Wikileaks: Julian Assange
https://twitter.com/defendassange https://twitter.com/wikileaks https://defend.wikileaks.org/category/news https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/ https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/en/resources.html https://wikileaks.org/gitmo/ Julian Assange Chelsea Manning Edward Snowden Reality Winner ... Hundreds of names, all bc govt trying to save its sorry ass. No one really wants it. End it already. #FreeAssange
https://twitter.com/MacWBishop/status/1231915617436999682 https://theintercept.com/2019/04/11/the-u-s-governments-indictment-of-julian... Millions murdered by govts. #FreeAssange
https://apnews.com/JulianAssange On 2/25/20, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
The USA will make the extraordinary claim...
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/582068295366410240 https://apnews.com/bb8d93bb1c1510b70b0f2c71e93879ca " More than 40 jurists from the U.K., the U.S., France and other countries published a letter Saturday asking the British government to reject the extradition request. They accused the U.S. of “extra-territorial overreach” in seeking to prosecute an Australian who was based in the U.K. " Assange lawyer- "Yesterday Mr Assange was handcuffed 11 times, stripped naked twice at Belmarsh and put in 5 separate holding cells. “I can’t for the life of me understand why he’s still in prison,” said John Shipton. #FreeAssange
Twitter news syndication lists... https://twitter.com/i/lists/1231878830870188032 https://twitter.com/i/lists/960793709519560704 https://twitter.com/i/lists/1231890085118971906 https://twitter.com/i/lists/1147600915345608704 Anonymous Bites Back https://twitter.com/ABBLiveShow https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1232439425629483009 Assange wrote down on a scrap of paper: ACollectionOfHistorySince_1966_ToThe_PresentDay#. "That's the password," he said. "But you have to add one extra word when you type it in. You have to put in the word 'Diplomatic' before the word 'History'. Can you remember that?" — David Leigh, WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds https://aebr.home.xs4all.nl/wl/ #FreeAssange Attach released passwords to all the other formerly intact distribution / insurance files for reference below...
On 2/25/20 4:19 PM, grarpamp wrote:
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Assange wrote down on a scrap of paper: ACollectionOfHistorySince_1966_ToThe_PresentDay#. "That's the password," he said. "But you have to add one extra word when you type it in. You have to put in the word 'Diplomatic' before the word 'History'. Can you remember that?" — David Leigh, WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy
SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds
https://aebr.home.xs4all.nl/wl/
#FreeAssange
Attach released passwords to all the other formerly intact distribution / insurance files for reference below...
A. That couldn't be Manning's password. That would be the password to Wikileak's administrative functions passed on by Assange as he was being arrested or thereabouts. B. CassandraRules is an 'altright' account and most likely a fed honeypot, like anyone else who would refer to themselves by that sullied moniker "Anonymous" today. Rr
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Search api's for general queries... https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=news&q=julian+assange https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=julian+assange Yanis Varoufakis and John Shipton and RSF 2020-02-22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16igunRqbU4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBL2yppwfOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1MFgKZT_-4 Ron Paul on US Politics re Assange 2020-02-24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLuUsaBvERc Assange Speech 2012-12-21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJdB0f1DDE Assange Last Video 2018-09-20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J98ed6oML2A "You have to put in the word 'Diplomatic'...'History'. Can you remember that?"... Julian Assange's Emergency Call to Hillary Clinton's Office https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQA4vwynYhY https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julia... "“I can’t speak with my lawyers with any confidentiality,” Assange told the court Wednesday. “There is a whole series of unnamed embassy staff in the room and then there’s a microphone right here and two officers. I have enough difficulty concentrating as it is.”" "Julian #Assange is speaking now to the Magistrate; that he cannot instruct his lawyers; that there is no privacy, he cannot participate. He cannot speak to his lawyer’s, without any confidence. Judge orders him to cease speaking; its not allowed for a Defendant to speak." "Assange: "I cannot communicate with my lawyers or ask them for clarifications without the other side seeing" "The other side has about 100 times more contact with their lawyers per day" "What is the point of asking if I can concentrate if I cannot participate?" "Assange is asked is he is ok to continue, he says he cannot speak to his legal team confidentially as he is flanked by guards, "I have very little contact with my lawyers."" "Judge says she will not allow Assange to address the court, tells him to speak to his lawyer. Assange tries to speak again, judge says he cannot and must instruct his lawyers. Judge leaves court and it adjourns." "Yesterday, after Assange's 1st day in court, prison wardens confiscated the legal documents he brought back to study. And he was stripped naked & handcuffed 11 times - to boot." Journalism and Free Speech are not crimes. #FreeAssange
On 2/27/20, Razer <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:
They're keeping #JulianAssange in a glass box, so you think of Eichmann, and #Nazis... Because the people persecuting #Assange understand and relate to #Nazis, because they are #Nazis. He is obviously not a flight or courtroom disruption risk, due to their torturing him like #Nazis do, so there's no reason he shouldn't be able to sit next to his lawyer and effectively plan a defense, except that the #Nazis want you to think of #Nazis when you see him... But all I can think of are the #Nazis who have him on display like an animal in a glass box.
