US Bill H.R. 1644 to kill Russian food export and Chinese trade

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US Bill H.R. 1644 to kill Russian food export and Chinese trade

Thanks to Scott Humour at thesaker.is for the material which has been edited for content from the original citation [1]

On 29th April 2017, the US House of Representatives passed a newly minted H.R. 1644: Korean Interdiction and Modernization of Sanctions Act.

Despite its title, the Bill targets Russia, China, Iran and Syria by a slew of measures that normally would be implemented only in a time of war.

On the face of it, the US Congress claims to enforce control over implementation of the UN Security Council resolution that limits the trade of the DPRK with other countries, and bans the supply of weapons, aircraft, missiles, nuclear and other technologies.

What the Russian politicians and observers found most amazing was the fact that the UN Security Council has never requested the US to provide control over implementation of its resolution on the DPRK

However, the document is crafted to provide the “legal basis” for de-facto US military control over Russian ports in the Far East and in Syria, and also over Iranian and Chinese ports.

For starters, if it becomes a law the Bill will allow the US military to inspect, search and seize any vessel or aircraft suspected in violation of the anti North Korea sanctions per their own discretion.

It also gives the US military the authority to inspect the sea ports in Russia, Syria, Iran and China, implying that resisting will result in much broader sanctions against these four countries.

H.R. 1466 Bill is an affront not only to common sense, but also to the fundamental norms of international law.

If adopted and signed into law by President Trump, the bill will also sanction Russia’s global food trade due to the North Korean workers being employed in Russia’s agricultural sector, at the time when Russia overtakes the US and Canada as a major grain supplier.

The Bill is apparently a means to completely ban the trade of Russia’s produced food over the world in order to replace it with the US produced Genetically Modified Organisms that the US sells as food.

But, why stop there?

H.R. 1466 seeks to put a stoppage to the Chinese trade with the US, it also seeks to impose the MANDATORY ASSET BLOCKING on the unspecified Chinese capital and properties located on the territory of the US and elsewhere.

In essence this Bill is an act of naked aggression and interference in the affairs of sovereign states.

The citation provides the bill’s authors and their political contributors, so you would be able to see for yourself how much the US agricultural lobbies have been investing into this piece of legislature along with the pro-Israel lobbies, and Aerospace and Defense contractors like the Raytheon Company and Boeing.

Overall, H.R.1466 is a very ambitious Bill, its real authors (not to the US Representatives, who landed their names to it) manage to hide the real targets so deep that only a few people can actually read its real intent.

Take for example a provision of “within the last 365 days” that allows retrospectively blanket target Russia and China. According to the Bill, any Chinese and Russian vessel including military, and aircraft carrying on regular passenger flights to the US, are the subject to seizure by the US authorities due to a simple fact that these countries’ fleets have been visiting the North Korean ports and the North Korean workers have been legally allowed to work in Russia and China. You can judge for yourself, from the excerpts in the citation.

If this Bill is signed into the law, we might assume that it will be applicable to any passenger flights between the US and Russia, and between China and the US.

Another important point of this Bill is a designation of the north Korean citizens as “slaves” and the country as a “terrorist state.”

To designate an entire nation of twenty five million people as “terrorists” is some serious kooky-bananas. A similar attempt made by a military junta in Kiev Ukraine to designate as “terrorists’ the population of Donetsk and Lugansk republics has previously been rejected by the UN Security Council.

According to the GovTrack:

“This was a vote to pass H.R. 1644 in the House. This vote was taken under a House procedure called “suspension of the rules” which is typically used to pass non-controversial bills. Votes under suspension require a 2/3rds majority. A failed vote under suspension can be taken again.”

“H.R. 1644 amends the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016 to modify and increase the President’s authority to impose sanctions on persons in violation of certain U.N. Security Council resolution regarding North Korea.

Specifically, the bill expands sanctions to deter North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs, targets those individuals overseas who employ North Korean slave labor, cracks down on North Korean shipping and use of international ports, and requires the administration to determine whether North Korea is a state sponsor of terrorism”.

232 republicans and 187 democrats voted for this bill. Only one republican voted against, Thomas Harold Massie, an American engineer and politician who has been the United States Representative for Kentucky’s 4th congressional district.

