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Russia warns West of ‘irresponsible’ decisions

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A senior Russian official has warned the US and its Western allies that their negligent policies are putting the world in danger of a new Cold War.

The chairman of the Russian parliament's lower house or Duma, Sergei Naryshkin, said on Wednesday that the decision by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to provide Ukraine with weapons is a criminal act.

"The cynical and irresponsible policy of the United States and those countries that are on its leash is pushing the world to the verge of a new cold war," said Naryshkin.
Earlier on Sunday, Ukraine's Defense Minister Valery Heletey said NATO was providing his country with weapons in a bid to equip the country to fight pro-Russian activists and "stop" Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Kiev and its Western allies accuse Moscow of sending troops into eastern Ukraine in support of pro-Russia activists battling Ukrainian forces. Russia, however, denies the accusation.


Russia’s parliament speaker, however, said the United States and its allies in NATO are behind the chaos in Ukraine, which unfolded six months ago.

He added that NATO's promises will constitute a direct intervention and complicity in the crimes being committed in Ukraine.

He warned that the European people are waking up to “mindless fulfillment” of US orders which devalue their national sovereignty and cause economic losses.

His remarks came in the wake of NATO's plans to hold military exercises in Ukraine.

According to European Command (EUCOM) spokesman Gregory Hicks, about 1,300 troops from 15 countries, are participating in the maneuvers. The drills started early Monday near the country’s border with Poland.

Never ended just metamorphose like a chameleon!

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Vladimir Yevtushenkov, president of the Russian holding company Sistema, in London on Feb. 5, 2005.

The detention of billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov on money-laundering charges sent shock waves through Russia's business and political circles on Wednesday and prompted comparisons with past crackdowns on powerful oligarchs.

The Investigative Committee, which reports directly to President Vladimir Putin, announced late Tuesday that Yevtushenkov had been placed under house arrest and was being investigated for misappropriation or embezzlement linked to an oil deal.

The move is reminiscent of the prosecution of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, then head of the oil company Yukos, who spent a decade in jail up to 2013 on what he says were politically motivated charges.

The probe into 65-year-old Yevtushenkov, who is Russia's 15th-richest man with a fortune of $9 billion (7 billion euros) according to Forbes magazine, centers on how Yevtushenkov's company, AFK Sistema, acquired the oil company Bashneft.

The respected business daily Vedomosti reported earlier this year that state oil giant Rosneft was keen to get its hands on Bashneft.

In interviews published on Wednesday, Khodorkovsky pointed the finger at Rosneft chief Igor Sechin and said the arrest showed Putin was losing his grip on domestic politics.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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"I see in this a total loss of control by the president, who simply does not see what is going on under his own nose," Khodorkovsky told Vedomosti.

"If he did see, I doubt that he would so misjudge the situation and give such an order," said Khodorkovsky, who served two prison terms for tax evasion and fraud and was stripped of his oil company Yukos.

"I still hope that our president will at some point tear himself away from his new conquests and will see what is happening in the country," he added, apparently referring to Russia's annexation of Crimea in March and the confrontation with the West over Ukraine.

He said he believed Yevtushenkov's case centered on "purely commercial interest" in the oil industry, not a political conflict.

Rosneft has denied any role in the investigation.

Khodorkovsky was suddenly released from prison late last year and now lives with his family in Switzerland in self-imposed exile.

He has accused Sechin, one of Putin's most loyal lieutenants, of orchestrating his downfall. After being pushed into bankruptcy, Yukos was carved up and sold off in opaque auctions to state companies, with Rosneft buying up the best assets.

The arrest of Yevtushenkov, who sits on the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, sparked fears in the country's business and political circles.

"We have a really bad feeling about this... this all makes us think of a second Yukos case," an aide to a senior Russian official was quoted as saying.

Yevtushenkov has been placed under arrest until Nov. 16 in his country residence in the elite village of Zhukovka outside Moscow, Kommersant said.

He is only allowed to contact lawyers, investigators, and prison officers and is wearing an electronic bracelet, the newspaper added.

AFK Sistema is a vast holding that also has major interests in the country's biggest mobile telephone company MTS, travel firm Intourist and a range of other assets.

The Investigative Committee said it had launched the probe because it had "sufficient grounds to believe that AFK Sistema board chairman Vladimir Yevtushenkov is involved in the legalization (money-laundering) of property acquired by criminal means."

AFK Sistema responded that the accusation against Yevtushenkov was "without foundation."



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Was he laundering money out of the country.......and where?

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Whatever Russia does, doubt does not even enter the equation. The answer is sanctions. So here we go again. The US Treasury-EU latest sanction package targets Russian banking, the energy industry and the defense industry.