https://www.facebook.com/DEAcampaign/videos/205346360871180/
More cages and show trials... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovIW-GcYWm0 journos slammed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25JpnWlEfvE bukharin 1938 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3WE2jXbkkc vice covers putin love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Eyjyceo3vU trotsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5y6xFzheqo charles 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOptDYhkoSM impeachment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYB1x1-yovY assange re manning trial "Your actions have not been approved by the Authorities!!! The trial has illustrated absurdity of the legal system for one thing the court chose a room way too small to keep observers out. The State felt "intolerable pain" when a little yellow lemon fruit hit its kevlar vest. The point of the trial is not to deliver justice, it's a warning to others thinking about being free. The people behind bars were put there to scare everyone. Redress, protest, Freedom... will not be possible or tolerated." #FreeAssange
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom Thread digest... " This case is a great career opportunity for Judges. Most Judges in New Zealand saw my case as a career opportunity. Judges who ruled in favor of the US govt were promoted. The govt even promoted Judges who were favorable to me to remove them from my case. My lead lawyer was offered a Judge position. He quit. He’s now a Judge. It was shocking to see how frequently and shamelessly US lawyers twisted the law, manipulated and lied. But most shocking was that most New Zealand Judges witnessed this misconduct and did nothing The US beats you outside of the courtroom with political pressure, corruption and relationships. No Judge who rules in favor of Julian Assange will ever be recommend for promotion by the prime minister. As long as govt gets to pick Judges govt will win political cases. Judges are selfish people like most people. They too want to climb the ladder. More money and prestige. In a society where Judges are chosen and promoted by the government Justice isn’t real. " Bitcoin maximalists only hold a single coin and want to pump it. I hold dozens of coins and just want crypto to undermine the power of governments to control peaceful people. -- roger ver
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https://twitter.com/Millenial1706/status/1226116903602511873 #FreeAssange https://pastebin.com/f2DZhPvp ========================================================================================================= @ioerror A timely reminder to freedom fighters everywhere @ioerror (Jacob Appelbaum) gave this speech on Twitter on August 18th 2012. It is part reminder, part plea and part instruction manual for freedom fighters everywhere. ========================================================================================================= One of the most inspiring things about Julian is that he knew the risks & took action for the benefit of all *humanity* #wikileaks Julian's actions are not based in egoism or megalomania - they are based on principles of universal justice brought through truth telling. Julian's willingness to take a stand in public is dismissed as "not required" by people who have yet to show anonymity alone could work. Daniel Ellsberg is not an egotistical guy either - he could have leaked the Pentagon Papers anonymously & wanted to take a stand for change Every person inspired by JA/DE's courage in public leads others to be inspired to at least take action anonymously, if not publicly. We must not create idols for worship but we must not denigrate those who make or take risks merely because we know their name or story. Nor should we discredit the positive actions of people, merely because they, like all people, are imperfect, flawed or sometimes wrong. Nelson Mandela is a great example of a guy who, while imperfect, brought about great change worthy of praise, while having a healthy ego/id. So many great people, working for justice are imperfect and so easily people forget the smears & attacks they faced in their struggle. Pick someone working for social justice, against unjust wars, against oppressive forces of almost any kind - they are attacked mercilessly. These attacks, even if there is a shred of truth to them, must not be used to discredit the positive goals & results of such struggles. Point out that some founding fathers of the US were racists and that they were right to fight against British tyranny - we must carry it on Nelson Mandela used tactics that we can improve on, as did the US revolutionary forces against the UK - #wikileaks has never used violence The fact that #wikileaks has managed to make such an impact by building on the lessons of past struggles is precisely why so many attack it. Without a single bullet, #wikileaks has turned elections, exposed murders, shown massive corruptions - it has uncovered and enabled action. #wikileaks would have never have mattered without Julian Assange and everyone involved, taking these risks knowingly for a better world. Even if you personally dislike Julian, we must not let him hang. Humanity benefits from #wikileaks work. He hasn't hung you, he has helped. Some say #wikileaks doesn't need him and that he's a risk to #wikileaks but that is exactly the wrong lesson. We cannot disregard his needs. When I spoke at HOPE in Julian's place, I quoted Solzhenitsyn "And mankind's sole salvation lies in everyone making everything his business" Solzhenitsyn (continued): "in the people of the East being vitally concerned with what is thought in the West," Solzhenitsyn (continued): "the people of the West vitally concerned with what goes on in the East." This is what #wikileaks and Julian Assange have done - they have made it possible for us to do exactly as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn hoped. We now know almost exactly how many people the State has killed by their own hands - when it refuses to be accountable for war and lies. We now know the tactics of corruption from Kenya to Iraq. from Libya and Tunisia - from the West, the East, & the Global South. Julian's action with #wikileaks was not to end up dead or exiled or famous - his actions create opportunity for all of us to take action. When Howard Zinn talked about Democracy, he showed that it is more than simple voting, it is knowledge, culture, discussions, accountability When Julian talks about Democracy, he takes action to enable knowledge, culture, to foster discussions, to create avenues for accountability We must not forget that Julian has taken steps to fight against the creeping authoritarianism that come from any exploitable govt structure. In the "West" we speak of dissidents and activists, such as those in Bahrain without issue - the State department even speaks out for them. We must not forget that the people oppressed in Bahrain deserve freedom not because they're in Bahrain but because they are alive & feeling All across the world, Julian and many others have enabled and connected struggles to evidence for what they often knew but could not prove. What is created next must come from the all of us not wasting our generation. No martyrs and no losing ourselves to be crushed by the State. We must remember that the State will lie to us - each state involved in hunting Julian has lied to its people. This is a structural issue. The structure of modern governments takes otherwise good people and puts them into impossible situations. A feedback loop we can reset. The structure of these governments was an improvement on what came before but we must improve the structure to improve the outcomes. Many of the modern governments, partially as a result of scale, have lost people's faith in doing the right thing, in representing us. We must remind everyone one of those people in those structures that justice does not merely appear for people in Julian's place. How will we do this? How will communicate these goals? How will we communicate our shared points of unity and our goals of justice? We will do this with actions. Individual actions and actions taken together as a whole, in the pursuit of those points of unity, those goals We must start by letting everyone in a position of power know: what happens to Julian, we believe it will happen to *all* of us eventually. What we must also impress on their minds is that if it happens to Julian as suspected, it will happen to them before it happens to all of us We must find the names and ranks of all of responsible and refuse to let them off the hook. File lawsuits, block doors, print leaflets. We must find those who know, who knew and are silent - from drone assassination to hunting Julian Assange - they must be held to account. I have been held by the US Army/ICE/DHS on US soil - denied a lawyer, my property taken, my life threatened - is this the world we want? These things do not represent progress towards justice, when police are legally protected about lying - when the military has no limits. These issues are concrete examples of tyranny, of injustice, of systems that are structurally flawed. These very systems that #wikileaks has sought to inform us about; we must not waste this chance and we must not let the world waste Julian! Every single person impacted by the US Grand Jury should speak out about their experiences - we cannot let people say it isn't happening. Every single person who can take a stand against the NDAA section 1021 - no indefinite detention without a trial anywhere, ever. We must speak out, we must speak loudly, we must write in when we see lies printed by the New York Times or the Washington Post. We must not be crushed by fear or of fear of reprisal - we must refuse to be silenced and expose those who pressure and try to harm us. When people say that Julian is unreasonably paranoid - we must show them that the US is breaking its own rules, our rules, to pursuit him. In the next few years, if we do not fix our structural problems, we will have the technology for total totalitarianism - just waiting for us Silence will not protect us - only standing strong and standing together, despite our own misgivings - against injustice, any injustice. File an amicus brief in Jewel vs NSA to fight against the tyranny of general warrants. File an amicus brief in the case against sect 1021. File a FOIA for anything and everything - create trouble with the truth - hold the bastards accountable for misusing our power against us. If you're in London, now is the time for you to occupy the embassy of Ecuador - be eyes for the world, against the tyranny of the UK. For every person like Julian or Bradly Manning, there are dozens whose names we do not know - we must support all of them in their struggle. Do not despair that we can't win every struggle, we must not be discouraged. The moral action is right even absent a chance of winning. Do not despair that some are cowards; show them they are welcome to change their minds and support them in the struggle when they're ready This generation can overcome the apathy and the failures of the last few decades. We reject the notion that the State is perfect or honest. Julian Assange's fate is in our hands; now is the time for action! Take it before it is too late for him and too late for the rest of us. =========================================================================================================
