Julian Assange arrested after Ecuador tears up asylum deal

[KiwiElf]

BREAKING - Julian Assange arrested at Ecuadorian Embassy

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/11/julian-assange-arrested-at-ecuadorian-embassy-wikileaks

(This is very much a "wait and see what happens" situation - "nothing is what it seems", emphasis mine - KE) ;)

WikiLeaks founder arrested for alleged breach of bail at London embassy where he took refuge for seven years

Kate Lyons
@MsKateLyons

Thu 11 Apr 2019 11.03 BST
First published on Thu 11 Apr 2019 10.41 BST

Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder was granted refuge in 2012 while on bail in the UK over sexual assault allegations against him in Sweden.

Assange, 47, who has spent almost seven years at the embassy after seeking refuge there to avoid extradition to Sweden, was detained after the Ecuadorian government withdrew his asylum, Scotland Yard said. He was held on a warrant issued by Westminster magistrates court on 29 June 2012 when he failed to surrender to the court.

Scotland Yard said: “He has been taken into custody at a central London police station where he will remain, before being presented before Westminster magistrates court as soon as is possible.

“The MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] had a duty to execute the warrant, on behalf of Westminster magistrates court, and was invited into the embassy by the ambassador, following the Ecuadorian government’s withdrawal of asylum.”

Ecuador’s president, Lenín Moreno, said on Twitter: “In a sovereign decision, Ecuador withdrew the asylum status to Julian Assange after his repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols.”

But WikiLeaks said Moreno had acted illegally in terminating Assange’s political asylum “in violation of international law”.

The home secretary, Sajid Javid, said: “Nearly seven years after entering the Ecuadorian embassy, I can confirm Julian Assange is now in police custody and rightly facing justice in the UK. I would like to thank Ecuador for its cooperation the Metropolitan police for its professionalism. No one is above the law.”

His arrest comes a day after Wikileaks accused the Ecuadorian government of an “extensive spying operation” against Assange.

WikiLeaks claims meetings with lawyers and a doctor inside the embassy over the past year were secretly filmed.

Assange had refused to leave the embassy, claiming he would be extradited to the United States for questioning over the activities of WikiLeaks if he did so.

At the time, Assange claimed that if he was extradited to Sweden he might be arrested by the US and face charges relating to WikiLeaks’s publication of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables.

The journalist and Assange supporter John Pilger called last week for people to “fill the street outside the embassy and protect him and show solidarity with a courageous man”.

US authorities have never officially confirmed that they have charged Assange, but in November 2018 a mistake in a document filed in an unrelated case hinted that criminal charges might have been prepared in secret.

The court filing, submitted apparently in error by US prosecutors, mentioned criminal charges against someone named “Assange” even though that was not the name of the defendant. Legal analysts said the error was likely to have been caused by prosecutors copying and pasting from sealed documents.

The relationship between Assange and his hosts has soured over the years. In March, Assange’s internet access was cut off and he was forbidden from having visitors.

The Ecuadorian president had said Assange had “repeatedly violated” the conditions of his asylum in his country’s London embassy.

[Innocent Warrior]

Julian Assange arrested after Ecuador tears up asylum deal

https://i.postimg.cc/yW4SvYmQ/4-EB14-D1-C-8-EB3-43-D6-A4-C9-05-EBA0-E2466-E.png (https://postimages.org/)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been dragged out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he has spent the last seven years. That's after Ecuador's president Moreno withdrew asylum.

That's only a day after WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson claimed that an extensive spying operation was conducted against Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy. During an explosive media conference Hrafnsson alleged that the operation was designed to get Assange extradited.

Assange's relationship with Ecuadorian officials appeared increasingly strained since the current president came to power in the Latin American country in 2017. His internet connection was cut off in March of last year, with officials saying the move was to stop Assange from "interfering in the affairs of other sovereign states."

The whistleblower garnered massive international attention in 2010 when WikiLeaks released classified US military footage, entitled 'Collateral Murder', of a US Apache helicopter gunship opening fire on a number of people, killing 12 including two Reuters staff, and injuring two children.

The footage, as well as US war logs from Iraq and Afghanistan and more than 200,000 diplomatic cables, were leaked to the site by US Army soldier Chelsea Manning. She was tried by a US tribunal and sentenced to 35 years in jail for disclosing the materials.

Manning was pardoned by outgoing President Barack Obama in 2017 after spending seven years in US custody. She is currently being held again in a US jail for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury in a case apparently related to WikiLeaks.

Assange's seven-year stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy was motivated by his concern that he may face similarly harsh and arguably unfair prosecution by the US for his role in publishing troves of classified US documents over the years.

His legal troubles stem from an accusation by two women in Sweden, with both claiming they had a sexual encounter with Assange that was not fully consensual. The whistleblower said the allegations were false. Nevertheless, they yielded to the Swedish authorities who sought his extradition from the UK on "suspicion of rape, three cases of sexual abuse and unlawful compulsion."

In December 2010, he was arrested in the UK under a European Arrest Warrant and spent time in Wandsworth Prison before being released on bail and put under house arrest.

During that time, Assange hosted a show on RT known as 'World Tomorrow or The Julian Assange Show', in which he interviewed several world influencers in controversial and thought-provoking episodes.

His attempt to fight extradition ultimately failed. In 2012, he skipped bail and fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy, which extended him protection from arrest by the British authorities. Quito gave him political asylum and later Ecuadorian citizenship.

Assange spent the following years stranded at the diplomatic compound, only making sporadic appearances at the embassy window and in interviews conducted inside. His health has reportedly deteriorated over the years, while treatment options are limited due to his inability to leave the Knightsbridge building.

In 2016, a UN expert panel ruled that what was happening to Assange amounted to arbitrary detention by the British authorities. London nevertheless refused to revoke his arrest warrant for skipping bail. Sweden dropped the investigation against Assange in 2017, although Swedish prosecutors indicated it may be resumed if Assange "makes himself available."

Assange argued that his avoidance of European law enforcement was necessary to protect him from extradition to the US, where then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that arresting him is a "priority." WikiLeaks was branded a "non-state hostile intelligence service" by then-CIA head Mike Pompeo in 2017.

The US government has been tight-lipped on whether Assange would face indictment over the dissemination of classified material. In November 2018, the existence of a secret indictment targeting Assange was seemingly unintentionally confirmed in a US court filing for an unrelated case.

Last year, a UK tribunal refused to release key details on communications between British and Swedish authorities that could have revealed any dealings between the UK, Sweden, the US, and Ecuador in the long-running Assange debacle. La Repubblica journalist Stefania Maurizi had her appeal to obtain documents held by the Crown Prosecution Service dismissed on December 12.

WikiLeaks is responsible for publishing thousands of documents with sensitive information from many countries. Those include the 2003 Standard Operating Procedures manual for Guantanamo Bay, the controversial detention center in Cuba. The agency has also released documents on Scientology, one tranche referred to as "secret bibles" from the religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard.

Source, incl. video and links. (https://www.rt.com/news/456212-julian-assange-embassy-eviction/)

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I’m devastated and scared. They’re going to hurt him so bad. He’s so worn down and frightened. Freedom is dead. I hope WikiLeaks releases everything!

[ramus]

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested at Ecuadorian embassy

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-arrested-at-ecuadorian-embassy-2019-04-11?mod=mw_theo_homepage

Published: Apr 11, 2019 6:09 a.m. ET
By Rachel Koning Beals, News editor

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in London, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing a U.K. police briefing. The police say they were invited into the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where Assange has been a resident for seven years, by the Ecuadorean government, which withdrew asylum. Assange is being held at a central London police station, according to the report. He took refuge in the embassy beginning in 2012 while on bail in the U.K. over sexual assault allegations against him in Sweden. Assange had claimed that if he was extradited to Sweden he might be arrested by the U.S. and face charges relating to WikiLeaks's publication of U.S. diplomatic correspondence. Wikileaks also faces U.S. probes into its 2016 election role. The Ecuadorian president has said Assange had "repeatedly violated" the conditions of his asylum in his country's London embassy.
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Another article 1hr. ago.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article229113849.html

[Operator]

Could this be retaliation from the DS to regain control over the media narrative?

Could this be to provoke a political response?

[Valerie Villars]

The photograph alone speaks a volume.

[Tintin]

For consistency’s sake copying this over from my earlier post here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101183-Current-Wikileaks-News-Releases&p=1285608&viewfull=1#post1285608) in the Current Wikileaks News Releases thread.





**BREAKING**

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested at London's Ecuadorian embassy

Source: Guardian (UK) (https://www.theguardian.com/media/live/2019/apr/11/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-arrested-at-the-ecuadorean-embassy-live-updates)

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From Craig Murray on his blog (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/04/on-the-pavement-with-wikileaks/) yesterday, April 10th, this extract:





When Julian does leave the Embassy, whatever the circumstances in which he does that, it will be for a day or two the largest media story in the world and undoubtedly will lead all the news bulletins across every major country. The odds are that he will be leaving and facing a fight against extradition to the United States, on charges arising from the Chelsea Manning releases which revealed a huge amount about US war crimes and other illegal acts.

It will be very important to try to focus a hostile media on why it is Julian is actually wanted for extradition. Not for the non-existent collusion with Russia to assist Trump, which is an entirely fake narrative. Not for meetings with Manafort which never happened. Not for the allegations in Sweden which fell apart immediately they were subject to rational scrutiny. And not for any nonsense about whether he hacked the communications in the Embassy or cleaned up the cat litter.

This is not going to be an easy task because pretty well all of the Western media is going to want to focus on these false anti-Assange narratives, and they will be determined to give as little attention as possible to the fact he is a publisher facing trial for publishing leaked state documents which revealed state wrongdoing.

It is a classic and fundamental issue of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Drawing together a team that can get this message across in such MSM windows as are afforded, as well as through social media, is an important task.

[WhiteFeather]

Sad Day, Yes the photo speaks volumes. I can only hope Julian has Superb Counselors. I certainly appreciate all that he has done. Hey, Isn't there a dead man's trigger in line here, or does it only work if he dies?

[Pam]

What a perfect example of the inversion we live in. Truth tellers are persecuted while the establishment minions can lie repeatedly and never suffer one consequence, in fact in many instances they are rewarded. You are right Valerie, that picture says more than any words could ever say. What a sad and pathetic day for mankind.

[Hervé]

Wikileaks Founder Assange Dragged Out of London Embassy in Handcuffs After Ecuador Tears up Asylum Deal (https://www.rt.com/news/456212-julian-assange-embassy-eviction/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/456212-julian-assange-embassy-eviction/)
Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:38 UTC


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Exclusive video shows whistleblower and Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange being carried out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London by force, before being shoved into a police vehicle.

Assange had been living in the embassy for the last seven years protected by political asylum.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been evicted from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he has spent the last six years. Ecuador's president has announced that the country has withdrawn asylum from Assange.

The eviction follows reports (https://www.rt.com/news/433783-wikileaks-assange-ecuador-uk/) that the Australian founder of the WikiLeaks whistleblowing portal would be handed over to British authorities. Ecuador denied the reports and said it had no intention of stripping him of his protected status, but apparently another decision was made by Quito.

That's only a day after WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson claimed that an extensive spying operation was conducted against Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy. During an explosive media conference Hrafnsson alleged that the operation was designed to get Assange extradited.


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Assange's relationship with Ecuadorian officials appeared increasingly strained since the current president came to power in the Latin American country in 2017. His internet connection was cut off in March of last year, with officials saying (https://twitter.com/ComunicacionEc/status/979027961411194880) the move was to stop Assange from "interfering in the affairs of other sovereign states."


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The whistleblower garnered massive international attention in 2010 when WikiLeaks released classified US military footage, entitled 'Collateral Murder', of a US Apache helicopter gunship opening fire on a number of people, killing 12 including two Reuters staff, and injuring two children.


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The footage, as well as US war logs from Iraq and Afghanistan and more than 200,000 diplomatic cables, were leaked to the site by US Army soldier Chelsea Manning. She was tried by a US tribunal and sentenced to 35 years in jail for disclosing the materials.

Manning was pardoned by outgoing President Barack Obama in 2017 after spending seven years in US custody. She is currently being held again in a US jail for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury in a case apparently related to WikiLeaks.

Assange's seven-year stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy was motivated by his concern that he may face similarly harsh and arguably unfair prosecution by the US for his role in publishing troves of classified US documents over the years.

His legal troubles stem from an accusation by two women in Sweden, with both claiming they had a sexual encounter with Assange that was not fully consensual. The whistleblower said the allegations were false. Nevertheless, they yielded to the Swedish authorities who sought (https://www.aklagare.se/nyheter-press/nyheter-press/for-media/assangearendet/kronologi/) his extradition from the UK on "suspicion of rape, three cases of sexual abuse and unlawful compulsion."

In December 2010, he was arrested in the UK under a European Arrest Warrant and spent time in Wandsworth Prison before being released on bail and put under house arrest.

During that time, Assange hosted a show (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL19A6F6A10DCFB253) on RT known as 'World Tomorrow' or 'The Julian Assange Show', in which he interviewed several world influencers in controversial and thought-provoking episodes.


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His attempt to fight extradition ultimately failed. In 2012, he skipped bail and fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy, which extended him protection from arrest by the British authorities. Quito gave him political asylum and later Ecuadorian citizenship.

Assange spent the following years stranded at the diplomatic compound, only making sporadic appearances at the embassy window and in interviews (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3HWiydFlJc) conducted inside. His health has reportedly deteriorated over the years, while treatment options are limited due to his inability to leave the Knightsbridge building.




https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D33VmEsW0AAD3Tp?format=jpg&name=small (https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1116283186860953600/photo/1)


https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/512138307870785536/Fe00yVS2_normal.png (https://twitter.com/wikileaks) WikiLeaks ✔ @wikileaks (https://twitter.com/wikileaks)
This man is a son, a father, a brother. He has won dozens of journalism awards. He's been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year since 2010. Powerful actors, including CIA, are engaged in a sophisticated effort to dehumanise, delegitimize and imprison him. #ProtectJulian (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ProtectJulian?src=hash)
12:13 PM - Apr 11, 2019 (https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1116283186860953600)In 2016, a UN expert panel ruled that what was happening to Assange amounted to arbitrary detention by the British authorities. London nevertheless refused to revoke his arrest warrant for skipping bail. Sweden dropped the investigation against Assange in 2017, although Swedish prosecutors indicated it may be resumed if Assange "makes himself available."

Assange argued that his avoidance of European law enforcement was necessary to protect him from extradition to the US, where then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that arresting him is a "priority." WikiLeaks was branded a "non-state hostile intelligence service" by then-CIA head Mike Pompeo in 2017.

The US government has been tight-lipped on whether Assange would face indictment over the dissemination of classified material. In November 2018, the existence of a secret indictment targeting Assange was seemingly unintentionally confirmed in a US court filing for an unrelated case.

Last year, a UK tribunal refused to release key details on communications between British and Swedish authorities that could have revealed any dealings between the UK, Sweden, the US, and Ecuador in the long-running Assange debacle. La Repubblica journalist Stefania Maurizi had her appeal to obtain documents held by the Crown Prosecution Service dismissed on December 12.

WikiLeaks is responsible for publishing thousands of documents with sensitive information from many countries. Those include the 2003 Standard Operating Procedures manual (https://file.wikileaks.org/file/gitmo-sop.pdf) for Guantanamo Bay, the controversial detention center in Cuba. The agency has also released documents (https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology_collected_Operating_Thetan_documents) on Scientology, one tranche referred to as "secret bibles" from the religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard.


Related:

Ecuador president implicated in financial scandal, blames Wikileaks, threatens Assange with expulsion from embassy (https://www.sott.net/article/410405-Ecuador-president-implicated-in-financial-scandal-blames-Wikileaks-threatens-Assange-with-expulsion-from-embassy)



Ecuador's former president Rafael Correa denounces treatment of Julian Assange as "torture" (https://www.sott.net/article/385983-Ecuadors-former-president-Rafael-Correa-denounces-treatment-of-Julian-Assange-as-torture)



"Free Assange first": Twitter schools hypocritical UK Foreign Sec over 'media freedom' event (https://www.sott.net/article/408157-Free-Assange-first-Twitter-schools-hypocritical-UK-Foreign-Sec-over-media-freedom-event)



The Crucifixion of Julian Assange (https://www.sott.net/article/400629-The-Crucifixion-of-Julian-Assange)

[DNA]

If Trump doesn't do something for this guy I'm going to be pissed. If he does I hope the Trump haters on the forum recognize.

[Operator]

If Trump doesn't do something for this guy I'm going to be pissed. If he does I hope the Trump haters on the forum recognize.

Look at my post here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106596-Julian-Assange-arrested-after-Ecuador-tears-up-asylum-deal&p=1285626&viewfull=1#post1285626)

Perhaps that's just what they want. The general public is told that Julian Assange is a traitor. If Trump defends J.A. he will
be linked to the word traitor ... On top of that the whole unraveling of the DS scam involves the relation to the UK.
And with the UK Brexit mess they need a distraction anyway ...

[Brightstar]

Very timely to distract on Brexit delay tactics, a sad day indeed but it was always a matter of time before he was forced out....

[Frankie Pancakes]

Interesting observation by a commentator on Zero Hedge.

Looks like total theater to me. Why would they allow him to display that magazine cover or  take along anything in his hands that he could hide a weapon in?  When was the last time you saw someone arrested and they were allowed to carry anything with them.

[Praxis]

If Trump doesn't do something for this guy I'm going to be pissed. If he does I hope the Trump haters on the forum recognize.

I have no doubt that the pro trump people, when he does not do anything to help Assange, will find some way to rationalize why it is a 13 d chess move against the deep state.

[Did You See Them]

He looks pleased as punch !?!

https://cdni.rt.com/files/2019.04/original/5caf38a9fc7e93e9618b462b.JPG

[mountain_jim]

WikiLeaks confirmed he'd been taken to Westminster Magistrates court, noting "He has been arrested under a US extradition warrant for conspiracy with @xychelsea for publishing classified information revealing war crimes in 2010."

Well to me this will be a litmus test over Commander in Chief Trump vs the Military who support him.

Without whistleblowers and actions such as these by WikiLeaks being recognized as freedom of the press in US then Truth Exposure for citizens against the Deep State and the Military Industrial Complex Empire has little chance in the future.

[Swan]

From the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet:
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/g7kbqB/massi-fritz-en-chock-for-min-klient


Julian Assange has been arrested and is now in the custody of the British police.

In a comment on Twitter, the woman who accused the 47-year-old of a sexual crime, says she hopes that he will not be extradited to the United States:

"This is just about his bad behavior towards me and other women and that he refuses to take responsibility".

The Swedish pre-trial against Julian Assange regarding rape was canceled in 2017. The reason was that the prosecutor did not consider there was reason to believe that he would be handed over to Sweden within a reasonable time.
After Assange was arrested in London, the plaintiff assistant Elisabeth Massi Fritz hopes that he will be extradited to Sweden.
"That what we have been waiting for and hoping for almost seven years now.of course this is a shock to my client. We will do everything we can to ensure that the prosecutors resume the Swedish preliminary investigation so that Assange can be extradited to Sweden and prosecuted for rape, ”she writes in a comment to TT.

There is no formal obstacle to re-opening the rape investigation. In a press release, Chief Prosecutor Ingrid Isgren states that the criminal suspicions will not be delayed until August 2020.
- This is news for us too, so we have not been able to decide on the information that is now available. We also do not know why he is arrested. We follow the development.

After the 2010 Swedish visit, another woman reported Julian Assange for sexual offense and sexual coercion. Both crimes are time-barred.
In connection with the arrest, the woman commented on the event development on Twitter.
"After ten years, I am now ready to make a statement," she writes, and continues:
"I would be very surprised and sorry if Julian was extradited to the United States. For me, this has never been about anything other than his bad behavior against me and other women, and his refusal to take responsibility. It is a pity that my case could never be properly investigated, but it is too late ”.

[ThePythonicCow]

My initial reaction, when I saw the first photo of Julian Assange being removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy was ... that's not Julian Assange.

Below is the most recent photo that I could find, of who I presume to be the real Julian Assange, from this Feb 2018 Medium article (https://medium.com/@JohnWight1/the-ongoing-persecution-of-julian-assange-8d26935eb66a):

http://thepythoniccow.us/Assange_from_2018_Medium_article.jpg
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Below are four screen shots from today's reporting of the arrest of Julian Assange, the first two from BBC/Reuters, and the second two from Skynews:


http://thepythoniccow.us/Assange_Arrested_BBC1_2019-04-11.jpg


http://thepythoniccow.us/Assange_Arrested_BBC2_2019-04-11.jpg


http://thepythoniccow.us/Assange_Arrested_Skynews1_2019-04-11.jpg


http://thepythoniccow.us/Assange_Arrested_Skynews2_2019-04-11.jpg

[BMJ]

Assange arrested in relation to a US extradition warrant - UK police

Assange was taken into custody at a central London police station, and the arrest was made at a US extradition request, the Met Police have confirmed, saying he will appear at London Magistrates’ Court.

Julian Assange has been “further arrested on behalf of the United States authorities after his arrival at a central London police station,” the Metropolitan Police confirmed. The US cited the Extradition Act while filing the request, they informed.

“He will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court as soon as possible,” the statement reads. A car apparently carrying Assange has arrived at the court earlier.

Earlier in the day, Jen Robinson, one of Assange’s legal team, alleged that the arrest was linked to a US extradition request. “Just confirmed: Assange has been arrested not just for breach of bail conditions but also in relation to a US extradition request,” she tweeted.

Meanwhile, barrister Geoffrey Robertson, another Assange’s lawyer, said he may face a heavy prison term if extradited to the US. “America is hellbent on putting him in prison for a very long time to deter those who publish material about the behaviour of its armed forces,” he told BBC News.

The charges for Assange carry up to 45 years in prison. While this is "not the death penalty ... But it may in effect be the death penalty for someone of Assange’s age and health problems.”

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/456231-assange-arrest-us-extradition/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com

[ThePythonicCow]

My initial reaction, when I saw the first photo of Julian Assange being removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy was ... that's not Julian Assange.

Below is the most recent photo that I could find, of who I presume to be the real Julian Assange, from this Feb 2018 Medium article (https://medium.com/@JohnWight1/the-ongoing-persecution-of-julian-assange-8d26935eb66a):

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Below are four screen shots from today's reporting of the arrest of Julian Assange, the first two from BBC/Reuters, and the second two from Skynews:


...
The Daily Mail has several fine images both of Assange being arrested today, and of earlier photos of Assange: Julian Assange faces up to 12 months in jail in Britain after being found guilty of skipping bail - as US charges him with hacking hundreds of thousands of classified documents hours after police dragged him out of Ecuadorian Embassy (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6911187/Wikileaks-founder-Julian-Assange-arrested-police.html).

I'm still suspecting that the person arrested today was a body double for the real Julian Assange, who might no longer be alive. But that could easily be my tin-foil-hat conspiracy mind set speaking. Someone with some good facial recognition software, that could measure the proportions of various identifiable points on his facial structure, could perhaps provide a more definitive answer.

This Daily Mail article also makes it clear that Assange was arrested both for skipping bail in Britain, and for to face an indictment from the United States.

To quote the Daily Mail:

Wikileaks founder dragged out of Ecuadorian Embassy in handcuffs by a large group of police officers today
Ecuador said its decision came after 'repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols'
His lawyer said arrest was 'not just for breach of bail conditions but also in relation to US extradition request'
He has not left embassy since 2012, when he was offered refuge from allegations of sexual assault in Sweden
Assange has always feared extradition to the US, where he is wanted for leak of highly-classified documents
Was revealed in 2018 Assange had been secretly indicted by the US Justice Department on unknown charges
The 47-year-old currently in custody and set to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court 'as soon as possible'

[waree]

Interesting observation by a commentator on Zero Hedge.

Looks like total theater to me. Why would they allow him to display that magazine cover or  take along anything in his hands that he could hide a weapon in?  When was the last time you saw someone arrested and they were allowed to carry anything with them.

The link to Zero Hedge is here. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-11/julian-assange-arrested-london

The book is Gore Vidal History of The National Security State (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MX4LILG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1).

I found it odd also.

[Hervé]

Goin’ Doon the Watter (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/04/goin-doon-the-watter/)

Craig Murray
11 Apr, 2019 (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/04/11/) in Uncategorized (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/category/uncategorized/) by craig (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/author/craigm/) | View Comments (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/04/goin-doon-the-watter/#respond)

UPDATE: Craig is on his way back to London to be with Wikileaks following the arrest of Julian Assange under the Extradition Act. He does still intend to speak at Rothesay.


Scotland Yard statement:
Julian Assange, 47, (03.07.71) has today, Thursday 11 April, been further arrested on behalf of the United States authorities, at 10:53hrs after his arrival at a central London police station. This is an extradition warrant under Section 73 of the Extradition Act. He will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court as soon as possible.

Julian Assange – the best picture so far – by Reuters @PBANicholls (https://twitter.com/PBANicholls?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Thumbs up in handcuffs: Julian Assange leaves police station for court pic.twitter.com/x2hcRimYz6 (https://t.co/x2hcRimYz6)
— Guy Faulconbridge (@GuyReuters) April 11, 2019 (https://twitter.com/GuyReuters/status/1116317129559674881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

The greatest traitor in Ecuadorian and Latin American history, Lenin Moreno, allowed the British police to enter our embassy in London to arrest Assange.
Moreno is a corrupt man, but what he has done is a crime that humanity will never forget. https://t.co/XhT51MA6c6
— Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael) April 11, 2019 (https://twitter.com/MashiRafael/status/1116289091061075968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
I am speaking in Rothesay at St Paul’s Church Hall, Deanhood Place, at 2pm on Saturday. I am heading back up to Scotland today. I will be there in any circumstances, and will dash back down afterwards should events with Julian and Wikileaks require. I have incidentally had a definitive reply from the Embassy of Ecuador that I am not allowed to visit Julian even though he has asked me to; definitive evidence that Assange is now being treated by Moreno as a prisoner.




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(https://twitter.com/GuyReuters)
Julian Assange - the best picture so far - by Reuters @PBANicholls (https://twitter.com/PBANicholls) Thumbs up in handcuffs: Julian Assange leaves police station for court

2:28 PM - Apr 11, 2019 (https://twitter.com/GuyReuters/status/1116317129559674881)


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The greatest traitor in Ecuadorian and Latin American history, Lenin Moreno, allowed the British police to enter our embassy in London to arrest Assange.

Moreno is a corrupt man, but what he has done is a crime that humanity will never forget.

Barnaby Nerberka @barnabynerberka (https://twitter.com/barnabynerberka/status/1116275982518898688)

BREAK: Full @Ruptly video of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest by British police this morning (https://twitter.com/barnabynerberka/status/1116275982518898688)



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(https://twitter.com/barnabynerberka/status/1116275982518898688)12:37 PM - Apr 11, 2019 (https://twitter.com/MashiRafael/status/1116289091061075968)
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Full article: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/04/goin-doon-the-watter/

[Hervé]

[...]
.... When was the last time you saw someone arrested and they were allowed to carry anything with them.
Usually it's a coat or sweater to hide the handcuffs... however, Assange is trying to attract attention to it by shaking it...


[...]
The book is Gore Vidal History of The National Security State (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MX4LILG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1).
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[Nick Matkin]

I thought he was going to get Wikileaks to release multiple copies of revealing/embarrassing/shocking documents if anything untoward happened to him? Was that so much hot air, or can we look forward to some horrifying revelations now?

[mountain_jim]

I thought he was going to get Wikileaks to release multiple copies of revealing/embarrassing/shocking documents if anything untoward happened to him? Was that so much hot air, or can we look forward to some horrifying revelations now?

If so, I would think that negotiating tactic would be in play now and not necessarily through the media at this point.

[norman]

I hope, now, we get to find out, once and for all, who Assange has really been working for or with. I don't take his 'captivity' for 7 years as any indication there are no big players in the background. The kind of people I have in mind are so ruthless and heartless they wouldn't give a stuff about Assange as a human being.

His track record doesn't fit his rhetoric. Most of the wikileaks releases were anti America. Perhaps his last minute switch to exposing hillary was his attempt to ditch his old backers and get on the right side of history. That could also explain why he's been running out of luck lately.

I'm pleased he's now out of that building he was dying in. Some sunshine, even in an excercise yard, will do him a lot of good right now.

[Valerie Villars]

The magazine in his hands was the first oddity I noticed but didn't comment on. Generally, when you are arrested, you aren't allowed to carry anything in your hands. I didn't comment on it but I see someone else did.

Since I am challenged technologically, can someone else discern what is on the cover of that magazine or what magazine it is? Symbolism carries a lot of weight in this world.

[meeradas]

The magazine in his hands was the first oddity I noticed but didn't comment on. Generally, when you are arrested, you aren't allowed to carry anything in your hands. I didn't comment on it but I see someone else did.

Since I am challenged technologically, can someone else discern what is on the cover of that magazine or what magazine it is? Symbolism carries a lot of weight in this world.

scroll up 4 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106596-Julian-Assange-arrested-after-Ecuador-tears-up-asylum-deal&p=1285661&viewfull=1#post1285661)posts, or 6 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106596-Julian-Assange-arrested-after-Ecuador-tears-up-asylum-deal&p=1285658&viewfull=1#post1285658) posts from yours...

[Bob]

It's been great listening/watching RT.com coverage on all this fiasco. I am impressed with the coverage and accuracy.

[Valerie Villars]

The magazine in his hands was the first oddity I noticed but didn't comment on. Generally, when you are arrested, you aren't allowed to carry anything in your hands. I didn't comment on it but I see someone else did.

Since I am challenged technologically, can someone else discern what is on the cover of that magazine or what magazine it is? Symbolism carries a lot of weight in this world.

scroll up 4 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106596-Julian-Assange-arrested-after-Ecuador-tears-up-asylum-deal&p=1285661&viewfull=1#post1285661)posts, or 6 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106596-Julian-Assange-arrested-after-Ecuador-tears-up-asylum-deal&p=1285658&viewfull=1#post1285658) posts from yours...

I don't know how I missed Herve's post. Thanks.

[A Voice from the Mountains]

This is the beginning of the unraveling of the fabrication that Wikileaks (or Russia, on their behalf) hacked the DNC. This public spectacle is just getting started.

Assange still has his life and is in protective custody, but Seth Rich, who handed the DNC emails over to Wikileaks, is already deader than a doornail. Testimony regarding Seth Rich needs to be heard in a court setting, for many reasons.



If Trump doesn't do something for this guy I'm going to be pissed. If he does I hope the Trump haters on the forum recognize.

Radio silence so far, which says something in and of itself. Trump knows that his base isn't going to tolerate the abuse of someone instrumental in his election, who exposed crimes of two of his political opponents, the Bushes and the Clintons.

Rush Limbaugh has been on the radio today blasting the Seth Rich case and talking about how the download speeds from the server precluded hacking and proved an inside job using a USB stick to transfer the material.

Rush Limbaugh has a massive public audience, and when he's doing this, Sean Hannity will be soon to follow. Hannity told us before that he wasn't dropping the Seth Rich case, and would bring it back up at a later time. That time is now fast approaching.


Perhaps that's just what they want. The general public is told that Julian Assange is a traitor. If Trump defends J.A. he will
be linked to the word traitor ... On top of that the whole unraveling of the DS scam involves the relation to the UK.
And with the UK Brexit mess they need a distraction anyway ...

One of the phony justifications used to launch the "Russia collusion" hoax was Trump praising Wikileaks. That's why Roger Stone is still facing trial, because he allegedly was working with Wikileaks or lied to the FBI about his knowledge of Wikileaks' alleged hacking of the DNC.

Roger Stone's trial is going to be explosive as well.

[A Voice from the Mountains]

Drudge Report reminding us of a November 2018 Politico article:


Assange charges could unsettle liberals, conservatives — and Trump

Some liberals have defended Assange as a journalist, conservatives celebrated him in 2016 and Trump once declared his 'love' for WikiLeaks.

Apparent criminal charges against Julian Assange are thrusting the WikiLeaks founder back into American politics — a development that could create awkwardness across the political spectrum.

