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Russia Says "Forced To Respond" But Warns Sanctions "Not Our Method"
Despite JPY and bonds not playing along, US equities (courtesy of the squeeze of the "most shorted") had rallied mightily this morning. Then, all of a sudden - reality hit with some rather ominous-sounding threats from Russia:
- *RUSSIA SAYS WILL RESPOND TO BROADER U.S., CANADA SANCTIONS
- *RUSSIA SAYS FORCED TO RESPOND TO 'UNFRIENDLY ACTIONS'
- *RUSSIA SAYS SANCTIONS 'NOT OUR METHOD'
So if 'sanctions' are not their method? Then what is? It seems that uncertainty was enough to spook bonds (yields plunged) and JPY (strength) and take the shine modestly off of VIX/Stocks.
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Just remember who the Russian government works for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Russia
"Under Russian law, half of the Central Bank's profit has to be channeled into the government's federal budget. The Central Bank of Russia unlike Belarus National Bank, Ukraine or Kazakhstan is member of BIS."
Hence, a private bank that is partnered with the Russian government...
Either way Russia in my view isn't the one agitating this situation - whereas the neo cons with regrettably our mad dog harper and mad dog baird acting tough seem intent on making war.
OUr governments are an international embarrassment which would be fine if the stakes weren't so high.
That is true, in the sense of "good cop, bad cop"..
Why yes, we now only accept payment for GasProm gas in Euros.
(Kills USD, sends EUR through the roof, makes life impossible for PIIGS, Draghi jumps off roof with nailgun)
"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll all be lucky to live through it."
"I would like to have seen Montana."
All this monkey business with the sanctions is ridiculous. If Russia “sanctions” ONLY titanium forgings, our aircraft industries, both civil and military, will grind to a screeching halt.
Bye-bye, Dreamliners, F-15s through F-35s. China, I’m sure, will gladly sponge-up the titanium forgings for THEIR military craft. I think? ;-)
Looney
We'll just get it on Amazon and E-Bay then /sarc
...We'll just get it on Amazon and E-Bay then /sarc
Or somebody can just tweet'em to Boeing? ;-)
Looney
There are two land routes out of Afghanistan:
Through Pakistan which is completely unreliable and has been droned.
Through Russia, which has so far been reliable.
I suppose it wouldn't matter if all that kit fell into "terrorist" hands would it?
And in Edward Snowden news....
German Lawmakers Decide to Quiz Snowden
German lawmakers decided on Thursday they want to question former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden as part of a parliamentary inquiry into the mass surveillance of German citizens, which he exposed.
"A majority of the committee has decided that we want to hear Mr. Snowden," said Roderich Kiesewetter, the conservative head of the committee set up to investigate the activities in Germany of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/08/us-germany-spying-snowden-idUS...
If you were Snowden.... would you travel to Berlin to testify?
If you were Snowden.... would you travel to Berlin to testify?
Only if I could have Pierre Omidyar as my spokesperson... I understand Pierre has a nice residence in McLean Virginia when he's not in Paris!
I'd travel... all the way to my computer screen and Skype it in.
It's a trap!
Within the US there are friends of Russia licking their chops at the thought of higher energy and raw material prices, or inflation in general. War is not necessarily needed, but the threat of war is a dire necessity.
Nah- USSA has a secret plan to clone Pinnochio Rex, mate him with Smaug, put the result on SUP's and burn down all who stand in their way. I'm just hoping they bring back Charlemagne while they're at it - he might have been the last ruler who gave a damn about his subjects. Power to the Bogomils!!
I think it is a great time for this clip....
http://youtu.be/Hgq4w4dqKsU
"I will get a fat American girl and she will cook rabbits for me"
She will sit on her fat arse and watch reality TV and eat pizza all day.
or perhaps an embankment 40-50 feet high...with a 1.6 meter fence with a nailgun
Oh look, bonds are breaking out.
There's a cure for that... :>D
The desperation to start a shooting war is palpable. You can smell it. You can see it. It's like the stink waves that surround Pig-Pen.
War is great business for those who create money from thin-air...
