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US Kicks The Growling Bear, Issues More Russian Sanctions; Restricts Debt Market Access
Just as they promised (and acting unilaterally as Europe declined to go along with The White House), President Obama has unleashed a set of 'sectoral' sanctions to wreak havoc in Russia. The sanctions include the standard travel bans but adds rules that block several of Russia's largest firms from American debt markets. The plan - to restrict funding availability for Russian firms to under 90-days - is however, dead-on-arrival. As we explained here, Russian companies, facing $115 billion of debt due over the next 12 months, will have the funds even if bond markets shut as "the amount of cash on balance sheets of Russian companies, committed credit lines from banks and the operating cash flows they will get is sufficient for the companies to comfortably service their liabilities." This will do nothing but raise Putin's ire even more.
- U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS RUSSIA FAILING TO DE-ESCALATE IN UKRAINE
President Obama escalated sanctions against Russia on Wednesday by targeting a series of large banks and energy and defense firms in what officials described as the most punishing measures to date for Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine.
While the latest moves do not cut off entire sectors of the Russian economy, as threatened in the past, the administration’s actions go significantly further than the financial and travel limits imposed so far on several dozen individuals and their businesses. The new measures will severely restrict access to American debt markets for the targeted companies.
The moves were coordinated with European leaders, who were meeting in Brussels on Wednesday to consider their own package of penalties against Russia. The Europeans declined to go as far as the United States, instead focusing on a plan to block loans for new projects in Russia by European investment and development banks.
The disparate approaches reflect the deeper divisions between Washington and Brussels over how tough to be with Russia.
Here is the full list of sanctioned entities:
Specially Designated Nationals List Update
In addition, the following individuals have been added to OFAC's SDN List:
- BESEDA, Sergey (a.k.a. BESEDA, Sergei; a.k.a. BESEDA, Sergei Orestovoch); DOB 1954; Commander of the Fifth Service of the FSB; Commander of the Service for Operational Information and International Communications of the FSB; FSB Colonel General; Colonel-General (individual) [UKRAINE2].
- BORODAI, Aleksandr (a.k.a. BORODAI, Alexander); DOB 25 Jul 1972; nationality Russia (individual) [UKRAINE].
- NEVEROV, Sergei Ivanovich (a.k.a. NEVEROV, Sergei; a.k.a. NEVEROV, Sergey); DOB 21 Dec 1961; POB Tashtagol, Russia; Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation; Member of the State Duma Committee on Housing Policy and Housing and Communal Services (individual) [UKRAINE2].
- SAVELYEV, Oleg Genrikhovich; DOB 27 Oct 1965; POB St. Petersburg, Russia; Minister for Crimean Affairs (individual) [UKRAINE2].
- SHCHEGOLEV, Igor (a.k.a. SHCHYOGOLEV, Igor Olegovich); DOB 10 Nov 1965; POB Vinnitsa, Ukraine; alt. POB Vinnytsia, Ukraine; Aide to the President of the Russian Federation (individual) [UKRAINE2].
The following entities have been added to OFAC's SDN List:
- DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC, Donetsk Region, Ukraine [UKRAINE].