Many liberals and civil rights activists have defended Assange as a journalist entitled to First Amendment protections. Conservatives have celebrated him for exposing Hillary Clinton’s emails in 2016. And President Donald Trump, who declared his “love” for Assange’s website during the 2016 contest, may have new concerns about whether the focus on Assange has a connection to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

For now, the details remain murky about what U.S. law Assange, an Australian national holed up in a London embassy, has even been charged with violating. An unrelated federal court filing discovered late Thursday appears to have accidentally mentioned Assange but doesn’t explain whether the sealed charges deal with WikiLeaks’ publication of stolen Democratic documents to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign or another matter that has also triggered notice from U.S. prosecutors.

It’s unclear when — if ever — the details about Assange will even be made public. Still, Assange’s reemergence at a time when Mueller has carefully studied how WikiLeaks obtained the Russian-hacked Democratic emails in 2016 jump-starts a debate over the fate of the Australian computer programmer.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/16/julian-assange-charges-wikileaks-997122

Trump can't keep silent on this for long as he'll inevitably be asked questions by the press corps if nothing else, but optics are important for any ongoing cases involving everything that has happened within the past 3 years.


I thought he was going to get Wikileaks to release multiple copies of revealing/embarrassing/shocking documents if anything untoward happened to him? Was that so much hot air, or can we look forward to some horrifying revelations now?

That was before an entire series of bizarre "coincidences" that included a bunch of Wikileaks associates suddenly dying within a short amount of time, and the Internet going down across the entire East Coast of the US, back in late 2016 when the Podesta emails were coming out. I imagine it might be hard to trip an Internet-based switch when an entire core chunk of the global Internet is down.

We are only seeing a very small fraction of what has been going on behind the scenes.


His track record doesn't fit his rhetoric. Most of the wikileaks releases were anti America.

I would say more anti-Bush and Clinton, and their associated acts in foreign governments. But I agree that the people in his background are not trivial players. He once had bail paid by a Rothschild's sister-in-law. Figure that one out.


I'm still suspecting that the person arrested today was a body double for the real Julian Assange, who might no longer be alive. But that could easily be my tin-foil-hat conspiracy mind set speaking. Someone with some good facial recognition software, that could measure the proportions of various identifiable points on his facial structure, could perhaps provide a more definitive answer.

After everything that happened in 2016, I thought he was dead for a good while too. But the unclassified email that Q linked to suggested that he had been detained but was still alive, and other drops have indicated that he's going to be used for upcoming events. My guess is that he's going to be testifying in a US court of law. So even if it was a body double being dragged out of the building for dramatic effect (who's to say? even Saddam Hussein had body doubles), this won't be the last we've heard of Assange.



WikiLeaks confirmed he'd been taken to Westminster Magistrates court, noting "He has been arrested under a US extradition warrant for conspiracy with @xychelsea for publishing classified information revealing war crimes in 2010."

Well to me this will be a litmus test over Commander in Chief Trump vs the Military who support him.

That's the real sticking point, because even though he was helping to expose corruption, all militaries have a strong culture of following orders simply because if and when people have to be ordered to their probable deaths in combat, the ultimate order, they have to follow those as well. That's been the way militaries operate throughout modern history. But that's not going to be a problem for Assange himself so much as it is Manning.

[AriG]

This is 100% Obama’s fault. That scripted robot of a horrid human being (not human actually). While he was vowing to close Gitmo, he revived the Espionage Act.

Do you know what that means? If the CIA wanted to arrest Bill for propagating his journalism? That turd Ecuadorian banana republic fascist would turn him right over. I am so pissed I can’t stand it!

[AriG]

democracy now just made reference to his being able to get health care now. He does look ill. If he is, what is wrong with Ecuador that they couldn’t get a physician into that embassy? Unless... thjis is a Trojan horse situation. Did anyone here as children, ever believe the world you were inheriting would be so Machiavellian? I’m 😓

[Mercedes]

I am beyond words, I cannot stand it either. That Lenin Moreno is a sack of@#$%^&*()

[angelfire]

I was by turns angry, despairing and very upset when I heard the news of his arrest this morning.


It's not enough to stand up for the truth. For truth one must sit in prison.- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[WildOrchid]

Trump vows to go after Deep State...
Now Assange gets arrested..............?
...............................COINCIDENCE?
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[AriG]

https://www.rt.com/usa/456270-trump-on-assanges-
arrest/ (https://www.rt.com/usa/456270-trump-on-assanges-arrest/)

WTAF! Trump has proven that he is a sock puppet president!

[Valerie Villars]

A bit on Gore Vidal, as it relates to Julian Assange.


In a September 30, 2009 interview with The Times of London, Vidal said that there soon would be a dictatorship in the United States. The newspaper emphasized that Vidal, described as "the Grand Old Man of American belles-lettres", claimed that America is rotting away – and to not expect Barack Obama to save the country and the nation from imperial decay. In the interview, also updated his views of his life, the United States, and other political subjects.[73] Vidal had earlier described what he saw as the political and cultural rot in the United States in his essay, "The State of the Union" (1975),

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party ... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt – until recently ... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.

— Gore Vidal[74]

http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal

[AriG]

A bit on Gore Vidal, as it relates to Julian Assange.


In a September 30, 2009 interview with The Times of London, Vidal said that there soon would be a dictatorship in the United States. The newspaper emphasized that Vidal, described as "the Grand Old Man of American belles-lettres", claimed that America is rotting away – and to not expect Barack Obama to save the country and the nation from imperial decay. In the interview, also updated his views of his life, the United States, and other political subjects.[73] Vidal had earlier described what he saw as the political and cultural rot in the United States in his essay, "The State of the Union" (1975),

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party ... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt – until recently ... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.

— Gore Vidal[74]

http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal

so what are we going to DO about this? Personally? I think it’s time for real action.

[A Voice from the Mountains]

https://www.rt.com/usa/456270-trump-on-assanges-
arrest/ (https://www.rt.com/usa/456270-trump-on-assanges-arrest/)

WTAF! Trump has proven that he is a sock puppet president!

Assange has to testify in court.

He's been releasing incriminating evidence to the public for years and absolutely nothing of consequence has come of it. The only possible way for it to gain traction in the US legal system is for it to be introduced into a court case as evidence.

Saying "I know nothing about this" is a distancing maneuver.

[AriG]

https://www.rt.com/usa/456270-trump-on-assanges-
arrest/ (https://www.rt.com/usa/456270-trump-on-assanges-arrest/)

WTAF! Trump has proven that he is a sock puppet president!

Assange has to testify in court.

He's been releasing incriminating evidence to the public for years and absolutely nothing of consequence has come of it. The only possible way for it to gain traction in the US legal system is for it to be introduced into a court case as evidence.

Saying "I know nothing about this" is a distancing maneuver.

So it’s ok for the President to lie?

If evidenceni s incriminating it should be released! War criminals go Scott free while journalists are persecuted? You welcome 1984 with your words. I get where you are coming from, but these games must stop.

[A Voice from the Mountains]

So it’s ok for the President to lie?

This is news to you? When haven't politicians lied? Try to give a serious answer to that question.

Not since Jesus Christ himself was king, which was... never.

Of course Trump knows what is going on with Assange and Wikileaks and of course he is going to lie about it, because any perceived political bias in the court precedings can result in entire cases being thrown out. And how is that going to help Mr. Assange's crusade for a better world? He's been shouting into the wind for over a decade now.

[AriG]

Under the Geneva Convention, Assange is a Prisoner of War as a war correspondent. Switzerland is obligated to offer him asylum.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/prisoner-of-war

[AriG]

So it’s ok for the President to lie?

This is news to you? When haven't politicians lied? Try to give a serious answer to that question.

Not since Jesus Christ himself was king, which was... never.

Of course Trump knows what is going on with Assange and Wikileaks and of course he is going to lie about it, because any perceived political bias in the court precedings can result in entire cases being thrown out. And how is that going to help Mr. Assange's crusade for a better world? He's been shouting into the wind for over a decade now.

An upside down answer in an upside down world. It will be great when all the boomers, aka sell outs, have long retired for a good sleep. Boomers have effed up this reality and not unlike the dinosaur, their ideologies need to be rendered extinct.

[A Voice from the Mountains]

An upside down answer in an upside down world. It will be great when all the boomers, aka sell outs, have long retired for a good sleep. Boomers have effed up this reality and not unlike the dinosaur, their ideologies need to be rendered extinct.

You mean the hippy generation? Sad to say I think you are onto something with that one. Millennials aren't helping much, either, but Generation Z is an entirely different beast altogether.

Alex Jones knows it's coming too: "Bigger waves are coming. We don't rise and fall with Trump. Now you're going to see the next wave. Good luck with that."

IIaWnSftVuc
Quote comes near the very end, at the 6:00 time stamp.

Not really surprising when the kids today, who are always rebellious in any generation, are growing up in a world where these are the accepted messages from adults:

https://imgoat.com/uploads/b163727917/210004.jpg


On Deck, “Generation Z,” the most conservative generation in 70 years. ...

In comparison to preceding generations that had their early development shaped by naïve Disney movies and picture-postcard generalizations, Generation Z is growing up in the age of YouTube, twitter, and for better or worse, LiveLeak. This raw exposure to global events generates a more realistic, pragmatic, and a more calibrated, nuanced outlook than millennials before them. Gen Z values being challenged, contradiction, and debate, because their limitless options for information provides them with confidence.

https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/07/the-post-millennial-generation-should-worry-democrats/

[AriG]

Jim from mountains,

Too many links to quote on my phone but I think you missed my point. Alex Jones is Stratfor- to be disregarded.

Boomers = 1945-1964 - once idealistic but sold out and created this ugly reality, almost as though they were angry to have to concede to economic pressure, so they were going to pay it back in spades and effed it all up.

This Gen Z? Not good. Purely programmed, just like the silent generation (1922-1941). Total sheep.

Though I am not one for pigeon holing people, there does seem to be some truth in the generational demographic does seem to have some legitimacy.

But I fear that Gen Zzzzzzzzz will put everyone back to sleep!

[Iloveyou]

https://imgoat.com/uploads/b163727917/210004.jpg

A Voice, this is obviously just a side note (nothing to do with Assange) but since you took the trouble to find and post such an excellent picture - a poster of the German Green Party saying: ‚Death to the white German man‘ - would you be so nice to add the context, too?

In my years as a reader on PA I learnt to listen carefully to opinions which are the extreme opposite of my own. And to seriously consider if there might be something to it. But I expect people not to be taken for idiots. I usually enjoy reading your posts except there is blunt manipulation (btw I‘ve not the tiniest bit of sympathy for any Green Party)

[A Voice from the Mountains]

Here's another (leftist) article from The Atlantic, January of this year, demonizing Trump and Assange and painting them in on a common plot/ideology:


What Julian Assange and Donald Trump Have in Common

When a court filing in Virginia last November inadvertently revealed that Julian Assange faces unspecified criminal charges in the United States, Donald Trump had nothing to say. He’s had almost nothing to say about Assange since being elected president. But while running for president, Trump couldn’t stop talking about WikiLeaks.

At the time, Assange’s organization was acting as an arm of Russian intelligence, releasing hundreds of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, and timing the dumps for maximum benefit to Trump: tipping off Trump’s crony Roger Stone, disrupting the Democratic National Convention, distracting the press by publishing a cache of emails 29 minutes after the Access Hollywood video surfaced. Assange became a hero to the right-wing media, hailed as a brave oracle by Sean Hannity. Trump could hardly believe his good fortune. “WikiLeaks! I love WikiLeaks!” he shouted to a cheering crowd in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on October 10, 2016. By one count, Trump mentioned Assange’s organization at least 164 times in the last month of the campaign.

Read: The secret correspondence between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks

By the month of his inauguration, the president-elect was backing away: “The dishonest media likes saying that I am in Agreement with Julian Assange—wrong. I simply state what he states, it is for the people …” Then, as president, Trump went silent on WikiLeaks—while his intelligence agencies concluded that Russia had orchestrated the leaks to help him get elected, and his CIA director called WikiLeaks “a nonstate hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia” and Assange a “narcissist.” Then, in November 2018, came the accidental revelation that Assange has been charged in a U.S. federal court—perhaps for the same leaks that Trump, now quiet on the subject, once found so helpful.
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If it were just dumb luck that landed WikiLeaks in the Trump camp, then the only question would be how Republicans became so unprincipled that they would welcome the political help of avowed enemies of American democracy. But it’s always a mistake to explain Trump’s motives as sheer opportunism. In fact, the lift from WikiLeaks wasn’t dumb luck, and more than self-interest led to the embrace between Trump and Assange. For years, WikiLeaks was considered politically on the left, the darling of Western progressives. Then why did it organize its releases to inflict the greatest damage on Hillary Clinton? Why not go after Trump instead? Or, at least, Trump too? What made WikiLeaks a hero to Fox News and the American right?

The answer lies in one of the weirdest inversions of the past few years: Trump and Assange turned out to be second cousins. WikiLeaks and the Republican Party are distant ideological allies. They have common enemies. They use similarly nihilistic tactics toward similarly antidemocratic ends. In that dark place where the extremes meet, they benefit by undermining the same institutions. They despise the same mainstream press and the same nefarious “deep state.” Their supporters hate the same people. They hate liberals, and liberalism.

Four or five years ago, a few writers looked into the politics of Assange and two other famous radical leakers, Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, and made a strange discovery: Many of their views shaded toward the farther reaches of the right. Their greatest animus seemed to be reserved for the Democratic Party and The New York Times. They had friendly things to say about the ultraconservative libertarian Ron Paul and the Republican Liberty Caucus. Assange eventually became an open mouthpiece of Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy. Snowden, after leaking thousands of secret documents to Greenwald and Laura Poitras, became the ward of and occasional apologist for the autocratic regime in Moscow. After the 2016 election, when reporters began to uncover interference by Russian intelligence, in concert with WikiLeaks, on Trump’s behalf, Greenwald used his wide influence to denounce and mock the very idea.

Defenders of the radical leakers said that their politics didn’t matter—what mattered was the dirty doings of the surveillance state that the leakers exposed. It turned out that both things mattered. And now that we’re living in Trump’s America, in what looks more and more like Putin’s world, it’s possible that the politics matters more.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/donald-trump-and-julian-assange-have-same-enemies/579811/

Translation: Assange and Trump are both assaulting the established global order. Conventional politics and conventional political labels have little to do with it with neo-cons and supranational socialists are essentially the exact same group.


Interesting development to come right on the heels of Assange's arrest:


IMF approves $4.2bn loan for Ecuador

WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund on Monday approved a $4.2-billion, three-year loan for Ecuador, part of a broader aid package to help support the government's economic reform program.

The Washington-based lender agreed to the terms of the financing late last month, and the final approval of the IMF board on Monday releases the first installment of $652-million.

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the aid will support the government's efforts to shore up its finances, including a wage "realignment," gradual lowering of fuel subsidies, and reduction of public debt.

"The savings generated by these measures will allow for an increase in social assistance spending over the course of the program," Lagarde said in a statement, stressing that "Protecting the poor and most vulnerable segments in society is a key objective" of the program.

Quito is expected to receive another $6-billion from the Development Bank of Latin America, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and the Latin American Reserve Fund.

https://www.enca.com/business/imf-approves-42bn-loan-ecuador?fbclid=IwAR0lanZu6lbHf8K5kXSy9dotPQlIMuLRUiFKsSb_XXo0m2atC2arrg4YKjQ



A Voice, this is obviously just a side note (nothing to do with Assange) but since you took the trouble to find and post such an excellent picture - a poster of the German Green Party saying: ‚Death to the white German man‘ - would you be so nice to add the context, too?

They're posters for the German Green Party ("Grune", that you see on the posters, don't have the umlaut handy) for German elections. What additional context is necessary? They have entire university courses now on evil white men, if you need a more thorough reference for their hateful ideology.

If there is any humor about them, it is purely unintentional on their end. They are completely nuts and only polarizing people.


Too many links to quote on my phone but I think you missed my point. Alex Jones is Stratfor- to be disregarded.

He's got issues, but not everything he says is wrong. He serves more than one interest (Mossad, US military contractors like Stratfor) and often seems conflicted and majorly stressed out.


Though I am not one for pigeon holing people, there does seem to be some truth in the generational demographic does seem to have some legitimacy.

Every generation grows up with certain collective formative experiences, and tends to swing back against the blind spots that the previous generation has been oblivious too. That's always the pattern, and the general idea is simple enough.

https://pics.me.me/disclose-tv-hard-times-create-strong-men-strong-men-create-g0od-29244867.png

Not everyone falls into the stereotypes, but enough people follow the general trend that it ends up shaping society as a whole.

Hippies revolted against 1950s-era social conservatism in the 60s and 70s.
Gen X revolted against hippies through the 1980s, swung back to the right.
Millennials revolted against the conservatism of the 80s and 90s, swung way left.
Gen Z is going to be an equally "extreme" reaction to the gender-fluid identity nonsense of the Millennials.

It's almost like physics, or a self-corrective force in nature. It's basically in-built into kids to rebel against their parents, and for good reason. A certain level of debate and conflict is healthy and keeps people sharp and on their toes, and serves as a pressure release valve to head off larger conflicts.

What I'm concerned about is not Gen Z, but what is going to come after them, because if they get too far off the leash, they'll cause a backlash of their own. These swings usually escalate until a major war occurs and calms everybody back down with massive bloodshed. That is what would ideally be avoided through political means, but at the same time, there are a lot of deep problems in society that have to be addressed in a serious way, and Assange has a role to play in that.

Assange has to put his evidence into the US legal system in the same way that Frodo had to take his ring back to Mordor and throw it directly into a volcano there. Maybe a tacky metaphor but also very appropriate imo.

[Iloveyou]

Voice, the posters are fake. Designed by a group with a certain agenda and glued at the office windows of the green party, from the outside. Police is investigating. I thought you know that. It is not a big issue per se, but hundreds of small actions like that are taken to poison the social climate. That makes me angry. Sorry for going off topic.

[Arcturian108]

The New York Times wrote today that the Assange extradition to America was just for the breaking of a military code in 2010 related to the Manning material dump, and not anything to do with the 2016 election of Trump. Methinks the U.S. prosecution will avoid the latter because then the whole Seth Rich murder will come up and really expose the British intelligence services interference in the 2016 U.S. election. It really would obliterate the whole Russia collusion narrative, and I guess that won't be allowed to happen.

[BMJ]

Dave from X22 Report has looked into the matter, and gives his point of view below. See 2.45 to 16.00 minutes.

As you would expect it is highly likely Julian Assange is the source that will testify against the deep state and "is protected by the USA." (See Q3312)

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X22Report
Published on Apr 11, 2019

[A Voice from the Mountains]

Voice, the posters are fake. Designed by a group with a certain agenda and glued at the office windows of the green party, from the outside. Police is investigating. I thought you know that. It is not a big issue per se, but hundreds of small actions like that are taken to poison the social climate. That makes me angry. Sorry for going off topic.

If they are fake, then they're still fundamentally no different than the actual ideology of the radical left in West.

There is no question that this is real, for example:


US University To Offer Course In ‘Angry White Men’ And White Men Are Angry

There’s certainly something to be said about the stereotype of white cis men. A stereotype the University of Kansas is turning into a subject, announcing they will be opening enrollments for a class on ‘Angry White Male Studies’ from next year. And naturally, white men are angry.

The course will explore the rise of the angry white male since the 1950s, particularly focusing on men in the United States and Britain. It will, according to the course handbook, explore “dominant and subordinate masculinities” and connect to “modern rights-based movements of women, people of color, homosexuals and trans individuals.”

https://www.marieclaire.com.au/angry-white-men-course

Just as a thought experiment, change that headline to read "US University to Offer Course in 'Angry Black Men" and Black Men Are Angry." This is why it doesn't even seem implausible that those posters are fake, and I'm not convinced that they are, since the German police are a joke anyway. The modern left in general is creating a clown world and setting themselves up for their worst nightmare.

These headlines aren't fake either:

http://www.informationliberation.com/files/DPHUtYpWkAUr_K7.jpg

Masculinity is toxic, whites are all oppressors, gender-fluid children are good (just ask the new royal couple), Islam is great, Christianity is bad. I'm not sure you realize the gravity of the effect these messages are having on the kids growing up today and being barraged with all of this nonsense. Young white men are turning to literal Nazism en masse because they are actually internalizing the idea that they are all "evil monsters," and learning to identify with historical figures who were similarly villified by popular culture. And this is the intolerant left's own doing, manifesting exactly the kind of reality they have nightmares about, like a self-fulfilling prophecy.


Dr. Turley has an interesting take on Assange's arrest in the context of globalist politics, and how loyalty to an international order over one's own national identity has ironically blown up in globalists' faces with Assange:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTSvFjX--pA

[Innocent Warrior]

Sad Day, Yes the photo speaks volumes. I can only hope Julian has Superb Counselors. I certainly appreciate all that he has done. Hey, Isn't there a dead man's trigger in line here, or does it only work if he dies?

Just a dead man’s switch. They can’t afford to kill him. Now that I’ve calmed down a bit I’m thinking they can’t hurt him too much, his health is already frail, and they’ll probably want to parade him around a bit.

He’s not a martyr, he’s a fighter, so his legal team and WikiLeaks will fight tooth and nail.

* * *

The book will be a message. It’s about how the military industrial complex was created to make money and created a fake enemy to justify it, the Soviet Union. Assange will have already sorted signs for his lawyers and close friends, he’s said as much in the past. So if it looks like he’s signalling, he probably is.

MOD message | Rachel, hi: yes, see post below from Craig Murray's blog - TQ

[Innocent Warrior]

From the comment section of THIS (https://www.rt.com/news/456246-assange-arrest-annie-machon/) article, posted by unfree1951 -


How many countries does it take to frame, arrest, and/or corner an unarmed man, a brave journalist dedicated to the release of truthful reports to the world?

Five! Ecuador, UK, USA, Sweden & Australia too do not see their collective folly. They ganged up (ignoring & abandoning own citizen's plight & needs included) against one man, Assange.

Don't they see how the world sèes them now? If it is not so terrible for what Assange has been through the rest of us who still have our sanity and conscience intact would be highly entertained.

[Tintin]

Chelsea and Julian are in Jail. History Trembles [Craig Murray]
12 Apr, 2019 in Uncategorized by craig (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/04/chelsea-and-julian-are-in-jail-history-trembles/)

Tonight both Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange are in jail, both over offences related to the publication of materials specifying US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and both charged with nothing else at all. No matter what bull**** political and MSM liars try to feed you, that is the simple truth. Manning and Assange are true heroes of our time, and are suffering for it.

If a Russian opposition politician were dragged out by armed police, and within three hours had been convicted on a political charge by a patently biased judge with no jury, with a lengthy jail sentence to follow, can you imagine the Western media reaction to that kind of kangaroo court? Yet that is exactly what just happened in London.

District Judge Michael Snow is a disgrace to the bench who deserves to be infamous well beyond his death. He displayed the most plain and open prejudice against Assange in the 15 minutes it took for him to hear the case and declare Assange guilty, in a fashion which makes the dictators’ courts I had witnessed, in Babangida’s Nigeria or Karimov’s Uzbekistan, look fair and reasonable, in comparison to the gross charade of justice conducted by Michael Snow.

One key fact gave away Snow’s enormous prejudice. Julian Assange said nothing during the whole brief proceedings, other than to say “Not guilty” twice, and to ask a one sentence question about why the charges were changed midway through this sham “trial”. Yet Judge Michael Snow condemned Assange as “narcissistic”. There was nothing that happened in Snow’s brief court hearing that could conceivably have given rise to that opinion. It was plainly something he brought with him into the courtroom, and had read or heard in the mainstream media or picked up in his club. It was in short the very definition of prejudice, and “Judge” Michael Snow and his summary judgement is a total disgrace.

We wrapped up the final Wikileaks and legal team meeting at 21.45 tonight and thereafter Kristian Hrafnsson and I had dinner together. The whole team, including Julian, is energised rather than downhearted. At last there is no more hiding for the pretend liberals behind ludicrous Swedish allegations or bail jumping allegations, and the true motive – revenge for the Chelsea Manning revelations – is now completely in the open.

To support the persecution of Assange in these circumstances is to support absolute state censorship of the internet. It is to support the claim that any journalist who receives and publishes official material which indicates US government wrongdoing, can be punished for its publication. Furthermore this US claim involves an astonishing boost to universal jurisdiction. Assange was nowhere near the USA when he published the documents, but nonetheless US courts are willing to claim jurisdiction. This is a threat to press and internet freedom everywhere.

These are scary times. But those may also be the most inspiring of times

[Ba-ba-Ra]

Tucker: People are mad at Assange instead of Obama


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE7OfU7


What's next for Assange - good discussion

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Cl9QaRtuW9CNjP7pP4BBQ

[Pam]

So it’s ok for the President to lie?

This is news to you? When haven't politicians lied? Try to give a serious answer to that question.

Not since Jesus Christ himself was king, which was... never.

Of course Trump knows what is going on with Assange and Wikileaks and of course he is going to lie about it, because any perceived political bias in the court precedings can result in entire cases being thrown out. And how is that going to help Mr. Assange's crusade for a better world? He's been shouting into the wind for over a decade now.

An upside down answer in an upside down world. It will be great when all the boomers, aka sell outs, have long retired for a good sleep. Boomers have effed up this reality and not unlike the dinosaur, their ideologies need to be rendered extinct.

If you can simply dismiss a whole generation at the tip of your fingers, the question is what are you going to do? What is your generation doing to correct this? I seriously would like an answer.

[AriG]

Do no harm. Watch and observe, live intentionally and find alternatives to the malicious narrative- and let me clarify - most boomers, not all boomers. Mea culpa.

[Pam]

Here's another (leftist) article from The Atlantic, January of this year, demonizing Trump and Assange and painting them in on a common plot/ideology:


What Julian Assange and Donald Trump Have in Common

When a court filing in Virginia last November inadvertently revealed that Julian Assange faces unspecified criminal charges in the United States, Donald Trump had nothing to say. He’s had almost nothing to say about Assange since being elected president. But while running for president, Trump couldn’t stop talking about WikiLeaks.

At the time, Assange’s organization was acting as an arm of Russian intelligence, releasing hundreds of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, and timing the dumps for maximum benefit to Trump: tipping off Trump’s crony Roger Stone, disrupting the Democratic National Convention, distracting the press by publishing a cache of emails 29 minutes after the Access Hollywood video surfaced. Assange became a hero to the right-wing media, hailed as a brave oracle by Sean Hannity. Trump could hardly believe his good fortune. “WikiLeaks! I love WikiLeaks!” he shouted to a cheering crowd in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on October 10, 2016. By one count, Trump mentioned Assange’s organization at least 164 times in the last month of the campaign.

Read: The secret correspondence between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks

By the month of his inauguration, the president-elect was backing away: “The dishonest media likes saying that I am in Agreement with Julian Assange—wrong. I simply state what he states, it is for the people …” Then, as president, Trump went silent on WikiLeaks—while his intelligence agencies concluded that Russia had orchestrated the leaks to help him get elected, and his CIA director called WikiLeaks “a nonstate hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia” and Assange a “narcissist.” Then, in November 2018, came the accidental revelation that Assange has been charged in a U.S. federal court—perhaps for the same leaks that Trump, now quiet on the subject, once found so helpful.
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If it were just dumb luck that landed WikiLeaks in the Trump camp, then the only question would be how Republicans became so unprincipled that they would welcome the political help of avowed enemies of American democracy. But it’s always a mistake to explain Trump’s motives as sheer opportunism. In fact, the lift from WikiLeaks wasn’t dumb luck, and more than self-interest led to the embrace between Trump and Assange. For years, WikiLeaks was considered politically on the left, the darling of Western progressives. Then why did it organize its releases to inflict the greatest damage on Hillary Clinton? Why not go after Trump instead? Or, at least, Trump too? What made WikiLeaks a hero to Fox News and the American right?

The answer lies in one of the weirdest inversions of the past few years: Trump and Assange turned out to be second cousins. WikiLeaks and the Republican Party are distant ideological allies. They have common enemies. They use similarly nihilistic tactics toward similarly antidemocratic ends. In that dark place where the extremes meet, they benefit by undermining the same institutions. They despise the same mainstream press and the same nefarious “deep state.” Their supporters hate the same people. They hate liberals, and liberalism.

Four or five years ago, a few writers looked into the politics of Assange and two other famous radical leakers, Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, and made a strange discovery: Many of their views shaded toward the farther reaches of the right. Their greatest animus seemed to be reserved for the Democratic Party and The New York Times. They had friendly things to say about the ultraconservative libertarian Ron Paul and the Republican Liberty Caucus. Assange eventually became an open mouthpiece of Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy. Snowden, after leaking thousands of secret documents to Greenwald and Laura Poitras, became the ward of and occasional apologist for the autocratic regime in Moscow. After the 2016 election, when reporters began to uncover interference by Russian intelligence, in concert with WikiLeaks, on Trump’s behalf, Greenwald used his wide influence to denounce and mock the very idea.

Defenders of the radical leakers said that their politics didn’t matter—what mattered was the dirty doings of the surveillance state that the leakers exposed. It turned out that both things mattered. And now that we’re living in Trump’s America, in what looks more and more like Putin’s world, it’s possible that the politics matters more.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/donald-trump-and-julian-assange-have-same-enemies/579811/

Translation: Assange and Trump are both assaulting the established global order. Conventional politics and conventional political labels have little to do with it with neo-cons and supranational socialists are essentially the exact same group.


Interesting development to come right on the heels of Assange's arrest:


IMF approves $4.2bn loan for Ecuador

WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund on Monday approved a $4.2-billion, three-year loan for Ecuador, part of a broader aid package to help support the government's economic reform program.

The Washington-based lender agreed to the terms of the financing late last month, and the final approval of the IMF board on Monday releases the first installment of $652-million.

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the aid will support the government's efforts to shore up its finances, including a wage "realignment," gradual lowering of fuel subsidies, and reduction of public debt.

"The savings generated by these measures will allow for an increase in social assistance spending over the course of the program," Lagarde said in a statement, stressing that "Protecting the poor and most vulnerable segments in society is a key objective" of the program.

Quito is expected to receive another $6-billion from the Development Bank of Latin America, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and the Latin American Reserve Fund.

https://www.enca.com/business/imf-approves-42bn-loan-ecuador?fbclid=IwAR0lanZu6lbHf8K5kXSy9dotPQlIMuLRUiFKsSb_XXo0m2atC2arrg4YKjQ



A Voice, this is obviously just a side note (nothing to do with Assange) but since you took the trouble to find and post such an excellent picture - a poster of the German Green Party saying: ‚Death to the white German man‘ - would you be so nice to add the context, too?

They're posters for the German Green Party ("Grune", that you see on the posters, don't have the umlaut handy) for German elections. What additional context is necessary? They have entire university courses now on evil white men, if you need a more thorough reference for their hateful ideology.

If there is any humor about them, it is purely unintentional on their end. They are completely nuts and only polarizing people.


Too many links to quote on my phone but I think you missed my point. Alex Jones is Stratfor- to be disregarded.

He's got issues, but not everything he says is wrong. He serves more than one interest (Mossad, US military contractors like Stratfor) and often seems conflicted and majorly stressed out.


Though I am not one for pigeon holing people, there does seem to be some truth in the generational demographic does seem to have some legitimacy.

Every generation grows up with certain collective formative experiences, and tends to swing back against the blind spots that the previous generation has been oblivious too. That's always the pattern, and the general idea is simple enough.

https://pics.me.me/disclose-tv-hard-times-create-strong-men-strong-men-create-g0od-29244867.png

Not everyone falls into the stereotypes, but enough people follow the general trend that it ends up shaping society as a whole.

Hippies revolted against 1950s-era social conservatism in the 60s and 70s.
Gen X revolted against hippies through the 1980s, swung back to the right.
Millennials revolted against the conservatism of the 80s and 90s, swung way left.
Gen Z is going to be an equally "extreme" reaction to the gender-fluid identity nonsense of the Millennials.

It's almost like physics, or a self-corrective force in nature. It's basically in-built into kids to rebel against their parents, and for good reason. A certain level of debate and conflict is healthy and keeps people sharp and on their toes, and serves as a pressure release valve to head off larger conflicts.

What I'm concerned about is not Gen Z, but what is going to come after them, because if they get too far off the leash, they'll cause a backlash of their own. These swings usually escalate until a major war occurs and calms everybody back down with massive bloodshed. That is what would ideally be avoided through political means, but at the same time, there are a lot of deep problems in society that have to be addressed in a serious way, and Assange has a role to play in that.

