Kazakhstan Launches Probe into Use of Police Force During Deadly Protests
The Intel Hub
December 30, 2011
ASTANA (BNO NEWS) — Prosecutors in Kazakhstan have launched an investigation into the use of weapons by police during a protest earlier this month, leaving more than a dozen people killed and many others injured.
The clashes erupted on December 16 as the Central Asian nation marked the 20th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union. Police moved in to clear the main square in the town of Zhanaozen for independence celebrations but were charged by the oil workers, who have been demanding higher wages for months.
As a result of the incident, at least sixteen people were killed and more than 80 others were injured. But protesters and witnesses claimed police opened fire on unarmed protesters, and one eyewitness told the BBC how an unarmed man died in her arms after being shot.
A spokeswoman for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Virginie Coulloudon, told CNN on Thursday that the government of Kazakhstan has informed OSCE that its general prosecutor’s office launched an investigation into police actions. The internal security department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has also launched an in-house investigation.
“The conclusions of this investigation, according to Kazakh sources, should be available within a week,” Coulloudon told CNN via email.
The Kazakh general prosecutor’s office said in a statement on its website on Thursday that 20 people had been detained over alleged involvement in the unrest, with 18 of the arrests ordered by a court. A criminal case was opened on Tuesday into the alleged excessive use of force by police who opened fire. However, it noted that some of the deaths were not related to the actions of law enforcement.
Media Lies and the Onset of War (video)
Global Research TV
January 1, 2012
SOURCES AND TRANSCRIPT: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=3588
As the US and Iranian governments escalate tensions in the already volatile Straits of Hormuz, and China and Russia begin openly questioning Washington’s interference in their internal politics, the world remains on a knife-edge of military tension. Far from being a dispassionate observer of these developments, however, the media has in fact been central to increasing those tensions and preparing the public to expect a military confrontation. But as the online media rises to displace the traditional forms by which the public forms its understanding of the world, many are now beginning to see first hand how the media lies the public into war.
Learn more about the media manipulations behind the beginning of war in this week’s GRTV backgrounder.
Canada’s Dirty Banks
by Dean Henderson
Left Hook
October 5, 2011
(Excerpted from Chapter 4: Nicaraguan Contraband: Big Oil & Their Bankers…)
During the Nicaraguan contra war, the CIA ran a guns-for-drugs operation out of Belize. One note in Oliver North’s diaries read, “Proceed on White House project in Belize”. Another read, “wants to contact drug people in Belize camps”.
In 1984 Walter Mischer, a Houston business man with mob connections started a shrimp business in Belize that was a carbon copy of the one John Hull cohort Paco Chanes had started in Costa Rica to move Columbian cocaine.
Mischer was a close friend of Vice-President George Bush and Secretary of Treasury James Baker III. He bought 700,000 acres of land in Belize with help from investment partners Coca Cola and Paul Howell – an ex-director of the Houston Federal Reserve Bank.
Mischer’s land was utilized by CIA agent Carl Jenkins, who began training contras there. Jenkins was Rafael Quinteros’ CIA case officer during the Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion and later ran the CIA base in Laos from 1970-73 where North, Richard Secord, Quintero, Thomas Clines, Ted Shackley and John Singlaub all served.
Jenkins owned Helicopteros de Guatemala. During the 1970’s Alberto Sicilia Falcon – the Mexican drug kingpin with CIA connections – talked of taking Belize over for the “business”. [1] The tiny Caribbean nation, greatly influenced by the British Crown, is a major transshipment point for Columbian cocaine.
In 1962 OSS Detachment 202 veteran and Sea Supply proprietor Paul Helliwell returned to Miami from heroin-infested Kunming, China to found Castle Bank of the Bahamas. The bank had only 300 depositors, but they included Richard Nixon, Chiang Kai-Shek’s daughter, Howard Hughes and Tony Curtis. The financial backbone of the bank was the Chicago Pritzker family – owners of the Hyatt Hotel chain.
Castle Bank served as a bridge between Santos Trafficante’s Florida mafia and KMT/Vietnamese Opium Monopoly heroin traffic. Helliwell was on CIA payroll and used Castle Bank as “paymaster” for the Ted Shackley-directed operation aimed at Fidel Castro.
Diseased seals washing ashore in Alaska being tested for possible Fukushima radiation exposure
December 29, 2011 – ALASKA – Scientists in Alaska are investigating whether local seals are being sickened by radiation from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. Biologists at first thought the seals were suffering from a virus, but they have so far been unable to identify one, and tests are now underway to find out if radiation is a factor. Scores or multiples of twenty, ring seals have washed up on Alaska’s Arctic coastline since July. Their symptoms include: bleeding lesions on the hind flippers, irritated skin around the nose and eyes, and patchy hair loss on the animals’ fur coats. John Kelley, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks said, “We recently received samples of seal tissue from diseased animals captured near St Lawrence Island with a request to examine the material for radioactivity. There is concern expressed by some members of the local communities that there may be some relationship to the Fukushima nuclear reactor’s damage.” Test results would not be available for several weeks. –ENE News
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(hat tip: The Extinction Protocol & The Intel Hub)
Dr. Webster Tarpley: US-UK Ruling Elite Targets Russia, Syria, Iran, Pakistan (video)
The Alex Jones Show
December 28, 2011
Alex interviews Dr. Webster Tarpley in this christmas Day Special broadcast for radio listeners. Alex and Webster break down what will happen to the middle east in the months to come and will america start something with Russia.
http://tarpley.net/
http://www.infowars.com
Panetta Signals Green Light for Attack on Iran (video)
More Imperialist Moves Against Syria; Wall Street Faction Seeks Closure of Hormuz to Stave Off Dollar Collapse
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph. D.
PressTV
December 29, 2011
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(hat tip: Land Destroyer Report)
Syria: Pepe Escobar Breaks Down Arab League Investigation (video)
RT
December 28, 2011
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(hat tip: Land Destroyer Report)
Free Syria Army includes foreign mercenaries armed & backed by very Arab League supposedly investigating Syrian violence.
For more information on Syria, please see the [Land Destroyer Report] Syrian Archives.
