The veterans of Russia's KGB/FSB were chuckling to themselves, no doubt, as Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) announced his pleasure at Russia’s assumption of the presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20)* nations for 2013. Putin’s "strategic agenda proposed by Russia for the G20 in 2013" is loaded with favorable references to the FSB. The FSB acronym in Putin's "strategic agenda" is not a reference to the dreaded Russian secret police (successor to the Soviet KGB and its earlier incarnations as the NKVD and the Cheka), however; it is a reference to the Financial Stability Board, a new institution created by the G20 leaders in 2009, ostensibly to deal with the economic crisis.
Obama Pushing Trans-Atlantic Union with EU
Even as the European Union continues to pursue ever-closer "integration" in the name of "global governance," Obama is now working to form a "Trans-Atlantic partnership" between the U.S. government and the EU under the guise of a so-called "free trade" agreement. Formally announced in the United States during the president’s State of the Union address, the highly controversial deal — a scheme that has been under discussion since before the current administration came to power — is expected to take at least 18 months to complete. It also has the backing of both Big Business and Big Labor.
