Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
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Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
Julian Assange Is Still a Creep
The WikiLeaks founder could score an invite to CPAC next year. By Rich Lowry
September 08, 2016
If Julian Assange plays this right, he just might score an invitation to CPAC next year.
The notorious WikiLeaks founder would have to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference remotely because he is still holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, avoiding a rape investigation in Sweden and fearing extradition to the United States for his malicious exposure of state secrets. But, surely, the details could be worked out.
Assange is now treated as a respectable figure by some elements of the right because he despises Hillary Clinton and promises to torpedo her campaign with new email exposures. Never mind that he has done everything within his power to damage the interests of the United States, in league with his quasi-ally, Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Rarely has “strange new respect" been stranger.
It’s like conservatives embracing Kim Philby, the infamousBritish double agent who defected to the Soviet Union in the 1960s, if he promised to produce damaging information about LBJ before the 1964 election. Or welcoming Philip Agee, the anti-CIA activist from the 1970s who was allied with Russian and Cuban intelligence, if he demonstrated enough hostility to Jimmy Carter.
The enemy of my enemy (or more properly, my domestic political opponent) can still be a reprehensible creep, and that’s what Assange is.
But Sean Hannity of Fox News has a newfound soft spot for the accused rapist and scourge of America. A couple of years ago, Hannity tore into the Obama administration for not doing more to capture the WikiLeaks founder, and sympathized with the contention that Assange was the equivalent of a terrorist. Now, the host says he was “conflicted” about Assange back then, and he had qualms about his work only because “I believe in privacy.”
This makes it sound as though WikiLeaks published a Hulk Hogan sex tape. Instead, Assange dumped, among other things, what the Defense Department called “the largest leak of classified documents in its history.” Hannity was outraged a few years ago that the leaks potentially endangered U.S. allies in Afghanistan — the Taliban vowed to track down named U.S. informants — but now hails Assange for exposing “how corrupt, dishonest and phony our government is.”
Assange puts his agenda in more starkly anti-American terms. He has a poisonous, Chomskyite view of the United States as a dastardly “empire,” bending the world to its will and persecuting brave dissidents like none other than Julian Assange.
When he started out, Assange was committed to exposing the world’s genuinely pernicious states. He said he was going to criticize “highly oppressive regimes in China, Russia and Central Eurasia” and warned a newspaper in Moscow of the damaging information he had acquired about Russia. [comment: look up the list of coups, invasions, proxy wars, propping up brutal dictatorships, and wars waged by ruling capitalists of America, under the American flag, since WWII. Compare what criminal capitalists appropriate of American taxpayer money, to spend on capitalist war machinery, to world military spending: it dwarfs what is spent by all other nations on the planet. ]
Assange is no longer in that line of work. He has fallen into the arms of Putin as he pursues his vendetta against the United States and its former secretary of state, whom, it so happens, Putin will never forgive for criticizing Russia’s 2011 parliamentary elections. [comment: That 'into the arms of Putin' imagery is disturbingly homoerotic. Looks like Putin's topping. LOL ... 50 Shades of Putin vendetta? Rich Lowry's certainly inventive. ]
The not especially telegenic WikiLeaks founder somehow briefly landed an RT show, and it was his idea for National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden to seek refuge in Russia. The New York Times recently documented how Assange’s leaks tend to track with Russian interests. [comment: the same capitalist controlled New York Times with a history of CIA (capitalist agent) collaboration. ]
The avowed champion of transparency and free speech told the Times he doesn’t go out of his way to criticize a Russian government that kills journalists because to do so is “boring.” [comment: US agents of Capitalism most likely KILLED AMERICAN JOURNALIST MICHAEL HASTINGS, while they CURRENTLY IMPRISON AMERICAN JOURNALIST, TARGET OF FBI POLITICAL POLICE, BARRETT BROWN. ]
Interfering in a U.S. election is apparently much more interesting. U.S. officials believe that Russia was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee that WikiLeaks used to such effect around the time of the Democratic convention. The promised additional WikiLeaks exposures may well be the handiwork of the Russians, as well.[comment: that is called journalism, propaganda spinner. If capitalist controlled media was actually capable of doing the job of real journalism, this is what corporate media would be doing. But it's not up for the job precisely because it is media in capitalist hands. Instead, capitalist-controlled media is nothing but a propaganda organ of capitalists and their agents (the politicians they control). This hit piece is a perfect example of the games they play in the unrelenting capitalist effort to control and shape public opinion. ]
It is Hillary’s own fault that she is vulnerable to the likes of Assange. Her secrecy, corrupt practices and dishonesty make her an ideal target. Yet there is a world of difference between Tom Fitton, the head of Judicial Watch who has done so much through litigation in the U.S. courts to expose Clinton, and Assange, a certified America-hater whose work is likely enabled by Russian intelligence. [comment: WTF? Assange is an Australian, and an international journalist, democratising information and publishing whistleblower submissions of government and corporate wrongdoings. In which case, why would Assange — a non-American journalist and publisher of whistlebower submissions abroad — engage in extraneous litigation in American courts? Trump was right: this guy really is dumb. Certifiedjournalism-hater capitalist-owned propagandist. ]
There was a time when everyone could see the distinction, but that was before 2016, a year of strange, not to say loathsome, bedfellows. [comment: it's high time ordinary Americans notice the distinction between propaganda and journalism ... as well as the distinction between corrupt, capitalist-controlled politicians and their organisations, and honest representation. ]
Assange, Australian journalist target of corrupt US-Anglo Capitalist Empire political persecutioncontinues to do what Assange and WikiLeaks actually do: publishing of information of public interest that was submitted to WikiLeaks.
