COMMENTARY & OPINION SPECIAL REPORT

From the desk of

Bill Ramey

12/17/14

COMMENTARY & OPINION

 SPECIAL REPORT

WHO COLLAPSED THE RUSSIAN RUBLE AND WHY?

December 16, 2014

Putin Orders Feared “Samson Defense” To Collapse US-EU Economies

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A chilling report published today by the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) is warning of potentially “catastrophic unknown consequences” relating to President Putin’s issuance to the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) of orders to initiate what is commonly known within the Kremlin as the “Samson Defense” designed to crash the Russian ruble, while at the same time insuring the economic collapse of both the United States and European Union.

The CBR’s “Samson Defense” is a Russian monetary strategy designed to economically mirror Israel ’s feared “Samson Option” deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a “last resort” if military attacks threaten its existence.

In Putin’s action against the US-EU, this report says, the CBR’s stunning move earlier today in raising the interest rate to 17% from 10.5% has had its desired consequence as the ruble plunged more than 20% and to date and has now lost about 57% of its value versus the US dollar since the start of the year, which exceeds the 36% plunge related to the 2008 global economic crisis.

Most importantly to note about this currency plunge, however, this report notes, are that Russia’s fiscal domestic accounts are denominated in depreciating rubles and its oil exports are invoiced in an appreciating US dollar, meaning that the fiscal blow from lower oil prices will be cushioned by a weak ruble, and was a strategy that Putin warned about earlier when he stated that the Federation was braced for a “catastrophic” slump in oil prices.

Equally as important to note, MED analysts in this report say, the CBR agreed to lend money this week against 625 billion rubles (over $10 billion) of bonds freshly printed by oil giant Rosneft allowing it to hoard its export dollars and meet a $10 billion loan repayment later this month, and another $4 billion in February.

As to how catastrophically low oil prices can fall, this report continues, it notes that OPEC has already stated that they are willing to push prices as low as $40 a barrel in their bid to take on Russia and US shale, a stance which began this past September when the Obama regime reached a secret deal with Saudi Arabia in order to flood the world with oil to collapse the Russian economy, but which has now backfired on them as the Saudis seek to bankrupt US shale producers too.

With 15% of US shale gas producers already losing money because of the Obama regimes secret deal with Saudi Arabia, this report warns, up to half of all of Americas shale operations will face financial ruin if oil prices slip below $55 a barrel leaving millions without jobs in an already collapsing economy.

To the ability of the Federation withstanding a “Samson Defense” economic war against the US and EU, this report says, it should be noted that the current debt of the US stands at a staggering $18 trillion [an amount so large it is now mathematically impossible to ever pay back] while the EU is, likewise, at a equally staggering amount of €12 trillion ($15 trillion).

Compared to the combined US-EU debt of $30 trillion, this report notes, Russia has only $678 billion in foreign debt, has very little outstanding debt and its public debt to gross domestic product ratio is 10% - an excellent figure compared to the EU’s dismal average ratio of 90.9 and the US’s 71.8%.

Likewise to note, MED analysts in this report say, is that while Russia’s debt to GDP is roughly 14%, the EU currently stands at 90.9%, the US at 80.2%, and Japan’s at 227%, meaning, simply, that the Federation can withstand any economic hardship the Western alliance puts against it.

Also, and as independent analysts confirm, Moscow‘s coffers are well-filled, giving Russia the durability to weather a double external shock - tanking oil prices and Western sanctions.

The Finance Ministry controls two sovereign wealth funds, which contained some $172 billion as of December. The money, held in foreign currency, has been accumulated during the past 15 years of high oil and gas revenues and has been earmarked as a piggy bank, primarily for the pension system.

Additionally, the CBR’s overall foreign currency reserves stood at a healthy $416.2 billion dollars in early December.

And most critical to note about the “Samson Defense”, this report concludes, is that Russia will not cut its oil production against the headwinds of collapsing prices, and may, indeed, increase its amount as the plunging ruble, combined with a rising US dollar, actually makes Federation oil the most affordable in the world. 

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Ramey comment:

Daniel 11:44 may be closer than we think.

NOW LET'S TRY TO BALANCE OUT THIS POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE WITH ONE FROM AN ADVISOR TO INVESTORS

Russian Ruble Collapses – Conspiracy Or Warning of Things To Come?

