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The West's Plan To Drop Russia From SWIFT Hilariously Backfires
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
If Vladimir Putin is remotely capable of laughter (the jury is out on that one…) then he’s probably doing so right now.
Russia is once again Arch-Enemy of the United States. It’s like living through a really bad James Bond movie, complete with cartoonish villains.
And for the last several months, the US government has been doing everything it can to torpedo the Russian economy, as well as Vladimir Putin’s standing within his own country.
The economic nuclear option is to kick Russia out of the international banking system. And the US government has been vociferously pushing for this.
Specifically, the US government wants to kick Russia out of SWIFT, short for the Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications.
That’s a mouthful. But SWIFT is an important component in the global banking system because it lays the foundation for banks to communicate and transfer funds with one another.
It’s a network protocol of sorts. Whenever a bank in Pakistan does business with a bank in Portugal, the funds will clear through the SWIFT network.
According to the SWIFT itself, they link over 9,000 financial institutions worldwide in over 200 countries, which transact 15 million times per day.
Bottom line, being part of SWIFT is critical to conducting business with the rest of the world. And if Russia gets kicked out of SWIFT, it would be a disaster.
Now, SWIFT is technically organized as a ‘Cooperative Society’ and governed by a board of directors.
There are 25 available board seats, and each seat is allocated for a three-year term to a specific country.
The United States, Belgium, France, Germany, UK, and Switzerland each hold two seats. A handful of other countries hold just one seat. And of course, most countries don’t hold any seats at all.
Here’s what’s utterly hilarious—
On Monday afternoon, not only did SWIFT NOT kick Russia out… but they announced that they were actually giving a BOARD SEAT to Russia.
This is basically the exact opposite of what the US government was pushing for.
Awkward…
But this story is even bigger than that.
Because at the same time that the US government isn’t getting its way with SWIFT, the Chinese are busy putting together their own version of it called CIPS.
CIPS stands for the China International Payment System; it’s intended to be a direct competitor to SWIFT, and a brand new way for global banks to communicate and transact with one another in a way that does NOT depend on the United States.
We’ll talk about CIPS in more details in a future letter. But in brief, it addresses some serious weaknesses, inefficiencies, and technological challenges of SWIFT.
And it should be ready to go later this year.
Make no mistake, this is the beginning of the end of the US dollar’s global hegemony. It’s time to stop hoping that it won’t happen and time to start preparing for it.
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Shame it wont make the slightest difference. The US only has one policy.
Psychopaths will never go quietly into the long goodnight.
I said Russian expulsion from SWIFT would start WWIII for real, now the US will just
fabricate another FF or cassus beli.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Taylor Swift must be stopped at all costs!
sorry, but she is pretty hot, never heard her sing though.. i assume she sings?
I don't hear anything watching a video when she sing....I just see
She has really good songs. Get the "Fearless" CD.
she is product. she sells "units of product" in 5 years who will remember her? as the next Taylor swift becomes commercial property-wasnt she country at one time then went Ga Ga (literally) like I said, she is product-interchangable with sales of plastic men from Mars or pallets of Cheerios...she WAS kountry kute...now she has gone slutty as a good product will do every time
Kick Putin out of Taylor Swift....
She's not hot - she's plasticized 'product' as another poster said. She's just a pop-culture skankette with much more marketing moxi than real talent.
Its funny but I see a lot of parables between the whole SWIFT blow-back and the unintended and earth-shattering consequences to Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost on the Soviet's Party.
I'm not some broken ex-Soviet "expert" but when Gorbachev introduced Pepsi at a Coke only party by his programs it relativized the Russian Communist Party. It took the mindset from The Party to the Party AND something else. The take away is that an absolute operational code (yes - we at getting the the way-back Kennan machine here) - be it a political philosophy, religion, or a international Banking Hegemony cannot exist with competition - it can't exist with another competing dogma.
And that is what the Chinese CIPS is. Its competition to SWIFT, just as the Chinese Development Bank is competition to the IMF and World Bank and all their strings, just as the yuan will be the replacement to the dollar.
The Chinese are still emerging from a 100 great depression - political, economics and spiritual. While nothing is for certain, the central theme is the MTV generation thought themselves so clever to read the rules of realpolitik upside-down that they finally forced the little kids on the playground to break into their uncle's garage and return to school with a .38 Special to confront their bullies.
Reserve currencies are built and kept by a robust and independent domestic industrial base, gold and and export surpluses.
Not off-shored meta-data, another app and parabolic debt.
There's a Singularity in there somewhere. For Someone, but not You.
DOW and S&P will now self destruct in 3... 2... 1...
The only thing that would make this announcement better is if the Russian Federation had a "roast" to lampoon the Anglo-American schizoid cabal for what it truly is!
I think the "white chimp" in the oval office is hearing voices inside his head again, along with Kerry, McStain and take-me-fron-behind Lindsay Graham!!!
putin winning?
obama Losing?
Obozo is losing each move but winning "on volume"...
