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[info from Craig Murray video appearance, follows]  US-Anglo Alliance DELIBERATELY STOKING ANTI-RUSSIAN FEELING & RAMPING UP TENSION BETWEEN EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA.  British military/government feeding media PROPAGANDA.  Media choosing to PUBLISH government PROPAGANDA.  US naval aggression against Russia:  Baltic Sea — US naval aggression against China:  South China Sea.  Continued NATO pressure on Russia:  US missile systems moving into Eastern Europe.     [info from John Pilger interview follows]  War Hawk:  Hillary Clinton — embodiment of seamless aggressive American imperialist post-WWII system.  USA in frenzy of preparation for a conflict.  Greatest US-led build-up of forces since WWII gathered in Eastern Europe and in Baltic states.  US expansion & military preparation HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED IN THE WEST.  Since US paid for & controlled US coup, UKRAINE has become an American preserve and CIA Theme Park, on Russia's borderland, through which Germans invaded in the 1940s, costing 27 million Russian lives.  Imagine equivalent occurring on US borders in Canada or Mexico.  US military preparations against RUSSIA and against CHINA have NOT been reported by MEDIA.  US has sent guided missile ships to diputed zone in South China Sea.  DANGER OF US PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKES.  China is on HIGH NUCLEAR ALERT.  US spy plane intercepted by Chinese fighter jets.  Public is primed to accept so-called 'aggressive' moves by China, when these are in fact defensive moves:  US 400 major bases encircling China; Okinawa has 32 American military installations; Japan has 130 American military bases in all.  WARNING PENTAGON MILITARY THINKING DOMINATES WASHINGTON. ⟴  
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April 29, 2016

Sweden - Effects of Mass Immigration





Sweden
Effects of Mass Immigration
Jan Sjunnesson
Swedish Journalist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN7kdTG7q5g



SHOW OF STATE FORCE
INTIMIDATING POLICE PRESENCE
SWEDEN COUNCIL BOARD MEETING

Sweden politicians feel the need to have police protection for themselves at municipal board meeting in Stockholm suburb.

Swedish authorities intend to erect a barracks adjacent to a Swedish PRIMARY (elementary) school, to house thousands of existing permanent residency issued migrant arrivals, to be housed at the proposed barracks beside the primary school for the next several years.

The Sweden Democrats, who are oppose exactly this sort of immigration, were not represented at this Stockholm Council board meeting.

The Board couldn't answer questions of concerned residents and parents.  Board kept blaming some overhead administration entity or other.  People were angry and did not accept this. 
The Council board would not provide information sought by residents concerned for public safety and particularly concerned about the safety of their children.

Dissent among Swedes is growing.   But most Swedes do not yet realise the consequences of what they have voted for, in voting for pro-immigration left parties.

Council  shut down angry residents at meeting.

The Greens representative fielding questions at the council meeting was himself an immigrant from Africa. 

Swedes voted for left-wing parties and the left leaning parties are providing them with what they voted for.  In abundance. In excess of a staggering 400% increase in the immigration that Sweden has previously accepted.  And this is Sweden that has accepted mass immigration in large volume for decades.

The Swedes have been contending with the enormous impacts and costs of mass third world population transfer to the Swedish national homeland.  For decades.

Dissenters are harassed, information and news is suppressed.  Media bias largely prevails.

Judging by the captions that appear, it looks as if Canada has similar problems with suppression of information and a ruling establishment that is imposing more of the same mass population transfer on Canadians, irrespective of consequences.

The video was posted 18th April 2016, but it's not clear to me when the video was made (although it sounds as if this meeting was quite recent).

This is horrific.  Somebody, please help Sweden.  And Canada.  And Germany.  And Europe.

