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Kazakh ex-president resurfaces in bid to quell coup fears

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RT
Sat, 29 Jan 2022 15:00 UTC
Nazarbeyev
© Sputnik/Evgeny BiyatovFormer Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev
Nursultan Nazarbayev, the former president of Kazakhstan, has published a video statement, speaking for the first time about the mass unrest that shook the country earlier this month and denying claims that there has been a power struggle among the nation's elite.

The 81-year-old released the clip on Tuesday. He rejected rumors that he had fled the country, saying he continues to reside in the capital.

"There is no conflict or confrontation within the elite," the former president said, seated alone at a desk in front of Kazakh flags. "Rumors to this effect are absolutely groundless."

Nazarbayev emphasized that he had handed over power to the current president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, when he left office in 2019, and said he had been living as a "pensioner" since then.

However, Tokayev is generally considered to be Nazarbayev's hand-picked successor. Many analysts have speculated that he retained a grip on power even after leaving the presidency, through his position as chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan, a post he held until earlier this month.

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Canada PM Justin Trudeau ducking the Great Trucker revolt

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Brownstone Institute
Sat, 29 Jan 2022 19:34 UTC
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© Facebook/Crowds greet the convoy
The resistance reveals itself always in unexpected ways. As I type, thousands of truckers (numbers are in flux and are in dispute) are part of a 50-mile-long convoy in Canada, headed to the capital city of Ottawa in protest against an egregious vaccine mandate imposed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. They will be joined upon arrival by vast numbers of protestors who are defying the restrictions, closures, and mandates of the last nearly two years.

The triple-vaccinated Trudeau, meanwhile, has decided that he has to go into deep hiding because he was exposed to Covid. A clean, ruling-class, fit, and fashionable lefty like him cannot be expected to face such a pathogen directly. As a member of the vanguard of the lockdown elite, he must never take risks (however small) and must keep himself safe. It is merely a matter of coincidence that he will be locked away in hiding as the truckers arrive together with hundreds of thousands of citizens who are fed up with being treated like lab rats.

Previously, Trudeau had said nearly two years ago that the truckers were heroes. On March 31, 2020, he tweeted: "While many of us are working from home, there are others who aren't able to do that - like the truck drivers who are working day and night to make sure our shelves are stocked. So when you can, please #ThankATrucker for everything they're doing and help them however you can."
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Western press stunned as Ukraine leader faults them for rise in tensions

Nury Vittachi
Friday
Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:09 UTC
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© Office of the President of UkraineUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Under the surface is a very different tale of the Ukrainian tensions

In a stunning and unexpected outburst this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that his country's current problems came from the west rather than the east.

The fears of a looming war were built on news stories that Russia had troops on the border it shares with the country — but this was not unusual, and there had been a similar assembly of soldiers a year ago, he said.

The truth was that threat level had not changed, he told a press conference this week.

Furthermore, the real threat to Ukraine was not Russia, but the "destabilisation of the situation inside the country" he told journalists.

The cause of the panic was the press itself, Zelensky said.

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Best of the Web: UK psychologists slam government's 'nudge unit' use of 'grossly unethical' scare tactics during Covid

Jacob Thorburn
The Daily Mail
Thu, 20 Jan 2022 19:21 UTC
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Posters employing 'Nudge Unit' tactics to garner voluntary compliance with Britain's lockdown policies
Psychologists have warned the Government's 'nudge unit' manipulated fear tactics in a manner akin to China to coerce a terrified public into following strict Covid rules.

MPs are set to launch a probe into the behaviour of the civil servants behind No 10's 'nudge unit' - used by Downing Street to subtly influence public behaviour - amid fears they employed 'grossly unethical' tactics in a manner similar to those seen in authoritarian states.

40 psychologists co-signed a letter to Parliament's Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, warning of amoral adverts that used slogans like: 'Stay home to save lives' and 'if you go out and spread it, people will die'.

Comment: It's clear that governments look upon their citizens as an unruly herd to be managed, not a populace they have a responsibility for. A deeper look at the mind control techniques employed by the Behavioural Insights Team:

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What explains the Croatian President's criticism of NATO's anti-Russian policies?

Andrew Korybko
One World
Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:00 UTC
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Croatian President Zoran Milanovic surprised everyone when he declared that he'll withdraw all of his country's soldiers from NATO operations in the event that tensions escalate with Russia. He also disassociated Croatia from the bloc's latest anti-Russian moves in the region. Observers were shocked since this Balkan nation is traditionally regarded as being solidly within the US-led West's sphere of influence. It's also been extremely antagonistic against Serbia, which is considered Russia's closest regional partner, since even before the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia.

Those perceptions, however, aren't exactly accurate even though they've been pushed by both the Mainstream Media and the Alt-Media Community (AMC) for years, each for their own self-serving political reasons. It's fashionable to oversimplify Balkan geopolitics by claiming that Croatia is a Western ally while Serbia is a Russian one and then imagining that this means that Zagreb and Moscow can never have any pragmatic cooperation with one another. That's not true, though, as the author explained in his May 2018 analysis titled "Serbs, Listen Up! Here's Why Russia's Getting Chummy With Croatia".

