“Kerry to visit Ukraine on Tuesday, threatens sanctions if Russia doesn’t pull forces back.”

Putin’s Christnik army does not wear any insignias, yet they are seen as being on a holy crusade. Let me put a number on all these uniforms…..666

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The coat of arms of Llloyd’s of London contains the same Knight
Templar cross and sword that we see in the City of London coat of arms. The modern buildings of Lloyd’s of London, and Swiss Re,
dominate the heart of the City of London where Templars allegedly controlled Britian’s banking, and from them rose the Gnomes of Zurich Switzerland. This merger may have only taken place in the cityscape above, where the dome of Swiss Re is in back of the Lloyd’s of London building. Together, they make a city of tomorow, a global city that gathers together all the Hugenot Banking families whom fled to Geneva, and then England. The Herbert de Rougemont family was one of them. My Huguenot Rougemont ancestors lived in Basel where Swiss Re has its roots, and then fled to England and Canada.

Herbert de Rougemont was there in the beginning of Lloyd’s. His
genealogy says he was an underwriter who lived in Craven Hill
Gardens and had six servants. He is the great grandfather of Sir
Michael John de Rougemont Richardson whose mother, Audrey de
Rougemont, married Arthur Wray Richardson. The Rougemont home later became the Hempel Hotel.

Jon Presco

Copyright 2006

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Audrey de Rougemont Born: 2 Jun 1905 – Marr: – Arthur Wray
Richardson Died:
Arthur Wray Richardson Born: – Marr: – Died: – Father: Mother: Other
Spouses: Wife
Audrey de Rougemont Born: 2 Jun 1905 – Died: – Father: Herbert
Edward de Rougemont Mother: Edythe Caroline SaundersOther Spouses:

Children
1. Michael Richardson Born: Private – Died: –
2. Patrick Brian Richardson Born: Private – Died: –

By Anne Gearan, Sunday, March 2, 1:31 PM E-mail the writer

The Obama administration called Russia’s advances in Ukraine “a brazen act of aggression” Sunday and threatened sanctions but skirted questions about whether the United States might use force to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The State Department announced Sunday that Secretary of State John F. Kerry will visit Kiev on Tuesday to show support for the new leadership there in the face of Russian military intervention. Kerry on Sunday called the rapid movement of Russian troops across the border into the Crimean region of Ukraine unwarranted and outside international law and said Russia would suffer economic and political consequences.

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“He’s going to lose on the international stage,” Kerry said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” referring to Putin. “Russia is going to lose, the Russian people are going to lose, and he’s going to lose all of the glow that came out of the Olympics, his $60 billion extravaganza.”

Economic sanctions and travel restrictions on individual Russians are one possibility, as is a U.S. and European boycott of planning meetings this week for the upcoming Group of Eight economic summit in Russia.

The leading industrial powers of the G-8 are the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia.

“There are visa bans, asset freezes, isolation with respect to trade, investment,” Kerry said on CBS’s “Face The Nation.” “American businesses may well want to start thinking twice about whether they want to do business with a country that behaves like this. These are serious implications.”

Kerry also said that the administration was ready to provide economic assistance “of a major sort” to Ukraine.

The situation in Ukraine escalated rapidly over the weekend, with thousands of Russian troops entering Crimea and capturing the Black Sea peninsula without firing a shot. President Obama implored Putin to step back during a 90-minute telephone conversation Saturday that the White House described as the toughest of his presidency.

Russian forces surrounded a Ukrainian army base Sunday, and Ukraine began mobilizing its military in response.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk warned, “We are on the brink of disaster.”

“We believe that our Western partners and the entire global community will support the territorial integrity and unity of Ukraine,” the former opposition leader said Sunday in Kiev.

Kerry said that he spoke Saturday with foreign ministers from the G-8 and other nations and that “every single one of them are prepared to go to the hilt in order to isolate Russia.”

