Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gives an interview to federal TV channels at the Ostankino TV Center in Moscow December 6, 2013.
Credit: Reuters/Alexander Astafyev/RIA Novosti/Pool

sage: Well, we know President Putin was in containment and had turned to the light. These two stories certainly look like evidence of this.

Story 1 – Russia Signs Deal to Forgive $29 Billion of Cuba’s Soviet-Era Debt – Diplomats

By Marc Frank, Reuters – December 9, 2013

http://tinyurl.com/qyc6ugp

Russia and Cuba have quietly signed an agreement to write off 90 percent of Cuba’s $32 billion debt to the defunct Soviet Union, a deal that ends a 20-year squabble and opens the way for more investment and trade, Russian and European diplomats said.

The two sides announced an agreement to settle the debt dispute earlier this year and finalized the deal in Moscow in October. It would have Cuba pay $3.2 billion over 10 years in exchange for Russia forgiving the rest of a $32 billion debt – $20 billion plus service and interest, the diplomats said.

It must still be approved by the Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament.

Negotiations on the form in which Cuba will pay the remaining debt are ongoing, the diplomats said, as even $320 million per year represents a large sum for the cash-strapped country, which has labored under a U.S. economic embargo for decades.

Cuba’s total export earnings are around $18 billion, including tourism and medical and educational services.

Neither Cuba nor Russia has made any official comment on the debt agreement. Cuban officials were not immediately available for comment.

Cuba defaulted on its debt in the late 1980s but recently has been trying to restructure the old debts to improve its international credibility.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, during a visit to Cuba in February, signed a general agreement to work out a formula and settle the old debt by next year. The decision rankled other countries grouped in the Paris Club of creditor nations because it broke ranks with the collective approach of the organization.

PARIS CLUB CONTACTS

The Paris Club is an informal group of creditor governments including Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States as well as a number of smaller European nations.

The Paris Club reported that Cuba owed its members $35 billion at the close of 2012, now estimated at around $37 billion, which would leave the island owing $5 billion to $6 billion of non-Soviet debt to the club’s members.

The organization has a Cuba working group, which does not include the United States.

Russia pledged to work with Cuba towards reaching an agreement with the Paris Club as part of the October settlement, one Russian diplomat said.

“The Paris Club should be grateful as it removes a huge amount of money from the table and makes an eventual agreement more likely,” he said.

While some Paris Club members clearly preferred a united front, one European diplomat said Russia’s help in settling Paris Club debt could prove important and that a reduced debt would indeed be more easily negotiable.

Since the Medvedev visit, the Paris Club has put out feelers to the Cubans and a few months ago two representatives traveled to the Caribbean island to meet with the central bank, the first such visit in over a decade.

Unlike the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, from which Cuba is excluded under the longstanding U.S. trade embargo, the Paris Club does not issue multilateral loans.

Cuba releases very little information about its foreign debt.

Last month the government reported its “active” foreign debt, accumulated after it declared a default in the late 1980s, as $13.6 billion in 2010. The government no longer reports its “passive” debt from before the default and estimated at around $8 billion.

The Communist-run island has never included debt to the Soviet Union in its figures, claiming the amount was in overvalued convertible rubles and that the country sustained massive damage from broken contracts when its former benefactor collapsed.

Cuba has post-1980s default debt of hundreds of millions of dollars to Russia.

“The final deal recognizes some of the Soviet debt, and that’s politically important for Russia. It also opens the way for more credit which is important for Cuba,” a Russian diplomat said, like others requesting anonymity.

SEARCH FOR CREDIBILITY

Three years ago Cuba restructured its active government and commercial debt with China, estimated at around $6 billion. Last year Cuba settled a dispute with Japanese commercial creditors dating back to the 1980s.

Under the Japanese agreement, 80 percent of the 130 billion yen debt (about $1.4 billion) was forgiven, with the remainder to be paid over 20 years.

Mexico recently forgave 70 percent of a $478 million debt Cuba accumulated in the late 1990s, in exchange for the remaining $146 million being paid over 10 years.

“The agreements with China, Japan, Mexico and Russia ease some outside financial restrictions on the Cuban economy and should facilitate trade ties with these countries,” said Pavel Vidal, a former Cuban Central Bank economist now teaching at Colombia’s Javeriana University.

