Totalitarian Evil Empire, USA

TOTALITARIAN EVIL EMPIRE ASSANGE & MANNING SUPPORTER SURVEILLANCE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION / SEC STATE CLINTON - DODGED F.O.I VICE News ran the Hillary Clinton by-passes FOI story.   Here Is the State Department’s First 'Official' Release of a Hillary Clinton Email https://news.vice.com/article/here-is-the-state-departments-first-official-release-of-a-hillary-clinton-email Maybe VICE are going to back the Republicans this election?  Or maybe that evil old bat isn't going to be a popular candidate with anybody, if she's running for office. Check out what a loathsome individual this woman is: Hillary Clinton:   "We came, we saw, he died ... [laughter]" Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. CBS exposes Hillary Clinton's lies:  'sniper fire' Bosnia Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.  NOAM CHOMSKY - NATO Bombing Serbia Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Nobody deserves to die like Gaddafi did, and the US has no right to bomb sovereign European or African nations. Only a sick and twisted individual would lie and find brutal murder amusing. Of course, a sick and twisted USA also 'excuses' itself and gives itself the right to commit genocide (see Chomsky video above). Anyway, Killary's been using private e-mail for State business, which is a US federal law no-no, because State business needs to be archived on government servers to enable public access. Hillary Clinton has a pattern of lying & denying public scrutiny: I had also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment files were available for public inspection in the committee offices. She later removed the Douglas files without my permission and carried them to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff-where they were no longer accessible to the public. [Jerry Zeifman] VICE Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Among the private e-mails is a communication concerning a DoJ subpoena issued to Twitter -- yep, Twitter, for f*ck's sake (lol) -- concerning information about Assange and 'certain individuals' who support Assange and Manning. On the basis of Hillary Clinton's history of unethical conduct in relation to matters of State and public interest, as disclosed by Jerry Zeifman, Hillary Clinton's use of private e-mail in relation to the Manning and Assange matters sure smacks of something dirty going on in the US State Department. That aside, that the US State Department is harassing people on social media and encroaching on their lives (wherever they may be), irrespective of their right to privacy, freedom of expression, and a right to political freedom, demonstrates beyond any doubt that the United States really is an Evil Empire. Everything they claim to represent - 'freedom', 'democracy', 'the people' and the rest of propaganda for the gullible - is, of course, an outright lie. United States is an evil, totalitarian, empire run by criminals. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. FLASHBACK: Hillary Clinton Fired From Watergate Investigation For ‘Lying, Unethical Behavior’ Excerpted from EO-History: The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes. Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career. Why? “Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.” How could a 27-year-old House staff member do all that? She couldn’t do it by herself, but Zeifman said she was one of several individuals – including Marshall, special counsel John Doar and senior associate special counsel (and future Clinton White House Counsel) Bernard Nussbaum – who engaged in a seemingly implausible scheme to deny Richard Nixon the right to counsel during the investigation. Why would they want to do that? Because, according to Zeifman, they feared putting Watergate break-in mastermind E. Howard Hunt on the stand to be cross-examined by counsel to the president. Hunt, Zeifman said, had the goods on nefarious activities in the Kennedy Administration that would have made Watergate look like a day at the beach – including Kennedy’s purported complicity in the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro. [...]  Zeifman says that Hillary, along with Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar, was determined to gain enough votes on the Judiciary Committee to change House rules and deny counsel to Nixon. And in order to pull this off, Zeifman says Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception. EXTRACT ONLY - FULL AT SOURCE http://patdollard.com/2013/05/flashback-hillary-clinton-fired-from-watergate-investigation-for-lying-unethical-behavior-conspiracy-to-violate-the-constitution/ No way known can anybody expect to get justice in USA - ever. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana It may help you to remember this bit of history regarding Hillary Rodham Clinton.... Of course, Nixon’s resignation rendered the entire issue moot, ending Hillary’s career on the Judiciary Committee staff in a most undistinguished manner. Zeifman says he was urged by top committee members to keep a diary of everything that was happening. He did so, and still has the diary if anyone wants to check the veracity of his story. Certainly, he could not have known in 1974 that diary entries about a young lawyer named Hillary Rodham would be of interest to anyone 34 years later. But they show that the pattern of lies, deceit, fabrications and unethical behavior was established long ago – long before the Bosnia lie, and indeed, even before cattle futures, Travelgate and Whitewater – for the woman who is still asking us to make her president of the United States. EXTRACT ONLY - FULL AT SOURCE http://www.eohistory.info/2013/hillaryHistory.htm Source:  sodahead.com Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. VIDEO LINKS Hillary Clinton:  "We came, we saw, he died ... [laughter]" https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FmIRYvJQeHM CBS exposes Hillary Clinton Bosnia 'sniper fire' lies https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8BfNqhV5hg4 NOAM CHOMSKY - NATO Bombing Serbia https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oiMD7BghkVo

