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Kick Russia Out Of SWIFT, UK Demands
UK Prime Minister David Cameron came out swinging this morning; not only at ISIS but in calling for European leaders to block Russia from the SWIFT banking transaction system. European leaders have already (via unnamed sources) denied any actual new sanctions will take place (though they will be discussing them at the NATO Summit) but - as we have noted previously - this is yet another unintended consequence-driven nail in the coffin of USD hegemony...
Bloomberg reports that the U.K. Said to Press EU to Block Russia From Banking Network
The U.K. will press European Union leaders to consider blocking Russian access to the SWIFT banking transaction system under an expansion of sanctions over the conflict in Ukraine, a British government official said.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, known as SWIFT, is one of Russia's main connections to the international financial system. Prime Minister David Cameron's government plans to put the topic on the agenda for a meeting of EU leaders in Brussels Aug. 30, according to the official, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private.
This has consequences...
“Blocking Russia from the SWIFT system would be a very serious escalation in sanctions against Russia and would most certainly result in equally tough retaliatory actions by Russia,” said Chris Weafer, a senior partner at Moscow-based consulting firm Macro Advisory. “An exclusion from SWIFT would not block major trade deals but would cause problems in cross-border banking and that would disrupt trade flows.”
But then we already knew that...
But while collecting credit card data was to be expected, what is even worse is that the NSA has also secretly planted itself in the nexus of the entire global USD-intermediated financial transactions system courtesy of SWIFT.
The NSA's Tracfin data bank also contained data from the Brussels-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a network used by thousands of banks to send transaction information securely. SWIFT was named as a "target," according to the documents, which also show that the NSA spied on the organization on several levels, involving, among others, the agency's "tailored access operations" division. One of the ways the agency accessed the data included reading "SWIFT printer traffic from numerous banks," the documents show.
What is curious is that while the NSA and its henchmen, in this case the GCHQ, had no qualms about violating personal privacy at every level, it is only when banks were threatened that someone feel like perhaps a line was crossed:
But even intelligence agency employees are somewhat concerned about spying on the world finance system, according to one document from the UK's intelligence agency GCHQ concerning the legal perspectives on "financial data" and the agency's own cooperations with the NSA in this area.
In other words, America's unsupervised uber spies, when not checking in on their former significant others, spend the bulk of their time tracking who is buying what, where, and with whose money.
2) Russia is planning its own (possibly BRICS-based) payment system...
Faced with the risk of losing access to the network, Russia’s government has already drafted a bill to create a new Russian system for domestic bank transfers, Deputy Finance Minister Alexey Moiseev said on Aug. 27, according to the Itar-Tass news service.
SWIFT transmitted more than 21 million financial messages a day last month, facilitating payments between more than 10,500 financial institutions and corporations in 215 countries, the organization said on its website.
“There’s no doubt that in the short term restricting Russian usage of SWIFT would be extremely disruptive to Russian financial and commercial activities,” said Richard Reid, a research fellow for finance and regulation at the University of Dundee in Scotland. “However, it may carry a longer-term downside, namely the likelihood that large chunks of Russian international payments flows would move to much less well monitored and measured financial channels and thus be beyond sanctions at any future point.”
and 3) Russia (and China) have begun the de-dollarization...
Several months ago, when Russia announced the much anticipated "Holy Grail" energy deal with China, some were disappointed that despite this symbolic agreement meant to break the petrodollar's stranglehold on the rest of the world, neither Russia nor China announced payment terms to be in anything but dollars. In doing so they admitted that while both nations are eager to move away from a US Dollar reserve currency, neither is yet able to provide an alternative.
This changed in late June when first Gazprom's CFO announced the gas giant was ready to settle China contracts in Yuan or Rubles, and at the same time the People's Bank of China announced that its Assistant Governor Jin Qi and Russian central bank Deputy Chairman Dmitry Skobelkin held a meeting in which they discussed cooperating on project and trade financing using local currencies. The meeting discussed cooperation in bank card, insurance and financial supervision sectors.
And yet, while both sides declared their operational readiness and eagerness to bypass the dollar entirely, such plans remained purely in the arena of monetary foreplay and the long awaited first shot across the Petrodollar bow was absent.
Until now.
According to Russia's RIA Novosti, citing business daily Kommersant, Gazprom Neft has agreed to export 80,000 tons of oil from Novoportovskoye field in the Arctic; it will accept payment in rubles, and will also deliver oil via the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline (ESPO), accepting payment in Chinese yuan for the transfers.