Putin: "No, I'd rather not take a seat on the deck of the Titanic. But thanks for letting us know how important we really are to you after crapping on us for so many years".
Exxon and Goldman Sachs are preparing for it.
Exxon’s Russia Exposure Surges as Long View Outweighs Sanctions
3 March 2015, by Joe Carroll (Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-03/exxon-s-russia-exposure-surges-as-long-view-outweighs-sanctions
Exxon is Goldman Sachs pick over Chevron, ConocoPhillips
10 March 2015, by Claudia Assis - San Francisco (MarketWatch)
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/exxon-is-goldman-sachs-pick-over-chevron-conocophillips-2015-03-09
The way things are going I think the country that is going to be isolated is the US.
They are pissing everyone off.
(Decent US citizens your leadership was gone totally insane).
We know. All 7 of us.
Ate. Ha-ha.
Nein
Naturally the World's Greatest Detective simply repeats what I said above.
Get your own schtick Bats!
"If Vladimir Putin is remotely capable of laughter"
That's from a guy who has obviously not bothered to watch any video of Putin. He'd understand why Putin is famous for his wry sense of humor, but no. Americans always prefer not to know what they're talking about.
And please, can somebody explain why Americans always write things like "Make no mistake" or "think again"? Is it a Pavlovian lecturing reflex or something?
To conclude, aren't you all good Americans, I mean proper honest people of America, fed up with how flat-footed your government is? I mean, there's only so much embarrassment anyone can take.
I'm not American, and yes, most Americans are indeed clueless morons. But do you understand what the last paragraph of your message implies?
Why would anyone want a human predator, or pack of human predators to NOT be "flat footed", or NOT be incompetent, or NOT look like idiots?
The implication from your message is... humans SHOULD sanction, defend and respect those human predators who call themselves "government".
Any sane individual in any fictional "nation" should want the human predators in their region of the planet to to appear stupid, ignorant, flat-footed, and be extremely embarrassing.
And so should you.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of USSA citizens have not the faintest idea of what their government is doing. And they don't want to know.
They know enough to figure what's the #1 problem in America today (see bold link)...
right now everyone should fear Obama....he is so stupid and corrupt no one knows the harm he can do. Even his enablers have to give pause for the unintended consquiences of his actions. Though there are others seeing to win the unintended consquences award for most harm this year. 2015 is surely one for the record book. As American I apologies for the many awful actions of the past few years.....though American by in large very good people...they some how elect some of the worst!
However the world should apologize for the huge support for the current moron in chief!
You won't find much support amongst the populace for emperor obozo in the RoW.
The irony is his puppetmaster can't dare get rid of him no matter how he fucks up on the
execution of their plans. I doubt he can speak intelligently on any subject other than dope
and basketball without a teleprompter.
i have no fear of obama - he's finished. they are done with him.
hillary is going to be MUCH worse. obama just wanted the job. he wanted what he thought would be power and wealth.
he had a little bit of hate, being a mixed race/culture, not sure of anything about himself including his sexuality. mostly he wanted the attention.
hillary is out for REVENGE. i do not understand why she is so bitter, but she wants to see people, people everywhere, suffer. she is not a happy person.
Umm, because she's an aging woman? You described many of them to a t in that last paragraph.
That vast Right Wing conspiracy, after all, embarassed her.
It was not the fact that Bill was shoving cigars up into Monica's slimy twat. That was not humiliating at all for the Hilarity Bitch.
Mmmmm....El Presidente...the aroma of that cigar...yeah...the aroma.
Umm, because she's an aging woman? You described many of them to a t in that last paragraph.
The problem with that poll is that it considered "dissatisfaction with government" as a separate issue from the others. Yet every other item is a problem because the government decided not to leave well enough alone. America's progressives expanded government drastically and everything they touch becomes a problem. Healthcare? Education? Economy? All made worse by government.
Next time someone comes to your doorstep and says "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you" grab a shovel, did a hole, and bury the bastard.
Oh, hell no. Feed him to the Hogs. No evidence.
The gators in my pond are always hungry.
That also works.
Put up a fake house-front with a door in front of your lake. Hang a sign that says "Fuck You IRS."
That should eliminate a few of the insectoids!
What's on TEEVEE?
Ask the average american where Russia is on a map and they will say...."duh....near Kim Kardashians house?"
dreadnaught - i like your humor. i guess that is a 'house'. da boyz call it a 'brick shithouse'.
bigger than kansas even.
'bigga is better and i luvs that nigga'.
how to win friends and influence enemies in less than 12 words! :-)
Im an American and i can see the traitorous and clueless morons around us
But obviously not always well understood in the West funny boy http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=256898.msg1491901#msg1491901
What is the actual power structure of SWIFT? How are the real decisions made? By sitting on the board does one have full access to the secrets and entry to all areas and meetings?
I doubt they will slow down, but any nation looking to avoid being vulnerable will not slow down developing there own international systems.
Real decisions are probably made after the board members get their marching orders from TPTB. Then the NSA monitors what happens within SWIFT to make sure things go as planned/desired.
Russia only gets a board seat. They should get 2 if their serious. Little late in the day I'd say.
youre the type of idiot who would say "Nya Nya, nanny goat, Russia isnt in SWIFT!" So when they do get in, much to the dismay of the US, and dolts like you, you come up with your next one: When they get 2 you will be sobbing "but....but...but-at least they didnt get 3-nya nya nany goat" etc etc
USA has or will not have any friends left. The bully will become the bullied. Rest of the world will kick us while we are down. USA will get a bloody nose or worse.
USA could go to war with the entire rest of the world, and win.
They invented WMD's.
Sorry, but the USA doesn't win wars. The goal of fighting is to generate profits for the Military industrial complex and enforce $US hegemony.
As long as the fighting is in far away places there is no reason to win these wars. Indeed, there are liabilities that accompany winning.
Also WMD date back to the earliest records, from poisoning wells to buckets of flaming naptha. I will say the USA make the best weapons ever, but the profit motive is still our shame.
yes
remember when the Hebrews carried a poison well all the way from Beersheeba to Jericho and told the people it was charcoal filtered.
much easier than tumbling down the walls.
but their patent expired
yeah-we invented the WMDs in Iraq....but Russia and China working as a team-with anyone else who wants to join-could clean our clocks and give us a bloody nose.
Practice stupidity in the comfort of your parents basement. People that open their mouth without doing even the most cursory of web searches need a wooden ruler soundly thwacked up against their forehead...
http://www.toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Chemical+Weapons
Well like they say; "You get more accomplished with honey than with vinager".
even more with vinegar
Another party's over
I'm left tired and sober
Baby left me for somebody new
I don't wanna talk about it . . .
and neither does Vlad.
" the greater sham is the 'war on terorism' itself. the search for obl and his cohorts in the mt's of afghanistan was a circus spectacle. the american goal is, and always was, the control through vassals, of former soviet central asia, a region rich in oil and minerals and great strategic importance to competeing powers, russia and china. by feb/02, the u.s. had established permanent military bases in all of central asian republics, and in afghanistan, whose post-taliban government is american approved. 'america will have a continuing interest and presence in central asia of a kind that we could not have dreamed of before [9/11]', said s.o.s. colin powell. this is just the beginning. the ultimate goal is a far wider american conquest, military and economic,which was planned during the 2nd w.w., and which, as v.p. cheney says, 'may not end in our lifetimes', or until the u.s. has positioned itself as gatekeeper of the world's remaining oil and gas."
cont
" the greater sham is the 'war on terorism' itself. the search for obl and his cohorts in the mt's of afghanistan was a circus spectacle. the american goal is, and always was, the control through vassals, of former soviet central asia, a region rich in oil and minerals and great strategic importance to competeing powers, russia and china. by feb/02, the u.s. had established permanent military bases in all of central asian republics, and in afghanistan, whose post-taliban government is american approved. 'america will have a continuing interest and presence in central asia of a kind that we could not have dreamed of before [9/11]', said s.o.s. colin powell. this is just the beginning. the ultimate goal is a far wider american conquest, military and economic,which was planned during the 2nd w.w., and which, as v.p. cheney says, 'may not end in our lifetimes', or until the u.s. has positioned itself as gatekeeper of the world's remaining oil and gas."
cont
There are no US bases in Turkmenistan.
None that you know about.
in the case of turkmenistan they are private leases for refueling and sar... and also a dual-purpose for uzbekistan. putin got uzbekistan for obama's invasion of afghanistan 2.0 for sar [ search and rescue-- never will the military perform operations without sar's, period!]-- tajikistan mountain ranges are treacherous and steep, but were ideal for the northern alliance and u.s. reconnaissance resources.
read, obama's war's-- woodward
lol how many times will this dud of a news story get reused by zerohedge. At some point you just have to sit down, relax and come to grip with reality, Russia was never going to be excluded from SWIFT.
easy for you to say
now that they've got a seat
You get the feeling that at certain levels of an organization, logic and reason are rare and endanagered. But the hot-breath of a Beijing-based competitor is a mother.
dup
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From the link below.:
“The Rothschild KM created a master plan to control all of Judaism and mind-kontrol Judaics. The Rothschild KM has hijacked Judaism, patterned it off of Babylonian Talmudism (Luciferianism or Satanism), and gained control over the banking and Wall Street professions in general, Congress, the major mass media; along with most wealth and economic means of success.
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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/03/08/the-hidden-history-of-the-incredibly-evil-khazarian-mafia/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76bY_abaUb8
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Evil, or Love? Please consider each and then choose well which to embrace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGpwKQo5_Z0
.:HTWSSTKS:.
Some people don't know this...
But Jesus was a Jew.
Jesus is a fairytale just like the whole Buybull.
In the context of Galatians chapter 3, only Jesus Christ and his followers, Christians, are true Jews.