Assange has to put his evidence into the US legal system in the same way that Frodo had to take his ring back to Mordor and throw it directly into a volcano there. Maybe a tacky metaphor but also very appropriate imo.

These generational swings are actually very logical and to be expected. Each generation attempts to correct the perceived "wrongs" or short comings of the previous generation and frequently do it to the extreme. I don't see this changing until our level of consciousness is elevated. As pathetic as our world is at the moment, when I stand back and look at the bigger picture, I believe we are at the turbulent beginnings of that elevation of consciousness. Things will get worse before they get better, metamorphosis is not a calm transformation. Each and every one of us plays a part in what is occurring at this very moment. Our responsibility may be by commission or omission, we simply do not have the luxury of blaming others at this point.

[mountain_jim]

Do no harm. Watch and observe, live intentionally and find alternatives to the malicious narrative- and let me clarify - most boomers, not all boomers. Mea culpa.

Thanks.

Some of us boomers watched the events around the JFK assassination live on TV, and then later on the early internet Usenet news group alt.conspiracy.jfk, got awakened via facts and discussion around that conspiracy.

This wake-up call led me later during early web days to From The Wilderness and What Really Happened, where I learned a lot about Iran Contra / CIA-Drug smuggling, Bush's involvement in JFK, 9/11 Mossad involvement, etc.

This and UFO history awakening lead me to Projects Camelot and Avalon, and here we are.

Well - getting involved with psychedelics in nature and at live concerts by The Grateful Dead and other bands also contributed to the kind of spiritual influences and understandings about the nature of reality that many later generations may not be getting from their mobile phones and social media in my view.

[Flash]

Do no harm. Watch and observe, live intentionally and find alternatives to the malicious narrative- and let me clarify - most boomers, not all boomers. Mea culpa.

even with the correction, you may be wrong, have you thought of this?

I have written and given seminars on cross-generational management and leadership. What you wrote does not fit the "patterns". But I will not re-give my seminar here, it was a 2 days full time thing.

All I see is frustrations and anger in your previous posts comments, towards those before you, which however fits the "pattern" of the generation X behavior. Often due to misunderstanding. How strangely funny in fact this is.

But, in any generation, it is easy to go out of patterns when one uses his/her heart and open up his/her mind. Believe me, it is easy to get our of that fold. We just have to stop repeating in ourselves what we have heard and wrongly believed. We mostly have to stop victimizing. it does miracles.

Maybe we should all go back to topic, and back to some emotional sanity. (see my post on the Avalon meeting thread http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105631-An-Avalon-Conference-31-March-2-April-2019&p=1285888&viewfull=1#post1285888

[AriG]

Do no harm. Watch and observe, live intentionally and find alternatives to the malicious narrative- and let me clarify - most boomers, not all boomers. Mea culpa.

even with the correction, you may be wrong, have you thought of this?

I have written and given seminars on cross-generational management and leadership. What you wrote does not fit the "patterns". But I will not re-give my seminar here, it was a 2 days full time thing.

All I see is frustrations and anger in your previous posts comments, towards those before you, which however fits the "pattern" of the generation X behavior. Often due to misunderstanding. How strangely funny in fact this is.

But, in any generation, it is easy to go out of patterns when one uses his/her heart and open up his/her mind. Believe me, it is easy to get our of that fold. We just have to stop repeating in ourselves what we have heard and wrongly believed. We mostly have to stop victimizing. it does miracles.

Maybe we should all go back to topic, and back to some emotional sanity. (see my post on the Avalon meeting thread http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105631-An-Avalon-Conference-31-March-2-April-2019&p=1285888&viewfull=1#post1285888

Anger in my posts??? Historically no. But I have to be honest Flash, that’s a bit of the pot calling the kettle black.

But you are the self appointed expert on reincarnation (your public admonishing of We-R-One’s presentation), women’s issues (your over the top posts about female experience) and now generational demographics. I will defer to your wisdom and eagerly anticipate the renaming of the forum to Project Flash!

And I am currently and quite uncharacteristically angry (out of character). No doubt symptomatic of recent days.

I am going to stay off this forum for a while. It has changed and not for the better. I wish you luck in your quest to find another woman to chastise from your all knowing throne of self righteousness. Ar Revois

[Flash]

Do no harm. Watch and observe, live intentionally and find alternatives to the malicious narrative- and let me clarify - most boomers, not all boomers. Mea culpa.

even with the correction, you may be wrong, have you thought of this?

I have written and given seminars on cross-generational management and leadership. What you wrote does not fit the "patterns". But I will not re-give my seminar here, it was a 2 days full time thing.

All I see is frustrations and anger in your previous posts comments, towards those before you, which however fits the "pattern" of the generation X behavior. Often due to misunderstanding. How strangely funny in fact this is.

But, in any generation, it is easy to go out of patterns when one uses his/her heart and open up his/her mind. Believe me, it is easy to get our of that fold. We just have to stop repeating in ourselves what we have heard and wrongly believed. We mostly have to stop victimizing. it does miracles.

Maybe we should all go back to topic, and back to some emotional sanity. (see my post on the Avalon meeting thread http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105631-An-Avalon-Conference-31-March-2-April-2019&p=1285888&viewfull=1#post1285888

Anger in my posts??? Historically no. But I have to be honest Flash, that’s a bit of the pot calling the kettle black.

But you are the self appointed expert on reincarnation (your public admonishing of We-R-One’s presentation), women’s issues (your over the top posts about female experience) and now generational demographics. I will defer to your wisdom and eagerly anticipate the renaming of the forum to Project Flash!

And I am currently and quite uncharacteristically angry (out of character). No doubt symptomatic of recent days.

I am going to stay off this forum for a while. It has changed and not for the better. I wish you luck in your quest to find another woman to chastise from your all knowing throne of self righteousness. Ar Revois

You were there in the presentattion?????? No? So how do you know anything on it?.

More than half the room left. This you did not see. I liked her enough to stay and finally tell her what I genuinely saw, from my point of view of course. She can take it or not, but it is my own point of view, which has nothing to do with you, nooothing. And it does not stop my heart from loving or liking her.

You wished death to all baby boomers in your previous post. If this is not anger, what is it?

Ah....

We do not need death wishes on this forum, from and for anybody.

I am witholding, I am truly p iss ed right now.

How far are you going to go in your judgments of others? Don't you reread yourself? Me righteous? From what I see, it is rather you who are. And projecting it.

Back to topic,

[Kryztian]

Maybe we should all go back to topic, and back to some emotional sanity. (see my post on the Avalon meeting thread http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105631-An-Avalon-Conference-31-March-2-April-2019&p=1285888&viewfull=1#post1285888

That is excellent advice that should be given out more often on other threads to: go back to the first post in the thread, at least when the thread starts to evolve in an unproductive direction.

[ichingcarpenter]

You do realize.....







https://i.redd.it/3tsz410nxlr21.jpg








Tulsi Gabbard: The arrest of #JulianAssange is meant to send a message to all Americans and journalists: be quiet, behave, toe the line. Or you will pay the price.
twitter.com/TulsiG...







Ecuador gets $4 Billion from the International Banking Cartel, and soon after Assange is turned over to their henchmen. Coincidence?
Here is the money bit.

https://www.enca.com/business/imf-approves-42bn-loan-ecuador?fbclid=IwAR2_3jynzZpbOh1BEIf4klmwkUV_Gy1sc_Cq7l2PqPKJ2YkAaA67fkzqtAE

Here is the cartel bit

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJeemTQ7Vk



The whole affair makes me sick The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[betoobig]

Trump is going by The art of war by Lao Tzsu (of course he lies and seems non effective, no one truly knows him) LAtest post from Q say they´re waiting for him to testify against deep state .... Assange is a gold card for Trump... time will tell. I think Assange is much better out of Ecuador Embassy and out of Englan too. May Assnage be safe in this new adventure. And may this situation turn in favor of the truth and us all. Much love

[Olam]

I'm still suspecting that the person arrested today was a body double for the real Julian Assange, who might no longer be alive. But that could easily be my tin-foil-hat conspiracy mind set speaking. Someone with some good facial recognition software, that could measure the proportions of various identifiable points on his facial structure, could perhaps provide a more definitive answer.

As I can see in the pictures and footage, it really is him.

[Kryztian]

" Powerful actors, including CIA, are engaged in a sophisticated effort to dehumanise, delegitimize and imprison him."

https://i.imgur.com/JdLll4k.jpg

[Hervé]

MAJOR REVELATION: ASSANGE WAS BOUGHT FOR $4.2 BILLION – Former Ecuadorian President confirms IMF loan in exchange for Assange (https://www.fort-russ.com/2019/04/major-revelation-assange-was-bought-for-4-2-billion-former-ecuadorian-president-confirms-imf-loan-in-exchange-for-assange/)

FRN
(https://www.fort-russ.com/author/p-ant/)By Paul Antonopoulos (https://www.fort-russ.com/author/p-ant/) On Apr 12, 2019


https://www.fort-russ.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1-41-750x430.jpg

QUITO, Ecuador – Former and much loved Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has accused Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno of suspending the asylum of cyber-activist Julian Assange in order to obtain a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Correa said that there is evidence of the agreement and that Moreno, who Correa selected at his successor, has promised to “hand over” Assange in a 2017 meeting with Paul Manafort, former US campaign chief to Donald Trump.

Former President Correa, who broke with Moreno, also commented on visits to Ecuador by US Vice President Mike Pence.

At these times, Moreno would have promised to “help isolate Venezuela, leave the Chevron oil corporation, a company that destroyed half of the Amazon rainforest, unpunished, and to deliver Assange.”

Last month, the IMF announced approval of a $4.2 billion loan to Ecuador. The first installment, of $652 million, has already been paid.

Correa suspects that the Ecuadorian president made the decision to withdraw Assange’s asylum after WikiLeaks published documents about Moreno’s alleged relationship with a failing company, INA Papers.

The former president pointed out that the company INA Papers was registered in 2012, when Moreno was still its vice president.

According to the Ecuadorian head of state, the measure to remove his asylum was a response to the journalist’s disrespectful and aggressive behavior, his hostile and threatening statements against Ecuador and alleged violations of international conventions, justifications considered to be unconvincing both by supporters of the cyber-activist as by several analysts.

Assange, who is responsible for the publication of US government secret documents, is the reason for the extradition request. The great concern for his lawyers – and he too – is that the British authorities actually decide to send him to the United States, where the legal consequences of upsetting Washington are still uncertain.

Assange will be on videoconference for the proceedings of the next extradition hearing, set for May 2.

It will be a preliminary session of a court case that can last for months or even years.

[Franny]

David Icke has his own take on the arrest of Julian Assange.

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[A Voice from the Mountains]

This is from last August, so it's been in the works for a while already:


Paul suggests granting Assange immunity in exchange for congressional testimony: Report

Julian Assange should be let off the hook for releasing stolen material through his WikiLeaks website if he agrees to testify in person before lawmakers investigating his publication of Democratic Party documents, Sen. Rand Paul said in an interview published Wednesday.

“I think that he should be given immunity from prosecution in exchange for coming to the United States and testifying,” said Mr. Paul, Kentucky Republican.

“I think he’s been someone who has released a lot of information, and you can debate whether or not any of that has caused harm, but I think really he has information that is probably pertinent to the hacking of the Democratic emails that would be nice to hear,” Mr. Paul told a writer for The Gateway Pundit site.

Representatives for neither Mr. Assange nor WikiLeaks immediately returned messages seeking comment.

[...]

Congress has authority under federal law to grant immunity to witnesses who testify on Capitol Hill, prohibiting prosecutors from using “any information directly or indirectly derived from such testimony or other information” in any criminal proceedings.

Russian state-sponsored hackers sourced the Democratic Party documents released by WikiLeaks prior to the 2016 presidential election, according to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials, and the Senate Intelligence Committee is investigating the leak as part of the panel’s probe into Russia’s involvement in the race.

A separate investigation being conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office, meanwhile, returned criminal charges last month against a dozen Russians accused of hacking Democratic targets during the 2016 race, including Democratic National Committee computers and the email account of former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, among others. WikiLeaks subsequently published internal DNC documents and Mr. Podesta’s emails in the days and weeks leading up to Election Day, disrupting Mrs. Clinton’s campaign and providing ammunition for President Trump’s.

https://archive.fo/XO9R3#selection-3909.68-3915.155

Mueller is in fact prosecuting people over the lie that Russia hacked the DNC and then gave the emails to Wikileaks, which is what Roger Stone and Assange will end up having to testify about.

Assange already made it clear that Seth Rich was the one who gave Wikileaks the DNC emails, and Seth Rich was murdered. This is one of the big hot potatoes that's bound to bust the Clinton cartel wide open in full public view, but that whole back story will be best told by Assange himself.

AG Barr also has power to grant immunity or dismiss charges against Assange whenever he wants. The charges against Assange so far are pitiful, and carry a maximum punishment that is less than the time he already spent in the embassy in London.


Also a big Wikileaks dump today, but it's not the insurance policy:

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/

[Kryztian]

At the White House, President Trump was asked about WikiLeaks on Thursday.

Reporter: “Mr. President, do you still love WikiLeaks?”

President Donald Trump: “I know nothing about WikiLeaks. It’s not my thing.”

While Trump claimed he knew nothing about WikiLeaks, he repeatedly praised the whistleblowing site during the 2016 campaign for publishing internal Democratic Party emails.

Donald Trump: “This just came out. This just came out. WikiLeaks! I love WikiLeaks!”


from https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/12/headlines/trump_claims_i_know_nothing_about_wikileaks_despite_praising_site_repeatedly_in_2016

[Hervé]

Facebook blocks outspoken Ecuadorian ex-president Rafael Correa's page (https://www.rt.com/news/456366-rafael-correa-facebook-blocked/)

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/456366-rafael-correa-facebook-blocked/)
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Former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa © Reuters/Eric Vidal


Facebook has apparently blocked the page of former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, which was used to share WikiLeaks material. The move also comes after he bashed his successor for allowing to arrest Julian Assange.

Correa took to Twitter on Thursday night to decry the block, which he called a "show of desperation" following the publication of the INA papers, a trove of documents leaked last month that show current President Lenin Moreno's involvement in a corruption investigation. Correa had been publicizing the papers on his Facebook page, which had 1.5 million followers.

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the block to El Comercio, telling the paper that Correa's page was blocked because it breached the company's policies on "disclosure of personal information, such as phone numbers, addresses, bank account data, cards, or any record or data that could compromise the integrity physical or financial of the people in our community."
Microsoft translation: They Blocked my Facebook page, 1.5 million followers One step further from the brutal persecution, and another show of desperation for INA papers, of which the corrupt Moreno will not be able to escape. Just this way I will announce new page. Do Not believe in "fakes" The block also came one day after Correa branded (https://www.rt.com/news/456229-correa-slams-moreno-assange-arrest/) Moreno "the greatest traitor in Ecuadorian history" for allowing British officers to enter London's Ecuadorian embassy and arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. One week previously, WikiLeaks had suggested that Moreno would move to oust Assange soon, as revenge for WikiLeaks' reporting on the INA papers.

There is at present nothing to suggest that Facebook blocked Correa on behalf of Moreno. However, the social media giant has been criticized before for deleting (https://www.rt.com/usa/441040-facebook-deplatforms-political-pages/) left and right-leaning activist and news pages in the US, and leftist news outlets (https://www.rt.com/news/436057-telesur-restored-facebook-block/) in Latin America.

Related:

Ecuador president Moreno implicated in financial scandal, blames Wikileaks, threatens Assange with expulsion from embassy (https://www.sott.net/article/410405-Ecuador-president-implicated-in-financial-scandal-blames-Wikileaks-threatens-Assange-with-expulsion-from-embassy)

[A Voice from the Mountains]

This is becoming politicized faster than I thought.

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“It’s clear from the indictment that came out that it’s not about punishing journalism. It’s about assisting the hacking of the military computers, sealed information from the United States government. And, look, I’ll wait and see what happens with the charges and how it proceeds, but he skipped bail in the U.K., in Sweden had those rape charges which have been dropped in the last several years. But, the bottom line is that he has to answer for what he’s done, as has been charged.”

She then added, to the apparent delight of both the audience and a guffawing Begala: “I do think it’s ironic that he may be the only foreigner that this administration would welcome to the U.S.”

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/what-the-hell-is-sick-hillary-wearing-underneath-her-motorcycle-jacket/


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[angelfire]

This stinks to high heaven with the added irony that it is exactly the kind of corruption that Wikileaks was so good at exposing.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/ecuadors-cooperation-bought-imf-loans-washington-waxes-optimistic-assange-extradition/255942/?fbclid=IwAR0tlYpjEwe4HdmgTxF_E8QcKWSkTwPC7INX60XtU2RLIkQyN6On1W_94W8


WASHINGTON — Chelsea Manning’s fight against her subpoena in the U.S. Department of Justice’s grand-jury case targeting WikiLeaks founder and former publisher Julian Assange this past week has revealed several uncomfortable truths, not only about that investigation but also about the fate of Assange, whose asylum in Ecuador’s London embassy hangs precariously in the balance.

While reporting on the probe has largely focused on the nature of the still-sealed DOJ case, most reports have largely missed the fact that the marked increase in activity relating to the probe is directly related to the fact that Ecuador has, by all indications, agreed to rescind Assange’s asylum so that he may be extradited to the United States. As a consequence, the U.S. is moving forward with its case against Assange and WikiLeaks — which began nearly a decade ago in 2010 — now that it has received assurances that Assange’s extradition is a matter of when, not if.

Just days into 2019, the former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, who had originally granted Assange asylum in 2012, shared via Twitter a document showing that Ecuador’s current government, led by Lenín Moreno, was “auditing” Assange’s asylum as well as Assange’s Ecuadorian citizenship, which he had been granted in late 2017.
According to the document shared by Correa, the audit will examine the period from January 1, 2012, to September 20, 2018, and will “determine whether the procedures for granting asylum and naturalization to Julian Assange were carried out in accordance with national and international law.”

La última de Contraloría:
“Examen especial” al otorgamiento de asilo a Julian Assange.
Eso es tan “procedente” como hacer un examen especial al nombramiento de un ministro.
Ya que gobierne nomás Celi, el contralor impostor.
Por su odio y persecución, somos el hazmerreír del mundo pic.twitter.com/ipOMaqFIB5

— Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael) January 2, 2019

WikiLeaks subsequently shared Correa’s tweet and noted that this seemingly unusual reevaluation of Assange’s asylum was directly related to the Moreno administration’s efforts to secure a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a total of $10 billion. Per WikiLeaks, some of the conditions set for Ecuador’s receipt of the IMF loan included U.S. government demands of “handing over Assange and dropping environmental claims against Chevron” for the oil giant’s role in polluting Ecuador’s rainforest and poisoning many of its indigenous inhabitants.
Washington’s IMF leverage
For those who would argue that the U.S. could not set such conditions on a loan offered by an “independent” international financial institution, it is worth pointing out that the U.S. is the IMF’s largest shareholder — owning 17.46 percent of the institution – and also ponies up the largest quota for the institution’s maintenance, paying $164 billion in IMF financial commitments annually. In the past, the U.S. has used its privileged position as the institution’s largest funder to control IMF policy by threatening to withhold its IMF funding if the institution does not abide by Washington’s demands.

Furthermore, a leaked U.S. Army manual on “Unconventional Warfare” published by WikiLeaks in 2008 noted that the IMF was considered by the U.S. government to be a “financial weapon” to be used in “unconventional warfare” scenarios. As MintPress News recently noted, the manual states that the U.S.’ “persuasive influence” over the IMF can be used by the U.S. military to create “financial incentives or disincentives to persuade adversaries, allies and surrogates to modify their behavior at the theater strategic, operational, and tactical levels,” with such unconventional warfare campaigns highly coordinated with the State Department and the intelligence community.

It is also worth pointing out that Ecuador has been threatened with the financial might of the United States for much more minor issues than Assange’s status, despite its return to Washington’s “good graces” under Moreno’s leadership. For instance, last July, the U.S. threatened Ecuador with “punishing trade measures” if it introduced a measure at the UN that supported breastfeeding over infant formula — a stunning move that showed the international community the U.S.’ willingness to use “economic weapons,” even against allies. Ecuador, of course, immediately acquiesced under the threat of U.S. retribution.

Less than two weeks ago, on February 21, Ecuador signed a deal securing the controversial IMF loan for a total of $4.2 billion, in addition to another $6 billion from other U.S.-dominated financial institutions like the World Bank, for a total of $10.2 billion. If WikiLeaks’ early January warning is to be believed, it can be assumed that deal was secured by Ecuador offering the U.S. assurances that it would soon “hand over” Assange.

Moreno, since he signed on the IMF’s dotted line, has wasted no time in putting into practice the “structural adjustments” and other conditions required by the IMF for Ecuador’s receipt of the loan, including job cuts. In just three days, from February 28 to March 1, Moreno’s government fired nearly 10,000 public officials, according to Ecuadorian media. This is remarkable considering that the deal has not even been granted final approval by the IMF, demonstrating that Moreno is eager to show his willingness to enact the demands of the loan package.

Public ire over the mass firing has grown steadily in recent days, aggravated by the fact that Moreno was implicated in a major corruption scandal just two days before the IMF agreement was signed.

Furthermore, there are indications that Moreno’s government is preparing to drop charges against Chevron — one of the two U.S. government demands made to Ecuador in exchange for the IMF deal, with the other being Assange’s extradition. According to a report published on Wednesday by UPI, Moreno’s government is moving forward with a clean-up of the area that Chevron polluted. As UPI noted:

After 26 years of legal actions in Ecuador, the United States, Canada and Europe that failed to result in any significant cleanup effort of areas affected by crude oil spills, Ecuadorian authorities will start to clean up polluted areas to try to stop the damage.”

This is notable because, as UPI writes, “previously, authorities could not interfere with the spills because the pollution was used as evidence in lawsuits against Chevron.” Thus, the Moreno-led government’s move to clean up the area that had served as key evidence in past Chevron lawsuits suggests that they are preparing to drop their claims against Chevron.



Ecuador ready to deliver
Moreno’s willingness to quickly enact these requirements of the IMF loan begs the question of how quickly he will seek to enact the alleged U.S. government demands that have also been linked to the loan, namely Assange’s asylum and Ecuadorian citizenship. With both now under review since early January, there is reason to believe that the results of this politically-motivated audit could soon be revealed and are likely to be Washington’s liking.

Further evidence that the U.S. is convinced that Ecuador is set to move to strip Assange of his legal protections granted by his asylum and his status as a citizen of Ecuador has come from the progress made by the sealed U.S. charges against the WikiLeaks founder. The existence of the case, which had long been suspected, was inadvertently yet officially confirmed last November when a “clerical error” revealed that the U.S. has criminal charges waiting for Assange should he be extradited to the United States. A subsequent lawsuit to unseal those charges was unsuccessful.

Chelsea Manning revealed on February 28 to the New York Times that she has been ordered to appear before a grand jury regarding the U.S. case against Assange. The subpoena was first issued on January 22, just a few weeks after Ecuador announced it was “auditing” Assange’s asylum and citizenship.

Manning had originally been ordered to appear on February 5, but for still unknown reasons the date was postponed to March 5. Manning had announced she would fight the subpoena, but it was upheld by the court despite the efforts of Manning and her legal team.

Manning’s subpoena notably revealed that the case against Assange is related to WikiLeaks’ publications and his actions well prior to the 2016 publication of emails from the Democratic National Committee and former Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta by the transparency group. This was confirmed by U.S. officials who spoke to the Washington Post. Many of the documents published by WikiLeaks during this time, including the information given by Manning to the group, exposed horrific war crimes that took place under the Bush administration.

Washington Post confirms: "U.S. officials speaking on the condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy say the case is based on [Assange's] pre-2016 conduct, not the election hacks that drew the attention of special counsel Robert S. Mueller" https://t.co/ok8QG2ngD2

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 5, 2019

Yet another troubling but often overlooked implication of the Manning subpoena is the fact that its issuance shows that the Trump administration is actively moving forward in its pursuit of the case, which was first initiated in 2010 by the Obama administration. Though the Obama administration eventually shelved the case, which seeks to prosecute Assange under the Espionage Act, the Trump administration has revived it — despite Trump’s self-professed “love” for WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign.

According to a report published last November by the Wall Street Journal, the Department of Justice announced that it was “preparing to prosecute” Assange and was “increasingly optimistic it will be able to get him into a U.S. courtroom.” The report also stated that the DOJ planned to indict Assange in such a way that it would trigger his extradition to the United States to stand trial, following sensitive negotiations with foreign governments, namely Ecuador.

With Ecuador now having signed off on the IMF deal — and with it, demonstrated its willingness to submit to the demands underpinning that deal — the U.S.’ optimism seems to have only grown since last year, a sign that does not bode well for Julian Assange or for anyone who values the public’s right to know and press freedom in the United States and beyond.

Top Photo | U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno exchange looks during the delivery of a final statement at the government palace in Quito, Ecuador, June 28, 2018. Dolores Ochoa | AP

[Kryztian]

In Memoriam Namir Noor-Eldeen 1984 - 2007

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As we watch and consider what is happening to Julian Assange, we might also want to look back twelve years ago to an important part of this story, the murder of a 22 year old Iraqi photo-journalist named Namir Noor-Eldeed in Bagdad on on July 12, 2007. Many of his photos captured the horror of the U.S. invasion of Iraq were published by Reuters and other news publications.


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Noor-Eldeen was himself an object of famous photography. He was a small blip seen in a 17 minute video that was later dubbed "Collateral Murder" by Wikileaks that became public in 2010.

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On July 2007, Noor-Eldeen was gunned down by a U S military Apache helicopter in the middle of a Baghdad marketplace, just a few feet away from some small children. While there have been numerous cries for an investigation, there never has been one. There has never been an official explanation of what happened. There has never been an apology.

The invasion of Iraq, for reasons of protecting the U.S.A. from "weapons of mass destruction", charges proved utterly false, is now in its sixteenth year and has cause the death of up to two million Iraqis and thousand of U.S. servicemen. There has never been an explanation or investigation in to how this ever happened, and yet the U.S. is still often contemplating similar courses of action in Syria, Iran, Venezuela and other foreign nations "for humanitarian purposes".

The Collateral Murder video came to Wikileaks by way of Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning. Manning spent seven years in prison, most of the time in solitary, and much of that time, completely naked. Per the U.N., she was a victim of torture and human rights violations - that's a gross understatement.

Yesterday, Assange was carried out of the embassy by six men in jackets and dress shirts. Clearly, these six had practiced for hours with a stand in who attempted all sorts of maneuvers during which time they practiced keeping their clothing from being ruffled and keeping their facial expressions calm and dignified creating an antiseptic aura of civility for the world's nightly news programs.

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What ever was really behind the arrest of Assange, is in fact, complete barbarism and cruelty. It is the same machine that gunned down Namir Noor-Eldeen in broad daylight in a Baghdad market and imprisoned a naked Chelsea Manning in solitary confinement for seven years. It is the same machine that turns nations into debtors prisons and call for regime change of popular or elected leaders. It invades, plunders and murders and while CNN make it looks like it is a humanitarian operation. It makes you buy toxic products, injects them in your body, sprays them on the lawn where your children play and has Harvard create reports that demonstrate it is safe and healthy.

It's not the six men arresting Assange. It is not the people who pulled the trigger in the Baghdad marketplace. It's not Trump or Clinton or Obama or Bush. It is all of these people and institutions and so much more and it is important to resists it with ever fiber of your being every moment of your life or else get sucked up into it. We do not know who or what is at the top of this machine, nor should we pretend to know, but it's evil is unmistakable.

It is mostly devoid or compassion or feeling and just seeks to suck up wealth and power, but one thing it especially despises is truth. Journalists and whistle blowers are it's worst enemies. It arrests them, imprisons them, tortures them and shoots them down in broad daylight. And yesterday was a banner day.

[ThePythonicCow]

[...]
The book is Gore Vidal History of The National Security State (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MX4LILG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1).
[...]

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Here's a longer article into the background of Gore Vidal, what this book was about, and why Why the Book Julian Assange Was Holding When He Was Arrested is Vitally Important (https://www.activistpost.com/2019/04/heres-why-the-book-julian-assange-was-holding-when-he-was-arrested-is-vitally-important.html).

Here's a portion from the middle of this article:

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In the book Assange was pictured holding, Vidal explained how the United States established the “massive military-industrial-security complex” and the “political culture that gave us the ‘Imperial Presidency.’”

The book was written by Vidal and The Real News Network senior editor Paul Jay. In it, the two dissected the apparatus that would eventually facilitate Assange’s arrest. Through propaganda and manipulation, the establishment has tricked the masses into accepting their corrupt order as the norm. Both Vidal and Assange knew this.



It doesn’t actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they’ve had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run. ~ Gore Vidal

In the book, Vidal explains the false history of the US and how this false history is used to manipulate people into supporting mass murder and corruption.

“I think everybody should take a sober look at the world about us, remember that practically everything that you’re told about other countries is untrue, what we’re told about ourselves and our great strength and how much we are loved – forget it,” wrote Vidal.
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[Bill Ryan]

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Here's a longer article into the background of Gore Vidal, what this book was about, and why Why the Book Julian Assange Was Holding When He Was Arrested is Vitally Important (https://www.activistpost.com/2019/04/heres-why-the-book-julian-assange-was-holding-when-he-was-arrested-is-vitally-important.html).

In the Avalon Library, here.


http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Gore%20Vidal%20-%20History%20of%20The%20National%20Security%20State.pdf

[Kryztian]

You have to wonder about politicians who fantasize about murdering journalists.


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[Kryztian]

A speech John Pilger gave at a rally for Julian Assange in Sydney on 3 March.

March 4, 2019
The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother
by John Pilger



The persecution of Julian Assange is the conquest of us all: of our independence, our self respect, our intellect, our compassion, our politics, our culture.

So stop scrolling. Organise. Occupy. Insist. Persist. Make a noise. Take direct action. Be brave and stay brave. Defy the thought police.

War is not peace, freedom is not slavery, ignorance is not strength. If Julian can stand up, so can you: so can all of us.


Whenever I visit Julian Assange, we meet in a room he knows too well. There is a bare table and pictures of Ecuador on the walls. There is a bookcase where the books never change. The curtains are always drawn and there is no natural light. The air is still and fetid.

This is Room 101.

Before I enter Room 101, I must surrender my passport and phone. My pockets and possessions are examined. The food I bring is inspected.

The man who guards Room 101 sits in what looks like an old-fashioned telephone box. He watches a screen, watching Julian. There are others unseen, agents of the state, watching and listening.

Cameras are everywhere in Room 101. To avoid them, Julian manoeuvres us both into a corner, side by side, flat up against the wall. This is how we catch up: whispering and writing to each other on a notepad, which he shields from the cameras. Sometimes we laugh.

I have my designated time slot. When that expires, the door in Room 101 bursts open and the guard says, “Time is up!” On New Year’s Eve, I was allowed an extra 30 minutes and the man in the phone box wished me a happy new year, but not Julian.

Of course, Room 101 is the room in George Orwell’s prophetic novel, 1984, where the thought police watched and tormented their prisoners, and worse, until people surrendered their humanity and principles and obeyed Big Brother.

Julian Assange will never obey Big Brother. His resilience and courage are astonishing, even though his physical health struggles to keep up.

Julian is a distinguished Australian, who has changed the way many people think about duplicitous governments. For this, he is a political refugee subjected to what the United Nations calls “arbitrary detention”.

The UN says he has the right of free passage to freedom, but this is denied. He has the right to medical treatment without fear of arrest, but this is denied. He has the right to compensation, but this is denied.

As founder and editor of WikiLeaks, his crime has been to make sense of dark times. WikiLeaks has an impeccable record of accuracy and authenticity which no newspaper, no TV channel, no radio station, no BBC, no New York Times, no Washington Post, no Guardian can equal. Indeed, it shames them.

That explains why he is being punished.

For example:

Last week, the International Court of Justice ruled that the British Government had no legal powers over the Chagos Islanders, who in the 1960s and 70s, were expelled in secret from their homeland on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and sent into exile and poverty. Countless children died, many of them, from sadness. It was an epic crime few knew about.