The stunning corruption and wrongdoing of the Democrats DNC organisation has been exposed ... and the editor of National Review proffers what is styled as his 'opinion', published in Politico (for which he has previously written his brand of American media shite), but this capitalist-owned media offering in the guise of Lowry's 'opinion' is nothing more than a capitalist-sponsored propaganda hit piece and manipulation intended to con the ordinary American, so as to shape public opinion in favour of the aims of capitalist and their agent, unindicted criminal Hillary Clinton. LOL
CERTIFIED JOURNALISM-HATER CONSPIRACY THEORIST
LOWRY SOUNDS LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED:
'notorious', 'holed up', 'avoiding a rape investigation', 'malicious', 'despises', 'torpedo her campaign', 'damage interests', 'quasi-ally' of Putin, 'enemy', 'reprehensible creep', 'accused rapist', 'scourge of America', 'capture', 'equivalent of a terrorist', 'dumped', 'potentially endangered', 'his agenda', 'poisonous', 'fallen into the arms of Putin', 'vendetta', 'interfering', 'handiwork', 'certified American-hater', and 'enabled'.
Capitalist sponsored editor, Rich Lowry, then attempts to discredit independent journalist, Assange, by painting laughable (and potentially homoerotic associations) of Assange having "fallen into the arms of Putin" (50 Shades of Putin ... LOL), among other things. Including misrepresenting the screening of 10-part Assange series of interviews on Russian TV, in a slimy, sneaking propagandist way that implies, without stating, there is supposedly a Russian 'connection'. But Russia's RT broadcasting of Western programs is not out of the ordinary, just as it is not out of the ordinary for Western media to screen foreign TV shows. I cannot recall where I read this, but I believe that this was an independent production and that broadcast rights were purchased by Russian TV, in the same way that TV stations in the US or in the UK etc, purchase rights to screen foreign programs. Furthermore, Assange's program is not the only Western program screened in such a manner by the Russians.
Lowry then crafts the cleverly conveyed, further fanciful depiction of Russian 'connection' (misleading the uninformed reader by (a) omission of relevant facts and (b) thus by failure to place information into context), as he moves onto discussing what is, in fact, the passport revocation and intentional stranding of American Snowden in Russia by the US capitalist agent 'government':
Snowden:
"The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me from exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum." [arstechnica]
The various trivial facts listed by Lowry (in the paragraph beginning with the reference to Russia's RT TV program) in his Politico propaganda hit piece disguised as 'opinion', may assume an unwarranted significant to a casual reader that is unaware of the additional facts that Lowry has conveniently chosen to omit (in terms of the purchase of TV broadcasting rights by Russia and in terms of the cancelled Snowden passport and hence stranding in Russia), as he stacked his irrelevant snippets of what is otherwise factual, trivial, isolated information, as if these snippets of nowhere trivia were of significance. Lowry then refers to an article published in The New York Times capitalist propaganda organ (with a history of being CIA friendly) and mouthpiece for government (as agent of capitalists) propaganda sources, and therefore itself engaged churning out propaganda material in the guise of 'news', as distraction from real issues (blame and vilify targeted publisher Assange, blame and vilify targeted official 'enemy' Putin/Russia etc) - ie, distracting from real issues concerning political corruption (in this instance), demonstrating for us ordinary people how capitalist-sponsored media and intelligentsia mouthpieces and how the capitalist owned & controlled media act as voices and accomplices of capitalist agent government(s) that they publicly protect and otherwise serve as they disseminate propaganda & vilify official 'enemy' targets of capitalist forces, acting hand in glove to produce propaganda to manipulate public opinion, as desired.
The 'Capitalist Forces' (government as agent of capitalists, capitalist owned & controlled media and capitalist sponsored/owed intelligentsia) have the advantage, because on casual inspection their propaganda is assumed, by the unsuspecting, to be reasonable and accurate reporting of all relevant information pertinent to the message conveyed by same. But that is not necessarily the case and is probably seldom the case. The other advantage the Capitalist Forces have is that people simply do not have the time or inclination to comb over every detail in every item of propaganda that is delivered in the guise of 'news' and 'information'.
It would appear Rich Lowry has fallen into the ruling American capitalist elite's collective assh*le, judging by his ludicrous assault on a brave Aussie journalist doing the job of proper journalism (and not writing capitalist elite serving propaganda and vilification hits, like Lowry):
"reprehensible creep", "not especially telegenic WikiLeaks founder", and "scourge of America".
