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"US Will Feel Tangible Losses," Russia Prepares To Unleash Retaliatory Trade Wars

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"It's a troubling continuation/expansion of trade as a geopolitical tool," warns one Washington-based consulting firm as Russia prepares to unleash retaliatory actions to US and European sanctions. As Bloomberg reports, Russia said yesterday it may ban imports of chicken from the U.S. and fruit from Europe and is investigating McDonald's cheese for safety. In addition, a Russian lawmaker has drafted legislation that might result in U.S. accounting firms being barred from doing business in his country. All of this is odd given Jack "trust me" Lew's reassurance that Russian sanctions would have no impact on the US economy. Russia's response, US will feel 'tangible losses' from 'destructive, myopic' sanctions.

 

As Bloomberg reports, while Russia and the U.S. have long sparred over agricultural trade, the actions fueled speculation they could be retaliatory.

Russia’s food safety agency said it may ban imports of U.S. poultry and some European fruit due to contamination of the products, according Bloomberg BNA, citing Russian state media. The food safety agency, known as Rosselkhoznadzor, also said it will examine suppliers of McDonald’s cheese for their use of antibiotics.

 

Russia was the second-largest market, after Mexico, for U.S. chicken last year, according to the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council. The U.S. exported about $309 million worth of broiler chickens to Russia last year, according to the council.

 

Russia, which joined the World Trade Organization in 2012, is considering banning some European fruit that includes seeds and pits from the entire EU or from bloc’s individual member countries, said Alexei Alekseenko, an aide to Rosselkhoznadzor director Sergei Dankvert, BNA reported.

 

Fruit shipments from the EU have recently contained Oriental fruit moths, he said, according to the Russian news agency RIA. He proposed talks with EU suppliers over the issue.

Seems like that would impact the US and European economy...

“This is not a surprise,” Mike Cockrell, chief financial officer at Sanderson Farms Inc. (SAFM) of Laurel, Mississippi, said by phone. “It’s not unusual for Russia to find something wrong when they have a political reason to do so.”

 

Officials from McDonald’s, based in Oak Brook, Illinois, didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Russia explained these are not anti-US sanctions...

“These are not sanctions against U.S. We don’t have a goal to harm U.S. citizens’ quality of life,” Fedorov said. “There are companies in Russia which have sensitive positions in terms of Russia’s sovereignty and economic security.”

 

Fedorov said consulting firms and audit firms will be the first to be targeted by the new bill. Next will be U.S. media, he said.

And Russia issued a statement that US will feel 'tangible losses' from 'destructive, myopic' sanctions.

We have repeatedly spoken about the illegitimacy and groundlessness of the US sanctions against Russia. Washington will gain nothing from such decisions except for further complication of Russian-American relations and the creation of an unfavorable atmosphere in international affairs, where the cooperation between our countries often plays a key role.

 

The U.S. administration, strained creating the appearance of "sequence" in its current behavior, in fact, is merely trying to avoid responsibility for the tragic developments in Ukraine. Not Russia, and Kiev regime and its overseas patrons guilty of a growing number of civilian casualties in the eastern regions. In his pompous manner prosecutorial White House, covering the bloody military operation of Kiev, which contrary to all international norms sunk to rocket attacks peaceful cities, continues to put forward baseless claims against us.

 

One gets the impression that the U.S. sanctions pressure, transformed now at sectoral level, has one goal - to get even with us for an independent and uncomfortable for Washington politics. Please also note the obvious elements of unscrupulous trade and economic competition in the U.S. actions.

The losses that Washington will sustain from such a destructive and myopic policy will be very tangible

US officials are not happy...

“Assuming that they take this action, it would be blatant protectionism,” Clayton Yeutter, a U.S. Trade Representative under President Ronald Reagan, said in a phone interview. “There is little or no legitimacy to their complaints.”

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Putin warned of boomerangs... and sure enough here they come...