Martin Armstrong 

December 17, 2014

The anti-dollar contingent around the world who have preached that since Russia already trades its own currencies independently from the dollar and China has been trying to make the same move, are spinning the blogs claiming this is a “Zionist banker” conspiracy and this proves that all nations are tired of debt making Zionist banking. Well aside from the prejudice, this is not about merely debt and banking. I warned in the Greatest Bull Market that during a massive Sovereign Debt Crisis, there is nothing that remains standing. This is a complete control-alt-delete.

There was nothing that survived during the Great Depression from stocks, bonds, commodities, tangible assets, to currencies. This is what we are facing. The complete meltdown of the world economy thanks to the convergence of many factors. Just about anything that can go wrong is going wrong and the end game is not looking pretty. As we can see from this chart of the bond market, while Andrew Mellon first bragged when the stock market crashed “gentlemen buy bonds”, those who ran into the bond markets either were left with nothing as sovereign debt defaulted, or their US bonds were suddenly devalued by FDR and the gold redemption closes were reneged upon.

The Russian central bank tried to shore up the currency with a rate hike to 17%, but when that proved ineffectual, confidence in the bank evaporated and the sellers piled on. This is an example of the problems we face with all governments. Right now, people generally look to government with a demigod perspective that they are in charge and all powerful. I have been behind the curtain and been on the other side of phone calls from various central banks in the middle of a panic. They are no more in control than you or I. All they can do is pound their chest and hope people will do as they preach.

The collapse in Russia is being caused by a collapse in energy prices. The Middle East has become addicted to high energy prices and thus they have increased their budget taking into consideration expectations of perpetual high energy prices. However, with all things, there is a cycle. Our original forecast back in 1998 that oil would rise to $100 by 2007 was at first laughed at. By 2000, even the Department of Energy wanted us to forecast energy prices for the nation.. What has to be understood is rather simple. Oil had to rise in price in order to generate (1) new improvements in extracting, and (2) alternatives. We saw that rally and by 2007 the year-end closing was $95.98. The rally ended with the highest closing coming on the 13 year mark  in 2011 closing that year at $98.83 in line with the Economic Confidence Model.

During the Great Depression, stocks rallied into 1929 but commodities peaked in 1919. The tangible commodity sector declined into 1932 coinciding with the stock low. That 13 year decline was profound. It wiped out much of the commodity industry. The correlated trends globally demonstrate that this is not some conspiracy of Zionist bankers, Illuminati, or a plot between Saudi Arabia and the USA to destroy Russia. We are dealing with a very serious crisis within the global economy that is by no means limited to Russia or oil.

We are witnessing the unraveling of the world economy because we have pervasive corruption in government with political manipulations that are only concerned about winning the next election. There is no plan here for the long-term.

Crude oil has two numbers we must now pay close attention to for year-end $75 and $57. A closing BELOW $57 warns that we are in serious trouble with oil and we may not see the final low until 2016-2017. The real critical level of support lies at $32. We should see this type of decline send crude back to retest the 1980 high of about $40 similar top gold retesting the $875 high of 1980. Welcome to the land of DEFLATION as all the promises of socialism with government taking care of you from cradle to grave is over and done with.

Consequently, additional proof that this is not limited to Russia is just open your eyes. There is a crisis in ALL EMERGING markets. As the dollar rises and commodities decline, this is part of the cycle that sets in motion the Sovereign Debt defaults.

Russia’s central bank raised its key interest rate to 17 percent in the early hours of Tuesday morning in an emergency move to halt a collapse in the ruble as oil prices decline and the country’s sanctions-hit economy slides towards recession. We are looking at a major decline within the world economy. This is part of Big Bang. We will produce a major and very serious report on this entire subject matter after the closing of 2014.

BECAUSE OF OUR ROMAN GOVERNMENT (IMAGE OF THE BEAST), OUR HIP POCKET CONGRESS AND THE MEDIA WHORES WHO SERVICE THEM, MANY AMERICANS DO NOT REALIZE WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN UKRAINE.  HOPEFULLY THIS WILL HELP TO CLEAR UP SOME OF THE FOG FOR THOSE WHO EMBRACE THE TRUTH.

America’s War on Russia: U.S. Congress Virtually 100% Unanimous on “Joining Ukraine’s War Against Russia”; Americans Are at Least 67% Opposed

By Eric Zuesse

Global Research, December 12, 2014

Region: Russia and FSU

Theme: US NATO War Agenda

In-depth Report: UKRAINE REPORT

Last night, December 11th, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously as the U.S. House had previously voted 98%: to join Ukraine’s war against Russia and against Ukraine’s own ethnic Russians in Ukraine’s southeastern districts, in order to eliminate those resistant Ukrainians and their families.

