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Europe Goes "All In": Will Sanction Rosneft, Gazprom Neft And Transneft
Until this moment, the main reason why everyone mostly dismissed Europe's sanctions against Russia is that despite all its pompous rhetoric, Europe consistently refused to hit Russia where it would hurt: its energy titans Gazprom, Rosneft And Transfneft. The reason is simple: by imposing sanctions on these core energy exporters, Europe would directly threaten the stability of its own energy imports (Russia accounts for up to 30% of German gas imports), and as winter approaches with every passing day, playing with the energy status quo would seem like economic suicide. This all appears to have changed last Friday, when as the FT reports from a leaked copy, Europe's latest sanctions round will boldly go where Europe has never dared to go before, and impose sanctions on the big three: Rosneft, Gazprom Neft and Transneft.
Leaked copy of Fri night #Russia sanctions deal confirms 3 energy cos to be hit by #EU capital markets ban: Rosneft, Gazprom Neft, Transneft
— Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) September 7, 2014
Am told Monday sanctions announcement to include clarification that repayments of loans by #EU states to #Russia still allowed. #Cyprus
— Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) September 7, 2014
This is what is known in game theory terms as a major defection round.
It also means that suddenly the stakes for Russia, and thus Europe, just got all too real, as Putin will now have no choice but to really ramp up the retaliatory escalation, which following the food ban can only mean one thing: a staggered reduction in gas flow to Europe.
It also means something else: recall that it was just ten days ago when we reported that Gazprom would begins accepting payment for oil in Ruble and Yuan.
If today's news is confirmed, Europe's dramatic shift in sanctions strategy means that Europe's embargo of both the US Dollar and the Euro will accelerate as Russia further intensifies its shift away from both the west and the petrodollar. The only and clear winner here: China, which will almost certainly step in to provide the funding Russia needs however on Beijing's terms in effect making the symbiotic link between Russia and China even stronger, forcing Moscow to rely almost exclusively on China for trade and funding relations, and suddenly give Xi Jinping all the trump cards.
What China's president will do, now that he has all the leverage in the world to call shots both to the West, the East, and of course, Africa, remains unknown, although those thousands of tons of gold imports that mysteriously enter the country and are never heard from again, may provide a hint.
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Great plan gas in EU goes vertical Vlad has to sell to China at firesale price. He will look stupid.
Check out any deal picture in history the person on the right side of the picture is the one in power on the deal. The one on the left has to cross his arm over his chest, this will be all future photos of Vlad and the Chinese.
Gazprom not equal to Gazprom neft.
Looks to me like the US is intent on handing Russian resources to China on a silver platter.
...or closing a massive Argentine/Russian long term food deal, and Russia covers the Argentine debts.
wasn't susan rice on "visit" to china last few days?
Cutting off the gas flow is one bet. Telling Europe that Russia will only accept rubles, yuan or gold for it's gas is another. I bet on a form of the later.
blazing saddles-don't come any closer or the nigger gets it.
that sums up europe's strategy compliments of the usa. so they are thinking the europeans are going to freeze and blame it on putin for being so mean as to want money for heating europe this winter. this is a great strategy for americans' level of knowledge but euros will know their own .gov is the reason they are freezing and will likely attack their own .gov before they jump on the vlad the euro slayer bandwagon.
I always picture obama in that scene. Pretty well sums up US foreign policy.
WB should do that picture with Obama....
Perhaps the euros have calculated that Russia really is vulnerable and can be brought to heel by real sanctions, not the periphery sanctions that have been tried so far. Maybe Merkel and her ilk have calculated that in a new, intense game of chicken Russia will blink first.
I think it is a miscalculation, and I also think that Russia will indeed ally much closer with China as Tyler suggests, but I don't think Putin will have to become nearly as much of a China puppet as Tyler suggests.
Putin's Russia is fiercely independent and will not become slaves of any power. They won't have to. Putin will play his cards with China extremely well. The Russia-China axis is entering a new phase here - ominous for the West, not for Russia.
Masterchef Australia Judge criticizes Putin
The Dollie is some sorta CIA asset.
The one % have spoken they will not bend to the Russian chess players will. They have solid investments in the petrodollar structure and he is threatening net worth. No political leader has ever beaten them, Vlad is no exception.
I hope the BRICS are in place and not the CRIBS. Gangs are hard to rely on.
