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Putin’s Number One Enemy?

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | May 11, 2015

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Below is a fascinating –and I believe important speech– by Putin critic Mr. Bill Browder given on April 20th, 2015 at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs entitled Putin’s Number One Enemy?.  It is fascinating, because of the very personal and up close accounts and the unique delivery style of Mr. Browder; and it is important, because it provides some insight and detail on Putin and his relationship to the criminal oligarchs he must manage to stay in power.  I think  Mr. Browder identifies key elements necessary for Russia to prosper as a nation.  Those elements are the rule of law and the ideal of personal property rights.  It has been proven back in the Soviet era that a single pig farmer who owned his land was ten times more productive than a large collective of the state.  individual protections by law and the right to own land are primary for any society to prosper in my opinion.  These issues also point to what is wrong with America today and how America has strayed from its founding documents.  The Russian people are striving for a new and better way, yet the oligarchs –as in America– seek to secure monopolies and unfair advantage.  A fatal flaw in Mr. Browder’s speech is his unfortunate and mistaken belief that Putin invaded Ukraine, but much of the remaining is well worth your time.

While Mr. Browder is affable, likable and seemingly very approachable, he definitely has an insider’s pedigree evidenced by his massive fortune, attendance at Davos and his personal friendship with former Managing Director of Goldman Sachs Muneer A. Satter who provides the introduction to this speech.  Not only this, the money laundering bank, HSBC, serves as the trustee and manager at Browder’s Hermitage Capital Management Company. BTW,  HSBC was fined almost $2 billion for laundering money for the Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and Colombia’s Norte del Valle cartel.

And of course you should know I can’t agree with some of the default positions of the sponsor (The Chicago Council on Global Affairs) regarding Russian aggression against Ukraine which is a myth whipped up by Western globalists and their vassal media organs. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, was founded in 1922 and includes a who’s who of elites from Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve, Boeing and token political lightweight elite wannabes like Michelle Obama.

Show notes from The Chicago Council on Global Affairs:

“In 2013 foreign investment in Russia reached a record high of $94 billion and Bloomberg Business called it one of the “50 Best Countries to do Business In.” Just one year later, the Ukraine crisis decimated Russia’s international standing, and the country’s economic fortunes plummeted in tandem with the value of the ruble. As the relationship between Russia and the West continues to deteriorate, economic problems appear of little concern to Vladimir Putin—a fact that former hedge-fund manager Bill Browder attributes to the endemic corruption among top Russian officials. Since 2005, Browder has publicly lambasted Putin for leading a regime he characterizes as brutal and corrupt, comparing it with a widespread criminal enterprise. Can Russia’s aggressive actions be attributed solely to Mr. Putin, or do they instead represent a return to the politics of Russia’s past? And as companies continue to invest in Russia and other emerging markets, what lessons can they take from Browder’s brush with Vladimir Putin’s Russia?”

Putin’s Number One Enemy?  The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (Apr 20, 2015):

Mr Browder has also written a book about his experience in Russia entitled Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice.

Additional Reading from ClearNFO related to The Chicago Counsel of Global Affairs:

George Friedman, “Europe: Destined for Conflict?”

More on HSBC and the illegal drug industry:

HSBC Bank: Secret Origins To Laundering The World’s Drug Money

 

The CIA, the NSA and Google

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | January 26, 2015

Well, folks here are two articles to really sink your teeth into. I know I will. There appears to be a ton of new data that is well-researched.   The first article is Part 1 of 2 and is jammed-packed with new details I have never seen before about ‘The Highlands Group’ now named the ‘The Highlands Forum’ presumably for legal reasons: to side step the requirements under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).  After reading Quigley’s ‘Anglo-American Establishment’, I have been keen to find the remnants of the Milner Group’s intellectual and operational offspring and more importantly the current control structure. There may be a few breadcrumbs here and maybe a loaf of bread or two.   In any event, after careful study, I’ll be trying to nit these pieces together perhaps in a future article or video. In the meantime enjoy these two pieces from Nafeez Ahmed…

 INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’

The origins of this ingenious strategy trace back to a secret Pentagon-sponsored group, that for the last two decades has functioned as a bridge between the US government and elites across the business, industry, finance, corporate, and media sectors. The group has allowed some of the most powerful special interests in corporate America to systematically circumvent democratic accountability and the rule of law to influence government policies, as well as public opinion in the US and around the world. The results have been catastrophic: NSA mass surveillance, a permanent state of global war, and a new initiative to transform the US military into Skynet.

Part 1: How the CIA made Google
By Nafeez Ahmed

Part 2: Why Google made the NSA
by Nafeez Ahmed

Update…

Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance  by Jeff Nesbit | December 8, 2017

Jeff Nesbit is the executive director of Climate Nexus, a non-profit communications organization that works on climate and clean energy issues and solutions. He was the director of legislative and public affairs at the National Science Foundation during the Bush and Obama administrations. He was also former vice president Dan Quayle’s communications director at the White House, and former FDA Commissioner David Kessler’s public affairs chief at the Food and Drug Administration. He was a national journalist with Knight-Ridder newspapers and others, and currently writes opinion pieces for The New York Times, Time, and US News & World Report. He’s written multiple books and novels. His next book is THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS with Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press. It will be available in 2018.

Davos (2015)

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davosAre you excited? Davos starts tomorrow. It is not just a town, but an event.  Anyone who is anyone will be in attendance. It’s where the SUPERCLASS go to wheel and deal and of course party. You can bet that David Rothkopf will be there! Here you will find many puffed egos and self-appointed masters of the universe, most of whom know they are your betters. Were you invited to Davos this year? Well, neither was I.   Just in case you get lost, Davos is just down the road a bit from Basel, Switzerland home of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Financial Stability Board (FSB).   The venue of the 2015 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is of course Davos, Switzerland where more than 2,500 leaders from government, business and society will gather for the 45th annual conference Jan. 21-24.

David Rothkopf wrote a tell-all book about the SUPERCLASS. Only one problem, he kept tripping over his own ego. As one book reviewer noted:

“This book takes a LOT of time to say very little. In summary, here’s what the author takes several hundred pages to tell us:

a) The world is ruled by an informal group of about 6,000 people;
b) I [the author] am one of them! Aren’t I special?
c) I know who the others are—but I’m not going to tell you!
d) They all get together once each year in Davos;
e) Davos is quaint, and has good restaurants, but inadequate lodging; and,
f) Oh, did I forget to tell you? I’M one of the Davos world elite! I AM special!”

Yes, money and status remove even the most intelligent –like Mr. Rothkopf– from their earthly constraints of humility and gratitude, elevating them to the rarefied air breathed only by the select few of yes, the ‘SUPERCLASS’ and that ain’t you bro.

ClearNFO’s review of Rothkopf’s  ‘SUPERCLASS’

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