- FEDERAL STATE UNITARY ENTERPRISE STATE RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION ENTERPRISE BAZALT (a.k.a. FEDERAL STATE UNITARY ENTERPRISE, STATE RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION ENTERPRISE BAZALT; a.k.a. FSUE SRPE BAZALT; a.k.a. STATE RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION ENTERPRISE BAZALT)
- FEODOSIYA ENTERPRISE (a.k.a. FEODOSIA OIL PRODUCTS SUPPLY CO.; a.k.a. FEODOSIYA ENTERPRISE ON PROVIDING OIL PRODUCTS; a.k.a. FEODOSIYSKE COMPANY FOR THE OIL; a.k.a. THEODOSIYA OIL TERMINAL)
- JOINT STOCK COMPANY CONCERN RADIO-ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES (a.k.a. CONCERN RADIO-ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGIES; a.k.a. "KRET")
- JOINT STOCK COMPANY CONCERN SOZVEZDIE (a.k.a. JSC CONCERN SOZVEZDIE)
- JOINT STOCK COMPANY MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION NPO MASHINOSTROYENIA (a.k.a. JOINT STOCK COMPANY MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CONSORTIUM NPO MASHINOSTROYENIA; a.k.a. JSC MIC NPO MASHINOSTROYENIA; a.k.a. MIC NPO MASHINOSTROYENIA JSC; a.k.a. MIC NPO MASHINOSTROYENIYA JSC; a.k.a. MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION NPO MASHINOSTROENIA OAO; a.k.a. OPEN JOINT STOCK COMPANY MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION SCIENTIFIC AND PRODUCTION MACHINE BUILDING ASSOCIATION; a.k.a. VOENNO-PROMYSHLENNAYA KORPORATSIYA NAUCHNO-PROIZVODSTVENNOE OBEDINENIE MASHINOSTROENIYA OAO; a.k.a. VPK NPO MASHINOSTROENIYA),
- JOINT-STOCK COMPANY CONCERN ALMAZ-ANTEY (a.k.a. ALMAZ-ANTEY CORP; a.k.a. ALMAZ-ANTEY DEFENSE CORPORATION; a.k.a. ALMAZ-ANTEY JSC; f.k.a. OTKRYTOE AKTSIONERNOE OBSHCHESTVO KONTSERN PVO ALMAZ ANTEI)
- KALASHNIKOV CONCERN (a.k.a. CONCERN KALASHNIKOV; a.k.a. IZHEVSKIY MASHINOSTROITEL'NYI ZAVOD OAO; f.k.a. IZHMASH R&D CENTER; f.k.a. JSC NPO IZHMASH; f.k.a. NPO IZHMASH OAO; a.k.a. OJSC CONCERN KALASHNIKOV; f.k.a. OJSC IZHMASH; f.k.a. SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION IZHMASH JOINT STOCK COMPANY)
- KONSTRUKTORSKOE BYURO PRIBOROSTROENIYA OTKRYTOE AKTSIONERNOE OBSHCHESTVO (a.k.a. INSTRUMENT DESIGN BUREAU; a.k.a. JSC KBP INSTRUMENT DESIGN BUREAU; a.k.a. KBP INSTRUMENT DESIGN BUREAU; a.k.a. KBP INSTRUMENT DESIGN BUREAU JOINT STOCK COMPANY; a.k.a. "KBP OAO")
- LUHANSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC (a.k.a. LUGANSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC; a.k.a. PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF LUHANSK)
- URALVAGONZAVOD (a.k.a. NAUCHNO-PROIZVODSTVENNAYA KORPORATSIYA URALVAGONZAVOD OAO; a.k.a. NPK URALVAGONZAVOD; a.k.a. NPK URALVAGONZAVOD OAO; a.k.a. OJSC RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION CORPORATION URALVAGONZAVOD; a.k.a. RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION CORPORATION URALVAGONZAVOD; a.k.a. RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION CORPORATION URALVAGONZAVOD OAO; a.k.a. URALVAGONZAVOD CORPORATION; a.k.a. "UVZ")
Sectoral Sanctions Identifications List Update
- GAZPROMBANK OAO (a.k.a. GAZPROMBANK GAS INDUSTRY OJSC; a.k.a. GAZPROMBANK OJSC; a.k.a. GAZPROMBANK OPEN JOINT STOCK COMPANY; a.k.a. GAZPROMBANK OTKRYTOE AKTSIONERNOE OBSHCHESTVO; a.k.a. GPB, OAO; a.k.a. GPB, OJSC
- OAO NOVATEK (a.k.a. FINANSOVO-INVESTITSIONNAYA KOMPANIYA NOVAFININVEST OAO; a.k.a. NOVATEK)
- OPEN JOINT-STOCK COMPANY ROSNEFT OIL COMPANY (a.k.a. OAO ROSNEFT OIL COMPANY; a.k.a. OIL COMPANY ROSNEFT; a.k.a. OJSC ROSNEFT OIL COMPANY; a.k.a. ROSNEFT; a.k.a. ROSNEFT OIL COMPANY)
- VNESHECONOMBANK (a.k.a. BANK FOR DEVELOPMENT AND FOREIGN ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (VNESHECONOMBANK) STATE CORPORATION; a.k.a. BANK RAZVITIYA I VNESHNEEKONOMICHESKOI DEYATELNOSTI (VNESHEKONOMBANK) GOSUDARSTVENNAYA KORPORATSIYA; a.k.a. "VEB")
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But - as we noted here - Russian firms can handle a debt market closure for one simple reason: they actually make money.
