Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY [LINK | Article]
Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
UK seeks review of UN Julian Assange 'arbitrary detention' finding
Foreign Office says United Nations panel’s conclusions are inaccurate and WikiLeaks founder is voluntarily avoiding arrest in embassy
Esther Addley
Friday 25 March 2016 03.12 AEDT
The British government has formally asked a United Nations panel to review its finding that Julian Assange is “arbitrarily detained” in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, calling the opinion “deeply flawed”.
In its first formal response to the finding of the UN working group on arbitrary detention, which published its opinion in February, the Foreign Office confirmed it would contest the finding, saying: “The original conclusions of the UN working group are inaccurate and should be reviewed.” [Comment: liars, manipulators, political persecutors and shameless propagandists. The arrogance of these liars is astonishing: they smear the independent UN expert panel's decision as "inaccurate" and trumpet in the media that it "should" be reviewed. The cheek of these war criminals. By the way, they should be tried for war crimes. ]
In a statement, the Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire said: “We want to ensure the working group is in possession of the full facts. Our request for a review of the opinion sets those facts out clearly.
[Comment: As Assange's lawyer says, the Foreign Office is not disputing the facts -- they've had ample opportunity to do so ahead of the Working Group's decision. They're trying to publicly undermine the OPINION of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
Bad sports and undemocratic political persecutors. ]
“Julian Assange has never been arbitrarily detained by the UK, and is in fact voluntarily avoiding lawful arrest by choosing to remain in the Ecuadorian embassy. The UK continues to have a legal obligation to extradite him to Sweden.”
[Comment: Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained for over 5 and a half years, as determined by a UN panel of qualified legal experts, and these British Foreign Office weasels are now mounting an underhand campaign.
Assange was arbitrarily detained WITHOUT CHARGE, by Britain and their colluding off-sider, Sweden, which has failed to proceed this farce of a legal 'case', pursuant toBritish Crown Prosecution Service advice to deny Assange an interview in Britain, and therefore an opportunity to defend himself ... so they can continue to pressure to extradict Assange to Sweden. What scum.]
The WikiLeaks founder has been confined to the embassy in London since July 2012, when he sought asylum in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations, which he denies.
[Comment: This does not read quite right to me.
Assange SOUGHT POLITICAL ASYLUM FROM ECUADOR & WAS GRANTED POLITICAL ASYLUM BY ECUADOR BECAUSE JOURNALIST-PUBLISHER JULIAN ASSANGE WAS AT RISK OF U.S. POLITICAL PERSECUTION FOR HAVING EXPOSED US & ALLIED WAR CRIMES.
ASSANGE WAS SUBJECT OF POLITICAL PERSECUTION & AT RISK OF BEING CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED FOR POLITICAL REASONS, BY THE UNITED STATES, WHICH HAS CONDUCTED A MASSIVE, MULTI-AGENCY, UNPRECEDENTED INVESTIGATION INTO ASSANGE & HIS ORGANISATION, WIKILEAKS.
ASSANGE IS THE SUBJECT OF POLITICAL PERSECUTION AND A CONFIRMED U.S. GRAND JURY SEALED INDICTMENT TO TRY JULIAN ASSANGE FOR SEVERAL CAPITAL CRIMES IN U.S.A. HAS BEEN ISSUED.
THE US GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO REDEFINEJOURNALISM AS 'ESPIONAGE' & TO EXTENT AMERICAN JURISDICTION WORLDWIDE.
Massive Coverup Exposed In Sweden As Media, Cops Hid Migrant Sex Attacks
AND THIS IS WHAT THE SWEDISH AUTHORITIES ARE ENGAGED IN WHILE THESE DISGUSTING SWEDISH POLITICIAN WEASELS, THE SWEDISH POLICE & THE SWEDISH PRESS COVER UPRAPE, BRUTAL GANG RAPE, MASS RAPE & SEXUAL ASSAULT, AS WELL AS A HOST OF VIOLENT CRIMES REGULARLY & OVERWHELMINGLY PERPETRATED BY MIGRANTS AGAINST SWEDISH WOMEN AND GIRLS OVER DECADES, PARTLY DUE TO SWEDEN'S SUPPORT OF ENDLESS AMERICAN WARS & AN IMMIGRATION POLICY THAT ACCOMMODATES SAME. ]
The international panel said on 4 February that it believed Assange’s confinement was arbitrary because of the length of time in bringing his case to resolution, citing in particular a “lack of diligence by the Swedish prosecutor in its investigations”.[Comment: It is not merely an 'international panel' it is a panel of highly qualified legal experts.
Furthermore, the panel does not 'believe' -- as if it were a matter of faith -- the expert panel has deliberated and DECIDED that Assange has been arbitrarily detained.]
The government argues that the panel is not a judicial body and its findings are therefore not binding. “The working group’s opinion is deeply flawed and Mr Assange has never been the subject of arbitrary detention,” it said. “His human rights have been protected throughout the process and will continue to be protected if and when he is extradited to Sweden.”
[Comment: The lying British government knows the expert panel's decision is binding, or else they would not have lodged a request for review.
The violators of what are 'human rights', as defined and affirmed under international conventions, claim they do not violate such rights, even when found by a UN panel of experts as having actually violated Assange's rights by arbitrarily detaining him. But that is to be expected. Of course, they will deny this and insist they are not violating his rights, as they continue to violate his rights and politically persecute him -- for so long as they can get away with this obscene and undemocratic act.
Why isn't the newspaper discussing the outrageous political oppression and abuse by this undemocratic British regime?]
Speaking shortly after the working group’s findings were published, Philip Hammond, the foreign secretary, described them as ridiculous and said Assange was hiding from justice.
[Comment: what's ridiculous is Britain having shielded Argentina's war criminal, dictator Augusto Pinochet, from being tried for war crimes. Likewise, Britain is shielding Israeli politicians from arrest for war crimes -- eg. former Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni -- by granting diplomatic immunity from facing arrest in relation to war crimes allegedly committed in commission of military action against Gaza 2009 -- here.
Britain also managed to ignore its own parliamentary rules regarding a petition to arrest Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes:
“It’s quite disappointing that the Parliament has refused to play by its own rules. The fact is that it’s a particular issue which receives over 100,000 signatures that ultimately allows to be debated on the floor of the House. The fact that it has been declined, gives rise to many questions,” said Anas al-Tikriti, chief executive of the Cordoba Foundation. [source]
The British politicians NEVER PLAY BY THE RULES, and they lie as naturally as they breathe.
It's nothing but lies and more lies, in Britain's determined persecution of Australian journalist, Julian Assange. ] Assange accused Hammond of insulting the UN, saying: “This is the end of the road for the legal arguments that have been put forward by Sweden and the UK.”
Responding to the government statement, Melinda Taylor, a legal adviser to Assange, told the Guardian: “The fact that they have submitted this request for reconsideration undermines their previous assertion that they weren’t in any way bound to comply with its opinion.”
She said that all the points made by the Foreign Office had been known to the working group before it gave its original opinion, and the UK had every opportunityto make its case and correct any factual errors before the opinion was published.
“In the absence of any objective basis to seek reconsideration, this rebuttal appears to be an attempt to publicly undermine the working group’s opinion,” she said.
The panel’s decision on whether or not to review its opinion will be made during its next session, beginning 18 April, the Foreign Office said.
Britain violates human rights, disregards international law, denies lawful political asylum granted to Assange by Ecuador;
its Crown Prosecution Service advises Sweden that this matter is not being handled by the British authorities as just 'another extradition request' & the CPS advises Sweden NOT to interview Assange in Britain;
so Britain and Sweden can deny journalist Julian Assange legal defence;
as the aim of both Britain and Sweden is to enforce extradition of Julian Assange to Sweden, in order to facilitate 'storage' & extradition of Assange to the US (which has had a sealed US secret Grand Jury indictment against Assange from at January 2011, when this was confirmed), once the US has built its 'case'.
Britain subverts both democracy and justice,
but you wouldn't think so from this shameless political propaganda from Hugo Swire,
who is accusing Ecuador of exactly what Britain has prevented:
justice for journalist Julian Assange, target of US-Anglo-Allied POLITICAL PERSECUTION:
After well over 5 years of detention and political persecution in Britain
UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGA) concludes that Julian Assange has been held arbitrarily, in violation of his rights
...
Predictably Britain 'disputes' the UNWGA decision:
Brits are intent on maintaining a hold on Assange so he can be transferred to the Americans,
who have spent all these years mounting a 'case' against Assange and WikiLeaks.
like the man says, it's international law that Britain signed up for & took part in for 16 months:
Hey, UN puppets ...
this is Hugo, the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office Minister of State guy ...
making light of Britain violating democracy, justice & international law to politically persecute a brave, award-winning Aussie journalist-publisher who exposed US-British and allied war crimes
...
that involved at least
one ILLEGAL WAR (Iraq):
While the US-Anglo Evil Empire Twins and their battery of human rights mouthpieces make all the right media noises about the 'oppressive' Maldives government ...
... that's permitted convicted terrorist Mohamed Nasheed to travel to London for medical treatment ...
... the Evil Empire conspirator hypocrites
deny journalist Julian Assange medical treatment,
deny Assange liberty, deny Assange rights
and subject Assange to over 5 years arbitrary detention,
at a cost of millions of pounds to the British taxpayer:
Maldives lambastes Amal Clooney for 'compelling tale'
Ali Naafiz, Haveeru Online Jan 19, 2016 - 08:55
Government lashed out Monday at international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney after she claimed that democracy was "dead" in the Indian Ocean island.
In an exclusive interview with NBC News Friday evening, Clooney took aim at political repression, human rights abuse and rising jihadism in the Maldives, where a USD2 billion tourist economy is fuelled by pristine beaches, blue lagoons and coral reefs.
"Democracy is dead in the Maldives," said Clooney, in her first interview in the US.
"Literally, if there were an election now there would be no one to run against the president. Every opposition leader is either behind bars or being pursued by the government through the courts."
Defending the administration of her half-brother Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, foreign minister Dhunya Maumoon told Reuters that Clooney had "spun a compelling tale" but it was not true.
"My appeal to the rest of the world is to have a good understanding and not be persuaded purely by charm-filled Amal Clooney when she goes and gives some of these stories," she said.
In her interview, Clooney, who is part of the international legal team defending former president Mohamed Nasheed, warned that "democracy is dead" in Maldives, insisting that visitors need to be told of the human rights violations in the popular tourist destination as they seek targeted sanctions against government officials.
Nasheed was jailed for 13 years in March on terror charges related to the arrest of Chief Criminal Judge Abdulla Mohamed when he was still president in 2012.
In addition to the former president’s local attorneys, he is represented by a high profile international legal team which includes legal heavyweights such as London-based human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, her fellow British attorney Ben Emmerson and her Washington based co-counsel Jared Genser.
Nasheed had sought permission to go abroad for a surgery on his back, but Correctional Service had repeatedly denied the request insisting that the microdiscectomy surgery could be done in the Maldives.
However, in an apparent U-turn, foreign ministry announced on twitter Saturday the government had granted permission to Nasheed to travel to the UK to undergo surgery, at his request. He departed to the UK on Monday for medical treatment.
Government’s U-turn on Nasheed came in the wake of visits by the Indian foreign secretary and two senior Sri Lankan ministers which also coincides with a visit by the Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of UK Hugo Swire who arrived earlier Sunday.
Indian foreign secretary Jaishankar arrived in Maldives Monday afternoon on a one-day official visit as a special envoy of the Indian prime minister. President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom briefed Jaishankar on the political developments in the Maldives and secured the regional superpower's backing in domestic and international affairs.
Sri Lankan foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera and finance minister Ravi Karunanayake arrived in Maldives Wednesday evening on an official visit.
The jailing of former president Nasheed and other politically motivated trials have made the Maldives the subject of mounting international criticism.
International pressure was further fuelled after a UN panel ruled Nasheed's incarceration illegal.
The former president’s lawyers have stepped up their efforts to impose targeted sanctions against the Maldives and its leadership, following the ruling by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention late September declaring his imprisonment as arbitrary.
In the latest development, the European parliament passed a resolution last month condemning the human rights abuses of President Yameen's government, and calling for targeted sanctions to be imposed on his officials and supporters in the business community. http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/65715
Moral mercenary Amal Clooney works both sides of the human rights contest Date February 1, 2016 | Comments 143
Paul Sheehan
Amal Clooney is a moral mercenary. She's a lawyer. As the fiancée and then wife of George Clooney, she was thrust into a global spotlight, where she has been cast as a moral paragon, a human rights crusader for the downtrodden.
Clooney is also Amal Alamuddin, Oxford-educated, fee-charging lawyer who works both sides of the human rights contest.
None of these selections from Clooney's resume should be read as an affront to her character. All accused are entitled to a robust legal defence.
Acting for the defence of her latest client, Clooney has engaged in some questionableadvocacy. It is one thing to proclaim your client's innocence, it is quite another to misrepresent the facts.
In an opinion piece published in The Guardian on April 30 last year, Clooney wrote that one of her clients, a former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, had been removed from power by an armed coup: "His presidency was cut short in February 2012 when he was forced to resign at gunpoint."
This is a central plank in the case that Nasheed is a martyr for democracy.
But the Commission of National Inquiry that examined Nasheed's departure from office found no evidence that he was deposed in a coup. The commission was advised by a former judge of the New Zealand Court of Appeal, a former judge of the Singapore Supreme Court, and a professor of human rights law at the University of Ottawa.
The commission found Nasheed had voluntarily tendered his resignation at 1.43pm on February 7, 2012, and that his resignation was not coerced. His replacement was sworn in later that day by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, in accordance with the constitution.
The next day, Nasheed, a former journalist, told the media: "I was forced from office at gunpoint."
The commission found this inflammatory claim to be a fabrication: "Rather, it is evident that President Nasheed [had] lost the support of the coalition … which had brought him to power … There was no illegal coercion or intimidation nor any coup d'état. The commission received no evidence supporting or to substantiate these allegations."
Also damning is a taped phone conversation in which Nasheed, on the night of his resignation, calls for violence from his supporters:
"If we are able to find people willing to fight, we should let them loose. Find some young people in Male who are ready to fight the police. I am not sure we can get them. But I want to let them loose on the police tonight."
In other words, there is no substance to the foundation of the martyrdom narrative that Clooney has been propagating.
Among critics of her conduct isDr Michael Kennedy of Western Sydney University. Kennedy, a former police detective, has spent the past three years delivering a degree program in the Maldives for police, customs and immigration officers.
