The White House has just released this statement:
FACT SHEET: Ukraine-Related Sanctions
President Obama today issued a new Executive Order (E.O.) under the national emergency with respect to Ukraine that finds that the actions and policies of the Russian government with respect to Ukraine -– including through the deployment of Russian military forces in the Crimea region of Ukraine –- undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; and contribute to the misappropriation of its assets.
This new authority expands upon E.O. 13660, which the President signed less than two weeks ago, by authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to impose sanctions on named officials of the Russian government, any individual or entity that operates in the Russian arms industry, and any designated individual or entity that acts on behalf of, or that provides material or other support to, any senior Russian government official. We have fashioned these sanctions to impose costs on named individuals who wield influence in the Russian government and those responsible for the deteriorating situation in Ukraine. We stand ready to use these authorities in a direct and targeted fashion as events warrant.
In response to the Russian government’s actions contributing to the crisis in Ukraine, this new E.O. lists seven Russian government officials who are being designated for sanctions. These individuals are Vladislav Surkov, Sergey Glazyev, Leonid Slutsky, Andrei Klishas, Valentina Matviyenko, Dmitry Rogozin, and Yelena Mizulina.
The United States also will seek to hold accountable individuals who use their resources or influence to support or act on behalf of senior Russian government officials. We recognize that the Russian leadership derives significant support from, and takes action through, individuals who do not themselves serve in any official capacity. Our current focus is to identify these individuals and target their personal assets, but not companies that they may manage on behalf of the Russian state.
In addition to the new E.O., the Treasury Department today has imposed sanctions on four other individuals under E.O. 13660, issued on March 6, for their actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine and in undermining the Government of Ukraine. They are Crimea-based separatist leaders Sergey Aksyonov and Vladimir Konstantinov; former Ukrainian presidential chief of staff Viktor Medvedchuk; and former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.
Today’s actions send a strong message to the Russian government that there are consequences for their actions that violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, including their actions supporting the illegal referendum for Crimean separation. The United States, together with international partners, will continue to stand by the Ukrainian government to ensure that costs are imposed on Crimean separatists and their Russian backers. Today’s actions also serve as notice to Russia that unless it abides by its international obligations and returns its military forces to their original bases and respects Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the United States is prepared to take additional steps to impose further political and economic costs.
Vladislav Surkov: Surkov is being sanctioned for his status as a Presidential Aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Sergey Glazyev: Glazyev is being sanctioned for his status as a Presidential Adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Leonid Slutsky: Slutsky is being sanctioned for his status as a State Duma deputy, where he is Chairman of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration, and Relations with Compatriots.
Andrei Klishas: Klishas is being sanctioned for his status as a Member of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and as Chairman of the Federation Council Committee of Constitutional Law, Judicial, and Legal Affairs, and the Development of Civil Society.
Valentina Matviyenko: Matviyenko is being sanctioned for her status as Head of the Federation Council
Dmitry Rogozin: Rogozin is being sanctioned for his status as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
Yelena Mizulina: Mizulina is being sanctioned for her status as a State Duma Deputy.
Sergey Aksyonov: Aksyonov is being designated for threatening the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine, and for undermining Ukraine’s democratic institutions and processes. Aksyonov claims to be the Prime Minister of Crimea and has rejected the authority of the legitimate government in Kyiv.
Vladimir Konstantinov: Konstantinov is being designated for threatening the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine, and for undermining Ukraine’s democratic institutions and processes. Konstantinov is the speaker of the Crimean parliament, which on March 11, 2014, declared independence from Ukraine.
Viktor Medvedchuk: Medvedchuk, leader of Ukrainian Choice, is being designated for threatening the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine, and for undermining Ukraine’s democratic institutions and processes. He is also being designated because he has materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support to Yanukovych and because he is a leader of an entity that has, or whose members have, engaged in actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in Ukraine and actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Viktor Yanukovych: Former Ukrainian President Yanukovych is being designated for threatening the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine, and for undermining Ukraine’s democratic institutions and processes. After abandoning Kyiv and ultimately fleeing to Russia, Viktor Yanukovych called upon Russian President Vladimir Putin to send Russian troops into Ukraine.
