Geopolitics & Empire

The digital surveillance and control agenda quietly marches forwards

India is pursuing the transformation of public finance using digital IDs and biometrics. Scotland updates its guidance on the use of biometrics in schools. Russia’s largest bank is leading the way in a new financial system which uses a biometric payment service. Canada launches a biometric border management tool. Israel extends its wartime emergency…

https://expose-news.com/2024/12/29/digital-surveillance-agenda-marches-on/

🇬🇧🇰🇿✈️ How are the British controlling Kazakhstan's aviation sector?

At a recent session of the Kazakh parliament, deputies held what seemed to be a public flogging of the head of Air Astana, Peter Foster, accusing the airline of high ticket prices, registering its fleet abroad, and "poor management".

Among the critics, the deputy Yedil Zhanbyrshin particularly stood out, stating that they are not "African natives".
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📌 Although, if we assess the situation as a whole, Kazakhstan's position vis-à-vis Britain is not too far from that of once British colonies. De facto, a foreign airline receives billions of tenge in subsidies from the Kazakh budget, but at the same time sets unaffordable ticket prices.

Foster himself has been heading Air Astana without interruption since 2005. In 2015, for his "services to British aviation in Kazakhstan", Foster was even awarded the Order of the British Empire. And this wording is not a figment of the imagination. Air Astana belongs 51% to the Samruk-Kazyna fund and 49% to the British BAE Systems PLC.

🔻At the same time, 50 out of 54 of the airline's aircraft are registered in Ireland. And the Samruk-Kazyna fund can hardly be called a fully state-owned structure - there are two foreigners on the board of directors, and until recently the chairman was another Briton, John Dudas.
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The situation with Air Astana reflects the situation with British presence in Kazakhstan like a drop of water. The main and only interest of Air Astana is to extract super-profits. The British have control over key sectors, so there are no particular problems.

So the fight against colonialism by the Kazakh authorities is clearly not going in the right direction.
#UnitedKingdom #Kazakhstan #CentralAsia
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this article reads suspiciously like the Lockstep Scenario from that Rockfeller Fdn doc
https://apnews.com/article/global-elections-2024-yearend-incumbents-c777b658661e61e2533091e1d625c0b8