He believes Clooney has used her celebrity to engage in media manipulation:
"An inquiry by the Commonwealth secretariat supported none of Nasheed's claims that he was forced to resign after a military coup. It's seldom reported that in his pursuit of an old enemy, a Supreme Court Justice, he ignored the constitution and bypassed the Police Service. He and his legal team are now calling for sanctions against the Maldives. This could cause widespread human rights abuses by way of hardship and unemployment."
Nasheed, who last March was convicted of contentious and dubious charges of terrorism, is now in London to receive medical treatment.
He has been given a 30-day release from prison. He has said he will not return. Instead, he has used his time in London to traduce the Maldives as a country rife with Islamic fundamentalism, a claim calculated to inflict damage on a tourist-based economy.
Clooney has chimed in: "It may be famous for the pristine holiday beaches … but the Maldives has taken a dark authoritarian turn."
Kennedy, among others, disputes this as legal hyperbole. Nasheed's very freedom in London undermines his argument of sinister repression.
Clooney herself has taken work from the dark, authoritarian side.Her most notorious client wasAbdullah Senussi, responsible for the murder or imprisonment of thousands of people as head of internal security for the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
He was convicted, in absentia, of having a key role in the bombing of a passenger jet in 1989 in which 170 people died. He is implicated in the 1988 bombing of an American airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, in which 259 people were killed.
Another client of Clooney was King Hasan bin Isa al Khalifa of Bahrain. She acted as a legal adviser to the king during the Bassiouni Commission of Inquiry into the government's suppression of an uprising by Shiite Muslims in Bahrain in 2011.
The commission was set up by the king. It found that 46 people, including five members of the security forces, had been killed, that police had used excessive force, and 559 people had claimed they were tortured while in custody.
None of this should be read as an affront to her character. All accused are entitled to a robust legal defence. Barristers are ethically bound to mount a robust defence.
Last year, Nasheed's legal team filed a case with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, an advisory body to the United Nations Human Rights Council. The Working Group issued an opinion stating that Nasheed's incarceration was a breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The government of the Maldives rejected this legal opinion. It also contends it is not bound by this opinion.Nasheed, by abrogating the terms of his release, has in effect freed himself.But he has done so with the help of a government he claims is oppressive.
There are no heroes in this story. The Maldives imbroglio serves as a reminder not to be blinded by stardust.
That same UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has ruled that Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained ... and the silence is deafening.
Well, save for the British bullsh*t that first came out.
No media bleating about 'injustice', 'oppression', 'death of democracy' ... or even the oppressive British DENIAL OF MEDICAL TREATMENT to journalist, Assange.
And no sanctions, of course.
No European Union demands for sanctions against the British. No UN finger-wagging.
But the bastards are hardly going to sanction themselves.
A U.S. “alphabet soup” agency-sponsored themed revolution in the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean comprising twenty-six atolls, stands to plunge the nation, heretofore considered a tropical paradise for tourists, into the same kind of chaos and civil unrest now seen on the streets of Libya, Egypt, and Syria. Maldives is smaller in comparison to the nations of the Middle East where the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), International Republican Institute (IRI), National Democratic Institute (NDI), and George Soros’s Open Society Institute (OSI) have sponsored themed revolutions that have all resulted in civil unrest and a entrance of extremist Wahhabi Salafists into political power. However, the small size of Maldives provides a much clearer picture of how the aforementioned Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-sponsored “soft power” aggressors managed to turn paradise into another center of unrest in the Muslim world.
In the case of the Maldives, the road to civil strife began in 2005 when USAID- and OSI-sponsored democracy” manipulation groups took root in the countryupon the legalization of opposition political parties by the government of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. Serving as president for thirty years, Gayoom was seen by the international human rights network of non-governmental organizations as a dictator ripe for removal. The Western-sponsored NGOs settled on Mohamed Nasheed, a Maldivian opposition leader who had lived in exile in Britain – with the support of the British government — and Sri Lanka and who returned to Maldives in 2005, as their favorite candidate for president.
In preparation for the first direct presidential election for president in 2008, outside “democracy manipulators” descended on Maldives, a country that had become popular with the Soros network because of global climate change. Maldives, which is threatened by rising sea levels, became a cause célèbre for the carbon tax and carbon cap-and-trade advocates.
Nasheed was the 2008 presidential candidate of the Maldivian Democratic Party against President Gayoom’s Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party. In the first round of voting, Gayoom received a little over 40 percent of the vote in the first round to the 24 percent of Nasheed’s and his vice presidential running mate, Mohammed Waheed Hassan. To defeat Gayoom in the second round, Nasheed, obviously with the encouragement of his foreign “democracy” advisers, sought and received the endorsement of four other opposition parties, including the Saudi- and United Arab Emirates-financed Salafist Adhaalath (Justice) Party. Adhaalath is an ideological partner of the Muslim Brotherhoods of Egypt and Syria. In the second round of the election, Nasheed, with the support of the other four opposition presidential candidates, defeated Gayoom 54 percent to 46 percent.
Nasheed was immediately embraced by the world’s glitterati community of NGOs and celebrities, including carbon tax-and-trade advocate Bill McKibben of 350.org and the crowd who gathered at the Sundance Film Festival to view a sycophantic film about Nasheed called The Island President. Nasheed was called the “Mandela of the Maldives” by those celebrities whose knowledge of Maldives did not extend beyond the nation’s Wikipedia entry. In October 2009, Nasheed and his Cabinet pulled off a pre-Copenhagen climate change conference publicity stunt by holding the world’s first underwater Cabinet meeting. Nasheed and eleven of his ministers, wearing scuba gear, convened the meeting twenty feet under the surface of the Indian Ocean. Nasheed was a huge hit among the celebrity contingent at the December 2009 Copenhagen summit.
Nasheed was selected by Time magazine at the top of their “Leaders & Visionaries” list of “Heroes of the Environment.” The United Nations awarded Nasheed its “Champions of the Earth” award. Foreign Policy magazine, co-founded by the late Samuel Huntington, a chief ideologist for the neo-conservative pabulum of a “Clash of Civilizations” between the West and Islam, named Nasheed as one of its top global thinkers.
Nasheed took on as his close adviser and communications assistant Paul Roberts, a British national. In what alienated his Salafist supporters, Nasheed also opened diplomatic relations with Israel, invited Israeli surgeons to Maldives amid fears they would begin harvesting human organs for Israeli clients, met with Israeli government officials, agreed to allow direct air links between Israel and Maldives, invited Israeli trainers into Maldives to advise Maldivian security forces, and failed to ensure that Maldives voted for Palestine’s full admission to the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) during the organization’s general assembly meeting in Paris on October 31, 2011. Maldives was absent from the vote.
Maldivian opposition parties, particularly the Salafist Adhaalath Party which left Nasheed’s coalition, did not buy Nasheed’s government’s weak explanation about the Palestine vote.By the end of 2010, the four other political parties in Nasheed’s Cabinet had left and Nasheed’s government was accused by the opposition of lacking transparency. The trademark yellow neckties and shirts worn by Nasheed and his supporters and the yellow Maldivian Democratic Party flags waved by Nasheed’s supporters were yet another indication that Nasheed’s “revolution” was another “themed revolution” concocted by the Soros/NED network of NGOs and think tanks in Washington, London, and New York.
Just as other Soros / NED-installed regimes began to violate the constitutions of their respective nations, including Georgia and Ukraine, Nasheed was no different. On December 10, 2010, the Maldivian Supreme Court ruled that Nasheed’s cabinet ministers could not serve without the approval of parliament. Nasheed responded by declaring the Maldivian courts were controlled by supporters of ex-president Gayoom and on January 16, 2012, Nasheed ordered the military to arrest Abdulla Mohammed, the Chief Justice of the Criminal Court.
Counter-protests were organized by Maldives opposition parties and were backed by the police. After the military clashed with the opposition protesters and police, several military members defected and joined the protesters.
Faced with the opposition and police/military uprising, Nasheed resigned the presidency on February 7. Later, Nasheed and his British adviser Roberts claimed that Nasheed was ousted in a coup d’etat. The U.S. State Department demanded that Vice President Mohammed Waheed Hassan, who assumed the presidency and opposed the arrest order of the Chief Justice, form a government of national unity with Nasheed’s supporters. Hassan refused and India, which, in the past, has intervened militarily in Maldives to put down attempted coups, remained silent. The Soros/NED global glitterati, including the Soros-funded “Democracy Now” program hosted by Amy Goodman and partly-funded by Soros, featured Roberts on an interview in which Gayoom was described as a thug and who was trying to re-assume power. Of course, the Soros propaganda program made no mention of Nasheed’s repeated violations of the Maldivian constitution.
As with the destabilization of Iraq, Egypt, and Libya, the first target for alleged Islamist radicals after the ouster of Nasheed was the destruction of priceless museum artifacts. Unknown men broke into the Chinese-built Maldives National Museum in Male, the capital, and smashed the delicate coral and limestone pre–Islamic Maldivian Buddhist statues on display.
The yellow flag of Nasheed’s political party.
The rise of Salafists and Muslim Brotherhood adherents in the new Maldivian governmentparallels what occurred in Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Tunisia after their themed revolutions.
The Maldives were destabilized by the West at the same time that the Egyptian government charged 43 CIA-linked NGO personnel, including Americans, Britons, Serbs, and others working for IRI, NDI, and NED, with possessing a secret plan, including maps, to divide Egypt into an Israeli-dominated Sinai state, a Coptic state extending from Alexandria in the north to Asyut in the South, a Berber-dominated Islamic state based in Cairo, and a black African Nubian state in the south. [Comment: what? Is this guy serious, or is he nuts? It was all good, until he got to this insane portion. ... lol
Wow, I just looked it up ... author's not nuts. It's a real story: here.]
