Obama’s War Against Russia Backfires

[Extraterrestrial]

U.S. President Barack Obama's war against Russia isn't only causing Russia to cooperate more strongly with the other BRIC countries to break the U.S. dollar's reign as the global reserve currency, but it's also causing Russian President Vladimir Putin's job-approval rating in Russia to soar, and the confidence that the Russian people have in their own Government to soar likewise.

The latest of these signs came on 5 August 2014 in a report from Gallup Analytics (by subscription only) headlined "Russians' Confidence in Many Institutions Reaches All-Time High." Especially sharp has been the rise in "Confidence in national government," which was only 39% in 2013 prior to the overthrow by Obama in February 2014 of Ukraine's government which had been friendly to Russia, but which confidence-level stands now at 64% - a gain of 64/39 or 1.64 times higher than it was a year ago. Confidence in the military has risen from 65% in 2013 to 78% now.

Confidence in the "honesty of elections" has risen from a very low 23% in 2013 to 39% today (which is 39/23 or 1.70 times higher), as increasing numbers of Russians have come to conclude that their political system is producing better results for them than they had expected, perhaps better than in the longer-established "democratic" nations, such as the United States, whose President Barack Obama is far less highly regarded now by Russians, after his overthrowing Ukraine's Government, than he was prior to that. Remarkably, more Russians than ever before, 65%, answer "Yes" when asked "are you satisfied … with your freedom to choose what you do with your life?" Last year, only 56% did, down 2% from the prior all-time high of 58% in 2006.

A Gallup poll issued on 18 July 2014 headlined "Russian Approval of Putin Soars to Highest Level in Years," and reported that "President Vladimir Putin's popularity in Russia is now at its highest level in years, likely propelled by a groundswell of national pride with the annexation of Crimea in March on the heels of the Sochi Olympic Games in February. The 83% of Russians saying they approve of Putin's leadership in late April/early June ties his previous high rating in 2008 when he left office the first time." Furthermore, "The 29-percentage-point increase in Putin's job approval between 2013 and 2014 suggests he has solidified his previously shaky support base. For the first time since 2008, a majority of Russians (73%) believe their country's leadership is leading them in the right direction." Pointedly, Gallup says: "At the same time that their faith in their own leadership has been renewed, Russians' approval of the leadership of the U.S. and the EU are at all-time lows. The single-digit approval of the leadership of the U.S. and EU at least partly reflects Russians' displeasure with the position each has taken on their country's ongoing involvement in Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea." Moreover, "Despite U.S. and European sanctions earlier this year over Moscow's intervention in Ukraine, more Russians see their economy getting better now than has been the case since 2008."

All of these changes are largely attributable to Obama's replacement of the democratic but corrupt government in Ukraine by a dictatorial but corrupt one (now elected only by voters in the areas of the country that the new regime isn't ethnically cleansing to get rid of the people who had voted into office the President - Viktor Yanukovych - whom Obama and the CIA overthrew in February 2014).

Furthermore, there was no serious possibility of Crimea's rejoining Russia (of which Crimea had been a part between 1783 and 1954) until the new Ukrainian regime massacred hundreds of its opponents inside the Odessa Trade Unions Building on May 2nd, the event that caused Yanukovych's voters to fear for their lives. That massacre was co-masterminded by Ihor Kolomoysky, the billionaire gas oligarch who recently hired Joe Biden's son.

On 2 July 2014, I headlined "Gallup Poll Finds Ukraine Cannot Be One Country," and reported that, "The 500 people that were sampled in Crimea were asked ‘Please tell me if you agree or disagree: The results of the referendum on Crimea's status [whether to rejoin Russia, which passed overwhelmingly] reflect the views of most people here.' 82.8% said ‘Agree.' 6.7% said ‘Disagree'." Moreover, "Additionally, in the Crimean region - Ukraine's farthest southeast area, which our President, Barack Obama, says that Russia forcibly seized when the people there voted overwhelmingly on 16 March 2014 to become part of Russia again (as they had been until 1954) - only 2.8% of the public there view the U.S. favorably; more than 97% of Crimeans do not." Moreover, Gallup surveyed Crimeans a few months before Obama's coup in Ukraine, and headlined "Public Opinion Survey: Residents of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, May 16-30, 2013." They found that when asked "Regardless of your passport, what do you consider yourself?" 40% said "Russian," 25% said "Crimean," and only 15% said "Ukrainian." So: when the Autonomous Republic voted after Obama's coup, when even fewer Crimeans self-identified with the now-fascist-run Ukraine, it had to have been a foregone conclusion they'd choose Russia, because even prior to that, there was nearly a three-to-one preference of Russia over Ukraine. That same poll showed 68% favorability for Russia and 6% favorability for "USA." 53% wanted to be part of the Customs Union with Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, while only 17% wanted to be part of the EU. Obama lies through his teeth about Crimea. On 25 March 2014, the Los Angeles Times headlined "President Obama Says Russia Seized Crimea."

