs area of responsibility.
13 individual sanctions = strong letter of reprimand = smoke and mirrors.
Pay attention accordingly to the other hand.
Is the other hand (11. Christia FreeHand)?
Does this mean Victoria Nuland and chubby hubby can obtain a visa for travel to Crimea for a long needed vacation ?
What about Bob about Doug? THAT would make a point!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_and_Doug_McKenzie
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/alaska-back-russia/SFG1ppfN
I think only Russians sign the petition ;)Secret is effort of Mrs. Sarah Palin so that is better seeing Russia from back yard.
In all seriousness, why does it have to be Russia or US? Why can't it be neither?
Soon all speak here Boris like
moose and squirrel finished
I see a big hockey war on the horizon. Sudden Death Overtime! Slashing, roughing, face offs, illegal checks to the head!
We'll fix those commi bastards. No poutine for you...
Politics is the same everywhere
Why not?
Britain, the U.S., Canada, Australia, the EU...all now suffer under the same neocon authoritarian-managerial administrations...
There's not the slightest bit of difference between any of them.
You got that right. They all kowtow to the USA, DHS, NSA, CIA etc.
...AIPAC, CJC, WJC...
dem popes needs cheez!
Rollin rollin rollin Keep dem globalists movin.
Head em up. Ride em out
What about the gold mines? Are there not a lot of Canadian gold companies exploring for gold in Russia? This could get serious boys!
but that fucking slut Pamela Anderson can still visit Russia and grind her ass in your face, right Putin? - you piece of communist dogshit!!!!
PRETTY sure no one on Earth is left communist, not even 'communist' China.
Let me guess, they are proud to be on it...?
As a Canadian,I look at all of these far right of centre morons as Harper's stupid puppets.Not a brain in any of these followers,just political hacks that send a message back to Obama that any war is OK.This is an example of what's wrong with both the Obama Administration and The Harper Government -they've both been hi-jacked by third rate neocon elements that have infiltrated both Governments.All of them are outclassed by experienced Russian Diplomats.I give both The White House and Ottawa a big "E" on their report cards and that's generous because I'd really like to use some good "F's" for both of the dumb fucks.Very little thinking or basic intelligence used by both.Only the word STUPID bests descibes them.
ziocon, not neocon, there's a difference.
Harper wants to be a dual citizen.
My first question as a Canadian is, do people in other countries know that's really a helmet on Stephen Harper's head?
What do you mean?
He's not wearing a Helmet, his head is a helmet, a Purple one.
Word to Canadians...produce as much palladium as possible.
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But really, to paraphrase Johnny McCain, why would we go to Siberia for March Break, when we've got all this up here?!
But thanks for coming out, Putty!
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