'Sam Harris rips academics who ceaselessly deny that religion can inspire brutal violence' [RawStory]

Sam Harris rips academics who ceaselessly deny that religion can inspire brutal violence Scott Kaufman 05 Mar 2015 at 10:33 ET                  Neuroscientist and public intellectual Sam Harris conducted a wide-ranging interview with journalist Graeme Wood that was supposed to be about the latter’s cover story in this month’s Atlantic, but which turned into an opportunity for Harris to outline what, to his mind, is the psychological state of a jihadist. Harris began by arguing that it was rational to believe that most believers understand religious texts at a literal level. “There are more or less plausible, more or less straightforward, more or less comprehensive readings of any scripture,” he said. “And the most plausible, straightforward, and comprehensive readings tend to be the more literalistic, no matter how self-contradictory the text. So, for instance, when it says in the Qur’an (8:12), ‘Smite the necks of the infidels,’ some people may read that metaphorically, but it’s always tempting to read it literally.” “In fact,” he continued, “a line like that fairly cries out for a literal reading. Of course, some Muslims believe that such violent passages must be read in their historical context. But it seems even more natural to assume that the words of God apply for all time. So it’s no accident that the Islamic State has made a cottage industry of decapitation.” Because “the Islamic State is giving a very plausible reading of the Qur’an and the hadīth. That’s a terrible problem, because one can’t stand up and say that this behavior is un-Islamic.” Harris then wondered why so many academics refuse to believe the statements made by jihadists at face value. “No one doubts the political and economic justifications that people give for their behavior. When someone says, ‘Listen, I murdered my rich neighbor because I knew he kept a pile of money in a safe. I wanted that money, and I didn’t want to leave a witness,’ nobody looks for an ulterior explanation for that behavior,” he said. “But when someone says, ‘I think infidels and apostates deserve to burn in hell, and I know for a fact that I’ll go to paradise if I die while waging jihad against them,’ many academics refuse to accept this rationale at face value and begin looking for the political or economic reasons that they imagine lie beneath it. So the game is rigged.” The reason those academics refuse to believe the statements of a believer is that they are too committed to their secular understanding of the world to fully comprehend the power of belief. But “once you imagine what it would be like to actually believe in paradise, and in martyrdom as the surest way of getting there, it becomes obvious why someone would want to join the Islamic State. If a person truly believes that the Creator of the universe wants him to wage war against the evil of unbelief and that the Islamic State is the very tip of His spear, he has to be insane not to join the cause.” “I see no reason to think that most jihadis are psychologically abnormal,” Harris said. “The truth is far more depressing: These are mostly normal people — fully capable of love, empathy, altruism, and so forth — who simply believe what they say they believe.” “The fact that most jihadis are generally rational, even psychologically normal, and merely in the grip of a dangerous belief system is, in my view, the most important point to get across.” “It is amazing how resolutely people will ignore the evidence of this,” he concluded. “Justin Bieber could convert to Islam tomorrow, spend a full hour on 60 Minutes confessing his hopes for martyrdom and his certainty of paradise, and then join the Islamic State — and Glenn Greenwald would still say his actions had nothing to do with the doctrine of Islam and everything to do with U.S. foreign policy.” http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/sam-harris-rips-academics-who-ceaselessly-deny-that-religion-can-inspire-brutal-violence/ COMMENT Interesting points raised by Sam Harris.  The bit about Beiber & Greenwald made me laugh. A heap of media focus and blame on 'radicalisation' at the moment, and not enough discussion of belief systems (although I'm sure US foreign policy also has a significant role in Middle East dramas). The 'psychologically normal' part isn't something I'd accept.   To my way of thinking, it isn't psychologically normal for modern man to believe he is on a mission from an almighty creator to destroy others or, at the other end of the spectrum, to seriously believe in any kind of religious being, powers, rituals and so on, no matter what belief system they represent. In other news: "Less Porn, More Scripture on New Russian Orthodox Search Engine" [MoscowTimes] Imagined a Soviet Union that had rid itself of the shackles of religious superstition.  But that's far from the case in post Soviet Russia.  It's encouraged.  Very disappointing.