For almost 50 years, the British have denied the islanders’ the right to return to their homeland, which they had given to the Americans for a major military base.

In 2009, the British Foreign Office concocted a “marine reserve” around the Chagos archipelago.

This touching concern for the environment was exposed as a fraud when WikiLeaks published a secret cable from the British Government reassuring the Americans that “the former inhabitants would find it difficult, if not possible, to pursue their claim for resettlement on the islands if the entire Chagos Archipelago were a marine reserve.”

The truth of the conspiracy clearly influenced the momentous decision of the International Court of Justice.

WikiLeaks has also revealed how the United States spies on its allies; how the CIA can watch you through your I-phone; how Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took vast sums of money from Wall Street for secret speeches that reassured the bankers that if she was elected, she would be their friend.

In 2016, WikiLeaks revealed a direct connection between Clinton and organised jihadism in the Middle East: terrorists, in other words. One email disclosed that when Clinton was US Secretary of State, she knew that Saudi Arabia and Qatar were funding Islamic State, yet she accepted huge donations for her foundation from both governments.

She then approved the world’s biggest ever arms sale to her Saudi benefactors: arms that are currently being used against the stricken people of Yemen.

That explains why he is being punished.

WikiLeaks has also published more than 800,000 secret files from Russia, including the Kremlin, telling us more about the machinations of power in that country than the specious hysterics of the Russiagate pantomime in Washington.

This is real journalism — journalism of a kind now considered exotic: the antithesis of Vichy journalism, which speaks for the enemy of the people and takes its sobriquet from the Vichy government that occupied France on behalf of the Nazis.

Vichy journalism is censorship by omission, such as the untold scandal of the collusion between Australian governments and the United States to deny Julian Assange his rights as an Australian citizen and to silence him.

In 2010, Prime Minister Julia Gillard went as far as ordering the Australian Federal Police to investigate and hopefully prosecute Assange and WikiLeaks — until she was informed by the AFP that no crime had been committed.

Last weekend, the Sydney Morning Herald published a lavish supplement promoting a celebration of “Me Too” at the Sydney Opera House on 10 March. Among the leading participants is the recently retired Minister of Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop.

Bishop has been on show in the local media lately, lauded as a loss to politics: an “icon”, someone called her, to be admired.

The elevation to celebrity feminism of one so politically primitive as Bishop tells us how much so-called identity politics have subverted an essential, objective truth: that what matters, above all, is not your gender but the class you serve.

Before she entered politics, Julie Bishop was a lawyer who served the notorious asbestos miner James Hardie which fought claims by men and their families dying horribly with asbestosis disease.

Lawyer Peter Gordon recalls Bishop “rhetorically asking the court why workers should be entitled to jump court queues just because they were dying.”

Bishop says she “acted on instructions … professionally and ethically”.

Perhaps she was merely “acting on instructions” when she flew to London and Washington last year with her ministerial chief of staff, who had indicated that the Australian Foreign Minister would raise Julian’s case and hopefully begin the diplomatic process of bringing him home.

Julian’s father had written a moving letter to the then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, asking the government to intervene diplomatically to free his son. He told Turnbull that he was worried Julian might not leave the embassy alive.

Julie Bishop had every opportunity in the UK and the US to present a diplomatic solution that would bring Julian home. But this required the courage of one proud to represent a sovereign, independent state, not a vassal.

Instead, she made no attempt to contradict the British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, when he said outrageously that Julian “faced serious charges”. What charges? There were no charges.

Australia’s Foreign Minister abandoned her duty to speak up for an Australian citizen, prosecuted with nothing, charged with nothing, guilty of nothing.

Will those feminists who fawn over this false icon at the Opera House next Sunday be reminded of her role in colluding with foreign forces to punish an Australian journalist, one whose work has revealed that rapacious militarism has smashed the lives of millions of ordinary women in many countries: in Iraq alone, the US-led invasion of that country, in which Australia participated, left 700,000 widows.

So what can be done? An Australian government that was prepared to act in response to a public campaign to rescue the refugee football player, Hakeem al-Araibi, from torture and persecution in Bahrain, is capable of bringing Julian Assange home.

The refusal by the Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra to honour the United Nations’ declaration that Julian is the victim of “arbitrary detention” and has a fundamental right to his freedom, is a shameful breach of the letter and spirit of international law.

Why has the Australian government made no serious attempt to free Assange? Why did Julie Bishop bow to the wishes of two foreign powers? Why is this democracy traduced by its servile relationships, and integrated with lawless foreign power?

The persecution of Julian Assange is the conquest of us all: of our independence, our self respect, our intellect, our compassion, our politics, our culture.

So stop scrolling. Organise. Occupy. Insist. Persist. Make a noise. Take direct action. Be brave and stay brave. Defy the thought police.

War is not peace, freedom is not slavery, ignorance is not strength. If Julian can stand up, so can you: so can all of us.

[onawah]

DARK JOURNALIST: WIKILEAKS JULIAN ASSANGE & DEEP STATE CENSORSHIP WAR
Streamed live 4 hours ago
SPECIAL LIVESTREAM FRIDAY APRIL 12th, 8PM
NATIONAL SECURITY STATE CENSORSHIP

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[Kryztian]

Russia Today - https://on.rt.com/9s5e
If we lose WikiLeaks, we lose a whole stratum of freedom — Pilger
Published time: 13 Apr, 2019 11:04

https://cdni.rt.com/files/2019.04/l/5cb1c187fc7e93831c8b462c.JPGSupporters of Julian Assange protest against his arrest, near the British embassy in Berlin, Germany April 12, 2019.

The US attempt to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a spiteful assault on civil freedoms conducted by an ailing superpower that is struggling to preserve its dominance, UK-based journalist John Pilger told RT.

One should not mistake what is happening to Assange for anything but the persecution of a man, who embarrassed the US by exposing to the public Washington’s brutality in the Middle East, award-winning British journalist John Pilger told RT’s Going Underground program.

“The United States has aroused the ire because what we are in the midst of is the world’s greatest superpower struggling to maintain its dominance. Its information dominance, its technological dominance, its cultural dominance. And WikiLeaks has presented an extreme hurdle to this,” he argued.[/I]


If we lose the Assanges – and there aren’t many of them, a handful maybe and certainly no one like him – if we lose the WikiLeaks, then we lose a whole stratum of freedom. We stop questioning

Assange was arrested by the British authorities on Thursday after Ecuador revoked his political asylum and allowed the police to drag him out of the embassy in London. The US accuses the publisher of conspiring with WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning in her leaking of classified materials related to US military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Watch Video interview of Pilger: https://www.rt.com/news/456408-pilger-assange-going-underground/video/5cb1ba39dda4c820558b4648 (https://www.rt.com/news/456408-pilger-assange-going-underground/video/5cb1ba39dda4c820558b4648/)

WikiLeaks publications based on the Manning leak, especially the so-called “collateral murder” video, dealt a massive blow to US attempts to cover up the “homicidal nature of its colonial wars,” Pilger said.

“Anybody watching that video really has to read very little else of the WikiLeaks revelations about the nature of the American wars, because there it is. There is some kind of consensual belief – I’m trying to figure for a polite term for ‘brainwashing,’ frankly – that we don’t do these kinds of things, we perpetually benign,” he explained.


On ‘our’ side, these things simply do not happen… They are only done by totalitarian states, the rogue states. In fact clearly the biggest rogue state of all is the United States.

ilger says the attack on WikiLeaks is emblematic for the current state or journalism in the West, which has betrayed its mandate to be the public’s watchdog for the actions of their governments.

“We’ve handed a whole world of abandonment of basic democracy, which is based on dissent, on challenging, on holding power to account, on revelation, on the embarrassment of power. Not trivial embarrassment, the embarrassment of odd celebrity, but real embarrassment. And WikiLeaks provided that public service of journalism,” he said.

[Bill Ryan]

From https://businessinsider.com/assange-arrest-ecuador-prevent-alleged-panic-button-2019-4, 5 hours ago:

Assange's arrest was designed to make sure he didn't press a mysterious panic button he said would bring dire consequences for Ecuador


WikiLeaks' founder, Julian Assange, was dramatically arrested and carried out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Thursday.
British and Ecuadorian authorities engineered the timing and nature of the raid to stop Assange from accessing a panic button he mentioned in the past, Ecuador's foreign minister said.
Specifics on the button — or what it might do — are sparse, but the foreign minister said Assange had said it could bring dire consequences for Ecuador.
Ecuadorian officials have accused Assange of accessing the government's security files, playing music loudly, and having no regard for personal hygiene during his stay at the embassy.

Julian Assange's arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London (https://www.businessinsider.com/julian-assange-arrested-by-uk-police-ecuador-revokes-asylum-2019-4) was carried out in a specific way to prevent him from pressing a mysterious panic button he said could bring dire consequences for Ecuador, its foreign minister said.

The WikiLeaks founder was carried out of the Ecuadorian Embassy (https://www.businessinsider.com/video-julian-assange-arrested-uk-police-removed-ecuador-embassy-2019-4) in London's Kensington district on Thursday morning by a group of British police officers. Ecuador had earlier revoked his political asylum, alleging repeated bad behavior during his almost seven-year stay.

During this stay, Assange is accused of threatening Jaime Merchan, the Ecuadorian ambassador to the UK, with activating some kind of panic button that would bring down the embassy if he were arrested or felt in danger.

The claim was made by Ecuador's foreign minister, José Valencia, in a speech Thursday to the country's National Assembly, according to the Associated Press (https://www.apnews.com/072664ed80b34b68bc7ca5b3d2845030) and Reuters (https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-ecuador-assange-moreno/from-skateboards-to-spying-assange-arrest-followed-drawn-out-dispute-with-ecuador-idUKKCN1RO02A).

Assange had said the button would bring "devastating consequences," the AP reported, in a summary of Valencia's remarks.

It is not clear exactly what form the "panic button" took: whether it was a physical device or a metaphor for some other easily activated insurance measure. It is also unclear what leverage Assange thought he had over Ecuador.

Assange's lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider on the nature of the button and whether it existed. According to Valencia, though, it was serious enough for Ecuador to warn British authorities and carry out the raid in such a way that Assange was not able to get back into his room after learning of his imminent arrest.

Ecuador granted Assange asylum in June 2012, when he was trying to evade warrants for his arrest in Sweden and the UK.

He had failed to appear in court to face charges of sexual assault in Sweden, which he denies. He was also wanted in the UK for breaching prior bail conditions.

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5caf38b1a97f1b189f012038-750-375.jpgA police van outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after Assange's arrest.

'We've ended the asylum of this spoiled brat'

Ecuador's president announced the removal of Assange's asylum in a Thursday video statement (https://twitter.com/ComunicacionEc/status/1116272104180154368), saying Ecuador's patience had "reached its limit on the behavior of Mr Assange."

"We've ended the asylum of this spoiled brat," he said in a separate speech hours after Assange's arrest, according to the AP.

President Lenín Moreno said Assange breached the conditions of his stay by installing prohibited electronic equipment in the embassy. Moreno said Assange also mistreated security guards and accessed the embassy's security files during his stay.

The Ecuadorian government also told Assange in a memo that he deliberately pointed a studio lamp at a security camera in a room where he received guests, according to government memos released by the WikiLeaks founder's supporters in February.

https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/5cb05c3a95cb153934332b35-750-375.jpgAssange greeting supporters at the Ecuadorian Embassy in May 2017.

Ecuador's troubles with Assange went beyond security concerns.

Officials have accused Assange of being unhygienic and said his skateboarding (http://uk.businessinsider.com/julian-assange-skateboarding-ecuador-embassy-floors-2018-11) ruined their floors. Last year it issued a nine-page memo (https://www.businessinsider.com/ecuador-julian-assange-please-clean-up-after-your-cat-2018-10?r=UK) telling him to clean up after his cat.

María Paula Romo, Ecuador's interior minister, said Thursday that Assange had been "allowed to do things like put feces on the walls of the embassy and other behaviors of that nature," according to Reuters.

Ecuadorian authorities deemed this behavior, which they said happened at least once, an act of defiance and disrespect to his hosts, the AP reported. Assange's lawyer attributed it to "stomach problems," Reuters reported.

https://static.businessinsider.com/image/5caf3966cf22db1b39342518-750.jpg (https://static.businessinsider.com/image/5caf3966cf22db1b39342518-750.jpg)

A graphic showing Assange's living area at the embassy. GraphicNews In a separate memo, Merchan, the ambassador, also sent Assange complaints that he was playing the radio loudly while meeting visitors — which "disturbed the work being carried out by the embassy."

The government said it spent $6.2 million on his upkeep and security from 2012 to 2018.

Ecuador's expulsion of Assange also comes amid a protracted political dispute within the Latin American country.

His ouster comes after years of international and domestic political wrangling between Moreno and his predecessor, Rafael Correa, who granted Assange asylum in 2012.

Moreno has also accused WikiLeaks of being behind an anonymous website that said Moreno's brother created offshore companies to fund his family's luxurious lifestyles in Europe while Moreno was working there for the UN, Reuters reported.

Read more: This simmering political clash may have led to Julian Assange's ouster from Ecuador's embassy (https://www.businessinsider.com/former-ecuador-president-says-assange-arrested-for-exposing-corruption-2019-4)

The US on Thursday requested Assange's extradition, charging him with conspiracy to hack classified US government computers (https://www.businessinsider.com/julian-assange-us-charges-wikileaks-2019-4), in a document naming the US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.

He was also convicted of breaching bail conditions in the UK.

Click here for Business Insider's full coverage of Assange's arrest. (https://www.businessinsider.com/category/julian-assange)

SEE ALSO: Plans to break Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy included costumes, diplomatic bags, and secret flights to Switzerland (https://www.businessinsider.com/attempts-to-help-julian-assange-escape-from-ecuador-embassy-2019-4)

[Kryztian]

Assange's arrest was designed to make sure he didn't press a mysterious panic button he said would bring dire consequences for Ecuador


Bill, do you have much contact with many Ecuadorians? Any comments about their more conventional opinions there on Correa and Moreno on these issues? Do they have many thoughts about Assange, the expense to keep him in the embassy, the 9-page government edict on kitty litter hygene or the loans Moreno just got from the World Bank?

[Bill Ryan]

Assange's arrest was designed to make sure he didn't press a mysterious panic button he said would bring dire consequences for Ecuador


Bill, do you have much contact with many Ecuadorians? Any comments about their more conventional opinions there on Correa and Moreno on these issues? Do they have many thoughts about Assange, the expense to keep him in the embassy, the 9-page government edict on kitty litter hygene or the loans Moreno just got from the World Bank?

No, I'm really unconnected here. But I do get this newsletter. Here's what was published yesterday (12 April, 2019):


https://cuencahighlife.com/ecuador-explains-decision-to-expel-assange-says

Ecuador explains decision to expel Assange, alleges that WikiLeaks hackers work in Ecuador

Speaking before Ecuador’s National Assembly Thursday afternoon, Foreign Minister José Valencia justified the government’s decision to revoke the asylum of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and turn him over to British authorities.

Among the reasons Valencia gave were “countless acts of interference in the internal politics of other countries,” personal attacks on embassy personnel and visitors, including diplomatic officials from other countries, threats against the government of Ecuador, Assange’s deteriorating mental and physical health and his refusal to obey embassy rules, which were first imposed in 2015 and updated last year.

Valencia added that Assange’s personal behavior and lack of hygiene were also factors in the decision. “We were unable to tolerate the disrespect he showed those who worked in the embassy as well as his general lack of cleanliness,” he said.

“Above all, we were alarmed by the decline of Mr. Assange’s health and were unable to provide the services we believe he desperately needs,” he said.

According to Valencia, the British government agreed that it would not extradite Assange to a nation where he would face the death penalty for his alleged crimes, referring to the U.S. “This was one of our conditions for ending the asylum and we have the agreement in writing from British officials,” he said.

Earlier on Thursday, Valencia and Interior Minister María Paula Romo charged that WikiLeaks was working with two Russian hackers stationed in Ecuador for the purpose of “destabilizing” the government. They provided few details for the charge but said that former interior minister Ricardo Patina may have had a connection to the hackers.

Romo said she was turning over information about the hacking operation to federal prosecutors.

[Agape]

I would insert really brief observation on the theme of “Panic Button” here.

Taken the complexity of Julian’s situation that lasts more than 7 years of confinement to the narrow space of Ecuadorian embassy, with constant threat of imprisonment from several self important agencies, with no chance of escape even a casual prisoner would be in better mental situation, perhaps better physical shape too no matter how bad our prisoner systems are, respectively,
I’ve seen but few people in sort-of-parallel situations and all suffered symptoms of acute trauma or PTSD and yes, such individuals threaten to press the panic button frequently.
They also usually exhibit symptoms of mild to severe paranoia at that point and slightly dystopic outlook on reality.

In such state people do sometimes constantly fear threat of their life.

Julian’s behaviour and constant fighting back against the authority is partially symptom of extreme stress disorder.


In my best opinion he should be taken to hospital now, examined and helped to recover his senses and ability to defend himself.

It seems that the medical community would be of similar opinion:

Medical professional once did examine Julian Assange and said his confienement was dangerous physically and mentally (https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/11/medical-professor-once-did-exam-julian-assange-and-said-his-confinement-was-dangerous-physically-and-mentally/9ISiteMHYwgXkd3C2hCWSO/story.html)


🙏🕊🙏

[A Voice from the Mountains]

Earlier on Thursday, Valencia and Interior Minister María Paula Romo charged that WikiLeaks was working with two Russian hackers stationed in Ecuador for the purpose of “destabilizing” the government.

Bingo.

And that's what's going to tie him into the Mueller investigation as well: allegations that he worked with Russian hackers to interfere in the 2016 US election.

From November:


Has Robert Mueller Just Revealed His Next Target?

The secret indictment of Julian Assange could be bad news for Roger Stone.

After stepping out of the headlines and into the courtroom as part of a pre-midterms cease-fire, Robert Mueller appears poised to make his dramatic return to national politics with a new set of indictments centered around WikiLeaks and Roger Stone. According to multiple reports, the special counsel has been zeroing in on whether Stone or other Donald Trump associates had advance knowledge of Russia’s hacking of Clinton e-mails, which WikiLeaks later published. (Stone denies this.) A peripheral figure in the Stone saga is, of course, Julian Assange, who founded WikiLeaks in 2006, but has spent the last six years holed up in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London, evading authorities in both Sweden and the United States. If Mueller were to make his next move against Stone, he might also be expected to take action against Assange. So it is perhaps unsurprising that Assange’s name also surfaced this week, thanks to a slipup by the Department of Justice.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/julian-assange-indictment-robert-mueller-roger-stone

MOABs incoming.

[WhiteFeather]

https://www.rt.com/usa/456270-trump-on-assanges-
arrest/ (https://www.rt.com/usa/456270-trump-on-assanges-arrest/)

WTAF! Trump has proven that he is a sock puppet president!

Aren't all our Selected presidents, sock puppets. I use the terminolgy, bathroom cologne clerks. It works for me.

[Franny]

I rather enjoyed this one by Jimmy Dore on Tucker Carlson's defending Assange

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[Franny]

And here is Tulsi Gabbard saying, quite explicitly that it's revenge and a message that the US can go after persons for saying things they don't want them to say.

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[Franny]

Richard Dolan is not amused, he has on his serious face and voice.

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[A Voice from the Mountains]

I rather enjoyed this one by Jimmy Dore on Tucker Carlson's defending Assange

I'm no more a fan of Dore's policies than he is of Carlson, but I enjoyed that video too, and I agree that it does go to show who is bought out and who isn't. Even if I believe that Dore is severely misguided, I also believe that he actually believes what he says and wants what he thinks is best for people.


And here is Tulsi Gabbard saying, quite explicitly that it's revenge and a message that the US can go after persons for saying things they don't want them to say.

If Mueller and the Washington establishment go hard after Assange like it's looking like they will, from Lindsey Graham to Mark Warner, then you're going to see a couple of interesting things.

First of all, you're going to see a populist/establishment split just like you did in 2015/2016 when people were pointing out the demographic similarities in the bases of Trump and Sanders, even though their actual policies are diametrically opposed. Second of all, you're going to see a lot of people on the left suddenly see the Mueller investigation in a whole new light, and not necessarily a good one. They may start taking a much harder look at what they have been cheerleading these past two years.

This whole episode of Mueller vs. Assange the "Russian spy" is going to be a political bombshell in that it's going to shake up the established political divisions again, reignite the populist/establishment divisions within both parties that we already saw in 2015/2016, and politically set the deep state back over two years to exactly where the divisions were at that time. And that, in turn, is going to prepare the stage for the final assault and destruction of the old guard in both parties, and all of their dirt getting a public airing. But for all of that to come to pass, Assange must testify.

[angelfire]

I've been wondering if this was about to happen: New Wikileaks release

https://nationandstate.com/2019/04/13/new-wikileaks-massive-file-dump/?fbclid=IwAR1TScH3jMGehUu7jn4O_ntMCg2aJ7Q9jt7MrZJh5XTDNG4IAgpZGsgx0do

[Praxis]

I've been wondering if this was about to happen: New Wikileaks release

https://nationandstate.com/2019/04/13/new-wikileaks-massive-file-dump/?fbclid=IwAR1TScH3jMGehUu7jn4O_ntMCg2aJ7Q9jt7MrZJh5XTDNG4IAgpZGsgx0do

Yall need to follow that link and start exploring.

Just one of them is a Congressional Research Service archive. Now most of yall will find these documents incredible dull, but for those special nerds that like to read government information: https://file.wikileaks.org/file/crs/

Or maybe Clinton emails interest: https://file.wikileaks.org/file/clinton-emails/

[Arcturian108]

Can't remember how to transfer screen shots to the Avalon forum, but check out this link from the Wikileaks dump:

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/russia-mission-on-mccain-funding-req.doc

http://projectavalon.net/Wikileaks_20_Oct_2008.gif

[Satori]

I've been wondering if this was about to happen: New Wikileaks release

https://nationandstate.com/2019/04/13/new-wikileaks-massive-file-dump/?fbclid=IwAR1TScH3jMGehUu7jn4O_ntMCg2aJ7Q9jt7MrZJh5XTDNG4IAgpZGsgx0do

This is huge. The die is cast. Notice the dates on all posts. 1/1/1984.

Edit: there are exceptions to the dates, but many if not most are 1/1/1984, with the time at 01:01. I wonder more about the exceptions. Is that to call our attention to those posts?

[Valerie Villars]

Satori, I was going to ask about that. Thanks. :)

[Franny]

A nod to Dennis and of course Caitlin Johnstone for this timely article from yesterday Apr 13 2019.


https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/04/13/trump-supporters-are-hurting-assange-with-their-4-d-chess-talk/

Trump Supporters Are Hurting Assange With Their 4-D Chess Talk

https://i2.wp.com/caitlinjohnstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/medium-1-3.jpg?w=800&ssl=1

At a time when everyone should be out in the streets shaking the earth and protesting the Trump administration’s prosecution of Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes, those who continue to support this president have one message and one message only when it comes to the WikiLeaks founder: Don’t do anything. Relax, wait and see, trust Trump, and don’t do anything. Trump is about to save Assange, and save us all. Do nothing.

Who do you guys think this strategy benefits, exactly?

These are all people who say they support Assange and WikiLeaks, who say they support free speech and oppose the deep state, and yet what they are doing today hurts Assange and helps the unelected power establishment known as the deep state just as much as the hysterical Russiavape dupes who are overtly smearing Assange today.

To be clear, not everyone who voted for Trump is doing this; many are aggressively opposing this administration’s prosecution of Assange (https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1116493369486839809) and vocally withdrawing all support (http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/april/13/i-m-jumping-off-the-trump-train-assange-was-the-last-straw/) for him. But the ones who are engaged in the behavior I’m describing are all helping to kill the loud and aggressive opposition to Assange’s imprisonment which is so desperately needed right now, and they’re helping everyone they claim to oppose. The pussyhat-wearing Assange haters and the MAGA hat-wearing Assange lovers are on the same side on this issue, mindlessly working toward the exact same agenda: the permanent imprisonment of a truth-telling journalist.

https://i2.wp.com/caitlinjohnstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/medium-1-4.jpg?w=680&ssl=1

Every time President Trump advances a longstanding evil agenda of America’s permanent government, I see my social media notifications swarmed with Trump supporters telling me that it is actually a good thing, because it’s secretly a brilliant strategic chess move that the 45th president is taking against the deep state.

When I say that this happens every time, I’m not being hyperbolic to make a point. I mean it happens every single time, without a single, solitary exception, always. It happens with such clockwork reliability that I preemptively addressed it in the article I wrote (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-has-been-arrested-for-us-extradition-the-time-to-act-is-now-aad3578ee82d) when Julian Assange was arrested, saying, “I am going to have a zero tolerance policy for QAnon cultists who try to tell me that this is actually 5-D chess by Trump to overthrow the Deep State. Stay out of my comments, stay out of my social media notifications, stay the hell away from me, and please rethink your worldview.”

I said this because I knew it was coming, and indeed it did. All sorts of theories have been concocted since Assange’s arrest which people cite as proof that Trump is actually protecting Assange with his administration’s indictment and extradition request, instead of working to imprison a journalist for exposing US war crimes, which is actually what’s happening (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/how-you-can-be-certain-that-the-us-charge-against-assange-is-fraudulent-8eb0caa1c4f6).

They tell me that Trump is bringing Assange to America for trial because he can only pardon him after he’s been convicted. This is false. A US president can pardon anyone at any time (https://www.thoughtco.com/presidential-pardons-legal-guidelines-4070815) of any crime against the United States, without their having been convicted and without their even having been charged. After leaving office Richard Nixon was issued a full presidential pardon (https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/speeches/740061.asp) by Gerald Ford for “all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9,1974.” Nixon had never been charged with anything. If Trump were going to pardon Assange he could have done it at any time since taking office, instead of issuing a warrant for his arrest (https://twitter.com/suigenerisjen/status/1116299419694059520) in December 2017 and executing it on Thursday after a series of international legal manipulations. A pardon is not in the plans.

Another common belief (https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/bclzyi/will_trump_pardon_and_give_full_immunity_to/) I keep encountering is that Trump is bringing Assange to America to get him to testify about his source for the 2016 Democratic Party emails in exchange for a pardon, thereby revealing the truth about Russiagate’s origins and bringing down Clinton and Obama. This is false. Everyone who knows anything about Assange (including the Trump administration) knows that he will never, ever reveal a source under any circumstances whatsoever. It would be a cardinal journalistic sin, a violation of every promise WikiLeaks has ever made, and a betrayal of his entire life’s work. More importantly, imprisoning a journalist and threatening him with a heavy sentence to coerce him into giving up information against his will is evil. If you believe your president is doing that, the last thing you should be doing is cheering for him.

But that isn’t what Trump is doing. Trump is pursuing the imprisonment of a journalist for exposing US war crimes, so that he can scare off future leak publishers and set a legal precedent for their prosecution.

https://i0.wp.com/caitlinjohnstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-14-at-9.10.03-AM.png?w=828&ssl=1

I’ve been engaging people in debates on this subject online so I can understand their arguments well enough to address them, and what I’ve learned is that they don’t really have any. Those who believe Trump is actually secretly helping Assange and helping the American people by prosecuting a journalist have no basis for their belief other than pure faith that Trump is good, therefore anything he does must be good. It’s the exact mirror image of Russiagate hysterics, and it benefits the exact same corrupt establishment.

The mental contortions that people are doing to avoid the cognitive dissonance between their support for Assange and their support for Trump is truly something to behold. For the last 24 hours QAnon adherents (https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1117009358846455810) have been telling me that Assange holding a Gore Vidal book when arrested is an undeniable signal that he’s in coordination with the Trump campaign to bring down the Deep State, and that I’m crazy for being unable to see that. Turns out it was actually a book that Assange wanted to read (https://twitter.com/kirkkorner/status/1116330579233001473) while he was waiting to be processed at the courthouse, which makes sense since Vidal’s “History of the National Security State” covers a subject that Assange has devoted his entire life to.

QAnon is such a brilliant propaganda construct. With some cryptic posts on an anonymous message board, whoever is behind that PSYOP (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/wikileaks-calls-qanon-a-likely-pied-piper-operation-e5c4f4fac4a) has succeeded in manipulating a vocal and impassioned sector of Trump’s base into applauding every single step he’s taken in advancing the dystopian agendas of his predecessors as a brilliant 4-D chess move against the establishment. I’ve been told that his bombing of Syria actually took out an Iranian nuclear base, that he’s helping to free the Venezuelan people without harming anyone, that he’s fighting the deep state in Iran, that his dangerous escalations against Russia are just a show because he and Putin are working together (a comical overlap with the Russiagate crowd), and last year they were telling me that Assange isn’t in the embassy at all because Trump had already covertly rescued and pardoned him. There are people who honestly believe that there is a revolution against the establishment underway which is being led by a plucky alliance between the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Israel, and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. It’s that bad.

https://i1.wp.com/caitlinjohnstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-14-at-9.02.59-AM.png?w=598&ssl=1

QAnon followers make up a minority of Trump’s base, but the insanity of the QAnon psyop bleeds into the greater MAGA crowd and helps normalize the kind of thinking which leads people to conclude that a blatant prosecution of a journalist for telling the truth about the US political construct is actually a strategic maneuver against the establishment. The enthusiastic promotion of this narrative has an undeniable and pernicious chilling effect on opposition to Assange’s wrongful imprisonment, which should be an issue upon which the right and the true left agree.

I’ve never pushed away Trump supporters because I believe isolating into ideological echo chambers makes the left impotent and stupid, and many of them have followed me since I started this gig because they agree with some of what I’ve got to say. I don’t know how many MAGA people I still have in my readership after all the stuff I’ve been writing about their president, but those of you who are still out there, please, for the love of God help get this idea out there. This is a time where everyone who supports WikiLeaks should be flooring the gas pedal, and all the “Don’t do anything, trust the plan, wait and see” rhetoric is keeping one foot on the brakes.

Assange should have been pardoned already, long ago, if not by Obama then by Trump. There is no excuse whatsoever for this not to have happened already, let alone for Assange to be behind bars at the behest of this administration. Stop saying “wait and see”. We’ve already seen. The time to protest is now. Get your foot off the brakes, and aggressively demand that your president cease doing what he is doing. Make this an election issue. Trump can’t afford to lose his base, but if you keep saying “wait and see” the narrative manipulators will keep moving back the line you’d sworn you’ll never let him cross until before you know it you’ve got another four years of another Bushbama while Assange remains locked in a cage.

Don’t let them do this to you. Use your power now.

[A Voice from the Mountains]

At a time when everyone should be out in the streets shaking the earth and protesting

For what? Assange has been releasing data dumps for over a decade already. What's it actually changed so far, aside from people getting arrested and murdered for it?

It's not a conspiracy theory that his testimony is wanted in regards to things he's divulged through Wikileaks. What is so freaking terrifying about the idea of him testifying under oath about what he knows? Is that what must be avoided at all costs? Whose interests does that serve? He's already been offered immunity by a highly influential Republican senator from the Freedom Caucus.

Apparently people think he's more useful pissing in the wind like usual.

He's also not our boyfriend. He wants to expose corruption and so does everyone else. If that's the ultimate goal, then running from the justice system doesn't help that. There are plenty of people on both sides of the aisle willing to help him here, and for Trump to persecute him would cause him serious political damage even within his own party. If I was in his position, I would love to spill my guts to Congress in a public hearing.


One more question: Who killed Seth Rich?

[A Voice from the Mountains]

Jerome Corsi, who successfully defended himself against an indictment from Mueller related to Wikileaks, says that Assange can finally give testimony in regards to Seth Rich's murder:

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Timestamp 3:20, he says this:


Julian Assange can come back and prove that Russia was not involved in stealing the Democrats' emails, and I think Julian Assange can come back and open up the Seth Rich case, where he has suggested time and again that it was this Democratic National Committee employee who was murdered in Washington during the 2016 campaign who supplied him the emails. That will complete the circle on "no collusion."

This is much bigger than a 1st Amendment issue, which will also undoubtedly be part of any court proceedings. Freedom of the press is protected in the US by the 1st Amendment, which is the same amendment that grants freedom of speech, including "hate speech," and yet how many countries in the West proudly ban "hateful words" and then turn around and complain about this without a hint of irony? It just goes to show who is really determining the talking points, and it isn't any rational consideration of our actual constitutional rights. The right to say offensive things, whether it be against authority or anyone else, is why freedom of speech had to be protected in the first place, and that story is every bit as long and terrible of a struggle as freedom of the press. It's just politically convenient to complain about freedom of the press on this issue all of a sudden, when so much more is at stake right now.

Why did Assange release everything he did in the first place? Was the WMD and Iraq fiasco not the doing of the Bush cabal? Was the mess created in Libya and Syria not fueled by the Clinton Foundation's pay-for-play schemes, including illegal weapons and technology transfers, and hiring the US military out like a prostitute to do the bidding of private interests? Did Wikileaks not release all of this kind of information in order to expose and stop these people? It's too late to run away and hide now. Try to enjoy the show.

[KiwiElf]

Fake News, now Fake Memes! :)

Please show us all where Q - or MAGA/Trump supporters - have said, "Do nothing!"?

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"Wait and see what [actually] happens!" ;)

:focus:

[Franny]

That is true, I have never seen that. It is the one truly sour note in the article.

Trust The Plan is likely the what leads to adding that as it can lead some people to simply sit back and trust the plan, buy tee-shirts, share the Q plan, 'like' memes and videos and so on.

[Franny]

Julian Assange’s Nightmarish Future

By Elizabeth Vos
Special to Consortium News

April 15, 2019

While Julian Assange waits for what comes next — sentencing on skipping bail in England and a U.S. extradition request — he is being held in a maximum-security prison in London that has been called the “UK’s Guantanamo Bay” and has been used to detain alleged terrorists, sometimes indefinitely.

The reputation of HM Prison Belmarsh raises natural concerns about the wellbeing of the WikiLeaks publisher there.

“While many prisoners at Belmarsh say it’s difficult to see a doctor or a nurse, these services are available at the facility,” reports Bloomberg News, regarding the possibility of Assange receiving overdue medical attention.

Her Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh had been used to detain high-profile national security prisoners indefinitely without charge under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act of 2001, passed six weeks after 9/11, until the House of Lords ruled it violated the British Human Rights Act.

Assange was found guilty on Thursday of skipping bail. On May 2 he is scheduled to participate in a court hearing via video link on the U.S. extradition request.

Assange’s name now tops the alphabetical roster of notables who have done time at Belmarsh or who are still there. The list includes notorious gangsters, serial killers and drug traffickers. Ronnie Biggs of the 1963 Great Train Robbery was imprisoned there. Others are subjects of high-profile scandal, such as Richard Tomlinson, imprisoned for six months in 1997 after he gave a synopsis of a proposed book detailing his career with MI6 to an Australian publisher. Andy Coulson, a former press secretary to Prime Minister David Cameron, was imprisoned for a few months for the phone hacking scandal that engulfed News of the World while he was editor there.

One mainstay of the inmate population are convicted terrorists. Abu Hamza al-Masri, an Egyptian cleric, was at Belmarsh until his extradition to the United States where he is serving life in prison on 11 counts of terrorism. Rams Mohammed, Muktar Said Ibrahim and Yasin Hassan Omar were were all incarcerated there for their roles in the 2005 attempted bombings of the London underground. Anjou Choudhry completed his sentence at Belmarsh for promoting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale are identified as Islamic terrorists convicted of the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby in London.

There is legitimate concern about how Assange will fare inside Belmarsh. A 2018 survey by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons found that “91 percent of men said they had problems when they arrived at Belmarsh, which was higher than at other local prisons and more than at our last inspection,” Business Insider reported.

In 2009, the same prison authority had found “extremely high” amount of force used to control inmates at the prison.

Detainees were “unable to see the intelligence evidence against them and are confined to their cells for up to 22 hours a day. Their solicitors say they have been ‘entombed in concrete,’ BBC reported in 2004.

The 2018 chief inspector’s report said the prison contains a “High Security Unit (HSU) within the already-high-security premises, which the report described as a ‘prison within a prison.’” The report went on to state that:

“The role of the high security unit (HSU) remained unclear. We were told it was for high risk category A prisoners, but such men are held in main locations in other high security prisons and we did not understand why the approach was different at Belmarsh. We noted that two of the men held were only standard risk category A prisoners and that in December 2017 two men from the main prison had been held in the HSU segregation unit. The conditions and the regime in the HSU provided prisoners with an intense custodial experience in which they could exercise little self-determination, and we were concerned that prisoners could be located there without any oversight process or redress.”

Describing the use of solitary confinement, the chief inspector’s report found: “Conditions in the unit were reasonable, but some prisoners could not have a shower or exercise every day. Those who could only be unlocked in the presence of several officers were most affected.” The report repeatedly described concerns that arose due to staff shortages, and added in a separate section: “We remained concerned about this use of designated cells, where men were held in prolonged solitary confinement on an impoverished regime.”

Individual accounts from former Belmarsh inmates published by CAGE, an advocacy group against human rights abuses that occurred as a result of the “war on Terror,” described their experiences. An anonymous prisoner who was later acquitted said: “The prison system is run in such a way as to humiliate and degrade the inmate as much as possible. The process of dehumanisation starts immediately.” In the wake of Assange’s imprisonment, CAGE published a statement, saying in part: “The UK is doing the U.S.’s dirty work by persecuting a man who exposed war crimes.”

Vigils and protests in support of Assange were held outside the prison on April 14 and April 15.

The last time Assange was held in a British prison, in 2010, he says that he was given food containing metal objects that severely damaged a tooth. This was at London’s HM Prison Wandsworth. The incident caused serious injury and he did not receive proper medical treatment during the six and a half years of his confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy. A medical report published by WikiLeaks in 2015 describes Assange’s version of the event:

Please finish here (https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/15/julian-assanges-nightmarish-future/), the article is long and with about 40 links, images and a video of Mike Pompeo speaking.

[Innocent Warrior]

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[A Voice from the Mountains]

That video is great.

Hey, look on the bright side. At least we're all one step closer to finally getting rid of those pesky nationalist borders now, so we can all be one happy global community together. If the UK and Australia pretend hard enough that Americans are refugees from the Middle East or Africa, you all might even enjoy getting screwed by us! :ROFL:

[Zanshin]

Yeah, love it Rachel - the Juice Media sticks it to everyone.

Interesting that Julian Assange's cameo on episode 20 has been censored by youtube -
parody called as a copystrike - go figure.

Some content is Aussie-centric focusing on the ludicrous revolving door parade of personalities
masquerading as the leadership of this country (6 changes in 12 years usually through leadership challenges,
not elections.)



The censored version -

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and then the full version ( season 2 RAP NEWS 20) -

https://thejuicemedia.com/season-2/

I'm not sure how they managed to record this - some green screening is evident,
but I like that it shows Assange has a sense of humor and doesn't take himself too seriously.

For those who aren't familiar with Aussie pop icon Johnny Farnam -

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[Ascension]

I've been wondering if this was about to happen: New Wikileaks release

https://nationandstate.com/2019/04/13/new-wikileaks-massive-file-dump/?fbclid=IwAR1TScH3jMGehUu7jn4O_ntMCg2aJ7Q9jt7MrZJh5XTDNG4IAgpZGsgx0do

What's with the scientology stuff being classified? Listened to the beginning of one of them. Sounds like Hubbard presenting specific auditing techniques to an unspecified audience.

[Star Tsar]

I know their cases are vastly different but I cannot help but contrast Mr Assange's case to Mr Gary McKinnon's...

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[angelfire]

Pilger at his best and with a damning indictment of The Guardian:

https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/the-arrest-of-assange-when-the-right-to-know-and-question-is-taken-away,12581#.XLT-q-_7cCM.facebook

[Innocent Warrior]

My Friend Julian Assange – Alicia Castro, ex ambassador in London (http://theindicter.com/my-friend-julian-assange-alicia-castro-ex-ambassador-in-london/) (April 14)

The entire article is interesting for its perspective (total sweetheart btw) but want to highlight this detail in particular -


The last times I saw him, his situation was worrisome. He was being spied on, and had a ribbon hanging from his neck with a series of pen drives. We talked in the dining room, around that table where we met for the first time, raising the volume of the radio and writing part of what we wanted to say, exchanging two notebooks and covering our heads to avoid cameras and microphones. He would never give up.

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” ~ Orwell, 1984

Assange is too smart to know the passwords for his security file. I wonder what is on those pen drives? Something he didn’t want them to get their hands on, concerning now that he’s in their custody. Or maybe it’s a good thing, maybe it’s a trap Assange has set, maybe he did say something about a panic button (https://www.businessinsider.com.au/assange-arrest-ecuador-prevent-alleged-panic-button-2019-4?r=US&IR=T) but he never intended to push it and they’ll trigger it themselves. Or maybe it’s false information. Hope so.


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Another informative video from Jimmy Dore -

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PS

A couple of old Juice Media videos featuring Julian Assange. :)

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[Kryztian]

I've been wondering if this was about to happen: New Wikileaks release

https://nationandstate.com/2019/04/13/new-wikileaks-massive-file-dump/?fbclid=IwAR1TScH3jMGehUu7jn4O_ntMCg2aJ7Q9jt7MrZJh5XTDNG4IAgpZGsgx0do

What's with the scientology stuff being classified? Listened to the beginning of one of them. Sounds like Hubbard presenting specific auditing techniques to an unspecified audience.

Scientology manuals on how to perform audits are highly classified and have been for decades, long before information could be quickly disseminated by the internet. Auditors are ranked at different levels. If they want to study for the next level, they have to go to a scientology center, get the manual from a safe and there are very strict protocols about what they can do with it until it is returned to the safe. I guess Wikileaks just made things a bit easier for people who want to understand auditing and perform it in a therapeutic environment instead of within an authoritarian cult.

[TigaHawk]

My initial reaction, when I saw the first photo of Julian Assange being removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy was ... that's not Julian Assange.


Exactly what i thought.

I personally believe it to be Russel Crowe.

[Philippe]

TigaHawk please do not loose credibility. Here are the google photo's of Russel Crowe :

https://www.google.com.ar/search?q=russell+crowe+2019&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=bNwHLU65IJEE2M%253A%252CjrMK8GRXSLiprM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQZdGF2IWpCXfm1Yz856bHbPCxy4g&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZ6IDpztbhAhVEMewKHW4tCdMQ9QEwAXoECAkQBg#imgrc=yHqVKkXJUTBIqM:&vet=1

Whereas the analysis of the Hillary Clinton doubles was very impressive, I think it is better to conclude that it is Assange that was taken out of the Ecuadorian embassy. And like investigative journalist Jim Stone admit to "eating crow" ( I regulary learn new english expressions :-) ) for heralding since years that Assange is dead.

[raregem]

Fourwinds10.com posted :

04/15/2019
Assange Held At "Britain's Guantanamo Bay" As UN Urges Fair Trial
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/peace_freedom/patriots_and_protesters/whistleblowers/news.php?q=1555342558

04/15/2019
Ecuador Hacked After Julian Assange Arrest
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/foreign_policy_and_government/news.php?q=1555344675

04/16/2019
LIST OF WIKILEAKS FILES THAT HAVE BEEN DUMPED
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/media/alternative_news/news.php?q=1555257118

note: the doc dump list downloads each file opened.

[Bill Ryan]

From https://gizmodo.com/ecuador-claims-its-been-hit-with-40-million-cyberattack-1834070219

Ecuador Claims It's Been Hit With 40 Million Cyberattacks Since Giving Up Julian Assange

Ecuadorian officials claim the country has suffered some 40 million cyber attacks (https://www.france24.com/en/20190416-ecuador-says-hit-40-million-cyber-attacks-assange-arrest) since it allowed UK police to forcibly remove Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from their embassy in London, according to Agence France-Presse (https://www.france24.com/en/20190416-ecuador-says-hit-40-million-cyber-attacks-assange-arrest).

According to AFP, the 40 million number comes courtesy of Ecuador’s deputy minister for information and communication technologies, Patricio Real, who said the attacks began shortly after the arrest on April 11 (https://gizmodo.com/julian-assange-dragged-out-of-ecuadorian-embassy-and-ar-1833964012):



Patricio Real, Ecuador’s deputy minister for information and communication technologies, said the attacks, which began on Thursday, had “principally come from the United States, Brazil, Holland, Germany, Romania, France, Austria and the United Kingdom,” as well as from the South American country itself.

... Javier Jara, undersecretary of the electronic government department of the telecommunications ministry, said the country had suffered “volumetric attacks” that blocked access to the internet following “threats from those groups linked to Julian Assange.”
Volumetric attacks are a type of distributed denial of service attack (https://threatpost.com/ddos-attacks-get-bigger-smarter-and-more-diverse/134028/), in which attackers flood servers with requests in an attempt to overload them and prevent access by legitimate users; the 40 million number should be understood not as the number of independently coordinated attacks, but the cumulative number of automated attempts to disrupt targeted systems. Sites for the foreign ministry, central bank, President Lenin Moreno’s office, tax authorities, and myriad other government websites were targeted, AFP wrote.

No institutions reported successful attempts to steal or destroy data, the news agency added.

Assange, the founder of international non-profit and secrets-leaking organization Wikileaks, had originally sought and received asylum in the embassy in 2012. At the time, UK authorities were seeking to extradite Assange to Sweden, where authorities were investigating two separate accounts he had committed sexual assault and rape; Assange sought to portray the allegations as a pretext to secure his extradition to the U.S., where he would face prosecution for leaking government and military secrets.
Swedish authorities later dropped the investigation, but the UK continued to seek his arrest for skipping bail. Assange remained in the embassy, over time apparently wearing out Ecuador’s patience; while he was there, Wikileaks released caches of hacked emails from Democratic Party email systems (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37639370), Assange’s Twitter DMs with Donald Trump Jr. (in which he begged for an ambassadorship (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/)) leaked, and the official Wikileaks Twitter account began posting far-right diatribes (https://www.lawfareblog.com/wikileaks-and-lost-promise-internet).

The embassy reportedly cut off his internet access in 2018 for alleged political meddling (https://gizmodo.com/ecuador-just-cut-off-julian-assange-s-internet-says-he-1824147294), which the government said followed requests that he stop damaging its relationship with other countries. Moreno has referred to Assange as an “inherited problem” from his predecessor, Rafael Correa, and accused Assange of personally hacking him (https://gizmodo.com/julian-assange-accused-of-leaking-president-of-ecuadors-1833770880).

As it turns out, the U.S. did secretly charge Assange (https://gizmodo.com/doj-charges-julian-assange-with-conspiracy-to-hack-clas-1833967167) with conspiring with Chelsea Manning in an attempt to break into a protected Department of Defense computer network (the Secret Internet Protocol Network, SIPRNet) using another username. That attempt failed, but Manning eventually provided Wikileaks with of hundreds of thousands of government files, which it released in 2010. Those ranged from diplomatic cables to other data implicating U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan in covering up civilian casualties, enabling torture, and perhaps most infamously, opening fire (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/05/wikileaks-us-army-iraq-attack) in Baghdad from Apache gunships, killing at least a dozen, including two Reuters journalists.

The leaks humiliated the U.S. government, and there has been considerable discussion (https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-indictment-of-julian-assange-is-a-threat-to-journalism) over whether Assange really conspired with Manning to break into SIPRNet or the charges are just revenge served cold. If Assange is extradited to the U.S. and convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison (https://www.apnews.com/98f7ec1528bf4e9d9edd78271c31c16b) on those charges. As the Verge noted (https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/11/18306327/julian-assange-wikileaks-cfaa-indictment-first-amendment-explainer), the indictment is unusually weak on the evidence (and possibly outside the statute of limitations), though CBS News reported (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/julian-assange-wikileaks-ecuador-embassy-center-spying-lenin-moreno-04-15-2019/) prosecutors are weighing additional charges.

If extradited on the specific hacking charge alone, however, the Verge reported that legal experts say the U.S. cannot simply slap him with additional charges like espionage—which Assange’s lawyers claim could earn him the death penalty.

[Ba-ba-Ra]

Graham Moore on SGT Report - After a short blurb in the beginning about Assange, discusses Brexit in depth. Go to 19:14 where he discusses his take on JA


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRGiaCfzknQ

[anandacate]

In this video, Amazing Polly has some interesting information on a "surprising client" that fits with this thread. Cannot say more or it is a spoiler.

Spygate Swamp Lawyer Has a Surprising Client (https://youtu.be/jOcNvnqV0ks)

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[Franny]

Tracy Beanz has some information she put together recently. Includes Bradley/Chelsea Manning lawsuit against the government, Assange, investigation of Huma Abedin, her husbands laptop and more.

Manning bombshell at the end.

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[Kryztian]

Rand Paul Proposes Immunity for Assange in Exchange for Testimony
Written by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/32029-rand-paul-proposes-immunity-for-assange-in-exchange-for-testimony?fbclid=IwAR12qNPZ4kzYAQfiZpKTQUfItZq0DHGp-fJjP7vCFivnJB6szyOHHyylu7s

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) proposes the potential offering of immunity from prosecution for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in exchange for the latter’s testimony at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.

In a story reported first by Gateway Pundit, the constitutionally-minded senator suggested the compromise as a way of getting valuable information Assange might have without causing him greater harm.

“I think that he should be given immunity from prosecution in exchange for coming to the United States and testifying,” Senator Paul told the Gateway Pundit. “I think he’s been someone who has released a lot of information, and you can debate whether or not any of that has caused harm, but I think really he has information that is probably pertinent to the hacking of the Democratic emails that would be nice to hear.”

Last August, Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to Assange in care of the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he was living in asylum. The letter requests that Assange consent to a “closed interview with bipartisan Committee staff at a mutually agreeable time and location.”

The meeting proposed by Burr was for the purpose of ascertaining whether Assange had any pertinent intelligence related to the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

On April 11, Assange was physically dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy in London by British police after officials of the Ecuadorian government withdrew their political protection of the WikiLeaks founder.

A day earlier, April 10, the president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, tweeted the reason for the country’s asylum for Assange: “Ours is a government respectful of the principles of international law, and of the institution of the right of asylum. Granting or withdrawing asylum is a sovereign right of the Ecuadorian state, according to international law," Moreno said in the prerecorded message.

Now that Assange is no longer safely sequestered inside a foreign embassy, officials of the United States are attempting to extradite Assange in order to try him for a variety of crimes he’s alleged to have committed in connection with the Afghan Papers.

A brief recap of the case against Julian Assange and the role played by WikiLeaks is in order if one is to understand the numerous questionable actions taken by the governments of Ecuador, the U.K., and the United States that have resulted in the arrest of Assange and his potential extradition.

First thing, however, no matter what one may think of Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, or the information that has been released on that website, it must be recalled that Assange has been under arrest (or constructively so) for about nine years without being formally charged with any crime and without being brought before a magistrate to challenge his detention.

In late July 2010, WikiLeaks released the so-called Afghan War Diary. These documents are a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the war in Afghanistan.

Next, on August 18, 2010 (two days before allegations of sexual impropriety were raised), Anders Hellner, a senior policy adviser to the Swedish Foreign Policy Institute, told Swedish TV News Rapport:

The situation is escalating because an official Swedish party which is represented at the European Parliament (the Pirate Party, which had announced it would host WikiLeaks servers) is taking up what the U.S views is a very controversial role. The Americans are looking to stop this somehow.

It isn’t too much of a strain of credulity to believe that the United States would want to retaliate against Assange for the revelations contained in the Afghan War Diary, particularly those related to the aid given to the Taliban and al-Qaeda by Pakistan, our ersatz “ally” in the War on Terror, and the disclosure of the number of civilian casualties precipitated by the military action of the United States and other “coalition” forces.

Given the bipartisan celebration of Assange’s arrest, it’s unlikely that Senator Paul’s proposal will gain any traction among many of his colleagues in Congress. Paul’s famous father is another story, however.

In April 2018, former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul and Doug Stafford, chief strategist for Senator Rand Paul, co-authored an “open letter” petitioning the Ecuadorian government to restore Assange’s access to communication and requesting that the government of the United States “end the Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks and drop any charges against the publisher and all other staff members.”

After a recitation of historic and moral defense of the freedom of expression, Paul’s letter ends with a paean to the principle and its dearness to the Founding Fathers: “The Founding Fathers would have protected WikiLeaks at all costs and it is time that we inherit their spirit.”

I’ll see Ron Paul’s Founding Father quote and raise him a quote from one of the Founding Generation’s favorite writings, Cato’s Letters, written by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon.

In Cato’s Letter No. 15, published on February 24, 1721, Thomas Gordon writes, “Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them.”

So, shouldn’t anyone suggesting Assange is a traitor (he’s not American) and that WikiLeaks published propaganda be anxious to hear from the now-arrested journalist and political prisoner?

As of the publishing of this article, no member of Congress has publicly supported Senator Paul’s proposed immunity for Julian Assange in exchange for his testimony.

[Bill Ryan]

From https://cuencahighlife.com/moreno-claims-that-assange-ran-espionage-agency-from-embassy-with-correas-blessing

Moreno claims that Assange ran ‘espionage agency’ from embassy with Correa’s blessing
18 April, 2019

President Lenin Moreno claims that Julian Assange was operating an “international espionage and computer terrorism center” in Ecuador’s British embassy. In a Wednesday interview with the BBC, Moreno also insists that former president Rafael Correa had full knowledge of Assange’s covert activities and allowed them to continue.

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President Lenin Moreno

President Lenin Moreno “During most of the previous administration, Julian Assange was able to conduct the work of WikiLeaks from the embassy with no interference and with full knowledge of officials,” Moreno said. “This was in clear violation of his agreement to observe behavior compatible with the will of the Ecuadorian government.”

In another interview Wednesday, Moreno claimed that the press was emphasizing Assange’s disruptive behavior and poor hygiene as the reason for his expulsion from the embassy last week. “We made clear that this was only one of the reasons for our decision to end his asylum,” Moreno said. “The more important reasons were his interference in the affairs of other countries. From the beginning, he was warned against this and he ignored the warnings.”

According to Moreno, Correa personally advised Assange to end his “illegal” work. “This happened in the case of his [Assange’s] support of the Catalonian rebellion as well as with interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”

Moreno disputed WikiLeaks’ claim that Assange was not in control of the group’s activity during his asylum. “This is not true and we have clear evidence that he continued to operate the organization and the previous government was complicit in allowing this to happen.”

The president added that Ecuadorian government agencies have suffered 50 to 60 million internet hacking attempts since Assange left the embassy. “Obviously, WikiLeaks and its criminal supporters are hard at work to punish Ecuador for its decision. Fortunately, most of their attempts have not been successful.

[Carmody]

Moreno bears the appearance of a man who is trapped in his choices. Just my impression of the photograph of him (prior post).

[onawah]

THE DESTRUCTION OF JULIAN ASSANGE. Richard Dolan: The Big Picture.
Richard Dolan
Streamed live on Apr 13, 2019

"Julian Assange is one of the most important journalists in history. The information that has been revealed via Wikileaks has become part of humanity's shared heritage of freedom of information. His organization's track record of accuracy has been impeccable, far more accurate than the dishonest legacy/corporate/mainstream/establishment media has ever been. For this reason, Assange has been in the crosshairs of the American national security state for a long time. Now it appears they have him. This is one more battle in the long war to roll back the freedom of information people have won since the creation of the Internet. "

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[A Voice from the Mountains]

You guys should check out what the Mueller report says about Assange and Wikileaks.

Page 58, which is almost entirely redacted, says the following:


On October 7, 2016, four days after the Assange press conferece [REDACTED], the Washington Post published an Access Hollywood video that captured comments by candidate Trump some years earlier and that was expected to adversely affect the Campaign. Less than an hour after the video's publication, WikiLeaks released the first set of emails stolen by the GRU from the account of Clinton Campaign chairman John Podesta.

Almost the entire rest of the page is redacted with "Harm to Ongoing Matter" cited as the reason for redaction. That means legal action is still being pursued in regards to Wikileaks' role in the 2016 election. And Mueller's report is alleging that Russia was the source of Podesta's emails.

That means that, regardless of Trump, Mueller's investigation is targeting Wikileaks-related interference in the 2016 election as if it is equivalent to Russian interference, and accusing Wikileaks of releasing emails "stolen" by the Russian GRU.

If and when Assange is extradited to the US, he may very well have additional charges filed against him from Mueller's investigation, and be forced to testify in a court of law in regards to this issue. The redactions and their explanation ("harm to ongoing matter") support this idea.


Edit: I confused the DNC emails with Podesta's emails. Assange basically already told us that the DNC emails came from Seth Rich, but I'm not sure if a specific source for Podesta's emails was ever given.

[Billy]

Roger Waters from Pink Floyd says the world must focus on Julian Assange arrest.

From a Going underground broadcast.

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[Philippe]

Whereas the analysis of the Hillary Clinton doubles was very impressive, I think it is better to conclude that it is Assange that was taken out of the Ecuadorian embassy. And like investigative journalist Jim Stone admit to "eating crow" ( I regulary learn new english expressions :-) ) for heralding since years that Assange is dead.

Jim Stone is at it again saying Assange may have been abducted, drugged and brainwashed October 16/17 2016. And put back in the embassy. Where it is known that such evil techniques exist and can work depending on the mind of the victim , this theory seems farfetched again. If is apparently not true because Assange kept on reporting and voicing support for the Catalan independence fight. He should have abstained from interfering with that later cause knowing that diplomatic problems would erupt between Ecuador and Madrid if he did that from their embassy. A pity that Jim Stone goes directly to sensationalist conclusions lessening his credibility where he has such an impressive ability for technical analysis of events.

To be complete here is a website that denies Assange called for the independence of Catalonia.
https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/03/04/false-statements-about-assange-and-wikileaks/

FALSE STATEMENTS AND DEFAMATIONS CONCERNING JULIAN ASSANGE AND WIKILEAKS

[Kryztian]

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[Kryztian]

Julian Assange put through 'hell' at embassy, says former diplomat (https://news.sky.com/story/julian-assange-put-through-hell-at-embassy-says-former-diplomat-11698113)
Fidel Narvaez says Assange was "100% respectful" but claims he suffered from a government plot to force him out.

By Lisa Holland, senior correspondent
https://news.sky.com/story/julian-assange-put-through-hell-at-embassy-says-former-diplomat-11698113

Julian Assange was always respectful but went through "hell" in the Ecuadorian embassy as officials tried to "break him down", according to a former senior diplomat.

Fidel Narvaez worked at the London embassy for six of the seven years the WikiLeaks figurehead lived there and says they became friends.

Assange was evicted a few weeks ago after a change of government in Ecuador.

Its new president, Lenin Moreno, publicly criticised the whistleblower and gave the impression the government ended his stay after growing tired of his alleged bad behaviour.

Speaking to Sky News, Fidel Narvaez disputed claims that Assange had assaulted guards, didn't clean up after himself, didn't take care of his pet cat and even smeared human excrement on the walls of the embassy.

He said: "Julian had a respectful relationship with staff, diplomats and administrative staff. I don't recall a single incident when he disrespected someone until I left in July 2018.

"He was 100% respectful. Clean and tidy? What is clean and tidy? Did he put the dishes in the dishwasher? Probably not at weekends. Is that a crime?"

Mr Narvaez worked at the embassy in Knightsbridge in central London between 2010 and 2018 as consul and first secretary.

Assange went into the embassy in June 2012 and did not leave until he was carted away by British police a few weeks ago with the agreement of the authorities in Ecuador.

Mr Narvaez said: "The last year was hell for Julian in that embassy.

"I was there the first months of the last year and I witnessed when Julian was told that he would no longer be allowed to have internet or access to the phone and wouldn't be able to have visitors.

"The strategy was very clear - break him down. The government didn't know how to end the asylum and face the catastrophic historical shame for doing that."

Mr Narvaez shared some of the photographs he had taken inside the embassy when he worked there, including the small kitchen area that Assange shared.

The embassy is comprised of a small set of rooms and Assange had his own bedroom and also access to a shared office and working space.

Mr Narvaez said Assange did not go to Sweden to face a rape inquiry because he feared being arrested and extradited to the United States by Britain or Sweden for exposing US government secrets via his WikiLeaks organisation.

He has denied the allegations made in Sweden.

Mr Narvaez said: "I consider him my friend. He's provided a big service to all of us.

"It doesn't matter if we like him or not. It doesn't matter if he puts the dishes in the dishwasher or looks after the cat well. I stand by Julian. I believe him."

[Innocent Warrior]

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Tweet from WikiLeaks (April 24) -


We confirm Julian Assange has access to his lawyers, is now speaking with them regularly and will have an in person visit in the coming days.

Tweet (https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1120994794912743425).

Stefania Maurizi from La Repubblica has interviewed the UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy, Professor Joe Cannataci, who met with Assange in prison: UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy meets Assange in prison: "I will act on the videos of Assange’s meetings in the embassy" (https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2019/04/25/news/assange_inglese_onu-224862394/) (April 25).

[Innocent Warrior]

Julian Assange’s dad on Good Morning Britain -

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[onawah]

Yanis Varoufakis on Julian Assange, Militarization, European Politics & Social Movements
acTVism Munich
Published on Apr 27, 2019

"In this exclusive interview with bestselling author, former finance minister of Greece and the co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, Yanis Varoufakis, we talk about the case of Julian Assange. Furthermore we examine why there isn’t significant grassroots mobilization against militarization as compared to other movements around Europe and despite the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists citing it as a “extraordinary threat” to humanity . Lastly we talk about whether consumers or producers should be held account when it comes to climate change and also why people should participate in the upcoming European election."

To read the full interview: https://bit.ly/2ZB4Zvb

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[BMJ]

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange sentenced to 50 weeks' jail over bail breach

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Julian Assange gestures from the window of a prison van as he is driven out of Southwark Crown Court in London on May 1, 2019.

Quote:
"Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks' jail for absconding while on bail, when he fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012...

During sentencing remarks, Judge Deborah Taylor said she had taken into consideration "the seriousness of the failure to surrender, the level of culpability and the harm caused".

She called the harm "exceptional in seriousness", saying it put the offence outside the range of "even the highest category".

"By entering the embassy, you deliberately put yourself out of reach, whilst remaining in the UK," she said.

"You remained there for nearly seven years, exploiting your privileged position to flout the law and advertise internationally your disdain for the law of this country."

She said it had cost taxpayers 16 million pounds ($25.5 million) to ensure that Assange was arrested when he left the embassy.

In a press conference, one of Assange's lawyers said "only two weeks short of a maximum sentence is an outrage".

Assange faces extradition hearing

On Thursday, Assange will again appear in court by video link as the US attempts to extradite him.

Assange is charged with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to classified databases.

In 2010, WikiLeaks released hundreds of thousands of US military reports about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and US diplomatic communications.

The US Justice Department described it as "one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States".

Assange faces up to five years in US prison if convicted. Assange's lawyers said they would fight the extradition attempt.

"What is at stake there will be a question of life and death for Assange … and for major journalistic principles," one of his lawyers said in a press conference, adding that the "focus of [their] energy" would now move to fight the extradition request..."


Link: https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/wikileaks-julian-assange-sentenced-to-50-weeks-jail-over-bail-breach/ar-AAALyC7?li=AAgfLCP&ocid=mailsignout

[Praxis]

So his extradition hearing will be tomorrow, at least what I have seen reported.

So, if the US does this and trump doesnt pardon we now know absolutely for sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt that Trump is not fighting the good fight.

Ill bet Assange will end up in Guantanamo Bay, which Trumps expansion and sending more people already told me beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is not fighting the good fight. ( If you support Guantanamo Bay staying open you belong in it)

So trump people have a hard moment to face coming up here. This whole pathetic trump is fighting the deep state is about to be shown as the hollow nonsense it is.

Assange is actually and has a great track record of fighting for transparency and accountability in government. Without him we would be in the dark about many atrocities of Bush and Other presidents.

Trump has done literally nothing, in fact has helped, the Large scale agenda that whoever is running things is doing. We are still doing the plan that General laid out about the 7 countries in five years.

Trump is moving against the very targets PNAC laid out. Currently, Right now we are doing this regime change **** in Venezuela and you are all letting trump take a pass on it like the Dems did with Libya.

If you cared about Benghazi and were up in arms about that then and you are not up in arms about Venezuela then take a long hard look into the mirror. . .