With the leaked phone calls we find out that the US/NATO had $5 billion to blow on Ukraine destabilization, but at home and around the world it's "austerity".
"Gangster States" just scratches the surface.
It's just another pissing contest. All these "drills" and moving strategically are just ways for both sides to add a few inches to the tip. Which would be completely fine if it were just about them. If all these powers were building to throw down in an epic brawl int he street of Moscow (I would outrageously large sums of money to watch this), this would all be fine. However, when the bombs drop, none of these people will be within a thousand miles of the death and chaos. Back in the day, leaders were at least on the battlefield, if not leading the charge. It was why people fucking trusted them to lead. Today, bravado out weighs everything else. Historically, that is not good for a country's future.
Hmm, penis pumps would be a lot less expensive! :>D
Those were stink waves ??? I never realized that !!! Just thought it was dust/dirt...
Work computers are really slow, and I'd much rather reply 2394862 times than take this elearning.
@Dirtlump -Harper and Baird are indeed a national embarassment. What can Canada possibly gain by alienating Russia? Bush couldn't bribe Chretien to take Canada into Iraq but Obama's having no trouble with Harper.
Harper is an intereting example of a Canadian neo-con slave to the US radical imperial elements. Harper acts as if he himself were American and Canada only exists to serve American international interests. And US foreign policy is simply an extension of Corporate Power and the Banking sector. US forces are used to enfore dollar hegmony, as we see what happens to nations not fully under the dollar system. Harper hold power because of Canada Parlimantary system where a minority party can hold power. Harper is a neo-con and a complete Israeli agent. If I were a Canadian I would find Harper hard to accept as he uses Canada as an extension of American power, not as a free inependent nation.
Elections mean nothing
If Harper was voted out and someone who ran against US power came in, just like Hollande in France , he would cave to the US the minute he was sworn in
"Free independent nation????"
LOL
Yeah, but he sang 'Hey Jude' to Netanyahu, he must be bringing good and harmony.
(Death by propaganda warning)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/virals/10589471/Canadian-Prime...
and putting the canadian opposition party, the NDP, will certainly and radically change the Canadian government position on the international stage:
http://www.cjnews.com/canada/new-ndp-leader-strongly-backs-israel
it is curious that this fact isn't exposed in canadian MSMs. Pick the color of your puppet....
lol Ukraine.
...President of Russian Central Bank looks like Yellen's Sister.
Sheesh
Boris: Fearless leader has ordered us to take out Moose and Squirrel.
Fearless Leader: "How many times have they spoilt my planz vis dere bungling interference?"
Boris: "Um, 28?"
Fearless Leader: "Quiet Idiot!" -- From "The Rocky & Bullwinkle Movie"
Russian methods.
*shudder*
Hey Vlad! Just convert your paper to silver!
Problem solved.
Air borne, highly infectious herpes you say!?
That shit is like luggage and impossible to get rid of. AND apparently unchained now thanks to years of a weakened ozone layer and it's been getting more aggressive thanks to increased back ground radiation. Nothing says "touch me" like a body covered in weeping and bleeding sores that are to date incurable and very very expensive to treat.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3162543/
So flaccid, sober, electronic-less and horribly infectious. The future is going to be so much fun if throwing in a nuclear war.
Game on.
wait... whats happening?
http://portal.ransquawk.com/headlines/ukraine-energy-minister-prodan-say...
ukraine-energy-minister-prodan-says-ukraine-rejects-russian-gas-bill-for-april
You can't make this shit up.
I guess that gas used to fire the electric plants just jumped out of 20k plus of rock and willingly sacrificed itself in a turbine. Yep. This will not be pretty
You apparently didn't even read the Summary of that article you linked. Game off.
Russian methods are usually a bullet to the head...jus sayin
The trick for Russia will be to use the D&C (Divide & Conquer) strategy effecttively against the US, while keeping the populace of the EU on its side.
They need to amplify the existing world and EU sentiment that the US is the World's Bully that must be stopped, and that the EU can and should have its own EU-Asia policy that is independent of DC pressure and blackmail.