Caitlin Johnstone: “Should journalists be jailed for exposing US war crimes? Yes or no?” Humanity Is Making A Very Important Decision When It Comes To Assange -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/03/01/humanity-is-making-a-very-important-... ... “Should journalists be jailed for exposing US war crimes? Yes or no?” Debunking The Smear That Assange Recklessly Published Unredacted Documents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/02/26/debunking-the-smear-that-assange-rec... This is a new section for my newly updated ongoing mega-article Debunking All The Assange Smears, a resource for debating 30 of the most common smears against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Use it, share it, and let me know if there’s anything you think should be changed or added. https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/debunking-all-the-assange-smears-a549fd67... The prosecution in the Assange extradition trial has falsely alleged that WikiLeaks recklessly published unredacted files in 2011 which endangered people’s lives. In reality the Pentagon admitted that no one was harmed as a result of the leaks during the Manning trial, and the unredacted files were actually published elsewhere as the result of a Guardian journalist recklessly included a real password in a book about WikiLeaks. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/02/your-man-in-the-public-galle... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/bradley-manning-sentencing-hea... ... As Assange’s defense highlighted during the trial, the unredacted publications were the result of a password being published in a book by Guardian reporters Luke Harding and David Leigh, the latter of whom worked with Assange in the initial publications of the Manning leaks. https://twitter.com/jamesdoleman/status/1232274807447789568 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/10/assa-a10.html WikiLeaks reported that it didn’t speak publicly about Leigh’s password publication for several months to avoid drawing attention to it, https://wikileaks.org/Guardian-journalist-negligently.html but broke its silence when they learned a German weekly called Freitag was preparing a story about it. There’s footage of Assange calling the US State Department trying to warn of an imminent security breach at the time, but they refused to escalate the call. https://youtu.be/57Hqfq0rwXI It wasn’t long after that that the full unredacted archive was published on a website called Cryptome, where it still exists in its unredacted form today, completely free from prosecution. It wasn’t until the leaks were forced into the public, at the initiation of Leigh’s password shenanigans, that WikiLeaks published them in their unredacted form. https://twitter.com/jamesdoleman/status/1232277804546482183 Assange’s US criminal defense lawyer Barry Pollack said in a press conference after the second day of the extradition trial being held at Belmarsh Prison: “What was laid out in great detail in court today was that the United States government making this extradition request claimed that Julian Assange intentionally published names of sources without redaction. We learned today that the United States government knew all along that that wasn’t true. That when others were about to publish those names without redaction, Julian Assange called the State Department to warn the State Department that others were about to publish, and pleaded with the State Department to take whatever action was necessary to protect those sources. The idea that the United States government is seeking extradition of Julian Assange when it, the United States government, failed to take any action is really unfathomable. I think we will learn more as this trial goes on that the United States government simply has not disclosed, in the extradition request, the underlying facts.” https://twitter.com/DEAcampaign/status/1232306677162049536?s=20 ...
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:30:30AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
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Julian Assange Chelsea Manning Edward Snowden Reality Winner ...
Hundreds of names, all bc govt trying to save its sorry ass. No one really wants it. End it already.
Oh far from it - big $$ wants govt, the easiest way to shear the sheeple. [From the stating the obvious dept.]
#FreeAssange
Assange Hearing: Manning Sought Help Accessing Video Game Database, Not Hacking US Government System https://sputniknews.com/uk/202002251078402898-assange-hearing-manning-sought... Julian Assange is charged with 17 counts under the espionage act and one count of "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion". This charge has been erroneously misused by the US to represent an attempted act of 'hacking' in order to shield Chelsea Manning from detection while revealing classified documents to WikiLeaks, according to his defence. US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning sought help from Julian Assange in order to crack a password hash so that she could access a video gaming and music database, Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court was told on 25 February 2020. Mark Summers QC, a barrister on Assange's legal team, told Judge Venessa Baraitser that the US government is aware of this fact and that their extradition request, which cites one charge of "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion" is therefore fundamentally dishonest. This is the first time that this claim, that Manning merely sought help to access a video gaming site which was blocked by the US military, was made public. Summers also submitted to the court arguments and evidence to show that Manning didn't need either a username or password in order to access the information which she did end up leaking to WikiLeaks. Furthermore, Assange was ultimately unable to assist Manning and so this attempt ultimately went nowhere. ...