April 07, 2016

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January 21, 2016

US-Iran Prisoner Exchange

Article
SOURCE
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bs-md-iran-prisoners-20160116-story.html




SUMMARY

17 Jan. 2016

x7 dual US-Iranian citizens

Iran prisoner SWAP DEAL
release from USA federal prison
part USA-Iran deal to free x4 Iranian-Americans held Iran:


USA Iranian Prisoners for RELEASE:


Ali Saboonchi, formerly of Parville, Maryland
electrician & PhD student MOrgan State Uni
convicted:  exporting goods & services to Iran, 2009 - 2013
sentence:  2 years prison

Nader Modanlou, formerly of Potomac, Maryland
convicted:  conspiracy to illegally send satellite tech to Iran - 2013
allegedly:  scheme helped Iran launch a satellite w/ camera from Russia in 2005
sentence:  8 years prison

Others:

  • Bahram Mechanic
  • Khosrow Afqahi
  • Arash Ghahreman
  • Touraj Faridi
  • Nima Golestaneh
held for allegedly violating US trade embargo imposed on Iran
{ incl. helping Iran launch first space satellite }

UN announcement Iran obligations under nukes deal met
 PRECEDED  deal to free:  x4 Americans held Iran

UN announcement aftermath:
= sanctions lifted & Iran can access billions in frozen funds
= $50-b frozen assets & oil revenue (mostly Asia banks) for release
= foodstuffs import / export (+ other) to USA lifted
= otherwise, USA embargo on trade w/ Iran continues

= Iran may rejoin international banking system
= EU to allow trade:  software, gold, metals, transport equip.
= Iran may sell oil & other energy on open market

Iran to rejoin 'global economy'

USA lifted Interpol red notices & dismissed charges re x14 Iranians

Iran x4 detainees to be released include: 

Jason Rezaian, journalist, Washington Post (Tehran)

 - held since 2014
facility:  'notorious' Evin Prison
reason detained:  "attempts to help the U.S. Senate to advance its regime change plots in Iran."

Amir Mirza Hekmati, former US Marine
reason detained:  alleged sping for CIA

Saeed Abedini, a Christian pastor
reason detained:  *** not specified

Nostratollah Khosravi, *** not specified
reason detained:  *** not specified

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USA still waiting for Iran to find American #5:

     Robert Levinson
     disappeared Iran 2007
     working on 'unauthorised' CIA op
 
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NOTE

dual citizenship is not recognised by Iran
x4 jailed US-Iranian nationals treated by Iran as Iran citizens

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Iran Foreign Minister:  Javad Zarif

Nukes Deal Obligations:
-- almost entire enriched uranium stockpile in Iran
-- shipped to Russia for reprocessing
-- plutonium-producing heavy water reactor (at Arak) - destroyed
-- 1,000s uranium enriching centrifuges dismantled

Above measures:  more than triple time required to produce nuke weapon

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NOTE
-- x10 USA sailors captured in Iranian waters in Persian Gulf
-- subsequent release by negotiation b/w foreign ministers
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*US & Iran - no formal diplomatic relations since 1980

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bs-md-iran-prisoners-20160116-story.html






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This was a good article. 

Wonder if that x10 US sailors captured in Iranian waters helped swing things in Iran's favour at all?

Looks like Iran has a 'law of return' of it's own:  return to Iran for [alleged] US spying & expect prison, whatever the adopted citizenship ... lol.

It looks like Asian banks cannot be trusted with money, as they back US agenda.
And it looks like Obama's keeping US farmers happy (ending sanctions on foodstuffs), as well as keeping the Jewish/Israel lobbies happy by otherwise maintaining Iran trade sanctions by the sound of things, despite some exemptions in addition to foodstuffs?
It is highly unlikely that the Levinson guy is still alive.


January 16, 2016

British 'Justice' - Crown Prosecution Service - Former Labour MP Lord Janner cf. US Target Journalist Assange

Article
SOURCE
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/15/greville-janner-child-sex-abuse-case-dropped




BRITISH 'JUSTICE'
Crown Prosecution Service
Former Labour MP
Lord Janner
Charged with 22 Sexual Offences dating back to the 1960s
MISHANDLED INVESTIGATION
DROPPED PROCEEDINGS
cf.
US TARGET
JOURNALIST ASSANGE
Detained Over 5 Years
WITHOUT CHARGE

 "Greville Janner child sex abuse case: alleged victims damn decision to drop proceedings"
(The Guardian)



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Greville Janner child sex abuse case: alleged victims damn decision to drop proceedings

Rajeev Syal, Jamie Grierson and Ben Quinn

Saturday 16 January 2016 05.29 AEDT


Alleged victims of sexual abuse by Greville Janner have hit out at the decision to drop court proceedings against the late peer, saying it amounted to “an establishment cover-up from day one”.