On 15 July 2014, Newsweek bannered, "BRICS Conference Plots a Challenge to Western Economic Domination," and reported that, "A new monetary organization that aims to be a rival to the World Bank and the IMF was launched today by leaders of the BRICS group at their annual summit. Leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, banded together as a set of emerging nations, announced the long-awaited bank and contingency fund, a clear move away from the dominance of the West in global economics and the dire consequences of an unstable dollar."

Obama's takeover of Ukraine - or of the rump western portion of it that will remain as "Ukraine" after the civil war that Obama started there - will leave a weakened United States, and a world far more hostile to us. He, and his stooges in Europe, may succeed in harming Russia, but the public in every nation will be harmed by what Obama has done in Ukraine. A few aristocrats who will be grabbing former Ukrainian assets will gain, but they and their U.S. and EU partners (such as Exxon, Chevron, and Shell) will be the only ones who will. Aristocrats are the only people that Obama really cares about. He certainly doesn't shed crocodile tears over the hundreds of thousands of residents in southeastern Ukraine who are either being murdered or else fleeing into refugee camps inside Russia, all due to him – due to people he has appointed, decisions he has made, and actions he has taken.

For everybody except Obama's patrons, his policies regarding Ukraine are disastrous.

SOURCE: globalresearch.ca

 

[TUJITEGEMEE]

Definitely these results will be refuted by Westerners

 

[bonna]

Nadhani soon tutashuhudia fall of US dollar

 

[Chakochangu]

Nadhani soon tutashuhudia fall of US dollar

US Dollar ina savive sababu ni kipimo cha Biashara Duniani, Yaani Fedha zozote zile hapa duniani zinapimwa kwa US Dollar. Biashara karibu zote kubwa zinafanywa kwa hiyo fedha, kinyumeche ni majanga.

 

[Synthesizer]

Putin’s sanctions punish Russia

August 10 2014 at 01:40pm
By Bloomberg


Russian President Vladimir Putin chose a funny way to punish his American and European adversaries.
By imposing sanctions on imports of US and European agricultural goods, as he did last week, Putin will make it harder for his own people to find and afford foreign-made meat, cheese and fruit.

And a Russian economy that is already near stall speed will probably slow further as the central bank comes under pressure to raise interest rates for the fourth time this year to battle an expected increase in inflation.

“This is really bad economic policy,” Anders Aslund, an economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, said.

“Putin is really shooting himself in the foot.”

Though the trans-Atlantic hostility over the Ukraine crisis may be reminiscent of the Cold War, Putin’s move was less an
echo of Nikita Khrushchev’s 1956 boast: “We will bury you,” than a truculent, “Who needs you?”

He may not like the answer. In Washington, Obama administration officials projected on Thursday an air of detachment over what they described as the Russian leader playing a bad hand badly.

“The steps that Russia announced are likely insignificant as an impact on the US economy,” David Cohen, the treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said.

“What the Russians have done here is essentially impose sanctions on their own people.”

American exports to Russia are a barely measurable one-tenth of 1 percent of the US gross domestic product (GDP), according to Jason Furman, the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

The EU depends on Russian customers for eight-tenths of 1 percent of the its economy.

American exporters sent $1.3 billion (R13.9bn) in food and other agricultural products to Russia in fiscal 2013, according to the US Department of Agriculture.

Russia had barred imported American dairy products for several years, so the new sanctions would have “almost no impact”, Alan Levitt, the vice-president of communications at the US Dairy Export Council, said.