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:30:30AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
https://twitter.com/defendassange https://twitter.com/wikileaks https://defend.wikileaks.org/category/news
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Julian Assange Chelsea Manning Edward Snowden Reality Winner ...
Hundreds of names, all bc govt trying to save its sorry ass. No one really wants it. End it already.
#FreeAssange
George Galloway - a man who actually uses his (media) platform for the "in principle" it is intended for - speaking truth to power. WATCH: One of Best Orators Alive, UK Politician George Galloway, Electrifying Speech on Lynching of Assange https://russia-insider.com/en/watch-one-best-orators-alive-uk-politician-geo... https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.c... (Transcript in Russia-Insider.com link above has a few mistakes, for those who prefer to read... but strongly recommend watching - inspiring, and only ~14 minutes and ~20MiB) A few quotes from the transcript: "Who cannot tremble with indignation at the idea that the man that blew the whistle on the war crimes is in Belmarsh and the war criminals are on the BBC and ITV and raking in millions and millions and millions and millions of pounds." "If you cannot tremble with indignation, any injustice anywhere, you're not a human being. You have no pulse and you have no soul." "This church should be bulging with journalists because if they had any intention of actually doing their job. What is happening to Julian Assange is a mortal danger to them. It's a knife at their heart. It's a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. If they ever intended to actually be journalists. But of course, the truth is, most of them have sold whatever soul they had just for a ribbon to put on their coat, just for a shilling or two. They have abandoned any claim of moral authority. These are the people that lecture us."
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 09:40:33PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:30:30AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
https://twitter.com/defendassange https://twitter.com/wikileaks https://defend.wikileaks.org/category/news
https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/ https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/en/resources.html https://wikileaks.org/gitmo/
Julian Assange Chelsea Manning Edward Snowden Reality Winner ...
Hundreds of names, all bc govt trying to save its sorry ass. No one really wants it. End it already.
#FreeAssange
George Galloway - a man who actually uses his (media) platform for the "in principle" it is intended for - speaking truth to power.
WATCH: One of Best Orators Alive, UK Politician George Galloway, Electrifying Speech on Lynching of Assange https://russia-insider.com/en/watch-one-best-orators-alive-uk-politician-geo... https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.c...
(Transcript in Russia-Insider.com link above has a few mistakes, for those who prefer to read... but strongly recommend watching - inspiring, and only ~14 minutes and ~20MiB)
A few quotes from the transcript:
"Who cannot tremble with indignation at the idea that the man that blew the whistle on the war crimes is in Belmarsh and the war criminals are on the BBC and ITV and raking in millions and millions and millions and millions of pounds."
"If you cannot tremble with indignation, any injustice anywhere, you're not a human being. You have no pulse and you have no soul."
"This church should be bulging with journalists because if they had any intention of actually doing their job. What is happening to Julian Assange is a mortal danger to them. It's a knife at their heart. It's a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. If they ever intended to actually be journalists.
But of course, the truth is, most of them have sold whatever soul they had just for a ribbon to put on their coat, just for a shilling or two.
They have abandoned any claim of moral authority. These are the people that lecture us."
