The heart of a Scotsman - George Galloway, The Chilcot Report: What Next?
The wheels of "democracy" when it works, when someone with heart, patience, tenacity and a strong sense of justice (a mighty lot to ask, so we can be very grateful for this man of principal) such as George Galloway, is an event worth witnessing, given how rare such events are. George Galloway you have been vindicated. Thank you for speaking so clearly. "Mr Blair: This Is For Iraq (Video)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVNmy5-2va8 (Youtube link also here: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/mr-blair-iraq/ri15485 )
The success of the "failure of democracy" - the more appropriate way to spin this one: http://theduran.com/chilcott-inquiry-report-britains-role-iraq-war-irrelevan... "An Inquiry report that needs 12 volumes and an executive summary reported to be 200 pages long to answer a question the answer to which is obvious cannot be other than an exercise in obfuscation."
Extradition order to send Assange to US poses existential threat to all truth seekers – Galloway https://www.rt.com/news/461759-assange-galloway-extradition-uk-us/ Julian Assange’s extradition to the US would be a deathblow for all truth seekers, George Galloway told RT, warning that anyone who fails to support Assange will one day share the same fate as the persecuted Wikileaks co-founder. Britain’s Home Secretary Sajid Javid revealed on Thursday that he had signed a request for the extradition of Assange to the US, where he is accused of violating the Espionage Act. The order will go before the UK courts on Friday. Galloway, a former MP who has campaigned tirelessly for Assange’s freedom, quipped that the “dark” episode shows that Theresa May’s “zombie” government was “not content with all the other disasters for which it’s responsible.” He insisted that Assange’s supporters would “never give up” the fight to stop his extradition to the US and secure his safe release from UK custody. Failing to support Assange now will have disastrous consequences for journalism and all who profess to hold progressive values, Galloway warned. He expressed particular discontent with those who would have ordinarily protested Assange’s treatment at the hands of the UK authorities, but remained silent because the Wikileaks co-founder was accused of sexual misconduct – what Galloway decried as a politically-motivated smear. The liberals and the progressives, as they describe themselves, they will one day be a victim of this tyranny themselves, that is unless they eventually give up any pretense of actually being liberals and actually being progressives. Asked about what would happen if Assange is ultimately extradited, Galloway said that the consequences for allowing such an injustice would be devastating. “Every truth seeker will go down if Julian goes down.” Assange faces a litany of charges in the US, including one count of conspiring with Chelsea Manning, the former intelligence analyst and whistleblower, to gain access to the US Pentagon network. The Australian journalist is currently serving a 50-week prison sentence in the UK for jumping bail. Journalists silent on Assange’s plight are complicit in his torture and imprisonment https://www.rt.com/op-ed/461509-journalists-media-assange-wikileaks/ On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 11:38:14AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
The wheels of "democracy" when it works, when someone with heart, patience, tenacity and a strong sense of justice (a mighty lot to ask, so we can be very grateful for this man of principal) such as George Galloway, is an event worth witnessing, given how rare such events are.
George Galloway you have been vindicated. Thank you for speaking so clearly.