Russian companies, facing $115 billion of debt due over the next 12 months, will have the funds even as bond markets shut because of the Ukraine crisis, according to Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings.
Firms will have about $100 billion in cash and earnings at their disposal during the next 18 months, Moody’s said in an analysis of 47 businesses April 11. Almost all 55 companies examined by Fitch are “well placed” to withstand a closed refinancing market for the rest of 2014, it said in a note on April 16. Banks have more than $20 billion in foreign currency to lend as the tensions prompted customers to convert their ruble savings, ZAO Raiffeisenbank said.
“The amount of cash on balances of Russian companies, committed credit lines from banks and the operating cash flows they will get is sufficient for the companies to comfortably service their liabilities,” Denis Perevezentsev, an analyst at Moody’s in Moscow, said by phone on April 17.
And now we await the blowback, as just like the last round of US sanctions merely accelerated the Russia-China holy grail gas deal, so this one should should lead to a promptly completion of the BRIC bank. The only good outcome, considering the Fed is desperate for someone, anyone, to sell bonds, is that Russia and its $110 billion in TSYs, should promptly oblige.
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Germany Pivoting East
By: Jim Willie CB
It is finally happening in full view, in unmistakable manner, in a way that the awake, the aware, and the conscious can perceive in alarming stunning terms. The central force of Europe, the industrial juggernaut, the stable core, has begun to pivot East. The Germans have had enough, fed up with destructive US activities of all kinds. For the last few months, they have been laying out their indictment, their justification, their reasons to abandon the corrupt US-UK crowd. The bank wreckage, the market rigging, the endless wars, the sanctions which backfire, the sham monetary policy, the economic sabotage, the spying, the gold gimmicks, it has finally reached a critical level. Germany has begun to move East in full view.
Piss off the tribe and no paper for you bad bear.
The US cannot stand 2 more years of the monkey with a hand grenade as Russian Deputy Premier so aptly put...
. "The disparate approaches reflect the deeper divisions between Washington and Brussels over how tough to be with Russia."
The US and Europe are playing good cop, bad cop which gives Brussels implausible deniability concerning sactions due to their dependency on Russia for energy.
Putin is going to thump Obozo like one does to a bug with their finger.
someone wants a war... and this is all staging.
LOL, USSA
I am convinced now that Obama has colluded with Russia, or he is one of their stooges. I mean, really?!
I believe that Obama is earning his Peace Prize by not helping Russia. God help the Russians if Obama was really on their side.
O/T, I just saw this story via reddit. A new hole (approx. 80 m diameter) has appeared in the ground in Siberia. They are checking it out.
"In Russia, GAS fracks YOU"
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/07/16/04/48/giant-hole-appears-at-wor...
US Kicks The Growling Bear, Issues More Russian Sanctions; Restricts Debt Market Access
Hey, Vlad! Why don't you buy a shit-ton of physical gold to remind the US just how fragile their ponzi really is?
( sarcasm ) Allowing the Ukrainian Army to shell Russians living near the border is obviously the height of Russian aggression.