“They’re prepared to put sanctions in place,” he said. “They’re prepared to isolate Russia economically. The ruble is already going down. Russia has major economic challenges. I can’t imagine that an occupation of another country is something that appeals to a people who are trying to reach out to the world, and particularly if it involves violence.”

Despite widespread outrage, the United States and other Western nations struggled to show how the mostly symbolic penalties under consideration would help the new leadership in Ukraine fend off Russia or hold on to the restive, Russian-oriented Crimean Peninsula. Kerry’s visit to Ukraine on Tuesday will be a diplomatic show of force that is unlikely to be matched with significant military action.

“The last thing anybody wants is a military option,” Kerry said. “We want a peaceful resolution through the normal processes of international relations.”

Military force is always an option, U.S. officials said.

“I won’t get into the different specific options, but this could be a very dangerous situation if this continues in a very provocative way,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on “Face The Nation.” “We have many options, like any nations do. We’re trying to deal with the diplomatic focus. That’s the appropriate, responsible approach, and that’s what we’re going to continue.”

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said there is no broad call to arms.

“If you’re asking me whether the U.S. should be taking military strikes against Russian troops in Ukraine or in Crimea, I would argue to you that I don’t think anyone is arguing for that,” he said on NBC.

Unlike in 2008, when Russian troops entered neighboring Georgia, there were no immediate signs that the United States or other nations were positioning military forces or equipment in response. The conflict with U.S.-backed Georgia, like Ukraine a former Soviet republic, brought U.S. relations with Moscow to a new low. Nearly eight years later, Russian troops remain in Georgia.

Obama’s first-term “reset” with Russia was supposed to help ease tension over Georgia and over U.S. plans to field a missile defense system in Poland and other nations at Russia’s doorstep. Diplomatic gestures such as smoothing Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organization were supposed to help, as was the decision to hold the G-8 meeting in Sochi, site of the recent Winter Olympics.

“The reset with Russia is over,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) suggested suspending Russia’s membership in the G-8 for at least a year, “starting right now.”

“Let’s challenge him where we can,” Graham said of Putin.

In Brussels, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Russia had violated the U.N. Charter by moving on Ukraine. The alliance’s political decision-making body held crisis talks Sunday.

Ukraine has taken part in some NATO exercises but is not an alliance member. That means the United States and Europe are not obligated to come to its defense.

“It is very important that we all do everything we can to calm tensions,” said British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who flew to Kiev on Sunday. “The Ukrainians have said to me in the last couple of days that they will not rise to provocations.”

China’s Foreign Ministry posted a statement on its Web site Sunday evening condemning what it called “recent acts of extreme violence in Ukraine.”

Spokesman Qin Gang urged “all parties concerned in Ukraine to resolve their internal dispute within the legal framework, and earnestly protect the legal rights and interests of all Ukrainian people to restore normal social order as soon as possible.”

Broader international action through the United Nations is unlikely because Russia holds veto power as a permanent member of the Security Council.

Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, Yuriy Sergeyev, appeared to acknowledge that if the conflict escalates to a shooting war, outside military help would probably be limited to weapons or other aid short of foreign forces.

“We are preparing to defend ourselves,” Sergeyev told CNN, adding, “Naturally, we will ask for military support and other kind of support” if Russia continues to escalate its forces.

Kerry appealed to Putin’s desire for respect and international legitimacy, saying the rest of the world would be forced to isolate Russia if it broke the rules. Kerry said that Putin and Russia have many options short of invasion to address legitimate concerns about the future of Russian speakers in Ukraine and that the United States is prepared to help sort through them. But he added a few digs at Putin.

“Russia chose this brazen act of aggression and moved in with its forces on a completely trumped-up set of pretexts, claiming that people were threatened,” Kerry said on CBS. “And the fact is that that’s not the act of somebody who is strong. That’s the act of somebody who is acting out of weakness and out of a certain kind of desperation.”

Putin’s office issued a statement saying that “Russia retains the right to protect its interests and the Russian-speaking population” in eastern Ukraine.

William Wan in Beijing and Jaime Fuller in Washington contributed to this report.