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As we concluded previously, these short-term 'punishments' borne of ego and bluster merely further 'isolate' the status quo from the inevitable transition...
Still confused? Then read "90% Of Gazprom Clients Have "De-Dollarized", Will Transact In Euro & Renminbi" for just how Gazprom set the stage for the day it finally would push the button to skip the dollar entirely. Which it just did.
In conclusion we will merely say what we have said previously, and it touches on what will be the most remarkable aspect of Obama's legacy, because while the hypocrite "progressive" president who even his own people have accused of being a "brown-faced Clinton" after selling out to Wall Street and totally wrecking US foreign policy abroad, is already the worst president in a century of US history according to public polls, the fitting epitaph will come when the president's policies put an end to dollar hegemony and end the reserve currency status of the dollar once and for all, thereby starting the rapid, and uncontrolled, collapse of the US empire. To wit:
In retrospect it will be very fitting that the crowning legacy of Obama's disastrous reign, both domestically and certainly internationally, will be to force the world's key ascendent superpowers (we certainly don't envision broke, insolvent Europe among them) to drop the Petrodollar and end the reserve status of the US currency.
And once China and Russia show that not only can it be done but thanks to US prodding it has been done, expect other countries to promptly follow the anti-SWIFT axis on their own...
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Isolation... indeed.
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Cameron is a steer. Property of The City.
mazel tov, fuckers.
Cannot believe the UK is purposing this,
Politicians have an oral sexual foot fettish for their own feet. This oral fettish is most active when politicians are in front of a news reporter audience.
"capitalism" can trive only in controled enviroment. "free market" [was/probably still] is a catch frase, a marketing trick, a play ground for the ellites and privileged.
as soon as market opens, china and russia[after consolidation] enter the game, all the the flaws was exposed and the system start to collapse.
time table: from Arab spring to nuclear winter
sry for my bad english
KICK THOUSELF IN THE NUTS...... bravo ..... jolly good show,,,,
Will this effect the importation of tan executive suits? Tan... it's the new white... flag.
If I remember correctly Ricardo Montalban wore such fine attire on Fantasy Island. Very soothing.
Yeah man. Davy Crocketts son in law Rico Tubbs.
Soon SWIFT will be an isolated system
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
TO BE RENAMED
Society for NATO Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SNIFT) ( OF BANKRUPT NATIONS)
AND NEW PARALLEL SYSTEM will be be in operation named possibly as
Society for Rest of the World Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SRWIFT)
AND MOST IMPORTANT AMERICANS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LAUNDER THEIR DOLLARS AND CIA DRUG DIRTY MONEY IN THE NEW SYSTEM.
Then one can watch Wall Street Collapse by isolation
This is probably the stupidest thing the UK's government has thought of since they sold the British gold reserves.
*edit: spelling*
There can be only One.
There will be War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7pVjl4Rrtc
"Get thyself to a non-aligned country, said the Angels to Lot. Do not look back. God has seen this Iniquity. It is an utter Abomination in His Eyes, crafted by the Synagogue of Satan, the ones who Murdered His Son. He is going to destroy this Evil. With Nuclear Fire."
LC55: "We gotta lotta Bad Karma coming back, baby."
Lakecity55, where is the quote from? "Get theyself to a non-aligned country..."
Then the little kike whose glasses look like your viewing the world from the back side of binoculars, decides to chime in on New World Order.
Fuck you Harry Kissenger! Join Joan Rivers in a comma bed nap.
Everything is a charde -
Ummmm Ya Think? Foley's sister vs Lanza's friend https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Tf4DVaWE2eUDamn!
Same person. lol
wow! /shakes head
It just gets crazier and crazier... good find
Oh here the Eton tossers cry! Dear British Government, you have lost the plot! the British public hate you. We no longer vote as it is pointless! who ever we elect is just another bankers bitch. You want to talk war? Cameron! lock and load bitch! get your arse over there and fight. Your pretend wars for the sake of the petro Dollar are plain for all to see. When you call on the British public to fight for you.................. we will not hear you!
Oh here the Eton tossers cry! Dear British Government, you have lost the plot! the British public hate you. We no longer vote as it is pointless! who ever we elect is just another bankers bitch. You want to talk war? Cameron! lock and load bitch! get your arse over there and fight. Your pretend wars for the sake of the petro Dollar are plain for all to see. When you call on the British public to fight for you.................. we will not hear you!