  • *EU ENERGY SANCTIONS `IRRESPONSIBLE' STEP, RUSSIA SAYS
  • *EU ENERGY SANCTIONS TO CAUSE PRICE INCREASE IN EUROPE: RUSSIA
  • *RUSSIA TO WEIGH `UNCONSTRUCTIVE' EU ATTITUDE IN FUTURE TIES
  • *EU BANKS WORKING IN RUSSIA MKT TO SUFFER FROM SANCTIONS: RUSSIA

And France is screwed...

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Wednesday that Russia has the capability to build Mistral-class helicopter carriers on its own if France cancels the existing contract, RIA Novosti reported. “The French must prove they are serious partners and reliable contractors,” Rogozin said after a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and government ministers.

 

“If they fail to do so, we will build the [Mistral] ships on our own. We are finally capable to do it,” Rogozin said. On Monday, he expressed doubts that France would cancel the contract, which he said would be worse for France than for Russia.

And it seems Russia is not as isolated as President Obama would like everyone to think...

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Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:55 | 5023112 basho
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salmonela shits du jour lol

you guys don't really eat that stuff do you.

"Chickens raised for their flesh, called “broilers” by the chicken industry, spend their entire lives in filthy sheds with tens of thousands of other birds, where intense crowding and confinement lead to outbreaks of disease. They are bred and drugged to grow so large so quickly that their legs and organs can’t keep up, making heart attacks, organ failure, and crippling leg deformities common. Many become crippled under their own weight and eventually die because they can’t reach the water nozzles. When they are only 6 or 7 weeks old, they are crammed into cages and trucked to slaughter.

Read more: http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/factory-farming/chickens/#ixzz38yJ3Ry53

"

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:17 | 5022705 gcjohns1971
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I have some very good Russian Vodka downstairs right now.  It is not the best Russian product, but it is the most visible in my house.

I am not going to throw it out.

I am not going to stop buying Russian products.

Why should I?

Just because governments are insane doesn't mean I should follow them in their march to the sea.

I hope individual Russians will reciprocate.  But if they don't I will not change.  Each has to act as he understands the world.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:31 | 5022778 p00k1e
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Putinka?

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:34 | 5023021 gcjohns1971
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Polugar, actually.

I don't suffer from the Hollywood delusion that one side of every fight is "The Good Guy" and the other is "The Bad Guy".

When speaking of politicians two "Bad Guys" are much more likely than one or both of them being good.

And my personal opinion is that the very best sort of man would be morally repugnant in a position of power - and that that fact is a condition of humanity.

 

People say, "Government" when they really mean "God-verment" or "Dad-verment". 

I think seeking answers to a person's problems in a 'Leader" is AT BEST snake oil.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:19 | 5022712 Bankster Kibble
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" '... it would be blatant protectionism,' Clayton Yeutter, a U.S. Trade Representative under President Ronald Reagan, said in a phone interview."

So, then, does that mean if Russia counter-sanctions USA, it is protectionism?  So we can sue in the WTO court?  Interesting.  That might mean Russia's existing suit in WTO court against our sanctions is just as valid.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:19 | 5022714 falak pema
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...

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:20 | 5022715 falak pema
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wtf...

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:21 | 5022716 falak pema
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...

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:21 | 5022718 falak pema
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... this machine has gone bonkers

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:22 | 5022719 falak pema
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... 

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:25 | 5022720 falak pema
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tit for tat...

Just how far is too far, until we start throwing one of those 8000 nuclear warheads at each other or against a proxy surrogate who goes "beyond tolerable limits".

We've had the 298 deaths  of Malaysia line innocents. We had the 170000 deaths of Syrians. We've had the millions who die in obscure places and who don't even get picked up on the radar of the western media. 

The world has got so blasé, and our democracy now looks like the bulbous waistline of Gerard Depardieu in the nude, a dude who could play any prince in his youth, and now plays in this latest drama the ugly face of a shodden, downtrodden prince of corrupt finance, appropriately entitled "Welcome to New York".

The fall of western civilization looks like the view of Depardieu's evolution from triumphant youth to obese and ugly but defiantly assumed present status.

That is the best allegory of our Reaganista financial age, in its current dystopian winner take all, steroid pumped, hubristically defiant and antagonistically divided Oligarchy rage. 