The case against the former Labour MP, who was charged with 22 sexual offences dating back to the 1960s against nine boys and men, was set to be heard in a trial of the facts from which Lord Janner would be absent because of his dementia.

After his death last month, prosecutors suggested the trial could go ahead posthumously. But on Friday the prosecutor Richard Whittam QC told the trial judge, Mr Justice Openshaw, that the crown would not go ahead with the proceedings planned for the Old Bailey in April.

A long-awaited independent report into why it took decades to bring Lord Janner to court to face child sex abuse charges is due to be published this coming week, sources have told the Guardian.

The Crown Prosecution Service and Leicestershire police are expected to face severe criticisms from retired judge Richard Henriques for mishandling investigations into the late peer in 1991, 2002 and 2007.

One solicitor who represents alleged Janner victims said the report could shed light upon claims that the police were pressured by politicians to drop their previous inquiries.

One alleged victim said on Friday that the decision to drop proceedings against the former MP would increase suspicion of “an establishment cover-up from day one” that stopped Janner from appearing before the courts.

The 54-year-old man, who has claimed he was abused repeatedly in a children’s home by Janner over several years, said: “I am really disappointed. He was already deemed unfit to stand trial and wasn’t going to be in court anyway, so his death shouldn’t have made a difference.

“The fact that he kicked the bucket should not have mattered. For once, they should have thought about the victims and let us go to court and let the court decide if we were telling the truth.”

The alleged victim’s case mirrors that of others who have said they were based in children’s homes in Leicestershire when Janner, the then MP for Leicester West, was introduced to them.

The man’s account and those of other alleged victims were first given to the police in 1991 and were raised again with detectives in 2005. After a further inquiry in 2014, Leicestershire police said there was enough evidence to pursue a legal case against Janner.

The alleged victim, a labourer, said the decision would leave many feeling abandoned by the justice system.

“I was going to go to court and tell them what happened,” he said. “I thought I was finally going to get some closure. Think what us, the victims, have been through. We were abused by a powerful man. When we plucked up courage to speak to the police, they didn’t believe us; decades later, we finally get near to a court and, somehow, he gets away with it and cheats the court because he dies.”

The BBC, which has interviewed dozens of men and women who lived in children’s homes in Leicestershire in the 70s and 80s, reported on Friday that 12 former residents had claimed they were abused by Janner.

The broadcaster spoke to council officials, social workers, police officers and journalists involved in investigating the case of Frank Beck, a notorious care home manager who was eventually convicted of child abuse.

The BBC reported that lawyers were now representing at least 20 men and one woman, including the 12 residents of children’s homes, who say the former MP abused them and that police had said they had information from 25 alleged victims.

Liz Dux, of Slater and Gordon, who represents a number of Janner’s alleged victims, said the claims against the former Labour MP were of the most “serious nature”.

“My clients are absolutely devastated that they won’t give their evidence in a criminal court,” she said. “They totally understand the reasons why, but that doesn’t make up for the real travesty – that many gave their statements decades ago and have been denied justice through a failure to prosecute earlier when Janner was alive and well, and that’s something they can’t get over.

“The next stage is the only opportunity for them to have their evidence heard, by the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse led by Judge Goddard. We’re hoping there will be an announcement by the Goddard inquiry shortly.

“I hope they prioritise the Lord Janner case and that they will hear my client in person and make findings of facts so there are judicial findings made and then made public.

“What is very disappointing is there was a painstaking inquiry by Leicestershire police since 2013 with a lot of other witnesses’ evidence, who weren’t victims but who were there to corroborate what victims were alleging. That evidence won’t be heard either.”

At the time of Janner’s death on 19 December, the prosecution had an application pending to introduce a second tranche of charges, which covered additional victims.

Janner was subject to three police investigations between 1991 and 2007. The CPS had, in those inquiries, decided there was insufficient evidence to charge Janner as a result of two of the investigations while the police did not submit a file to prosecutors on the third one.

In April last year, the director of public prosecutions, Alison Saunders, said the evidential test was passed, but that “mistakes in the decision-making” were made by Leicestershire police in 2002 and the CPS in 1991 and 2007.