Take the pants down of any British politician and you will see a heavilly bruised annus fro his encounters with bankers and Israeli lobbyists.
the US governments only real job is protecting the borders of our nation
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Russia "biggest nation in the world" is playing indian giver deluxe with millions and millions of peoples lives/trade/property
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Im really not that suprised smaller countrys with vastly more complex governments are insecure with a 1st rate industrial powerhouse toying with 10's of millions of people while marching troops through "their" cities and countryside with near impunity
Cameron has been eating too much spotted dick....
how swift to snap?
mighty swift, to snap.
from monopoly to (servant),
but i lost the word, thought
and feeling.
privilege dies hard, never relinquished
for grins.
anyway .....
Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke - Plastic Jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHf7TD4qwjk&feature=youtu.be
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_Jesus
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ARTIST: Trad and Anon
TITLE: Plastic Jesus
Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes,
Long as I have my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through all trials and tribulations,
We will travel every nation,
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.
{Refrain}
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through all trials and tribulations,
We will travel every nation,
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.
I don't care if it rains or freezes
As long as I've got my Plastic Jesus
Glued to the dashboard of my car,
You can buy Him phosphorescent
Glows in the dark, He's Pink and Pleasant,
Take Him with you when you're travelling far
{Refrain}
I don't care if it's dark or scary
Long as I have magnetic Mary
Ridin' on the dashboard of my car
I feel I'm protected amply
I've got the whole damn Holy Family
Riding on the dashboard of my car
{Refrain}
You can buy a Sweet Madonna
Dressed in rhinestones sitting on a
Pedestal of abalone shell
Goin' ninety, I'm not wary
'Cause I've got my Virgin Mary
Guaranteeing I won't go to Hell
{Refrain}
I don't care if it bumps or jostles
Long as I got the Twelve Apostles
Bolted to the dashboard of my car
Don't I have a pious mess
Such a crowd of holiness
Strung across the dashboard of my car
{Refrain}
No, I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I have my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
But I think he'll have to go
His magnet ruins my radio
And if we have a wreck he'll leave a scar
{Refrain}
Riding through the thoroughfare
With his nose up in the air
A wreck may be ahead, but he don't mind
Trouble coming, he don't see
He just keeps his eyes on me
And any other thing that lies behind
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Though the sun shines on his back
Makes him peel, chip, and crack
A little patching keeps him up to par
When pedestrians try to cross
I let them know who's boss
I never blow my horn or give them warning
I ride all over town
Trying to run them down
And it's seldom that they live to see the morning
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
His halo fits just right
And I use it as a sight
And they'll scatter or they'll splatter near and far
When I'm in a traffic jam
He don't care if I say Damn
I can let all sorts of curses roll
Plastic Jesus doesn't hear
For he has a plastic ear
The man who invented plastic saved my soul
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Once his robe was snowy white
Now it isn't quite so bright
Stained by the smoke of my cigar
God made Christ a Holy Jew
God made Him a Christian too
Paradoxes populate my car
Joseph beams with a feigned elan
From the shaggy dash of my furlined van
Famous cuckold in the master plan
Naughty Mary, smug and smiling
Jesus dainty and beguiling
Knee-deep in the piling of my van
His message clear by night or day
My phosphorescent plastic Gay
Simpering from the dashboard of my van
When I'm goin' fornicatin
I got my ceramic Satan
Sinnin' on the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home
The women know I'm on the level
Thanks to the wild-eyed stoneware devil
Ridin' on the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home
Sneerin' from the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home
Leering from the dashboard of my van
If I weave around at night
And the police think I'm tight
They'll never find my bottle, though they ask
Plastic Jesus shelters me
For His head comes off, you see
He's hollow, and I use Him for a flask
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Ride with me and have a dram
Of the blood of the Lamb
Plastic Jesus is a holy bar
Putin has much reverence for Jesus and Mary - the real ones not your plastic dashboard kind. i would not mind too much if he whipped and/or jailed you like Pussy Riot.
Forgive me for being dense, but how does helping Russia stop using USD and create a BRICS version of swift do anything other than help along the demise of the us (and various allies)
It don't. I bet Putin would trade me a case of this honey for a barrel of sweet crude.
Three barrels for a case of brandy.
They have finally fucked it up so bad that they have me laughing maniacally along with them.
