Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Thursday, May 22, 2014
RUSSIA - EU - USA - change of paradigm - China and Russia Reach 30-Year Gaz Deal
BEIJING — China and Russia signed a $400 billion gas deal on Wednesday, giving Moscow a megamarket for its leading export and linking two major powers that, despite a rocky history of alliances and rivalries, have drawn closer to counter the clout of the United States and Europe.
http://www.nytimes.com
Sanctions to be taken destroy economic relationship
EU-Members have to do whatever the US-Administration wants them to do. They do it even if they destroy themselves in an economical point of view. They are even able to sacrify their youths as well as their soil for the sake of some country's hegemonistic administration's intention which is WAR on foreign soil abroad.
There are countries such like Switzerland not even belonging to the EU, joining the ranks of some puppet-on-a-string governments of the european association manipulators' club.
Sanctions so far invented
1) USA/EU: No visa for some Russians
1.1) Russia: No visa for some people of the axis of the "good"
2) USA/EU: freezing of Russian individuals' money throughout the world
2.1) Russia: forbids credit card companies to operate in Russia, inventing own credit card system.
2.2) Russia: Goods such as oil and gaz are settled agains Rubels, no USD needed anymore.
2.3) Russia: Opening Russian commodity board of trade on Russian soil, no CBOT needed anymore.
Whatever sanctions the EU/US put into action will be to the disadvantage of the EU and all her followers.
Measures to be taken by EU
Stop trade with Russia
(As there are a lot of EU based - e.g. German -interest in Russia, the big-time losers will be the Germans.)
Retaliating measures to be taken by Russia
Stop delivery of oil as well as gas to EU-member countries will provoke substantial damage to the latters' economies as well as the quality of their peoples' living standards.
Facts
Russia is able to substitute her economical relationship with the EU by other relationships with countries. It will only be a matter of time. As the Russians do not live to be measured from one
trimester to the other they have a much more realistic timeframe for things to be changed.
Ukrania
As the Ukranian problem is an internal problem Russia will never be as stupid as the US/EU governments consider them. They will never go for a "rescue" operation into the Ukrania to give a reason to the US/EU to start another war on european soil.
The various peoples all over geographical Europe - not EUrope - do NOT want another WorldWar to be kicked off on European soil.
Advice
Let Ukranian people solve their problem themselves. There are no Russians in the Ukrania there are only Ukranians which have it up to the brim of their hats when it comes to be governed by a bunch of marionettes set up by that group of interest.
As the world just learned the eastern Ukranians want to become an independent country. They voted in a democratic processus for independancy and a majority of the people are willing to separate from the Ukrania.
So let it be!
copyright thomas ramseyer
GOLD - After Dumping UST Bonds, Russia Buys 900,000 Ounces Of Gold Worth $1.17 Billion In April
Russia Buys 900,000 Ounces Of Gold Worth $1.17 Billion In April
For anyone who wondered what Russia was doing with the $21 billion in US Treasury bonds it dumped in March alone, we now have the definitive answer.
http://networkedblogs.com/X4qyM
From Goldcore:
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,292.00, EUR 942.65 and GBP 764.81 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,291.50, EUR 943.46 and GBP 767.56 per ounce.
Gold climbed $1.10 or 0.08% yesterday to $1,294.70/oz. Silver rose $0.03 or 0.15% to $19.42/oz.
Gold is marginally lower today at $1,293.50/oz and remains in lock down in an unusually tight range between $1,287/oz and $1,306/oz this week. Gold in Singapore, which often sets the price trend in Asia, traded at $1,292.23/oz prior to a bounce to just over $1,295/oz.
Gold has been in a very narrow range between $1,283/oz and $1,310/oz for a month now. There are a lot of things going on underneath the surface of the calm gold market this month. That superficial calm is likely to give way in the coming days as we appear on the verge of a sharp move to the upside or downside once gold breaks out of the recent range.
A break below $1,283/oz is possible and this could see gold quickly fall to test longer term support at $1,200/oz. This is likely if the technical traders and computer manipulations continue to dominate. However, should physical demand pick up on rising geopolitical tensions and the return of Indian demand with the easing of import duties, gold should quickly challenge resistance at $1,385/oz and $1,418/oz.
Russia Buys 900,000 Ounces Of Gold Worth $1.17 Billion In April
The Russian central bank has again increased its gold reserves by another 900,000 ounces worth $1.17 billion in April.
