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Full European Commission Statement On Next Round Of Russian Sanctions
From Europe's Chief Haiku Officer, Herman van Rompuy (now that he is president only in legacy terms, replaced by the guy who will lie - and allegedly drink - every time it gets serious):
Statement by the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy on further EU restrictive measures against Russia
The set of measures adopted on Monday will enter into force on Friday 12 September 2014.
At the same time, it is my understanding that the Permanent Representatives Committee (COREPER) before the end of the month will carry out a comprehensive review of the implementation of the peace plan on the basis of an assessment carried out by the European External Action Service (EEAS).
We have always stressed the reversibility and scalability of our restrictive measures. Therefore, in the light of the review and if the situation on the ground so warrants, the Commission and the EEAS are invited to put forward proposals to amend, suspend or repeal the set of sanctions in force, in all or in part.
It is expected that the Council will consider these proposals urgently with a view to take action if appropriate.
It goes without saying that the market is far more interested in the Kremlin counterstatement which should be due shortly.
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own goal...nuf said
I can't wait to hear Nigel Farage deconstruct this shit. WOOOOOOOoooooooo.......
He'll end up having to apologize to all the hard working prostitutes everywhere after comparing HvR to them.
zato's lame attempt to keep Russia on the sidelines as zato begins the final assault on Syria? good luck chumps.
So, what the fuck did he just say?
In between the lines he said, your death is just moments away.
Corrupt unelected EU "Leaders" acting again in the best interests of themselves and not the people just to lick Obumboy's ass to serve the intersts of "Big Government and/or The NWO". The sooner The UK and/or Germany pull out of this monstrosity the better. We can then revert to a Europe of Sovereign States operating within a Free Trade area without the pretence of a Federal Europe, which the peoples of Europe don't want.
Knuckles;
He is making war on Russia with further sanctions, but he is rich and has lots of poor people that he is appeasing by saying well no one wants this to get ugly we can call it all off if Russia plays ball...
The people never want war, only the Diplomats that don't pay taxes like Van Rumboy.
Poor Russians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians will pay the Total Bill. Poor Dumb Bastards.
Economic contraction leads to friction which leads to further economic contraction which leads to further friction. Now, as an electrical engineer, this looks alarmingly like a positive feedback loop. Status Quo is on high alert.
TPTB should be more careful with their sanctionings of each other. Isn't that much like a friction in this case?
In between the lines he said, your death is just moments away.
Touch pads SUCK!
there is no winners in this game. People are the once who will lose.
own goal...nuf said
Yikes, so much red tape it sounds like Europe.
Just reading how much bureaucracy there is in the EU is suffocating.
pods
There is no Europe without US Military.
Europe cannot defend itself.
It is Obama who should lead, not Rompuy.
It is my expectation that Obama will be removed from power, if he refuses to lead.
Well, he hasn't been removed from power yet for refusing to lead. What's going to change?
Up until Jan 2014, nothing obvious was occurring.
Now things are moving fast.
World has accelerated USD avoidance.
The 'system' has no more tolerance, in my view
So things are getting serious. For sure we know what that means to expect more of: lies.
I just don't see a sitting American President being removed from office before the end of his term by anything but death or some horrible illness. Worse than Reagan's Alzheimers, worse than FDR's complications from Polio. It would pretty much have to be an assasination. No way they'd get him out through any legal means. And a successful assasination/coup hasn't taken place since LBJ had Kennedy killed. Damned difficult thing to pull off in today's world.
Dereliction of duty.
It has to be started by democrats, neocon democrats.
Without neocon democrats, it cannot be done.
If they go public with it, it's over.
But there is no legal path defined to remove a president for dereliction of duty. Only the vague "high crimes and misdemeanors" defined in impeachment. And, of course, no president has every been removed from office by impeachment, even if convicted.
Besides, Obama's smart enough to read the tea leaves. If he feels like there is legit pressure in that direction, which I don't see happening, he'll do JUST ENOUGH to avoid it.
Agree.
Avoid it = do as Military complex wants.
However, I suspect he is mentally unstable to do that
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/outlook-dim-for-major-na...
Shortage of supplies for lengthy war already mentioned
This is ultra serious stuff
Obama will suffer a domestic incident
Can you imagine the riots if Obama was ever "martyred" ?
:-) I'd bet that is one issue military complex and neocons would face.
