Obama administration preparing sanctions vs. Russia

Julian Pecquet
thehill.com
March 3, 2014

The Obama administration is preparing sanctions to punish Russia for its intervention in Ukraine and is “likely” to impose them, the State Department declared Monday.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that planning for sanctions has gone into overdrive following stepped up Russian interference in the Crimea region, including unconfirmed reports that Russia has given Ukrainian troops in the Crimea until 10 p.m. EST to surrender.

“At this point we’re not just considering sanctions; given the actions Russia has taken it is likely that we will put those in place,” Psaki said. “And we are preparing that right now.”

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Preparing for bear, moose and caribou at NRA Women on Target event in Alaska

Anchorage, Alaska- They do things different up in Alaska.

Some days are saturated with sunshine while others are nothing but night. The only thing that you can count on, besides the people, is the cold. But that doesn’t mean you shut things down. You still go to work, take the kids to school, hit the grocery store and hunt. Which is why an NRA Women on Target clinic is the perfect fit for the 49th state.

“Larry Boyle and Alexandra Brown do a great job up there in Anchorage,” said NRA’s Women on Target Instructional Shooting Clinic Coordinator Diane Danielson. “They even add an extra Alaskan element to a few of the clinics they hold there every year.”

Women On Target®Instructional Shooting Clinics were created to provide more opportunities for females to learn about shooting. How to handle a firearm safely, where to store it, how to shoot it and more. So what are the extra Alaskan elements that Larry and Alexandra provide?

“In addition to basic rifle and pistol, they also offer clinics in big game rifle and bear safety.”

How do they do that? With a little ingenuity, that’s how.

“They attach a lifesize picture of a bear to a target. The target is then attached to a sled which has been attached to an ATV. At go, the ATV takes off … simulating a charge. The shooter takes aim and fires until the target passes.”

While this can’t truly simulate a charge, the adrenaline rush and whatnot, it’s about as close as you’re going to get. And if you ever come across Yogi and Bubu in the wild, you’ll be glad you had at least a little bit of training.

Just another added extra for your NRA Women on Target clinics … Alaskan style.

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Leaked Video: FEMA Preparing Military Police For Gun Confiscations and Martial Law

Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
October 26, 2013

A member of the U.S. Military Police Corps leaked this video of a briefing with FEMA officials who openly discuss gun confiscation and the loss of our rights under martial law.

“We’ve lost all control when the military moves in on your street,” the official said. “They [FEMA] are now saying you have no more rights, you are going inside your houses.”

“They did that in Katrina, right,” he continued later in the briefing, referring to gun confiscation. “They just go on and take away people’s guns.”

“Yeah, which I think is bull****,” one of the MPs responded.

“You are going to cling to your rifle,” the commanding officer said. “They can pry it from your cold, dead hands.”

We’ve already seen this before after Hurricane Katrina in 2005:

This article was posted: Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 9:57 am

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Leaked Video: FEMA Preparing Military Police For Gun Confiscations and Martial Law

Kit Daniels
Prison Planet.com
October 26, 2013

A MP in the U.S. Army leaked this video of a briefing with FEMA officials who openly discuss gun confiscations and the loss of our rights under martial law.

“We’ve lost all control when the military moves in on your street,” the official said. “They [FEMA] are now saying you have no more rights, you are going inside your houses.”

“They did that in Katrina, right,” he continued later in the briefing, referring to gun confiscation. “They just go on and take away people’s guns.”

“Yeah, which I think is bull****,” the MP responded.

“You are going to cling to your rifle,” the official said. “They can pry it from your cold, dead hands.”

We’ve already seen this before after Hurricane Katrina in 2005:

This article was posted: Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 10:09 am

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Paul Family Preparing For Rand 2016 Presidential Bid

Ron Paul: “I would think Rand is running”; Carol Paul: 2016 bid “feels real”

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Sept 19, 2013

All indications coming from the Paul family suggest that there will be another Paul in the running for President when campaigning gears up again. In an MSNBC appearance this morning, Ron Paul suggested that he believes his son, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul will mount a bid. Rand Paul’s mother Carol also echoed the sentiments.

“I would think so, he wouldn’t be doing what he’s doing, but I haven’t had a conversation of what the plan is,” Ron Paul said on the Morning Joe programme. “He’s been pretty independent.”

“I think if you look at where’s he’s traveling, which states he’s going to, I would think it’s on his mind, but I haven’t had any personal conversations,” said the former Texas congressman.

“I would think that he’s weighing it and it depends on the circumstances. Sometimes in politics you get beat up all of a sudden,” he said. “But I think he’s weighing it. I think he’s doing a very good job.” Paul added.

In a profile on the Paul family in Vogue magazine, published Wednesday, Rand Paul’s mother, and Ron Paul’s wife Carol said she thinks the prospect of a Rand White House campaign in 2016 “feels real,” while cautioning that there is still work to be done.

“Ron thinks it’s terribly early to be starting a campaign,” Carol Paul said of her husband, “Rand says he won’t declare that he’s going to run until after 2014… . Groundwork has to be set.”

Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) wife, Kelley, was more cautious, noting that she feared possible reprisals against her family, should her husband opt to run.

“Because in this day and age it’s mostly about character assassination,” she said. “When I think of the tens of millions of dollars in opposition research that they’d be aiming right at us and our family — that’s what it’s about.”

Kelley Paul has been labeled Rand’s secret weapon, having worked closely on GOP Sen. Ted Cruz’s successful campaign, as well as serving on the board of Helping a Hero, a charity that builds houses for wounded war veterans. The Vogue piece suggests that this will enable Paul to solidify his anti-war stance and win the support of veterans and serving military men and women.

Rand Paul himself told Fox News in August that he’s considering a run, but wouldn’t make a decision for “probably a year.” He also notes in the latest piece that he has a “gut feeling” that Hillary Clinton will not run, despite constant speculation that she is being primed by the Washington elite.

“All the polls show her trouncing any opponents,” Paul said, adding that it would enhance Republican chances if Clinton were not in the frame.

The piece also reveals that longtime Democratic strategist James Carville believes that should Rand Paul run, “he’ll be considered a first-tier candidate.”

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The Pentagon Is Preparing A Cruise Missile Attack Against Syria

Zero Hedge
August 24, 2013

Earlier today, in “US Refines “Military Options” Ahead Of Syrian Strikes“, we reported on what we thought was now inevitable especially since it was in agreemenet with what we predicted with absolute certainty over a month ago in “US Prepares For “Kinetic Strikes” Against Syria.”  There we said: “The pre-story here is well-known to most: in a repeat fabulation of the Iraq “WMD” lie, the US and the entire developed world “found” Syria to have crossed a red-line when it used chemical weapons, despite subsequent reports that it was the Syrian rebels, aka Qatari mercenaries, who were the party responsible for chemical weapon use. No matter though: the public media campaign was hatched, and merely waited for the catalyst. That catalyst may be imminent…”

Sure enough, a month later the convenient catalyst emerged when this Wedensday, despite the entire world watching Assad (and as Iraq WMD inspector Rolf Ekeus stating the obvious in  “It would be very peculiar if it was the government to do this at the exact moment the international inspectors come into the country“), we are meant to believe that the Syrian leader launched the biggest nerve gas attack in the history of the Qatari, Al-Qaeda and CIA-funded and organized Syrian rebellion. Two days later, without any actual investigation, the west determined somehow, on its own, that the attack was launched by Assad, not a false flag attack by the rebels even though it was their chemical weapons depot that had been previously uncovered. Visions of Colin Powell lying to the world (with his former aide admitting years later the WMD speech was the “lowest point in my life“) should now be emerging right before your eyes.

Moments ago the inevitable denouement arrived when as CBS’ David Martin reports, the US is preparing for a cruise missile launch against Syria, and is further ordering warships closer to Syria to be prepared and ready for when the trigger is pulled.

