Date: September 27, 2021Author: Rick Rozoff1 Comment

updates.. Latest figures put police deaths at 13, with 2 claimed to be beheaded. No numbers available for demonstrators deaths, but videos show dozens of bodies. A bloody battle is now likely as troops face newly armed insurrectionists .. see also> The Uprising in Kazakhstan / news and interview.. from Crimethinc

Analyst Alya Kaminskaya does not rule out that the Pentagon seeks to use the Almaty hub [in Kazakhstan] as “an air base for reconnaissance and military cargo planes.”

A police car on fire during clashes with protesters in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. © AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov

She points out that Almaty International Airport no longer belongs to Kazakhstan since news emerged in May that 100% of its shares had been purchased by Turkey’s TAV Airports Holding.

“There are two alarming things. First, Turkey is an active NATO member and the Americans can benefit from Ankara’s geopolitical expansion into Central Asia and the South Caucasus,” military expert retired Colonel Shamil Gareev noted.

“Second, the Almaty airfield is the closest to China. For the US and Turkey, it is a perfect facility for reconnaissance activities related to China, including the Xinjiang Autonomous Region,” he added.

see also.. Pentagon seeks to gain foothold in Kazakhstan against China

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According to military expert, retired Lieutenant General Yuri Netkachev, “another reason why the US and Turkey are interested in Kazakhstan is because the country produces about 40% of the world’s raw uranium.

“If the Americans and Turks manage to put Russia and Kazakhstan at odds with each other, they might try to choke off our Strategic Nuclear Forces. So, Russia should better maintain friendly relations with Kazakhstan in order to be able to protect its strategic interests,” the expert noted.

Updates: CSTO invokes Article 4, sends troops to Kazakhstan

Date: January 5, 2022Author: Rick Rozoff2 Comments

The world news is uniformly vague about what constitutes the opposition and who the insurgents are.

Much is made of the word nationalist but no information is available about the role of pro-Western, pan-Turkic and Islamist factions, for example. The government Kazinform news site has been offline all day.

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TASS: CSTO Council decides to send collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan

Trend News Agency: CSTO sends its peacekeepers to Kazakhstan

Reuters: Armenia says peacekeepers from Russian-led alliance to go to Kazakhstan

Massis Post: Armenia’s PM Announced CSTO to Dispatch “Collective Peacekeeping Forces” to Kazakhstan

Sputnik News: Videos. CSTO to Deploy Peacekeeping Forces to Kazakhstan as Fighting Reportedly Starts in Almaty.

112 Ukraine: Eight police and national guard troops dead, 317 injured during unrest in Kazakhstan

Interfax: State of emergency imposed across all of Kazakhstan over mass unrest

TASS: Security at Baikonur spaceport’s key facilities tightened, Roscosmos chief says

Xinhua: Tokayev vows “tough” response as situation in Kazakhstan “extremely tense”

Deutsche Welle: Kazakhstan president confirms takeover of Almaty airport

News.am: Kazakh protesters seize Kazakh president’s residence and destroy TV channels premises

Belarusian Telegraph Agency: MFA: Belarus is concerned over developments in Kazakhstan

RT: ‘Nationalists are on the rise’: How protests in Kazakhstan turned violent & why Russia can’t stay silent

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Background on crisis in Kazakhstan

Whatever the nature of the steadily mounting conflict in Kazakhstan, whether it was initially and remains motivated by rising gasoline prices as in France with the emergence of the Yellow Vest movement three years ago, or whether it has been or is developing into something more political – and geopolitical – will become more clear in the ensuing days.

Irrespective of the nature and course of the situation, this background information is worth recalling.

Kazakhstan is one of three nations bordering both Russia and China, far the most strategically vital one at that. (The others are Mongolia and North Korea.)

It is a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Collective Security Treaty Organization, Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the recently-renamed Organization of Turkic States as well as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

It also was among the first former Soviet states to join a NATO partnership program, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, in 1992, which was replaced by the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council/Partnership for Peace in 1997, Kazakhstan remaining a member in the new structure. In 2006 it became the first non-European nation to sign an Individual Partnership Action Plan with NATO.

It borders three of the other four former Soviet Central Asian republics: Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. There were uprisings and so-called color revolutions in Kyrgyzstan in 2005 and 2010 and in Uzbekistan in 2005. Kazakhstan accounts for some 60% of Central Asia’s gross domestic product, mainly through natural gas and oil production and distribution.