The U.S. is now throwing down the gauntlet to Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, and daring him to defend openly the ethnic Russians that the U.S.-installed Ukrainian Government is now trying to exterminate in the eastern districts, the places where the present Ukrainian Government is rejected by almost all of the residents.

Those are the districts that had voted about 90% for the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, whom the U.S. overthrew on February 22nd in a violent coup, in which the U.S. paid Ukrainian nazis, or racist-fascists of Ukraine’s Right Sector Party, who masked themselves and dressed themselves as Ukrainian security forces and shot from high places into the “Maidan” crowd of anti-corruption demonstrators, for which shootings the U.S. Government blamed the then-President Yanukovych, since the snipers had dressed as if they were from his security-forces. A special session of Ukraine’s parliament or “Rada” was promptly called to appoint a new leader for the country, and they appointed “Yaz” Arseniy Yatsenyuk, whom the U.S. State Department’s Victoria Nuland had, on February 4th, instructed the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, to get installed as the country’s leader after the coup. Some Rada members were physically threatened by Right Sector gunmen to vote for this change, which then passed overwhelmingly, especially because most of the parliamentarians didn’t even know that the bloodshed had actually been operated by the U.S. However, the EU’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Catherine Ashton, sent an investigator in to determine how the overthrow had occurred, and the investigator, Urmas Paet, informed Ashton on February 26th that “behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new coalition.” In other words: it was someone from the group who wanted to remove and replace Yanukovych. Paet said furthermore, that, “it’s really disturbing that now the new coalition that they don’t want to investigate what exactly happened.” And so there was no investigation, other than Paet’s own. He went on, in very broken English (he’s Estonian) to tell Ashton: “So that it was in this instance disturbing that if it’s us now to live its own life very powerfully, then it already discreditates from the very beginning also this new coalition.” Ashton ignored his comment, and just said that, “what we’ve got to be very careful of as well, [is] that they need to demand great change, but they’ve got to let the Rada [Parliament] function. If the Rada doesn’t function, then we’ll have complete chaos.” In other words: we’re just going to let those sleeping dogs lie. And they did.

Anyway, she knew. The top foreign-affairs official at the EU knew that the overthrow of Yanukovych, and the replacement of him by this new pro-EU Ukrainian Government, had been hired by someone from the West. She knew that she hadn’t ordered it. She almost certainly understood right away, that America’s White House did.

And so, too, unquestionably, did Petro Poroshenko, who in elections that were then held on May 25th in Ukraine’s northwest — the regions where the new Obama-installed regime was accepted by the public — won the Presidency of Ukraine to replace Yanukovych. He, too, knew that, as Paet had put it, “behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovych, but it was somebody from the new coalition.” We know that he knows this because Paet also told Ashton at the same time that, “what was quite disturbing, the same oligarch [Poroshenko] told that well, all the evidence shows that the people who were killed by snipers, from both sides, among policemen and people from the streets, that they were the same snipers, killing people from both sides.” In other words: this was murdering people at random by firing into a crowd, all the while pretending to be security forces of the Ukrainian Government that the crowd is demonstrating against. That’s Obama’s way of “regime change,” instead of sending in the U.S. armed forces, like George W. Bush did to Iraq. However, virtually all of the U.S. Congress have now voted to donate U.S. weapons to this Ukrainian Government.

The EU is in on the secret, and the President who replaced Yanukovych is, too.

But what about the 98% of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the 100% of the U.S. Senate, who have now voted for the U.S. to donate lethal weapons to this Ukrainian Government. Do they know? Who paid ‘our’ Congress-people for this vote? Was it Lockheed Martin? Was it Boeing? Was it Raytheon? Was it all of them and others, all of whose stocks have been soaring since Obama’s overthrow of Yanukovych?

The U.S. public were asked in a 4 April 2014 Pew poll, whether they backed “sending arms/military supplies, to Ukraine govt.” 30% said yes. 62% said no. 8% were undecided. The ratio of those who had an opinion, 62%/92%, was 67% against, 33% for.

Both the House and Senate bills are for not just “arms/military supplies,” but specifically include “lethal weapons.” And they aren’t just to “send,” but to donate them, because the Ukrainian Government is bankrupt and can carry on its extermination campaign only by additional borrowings from the IMF, the U.S., and EU. All of the new ‘loans’ will go to the back of the line and never be paid. So, at least 67% of Americans are opposed to what virtually 100% of Americans’ ‘representatives’ in Congress have voted for, and it’s war against Russia.