Russia’s gold reserves rose to 34.4 million troy ounces in April, from 33.5 million troy ounces in March, the Russian central bank announced on its website yesterday. The value of its gold holdings rose to $44.30 billion as of May 1, compared with $43.36 billion a month earlier, it added.
The following is a summary from Bloomberg of the April data template on international reserves and foreign currency liquidity from the Central Bank of Russia in Moscow:
Bestand: Währungsreserven und Goldbestände Russland
http://dzswc0o8s13dx.cloudfront.net/goldcore_bloomberg_chart2_21-05-14.png
Veränderung: Währungsreserven und Goldbestände Russland
http://dzswc0o8s13dx.cloudfront.net/goldcore_bloomberg_chart3_21-05-14.png
Russia’s gold & foreign exchange reserves remained virtually unchanged at USD 471.1billion in the week ending May 9. Russia’s reserves have fallen since the crisis began but remain very sizeable. The reserves include monetary gold, special drawing rights, reserve position at the IMF and foreign exchange.
The 900,000 ounce purchase is a lot of physical gold in ounce or tonnage terms but as a percentage of Russian foreign exchange reserves it is a very small 0.24%.
Gold as a percentage of the overall Russian reserves is now nearly 10%. This remains well below the average gold holding as a percentage of foreign exchange reserves of major central banks such as the Bundesbank, Bank of France and the Federal Reserve which is over 65%.
The Russian central bank has been gradually increasing the Russian reserves since 2006 (see chart above). On average they have been accumulating 0.5 million troy ounces every month. Therefore, the near 1 million ounce purchase in April is a definite increase in demand.
This was to be expected given the very pronounced geopolitical tension with the U.S. and west over Ukraine. Indeed the TIC data shows that Russia has been aggressively divesting themselves of U.S. Treasuries.
Russian holdings of U.S. Treasuries fell very sharp, by nearly $50 billion, between October and March 2014 or nearly a third of Russia’s total holdings. Over half of the plunge came in March, when $26 billion was liquidated as western sanctions were imposed. TIC Data for April won’t be available until June and will make for very interesting reading.
Especially given the mysterious huge U.S. Treasury buying that is being done by little Belgium. This has analysts scratching their heads and has aroused suspicions that the Fed and or the ECB may be behind the huge Belgian purchases.
Graphik Goldbestand Russland
Russian Gold Reserves in Million Fine Troy Ounces – 1995-2014 – Monthly Chart (Bloomberg)
Russia has already made their intentions regarding gold very clear. Numerous high ranking officials have affirmed how they view gold as an important monetary asset and Putin himself has had many publicised photos in which he very enthusiastically holds large gold bars.
On May 25th 2012, the deputy chairman of Russia’s central bank, Sergey Shvetsov, said that the Bank of Russia plans to keep buying gold in order to diversify their foreign exchange reserves.
“Last year we bought about 100 tonnes. This year it will be less but still a considerable figure,” Shvetsov told Reuters at the time.
The World Gold Council reported yesterday that central bank purchases were 70% above their 5-year quarterly average, led by Iraq and Russia. The Eurozone actually became a net buyer thanks to Latvia joining the single currency union, adding its gold to the Eurozone reserves as part of the Euro treaty.
Russia may be planning to give the ruble some form of gold backing in order to protect the ruble from devaluations and protect Russia from an international monetary crisis and the soon to return currency wars.
Russian central bank demand and indeed global central banks demand is set to continue as macroeconomic, monetary and geopolitical uncertainty is unlikely to abate any time soon. Indeed, it may escalate substantially in the coming months as we move into the next phase of the global debt crisis.
For anyone who wondered what Russia was doing with the $21 billion in US Treasury bonds it dumped in March alone, we now have the definitive answer.
http://networkedblogs.com/X4qyM
From Goldcore:
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,292.00, EUR 942.65 and GBP 764.81 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,291.50, EUR 943.46 and GBP 767.56 per ounce.
Gold climbed $1.10 or 0.08% yesterday to $1,294.70/oz. Silver rose $0.03 or 0.15% to $19.42/oz.
Gold is marginally lower today at $1,293.50/oz and remains in lock down in an unusually tight range between $1,287/oz and $1,306/oz this week. Gold in Singapore, which often sets the price trend in Asia, traded at $1,292.23/oz prior to a bounce to just over $1,295/oz.
Gold has been in a very narrow range between $1,283/oz and $1,310/oz for a month now. There are a lot of things going on underneath the surface of the calm gold market this month. That superficial calm is likely to give way in the coming days as we appear on the verge of a sharp move to the upside or downside once gold breaks out of the recent range.