The others who are referred to as "Jews" since Christ's sacrifice are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan. (Revelation 3:9)
He wasen't too fond if the Sanhedrin where the Talmud came from, the one adopted by khazars who are not Jews like Jesus was. Just Satan shifting form and tactics. Evolved Jews are Christians and Islam respects Jesus profoundly and differs from Christians about him in ways that are not morally significant
Unbeknownst by many is the possibility that Yahshuhua Ben Joseph, was an Essene as was also his family. Perhaps a reading of this book and further study of the meanings of the words "Jesus" and "Christ" would prove to be of fruitful consideration, rather than the arguing back and forth around what many have no clue about.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Aquarian-Gospel-Jesus-Christ/dp/1604598794
Speaking entirely from experience and not a book or some others words, the truest meaning of the word "Christ" is, awareness. Aware of many things, but not everything. There is too much to handle for the average human mind to grasp in the universal library of Knowledge/Light. Only a being using the full capacity of both halves of the human brain might be considered an applicant for the Godhead. Awareness also allows for openness of mind and heart. Open for any others fine and true experienced add on Light to this information.
Suggestion: ponder the defined meanings of these two words Jesus and Christ and then wonder, who was that unmasked Man?
If the Russians/China were having trouble introducing their SWIFT alternative, these fuckers would have been ridiculing them constantly.
It is the seamless transfer that has them SCARED SHITLESS.
Bodies Of US Soldiers Killed In Ukraine Float Ashore In Florida
According to this report, the MoD reported last month that the Obama regime had “effectively abandoned” at least 150 US troops embedded with over 5,000 Ukrainian forces in the rebel surrounded town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine from which thousands of shell-shocked Ukrainian soldiers managed to escape, and who later described their terrifying retreat from that apocalyptic rail town while being shot at point blank range.
Of the hundreds of bodies found in the aftermath of this horrific battle by rebel forces, this report continues, Russian intelligence sources identified at least 13 of them as being “probable” US Marines based upon “unique body identifiers” [i.e. tattoos], military equipment used, and “electronic database identification knowledge” of US Special Forces personnel.
The bodies of these US Marines were then turned over by the rebel forces to Ukrainian authorities (who claimed them as their own) on 18 February after which, Russian intelligence sources in this report state, these remains were repatriated to the United States.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1845.htm
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/02/leading-ukrainian-nazi-will-visit.html
edit: as of yet I have not been able to "verify", this claim,.. as always you decide.!
You have stumbled upon the "Sorcha Faal" disinfo website.
Well, that could explain the helicopter crash...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/12/helicopter-crash-fl...
Okay, so these bodies were in the possession of the rebels and then turned over to Ukraine. So when did Russian intelligence get the opportunity to fondle the corpses and paw through the merchandise?
How would Putin's "miners and tractor drivers" in the rebel alliance know any of this stuff?
How many peasant boys can spot US military gear at a glance? And what sort of YouTube video did they use to check out the "electronic database identification knowledge" that permitted them to make a solid ID of a bunch of shot-up bodies?
I mean, there's no connection between the rebels and the Russian Army, right? Putin himself says so.
Blackwater, Xi, and Academi.
turdabel dreaming of fondling dead corpses
Are you such an expert on the tattoos marines have on the intimate parts of their bodies?
From what I've heard about you, it would be right up your alley.
Putinator & Dragonator for the win !
USA "SPECTRE" (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) comes in distant third becasue they are the Turd in the Planet's Punch Bowl right now & too arrogant & hubris to relaize their leaking bile. The US is becomig the "Poopy Pants" kid in the room.
Yes, you understand now, Mr Bond. SPECTRE is the Shadow Government!
I'll get you, Blowfeldt!
It's really Blowstein, Mr Bond. I am afraid you have a date with my alligators first. I must leave now for a Tribal meeting. Goodbye, Mr Bond.
We tried to exclude some folks
Putin is well known for his sense of humor, and that view is not from sychophants. You can even tell that sometimes while he's talking. Has a twinckle in his eye.
cont. " once the taliban had retreated south from kabul, cheney and def. sec. rumsfeld made this clear. america was planning action against '40 to 50 countries'. somalia, allegedly a'haven for the islamis cult al-qaida, joins iraq at the top of a list of potential targets. rumsfeld disclosed that he had asked the pentagon to 'think the unthinkable', after having rejected its post-afghanistan option' as 'not radical enough'. he did not mention that somalia and part of the n.western indian ocean are not a mojor oil and gas reserve, perhaps as large as the caspian sea. there, too, american copanies have staked claims and await the imposition of a pro-western regime. there is no evidence that al-qaida has bases in somalia. the americans are listening to a clan militia called rahanwein supported by and grinding the axe of neighboring ethiopia, which has long sought to keep somalia weak and divided.
september 11 provided bush's washington with a remarkable justification. pakistan's former f.m., niaz naik, was told by american officials in mid-july 2001 that military action against afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of october. s.o.s. powell was then travelling in central asia , already gathering support for an anti-afghanistan war 'coalition'. for washington, the real problem with the taliban was not their human rights violations; these were irrelevant. at first welcomed by washington, the taliban did not have total control of afghanistan; mujaheddin factions held territory to the north. for this reason, to the americans, the regime lacked 'stability', the control required of all clients."
cont.
the taliban had shut down the opium growing. that's the reason we are still there. drug money
? how many heroin addicts are there in iran? how many in afghanistan, china, pakistan,... etc., etc.
the mexican cartels supply our heroin today along with s.a. columbia... etc., etc.
heroin comes into u.s. from canada to the porous northern borders, and mexico via florida
*afghanistan heroin is strickly for the euopean crowd
ps. turkey supplies huge crops also.
ps2. the war clans of afghanistan on both sides of the religious ideology aisle define heroin production and distribution via the aegis of ussa. afterall if no money from oil or gas, why not a cut from heroin.