Koch Whores - Wikileaks Expose: Kochs, Neocons & Covert Regime Change Ops (By Yasha Levine)

Koch Whores / October 17, 2011 Wikileaks Expose: Kochs, Neocons and Covert Regime Change Ops By Yasha Levine http://exiledonline.com/wikileaks-expose-kochs-neocons-and-covert-regime-change-ops/ Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. ................................................................ 'Anti-interventionalist' Kochs 'democracy building' in downtown Dushambe and former Soviet surrounds? ................................................................ Dushanbe Capital Tajikistan Largest city. Dushanbe means "Monday" - from market town on Mondays Saturday, 7 Mar - 3:20 pm, 5°C Sunni Islam / Secular Among others: Achaemenid, 1st Persian Empire Hephthalite, Iranian/Turkic  Samanid, Sunni Persian Mongol Timurid dynasty, Sunni Persianate Russia Empire Lang: Tajik = dialect of Modern Persian 'Stan' = 'place' {Persian} Tajikistan = Land of Tajik Islamisation = 7thC ................................................................ ROUGH SUMMARY - LEVINE ARTICLE CHARLES KOCH 'libertarian' think tank:  FREEDOM HOUSE one of the most notorious CIA / US State Dept front groups for American Empire Funding pro-Western opposition movements & seeding regime change across former Soviet Union[2] INSTITUTE OF HUMANE STUDIES (IHS) 'Libertarian recruitment & educational' organisation 2005 - Takes over Tajikistan running and funding of evicted FREEDOM HOUSE NGO IHS - ensconced in Tajikistan & controlled by Charles Koch New NGO - FREEDOM - founded to continue to meddle in local 'human rights community'[2] INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN STUDIES keen to fund >Tajik think tank to facilitate journalists and academics looking at domestic problems & solutions >Tajik think tank focused on 'economic & legal rights' and intellectual debate[2] FREEDOM HOUSE[2] Not charity, feeding starving third-world children or educating them Founded by Eleanor Roosevelt. Part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt domestic propaganda initiative. WWII propaganda to enthuse Americans to fight Nazis. Evolved into semi-covert ops arm of CIA / State Dept. Staff run by intelligence personnel. Funded almost exclusively by US federal govt. Mission:  "to challenge regimes hostile to US interests and values". By way of trojan:  "promoting the cause of political and economic freedom outside the US" FREEDOM HOUSE[2] Provided covert support to: >Afghanistan mujahadeen (jihadists)  >Contras in Nicaragua (various rebel groups, contra revolution / counter-revolutionaries) >Highly in Cube, aiming to subvert Castro govt. Cuba UN Rep:  "[FREEDOM HOUSE]  ... a machinery of subversion, closer to an intelligence service than an NGO."  >Brief coup - President Hugo Chavez 2002 >Main focus (Bush years):  Russia & former Soviet Union. FREEDOM HOUSE - FORMER SOVIET UNION - 2000-04[2] Three Musketeers of regime change & US corporate colonisation: Freedom House Open Society Institute (Soros) National Endowment for Democracy manipulated political opposition movements that brought down remnants of Soviet-era leadership in: >Serbia >Georgia >Ukraine Reformers, hand-picked by US business interests, were installed.[2] [Hey, this is very much what is happening before our eyes in Ukraine and also what appears to have also gone down to some extent in Romania, by the look of the politics, the players, the reforms and the European Union / Western interests overreach in Romania, right down to a Eurocentric reformer politician recently arguing that Romania's head of intelligence ought to be approved by NATO, before his appointment. Monica Macovei  Romania - argues appointment of Romania security head without NATO consultation unacceptable. "I understand that our NATO partners have not been consulted on this appointment and I consider this unacceptable ..." Romania parliament to vote on new intel head: Eduard Hellvig for Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI)  http://www.ziare.com/monica-macovei/stiri-monica-macovei/macovei-propunerea-lui-hellvig-la-sefia-sri-fara-consultarea-nato-inacceptabila-1350600  ] American NGO Musketeers' MO: Installing US corporate interests hand-picked reformers. Funding & establishment of political groups, NGOs & media organisations that chorus freemarket ideas & promote Western-friendly politicians. Training of activists and organisers. Broadcasting of catchy slogans & logos. By tapping into: (a) genuine desire for reform; (b) naive trust in West; channelling votes to politicians who took "marching orders directly from the IMF".