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Ukraine Gambit - US Attempting to Destroy Russia



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Zelenskiy calls for calm, warns of destabilization amid Russia fears


RFE/RL
Fri, 28 Jan 2022 20:21 UTC
Volodymyr Zelenskiy Ukraine president
Ukraine's president again pushed back on U.S. assertions that a new Russian invasion of Ukraine was imminent, as he sought to tamp down fears within the country and ease mounting economic strains.

Speaking before foreign reporters in Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelenskiy insisted that tensions with Russia had not increased and that the main risk to his country is destabilization from within.

Zelenskiy said that while he couldn't rule out a further escalation of tensions, it is not clear that the start of a war with Russia, which has moved more than an estimated 100,000 troops to areas close to Ukraine's border, is certain.

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Zelensky says Ukraine lost almost $500 million to Biden war hype: 'We don't need this panic'

Frances Martel
Breitbart
Fri, 28 Jan 2022 07:27 UTC
Zelensky
© SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned international corporate media and world leaders like President Joe Biden for publicly predicting imminent war with Russia on Friday, stating that the panic caused by these statements cost Ukraine 12.5 billion hryvnia (about $437 million) in foreign investment.

Zelensky spent nearly an hour and a half with reporters at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday following what has become a controversial phone conversation with President Biden on Thursday night. While the official readouts from both Washington and Kyiv depicted the call as productive and friendly, a CNN report based on anonymous sources described the call as frustrating and tedious, featuring harried warnings from Biden that Kyiv would be "sacked" and exasperated requests from Zelensky for the president to "calm down."

Both the White House and the Ukrainian president's office have rejected the CNN report, and Zelensky himself, during the press conference, repeatedly expressed gratitude to Biden without addressing the acute challenges the CNN report claimed exist in the relationship.

Comment: See also: Hysteria can be hard to redial - Ukrainians in panic mode as President tries to calm fears of economic collapse

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Dollars

Soros pours $125M into super PAC ahead of midterms

Elena Schneider
Politico
Fri, 28 Jan 2022 04:31 UTC
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© Getty ImagesGeorge Soros is seeding a super PAC with $125M for 2022 election cycle.
Billionaire mega-donor George Soros is seeding a super PAC with $125 million, an enormous investment that will aid Democratic groups and candidates for the 2022 election cycle and beyond.

The group, Democracy PAC, has served as Soros' campaign spending vehicle since 2019, channeling more than $80 million to other Democratic groups and candidates during the 2020 election cycle. The new, nine-figure investment from Soros is aimed at supporting
"pro-democracy causes and candidates, regardless of political party" who are invested in "strengthening the infrastructure of American democracy: voting rights and civic participation, civil rights and liberties, and the rule of law,"
Soros said in a statement shared first with POLITICO.

Soros added that the donation to the super PAC is a "long-term investment," intended to support political work beyond this year.

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Footprints

BLM's millions unaccounted for after leaders quietly jumped ship

Andrew Kerr
Washington Examiner
Thu, 27 Jan 2022 03:56 UTC
BLM logo
© BLM/KJN
No one appears to have been in charge at Black Lives Matter for months. The address it lists on tax forms is wrong, and the charity's two board members won't say who controls its $60 million bankroll, a Washington Examiner investigation has found.

BLM's shocking lack of transparency surrounding its finances and operations raises major legal and ethical red flags, multiple charity experts told the Washington Examiner. CharityWatch Executive Director Laurie Styron said of BLM:
"Like a giant ghost ship full of treasure drifting in the night with no captain, no discernible crew, and no clear direction."
BLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDATION RAISED MORE THAN $90M IN 2020

BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors appointed two activists to serve as the group's senior directors following her resignation in May amid scrutiny over her personal finances. But both quietly announced in September that they never took the jobs due to disagreements with BLM. They told the Washington Examiner they don't know who now leads the nation's most influential social justice organization.

Comment: It appears only certain black lives really matter. Non-profit rules and regulations are in place for the purpose of protecting the public against fraud and mismanagement - both of which look to be the case.

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Snakes in Suits

Poland ready to make deal with Russia

Jonny Tickle
RT
Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:04 UTC
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© Sputnik/Igor Zarembo
Warsaw is willing to let Russia inspect US air defense facilities if Polish inspectors are allowed to enter Kaliningrad.

With Moscow looking to come to an agreement with NATO over security guarantees in Europe, bloc member Poland has expressed willingness to allow Russian inspectors into its country to check US air defense facilities, it was reported on Wednesday.

According to the Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed Polish officials, Warsaw would be willing to come to a reciprocal deal with Moscow. In return, Poland wants its inspectors to be allowed to check missile locations in Kaliningrad.

The idea to let Russians into American sites in Poland was initially proposed by Moscow, according to US officials. The Kremlin has repeatedly opposed the placement of foreign missiles on European territory and has suggested that air defense facilities could be used to fire ballistics at Russian territory.

Comment: Poland steps up in an unexpected moment of reason.

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