Would Think that DU "Foreign Affair's Group" Participants Would find this Fascinating!

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Charlie Rose Interviews Vladimir Putin St. Petersburg Economic Forum

Charlie Rose-- The Week
June 19, 2015

Russian President Vladimir Putin dicusses Russian-US relations, the crisis in Ukraine, and the future of Iran and Syria while in conversation with Charlie Rose at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

***THE FULL 40 MINUTE INTERVIEW AVAILABLE FOR VIEW AT:***

(There is a 1 Minute Commercial at the beginning but is full interview.)

http://charlierose.com/watch/60578912

INTERESTING WATCH...GIVEN OUR GLOBAL SITUATION
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Charlie Rose's Vladimir Putin Interview Takeaway
10:59 AM EDT
June 19, 2015

Charlie Rose reports on his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Rose speaks on “Bloomberg Markets.” (Source: Bloomberg)

[KoKo]

1. EDITED to add a better link to the full interview with Putin from Charlie Rose's website.

[KoKo]

2. A very good watch into the "Mind of Putin" that George Bush Saw....When he "Looked into his Eyes."

Bush II was a bit of an Idiot Savant?

I prefer the "Wise Geek's Definition" of "Idiot Savant" compared to the old outdated versions:

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-an-idiot-savant.htm

An idiot savant is a somewhat derogatory term for a person who has significant mental impairment, such as autism or retardation, but also exhibits some extraordinary skills. The skills of the savant may vary from being exceptionally gifted in music or in mathematics, or having a photographic memory.

Most often, the savant is a person who suffers from extreme autism and cannot reach out to other people in a normal way. He or she may find it extremely difficult to express emotions, to communicate through spoken language, or to use inflection while speaking. Severe autistics function best when they have predictable routines.

Not every person who is autistic has savant abilities. Some appear to be more intelligent than others, but few autistic people are mentally retarded. In fact, because of the dependence on the brain’s right-sided functioning, facility for certain things, like mathematics, their memorization and creative ability may be greater.

Some studies have shown that people who have purposeful interruption of the left side of the brain can develop savant-type skills. Few people wish to participate in such experiments, however, and there are many excellent reasons for not undergoing unnecessary experimentation on the brain.

The savant skills are often called splinter skills. Kim Peek, for example, on whom the film Rain Man was based, has a "photographic" memory. Several recognized artists could be termed idiot savant as well, including Richard Wawro, Alonzo Clemens, and Stephen Wiltshire. Several people with such skills are recognized for their musical gifts, including Matt Savage, an incredibly gifted jazz pianist and composer, and Hikari Oe, a skilled composer.

The term idiot savant dates back to the concept of the “village idiot,” a person who might be tolerated because he or she exhibited certain uncommon skills. In other cases, the exhibition of savant skills, particularly in the Middle Ages, was apt to be considered witchcraft. Unfortunately, a savant cannot necessarily control demonstration of such skills, and some “village idiots” were chased out of their villages or killed.

Today, people more clearly recognize that such people are special because of their brain dysfunction. Not all brain impairment or dysfunction leads to savant skills, however. The term "idiot savant" is outdated and inappropriate. Virtually all savants have a high degree of intelligence and are not idiots. Most people now prefer the term savant or autistic savant instead.

[bemildred]

3. No he is just a spoiled frat boy who never had to grow up at all.

Completely normal, George Bush, leave us abnormal people out of it. Him and Putin saw eye-to-eye because they are the same kind of weasels, but Putin is way the heck smarter than George.

[KoKo]

4. I'll grant you that..

Putin is "way the heck smarter than George." He seems to be able express himself in a more careful, thoughtful, logical way without getting tongue tied or forgetting what he's saying in midstream. That's a hard thing for many in the US NeoCon Establishment to deal with. They keep trying to convince us that Putin is given to the antics of some of the former old "Soviet Union" Premiers. No banging shoes on table or wandering drunk around the Kremlin for Putin. No evil grins or odd twitches that might reveal hints of his former KGB status.

[KoKo]

5. Recommend...because interviews with Allies or Enemies...need a view...

Especially those interviews by noted interviewers like Charlie Rose who is certainly not some "controversial" interviewer.