And an example of the absolute hypocritical scum that is the "mainstream" press - aggrandizing themselves with awards whilst not even mentioning Julian Assange - Christiane Amanpour licks the empires boots, does not mention Assange: Freedom for me but not for Assange (or thee): The breathtaking hypocrisy of CNN’s Christiane Amanpour https://www.rt.com/op-ed/481854-amanpour-cnn-assange-journalism-hypocrisy/
WikiLeaks/Assange is primarily a source not a journalist and journalists customarily sacrifice sources to save themselves. Assange in the early days of WikiLeaks was harshly critical of journalists and adopted the journalist cloak when journalists joined the org and shit started to come down. WikiLeaks has sacrificed sources to save itself. But like journalists continues to claim it protects sources in order to keep leaks coming in. Also contacts authorities for approval like journalists, redacts documents, hustles for funding reportedly now in the millions of dollars, brays about its public service, avidly advertises itself, breaks laws under guise of constitutional privilege, etc. Assanges's sexual predation like celebrities is same as that of star journalists, which stardom is hardly the norm for grunts of low-paid journalists who hate investors, publishers, editors and stars. WikiLeaks originally promised public participation of a wiki but within months it was revealed to be an Assange promotional tool, heirarchical, high-handed, censorious, secret, cultish. Now wealthy as MSM. WikiLeaks remains a valuable public resource but needs to shed Assange, secrecy, con artistry, obnoxious promotion by celebrity defenders out to promote themselves. It was intended to be an alternative to commercial journalism but lost its way due to Assange's misbehavior even now being glamorized, way too many vulgarians cheering his performance. Fuck the glamorizers, free Assange from their clutches, they will abandon him when appropriate for their own protection. At 05:40 AM 2/29/2020, you wrote:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:30:30AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
https://twitter.com/defendassange https://twitter.com/wikileaks https://defend.wikileaks.org/category/news
https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/ https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/en/resources.html https://wikileaks.org/gitmo/
Julian Assange Chelsea Manning Edward Snowden Reality Winner ...
Hundreds of names, all bc govt trying to save its sorry ass. No one really wants it. End it already.
#FreeAssange
George Galloway - a man who actually uses his (media) platform for the "in principle" it is intended for - speaking truth to power.
WATCH: One of Best Orators Alive, UK Politician George Galloway, Electrifying Speech on Lynching of Assange https://russia-insider.com/en/watch-one-best-orators-alive-uk-politician-geo... https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.c...
(Transcript in Russia-Insider.com link above has a few mistakes, for those who prefer to read... but strongly recommend watching - inspiring, and only ~14 minutes and ~20MiB)
A few quotes from the transcript:
"Who cannot tremble with indignation at the idea that the man that blew the whistle on the war crimes is in Belmarsh and the war criminals are on the BBC and ITV and raking in millions and millions and millions and millions of pounds."
"If you cannot tremble with indignation, any injustice anywhere, you're not a human being. You have no pulse and you have no soul."
"This church should be bulging with journalists because if they had any intention of actually doing their job. What is happening to Julian Assange is a mortal danger to them. It's a knife at their heart. It's a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. If they ever intended to actually be journalists.
But of course, the truth is, most of them have sold whatever soul they had just for a ribbon to put on their coat, just for a shilling or two.
They have abandoned any claim of moral authority. These are the people that lecture us."
On 2/29/20, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
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Years before every commercial fake journo rolled a SecureDrop to vacuum up and never publish leaks, WL (and a few others to their credit) were the only pubs in town, with WL flashing that hot new style. WL's vacuum most likely hasn't yet dumped all what got sucked into its old lode. Styles often come back, but hardly ever quite the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrWud7T8q5A
On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 06:29:28 -0500 John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
Assanges's sexual predation
ok here are a couple of observations about 'cryptome.org', the website of agent young. 1) nobody gives a fuck about cryptome, because obviously the stuff that cryptome 'publishes' threatens nobody. 2) how far is cryptome removed from US govcorp? natsios, the other clown-agent who runs cryptome is the daughter of a high ranking CIA criminal.
How about some WL competition then - multiple cryptomes, drops, jurisdictions, federations, operators? On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 06:29:28AM -0500, John Young wrote:
WikiLeaks/Assange is primarily a source not a journalist and journalists customarily sacrifice sources to save themselves.
Assange in the early days of WikiLeaks was harshly critical of journalists and adopted the journalist cloak when journalists joined the org and shit started to come down.
WikiLeaks has sacrificed sources to save itself. But like journalists continues to claim it protects sources in order to keep leaks coming in. Also contacts authorities for approval like journalists, redacts documents, hustles for funding reportedly now in the millions of dollars, brays about its public service, avidly advertises itself, breaks laws under guise of constitutional privilege, etc.
"breaks laws under guise of constitutional privilege" - generalized lip is just slander John - you of all people should know this! If you want to help raise the consciousness generally, we need to start getting specific about what's right, and what's wrong (and that's sometimes a personal thing/assessment, so be it - this is a bloody anarchist list after all!) Underhanded (facts not named) and generalised beef, is just slander.