Europe would do well to heed the words and lyrics of the mighty Amon Amarth:
"The icy winter is creeping near
Dark skies above us
Biting frost is in the air
Darkness surrounds us
The cold piercing autumn breeze
Fills the longship's sail
Soon the lakes and seas will freeze
And snow will lay its veil"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIi6OcbdeTE
Dr Jim Willie who was interviewed on the www.goldenjackass.com website a few days ago has revealed that trusted colleagues in Germany and Russia have both stated that big cracks are beginning to appear in the EU alliance and the main culprits showing decent are Germany and France. Jim said that his contacts in Germany had told him that the German banks and Government were quite happy to dance to Obama's tune and apply suicidal sanctions against Russia, but his German contacts told him that the industrial might of the country would not sacrifice their economy to please Obama. Jim said that his contacts were warned 2 yrs ago that the US would target Ukraine to destabilize Russia they said that as many as 5.000 companies were locked in trade deals with Russia. They said that the Germans have had a belly full of the US and were in the early stages of negotiating with Russia and BRICS and pulling out of the EU along with France after the US imposed fines on BNP Paribas and german Banks. Jim's contacts said that the US would now start to Demonize Germany just as they have Russia. Jim said that the reason for the big success by the rebels in Ukraine was down to a significant number of French,British,German military that are fighting alongside the rebels with support from Eastern block countries as well. They have captured a large number of Blackwater that have been interrogated and will be paraded in front of cameras in a few days time. Jim also said that Poro an Yatz were making ready to exit Ukraine.
that makes sense with russia's latest position and the interview with the newrussia .gov. the problem is the truth of it will determine the imminence of a real shooting, killing people war. the empire is becoming desperate. the crazies in charge will only go down in flames in sampson option psychopathic glee.
Great report.
And Putin isn’t fooled. He is the one with the ground troops and the tanks; there are not enough airplanes to stop him. And, believe me, when the shooting starts, a lot of countries will downplay that they are in NATO:
Poroshenko’s Aide Names NATO Countries That Agree to Supply Weapons to Kiev
By Ria Novosti
Global Research, September 07, 2014
Adviser to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Yuri Lutsenko said that agreements reached at the NATO summit in Wales to supply advanced weapons to Ukraine from several countries, including the United States, France and Poland.
“Security. A number of agreements were reached at the NATO summit on the Western military advisers and modern arms shipments from the United States, France, Italy, Poland, and Norway,” Lutsenko said Sunday on Facebook.
Earlier, in the margins of the NATO summit in Wales on September 4-5, the Ukrainian president said that the alliance would adopt a declaration on military and technical assistance to Kiev. Later, in an interview with BBC, Poroshenko confirmed that some NATO members promised to supply precision weapons to Ukraine, but refused to name them...
Ukraine has been engulfed in violent internal conflict since mid-April, when Kiev began its military operation against independence supporters in the southeastern regions of the country. According to United Nations’ estimates, over 2,500 people have been killed and more than 6,000 wounded since the start of the offensive
http://www.globalresearch.ca/poroshenkos-aide-names-nato-countries-that-agree-to-supply-weapons-to-kiev/5400078
LOL! Opps! Too little too late. Looks like the Ukies are FINALLY getting smart. The Ukie Army may be headed to Kiev to go after the oligarchs. They may even get smart and band together with NovoRussia to rid their land of this zog-oligarch billionaire scum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEItEEjN3cg
Maybe be a hot time in Kiev very soon. Zog-oligarchs Porky and Yats better have enough z-mercenaries to protect them.
Sounds like an interesting fairy tale ....
If this is true, EU is really wanker
This article assumes the next step will be for Russia to reduce gas flow.
At some point Russia will retaliate by dumping US treasury bonds and dollars. Since they will need to do that while they still have access to the markets, I think that will be Russias next move rather than gas flow.
Qatar still wants to drive a Nat Gas pipeline through Syria to Europe. By restricting its gas supply to the EU, Russia may give even more impetus to this artificial crisis. All that's blocking the Qatar / Saudi plan is Assad (though backed by Putin). Wouldn't it be convenient for TPTB to find some sort of excuse to facilitate regime change in Syria, especiallly with the support of the governments of a nearly frozen-to-death EU? Oh wait....
/cynicism off
Only one or two problems with that:
1. Syrian Army and Military.
2. Hezbollah
Hezbollah protecting Christian shrines in Syria.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db7_1410145238
Hezbollah is like the Novoussians. Tough fighters.
i don't know what it is but there is something wrong with the premises and outcomes of Tyler's analysis.
i can't believe that a major game player would not have allowed for this happening and had developed a strategy to deal with it.
there is somthing missing here.
imho
What analysis? This article simply reports facts on the ground with a little bit of speculation about what follows.
what facts on the ground. a press leak?
Capital Market Ban is a problem to EU, not to the "sanctionized" companies.
They will aks them to prepay in Ruble (or any gold backed currency).
THis is going to hurt EU's economy the third time. We shall pay much more for heating (the money will go abroadand, flow out of the EU) & spend much less on the consumer goods, even on the nutrition.
If you're gonna sleep with the whore of babylon, you're gonna have to pay her.
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/flug-mh17-regierung-hat-keine-sicheren-er...
Bundesregierung zu Flug MH17: Keine "gesicherten Erkenntnisse" über AbschussEurope just went into full retard mode..
If I were a European, I wouldn't. be worried. Didn't Mario Draghi say he would do whatever it takes? Couldn't he just print up some nat gas and flood the market with it?
Mario Draghi will not get cold........no matter what he has Europe Do. There are two standards. Remember the old saying.....do as I say, not as I do. It should be the Bankers and their families who profit up on the front lines......they profit the most.
"EU goes full retard" would be a more accurate title. .
Any bets on how quick it's failure
1 first snow
2 first frost
3 first fart
Nuked cities use up a lot less energy, because they glow with their own cozy fire.
What the hell, just get rid of it all. That way, you only have some sheep herders in Greece and Northern Italy to keep warm, and they have their own sheep to keep them warm.
All the big organisations are enslaving us - NATO, EU. etc. While we stay with them, they will keep abusing and triangulating. Each country needs to stand up for what is right and ignore the pyschopaths and drop out of the abusive relationship with a stroke of a pen. Our politicians need their ears bending pronto.
I know the issue is complicated ( $ decline, oil, currency wars, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, post WW2, ego's etc) Why do we feel we still need NATO & EU? Are they relevent today? Didn't we all trade before then? By being in these organisations we allow ourselves to be the useful tools of the 0.01% fools. The world has moved on.
This EU posturing could ultimately lead directly to the deaths of tens of 1000s of people this winter in Ukraine & Slovakia in particular, as they rely heavily on Russian energy exports.
Are they going to tie China and Russia together and then cut trade with both? I've been wondering how exactly they are going to roll back that offshoring to China. This is getting interesting.
Hmmmmm... that create some US jobs.
@ TabakLover
digging graves for our family and friends/neighbors
Lots of europeans may freeze their tiny little balls off this winter. lol.
Bullish for rubber! - hot water bottles of course.
Korea recently purchased 500,000 barrels of Texas Eagle ford oil. They changed the rules to permit EPD and Pioneer to export. This leads to the discussion.... Where does europe get the oil and Nat gas to replace the russian supply?
Weekly Energy dept reports show refined products up alot too. http://www.eia.gov/oog/info/twip/twip.asp
Somebody is going to supply the Germans.. Who? A new supplier is going to make alot ... Who?
You NEVER go Full Retard...........
You do if you're the EU. Or Obama.
it is going to be a Cold Winter in Europe . . . get out the fire - wood.
Israel getting desperate, but then they don't care, as they won't freeze, go out of business, have to choose food or heat, etc.
"Israel will get their pipeline and Lebensraum, no matter how many goy need to freeze of die."
An American, not US subject.
Note: Imagine that all the banks, media outlets, and junctions of power and money in a nation were headed or controlled by ethnically Irish people. Imagine that all of those Irish people had an automatic right to "return" to the "home country" even if they weren’t even born there. Imagine if the your countrymen were being used as an instrument of force and extortion against the rest of the world on behalf of that "home country." Imagine how you might feel about those people and their machinations. Imagine that you couldn’t voice your concerns for fear of being ostracized or targeted for racism, hate and/or bigotry. Imagine...
Enjoy freezing your asses off this winter, Europe.
First Things First
After the sanctions are announced tomorrow, the Kremlin asks the Russian High Court to declare all contracts with the EU null and void as Europe's expansion of sanctions against Russia has reached critical mass and is now a surreptitious declaration of war on the People of Russia.
Gazprom can then revise the gas deal with Europe, raise its prices and demand payment in rubles, yuan or cowrie shells. (The deal with NASA about the Soyez shuttles is also vitiated.)
A few days later Russian crews begin to dismantle and cannibalize the last pipeline pumping stations at their border with Europe to be used for the Great Pipeling of China.
Don't you think Putin's phone will be ringing off the hookski?
Yep! Go bite the hand that feeds you...energy. Enjoy the cold winter, global warming won't help you. Hoax's are Hoax's.
It would be an interesting scenario if Russia decided to turn the table and export their dollars back to the US. Roughly 1550 USD per person in the US. The sanctions just made the ruble record low against the dollar, so if the Russians sell their dollar holdings now they get more rubles than they ever got before.
Hey just like Zimbabwe more is better
"...as Putin will now have no choice but to really ramp up the retaliatory escalation, which following the food ban can only mean one thing: a staggered reduction in gas flow to Europe."
This may be exactly what Washington and Westminster want.
With Russia now driven to cut gas exports to Europe, it gives Washington the excuse it needs to ratchet up the abusive rhetoric towards Russia and engineer an incident to kick-start WWIII by proxy, probably in Ukraine using NATO as its first weapon of mass insanity.
If the European member nations don't finally rebel against America's rule over the European Alliance's policy and fracture NATO.
After all it is Europe that suffers from Russia's food embargo not the US.
I think there's some way to go before Europe reaches "suicide velocity".
With this latest example of its death wish it's certainly on its way and with empty suit Cameron providing all the mindless rhetoric needed to keep up momentum (to appease Washington and because the UK's gas doesn't come from Russia), Europe will have to suffer some very cold weather, unrest on the streets or economic catastrophe before it applies the brakes, turns round and heads back to planet sanity. Political juggernauts are not the easiset things to steer or stop.
There seems to be a little apprehension in the ranks about the ceasefire. Some of the stalwarts are wobbly.
LET PUTIN BE PUTIN.
First, none of us here know as much as he does about all the aspects of the situation.
Perhaps, as some here feel, he is losing the advantage he gained by the deals he made in Minsk. Or is it another feint. We have to wait and see.
We don't know the extent of China's financial support of Russia in the face of the Western sanctions. We don't know who's buying the cut-rate ruble. We won't know how the EU will react to a cut off of gas until the gas is actually cut off.
If the EU is depending on Russia's unwillingness to lose its revenue, but China has written them a blank check, won't there be some unplanned scrambling?
Now, smacker, answer this question. It's been on my mind since the beginning of the year and and my answer isn't very satisfactory.
Given the scope of the bloodbath in Donbas these past 4 months, why didn't Putin have Viktor Yushchenko nip the Maidan mob in the bud in December or January with the Ukrainian army?
What do you think?
There's some difficult stuff there.
It's possible that before Putin throttles gas flows to Europe he might take other actions first. High on the list is to close Russian airspace to commercial air traffic. This would force some serious re-routing of flights between Scandinavia/Europe and large parts of Asia, meaning an increase in fuel costs and in some cases alternative planes or a refueling stop en route.
It's difficult to know what Putin's strategy is to deal with this outbreak of Western warmongering except from Day One to hold back on direct intervention and play the Statesman in face of serious provocation by the US State & CIA co-ordinating revolution in Kiev . Perhaps Nuland didn't calculate that civil war would break out after her bought & paid for angry mob got rid of Yanushenko.
Putin's restrained stance throughout the Ukie crises (and Syria before that) is winning respect from Western populations but is probably making Washington & Westminster angry because he's not providing them with any excuse to send NATO into Ukraine which is clearly what they want to do, to install NATO bases there. Thus, instead of pointing to evidenced Russian interference they have little choice but to resort to ever bigger lies.
Putin may also have considered that Western economies are sinking into oblivion and the temperature on the streets is rising as our governments distance themselves from the very people they purport to represent. Widespread civil unrest may gather momentum across the West if our "leaders" don't get a grip. In this respect, Obama is a waste of space and is not in control. Cameron is a loud-mouth empty suit supported by other Euro retards. Brussels remains in cuckooland whilst the EZ economy sinks. NATO is trying to take on a new role of being "offensive". There might only be one person across the West who still has commonsense: Merkel. And she speaks Russian.
Excellent stuff.
I have a fantasy that it's going to be much worse for the US. Here are a few links for you. I saw the first one last night
http://rt.com/news/185836-switzerland-snowden-testify-extradition/
Snowden showed up in Moscow in May 2013 and took with him, I assume, all of the plots and plans of the NSA he copied until he went to Hong Kong. The Maidan filled up at the end of November that same year. If Nuland and Brennan were complicit in the Kievan coup, there's a chance Snowden snagged emails and other evidence which proved it.
If Snowden goes to Switzerland to testify with his million and one documents, he'll be able to prove to the European governments before a European parliament that the US had been plotting the coup even before Nuland assembled the mob in the Maidan.
If Snowden showed up possessing proof of the US's plans for taking over Ukraine, then Putin would naturally let the US do so and then arrange Snowden's appearance before the German or Swiss Parliaments in what could be huge embarrassment for Washington.
These next two links are from today's RIA Novisti and speak for themselves.
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140908/192745309/Germany-Says-No-Data-Confirms-...
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140908/192750773/Former-CIA-Representative-MH17...
This last one is my favorite because it isn't political at all. It is a video of the reopening of the Mariinsky in May 2013 (about the time Snowden moved into the transit area of Sheremetyevo airport)
Putin opens the celebration with a seven minute speech in Russian. Beside the words, 'Maestro Gergiev', I didn't understand any of it, but as he is the man of the moment, I enjoyed it and will probably watch it again.
The remaining two hours are filled with opera and ballet and a tour of the renovated Mariinsky and its new technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBP7ZYehN-E
and thus higher gas prices at the pump and higher heating bills in America blamed on Russia will rally the sheep. "Amarca, FUCK YEA"
Time to go all in on long underwear in Europe.
I'm curious to see if the euro-peons are willing to yet again have their cities and homes destroyed this time over american hegemony.
EDIT:Down arrow! For what? Peons?
Peon Definition: a person who does hard or boring work for very little money : a person who is not very important in a society or organization
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peon
Is that, or is that not, how Brussels treat you?
And trust me, your cities and homes will be first.
I meant nothing disrespectful.
Don't worry , be happy .
Your Owners are merely testing some new toys ,
See https://www.academia.edu/8228558/Rogue_Swan_Weapons
Hmm. Who would WWIII benefit?
Or: Who would a Black Swan benefit?
What if Mr. Yellen et al know that their ponzi scheme is fixing to implode -- 2 or 3 months more at best.
What to do?
Nothing they can do, if that's the case. No amount of printing will stop a stampede to the exits.
If they cannot prevent a crash, then they must prevent any blame being placed on them.
Black Swan is perfect fall guy: "It would have worked out just fine, but no market could have withstood event XXXX. In fact, think of how much worse it would have been, were it not for QE."
An interesting theory.
I'm sure Tyler is on the look out for early warning signs...
counter sanctions will prolly hit your auto industry.. and something else for sure.. mr putin seems to have lot of aces in his hand..
It's going to be a long and cold winter in Europe.
The 100% club ...better plan ahead.
Bulgaria should immediately approve SouthStream and get some 'forward' gas contracts out of it and thereby bypass this morass immediately and for the next decade.
Baltic NATO states ...better pray it is a warm winter..can they reverse their gas flows ? Will EU pay for Baltic gas this winter ?
Both Bulgaria and France have suspended projects and revenues from Russia for the South Stream pipeline and the Mistrals.
I expect that both those suspensions will be recinded soon, unless WWIII breaks out and then what difference will it make?
Done!
http://www.balkaneu.com/serbia-bulgarian-fm-insists-south-stream-resume-...
That link is 2 months old. No progress in Bulgaria yet, indeed all work was suspended a couple of weeks ago.
It is not clear how Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania could survive without Russian fuels. Maybe LNG, but I doubt they could afford it.
Baltic states maybe the furthest 'out' during these times since they are 'Russian-locked' and Belarus won't help too much.
and Poland may become extremely hot since they 'run' the EU now. How will Poland react to these events ?
On another strong note...Russia has two extremely significant pincers in this and should be important now:
Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia's largest naval port ?)...Poland may be interested if gets cut off from Baltic states.
Moldova, Trans-dniester region near Ukraine and Odessa.
See the political pincer movements begin and see sparks.
Russia could dump Dollars as reaction to these sanctions, together with some BRICS Countrys it could be a powerfull statement - I guess The States would be quite unhappy about it ....
Or Russia could block import of Cars from Germany - Happy Xmas to Mercedes, Volkswagen and Co!!!
Merkel would have a serious Revolution tomorrow :-)
As said above, it does not appear to apply to Gazprom gas exports, also Russia has never defaulted on a gas supply contract and I doubt it ever will. In this cynical world it seems that Russia can be trusted to deliver on its promises.
If their first response to sanctions, the agri ban, is anything to go by then the response this time might be equally inventive. They seem to favour hitting voters and companies rather than bankers and governments, also trying to hit something that they can find a substitute for.
This, combined with the MH17 initial results coming out on Tuesday should make this week interesting. Especially as the MH17 findings being trailed in the MSN say the rebels did it, if true this will send Moscow ballistic.
The Dutch say no blame is placed in interim findings. Germans say their AWACS plane detected no SAM
The US had told its minions to suck it up and the EU has capitulated. The only losers here are Russia and the EU. Two big players on the world stage, beating each other up. Aye
How the cards seem to be lining up here is the MH17 findings will point a finger at Russia (I don't see how anyone can expect anything else) and this will be used to implement these new sanctions and more NATO military actions.
The ceasefire makes things interesting though, as it prevents the Junta army from escalating militarily. I would expect them to break the ceasefire after the MH17 findings and also blame it on the rebels.
MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - New Sanctions against Russia in energy or finance sectors could trigger an assymetric response from Moscow, such as closing its airspace, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told the Vedomosti newspaper in an interview released Monday.
