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VLADIMIR PUTIN
WHAT TO DO ABOUT HIS MALIGN ACTS
MSNBC Joe Scarborough: Putin Has Used Nuclear Blackmail Against Us, And It's Time We Start Pushing Back
WHAT TO DO ABOUT HIS MALIGN ACTS
MSNBC Joe Scarborough: Putin Has Used Nuclear Blackmail Against Us, And It's Time We Start Pushing Back
Burgess COMMENTARY
I added this comment after I watched the video ... 'I rarely post a comment, but it was so refreshing to hear Joe Scarborough say stuff that really needs to be said. Far too many of the folk who have a public voice in the media are completely unwilling to say things that are patently true but not politically correct nor the public posture of the media organization. Thank you Joe !!!!!!!'
The manner in which Putin and his cronies ... that is enablers ... have extracted wealth from the general society of Russia since the demise of the Soviet Union is obscene. We ... in the free capitalist world ... must get to understand that in many ways it was free and capitalist that enabled the obscene state of affairs in Russia to come about.
In the mid-1990s I was recruited to join KPMG's consulting unit in Washington DC (the KPMG Policy Economics Group which later changed its name to the Barents Group) and got to work with them on a project in Kazakhstan. The assignment had to do with advising on government financial management reform that would better enable the move from a Soviet style economy to one that was more like the free enterprise capitalilst West,
Frankly, I was appalled at the lack of talent among the international consulting community that was deployed in Almaty at that time ... both in the KPMG team and among all the other consulting teams that seemed to be everywhere. By that time I had been working internationally for more than 20 years, and had experience both in corporate management and in government consultancy in various parts of the world. Many consultants that I have worked with have been highly motivated and extremely well trained and competent. In Kazakhstan, the international consultants were not second rate, but struggling to be third rate.
I had one accidental advantage. When I was training in accountancy and doing articles with Cooper Brothers & Co in London (now part of PriceWaterhouseCoopers) I helped compile a survey of the state of accounting in all the countries around the world including what was then the Soviet Union. The work addressed some of the legal framework for corporate accounting as well as some of the characteristics of accounting in the government sector. One of these characteristics for government accounting in the Soviet Union was that the data collection and recording of the data was absolutely rigorous, but the reporting of these data in a meaningful manner completely absent. This was my starting point for the work we were tasked with doing for the Government in Kazakhstan and it helped me to understand better than most what the government accounts were telling us.
Better yet ... it turned out that the government accounting office in Almaty was using some pirated database software ... FoxPro ... that I had also been using in some of my other word. I fairly short order, I was able to modify the FoxPro reporting code in such a way that I was able to read everything in English while the government staff could do what they had to do in Russian.
OUCH ... someone somewhere did not like this !!!!!
During the time I was on leave over the Christmas holiday and back in the USA, KPMG advised me that they were not going to have me go back to Kazakhstan because there was some complaint about the work I was doing. I never was able to learn more than this.
Fast forward about 25 years and it is pretty clear why someone had taken a dislike to my work. With people like me around, the opportunities that the post Soviet elite have created for themselves would have been much more difficult.
Peter Burgess
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Mar 28, 2022
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Joe Scarborough reacts to President Biden's speech in Warsaw on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and why he says it's time to start speaking clearly to Vladimir Putin.
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3,233 Comments
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Peter Burgess 0 seconds ago I rarely post a comment, but it was so refreshing to hear Joe Scarborough say stuff that really needs to be said. Far too many of the folk who have a public voice in the media are completely unwilling to say things that are patently true but not politically correct nor the public posture of the media organization. Thank you Joe !!!!!!!
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青蛍火 - Ao Hotarubi 4 hours ago This is a relief to listen to. It very much makes me appreciate being able to but feelings and thoughts into words. All these things so many are feeling that it’s such a relief to actually hear it being put into words
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Fantom 7X 4 hours ago Well said Joe. Maybe we should revisit the definition of 'coward' and point out that being nice to Putin is an act of cowardness and fear. Thanks and regards from Europe.
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Hans Schmidt 5 hours ago Yes, it is time to push back and to tell the truth about Putin.
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5 hours ago Im so sick of this nuclear threat cycle we should put extremely tough sanctions on anyone that dares to even mention nuclear weapons.
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Kras Mazov, father communard 6 hours ago What do we do with blackmailers and hostage takers? REFUSE to negotiate with them.
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irene Martynuk 4 hours ago Thank you, Joe. I never watched you but after your words about Putin and how it's time he stopped dictating the rules to the west, I will be following you daily. Slava Ukraini!
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LORD LEX 6 hours ago Don't call Ras-putin a president - call him dictator.... that's what he has been for a long time
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Jose Hassan 5 hours ago Thank you Joe, for stating ‘what needed to be said’. Our Democracy, and the World cannot afford a Vladimir Putin, if we desire or expect a more peaceful, creative, constructive, and cooperative future.
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Julesl 6 hours ago Agreed 100%. He uses that threat constantly because he knows it scares everyone. Time to call the kettle black.
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Gary Stotler 2 hours ago (edited) 'For God's Sake, This Man Cannot Remain in Power' Good for tee shirt sales.
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Sam Brunner 4 hours ago THANK YOU for expressing to a national audience what my wife and I have been saying to ourselves, our pet bird, the walls, and anyone else that we could.
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ultradian 4 hours ago Gotta love how there are so many stand-up, great people around anymore.
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Veronique 1 hour ago I agree 100% with you, Joe. Enough of playing mouse with Devil who holds entire world in limbo.. ENOUGH! Way to go, president Biden! More of this courage and decisiveness, please! Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.
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katy bassett 2 hours ago Thank you Joe for telling it straight...President Biden stated what most freedom loving people feel...The truth..
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Endre Fidje 6 hours ago I agree with Biden, he just said what we all feel, Putin has got to go ...
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Karolyn Durrenmatt 2 hours ago I'm so glad to hear the news also backing up the truth about Putin. Yes, yes, yes.
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