There now may be an attempt by the West to split up Maldives. In 1957, the British established the Gan airbase on the southernmost atoll of Addu and insisted on 100-year base rights on Seenu Atoll. After Maldives Prime Minister and President Ibrahim Nasir adopted a nationalist foreign policy, the British backed a secessionist movement in the southern atolls where the British bases were located that declared the short-lived United Suvadive Republic in 1959. After the collapse of the secessionist republic in 1965, the British bought the southernmost atoll in the Chagos-Laccadive chain of atolls from Mauritius and established the British Indian Ocean Territory. The inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago island of Diego Garcia were forcibly removed to Mauritius and other Chagos islands and the United States established its strategic military base on the island of Diego Garcia. Maldives never recognized Mauritian claims over the Chagos atolls or the British Indian Ocean Territory. With neo-con interference in Maldives now coming to fruition, secessionist movements in the southern atolls may, once again, gain ground to ensure unfettered U.S. and British control over Diego Garcia and expansion of U.S. and British military facilities to the Addu atoll and, perhaps, further north in the Maldives chain.
Source: Strategic Culture Foundation on-line journal www.strategic-culture.org.
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Julian Assange to RT: WikiLeaks gives 'most accurate picture of war'
Last question. The Pentagon have put their PR machine into operation after you released the Afghan War Diaries.What are you expecting from them this time around?
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks
Well, we expect a similar sort of counter-attack. Every time you release something like this,we expect a counter-attack. You're never quite sure what it is. It tends to be a different thing, [that] each time is seized upon and then amplified [cough]. here
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Sex Allegations Sweden
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" ... Assange has previously suggested that the allegations are part of a smear campaign following his website's release of thousands of secret US Army documents relating to Afghanistan."here
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Stain of Blood On Their Hands
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Well, it looks like America eventually found a less predictable and waaaaaay more creative solution, than mere propaganda as the follow-up, counter-response to WikiLeaks releases ...
... or Sweden just happened to fortuitously and coincidentally oblige with:
(a) a pretext to legally assault and decommission, WikiLeaks editor, Julian Assange (via Sweden police 'allegations', minus proper procedures, minus proper recording of prosecution witnesses, minus a key sworn statement, obtained as result of 'informal' interview between friends and police associates, police database tampering, dismissed by Stockholm's chief prosecutor Eva Finne for lack of sufficient evidence, etc);
(b) arrest Julian Assange.
Oddly, by proxy (UK authorities, on behalf of Sweden, on behalf of USA, rather than direct arrest by Sweden, on behalf of their acknowledged US masters - see links below), when Sweden had ample opportunity to interview and arrest, while Assange remained in Sweden, before asking Swedish authorities for permission to travel from Sweden).
Allegations against Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, took an unexpected turn yesterday when Sweden's top prosecutor announced she was reopening a rape investigation.
It is the second time the country's authorities have made a U-turn over whether the Australian-born journalist should face charges.
The warrant was abruptly rescinded within 24 hours and last week Stockholm's chief prosecutor Eva Finne said all charges against the 39-year-old would be dropped.
But Ms Finne's boss, Marianne Ny, Sweden's chief prosecutor, has overruled that decision after new information reportedly came to light on Tuesday.
It looks like the Stockholm prosecutor Finne has most likely been overruled from the top.
And I'm not talking overruled merely by Ms Marianne Ny.
Overruled by whoever Marianne Ny answers to in government, which has stake (and is lawfully entitled to intervene) in matters concerning the state and foreign diplomacy.
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Perhaps arrest by proxy was chosen, in an attempt to mask this farce and to create an appearance of the assault on Julian Assange as a 'genuine' article, in a way that a direct Swedish arrest may not have conveyed.
Delayed, proxy arrest (which included the spectacle of a EAW, Interpol Red Notice, Swedish leak to press, and a London arrest), was also possibly effected to get maximum PR mileage (propaganda, manufacture of consent, smear) out of staging a performance for all that fenzied (and expected) media coverage.
(c) de facto imprisonment of Julian Assange for almost 5 years in total now without charge, trapping WikiLeaks editor in the Ecuador embassy in London for 3 years now (where he has been granted political asylum), at the threat of arrest and extradition to Sweden (which would pave the way to subsequent extradition to USA).
The arrest of Assange was executed to decommission Assange, while no doubt allowing the US time to build its 120-man taskforce case in America.
Note: Assange has committed no crime, so the US has to work towards creating such 'crime'- and that's heading in the direction of redefining journalism as 'terrorism').
I find it very hard to believe Assange has been detained for 5 years and is in grave danger of extradition to the US, simply because of mere 'accident,' 'misunderstanding,' 'bad luck', or merely the result of jealousies which arose from obliging those Swedish women ... who were keen to bed Assange.
I'm more inclined to believe the events in Sweden were a set-up.