A break below $1,283/oz is possible and this could see gold quickly fall to test longer term support at $1,200/oz. This is likely if the technical traders and computer manipulations continue to dominate. However, should physical demand pick up on rising geopolitical tensions and the return of Indian demand with the easing of import duties, gold should quickly challenge resistance at $1,385/oz and $1,418/oz.
Russia Buys 900,000 Ounces Of Gold Worth $1.17 Billion In April
The Russian central bank has again increased its gold reserves by another 900,000 ounces worth $1.17 billion in April.
Russia’s gold reserves rose to 34.4 million troy ounces in April, from 33.5 million troy ounces in March, the Russian central bank announced on its website yesterday. The value of its gold holdings rose to $44.30 billion as of May 1, compared with $43.36 billion a month earlier, it added.
The following is a summary from Bloomberg of the April data template on international reserves and foreign currency liquidity from the Central Bank of Russia in Moscow:
Bestand: Währungsreserven und Goldbestände Russland
http://dzswc0o8s13dx.cloudfront.net/goldcore_bloomberg_chart2_21-05-14.png
Veränderung: Währungsreserven und Goldbestände Russland
http://dzswc0o8s13dx.cloudfront.net/goldcore_bloomberg_chart3_21-05-14.png
Russia’s gold & foreign exchange reserves remained virtually unchanged at USD 471.1billion in the week ending May 9. Russia’s reserves have fallen since the crisis began but remain very sizeable. The reserves include monetary gold, special drawing rights, reserve position at the IMF and foreign exchange.
The 900,000 ounce purchase is a lot of physical gold in ounce or tonnage terms but as a percentage of Russian foreign exchange reserves it is a very small 0.24%.
Gold as a percentage of the overall Russian reserves is now nearly 10%. This remains well below the average gold holding as a percentage of foreign exchange reserves of major central banks such as the Bundesbank, Bank of France and the Federal Reserve which is over 65%.
The Russian central bank has been gradually increasing the Russian reserves since 2006 (see chart above). On average they have been accumulating 0.5 million troy ounces every month. Therefore, the near 1 million ounce purchase in April is a definite increase in demand.
This was to be expected given the very pronounced geopolitical tension with the U.S. and west over Ukraine. Indeed the TIC data shows that Russia has been aggressively divesting themselves of U.S. Treasuries.
Russian holdings of U.S. Treasuries fell very sharp, by nearly $50 billion, between October and March 2014 or nearly a third of Russia’s total holdings. Over half of the plunge came in March, when $26 billion was liquidated as western sanctions were imposed. TIC Data for April won’t be available until June and will make for very interesting reading.
Especially given the mysterious huge U.S. Treasury buying that is being done by little Belgium. This has analysts scratching their heads and has aroused suspicions that the Fed and or the ECB may be behind the huge Belgian purchases.
Graphik Goldbestand Russland
Russian Gold Reserves in Million Fine Troy Ounces – 1995-2014 – Monthly Chart (Bloomberg)
Russia has already made their intentions regarding gold very clear. Numerous high ranking officials have affirmed how they view gold as an important monetary asset and Putin himself has had many publicised photos in which he very enthusiastically holds large gold bars.
On May 25th 2012, the deputy chairman of Russia’s central bank, Sergey Shvetsov, said that the Bank of Russia plans to keep buying gold in order to diversify their foreign exchange reserves.
“Last year we bought about 100 tonnes. This year it will be less but still a considerable figure,” Shvetsov told Reuters at the time.
The World Gold Council reported yesterday that central bank purchases were 70% above their 5-year quarterly average, led by Iraq and Russia. The Eurozone actually became a net buyer thanks to Latvia joining the single currency union, adding its gold to the Eurozone reserves as part of the Euro treaty.
Russia may be planning to give the ruble some form of gold backing in order to protect the ruble from devaluations and protect Russia from an international monetary crisis and the soon to return currency wars.
Russian central bank demand and indeed global central banks demand is set to continue as macroeconomic, monetary and geopolitical uncertainty is unlikely to abate any time soon. Indeed, it may escalate substantially in the coming months as we move into the next phase of the global debt crisis.