More from CBS:

CBS News has learned that the Pentagon is making the initial preparations for a cruise missile attack on Syrian government forces. We say “initial preparations” because such an attack won’t happen until the president gives the green light. And it was clear during an interview on CNN Friday that he is not there yet.

None of this should come as a surprise to our readers. We explained in detail why not the US state department, not the Pentagon, not even the president or the US MIC is seeking this war. No: the culprit is none other than the Federal Reserve and it banking industry superiors. To wit:

The chart below will likely come as a surprise to most. It shows total nominal US defense spending, more importantly it shows that such spending has been rapidly declining since 2010. And while on the surface it is great news the US is becoming more “pacifist” (apparently mass killings using drones are relatively cost-effective) and the result for the US is even better as it means lower deficits, there is one person who is very unhappy with this outcome - Ben Bernanke.

Why is Ben unhappy? Simple – as a reminder, the only reason Ben is even contemplating tapering has nothing to do with the economy. After all the Fed chairman (and/or his successor) is willing to send the stock market into stratospheric overdrive and would be very happy to add not subtract from the monthly QE $ 85 billion notional since it means more “wealth effect” and thus brings the US closer to the “Keynesian successful endgame” (that the logic here is completely inverted is well known to all but the most die-hard Keynesian fanboys and is not in the scope of this article).

However, the fact that the gross US debt issuance is declining (if only until the demographic and healthcare crunch hits in 2015 and deficits explode once more) means Bernanke has less primary issuance to monetize. Were Bernanke to maintain his monetization run rate into a lower deficit regime, the Chairman would destabilize the liquidity in the already increasingly illiquid Treasury market in which the Fed now holds over 30% of all 10 Year equivalents and its holdings increase by 0.3% every week.

This illiquidity is manifesting itself most directly in the “special” repo rates that have become a norm in the past few months especially in the 10 Year, and which indicate an ongoing shortage of TSY collateral.

Of course, there is a very simple and elegant solution to declining defense spending, one which has been used time and again in US history when the US government needed to provide the Fed with more securities (i.e. deficit) to monetize: war.

And speaking of war:

The ultimate decision will come not from Congress but from the Fed.

So what may have spooked Bernanke and the sudden reappearance of the Syrian war as a real and credible possibility?

Why, the economy of course. Only not its “improvement” but its recent (and ongoing) deterioration.

And since the taper is largely priced in, Bernanke is already contemplating how to reengage in the subsequent untapering should all hell break loose following a September tapering announcement prompting the Fed to reengage once more. However, for that to happen, US deficits would need to flow as before, as only then will there be the much needed copious primary issuance of debt that the Fed will need in order to resume monetizing at a fervent pace without impairing the liquidity characteristics of the bond market.

As for the downside? What are some irrelevant Syrian lives in the grand scheme of things, when the status quo’s wealth must be preserved at all costs. Costs including the death of thousands of innocent civilian Syrians and/or other nationalities should the conflict just happen to spill outside the Syrian borders.

So there you have it: in order to make way for the inevitable Untaper, Bernanke has launched in motion a chain of events that will ultimately culminate with a surge in US deficit spending, which will require a surge in Treasury issuance, and thus, a surge in Fed monetization, which also means reserve creation, and as has been made all too clear over the past 5 years, yet another surge in the stock market.

Of course, the use of war as a culmination point to end a depression is nothing new. Just look at thefirst Great Depression.

And just like then, the only cost to perpetuate the myth of the Keynesian and monetarist religion and the pillaged wealth of the 0.01% status quo elite, will be a few hundred thousand innocent men, women and children. Or, as they are known in the Beltway, collateral damage.

That is, unless, Putin decides to retaliate. Then history will truly rhyme, when just as the first great US depression was followed promptly by a world war, so the second great US depression will have an identical outcome.

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Finally, for those curious, this is the current layout of US naval assets around the world courtesy ofStratfor.

This article was posted: Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 6:06 am

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