Cameron wants, deep down, prohibiting reentry papers (US-Treasury).
Did anyone see it?
Oi Escrava Isaura, tudo bem?
Dessa vez você deu uma chutada fora com gosto!
O buraco é muuuuuuiiiiiiiiittooooooo mais embaixo.
Leste está se cagando de medo da desova dos títulos do tesouro dos EUA, querem bloquear a Rússia agora mas, a China já os está desovando aos montes através de outros países.
Não há como mensurar o estrago na economia europeia que está por vir.
Na economia norte-americana, nem se fala.
A "desova" desses títulos já começou, a Guerra Financeira já começou, o estopim foi o aporte em Hong Kong duas semanas atrás.
Cameron wants, deep down, prohibiting reentry papers (US-Treasury).
Did anyone see it?
Cameron is desperate to be noticed. He will be gone in May 2015 and desperately wants to be a USeful Idiot for DC so someone looks after him afterwards.....he has months left
I think this is a good idea. Russia can buy china's debt bubble. The Chinese don't want to overextend their currency in the world. They want to control their currency.
Poland is not far behind the U.K. in poking the Bear:
Poland bars overflight by Russian defense minister's plane
Polish MEP urges Europe to stop Russian ruble trading
The TPTB are insane psychopaths. They don't give a shit about anyone except themselves. Absolutely no concern for human life whatsoever -- unless it's their life. Their obsession is for money and power, and getting as much of that as they can in this lifetime. They are happy to have others do the real dirty work, like fighting wars. And even happier to have others pay for it with our tax dollars. What they don't own they will gladly steal through a variety of nefarious means. And they will try to eliminate anyone or anything that gets in their way... the Kennedys, 9-11, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afganistan, Lybia, Egypt, Ukraine, and now Russia.
Watch this and see what really started WWII. Fascinating. Undeniable truth. They don't teach this stuff in history class. And right from the horse's mouth too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY90MSkQtrE
+1000 for the Benjamin Freedman's link
Plus another 1000!
It's getting obvious how they are forcing the timetable of global rebalancing before the whole thing collapses out of their control prematurely.
Well done, Obama,Cameron,Merkel. You have succeeded in creating a forced marriage of convenience between Russia and China that could actually be a marriage made in heaven. Has anyone looked at a map of the world lately? If you have it should become apparent how insignificant the EU/WEST has become to Russia. I think the Russia/China gas pipeline is only the start of close co-operation in heavy trade between the two countries, forming the foundation for the BRICS empire. This would see Russia turn her back on the West and Europe, leaving "THEM" desperately fucking each other up the arse to earn a crust. This would also make sanctions irrelevant, both countries can compliment each other through Hi Tech technology, heavy Industry, Shipbuilding,mining,construction,Steel plants, and manufacturing, with China having a huge labour force at it's disposal. We would most likely see a high speed rail link between Russia and China that would supply Russia with produce from Asia, South/East Africa BRICS countries, Other major BRICS contributors from south America will supply meat to Russia, we also have India who have a heavy industrial base, we will most likely see Iran taken into the fold with her vast oil/ gas reserves. With a sound financial and banking structure in place we have the foundations for a REAL Common Market that would best summed up by saying, " Obama Cameron Merkel "FUCK YOU" !!!
Those ties the Ruskies are wearing are wonderful...
They are much better sartorially prepared than Leisure Suit Barry.
All this sort of reminds me of FDRs in house Commie Harry Dexter White depriving Pre WW II Japan of oil to which Japan decided to attack the US - instead of Siberia. DONT RAZPUTIN - especially when you have an alligator mouth and a humming bird arse.
That doesn't matter anyway because Europe will either not get any gas to pay to pay for in the first place or they need to pay it in Ruble, Yuan or gold (which they don't have cause it is all in NY -if it even is there). Long Romanian wood from the last remaining ancient forests in Europe.
this period will historically be viewed as the crumbling of the remains of the britisih empire.
while everyone says it is the 'atlanticists' uk and us that will fuck over europe, there will inevitably come a time when the u.s. will backstab the u.k. that time is approaching closer and closer.
what trumpcards do the rothschild oligarchs really hold other than scandal , intrigue, and political puppetry bought with fake money. that's a lot, i'll admit. but at some point the real economic power of the european mainland will trump this power in the eyes, of the bush clans the rumsfled clans, and some of the other clans that run the u.s. military industrial complex.
maybe i'd be singing a different tune if i knew the real plans of the real insiders or something, but honestly as many plans as they have----history is still pretty much chaos and violent infighting amongst all the top important familes and houses. so , perhaps-----all those plans and agreement of which i know nothing can change on a dime, and thus, the bigger picture really is a reasonable basis for making predictionssuch as mine.
us backstab uk or vice versa,....nah never.
