Q&A

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Joining me today is James Corbett, founder of The Corbett Report, for a very special three part watch-along culminating with the live (pirate streamed) world premiere of The Corbett Report’s third part in the series titled: False Flags: A Secret History of Al Qaeda. We will be pirate-streaming the first two parts of this series, Read More...

Russian President Vladimir Putin held his annual televised question-and-answer session, with over two million questions submitted from Russian citizens.
This year’s event is Putin’s 16th Q&A.
One question Putin received referenced the new cold war between East and West, and whether this could lead to a hot World War 3.
Putin noted that such a scenario would be “an end of civilization” event, and awareness of this should be enough to restrain international powers from engaging in global conflict.

Some 1.1 million Jews and more than 100,000 other prisoners were murdered between 1940 and 1945 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, making it the site of the largest mass execution of human beings ever recorded.
Dr. Piotr Cywiski, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial speaks out about “incitement to hatred and exclusion” during the Nazi era and in our current world in an interview to Faces of Democracy.
Excerpts:

Elena Shifrina’s Bite health snacks were the first-ever Russian food to serve as the “official snack” of the London Marathon this year

Healthy snacks entrepreneur Elena Shifrina was Forbes Startup of the Year in 2013, Ernst and Young (EY) Startup of the Year in 2014 in the Food Project category, Russia’s Exporter of the Year in 2016 and a mentor and jury member of the Forbes Young Billionaires Club in 2016.
In an article earlier in August, Forbes called her “the face of the healthy snacks sector in Russia”.

“We see this as a very strong and practical reaffirmation of China’s support to multilateralism in the United Nations,” Moller said [Xinhua]
When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, he will also be visiting Geneva where he is expected to meet with UN officials.
He is expected to visit the United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG), the World Health Organization and the International Olympics Committee.

Children in Aleppo have been particularly vulnerable in the siege of the city; hundreds have been killed in both government and rebel-held districts of the city [Xinhua]
The BRICS Post interviewed two signatories to a letter sent to BRICS leaders at the conclusion of the 8th BRICS Summit in Goa, India.

South Africa’s collaboration in BRICS is aimed at contributing in a positive manner to the formation of global solutions to global challenges, says Nkoana-Mashabane [XInhua]
The BRICS Post (TBP) editor-in-chief Zeenat Saberin recently interviewed South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane about the challenges of violence the continent faces, and the prospects of regional and global cooperation.

The youth bulge leads to technological innovation as we see currently in places like southern California, Inayatullah says [Xinhua]
The BRICS economies are rising global powers whose young population and sheer size give them huge potential.
In 2015, a special edition of Policy in Focus, a United Nations Development Programme report, urged BRICS countries to focus on generating employment opportunities for youth as a means of meeting development projections.

ACRA wants to guarantee that investors receive in-depth quality analyses of Russian credit risk [Xinhua]
The BRICS Post (TBP) editor-in-chief Zeenat Saberin recently interviewed Ekaterina Trofimova, the first Chief Executive Officer of Russia’s new Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA).