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I watched the introduction and am looking forward to the rest of what appears to be a three hour program. Thanks so much for posting this.
What I really want to say is this: I just came from Russia Insider and was blown away by the image of the saker falcon there. Now there’s a logo! Stunningly beautiful. If that could be superimposed over the earth in an earth-friendly, protective way like you have on your new blog header it would be ideal IMO.
So far only under 3500 views on YouTube. I can understand that not everybody has the time or mental capacity to be directly informed or rely on original sources with facts. But how many reporters did really read the Lawrov´s speech at UN general assembly, or at least had a glimpse on the official web page of Russian ministry of foreign affairs?! It should be considered a MUST for professional journalists! But nowadays they just copy and paste the PR from Reuters, or even worse bullshit is to be read in tabloids (rumours and hating comments).
I watched Putin here in the UK from the Valdai Club live stream – a tour de force. May I suggest that the aims of the Russian National Liberation Movement be taken into account as well:
http://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/national-liberation-movement-russia-today#.VEqSgL6Ab8t
@ Where-Wolf
Regarding your comments on Jack Layton’s death, I found these two articles below. I have to say I find it astonishing that the cause of death of such a prominent polititian with rising popularity could be kept secret on such bogus grounds as privacy.
When it comes to believing in the purity of their country, and by extension of their government and political system, Canadians are even more gullible than Americans used to be. That he may have been killed is quite plausible, yet even the slightest hint in that direction would be met with outrage and vilification.
Jack Layton’s death still a mystery to most Canadians one year after
http://o.canada.com/news/jack-laytons-death-still-a-mystery-to-most-canadians-one-year-after
Layton’s family still mum on his cause of death
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/layton-s-family-still-mum-on-his-cause-of-death-1.1184771
This is a quality video with superb real-time translation. This is a world-changing speech by Putin. It comes first in the video. He begins with the same warning he gave at Munich in 2007, that he would not hide inside of diplomatic language but would speak the truth. This speech is Munich 2.0 – extremely important.
An English transcript of Putin’s speech is already appearing at his website: President of Russia – Valdai International Discussion Club – it’s still being translated but the first part is published already.
I had to stop early in the speech to get some work done today. I’ll catch up over the weekend. Thanks for all your work, Saker!
What’s clear to me is the information war we fret about so much has already been won in the strategic councils of the growing number of nations who are opting into the multi-polar world. The deluded ones still under the Western spell can come to understand the truth at their leisure, the world needs them less and less every day. What matters are facts on the ground – hearts and minds will follow.
Now it’s a war of hope, inspiration and leadership. I have no praise great enough for President Putin.
My God! Three hours….
But I have not seen the Glaziev/ Khazin video yet!
And this weekend I must finish an online ( professional ) course, yes or yes ( limit date 30 Oct ).
Sometimes I think that I would need another life to make all that I have/I want to do.
Hoping to see it as soon as I can, thank you.
I just finished watching an hour and a half of the Valdai closing session. To me Putin is a man among boys. He’s the only one who repeatedly called out the U.S. as the enemy of peace.
At the beginning of questions and the half-way mark the issue of Palestine and Israel came up, addressed to the seemingly sole man there, Putin. Again he laid it on the line that the Jewish settlements were wrong.
Of course he didn’t get into whether Israel drives the U.S. but in effect he was saying that both the U.S. and Israel were wrong and the source of our disintegrating world.
His joke about the brandy and the cockroach was brilliant which seemed to go over the heads of many but showed just how astute he is.
There’s a story supposedly told by Churchill about Stalin who had such power that when he entered a room people automatically stood up. Churchill said he resolved not to do that at a meeting where Stalin came in (perhaps Yalta). But when the time came and Stalin entered Churchill stood up with the rest as if moved by an immovable force. / Putin on his home ground has that kind of natural power which accounts for why he is hated so much by the haters bred by the wicked witch of the West; and per your preceding post on Putin bashing.
His use of the Russian Bear image was powerful and puts the U.S. eagle with its arrows in its fist to shame. The Statue of Liberty in NY ought to be draped in black until we here in the US repent and change our ways.
His valdai speech was just a more local, toned down version of a response to this a month ago, specifically mentioning russia as one of THE 3 top threats.
but delivered with all the pomp(ous)ceremony and world audience then of a caesar figure.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/barack-obama-un-speech-warn-russia-fight-isis-analysis
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/24/cana-o24.html?view=article_mobile
according to this, layton was anything but a saint–he was elected in 2003-04, first as that party leader, THEN elected as an MP to sit.
The trade union-supported New Democratic Party (NDP) has supported Canada’s participation in a series of US-led wars and interventions, including the 1999 war on Yugoslavia, the Afghan war, the 2004 overthrow of Haiti’s elected president and NATO’s 2011 “regime change” war in Libya.
