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US Declares Venezuela a National Threat, Prompting Argentinian Rebuke
Argentina slams US for declaring Venezuela “a threat to US national security”, the country’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
Argentina condemned recent US claims that Venezuela threatens US national security, saying they are unjust and shocking, the country’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
On Monday, US President Barack Obama issued an executive order imposing sanctions against seven Venezuelan officials, freezing their assets and banning them from entering the United States. Obama described “erosion” of human rights guarantees in Venezuela as an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the US security.
“The announcement is not only appalling due to the unusual hardness of its terms, almost threatening, but causes astonishment and surprise,” the Argentinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website Wednesday.
The ministry also called on the US government to refrain from using “abusive language” inappropriate for a global power and from implementing sanctions that “only lead to failure and enmity between peoples and their governments.”
Cheers to the Argentine government for standing up for Venezuela. Israeli-American power over Latin America is probably at its lowest ever. Every time a Latin American government stands up to the zionazis/fascists, it provides encouragement for the fence sitters, and weakens that ZPC/NWO control even more.
yes I ‘d love to move to Argentina. Too many animals.
USSA admin has lost the plot with Venezuela.Now losing it with neocon poodle UK over banking association with China.
Well said, Argentina! In fact, I don’t understand why nations worldwide don’t “link arms” in resistance to US bullying. Venezuela, Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, all of Central America, Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, Russia, China, Vietnam, India, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Libya… the list just goes on and on and on. They could pool advice on what works and what doesn’t when faced with the American bullies, and perhaps offer one another moral and material support.
they are linking hands but they’re all on the same financial model…victims…like Russia…it takes a while to get off it…especially when the country doesn’t have any money.
Out of topic, but also connected to the story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGNwNnPDegM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSnHhZ-zO3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIFPm3F30kw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eXUG0bC-Ic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tli7B3J1DEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVzn98Ekr7E
Anon, when posting links please specify wht they are, so people don’t waste their time if they are not interested.
For the benefit of others: the links appear to be attempts to prove the movie Eyes Wide Shut was a documentary of Rothchild Illuminati satanic black magic etc……
bot tak what do you think of these weird movies about the Rothschilds ?
Ann
what do you think of these weird movies about the Rothschilds ?
Nothing. I have not watched them.
me neither
Same director who brought us Dr. Strangelove. FWIW
Also OT but did anyone see this Kaiser report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3JgzTCzTi4&t=519
(I FF’ed the link to the time where the Ukraine part starts, but the entire 1st half is really good)
Stacey basically spearheaded some of the brownshirt-washing/disinfo from the Guardian!
She really impresed me especially after her knee jerk reaction to the reunification of Crimea with Russia.
Also a bit off topic, ill forward a part of a funny comment i saw on fortruss, re: american diplomatic foriegn policy economics, an axiom:
“1 Nuland= 100 Psakis”. lol
-God Bless You All
Hmmm. Is Nudelmann really that dangerous ? isn’t it more like 1 wolverine = 100 noodles.
US plans to exclude Russia from SWIFT backfires: “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.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-12/wests-plan-drop-russia-swift-hilariously-backfires
As long as their standards are interoperable, then the more the merrier — market competition (which the US’s rulers/owners always public ally espouse).
I imagine the server and client software would be entirely written in-house, even if it presents the same user interface to the clients. The encryption layer would certainly be different, and of military grade. That being the case, the standards/protocols wouldn’t really matter, but they are well-thought out and well-tested, so would probably remain.
Since the client software will ultimately be in the hands of potental enemies, and subjected to intense NSA scrutiny and hacking, this explains why it is only being operated by Russian institutions so far.
It is interesting that China is developing its own parallel CIPS system – probably easier than ensuring the Russian system is totally secure.
“…market competition (which the US’s rulers/owners always public ally espouse)”.
And privately detest. Since Adam Smith, it has been well known that capitalists hate nothing more than competition. They will go a long way to establish a monopoly – or, failing that, a nice cartel. Look around you, if you live in a “Western” country, and you will see little else than wall-to-wall cartels relieved only by the occasional monopoly.
Yep the offer of a board seat is to keep them in. Too little too late.
Same with IMF — voting power is supposedly based on size of GDP, but it is rigged so the USA always has the final say. China for example surpassed USA as the largest economy but still has a tiny vote, based on ancient figures. As soon as BRICS looked like becoming real, IMF started running around to potential BRICS nations with “don’t go, don’t go, we’ll give you more votes, we promise, honest, no need to go, waaiiit…”.
Russia’s payment system is tested already on local banks and ready to go international very very soon. Early May if not sooner.
board seat SWIFT=bulgarian pipe south stream.=middle finger or two if you are poodle-people.