We now know who the reprehensible creep is: it's Lowry. And Lowry's not exactly an attractive specimen. LOL
Lowry's ridiculous #EverythingButKitchenSink smear and #BlamePutin hit piece has exposed Lowry as completely devoted to pulling the wool over the eyes of the American public. FFS, the propaganda piece is even disguised as 'opinion'.
Another futile attempt to distract from the vile stench of corrupt capitalist-controlled American politics, that may have worked back in the day when the public had no alternative to the garbage written by those that are employed to represent interests opposed to interests of ordinary Americans.
The #BlamePutin tactic Lowry and other capitalist scribes have adopted, stinks of the Clinton camp's deflection strategy. Hillary Clinton and her supporters have gone from the tactic of #BlameRightWingConspiracy (which would have been Whitewater, I believe), to #BlameDysfunctionalUpbringing (Monica Lewinsky) to #BlamePutin (and probably more aside from this)
Who will Hillary Clinton (and her teams of clever advisers) blame when she falls spectacularly on her face, if the American public is fooled into voting her in as President ... or will it be a case of 'What difference does it make?' for Wall Street's Darling, Hillary Clinton?
We're all aware of the filthy corruption, the monstrous lies, the farce of capitalist-sponsoredfaux 'democracy' in capitalist-controlled America that is exploited by the ruling capitalist elite, to the detriment of ordinary Americans, while the ruling capitalists continue to destroy an ongoing series of nations abroad since WWII on the American national tax-slave tab, under cover of the flag of the very people whose interests the capitalists subvert, and a people who are left to pay (for generations to come) the billions in costs of conducting ruling capitalist elite enriching wars. Yet the propaganda and capitalist drive to control and shape public opinion never lets up.
Check out this cucked conspiracy theorist's propaganda in relation to the Palestine issue:
What does this guy do, spend all his days dreaming persuasive propaganda pieces for the gullible?
All things considered, it's frightening that the public relies on individuals such as Rich Lowry for their news.
I would say that a good rule of thumb may be to assume that whatever the message that is conveyed by capitalist-controlled media (the propaganda organ of both capitalists and of government(s) as agent of capitalists) is propaganda (and largely lies) crafted from clever omissions, irrelevant details, and on the basis of false and illegitimate presumptions, and even outright lies etc (like Iraq's 'weapons of mass destruction').
The propaganda that is churned out in Western media is really shocking and sickening once it is spotted for what it is, when you consider what is at stake is not trivial: the public is effectively denied informed consent; targets of capitalists are vilified so that their persecution by capitalists and their agents is made easier to commit; countries are lined up for war or other assault by governments representing aggressive capitalism; and our societies are weakened and destroyed by these same Capitalist Forces that churn out propaganda, because these same forces are also agents of public indoctrination.
What course of action should the US media take when a batch of leaked emails reveal dirty dealings inside of the Democratic National Committee in a pivotal election year? Blame the Russians, of course.
Alleging that Russia is to blame for attempting to “sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election” is not only a delightful piece of nonsense; it is subterfuge on a grand scale.
[...]
... claims that the Russians are attempting to hijack the 2016 presidential elections is a scurrilous attempt to conceal the really salacious aspects of the DNC email bombshell, which The Washington Post article barely skims. It had nothing to do with Russia, of course, but rather with the explosive content of the leaked DNC correspondences, which revealed a concerted effort to sideline Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton.
To describe the leaked DNC emails as “embarrassing” may just be the media understatement of the year. Clearly, the discerning reader will glean nothing from ‘reading between the lines’ of this article, but must fill in the glaring blanks for themselves. Not only does the Post article conspicuously avoid mentioning Sanders, it also fails to discuss the untimely death of Seth Rich, a DNC staffer who was gunned down in Washington, D.C. on July 8, 2016.
[ ...]
But don’t give up hope on the System just yet. The United States has promised to launch a major investigation – not into the mysterious murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich - but rather into “Russia’s covert influence operations”. And who better for the job than - wait for it - James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, who told a 2013 Senate hearing the NSA never collected data on American citizens?
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency, later proved that the agency had been gathering and storing phone meta-data on American citizens for years.
Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist based in Moscow, Russia. His articles have been featured in many publications, including Russia in Global Affairs, The Moscow Times, Lew Rockwell and Global Research. Bridge is the author of the book on corporate power, “Midnight in the American Empire”, which was released in 2013. email: robertvbridge@yahoo.com
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Assange: the untold story of an epic struggle for justice LINK | here
ThinkI may have just invented Capsicum Spray (Pepper Spray) while cooking my Vindaloo.
Trying to Bamix my pre-soaked dry Indian shop chillies, I created a mist that I inhaled and I've been coughing, spluttering, sneezing, wheezing, teary, blowing a running nose, and just about vomiting when I cough ...
Wasn't able to Bamix. Had to pull out the food processor, which was annoying.
Recipe
1 massive packet(s) of Indian dried whole chillies
hot water to cover + 100% maybe (experiment)
a) soak 48 hours.
b) process in food processor (do not inhale).
c) strain out solids.