 

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:18 | 5022949 crazybob369
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We're just lucky that Barry is dealing with Putin and not one of the old Soviet leaders, who, in a drunken stupor, would have already fired a nuke up Barry's ass and we'd all be floating back down to earth as radioactive dust.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:26 | 5023255 RaceToTheBottom
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"tit for tat..."

Breasts for skin art

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:21 | 5022733 Toronto Kid
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* “Assuming that they take this action, it would be blatant protectionism,” Clayton Yeutter, a U.S. Trade Representative under President Ronald Reagan, said in a phone interview *

Oh, this brings back not-so-fond memories of the softwood dispute. I doubt there are many in Canada who will have much sympathy for the US if __CLAYTON YEUTTER__ goes around caterwauling about protectionism.

Perhaps the US government can find someone more sympathetic to do its cauterwauling for it?

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:23 | 5022744 are we there yet
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Our company sells equipment to Russia over the years. But since Crimea we have neither been granted nor denied permission to sell there so we've so we have been on an unexplained hold for sales to Russia. Not an iron curtain, more like a stupid curtain. The movie 'dumb and dumber' comes to mind.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:26 | 5022752 Itchy and Scratchy
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Nuthin' moar than the US tryin' to win a trade war ....'cause the others ones haven't gone sew gud!!

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:44 | 5023331 Wahooo
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I hope you are threatening your congresscritters with some action.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:23 | 5022748 docmac324
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If the Fed can print dollars into its demise, they can also produce other nation's currency.  See where I'm going?

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:41 | 5022810 NuYawkFrankie
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re See where I'm going?

Off the deep end? ;)

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:53 | 5023100 Jackagain
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Maybe they can get a 3D printer and print chickens too...

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:26 | 5022753 Fix It Again Timmy
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The Russians moved their entire industrial base eastward as the German army was advancing, the Russians defeated the German army while sustaining 20 million casualties so I'm sure that "sanctions" has them shaking in their boots.  Does Barry think he's playing with kids....?

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:39 | 5023048 crazybob369
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Not to mention that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian people went through 10 years of hell. So much so in fact that the average Russian life span actually decreased by about 5 years during that period. To quote Yamamoto "I am afraid we have awoken a sleeping giant", I would suggest we do not poke the Russians or we might just awaken a slumbering bear.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:51 | 5023097 Jackagain
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And they still like Stalin...

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:12 | 5023196 JohninMK
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In 1999 the Russians took their medicine, unlike the US in 2008 who 'chickened' (word du jour) out and just started digging a bigger hole.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:20 | 5023232 therevolutionwas
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To late, I think we also poked a slumbering Panda.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:27 | 5022763 Q-Q-Q
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“This is not a surprise,” Mike Cockrell, chief financial officer at Sanderson Farms Inc. (SAFM) of Laurel, Mississippi, said by phone. “It’s not unusual for Russia to find something wrong when they have a political reason to do so.”

 

Hmmmm really, and it doesn't work the other way around, lol. Every country is the same.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 16:10 | 5024083 Freddie
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Mississippi last rigged Senate primary where RINO Thad Cochran stole the election shows MS has more corrupt election than Russia.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:42 | 5022803 q99x2
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I'm more worried about the 234 thousand per month coming across the border to get the 218,000 jobs.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:42 | 5022811 Xandrino
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Jack Lew is a lying piece of shit...

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 11:50 | 5022845 Itchy and Scratchy
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He'd be hurt if he heard u saying that!

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:10 | 5022910 22winmag
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Lack Jew or Jack Lew?

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:07 | 5023167 Itchy and Scratchy
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All 4 of 'em!

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 14:10 | 5023431 Kirk2NCC1701
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@Xandrino: "Jack Lew is a lying piece of shit..."

Well, he's that too.  FYI, under the ethical rules of his ilk, he's not "Lying" but Pretexting.  The way cops are allowed to lie but you are not:  When cops lie, it's called Pretexting.  When you do it, it's called Lying, and you go to pay legal bills and go to jail.  The cop gets a commendation or promotion.

"Power has its privileges", it seems.  Which is why Lew's ilk have always reached for the top of the socioeconomic Pyramid, and created The Pyramid on top of the (unfinished) pyramid. Along with their All-seeing eye.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:03 | 5022882 luckylogger
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So Russia can build its own boats.....