DoChenRollingBearing
SO... really nothing to say, only about yourself as usual.
Except redslit ego masturbation and a big dark hole.
"They are checking it out"
your fingers... due to toilet paper sanctions... ?
Do not need to know any or all.
Um, it's a story about a new 80 m diameter mysterious hole that appeared in Yamal, Siberia. They do not know the cause, but have apparently ruled OUT a meteor impact (and some other causes). The Russians are sending a team there very quickly.
It's an interesting story for anyone interested in geology, natural history, etc. Take a look, maybe you would agree.
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I can feel the hate..., most PM guys do not exude that... Why, bro?
I read the story, now again in your response, about yourself.
Take your interjection attention addiction to redslit.
You may feel as you so choose, dark holes and projection thereof.
I do not waste my time with carnal emotions, or waste other peoples time.
Yuz catch dat bra?
Ah, OK, I see that my wording threw you at my first post above, I meant no sexual references, but I now can see why you reacted like that.
Peace
Nope, just tired of your selfing.
See that.
Read all your mirror pov.
hilarious
Great, but you took a while figuring it out, man.
It's all Russian to me.....
Germany is positioning itself as a hub to the railway and roadway systems being developed in Asia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Highway_Network
Yep, gotta get down to 500 million people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
Here's the plan:
http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/keytopics/threats.html
Somebody has to stop them. But if not save yourself and your family.
But first Putin's going to tear off his shirt and he and Obama are going to dance the "YMCA" with Obama as the Indian and Putin as the motorcycle cop. 1. 2. 3. 4......
So what happens if Russian companies realize that they do not NEED our debt markets, and that realization spreads to others we ALLOW to access USD debt?
I have done some dumb things in my life, but never have I risked an entire country because I was spiteful.
Debt is second only to bullshit in the USA's exports, right ahead of death and misery.
pods
It's either plausible deniability or implausible undeniability
.
Barry's gonna get us all killed...who cares about Ukraine?
I do: I knew some girls over there a few years back. Lost touch with them, but I do hope they're all right.
Not Izhmash... Noooooooooo
Dammit Barry, now you really are going to lose the NRA voters.
This means War!
It is so wonderful watching the downfall of our psychopathic lords and masters.
downfall? seems to me that events are going according to plan to destroy the USA
There is no plan, it is just a normal outcome of their innate behavior. A process repeated over and over throughout history.
No forager mindset can successfully run a modern positive sum economy. No pharaonic mindset can successfuly run a modern positive sum economy.
Only decentralization through freedom and voluntary interaction can.
yea seems like no time to waste pedal to the metal to me.
Nobody can make the absolute wrong move every single time.
UN playbook at work here
Why is Obama wanting to go after Russia? I mean he has to know they won't back down, and the only other option is war.
Russian Bear Responds: http://i.imgur.com/T6LHC.gif
Please Vlad, the next time you meet Barry do a round house kick right to his nappy milk dud in front of his fawning presstitutes and while he is crawling around searching for his missing pearly white cock ticklers kick him in his love canal.
Vlad, take a pic of him giving you a BJ!
Rest assured, Vlad is all man. Nuland, however....
The Larry Sinclair pics aren't enough?
I don't want to see them, just know if Bath House refuses an order, Vlad will be waving a particular photo at him.
The Surprise 2014 Lavrov-Steinmeir Pact.
"Dear Vlad, please accept a request from my FM, Herr Steinmeir to travel to Moscow at your earliest convenience."
---Angela.
spot on man. nobody needs the Hun as an enemy in 2014. dunce neo-cons will end our world.
spot on man. nobody needs the Hun as an enemy in 2014. dunce neo-cons will end our world.
paper fiats
Certainly Russia would not benefit from any action that raised oil prices right now. Why I can hardly think of anything they could do in Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya or Saudi Arabia that would help the world's largest oil exporter get more money for its oil.
they will probably just grin and Bear it.