“It is they [the West], who should be asked whether there will be new sanctions. But if there are sanctions, linked with energy, [or] further restrictions on our finance sector, we will have to respond asymmetrically. For instance, [with] restrictions in transport area. We act on the premise of friendly relations with our partners, and this is why the sky above Russia is open for flights. But if we are restricted, we will have to answer,” Medvedev added.
MOSCOW, September 7 (RIA Novosti) – The European Union (EU) is ready to review new sanctions it plans to impose on Russia next week if a truce between the Kiev government and independence fighters in southeastern Ukraine holds, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said Sunday.
"We are ready if the ceasefire is durable, and/or if the peace talks start, to review these sanctions,” Van Rompuy told Belgian TV channel VRT, as quoted by Agence France Presse.
"The most important thing was to achieve a ceasefire. There have been a few incidents. We have to wait a bit to see if these incidents will continue or if they are exceptions," Van Rompuy added.
Meanwhile Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk warned the West against cancelling a new round of sanctions against Russia.
“What constitutes a major threat? A situation where there is a peace plan, no shooting, everything is calm, and the world goes back to ‘business as usual’, in other words everything is the way it usually is, and everyone gradually forgets that there was Crimea, there was Ukraine, just like they forget about other conflicts,” Yatsenyuk said Sunday in an interview with the Ukrainian 1+1 TV Channel.
EU leaders, along with US President Barack Obama, agreed to impose new sanctions against Russia on Friday, despite the ceasefire agreement signed on the same day between Kiev and Ukraine’s independence fighters at the meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine in Minsk.
On Sunday, both sides accused each other of violating the ceasefire, with both independence fighters and Kiev forces claiming their innocence.
Yats will end up like all other leaders of countries that USA appoints with regime change.
Dead.
Dug out of a hole and killed.
Just like Muammar and Saddam.
>>Meanwhile Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk warned the West against cancelling a new round of sanctions against Russia.<<
sheeeit....these guys are more demanding and greedy, just like the Jews....hey wait a minute.......!
Looks like is going to be a chilly winter...............
Europe better hope that nothing goes wrong with all the undersea pipelines coming into Europe from various places thay supply them.Sometimes problems might just happen due to randomness.Could get very expensive for business in Europe that is already uncompetitive.
"The eternal struggle between the people and the hatred amongst them...is being nurtured by very
specific interested parties.
It is a small, rootless, international clique that is turning the people against each other...
That does not want them to have peace."
- Hitler
Contact the White House
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/US-Congress.shtml
Putin needs to pay for attempting to reconstitute the USSR. Instead of incremental sanctions, what we need is a wholesale ban on all Russian exports.
And watch the price of your gasoline triple.
You are ridiculing the word "Patriot". Seems that you have missed something living in the USSA: Guantamo, NSA, Homeland Security, Drones killing innocent people in the most cowardish, despicable manner, just the top of the Iceberg of a fascist State....
Good night, "Patriot", time to wake up.
Eh, Shut the FUCK up.
You must be some kind of low-paid Idiot-Troll:
Although they try to dumb down the whole population, I guess, people still know how to write "American"
Go get em, sport!
@ Amerikan Patriot
I prefer 'Russian cavier' over 'American BS'
PS:
Ask whizbang in The WhiteHouse why he and Kiev are
hiding the MH-17 report[s] - they've been sealed!
[if anything pointed to Russia - it would be plastered 24/7 on MSM]
[Guilty criminal's lie and try to hide their deeds]
I looked at the NY Post today and it said the findings to be announced this week will blame the "seperatists" hahaha MSM is well crap to be kind
American Patriot my ass.
'American idiot' is more like it
and ALL European futures are BRIGHT GREEN on this Sunday open! even with this news, US futures flat HK and Japan up, how can this be anyway bullish?
Broken windows in a Chicago/Detroit Keynes Policy.
http://mises.org/daily/5593/the-brokenwindow-fallacy
I suppose if Eskimos were able live without gas then it should not be a problem for Europeans.
Hope Russia can stay strong. Seems odd saying that given I grew up during the Cold War. But Russia is not going to INVADE Europe and they are not harming the Ukraine people. There must be something very big at STAKE for Europe and the US to instigate such an ordeal that really is none of the US business.
@ hotrod
article suggests petrodollar the linkage to all the BS we're being spoon fed.
it's got competition from the BRICS and can't tolerate that - it would crash.
so EU/USA want to up the stakes do they?
If I were in Putin's shoes I'd put a little surprise upon my shelf in case I needed it in a hurry some day.
That surprise might have a name like, oh let's see.... could it be say - Saudi Arabia or should I call it
Qatar or - let's see that map again Boris.... oh look here's some more oil shipping and pipeline sites
that the EU and USA depend upon. Now if they were turned to dust the EU/USA would be f*cked
for oil till 2025 at the earliest.