The report by Henriques into the failures of previous inquiries last spring, which is expected to be released within days, will “go further” in its criticisms, sources say.

The report’s findings will be closely examined by lawyers representing at least 20 alleged victims of Janner who are already pursuing civil proceedings against the peer’s estate.

Some alleged victims have voiced suspicions that ministers and senior politicians from the Conservative party and Labour may have interfered in police inquiries.

Peter Garsden, head of QualitySolicitors Abney Garsden, said: “I hope the Henriques review will elaborate upon whether the police were put under pressure by the government not to prosecute Janner, something which has long been rumoured.

“The victims will await its publication with anticipation of it uncovering any cover-up which took place in the past. This has led to them being denied justice at a time when Janner was not lacking in capacity.”

Another legal source claimed that the report could also lead to civil cases against the police or the CPS.


http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/15/greville-janner-child-sex-abuse-case-dropped




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Is this the same British Crown Prosecution Service that has deprived Australian journalist Julian Assange of his liberty for over five years (without charge), having advised their Swedish counterparts not to interview Assange in Britain, and therefore having denied Assange an opportunity to defend himself in relation to Sweden's dubious 'allegations' and strategically stalled 'investigation'?

Oh, and are these the same British authorities that have now spent just shy of $20-million American dollars ($28-million Australian) detaining Assange at the Embassy of Ecuador, under 24/7 police-guard siege spanning in excess of 3 years, during which time the said British authorities have blocked his lawfully granted (and patently justified) political asylum, in violation of international law and conventions?

Hmmmm ... I keep saying this and I'll say it again, because that's what it is:   political persecution.

[Oooops ... Excuse the typos galore.  Hopefully all fixed now.]

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January 07, 2016

Article - 'The Haiti Cables – WikiLeaks – part 2' | Sealed US Grand Jury Indictment & Australian PM Gillard, FM Rudd & Stratfor

WIKILEAKS
HAITI CABLES

The Stringer

The Haiti Cables – WikiLeaks – part 2

by Gerry Georgatos
  
January 5th, 2016

The moral force of WikiLeaks is the bent for the truth and that truth is in the interest of the common good. According to both Plato and Aristotle the common good can only be delivered and sustained as a result of truth. Not since Socrates challenged Athenians has anyone driven as passionately for the truth as has Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder drove an unprecedented contemporaneous calling to challenge the citadels of the powerful that forever degenerate to oppressor and oppressed dichotomies. WikiLeaks gave not only voice to the powerless but also to the sense of hope. In taking on the powerful, WikiLeaks took on the rulers of the world and the influence and control they have over institutions throughout our world.

The majority would say that no-one can defeat corruption, that corruption is an immutable constant, that exploitation is an immutable constant. Many would say there are millions of injustices each day under the sun on this earth, so why bother my brother? But there are some who think contrary, that the pursuit of truth should be met fearlessly. That truth does matter. WikiLeaks took on the rulers of the world – they who in effect control the fate of the world.
[ ... CONTINUES ... ]

The presumptions of innocence and of whistleblowing in the public interest were hijacked by the then Prime Minister’s statement that WikiLeaks had acted ‘illegally’. Gillard and her government portrayed WikiLeaks as if a criminally bent organisation. The American administration was depicting WikiLeaks as a terrorist organisation. What led a highly skilled lawyer such as Gillard to abrogate the presumption of innocence, to dismiss the right of WikiLeaks as whistleblowers, as investigative journalists, as acting in the public interest? Prime Minister Gillard fell into line with the contrived rage from the American government and its clandestine institutions – a nation of which a majority of its conservatives and excessive self interest groups were calling for the smashing of WikiLeaks and for Assange’s blood. Psychosocially this was displaced anger – it was about guilt and being exposed. Censorship protects the guilty. This type of anger and the subsequent malice and vindictiveness have been a tragic constant in the human narrative; where moral forces shine the light on the immoral or amoral and are then punished for doing so.

President Barack Obama’s administration has prosecuted and jailed more whistleblowers than any previous American administration.