That's it? That's all you got?
It would be a real shame if Putin learned how to thrive without American debt and fiat.....does Obama understand what he is going to create?
Now we will see electricity prices soar in the US as over 30% of coal used in US power planets comes from, ................ wait for it .................. RUSSIA!!!!!!!
Community Organizers don't understand supply and demand, they only understand how to demand other people's money and throw tantrums. It works on the South Side of Chicago, but its an embarssment on an International stage. Putin is laughing.
part of the plan is too the American middle class get crushed... so its a win win as far the zionist communist in the white house is concerned (or more accurately, his puppetmasters).
the majority of imported coal to the US comes from Columbia @ 6.6 million short tons, which is 74% of total US coal imports
the US produces 1 billion short tons of coal per year, making imports worth nine-tenths of a percent of US domestic production
sorry, you're woefully misinformed
Nod.
The US is the #2 coal producer in the world.
#1 is China, and overwhelmingly so. They produce nearly as much coal as the US plus all the rest of the world combined.
And the scary part is . . . China is a coal importer, too.
All coal is not created equally... Coal mined in the eastern US has far too much sulphur in it to be burned in US power plants due to EPA regulations... However, they don't have a problem with it in China...
the US has top reserves in the world for anthracite and low sulphur bituminous coal... over double that of Russia... hell, the US exports the stuff to EU so they can burn clean coal... in fact, for all types of coal including said type the US accounts for 23% of the world's reserves...
the US simply doesn't have a "coal problem" and certainly not one swayed by imports (which are practically nothing compared to domestic production)
I read that on a Drudge link today... I'll search for the thread and post a link...
Read it and weep... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-15/hungry-u-s-power-plant-turns-to...
Except the US exports nearly 30 times as much yearly.
Yeah whatever... Tick tock, assholes. I hope you have plenty of room in your asses, cause that will be the only place you can stick the containers full of dollars that are about to be thrown right back to the US.
Winning.
Ugh, I have never witnessed a more clueless bunch. It's almost as if it is planned. Hmmm...
You are being coy, right?
Lighten up Francis. ;-)
Funny I always pictured Francis as looking like this...
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/10/26/article-0-15B33E97000005DC-226...
oh the irony...
And when Gazprom directs every buyer in the world to remit to Gazprom Bank or not receive any gas...
While the USA burns, Obama fiddles with his putter on the golf course of a demoncratic donor.:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/fore-obama-plans-16-day-marthas-vineyard-v...
We need a vodka summit.... Hash it out like men...
Hash it out like men....
Well that excludes Obama.
Colonel Klink, that is racist.
Only if being communist, socialist, a closet homosexual, coward, muslim, or liar are considered race.
Obama was "raised" by a ditzy white communist hippy chick. If he had stayed in Africa with his father he would have been a poorer but better man.
Klink...send the wookie, he can handle his share of vodka.
Just finishing up on Day 4 of the Battle for Kursk. Von Monstein and Hoth are taking on over 1000 Russian t-34's plus 3500 artillery pieces and tens of thousands of land mines with 400 Tiger tanks...and have broken into the clear.
Not looking so good on the Northern half of the pincer. Model had slammed the door on his end they would have enveloped 10,000 tanks and the bulk of the Soviet Army.
Hitler is going wobbly though...
There is a great documentary on youtube showing the antitank traps and crossfire positions the Russians set up for the incoming Panzers...damn that was one heck of a battle. Next to Stalingrad its gotta be my favorite ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgo3p1IqVy0
This is it I believe...
It says that the antitank trenches dug would of stretched from Moscow to Madrid (4200km), pretty amazing prep work, I cant believe the Germans didn't shift south or north with their attacks and leave the entrenched russians there, anyone know the reason for not shifting?
there were only less than 300 (246) tigers at kursk. as it turned out, the southern pincer did a lot of damage with a mainstay of long-gunned (L/60) pzIII tanks.