It’s important to understand that, going forward, it won’t matter what steps these four countries would take to satisfy the US government demands, their “guilty” status has been already predetermined and written into this Bill by a provision “within the past 365 days.”

The Bill dictates that the moment president Trump signs it into the law, the US grants itself the “right” to start seizure of Russia’s, Chinese, Iranian and Syria capital, properties, vessels and aircraft, civilian as well as military, on the territories under the direct jurisdiction of the US laws, if not all over the world.

On average, it takes about a year for the US lawmakers to come up with a piece of legislature, so we can safely assume that H.R. 1644 was in development before the presidential elections. An anti – North Korea hysteria has started in March with an over exaggerated reaction to a video presumably made by the country.

The Russia’s lawmakers’ response to the Bill

A senior Russian senator says the American bill allowing the US Navy to enforce international sanctions on North Korea through the control of Russian ports is a violation of international law, and is equal to a declaration of war.

“The realization of this [US] bill includes a proposed force scenario in which the US Navy would conduct compulsory inspections of all ships. Such a scenario is simply unthinkable because it means a declaration of war,” RIA Novosti quoted upper house Committee for International Relations head Konstantin Kosachev as saying.

The senator emphasized that no one had given the United States official powers to enforce the UN Security Council resolution on North Korea, and said that Washington is trying to establish the primacy of US laws over international law.

The deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for Defense and Security, Frants Klintsevich, said that the possibility of external control over Russian sea ports was out of the question, but the mere fact that US lawmakers were discussing the proposal was definitely a hostile act.

He added that it was extremely unlikely that the US motion would force North Korea to change its course.

“What immediately draws attention is the list of nations where US congressmen want to have special control over sea ports,” he said. “These are Russia, China, Iran and Syria. The United States is again trying to expand its jurisdiction all over the globe. It is as if they were telling Russia, China, Iran and Syria that these nations are suspects in crime, which is nonsense, according to international law.”

Another deputy head of the same committee, Andrey Krasov, said that the US bill will face an appropriate response from Russia, should it be passed.

“The US administration will receive a symmetrical adequate response to any unfriendly steps toward Russia and our allies. In any case, no US ship will enter our waters,” Krasov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.

Maxim Grigoryev, head of the Foundation for the Study of Democracy, told Sputnik Radio that while the US House of Representatives adopted the bill virtually anonymously, this entire situation has a touch of tragicomedy to it.

“A declaration about keeping an eye on what’s going on in Russian ports sounds rather funny. However, what happened is that the US judicial authority has empowered its executive counterpart to present a report on this matter, which includes telling whether the sanctions against North Korea are being violated via Russian, Iranian and Syrian ports,” according to him.

“I’d like to point out that the bill did not outline any inspection procedure as it would’ve been completely pointless, but the wording itself does look rather ambiguous. The US doesn’t mind that it basically dictates that other countries must adhere to US legislation,” he said.

< If Trump signs this piece of crap into legislation – he will heavily reinforce the belief he is now well and truly an agent of the Deep State. – Y >

Citations
1.http://thesaker.is/the-us-bill-h-r-1644-to-kill-russian-food-export-and-chinese-trade/
2.https://freeukrainenow.org/2017/05/06/hr-1644-congress-crosses-the-red-line-of-common-sense-with-bill-violating-international-law-the-u-s-cant-control-russian-ports-without-war/#more-6835

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22521]

Considering how many seaports throughout the world China controls, including some in the U.S. and Mexico, that embargo would likely be far broader than most realize.

I am for the U.S. being self-efficient. Such an embargo would be a good start.

Mexico should be included in the embargo.

[chirParticipant]

Looks like Trump drowned in the deep state swamp.
I don’t see a way for this to end well.
I don’t want there to be wars or martial law but we seem to be headed down that road.

We are MGTOW. Prepare and keep a wary eye out. Be the Grey-man.

It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning; it is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.

[Anonymous 42]

We must REALLY BE TEETERING ON COLLAPSE for them, (those people) the Americans, to want to set up a false flag war.

I think it’s a good time to invest in RICE AND BEANS!\

Chinese rice
and Russian beans!

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