Kazakhstan is one of five Caspian Sea littoral states, along with Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia and Turkmenistan.

It hosts the Baikonur Cosmodrome, leased to Russia, the world’s largest space launch facility.

Kazakhstan’s border with Russia, at 7,000 kilometers, is the longest continuous land border in the world.

In several significant ways it is a geostrategically vital country. It could be argued that there is none more so.

Background:

Kazakhstan: U.S., NATO Seek Military Outpost Between Russia And China

Kazakhstan: U.S. Planning NATO Naval Base On Caspian Sea?

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The Bristol Activist

Colston 4 Trial: How They Won It / Colston / Colston 4 / Trial of the Colston 4

The trial saw plenty of complex legal arguments, but ultimately it came down to a question of doing the right thing.

With the verdict in the Colston 4 trial announced, many, not least the right-wing media and Twitterati, are asking how the defendants managed to win what seemed like a clear-cut case against them. 

With video evidence of them committing the charges against them, Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Jake Skuse and Sage Willoughby were left to argue that their actions were morally justified.

Speaking after yesterday’s verdict, Raj Chada, of Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors, who defended Graham, said that the defence came down to ‘the righteousness of the cause.’

He also said that a conviction would be a disproportionate interference with the defendants’ rights to free speech and conscience. 

So what does this look like in practice?

Preventing Greater Harm

One of the arguments put forward by Mr Chada, and the other defendants’ lawyers, was that in pulling down the statue, the four were in fact ‘preventing a crime from happening’ as ‘it was a criminal offence to keep that statue up, because it was so offensive.’

Or, to put it in legalese, the statue constituted an indecent display under Section 1 of the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981, according to Liam Walker, the barrister who appeared for Sage Willoughby.  

I believe I had a lawful excuse, preventing further harm to the people of Bristol

The view that the statue itself was the real act of vandalism was evidenced by testimonies in the courtroom. 

Gloria Daniels, a Bristol resident and descendant of former enslaved people, submitted a statement to the court during the trial. In it she said she felt a ‘wave of huge relief,’ when she learned of the toppling. 

She went on to say that ‘the statue of a slave trader had remained up for so long, and without contextualisation, was in my view profoundly shameful.’

During the trial it was noted that Bristol City Council, who owned the statue, had multiple opportunities to remove the statue following petitions to that effect and general public sentiment against the statue, as was confirmed by the council’s head of culture and creative industry. 

In his evidence to the court, Ponsford recounted how he himself had signed petitions to have the statue removed, but felt that the council had ‘abandoned’ the issue. 

He said: ‘I believe I had a lawful excuse to damage that statue, preventing further harm to the people of Bristol.’

Meanwhile, Skuse, who was accused of helping roll the statue to the harbour, said: ‘If there was racist graffiti on the wall, the council would remove it. But they didn’t remove this statue.’

In comments after the trial, Mr Chada said that it was wrong of the council to allow the statue to stand for so long, and that: ‘If the democratic process wasn’t going to do it for the council, then these four individuals were going to do it,’ he said. 

Context is Key

Despite the best efforts of the prosecution to maintain a narrow focus on the acts of the defendants, the trial turned on the wider context in which those acts took place.

Each defendant spoke at length of their motivations to act against the Colston statue based on the latter’s involvement in the slave trade and responsibility for tens of thousands of deaths. 

In her initial police interview, Graham is reported to have said: ‘Whether [the toppling] is criminal or not, I think, is up for debate… because of all the context around the statue, and the fact that people have campaigned to take it down… and it is just an abhorrent offence to a lot of the population of Bristol.’

The defendant’s arguments of context were substantiated by the expert evidence of historian and TV presenter David Olusoga. 

On December 17th, Olusoga told the jury of how Colston became deputy governor of the Royal African Company, which held a monopoly on slave trading in the 17th Century. 

He also described the way in which Colston’s legacy has been managed and moulded over the years by the Society of Merchant Venturers, of which Colston was a member during his lifetime. Olusoga said that the Society sought to focus attention on Colston’s later philanthropy and not his slave trading. 

Day 4: Edward Colston was “heavily involved” in the most prolific slave trading organisation in British history, celebrated historian @DavidOlusoga told the jury. https://t.co/xEov4TDA8S— The Bristol Cable (@TheBristolCable) December 17, 2021

Beyond helping to convince the jury, Olusoga’s testimony helped broadcast the truth about Colston’s, and Bristol’s, role in the slave trade to a wider audience than ever before. 