The Soviets had cracked the code for the German battle plan and had everything prepared.
No, Bletchley Park had cracked the German codes and the UK gave the Russians the German's battle plans. As German strategy allowed little local alteration the Germans were doomed before a shot was fired.
No Kalashnikovs for you friends.
(only thing TPTB fear is friendship between US and Russia people. This must be avoided at all costs)
Hint> common enemy
Customs and BATFE screwing around has created a cottage industry in US made AK parts. You can build one these days using only parts made here.
OT kind of: Don't look now but Kiev is losing badly in their war with the SE Ukraine militias. Check out other news briefs at this link:
In the airspace of the Russian Federation shot down the aircraft of the air force of Ukraine
And apparently due to all the chaos, a harvest wasn't planted this Spring. Ukraine will both freeze and starve this winter.
That is a great article and awesome pic. It will be real hard for Ukraine to use its planes right on the border region against the freedom fighters without straying even a little into Russian airspace, and they will pay.
Southern Cauldron cut off... Significant Strelkov victory (maybe) in coming days.
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7cb_1405295109
^^^Hilarious!^^^
Sad stuff. The Ukrianians military should go after the oligarch NWO scum in Kiev and the mercenaries who back them.
Everybody should go after their lords and masters. They are the inciters of death and destruction.
http://www.seesharppress.com/warquotes.html
"Whether the mask is labelled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battlelines, which is not so much our enemy as our brother's enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this Apparatus, and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others."
— Simone Weil, Politics, Spring 1945
OWWW! SHIT! That hurt!
Barrykins, take the pistol out of the holster before you pull the trigger.
I was trying to cut off Russian coal to Amerika, Reggie. Electricity must necessarily go up, and shortages increase!
I'll take you to the nurse.
I just fucking shot myself!
BTW word in east is that Moscow Metro tragedy was act of sabotage. Guess by whom... Two guys arrested, St. Pete metro under investigation.
Look, the Russian companies have access to that $100 Billion BRIC BANK. They can re-finance and kill the US dollar in one fell stroke. Who would have thought it would be so easy to bring the US to it's knees...
Another canadian knuckle head with his brown bag full of empty 40oz'ers. Listen grizzly boy toy, dont you have something better to do?
It seems as if Obama is ‘containing’ the U.S. through U.S. led monetary policy.
Why is Obama isolating the U.S. other than to eventually crash the dollar and solve the problem by moving us to the global currency ‘they’ created?
'U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS RUSSIA FAILING TO DE-ESCALATE IN UKRAINE'
Russian OFFICIAL SAYS US FAILING TO DE-ESCALATE everywhere
There, fixed it to the correct version
The EU is failing to de-escalate too. If Russia can take a Penninsula (Crimea) by force why can't Israel? (The Sinai.)
This whole thing (War on Terror) is spinning out of control and there is nothing any of us can do about it now. Don't know how the growing season is looking in Central Europe but the USA is going to have all time records across the board in the ag space.
Couldn't think of a worse time to launch an invasion of Ukraine proper (and Central Europe in general) than from pollination to harvest...which would be from right now through September/October.
This would be an unprovoked aggression as well...and I find it beyond exasperating that no one really cares about that stuff any more.
In other words "force will be met with force" not words.
That is a HUGE Battlespace over there that would impact global food supplies IMMEDIATELY.
Then again...maybe that's the plan.
The US regime squeezed a massive steaming, smelly turd all over Ukraine and now they're unhappy that Russians don't want to breathe it in?!...
double
"...President...has unleashed..." Yep, there's an error (and our problem) in your first sentence.
The United State_ hasn't had a president since 2008, only the Kenyan Usurper (K.U.), not vetted but put on the ballots by 50 states' chief erections officers, half of whom were probably wearing elephant costumes.
Got tyranny?
So the extension of your post means Obama slipped right by Bush and his intelligence team. Bush let this happen, huh.