Why did it hire France then???????

What a joke.....

And now they will investigate Mc donalds chease that is probably sourced in russia....

Now that is one serious threat.....

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:34 | 5023025 basho
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when the orders were placed, they could not build them. you can chk that out for yourself

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:36 | 5023038 JohninMK
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Yes it can, think submarines, frigates, cruisers etc.

Now if you are Putin and:

- want to get rid of a lot of dollars

- need to upgrade your shipbuilding technology

- need a helicopter carrier

- notice that France has a really good one at an even better price on good delivery timetable

- the French agree that the French carrier can be easily modified for better and more Russian equipment and will train Russians

- the French agree that the rear section of the first can be built in St Petersburg with a full ship (not weapons) technology transfer package

- want to gently poke a stick at Obama.

Bit of a no-brainer really isn't it? Certainly not a joke.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:46 | 5023338 vincenze
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I think it was the other way round.

Nobody wanted to buy French ships, only 2 have been built so far. So, the French president begged the Russian president to buy one.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:11 | 5022918 jomama
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i guess it's yet another good time to back the truck up.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:44 | 5023328 Wahooo
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I've run out of trucks to back up.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:15 | 5022932 marcusfenix
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“Assuming that they take this action, it would be blatant protectionism,”

maybe I am the only one who feels this way, but personally I feel Russia has shown admirable restraint given everything that has happened over the past six months.

US policy toward them has turned openly hostile and leaves no room or opportunity for diplomatic solutions based on even the pretense of mutual respect. Washington has just arrogantly plunged ahead with a one dimensional, broken record "blame Russia for everything" program of unwarranted, unhelpful and ultimately, unwise aggression. but as we have seen since 9/11 US foreign policy has been nothing less than destructive for us here at home and the planet in general.

unfortunately this time the freak show in DC has pushed things to a point where those potential consequences are very dire and could be disastrous for all of us. the course they have chosen is dangerously out of touch with reality and they are putting countless innocent lives at risk with there myopic drive for hegemony.

at this point the only thing that would qualify as "blatant protectionism" in my opinion would be if they scrubbed NATO warships from the back sea, closed down the airspace over the eastern Ukraine and put large amounts of military assets on the border with Poland. now that the EU has rolled over and confirmed itself to be nothing more than Washington's bitch Putin's options are narrowing in terms of protecting his country from this expanding western aggression.

once the US NATO Kiev alliance makes it's push on Crimea, which is currently in the preparatory stage, that will be the mother of all red line crossings and the beginning of WW3.                  

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:15 | 5023203 therevolutionwas
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Yah.  Let's hope the economic war is won soon  -by gold and silver, which means the east.  Perhaps that may send the US military idiocracy back home...oh no, to badger us!

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:43 | 5023324 vincenze
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What is the purpose of NATO nowadays?

All these European countries, especially the small ones, fear only one enemy. However, they can't do anything against it or they will get hundreds of nuclear blasts in retaliation.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 14:30 | 5023542 Kirk2NCC1701
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Buzzword Bingo decoded:

 

Embargo/Sanction = when the US and its lackey allies do it

Protectionism = when anyone else does it, especially the Bogeyman of the year.

 

Freedom Fighters or Rebels = When they fight for US interests

Extremists or Terrorists = When they fight against US interests or that of its Agents and Proxies

 

Military Aid = Arms from Western MIC (US, UK, IDI).   Where IDI = Israeli Defense Industries

Illegal Arms = Russia, China, Iran, N. Korea

 

Military Advisers = "Our" Spies and Mercs.  CIA Agents, Private Contractors (ex-DOD, ex-IDF...)

Enemy Forces = enemy forces

 

Pretexting vs Lying

   Pretexting = When Cops/LEAs lie.  They are allowed to, by law.

   Lying = When Private Citizen tell an untruth. They are not allowed to, by law.

etc, etc.

p.s. Once again I got "Zerohedge Maintenance" after submitting my post. 