Friday, April 13, 2012
POLITIK - US - the spider in its net is omnipresent - Clinton says that USA have contact with the people on the ground - CIA agitators on Syrian soil
author thomas ramseyer
The USA, self appointed world police - they'd rather sweep right outside their house, next to their own threshold
Doing business with the US is only possible if American law contracts are signed. All other countries' people have to file their data if roaming inside the US. They bring money into those states risking to get pestered by police, put behind bars without any reason, cut off from their families and the possibility of contacting their countries' embassies or their country's administration back home.
They can be incarcerated for quite some time whithout even knowing the offence they are said to have committed. If lucky they might be prosecuted by the people of the United States thus judged by them in court. As easy they can end up in detention somewhere even on the island of the islands. It depends on some paranoic individual suspecting them and later declaring them terrorists or at least terrorist supporters.
All countries located in World War II GI-freed regions brownnosedly bow and nod off anything coming from the US and their officials. They are sitting in front of their implicitly threatening war machinery just like rabbits in front of a snake well knowing that they are considered but food to the latter.
Because of the EU fatally gathering all the ancient crappy Sovjet strategic buffer countries the latter can be included as US-ruled soil as well. The US-soldiers are sitting right under the noses of those countries' people having been let in by corrupt administrations. They pretend being on the watch of countries located in the south-east.
But in fact they are sitting like a spider in its net right in the heart of geographical Europe. Equipped with technically outstanding sophisticated longrange weaponry covering some 360° to potentially being fought sometimes in the future. This potentially hostile infrastructure - manned by thouroughly trained special forces, ready to play with the buttons led by some brilliant brains far away across the atlantic ocean lying in the sun, talking the very same language thus easily understood, ready to strike if commanded without hesitation nor questioning the orders given - is a thorn in the flesh of Russia. They are but soldiers, in case of war and too many questions paired with dos and donts arising, might get shot by their own just to ensure loyality of the survivors. They are tough and able to practice inhumanity to achieve their ultimate goal. Not the people but the system backed by few.
US-agitators always inside countries - Central Intelligence Agency CIA agitators always are on site. Since the thirties of last century America has started to build up a worldcovering network. Their last continent to smoothly conquer is SubSaharaAfrica. It can be seen that US-Infrastructure - Westafrica's ECOWAS countries Nigeria focussed - were recognized and thus declared being of high strategic interest to the US some five to ten years ago.
High strategic interest to the US always covers natural resources important for but lacked by the US. This is the reason why the US are building up a chain of small fortresses manned by highly educated and very well skilled soldiers. The former camouflaged as supportive infrastructure the latter as developpers. Embassies can be included; a lot of armourd concrete has been built in there. The bricks are strong with bullet proof windows heavily secured by technical infrastructer as well as high class tough fighters.
Wherever and whenever there is trouble, riots, rebellion and other weird activity; the United States of America are present. It can affirmativly be assumed that the USA are present in any country in the Middle East as well as every country around the world. Only the longtime ignored and forgotten SubSaharaAfrican Countries have never been of interest before. Only South Africa SA considered important to building wealth for the reason of natural resources such as gold, diamonds and other gems, foodstuff as well as wine to be observed and built in as a stronghold.
It is never the people. They are but economic factors just like anywhere them and there activity to fill statistics. SA can be considered a northern hemisphere country; strategically as well as tactically it belongs to ancient West.
Every country which bears oil in its soil is thouroughly supervised by the US. This by satelite - even cars' platenumbers can be read thus the car owner is always identifieable. However, the occupying people joining to ride that car, never can be known. Thus there is only a certain probability that a given person is inside that car. This is why in case of a technical areal attack to get rid of socalled bad people there is a lot of collateral damage. Collateral damage in those cases means not only body guards but parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren and even innocent schoolmates given a ride to their schools.
Right now they are about to spread their tentacles around the SubSaharians. Heavily equipped warship manned by thousands of US-special forces the latter also led by people with might and power embroydered by some decorative men, kinfolks of ignorant kept onshore people. The US Intelligence sitting in five corners as well as Langley all of a sudden got aware of the fact that China, their sole opponent in menhood's future, our children children's children, has been moving in since decades.
China furnishing America with money - it is about to be repatriated in the form of goods, technique, skills, longtime experience built by former european scientists as well as basic material officially getting negative monthly trade balances - is improving not by frog leaps.