The David and Goliath like tussle between the oppressed and the oppressor continues.
Haiti is one of the world’s poorest nations. It is the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. More than 80 per cent of Haiti’s predominately rural population lives in poverty. During the past decade the poverty has degraded further, becoming more extreme and dire. The life expectancy of a Haitian is 57 years of age. Less than half the Haitian population is literate and only one child in five attends secondary schooling. Less than 25 per cent of the population have access to safe water. The Haitian population continues to grow at about 200,000 per year.

In November 2010, WikiLeaks released 1,918 documents from 2003 to 2010 – ending six weeks after the January 12, 2010 earthquake which further devastated Haitian life. The documents were among the most disturbing I have read of the files published by WikiLeaks, in how America was controlling Haitian policy-making but to the detriment of the Haitian people.

It is not news that America meddles, bullies, wars with nations who do not abide. But it is darkly disturbing to read these documents and to see one of the world’s powerless nations downtrodden further by the world’s most powerful superpower. The Haitian cables wreak an air of hopelessness. One cannot not be moved by the Haiti cables.
[ ... CONTINUES ... ]

SOURCE
http://thestringer.com.au/the-haiti-cables-wikileaks-part-2-11479

*Apologies to The Stringer ... I keep adding just 'one more paragraph', and I've included a bit more text in this extract than I first intended.


26 January 2011

Stratfor 
Private US Intelligence Contractor
confirms via e-mail that they have sealed indictment on Assange.

WikiLeaks | GI Files

ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3157403.htm?show=transcript

Monday 14 March, 2011

Julia Gillard Meets The People


EXTRACT - TRANSCRIPT
TONY JONES: Okay. You're watching Q&A. Remember you can send web or video questions to our website. The address is on the screen to find out how to do that. Well, the next question is a video question and it comes from Julian Assange, who is under house arrest in England.

JULIAN ASSANGE: Prime Minister, you just got back from Washington but what Australian citizens want to know is which country do you represent? Do you represent Australians and will you fight for Australian interests because it's not the first time that you or a member of your cabinet has been into a US government building and exchanged information. In fact, we have intelligence that your government has been exchanging information with foreign powers about Australian citizens working for Wikileaks. So Prime Minister, my question to you is this: when will you come clean about precisely what information you have supplied the foreign powers about Australian citizens working or affiliated with Wikileaks and if you cannot give a full and frank answer to that question, should perhaps the Australian people consider charging you with treason?

TONY JONES: Take the treason part first, if you like.

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TONY JONES: What about espionage which, of course, is the charge the United States would like to lay at the feet of Julian Assange?

JULIA GILLARD: Well, Mr Assange hasn't been charged with anything relating to Wikileaks. He's got some legal issues relating to personal conduct questions - alleged personal conduct questions in Sweden - and no one in the United States raised with me Mr Assange. No one.
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http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s3157403.htm?show=transcript


Definitions

Indictment

-- formal accusation of felony
-- issued by grand jury
-- based on proposed charge, witness testimony & other
-- presented by public prosecutor (District Attorney)
-- grand jury vote that there is enough 'evidence'
-- of 'probability' that a 'crime' was committed
-- & that accused should be tried
-- District Attorneys do not present full case

Grand Juries
-- used in federal charges
-- due to Fifth Amendment to US Constitution
-- capital crime (or otherwise
infamous crime) presentation to Grand Jury required
-- states use 'preliminary hearing' in place of grand jury

Sealed Indictment
 
-- indictment (formal accusation)
-- sealed so it stays non-public until unsealed

Federal court ruling re sealed indictments example:
"The magistrate judge to whom an indictment is returned may direct that the indictment be kept secret until the defendant is in custody or has been released pending trial. The clerk must then seal the indictment, and no person may disclose the indictment’s existence except as necessary to issue or execute a warrant or summons."

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CAPITAL CRIME

Death sentence punishment, known as 'capital punishment'.

"US federal government lists 41 capital offenses which are punishable by death."

8.     18 U.S.C. 794     Espionage

http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=4942

http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=004927


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Anyone else wonder why the then Prime Minister of Australia was not informed by her American counterparts (and strategic, defence and trade allies), that an American Grand Jury had issued a sealed indictment for the head of Australian journalist-publisher, Julian Assange, about 6 weeks prior to the Prime Minister's appearance on national Australian television? 
Likewise, in the case of Australian Foreign Minister Rudd (aka deposed-by-Gillard former Labor Prime Minister) ... over a year down the track.
Yes, I realise it is a 'sealed' indictment, but if US private intelligence contractor, Stratfor, knew about the issue of a sealed indictment against Assange in January of 2011 (as per their leaked communications), the US government knew also, of course.