The sanctions are mean. The sanctions are nasty. And there’s no euphemism to describe them; they amount to a declaration of economic war.

Sberbank, Russia’s largest won’t be able to access Western capital for long-term funding, including every kind of borrowing over 30 days. And the current 90-day lending bans affecting six other large Russian banks – a previous sanctions package – will also be reduced to 30 days.

On the energy front, what the US-EU want is to shut down new Russian exploration projects in Siberia and the Arctic, barring Western Big Oil from selling equipment and technology to offshore, deepwater or shale gas projects.

This means Exxon and Shell, for instance, are frozen in their operations with five top Russian oil/gas/pipeline companies: Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Lukoil, Surgutneftegaz, and Rosneft.

No one ever lost money betting on the stupidity of the usual, unknown “senior US officials” – who are now spinning the latest sanction package to force Moscow to “respect international law and state sovereignty.” A cursory examination of the historical record allows this paragraph to be accompanied by roaring laughter.

And then there’s the US Treasury’s Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, David Cohen, who insists the package will further “isolate” Russia from the global financial system.

The package was also described by Western corporate media as capable of “unnerving already jittery financial markets.” Well, they were not exactly “unnerved.” In Russia, the stocks of companies on the sanctions list went up. In the US, energy stocks went down. Short translation; the “unnerved” markets interpreted the latest package as yet another own goal by Washington and Brussels.

Splitting up Eurasia

As for Russia’s “isolation”, companies are barred from, in Washington-Wall Street newspeak, “important dollar-denominated funding sources.” Or, euphemistically, “Western capital.” This means the US dollar and the euro. Anyone following superimposed moves towards a multi-polar world knows Russia does not need more US dollars and euro.

Moscow might use both to cross-purchase goods and services in the US and the EU. Yet these goods and services may be bought elsewhere around the world. For that, you don’t need “Western capital” – as Moscow is fast advancing the use of national currencies with other trade partners. The Atlanticist gang assumes Moscow needs goods and services from the US and the EU much more than the other way around. That’s a fallacy.

Russia can sell its abundant energy resources in any currency apart from US dollars and euro. Russia can buy all the clothing it needs from Asia and South America. On the electronics and high-tech front, most of it is made in China anyway.

Crucially, on the energy front, it would be no less than thrilling to watch the EU – which still does not even have a common energy policy – trying to come up with alternative suppliers. Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Qatar, for a number of complex reasons – ranging from insufficient gas to be committed, to an absence of pipelines – are out of the picture.

The Obama administration, for its part, simply won’t allow the EU to start importing energy from Iran like, virtually, tomorrow. Even with a now quite wobbly nuclear deal reached before the end of 2014 – presumably opening the way to an end to sanctions.

The “irrational” markets see what’s really goin’ on; they are not “irrational” but moved by profit derived from realpolitik.

And all this while Moscow has not even counterpunched. And that could be quite lethal – targeting EU exporters to Russia and even energy supplies from Russia. Then the EU will retaliate. And Russia will counter-counterpunch. That’s exactly what Washington wants: a trade/economic war ravaging and splitting up Eurasia.

About that $20 trillion…

On the political front, Ukraine and EU had initially agreed to “postpone the EU Association Agreement until the end of 2016.” You can’t make this stuff up; that’s exactly what Yanukovich did last November, as he knew Kiev could not allow itself to lose most of its certified trading with Russia in favor of a vague “free trade” with the EU. This agreement to “postpone” the agreement was in fact overseen by astonishing mediocrity and outgoing European Commission (EC) President Jose Manuel Barroso.

But then the European Parliament, during a plenary session in Strasbourg, hurried up to ratify Ukraine’s Association Agreement as President Petro Poroshenko simultaneously submitted it to the Ukrainian Parliament. This does not mean the agreement goes immediately into effect. Economic “integration “with the EU – a euphemism for a one-way invasion of Ukraine by EU products – will start only in January 2016. And there’s no way a crisis-hit EU will incorporate Ukraine anytime soon – or ever.

On Thursday, Poroshenko meets his master, US President Barack Obama, and addresses a joint session of the US Congress. Expect “evil empire” rhetoric to reach interstellar levels.

But it’s on Saturday in Berlin that the real thing starts unfolding; energy negotiations between Russia, the EU and Ukraine. Needless to say, Moscow holds all the key cards.

Washington’s humongous debt is reaching almost $20 trillion – and counting. With a monster crisis approaching like a tsunami from hell, no wonder Washington had to resort to the perfect diversionary tactic; the return of the “evil empire.” It’s the Marvel Comics school of politics all over again.