The real battle is in PR exec offices, on how to pull of the PR campaign. Perhaps the Russian sanctions need to target the US and Canada, and not the EU, to back up the Message.
The V. Put! i wouldn't take the other side on that trade
Does not sound good for the USD. If he is going to respond in economic kind, he has options there withe the "world reserve currency" the US keeps insisting is some sort of magical birthright.
Russia's options are many.
1) They can facilitate Iran breaking sanctions by helping them export oil via the Caspian into already existing Russian pipelines. They can reduce their own 10.5 mbpd output equivalently to prevent the price from falling and take a cut from Iran's proceeds to maintain revenue neutrality.
2) The new pipeline through North Korea to South Korea can be accelerated, with a generous transit fee to North Korea put into place, perhaps with some nuclear weapons advisors.
3) They can support China's claim to the three disputed oil regions of the Senkaku Islands (Japan), the Philippines disputed area and now the Vietnam disputed area.
4) Snipers to Libya, Sudan and Nigeria, to ensure oil flow from those sources does not increase.
5) Nat gas price increases, and perhaps some support for the Saudis anger at Qatar, which might extend to funding some disruption in Qatar and maybe damage to their nat gas flow.
Russia has many very inexpensive options to take.
6) And best of all - Demand all their gas transactions to be settled in gold.
Then Germany will demand all their physical bars or freeze.
There is no mention of gold in the article and no function for it in Russian society -- so this is not going to happen.
Can't you go find gold threads to spam in?
"...There is no mention of gold..."
hmmm...maybe a clue...something unanticipated.
Russia must be then reinvesting heavily in there mining industry for the laugh....
Tjeff1, -- only fools mention their gold.
Hey...whatever can hammerfuck PMs like a pedophile in prison....
europe will freeze its ass of this winter.... putin is not interested in a hot war ..... nor a ukraine proxy war... besides he is winning influence globally and the ussa under shitforbrains is slumping every day... obumbler is more intersted in continuing his fuckussa policy than really confronting putin... come nov ... impeach the useless traitorous freedom infringing thug scumbag....
The more Putin acts like he wants a hot war. The more the Russian public is supporting him.
People are idiots.
Long IODINE.
How do you confront a nation that has weaponized winters. And uses them.
Sorry, nuking your city is usually not our method...
So Vlad has some really big put positions and...
'put' in' ... jus sayin'.
Mark June 1 on Calendar...it is "no Gas for you !" day in Ukraine. No pre-pay, no Gaz-prom.
WSJ
May8, 2014
MOSCOW--Russia will demand that Ukraine prepay for June natural gas imports, and the first bill will be delivered to Kiev on May 16, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Thursday.
let the shoosting begin! [/goldmember]
Nothing can stop the U.S. equities market, not even nukes!
Talk about broken windows!
Bullish!
Nukes on the HFT hardware complex might do it.
what is truly laughable is that "elections" are taking place everywhere but in the ukraine itself.... what a joke... so the ussa is backing the greystone thugs sent over there to forment unrest and revolt.... obumbler policy is to create instability and then back away and let chaos reign.... essentially obumbler gifted crimea and soon to be other states to putin... and putin sent in 1000 spetznaz on the cheap... who is the superasshole kidding.... tell vlad i'll be more flex in my second term.... where are the transcripts of the obumbler puting telcons???? they ought to be priceless..... and fatass hitlery want to be president.... the one who gave russia the "overcharge" button thnking it said "reset".... incompetent libtards.....
When you poke a bear with a stick, it usually doesn't just pick up another stick and poke you back.
"Sanctions not our method."
This is pure Hollywood!
Someone on the Secret Service scanner said: The boss just shit himself...
He's cool hand Vlad, one-upping obozo at every turn. This guy is gonna be a pop hero if he keeps it up
I can see him in a Tarantino film.
Cmon, Q. Make this happen.
If Putin makes it a direct military confrontation, all those who are critical of the Obummer and the USG will be forced to unify for their own survival.
Somehow I don't think that is what he is after.
This statement from Russia sounds more like a gangster talking than a head of state.