EU officials will meet next week to discuss the sanctions and French Agriculture Minister Stéphane Le Foll said food prices in the domestic market might fall as produce earmarked for Russia swells supply.

The price of peaches and nectarines in France is already down 22 percent after a bumper harvest, according to state statistical institute Insee.

Russia’s exports to the US and Europe, meanwhile, make up 13 percent of its economy.

And the companies that are being blacklisted – from the US, EU, Canada, Norway and Australia – last year provided 38 percent of the imported food products covered by the ban, according to Capital Economics in London.

The effect on some countries, especially the Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia could be greater.

“It seems likely the biggest loser will be Russia itself,” Neil Shearing, the chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics, said in a research note.

Russia’s economic slowdown began in 2011.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) last month forecast growth this year of just 0.2 percent.

Now, the prospect of recession looms. Even before the Russian retaliation, BNP Paribas was forecasting a contraction of 2 percent this year and 3 percent next year.

Putin’s domestic popularity has soared amid the Ukraine crisis and the annexation of Crimea, with his approval rating reaching 87 percent.

And he’s caught between the sanctions’ economic bite and the danger of alienating his domestic supporters by backing down.

“Putin has created for himself a trap,” Angela Stent, the director of Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, said.

Still, though the import ban is likely to exacerbate 7.5 percent inflation – which is already running above the central bank’s target – Russian patience in the face of a stand-off with other nations shouldn’t be underestimated. Plus, GDP per capita last year reached $14 818, up 27 percent from five years earlier, according to IMF data.

“Prices may go up a bit, but this is not so terrible,” Leonid Tikhonsky, 66, the director at a secondary school in Kolomna, Russia, said.

“Russia passed through the most difficult times in its history.”

Brazil opportunity
Putin, a former KGB officer who had effectively ruled Russia for almost 15 years, probably believed he could outlast his adversaries, said Steven Pifer, who was US ambassador to Ukraine from 1998 to 2000.

“For a country that imports 40 percent of its foodstuffs, banning imported food would seem to be an odd strategy,” he said.

“But the calculation he’s making here is that he can find a way to ride this out.”

Russia’s turn away from the US and Europe may mean opportunities for other countries. Production of chicken and pork can be increased more quickly than beef, according to Jose Augusto de Castro, the president of the Brazilian Foreign Trade Association.

“Certainly, Brazil will benefit,” he said.

Russia’s flat prohibition on imports from certain countries might run afoul of its commitments as a World Trade Organisation member, Trevor Kincaid, a spokesman for the US trade representative’s office, said.

Russia joined the global trade body in 2012 after almost two decades of negotiations.

Co-operation on trade has turned to conflict, with the US last month adding to sanctions on Russia over the fighting in Ukraine, barring two Russian banks and two large companies from obtaining financing in the US.

The latest measures also freeze US assets and bar new contracts for eight Russian arms makers, including the manufacturer of the AK-47 assault rifle.

The EU has imposed a range of sanctions.

More sanctions by the US and EU may lie ahead. With Russian troops poised for possible intervention in eastern Ukraine, Nato Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Russia risked further penalties and international isolation if its soldiers moved in.

If Russian troops cross the border, “there’s no question you’ll see harsher American and European sanctions”, Pifer said.
Putin is also threatening to go further. Russia was weighing a possible ban on foreign airlines flying in its Siberian and polar airspace, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told a televised cabinet meeting.

That would hit airlines such as Air France-KLM Group and Deutsche Lufthansa on their flights from Europe to Asia, forcing consideration of added stopovers and higher fares to cover higher fuel costs.

Yet here, too, Russia would likely suffer more than its foreign targets. Aeroflot, the nation’s biggest air carrier, earned about $170m last year in royalties from foreign airlines for overflight rights, according to Irina Stupachenko, an analyst at Otkritie Capital in Moscow.

Any restrictions would be “very negative” for the Russian airline, which received the equivalent of 18 percent of its full-year earnings from the payments, she said.

The Russian government also was studying the possibility of eliminating imports of foreign-made cars and airplanes, Medvedev said.

Russia’s latest trade tightening is part of a years-long turn toward protectionism, according to Simon Evenett, a professor of international trade and economic development at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland.

