By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC - Guardian UK - Honduras - Song - Review
LITERARY UN GATE, Jan 27 -- Where was the Islamic majority countries, not (only) at the Winter Olympics but relatedly, in criticizing China's mass incarceration of the Muslim Uighurs of Xinjiang?
On Day 3 of the Avenatti - Stormy Daniels trial in the SDNY in Manhattan, Kurt was also covering the 1 Malaysia Development Bank case in EDNY across the bridge in Brooklyn.
Would Malaysia be sending anyone to the Winter Olympics? Other than the leadership class, which beyond stealing billions with the help of Goldman Sachs were also complicit through silence in the genocide in East Turkestan?
The 1MDB trial, scheduled to start next month before Judge Brodie, was being impacted by COVID, another China connection. First the trial was delayed when counsel tested positive for COVID, as Sarah Palin had here in SDNY, postponing her trial against the New York Times.
Now Judge Brodie announced that if any of the selected jurors was not vaccinated, the juror or jurors would have to sit in the back of the courtroom and therefore there would be no members of the press or public in the courtroom.
Kurt tweeted about it, directing it through photo-tagging on Twitter at press freedom groups. Where were they, on the Genocide Games? In Guterres' pocket as usual, functionally. They had said nothing when Guterres had his guards rough Kurt up and thrown him out, and now keep him banned.
In the Avenatti trial things were heating up. Another California consumer hot-shot lawyer, Sean Macias, was the government's witness - after a proffer agreement, of course. It was Macias who porn star Stormy Daniels had approach to sue the former president, the Orange Man, Donald J. Trump.
Macias had passed her off onto Avenatti, who he called the hottest lawyer in California, with a $450 million verdict - never paid and so a dead letter - for negligence in connection with Personal Protective Equipment, again with the China echo, at least to Kurt.
Avenatti had paid Macias back with a Cartier watch for the Stormy referral; then Avenatti harassed him on a beautiful September morning - echoes of 9/11/01 - for an immediate $250,000 loan. This was gotten from yet another sharp/k lawyer, Mark Geragos, who as best Kurt could make out was paid back with a cut of the shakedown case against Nike.
Why had Geragos not been indicted for that, as Avenatti had been? These were questions Kurt wanted to dig into. After the GenocideGamesOfGuterres, he told himself. Opposing genocide came first -- except at the UN.
The day's UN noon briefing had been ghoulish, again, with Qatar state media preening even as their Be-In TV channel covered up the negligence of another genocidaire, Paul Biya of Cameroon, in their coverage of the African Cup of Nations in Yaounde.
Sports and genocide was the new thing, hotter than NIV payments to college athletes, hotter than the NFL playoff that had just been on NBC like the Olympics would be. Kurt vowed to cover it all. But first the Avenatti. #CourtCaseCast came first, or at least, ran parallel with the #GenocideGamesOfGuterres.
From January 21, 2022: UNSG Antonio Guterres: This visit to the Olympics is not a political visit. We consider that the Olympic Games are an extremely important manifestation in today's world of the possibility of unity, of the possibility of mutual respect, of the possibility of cooperation, of peoples of different cultures, of different religions, of different ethnicities. And this is more important than ever when we see xenophobia, when we see racism, when we see white supremacy, when we see anti‑Semitism, when we see anti‑Muslim hatred proliferating all over the world... That is the reason why I am going to the Olympic Games. And it has nothing to do with my opinions about the different policies that take place in the People's Republic of China.
Spokesman Dujarric: Okay, sir, I think you're then off the hook.
Will Guterres be taking his Deputy Amina J. Mohammed, supportive of the killing and targeted detentions perpetrated by Buhari of Nigeria? See, Identity Thieves - and, forthcoming, Genocide Games of Guterres. For now, Belt and Roadkill.
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