[2] FREEDOM HOUSE Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Helped elect[2]: > Georgia - Mikheil Saakashvili,  groomed by State Dept to play role of Washington stooge > Ukraine - Viktor Yushchenko  Ukraine Central Bank (UCB) head [ * Yushchenko = married to State Dept. spook & former Reagan admin. member [2]] ................................................................ Mrs. Yushchenko by Peter Robinson    December 6, 2004 12:16 PM “Do you know who Yushchenko’s wife is?” John Podhoretz just asked in an email. “Turns out he’s married to Kathy Chumachenko, who worked in public liaison when we were at the White House!” Kathy Chumachenko, now Kathy Yushchenko, was one of the most completely delightful people in the Reagan White House, a Reaganite’s Reaganite. From Reagan staffer to first lady of Ukraine. How the Gipper would have loved it. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/91560/mrs-yushchenko-peter-robinson ................................................................ Viktor Yushchenko Former President of Ukraine Third President of Ukraine from 2005 to 2010 Career in Ukrainian politics Head National Bank Ukraine 1999 to 2001 =  Prime Minister Dismissal as PM 2004 Ukrainian presidential election =  repeat (two-round / runoff) election (vs PM Viktor Yanukovych) Ukrainian Supreme Court called for the runoff election to be repeated allegations of widespread electoral fraud in favour of Viktor Yanukovych in original vote Public protests over alleged electoral fraud played major role in presidential election & led to:  Ukraine's Orange Revolution.[1] Assassination attempt in late 2004 during election campaign Yushchenko ingested hazardous amounts of TCDD (a contaminant in Agent Orange) = suffered disfigurement as a result of the poisoning -  slowly recovering. SLOGANS Yushchenko went into opposition to President Leonid Kuchma Founded the Our Ukraine bloc 2002 parliamentary election = Ukraine's most popular political force (on just short of 25% votes) "Yushchenko had slightly modernized his political platform, adding social partnership and other liberal slogans to older ideas of European integration, including Ukraine's joining NATO and fighting corruption. Supporters of Yushchenko were organized in the "Syla Narodu" ("Power to the People") electoral coalition, which he and his political allies led, with the Our Ukraine coalition as the main constituent force." [1] [Going by Levine's article, that sure looks like something CIA NGOs would have arranged in Ukraine, right down to the 'liberal slogans'.] INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES[2] 'Home' of Kochite Reaganites (eg Nick Gillespie, Radley Balko) est. over 40 years primo liberatarian org & homebase for Friedrich Von Hayek, economist / libertarian thought proponent (and presumably devotee of bad news neo-classical economics - see Four Horsemen doco) Libertarian = anti-state intervention Kochs / Cato Institute >seen to be 'staunch anti-interventionists' (even by Glenn Greenwald)[2] INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES[2] + Koch libertarian orgs (eg CATO INSTITUTE) may have history of smuggling banned libertarian literature into Soviet Union However:  FREEDOM HOUSE stands apart Not merely spreading ideas; it is about: "taking over for a CIA arm designed for foreign intervention and regime change."[2] Tajikistan involvement = "Just the fact that they were on the scene, buddying up with war-crazed neocons, CIA goons and State Department bureaucrats famed for their covert regime change ops tells us all we need to know: the anti-interventionist/anti-empire position of libertarianism is just another Koch con meant to give libertarians credibility, and bowl over gullible lefties and progressives into supporting the Kochs’ brutal 19th century economic policies." [2] COMMENT The key information contained in Yasha Levine article (which I really enjoyed), has been summarised above.  Best to read the article, in case my understanding's off.  And it's an enjoyable read.  Must be so nice being clever. Tinkered a bit with the notes by putting in some info from Wikipedia, as I did quickie look-ups. The thing about 'three musketeers' wasn't in the article; it's my way of trying to remember the NGOs. Hoping this note taking will help my recall, but I've got a memory like a sieve.  