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:17 | 5022946 messystateofaffairs
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"The losses that Washington will sustain from such a destructive and myopic policy will be very tangible"

 

Dosen't take a rocket scientist to see that the toppling of the USD is the centerpiece of those losses, thats just a matter of time, and we might get a surprise about the timeframe. The big question is what will replace the fiat dollar, another fiat currency of non Jewish Russian/Chinese design and control, a Jewish fiat like the Euro or SDR, or specie like Gold and Silver.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:31 | 5022955 Hongcha
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Keep dry powder lads because when the cool September winds begin to blow and this thing gets resolved, Gazprom's ADR will start moving up.  Few realize what a behemoth that company is.

Would you like the option to buy XOM, right now, for $10/share?  But can you live with the uncertainty.  I can.  I am betting on a liveable resolution and not that Chalky is going to raise a flaming sword and charge into Russia.

While they are prying open cheeseburgers on CNN, the grownups (and this does not include Chalky) are very seriously discussing an endgame both sides can live with.

It's all about the gaz.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:32 | 5023012 crazybob369
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How right you are my friend. Most everyone is clueless to the fact that Syria and the Ukraine are simply about who controls the gas, and the pipelines to carry that gas. The US leaders, and their corporate masters, can't stand the thought that some upstart country/company might have some say in world energy production and distribution.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:22 | 5022968 22winmag
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Lobbing financial missiles... soon to be followed by lobbing nukular missiles.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 14:43 | 5023555 Kirk2NCC1701
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"Nukular missiles."  Because of Bush.  ;-)

W bloopers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEbZqvMu2cQ  or  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ux3DKxxFoM

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:29 | 5022993 tsuki
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Barry, just give it up.  You are a complete and total fuck-up.  May the words of President Eisenhower to Sec of State John Foster Dull(es) be your guide...Don't do something John, just sit there. 

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:32 | 5023009 Dublinmick
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Pressure on MacDonalds and focus on their safety is going to cause serious unemployment problems for the wave of illegals now entering.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:33 | 5023017 RaceToTheBottom
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Such a shame....  This could all be sorted out on the golf course.  Lowest Gross wins.

Course Putin would have to wear a shirt....

Wonder if Putin has his balls stamped like Obamas??

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:50 | 5023091 Jackagain
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I'd pay big money to watch them in a judo match...

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:38 | 5023036 gcjohns1971
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About those Ruskies....

They sure have a sense of humor.

After all the sanctions due to the Ukraine affair, what do they say??

 

"No more Chicken-Kiev".

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:41 | 5023058 kurt
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Flambeau

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:45 | 5023071 JohninMK
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Strange you should mention that. One of the largest chicken processing plants in the world is near Kiev, and yes, they make them there, 6 from one chicken! Think they processed around 1 chickens million a week.

Perhaps no more Russian market for them.

http://www.foodprocessing-technology.com/projects/myronivsky/

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:48 | 5023087 Urban Roman
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It's chicken Chernobyl now. It's got lights ...

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:55 | 5023368 IndianaJohn
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Urban Roman, -- did you hear the one about The Babushkas? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babushkas/the-babushkas-of-chernobyl-0

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:40 | 5023052 basho
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...and the Poles jut lost their 5billion$$ fruit and veggie export mkt. to RU

"Russia’s agriculture watchdog will implement a ban on all fruits and vegetables imported from Poland beginning August 1, RIA Novosti quoted an aide to Rosselkhoznadzor’s head as saying on Wednesday. The import of “practically all fruits and vegetables from Poland” has been limited, Aleksey Alekseyenko said. “This is in line with numerous breaches in certification and the detection of quarantined items.” Exports from Poland to Russia decreased by 7.7 percent in the first six months of 2014 and stood at $5 billion, according to Poland’s Economy Ministry. Rosselkhoznadzor earlier warned it could impose restrictions on fruit imports from the EU states. "  rt.com

 

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:41 | 5023057 Dublinmick
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Date line Russia

Rising to the top of the charts, "let the four winds blow" is expected to be the number one hit by winter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojOkTayuKws

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:42 | 5023060 grekko
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Step 1: Currency wars
Step 2: Trade wars
Step 3: World War

Hunker down everyone.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 22:33 | 5025770 Aussiekiwi
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Who was that wise man who said that, so long ago, Gerald Celente?