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The reality is that both of this week’s killings were carried out by lone, misguided and disorientated individuals. All reports indicate that they were not members of a “homegrown” anti-government group, let alone of a foreign terrorist organization.
The Ottawa shooter, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, was living in a homeless shelter in the days before his shooting spree. Residents at the Ottawa shelter told reporters he had behaved extremely erratically.
At a press conference yesterday afternoon, RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson confirmed that there was no link between Zehaf-Bibeau and Martin Couture-Rouleau, the “radicalized” Muslim convert who carried out Monday’s attack in St-Jean.
If the Harper government, aided and abetted by the corporate media, is framing these tragic incidents as terrorist acts, it is because such a narrative serves predetermined reactionary politically ends.
The immediate goal is to rally support for Canada’s participation in the new Mideast war and to rush through legislation giving further repressive powers to the national-security apparatus.
Putin missed to point out that NATO intervention in Kosovo Yugoslavia was put under humanitarian pretext, but infact was to punish [non aligned] Milosevic. Bombing, not military targets but state run factories and corporation. It was in no way sanctioned by UN or international law.
Serbia was not carrying out the required social and economic reforms, meaning it was the last corner of Europe which had not subordinated itself to the US-run neoliberal programs, so therefore it had to be eliminated. That’s from the highest level.
there has not been a single leader like Putin int he world in thelast two generations whyo can do the question and anser on so many tpics and in many forums.
but russia must realise that anglo saxons are relying on raw greed and emotions not on logivc so there is no point in talking to the anglosaxon nations of 5 evil eyes -they know one langauge -that is of pwoer and strenght and can only be sorted out by violence to the anglos specifically and not to their stooges about whom they donot care.
@anon
Rather than musing about Jack Laytons death, I’m concerned about the accident on a Moscow airport which killed the boss of TOTAL a few days ago. After all Christophe de Margerie was rather clear in his refusal of the sanctins and TOTAL was expanding business in Russia.
Dear The Saker,
Thank you :).
@Fred
RT had it live and was repeating every hour main points and highlights so I think it was seen by a lot more people ;).
Rgds,
Veritas
Jack Layton was just another hack politician at the trough of public funds, like his father, his wife, and his son.
He even lived in public subsidized housing.
There are those who feel there should be a brass memorial plaque to him on the sidewalk outside the brothel at Dundas and Spadina where he was found nude with an Asian masseuse. He claimed that he was “investigating” the place.
He’s not a folk hero, and it’s very cynical the way some people try to make him out to be a hero of the people.
It’s one thing to be a salfish politico, but it’s somehow more disgusting whe you are that but also wrap yourself in a holier-than-thou saintlike robe.
To those getting on Jack Layton’s case (most of whom don’t seem to be Canadian):
The NDP has had a decidedly mixed history on foreign affairs, to be sure–and the current leader, Tom Mulcair, is something of a pro-Israel hawk, which annoys me quite a bit. But that still leaves the party a vast improvement over other Canadian parties, whose history has been largely negative. And it’s certainly no excuse for ragging on Jack Layton, a man who was often denounced as “Taliban Jack” by the, in local parlance, Anglo-Zionist right wing for his opposition to the war in Afghanistan and his calls for negotiation with the people who commanded the allegiance of half the country (of course, now the same bunch are negotiating with them–but Layton was right far too early). Layton during his tenure as NDP leader was by far the most responsible voice on foreign affairs in mainstream politics–also on many other issues. He pulled in his horns on some matters after a much-excoriated comment personally blaming Paul Martin for the deaths of homeless people–but he was right; Martin’s elimination of public housing programs led directly and predictably to increased homelessness and to people dying of cold on the streets of Toronto. This kind of link between policies and their real-world consequences is largely forbidden in public discourse nowadays but we would be the healthier for it if more politicians pointed them out. Layton was not a perfect leader, but he was the best we had at the time by a few kilometers.
The only way I would be interested in Layton’s cause of death would be if a Wikileak came up showing the CIA fed him carcinogens.
I notice that an Anonymous is peddling some of the usual recycled and debunked lies about Layton, incidentally. He and his wife did indeed live in co-op housing: That is, co-op housing with a mix of people paying low rates and people paying market rates to subsidize the others. Layton paid market rates.
As to the massage no, Layton didn’t claim he was investigating the place. He claimed he was getting a massage, duh. He’d been referred there by his doctor, and his wife knew he was there. Not that it would be politically relevant if it were different . . .