Russia has a huge surplus of foreign capital – and is able to weather the storm. Germany – the EU’s top economy – on the other hand, is already suffering. Growth is already at a negative 0.2%. This is the way the hysterical sanction wind is blowing – further derailing EU economies. And no one is betting the EU will have the stomach to stand up to Washington. Not in vassal-infested Brussels.

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Is Putin also in it – A Partner with The West?
In our previous analytical review of the events in Russia, and, in particular, Mr. Putin’s maneuvers and actions since his 2nd coming, we came to conclude that Putin camp is positioning itself for the final mop to remove the remnants of the pro-western Atlantic integrationists elements from the corridors of power – and, Medvedev, being the front of the pro-western camp, is also on the chopping block.

Now, with a different perspective, we are going to analyze Mr. Putin’s actions and the policy decisions, in conjunction with the global events – in a broader context. We cannot overlook the complementary side of the angle: What if Mr. Putin is also playing the game? What if Mr. Putin is also in it to pull the wool over the public’s Eyes?

The game, in such a case, is going to be a lot more complex – with unexpected turns and twists of the events. We will be watching – and subjected to, the implementation of the Machiavellian Diversion tactics on a really grand scale. Fun it is going to be.

It is difficult to watch the Russia-Ukraine-US-EU joint production and not to think of Machiavelli. He was an interesting character – The 17th century Think Tank who introduced Europe to the art of Political Jujutsu – the art of manipulating the opponent’s own force to defeat him. He formulated a complete instruction set and the methodology to achieve the desired outcome and the solution to any problem pertaining to the political dissent, turmoil, or crisis – He is still considered the last word in the field of Crisis Management. His techniques have since been analyzed, refined, and turned into a science - There are sophisticated algorithms and large scale computer programs that incorporate the Machiavellian strategies to model the solutions to a variety of socio-economic and political situations. The entire Machiavelli Crisis Management System is based on the application of three simple techniques:

1- Diversion:
The idea here is to divert the public attention from the real activities and actions of the rulings elites by creating enough commotion to distract and divert the public attention from the real issue.

2- Deflection:
Deflection is the process of guiding a popular movement – easy and slow, in the desired direction. This tactic also serves to provide a venting mechanism to let the steam out - thereby, avoiding the potential damage to the estate of the princely ones.

3- Hijack:
This one is quite simple and easy: just infiltrate, let the movement grove, and, then, hijack it at its peak – Bingo, the movement is now yours!

The Diversion in Action:

To have a better grip on the modus operandi and the application of the Machiavellian Diversion technique, think about the Clinton – Monica Lewinsky drama, and the Obama and Danish prime minister Helle -Thorning Schmidt’s photo-op at the Nelson Mandela memorial service. In both of these two cases, the public attention was diverted away from the real actions (think: sexual orientation) of these two persons to an, relatively speaking, insignificant staged event.

It is a great tactic, and works without fail.

Now, in contrast to these localized events of little significance, the current ongoing actions and furies on the global front are of a grand scale – impacting our socio-econoic affairs and our lives with devastating effects.

The world has certainly gone super charged – there is a lot of energy, and plenty of action; from Russia and Ukraine to Scotland and England, and from China and Japan to Brazil and Argentina – there is not a dull moment. And, if one were missing any action, there is the newly released drama of IS or IS NOT – with its collection of mannequins to bring in the added factor of excitement-anxiety-hate. With the millions of investors trying to figure out an entry point into the coves of BABA, it may be worthwhile to find out the remaining stock of mannequins still available on the Ali Baba portal.

There is too much commotion in the world for even the Buddha to maintain his attention span beyond a few minutes to be able to focus on the real issues facing the world – and, we are the mere mortals.

But, To What End? If one has to conclude that all this clutter and noise is there to divert the public attention, then, one may have ask, to divert from what?

For one, consider the multi-trillion dollar tsunami approaching the western shores – Unfunded obligations of US and EU nations to the tune of $600 Trillions – that is 10 times the global GDP. Combined it with the $1.5 Quadrillion overhang of the Derivatives, and you can see the disaster in the waiting. The joint US-EU infusion of more than $48 trillion worth of free money into the coffers of the major financial institutions has been able to slow the approach of the storm by supporting the large institutions - at the expense of the public. But, the event is almost here.

The solution to the looming disaster that will follow, with the billionaires’ perspective, is to takeover the public assets en mass – think Detroit.

It is can be called the Operation Takeover - forget the New World Order BS.

Of course, a lot of clutter, noise, and diversion is need to facilitate the implementation of the Operation Takeover – it will be the grandest of any operation humanity ever undertook.

Russia in Perspective:

We cannot overlook the fact that Russia is the land of instant billionaires - so is Ukraine. Mr. Putin, many sources claim, is a multi-billionaire himself. There is an incentive for every billionaire in the world to participate in the looming loot of public assets and resources – Mr. Putin may well be glad to lend a helping hand. After all, it is billionaires’ world.