Yes, I think so too, I don’t really read the “western propaganda press” anymore, but I wonder how they’ll try to spin this imperial manouver in relation to all ther previous propaganda against putin/russia? :o By the way, I read an interesting article the other day, with a theme of “more massive dollarimperialist moves in 2015”, I wonder if all this is connected in some way?
http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/10/4280
You are wrong. Assignment of board seat happens on the basis of how much you use the system. Russia’s use had increased enough to justify a seat in the periodic board re-alignment. This is a bureaucratic decision – no politics involved.
http://rt.com/business/239581-swift-russia-board-traffic/
Dear The Saker,
The numbers are rising on suicides:
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/03/kiev-junta-cleaning-field-seven-high.html
I agree with Kristina’s comment – the EU is banging on about Nemstov and look at whatis going on in Ukraine! They really are allowed to do anything they llike.
Rgds,
Veritas
FYI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI5_pMvLZd8#action=share
great video Joe, thanks… I really like Nigel Farage….its a wonder he’s got where he has, with his straight forward talk.
You believe in wonders, really? I have a nice bridge here for sale…
Farrage is a banker. A BANKER. That’s all you really need to know. He would never even become known if he wasn’t a part of the game.
Besides, except for lots of hot air, he practically did absolutely nothing of significance.
he still says it like it is. Just because he’s a banker doesn’t automatically make him “the axis of evil”.
You’re a liberal.
Part1
Something from London and Assange
In this Democracy Now! Special,
filmed in July 2014, we go inside
the Ecuadorian embassy in London
to interview Wikileaks founder,
Julian Assange. At the time, he’d
been holed up there for more than
two years, having received political
asylum from that South American
nation. This interview and the story’s
entire background is a fascinating
investigation of laws, jurisdictions
and how laws are bent and how
justice is an imaginary concept.
He’s still there, having now been
detained in a variety of locations,
without charge, for going on 5 years.
However, he’s proud to say that
WikiLeaks lives on, despite the fac
t that the organization cannot receive
payments via Bank of America, VISA,
MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union.
Part2
Whatever opinions one may have about
this man, this banking blockade of
WikiLeaks is outside of any accountable,
public process. It is without democratic
oversight or transparency. The US
government, itself found that there were
no lawful grounds to add WikiLeaks to a
US financial blockade, yet it continues.
Due to this NGO’s extensively diminished
resources, this unlawful blockade has
become the focal point of their legal
actions.
As stated on their website: “If this financial
attack stands unchallenged, a dangerous,
oppressive and undemocratic precedent will
have been set, the implications of which go
far beyond WikiLeaks and its work. Any
organization that falls afoul of powerful
finance companies or their political allies
can expect similar extrajudicial action.”
Assange, himself faces investigations in both
Sweden and the United States and describes
the labyrinthine and tenuous nature of the
claims made against him by the Swedish
government to interviewer, Amy Goodman.
He also discusses the ongoing Grand Jury
probe in the United States, and WikiLeaks’
efforts to assist National Security Agency
whistleblower, Edward Snowden.
I also really like Assange. I’m not too sure about Snowden. I like Glenn Greenwald, but who was he before Snowden went to the Rothschilds newspaper, and talked to him there.
Oh well, I can’t see through mirrors.
There is good news for Assange. The Swedish prosecutor has finally agreed to interrogating him in Britain. Unfortunately it is only because some of the crimes that he is accused of are about to expire.
Part3
Video (47 mins):
Inside Julian Assange’s Embassy Refuge to Talk WikiLeaks,
Snowden and Winning Freedom
http://www.ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.com/page/27102.html
Time again for the new growing list of offended nations that are getting utterly sick and tired of the “present day” USA anti social, dictatorial arrogant global bullying.
The world is tired of Washington’s Uncle Sam Operation Global enduring Freedom
Venezuela
Argentina
Brazil
Egypt
Syria
Germany > getting there
France >getting there
Hungary
Slovakia
Serbia
Ecuador
China
N-Korea
Vietnam
Yemen
Iran
Which countries are next to join this list, once the world learns and gets undeniable proof that ISIS is in fact a US, UK, Israeli False flag to set the middle east on fire and manipulate Oil, Weapons sales and to distract from other CIA, NSA Global full spectrum dominance programs.
I’d like to see Canada and the US break up….break up and become smaller federations….and then my region would definitely join your list. My region was the first to have the Green Party up at the top of the hill in Ottawa….Elizabeth May. She’s great….except for her ‘climate change’ song. I’m sick of that song. What are we supposed to do about the climate change ???
If all the wars stopped, there would be the fix. And maybe new-years celebrations…all those fumes.
Ann,
is green party for nato?
the Green party is not for NATO.
note hundreds of protestors apparently outside USA Embassy Slovakia, re no NATO expansion.
RI. Editor Charles Bausman: Germans Are Fed up with Media Lies.