Russia had implemented 38 protectionist measures this year, including 28 trade-distorting subsidies and six new tariffs, said Evenett, who co-ordinates the Global Trade Alert monitoring network.

“No other government has introduced more protectionist measures since the beginning of 2014,” he wrote on Thursday. – David J. Lynch for Bloomberg

 

[fakenology]

Kinachonikera kwa US government ni Unafiki!
Amevuruga nchi nyingi kwa mgongo wa kusaidia kuleta democrasia.
Ona Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan ni mifano inayoonekana dhaili

 

[Red Giant]

US Dollar ina savive sababu ni kipimo cha Biashara Duniani, Yaani Fedha zozote zile hapa duniani zinapimwa kwa US Dollar. Biashara karibu zote kubwa zinafanywa kwa hiyo fedha, kinyumeche ni majanga.

kuna kitabu kinaitwa currency wars.kinasema kwa ishu zinavyoendelea kati ya dollar na yuan inaonekana anguko la dollar lipo karibu sana. pia marekani amekuwa akitumia dollar kuwachezea wengine hivyo watu wanafikiria kwenye gold standard.

 

[RockSpider]

Brazil kama Hub ya South America itawanufaisha sana Russia kwenye Biashara ya Silaha na Industrial power production plants, Wachina watakamata soko la South America ambalo ni muhimu sana kwa uchumi wa US, India na South Africa nazo zitanufaika ... Russia watakuwa wana import Agricultural products from China, South Africa, Brazil na India, Russia itakuwa ina supply Mafuta na Gas China, India ... all in all naona nchi za EU ndiyo watakuwa loser ... Bahati nzuri German wamewashtukia kuwa USA inataka kupata soko kubwa zaidi Ulaya ili wauze Gas na Mafuta wanayo kwapua Uarabuni ....

 

[Synthesizer]

Russia was weighing a possible ban on foreign airlines flying in its Siberian and polar airspace, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told a televised cabinet meeting.

That would hit airlines such as Air France-KLM Group and Deutsche Lufthansa on their flights from Europe to Asia, forcing consideration of added stopovers and higher fares to cover higher fuel costs.

Yet here, too, Russia would likely suffer more than its foreign targets. Aeroflot, the nation's biggest air carrier, earned about $170m last year in royalties from foreign airlines for overflight rights, according to Irina Stupachenko, an analyst at Otkritie Capital in Moscow.

Any restrictions would be "very negative" for the Russian airline, which received the equivalent of 18 percent of its full-year earnings from the payments, she said.

The Russian government also was studying the possibility of eliminating imports of foreign-made cars and airplanes, Medvedev said.

Hawa Warusi wana kichaa. Utazuiaje ndege kupita juu ya anga lako wakati na wewe una shirika la ndege kubwa tu Aeroflot linaenda nchi mbalimbali za Ulaya? Halafu eti watazuia ununuaji wa ndege za nje. Ukweli ni kwamba watu wameanza kupanda Aeroflot ya Urusi baada ya hili shirika kuanza kutumia ndege za Boeing na Airbus. Hivi nani na akili zake leo anataka kusafili na yale mandege ya Tupolev ya Kirusi yanayoanguka kila siku?

 

[Adiosamigo]

Kinachonikera kwa US government ni Unafiki!
Amevuruga nchi nyingi kwa mgongo wa kusaidia kuleta democrasia.
Ona Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan ni mifano inayoonekana dhaili

USA anafata mafunzo ya Paulo, kitabu cha Bibilia kinasema hivi; Isaiah 45:7. “I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I the lord do all these things”. The Christian God outright claims that he is indeed the source of evil. So how can he then claim to be sinless?

 

[JustDoItNow]

Hawa Warusi wana kichaa. Utazuiaje ndege kupita juu ya anga lako wakati na wewe una shirika la ndege kubwa tu Aeroflot linaenda nchi mbalimbali za Ulaya? Halafu eti watazuia ununuaji wa ndege za nje. Ukweli ni kwamba watu wameanza kupanda Aeroflot ya Urusi baada ya hili shirika kuanza kutumia ndege za Boeing na Airbus. Hivi nani na akili zake leo anataka kusafili na yale mandege ya Tupolev ya Kirusi yanayoanguka kila siku?

Una ushabiki wa kitoto