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:47 | 5023082 basho
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"Assuming that they take this action, it would be blatant protectionism,"

say what?

followed by this

“There is little or no legitimacy to their complaints.”

absolutely not

what planet do these fools live on.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:52 | 5023095 Chuck Knoblauch
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I wish Rockefeller would just die already.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 12:51 | 5023098 Uncle Remus
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So, getting parts for my Ural isn't going to get any easier then.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:20 | 5023117 syntaxterror
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Move the 2018 World Cup outta that shit hole. 

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:30 | 5023265 Boogity
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Yawn....

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:04 | 5023156 CHX
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<<< Chess master and KGB colonel Putin

<<< Chicken@$$ golfer Obummer

 

 

In a complex, strategic long-term game, who's gonna win in the end?

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:36 | 5023192 Boogity
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Forget all of the stuff about the petrodollar, preserving the American Empire, controlling the EU's gas market, etc...

I'm now pretty convinced that a big bart of this shit is because the Black half of Barry feels disrespected because last August some obscure Putin hack referred to the "West" (aka Obama) as a "Monkey with hand grenade"...  Of course the banksters are cleverly taking advantage of Obama wanting to cap the racist cracka Putin and all of the other evil Russian racist crackas for dissing him in front of the world.... 

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130827/182995837/Russian-Deputy-Premier-Calls-West-Monkey-With-Hand-Grenade.html

"Sarcasm"

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:18 | 5023225 Itchy and Scratchy
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If Vladdy cuts off the supply of hot Russian masseuses it would be a declaration of war!

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:28 | 5023263 Uncle Remus
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Just think, if ol' Q'Daffy hadn't turned his loose, we'd be a lot closer.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:19 | 5023228 Hongcha
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The thought of those fine blonde Russian girls eating McDonalds saddens me.  Let the golden arches be shuttered across Russia; and also Thailand etc. where the fast food borg has been attempting for years to ensconce itself.  

All that trim SEA pussy needs to be fed fresh local food, thank you.

A Cat Lover

 

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:42 | 5023321 Exalt
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Putin is the last real leader left on this socialist shit pile of a planet... Fuck the public.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:43 | 5023322 Wahooo
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obama playing the typical, historical Democrat. First the trade war, then the world war. WTF, over Ukraine and nat gas????

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:46 | 5023335 Itchy and Scratchy
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Well at least the Kenyan can out 'finger point' Vladdy!

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:48 | 5023343 damicol
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I always figured its better to be on the winning side..

Especially when you see a fucking Kenyan faggot fucking up everything he touches and turning it to the same shitty color as he is.

Invest in defense stocks in Russia.

 

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 13:55 | 5023369 novictim
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Hahaha

"Russia to unleash"...errr...what exactly?  I'm picturing this massive cage on wheels with a Black tarp over it drawn by Russian body builders playing percussion. 

The sounds of base drums going "Boom.  Boom.  Boom" is nearly deafening.

But stooping down and listening very carefully with an ear to the tarp one can hear:

"squeek.  squeek"

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 14:29 | 5023538 Dublinmick
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Sounds like anti-gentilism, why are you a hater?

Goyim pride world wide

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 15:09 | 5023762 novictim
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Was your medication changed recently? 

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 14:00 | 5023393 Bow Tie
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damn chickens.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 14:25 | 5023520 Jack Burton
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The EU stands to lose in a trade war, not America. That is why the USA is pushing so hard for sanctions and isolation of Russia's economy. Because the USA gains and the EU loses. A trade war with Russia will be felt in the EU and Germany. It is easy to demand sanctions when it is not your workers who will lose their jobs.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 14:56 | 5023625 walküre
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Exactly. When are Germans finally waking up to this charade. They're shooting themselves in both feet. First they gutted the nuclear industry and basically killed their homegrown energy supply, then they're going lock in step with the US on these sanctions. It's by design, has to be!

Fuck the US, fuck Nuland. Germany's economy is first and foremost in Europe, then Russia/China and the US. I dare America to ban imports of German machines. The US would starve itself to death with a lack of German made combines and tractors alone. Not to mention how well a ban on German cars would be received.

