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    UN’s torture expert condemns persecution of Julian Assange as efforts to free journalist ramp up ahead of G7 summit



    Efforts to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from Belmarsh Prison in the UK were ramped up this week ahead of the G7 summit with an action in Geneva, a petition, and an intervention by the UN special rapporteur on torture.

    Assange’s fiancee Stella Moris, Geneva Mayor Frederique Perler, and UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer called for the journalist’s release and an end to US extradition proceedings against him on Friday.

    Melzer, who also serves as the Swiss human rights chair at the Geneva Academy, called Assange’s incarceration “one of the biggest judicial scandals in history” and referred to the WikiLeaks founder, as well as whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, as the “skeletons in the cupboards of Western countries.”

    “It is the story of a man being persecuted in our part of the world for having told the truth,” Melzer said. “He has exposed war crimes, he has exposed torture, he has exposed corruption. It’s an inconvenient truth.

    “Are you teaching your children that it’s a good thing or a bad thing to tell the truth?” he continued, concluding that he cannot leave his children a world “where it has become a crime to tell the truth because, once that has happened, we are living in tyranny.”



    A temporary monument to Assange, Snowden, and Manning was unveiled in Geneva on Friday. The mobile art installation, made by Italian artist Davide Dormino in 2015 and dubbed ‘Anything to Say?’ shows the three figures standing on chairs with a fourth empty chair next to them. A petition set up by the Geneva Press Club also went live, demanding Assange’s immediate release.

    “In the name of respect for inalienable human rights and the values promoted by human rights organizations based in Geneva,” the Geneva Press Club called on the British authorities “to refuse the extradition of Julian Assange and to restore his freedom” and for the US government “to drop the prosecution of Julian Assange.”

    The Geneva Press Club also called on democratic states such as Switzerland “to ensure Julian Assange [has] a territory of refuge where he can protect himself from new prosecutions.”

    Though he has not been found guilty of any crime, Assange has spent over two years in Her Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh, a maximum-security jail which has housed some of the UK’s most infamous and dangerous criminals, including several high-profile terrorists, serial killers, and rapists. Assange remains at Belmarsh despite a judge ruling in January that he could not be extradited to the United States due to mental health concerns.

    Assange’s fiancee said on Saturday that the journalist is “barely hanging on” in the prison and has been in “a terrible state, unable to even string a sentence together” as he is confined to a small cell for 22 hours a day.

    “Julian is not violent, he is not a danger to society. He is a publisher and this case is about freedom of information. This situation shames the UK’s justice system. It is a blight on the UK’s global reputation,” Morris declared, as quoted by the Daily Mail.

    She called it “unacceptable” that a “foreign power” like the United States is able to “tell Britain what to do.”

    “It’s time for President Joe Biden to drop the charges against Julian, and Boris Johnson should ask him to do so at the G7 meeting in Cornwall this week. Hopefully then, justice will prevail,” Morris concluded.

    The Mail reported that Assange “has a cork board” in his prison cell “on which he has pinned pictures of his two youngest sons – Gabriel, four, and Max, two,” and he also “feeds a pair of mallards nesting beneath his cell window.”

    The 47th G7 summit is set to take place in the UK between June 11 and 13. The UK, the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the European Union, and Japan will participate.

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    Not sure if this is true but passing it on....

    Quote Wikileaks just dumped all of their files online. Everything from Hillary Clinton's emails, McCain's being guilty, Vegas shooting done by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs HIV letter, PedoPodesta, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Bilderberg, CIA agents arrested for rape, WHO pandemic. Happy Digging! Here you go, please read and pass it on..... https://file.wikileaks.org/file/... These are Clinton’s emails: https://file.wikileaks.org/file/clinton-emails/

    Index file! https://file.wikileaks.org/file/?fbc...p8ssbM46oHXWMI

    Send to everyone you can as fast as you can! 😎 Read it and pass it on.

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    If it's true, the info should probably be added to the Avalon library.
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    Quote Wikileaks just dumped all of their files online. Everything from Hillary Clinton's emails, McCain's being guilty, Vegas shooting done by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs HIV letter, PedoPodesta, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Bilderberg, CIA agents arrested for rape, WHO pandemic. Happy Digging! Here you go, please read and pass it on..... https://file.wikileaks.org/file/... These are Clinton’s emails: https://file.wikileaks.org/file/clinton-emails/

    Index file! https://file.wikileaks.org/file/?fbc...p8ssbM46oHXWMI

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    Chris Hedges speech in support of Assange
    By Chris Hedges
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    Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally Thursday night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, also spoke at the event, which was held at The People’s Forum.



    "A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice.

    This why we are here tonight. Yes, all of us who know and admire Julian decry his prolonged suffering and the suffering of his family. Yes, we demand that the many wrongs and injustices that have been visited upon him be ended. Yes, we honor him up for his courage and his integrity. But the battle for Julian’s liberty has always been much more than the persecution of a publisher. It is the most important battle for press freedom of our era. And if we lose this battle, it will be devastating, not only for Julian and his family, but for us.

    Tyrannies invert the rule of law. They turn the law into an instrument of injustice. They cloak their crimes in a faux legality. They use the decorum of the courts and trials, to mask their criminality. Those, such as Julian, who expose that criminality to the public are dangerous, for without the pretext of legitimacy the tyranny loses credibility and has nothing left in its arsenal but fear, coercion and violence.

    The long campaign against Julian and WikiLeaks is a window into the collapse of the rule of law, the rise of what the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls our system of inverted totalitarianism, a form of totalitarianism that maintains the fictions of the old capitalist democracy, including its institutions, iconography, patriotic symbols and rhetoric, but internally has surrendered total control to the dictates of global corporations.

    I was in the London courtroom when Julian was being tried by Judge Vanessa Baraitser, an updated version of the Queen of Hearts in Alice-in Wonderland demanding the sentence before pronouncing the verdict. It was judicial farce. There was no legal basis to hold Julian in prison. There was no legal basis to try him, an Australian citizen, under the U.S. Espionage Act. The CIA spied on Julian in the embassy through a Spanish company, UC Global, contracted to provide embassy security. This spying included recording the privileged conversations between Julian and his lawyers as they discussed his defense. This fact alone invalidated the trial. Julian is being held in a high security prison so the state can, as Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, has testified, continue the degrading abuse and torture it hopes will lead to his psychological if not physical disintegration.

    The U.S. government directed, as Craig Murray so eloquently documented, the London prosecutor James Lewis. Lewis presented these directives to Baraitser. Baraitser adopted them as her legal decision. It was judicial pantomime. Lewis and the judge insisted they were not attempting to criminalize journalists and muzzle the press while they busily set up the legal framework to criminalize journalists and muzzle the press. And that is why the court worked so hard to mask the proceedings from the public, limiting access to the courtroom to a handful of observers and making it hard and at times impossible to access the trial online. It was a tawdry show trial, not an example of the best of English jurisprudence but the Lubyanka.Now, I know many of us here tonight would like to think of ourselves as radicals, maybe even revolutionaries. But what we are demanding on the political spectrum is in fact conservative, it is the restoration of the rule of law. It is simple and basic. It should not, in a functioning democracy, be incendiary. But living in truth in a despotic system is the supreme act of defiance. This truth terrifies those in power.

    The architects of imperialism, the masters of war, the corporate-controlled legislative, judicial and executive branches of government and their obsequious courtiers in the media, are illegitimate. Say this simple truth and you are banished, as many of us have been, to the margins of the media landscape. Prove this truth, as Julian, Chelsea Manning, Jeremy Hammond and Edward Snowden have by allowing us to peer into the inner workings of power, and you are hunted down and persecuted.

    Shortly after WikiLeaks released the Iraq War Logs in October 2010, which documented numerous US war crimes—including video images of the gunning down of two Reuters journalists and 10 other unarmed civilians in the Collateral Murder video, the routine torture of Iraqi prisoners, the covering up of thousands of civilian deaths and the killing of nearly 700 civilians that had approached too closely to U.S. checkpoints—the towering civil rights attorneys Len Weinglass and my good friend Michael Ratner, who I would later accompany to meet Julian in the Ecuadoran Embassy, met with Julian in a studio apartment in Central London. Julian’s personal bank cards had been blocked. Three encrypted laptops with documents detailing US war crimes had disappeared from his luggage in route to London. Swedish police were fabricating a case against him in a move, Ratner warned, that was about extraditing Julian to the United States.

    “WikiLeaks and you personally are facing a battle that is both legal and political,” Weinglass told Assange. “As we learned in the Pentagon Papers case, the US government doesn’t like the truth coming out. And it doesn’t like to be humiliated. No matter if it’s Nixon or Bush or Obama, Republican or Democrat in the White House. The US government will try to stop you from publishing its ugly secrets. And if they have to destroy you and the First Amendment and the rights of publishers with you, they are willing to do it. We believe they are going to come after WikiLeaks and you, Julian, as the publisher.”

    “Come after me for what?” asked Julian.

    “Espionage,” Weinglass continued. “They’re going to charge Bradley Manning with treason under the Espionage Act of 1917. We don’t think it applies to him because he’s a whistleblower, not a spy. And we don’t think it applies to you either because you are a publisher. But they are going to try to force Manning into implicating you as his collaborator.”

    “Come after me for what?

    That is the question.

    They came after Julian not for his vices, but his virtues.

    They came after Julian because he exposed the more than 15,000 unreported deaths of Iraqi civilians; because he exposed the torture and abuse of some 800 men and boys, aged between 14 and 89, at Guantánamo; because he exposed that Hillary Clinton in 2009 ordered US diplomats to spy on UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and other UN representatives from China, France, Russia, and the UK, spying that included obtaining DNA, iris scans, fingerprints, and personal passwords, part of the long pattern of illegal surveillance that included the eavesdropping on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in the weeks before the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003; because he exposed that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the CIA orchestrated the June 2009 military coup in Honduras that overthrew the democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya, replacing it with a murderous and corrupt military regime; because he exposed that George W. Bush, Barack Obama and General David Petraeus prosecuted a war in Iraq that under post-Nuremberg laws is defined as a criminal war of aggression, a war crime, that they authorized hundreds of targeted assassinations, including those of U.S. citizens in Yemen, and that they secretly launched missile, bomb, and drone attacks on Yemen, killing scores of civilians; because he exposed that Goldman Sachs paid Hillary Clinton $657,000 to give talks, a sum so large it can only be considered a bribe, and that she privately assured corporate leaders she would do their bidding while promising the public financial regulation and reform; because he exposed the internal campaign to discredit and destroy British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn by members of his own party; because he exposed how the hacking tools used by the CIA and the National Security Agency permits the wholesale government surveillance of our televisions, computers, smartphones and anti-virus software, allowing the government to record and store our conversations, images and private text messages, even from encrypted apps.

    Julian exposed the truth. He exposed it over and over and over until there was no question of the endemic illegality, corruption and mendacity that defines the global ruling elite. And for these truths they came after Julian, as they have come after all who dared rip back the veil on power. “Red Rosa now has vanished too. …” Bertolt Brecht wrote after the German socialist Rosa Luxemburg was murdered. “She told the poor what life is about, And so the rich have rubbed her out.”

    We have undergone a corporate coup, where the poor and working men and women are reduced to joblessness and hunger, where war, financial speculation and internal surveillance are the only real business of the state, where even habeas corpus no longer exists, where we, as citizens, are nothing more than commodities to corporate systems of power, ones to be used, fleeced and discarded. To refuse to fight back, to reach out and help the weak, the oppressed and the suffering, to save the planet from ecocide, to decry the domestic and international crimes of the ruling class, to demand justice, to live in truth, is to bear the mark of Cain. Those in power must feel our wrath, and this means constant acts of mass civil disobedience, it means constant acts of social and political disruption, for this organized power from below is the only power that will save us and the only power that will free Julian. Politics is a game of fear. It is our moral and civic duty to make those in power very, very afraid.

    The criminal ruling class has all of us locked in its death grip. It cannot be reformed. It has abolished the rule of law. It obscures and falsifies the truth. It seeks the consolidation of its obscene wealth and power. And so, to quote the Queen of Hearts, metaphorically of course, I say, “Off with their heads.”

    Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East bureau chief and Balkan bureau chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and NPR. He is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show “On Contact.” "
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    • Julian Assange's family speak out on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight':



    When his son looks older than his dad!
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    Quote Posted by onawah (here)
    If it's true, the info should probably be added to the Avalon library.
    Quote Posted by Delight (here)
    Not sure if this is true but passing it on....

    Quote Wikileaks just dumped all of their files online. Everything from Hillary Clinton's emails, McCain's being guilty, Vegas shooting done by an FBI sniper, Steve Jobs HIV letter, PedoPodesta, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Bilderberg, CIA agents arrested for rape, WHO pandemic. Happy Digging! Here you go, please read and pass it on..... https://file.wikileaks.org/file/... These are Clinton’s emails: https://file.wikileaks.org/file/clinton-emails/

    Index file! https://file.wikileaks.org/file/?fbc...p8ssbM46oHXWMI

    Send to everyone you can as fast as you can! 😎 Read it and pass it on.
    No new information here folks

    This is a recycle of a previously circulated link from >= 2 years ago.
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    Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment

    A maj­or wit­n­ess in the United States’ Depart­ment of Justice ca­se against Ju­li­an Assange has admitted to fabricat­ing key accusati­ons in the indict­ment against the Wiki­leaks found­er.
    26. júní 2021 10:00
    https://stundin.is/grein/13627/key-w...in-indictment/

    Bjartmar Oddur Þeyr Alexandersson
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    Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson
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    A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.

    The man in question, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, was recruited by US authorities to build a case against Assange after misleading them to believe he was previously a close associate of his. In fact he had volunteered on a limited basis to raise money for Wikileaks in 2010 but was found to have used that opportunity to embezzle more than $50,000 from the organization. Julian Assange was visiting Thordarson’s home country of Iceland around this time due to his work with Icelandic media and members of parliament in preparing the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a press freedom project that produced a parliamentary resolution supporting whistleblowers and investigative journalism.

    The United States is currently seeking Assange’s extradition from the United Kingdom in order to try him for espionage relating to the release of leaked classified documents. If convicted, he could face up to 175 years in prison. The indictment has sparked fears for press freedoms in the United States and beyond and prompted strong statements in support of Assange from Amnesty International, Reporters without borders, the editorial staff of the Washington Post and many others.

    US officials presented an updated version of an indictment against him to a Magistrate court in London last summer. The veracity of the information contained therein is now directly contradicted by the main witness, whose testimony it is based on.

    No instruction from Assange

    The court documents refer to Mr Thordarson simply as “Teenager” (a reference to his youthful appearance rather than true age, he is 28 years old) and Iceland as “NATO Country 1” but make no real effort to hide the identity of either. They purport to show that Assange instructed Thordarson to commit computer intrusions or hacking in Iceland.

    The aim of this addition to the indictment was apparently to shore up and support the conspiracy charge against Assange in relation to his interactions with Chelsea Manning. Those occurred around the same time he resided in Iceland and the authors of the indictment felt they could strengthen their case by alleging he was involved in illegal activity there as well. This activity was said to include attempts to hack into the computers of members of parliament and record their conversations.

    In fact, Thordarson now admits to Stundin that Assange never asked him to hack or access phone recordings of MPs. His new claim is that he had in fact received some files from a third party who claimed to have recorded MPs and had offered to share them with Assange without having any idea what they actually contained. He claims he never checked the contents of the files or even if they contained audio recordings as his third party source suggested. He further admits the claim, that Assange had instructed or asked him to access computers in order to find any such recordings, is false.

    Nonetheless, the tactics employed by US officials appear to have been successful as can be gleaned from the ruling of Magistrate Court Judge Vanessa Baraitser on January 4th of this year. Although she ruled against extradition, she did so purely on humanitarian grounds relating to Assange’s health concerns, suicide risk and the conditions he would face in confinement in US prisons. With regards to the actual accusations made in the indictment Baraitser sided with the arguments of the American legal team, including citing the specific samples from Iceland which are now seriously called into question.

    Other misleading elements can be found in the indictment, and later reflected in the Magistrate’s judgement, based on Thordarson’s now admitted lies. One is a reference to Icelandic bank documents. The Magistrate court judgement reads: “It is alleged that Mr. Assange and Teenager failed a joint attempt to decrypt a file stolen from a “NATO country 1” bank”.

    Story continues at: https://stundin.is/grein/13627/key-w...in-indictment/

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    Julian's father and brother have appeared on the Jimmy Dore Show... (26th June)

    Julian and his Dad have a very similar voice and way of speaking - a kind of calm and gentle tone -


    Julian Assange’s Father Pleads For His Son’s Freedom in America


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    Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment


    A maj­or wit­n­ess in the United States’ Depart­ment of Justice ca­se against Ju­li­an Assange has admitted to fabricat­ing key accusati­ons in the indict­ment against the Wiki­leaks found­er.

    Stundin reports:

    "Amajor witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.

    The man in question, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, was recruited by US authorities to build a case against Assange after misleading them to believe he was previously a close associate of his. In fact he had volunteered on a limited basis to raise money for Wikileaks in 2010 but was found to have used that opportunity to embezzle more than $50,000 from the organization. Julian Assange was visiting Thordarson’s home country of Iceland around this time due to his work with Icelandic media and members of parliament in preparing the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a press freedom project that produced a parliamentary resolution supporting whistleblowers and investigative journalism. "

    read full article here:
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    this is where ALL of our conditioning to tolerate in our every day normal life shows up as

    what IS, in fact, being tolerated on an international basis

    it is not that we have NOT had the evidence nor the power

    it is OUR willingness to ALLOW injustice to preavail that has it be this way

    and it is the ONE failure to pardon of Trump's that i in turn fail to pardon HIM for

    i feel the continuation of imprisonment and attack on Assange to truly be a "test" for humanity

    i don't think we're going to be "allowed" to have too many "sacrificial lambs" permitted by US on our record as humanity and have that be "ok"

    **UPDATE **


    and JUST as i stated the above? i come across:



    Julian Assange's Fiancée Says Biden Must Free Him
    to Show the US Defends a Free Press


    Townhall reports:

    The fiancée of Julian Assange said that if President Joe Biden wants to separate himself from the legacy of former President Donald Trump and have the United States be considered a supporter of a free press, he needs to grant the WikiLeaks founder his freedom.

    U.S. officials have supported the extradition of Assange, who has been in jail or self-incarceration in Britain for the past nine years, for his leak of classified military records and diplomatic cables, which they allege put American lives at risk.

    Assange's fiancée Stella Moris and the British judge overseeing the extradition have been wary of the move, fearing that sending him to the U.S. could result in his death.

    Moris, who said she was hopeful that Assange's freedom would be granted under Biden, told Reuters in an interview:

    Quote If Biden really wants to break with the Trump legacy, then he has to drop the case.

    They can't maintain this prosecution against Julian while saying that they defend a global press freedom.
    While Biden was vice president during the Obama administration, Assange’s extradition was not sought after because they said WikiLeaks' actions were on par with journalistic practices that are protected by the First Amendment.

    Trump officials, however, filed criminal charges against Assange, accusing him of being involved in a computer hacking conspiracy. The U.S. Justice Department in February announces its intentions to continue looking for Assange's extradition over the charges.

    Judge Vanessa Baraitser said in January after rejecting the request to extradite Assange that he would be a suicide risk due to mental health issues.

    U.S. prosecutors coined Assange as an enemy whose careless actions put in danger the lives of agents named in the leaked government documents.

    However, his supporters, namely those who consider themselves to be anti-government, see him as a hero who exposed the immorality of the U.S. to American citizens. They allege that his prosecution is a politically-motivated attack on a free press, allowing oppressive regimes around the world to remain.


    Moris said the 49-year-old Australian had low morale but was not giving up the fight. She said his treatment mirrored the experiences of the media in places such as China and Saudi Arabia, who do not have a free press.

    She said that the U.S. must protect her fiancée:

    Quote A superpower that has a free press is very different

    in nature from one that does not.

    read full article here:
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/landon...press-n2591633
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    That Trump allowed the continued persecution of Assange was a big reason why I never could consider him to be the great hero that Trumpers proclaim him to be.
    If he does get back into the White House, this issue will be a real litmus test, but only one of many.
    Doing what is expeditious as a politician is not the same thing as being a real, integral leader.
    It might be all that we can get at this point, and though I agree that it would be better if Trump was POTUS than Biden, it's still far from an optimal solution.
    There hasn't been a good POTUS since JFK, and he wasn't perfect either.
    But so goes politics in these tumultuous times...
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    i think with Trump i was forced out of my fantasy that there TRULY is such a position of power as that of "President of the United States"

    and i'm pretty sure it came as a HUGE shock for him as well

    i KNOW his "type" and "having his hands tied" in ANY way does NOT "sit well" with him

    however, another marked characteristic of his "type" is patience

    "NO" does NOT "compute" to them as it does to normal folk

    "NO" ... simply means ... "i NEED to find ANOTHER way"

    so ...

    i'm disappointed that he didn't

    but i'm no longer entertaining delusions that HE had much say in the running of this goverment much less the WHOLE say

    in this forum we are aware of MUCH more information than the average folk

    which of course is to our credit FOR pursuing this knowlege and taking action to procure it

    they COULD TOO .....

    so i feel at some point, it will be prudent, if not outright necessary to pull all the "pieces of the puzzle" together in order to see the WHOLE

    otherwise we are just a "more infomed" version of the people we call sheeple

    and what i mean by that is we CANNOT KNOW that there ARE agencies (entities) in the shadows

    and YET be in a continual of state of

    "WHY ... THIS just DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!"


    because at THAT point? then its kinda ... "you're kidding, right?"

    WE KNOW there are forces CONTROLLING NOT just the US but the ENTIRE planet

    they are PSYCHOPATHIC and PARASITIC hell bent on Domiation and ENSLAVEMENT of HUMANITY

    so let's just begin there

    with THOSE forces, INDISPUTABLY in existence?

    what WOULD be "incredible" (the "i just can't believe!" factor)

    would be for someone to act with impunity

    i hold him responsible

    because the TRUTH is that ALL sentient BEINGS ARE responsible

    BOTH for what they do > and WHAT they do NOT do

    this is the measure of the universe

    so its useless to pretend otherwise or cajole and say "there .. there .. it will be all right"

    when the TRUTH is that:

    NOTHING WILL BE ALL RIGHT

    UNLESS WE CHOOSE

    AND ACT

    TO MAKE IT SO


    at the very least, that is what life has demonstrated so far ...

    irrespective? > I AM HERE

    it is happening in MY presence

    so the universe says the ONLY reason for this to be so?

    is to SEE .... > WHAT THE heck i aim to do about it?

    so ... i need to think on that

    and THEN ... i NEED to ACT on that ...

    cus i know for a FACT i won't get a "pass" on this as i haven't gotten one on anything else Life has presented me with ...

    for starters? i just need to do my very best right where i AM

    tolerating crap is what got us here?

    ok .. then AT HOME .. in PERSONAL relationships? THAT CAN stop, right?

    so that's always a good place to start .. right wherever it is we find ourselves ...

    but yes, i have to agree with the reservations Onawah expressed

    because THAT? was definitely a "signal" that ALL was not kosher .. something was off

    and AGAIN, if it were NOT for the prevalent conditioning to just hypnotically nod

    and tolerate SEEING that "ALL is NOT OK" > BUT doing NOTHING to rectify this ...

    THEN this would not be in continuance

    and AGAIN, this comes back to EVERYONE's personal lives

    there is ABSOLUTELY NO HOPE of terminating the "Tolerance" on a COLLECTIVE PLANETARY basis

    WHILE we maintain TOLERANCE in our personal every day lives

    we should actually just forget about the political specter that WILL REMAIN AS IT IS

    AS long as WE REMAIN AS WE ARE

    and "get" that people that ERADICATE tolerance on a personal level?

    ERADICATE it in their government as well

    and that is just the truth of it

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    When ET/ED presence and assistance/interference/aggression. etc. is factored in, however, whether benign, neutral or malignant, there is a huge, additional element which humankind as a whole has not yet recognized, much less learned how to deal with.
    And that's where it gets complicated...
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    Quote Posted by onawah (here)
    When ET/ED presence and assistance/interference/aggression. etc. is factored in, however, whether benign, neutral or malignant, there is a huge, additional element which humankind as aw whole has not yet recognized, much less learned how to deal with.
    And that's where it gets complicated...
    exactly!!

    couldn't agree more!

    its time we start including that in our analysis!
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    Biden isn't going to save Julian. His democrat predecessor (in my opinion, the most effective spokesmodel for the Ameri-centric Global Empire, yet) was merciless in prosecuting whistleblowers. (see the documentary, "Silenced.") That is to say, Obama acted-out on the agenda of the actual individuals that control the Ameri-centric Global Empire from behind the curtain. That doesn't exonerate Obama.

    My friends that saw Trump as different than the other Ameri-centric Global Empire spokesmodels (primarily because they thought that since he wasn't steeped in the political process like the typical democrat or republican, that he would act differently and not follow the prescribed agenda from the real controllers) simply excuse the fact that Trump spearheaded the rendition and torture and false prosecution of Julian Assange, whistleblower. Julian Assange is rotting in Belmarsh prison because of Trump's actions, not due to Trump's inaction. Trump acted-out on the agenda of the actual individuals that control the Ameri-centric Global Empire from behind the curtain. That doesn't exonerate Trump.

    All of my democrat-supporting friends make excuses for the democrat presidents persecution of whistleblowers.

    All of my republican-supporting friends make excuses for the republican presidents persecution of whistleblowers.

    None of my democrat-supporting friends and none of my republican-supporting friends seem to even notice how much of the Ameri-centric Global Empire agenda is followed - without skipping a beat - when the opposite political party gains power. Gee, just maybe the Ameri-centric Global Empire agenda is simply administered by the political party du jour.


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    Absolutely. Also see from Avalonian Pam: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1437027
    " I believe the very first thing we, as humans have to understand is what psychopathy is , and that there are people that will harm us for their own perceived benefit and will never have a moment of remorse over it. We have to understand that some of those people appear to be very "nice" and responsible. We need to understand that it is alright to say "NO' to those people if they are causing us detriment or trying to harm us or those around us even if they have labeled themselves 'experts' or 'authorities'. That is the cornerstone we can build on. A new culture were honesty and sincerity earn merit and positions of trust. We will be rebuilding an inversion of the current inversion. From this point on we humans, really do have the ability to create heaven on earth, even with our flaws and frailties.

    The current system is broken beyond redemption. The corruption permeates at all levels. New rules upon new rules. Pretend attempts at mandating decency and teaching division and hatred at the same time. This system is dead."

    Quote Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
    Biden isn't going to save Julian. His democrat predecessor (in my opinion, the most effective spokesmodel for the Ameri-centric Global Empire, yet) was merciless in prosecuting whistleblowers. (see the documentary, "Silenced.") That is to say, Obama acted-out on the agenda of the actual individuals that control the Ameri-centric Global Empire from behind the curtain. That doesn't exonerate Obama.

    My friends that saw Trump as different than the other Ameri-centric Global Empire spokesmodels (primarily because they thought that since he wasn't steeped in the political process like the typical democrat or republican, that he would act differently and not follow the prescribed agenda from the real controllers) simply excuse the fact that Trump spearheaded the rendition and torture and false prosecution of Julian Assange, whistleblower. Julian Assange is rotting in Belmarsh prison because of Trump's actions, not due to Trump's inaction. Trump acted-out on the agenda of the actual individuals that control the Ameri-centric Global Empire from behind the curtain. That doesn't exonerate Trump.

    All of my democrat-supporting friends make excuses for the democrat presidents persecution of whistleblowers.

    All of my republican-supporting friends make excuses for the republican presidents persecution of whistleblowers.

    None of my democrat-supporting friends and none of my republican-supporting friends seem to even notice how much of the Ameri-centric Global Empire agenda is followed - without skipping a beat - when the opposite political party gains power. Gee, just maybe the Ameri-centric Global Empire agenda is simply administered by the political party du jour.
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    Attorney: U.S. Case Against Julian Assange Falls Apart, as Key Witness Says He Lied to Get Immunity
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    "One of the main witnesses in Julian Assange’s extradition case has admitted he made false claims against Assange in exchange for immunity from prosecution, a bombshell revelation that could have a major impact on the WikiLeaks founder’s fate. Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if brought to the U.S., where he was indicted for violations of the Espionage Act related to the publication of classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes. According to a new article in the Icelandic newspaper Stundin, the convicted hacker Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson falsely claimed he was a prominent WikiLeaks representative instructed by Assange to carry out hacking attacks, but he was in fact only tangentially involved with the organization. The article suggests the U.S. Justice Department collaborated with Thordarson to generate the indictment for Assange that was submitted to the British courts. “This is just the latest revelation to demonstrate why the U.S. case should be dropped,” says Jennifer Robinson, a human rights attorney who has been advising Assange and WikiLeaks since 2010. “The factual basis for this case has completely fallen apart.” "
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    We went to Belmarsh this morning to support Stella.
    RT news were there. No other news agencies (as usual).

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    "The decision not to extradite Julian Assange to the US is unlikely to be the end of his struggle. For the past 10 years, a team of reporters has followed Assange and the WikiLeaks network.

    In their first film in 2011, they portrayed Julian Assange and his team as transparency activists, fighting for a new, open relationship between citizens and information. Since then, Wikileaks has come under constant pressure from the US government. But the site nevertheless continued to publish secret and explosive information that has both illuminated and shaped our world.

    In 2013, the team met Julian Assange again, interviewing him in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. At the time, Assange had no idea that he was going to spend the next seven years in these rooms, observed by surveillance cameras.

    In 2016, Wikileaks played a crucial role in the election of US President Donald Trump. In 2017, it tried to similarly influence the French election. Throughout the years, the reporters have kept filming, talking to Julian Assange’s father, who regularly visits him in London’s Belmarsh prison, as well as to his lawyers.

    Today, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are at a turning point in their history. To his detractors, Assange is a spy and a traitor, and deserves his fate. His supporters say the US extradition request is a serious and unprecedented attack on the freedom of information, protected by the US constitution. And who’s to say that the news outlets that have collaborated with WikiLeaks won’t be prosecuted, as well?"

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    Marianne Williamson: DOJ CAUGHT in COVER UP War Crime w/ Charges Against Assange
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    "Activist and former Democratic presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson, discusses the latest updates in the Julian Assange case."

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