Speaking after yesterday’s verdict, Graham gave thanks to David Olusoga for the testimony he gave, which, she said, amounted to ‘a two-hour lecture on slavery and the empire’ in the court.

This trial did not set any new legal precedents. However, Mr Chada stated his desire that the trial should signal to other judges and courts that juries should be given full information about a case, including all relevant context and background. 

Precedent

Yesterday’s verdict was surely shocking to some given the evidence against the defendants. However, it was not unprecedented. 

The verdict gives us hope that conscience and justice can win

The jury’s decision follows at least three high profile acquittals last year. In June, the Ziegler case in the Supreme Court – in which Mr Chada was also involved – vindicated activists charged with obstruction of the highway. The court found that obstruction can, in certain circumstances, be considered lawful. 

In December, three members of Palestine Action were acquitted on charges of criminal damage after the magistrate determined that the prosecution had failed to prove that convicting the defendants would be proportionate with their freedom to protest, A similar argument was made in regard to the Colston 4 as well. 

Later in December, six members of XR employed the Ziegler defence and were acquitted by a jury for climbing onto and glueing onto a Docklands Light Railway train in London. 

The Colston trial also drew on the Ziegler verdict, with the jury being required to consider whether conviction would be proportionate with regard to the Human Rights Act 1998. 

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The right-wing press are already decrying yesterday’s verdict as granting a “licence to destroy” But as Priti Patel’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which makes a specific offence of damaging a statue, nears passing into law, the reality is that many of us will face trials like this one. 

Yesterday’s verdict, and that of the Ziegler case, are a lesson in how to win against the odds. They give us hope that conscience and justice can win and that a better world is possible.

What did you think of the trial and the verdict? What does this mean for other activists? Leave a comment below.

The Bristol Activist

The Fall of Colston: Where Do We Go From Here?

Ellie Sandy celebrates Bristol’s anti-racist response to the rethinking of Edward Colston, and urges us to continue scrutinizing Britain’s history of…

CENSORED: $4.5 TRILLION Bank Bailout 4th Quarter 2019 Months Before COVID .. Exceeded 2008 Bailouts from Tap News / Weaver and A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Systemic Collapse and Pandemic Simulation

“We’re looking at a form of corporate tyranny previously unseen in America.”
Pam Martens, Wall Street on Parade.

by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News

Pam and Russ Martens of Wall Street on Parade have reported on the mega giant bank bailouts during the 4th quarter of 2019, just months before COVID was declared to be a “pandemic” giving further evidence from a series of events at the end of 2019 that the “war on the virus” that has enslaved the entire world, was all planned long in advance by the Globalists.

Not reported in the media, either corporate news media nor anywhere else in the Alternative Media that I have seen, the Martens have exposed the fact that the bailouts of the biggest banks in New York far exceeded the bailouts during the 2008 financial crises.

This bailout of Wall Street in 2008 was the fuel that gave rise to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement that started in September of 2011, and spread around the world.

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How Big Capital is using the Pandemic shutdown to Bailout and delay inevitable Capitalist Collapse + How to Beat Covid..

The Fed’s Power-Move in 2019 Exposed

Four days ago, the Federal Reserve released the names of the banks that had received $4.5 trillion in cumulative loans in the last quarter of 2019 under its emergency repo loan operations for a liquidity crisis that has yet to be explained.

Among the largest borrowers were JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, three of the Wall Street banks that were at the center of the subprime and derivatives crisis in 2008 that brought down the U.S. economy.

That’s blockbuster news. But as of 7 a.m. this morning, not one major business media outlet has reported the details of the Fed’s big reveal.

We reported on it the following day.Those Fed revelations, that had been withheld from the American people for two years, should have made front page headlines in newspapers and on the digital front pages of every major business news outlet.

Instead, there was a universal news blackout of the story at the largest business news outlets, including: Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal, the business section of the New York Times, the Financial Times, Dow Jones’ MarketWatch, and Reuters.

The newsrooms covering Wall Street megabanks now demanding similar gag orders from journalists? We’ve never before seen a total news blackout of a financial news story of this magnitude in our 35 years of monitoring Wall Street and the Fed.

Theories abound as to why this current story is off limits to the media. One theory goes like this: the Fed has made headlines around the world in recent months over its own trading scandal – the worst in its history.