*the 'vig' never loses.
We're considerably smaller than we think we are, but you can only see that from the outside.
In my side view mirror, we're closer than we appear.
Was Boehner the deciding vote,
And, did he cry after he let Putin in?
Digging deeper...
>It is the first time Russia has had a seat on the 25-member board of directors of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) since it joined in 1989. Every three years the organization reconfigures the shares among the countries participating. Each country receives a number of shares in proportion to the traffic in the system. The reallocation has led to changes in the structure of the board.
By the end of 2014 the SWIFT traffic growth in Russia allowed us to reach thirteenth place in the world, so Russia has increased its stake to a level that allows it to nominate a candidate to the Board of Directors , the executive director of the Russian National SWIFT Association Roman Chernov told RBC.
On this basis, Russia gained a seat as Hong Kong lost one, Belgium gained an additional seat giving it two and the Netherlands lost a seat giving it one, according to The Banker.
Curiouser and curiouser... (someone apparently forgot to read the fine print)
In August 2014, EU leaders had been trying to use the interbank system as part of their anti-Russian sanctions, pushing SWIFT to disconnect Russia from the system. However, Belgium-based SWIFT didnt bow to pressure as it had no authority to make sanctions decisions.
Ah, now, some real research. +1
Although you're hawking some 3rd party blog, the Banker is an interesting little project by the boys from the FT and the City. (http://ez.no/Customers/Customers-by-Industry/The-Banker-Financial-Times-...)
When they state "this was not a political appointment", well:
HK loses out - slap on the wrist to China (or an acknowledgement that China is going to do their version anyhow)
Belgium gain - EU needs the backup for the upcoming Greek / Spain / Italy stuff (Belgium isn't Belgium, in this context, fyi)
Netherlands - you need someone to lose a point to give to Russia, might as well be one of the largest trading nations in the EU (ports) as a nod to the fact that sanctions have damaged world trade.
My memory tells me that the Russian SWIFT challenge was scheduled to roll out on March 14th. I might be wrong, but I'm glad people are actually working things out behind the scenes (and not sending rediculous letters like the US senate).
I spent some time perusing the actual SWIFT website as well...
For future bookmarking/reference purposes:
http://www.swift.com/index.page?lang=en
Look under Contact US tab for their press releases.
Good (wo)man. I suspected as much, so I'll junk myself.
What are your thoughts on the timing of this? Do you think that EU-RU has worked out the SWIFT deal (via CH earlier moves over pegging, this was the obvious signal that CH wasn't taking US directions and was working to preserve the larger trade sheet) and the RU SWIFT succession is off?
My gut thought is yes, but these are crazy-pants times.
I'd still beware the Ides of March. The Monster doesn't give up so easy and knows it is vulnerable since it has displayed its true form - its illusion tricks apparently do not work quite as well during the end game.
Things are getting hotter.
Mexico is a current flash point (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/world/americas/mexico-mayoral-candidat...) but there are good signs elsewhere.
I don't think they win, however much they have the numbers. There's.. Samson Options Open if Not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIDtN8CDQmk
yea, but, will the brics bank offer a board seat to the usa?
Magic 8-ball says: it doesn't look good if the SCO is any indication. Several years ago the US tried to obtain observer status in the SCO and were politely told to go piss up a rope.
Eventually Obama will get his chance to avenge the death of Apollo Creed
He's in an disclosed location.
Sitting quietly on his throne made of the skulls of his vanquished enemies.
Po_Tan the Barbarian.
Starring Vlad
Guest Star Arnold S.
James earl Jones
"Po_Tan, what is best in life?"
"To drive the Bath House into the pit and hear the lamentations of his boyfriends."
He's in an disclosed location.
Sitting quietly on his throne made of the skulls of his vanquished enemies.
Die SWIFTer.
um..WTF, ZH ? On your original post, you start this article..."IF VLADIMIR PUTIN IS ALIVE..." what do you mean by that ?
I saw the same meme on BIN's website, that rumor has it that Vlad may be dead !
Explanation ?
USSD sponsored Radio Free Europe has this:
http://www.rferl.mobi/a/internet-thinks-putin-is-dead/26897066.html
Yanukovich was supposed to have been dead a while back, too.
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??