They will be in the orbit and on the moon which the US cannot do anymore for the reason of lacking money, their dollar considered but illusive paper by all educated people knowing that this paper is to vanish in flames and smoke. They are about to get awake . . . wide awake, not wide eyes shut.
copyright thomas ramseyer
Profile XING.com
The USA, self appointed world police - they'd rather sweep right outside their house, next to their own threshold
Doing business with the US is only possible if American law contracts are signed. All other countries' people have to file their data if roaming inside the US. They bring money into those states risking to get pestered by police, put behind bars without any reason, cut off from their families and the possibility of contacting their countries' embassies or their country's administration back home.
They can be incarcerated for quite some time whithout even knowing the offence they are said to have committed. If lucky they might be prosecuted by the people of the United States thus judged by them in court. As easy they can end up in detention somewhere even on the island of the islands. It depends on some paranoic individual suspecting them and later declaring them terrorists or at least terrorist supporters.
All countries located in World War II GI-freed regions brownnosedly bow and nod off anything coming from the US and their officials. They are sitting in front of their implicitly threatening war machinery just like rabbits in front of a snake well knowing that they are considered but food to the latter.
Because of the EU fatally gathering all the ancient crappy Sovjet strategic buffer countries the latter can be included as US-ruled soil as well. The US-soldiers are sitting right under the noses of those countries' people having been let in by corrupt administrations. They pretend being on the watch of countries located in the south-east.
But in fact they are sitting like a spider in its net right in the heart of geographical Europe. Equipped with technically outstanding sophisticated longrange weaponry covering some 360° to potentially being fought sometimes in the future. This potentially hostile infrastructure - manned by thouroughly trained special forces, ready to play with the buttons led by some brilliant brains far away across the atlantic ocean lying in the sun, talking the very same language thus easily understood, ready to strike if commanded without hesitation nor questioning the orders given - is a thorn in the flesh of Russia. They are but soldiers, in case of war and too many questions paired with dos and donts arising, might get shot by their own just to ensure loyality of the survivors. They are tough and able to practice inhumanity to achieve their ultimate goal. Not the people but the system backed by few.
US-agitators always inside countries - Central Intelligence Agency CIA agitators always are on site. Since the thirties of last century America has started to build up a worldcovering network. Their last continent to smoothly conquer is SubSaharaAfrica. It can be seen that US-Infrastructure - Westafrica's ECOWAS countries Nigeria focussed - were recognized and thus declared being of high strategic interest to the US some five to ten years ago.
High strategic interest to the US always covers natural resources important for but lacked by the US. This is the reason why the US are building up a chain of small fortresses manned by highly educated and very well skilled soldiers. The former camouflaged as supportive infrastructure the latter as developpers. Embassies can be included; a lot of armourd concrete has been built in there. The bricks are strong with bullet proof windows heavily secured by technical infrastructer as well as high class tough fighters.
Wherever and whenever there is trouble, riots, rebellion and other weird activity; the United States of America are present. It can affirmativly be assumed that the USA are present in any country in the Middle East as well as every country around the world. Only the longtime ignored and forgotten SubSaharaAfrican Countries have never been of interest before. Only South Africa SA considered important to building wealth for the reason of natural resources such as gold, diamonds and other gems, foodstuff as well as wine to be observed and built in as a stronghold.
It is never the people. They are but economic factors just like anywhere them and there activity to fill statistics. SA can be considered a northern hemisphere country; strategically as well as tactically it belongs to ancient West.
Every country which bears oil in its soil is thouroughly supervised by the US. This by satelite - even cars' platenumbers can be read thus the car owner is always identifieable. However, the occupying people joining to ride that car, never can be known. Thus there is only a certain probability that a given person is inside that car. This is why in case of a technical areal attack to get rid of socalled bad people there is a lot of collateral damage. Collateral damage in those cases means not only body guards but parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren and even innocent schoolmates given a ride to their schools.
Right now they are about to spread their tentacles around the SubSaharians. Heavily equipped warship manned by thousands of US-special forces the latter also led by people with might and power embroydered by some decorative men, kinfolks of ignorant kept onshore people. The US Intelligence sitting in five corners as well as Langley all of a sudden got aware of the fact that China, their sole opponent in menhood's future, our children children's children, has been moving in since decades.
China furnishing America with money - it is about to be repatriated in the form of goods, technique, skills, longtime experience built by former european scientists as well as basic material officially getting negative monthly trade balances - is improving not by frog leaps.
They will be in the orbit and on the moon which the US cannot do anymore for the reason of lacking money, their dollar considered but illusive paper by all educated people knowing that this paper is to vanish in flames and smoke. They are about to get awake . . . wide awake, not wide eyes shut.
copyright thomas ramseyer
Profile XING.com
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