Many of the people who wanted to make a saint of Jack Layton were in the homeless community of Toronto, for whom he fought long and hard both “in the trenches” and as a city councillor. I might have been happy if Jack Layton as NDP leader had been a bit more substantively to the left. But it’s absolutely clear the man’s heart was in the right place, that he had a vision of things better for people and worked indefatigably to see it realized; the only people trying to paint him as just-another-corrupt-politician are backers of empire who want no threats to the status quo to ever be admitted to have been positive. They’d see Tommy Douglas slimed if they could.
Rather than spend my time countering negative propaganda, allow me to offer something many people have seen. This is what Jack Layton composed as he was dying, the core message in his final letter to the public:
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
Thank you, Le Bon Jack.
Speaking of the NDP, please also note that Canada’s NDP is completely in agreement with Harper on the Ukraine, and strongly supports the Poroshenko regime. They want those fanatic Ukrainian votes, and they don’t care what they need to do to get them.
The thing about Jack Layton was that, whatever the merits of his political philosophy, he seemed like a decent human being, which is unusual for a Canadian politician most of whom seem to be obnoxious jackasses: Harper, Ignatieff, Martin, etc.
Overall a perfect performance by President Putin.
If I had nurtured any doubts about Mr. Putin capacity to lead Russsia, they would have been put to rest by his outstanding marathon of straightforward answers and explanations.
This Valdai Club Q&A session will be reference material for a long time to come.
This video is truly the consecration of a great statesman for all of us to contemplate.
Dearest Saker,
Wonderful job, as always. Thank you kindly for your perseverance. It is greatly appreciated in regard to all of humanity seeking victory in the truth. Being on the front line is not the safest place to be. Looking a where you’ve come Sir, is a glimpse into the good prevailing. Even in small doses, the is joy found in that light of truth never being burned out. Blessings! Praying for Peace
@Fred
“So far only under 3500 views on YouTube…”
Nope, there were 47,753 views (US Pacific time 11:30pm) the video. There are more than one sites available viewing. Not sure if Youtube cumulative added all viewers. I download and watched the full length and enjoyed it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9F9pQcqPdKo
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20141024/194488415/LIVE-Vladimir-Putin-Attends-11th-Annual-Valdai-Discussion-Club.html
Kindest regards
JC
He spoke straight, with historical awareness and clarity toward present matters.
What’s revelatory is that he can speak – and think – for himself.
One can’t help but think that some rare bird is on one’s side, the side of humanity, the side of the human heart.
Quite telling that his straightforwardness combined with a conscience – qualities indigenous to all human beings – are traits so rarely preserved and nurtured to maturity in an adult human being, much less a head of state, that it’s a cause for celebration. Still, it’s a sincere, simple, essential victory.
Esepcially enjoyable when some of the questioners (Americans, of course) try to twist his words and accuse him of positions he does not hold. Putin not only corrects them, but points to examples of US foreign policy (Libya) and things said by American dignitaries (Biden), and responds “I didn’t do that. Your policy did that” and “I didn’t say that. Your own statesmen said that.”
Anyone with a sliver of an ability to think for themselves, exposed to his largely mild, always blunt, ever-unyielding rationale, is in danger of succumbing to clarity regarding the political state of our world. That’s why the US elite despises him to the point of death. Intelligence and honesty are feared, mocked, and reviled in America.
dear Saker,
a public endorsement of your work.
If you are not already aware, I am pleased to introduce you to The Saker, a pseudonym for a high level US military analyst who lives in Florida. No, it is not me. Be sure to read the interview with Saker, which is at the bottom of the article: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics_media_watch/2014/10/24/04-54-03pm/cia_running_defamation_campaign_against_putin
dear Saker,
a public endorsement of your work.
Paul Craig Roberts
If you are not already aware, I am pleased to introduce you to The Saker, a pseudonym for a high level US military analyst who lives in Florida. No, it is not me. Be sure to read the interview with Saker, which is at the bottom of the article: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics_media_watch/2014/10/24/04-54-03pm/cia_running_defamation_campaign_against_putin
That speech will be torn to shreds by Western MSM and used as propaganda to demonise Putin further.
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How dare that plump inarticulate woman, raise her stupid questions, without ANY historical context at all. “I don’t recognize merica at all in ur descriptions mr Pewtin”. The essence of an indoctrinated western world, where ignorance begets arrogance.
I watched all three hours.
Putin was restrained but he also looked very cocky. I didn’t appreciate it. Now with Soros in on the act I’m convinced these guys are just sealing the deal from Minsk to Milan.
Politicians are assholes.
Putin may not like the rules but he plays by them with purpose.
Meanwhile the jackboot keeps stomping.
I agree with everything Putin said.
I watched the entire video.
Btw…Z you are absolutely correct!
I really wish this video would be uploaded with English subtitles. I don’t like listening to a voice-over; it masks the inflection of the speaker. I think MOST people would prefer subtitles, to be honest.