" it was a lack of 'sability' that deterred investors from cont. to finance oil and gas pipelines from the caspian sea, whose largely untapped fossil fuels of the caspian basin have become central, if not critical, to american planning. in 1998, cheney, then a consultant on pipelines to several central asian republics, told a conference of oil industry executives, 'i cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the caspian.'
western interest in the caspian goes back to the era when oil was being discovered, and exploited for the first time. near the end of the 19th century, russia fought to keep john b. rockefeller's standard oil co. out of the caspian. the jounalist john reed, chronicler of the russian revolution, asked an audience at the 1919 people's congress of the east, in baku, the capital of azerbaijan: 'do you know how they pronounce baku in the u.s.? oil!
not only americans and the european imperial powers wanted the caspian oilfields. hitler, in his invasion of russia, and before running short of fuel and being defeated at stalingrad, planned 'to take the saving prize of the caspian resourses, and then to drive south for a greater prize of persia and iraq', as a contemporary journalist, john rees, has pointed out."
for the west, the existance of the soviet union barred the way to oil and gas reserves, whose potential excited constant speculation. the largest inland sea was said, perhaps optimistically, to contain a third of the world's oil and gas reserves. the most extensive fields are in kazakhistan and azerbaijan, the smaller fields in turkmenistan and uzbekistan. following the demise of the ussr, the u.s., russia, china, france, britain, and germany have competed in an 'oil rush' reminiscent of the imperial sramble for africa."
cont.
ref. current resource: 'four geopolitical reasons to follow azerbaijan' (?turkmenistan? 4/15/13)
http://worldwideconflicts.wordpress.com/tag/azerbaijan/
note: ussr dissolves dec/1991 and azerbaijan is free, but now northern azerbaijan wants southern, azerbaijan in iran? not gonna happen! also, worth noting is azerbaijan has close ties with israel. wow!-- and is also close to turkey that could become a problem for russia's putin (armenian and russia close).
turkmenistan and azerbaijan have been on the cusp of all out war, then and today. but, ironically azerbaijan is also in and out of wars with armenia.
think, nagorno-karabakh (nk war) that could pin russia against turkey if ussa has its way?
jmo
Time to buy a BMW M5 with the Euro slipping.
BMW M5 30ème Anniversaire 2015
Those EU fucknoobs will be liquidating assets. Just like USA was scared over President Obama Kneegro’s threat in banning AR-15 ammo. Don’t forget to catch the next push to unload DHS taxpayer bullets. That nigger in the WH crib knows how to double dip his fried chicken and collard greens into pink slime dip sauce.
Looks like SWIFT is afraid of being replaced by Russia's and China's new versions and that's without the NSA monitoring.
A little too late folks to kiss up now and try to save your corrupt system.
I'll bet the russian system and the chinese system are one system.
Who's got Vlad's suicide watch tonight?
Where's ZH's resident banking stooge FullofChindit13 to tell us that this would NEVER happen. ROFLMAO.
Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. The U.S. is likely monitoring every single transaction through SWIFT. Why would they want to kick Russia out?
So, THAT'S the reason why the shitskin In Chief is letting all of the terrorists into the country under the guise of immigration? Question is... are they HIS friends or OUR enemies....
Wow! Who Knew!
nothing the US does ends up hurting Putin despite the CIA propaganda machine
USA! USA! USA!
LMAO (Chuckle)
Rumor is, Russian President Vladimir Putin died.
BawHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Did you hear the one about the barkeep betting the horse his dick was bigger?
how did you make the horse laugh? told him my dick was bigger. how did you make him cry? showed it to him.
would have been announced by now (or leaked) He is in his bunkers, planning to fight back kick ass and take names....and now SWIFT has granted Russia a seat on its board, much to the US crybabies temper tantrum ("If you grant Putin a seat, then im picking up all my toys and going home!" well, OK-dont let the door hit your ass on the way out)
Vladimir is fine. I just got off the phone with him.
Russia should accept the seat. (which you have to wonder why a nation of their size wouldn't have one to begin with? Oh yeah......they aren't owned by the US). Then once China and Russia are up and running simply break it off in the US's ass and tell them to take their seat and fuck off with it.
Problem here is trust. You'd have to be well aware the US will just fuck you down the road in some other fasion as soon as the opportunity presents itself. Better to go your own way now before the US is positioned even better than they are now millitarily.
Oh and btw, there are no 'bad James Bond' movies!!!!
I don't know, bro. Moonraker kinda sucked balls.
How could you not like the one with the big ugly russian in it?
Further proof that the US has become not the solution but a big part of (if not THE) problem?
(Skunk doesn't smell his own stink?)