"If it weren't for Unintended consequences, I'd have no consequences at all."
If you go back and read newspaper stories on world politics from the late 30's in prelude to WW2, you will see a lot of similarities to the steady diet of escalating rhetoric we are now reading. The tension is building fast, trend is bad and it feels like it's going to break out soon. God help us.
Yes, and it looks like it could go geometrical quickly.
war?
it takes 2 to tango.
the ussa/UK want war.
They have no partner.
Russia won't go to war by being goaded into it.
It is getting what it needs by not going to war.
Cameron, Merkel, Obama are stooges.
This is again, a banker's war and the western banks are running out of ammo.
The panic present in the UE neo-con camp is spreading.
Cameron will/is sinking the UK as we watch.
RU and BRICS are moving away from SWIFT in any event.
Stopping financial transactions just might stop air traffic, oil and gas deliveries (all money transfers) etc, etc.
Careful Davie what you wish for.
I think with their little project in the Ukraine the USA and its lapdog bitch UK have totally fucked themselves up the arse.
Amazing they thought they could just order Europe to sacrifice themselves for US interests.. and it would happen.
^
I want to get kicked out of the swift system how come russia is first?
Guys, is here anyone, who knows SWIFT? In my opinion high noon, to use something different as well. And yes, there are also other protocols (technically speaking) for financial transactions, which do have nothing to do with SWIFT and which are used. SWIFT is basically a NSA tool. A great NSA tool. As Russia/China will want to avoid usd and NSA sniffing, it is high noon, to use other protocols and, basically go off the USD radar screen. This is another suicidal punch to USD hegemony, but be it. The UK moron came up to help Russia and CHina. They will sure jump on this wagon, it serves them. The "western" banks can just close down their operations and walk away from Russian markets and chineese dominated markets. It would be for htem more expensive to use two systems.
btw gold is not handled through swift. so pay for the energy in gold, bitch.
re Guys, is here anyone, who knows SWIFT?
I happen to be a SWIFT expert (as far as one can be an "expert" in an antiquated payment system) as well as myriad others.
I shall be offering my "expertise" for free to President Putin, should he need any assistance in "pulling the plug" on the ZIO-Parasite Banking System
Ha. This may be a plan on the part of the B for IS to blame Russia when their ponzi fiat system implodes.
Throw in a convenient ISIS attack on NYC or London with a side dish of Obola, and you have an economic collapse the politicians can blame on "other parties."
It's high time someone gave ZIO-Faggot Cameron a good ass kickin'.
Hopefully the Scots will show the way - and wash their hands of the "United Kingdom of Child Molestation In High Places" next month's Independence referendum.
Hi Frankie, Have you work at Waterloo Belgium? They are always looking for SWIFT experts
Cameron does not know what he is talking about. SWIFT is shooting it self in the foot if it does so. The Iranians were kicked out and have developed a bank transfer system I guess the Russians could borrow that. The Chinese have their own Credit card system.
Cameron is hoping the Russians will over react and do something to trigger a chain reaction in the banking area on which the west can blame Russia for the collapse.
Notice first Merkle then Cameron are poking the Russian bear while the US sits back.
those fucking poodles... they welcome any russian guy with billions in london but they announce to kick russia swift system ?
idiots dare everything, that's how we recognize them.
michel audiard.
All centralbankers meet many times per year for tea at the BIS headquarter in Basel. Does ANYONE think this is not a fully scripted play? All the various "crises" heating up simultaneiously? In such things, there are no coincidences or accidents. Things work out smoothly and they play the public like a fiddle. Well done PTB, really excellent acting. Chapeau. (*clapping hands vigorously, smirking*)
Perhaps the Tylers Durdens could provide an indepth economic/policy analyses of Russia rather than the clickbait for the disenchanted or the fellow travellers that seem vociferious.
I would like to know the condition of the Russian economy, the contrary or dissent opinions within the government and the people in order to weigh the pro/con arguments. I have not seen posted here any rational counter-points of view as to where Putin's policies are leading his country. We have plenty of this coming from the US, an open and at times disgruntled electorate. Airing their 'dirty laundry for all to see. But that is the nature of an open society.