I got an Idea: Let's Evacuate Diseased people from the Battle in Ukraine to the USA and see what happens...
The world has accelerated USD avoidance? It appears the US keeps pushing places like Russia/China to make the USD avoidance deals. Is the US pushing the world away from the USD? Kyle Bass et al.
There's that word change again. I believe it died along with the word 'hope"
As long as US is willing to pay for the illusion of EU defense, it's OK for EU leaders.
as a reminder, the EU countries spend three times more for defence than Russia. the eurozone alone spends twice as much as Russia
the US used to spend as much as all the other NATO countries. now it's three times that. The US alone spends as much as... the rest of the world combined
Russia has severely understated their military spending
Ghordius;
The key is the Integrity of NATO. EU People don't want war in their backyard and remember the real "Facts of Life".
US President Barak Obama is a Paper Tiger who hesitates and is not comfortable with his military, his lobbyists, his Defense Industry, and certainly not his own constituents including the blacks. I don't even think he is comfortable with his own body...
Why should Europe People even consider going to Full Readiness and Garrison Type Defenses for a "Bad Idea" produced from "Brain Dead" politics in the USA?
Will NATO Survive the Stupidity of G.W. Bush, Barak Obama, and the next US Puppet??
I think it is a fair question or a Good Question.
This, and guess what ? Germany, France are not ready to pay more.
Don't they want their Eastern russophobic allies feel safer ?
Eh not thanks. You can keep him.
You are blindsided completely. This game has a puppet regime in Brussels blackmailed by the NSA completely detached from the peoples of Europe. The Russian chess moves are brilliant, they are waiting for it to fall apart. The USA is simply a runaway train with no driver and it will de-rail.
The EU puppets are now so isolated and a real Ancien Regime reading to the tumbrils. There is nothing left for those outside the Politico-Banker Nexus and they will explode in anger and hold the USA responsible for all misery.
If it gets to war, the US will lose some of its population not Europe. It is not a European problem but a US-UK problem because they want to control finance and the oceans
Military complex is at war with bank lobby
Their interests are totally disaligned
The MIC and the Bank lobby are completely aligned. They both share the same interest in preserving the petro-dollar. If the petro-dollar collapses they are all fucked unless they have a back up plan in reserve (which we all know they do). Unfortunately for them they have a puppet in office who either can't do what he is expected to do or is reluctant to do it.
Incorrect.
Bank lobby is on the record for USD destruction and replacement with SDRs
Zerohedge ran Berstein piece few days ago plus numerous IMF articles about it
Incorrect. The SDRs are the back up plan and the MIC mercs have no problem hiring themselves out to the highest bidder. They are after all the "global police force". All they care about is funding.
If SDRs used, bye bye oil control and bye bye MIC.
Military would have to be cut to 100k or so, from 470k now.
Warships would have to be scrapped
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/outlook-dim-for-major-na...
They are already saying they can't afford to engage militarily for lengthy period of time due to shortage of supplies
Greg Morse says V the Guerrilla agrees that DTCC, US Holding Company, not only holds all the real stock certificates in USA and much of the world too... but is behind setting up the BRICS Central Bank.(146 Minutes into Video, Euroclear, Clearstream, Cede & Company, Luxembourg, Russia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmJKrhWucC0
He says DTCC is most powerful member of FED.
Nobody cares about paper or electronic coupons at DTCC and Fed.
People care only about missiles and guns and bullets on heads.
I guess there are many perspectives and your brevity sort of leaves a lot of possibles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratocracy
"You may not care about government, Banking, religion, and war, but they care a lot about you"
Meaning poor, middle class, serfs, soldiers, sailors, airmen, politicians.... Everyone cares about missiles, guns, and bullets.
If US Bankers are Setting up BRICS Banking, Development Banking, and new Currency... Isn't that Treason???!!!
Yes, it is treason and will not go unpunished
stoneage, deindustrialization, Nazi-West, 1939 year, like always. Guys, I am from Russia and i don't want to fight because west is fucking nuts
I'm from central Europe - and all I can say is: NOBODY in EU except these blackmailed idiotic brain sick EU-bureaucrats wants this shit, wants sanctions, want ukraine, want war, want stress.
Please send these clowns to Sibiria and never let them come back.
Unbelieable disturbing that they do such shit on us. Against the economy, against jobs, against the poeple, against Russia.