Ta-da ... LOL
Pre-cooked some potatoes and propose to mock up something Indian style. Looking for ideas at Mundula's Kitchen.
Listening to Nancy ... I like the cheesy factor. But this is quite nice.
This is so crap ... I have spent hours doing a video project that crashed again. F*cking crashed AGAIN!!!!
Working in Open Shot, nearing the home straight and then it died. Again. Again! It's either my computer of the program. Duh. LOL. What I think happens is that if I'm not careful and slow with keying in the processes I want (and/or mousing directional movements - ie. backing up the audio pointer) that I want done, the f*cking thing freezes. Instead of then doing what other programs do, and letting you retrieve your last save of the file so you can get on with it, it lets you call up the file in the program but then you just sit there the same as before you existed as it's still hanging, as you watch the swirly 'waiting' on a process thingy, while nothing is f*cking happening. It's twice in the same project this has happened, just as I was getting close to finishing. I'm so jacked off.
When re-editing, it's hard to remember exactly what what was done in previous sessions to manipulate the effects that looked good. Second time around I was a little less enthusiastic, because I couldn't get the effect I had at the beginning of the last attempt at the project. Screwed up not following a procedure I thought would cut down on time in case of any more crashes. Intended to save audio and a fiddly created 'motion backing track' that I like to work against, so that I don't have to repeat the long and boring (but straightforward) process again. I'm so f*cked off: I got engrossed in what I was doing and forgot to do that.
If I intend to resume the project I was messing with, I'm going to have to do exactly the same f*cking labour intensive thing for the third time. Couldn't remember how to kill processes in Linux. Then I had to do look-ups on that. Can't see any processes that relate to Open Shot. Just as well, because I couldn't be f*cked reading multiple instructions on how to kill crap in Linux. Don't understand how I can be listed as '2 Users' on the terminal, unless they count the system as User #1 maybe?
What a monumental f*cking waste of time that was, Open Shot bastards. I don't like stopping when I'm into something. But I'm going to have to stop or I'll destroy my body clock.
West Midlands Police want 30 percent of its new recruits to come from black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds to reflect the wider community, which incorporates the UK’s second biggest city, Birmingham.
Dreadful sleep. Kept waking up (and had got up) to monitor the 'time-bomb' I anticipated I would have to monitor, even as I was about to crash out.
It had already begun 'ticking' at some insane hour, which must have been either mid-late morning or early afternoon, just before I finally crashed out.
It doesn't matter what I have to say. I'll ask nicely, "Please don't" or I'll remind of consequences etc. But I'm still ignored.
I didn't think to monitor supply, so I don't know what's been consumed. Hopefully, not much.
But problem develops if I have something to say about what has happened: then I get a sort of loud, aggressive-whiny protest, that I find frustrating and infuriating, as I am not being heard and this is a method of drowning out my voice of protest.
"Whatever, I don't listen to you," he says to me when I insist he needs to see about things.
According his mental construct of what I may and may not reasonably assert, demand etc, I'm not entitled to seek to influence the conditions in which I live. This attitude and this same point of contention has been ongoing for years.
That's a major issue. But I'm not permitted to talk about this, because he refuses to even hear me out. I'm dismissed angrily out of hand, or I'm otherwise dismissed because he's 'busy' or whatever. It is never properly discussed and nothing is ever resolved.
On the receiving end of frustrated, alienated and trapped feeling, combined with a slow-burn sort of underling anger and a sense of being completely at a loss about what to do, because being in circumstances where your voice and stated limits etc are not remotely respected is cause for concern.
At this moment, there's not a high degree of unpleasantness and there's no major drama. Just unpleasant feelings: frustration, degree of alienation, and anxiety, combined with concern about the direction of this overall.
How many years can you keep repeating the same involuntary experience, experiencing the same corrosive feelings, while feeling trapped in a kind of recurring at-war dynamic, when arguments develop?
That this is against my will and has been for years does my head in when I stop to dwell on that.
From where I stand, it's an oppressive recurrence, involving years of impotence, toxic dispute and drama, along with refusals to heed entirely reasonable and rational requests.
Frustrated, mid argument, yelled at him that it's a basic human right to wake up in a sober environment. LOL ... I don't buy the universal aspect of that, as I am entirely opposed to the 'human rights' reassignment of what is particularly to the universal/international. I'm inclined to think it's simply a natural right that belongs to those that have the personal means to assert the right by force, if required. I can't: I'm not strong enough for a physical confrontation. But the 'human right' thing popped out, and it's a handy argument. Conviction is not required.
His line of attack is that I haven't 'done' anything. So his position would be: as I'm an apathetic, depressed freak that has finally crashed to sleep, having done nothing of value or importance (or simply the fact that I am still breathing ... LOL), he is entitled to impose what is against my will, knowing this is without my consent, and surely knowing that what is imposed is a form of Russian roulette.
This has played itself out for years despite my protests, no matter my condition or level of activity. Having a go at me is just a convenient way of justifying and protecting an action he would sooner protect from challenge by me, than preserve what remains of my f*cking sanity or anything else here.
The degree of powerlessness that accompanies being on the receiving end of what you plainly object to (and have objected to for years) is sickening at the time of disagreement, because it is being forced to endure, against your will, something you cannot control, prevent or refuse.
Therefore, until such time as you take drastic and monumentally disruptive action, you are forced to experience complete impotence and what feels like a form of mental torture.
Getting that across is impossible to get across when you are also dealing with someone who will not listen, no matter what.
At present, there's been a degree of tension and unpleasantness because I object to what is cause for concern and a source of anxiety to me. That then means I am immediately on the receiving end of what is a 'counter-offensive' in defence of what I object to, where there can be no defence whatsoever, because my 'no' means 'no' ... or it would, if I took drastic action that would render us homeless. LOL.
After all these years, particulars of disagreement over the point of contention probably don't matter: it's the fact that this battle even exists (almost a decade down the track), and that it 'has' to be replayed, that is the fundamental problem.
TV's on and I can hear a replay of a documentary we had a fight to what seems like only days ago. I'm not kidding. It's the same documentary by the sound of things, or it's part II of the same series. And it's pretty much the same dynamic being played out here (save that we're not having a major argument this time around ... as it's just low-level anxiety inducing), and I'm experiencing a lowish distress level, unable to (a) influence/control (b) refuse/decline (c) discuss/remedy etc. Very unpleasant, even though we've stopped bickering and he's watching some TV.
Sometimes, when I feel really overwhelmed by the sense of impotence during arguments that ensue if I complain or try to address what is going on, I feel as if I could completely lose my sanity being on the end of what often feels like an intolerable degree of emotional distress, which also has a physiological component. I really do feel sick at the time. If we've had a particularly bad or intense argument, I'll feel dreadful the next day.
I'm hoping he'll soon crash out, even though he's not majorly impaired: I just don't like the anxiety I experience or the sense of helplessness/impotence, as I cannot control or influence if he will maybe drink more, or if this will result in unexpected argument.
It is completely impossible to convey this to him and he is oblivious. Not only oblivious because he does not want to listen, but oblivious because he chooses not to care.
He's completely oblivious. All is well with his world. He's just come off the phone to someone when he went out for a cigarette. He seems quite happy.
I, on the other hand, feel like I've had my face shoved in sh*t ... again. LOL
The worst part is not knowing what to do, because there's nothing that can be done. What do you do with an adult who will not desist subjecting you to what you expressly refuse to experience?
I'm angry that I even have to consider this and have to experience the same feeling of impotence, when I could have been spared this if he were at all receptive and motivated to get along with me. Rather bizarre, like he is, instead, more motivated or driven to have himself a 'party' while I'm miserable and that this does not in any way disturb his conscience.
From his point of view, I'm guessing he would probably see no wrong: after initial arguments, he's quiet; we're not arguing at present; he's watching TV; he's experienced whatever he wishes to experience and feels entitled to experience ... and he doesn't care what I think or feel.
But, from my point of view, I am unwillingly experiencing levels of aversion, anxiety, frustration, impotence, distress, alienation, concern, emotional disruption, and a downer I didn't ask for, that is this 'gift' received entirely beyond my control.
I think I need therapy to either somehow adjust to accepting my lot without complaint or distress ... or he needs to behave; or we need to break up. I'm not equipped to handle this.
*He's served himself a huge serve of the crappy chocolate cake I made and he says "I think I'm going to have a heart attack after this", as he heads for the sofa in front of the TV, after being a creep and denying me chocolate cake, when I asked if I could have some. LOL ... it's like kindergarten here.
I should piss in the bowl containing the rest of the ganache covered chocolate cake, as the cake was a little on the dry side ... LOL
Football's on. OMG. Dead boring.
NEXT DAY
Lovely again. Peace prevails. Does nice things.
But will it last? LOL
Interception attempt has already occurred.
Body language says: not receptive (turned side on). LOL
Says I'm just as bad ... when I've been on the computer for 20 hours at a time, ranting about things he doesn't care about, while my eyes are spinning. What? ... LOL
On my agenda: Chicken Vindaloo ... followed by maybe a short video project, I'm hanging to play with.
I have been refused entry clearance to the USA to chair the presentation of the Sam Adams Award to CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou and to speak at the World Beyond War conference in Washington DC. Like millions of British passport holders I have frequently visited the USA before and never been refused entry clearance under the visa waiver programme.
I shall apply for a visa via the State Department as suggested but I must be on a list to be refused under the ESTA system, and in any event it is most unlikely to be completed before the conference.
It is worth noting that despite the highly critical things I have published about Putin, about civil liberties in Russia and the annexation of the Crimea, I have never been refused entry to Russia. The only two countries that have ever refused me entry clearance are Uzbekistan and the USA. What does that tell you?
I have no criminal record, no connection to drugs or terrorism, have a return ticket, hotel booking and sufficient funds. I have a passport from a visa waiver country and have visited the USA frequently before during 38 years and never overstayed. The only possible grounds for this refusal of entry clearance are things I have written against neo-liberalism, attacks on civil liberties and neo-conservative foreign policy. People at the conference in Washington will now not be able to hear me speak.
Plainly ideas can be dangerous. So much for the land of the free!
Over the weekend, the United Stated denied entry to an unsuspecting individual, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murry, who ten years ago made the critical mistake of exposing the Uzbek torture system that we now know the Americans supported and the British condoned.
He was scheduled to participate in an awards ceremony next week ...
John Kiriakou
CIA Whistleblower
We're talking about a British diplomat, a highly respected — an internationally respected British diplomat, a whistleblower in his own right; an exposer of torture, who has travelled to this country, dozens and dozens of times.
And then, for reasons that have not been explained to him, finds himself banned by the United States.
Narrator
The Sam Adams [Associates] award for Integrity and Intelligence is given out annually to someone who shows moral courage in the midst of wrong-doing on the part of the state.
Ray McGovern
Founder, Sam Adams Associates
In 2006, the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity and Intelligence decided to award Ambassador Murray our annual award for integrity ... he came and talked at several of our Sam Adams awards ceremonies here in the States and also at Oxford — we did two there. We did more or less one in Berlin. We go where the people are.
Narrator
Ten years after having won the award himself, Murray is still at home wondering how his name received what the State Department and Homeland Security call a 'hit'.
Peter Van Buren
Whistleblower, former Foreign Service Officer
It means that the Department of Homeland Security believes that Ambassador Murray may be ineligible to enter the United States, under one of the categories of ineligibility.
Peter Van Buren is a former United States foreign service employee turned whistleblower, after he heavily criticised the United States reconstruction effort in Iraq.
Van Buren also just wrote a piece for Consortium News, that someone like Murray may have received a 'hit'.
Peter Van Buren
Whistleblower, former Foreign Service Officer
More often than not, particularly in cases like Ambassador Murray's where there are political components, what we'e got is a likely potential 3(b) violation, or potential violation, which means terrorism.
You don't have to be a terrorist to fall under this category ... you can just be placed on one of these watch lists, by any one of the dozens American intelligence agencies and organisations that are allowed to 'nominate names' — and they do love their Orwellian vocabulary — nominate names to the list.
Narrator
In his relatively short tenure as Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray uncovered a torture infrastructure within the country that once silenced Uzbeki dissidents and fed the Americans shaky intelligence they were so desperate for, as the 'war on terror' in Iraq and Afghanistan began to unravel.
In 2009, five years after Murray had left the British Foreign Office, but still seven years away from being denied entry into the United States, Murray spoke at that year's Sam Adams awards ceremony, which took place in Washington DC at American University.
Craig Murray
Former British Ambassador
You know, there are over 10,000 political prisoners in Uzbekistan.
Anybody who is a religious Muslim of any kind, no connection to terrorism; anyone who prays five times a day, as prescribed, will be arrested as a terrorist.
Any young man with a beard will be arrested.
Narrator
He subsequently sat down with Real News editor, Paul Jay, to expand on the disturbing revelations that ended his career as ambassador.
Craig Murray
Former British Ambassador
Many of them are killed at their [?] terrible, literally Stalinist Gulags: they are in the old Stalinist Gulags which are still there, like Jaslik(?) in the middle of the Kyzylkum Desert, and people are tortured dreadfully. The most appalling tortures that you can think of, on a routine basis.
If you are arrested, you're going to be tortured; and that means you're going to have a broken bottle inserted in your anus; you're going to have your neck broken; you're going to have your feet held over a fire; you're going to be suffocated by having a blocked gas mask put on your head. Even, I came across instances of children tortured in front of their parents.
You shouldn't forget the purpose of the torture was to get false intelligence which vastly exaggerated the threat from al-Qaeda.
It vastly exaggerated the strength of al-Qaeda in Central Asia, and people knew that.
Narrator
Murray saw the Western powers like the UK and the US were far more interested in profiting from Uzbekistan's oil reserves and vital geopolitical position than they were with human rights.
Craig Murray
Former British Ambassador
Uzbekistan sits at the heart of Central Asia. It has half the population of Central Asia. It really dominates the region.
And Central Asia has the world's largest untapped reserves of oil and gas.
So anyone who is interested in acquiring influence over hydrocarbon reserves needs to be in Uzbekistan.
The Uzbek government plays this to its own advantage.
The Uzbek government has no interest in [???] its own advantage, and is quite happy to switch between different world powers as it's able to get something out of them.
Narrator
Murray says that when he went over to Uzbekistan in 2002, the US viewed Uzbekistan, and especially its late President Islam Karimov (who coincidentally just died last week), not only as a long-term interest in the region, but also as maybe the most important ally of Central Asia when it came to the 'war on terror'.
Beyond firing off a steady stream of intelligence memos and reports to the CIA, which were then being forwarded to the British intelligence service MI6; and beyond allowing the United States to set up its crucial Karshi-Khanabad airbase, the Uzbeks were engaged in a program of extraordinary rendition with the United States, of so-called 'suspected terrorists', and it happened to be a part of a network of black sites that spanned across many countries.
Craig Murray
Former British Ambassador
The CIA were flying people in to be tortured, and I reported that officially to London is as many words; and this is in, you know in 2003, before anyone had even heard of the words 'extraordinary rendition'.
I didn't realise that the people being flown in were not Uzbek.
The idea that, you know, strangers would be flown in to be tortured—
Interviewer
Subsequently how do you know that that's the case, because essentially you're saying that CIA was flying people in to be tortured in Uzbekistan.
Craig Murray
Former British Ambassador
I knew the CIA people who did it.
There weren't many expats in Uzbekistan. You're talking, quite seriously, of (not including military personnel) three or four hundred British and American expatriates in the whole of the country.
So, not surprisingly, we used to drink in the same bars and meet.
And I actually knew of the CIA people who flew people in. Subsequently, we've learnt a great deal more.
For example, the Council of Europe inquiry into extraordinary rendition showed that 90% of the flights which took prisoners to the secret base in Poland at Szymany flew on to Tashkent as their next destination.
There's a great deal of other evidence that this was a part of a global transportation of prisoners.
American capitalist oligarchy can't help themselves: proving they really are running a corrupt, totalitarian state.
Even Russia, the US-Anglo capitalist target and official 'enemy', hasn't refused a critical Craig Murray entry. LOL
Bet the CAPITALIST-OWNED CORPORATE MEDIA won't be highlighting this totalitarian state of affairs.
P.S. Just read some of Murray's blog. Comes across as a super softie. Way soft from my perspective (I've no problem with challenging threats of the religious kind etc ... but I'm not really big on the senseless torture that Uzbekistan and CIA seem to like). Anyway, I can't believe they banned Murray's entry.
P.P.S. Screw the 'Fourth Estate' Sam Adams awards nonsense: there is NO Fourth Estate. There NEVER HAS BEEN. The Fourth Estate is a LIE.
WikiLeaks is the only exception in how long? How many hundreds of years of press/media lies and capitalist information control and exploitation of the people the capitalists have now moved onto robbing of even their nations?
That would be 566 years of capitalist lies before WikiLeaks was established ten years ago, making it a total of 576 years of nothing but capitalist press lies and censorship:
The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440 ... [wikipedia]
And the filthy capitalist partnership that is the US-Anglo Capitalist Empire destroyed the last vestige of the Holy Roman Empire when it twice unleashed capitalist war on Germany, and in the process the US-Anglo capitalist partnership has destroyed all of Europe and all European societies since WWII.
All there is is rule by CAPITALIST OLIGARCHY, fortified by their propaganda organs: the press / media and so-called 'social media', exploited, controlled and censored by despicable self-serving capitalist turds like Mark Zuckerberg.
Once the criminal US-Anglo capitalist oligarchy imprison or murder Assange, that's the end of that road. Back to nothing but propaganda, indoctrination and lies from capitalist owned and controlled, government and CIA colluding, Western corporate media.
Felt like a cheat's potato 'hotpot'. Sliced potato 15 mins in microwave (small amount water bottom dish, lid / mostly steamed). Fried smoky bacon, browned sliced onion & sliced garlic; flour roux; 1/2 cup white wine, reduced by about 1/2; hot water (no stock, as I can't tell how much salt in bacon); 2 cups fresh cream; water from steaming, while draining potatoes over top of sauce; sliced potato & final salt & pepper; cooked off. Frozen DIY Beef Burgundy from the other day to go with this, plus crusty bread. Bit of overkill with the rich ingredients, but I like heart attack food. It's my go to food. Don't think I've ever craved anything healthy. Experimental chocolate cake in slow cooker: contains puréed raw carrots (in lieu of puréed beetroot, which I might try next time), coffee, cocoa, eggs, loads of butter, milk, vanilla essence. To be served with chocolate ganache. Overkill with the fresh cream in the ganache, so it may be runnier than I intended (but might thicken as it cools). I'm done. LOL Can't believe I'm eating this, when it's going to go straight to my thighs. Yuck. No arguments ... yet. Can hear a doco that sounds interesting, but it's on commercial TV, so I'll give the propaganda a miss.
Might do some reading.
I'm in heaven, burning incense and listening to oldies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh8nD6oqPBM
Luckily the cake was terrible. LOL
I cook by throwing things together (like stews, curries etc), but cakes require specific, fiddly sets of techniques, that I could not be bothered messing with ... which affects the results.
Who would have thought there's such a thing as 'bad cake'? LOL
Assange: "The son of a bitch is me" - statement on the sentencing hearing of US journalist Barrett Brown
Wednesday December 17, 15:00 GMT
17 December 2014
“How corrupt can we be? Let us take Barrett Brown campaigning against Fox’s calls to assassinate Julian Assange, and flip that to say he’s campaigning for the assassination of FBI agents and use that to put him away for a decade. And then, if he tries to talk about this abuse in order to re-establish the true context, we’ll gag him!”
Nothing so well describes the surreal universe that has enveloped the United States as yesterday’s sentencing hearing of Barrett Brown.
Barrett has been jailed without trial for over two years now. He faces eight and a half more years. His next sentencing hearing is due in January 2015. The situation also involves me personally and the work of WikiLeaks.
Barrett Brown’s Hunter S Thompson style, his public lampooning of the US security state and his defence of WikiLeaks and Anonymous did not win him friends in the US administration and soon enough the FBI was looking for any excuse to take him down.
The case against Barrett Brown can be broken down into two parts.Two charges against him occur as a direct result of his journalistic work on our Stratfor materials (anonymizing his sources and discussing, with others, the material they provided to him). These charges are at odds with national and international protections for the press and freedom of expression. The third charge concerns his speech acts after the FBI threatened to charge his mother unless he handed over his source material. There are no other charges.
The FBI showed up at his mother’s home on March 6, 2012. His mother hid Barrett’s journalistic notebooks among her pots and pans; an action any son could be proud of. Barrett didn’t co-operate and so the FBI made good on its threat. His mother was charged, convicted and eventually placed on six months probation—for obstructing the course of justice.
“My better judgement was clouded by my maternal instinct” she wryly told the judge.
Barrett reacted to this injustice inflicted on his mother like any son would. He became ill-tempered. But, being an American from generation Y, his anger was expressed on social media.
Barrett, a journalist as well as a son, said he was going to “ruin” the FBI officer concerned by investigating his connections—including those of his adult children. Not a complete fool, he stated, in the same sentence, that this was not a threat of violence, but rather the equalisation of a double standard: doing what the Bank of America did against WikiLeaks when it asked US intelligence contractor Aaron Barr to map out WikiLeaks’ relationships, including, specifically, with the journalist Glenn Greenwald.
Barrett’s angry comments to his friends was at odds with the times. Twitter is a police interview that never ends. Facebook has all your friends wearing a wire. Youtube has you in the dock talking to the judge.Every social media user creates a vast library of statements that may be taken out of context by vengeful or ambitious officials. Users should be displayed their Miranda rights each time they log on.
The most serious claim against Barrett Brown is that six months after the March 6, 2012 FBI raid on his mother’s address he tweeted “illegally shoot the son of a bitch”. It sounds bad. It is a clear incitement to murder. The FBI claim that the “son of a bitch” Barrett was referring to was one of their agents. That is false. The “son of a bitch” is me—and the person who called for my assassination was not Barrett Brown.
Barrett’s full retweet was “dead men can’t leak stuff… illegally shoot the son of a bitch”. The quote is from Fox news host Bob Beckel, who called for my assassination—an injustice that Barrett was trying to draw attention to. Here is the video proof.
The FBI took no action against Bob Beckel or the numerous other senior figures calling for my assassination. A bill was put before Congress to declare WikiLeaks staff “enemy combatants” in order to make our assassination legal. It did not pass, but the FBI still refused to act.
Two days after Barrett retweeted the Bob Beckel statement, the FBI arrested not Bob Beckel, but Barrett Brown. He has been in jail ever since.
The Barrett Brown case is such an obvious injustice that a public campaign by his lawyers to place the Beckel statement back into its proper context would be an obvious step for his defence team.
Indeed, after being publicly monstered by the FBI’s decontextualisation effort, Barrett Brown and his lawyers fought to place the quote back into its proper context. As a result he and his legal team were gagged.
“Brown has shown his intent to continue to manipulate the public through press and social media comments,” the government claimed to the court on August 8, 2013. Public commentary “made by or condoned by the defense will ‘undermine a fair trial.’” As a result, the court ruled it was necessary“ to restrain Counsel and Defendant from making prejudicial statements to the press and media.”
How fine, how noble, how egalitarian. Fair trial rights for the government as well as the defence! Neither the defence nor the government can state their case to the public while Barrett Brown rots in jail awaiting his sentence—except to repeat the formal charges made by the government. Neither the greatest King nor the most destitute beggar may sleep in a box on the street. Fair’s fair!
Read about this before but the ins and outs of it didn't sink in properly ... and I've sort of forgotten Barrett Brown in the meantime. Oops, sorry, Barrett Brown.
Maybe I'm going senile, but I thought I'd read he was coming out soon. Nope, it doesn't look like it (and, yep, I'm losing my mind):
In January 2015, Brown was sentenced to 63 months in prison. He was also ordered to pay $890,250 in fines and restitution. [wikipedia]
This is unbelievable. A journalist has been stitched up by the FBI and slung in prison, and he is not permitted to defend himself. The capitalist state political police have charged his mother, who was convicted ... AND they demand an obscene amount of money from Barrett Brown - which is extortion. The capitalist government is criminal.
The rule by American capitalist oligarchy is truly f*cked.
Uh-oh, I might be f*cked as well. I keep asking Putin to nuke the capitalists, on Blogger.
The request appears fully justified, Comrade Putin. Please nuke the corrupt filthy capitalists.
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