Where is the data, the debates, the law, and the view of common citizens? Do the Russians have freedom to express contrary views to the regime? Do they have recourse to the courts? Do they resent the big money oligarchs? Do they resent that these elites invest their money overseas and in London property? What does the shop-girl think or the farmer? Does he get subsidies?
I have not seen Tylers, any attempt to provide your readers on a 'financial' site any substantial or actionable information to inform your readers. I applauded your 'where is the gold vault' series--good research. However when faced with serious consequences as evidenced by the Ukraine situation and the re-alignment of interests between RussIa and China, the evidence and analyisis has been thin or politically motivated. I do not need that. I get it pounded in from all sides of the political spectrum.
I expect a higher standard from you. Perhaps I am wrong.
ZH is not your private agency, hence ZH is publishing their stuff.
FOr the analysis of RUssian economy, you can go to the russian web pages and crosscheck the info from there with other sources..
Why do you expect ZH to do it for you?
DId you pay for such service?
DOes ZH have any obligation to do it?
Politicaly motivated analysis?
do you know, that on the top of sciencies sits sociology.
below are sciences, like politology, technik, human medicine.
Below politology you will find also finance. You know, the politics is above economy.
Therefor is it imminent to report on political situation, agreements and disagreements, befor someone tries to go into economy.
Hence the politics is more important to be reported first, then economy.
Sorry Jano to discomfort you. Are you speaking on behalf of the Tylers Durdens? If so please enlighten us (hoi polloi).
I think my points are valid. If the Tylers Durdens may not wish to do their homework and enlighten their readers with cutting edge (that I thought drew the readers here} economic research and commentary then accordding you that is not necessary. Politics is all. Glad to receive your sophistic arguments that underscore the validity of what I have written.
enlighten us? how many are you? you and your dick thick?
You seem to come from CIA; maybe you are really that silly ans seem to be with your IQ close to your age; are you over 70 years of age?
Thank you for underscoring my point. Again.
I was expecting you to provide all this Apostate2 instead I get bleating. Stop trying to delegate responsibility !
Having a laugh!
Russian Central Bank prepares bill to create SWIFT analog in Russia
http://en.itar-tass.com/economy/746886
Not going to happen. UK might be able to afford this, Central Europe most certainly can't.
you are assuming the EU remains in its current form. I highly doubt over the next 18 months the EU will be as it is today.
With reduced volume, SWIFT will be issuing 'layoff' notices, while Russia will be issuing 'Help Wanted' notices. Wonder why we are losing middle class jobs?
Cameron's a bloody fool, and I say this as a lifelong Conservative. A real Conservative. Something that Cameron never will be.
He needs to get rid of his "advisors", starting with "Sir" Jeremy Heywood, a left wing Europhile douche bag whose main claim to fame is that he was "advisor" to Tony fucking war monger Blair. Fucking "Sir", they'll be giving Knighthoods to Bagpuss and Popeye the sailor next.
He also worked for Morgan Stanley and helped broker the Lloyds-HBOS deal for Morgan Stanley
Cameron is that weasely little kid who stood behind you while egging on a fight between you and and another kid.
If you got no skin in the game you should shut the fuck up.
He's a hired hand with the proper psychopathic training that allows such fools to step into the spotlight and play the puppet role of their lifetimes.... it always them to think they are special, even if they lack the proper genetic lineup to claim actual psychopathic inclusion to the party. As a sociopath, he can remain a wannabe like most American puppet politicians. Cameron is given his speeches just like Mr. O and has to sound 'tough' and pretend to play the statesman that he never will be, but like Harry Truman, pretense is 9/10s of the act, right? If the game gets too 'hard', they are sent out on another vacation. Cameron represents the City of London and nothing more. London isn't stupid, just completely corrupt and led by psychos that haven't a conscience and exist purely in the present moment.... there is no tomorrow for them, only today, thus they will do and say anything to get what they want, and what they want from Mr. C is for him to follow orders and make the sheeple think Putin is the enemy.... FInal Solution protocols have to begin soon before Mother Nature cleans up the theatre. Time is running out.