SMH
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/revealed-us-plans-to-charge-assange-20120228-1u14o.html


Revealed: US plans to charge Assange

Date   |  February 29, 2012

Philip Dorling



UNITED STATES prosecutors have drawn up secret charges against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, according to a confidential email obtained from the private US intelligence company Stratfor.

In an internal email to Stratfor analysts on January 26 last year, the vice-president of intelligence, Fred Burton, responded to a media report concerning US investigations targeting WikiLeaks with the comment: ''We have a sealed indictment on Assange.''

He underlined the sensitivity of the information - apparently obtained from a US government source - with warnings to ''Pls [please] protect'' and ''Not for pub[lication]''.

Mr Burton is well known as an expert on security and counterterrorism with close ties to the US intelligence and law enforcement agencies. He is the former deputy chief of the counter-terrorism division of the US State Department's diplomatic security service.

Stratfor, whose headquarters are in Austin, Texas, provides intelligence and analysis to corporate and government subscribers.

On Monday, WikiLeaks began releasing more than 5 million Stratfor emails which it said showed ''how a private intelligence agency works, and how they target individuals for their corporate and government clients''.

The Herald has secured access to the emails through an investigative partnership with WikiLeaks.

The news that US prosecutors drew up a secret indictment against Mr Assange more than 12 months ago comes as the Australian awaits a British Supreme Court decision on his appeal against extradition to Sweden to be questioned in relation to sexual assault allegations.

Mr Assange, who has not been charged with any offence in Sweden, fears extradition to Stockholm will open the way for his extradition to the US on possible espionage or conspiracy charges in retaliation for WikiLeaks's publication of thousands of leaked US classified military and diplomatic reports.

[ ... ]

The Australian embassy in Washington reported in December 2010 that the Justice Department was pursuing an ''active and vigorous inquiry into whether Julian Assange can be charged under US law, most likely the 1917 Espionage Act''.

In recent answers to written parliamentary questions from the Greens senator Scott Ludlam, the former foreign affairs minister Kevin Rudd indicated Australia had sought confirmation that a secret grand jury inquiry directed against Mr Assange was under way.

Mr Rudd said ''no formal advice'' had been received from US authorities but acknowledged the existence of a ''temporary surrender'' mechanism that could allow Mr Assange to be extradited from Sweden to the US. He added that Swedish officials had said Mr Assange's case would be afforded ''due process''.

The US government has repeatedly declined to confirm or deny any reported details of the WikiLeaks inquiry, beyond the fact that an investigation is being pursued.

The Stratfor emails show that the WikiLeaks publication of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables triggered intense discussion within the ''global intelligence'' company.

In the emails, an Australian Stratfor ''senior watch officer'', Chris Farnham, advocated revoking Mr Assange's Australian citizenship, adding: ''I don't care about the other leaks but the ones he has made that potentially damage Australian interests upset me. If I thought I could switch this dickhead off without getting done I don't think I'd have too much of a problem.''

But Mr Farnham also referred to a conversation with a close family friend who he said knew one of the Swedish women who had made allegations of sexual assault against Mr Assange, and added: ''There is absolutely nothing behind it other than prosecutors that are looking to make a name for themselves.''

While some Stratfor analysts decried what they saw as Mr Assange's ''clear anti-Americanism'', others welcomed the leaks and debated WikiLeaks's longer-term impact on secret diplomacy and intelligence.

Stratfor's director of analysis, Reva Bhalla, observed: ''WikiLeaks itself may struggle to survive but the idea that's put out there, that anyone with the bandwidth and servers to support such a system can act as a prime outlet of leaks. [People] are obsessed with this kind of stuff. The idea behind it won't die.''

Stratfor says it will not comment on the emails obtained by WikiLeaks. The US embassy has also declined to comment.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/revealed-us-plans-to-charge-assange-20120228-1u14o.html
 



Stratfor
US Private Intel Contractor

Assange (Video)

DIY TRANSCRIPT
[for quotation purposes, confirm audio]

Julian Assange
circa:  28 February 2012

"Together with 25 other media partners from around the world, we have been investigating the activities of this company for some months, and what we have discovered is a company that is a private intelligence Enron.