This is straight from DeNiro, "Fuck me? No! No! No! Fuck YOU!"
He does not understand American psychology. A direct attack on the US would take all bets off the table.
Americans are not used to attacks. They are used to thinking of themselves as invincible. In a military attack the Cowboys will become the ones in charge in short order.
The Cowboys will ask for immediate and total surrender - and if they don't get it (which they would not) WILL LAUNCH AND BE DAMNED THE CONSEQUENCES.
If he wants a direct military confrontation he needs to ask himself, What would SHANE (or John Wayne) do? Because that will be the mentality of the people he will then face on the other side.
I wonder.......if Putin ran for Presdient, how many Americans would vote for him?
Paper ballots only!
I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning I'll get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and, uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your fuckin' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time that I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what? I'll split your fuckin' head open again. 'Cause I'm fuckin' stupid. I don't give a fuck about jail. That's my business. That's what I do. [/Nicky Santoro]
Putin does not understand his opposition.
He is responding to the 'pyramid-structured-soviet' on the other side.
The problem is ... there isn't one. It's a hodgepodge of self-interested factions.
Seriously? Because the opposite was the case with Crimea when every western elite who cared to comment predicted Russian quiescence to Western support for a right-wing putchist biker-gang "government" of Ukraine. Putin is weak. Putin won't act. Putin's hold on power is precarious. Put has his own (Western financed) "Russian Spring" to contain. Putin needs the West to bail out Ukraine blah blah blah.
I agree with you that the Western Alliance has effectively dissolved into factional struggle, only it dissolved because Putin and his principal weapon, GazProm. Europe needs Russian resources particularly energy. The U.S. could never recoup the loss. Hence a divided alliance, hence divided interest groups within nation states.
Welcome to Byzantium, yo, where the first task in conflict is to divide the opposition even as you recruit civil society actor intermediaries on the ground to pursue your goals. Second task: Foment confusion by alternating among (a) loose but ambiguous talk of war, (b) heart-felt concession in interest of peace, and (c) claims of helplessness when your intermediaries do precisely what you want them to do.
Putin has the exact measure of his adversaries.
I would not be surprised if a psychiatrist was among
his closest advisor's.
His problem is reacting without hurting the BRIICSaA.
Quotations from Chairman Tzu:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sun_tzu.html
All this can end if the US/EU/IMF stop trying to turn Ukraine into their property.
And if vlad says "there will be costs" he will make sure those cost will be for the EU/US.
Silver obviously crashing here as investors sell risk assests and flock to safe haves lkike UST.
<facepalm>
agstacks, -- best typo today.
SLAP!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuIlkLdrJk8
I don't think he's threatening military action. I bet it's about economic warfare and bringing down the dollar.
what matters most?
timeline of communist russia:
bolsheviks 1916/ early1917 [lenin, trotsky, marx, stalin], by the end of wwii most bosheviks had one foot in the grave-- and, by the mid 70's all were basically dead.
the date is december/1991 and bolshevik/communist... or, soviet russia expires. gone forever-- a failed exceptionalism, proliferated upon an ideology of fantasy?!?
1917-1991 DOA age at death ~75 years young
the Soviet-Russia was a flawed misadventure from the start-- an anomaly... having a dueling myopic- dystopia wrapped in denial! an anachronism that darwin himself would call, 'an unnatural reprobated selection'?
the new breed of russian's were well aware of the systems failing , but had to wait for the desease within to die off, as it did in the late 90's.
russia today has distanced itself on an opposite political spectrum/ landscape, as far away, as one can possibly get, without realistically forgetting ones own roots, and certainly absentee from the past atrophic zeitgeist dillusional bolsheviks, other than learn from their failures!
today, may,8,2013 marks ~22 years since russia has about-faced and progressively moved in a world of status-quo at lockstep with the west, and yet the west cannot satisfy their hunger for the great lost of colonial power and territory from wwii as japan, china and russia ended the european/usa power vacuum in asia.
it all came down to this, and russia, with china.. and taiwan if they choose will be calling the shots in eurasia forevermoar!!!
jmo
thankyou Tyler
RUSSIANS did not create the USSR - they lived under it and died under it. It was created by, for, and used by Russian Jews who saw it as their utopia until some escaped to the US and the rest to Israel. Once they lost interest in Communism it folded and rotted.
