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3/16/14

Executive Order - Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine

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Executive Order - Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine 06 Mar 2014 I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, find that the actions and policies of persons -- including persons who have asserted governmental authority in the Crimean region without the authorization of the Government of Ukraine -- that undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine [aka the entire US government]; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; and contribute to the misappropriation of its assets, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat. I hereby order: Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person (including any foreign branch) of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State: (i) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged in, directly or indirectly, any of the following: (A) actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in Ukraine; (B) actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine; or (C) misappropriation of state assets of Ukraine or of an economically significant entity in Ukraine; (ii) to have asserted governmental authority over any part or region of Ukraine without the authorization of the Government of Ukraine...

http://www.legitgov.org/Executive-Or...uation-Ukraine

The site http://www.legitgov.org/ includes the leads, below, in their current mailing. The Ukrainian situation is, to say the least, confused.

It defies belief that alleged Nazis are considered primary actors in the take-over of the Ukrainian government when the acting president of the new government is an Israeli and others involved are either/both Mossad, CIA, or Blackwater affiliates.

Also inexplicable is that the US seeks to deny Crimean citizens the right of self-determination. After all, didn’t NATO bomb the dickens out of Serbia in order to win that right for Albanian-origin citizens of Kosovo?

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Executive Order - Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine 06 Mar 2014 I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, find that the actions and policies of persons -- including persons who have asserted governmental authority in the Crimean region without the authorization of the Government of Ukraine -- that undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine [aka the entire US government]; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; and contribute to the misappropriation of its assets, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat...

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