The zachistka (sweep) continues in Almaty.
https://t.me/Polit_Advisor/1130

In response to Jo, who asked in the channel chat about foreign and extremist involvement in the Kazakh uprising, there are two confirmed beheadings so far but no confirmed captured foreigners.

As it's Armenian Christmas today (I'll be interviewed with Gevorg Virats in two hours' time) and Eastern Orthodox Christmas tomorrow, here's my favourite Christmas album: German carols from the age of Praetorius, by the jaw-dropping Dresdner Kreuzchor.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3cEEkaOYR1WtwEc08ueDbs

"When the children get to school, we will tell them that they will be pretending there is an emergency in the country and they have to leave right there and then. It will take them a week to walk to a safe camp . . ."

The US Secretary of State has just made a statement accepting the legitimacy of Kazakhstan's established government. What may have been a British deep state coup seems to have been thwarted. It remains to be seen whether there were any jihadi head-choppers imported for the action.

The Moneycircus blog on Substack, always good, observes trenchantly that when the cost-of-living protestors assembled the day before everything went sour, first the police were unaccountably withdrawn from Almaty and then some Men In Tracksuits appeared out of nowhere to set fire to things.

TikTok video shows protesters who appear to have captured a group of police officers in Kazakhstan

Right now an anti-terror op is underway in the southern region of Kyzlorda, where 168 people have been injured in rioting so far.

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Starting now, I’m being interviewed by Gevorg Virats on the occasion of Christmas (according to the Armenian ecclesiastical calendar). He will be asking me in English about the significance of Christmas in various times and places of the Western world, for the benefit of his Russophone audience.
Livestream link:

https://t.me/gevorgvirats_org?livestream

Major “Christian charity” announcing in Italy that the unjabbed won’t be getting any food or clothes handed out.

Principle 5 of 286: The constitution is to provide for a common defence.

Comment on this by a member of this channel:

Amazing brave kids. Let’s hope this spreads out from there. I’m a teacher and I’m totally ashamed of my profession. This has brought out hideous authoritarianism in so many people. I’ve never complied with any aspects of masks or testing and I never will. Nor will I ever challenge any child who stands against any of it too.

On top of this, the unions are an utter disgrace and completely captured.

Parents and teachers may like to know that we have a Children rubric on ukcolumn.org:

https://www.ukcolumn.org/topic/children

Some close-to-the-bone parodying from Ireland.

YouTube as once again taken down my video. You can watch it on odysee instead: https://odysee.com/@rorydclark:1/News-4-Complete:e

Principle 6 of 286: The real meaning of General Welfare—If government does anything for the “public”, it had better actually be for all of us, or it’s unlawful.