“The austerity measures adopted by the government in 2009, and these accords to lower the foreign debt, help stabilize the island’s finances at a very important moment when a significant monetary reform over three years (devaluation and elimination of the dual currency system) has begun,” he said.

Raul Castro, who replaced his ailing brother Fidel as president in 2008, has drastically reined in imports and cut state payrolls and subsidies while insisting the near-bankrupt government get its financial house in order.

In 2011, the Communist Party approved a five-year economic plan that called for efforts to “enhance Cuba’s credibility in its international economic relations by strictly observing all the commitments that have been entered into,” before and after the default.

The plan also called for expediting the rescheduling of Cuba’s foreign debts and implementing “flexible restructuring strategies for debt repayment” as soon as it is practical.

RIA Novosti agency building on Zubovsky boulevard (RIA Novosti / Ramil Sitdikov)

Story 2: Putin Orders Overhaul of Top State News Agency

Russia Today – December 9, 2013

http://tinyurl.com/kwpxbsw

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has dissolved the largest state-owned news agency RIA Novosti and ordered an international information agency called Rossiya Segodnya (which translates as ‘Russia Today’) to be set up in its place.

The main purpose of the new body will be to “to provide information on Russian state policy and Russian life and society for audiences abroad,” according to a decree On Measures to Raise Efficiency in the Work of State Mass Media Outlets, that Putin signed on Monday.

The new agency will be headed by Dmitry Kiselyov, a presenter known for his controversial views put forward in a weekly analytical news program broadcast on one of the main Russian TV channels Rossiya 1.

The direct translation of Rossiya Segodnya is Russia Today. However, the newly created agency will not be in any way related to RT television channel, which was known as Russia Today before its rebranding in 2009.

RIA Novosti was established in June 1941, just two days after Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union. Initially it was called the Soviet Information Bureau, which was succeeded by the Novosti Press Agency (APN) in 1961.

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev established RIA Novosti in 1990 as a successor of the APN. The agency has reporters in over 45 countries and provides news in 14 languages.

Montague Keen, December 8, 2013

Veronica has conveyed personally the importance of the attached document, which I have only had time to glimpse. Actually, she shared that she invited someone she respects to review it and give his opinion of it: the response was heartfelt agreement with the thoughts and ideas expressed therein. (Perhaps this is why her post is late this week.) The document is long and as Monty says – it requires some study. As soon as I can do so, I intend to do give it my attention and hope you all will do so, as well. . . Thanks, Veronica for all your and Monty’s efforts on our behalf.

Hugs,
~Jean

It is wonderful when someone grasps what you are trying to expose and explain: they run with it and they find the answers.

Hilda did just that. She found what was so well hidden that it had escaped the attention of scientists for years. This is so important. It must be shared and openly discussed. Questions must be asked and answers must be given. This is the information that I have been preparing you for, and leading you towards.

I ask that you devote time to study the implications contained in this lengthy document and carefully consider what steps to take, in order to rectify the damage that was done to humanity by the Dark Ones in order to create a slave race to support and serve them.

You are waking up. The doors are opening wide to a future that, until now, you never expected to have. The future is yours. Grasp it with both hands. Go with the flow towards it. Leave everything negative behind you, it is not worth a moment of your time. Welcome the ENERGY that you will release when you all come together in peace and harmony. This is the last hurdle you face. You now have all the information you need to make the necessary changes. You are almost there. Read the following document carefully, my friends. The prison bars are dissolving, freedom awaits you.

My love, it is all moving forward nicely. People are ready to do what is necessary to restore your planet and to establish peace and harmony for all humanity.

The answers you need are contained within this document. I ask everyone to now read:

Stephen: So Thanksgiving was special after all… Also, please note: there is mention towards the end of this message of earth changes increasing (but, importantly, no mention of any loss of life). Remember: several of our other sources have indicated this will not be the case. So resist any urge to go into fear. I, personally, am going to remain in the positive thought that any changes to come have already been neutralised and minimalised.

The Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation Update as received by Sheldan Nidle, December 10, 2013 – http://www.paoweb.com/uf121013.htm

4 Ix, 17 Yaxk’in, 10 Caban

Selamat Jalwa! We return with much to explain! During the last few weeks much progress was made legally to force a number of important things to happen. The major monetary organizations that monitor the world’s currencies were told to prepare for a monumental reset that was to conclude with new banking regulations and eventually a series of precious metal currencies. This vast change is to be the prelude to the delivery of the prosperity funds and the rise of new governance. This process continues.

The several groups that form our Earth allies have forced a number of ground shattering agreements to be signed and several critical memos to be issued. These items are now causing the desired change to occur in a timely and divine manner. We fully expect these things to manifest shortly.The most important forward movement began on American Thanksgiving when Europe fundamentally committed itself to a worldwide currency reset. This sets up the dates for a release of newly revalued currencies. The next steps are underway!

Agreements are being signed to assure that the prime principle behind global prosperity happens as soon as possible. A number of governments have met with our allies and reviewed in detail what is to come next. A vast amount of protected gold bullion and sterling are now in position to force a more stable currency upon the world. The proposed revaluations will set up a currency system that ends the dominance of North America and Western Europe.

A new reality that is based upon a diplomacy that is not conflict-oriented has been agreed to. Included in these agreements is a path to disclosure and the release of a plethora of new technologies currently suppressed. These technologies are a means to aid the entire disclosure scenario. It is critical to remove any present obstacles to disclosure and full consciousness. The dark and its various groups of minions are under the gun. Nonetheless, we understand that you need time to fully absorb what all of this now implies.

Our liaisons are working jointly with those from Agartha. Our divine purpose is to move this all along as swiftly as possible. The Ascended Masters are informing their dearest followers of what is now required. We need to use the various exigencies of international law to keep this in line and moving ever forward. Various monetary institutions have ruled in our favor and set up some key timetables. These are presently being advanced by our earthly associates and are aided by the work of our mutual liaisons.

Our commitment remains to unravel the current dark-dominated muddle that runs your globe. This operation continues to proceed at its own divine rate. Several major governments that sit at the head of this chaos know our diligence and know just how fragile their positions have become. This leads to some panic, and what they are cooking up in Asia and in Europe will not fly. Hence, numerous other governments are now either openly or secretly opposing these various schemes.

Our position, and that of the Agarthans, is quite similar in approach. The time comes to bring this morass, like the approaching end of this Gregorian year, to a full stop. It is time to terminate these things and move on to the next steps, which include a full global disclosure. Disclosure puts a final stop to these hilarious shenanigans and permits a full unveiling of what has been going on for the past one and one-half decades. These past years saw gigantic attempts to squash your return to full consciousness.

These largely failed. What is left will be discontinued once disclosure happens. The mischief that the dark prefers is known and is currently being curtailed. A few things will still occur but these are only temporary. The means to undo these obstructions are in hand. What is presently happening is aimed at providing for a way to speed up what the dark delays. We are moving forward at a good clip and intend to bring you good news shortly. The dark is on its last legs and realizes that the end is indeed very near!

Blessings! We are your Ascended Masters! We arrive today with some blessed news! Your globe is entering the beginnings of a new reality. Many currency changes are popping up around your world. These changes are to be followed by other events that will bring forth a new prosperity, and dramatic alterations will foster the rise of new governance and much stricter banking regulations. Our many acolytes are engaged in operations to bring a blessed reality to this divine orb.

Your realm is presently in the midst of a series of very important secret negotiations to bring you prosperity and freedom. Meanwhile, new sacral energies are changing the very makeup of your physical selves. These transformations of your bodies are introducing new chakras, and with their occurrence some aches, pains and other discomforts. These are merely to pave your way to full consciousness.

These spiritual and physical alterations are part of a greater plan to move this sacred reality into the Light. Heaven decreed some time ago that the reign of the dark ones was at an end. This time is the transition when the dark’s powers wane and the Light starts its renewed ascendency. Our divine mission is to accelerate these transformations and to inform you of what this all means to your sacred beliefs and to your many cherished visions of this reality.