[Franny]

The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity give their measured estimation of the case of Julian Assange and the future of whistle blowers and true journalism. The do mention a presidential pardon, after tortuous months in jail and court. I hope that pardon (ironically for doing real 1st Amendment protected journalism) is the case rather than wishful thinking.

At this time, all things considered, it does not look so good for Assange, whistle blowers and journalism. With the removal of the Smith-Mundt Act and legalization of propaganda, true journalism may have a doubtful future.

I DO hope I'm wrong, and that Q is trustworthy and the Q decoders are correct that Trump will step up and do the right thing.

VIPS: Extradition of Julian Assange Threatens Us All
April 30, 2019

Retaliation against Julian Assange over the past decade plus replicates a pattern of ruthless political retaliation against whistleblowers, in particular those who reveal truths hidden by illegal secrecy, VIPS says.

DATE: April 30, 2019

MEMORANDUM FOR: The governments and people of the United Kingdom and the United States

FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)

SUBJECT: Extradition of Julian Assange Threatens Us All

On April 11, London police forcibly removed WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange from the embassy of Ecuador after that country’s president, Lenin Moreno, abruptly revoked his predecessor’s grant of asylum (https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2012/08/16/ecuador-to-make-assange-decision-as-britain-warn-of-arrest/#664a7ee63478). The United States government immediately requested Assange’s extradition for prosecution under a charge (https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-computer-%C2%A0hacking-conspiracy) of “conspiracy to commit computer intrusion” under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

Former U.S. Government officials promptly appeared in popular media offering soothing assurances that Assange’s arrest threatens neither constitutional rights (https://kval.com/news/nation-world/7-questions-about-julian-%C2%A0assanges-arrest-and-what-it-means) nor the practice of journalism (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/11/assange-%C2%A0case-separates-journalism-criminality/3435588002/), and major newspapers like The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/%C2%A02019/04/11/opinion/assange-wikileaks-arrest.html) and The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/%C2%A0julian-assange-is-not-a-free-press-hero-and-he-is-long-overdue-for-personal-accountability/%202019/04/11/90f901ba-5c86-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html) fell into line.

Not So Fast

Others found reason for concern in the details of the indictment. Carie DeCel, a staff attorney for the Knight First Amendment Institute (https://knightcolumbia.org/content/%C2%A0about-knight-institute), noted that the indictment goes beyond simply stating the computer intrusion charge and “includes many more allegations (https://psmag.com/ideas/why-trump-reversed-himself-on-wikileaks) that reach more broadly into typical journalistic practices, including communication with a source, encouraging a source to share information, and protecting a source.”

In an analysis of the indictment’s implications, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) observed that it includes an allegation that “Assange and Manning took measures to conceal Manning as the source of the disclosure…including by removing usernames from the disclosed information and deleting chat logs between Assange and Manning,” and that they “used a special folder on a cloud drop box of WikiLeaks to transmit classified records.”

“These are not only legitimate but professionally advised journalistic practices for source protection,” notes POGO. It is worth noting that Manning had Top Secret clearance and did not need Assange’s assistance to gain access to databases, but only to hide her identity.

The indictment’s implied threat thus reaches beyond Assange and even beyond journalists. The threat to journalists and others does not vanish if they subsequently avoid practices identified in the government’s indictment. The NSA’s big bag of past communications offers abundant material from which to spin an indictment years later, and even circumstantial evidence can produce a conviction. Moreover, the secret landscape—a recent and arbitrary development (https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/summer-2016/the-surprisingly-short-history-of-american-secrecy)—continually expands, making ever more of government off limits to public view.

When politician and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo labeled WikiLeak (https://www.csis.org/analysis/discussion-national-security-cia-director-mike-pompeo/?block1)s a “non-state hostile intelligence service,” he was describing the oft-stated duty of newspapers, “to comfort the afflicted, and to afflict the comfortabl (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/02/01/comfort/)e.”

The Devil in the Big Picture

One can look so closely at the indictment details that one misses the big picture and with it vital truths. Standing back for a broader view, a long-running campaign of harassment by U.S. authorities and former officials focused on WikiLeaks’ publication of embarrassing secrets becomes visible. The Project on Government Oversight observes:

“Even if the motives for Assange’s indictment are entirely legitimate, the litany of high-ranking government officials who called for Assange to be prosecuted for publishing classified documents have likely already irreparably harmed the freedom of the press. It will be virtually impossible to fully disentangle the government’s desire to prosecute Assange for his publishing activities from the government’s current prosecution of him, and as a result there will to some degree be an unavoidable chilling effect stemming from his prosecution.”

Standing back still further, a crowd of similar cases comes into view: other truth tellers subjected to similar persecution. These are not journalists but another specie of truth teller — national security whistleblowers (https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1029/whistleblowers)— who have warned for years that this day would come.

A Pattern of Reprisal

Opinions of Julian Assange (https://wemeantwell.com/blog/2018/07/18/julian-assange-and-the-future-of-a-free-press-long-form/)’s character and methods vary wildly but what is relevant to First Amendment freedoms (https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/first_amendment) is how the U.S. government perceives him. The big picture reveals that Assange, a publisher of whistleblower disclosures, is viewed the same way as whistleblowers: unwelcome lights shining on official wrongdoing who must be dimmed, deflected and shut off. What government bodies are doing to Assange they routinely have done to whistleblowers— Thomas Drake, Jeffrey Sterling, John Kiriakou, Thomas Tamm, William Binney, Daniel Ellsberg (http://todayinclh.com/?event=judge-dismisses-charges-against-daniel-ellsberg), Chelsea Manning and others—who disclosed for public benefit information the government finds politically troublesome.

Once the government develops animus toward a truth teller, it fishes indefinitely until it finds some means to retaliate—some pretext to punish that individual (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pretext). A pattern of retaliation against high-profile national security whistleblowers includes the following tactics:

relentless campaigns of character assassination (https://freedom.press/news-advocacy/before-snowden-nixon-admin-pioneered-evidence-free-russian-spy-smears-against-daniel-ellsberg/) and misinformation about facts (https://theintercept.com/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden-files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/) of the case;

hostile, lengthy government investigations (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/leaks-and-the-law-the-story-of-thomas-drake-14796786/), often for minor (https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-nsa-leak-case-20110609-story.html), never proven or circumstantial (https://theintercept.com/2018/01/19/jeffrey-sterling-cia-leaking-prison/) offenses;

terrorization of the whistleblower and associates with threats (see here (https://www.facebook.com/HangBradleyManning/) and here (https://insider.foxnews.com/2016/09/16/ex-cia-director-snowden-should-be-tried-treason-face-hanging)), solitary confinement (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iraq-whistleblowers-vilified-demoted/) and armed home invasions (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/23/the-secret-sharer) for non-violent, alleged offenses;

pre-trial declarations of guilt (https://www.politico.com/story/2011/04/obama-says-manning-broke-the-law-053601) from influential officials, such as Barack Obama’s declaration (as the military’s Commander-in-Chief) that Army Private Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning “broke the law” — potentially influencing the Army court that heard her case.

a Balkanized judicial process that restricts most such cases to onejudicial venue cherry-picked by prosecutors for speedy deference to government (https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/56007-rsn-the-railroad-that-awaits-julian-assange), a venue sealed off from public scrutiny and, some say, justice;

prosecution under the Espionage Act (https://books.google.com/books?id=wsURBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=Espionage+Act++draconian+vague&source=bl&ots=W-Gs6QdPOS&sig=ACfU3U2N_ZbmTZy63f5QRnC_4xUeD2cysQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiF7cGBnvbhAhVKSK0KHbhuBgYQ6AEwKHoECCsQAQ#v=onepage&q=Espionage%20Act%20%20draconian%20vague&f=false), a “vague” and “draconian” law, similar in those respects to the CFAA;

continuing persecution—isolation, marginalization, blacklisting, and more—after time has been served (see here (https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2017/09/26/how-the-decision-to-offer-and-then-revoke-chelsea-mannings-fellow) and here (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/08/chelsea-manning-judge-jails-wikileaks-case)) or after charges are dropped. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/after-the-whistle-revealers-of-government-secrets-share-how-their-lives-have-changed/2013/07/28/23d82596-f613-11e2-9434-60440856fadf_story.html?utm_term=.d7f847be0d3f)
Reportedly, British and U.S. intelligence are interrogating Assange, possibly employing torture tactics, without access to legal counsel at a prison reserved for terrorists. U.S. officials apparently charged Assange as “a terrorist (https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/u-s-govt-dodges-statute-of-limitations-issue-by-treating-assange-like-a-terrorist/)” in order to dodge the problem of the statute of limitations for conspiracy or computer intrusion by extending (via the Patriot Act and/or other terrorism laws) the normal statute of limitations from 5 to 8 years.

Not for Insiders

Even if charges against a whistleblower are later dropped, governments still win because the tactics used damage the truth teller professionally (https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/pre-snowden-whistleblower-thomas-tamm-faces-misconduct-charges-12-years-later), financially, socially and psychologically (https://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/documents/Gossett06.html), and foreseeably chill (http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175500/) other whistleblowers.

Importantly, virtually all of the retaliatory actions described above are carried out or instigated by the elite political establishment—current and former political appointees and elected officials. Equally important is the fact that tactics used against whistleblowers are rarely if ever applied to political insiders who fail to protect classified information. Even actual spies (https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/nsa-won’t-shut-about-snowden-what-about-spy-who-stole-more) who give or sell secrets directly to foreign governments have fared better than some well-meaning whistleblowers. In contrast to whistleblowers, political insiders who mistreat government secrets are publicly praised (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/12/petraeus-case-politicians-stand-by-general-despite-leaks-inquiry) by the establishment, face lesser charges (if any), are treated with dignity (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-clinton-idUSKCN0ZI0RU) by investigators, receive presidential pardons (https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/314674-obama-pardons-james-cartwright-in-leak-case) and move on to prestigious (https://www.thenation.com/article/the-general-who-lost-2-wars-leaked-classified-information-to-his-lover-and-retired-with-a-220000-pension/) and lucrative positions.

The Takeaway

Retaliation against Julian Assange over the past decade plus replicates a pattern of ruthless political retaliationagainst whistleblowers, in particular those who reveal truths hidden by illegal secrecy (https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=6090&context=law_lawreview). U.S. law (https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/17.22) prohibits classifying information “in order to conceal inefficiency, violations of law, or administrative error; to prevent embarrassmentto a person, organization, or agency.”

Whether U.S. authorities successfully prosecute Assange, accept a desperate plea deal or keep him tied up with endless litigation, they will succeed in sending the same chilling message to all journalists that they send to potential whistleblowers: Do not embarrass us or we’ll punish you—somehow, someday, however long it takes. In that respect, one could say damage to journalism already has been done but the battle is not over.

This extension of a whistleblower reprisal regime onto a publisher of disclosures poses an existential threat to all journalists and to the right of all people to speak and hear important truths. The U.S. indictment of Julian Assange tests our ability to perceive a direct threat to free speech, and tests our will to oppose that threat.Without freedom of press and the right and willingness to publish, whistleblowers even disclosing issues of grave, life and death public safety, will be like a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear.

The great American writer Henry David Thoreau wrote, “It takes two to speak the truth–one to speak and one to hear.” Today, it takes three to speak the truth (https://twitter.com/usalinda/status/1104242369883488256)–one to speak, one to hear, and one to defend the first two in court. If the U.S. Government has its way, there will be no defense, no truth.

For the Steering Groups of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence:

William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.)

Richard H. Black, Senator of Virginia, 13th District; Colonel US Army (ret.); Former Chief, Criminal Law Division, Office of the Judge Advocate General, the Pentagon (associate VIPS)

Marshall Carter-Tripp, Foreign Service Officer & former Division Director in the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (ret.)

Thomas Drake, former Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service and NSA whistleblower

Bogdan Dzakovic, former Team Leader of Federal Air Marshals and Red Team, FAA Security (ret.) (associate VIPS)

Philip Giraldi, CIA, Operations Officer (ret.)

Mike Gravel, former Adjutant, top secret control officer, Communications Intelligence Service; special agent of the Counter Intelligence Corps and former United States Senator

Katherine Gun, former linguist and Iraq War whistleblower in UK’s GCHQ (affiliate VIPS)

Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq; former Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan (associate VIPS)

James George Jatras, former U.S. diplomat and former foreign policy adviser to Senate leadership (Associate VIPS)

Michael S. Kearns, Captain, USAF (ret.); ex-Master SERE Instructor for Strategic Reconnaissance Operations (NSA/DIA) and Special Mission Units (JSOC)

John Kiriakou, former CIA Counterterrorism Officer and former Senior Investigator, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Karen Kwiatkowski, former Lt. Col., US Air Force (ret.), at Office of Secretary of Defense watching the manufacture of lies on Iraq, 2001-2003

Clement J. Laniewski, LTC, U.S. Army (ret.) (associate VIPS)

Linda Lewis, WMD preparedness policy analyst, USDA (ret.) (associate VIPS)

Edward Loomis, NSA Cryptologic Computer Scientist (ret.)

Annie Machon, former intelligence officer in the UK’s MI5 domestic security service (affiliate VIPS)

Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA presidential briefer (ret.)

Craig Murray, former British diplomat and Ambassador to Uzbekistan, human rights activist and historian (affiliate VIPS)

Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East & CIA political analyst (ret.)

Todd E. Pierce, MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.)

Coleen Rowley, FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel (ret.)

Peter Van Buren, U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Officer (ret.) (associate VIPS)

J. Kirk Wiebe, former Senior Analyst, SIGINT Automation Research Center, NSA (ret.)

Larry Wilkerson, Colonel, U.S. Army (ret.), former Chief of Staff for Secretary of State; Distinguished Visiting Professor, College of William and Mary

Sarah Wilton, Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve (ret.) and Defense Intelligence Agency (ret.)

Robert Wing, former U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Officer (Associate VIPS)

Ann Wright, U.S. Army Reserve Colonel (ret) and former U.S. Diplomat who resigned in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq War

[Star Tsar]

Latest from London...

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[Innocent Warrior]

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The name of the US soldier who retrieved the horribly wounded children from the van, which had arrived only to retrieve the dead bodies, is Ethan McCord. This is his eye witness testimony (duration 17:21) -

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This is Julian Assange.

He created the most significant innovation to how journalism is done of our lifetime.

He's in a high security jail cell in the UK facing U.S. extradition because he exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq.

Everything else is propaganda.

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Defend Assange Campaign (https://mobile.twitter.com/DefendAssange/status/1123867975004635138)


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DEFEND WIKILEAKS (https://defend.wikileaks.org)

[BMJ]

I am going to stick out my neck and give a different point of view.

For Julian we know that being locked in the Ecuadorian Embassy for the last 7 years or so has taken a toll on him mentally and physically.

Maybe Ecuadorian government were paid to release him via the IMF loan.

And maybe the issue was forced by the USA.

But maybe also this was all done for his own sake to save him from his deteriorating situation, and put him in the care of the USA.

Remember that POTUS Trump has said in the past he likes or even loves Wikileaks.

And now POTUS Trump is distancing himself from Julian because of the legal preceding to ensure impartiality. Which is understandable.

Furthermore Assange is charged with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to classified databases, now I really do not how strong the government case is in relation to this charge but remember POTUS Trump has the ability to pardon Julian if he is convicted.

I am going to wait and see how Julian's situation develops considering we have a total new sheriff in town with POTUS Trump.

I gladly say I am wrong if that's case, but I think there is going to be a positive outcome to this situation for Julian and he maybe found guilt but pardoned and venerated as a hero by the USA. :sun:

[BMJ]

Key points:
- Anderson said Assange did not deserve to be in a prison for violent offenders
- The US actor has supported Assange for several years, visiting him in the Ecuadorian embassy
- Assange is due again in court on May 30 over US extradition proceedings

Pamela Anderson visits Julian Assange in London prison

Quote:
"Former Baywatch star Anderson visited Assange at Belmarsh Prison in southeast London on Tuesday morning, saying the 47-year-old had been unable to get out of his cell and that it was "very difficult" to see him.

"He does not deserve to be in a supermax prison, he has never committed a violent act," she told media outside the prison.

"He is an innocent person."

Anderson, 51, said Assange had no access to information and had been "cut off from everybody", including his own children."

Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-08/pamela-anderson-visits-julian-assange-in-london-prison/11089550

Late note. The question has to be if lawyers and family cannot gain access to Julian how did Pamela Anderson?

[Star Tsar]

Bradley/Chelsea Manning has been released, For now....

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[Maia Gabrial]

This proves everyone has a price....

[Franny]

Not everyone. Manning and Assange as just 2 examples.

[Tintin]

goingundergroundRT
Published on Apr 13, 2019

A clearly impassioned and moving commentary from John Pilger here an Julian's arrest. As the accompanying notes attest to, he discusses the importance of Wikileaks’ work, why it is a threat to the United States, the danger the arrest poses to journalists everywhere and the possibility of extradition to the US.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siHgvx3t9V8

[Kryztian]

Julian Assange Tortured with Psychotropic Drug

Kurt Nimmo
Another Day in the Empire
Posted on May 7, 2019
https://kurtnimmo.blog/2019/05/07/julian-assange-tortured-with-psychotropic-drug/ (https://kurtnimmo.blog/2019/05/07/julian-assange-tortured-with-psychotropic-drug/)

Retired USAF lieutenant colonel Karen Kwiatkowski writes in an article posted at Lew Rockwell’s website that Julian Assange is receiving the same treatment as suspected terrorists while in captivity at “Her Majesty’s Prison Service” at Belmarsh.

The FBI, Pentagon, and CIA are “interviewing” Assange. Kwiatkowski writes:

Interviewing is the wrong word. I’d like to say doctoring him, because it would be more accurate, except that word implies some care for a positive outcome. Chemical Gina has her hands in this one, and we are being told that Assange is being “treated” with 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, known as BZ.

BZ is a powerful drug that produces hallucinations. “Soldiers on BZ could remember only fragments of the experience afterward. As the drug wore off, and the subjects had trouble discerning what was real, many experienced anxiety, aggression, even terror,” the New Yorker reported. “…The drug’s effect lasted for days. At its peak, volunteers were totally cut off in their own minds, jolting from one fragmented existence to the next. They saw visions: Lilliputian baseball players competing on a tabletop diamond; animals or people or objects that materialized and vanished.”

Assange is being chemically lobotomized prior to being extradited to the United States to stand trial on bogus computer hacking charges that—and the corporate media won’t tell you this—passed the statute of limitations three years ago (see 18 U.S. Code § 371. Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States).

Forget about the statute of limitations. The US government has long violated both domestic and international law. It is a rogue nation led by an ignorant clown who opened the back door and ushered in neocon psychopaths notorious for killing millions. In normal times, these criminals would be in the dock at The Hague standing trial for crimes against humanity. But we don’t live in normal times.

The message is clear: if you expose the massive criminal enterprise at the heart of the US government, you will be renditioned, chemically tortured (a favorite of Chemical Gina, now CIA director), chewed up and spit out until you’re a babbling mental case like David Shayler (who believes he is the Second Coming of Christ). Shayler, a former MI5 agent, made the mistake of exposing the UK’s support of terror operations in Libya. Shayler spent three weeks at Belmarsh after a conviction for breaching the Official Secrets Act. He emerged from prison broken and delusional.

I seriously doubt most Americans care about the chemical torture of Julian Assange. On social media, liberals and so-called progressives, along with their “conservative” counterparts, celebrate Assange’s arrest, confinement, and torture. Members of Congress have called for his execution, while one media talking head (teleprompter script reader) demanded the CIA send a hit team to London and assassinate Assange.

Americans are similar to the propagandized and brainwashed citizens of Nazi Germany. Most went along with Hitler right up until the end when their cities lay in smoldering ruins and their once proud country was carved up, half of it given over to the communists. They set up the Stasi to deal with East Germans who were not following the totalitarian program.

[Kryztian]

Ecuador will give US all documents & devices Assange left in London embassy – report

Russia Today
Published time: 12 May, 2019 23:36
https://www.rt.com/news/459170-assange-documents-us-handover/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS (https://www.rt.com/news/459170-assange-documents-us-handover/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS)

Ecuador's Attorney General has informed a Julian Assange lawyer that the WikiLeaks co-founder's files, computer, mobile phones and other electronic devices will be seized during a search at the London embassy and sent to the US.

After an unsuccessful attempt by WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson to retrieve Assange's personal belongings from Ecuador's UK embassy, where Assange had been holed up for almost 7 years before his arrest and incarceration last month, the Ecuadorian government reportedly greenlighted the US request to provide it access to the documents and electronic devices left behind by the jailed WikiLeaks editor after he was hauled out of the embassy by the British police on April, 11.

The searches inside the embassy quarters formerly occupied by Assange are set to be conducted by police on May 20, El Pais reported, citing a notice sent to Assange's Ecuadorian lawyer Carlos Poveda.

Assange's personal files, his computer, mobile phones, memory sticks, CDs and any other electronic devices uncovered during the searches will then be seized and sent to the US as a part of Ecuador's response to the Department of Justice's judicial request. The US is currently building a case to extradite on hacking charges.

The files contain troves of sensitive information, include Assange's communication with his lawyers and other legal documents – which, the lawyers argue, deprive him of the right to proper defense. Having this data will potentially allow the US to "build and create new charges" to extradite Assange in violation of Ecuador's own asylum policies.

The news of the looming handover came as a bolt out of the blue for Assange's defense team, Poveda told RT Spanish, adding that it's impossible to be sure his things in the embassy haven't been tampered with already.

"Since Mr. Assange left the embassy, we cannot know for sure what has been happening inside these rooms." The lawyers have requested CCTV records for the period since Assange's arrest, Poveda said.

The US has until June 12 to build a case for Assange' extradition. Last week, Assange, who has been serving a 50-week sentence in a maximum-security Guantanamo Bay-style prison for skipping bail, faced an extradition judge for the first time. The WikiLeaks co-founder said he would not surrender himself to extradition for simply "doing journalism" that has earned his site many international awards.

[Kryztian]

Sweden Reopens Investigation of Julian Assange for Rape, Complicating U.S. Extradition

The Intercept
Robert Mackey
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/13/sweden-reopens-investigation-julian-assange-rape-complicates-u-s-extradition/ (https://theintercept.com/2019/05/13/sweden-reopens-investigation-julian-assange-rape-complicates-u-s-extradition/)

Sweden’s Prosecution Authority reopened an investigation of Julian Assange for rape on Monday, and will seek his extradition from Britain, the country’s deputy director of public prosecution, Eva-Marie Persson, told reporters in Stockholm.

The Swedish request will force British authorities to decide whether to send the detained WikiLeaks founder to Sweden or the United States, or neither, at the end of the 50-week jail sentence he is currently serving for violating bail conditions in 2012, when he took refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy after losing his final appeal against extradition to Sweden.

“On 20 August 2010, a police report was made regarding a suspected rape in Enköping, Sweden on 17 August 2010. The alleged offender was reported as being the Australian citizen, JA, born 3 July 1971,” the prosecution authority said in a written explanation of the decision. “The courts in Sweden have, on several occasions during the preliminary investigation, considered the decision to detain JA in his absence, and on each occasion found there exists probable cause for JA to be suspected of rape.”

At a news conference on Monday, Persson said, “after reviewing the preliminary investigation in its current state, my assessment is that there is still probable cause that Mr. Assange committed rape.”

Elisabeth Massi Fritz, a lawyer for Assange’s unidentified Swedish accuser, said that her client welcomed the reopening of the investigation, despite the harassment she has faced from supporters of the WikiLeaks founder who have cast doubt on her claims.

While the Obama administration had reportedly contemplated but decided against charging Assange with a crime related to the 2010 publication of troves of Pentagon and State Department documents provided by Chelsea Manning, the Trump administration secretly filed criminal charges against him last year related to that leak.

Those charges were filed despite the fact that WikiLeaks had secretly offered help to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, in a series of private Twitter messages sent to the candidate’s son Donald Trump Jr., and the candidate had repeatedly praised the group for releasing emails stolen by Russia from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman. In one post-election message to Trump Jr., WikiLeaks even suggested that, as a form of payback, it would be “helpful for your dad to suggest that Australia appoint Assange ambassador to DC.”

A British judge gave the U.S. a deadline of June 12 to make its case for the extradition of Assange, who has denied the rape allegation in Sweden and conspiring with Chelsea Manning to break U.S. law.

Persson, the Swedish prosecutor, said that her office will issue a European Arrest Warrant immediately, seeking to question and possibly charge Assange based on a complaint from a woman who says he raped in in 2010. The investigation had been suspended in 2017 when it appeared unlikely that Assange could be extradited due to his political asylum in Ecuador’s embassy in London.

“I am well aware of the fact that an extradition process is ongoing in the UK and that he could be extradited to the US,” Persson said. “In the event of a conflict between a European Arrest Warrant and a request for extradition from the US, UK authorities will decide on the order of priority.”

The competing extradition requests will be evaluated by a British judge, but the ultimate decision could be made by the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, a Conservative politician.

Last month, more than 70 British lawmakers signed a letter to Javid from Stella Creasy, a member of Parliament for the opposition Labour party, urging their government to give priority to any extradition request from Sweden, over the one filed by the U.S. “We must send a strong message of the priority the UK has in tackling sexual violence and the seriousness with which such allegations are viewed,” Creasy wrote. “We urge you to stand with the victims of sexual violence and seek to ensure the case against Mr Assange can now be properly investigated.”

One of the lawmakers who signed that letter, Jess Phillips, wrote on Monday that giving priority to the Swedish extradition request would demonstrate that the British government takes its responsibility to ensure women’s safety seriously.

The woman’s complaint, Swedish prosecutors told England’s High Court in 2011, was that in her home, “Assange deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep, was in a helpless state.”

“It is an aggravating circumstance,” the prosecutors added, “that Assange, who was aware that it was the expressed wish of the injured party and a prerequisite of sexual intercourse that a condom be used, still consummated unprotected sexual intercourse with her. The sexual act was designed to violate the injured party’s sexual integrity.”

Since the statute of limitations on the rape allegation in Sweden expires in August 2020, that case would almost certainly end if Assange were to be extradited to the U.S. to face trial on allegations that he tried to help Chelsea Manning hack into a Pentagon computer system to obtain documents.

“If the US is given priority and the Swedish request delayed, then justice will be denied,” David Allen Green, a British legal commentator argued in The New Statesman on Monday. “The Swedish allegation also does not have any freedom of expression element to it.”

It is also possible that, from a legal standpoint, Assange might be better protected from extradition to the U.S. by agreeing to go to Sweden to allow the rape investigation to proceed.

“Sweden, like the UK, is party to the European Convention on Human Rights, and so it would not be lawful for him to be extradited to America if there is any risk of torture or the death penalty,” Green observed.

Mark Klamberg, a professor in public international law at Stockholm University, agreed that Assange might have more legal protection against extradition to the U.S. if he goes to Sweden. Writing on Twitter, Klamberg pointed out that while there is an exception for political offenses in most bilateral extradition treaties, including the original one between the U.K. and U.S., in 2003 the U.K. “changed its extradition law removing/weakening political offence exception.” Swedish law, however, still has that exception.

Eva-Marie Persson, the Swedish prosecutor, told reporters on Monday that Assange does have some agency in the process, since he could agree to allow Swedish investigators to conduct a preliminary interview by video-link while he is serving his time in a British jail. “Such an interview, however, requires Julian Assange’s consent,” Persson said.

A statement from WikiLeaks on Monday restated the group’s claim that the Swedish case is political in nature. “Since Julian Assange was arrested on 11 April 2019, there has been considerable political pressure on Sweden to reopen their investigation, but there has always been political pressure surrounding this case,” Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief, said in the statement. “Assange was always willing to answer any questions from the Swedish authorities and repeatedly offered to do so, over six years. The widespread media assertion that Assange ‘evaded’ Swedish questioning is false.”

“This investigation has been dropped before and its reopening will give Julian a chance to clear his name,” Hrafnsson concluded.

The woman who brought the complaint still to be investigated has not been identified, but a second woman, whose separate complaint against Assange was dropped when the statute of limitations on her claim elapsed, is Anna Ardin. She told the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in 2010 that the complaints were “not orchestrated by the Pentagon,” as some Assange supporters had claimed, but were the result of actions by “a man who has a twisted attitude toward women and a problem taking no for an answer.”

Even if Sweden does not renew its investigation, Assange’s extradition to the U.S. is likely to be challenged by his lawyers with reference to Article 4 of the extradition treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom signed in 2003, which states that “extradition shall not be granted if the offense for which extradition is requested is a political offense.”

And extradition between the two countries is far from automatic. On at least nine occasions since the treaty was signed, the U.K. has declined extradition requests from the U.S. In 2012, then-Home Secretary Theresa May decided not to extradite Gary McKinnon, a British hacker with Asperger’s syndrome who admitted accessing U.S. government computers but claimed he was just looking for evidence of UFOs.

Last year, another alleged hacker with Asperger’s, Lauri Love, won a High Court appeal against his extradition to the U.S. Love, who allegedly stole troves of data from the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Pentagon, NASA and the FBI, convinced judges that there was a high risk that he would kill himself if sent to an American prison.

[Kryztian]

The “Swedish Allegations” concerning Julian Assange:
https://justice4assange.com/note-to-editors-Sweden.html
(https://justice4assange.com/note-to-editors-Sweden.html)
Justice for Assange

The Facts

There is widespread media misreporting about allegations made against Julian Assange in Sweden in 2010. Here are the facts:

First, Assange was always willing to answer any questions from the Swedish authorities and repeatedly offered to do so, over six years. The widespread media assertion that Assange “evaded” Swedish questioning is false. It was the Swedish prosecutor who for years refused to question Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy: they only did so, in November 2016, after the Swedish courts forced the prosecutor to travel to London. Sweden dropped the investigation six months later, in May 2017.

Second, Assange sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 to avoid onward extradition to the US – not to avoid extradition to Sweden or to refuse to face the Swedish allegations. Assange would have accepted extradition to Sweden had it provided an assurance against onward extradition to the US (as Amnesty International also urged at the time) – but both Sweden and the UK refused to provide an assurance that he would not be extradited to the US.

Third, Sweden wanted to drop its arrest warrant for Assange in 2013. It was the British government that insisted that the case against him continue. This is confirmed in emails released under a tribunal challenge following a Freedom of Information Act request. UK prosecutors admitted to deleting key emails and engaged in elaborate attempts to keep correspondence from the public record. Indeed, the lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service advised the Swedes in January 2011 not to visit London to interview Assange. An interview at that time could have prevented the long-running embassy standoff.

Fourth, despite widespread false reporting, Assange was never charged with anything related to the Swedish allegations. These only reached the level of a “preliminary investigation”. The Swedish prosecution questioned Assange on two separate occasions, in 2010 and 2016. He has consistently professed his innocence.

Fifth, almost entirely omitted from current media reporting is that the initial Swedish preliminary investigation in 2010 was dropped after the chief prosecutor of Stockholm concluded that “the evidence did not disclose any evidence of rape” and that “no crime at all” had been committed. Text messages between the two women, which were later revealed, do not complain of rape. Rather, they show that the women “did not want to put any charges on JA but that the police were keen on getting a grip on him” and that they “only wanted him to take a test”. One wrote that “it was the police who made up the charges” and told a friend that she felt that she had been “railroaded by police and others around her”.

Sixth, Assange left Sweden after the prosecutor told him that he was free to leave as he was not wanted for questioning. Assange had stayed in Sweden for five weeks. After he left, Interpol bizarrely issued a Red Notice for Assange, usually reserved for terrorists and dangerous criminals – raising concerns that this was not just about sexual accusations.

Seventh, Sweden’s investigation is now entirely closed. It was shelved for six years during the period 2010-2016 while the Swedish prosecutor refused to question Assange in London. Sweden’s Court of Appeal ruled that that the prosecutor had breached her duty because a preliminary investigation either has to be open and active leading to a charge, or closed—there is no intermediate phase. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention also concluded that the prosecutor’s inaction had resulted in Sweden and the UK violating international obligations.

Eighth, there was no technical impediment for the prosecutor to proceed to charge Assange after he was questioned in the Ecuadorian embassy. In early 2017, Assange’s lawyers asked a Swedish court to force the prosecutor to either charge Assange or drop the arrest warrant. The prosecutor closed the investigation in May 2017 without attempting to charge him.