What's that Boris...? speak-up will ya! Oh, to bad... temps today in UK to reach a high of -10*C
and USA mid-west to eastern seaboard be lucky to see -22*C for next 4 days. Poor buggers bought into
that Global warming BS and no longer have fireplaces to burn non-existing coal.
Sooo will Exxon be allowed to continue gas exploration in Arctic with Gazprom? Hahahaha...
+1 and a :>)
guys - what happened to bit coin?? i haven't seen anything. is it over?
my future yacht with 2 or 3 (don't forget 50+ islam virgins), big body skands wouldn't be so shabby right now.
i'm in mom's basement with a 6 of coors light and the cable bill coming on.
been mining, but might not have enough cpu's on this laptop.
;)
Norway?'s 'Statoil' and how it exports oil and gas to Europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statoil
Ref: http://www.eia.gov/countries/cab.cfm?fips=NO Note:: Nat Gas and Pipeline's
Quoted Excerpt:: "Statoil was a partner with Total (France) and Gazprom's (Russia) development of the 'Shtokman natgas and condensate field' in the `Barents Sea' , 342 miles offshore Russia. However, in 2012, Phase 1[?] of the project was indefinitely delayed, largely because of technical and cost challenges. Soon after the announcement, Statoil, 'SOLD' its stake to Gazprom."
end quote. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtokman_field
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-gas_condensate
Ps. Norway and Russia have many MOU's regarding development of energy straddling vast oil and gas fields in the Arctic and Barents Sea in which Germany and the UK share the bulk of the oil and natgas amongst their EU peers. So what will Norway do when Russia's Gazprom's decides to rip up those MOU's!?! But, there's moar.... http://arcticfocus.com/russia-and-norway-reach-accord-on-barents-sea/ April 27, 2013 * Oh how a years bygones can come back to haunt an october frost?!?
jmo
That is my point, Norway could hedge their bets and possibly make their country into Europe's elite but they tend to go with NATO which is child's play at the moment
That is my point, Norway could hedge their bets and possibly make their country into Europe's elite but they tend to go with NATO which is child's play at the moment
Seem to recall that Ronald Reagan warned Europe about becoming dependent on Russia for energy supplies; that they would open themselve up to economic and political blackmail. Well that chicken seems to be coming home to roost.
Europe thought he was just acting.
Wait a minute, who started this shindig?
Please show where Russia has ever failed to honor a gas contract.
Russia has been very reliable energy supplier.
Problem has been Ukriane criminals full open stealing and non-payment
Russia is on receiving end of blackmail (sanctions)
Reagan was about Soviet, not Russian Federation...
Paul Craig Roberts is former Reagan administration..see what he says
Reagan listened to wrong manipulations and meddled Afghanistan, now is obvious where that took things for current problems..not about to end......
It has been the unwritten rule since the end of WWII that the era of carving up your neighbors by military force was over. Anyone who thinks that Russian gas isn't being used as a political cudgel against the Europeans to back up Putin's landgrabs and threats is a fool.
When have Russian oligarchs, be they Czars or Commisars, not used threats, intimidation and violence to get their way?
Our ignorance of history is appaling. We have allowed our loathing for the contemptable and corrupt political leadership of the west to blind us to fallacy of the notion that "the enemy of enemy is my friend".
Putin and his brand of new Russian oligarchs are no "democrats" and no friends of anything but their own interests and ambitions. "Power corrupts and asolute corrupts absolutely". Putin et al are just as suseptible to the snare of that truth as any Obama, Bush or Clinton.
What a show! Add to the fracus the fact that a couple (neocon of course) retired US Generals think the US should be put on defcon1 (Nuke attack imminent) and they are expecting a 9/11 attack of some kind.
http://www.trunews.com/tuesday-september-2-2014-ret-lt-general-thomas-mcinerney-ret-major-general-paul-vallely/
This time a 9/11 kind of attack but with Russian hyjackers...
Hey, priorities change.
Patsy Russian hijackers if anything. I'm thinking false flag.
This time we have on the menu CIA trained 'Russian Hijackers' LOL lets not fall for that one again eh, people?
interesting times.... if I were Russia, would sell all treasuries (price won't drop because "belgium buyer" and plunge protection team would orchestrate them being bought to prevent yield from going up) and use the proceeds to buy gold at the currently depressed price and take physical delivery
This is what is called a "Pearl Harbor" moment.
It is a very old game. The west is trying to do to Putin what they did with the Japanese before WWII. Basically, forced their hand by cutting off oil exports to Japan.