Nobody in Europe except those idiots has any interest in Ukraine or any other expansion. It's way beyond enough - but these war wongerers never can get enough.
This is REALLY a shame what is going on here.
Fuck Nuland.
Fuck EU.
Fuck EU-Bureaucrats.
You should go to the streets and demand your right or someday they will come to your house and take you for army needs...
I have to agree. USA is a warmonger and I don't see Europeans having any interest in Ukraine or War.
Are their Warmongers in Europe beyond NATO & Brussels?
UK always strikes me as a Warmongering Nation since it supported US Invasion of Iraq.
Bankers are Warmongers, right, since they anticipate the profit making opportunities and loans.
I can't wait for the boomerang to come back and hit!!! Probably EU based airlines will be prohibited from flying to Asia across the vast expanse of Russia. They will need to fly over Alaska and this will put some airlines out of buisness. More unemplyment for the EU before the holidays. Second, increase price and decrease the gas supply and demand payment from EU for gas in gold, yuan or rubles. No gas for Ukraine, shut them off completely, let the US and EU worry about them freezing this winter!!
It would behoove Putin to target airlines from weaker nations with this ban.
He wants to split up the EU, and the best way of doing this is driving a wedge between north and south.
So, he could prohibit all flights over Siberia of airplanes with the following nation's flags;
- Italy
- Spain
- Portugal
- France
- Greece
- Ukraine
- Ireland
stamped on their tails. It would make THOSE airlines uncompetetative against their norther bretherin, and further push the wedge between north and south in Europe. This would be the better solution.
OTOH, it's way more fun to apply the principle of equal treatment to everyone in the EU and watch the greedy "united" fucks rip each other's heart out.
I don't think Aer Lingus flies anywhere near Siberia, but it was nice that Ireland didn't get left out of your list.
Or even consider alternating the bans. One month the airlines you list. The next month ban airlines from the other countries instead.
Or even consider banning random airlines at very short notice.
What confusion that would cause in EU capitals.
"banning random airlines at very short notice"
Still laughing at that one. It's beyond clever, it's diabolical.
Herman Von Romper Room is a freaking idiot. I'm sure that Putin will be glad to sell his gas to 1.3 billion Chinese or 1.2 billion Indians.
You have to admit there is a certain humor in watching bureaucrats flail around helplessly when confronted by a real leader. They're like deer caught in the headlights.
"There will be consequences, Mr. Putin!'
"Yes, I know, I planned for them 2 years ago. By the way, your king is in check. Your move again."
It's like the borg collective has gone completely insane. Either piss off the U.S or cut their own throat by freezing their citizens. The choice has fried their circuits.
They have no "citizens" only serfs
Europe has proven to be a hopeless collection of vassal states that can be pushed around and ordered to act against their own interests by the United States.
Europe already capitulated some time ago. Anybody who still holds hope that Europe will show some backbone and assertiveness is deluded.
A former European colony controls Europe now. Progress.
Russia to ban import European cars.
Hitting Germany.....
This would not be the correct move. Put in needs to start individually sanctioning "EU" nations.
He would do well to target the weaker financially sound nations (in the south) than the North. So if he were to sanction car sales, he would do best to sanction;
- French car manufacturers
- Italian car manufacturers
You could sanction SEAT, but all they are are stripped down VWs, so that is kinda "meh."
Put financial pressure on the weaker nations, while leaving the northern nations alone. Even if the northern countries step in to fund the poorer souther ones, there will be hell to pay re; political backlash in the north, especially in Finland and in the Netherlands where German post-war guilt has nothing to do with decision making.
Germany is already a bit pissed off with the EU.
EU nominations they do not really agree on, France asking for more buged extentions, Italië not doing what it supposed to do.
Easier to stir up one country. Russia only needs one small crack to start with.
Sounds like divide and conquer to me.
Yep. All those VW, Opel, Audi, BMW, Mercedes...
Plus: Renault, Peugeot, Citroen, Volvo, Seat, etc....
Translated: "The commission will immediately find a reason to rescind these restrictions so that we don't freeze our nuts off this winter."
Good luck with that.
Once those markets are gone, they are not coming back.
Idiots!
Half of Europeans against US interference in European policies: Survey
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140911/192846705/Half-of-Europeans-against-US-I...