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Flagrant Political Persecution
British Foreign Office minister, Hugo Swire, hypocritically spoke of a 'stain' on Ecuador's reputation for (rightfully and lawfully) granting politically persecuted journalist, Julian Assange, political asylum:
British Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire said in a statement Thursday that it would make a formal protest to Ecuador over its decision to provide asylum to Assange.
"Ecuador must recognize that its decision to harbor Mr Assange more than three years ago has prevented the proper course of justice," said Swire in a statement.
British police have guarded Ecuador's London Embassy around the clockat an estimated cost of more than US$15.6 million, which has placed pressure on the British government to resolve the long-standing issue.
Swire alleged that the harboring of Assange constituted an abuse of diplomatic relations and was a “growing stain on the country’s reputation."
As witnessed by the British Foreign Office propaganda attack on Educator, instead of censure of Sweden's refusal to progress this matter and to interview Julian Assange in London, it's plain to see that Britain and Sweden have obviously colluded (and continue to collude) with US authorities to deprive Julian Assange of liberty, with a view to eventually handing up Julian Assange to USA.
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From where I stand, Sweden's politicians and public servants - along with their British and US counterparts - collectively have the stain of Julian Assange's blood on their corrupt hands.
By that I mean, theirs is the guilt of taking life - the life of Julian Assange, presently detained 5 years without charge, at the threat of arrest and extradition to a country in which he will be entombed alive, for daring to expose American war crimes.
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The footsoldiers of the powerful have stolen 5 years of Julian Assange's life by imposing a corruptly engineered, and politically motivated, de facto captivity that is in flagrant breach of international law, aimed at only one thing: extradition of Julian Assange to the United States to face life imprisonment or a death sentence, on trumped up 'espionage' charges or the like, that the US Dept of Justice team is probably banging out in some form or other, right now.
(Hey, this contempt for international law and conventions, and the fondness for trumped up accusations, seems to be a recurring theme ... lol).
The players also happen to be samefootsoldiers of the powerful, who, in turn, are stained withthe blood of tens of thousands of civilians killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Upon them is the stain of actual bloodof war crimes(exposed by Assange), and they and their public representatives are grimly determined in their aim to put Assange away.
So, behind the recent public propaganda statement attack on Ecuador, behind the pending official complaint/attack on Assange, and behind the 5 year de facto without-charge imprisonment of Julian Assange, are the same powers that are responsible for the war crimes in Iraq & Aghanistanexposed by WikiLeaks. In the case of Iraq: from war waged following US manufacture of false pretext for invasion (ie 'weapons of mass destruction').
How psychopathic does this get?
Rightfully, British Foreign Office ought to be condemning Sweden for its inaction and failure to progress this undemocratic and baseless legal assault on journalist-publisher, Julian Assange.
Despite ample opportunity, it is Sweden that has failed to act - over the space of 5 years. And the world knows it.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the British role in the political persecution of journalist, Julian Assange (who was excluded in 2014 from changes in British law to prevent exactly this kind of without-charge unjust detention), the British Foreign Office has slunk as low as to resort to publicly smearing and condemning Ecuador.
Perverse conduct, in the form of attack on Ecuador by the British, is a 'tell' that patently shows the British hand in this injustice and ongoing political persecution.
With straight faces, British officials call for 'justice' as a leverage and as media smear, in an attempt to imposeinjustice upon Julian Assange, based on the falsehood of Sweden policeallegations and the farce of Sweden government's and Sweden prosecution's failure to take appropriate action (carefully sidestepping even interviewing Assange during the 5 years he has been a political prisoner in England).
The same British authorities that assault the sovereignty of Ecuador insult the intelligence of the watching world.
But the world knows that these same colluding authorities are behind the Sweden set-up, the politician persecution, and denial of justice - and denial of rightful, internationally recognised, protections - to whistleblower journalist Julian Assange.
After 50 years of secret cooperation, in 2004, Sweden established formal and even closer ties between the Swedish FRA (National Defence Radio Establishment - more info here) and the Authority's signal scout colleagues in the US: namely, NSA (world famous for mass surveillance of entire countries, allied heads of government and corporate spying), and the British GCHQ - in direct cooperation. [here]
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LINK | Sweden's secret mass spying agreement with the US & UK
Sweden Joins 'Five Eyes' US, UK & Allied Intelligence Cooperative
British investigative journalist Duncan Campbell gave an indication of the scale of collaboration between Sweden, the US and Britain at a European Parliament hearing on state surveillance in early September.
“A new organization has joined the “Five Eyes” and is seen as the largest cooperating partner to [the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters] GCHQ outside the English-speaking countries—and that is Sweden,” he said. [here]
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Interesting that, journalist, Duncan Campbell makes an 'appearance'.
Cambell revealed the existence of the ECHELONsurveillance program in 1988 (US-Anglo 'Five Eye' alliance satellite trunk communications sweeping intercepts).
Campbell knows all about intelligence, security, and British political persecution from up close and personal - here.