Assanges's sexual predation
Repeating MSM slander is limp in the extreme, dude! Seriously John, since you've repeated this particular slanderous claim a number of times now, put up some evidence or stfu on this one - if "sexual predation" by Assange existed, we can fairly assume in the face of the Swedish bullshit "legal process" against Assange to date, that "Assange sexual predation" would have been loudly and publicly displayed, and it has not, thus leaving the Empire looking extraordinarily petty and vindictive. If you have the dirt, strut your stuff if that's your style. "With friends like us" though...
like celebrities is same as that of star journalists, which stardom is hardly the norm for grunts of low-paid journalists who hate investors, publishers, editors and stars.
There are stars, for whatever reasons, and there are grunts. Get the firetruck over it. Choose your own pathway. Suggest improvements to others. But bitching about Assange where he cannot respond/defend himself, and without substantive fact, is simply John's Opinion Porn, come and get it, straight off John's Opinion Press.
WikiLeaks originally promised public participation of a wiki but within months it was revealed to be an Assange promotional tool, heirarchical, high-handed, censorious, secret, cultish. Now wealthy as MSM.
There is no shortage of alternates in wiki/git/rsync/etc software, for you/I/others to roll out "better". This is a do-ocracy, not a complaint-ocracy.
WikiLeaks remains a valuable public resource but needs to shed Assange, secrecy, con artistry, obnoxious promotion by celebrity defenders out to promote themselves. It was intended to be an alternative to commercial journalism but lost its way due to Assange's misbehavior even now being glamorized, way too many vulgarians cheering his performance.
His stand is way beyond the will of most humans. And beyond the understanding of most.
Fuck the glamorizers, free Assange from their clutches, they will abandon him when appropriate for their own protection.
Some will, some won't - we saw that with the Tor compromats, now fully CIA cucked, Applebaum delivered a public flogging. Humans are human - not so many have a will to loyalty, discovering those is a quest worthy! Create your world brother,
At 05:40 AM 2/29/2020, you wrote:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:30:30AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
https://twitter.com/defendassange https://twitter.com/wikileaks https://defend.wikileaks.org/category/news
https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/ https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/en/resources.html https://wikileaks.org/gitmo/
Julian Assange Chelsea Manning Edward Snowden Reality Winner ...
Hundreds of names, all bc govt trying to save its sorry ass. No one really wants it. End it already.
#FreeAssange
George Galloway - a man who actually uses his (media) platform for the "in principle" it is intended for - speaking truth to power.
WATCH: One of Best Orators Alive, UK Politician George Galloway, Electrifying Speech on Lynching of Assange https://russia-insider.com/en/watch-one-best-orators-alive-uk-politician-geo... https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.c...
(Transcript in Russia-Insider.com link above has a few mistakes, for those who prefer to read... but strongly recommend watching - inspiring, and only ~14 minutes and ~20MiB)
A few quotes from the transcript:
"Who cannot tremble with indignation at the idea that the man that blew the whistle on the war crimes is in Belmarsh and the war criminals are on the BBC and ITV and raking in millions and millions and millions and millions of pounds."
"If you cannot tremble with indignation, any injustice anywhere, you're not a human being. You have no pulse and you have no soul."
"This church should be bulging with journalists because if they had any intention of actually doing their job. What is happening to Julian Assange is a mortal danger to them. It's a knife at their heart. It's a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. If they ever intended to actually be journalists.
But of course, the truth is, most of them have sold whatever soul they had just for a ribbon to put on their coat, just for a shilling or two.
They have abandoned any claim of moral authority. These are the people that lecture us."
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 06:29:28AM -0500, John Young wrote:
WikiLeaks/Assange is primarily a source not a journalist and journalists customarily sacrifice sources to save themselves.
Assange in the early days of WikiLeaks was harshly critical of journalists and adopted the journalist cloak when journalists joined the org and shit started to come down.
WikiLeaks has sacrificed sources to save itself. But like journalists continues to claim it protects sources in order to keep leaks coming in.
Also contacts authorities for approval like journalists, redacts documents, hustles for funding
If that's all true, TPTB should have just worked with Assange. But instead they crucify Assange. When the many (true) WL competitors come, they will be far from so compliant.
reportedly now in the millions of dollars, brays about its public service, avidly advertises itself, breaks laws under guise of constitutional privilege, etc.
This is a heartfelt message, but always remember your own authority and power/ability to act and speak in this world. Assange Rips the Matrix by Finian Cunningham https://sputniknews.com/columnists/202002281078430608-assange-rips-the-matri... The persecution of Julian Assange is one of those breakthrough moments when suddenly people realise that almost everything they have been told to believe is not true. This week the Australian-born journalist and publisher has been subjected to a show trial in a British court with the threat of extradition to the United States looming. If he is extradited, the 48-year old is facing 175 years – a death sentence – in prison on wholly contrived espionage charges. Assange is being persecuted for the sole and simple reason that he exposed war crimes and systematic corruption by the US government and its Western allies. His years of arbitrary detention and the torture endured over the past year while in solitary confinement in a British dungeon are a grim warning to all citizens. The warning is that their supposed democratic rights are non-existent as far as the powers in Washington and London are concerned. If you dare speak truth to power, then this fate will also be yours. Thus, when it gets down to it, the harsh reality is that there is no such thing as democracy in the US or Britain. Elections and media are but window-dressing to hide the brutal truth that fundamental, basic democratic rights of free speech and due legal process are not inalienable principles, but rather are dispensable privileges whenever the powers-that-be ordain so. Julian Assange’s incarceration and pillorying is like an inquisition from medieval times happening in the year 2020. He dared expose the rampant, systematic crimes of so-called authorities through his Wikileaks site. His blasphemy was to expose the charlatans and mass-killers who masquerade as pious leaders. Those revelations showed the public that the pretensions of democracy and rule of law by the American and British governments are nothing but hypocritical, empty posturing. Assange’s courageous publishing work demonstrated how those governments have waged criminal wars and committed genocidal crimes; how they have made a mockery of international law and democratic rights. And for that heroic service to public truth and empowerment with the truth, Assange is being pilloried like a rebellious serf by overlords posing as “governments” and “judges”. Assange’s show trial is also powerfully revealing of the real nature of Western so-called news media. Not one of the major US or British news outlets have given any coverage, let alone comment, regarding his week-long extradition trial. A journalist and publisher is being whipsawed in the court as if he is a dangerous terrorist. He is denied elementary due process by being confined to a glass-cage dock, not able to communicate with his defence lawyers, unable to even hear what his accusers are claiming. His extradition, to be determined at a future court hearing, seems like a foregone conclusion, such is the bias and hostility towards Assange from the presiding British judge, Vanessa Baraitser. Given the international outcry from hundreds of doctors and UN representatives over Assange’s torture endured while in British custody, and given the grotesque abuse of legal process by the American and British so-called authorities, the case should be thrown out immediately – if there were any modicum of justice. The vendetta against Assange tells us what kind of societies citizens (or rather subjects) are living under in the US and Britain. These states are oligarchies where “democratic rights” are strictly conditional on subjects not stepping out of line, such as criticising war crimes or illegal global spying. Julian Assange has torn through the largely invisible matrix of propaganda and power that people really live under. The saccharin myths of “democracy” and “free speech” are shown for the ugly, putrid reality that they are. And the Western corporate-controlled media in their silence about what is going on are also condemned for the lying servile machines that they are. We must not accept the fate being prepared for Assange as if it is inevitable or as if we are powerless to overthrow it. The first step towards freedom is truth, and thanks to Julian Assange, we have the power to be free [actually, thanks to our inherent nature as human/Soul, we have within each of us, the power to live our truth, within the boundaries of our limitations, some self imposed, some external]. We know the tyrannical nature of the governments that presume to rule over us in our names. There must be a popular uprising in defence of Assange. Because no-one is free until he is. A final note by way of testimony: anyone who has been enlightened by Wikileaks’ revelations over the past decade will know that the current escalation of conflict in Syria’s Idlib is due to NATO powers illegally occupying that country. They will know that NATO powers have for years covertly sponsored terror groups to carry out a criminal regime-change war. By contrast, anyone who relies on Western governments and mainstream media for “information” will have no idea whatsoever about what is really going in Syria. A wider war could erupt any day and those who are brainwashed by Western regimes and their media are impotent to stop it. The empowerment of citizens by Julian Assange and Wikileaks over the years is the difference between ending wars or fueling them.
Assange is a fine essayist, Articulate. Courageous. Humorous. WikiLeaks is a superb source. Not like this hyperbolic excreta. At 08:23 AM 3/1/2020, you wrote:
This is a heartfelt message, but always remember your own authority and power/ability to act and speak in this world.
Assange Rips the Matrix by Finian Cunningham
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/202002281078430608-assange-rips-the-matri...
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