Since his arrest on 11 April 2019, there has been considerable political pressure on Sweden to reopen the investigation. Theoretically any closed investigation can be reopened until the statute of limitations expires—August 2020 in this case. Such calls serve to displace the critical issue of Assange’s impending US extradition over WikiLeaks publications (whether from UK or Sweden). They also obfuscate critical facts, such as the fact that the UK and Swedish authorities had actively prevented Assange from responding to the allegations, which is contrary to basic principles of due process.

It is critical to note that the re-opened Swedish allegations in September 2010 occurred after WikiLeaks published the Iraq “Collateral Murder” video in April 2010 and the Afghanistan war logs in July 2010. In fact, US grand jury proceedings already began against Assange in June 2010 and by July, the US was publicly describing WikiLeaks as a “very real and potential threat”. The Intercept’s Charles Glass has reported that “Sources in Swedish intelligence told me at the time that they believed the U.S. had encouraged Sweden to pursue the case.” Other reports from just days before the Swedish allegations were initiated show that the U.S. State Department was encouraging allied states to initiate prosecutions against Assange. To ignore all this, as much media reporting does, is to ignore vital further context.

In December 2018, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, together with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, reiterated their finding from 2016 and urged Assange’s freedom to be restored. UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture are currently investigation Assange’s case.

Further reading

“About Julian” - https://defend.wikileaks.org/about-...

“False Statements about Assange and WikiLeaks” - https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/0...

Julian Assange’s Affidavits - https://defend.wikileaks.org/resources/

[Franny]

Reopening the case for the 3rd time after closing it twice more than gives an appearance of a coordinated effort by all 3 countries to destroy Assange.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/09/why-i-am-convinced-that-anna-ardin-is-a-liar/

Why I am Convinced that Anna Ardin is a Liar

Craig Murray - 11 Sep, 2012

I am slightly updating and reposting this from 2012 because the mainstream media have ensured very few people know the detail of the “case” against Julian Assange in Sweden. The UN Working Group ruled that Assange ought never to have been arrested in the UK in the first place because there is no case, and no genuine investigation. Read this and you will know why.

The other thing not widely understood is there is NO JURY in a rape trial in Sweden and it is a SECRET TRIAL. All of the evidence, all of the witnesses, are heard in secret. No public, no jury, no media. The only public part is the charging and the verdict. There is a judge and two advisers directly appointed by political parties. So you never would get to understand how plainly the case is a stitch-up. Unless you read this.

There are so many inconsistencies in Anna Ardin’s accusation (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/world/europe/26wikileaks.html?_r=2) of sexual assault against Julian Assange. But the key question which leaps out at me – and which strangely I have not seen asked anywhere else – is this:

Why did Anna Ardin not warn Sofia Wilen?

On 16 August, Julian Assange had sex with Sofia Wilen. Sofia had become known in the Swedish group around Assange for the shocking pink cashmere sweater she had worn in the front row of Assange’s press conference. Anna Ardin knew Assange was planning to have sex with Sofia Wilen. On 17 August, Ardin texted a friend who was looking for Assange:

“He’s not here. He’s planned to have sex with the cashmere girl every evening, but not made it. Maybe he finally found time yesterday?”

Yet Ardin later testified (http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/09/anna-ardins-police-statement/) that just three days earlier, on 13 August, she had been sexually assaulted by Assange; an assault so serious she was willing to try (with great success) to ruin Julian Assange’s entire life. She was also to state that this assault involved enforced unprotected sex and she was concerned about HIV.

If Ardin really believed that on 13 August Assange had forced unprotected sex on her and this could have transmitted HIV, why did she make no attempt to warn Sofia Wilen that Wilen was in danger of her life? And why was Ardin discussing with Assange his desire for sex with Wilen, and texting about it to friends, with no evident disapproval or discouragement?

Ardin had Wilen’s contact details and indeed had organised her registration for the press conference. She could have warned her. But she didn’t.

Let us fit that into a very brief survey of the whole Ardin/Assange relationship. .

11 August: Assange arrives in Stockholm for a press conference organised by a branch of the Social Democratic Party.

Anna Ardin has offered her one bed flat for him to stay in as she will be away.

13 August: Ardin comes back early. She has dinner with Assange and they have consensual sex, on the first day of meeting. Ardin subsequently alleges this turned into assault by surreptitious mutilation of the condom.

14 August: Anna volunteers to act as Julian’s press secretary. She sits next to him on the dais at his press conference. Assange meets Sofia Wilen there.

Anna tweets at 14.00:

‘Julian wants to go to a crayfish party, anyone have a couple of available seats tonight or tomorrow? #fb’

This attempt to find a crayfish party fails, so Ardin organises one herself for him, in a garden outside her flat. Anna and Julian seem good together. One guest hears Anna rib Assange that she thought “you had dumped me” when he got up from bed early that morning. Another offers to Anna that Julian can leave her flat and come stay with them. She replies:

“He can stay with me.”

15 August Still at the crayfish party with Julian, Anna tweets:

‘Sitting outdoors at 02:00 and hardly freezing with the world’s coolest smartest people, it’s amazing! #fb’
Julian and Anna, according to both their police testimonies, sleep again in the same single bed, and continue to do so for the next few days. Assange tells police they continue to have sex; Anna tells police they do not. That evening, Anna and Julian go together to, and leave together from, a dinner with the leadership of the Pirate Party. They again sleep in the same bed.

16 August: Julian goes to have sex with Sofia Wilen: Ardin does not warn her of potential sexual assault.
Another friend offers Anna to take over housing Julian. Anna again refuses.

20 August: After Sofia Wilen contacts her to say she is worried about STD’s including HIV after unprotected sex with Julian, Anna takes her to see Anna’s friend, fellow Social Democrat member, former colleague on the same ballot in a council election, and campaigning feminist police officer, Irmeli Krans. Ardin tells Wilen the police can compel Assange to take an HIV test. Ardin sits in throughout Wilen’s unrecorded – in breach of procedure – police interview. Krans prepares a statement accusing Assange of rape. Wilen refuses to sign it.

21 August Having heard Wilen’s interview and Krans’ statement from it, Ardin makes her own (http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/09/anna-ardins-police-statement/) police statement alleging Assange has surreptiously had unprotected sex with her eight days previously.

Some days later: Ardin produces a broken condom to the police as evidence; but a forensic examination finds no traces of Assange’s – or anyone else’s – DNA on it, and indeed it is apparently unused.

No witness has come forward to say that Ardin complained of sexual assault by Assange before Wilen’s Ardin-arranged interview with Krans – and Wilen came forward not to complain of an assault, but enquire about STDs. Wilen refused to sign the statement alleging rape, which was drawn up by Ardin’s friend Krans in Ardin’s presence.

It is therefore plain that one of two things happened:

Either

Ardin was sexually assaulted with unprotected sex, but failed to warn Wilen when she knew Assange was going to see her in hope of sex.

Ardin also continued to host Assange, help him, appear in public and private with him, act as his press secretary, and sleep in the same bed with him, refusing repeated offers to accommodate him elsewhere, all after he assaulted her.

Or

Ardin wanted sex with Assange – from whatever motive.. She “unexpectedly” returned home early after offering him the use of her one bed flat while she was away. By her own admission, she had consensual sex with him, within hours of meeting him.

She discussed with Assange his desire for sex with Wilen, and appears at least not to have been discouraging. Hearing of Wilen’s concern about HIV after unprotected sex, she took Wilen to her campaigning feminist friend, policewoman Irmeli Krans, in order to twist Wilen’s story into a sexual assault – very easy given Sweden’s astonishing “second-wave feminism” rape laws. Wilen refused to sign.

At the police station on 20 August, Wilen texted a friend at 14.25 “did not want to put any charges against JA but the police wanted to get a grip on him.”

At 17.26 she texted that she was “shocked when they arrested JA because I only wanted him to take a test”.

The next evening at 22.22 she texted “it was the police who fabricated the charges”.

Ardin then made up her own story of sexual assault. As so many friends knew she was having sex with Assange, she could not claim non-consensual sex. So she manufactured her story to fit in with Wilen’s concerns by alleging the affair of the torn condom. But the torn condom she produced has no trace of Assange on it. It is impossible to wear a condom and not leave a DNA trace.

Conclusion

I have no difficulty in saying that I firmly believe Ardin to be a liar. For her story to be true involves acceptance of behaviour which is, in the literal sense, incredible.

Ardin’s story is of course incredibly weak, but that does not matter. Firstly, you were never supposed to see all this detail. Rape trials in Sweden are held entirely in secret. There is no jury, and the government appointed judge is flanked by assessors appointed directly by political parties. If Assange goes to Sweden, he will disappear into jail, the trial will be secret, and the next thing you will hear is that he is guilty and a rapist.

Secondly, of course, it does not matter the evidence is so weak, as just to cry rape is to tarnish a man’s reputation forever. Anna Ardin has already succeeded in ruining much of the work and life of Assange. The details of the story being pathetic is unimportant.

By crying rape, politically correct opinion falls in behind the line that it is wrong even to look at the evidence. If you are not allowed to know who the accuser is, how can you find out that she worked with CIA-funded anti-Castro groups in Havana and Miami?

Finally, to those useful idiots who claim that the way to test these matters is in court, I would say of course, you are right, we should trust the state always, fit-ups never happen, and we should absolutely condemn the disgraceful behaviour of those who campaigned for the Birmingham Six (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Six).

[Innocent Warrior]

How to write to Julian Assange:
•Please write short personal letters only. Material is read by Belmarsh security.
•You must include your full name & address on back of envelope.
•Include blank paper & blank envelope with return postage.

https://writejulian.com/

https://i.postimg.cc/VLtVD41Y/8-ACB6-C3-A-4082-417-D-90-B0-D3-A3-BBD09-D75.jpg (https://postimg.cc/F79pKy7q)

[Innocent Warrior]

BUMP BUMP BUMP


How to write to Julian Assange:
•Please write short personal letters only. Material is read by Belmarsh security.
•You must include your full name & address on back of envelope.
•Include blank paper & blank envelope with return postage.

https://writejulian.com/

https://i.postimg.cc/VLtVD41Y/8-ACB6-C3-A-4082-417-D-90-B0-D3-A3-BBD09-D75.jpg (https://postimg.cc/F79pKy7q)

Kristinn and Pamela after they visited Julian.


https://vimeo.com/334640055

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Life and death. They keep reiterating the importance of public support at this time, that justice is in our hands.

We are many, together we can fill the hat, just a dollar each if that’s all we have: https://defend.wikileaks.org/

[Innocent Warrior]

Sweden Reopens Investigation of Julian Assange for Rape, Complicating U.S. Extradition

Stratfor email -

https://i.postimg.cc/1txtxBT9/89-F48073-12-CD-4637-B4-FC-40-DECEC8633-D.png (https://postimages.org/)

https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/10/1056763_re-discussion-assange-arrested-.html

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[onawah]

How about doing some group meditations for Julian several times for different time zones?

[onawah]

I sent a PM to Omi, who appears to be coordinating this thread nowadays: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101306-Intentional-MEDITATION-Group-Sharing&p=1201436&viewfull=1#post1201436
...to see if some focused meditations for Julian might be put on the schedule.

[Omi]

I sent a PM to Omi, who appears to be coordinating this thread nowadays: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101306-Intentional-MEDITATION-Group-Sharing&p=1201436&viewfull=1#post1201436
...to see if some focused meditations for Julian might be put on the schedule.

Hi onawah,

I've taken your request and made a post about the positive intentions on Julian Assange's situation for next Sunday's group meditation (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101306-Intentional-MEDITATION-Group-Sharing&p=1292144&viewfull=1#post1292144).

[Tintin]

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"[...] untrue. Sweden has not filed a request for arrest. Sweden is going through its judicial processes – which it skipped the first time – in order to decide whether or not to file a request for arrest. This gives Assange the opportunity to start the process of fighting the allegations, which he strenuously denies, in the Swedish courts. However at present his Swedish lawyer cannot access him in Belmarsh high security jail, which is typical of the abuses of process to which he is subject."



"Julian Assange revolutionised publishing by bringing the public direct access to massive amounts of raw material showing secrets the government wished to hide. By giving the public this direct access he cut out the filtering and mediating role of the journalistic and political classes."

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The Missing Step
20 May, 2019
CRAIG MURRAY (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/05/the-missing-step/)
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In Sweden, prosecutors have applied to the Swedish courts to issue a warrant for Julian’s arrest. There is a tremendous back story to that simple statement.

The European Arrest Warrant must be issued from one country to another by a judicial authority (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1023263X17745804). The original Swedish request for Assange’s extradition was not issued by any court, but simply by the prosecutor. This was particularly strange, as the Chief Prosecutor of Stockholm had initially closed the case after deciding there was no case to answer, and then another, highly politically motivated, prosecutor had reopened the case and issued a European Arrest Warrant, without going to any judge for confirmation.

Assange’s initial appeal up to the UK Supreme Court was in large part based on the fact that the warrant did not come from a judge but from a prosecutor, and that was not a judicial authority. I have no doubt that, if any other person in the UK had been the accused, the British courts would not have accepted the warrant from a prosecutor.

The incredible and open bias of the courts against Assange has been evident since day 1.

My contention is borne out by the fact that, immediately after Assange lost his case against the warrant in the Supreme Court, the British government changed the law to specify that future warrants must be from a judge and not a prosecutor. That is just one of the incredible facts about the Assange case that the mainstream media has hidden from the general public.

The judgement against Assange in the UK Supreme Court on the point of whether the Swedish Prosecutor constituted a “judicial authority” hinged on a completely unprecedented and frankly incredible piece of reasoning. Lord Phillips concluded that in the English text of the EWA treaty “judicial authority” could not include the Swedish prosecutor, but that in the French version “autorite judiciaire” could include the Swedish prosecutor.

The two texts having equal validity, Lord Phillips decided to prefer the French language text over the English language text, an absolutely stunning decision as the UK negotiators could be presumed to have been working from the English text, as could UK ministers and parliament when they ratified the decision.

I am not making this up – you will find Phillips amazing bit of linguistic gymnastics (https://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2012/05/30/assangeUKSC_2011_0264_Judgment.pdf)here on page 9 para 21 of his judgement. Again, it is impossible that this would have been done to anybody but Julian Assange; and had it been the outcry from the MSM against the preference given to French wording and thus French legal tradition would have been deafening. But given the state’s unhidden animus against Assange, it all was passed quietly with the law simply amended immediately thereafter to stop it happening to anybody else.

The law having been changed, this time the Swedes have to do it properly and actually go to a court to issue a warrant. That is what is now happening. As usual, the Guardian today cannot resist the temptation to tell an outright lie about what is happening.

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The main headline is completely untrue. Sweden has not filed a request for arrest. Sweden is going through its judicial processes – which it skipped the first time – in order to decide whether or not to file a request for arrest. This gives Assange the opportunity to start the process of fighting the allegations, which he strenuously denies, in the Swedish courts. However at present his Swedish lawyer cannot access him in Belmarsh high security jail, which is typical of the abuses of process to which he is subject.

It is not political correctness which prevents the UK mainstream media from investigating the extraordinary nature of the allegations against Assange in Sweden. In the case of Nafissatou Diallo, for example, the entire UK mainstream media had no compunction whatsoever in publishing the name of the alleged victim from the very first moment of the allegations against DSK, and the likelihood or otherwise of the entire story was raked through in detail by every single national newspaper, and extensively by the BBC.

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I have never heard anybody even attempt to explain why it was OK for the MSM to look in detail at Diallo’s accusations and use her name, but Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilen must never be named and their story must never be doubted. The answer is not the position in Swedish law – the Swedish law states that neither the accuser nor the accused may be named, which law has been gleefully broken in Assange’s case every day for nine years.

When it comes to Assange, he is simply to be reviled. He is provably treated differently by both state and MSM at all points. It does not matter to them that his arrest warrant was not from a judge, or that the media apply entirely different rules to investigating his case, enforced by a feminist mantra they do not believe or uphold in other cases. He is simply to be hated without question.

Why has there never been a documentary in the UK like the brilliant “Sex, Lies and Julian Assange” from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s flagship Four Corners programme? Please do watch if you have not done so already:


Sex, Lies and Julian Assange
Posted Mon 23 Jul 2012, 2:51pm
Updated Wed 24 Apr 2019, 12:13pm

https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/sex-lies-and-julian-assange/4156420


Julian Assange revolutionised publishing by bringing the public direct access to massive amounts of raw material showing secrets the government wished to hide. By giving the public this direct access he cut out the filtering and mediating role of the journalistic and political classes.

Contrast, for example, the Panama Papers which, contrary to promises, only ever saw less than 2% of the raw material published and where major western companies and individuals were completely protected from revelation because of the use of MSM intermediaries. Or compare Wikileaks to the Snowden files, the vast majority of which have now been buried and will never be revealed, after foolishly being entrusted to the Guardian and the Intercept.

Assange cut out the intermediary role of the mediating journalist and, by allowing the people to see the truth about how they are governed, played a major role in undercutting public confidence in the political establishment that exploits them.

There is an interesting parallel with the reaction to the work of Reformation scholars in translating the Bible into vernacular languages and giving the populace direct access to its contents, without the mediating filters of the priestly class. Such developments will always provoke extraordinary venom from those whose position is threatened. I see a historical parallel between Julian Assange and William Tyndale in this respect. It is something worth bearing in mind in trying to understand the depth of the State’s hatred of Julian.

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCE/S: Deep Politics Forum
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-5525.html

[Innocent Warrior]

Press release from WikiLeaks: Ecuador to hand over Assange's entire legal defense to the United States (https://wikileaks.org/Ecuador-to-hand-over.html) (20 May 2019)

U.S. charges WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with espionage

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department unveiled 17 new criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday, saying he unlawfully published the names of classified sources and conspired with and assisted ex-Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in obtaining access to classified information.

FULL ARTICLE (https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1ST2L4?__twitter_impression=true).

Full PDF of indictment: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1037-julian-assange-espionage-act-indictment/426b4e534ab60553ba6c/optimized/full.pdf#page=1

Here it is, a moment of truth for the people. The Party is on full display, how will we respond?

Please, please, not for Julian Assange, but for the future of our children, resist this. This doesn’t just come down to our American brothers and sisters, we know the truth of the political world stage, this is every sane, intelligent, compassionate person’s responsibility. Just one small action, just one each.

:flower:

[onawah]

Charging Julian Assange With Espionage Could Make His Extradition to the U.S. Less Likely
Robert Mackey
May 24 2019
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/24/julian-assange-espionage-act-us-extradition/
"BY CHARGING Julian Assange with 17 violations of America’s World War I-era Espionage Act on Thursday, federal prosecutors in Virginia might have undermined their own chances of securing the extradition of the WikiLeaks founder from the United Kingdom.

That’s because the new charges relate not to any arcane interpretation of computer hacking laws, but to WikiLeaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of American military reports and diplomatic cables provided by the former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in 2010.

The fact that WikiLeaks published many of those documents in collaboration with an international consortium of leading news organizations — including The Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, El País, and Der Spiegel — ensured that the charges against Assange were immediately denounced by journalists and free speech advocates as an unconstitutional assault on press freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment."
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The U.S. Just Upped the Ante on Julian Assange's Extradition With Espionage Charges
BY BILLY PERRIGO
5/24/19
http://time.com/5595491/julian-assange-espionage-act-extradition/
"Julian Assange was indicted by the U.S. under the Espionage Act on Thursday, setting the stage for a dramatic confrontation between U.S. and Swedish prosecutors, who each want to extradite Assange before the other.

Sweden had, a week earlier, re-opened a rape investigation into the Wikileaks founder and began steps to request his extradition.

By indicting Assange with 18 charges under the Espionage Act, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years, the U.S. has considerably raised the stakes. The only U.S. charge against Assange before Thursday was one count of conspiring to hack a password, which came with a maximum sentence of five years in prison. The new charges relate to Assange’s role in publishing classified State Department documents on WikiLeaks in 2010 and 2011.

Sweden’s move to request Assange’s arrest in the U.K. on rape charges may have prompted U.S. prosecutors to “throw the kitchen sink” at Assange, Ben Keith, a U.K. barrister specializing in extradition law, tells TIME.“It may be that Sweden’s further interest in this case means the U.S. has had to up the ante,” he says. “If Assange goes to Sweden, it’s more difficult to extradite him to the U.S. from there, because prosecutors will have to get both U.K. permission and Swedish permission.” (Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice did not explain why they chose to issue the further charges under the Espionage Act on Thursday.)

But the U.S. indictments could backfire, due to provisions in the extradition treaty between the U.K. and the U.S. that protect against political prosecutions. The charges have raised freedom of the press concerns among some journalists in the U.S., and Assange may choose to argue that the new indictments are of a political nature.

Even if that doesn’t happen, the decision-maker in this case is the U.K. Home Secretary Sajid Javid. He has come under great pressure to treat the rape allegations against Assange with more gravity than the U.S.’s national security charges.

“The Home Secretary has to look at the seriousness of the offenses and which offense came first in time,” Keith says. “Even now, the Swedish offense might be more serious.”

“There’s concern that the U.S. is trying to steal a march on Sweden, who have been trying to extradite Assange for many years.” "

[Franny]

My main reason for posting another article on the new indictments is the bolded very fine statement by Manning below.

Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act on 17 New Counts

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was indicted on Thursday under the Espionage Act, the first time a journalist has been charged under the Act for possessing and disseminating classified information.

By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium News

A journalist was indicted under the Espionage Act for the first time in U.S. history on Thursday when the Department of Justice charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Act in a move that opens the way for prosecution of anyone who publishes classified information.

The 37-page indictment charges Assange under four sections of the Act, including Section E for possessing and disseminating classified matter. It charged him with acts common to any investigative journalist:

“(i)circumvent(ing) legal safeguards on information; (ii) provid(ing) that protected information to WikiLeaks for public dissemination; and (iii) continu(ing) the pattern of illegally procuring and providing protected information to WikiLeaks for distribution to the public.”

Assange is serving a 50-week sentence in London’s Belmarsh prison for skipping bail and seeking asylum in Ecuador’s embassy in 2012 because he feared onward extradition from Sweden to the United States and prosecution under the Espionage Act. He was arrested on April 11 when Ecuador illegally lifted his asylum and let British police onto Ecuadorian territory to carry Assange from the embassy.

The U.S. had until June 12 to add additional charges in its extradition request to Britain. The decision on extradition rests with British Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who WikiLeaks said “is now under enormous pressure to protect the rights of the free press in the UK and elsewhere.”

Not a Journalist

John Demers, head of the DOJ’s National Security Division, in announcing the indictment told reporters: “Some say that Assange is a journalist and that he should be immune for prosecution for these actions. The department takes seriously the role of journalists in our democracy and we thank you for it. It is not and has never been the department’s policy to target them for reporting.”

But Demers said Assange wasn’t a journalist. “No responsible actor, journalist or otherwise, would purposefully publish the names of individuals he or she knew to be confidential human sources in a war zone, exposing them to the gravest of dangers,” he said.

Assange’s attorney in the U.S., Barry Pollack, responded:

“Today the government charged Julian Assange under the Espionage Act for encouraging sources to provide him truthful information and for publishing that information. The fig leaf that this is merely about alleged computer hacking has been removed. These unprecedented charges demonstrate the gravity of the threat the criminal prosecution of Julian Assange poses to all journalists in their endeavor to inform the public about actions that have taken by the U.S. government.”

Assange would face a maximum of 175 years in jail if convicted on all charges. The Espionage Act carries a potential death penalty if the publication of classified information takes place during wartime. Some of WikiLeak‘s most prominent releases related to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in which prima facie evidence of U.S. war crimes was revealed.

WikiLeaks criticized in a statement the global reach of U.S. law: “The Department of Justice wants to imprison Assange for crimes allegedly committed outside of the United States. This extraterritorial application of US law is explicit throughout the indictment… thereby classifying any territory in the world as subject to US law.” A 1961 amendment to the Espionage Act extended its jurisdiction from U.S. territory to the entire world.

A key part of the indictment alleges that Assange published in the Iraq, Afghanistan and State Dept. cables releases the unredacted names of informants and other persons, putting their lives at risk. The indictment does not name this as a violation of a specific statute, however, and appears to be an attempt to win public sympathy for the new charges.

According to a WikiLeaks source, Assange was forced to reveal certain names in the Cable-gate releases in September 2011 to actually help individuals escape when two Guardian journalists in February of that year published a password to material containing their names that only intelligence agencies could access. Assange has repeatedly said that there is no known case of harm coming to anyone whose names were revealed and the indictment only says that informants were “vulnerable” to retribution.

The indictment accuses Assange of conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to steal classified documents. But it clearly states that Manning already had legal “access to the computers in connection with her duties as an intelligence analyst” and that Assange’s efforts to help Manning with a password was intended to help hide her identity as the source. The indictment appears to be criminalizing what is a routine act of journalism.

“Had Manning retrieved the full password hash and had ASSANGE and Manning successfully cracked it, Manning may have been able to log onto computers under a user name that did not belong to her,” the indictment said. “Such a measure would have made it more difficult for investigators to identify Manning as the source of disclosures of classified information.”

Manning, who is portrayed throughout the indictment as WikiLeak‘s source only at Assange’s behest, (and who remains imprisoned for refusing to testify against Assange), issued this statement:

“I continue to accept full and sole responsibility for those disclosures in 2010. It’s telling that the government appears to have already obtained this indictment before my contempt hearing last week. This administration describes the press as the opposition party and an enemy of the people. Today, they use the law as a sword, and have shown their willingness to bring the full power of the state against the very institution intended to shield us from such excesses.”


Press Freedom at Risk

The indictment under the Espionage Act demolishes a democratic pretense of freedom of the press in the U.S. and makes all news organizations —indeed any citizen — liable for prosecution for disseminating classified information.

“Notably, The New York Times, among many other news organizations, obtained precisely the same archives of documents from WikiLeaks, without authorization from the government — the act that most of the charges addressed,” the Times reported.

“Though he is not a conventional journalist, much of what Mr. Assange does at WikiLeaks is difficult to distinguish in a legally meaningful way from what traditional news organizations like The New York Times do: seek and publish information that officials want to be secret, including classified national security matters, and take steps to protect the confidentiality of sources,” the Times report on the indictment said.

In a tweet WikiLeaks called the indictment “madness.”

The American Civil Liberties Union tweeted:

“These charges are an extraordinary escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on journalism, establishing a dangerous precedent that can be used to target all news organizations that hold the government accountable by publishing its secrets.

The charges against Assange are equally dangerous for US journalists who uncover the secrets of other nations. If the US can prosecute a foreign publisher for violating our secrecy laws, there’s nothing preventing China, or Russia, from doing the same.”

In a statement, WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristin Hrafnsson said:

“This is the evil of lawlessness in its purest form. With the indictment, the ‘leader of the free world’ dismisses the First Amendment — hailed as a model of press freedom around the world — and launches a blatant extraterritorial assault outside its borders, attacking basic principles of democracy in Europe and the rest of the world.”

In a tweet, Hrafnsson added that he took “no satisfaction” in having correctly warned of the Espionage Act prosecution of Assange.

Please continue at the site (https://consortiumnews.com/2019/05/23/assange-indicted-under-espionage-act-on-17-new-counts/), there are several large images of tweets etc.

[meeradas]

Assange reportedly gravely ill (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-is-reportedly-gravely-ill-and-hardly-anyones-talking-about-it-15fe916ff3f?fbclid=IwAR3d-tdYgNclfpkmQyTtWsduwbJscbRA4GooJPp1v9iS8AXbBg-b8KyQhVg)


article by Caitlin Johnstone (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/who-i-am-where-i-stand-and-what-im-trying-to-do-here-4a113e783578)

[Tintin]

UPDATE to my post #155 here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106596-Julian-Assange-arrested-after-Ecuador-tears-up-asylum-deal&p=1292389&viewfull=1#post1292389) | ABC 4 Corners - Sex, Lies and Julian Assange is downloadable via this link: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/fourcorners/video/20120723_assange_288p.mp4

[Tintin]

Jonathan Cook has written a typically excellent article here (https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2019-05-27/abuses-show-assange-case-was-never-about-law/) entitled 'Abuses show Assange case was never about law'

Extracted here:

Back in 2017, when the rest of the media were still pretending this was all about Assange fleeing Swedish “justice”, John Pilger noted:


In 2008, a secret Pentagon document prepared by the “Cyber Counterintelligence Assessments Branch” foretold a detailed plan to discredit WikiLeaks and smear Assange personally. The “mission” was to destroy the “trust” that was WikiLeaks’ “centre of gravity”. This would be achieved with threats of “exposure [and] criminal prosecution”. Silencing and criminalising such an unpredictable source of truth-telling was the aim.” …

According to Australian diplomatic cables, Washington’s bid to get Assange is “unprecedented in scale and nature”. …

The US Justice Department has contrived charges of “espionage”, “conspiracy to commit espionage”, “conversion” (theft of government property), “computer fraud and abuse” (computer hacking) and general “conspiracy”. The favoured Espionage Act, which was meant to deter pacifists and conscientious objectors during World War One, has provisions for life imprisonment and the death penalty. …

In 2015, a federal court in Washington blocked the release of all information about the “national security” investigation against WikiLeaks, because it was “active and ongoing” and would harm the “pending prosecution” of Assange. The judge, Barbara J. Rothstein, said it was necessary to show “appropriate deference to the executive in matters of national security”. This is a kangaroo court.

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In the article he also provides a helpful breakdown and timeline of the anomalies present in Julian's case, extracted below.

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So here is a far from complete list – aided by the research of John Pilger, Craig Murray and Caitlin Johnstone, and the origin investigative work of Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi – of some of the most glaring anomalies in Assange’s legal troubles. There are 17 of them below. Each might conceivably have been possible in isolation. But taken together they are overwhelming evidence that this was never about enforcing the law. From the start, Assange faced political persecution.



No judicial authority
* In late summer 2010, neither of the two Swedish women alleged Assange had raped them when they made police statements. They went together to the police station after finding out that Assange had slept with them both only a matter of days apart and wanted him to be forced to take an HIV test.
One of the women, SW, refused to sign the police statement when she understood the police were seeking an indictment for rape. The investigation relating to the second woman, AA, was for a sexual assault specific to Sweden. A condom produced by AA that she says Assange tore during sex was found to have neither her nor Assange’s DNA on it, undermining her credibility.

* Sweden’s strict laws protecting suspects during preliminary investigations were violated by the Swedish media to smear Assange as a rapist. In response, the Stockholm chief prosecutor, Eva Finne, took charge and quickly cancelled the investigation: “I don’t believe there is any reason to suspect that he has committed rape.” She later concluded: “There is no suspicion of any crime whatsoever.”

* The case was revived by another prosecutor, Marianne Ny, although she never questioned Assange. He spent more than a month in Sweden waiting for developments in the case, but was then told by prosecutors he was free to leave for the UK, suggesting that suspicions against him were not considered serious enough to detain him in Sweden. Nonetheless, shortly afterwards, Interpol issued a Red Notice for Assange, usually reserved for terrorists and dangerous criminals.

* The UK supreme court approved an extradition to Sweden based on a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) in 2010, despite the fact that it was not signed by a “judicial authority”, only by the Swedish prosecutor. The terms of the EAW agreement were amended by the UK government shortly after the Assange ruling to make sure such an abuse of legal procedure never occurred again.

* The UK supreme court also approved Assange’s extradition even though Swedish authorities refused to offer an assurance that he would not be extradited onwards to the US, where a grand jury was already formulating draconian charges in secret against him under the Espionage Act. The US similarly refused to give an assurance they would not seek his extradition.

* In these circumstances, Assange fled to Ecuador’s embassy in London in summer 2012, seeking political asylum. That was after the Swedish prosecutor, Marianne Ny, blocked Assange’s chance to appealto the European Court of Human Rights.

* Australia not only refused Assange, a citizen, any help during his long ordeal, but prime minister Julia Gillard even threatened to strip Assange of his citizenship, until it was pointed out that it would be illegal for Australia to do so.

* Britain, meanwhile, not only surrounded the embassy with a large police force at great public expense, but William Hague, the foreign secretary, threatened to tear up the Vienna Convention, violating Ecuador’s diplomatic territory by sending UK police into the embassy to arrest Assange.