This is the U.S. ‘democracy’ that installed the ‘democracy’ in Ukraine, which on February 22nd overthrew the democratically elected Ukrainian President.

Barack Obama hasn’t been as successful at engineering ‘democratic consent’ for war as was George W. Bush, but ‘our’ Government is doing it anyway, and the nuclear weapons are being readied for it.

Furthermore, the entire replacement of Yanukovych was illegally done. The American public is overwhelmingly on the side of the law here, while the American President and Congress are almost uniformly against the law here, but they write the laws; it’s the latter who possesses power in the United States, and the American public don’t actually exist to them, except to be fooled into voting for them, by the billionaires who control companies such as JPMorgan/Chase, and Lockheed Martin and finance political campaigns.

This could turn out to be the path toward a nuclear war against Russia. It could actually be profitable for some people.

Ramey comments:

The fact that 67% of Americans oppose the continuation of the folly in the Ukraine, says that Americans are awakening but congress is not.

THE TEN HORNS OF THE FOURTH BEAST OF DANIEL 7

Picking up the narrative in verse 20 in the New English Version: 

"I desired to know about the ten horns on its head and the other horn which sprang up and at whose coming three of them fell ---the horn that had eyes and a mouth speaking proud words and appeared larger than the others." 21  "As I still watched, that horn was waging war with the saints and overcoming them until the Ancient in Years came." 22  "Then judgment was given in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints gained possession of the kingly power." 23  "He gave me this answer: 'The fourth beast signifies a fourth kingdom which shall appear upon earth.  It shall differ from the other kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth, tread it down and crush it.'"   History and scripture establish this as the Roman Empire. Those coveting world dominion have tried to obscure this with the myth that the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD.  A quick read on the Byzantine Empire in any reputable encyclopedia will show this never happened. 24  "'The ten horns signify the appearance of ten kings in this kingdom, after whom another king shall arise, differing from his predecessors; and he shall bring low three kings.'" (Mubarak, Gaddaffi, Assad?) 25  "'He shall hurl defiance at the Most High and shall wear down the saints of the Most High.  He shall plan to alter the customary times and law; and the saints shall be delivered into his power for a time, times and half a time.'" 26  "'Then the court shall sit and he shall be deprived of his sovereignty so that in the end it may be destroyed and abolished.'"

Obviously this ruler is reigning at the time the Elohim intervene in the affairs of earth.  Evidently, he has been ruling for a minimum of three and one half years.  It plainly states that he is different from his predecessors.  And he is engaged in "…changing customs and the law." 

Some questions come to mind.  #!.  When does the "…time, times and half a time", start?  The one who occupies the oval office told Putin he would be more flexible after the 2012 election.  Were the saints "…delivered into his power" at the time of the 2013 inauguration?  Was that close to the time when he unleashed the ISIS on those in Iraq that the media insists on calling Christians?  This seems to be but another deception of the media.  These are leftovers from the old Parthian Empire and are therefore Israelites but not Jews. 

Worthy of consideration also is that if this "…time, times and a half" time frame ends with the beginning of Jacob's trouble, then it had to start at the time the book of Daniel was opened.  Evidently it was not opened in February of 2011 as I had previously thought. 

#2.  Another question that comes to mind is: "Are these ten horns the same ten horns of Revelation 17?"  This does not seem to be the case because those ten "…receive power one hour with the beast."

One hour in a "year for a day" scenario equals about two weeks.  One hour in a "day is as a 1000 years" equals about 42 years.  A point of interest is that Gaddaffi reigned 42 years.  Coincidence?

#3.  Are the 7 (or 8) kings of Revelation 17:10 some of these ten horns?  I don't think so because we see this topic introduced under the reign of #6 and it says, "…five are fallen."  These appear to be all kings of the end time Babylon.   It appears that the three horns of Daniel 7 that are uprooted by the eleventh horn is accomplished by the 7th king of Rev 17:10. 

I see something encouraging on the web today.  Five years ago, none seemed to realize that America is the end time Babylon.  Now I see several of the "Watchmen" alluding to this although none of them dare say where it came from.  Now I see them even stating that this Babylon will be destroyed "…in one hour" and they even refer to Rev 18.  This tells me the "Commentary & Opinion" and "Unalienable Prophets" are reaching a broader audience than I have imagined.  

They still preach the Christian idolatry, the mythical Jesus and going to heaven as a part of the lies inherited from our fathers. (Jer 16:19) But little by little the truth is beginning to surface.  Thy will be done.