Russia Insider editor Charles Bausman discusses the failings of the German media with RT’s Anissa Naouai:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FISNOewkwHQ
http://tass.ru/en/economy/782374
first 100 days of new Kiev government
Ukrainian public activist criticises first 100 days of new government’s work
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/stratfor-report-indicates-america-is.html
article re stratfor report, USA determined to break up russia etc, evidence of ongoing actions by USA…….
The heads of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR have appealed to Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, saying that Kiev is sabotaging its obligations under the agreement signed in Minsk in February this year.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150313/1019435552.html#ixzz3UGPxCRWt
KIEV (Sputnik) – At the forthcoming three-way gas talks, Ukraine wants to increase Europe-bound gas transit fees for Moscow by at least 30 percent while reducing the gas price to less than $270 per 1,000 cubic meters, the country’s energy minister said Wednesday.
But Rus has said Ukr will not be a transit country again.
Advisor to the President of Poland, General Stanislav Kozey announced plans to exercise on a national scale in connection “with the events in Ukraine.” These activities will involve not only the troops, but also “all state elements – government, ministries, regional authorities”. Polish general said that “Poland has long been a goal of the Russian aggression.”
Earlier, Defense Minister of Poland Tomasz Simonyak reported that appealed to the United States to consider the possibility of supply Warsaw cruise missiles “Tomahawk” to equip the new submarines.
In June 2015 in Poland planned exercises NATO Response Force. The program includes testing of air strikes, the use of the Air Force and the landing. Thus, Poland conducts complex military activities in preparation for an offensive war, using the pretext threat from Russia.
anna-news google translate.
Army
“Indiscriminately, unconstructive criticism of the management of staff and ATO Staff sector” C “baseless demands total replacement of the entire management team will not contribute to strengthening the combat capability and morale of units participating in the anti-terrorist operation in the east of Ukraine”, – said in a statement.article re AFU combatants in Debaltsevo complaining of debacle..”he press service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that an open letter to the meeting of certain personnel of military units that participated in the fighting on the beachhead Debaltsevskom during January and February 2015, is regarded as a provocation aimed at destabilizing the situation in the Armed Forces of Ukraine”
anna-news
Yats:
“Great commander” Yatsenyuk declared war on Russia.
He stated this during his report on 100 days of the government.
“Ukraine is in a state of war with nuclear power, which is the Russian Federation. .. None of the countries in the world in recent years, there was no such experience. … No one from our Western partners 8 months ago I could not believe that the Ukrainian army will be able to keep tens of thousands of Russian terrorists and Russian soldiers. … It is the enemy of freedom, democracy and independence of Ukrainian – Russian Federation and the Russian regime … We are at war with a nuclear power, which has spent tens of billions on his re. The name of this power – Russia.”
anna-news, google translate
Me again-thinks-state of war=no IMF then surely?
Thanks to moderators? Forb highlights-i was to busy teaching offset lithography to do that sort of thing.
March 13. /TASS/ Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to consider and submit by April 15 the proposals to set up the Federal Agency for Nationalities, the Kremlin press service said on Friday.
“Look into the matter and come up with proposals on establishing the Federal Agency for Nationalities, which will perform the following functions: the implementation of the state policy in the field of inter-ethnic and ethno-confessional relations; the accomplishment of measures aimed at strengthening the unity of the multi-national Russian nation; ensuring inter-ethnic and inter-confessional accord as well as measures aimed at ensuring ethno-cultural development of peoples of Russia; the development and implementation state and federal target programs in the field of inter-ethnic and ethno-confessional relations; the implementation of state monitoring and control in the field of inter-ethnic and ethno-confessional relations”, the presidential instruction says.”
http://cassad-eng.livejournal.com/
article re special status Donbass latest-many refugees going to Russia,believe ukr will attack c 18-20 March, DPR LNR prepared, proposals from Kiev do not fulfill Minsk?
Etc.
These dates are right now, so seem too close. They’re not indicating that much activity yet. But Orthodox Easter is April 12 and junta likes to attack on important dates. NAF seems very well informed on what’s happening and where they are. They just issued yet another warning that they’ll take Mariupol, which means they are ready somewhere else again.
Big queues of refugees indicates junta is again stepping up mobilizations efforts, so any new people they get won’t be ready for another 2w or 3 weeks even by their standards. Another reason for longer lines to get into Russia is that Russia has tightened up the borders, most likely to reduce the risk of saboteurs/provocateurs entering.
Here’s a public content article from Stratfor: https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/gaming-russian-offensive?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_term=article&utm_campaign=20150312&mc_cid=77b88aadf8&mc_eid=0877a15bf0
Also, an interesting article from FortRuss regarding the Stratfor Decade Forecast projections for Russia: http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/03/stratfor-report-indicates-america-is.html
Would really appreciate the Saker’s insight on these.
Best wishes