Too bad the Russians hadn't thought of running a U.S. candidate first, huh?
It's like international fight club, only the US is the protagonist, mercilessly pummelling himself in the corner. Never have I see anyone go to such lengths to shoot themselves in the foot to spite their face.
whoever is hellbent on bringing down the US has their hand so far up Obama's puppet ass you can see it moving his lips with these directives.
only 4 days until 20 July.
__xo, Christine.
Its a well formed pennant in nearby bond ZBU on expanding open interest and relentless put buying vs calls.
Somethings gotta give.
Well rejoice. This is Darwinism at play. In other words, the people in Washington are so dumb that they have decided to shoot themselves in the balls. That is de-dollarize the world financial system. They do not understand that the dollar does not get its value from ~God~, but only because it is being used. Those guys are really too much fun....
Oh the costs! The costs!
Bathhouse Barry wants and needs to pick a fight to distract everyone from all the other disasters he and his band of bandits have created.
Please don't fall for it.
Only the worms win in a war.
what do you guys think ?
http://youtu.be/h5RPKQNRAPw
http://youtu.be/8RAI9ZBVc08
The first video makes a good point. The Russians have 10,000 tactical nuclear weapons (vs. 500 for the U.S.) and the doctrine to use them in extremis. War between NATO and Russia is virtually certain to go nuclear.
US wants a war but they will get a revolution on their soil before that.
Americans are too soft, fat, uneducated, apathetic, dumbed-down, drugged up, stupid, drunk and lazy, We do not have the balls, backbone or stomach to do what needs to be done.
After a year or so of food shortages, drug shortages, power disruptions, and so forth, I suspect that most Americans will be either dead or tough enough to take matters in hand.
Unfortunately, it will take a catastrophe first - massive inflation and unemployment, and most likely war (which America will lose soundly).
This has to be the dumbest move by the US so far, irreversibly drive Russia further towards China, where if you had any sense would be to get these two to be enemies....perhaps this is the snowflake Jim Rickards has referred to?
Does anything surprise us any longer?
Ummm, yeah. "Plan Ost" is really worth the read...if not for the least reason being "that's not worth repeating" (WW II) but also because it so easily can be (WW I.)
You're talking about million man armies spread out over thousands of square miles.
"Kursk was just a single battle."
No, not since we found out "Michelle" is really "Mike."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_3TlrZLpQ0
The vile, reptilian US Government is sanctioning Russia because it is helping people who do not want to be repressed and ethnically cleansed by the US's installed Nazi Fascist Kiev puppet regime, which has engaged in mass war crimes. Plain and simple.
Only the US gets to say which is a war crime -- it's special that way.
I say we fine Moody's and Fitch a billion $ each for their treasonous evaluation of Russian companies' ability to function without access to debt.
This thread must be for pre pubescent boys under 13.
You got that right...
Come on over tomorrow. Daddy bought you a new surfboard and a bananna hammock ;~p
We're going to, eventually, be genocided.
that's so 20th century, we're talking omnicide now... no sarc
When is somebody going to give Obama two taps and end the world's misery?
Barry is just a sock puppet, triple tap the wall st citizens who pull his strings.
Yes. When America finally loses the war it's trying to start with Russia and China, the U.S. should be sure to save its last few ballistic missiles for Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Amerika,
Are funcking stupid K-street! clean up that infestatiion and you solve all the problems of the world.
Meanwhile, Putin visits Cuba, gives money to Castro.
Soon, he'll call Obama, "We're going to install missiles in Cuba to protect us from North Korea."
+110 for irony!
Yes, Zerohedge, NY Times. You know exactly what is on the balance sheets of those russian companies who for sure, as Zerohedge says, have all that $120 billion aside, which of course it can never ever be blocked, right??
And of course, Zerohedge and NY Times are absolutely sure that those sanctioned russian companies do not have liabilities off balance sheets.