Herman van Rompuy aka The Garden Gnome announces more sanctions on Russia...it's a gas gas gas...
I bet Putin is quaking in his boots...
Putin is gone. History. Toast.
The world does not respect his word, or trust his actions. It is a downward spiral for Russia until such time as they get leadership to change course.
Let's see where the vaunted leverage takes Putin and Russia. The benefits for Putin are no longer the benefits for Russia.
Let me count the times you have been wrong.
Why bother, its all the time.
I beg to differ. The US is gone. They still hold sway over some governments, but that is dwindling fast. There is absolutely no justification for these sanctions and the whold house of cards is going to come down.
The US, not Russia, is looking for an excuse, ANY excuse as the economy and the banking system collapses.
Russia and China will be the ones benefitting from this, EU will disintegrate as a result of this, and the US will find itself increasingly isolated.
The EU being a fascist/corporatist unit will deal disregarding the wishes of the citizens. As the facts of the MH17 will be leaked, all credibility of the leadership in the West will have evaporated, and the mental right of way, will have been lost.
This is extremely bad news, and people not positioning themselves out of harms way will be wiser and poorer.
The last world war could be on the cards.
US Defense Dept changed Doctrine for fighting multiple wars after 9-11 or shortly before.
I wonder if this was partly due to trends in US Debts, US Bankruptcies, and Massive US Federal Spending. They even changed bankruptcy laws to make them tougher on Individuals Pre-9-11 in view of the Housing Bubble & Sub-prime Mortgages.
So... yeah, maybe Bankers, US Politicians, and US Powers... are looking for some excuse to collapse our economies and our currencies.
The Tactic would just contain an escape plan for wealthy people to flee to other countries or other currencies.
You know Big Plans fit with other big plans.
DOD Strategy, Banking Strategy, Central bank Strategy, Bailout & Bail-In Strategy, Housing Bubble Strategy, QE ZIRP & NIRP Strategy, Currency Destruction, Destruction of Banking in new Global Banking & Free Trade Environment.
Well, we will see how this plays out. Putin needs to put the whole Russian economy on a war footing. All this to benefit a handful of his friends. Many, many Russians will pay the price for securing the bounty for his friends.
In today's world, I just don't see that happening. The trend is an ever weakening Russia. This is the Quasar move of Putin's career.
You know we are at War now, right?
Blockades & Sanctions are Acts of War.
Technically US & EU are at War now with Russian Federation.
You are trying too hard.
Gollum has spoken. But he didn't win in the end!
One more brain dead than the next. I didn't know that was a requirement for a top position in the EU!
Let USA fight it's own wars.
Winter across Europe is sounding like it will be colder and more expensive by the minute.
Why are our so-called leaders so enthusiastic for War? Time for we the people to protest. All sanctions should be dropped. All military exercises in east europe cancelled and all funding to the Kiev puppets cancelled. Then we can get back to seeking peace and prosperity. Why do I want the EU scrapped? Because it is an undemocratic war-mongering feudal oligarchy.
They are monsters. They are furthering their own wealth and careers. No one ever wants to give up power, status, money, earnings or wages.... Human Nature
Money Corrupts. Power Corrupts.
"The head of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy confirmed that the EU will unleash a new round of sanctions"
And Russia will unleash a new round of whips on Rumpy-Pumpy & his partner Barroso's buttocks. True to their nature, they might even enjoy the thought of it but in reality it means that every Russian retaliation is another nail in the €USSR coffin and that of their US patron.
How are the Courts doing in Europe? Are they serving the People, defending Democracy?
- European Court of Justice in Luxembourg,
- Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL)
Major international and European organisations based in The Hague include:
Eurojust, European Union body composed of national prosecutors
European Patent Office
Europol, European Police Office
Hague Academy of International Law, center for high-level education in both public and private international law
Hague Conference on Private International Law, (HCCH), the oldest and preeminent private international law harmonisation institution
International Court of Justice, located in the Peace Palace
International Criminal Court, (ICC)
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, (ICTY)
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR, appeals court only). The tribunal itself is in Arusha, Tanzania.
Iran-United States Claims Tribunal
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency, (NC3A)
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, (OPCW)
Permanent Court of Arbitration, the oldest institution for international dispute resolution.
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Jean-Claude Juncker is the new guy. He must be working with Barrso & Van Rumboy by now as well.