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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