There is a slight problem however, is that the reverse of that old move is quite unlikely to work. In this case, Russia has the energy that Europe needs. Europe only has printed currency that Russia may need, at least temporarily.
The question is, who will blink first, and how many thermonuclear warheads will be involved? Either way, Europe is going to freeze this winter, or bake potatoes in radioactive ash.
Hope the Mona Lisa is in those Swiss vaults already.
when you got a house of cards like the west start waving the flag before the nuclear ash is brought in to cover the collasped house remains.
Europe goes full retard-
I heard somewhere that the us was working very hard to affirm its ablity to export LNG to europe either way natural gas could spike early to mid winter. It should be interesting....soon.
I believe that as of now, the U.S. is a net natural gas importer.
Its a bit confusing...they import as well as export...must be price differential?
Not going to help EU.
No... probably not...won't be enough volume to make an appreciable difference. Oh well...time will tell...it always does.
USA is not a net exporter of natural gas.
A graph etc. here:
http://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/importsexports/annual/
mm
The tide is going out and Fort Knox is empty. That'a OK as long as gold is a barber's relic.
Well my move would be to annouce tomorrow all gas sold to europe is payable in Rubles or chinese money only. Leave squeezing the gas supply until next week.
But i usually guess wrong on these things anyway.
Hey Hensel ! Yes Gretei . Fuck its cold in here.
How did all this Ukraine Problem start.
The US was totally instrumental in creating the Ukranian coup. Victoria Fcuk the E Nuland is on record confirming the criminal deed done by the US.
In this context, the countries comprising the Europe Union must decide for themselves if they should back a criminal terrorist State like the US or remain neutral.
China is fuly aware what would happen if Russia is isolated today. Tomorrow it will be their turn.
When the EU confronts Russia, backing the US's criminal deeds and actions it is commiting Hara Kiri. The US couldnt care a damn anyway about these countries as Victoria Fcuk Nuland has already announced US Policy towards the EU.
USA will be happy to destroy Germany again.
And with Merkel, the corpocrazy Muppet, and the warmongering Bundespräsident Gauck, a prostestant Pastor who calls Snowdon a Traitor, Germany will be lost again.
Merkel and Gauck are so inexplicably leading Germany into Desaster, licking their Masters Hand, that there are not few in Germany suspecting, these 2 Muppets are blackmailed by the US because of their DDR past.
Merkel is said to have been IM Erika, working for the Stasi, and her file has never been made public. Maybe they worked hand in hand to cover up Merkels past, as Gauck was Federal Comissioner to the Stasi Records from 1990 - 2000. 10 Years to clean up everything that that should´nt surface. Gauck came under suspicion about cleaning his file himself: http://juergenelsaesser.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/geheimakte-gauck-neues-...
How is Europe going to heat their homes this winter??? I guess it's time to go long firewood (or at least unassembled IKEA furniture and rocket stoves)
EU politicians will have as much chance of surviving this winter as the German Sixth Army did in Stalingrad. The EU politicians are praying that global warming is for real.
Dammit
Ren and Stimpy's latest sanctions round will boldly go where Europe has never dared to go before, and impose sanctions on the big three: Rosneft, Gazprom Neft and Transneft.
Happy Happy Joy Joy, Happy Joy Joy.
Not to mention more LOG commercials.
more rumour mongering --as if the EU would slit its own throats.....then again they might
Why wouldn't thy? They have already invited in the Muslin cultural assassins. Just one more step on the road to suicide.
It's time for a new set of subtitles for that Hitler movie...
Can't wait for a 3% negative growth in the EU in Q4!
Combined with other incidents like Scottish independence that should make for a very exciting fall/winter.
Well this is one way to out-weaken the USD.
Maybe the EUR will collapse first, after all.
Tomorrow is going to be a flip flopping day. Well, I really meant this red line, not the one I said over the weekend. The moon walk comes to mind.
It makes me ill to live in a country run by clowns, liars, narcissists, and psychopaths like this one is. Just sick.
Daily I feel as though we here on ZH are watching a giant clock affixed to a time bomb wind down, and we are powerless to stop it.
I just don't know what to do anymore, really I don't.
Take care, everyone,
Lin
Just to take care of you and yours is the best you can do to prepare Lin.
Fare thee well if you can.
It's gonna be cold in Europe this winter. I'm going long on longjohns!
What are the bourgeois to do, strap on combat boots to go and to freeze in the midst of a Russian Winter? Oh the humanity indeed!
What are the bourgeois to do, strap on combat boots to go and to freeze in the midst of a Russian Winter? Oh the humanity indeed!
What are the bourgeois to do, strap on combat boots to go and to freeze in the midst of a Russian Winter? Oh the humanity indeed!
Long cold winters coming.