To analyze and see if Mr. Putin is also playing along, we will focus on his actions, or, rather, inactions.

First of all, to quell the concerns and the argument that Russia might have been militarily intimidated by US to back off, Russia is more than a match for the western conventional threats. They have the world’s fastest and most precise missile system – carrying also the most bang - their air defense system is impenetrable – they are ahead in electronic warfare technology – and, bar the BS, the Western air force is no match to Russian new generation fighters. As for the nuclear threat posed to them, they are far ahead in the weapon deliver system – the count of the bombs is immaterial – no one will have the chance to cross the hundred mark counter, any way.

Putin’s Actions in Perspective:

With the threat to existence factored out, we can now put Mr. Putin’s actions, or, rather, inactions in proper perspective:

1- The Mother of it all, and Putin:
Putin is coming with the KGB background – well connected to the intelligence community. Russia and US both keep a tab on each-other’s defense drills and exercises – their satellites monitoring all the military movement and snooping on each other’s communications. He knew what really happened. And, yet, he supported the official line pertaining to the tyranny of 2001.

2- Until recently he had been following the policy that kept the Russian economy tied to the west – sacrificing even the most essential industries in order to do more business with his western partners, and to help the Russian instant billionaires make a few more billions in the process.

3- During his realm, Russia has become even more integrated with the western financial system – which has opened the Russian economy and the Ruble to exploitation.

4- Russian decision (with Putin’s endorsement, of course) to abide by the UN Sanctions, and to terminate its contractual obligations to supply the SAM 300 air defense system to Iran is a big question mark.

5- His inaction in Libya was tantamount to lending support to his western partners.

6- On the Ukrainian front, it is difficult to swallow that he had no inkling as to what the West was up to. Even though – with the public perspective, all the commotion had erupted abruptly with the President Viktor Yanukovych showing the middle figure to EU back in November of 2013, the fact is that such movements do not just erupt out in a state of vacuum – the only exception being that of The Big Bang.

The only explanation that fits is that Putin deliberately allowed the events of Ukraine to happen in that fashion – it may very well be the accommodation of billionaires – the gentleman’s agreement between the billionaires of Russia and the billionaires of Ukraine. It is quite possible that the Ukrainian camp didn’t live by the agreement.

7- Even after the Occupy Maidan goons and their snipers had made the poor Viktor Yanukovych run for his life, Putin had the opportunity, the legal frame-work, and the resources to swiftly move in, take out the bad guys, and reinstall – provisionally, Viktor Yanukovych as the legitimate president. After that, it would have been just a matter of a bit of clean-up operation, announcement of a national reconciliation on all issues of national importance.

And, it would have been an all OK by now, with thousands of Ukrainians still alive and happy with their families.

8- As for his response to the western Sanctions:
The continuous utterances of our partners and our colleagues are really sounding more pathetic by the day – But, it may be essential to safe guard the interests of the Russian instant billionaires. Otherwise, a tit-for-tat response to these sanctions would have brought the EU to its senses, if not to its knees, quite a long time ago.

What Putin needed to do was to simply turn off the gas supply to EU – no exception – Barring the BS, there is no viable source available to replace the Russian gas to EU – it is simply a matter of technical and logistical constraints. While for Russia, it would have been the best deal in the long run. With a minimal effect to their economy, they could sell all the gas they wanted to their partners in the east.

And, as for the Russian response to the sanctions from the US, Putin could have terminated the contract to supply rocket engines to US. It would have left US without rockets for its satellites for quite a few years to come – leaving its global snooping operations and military spying network in disarray.

But, Putin opted for the ‘our partners’ approach.

And, The Scoop:

The fact is that Putin’s actions, or, rather, inactions, do not fit the profile of an independent leader of a powerful country – There is too much bending, and too many compromises. We have to recognize the fact that, despite his nationalist/populist tendencies and affirmations, Putin has a strong social/economic base among Russia’s instant billionaires. He himself is a part of the billionaires club, and as such, he has a closer affinity with his class counterparts in the West than with his fellow citizens at home.

The fate the oligarchs of the world is interconnected – Either they form a yet more tightly knitted circle, and survive as a class, or get wiped out like the previous ones. The Super Elites of the billionaire class had two options; either to loosen up a bit and give concessions to the working classes, or tighten up even more and confiscate all from the masses. Unfortunately, the faction insisting on the second option has won – and, we are enjoying the implementation of the Machiavellian Diversion tactic in its full swing.

Mr. Putin’s might have been assigned a very important role to play in this grand game. If that is the case, he is playing it very well – A master in action, indeed.

And, that is scary, indeed!

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