By next week, I'll probably forget most of what I've learned.  As those discussing Wikipedia on Reddit may attest, Wikipedia should be known as as 'Sneakipedia'  because of the preposterous spin and editing of entries by PR types and various people with political agendas doing the edits. Relied on some information regarding the Libyan army the other day, accepting without question what was before me: Libyan National Army  = newly assembled  by National Transitional Council (transit. govt)  fm rebel forces that defeated Gaddafi 2011  #Libya Somebody corrected me by pointing out that it wasn't a LNA win rebel win; Libya was bombed by the US and NATO. And so it was.  But the entry I was looking on the LNA itself, described it as 'forces aligned' to the Transitional National Council 'win' (the entry for which indicates a 'rebel forces' overthrow), which I just regurgitated without thinking (even though I vaguely know about Western intervention). I'm bashing this out quickly, so I'm not going to take the time to check whether the entry maintains it was an rebel win (despite intervention) or take the time to read about the intervention itself.  Intervention looks very one sided:  NATO forces are MASSIVE versus Libya.  Does that seem fair?  And look what it's produced; it's 2015 and Libya is still in chaos. Putin was right. Couldn't help myself.  Checked the Libyan National Army entry (quickly) to see what it said.  Was at first horrified, thinking I'd misunderstood the entry and had presented something that wasn't in the entry.  As I scanned further down, it looks like LNA has been credited with the Gaddafi defeat, so I didn't make I didn't make it up: The Libyan National Army was founded in 2011 by the National Transitional Council, after forces aligned to it defeated the previous Libyan Army and overthrew Muammar Gaddafi's regime.   ... Transitional National Council,[3] was the de facto government of Libya for a period during and after the Libyan Civil War, in which rebel forces overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.  No time to check the rest of the entries properly.  For all I know, I'm at fault because I'm just jumping on the first information I see.  But 'rebel forces which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi' is arguable, I suppose, if you consider the role of NATO. Somebody recently suggested I check out 'cultural Marxism'.  So I did.  During my travels, I found the entries on Reddit pointing out the bias etc, regarding Wikipedia entries.  Thought it was interesting reading in relation to the Sneakipedia failings as well as cultural Marxism, which I think I'm opposed to because I'm not huge on being told what to think.  But I've got a bit more reading to do on that before I know what the deal is; that's just my initial impression. Someone suggested a counter Wikipedia, I think.  A counter internet would also be good.  The internet as we know it doesn't accommodate truth.  It's censored like crazy.  Not too big on that. Also not big on the prospect of Google being the 'Ministry of Truth' of the internet.  Proposal to index searches based on the 'accuracy' of information rather than popularity of hits.  That is just WRONG and totalitarian. We should all bail and start using other platforms, avoiding Google like the plague. Google Gives New Meaning to “Orwellian” – Becomes Ministry of Truth http://www.globalresearch.ca/google-gives-new-meaning-to-orwellian-becomes-ministry-of-truth/5434333 [Excuse any typos.  In a mad rush.  Too tired to stay up and edit.]

Netanyahu - Iran 2015 vs Iraq 2002

IRAN NETANYAHU 2002 Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. 2015 Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. 2012 Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.  1984 Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. ............................................................... The above images obviously do not belong to me and were not created by me.  They're examples of political comments currently available online and they're politically topical. The first image and quote from 2002 on Iraq is certainly thought provoking. At this point in time, I have no set opinion on any potential danger of Iran.

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