Russians were not well-represented in the Bolsheviks or Mensheviks.....go check the real names of the "reviolutionaries" and OGPU torturers - they were not ethnic Russian
Please ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Internal_Affairs_of_the_Soviet_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War
http://www.russojapanesewar.com/top.html
Note: I'm using wikipedia now, for most historical sites now draw upon it's documentation authenticity, or conversely, vice versa.
Note2: The Chinese Qing Dynasty was collapsing simultaneously, as was the Russian Romanov Dynasty. When powerful dynasty close out... there are at minimum generational civil wars to follow, etc., etc.,... establishing the new order. But, with two very powerful dynasties collapsing at approximately the same historical time is unprecedented in modern history.
There is always chaos and rebellion!
jmo
thanks
Ps. I think we both agree on alot of what you said,... but :-))
"So if 'sanctions' are not their method? Then what is?"
If a junior oligarch is going against older bigger senior oligarchs then hit them at the seat of their power. First the petrodollar then NATO fiat currencies. Those are naturally weak now. If he's really smart then make new friends and open up a free market area and let all the starving littler countries play. Then listen to the swooshing sound as NATO's suffering real business investors jump ship.
Putin: "Our method? We'll sell our EUSSA bonds, all of them, and with the total proceeds we buy physical gold, in chunks of 100 metric tonnes orders at the time." That'll do.
If Harper could've kept his corrupt mouth shut about the 'slow-motion invasion' perhaps the Russian troops would stay at the border. That the Canadian bankarchy is so loud speaks volumes in regards to who wants a war. NATO seems tired of its own 'slow-motion invasion'. They want high-frequency invasion.
Jamie Dimon was seen entering a bunker just after Putin spoke.
Good. Can we seal it from the outside?
Having sold their long positions after the "de escalation" announcement and gone short, Putin and his buddies have now covered their shorts. Such is the privilege of oligarchy.
By now it shuldd be easy for the NSA to predict Russian government announcements by watching the patterns in certain accounts.
Is the Kenyan going to pawn this off on Hillary?
Does he think Putin will back down and let Ukraine, Russia get raped/enslaved/murdered by Muslims and the EU AGAIN?
They got nukes now, their post collapse strat was never "arms race", just keep their own territory, nuke if necessary.
Hopefully the Senate will be in session when DC gets hit.
The US government has done a very good job over the past 30 years or more creating enemies and rallying the world against it. This is very sad because the American people deserve better. Most American people that I know are good souls. They are just trapped in a world of evil manipulating overlords.
Who will eventually suffer when the world says "enough is enough" and does their best to eliminate the blight that the US and its puppeteers have created?
We shall see ...
crash the dollar, ussher in a new global currency and begin the NWO. unreal, while we slept the monsters were at work.
Pay off debt, don't buy anything you don't need for survival.
I find Prime Minister Harper a complete stooge for the western powers. He'll do anything to satisfy his lap dog mentality and to fit in with the rest of the phony Bilderberg group imbeciles that want a new world order.
Everything he does is to satisfy the American powers. He has sold us out and now has the Canadian form of the NSA spying on us. I just hope one day we'll be able to arrest this nut bar for treason.
As for him so vigorously opposing the Russians in the Ukraine he should look at the real reasons for the problems there. The whole Coup was started by the USA and now people are dying as a result. It's the same old story and unless the people in Canada, USA and for that matter all over the world rise up we'll all be lucky if we can feed ourselves one day.
I should add one thing. Sometime ago I played professional ball in the USA. The common everyday hard working, family oriented person in USA just wants to live their dream. It's just a shame that the debts, lies by government and Wall Streets fraudulent bahviour have been added to the existing problems.
It is not too late to ressurect what was once a great country. It may be more than one want to sacrifice.........it is your choice.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn-forbes-interview-oped-cx_p...