Why might such an outcome be a problem for media outlets in New York City?

Three of the serially charged banks (JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup) are actually owners of the New York Fed – the regional Fed bank that played the major role in doling out the bailout money in 2008, and again in 2019.

And the New York Fed and its unlimited ability to electronically print money.

Read the full article here.

Donald Trump, who was the President of the United States when all these banks were creating money to give to themselves at the end of 2019, also has significant business holdings in New York City, as does Pfizer.

And while Trump is currently making the media rounds to promote his Pfizer bioweapon shots, and telling his fanatic followers that he is against mandating the gene-altering shots, if you try to have dinner or enter his Trump Towers in NYC, this is the sign you will see.

So much for being “against mandates.” Trump has always been a person where you need to ignore what comes out of his mouth, and actually watch what he does.

Redditors Raged Against the News Blackout of the Fed’s Bailout – Then All Hell Broke Loose When They Learned the Wall Street Banks Literally Own the New York Fed

Excerpts:

We were attempting to hold the Fed, Big Media, and the Wall Street megabanks accountable with our article yesterday on mainstream media’s news blackout of the Fed’s release of the names of the Wall Street trading houses that got $4.5 trillion in cumulative repo loans from the Fed in the last quarter of 2019 – long before the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the U.S. on January 20, 2020. (The full tally came to $11.23 trillion in cumulative repo loans from September 17, 2019 through July 2, 2020.)

But when a Reddit group that calls itself “Superstonk” spotted our article and posted it in their comment section, our website got caught in the crosshairs. The traffic to our article was so heavy at times that our website couldn’t be accessed from either a laptop or a cell phone……

….“Wait. The banks…own the New York Fed…and can loan themselves unlimited amounts of money at practically 0% interest… in secret…? What. The. F***” [Asterisks added.].. Read the full article here.

America is run by criminals. They just pulled the greatest coup in probably the history of the human race, without firing a single shot or sending in a single soldier.

They printed themselves $4.5 trillion

It did not start with the outbreak of COVID in 2020, but it started in the Fall of 2019 where they enriched themselves with the capital they needed to pull off this coup, and then their puppet politician, fellow Wall Street Billionaire Donald Trump, followed their directions to implement Operation Warp Speed to get the gene-altering injections produced and injected into the population…

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How Big Capital uses the Pandemic to bailout and delay capitalist collapse without hyperinflation. And in the process to grab mega profits and permanent citizen control by the elite.

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Systemic Collapse and Pandemic Simulation

By Fabio Vighi at https://thephilosophicalsalon

.. Some may have started wondering why the usually unscrupulous ruling elites decided to freeze the global profit-making machine in the face of a pathogen that targets almost exclusively the unproductive (over 80’s). Why all the humanitarian zeal? Cui bono?

Continue reading “Banks that own Fed stole $4,500,000,000,000- TRILLION – in repo Bailout just before using COVID lockdown for cover.”

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1982 and its class war in the class rooms.

Pictured ..press clipping from the time and some of the editions we have, and a PDF of a later edition (1984) produced by Sheffield Anarchists… PDF below last picture..enjoy…

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December 31, 2021 by Dave Lindorff

The Pentagon’s $35 Trillion Accounting Black Hole

The Pentagon failed its audit amid a now $35 trillion scandal (yes, trillion) – Lee Camp

That’s what should have been the biggest news of 2021.

Instead, the story, which broke on November 17, was largely ignored or buried.

The nation’s two main newspapers, the Washington Post and the New York Times, have simply ignored it.

Cold War is good for business: US contractors rejoice at the new Red Scare

Other news organizations stenographically quoted Pentagon officials as admitting that they “failed again” but saw “progress,” and as promising that they would achieve a “clean” audit by… get this … 2027.

The Pentagon, with some $3 trillion (give or take a trillion but who’s counting?) in assets and a record current 2021 budget of $738 billion, has for the third year in a row failed its audit.

Read more  Pentagon books so wrong on every level so it’s impossible to detect fraud – Matt Taibbi

An army of 1400 auditors hired by us taxpayers for $230 million and borrowed from some of the biggest auditing firms in the country, spent the past year poring through the books and visiting hundreds of operations of the government’s largest and geographically vastest single agency, and came back with word that they couldn’t give it a pass.

They couldn’t even figure it out.

Continue reading “Pentagon Fails Audit (yet Again!) – $35 TRILLION still MISSING”