The Vatican is not happy with the re-emergence of the Orthodox Church in Russia. However, I offer this to the real Russian people, who have always been friends of the American people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgnJVty4Z6Y
Nonsense about the Vatican objecting to the re-emergence of Orthodoxy in Russia. The Orthodox Church, like the Catholic Church, was founded by Christ. It's sacraments are valid and it particpates in the Apostolic Succession. There are lots of potential synergies in maintaining good relations -- the Orthodox can learn from Catholicism about developing social doctrine; the Catholics can learn from the Orthodox about liturgucal beauty (severely undermined in the West since Vatican II.)
When the hell did ZH get hijacked by Russians? According to ZH whatever Russia does, even if it's invading other countries , it's alright. The only posters left on here now are rabid anti-American losers. I will bet most of you are either germen, russian, chinamen, Muslim,,, you know, the ones that are jealous and hate America. Damn why can't you Russian , Putin loving diicksuckers find some other site to crash. Enjoy your circle jerk ya bunch of losers from countries that scream at the US when we do or don,t do something. I would sure like know what pathetic countries any y'all are from , but I can guess. Sit on your ass countries, and let the US do the heavy lifting. Bunch of fucking roaches waiting for crumbs. So fuck all y'all,,, and as always,,, don''to let me catch you around quahog!!
See the above comment I made.
ZH has NOT been hijacked. The USG has been Hijacked.
I served in the Army and as a cop before retiring to a better job.
So don't be too loose with your accusations, please.
LC55, American.
The Rabbit is Back!
Seems like a good time to start up a competitor to SWIFT so that one country cannot control it as ICAAN is.
oracle
"BRICS will be the first "legal" BTC-based paynment system, that will dethrone the dollar, but not totally free. Central authorities will control that network by controlling 51% of computation power and there controling the payments that can be made and being able to "undo" undesired transactions.
The next battle will be overcome that network avoiding mathematically the 51% attack (as Satoshi Nakamoto avoided mathematically the double spending attack)".
I just read this: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5335d904-2f98-11e4-87d9-00144feabdc0.html...
at the FT.
NATO now wants a 10,000 member RDF to "counter threats."
The current shitshow that passes for US Foreign Policy needs changing.
It is a matter of Record both GHW Bush and James Baker promised NO eastward expansion of NATO in exchange for Russia withdrawing 24 Divisions from and allowing for the Reunification of East Germany.
How does USA Inc. explain this?
Keep poking Russia and see what happens. The US Renegged and you can't walk that back.
If Ron Paul had been elected, this evolving shitstorm could have been aborted.
Is that lake city ? I,m in smyrna tn. go vols !
Go SEC!
Kiev is entering Fall and then Winter.
Going down to 10C at night. The city center buildings may stay warmer.
http://www.bbc.com/weather/703448
haha, we have in Slovakia barely plus temperatures.
they have five or ten less.
within days the temp is at zero.
however, Ua says, that they will receive a reverse gas from Germany via SLovakia.
Let us wait and see it.
uk is asking the eu to bend over and fuck itself in the ass. the eu's dick isn't long enough to fuck itself. if the uk wants the eu FUCKED they are going to have to take out their big stick and fuck the EU themselves.
or is that what the UK wants america to do. hahahahhaha. grow your dick UK. roll up your sleaves mi6 because its time for some assasiations.
it would appear that the west is running out of toes to shoot off.
Yes, but it still has its FTSE.
Its all happening again. Remember the pictures of GW Bush and Tony Blair striding manfully together to announce they were going to attack Saddam Hussein and solve the worlds terroism problems. Now we have David Cameron and Barak Obama villifying Russia all to protect us from the evil Russians. Its like watching a B grade movie with bad actors.
I bet it is getting some what claustrophobic for you mother russians these days, what with the price of food skyrocketing all over your Nausearossiya. You are trashing the lives of your fellows all because you ejaculate to pictures of Czarina Vladima ridding a horse with his bouncing boobkas?
But it will get much worse for you and your youth deployed in Western Russia. The worm is turning toward you corrupt and miserable people and while it looks meek and mild now when the decision for WAR comes down your lousy military is going to fall nearly immediately starting with your air-force and then armored units.
I expect that declaration to happen any day now. First Poland will send official troops in, then the Baltics will deploy unit...then the rest of NATO will be drawn in and the feeding will begin.
What a waste. I wish the Ukrainians would either detonate one of their atomic weapons or that you folks take out dear leader. Either would end this.
Mark my words. You can stop this if you get rid of your psychopathic leader. If not now and soon then this one is on you, mother russians.