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Chuck Spinney: Deconstructing Russia & Avoiding False Narratives — Interview with Segei Ivanov, Chief of Staff to Vladimir Putin

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Chuck Spinney

Below is the abbreviated transcript of a wide-ranging interview with Segei Ivanov, chief of staff to Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Ivanov, a former KGB officer, is a long-time colleague of Mr. Putin dating back to Leningrad in the 1970s. The interview was conducted in Russian and translated by Kathrin Hille  for the Financial Times.  The summary analysis of this interview by the editors of the Financial Times can be found at this link.  (H/T to Patrick Foy for bringing the interview to my attention.)

This is a long complex interview but well worth the reader’s time.

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SchwartzReport: US 34 out of 35 on Child Poverty in Developed Nations

01 Poverty, 06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 11 Society, Government, Idiocy
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Stephan A. Schwartz

I find it fascinating that the Republican Party puts Paul Ryan forward as their leading economist in the Congress. I find his budget and policies naive, incompetent, and heartless. Partly as a result of thinking such as his American children by the millions are in poverty. Here are the facts.

U.S. is second-worst of 35 developed nations when it comes to child poverty

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Ellen Brown: The TPP Agenda – Alice in Wonderland

01 Poverty, 03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government
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Ellen Brown

Why the TPP Agenda Is Straight out of Alice in Wonderland

The arguments for fast-track are completely ridiculous.

The terms of the TPP and the TiSA are so secret that drafts of the negotiations are to remain classified for four years or five years, respectively, after the deals have been passed into law. How can laws be enforced against people and governments who are not allowed to know what was negotiated?

The TPP, TiSA and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (or TTIP, which covers Europe) will collectively encompass three-fourths of the world’s GDP; and they ultimately seek to encompass nearly 90 percent of GDP. Despite this enormous global impact, fast-track authority would allow the President to sign the deals before their terms have been made public, and send implementing legislation to Congress that cannot be amended or filibustered and is not subject to the constitutional requirement of a two-thirds treaty vote. Read full article.

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Berto Jongman: US-Russian Combat Losses Over Arctic in March? Repeated in May?

04 Inter-State Conflict, 06 Russia, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Military, Peace Intelligence
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Berto Jongman

It is Sorcha Faal so have to take it with a grain of salt. But it would be  frightening stuff if it was really true.

US General Who Stopped World War III After Massive “Arctic Sky Battle” Targeted For Death

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Hans Kern Interviews Robert Steele for Rag ‘n Rock: World Brain II.0 or How We Should End Secrecy and Learn to Harness the Hive Mind

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How We End Secrecy and Harness the Hive Mind

Robert Steele is unusual for an American… he is
clearly internationalist in his orientation. He has
written a book that can bring us together in facing
our greatest enemies: ignorance, poverty, and mistrust.

Rear Admiral Hamit Gulemre Aybars,
Turkish Navy (retired)

A conversation with Mr. Robert Steele, former spy, honorary hacker, #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, the most published intelligence reformer in the English language, and persistent champion of Open Source Everything.

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