" in the 1990s the u.s. staked its claim with several demonstrations of its 'global reach', such as the well-publicised deployment of 500 paratroopers from the 82nd airborne div. in n. carolina to the desert of kazakhstan. at the time, this was the longest airborne operation in military history and meant to demonstrate, said a pentagon gen., 'there is no nation on the face of the earth that we cannot get to', adding the apparent afterthought that the u.s. was concerned with promoting 'independent, sovereign states that are able to defend themselves'.
president clinton's energy sec. richardson, candidly described the former soviet republics as 'all about america's energy security'. he said, 'we would like to see them reliant on western commercial and political investment in the caspian, and it's very important to us that the pipeline map and the politics come out right.'
the 'pipeline map' is critical, as the oil and gas are worthless without the means to carry them to deep-water ports. there are three routes a pipeline can go: through russia, iran, or afghanistan. for washington, dependence on russia is anathema, and iran is the country america has spent more than 20 yrs. isolating. it was not suprising that, in 1996 when the taliban took power in kabul, they found themselves courted by the american oil lobby with its eye on 'one of the great prizes of the 21st century', as the daily telegraph reported. oil industry insiders say the dream of securing a pipeline across afghanistan is the main reason why pakistan, is a close ally of america's, has been so supportive of the taliban, and why america has quietly acquiesced in its conquest of afghanistan.'
following 9/11, none was more fervent in calling for the overthrow of the taliban than the wall st. journal. however, 5 yrs. earlier, the authentic voice of american capital had struck an entirely different tone. the taliban, the paper declared, 'are the players most capable of achieving peace in afghanistan at this moment in history'. moreover, their success was crucial to secure afghanistan as 'a prime trans-shipment route for the export of central asia's vast oil, gas and other natural resources'.
cont.
Pretty soon broke ass D.C. will lift the sanctions in order to collect import duties on Kalashnikovs wanted by rebellious and pissed-off American citizens.
Given past Simon Black articles, I'd like to see independent verification of all claims of fact. In triplicate, please.
http://www.swift.com/about_swift/shownews?param_dcr=news.data/en/swift_c...
Horse's mouth not good enough?
Russia should not accet that stupid chair that its like be part of the UN security council the zionist do whatever comes out of their ass.
"not only were the taliban welcomed to wash., taliban leaders were flown to texas, then governed by gw bush, and entertained in houston by senior executives of the oil co. unocal[ united oil of calif.]. according to george monbiot, 'the company suggested paying these barbarians 15 cents for every 1k cf of gas it pumped through the land they had conquered.' a clinton adm. officail commented that afghanistan would become 'like saudi arabia', an oil co. colony with no democracy and the legal persecution of women. 'we can live with that,' he said.
in 1998, unocal's v.p. for int'l relations, john j. maresaca, told a congressional inquiry that 'by 2010, western companies could increse oil production to 4.5 ml bbls /day, an increase of more than 500% in 15 yrs,. he appealed for 'the development of appropriate investment climates in the region'. by this, he meant that ' construction of pipeline we have proposed across afghanistan could not begin until a recognised gov't is in place that has the confidence of gov'ts,lenders and our company [emphasis added].' he made know mention of the barbaric nature of the rgime, or of the al`qaida terrorists it was said to entertain.
when unocal eventually signed a 'mou' to build the pipeline from turkmenistan to pakistan via afghanistan, it did so on behalf of a consortium of enron, amoco, bp, chevron, exxon, and mobil. the deal makers were cheney, former def. sec. and future v.p., james baker,, former s.o.s., and brent scowcroft, former nat'l security adv. to the president. all had served in the cabinet of bush #41; cheney and baker are steeped in the oil industry; cheney is perhaps the most powerful figure in the w.h as i write; and baker remains highly influential, as of course does bush senior, the 'oil man's president'. peeling the onion of the ' bush oil and gas junta' reveals bush sr. as a paid consultant to the bin laden family through the carlyle group, which owns 64 companies that specialize in oil and gas, aero-space and weapons. the former president has met the family twice.
the pipeline deal feel through when two americans embassies in e. africa were bombed and al-qaida was blamed. the frisson between wash. and the taliban has since been revived with the installation of hamid karzai as president, a former employee of a unocal subsidiary, and appt. as american ambassador to afghanistan of none other than unocal's john j. maresca. post bombing deals have been struck with the caspian's oil republics, all of them sporting appalling human rights records. as the bombing of afghanistan got under way, rumsfeld promised 'ten's of millions of dollars' to tajikistan and uzbekistan, which share 900 miles of border with afghanistan."
cont.
How's everyone's emigration papers to Russia coming along?
Are you guys going over to Moscow on Delta or Aeroflot?
I highly recommend the Sinagpore Airlines flight out of Houston.
Singapore Airlines Houston Moscow non stop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ylo_fQyEU
Ethnic cleansing with no defendingThese acts of genocide
A fatal ending with no surrendering
To cover up the crimes and lie
Smart bombs, precision guided armament
A more sophisticated way to end up dead
Still we search and invent such intelligent weapons
That kill each other like the Gears of War
Hoo-rah!!!
If you ride with thieves, then you die with thieves
Cross my heart and hope that you die, that you die!
When the smoke has cleared, the devil's in the mirror
And you see his warheads paint the sky, now you die!
Smart bombs, precision guided armament
A more sophisticated way to end up dead
Still we search and invent such intelligent weapons
That kill each other like the Gears of War
Hoo-rah!!!
that was tedious:
"Fight Club" Louna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sdPd7tdTh0
Another 5 weeks troll on ZH
A few months ago, here, he was Amerikan Patriot.
They have numerous accounts and will even have conversations with themselves.
It just serves to deomonstrate the dishonesty and the frantic panic which the Government Agencies are feeling all too well.
At least he is not copying and pasting CNN News articles, filling up pages upon pages with Mass Media Peopaganda here, as he has in the past.
Maybe that is the reason he was invited to leave...
there are only one or two anti putin posters here, but they have a couple dozen different sock puppet account names, out of Langley, VA and Kiev I say no more
weve got the papers to commit you to a sexual predators unit, if thats what youre asking...lol
such a wit you are lol
nitwit
"the russians are not unhappy with the arrangement, believing the republics will move closer to moscow as a counterweight to the americans. vladimir putin's collaboration has won favours in wash., such as the prospect of further strategic arms reductions and the license to proceed with his own 'war on terrorism' in chechnya, where an est. 20k people have been killed. the reason why chechnya is so important to putin is that it is that it is one of the last available routes for caspian oil. as the russians see it, the deal is that they keep chechnya and the u.s. gets unprecedented 'access' to central asia. as americans bombers took off for afghanistan, putin was being enretained by g.w. bush at his texas ranch. 'he is my new close friend,' said putin, waving from a golf cart.
the other principle member of the 'coalition against terrorism', china, was rewarded with firm u.s. support for its entry into the wto. sanctions on the sale of military equipment, imposed following the tinanmen square massacre in 1989, have been eased so that the chinese military can buy parts for american black-hawk helicopters supplied in 1980s. the issue of tibet and multiple chinese human rights abuses are now, like the human rights abuses of the taliban in 1996, irrelevant."
end quotes pgs. 108 thru 114 c.2002 c.2003 updated by john pilger "The New Rulers of the World"
thankyou tyler
Ps. will cont. pgs. 115,116,117, and 118-- later...
Nemtsov Murder Suspect 'Coerced Into Making Confession' Russian human rights council member says Zaur Dadayev "likely confessed under torture" to killing opposition activist.
11 Mar 2015 23:59 GMT | Politics, Law
A former Chechen police officer who admitted taking part in the murder of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov "likely confessed under torture", a member of the Kremlin's human rights council has said.
Zaur Dadayev allegedly confessed and was charged, but has now insisted to the council's Andrei Babushkin that he is "innocent" and only made the admission under duress.
"There are reasons that lead us to believe Zaur Dadayev confessed under torture," Babushkin told the AFP news agency on Wednesday, after a visit to the suspect's Moscow prison cell.
"We cannot confirm that he was tortured, as we are not investigators, but we did find numerous wounds on his body," said Babushkin, who was swiftly rapped over the knuckles by investigators for meddling in their probe.
The shooting of Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister who became an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin was the highest-profile killing of an opposition leader during Putin's 15 years in charge.
Dadayev, a former deputy commander in a special Chechen police unit, was charged by a Moscow court on Sunday with the murder alongside Anzor Gubashev, who worked for a private security company. The two men and three other suspects were remanded in custody.
Babushkin said Dadayev claimed he had made the confession under duress after being arrested in the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia last week. Dadayev alleged that he spent two days manacled and with a sack over his head.
"They shouted at me all the time, 'You killed Nemtsov, didn't you?' I said, 'no'," Babushkin reported Dadayev as saying.
The suspect said he had eventually admitted to the killing to secure the release of an ex-colleague, Ruslan Yusupov, who was detained alongside him.
Russia's powerful investigative committee condemned Babushkin's statement as breaking the law and said that he and a colleague who visited Dadayev would be questioned over possible "interference in a criminal case".
Nemtsov, 55, was shot four times in the back on February 27 as he walked with his girlfriend along a Moscow bridge just yards from the Kremlin.
The killing sent shockwaves through the opposition, which accuses Putin of steadily suppressing dissent and the Kremlin of being behind the murder of one of its last outspoken critics.
OH come on
nobody here at ZH would believe that
Well, perhaps a few of us
I like this shot of Putin
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Russian-church-and-state-reach-a...
the above cant be trusted-it is from Ukranian sources-who are living in pure desperation these days
The diminutive Putin (5’5” without lifts) is going down regardless of what Simon Black, the International Man of Mystery, has anything to say about it. Get used to it.
The only “laughing” that Putin is likely to do is of the hysterical variety. Psychopaths are known to do this sort of thing on occasion.
Sounds like a butthurt Latvian that didn't get a potato.
you take a lot of mind altering drugs, do you?
willing to bet that if the DRAFT where reinstated tomorrow, to go fight in the Ukraine against Russia, near 100% of these anti Putin commenters would be on the next plane to Canada, applying for residence lol
"is going down "
the master has spoken lmao
"utterly hilarious"
Yes it is.
Putin was last seen fleeing the site of the Nemtsov murder, shirtless, riding a polar bear.
Fuck Simon Black, why the hell anyone would listen to that assclown is the real mystery...
http://ontherightsideradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/kick-butt.gif"
Looks like a SWIFT kick to me.