U.S. Keeps Russia on ‘National Threat’ List

[Purveyor]

Source: RIA Novosti

15:54 17/08/2012
MOSCOW, August 17 (RIA Novosti)

U.S. President Barack Obama has extended a legal act that lists Russia, among 16 other states, as a national threat, and allows for the freezing and confiscation of assets in the United States.

The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) is a federal law authorizing the U.S. president to regulate commerce after declaring a national emergency in response to any unusual and extraordinary threat to the United States that stems from a foreign source.

It authorizes the president to block transactions and freeze assets to deal with the threat. In the event of an actual attack on the United States, the president can also confiscate property connected with a country, group, or person that aided in the attack.

Russia, alongside Syria, Iran, North Korea, Belarus and other states, has been subject to IEEPA since 2000 due to its ability to export weapons-grade uranium.

Read more: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120817/175275475.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Well, sure . . . . .

After what Russia did to Pussy Riot, what did they expect us to do?


"White House disappointed by Pussy Riot verdict"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/08/17/administration-disappointed-by-pussy-riot-verdict/

[Purveyor]

2. Yeah. 'Pussy riot' if worth standing up to the Russians. Prep the nukes and lets 'get it on'

because 'pussy riot' got their asses spanked.

Game on.

[Posteritatis]

3. ... Pretty sure this has nothing whatsoever to do with the band. (nt)

[no_hypocrisy]

4. I was being ironic . . . .

[I love weed]

5. Good.

Russia is an evil, regressive country. They are nobody's friend but their own. I know - I was a Russia scholar in college and grad school, and now I live there.