On the surface, it presents as if it's a media organisation, providing a private subscription intelligence newsletter, but underneath it is running paid informants networks, laundering those payments through the Bahamas, and through Switzerland, through private credit cards.  It is monitoring Bhopal activists for Dow Chemicals.  It is monitoring PETA activists for Coca Cola.

So, it is engaged in a seedy business, and not ready to be content with merely monitoring activist for big corporations or providing private intelligence to the US military.

It has now started its own internal strategic private investment fund, where it is using this information from insiders -- paid information from insiders -- in order to invest in what it calls a wide variety of geopolitical financial instruments, such as stocks, bonds, and currencies, and this makes News of the World look like kindergarten.

I think it is an important exposure for us.

It is part of a long continuation that we have had in exposing the activities of secret organisations.

Late last year, we worked on the spy files release, showing some 176 organisations involved in providing surveillance agreements and, in some cases, bulk surveillance agreements to monitor whole countries, and so this is a private intelligence organisation.

The activities of intelligence organisations increasingly are privatised and, once privatised, they're taken out of the realm of the Freedom of Information Act, of US military law, and so they are are often used by governments who want to conceal a particular activity.

But Statfor is simply out of control.  I mean, even as a private intelligence organisation, it has been completely hopeless in protecting the identity of its informants, or even providing accurate information.  It has engaged in internal deals with its captive financial investment firms that it is setting up.  So it really is some type of Enron, where there is not even proper corporate control within the organisation."
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Daily Mail UK

'Shadow CIA' buys state secrets for cash via Swiss bank accounts, claims WikiLeaks as it releases 'stolen' files

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 07:43 EST, 28 February 2012 
Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks today started to publish more than five million confidential emails from the global intelligence company Stratfor.

The emails, dated from July 2004 to late December 2011, are said to reveal the 'inner workings' of US-based firm known as the 'Shadow CIA'.

[ ... ]
WikiLeaks accused Stratfor of 'routine use of secret cash bribes to get information from insiders', and claims an email from chief executive George Friedman in August 2011 suggested his concern over its legality.

In it, he wrote: 'We are retaining a law firm to create a policy for Stratfor on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

'I don't plan to do the perp walk and I don't want anyone here doing it either.'

The group said: 'Like WikiLeaks' diplomatic cables, much of the significance of the emails will be revealed over the coming weeks, as our coalition and the public search through them and discover connections.'

It said Stratfor did secret deals with dozens of media organisations and journalists - from Reuters to the Kiev Post.

'While it is acceptable for journalists to swap information or be paid by other media organisations, because Stratfor is a private intelligence organisation that services governments and private clients these relationships are corrupt or corrupting.'

The group said it has also obtained Stratfor's list of informants and, in many cases, records of its pay-offs.


Once More:
"Assange, who has not been charged with any offence in Sweden, fears extradition to Stockholm will open the way for his extradition to the US on possible espionage or conspiracy charges in retaliation for WikiLeaks's publication of thousands of leaked US classified military and diplomatic reports."

Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd - 2012
" ... acknowledged the existence of a ''temporary surrender'' mechanism that could allow Mr Assange to be extradited from Sweden to the US."
Source (as above)


Australian Journalist Prisoner of the
Current World Order
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Julian Assange
Editor, WikiLeaks


BOOK:  The WikiLeaks Files (2015)
Link | here



December 27, 2015

Assange - Denied Medical Treatment

Article
SOURCE
'Navidad con Assange' / 'Assange Christmas'
Spanish:  http://www.entornointeligente.com/articulo/7609906/-26122015
English Google trans: https://archive.is/jium4



EXTRACT ONLY
GOOGLE TRANSLATION
SPANISH / ENGLISH

Saturday, December 26, 2015

But the decline is evident. He can barely move his right shoulder because of pain that came and visited the doctors who have been unable to diagnose, partly because the British authorities do not allow him to move to a medical center to get an MRI or CT scan. He has a broken tooth that bit by something hard in [his] food during a brief stay in a British prison. An extraction or at least a root canal is needed, but his request to visit a dental office has also been rejected. To ease your pain take pills every day. For a time his doctors gave him morphine, but months ago they changed the drug, he says, without the change will produce a withdrawal. Has spent two years trying to get a doctor to treat him, beyond the informal visit, because several British and German doctors who had consulted refused because his insurance did not cover the Ecuadorian jurisdiction and because they feared that association with Assange could hurt them professionally.