Six years of heel-dragging
* Although Assange was still formally under investigation, Ny refused to come to London to interview him, despite similar interviews having been conducted by Swedish prosecutors 44 times in the UK in the period Assange was denied that right.

* In 2016, international legal experts in the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which adjudicates on whether governments have complied with human rights obligations, ruled that Assange was being detained unlawfully by Britain and Sweden. Although both countries participated in the UN investigation, and had given the tribunal vocal support when other countries were found guilty of human rights violations, they steadfastly ignored its ruling in favour of Assange.
UK Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond flat-out lied in claiming the UN panel was “made up of lay people and not lawyers”. The tribunal comprises leading experts in international law, as is clear from their CVs. Nonetheless, the lie became Britain’s official response to the UN ruling. The British media performed no better. A Guardian editorial dismissed the verdict as nothing more than a “publicity stunt”.

* Ny finally relented on Assange being interviewed in November 2016, with a Swedish prosecutor sent to London after six years of heel-dragging. However, Assange’s Swedish lawyer was barred from being present. Ny was due to be questioned about the interview by a Stockholm judge in May 2017 but closed the investigation against Assange the very same day.

* In fact, correspondence that was later revealed under a Freedom of Information request – pursued by Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi – shows that the British prosecution service, the CPS, pressured the Swedish prosecutor not to come to the London to interview Assange through 2010 and 2011, thereby creating the embassy standoff.

* Also, the CPS destroyed most of the incriminating correspondence to circumvent the FoI requests. The emails that surfaced did so only because some copies were accidentally overlooked in the destruction spree. Those emails were bad enough. They show that in 2013 Sweden had wanted to drop the case against Assange but had come under strong British pressure to continue the pretence of seeking his extradition. There are emails from the CPS stating, “Don’t you dare” drop the case, and most revealing of all: “Please do not think this case is being dealt with as just another extradition.”


* It also emerged that Marianne Ny had deleted an email she received from the FBI.

* Despite his interview with Ny taking place in late 2016, Assange was not subseqently charged in absentia – an option Sweden could have pursued if it had thought the evidence was strong enough.

* After Sweden dropped the investigation against Assange, his lawyers sought last year to get the British arrest warrant for his bail breach dropped. They had good grounds, both because the allegations over which he’d been bailed had been dropped by Sweden and because he had justifiable cause to seek asylum given the apparent US interest in extraditing him and locking him up for life for political crimes. His lawyers could also argue convincingly that the time he had spent in confinement, first under house arrest and then in the embassy, was more than equivalent to time, if any, that needed to be served for the bail infringement. However, the judge, Emma Arbuthnot, rejected the Assange team’s strong legal arguments. She was hardly a dispassionate observer. In fact, in a properly ordered world she should have recused herself, given that she is the wife of a government whip, who was also a business partner of a former head of MI6, Britain’s version of the CIA.

* Assange’s legal rights were again flagrantly violated last week, with the collusion of Ecuador and the UK, when US prosecutors were allowed to seize Assange’s personal items from the embassy while his lawyers and UN officials were denied the right to be present.

[Tintin]

Bumping my post here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106596-Julian-Assange-arrested-after-Ecuador-tears-up-asylum-deal&p=1293894&viewfull=1#post1293894). Not through any sense of vanity at all but I'm concerned that the lack of engagement in it may suggest that this important documentary may have been missed.

Reassurance always welcome :highfive:

[Innocent Warrior]

Assange reportedly gravely ill (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/assange-is-reportedly-gravely-ill-and-hardly-anyones-talking-about-it-15fe916ff3f?fbclid=IwAR3d-tdYgNclfpkmQyTtWsduwbJscbRA4GooJPp1v9iS8AXbBg-b8KyQhVg)


article by Caitlin Johnstone (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/who-i-am-where-i-stand-and-what-im-trying-to-do-here-4a113e783578)

Update: He missed the extradition hearing because he’s too ill.

There’s a lot of noise and insinuating about Julian not being ill, total nonsense.

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To supporters of Julian and WikiLeaks.

Prayers are needed.

Letters of support and encouragement to Julian, in case he recovers enough to be able to read them.

Donate to defence fund if in position to.

APPLY PRESSURE to gov reps and human rights groups.

This is all to cripple WikiLeaks, keep them strong (search “Assange” in WikiLeaks’ “The Global Intelligence Files” publication if in doubt). Support WikiLeaks.

[Tintin]

"The mills of God grind slowly; those of the Devil seem to spin dangerously fast." [Craig Murray]

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Usually I'd post Craig Murray's articles in full (it can be read here (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/05/the-unrelenting-state/) in its entirety), but, as much of it does overlap with Jonathan Cook's (above) I've opted to share some pertinent morsels instead. That the British 'State' can so openly and transparently reveal itself to be what we've long known it really to be, in its handling of a fellow journalist, ought in the minds of any awake and rational persons be another nail in its coffin. Corrupt doesn't come anywhere near close, or appropriate enough an adjective to describe it and the very dark recesses it inhabits.

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To wit, from Craig:



"I have asked before and I ask again. If this were a dissident publisher in Russia, what would the UK political and media class be saying about his being dragged out by armed police, and convicted and sentenced to jail by a judge without a jury, just three hours later, after a farce of a “trial” in which the judge insulted him and called him a “narcissist” before he had said anything in his defence? The Western media would be up in arms if that happened in Russia. Here, they cheer it on."



"Julian is imprisoned for at least another five months, even with parole (which they will probably find an excuse not to grant). After that he will be held further on remand. There is therefore no need for rush. The refusal of the Swedish court to delay a hearing on a potential extradition warrant at all, to allow Julian to recover to the extent he can instruct his lawyer, and the very brief postponement of the US extradition hearing in London, with the intimation it may be held inside Belmarsh prison if Julian is too unwell to move, are both examples of an entirely unaccustomed and unnecessary haste with which the case is being rushed forward."

[Omi]

Anyone else think of the possibility that Assange may be drugged or poisoned in his food/ drink in small doses? Who is to know what they actually feed him at the prison?

If so, his life would be in grave danger. I don't even think it's a matter of extended imprisonment, it's a matter of life or death.

What is there we can do for Assange at this point but to keep praying... My heart sends lots of light to his soul.

[AutumnW]

From Caitlin's article about Assange's health:

We have been watching the slow-motion assassination of Julian Assange. They have been choking him to death by tactical psyops, siege tactics, and wilful neglect as surely as if they placed a noose tied around his neck, not just in Belmarsh Prison but in the embassy as well.

The only difference between his execution and someone on death row is the same as the difference between covert and overt warfare, which makes sense because the intelligence, judicial and military agencies who are carrying out his death sentence operate within the same power structure which carries out war.

First came the smears (propaganda), then came the siege (sanctions), and they staged their coup (dragged him out of the embassy) and now they’ve got him in their clutches and they can do what they want behind closed doors. That’s how you kill a nation while still looking like a nice guy, and that’s how they’re killing Assange.

[Franny]

Anyone else think of the possibility that Assange may be drugged or poisoned in his food/ drink in small doses? Who is to know what they actually feed him at the prison?

It is one possibility. It's well known that he has not been well for years and has needed medical care. That he got much worse after the move to the prison indicates that he had not had that care which he most certainly should have had. It could also indicate they are making him worse. Both in the US and the UK certain govt persons have indicated they want him dead. So yes, this could be a convenient way to eliminate the problem of speech and press freedom and one of it's strongest proponents. With him gone due to health problems, before a trial, the issue could also die a convenient and relatively quiet death.

[onawah]

I just encountered a problem with the US postal service. The instructions re writing to Assange at the prison are that you have to include a self-addressed stamped envelope.
My local post office said they cannot oblige since they don't have stamps from the UK to put on the self-addressed stamped envelope.
So I guess I will have to have send the letter to someone in the UK and have them stamp the letter to Julian and to me and send it to Julian.
I am not expecting Julian to answer, but apparently the prison has very precise rules which have to be followed to the "t".
And I wonder if they will even give him his mail, or if he is any shape to read it.
But it's a gesture worth making, at least.
In my letter, I mention that I belong to a forum and we are doing intentional meditations and sending him love and healing, so hopefully that will be comforting, if it reaches him.

[Franny]

Good idea. Anyone the UK willing to receive these mails to forward on to JA and well as to include the postage on a return envelope? We could cover your expenses by paypal.

[Tintin]

Good idea. Anyone the UK willing to receive these mails to forward on to JA and well as to include the postage on a return envelope? We could cover your expenses by paypal.

Yes, I'm willing. PM me.

[Innocent Warrior]

I just encountered a problem with the US postal service. The instructions re writing to Assange at the prison are that you have to include a self-addressed stamped envelope.
My local post office said they cannot oblige since they don't have stamps from the UK to put on the self-addressed stamped envelope.
So I guess I will have to have send the letter to someone in the UK and have them stamp the letter to Julian and to me and send it to Julian.
I am not expecting Julian to answer, but apparently the prison has very precise rules which have to be followed to the "t".
And I wonder if they will even give him his mail, or if he is any shape to read it.
But it's a gesture worth making, at least.
In my letter, I mention that I belong to a forum and we are doing intentional meditations and sending him love and healing, so hopefully that will be comforting, if it reaches him.

You do not have to include a self addressed, stamped envelope, that’s for Julian to write back to you. So you can write to him while you wait for those stamps, if you wish. To ensure he receives your letter, follow the instructions HERE (https://writejulian.com).

I just bought the stamps from the UK, you can buy them HERE (https://shop.royalmail.com/postage-and-packaging/first-and-second-class-stamps/6-x-1st-class-stamp-book-change-of-font).

[onawah]

The instructions say: "INCLUDE A BLANK PIECE OF PAPER WITH A SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE FOR JULIAN TO WRITE BACK, IT MUST BE PRE-STAMPED (UK STAMPS ONLY).
It doesn't say "you can include" it says "include". Are you sure the self addressed envelope doesn't have to be included? Thanks Rachel.



You do not have to include a self addressed, stamped envelope, that’s for Julian to write back to you. So you can write to him while you wait for those stamps, if you wish. To ensure he receives your letter, follow the instructions HERE (https://writejulian.com).

I just brought the stamps from the UK, you can buy them HERE (https://shop.royalmail.com/postage-and-packaging/first-and-second-class-stamps/6-x-1st-class-stamp-book-change-of-font).

[Innocent Warrior]

Anyone else think of the possibility that Assange may be drugged or poisoned in his food/ drink in small doses? Who is to know what they actually feed him at the prison?

If so, his life would be in grave danger. I don't even think it's a matter of extended imprisonment, it's a matter of life or death.

What is there we can do for Assange at this point but to keep praying... My heart sends lots of light to his soul.

His life is in danger, no doubt about that, but poisoning isn’t necessary, that would be a risk they don’t have to take.

According to the CIA, the most effective form of torture is to turn the target’s self against them, they exhibit less resilience, resolve and resistance than when another person inflicts the torture on them. SHU conditions, such as what Assange has been enduring, is a distilled version of such torture. The key is isolation and he has also been mostly isolated for the year leading up to his imprisonment.

The primary effect of isolation is the dissolving/collapsing of the self. Their own disintegrating minds are used against them. People lose their minds in these conditions, no wonder Julian can barely hold a conversation at this point. As an example of the effects; imagine hearing screams in the distance, only to realise the screams are yours. Imagine screaming without knowing you are. Experiences such as this, and worse, have been reported by prisoners who have endured such archaic conditions as these.

* * *

UN expert says "collective persecution" of Julian Assange must end now (https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24665&LangID=E) (May 31)

[Innocent Warrior]

The instructions say: "INCLUDE A BLANK PIECE OF PAPER WITH A SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE FOR JULIAN TO WRITE BACK, IT MUST BE PRE-STAMPED (UK STAMPS ONLY).
It doesn't say "you can include" it says "include". Are you sure the self addressed envelope doesn't have to be included? Thanks Rachel.



You do not have to include a self addressed, stamped envelope, that’s for Julian to write back to you. So you can write to him while you wait for those stamps, if you wish. To ensure he receives your letter, follow the instructions HERE (https://writejulian.com).

I just brought the stamps from the UK, you can buy them HERE (https://shop.royalmail.com/postage-and-packaging/first-and-second-class-stamps/6-x-1st-class-stamp-book-change-of-font).

Absolutely positive. This question has been answered by the folks managing the @WriteJulian Twitter account. Also, other people have been informed that he received their letter but their stamps were returned to them because they were loose, instead of on the self addressed envelope.

[Star Tsar]

From RT UK

UN Rapporteur

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[Innocent Warrior]

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Full text of letter -

Julian Assange writes a letter from Belmarsh prison

(Published by The Canary, dated 13 May 2019, to independent journalist Gordon Dimmack)



Thanks Gordon. You are a good man.

I have been isolated from all ability to prepare to defend myself: no laptop, no internet, ever, no computer, no library, so far, but even if I get access it will be just for half an hour, with everyone else, once a week. Just two visits a month and it takes weeks to get someone on the call list and a Catch-22 in getting their details to be security screened. Then all calls except lawyers, are recorded and calls are max 10 minutes and in a limited 30-min window each day in which all prisoners compete for the phone. And credit? Just a few pounds a week and no one can call in.

The other side? A superpower that has been preparing for 9 years with hundreds of people and untold millions spent on the case. I am defenseless and am counting on you and others of good character to save my life.

I am unbroken, albeit literally surrounded by murderers, but the days when I could read and speak and organize to defend myself, my ideals, and my people are over until I am free! Everyone else must take my place.

The US government, or rather, those regrettable elements in it that hate truth liberty and justice, want to cheat their way into my extradition and death, rather than letting the public hear the truth, for which I have won the highest awards in journalism and have been nominated 7 times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Truth, ultimately, is all we have.

J.P.A.

Source (https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/05/26/julian-assange-writes-a-letter-from-belmarsh-prison/)

[Tintin]

I just encountered a problem with the US postal service. The instructions re writing to Assange at the prison are that you have to include a self-addressed stamped envelope.
My local post office said they cannot oblige since they don't have stamps from the UK to put on the self-addressed stamped envelope.
So I guess I will have to have send the letter to someone in the UK and have them stamp the letter to Julian and to me and send it to Julian.
I am not expecting Julian to answer, but apparently the prison has very precise rules which have to be followed to the "t".
And I wonder if they will even give him his mail, or if he is any shape to read it.
But it's a gesture worth making, at least.
In my letter, I mention that I belong to a forum and we are doing intentional meditations and sending him love and healing, so hopefully that will be comforting, if it reaches him.

This is a call out to any members wishing to write to Julian who are based anywhere where it is problematic acquiring British stamps

Members can mail me, in confidence, direct, and I ask that you PM me in the first instance. I used to live not ever so far from where Julian is incarcerated as well and make periodic trips to that part of London. I may even be inclined to turn up there in person and deliver mail, but, I'll not necessarily commit 100% to that course of action as I may not have time.

[ThePythonicCow]

Absolutely positive.
Positive that stamps do, or do not, have to be included, or positive that something else?

[Innocent Warrior]

Absolutely positive.
Positive that stamps do, or do not, have to be included, or positive that something else?

Positive that we don’t have to include a self addressed, stamped envelope in our letters to Julian. The rest of my post was just a couple of reasons I am positive (also, it’s common sense because that’s for Julian to write back, which is optional, but the wording in the instructions has caused some confusion).

***

While I’m here I’ll recap on what to do to ensure our letters to him reach him (with a few added details/notes). Write your letter on plain, white paper. Address it as per image in post #149 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106596-Julian-Assange-arrested-after-Ecuador-tears-up-asylum-deal&p=1292042&viewfull=1#post1292042) and include your full name and address on the back. (People have asked for his prison number to include on the front and they were told to not include that.). We can’t send him books or postcards but we can include paper items; photographs or illustrations/drawings.

Since he’s in a concrete box, I want to send him images of forests, oceans etc. printed on paper but just included a short letter for the first one, to be certain he gets it. I’m also going to write out poetry and short passages from inspiring books, there’s only so many ways to thank him for WikiLeaks, encourage him to hang in there and assure him we’re doing all we can out here, I’m thinking that will get monotonous.

For anyone who does include a self addressed, stamped envelope (or contacts Tintin); keep the envelope and piece of paper plain white and make sure the stamps are on the envelope, they’ll not give him any loose stamps from us (to avoid people sending drugs to prisoners on stamps, I’m guessing). Affix two 1st class stamps (https://shop.royalmail.com/postage-and-packaging/first-and-second-class-stamps/6-x-1st-class-stamp-book-change-of-font) for international mail (max size of envelope: 240mm long, 165mm wide).

To avoid confusion, just take this as a side note. One person sent loose stamps and they were returned. The person posted a list of items we can send him (seemingly from Belmarsh) and stamps aren’t allowed. That list said he can purchase stamps from the prison. So my one concern is that he won’t be allowed to receive any stamps from us at all; loose or affixed to envelope. In that case we’ll need to send him some money (we can apparently send him money orders) but since the instructions from writejulian.com say we can send stamps on the envelope we’ll cross that bridge if we get to it (Tintin, we’ll likely need your help with that), hopefully that person’s stamps were returned just because they’re weren’t affixed to the envelope. Worth sorting out because it will give Julian something constructive to do that’s light and positive and not too complex to focus on (and will help with the isolating effects).

I’ll report here any letters that are returned, so we know what we can’t do. I’ll also report here if I receive any replies, so we know for certain what works. I’d greatly appreciate it if others sending letters do this also, if you’re cool with that, so we can iron out any wrinkles as soon as possible. I’m not confident he’ll be able to receive letters once in Sweden or the US (maybe, Chelsea does receive letters), so we might only have a year to encourage and comfort him.

***

Personal note. I believe in the goodness of people, I don’t believe people are as stupid or heartless as the governments/corps involved in this persecution seem to believe we are. I believe that if Julian is extradited to the US this will end shortly after, due to public pressure (and a well resourced/equipped legal team to defend him).

This still could be over in a couple of years or less and we’ll see Julian free and WikiLeaks safe (big concern that other staff are next). Positive thoughts, we are on the right side of truth and are only defending it, not causing conflict. We can do this. :flower:

[Tintin]

Absolutely positive.
Positive that stamps do, or do not, have to be included, or positive that something else?

Positive that we don’t have to include a self addressed, stamped envelope in our letters to Julian. The rest of my post was just a couple of reasons I am positive (also, it’s common sense because that’s for Julian to write back, which is optional, but the wording in the instructions has caused some confusion).

***

While I’m here I’ll recap on what to do to ensure our letters to him reach him (with a few added details/notes). Write your letter on plain, white paper. Address it as per image in post #149 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?106596-Julian-Assange-arrested-after-Ecuador-tears-up-asylum-deal&p=1292042&viewfull=1#post1292042) and include your full name and address on the back. .


For anyone who does include a self addressed, stamped envelope (or contacts Tintin); keep the envelope and piece of paper plain white and make sure the stamps are on the envelope, they’ll not give him any loose stamps from us (to avoid people sending drugs to prisoners on stamps, I’m guessing). Affix two 1st class stamps (https://shop.royalmail.com/postage-and-packaging/first-and-second-class-stamps/6-x-1st-class-stamp-book-change-of-font) for international mail (max size of envelope: 240mm long, 165mm wide).

(we can apparently send him money orders) but since the instructions from writejulian.com say we can send stamps on the envelope we’ll cross that bridge if we get to it (Tintin, we’ll likely need your help with that)

I’ll report here any letters that are returned, so we know what we can’t do. I’ll also report here if I receive any replies, so we know for certain what works.

Yes, absolutely. :flower:

We could also operate on the premise that Julian will be swamped with mail, from people all over the world, and will likely just not be able to respond to everyone.

Mod edit: Thank you :heart: ...true that, here’s hoping! ~ Rach.

[arwen]

Ron Paul asks: Are the US and UK trying to kill jailed Julian Assange?


Former Congressman Ron Paul says US and UK authorities 'could be trying to kill Julian Assange' and compares his treatment to murdered prisoner Otto Warmbier as the U.N. warns the WikiLeaks founder is showing symptoms of 'psychological torture'

The Libertarian and former politician put forward his theories on 'Ron Paul Liberty Report'

Paul believes Assange's treatment during his time at the Ecuadorian Embassy and now his transfer to Belmarsh prison could lead to him dying behind bars

Paul goes on to compare Assange's treatment by the US and British governments to Otto Warmbier, who died after being released from prison in North Korea

He also launches a stinging attack on journalists for not reporting the serious of Assange's condition, which was first reported by a Swedish newspaper

Paul claims Assange's health has deteriorated because of the demands for extraditing him

A U.N. expert who visited Assange in prison says 'public ridicule, humiliation, and death threats in the UK have amounted to psychological torture'

Assange was found too unwell to appear by video-link as scheduled at Westminster magistrates' court

Full article and video available here (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7090985/Ron-Paul-asks-UK-trying-kill-jailed-Julian-Assange.html?fbclid=IwAR0sNNFFFhGjAnnYM_TNVuVAAT5Fi74NiceFOpWlThbpy_bXyhfsqkpgh7o).

[PlasmaVortex]

Assange five star fugitive
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=270&part=1&gen=99

protocols of zion and assange
http://https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=247&part=1&gen=99

Made by the NSA
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=240&part=1&gen=99


Please see these videos for why some people( myself included) believe Assange/Snowden/Greenwald are part of a disinforming limited hangout operation/Mind control scheme ran by western intelligence agencies.


" In conspiracy circles Wikileaks generates much excitement. But not at Richplanet. Whenever you hear the words "Assange" or "Wikileaks" in relation to some new "leak", there are the questions you ought to be asking yourself : What is the ulterior motive for this leak and am I being taken for a ride here? In today's programme, for the first time anywhere I reveal just how much of a handled entity Julian Assange is. Assange is not an independent activist, but is chauffeured around by establishment handlers. He is not a wanted criminal, he is not being given asylum, he is not a whistleblower, he is not an advocate of freedom of information. He is an intelligence created tool being used to front one of the biggest psy-ops currently in operation on this planet. Wikileaks is funded and supported by globalists who are using it for a number of agendas."


if you doubt Richard as a credible source don't forget they are already trying to take him out he doesn't play the conspiracy circle jerk game.

[gini]

Calling wistleblowers,freedomfighters and advocates for transparancy & free speech ( some even sacrificing their life for the truth!!) controlled opposition and attacking their credibilty is itself (conscious or unconsciously) controlled opposition.

[mountain_jim]

Calling wistleblowers,freedomfighters and advocates for transparancy & free speech ( some even sacrificing their life for the truth!!) controlled opposition and attacking their credibilty is itself (conscious or unconsciously) controlled opposition.

Quoted for emphasis.

[PlasmaVortex]

Calling wistleblowers,freedomfighters and advocates for transparancy & free speech ( some even sacrificing their life for the truth!!) controlled opposition and attacking their credibilty is itself (conscious or unconsciously) controlled opposition.

You haven't studied the material presented instead you construct a straw man argument like many before you on this forum. You have invested time into this particular fallacy therefore you feel a degree of cognitive dissonance. This is understandable and now you're playing for the gallery out of reactionary ego. I think you're pathetic to advance the argument that i dont like them therefore im branding them as controlled opposition, So in you're opinion there are no controlled opposition operations? Furthermore are they not discernable?

[PlasmaVortex]

Calling wistleblowers,freedomfighters and advocates for transparancy & free speech ( some even sacrificing their life for the truth!!) controlled opposition and attacking their credibilty is itself (conscious or unconsciously) controlled opposition.

Quoted for emphasis.

You havent refuted the evidence presented by Richard d hall....therefore you have no argument, no wonder there's 10000 guests and there's not many members.... Instead of examining the information you dismiss it out of hand. which sums up this forum to be honest. Assange came from a CIA operated cult out of australia and was handpicked for the hacker persona he portrays... But alas i'm talking to brick walls brimming with passive aggressive undertones.

I have tried to present evidence counter to that in the tread and im branded prejudice in lesser terms, how insulting to the intelligence... do you take me for a fool out to annoy you? You have to think critically and look at assanges behaviour while supposedly locked in an embassy...

[mountain_jim]

I quoted the (reply) post specifically because you included Greenwald, who I read regularly from the start of his self-published blog, Unclaimed Territory, in 2005.

His history and his motives are to me as pure as any living journalist, so when you trash him then I do not see the need to research or refute your other 'evidence'.

I would say 18 years of reading and observing Greenwald gives me the power to judge the man for myself - and to judge your views as not entirely accurate based on including him in your pejorative determination of these other whistleblowers.

I have always considered Snowden a mixed bag, with CIA vs NSA issues, but bottom line for me: did his disclosures have value to me and were they something I (and the world) deserved to know? Answer is YES (for me).

Same for Assange. I am not going into the weeds on his past, his disclosures of US war crimes and Democrat/Clinton corruption had/have much value to me.

Are you saying we would be better off not knowing these things he and his org disclosed? Are you denying their accuracy or factualness?

Seems pretty similar to motives of controlled opposition types to me.

https://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/



About Me
NAME: GLENN GREENWALD
I was previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator and am now a journalist. I am the author of three New York Times bestselling books -- "How Would a Patriot Act" (a critique of Bush executive power theories), "Tragic Legacy" (documenting the Bush legacy), and With Liberty and Justice for Some (critiquing America's two-tiered justice system and the collapse of the rule of law for its political and financial elites). My fifth book - No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the US Surveillance State - will be released on April 29, 2014 by Holt/Metropolitan.






Glenn Edward Greenwald[2] (born 1967)[3]is an American journalist, author, and former constitutional law attorney.[4]

In 1996, Greenwald founded a law firm concentrating on First Amendment litigation. He began blogging on national security issues in October 2005, when he was becoming increasingly concerned with what he viewed as attacks on civil liberties by the George W. Bush Administration in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.[5][6] He became a vocal critic of the Iraq War and has maintained a critical position of American foreign policy.

Greenwald started contributing to Salon in 2007, and to The Guardian in 2012. In June 2013, while at The Guardian, he began publishing a series of reports detailing previously unknown information about American and British global surveillance programs based on classified documents provided by Edward Snowden. His work contributed to The Guardian's 2014 Pulitzer Prize win and he was among a group of three reporters who won the 2013 George Polk Award. In 2014, he cofounded The Intercept, of which he was an editor until he resigned in October 2020. Greenwald subsequently started self-publishing on Substack.[7]

Through The Intercept Brasil in June 2019, Greenwald published leaked conversations between senior officials involved in Operation Car Wash, a corruption case in Brazil. The conversations appeared to show the investigative judge acting prejudicially towards Lula in the lead up to the 2018 elections. Greenwald was charged with cybercrimes by Brazilian prosecutors over the leaks in January 2020,[8] though the charges were dismissed by a federal judge a month later.[9]

[Kryztian]

Assange five star fugitive
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=270&part=1&gen=99


Can you tell us in your own words why you think Assange is controlled opposition??? Just saying "your wrong" and giving us a link doesn't prove anything.


if you doubt Richard as a credible source don't forget they are already trying to take him out he doesn't play the conspiracy circle jerk game.

From experience, the "they are trying to take him out" argument means one of two things:

1) There really are people trying to silence him.
2) In his narcissistic quest for more attention, more Youtube hits, etc. the person is attempting to bring the aura of martyr or dangerous whistle to himself.

Sometimes it takes a while to get to what the true motivation is, but 99% it ends up that reason #2 is the one at play.



Calling wistleblowers,freedomfighters and advocates for transparancy & free speech ( some even sacrificing their life for the truth!!) controlled opposition and attacking their credibilty is itself (conscious or unconsciously) controlled opposition.

Quoted for emphasis.

Well, Corey Goode, David Wilcock, Mark Richards, Sean David Morton and many others would agree with that sentiment. They portrayed themselves as whistleblowers and those of us who asked critical questions about them were unconsciounably cruel and mean spirited. I do consider Assange and Snowden to be heroes, but if you offer serious credible evidence that they aren't, I will gladly take a look at it.

[PlasmaVortex]

Assange five star fugitive
https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre.php?ref=270&part=1&gen=99


Can you tell us in your own words why you think Assange is controlled opposition??? Just saying "your wrong" and giving us a link doesn't prove anything.


if you doubt Richard as a credible source don't forget they are already trying to take him out he doesn't play the conspiracy circle jerk game.

From experience, the "they are trying to take him out" argument means one of two things:

1) There really are people trying to silence him.
2) In his narcissistic quest for more attention, more Youtube hits, etc. the person is attempting to bring the aura of martyr or dangerous whistle to himself.

Sometimes it takes a while to get to what the true motivation is, but 99% it ends up that reason #2 is the one at play.



Calling wistleblowers,freedomfighters and advocates for transparancy & free speech ( some even sacrificing their life for the truth!!) controlled opposition and attacking their credibilty is itself (conscious or unconsciously) controlled opposition.

Quoted for emphasis.

Well, Corey Goode, David Wilcock, Mark Richards, Sean David Morton and many others would agree with that sentiment. They portrayed themselves as whistleblowers and those of us who asked critical questions about them were unconsciounably cruel and mean spirited. I do consider Assange and Snowden to be heroes, but if you offer serious credible evidence that they aren't, I will gladly take a look at it.

I challenge you to prove they are genuine heroes seeing as you are bias and haven't studied the information given instead you've attacked me and challenged me on the basis that I'm new to the forum. This is exactly my point you dismiss it out of hand based on what? You're initial reaction to somebody telling you you could be wasting your time says it all Do your own research and don't presume that I will succumb to your sophistry and semantics..

If you can't discern reality then please keep your indifference to yourself, it's obvious greenwald was a media created entity by virtue of the fact that he got bluechip company publishing deal a year before the so called leaks even occured.

They only released known information, such as blanket surveillance, assange fits all the criteria of mkultra then lo and behold there's footage of him in a cult in Australia which is documented. Assange never mentions anything of any real worldly value to people seeking the truth, the CIA uses people like him all the time, Lee Harvey Oswald anyone? Anyway whilst assange was in supposed lockdown at the embassy he appeared on a radio station live from the studio. There's red flags all over Snowden's behaviour post disclosure, he never goes into the real nature and extent of social engineering/programming. The mainstream media only convey the programming there is no glitch in the system otherwise heads would surely roll quite literally. Remember when the British spy was found in a bag behind a locked door for allegedly accessing information about the Clintons... That's how real whistleblowers are dealt with (by their own people)

[PlasmaVortex]

Sorry about the attack type words and general bad attitude but I feel very strongly about issues and then to be consistently attacked on the basis that I don't always conform the consensus and I'm somehow not meant to be here leaves me perplexed. So I apologize to the forum and I now out with grace.

[Andre]

Sorry about the attack type words and general bad attitude but I feel very strongly about issues and then to be consistently attacked on the basis that I don't always conform the consensus and I'm somehow not meant to be here leaves me perplexed. So I apologize to the forum and I now out with grace.

I looked back at your comments in this thread and the sentiments you and others expressed. In IMO, the direction you took and to which others responded misses what is now the most important point of all. I'm talking about our humanity. Julian has spent 11 years in confinement without charge. It's time for our humanity to come to the forefront and for us to have a heart as human beings who have compassion for the torture Julian has sustained. I don't give a sh*t about whether or not he's controlled opposition. That's an argument I might have listened to and participated in many, many years ago. But not now. Julian is a human being and if we can't find our heart in his situation, we are worse than any controlled opposition could ever be. And I'm not even talking about the lack of justice here.

[ExomatrixTV]

Assange Supporters DISRUPTS FBI Chief’s Boring Book Event:

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[bojancan]

Trump’s hypocrisy... Trumps body language here said it all. He was so uncomfortable with his own answer....
Only likes whistleblowers, when they help him... he is a fraud... Always has been, always will be!

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[Tintin]

Moderator/Admin suggestion

This is really not a huge deal, honestly, but I've been a little puzzled why this thread has been used for news updates on Julian and not this one here, which I do think makes more sense to use:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101183-Current-Wikileaks-and-Assange-News-Releases

I may move a whole slew of news type updates going back several months on this thread, to the more appropriately named one (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101183-Current-Wikileaks-and-Assange-News-Releases) :flower:

UPDATE:

Thread closed due to OP having long ago been addressed :) Many thanks for the contributions and a great many of those have now been moved to the news thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?101183-Current-Wikileaks-and-Assange-News-Releases)as suggested above :thumbsup: