SWEDEN - "WikiLeaks" more perverse than the "guru" Article

"WikiLeaks", mai pervers decât "guru" - Jurnalul National jurnalul.ro/.../wikileaks-mai-pervers-decat-guru-5620... Translate this page Dec 7, 2010 - Fondatorul Wikileaks a ajuns marţi acolo unde şi-o doreau mulţi din ... Citeşte mai multe despre: gregorian bivolaru, wikileaks, julian assange. GOOGLE TRANSLATION "WikiLeaks" more perverse than the "guru" Author: Carmen Plesa Violeta Fotache December 7, 2010 - 5:53 p.m. Stefan Rousseau / PA / AGERPRES Julian Assange was arrested by British police on a warrant issued by Sweden European tracking / Photo: Stefan Rousseau / PA / AGERPRES Wikileaks founder arrived Tuesday where he wanted many of those affected by revelations that he published: in the hands of the police. And that after the Swedish justice heeded pretty strange allegations made by two women whose work put enough questions to whether the facts complained of. The same Swedish justice who issued a warrant for the arrest of Julian Assange for "sex by surprise" granted political asylum MISA leader Gregorian Bivolaru, when he was examined in Romania, among other things, sexual perversion, sexual intercourse with a minor child trafficking. If last week accused Wikileaks founder of "sex by surprise" returned Swedish justice, arguing that, in fact, the statements of one of the women were poorly written. "Sex by surprise" or "surprise" was the accusation ... ... Normally, for "sex by surprise" Swedish law amends the offender with 5,000 kroner (about $ 715). But Tuesday,  ... Julian Assange ... an international warrant ... was arrested ... On August 20, Swedish women had complained to police against Assange ... In a note to Swedish Dagens Nyheter newspaper, WikiLeaks founder denied the allegations, saying that he was contacted by police, and was released on 21 August prosecution. Assange was already known at that time, because the public had a secret recording of a US attack in Baghdad, which left many civilians had been killed. One of the women who accuse Assange seems to be XXXXX a militant feminist controversial. It has been known mainly because of a manual on how women legal revenge ...   Assange says it was consensual sex, the allegations are false ... WikiLeaks published secret telegrams brought great concern throughout the world diplomacy, but also companies working with Washington. No wonder that US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates [said on Tuesday] Assange's arrest is "good news". Tough WikiLeaks founder, who scared the Americans, Swedish justice was particularly sympathetic to the "guru" Bivolaru. Sweden told us "step" when asked Romania in 2005 to extradite "guru". And it was not even remotely accused of "sex by surprise" but of sexual perversion, sexual intercourse with a minor, child trafficking, human trafficking and illegal immigration state. Orgies Bivlaru not brought it from Sweden than ... protection, ie asylum. SOURCE http://jurnalul.ro/stiri/externe/wikileaks-mai-pervers-decat-guru-562060.html COMMENT While this Google translated article is a bit of a scrambled word salad, the essence is that Sweden told Romania to push off when Romania sought extradition of Gregorian Bivolaru, to whom Sweden granted political asylum. Interesting to note that 'sex by surprise' reportedly attracts a 5,000 kroner fine (or $715), according to the article author.  Hmmmmm ... What is of significance is the disparity between Sweden's handling of Assange and Sweden's handling of Gregorian Bivolaru, the 'guru'. GOOGLE TRANSLATE For years, the City of Copenhagen supported a yoga school suspected of engaging in selling porn and striptease shows.  The designated yoga school, Natha Yoga Center, has annually received 600,000 DKK in support of the municipality.  According to Jyllands-Posten guided yoga school by a Romanian-based sect, MISA, the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute, which was founded in 1990. MISA's founder, Gregorian Bivolaru, fled to Sweden in March 2005 after he had been accused of sexually abusing an underage girl.  In October 2005, wrote the priest and expert on cults Karl-Erik Nylund, a report on the MISA in which he concluded that the organization is not a manipulative sect. There Nylund also wrote that he doubted that Bivolaru would receive a fair trial in his home country. The report was one of the evidence that led the Supreme Court the same month decided to Bivolaru should not be extradited to Romania. On December 31, he received political asylum.  Now accuses the Danish priest Tom Thygesen Daugaard Danish yoga school to be a sect:  "It is deeply naive of the municipality of Copenhagen to give money to Natha Yoga Center without investigating what lies behind. There is a totalitarian, sectarian organization that manipulates young people, searching people and engaged in various sexual services. There is reason to firmly discourage young professionals to the organization, "he says to Jyllands-Posten.  According to the newspaper, several of the teachers working on yoga school had been active in the "Wild Venus", a group offering erotic shows for private parties and stag parties. The head of the school should also he be active porn star and one of the teachers owner of a site that offers "tantric sex".  According to the website the Center for Studies on New religion, the Romanian police have seized large quantities of pornographic material in a crackdown against MISA headquarters in 2004.  In April 2008, the International Yoga Federation to exclude Gregorian Bivolaru and all other related MISA from the organization. In its decision, the IYF to MISA "even used yoga as a cover for illegal activities." Clas Svahn, DN.se Who took care of sex crime trends Gregorian Bivolaru? Well, Sweden! On 21 October 2005 rejected a Supreme Court Justice Romania's request for extradition Bivolaru for sexual perversion, sexual intercourse with a minor, trafficking in minors (trafficking), and set him at liberty.  Just a few months later granted political asylum Migration Board to this Gregorian Bivolaru. Then I do not know if this individual has been helped to acquire apartment in a child friendly area ... However, I know that it will not be long before I speak out. The episode will be included in the XXXXXXX ... http://valens.nu//item/2011/01/kommun-gav-std-till-sex-sekt The second article is from what appears to be a 'justice' blog or similar.  Thought the content was interesting. Not sure what to make of it, apart from:  how bizarre is this?

Something Stinks: British Detention & FBI Investigation

Court reveals FBI still investigating WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Date     March 5, 2015 - 2:21PM     -     Philip Dorling A United States court has confirmed that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is still being targeted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation more than five years after the anti-secrecy website's first publication of a secret diplomatic cable leaked by US soldier Chelsea Manning. In a judgment handed down on March 4, 2015, US District Court judge Barbara Rothstein has stated that the FBI and the US Department of Justice are still pursuing an "ongoing criminal investigation of WikiLeaks" arising from the leaks of classified information by private Manning in early 2010. In largely rejecting an application by the US Electronic Privacy Information Centre for release of documents under US freedom of information laws, Judge Rothstein accepted FBI and Justice Department claims that the disclosure of any information would prejudice a "multi-subject investigation" into WikiLeaks that is "still active and ongoing." Judge Rothstein found that the FBI and Justice Department's National Security and Criminal Justice Divisions provided "sufficient specificity as to the status of the investigation, and sufficient explanation as to why the investigation is of long-term duration." She also confirmed that the WikiLeaks investigation is "separate and distinct" from the investigation and prosecution of private Manning who was convicted by a US military court of espionage and other offences in July 2013 and sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment. Judge Rothstein accepted claims by the FBI Justice Department that disclosure of any details about the investigation could "expose the scope and methods of the investigation, and tip-off subjects and other persons of investigative interest". The judge said she gave "appropriate defence to the executive on issues of national security..." In January it was revealed that that three journalists who have worked for WikiLeaks since 2010 – Sarah Harrison, Joseph Farrell and Kristinn Hrafnsson – had been informed by Google that all their Gmail account content, metadata, subscriber information, and other content were provided to US federal law enforcement in response to search warrants issued in March 2012. US laws referenced in the search warrants related to espionage, conspiracy, theft of US government property and computer fraud and abuse. WikiLeaks first published a US diplomatic cable leaked by Private Manning in February 2010. The anti-secrecy website subsequently published tens of thousands of secret documents covering US military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the conduct of US diplomacy. Australian diplomatic cables released to Fairfax Media under freedom-of-information laws later revealed that in December 2010 senior Justice Department officials privately described the WikiLeaks investigation as "unprecedented in scale and nature". Since June 2012, Mr Assange has lived at Ecuador's London embassy, where he has been granted political asylum by Ecuador on the grounds that he is at risk of extradition to the US to face espionage and conspiracy charges. British police are on guard outside the embassy 24 hours a day, waiting to arrest Mr Assange so he can be extradited to Sweden to face questioning about sexual assault and rape allegations first raised in August 2010. Mr Assange's lawyers have advised that his extradition to Sweden could facilitate his extradition to the US. A recent freedom of information application by Fairfax Media shows the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has largely given up reporting on Mr Assange's circumstances, with the Australian embassy in Washington mentioning WikiLeaks in only two brief diplomatic cables between November 2013 and January 2015. One cable referred without comment to a Washington Post article in November 2013 that quoted unnamed US administration sources as saying that it would be difficult to bring espionage charges against Mr Assange, although no final decision had been taken. http://www.theage.com.au/world/court-reveals-fbi-still-investigating-wikileaks-julian-assange-20150305-13vuwj.html?utm_source=FreeAssangeNow&utm_medium=Twitter COMMENT A frothing at the mouth USA launches an unprecedented investigation into the activities of publisher Julian Assange & WikiLeaks, following the 2010 publication of the whistleblower Chelsea Manning US classified information. Lo and behold, by August-September 2010 (on the eve of publication of further US classified material - Iraq war logs), Sweden (long-time political, intelligence and military partner of the US) is suddenly pursuing WikiLeaks publisher, Assange, in relation to sexual assault related allegations. Following an initial police investigation that was dismissed by a Swedish prosecutor and then quietly and mysteriously reactivated shortly thereafter by a Stockholm prosecutor, Sweden issued a dime-a-dozen European Arrest Warrant (see Sweden hypocritical 'concerns' re misuse of EAW for political persecution) and an Interpol Red Notice for the suspiciously convenient arrest of Assange. Taking a look at the WikiLeaks releases timeline, it's obvious (to all but the disturbingly naive or wilfully stupid) that multiple US government agencies must have been frantically deployed to shut down WikiLeaks operations by any means.  By the time Sweden suddenly revived a tossed out allegations inquiry with which to pursue Assange, WikiLeaks had already enraged US government officials by publishing the explosive Manning material in April 2010, followed by publication of the Afghanistan war logs and announment of an imminent publication of the Iraq war logs:  WikiLeaks Timeline 2006-2009 Exposing government & corporate wrongdoing 2010 (April) Manning material incl. VIDEO:   Collateral Murder 2010 (July) Afghanistan - war logs 2010 (Oct) Iraq -  war logs With US determination to shut down the WikiLeaks organisation and to cripple all those associated with whistleblower publisher which exposed US wrongdoing, it's  unsurprising that Assange's political asylum has been blocked by cooperative allied governments, hang the cost to the British taxpayer:  https://govwaste.co.uk/ Let that be a terrifying warning to all journalists and would-be publishers of US secrets. Five years on, the US is actively investigating the publisher and those associated with the organisation and citing 'national security' interests to block release of further information regarding their multi-subject investigation. Declaring 'national security' is a government trump card for shutting down transparency and, basically, doing whatever the government officials choose to do, relieved of public scrutiny and therefore of accountability. Meanwhile, journalists and others associated with the non-US publisher organisation are being harassed and intimidated by what surely must be yet another example of US government overreach, seeing the non-US organisation and people associated with it are beyond American borders and have not committed any crime within their own national jurisdictions. Assange, in the meantime, has been deprived of liberty in Britain for over 4 years without charge and the Australian Foreign Affairs department has barely shown interest in Assange in the last year or so.  Never mind fighting fearlessly for the freedom of an Aussie journalist-publisher by strongly (and publicly) condemning Sweden, Britain and United States, and challenging what is de facto detention and obvious political persecution of Julian Assange. Israel Stands By Israelis / Australia Kowtows to America Were Assange an Israeli citizen, there would be no keeping Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman from doing everything they possibly could do to protect their citizen, which is enough to make you want to be an Israeli. Take Jonathan Pollard, US citizen convicted of spying for Israel and others, arrested 1987.  Pollard was a US navy analyst who sold information.  Yet he was granted Israeli citizenship in 1995 and Israel has been doing everything it can to secure his release: Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard release talk infuriates US intel community http://www.smh.com.au/world/israeli-spy-jonathan-pollard-release-talk-infuriates-us-intel-community-20140401-zqpm5.html  ................................................ Israel fights for Pollard: 1998:  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that Pollard was an Israeli agent, handled by high-ranking officials of the Israeli Bureau for Scientific Relations (Lekem). The Israeli government ... continues to ask for his release. Benjamin Netanyahu has been particularly vocal in lobbying for Pollard's release, visiting Pollard in prison in 2002. Netanyahu raised the issue with President Bill Clinton during the Wye River peace talks in 1998. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard Netanyahu has characterized Pollard as "a warmhearted Jew, proud and a real Zionist." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu Israel consistently and persistently stands by its own no matter what. Even over the passage of decades, regardless of a conviction for wrongdoing. In contrast, Australia sits on its hands doing nothing while an Australian journalist and publisher, who is has committed no offence, is trapped and deprived of liberty without charge, for over 4 years.  ................................................ Julian Assange has committed no crime in Australia: AFP http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/julian-assange-has-committed-no-crime-in-australia-afp-20101220-190eb.html December 20, 2010 Dylan Welch Neither WikiLeaks nor its founder Julian Assange has committed any crime in Australia over the leaking of official United States government documents, the Australian Federal Police announced this afternoon. This comes despite Prime Minister Julia Gillard labelling the actions of the group "illegal" two weeks ago. A statement released by the federal police just before 1pm said: "The AFP has completed its evaluation of the material available and has not established the existence of any criminal offences where Australia would have jurisdiction.  ................................................ End the persecution of Julian Assange, now http://www.australiantimes.co.uk/end-the-persecution-of-julian-assange-now/ Australian Times (UK) is a London publication for and by Aussies.  No idea who the author of the article in Australian Times (UK) is, but I rather liked the article and have linked it.    ................................................ SWEDEN -  Hypocrisy Selective Human Rights Concerns SWEDEN - Gregorian Bivolaru Asylum / European Arrest Warrant (EAW) In meetings 17th October [2013] in Brussels several Swedish MEPs expressed their concern and interest to work for the case, and the Romanian misuse of the European Arrest Warrant to pursue political persecution of the refugee Bivolaru.  ................................................ Blog post and link regarding the Gregorian Bivolaru matter in Sweden - here.

Sweden - Selective Human Rights Concerns: Gregorian Bivolaru / EAW Julian Assange

20 Oct 13 Live discussion with vice-president Viviane Reding on the Romanian misuse of EU mechanisms to continue persecution of refugees VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rnb_PbUpYY#t=14 On 14th October Mrs. Reding visited the Citizens’ Dialogue in Stockholm. The Swedish representative of Soteria International, Mr. Konrad Swenninger brought up the issue of a human rights contradiction between the European Arrest Warrant and the International Convention for protection of Refugees. As an example, Mr. Swenninger mentioned the case of Gregorian Bivolaru, a Romanian political dissident continuously targeted by Romanian authorities and was given political asylum in Sweden. The asylum is now threatened by a European Arrest Warrant issued in June 2013 by Romanian authorities, as a result of a highly controversial decision of the Romanian Supreme Court against Bivolaru. Acknowledging the case, Mrs. Reding stated that indeed the European Arrest Warrant has been a complicated subject in European politics. She and her team have insisted on precise procedures related to the warrant, so that it cannot be used by national authorities to pursue undemocratic interests. Referring to the situation in Romania, Mrs. Reding is concerned that indeed the country struggles with implementation and respect for democratic procedures. Mrs. Reding reminded the audience that in the summer of 2012, the Directorate General for Justice of the EC, which she conducts, severely criticized the attack on the constitution of Romania attempted by opposing Romanian governing parties. In a follow-up briefing Mrs. Viviane Reding, Mrs. Brigitta Ohlsson, Swedish Minister for EU Affairs and MEP Olle Ludvigsson who co-chaired the meeting with citizens expressed their concern and interest to follow the case and received a communiqué from Gregorian Bivolaru concerning his situation. In meetings 17th October in Brussels several Swedish MEPs expressed their concern and interest to work for the case, and the Romanian misuse of the European Arrest Warrant to pursue political persecution of the refugee Bivolaru. We remind that earlier in October the case has been discussed at the Human Dimension Implementation meeting organized by OSCE in Warsaw, both in the plenary discussion on the protection of refugees and in the side-event conference organized by Soteria International. Representatives of the Swedish government assured Soteria International and the international community that Sweden takes its international obligations on Human Rights very seriously and reminded that Swedish legislation, as well as European law, foresee that national courts should take consideration of human rights implications in their rulings. The statement of Swedish governmental representatives and the strong position of Viviane Reding in matters of defending human rights and democratic procedures bring confidence that human rights will be efficiently protected and countries such as Romania, still on their way to democracy, will be given a strong good example and will be prevented in their attempts to disregard or violate the rights of its citizens. http://www.soteriainternational.org/live-discussion-with-vice-president-viviane-reding-on-the-romanian-misuse-of-eu-mechanisms-to-continue-persecution-of-refugees COMMENT The misuse of the European Arrest Warrant ("EAW") is not confined to issue of EAWs on trivial grounds.  The EAW is also misused for political persecution of dissidents or those who otherwise fall foul of authorities. Significantly, misuse of the EAW is not confined to dissidents of 'repressive Eastern European' regimes.   The dubious EAW has been used by Sweden and Britain to facilitate persecution of journalist-publisher Julian Assange, by blocking political asylum granted to Assange by Ecuardor.  So we have witnessed Sweden issuing a EAW and Interpol Red Notice in order to merely question Assange in respect of 'allegations' the Swedish prosecution claims it is 'investigating'. Sweden has been able to issue such an arrest warrant because (a) it is a member of the European Union and (b) the requirement for proof that there is in fact a case to answer has not been written into legislation by Union lawmakers.  How easy is that? While Sweden was quick to issue an EAW and Red Notice, it has been unusually resistant in getting around to even questioning Assange during the 2 years he remained under house arrest in Britain, in addition to a further 2.5 years that Assange has remained trapped at the Ecuador embassy, under threat of British arrest and extradition to Sweden (almost certainly leading to subsequent extradition from Sweden to the United States). The treatment of Assange is in stark contrast to Sweden's selectively liberal stance protecting Gregorian Bivolaru. Gregorian Bivolaru's 2005 arrest would have been effected under an Interpol all-points-bulletin apprehension, as Romania's accession to the European Union was in 2007. Despite allegations of a sexual nature involving a minor (which were later dropped on claim of 'coercion') and a whole host of other serious charges, Sweden refused to extradite Gregorian Bivolaru and proceeded to grant Bivolaru asylum in 2005. A 2013 EAW now threatens Gregorian Bivolaru's asylum in Sweden and Swedish politicians are commendably quick to express their concern regarding Bivolaru's matter, but remain curiously silent regarding WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who has now been denied liberty (without charge) for over 4 years. EAWs are a dime-a-dozen and generally used for pursuit of trivial matters, as the British surge in figures and analysis attests.  Unfortunately, the EAW also does away with arrest initiating-authorities being required to prove subjects of an EAW actually have a case to answer. The EAW sidestepping of the burden of proof is a travesty of justice that should never have been permitted (let alone recently adopted by the British, by default, thanks to the British Conservatives pushing through legislation by sleight of hand). Uproar in Commons over vote U-turn on European Arrest Warrant Cameron narrowly avoids rebellion after European Arrest Warrant vote scrapped The arrest warrant allows any European Union country to request the arrest and extradition of a wanted person without proving they have a case to answer – the traditional burden of proof that British courts insisted foreign countries pass before agreeing an extradition. Critics say the burden of proof now is too low, and can lead to people being arrested simply on the word of foreign police or magistrates, without any case to answer. EXTRACT - http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/uproar-in-commons-over-vote-u-turn-on-european-arrest-warrant-1.1995697 Sweden's treatment of American target, Julian Assange, captive without charge on what strongly smells of trumped up allegations that serve US political objectives, is blatantly incongruous and jarring. Where Sweden's conscience should be, concerning the detention and political persecution of publisher Julian Assange, lies a gaping, unmentionable hole that goes unchallenged. ................................................................... Something Stinks: British Detention & FBI Investigation Australia Kowtows to America LINK