We fully understand your confusion as you listen to many of the manipulated stories that your media intends to provide you. The dark’s many minions do not yet fully realize what is proper for them to say. The best thing is for the Light to come forward and explain at the right moment what is truly happening around you. We have been given this most blessed task!

Your world is in upheaval. Gaia is throwing off all the abuse and torture given her daily by the dark’s many representatives. This process produces a myriad of strong earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and odd weather prevalent throughout this globe. This is going to get a lot worse until the dark’s prime instruments of this tortuous abuse are completely stopped. Money is indeed something that holds a large degree of power over you. It needs to be put in its proper perspective.

The currency reset, global gold standard, debt forgiveness, new prosperity and strict new banking regulations will help achieve this goal. Money, dear Hearts, is not vital. Your growth in consciousness and a grand caring for each other most certainly is! Along with this is the vital need for Love, Life and divine wisdom. This is the path that you have been put on! Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna!

Today, we gave you another in our series of messages about the transformation of this reality. Heaven and Heaven’s many divine helpers on this sacred globe are moving swiftly toward a resolution of the numerous effects perpetrated by the dark upon you. The moment arrives for all that has tortured you to be gone. A new day is approaching for all who dwell upon the surface of this Earth! Know, dear Ones, that the countless Supply and never-ending Prosperity of Heaven are indeed Yours!

So Be It! Selamat Gajun! Selamat Ja! (Sirian for Be One! and Be in Joy!)

Sheldan Nidle will be one of Stephen Cook’s guests on Lift Your Spirit: Our 2013 Journey – Part 2 which airs this Sunday, December 15 on InLight Radio:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/inlight_radio/2013/12/15/lift-your-spirit-our-2013-journey–part-2

Image by Ute Posegga-Rudel, Copyright 2013

Mother Gaia: Calling Humanity, channeled by Ute Posegga-Rudel, December 10, 2013 at http://radiantlyhappy.blogspot.co.uk

Video (recommended)

MOTHER GAIA SPEAKS:

I will not allow my children to be abused much longer.
Cosmic forces will intervene. And I will intervene, if necessary.

I Am your Mother, the Mother of your body and your energy. Both is precious! But without My support you could not live. Many have forgotten this in their artificial life circumstances. They try to survive with their little spark of personal energy, separated from my embracing power. So they can never be truly happy.

Uniting with Me grants you the Joy to participate in my most powerful and loving state of planetary consciousness.

I love my children and they will be protected.
You are protected when you align with Me, with My Spirit.
When your Heart and My Heart unite.

Then your awareness will expand, the frequency of your energy field will be empowered and your consciousness widens in stillness

You will experience immediate peace when you join Me with your own Being, as we are One.

To ascend, you cannot be but One with Me. Your Union with Me will accelerate your personal and collective evolution.

Even if you do not know about ascension, but only open up to the Power of My Beautiful and Pristine Nature, you will open your heart naturally and attune to the new frequencies.

Humanity will find peace in the Purity of my Sacred Places. Indeed, all my places are Sacred, they are Sacred if not disturbed by disharmony and disruptive vibrations.

Yes, there are places more powerful than others. But to come to rest, to balance yourself, to heal yourself, to expand your consciousness and to be One with Me, you can enjoy any naturally pure place I have created. All my places are originally empowered with My Love and Fullness. They are Blessed with my joyful play, in which my animal-, plant- and mineral kingdoms are rejoicing.

Humanity has deprived itself terribly by neglecting the gifts and display of My Wonders which you can enjoy all over My planet. Living and breathing life is forgotten in the cities and the harmony with Me is disturbed by the currents of your electronic devices. Unfortunately you have chosen a technology that is not in harmony with Me, and that rather works against My natural flow of living life and light.

Return to Me, My Humanity, and live in harmony with Me again! Unite with My Spirit and ground yourself deeply into the Core of My Crystalline Heart.

The healing will be profound and sanity will return! The remedy is here and much closer than most of you think and know.

I Am here to receive you back in My Arms of Love and Nurturing. So that your life can flow again in fullness with the laws of My Powerful Nature. You only need to understand that I Am available to each one of you in all my Sanctuaries.

I Am waiting for you to return and to live again with My Breathing and Living Heart.

Message conveyed by Ute

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