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Sweden Bows to US Pressure
Copyright Infringement
According to an unreleased US Embassy cable in possession of Swedish Television, the US pressure on Sweden to deal with file-sharing issues continued in the years that followed. In the cable, which dates back to 2008, the US Embassy presented a list of six items that they wanted to see addressed, all related to online copyright infringement.
A year later, five of these six items were indeed turned into action, including the appointment of more copyright police and prosecutors, backed up by educational anti-piracy campaigns. Of course, the Pirate Bay wasn’t left unmentioned in this cable either.
The cable writer mentions that it was hard for the Embassy to get openly involved in piracy related issues, because most of the press coverage was unfavorable towards the copyright industry.
“The Pirate Bay raid was portrayed as the Government of Sweden caving in to United States Government pressure. This delicate situation made it difficult, if not counter-productive, for the Embassy to play a public role in IPR issues,” it adds. [here]
Bear in mind, that the above Sweden-US (& allies) collaboration history is not an exhaustive study in Swedish-US collaboration. Even so, the above is sufficient as an indication of where Sweden likely stands with regard to USA and its 'problem,' WikiLeaks and journalist-publisher, Julian Assange.
If Sweden bends to American pressure and will do so on relatively insignificant matters (ie not designated as 'national security' issues) such as copyright, imagine the pressure the US would bring down to bear.
And imagine the Swedish (& other government) inclination to bend to such US pressure ... if we pretend for one moment that Sweden (or UK) were an 'unwilling' accomplices in the persecution and de facto imprisonment of Julian Assange, publisher-journalist who exposed US and allied war crimes.
Defence Secretary Robert Gates
on the arrest of WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange
7 December 2010
"Gates said it sounded good to him."
91,000 Afghans killed
(incl. civilians, soldiers & militants)
Number who have died through indirect causes related to the war est. additional 360,000 people [here]
coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians
in unreported incidents
(ie concealment of civilian casualties)
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6 US soldiers killed [ Sec Def Robert Gates Video 7/12/2010 ]
while Gates refers to 'serious losses' before telling us how he's revived by visiting the scene of mass scale death visited upon Afghanistan by USA
US War Casualties - Afghanistan Total US Dead: 2,316
as at June 2015
[here]
For some perspective on what may count as 'serious losses,' maybe Gates ought to take a look at the Afghan dead figures (*)
Considering this is an invasion of another country, just shy of 500 dead in 2010 isn't exactly big numbers, when you compare this to losses on the other side. The grand total of US dead for the entire Afghanistan operation is: 2,316
But the US figures don't look so good when it comes to injuries sustained: massive number of US injured, which comes at an immediate & long-term cost to the taxpayer.
Military US War Casualties - Iraq 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' - page 22 Total US Dead: 4,412
mostly Army
then abt. 1/4 Marines
as at Dec 2014
MASSIVE number of wounded US Wounded Total: 31,949
as at Dec 2014
[here]
US War Casualties - Afghanistan Total US Dead: 2,316
as at June 2015
(ie During 14 Years of US Occupation)
[here] Further Confirmation US Deaths - here
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WikiLeaks Exposes War Crimes IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN
[ Slate | here ]
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Robert Gates
airforce | recruited CIA 1966
Strategic Air Command as an intelligence officer
intelligence briefings
rejoined the CIA as an intelligence analyst
left the CIA in 1974 > staff of National Security Council
returned to the CIA in late 1979
[ Gates nominated as Director of CIA 1987
Withdrew his name after it became clear the Senate would reject the nomination due to controversy about his role in the Iran-Contra affair. ]
1991 - nominated 2nd time by Pres George H. W. Bush confirmed & sworn
Director of CIA (under President George H. W. Bush)
"...former division chief Melvin Goodman testified that the agency was the most corrupt and slanted during the tenure of William Casey with Gates serving as Deputy. According to Goodman, Gates was part of an agency leadership that proliferated false information and ignored 'reality'. National Intelligence Council chairman Harold P. Ford testified that during his tenure, Gates had transgressed professional boundaries" close to many figures who played significant roles in the Iran-Contra Affair and was in a position to have known of their activities. served for 26 years in CIA and the National Security Council
MA history Indiana Uni 1966
PhD in Russian & Soviet history | Georgetown Uni in 1974
I'm going to hazard a guess and say that US Secretary of Defence & CIA man Robert Gates knew exactly what kind of predicament Julian Assange was in when he was arrested on those rather handy Sweden police 'sexual misconduct' allegations
on 7 Dec. 2010.
Mood Music
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(I like the drama of this song & it fits in with vision I have of the entire across-borders psychopathic government alliance and political persecution of Assange.
Mute Robert Gates & watch him while also listening to Nick Cave.)
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While I may have encountered Afghanistan war death figures in the media before, I don't have a recall of what little I may have read. So this is probably the first time I've given the figures any real thought.
I'm yet to read articles relating to WikiLeaks and the Afghanistan War Logs (although by now I must have encountered some, since forgotten, mentions in the press).
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