Merkel is a useless tit. She gets spied on and still does nothing! Just tell the US to shove it. Be friends with Russia, build out the relationship and NG supply to Europe. Ukraine is never going to be pacified as a whole. It doesn't even exist as a national population.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 14:58 | 5023689 Dublinmick
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Because Merkel is spying on Germany on behalf of the Rothschild network. The woman is a joke, raised by the catholic church and adopted off on a supposedly lutheran minister in west Germany who by the way had a car and free access to go back and forth from east to west. She is not very bright either.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 15:08 | 5023748 walküre
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Merkel is clearly a plant and Gemans are complacent as always. Nobody wants to rock the boat there even when they know they're being spied on and lied to all the time. There is virtually NO opposition to the current move to vilify Russia or turn the tables on the US and bring down the NWO. Actually, that opposition exists but it is censored away. The cabal owns and runs the propaganda.

As soon as Anti-Israel protests started, the media is full of bullshit about "antisemitism" and even (!) "antizionism"!!!

Since when is it a DUTY to subscribe to FUCKING SEMITISM OR ZIONISM? Semites and Zionists are killing kids in Gaza right now. It's the duty of every decent human being to get off his/her ass and spit in the face of the Semites and Zionists who are doing the killing!

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 15:02 | 5023714 Dublinmick
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Because Merkel is spying on Germany on behalf of the Rothschild network. The woman is a joke, raised by the catholic church and adopted off on a supposedly lutheran minister in west Germany who by the way had a car and free access to go back and forth from east to west. She is not very bright either.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 14:46 | 5023627 novictim
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Correct, Jack. 

The "Putin" dilemma for Europe should be thought of in "short term" and "long term" solutions. 

In the short run, your analysis holds solid. 

Europe is clearly reluctant to let their profits slip.  But the long term picture is taking shape in the minds of the world now, Jack.  Putin is playing his hand all wrong.  The Europeans are concluding that they have NO CHOICE but to take these short term losses given the menacing threats the little Princess in the Kremlin keeps making.  Europe now looks to securing long term stability and Putin has to go for this to happen.

Once upon a time I used the think that Putin, if nothing else, was intelligent.  Now I am seeing him as just another nationalistic psycho who believes his own lies and myth telling. 

Jack, I don't really know whether you are a neutral party in this idiocy that Russia is fostering but if you love Russia then I think you should be working hard to restore true democracy to it.  That means getting Putin and any other Cult of Personality type off the political stage ASAP.

I am working on the same goals in the USA only here the issue is about corporate shadow politics and a corrupted campaign system run by oligarchs. 

Either way, both styles of dictator ship are poison to the long term interests of the people.

 

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 15:01 | 5023704 walküre
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That Princess in the Kremlin has higher approval ratings than any other leader currently. He is popular but that has never stopped the cabal from causing a shit storm and messing up the world now has it?

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 15:51 | 5023988 novictim
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I think you have a need for more self respect.

Populations that perceive themselves to be at war rally around the leader.  It's our biggest weakness as "civilized" apes.

Hence, GW BUSH was able to pump up his own popularity ratings during the lead up and execution of the Iraq war.

Regarding "Kabal" and "Shitstorm", you lost me.  Are you referring to the international arms dealers and the corporate interests that profit off War and conflict? If so, then we should be VERY skeptical of any leader who claims to need dictatorial powers and who coddles antidemocratic forces in society. 

Our best defense against bad governance is a robust, skeptical and independent press corp and a brave civil society/educated citizenry acting through a election process that minimizes the advantage of wealth and power.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 14:33 | 5023550 Dublinmick
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From a comment posted earlier here at the Saker. This may well be the reason for the hatred of Putin exemplified by the paid who trolls who incessantly insist on the good cop bad cop routine out of frustration.

Another interesting quote by a commenter on the saker

 

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4046811478707691837&postID=8733...

Mr. Pragma said...

(part 2)
Finally let me guide your attention to a related and very interesting question: Why does the weztern empire hate Putin so extremely? That is not merely the hate against a political enemy, no, that's very personal and it's more than hate; there is blind rage on top of it.