Putin Has Nuclear Economic Bomb-Jim Sinclair
ReplyDeleteOn possible U.S. sanctions on Russia, such as excluding them out of the international payment system called the SWIFT system, Sinclair says, “The use of the SWIFT system (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) to create a difficulty, almost a prohibitive difficulty in doing business by preventing bank wires, that would be one of the possibilities. Already, the BRICS nations are developing their own SWIFT system. So, the mistake of using the SWIFT system, short of absolute war, is that it has created a competitor that all the BRICS will be using.” Sinclair also thinks, “To sanction Russia is to forget that Russia supplies Europe with its gas supplies. To sanction Russia is to forget there are many U.S. and European corporations operating within Russia right now. I honestly believe sanctioning Russia is the same as shooting yourself in the foot.” Sinclair goes on to say, “When you think you can push an ex-colonel of the KGB, you are not making a proper analysis of the personality of the person. The whole idea that Russia is only a regional power–where in the world did that come from? Anybody that is nuclear capable to the degree that Russia is with its delivery systems is a world power. We hear constantly Russia is only a regional power. We hear lies. We hear untruths. We don’t have a clear picture to what is taking place.”
http://usawatchdog.com/putin-has-nuclear-economic-bomb-jim-sinclair/
"Our current focus is to identify these individuals and target their personal assets"
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I get "sanctioned" every fing day here in the USSA.
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What the f did I do?
Wow.
ReplyDeleteI do not support this run up to war.
Obama is a peace prize winner. How that committee doesn't rescind his award, and how he has any supporters left in this world, is beyond my comprehension. don't know what else to say.
That's because for the Idiot Left is almost the perfect PC-socialist (or do I repeat myself?) president. The hypocrisy of the Idiot Left knows no bounds.
DeleteIn this world there are useful idiots and just plain idiots. Obama is the latter.
DeleteThe world sees Obama as an empty suit and a pussy. He knows it, and he's trying to look tough to shake the image. He can't. He's in over his head and going to step on his pecker.
Actually, i don't think he has all that many supporters left in the world. Most of them are in the USA because the U.S.s left have a stake in a democrat in the white house for domestic purposes.
DeleteThe rest of the world pretty much accepted he is just a Bush-like jackass who happens to be black.
The IMF Lies and Other Myths
ReplyDelete2. The U.S. and IMF are trying to use the Ukrainian situation to embarrass the U.S. Congress to provide increased funds that had been “promised” to enhance the ability of the IMF to bail out distressed nation-states. I SAY NOT A DIME MORE TO THE IMF UNTIL THE IMF TAKES ACTION TO MONETIZE ITS GOLD HOARD. I have continually pushed for the IMF to issue IMF GOLD-BACKED BONDS in an effort to take a dormant asset and put it to use. In today’s world global investors would love to purchase bonds backed by some gold–maybe a five- or 10-to-one ratio–it would be a very low interest rate bearing note in turn for having gold as collateral. This would not violate the IMF charter as the gold would not be sold but only surrendered on the inability of the IMF to repay the bonds. This is from the IMF fact sheet:
“The IMF held 90.5 million ounces (2,814 metric tons) of gold at designated depositories as of mid-September 2013. The IMF’s total gold holdings are valued on its balance sheet at SDR 3.2 billion (about $4.8 billion) on the basis of historical cost. As of September 17, the IMF’s holdings amounted to $118.7 billion at current market prices.”
A conservative gold-bond derivative backed by 20 percent gold would create almost $600 billion in liquidity to throw at global problems and easily support the needs of the Ukrainian government without the U.S. Congress having to contribute another round of financing. It is interesting that a Keynesian-dominated institution cannot find some way to put the barbarous relic to work. If not GOLD-BACKED BONDS, maybe IMF Director Lagarde can work a swap with the Russians to raise the capital for the Ukraine (Russia will swap euros and dollars for gold)
3. In calling for sanctions, the U.S. is going to undermine the world financial system. The targeting of Russia’s wealthy will become a template for dealing with any “global pariah” and thus result in many global actors not wishing to be paid in dollars or other currency but in a more non-partisan medium of exchange like GOLD or SILVER. The low global interest rates result in surrendering little interest earnings and precious metals can easily be used as collateral in any financial transaction (see number two). Any nation threatened with sanctions would be much more comfortable in a respected store of value rather than being held hostage to the “TYRANNY “ of politically inspired sanctions.
http://yragharris.com/2014/03/16/lies/
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