These potentially dangerous physical ailments increasingly noticeable pale from lack of sunlight and an obvious lack of muscle tone due to lack of exercise add up. As the embassy is located on the ground floor, more than three years since climbs a ladder ago. Before hurting his shoulder practiced boxing with a Wikileaks volunteer working life bodyguard wins, but since then the only activity performed is walking and jogging on a treadmill. Which it makes less and less because the tape will reinforce the feeling of confinement because he did not go anywhere and do not enlarge the objects as you go on your walk and approaches them, as would happen if he were released. Near him they say that Assange has lost all notion of time and space, spends hours without realizing that evening turns into night and despite his inactivity slimline because rarely remembers eating until one of his staff tells you. As he has received multiple death threats, even threats of crazy Americans ...

English Google trans: https://archive.is/jium4


'Christmas With Assange'
Open Democracy - English Translation (Full Article)




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Article isn't easy reading because it's only a Google translate from Spanish.

I've only plucked out these bits that relate to Assange health concerns.

Getting medical treatment, as an assylee in an embassy, isn't straightforward.

It doesn't help that the British are denying Assange access to medical treatment.

The British are obviously determined not to let up on the political persecution (and the pressure) they are subjecting him to, ahead of intended arrest and extradition.

Ireland, surely there's an ex-IRA dentist that's willing to pull out a tooth, and maybe an ex-IRA doctor that's not afraid of attending the Ecuador embassy in London?

Otherwise:  doctors campaigning re full inquiry into Dr David Kelly's death, might not be too intimated by the state (and might be worth approaching, by the sound of them):   2004 and 2013.





December 10, 2015

Mainstream Media - Concentrated - Big-6 Corporate Control - Lies & Indoctrination

Article
SOURCE
Activist Post | here


Activist Post

Investigative Journalist For CBS News Exposes How Mainstream Media Brainwashes The Public

November 30, 2015
By Amanda Froelich
If you’re aware that only a handful of corporations (6, to be exact) control over 90% of the media, you’re one of the few. What this means is that everything you hear on the radio, read in the news, and see on television (including the ‘news’), is controlled by one of these six corporations: General Electric (GE), News Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS.

This startling truth has become more commonly accepted in recent years, especially since Operation Mockingbird, a CIA-based initiative to control mainstream media, was exposed.

Popular avenues of information are now bombarded with clever marketing tactics telling the public what to think and what to buy, how to look, and where to spend hard-earned dollars. Such is evident once you wake up and note the blatant lies continuing to spam the TV screen and newspaper headlines – especially concerning the topics of health, food, war (“terrorism”), poverty, and more.

Sadly, people aren’t even aware of how brainwashed they’ve become. That’s where Sharyl Attkisson comes in.

For her eye-opening TEDx talk (below), the veteran investigative journalist (and former CBS News investigative reporter) reveals how “astroturf,” or fake grassroots movements, funded by political, corporate, or other special interests very effectively manipulate and distort media messages.

It’s time the populace wake up and question everything with integrity.

SOURCE
Activist Post | here




Operation Mockingbird

secret campaign by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
to influence media




Newly Declassified Govt Docs Reveal Operation Mockingbird is Alive and Well

By Jay Syrmopoulos on October 2, 2015

An agency of the U.S. government was exposed trying to control the public narrative over WikiLeaks in 2011 by influencing media outlets coverage, as revealed in the latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department.

The emails from Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs at the time, Philip J. Crowley, expose the U.S. State Department “planting” a number of “questions and concerns” with CBS News for a 60 minutes piece on WikiLeaks, featuring Julian Assange.

ARTICLE
CONTINUED AT SOURCE
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/feds-exposed-planting-talking-points-questions-60-minutes-episode-wikileaks/




Modern Art As CIA Weapon
Operation Mockingbird
Post | here


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Maybe that's why I don't watch TV or listen to radio.  lol