Why?

Is it because Putin stands against them? No, only in (minor) part.

In fact it is because Putin is seen as a traitor by them. In their eyes Putin was a small "nobody" and his rise to power was completely orchestrated from the evil side.

Putin was put into power to obediently serve them. But they had to find out that they, the deceivers, were the deceived ones when Putin went straight, direct, (mostly) without lies, and completely uncontrollable by them.

Even worse, Putin is living proof that the evil side has not won, that the good side, snip, just like that, put a very major and very strong player against them on the board; even worse, they themselves put him there.

Since then things turn against the weztern side. Where they lie, lie, lie, he simply tells his people how things are. Where they suppress and exploit their populace, Putin actually made the lives of Russians very very much better.

And that constitutes an extremely strong power, a power that is the ultimate threat to the wezt. Because the truth *can* be seen and *is desired* by humans.
While the weztern media (read: propaganda outlets) lose large numbers of readers, media like RT are growing very quickly. While 80 - 90% of the readers in weztern countries have very negative comments on the propaganda they're served, Putin is trusted by many, increasingly even in the weztern system.

Finally, short: How will Russia react to the new sanctions and other evil war actions?

I think, Putin will be perfectly ready for anything, incl. a nuclear war. But he will not attack; even more, he will try any and everything to avoid war or, if unavoidable, to keep it as low level as any possible.

 

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 14:50 | 5023653 novictim
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Putin is your hero.

I get it.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 15:00 | 5023701 Dublinmick
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And nuttyahoo is yours slick. You represent the ugly face of Mogilevch, Khordokovsky, Kolomoisky et al. You are the braying of a kosher jackass.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 16:11 | 5024086 novictim
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Netanyaho is my hero?...and Putin deniers are Jews? You are becoming unhinged.

But Micky, your paranoia is kinda funny.  Carry on.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 16:33 | 5024196 Dublinmick
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I am just guessing, you sound like a natural born killer.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 14:38 | 5023584 walküre
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What else is happening again? Ah right, Israel is committing a genocide.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 15:40 | 5023906 Joe A
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You don't need a political reason to boycott McDonalds. Just a health reason...which can be any.

Wed, 07/30/2014 - 17:08 | 5024346 Dublinmick
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Ziobonics is a fairly easy language to master. The goyim must told they are anti-semitic, it was the joos, you are an idiot, crazy, paranoid, need to take your meds, all Arabs must die.

Other weak phrases designed to dazzle the goy with chutzpah and result in backslapping and hava nagila dancing with other mensches at bar mitzvahs include:

Putin is your hero
Putin fan boy
Putin is NWO, he is just playing you-godd cop, bad cop
They are shooting bottle rockets out of Gaza

In rare cases it works but with most instances, the reverse reasoning and common sense is so bizarre, even the most fluoridated of the goyim pick up on it immediately.

The constant references to meds is almost congenital as the Bolshevik Hava Nagil boys were found of medicating any goy in the former soviet union who had any political ideas that did not correspond to those of the Trotskyites. It was so pronounced they were sent to the Gulag, small pieces of the skull removed and fluoride poured in. It worked everytime according to Solzenitzsn. Of course it also partially relates to Freud, the so called father of psychiatry. He was shunted by Viennese society and tried to strike back by promoting supercilious theories such as the id and superego and oedipus complexes. He wanted to degrade his detractors. Such ridiculous theories are now laughed at in Europe. It was much easier than puttin in the long hours of laboratory work to actually study the neuron.

Of course such theories are generally put forward by the B team. We haven't seen much of the A team around here, still waiting.

 

Thu, 07/31/2014 - 02:41 | 5026345 onmail
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Its simple I urge Russia to sell its ICBM & H-bom tech to other countries and get rich. Sell a N-warhead for 10 million $ each to countries averse to west, make money its so easy.

Let the Russian defense industries go for sell sell sell Hi-Tech at rates lower than west , let west take a hit of N-arsenal , they deserve it. And dont forget the countries near Israel (its the Israeli lobby in USA that rules their policies & economy)

 

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