What kind of crap is this post?
Somehow, I don't know why, Zerohedge assumes there is rule of law and bond market is ruled by laws which are strictly enforced.
And that Fed wants the russians to sell USTs, because of course, bond market is operating under rule of law, as if anybody gives an excrement to the collateral shortage in repo market for as long as Fed is there to NOT enforce the law.
Yea man.....
The Federal Reserve is a private central bank.
The Treasury and SEC do nothing to US banks committing obvious fraud in the US.
BNP was only sanctioned because the French pissed off Princess Obama by completing their sale of Amphibious CVs to the Russians.
Forcing the Russians to sell T-Bonds will only accelerate inflation in the US, and make selling T-Bonds to anyone but the Federal Reserve even more difficult.
Grow the fuck up.
Fed is not a central bank, Fed is a system of 12 banks.
Regional banks are private getting 6% divident.
FOMC is not private and is fully under congress control, 100%
Um, you have seen Ben Bernanke testify before Congress, right? He wouldn't even give them straight answers to simple questions.
90% of what congress does on TV is just a show.
Decisions are made behind closed door.
CSPAN theater is for the masses
I agree, but it may be higher. Sunshine laws? My ass.
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is not an istitution to be private.
Thinking of writing more- but just gave up the thought.
Maybe you are Yellen's new mouthpiece
Nobody cares about Yellen and nobody cared about Bernanke.
Same as Bernanke, Yellen took the position for braggin purpose, nothing else.
Benny had no clue, she hasn't got a clue. Neither of them has any decision power.
Congress does and congress is owned by bank lobby right now
"fully under congress control" and who controls congress?
Correct.
Bank lobby controls congress right now.
Hence, it controls Fed via controlling congress
The Federal Reserve System - a cartel of 12 banks - is the Central Bank of the United States.
The FOMC is not fully public, and not fully under the control of the government.
I don't know where you get fully under control of congress.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1073219?uid=3739856&uid=2&uid=4&ui...
http://openjurist.org/656/f2d/873/riegle-v-federal-open-market-committee
You're wrong.
Does Obama know that the market is not the property off?...
Or did we kill the entire free market?
Must see:
Those East Ukrainian terrorists even managed rescuing a child found
under the rubble of a 4 storey appartment building
(Video at 10:40):
http://youtu.be/I-zxw5U7tS0
Therefore more sanctions are urgently needed preventing those Russians
from bombing appartment buildings in Eastern Ukraine using 1000 kg bombs.
</sarc>
I'd be more worried when Russia kills the petrodollar and cuts the US off from the credit markets!
I cannot wait to see what Russia does in response. I mean, after all they're just a regional power, right. I mean, they can't really do anything that might hurt us, right? So we got this all covered, and there will not be any blowback, right.
They are reopening their spy base in Cuba, just to get in America's face. Spy satellites are closer and can see more, but this pisses off people more.
I can't believe people this stupid get elected to power. Oh wait, they don't...
Seems to me....That the president of the USA just told russia that they can't use the $US.
rules that block several of Russia's largest firms from American debt markets.
After all, the American Dollar is Based on Debt....................Did he just make Law what Putin already is doing?.... Shoot yourself in the foot much?
Nightmarish World War II memories linger in Moscow, Ukrainian neo-fascists were among those who seized control in the new government in Kiev yet the U.S. rushed to give its blessing to what the Kremlin later described as a "coup d'etat". While Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, reflected these worries when he voiced "most serious concern" over Ukraine in phone calls to the French, German and Polish foreign ministers the EU, knowing this was what Washington wanted, just looked on.
Little wonder the Russians were furious at what they saw as a western double cross. Don't hold your breath for Putin to back-off or back-down, he has put down his marker and is now playing both Obama and Kerry for fools in a contest that cost Russia little. It is likely that if If Putin doesn't get Eastern Ukraine next week he will next month or next year at the latest. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/07/putin-holds-all-cards.html