"Mr Blair: This Is For Iraq (Video)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVNmy5-2va8
(Youtube link also here: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/mr-blair-iraq/ri15485 )
Galloway continues to speak for peace and (relative) sanity - as though another war which could likely descend into world war three is somehow a -bad- thing? ;) ‘Fire on Iran & US will be opening the gates of hell’ – George Galloway in video address https://www.rt.com/news/462414-world-woke-up-wwiii-galloway/ Polly pulls no punches either as she shows her true place ... baking, yay - a girl always full of surprises :) #ICYMI’s recipe for war with Iran: Turn the pressure cooker to high & bring to the boil https://www.rt.com/shows/icymi-with-polly-boiko/462405-war-iran-middle-east/ Polly direct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfJ_F4jJKvU Strange as it seems, Iran does not seem to particularly like the idea of America raining down military hardware on them: Iranian General Warns 'Firing One Bullet at Iran' Will 'Set Fire' to US Interests https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201906221076016994-iran-general-firing-bu... Iranian FM Zarif Reveals Detailed Map of Downed US Drone's Route https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201906221076021189-iranian-fm-zarif-revea... Voices: Who Survives The Iran Counter-Offensive? https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-21/who-survives-iran-counter-offensiv... [Iran chose the drone (in Iranian airspace) and not the USA manned aircraft flying near the drone. No one believes the US any more - the US is always doing something wrong, running another false flag etc. ]
An open request to the Queen of England and Great Britain: If you, our Queen of England and Great Britain and its dominions, have any power left within your authority as Queen, please do exercise such power as is required to right this great injustice summarized below, this blight of such clear and self evident conflicts of interest and of injustice under the auspices of your authority, exercised against Julian Assange. Humbly, Those who seek the upholding of justice and righteousness in this, our shared world … This statement by [Judge Emma Arbuthnot] captures the Alice-in-Wonderland quality of the judicial persecution of Assange. She dismisses as unreasonable Assange’s fears that if he voluntarily left the Ecuadorian Embassy he would be arrested by British police and extradited to the United States because he did not appear in court to express them. And yet, [Judge Emma Arbuthnot] is now presiding over [Julian Assange's] extradition trial. … The Coming Show Trial Of Julian Assange https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-22/coming-show-trial-julian-assange Authored by Chris Hedges via Truthdig, https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-coming-show-trial-of-julian-assange/ ... The judge, Emma Arbuthnot, cut him off, saying “this is not the time to go into this.” Commenting in 2018 when Assange’s lawyers requested that the warrant for his arrest be dropped, Arbuthnot said, “I accept that Mr. Assange had expressed fears of being returned to the United States from a very early stage in the Swedish extradition proceedings but, absent any evidence from Mr. Assange on oath, I do not find that Mr. Assange’s fears were reasonable,” This statement by the judge captures the Alice-in-Wonderland quality of the judicial persecution of Assange. She dismisses as unreasonable Assange’s fears that if he voluntarily left the Ecuadorian Embassy he would be arrested by British police and extradited to the United States because he did not appear in court to express them. And yet, she is now presiding over his extradition trial. This circular logic is not the only disturbing aspect of Judge Arbuthnot’s overseeing of the Assange case. She is married to James Arbuthnot, who sits in the House of Lords, is a British Conservative Party politician, was the minister of state at the Ministry of Defense and for nine years was the chairman of the Defense Select Committee in the House of Commons, a committee that oversees the operation of the Ministry of Defense and the armed forces. Arbuthnot, who was reprimanded while a member of Parliament for diverting public funds to maintain his two homes, is a director at SC Strategy, established by John Scarlett, the former head of the British foreign intelligence service MI6. The politician also is on the advisory board of Thales UK, a huge arms manufacturer whose corrupt business practices, which included massive bribes to heads of state in exchange for arms contracts, were exposed when some of its internal documents were published by WikiLeaks. The judge “has a strong conflict of interest,” Melzer said from Vienna when I interviewed him by video link for my television show, “On Contact.” “Her husband had been exposed by WikiLeaks.” Assange’s lawyers have asked the judge to recuse herself. She has refused. ... On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 04:54:58PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Extradition order to send Assange to US poses existential threat to all truth seekers – Galloway https://www.rt.com/news/461759-assange-galloway-extradition-uk-us/
Julian Assange’s extradition to the US would be a deathblow for all truth seekers, George Galloway told RT, warning that anyone who fails to support Assange will one day share the same fate as the persecuted Wikileaks co-founder.
Britain’s Home Secretary Sajid Javid revealed on Thursday that he had signed a request for the extradition of Assange to the US, where he is accused of violating the Espionage Act. The order will go before the UK courts on Friday.
Galloway, a former MP who has campaigned tirelessly for Assange’s freedom, quipped that the “dark” episode shows that Theresa May’s “zombie” government was “not content with all the other disasters for which it’s responsible.”
He insisted that Assange’s supporters would “never give up” the fight to stop his extradition to the US and secure his safe release from UK custody.
Failing to support Assange now will have disastrous consequences for journalism and all who profess to hold progressive values, Galloway warned. He expressed particular discontent with those who would have ordinarily protested Assange’s treatment at the hands of the UK authorities, but remained silent because the Wikileaks co-founder was accused of sexual misconduct – what Galloway decried as a politically-motivated smear.
The liberals and the progressives, as they describe themselves, they will one day be a victim of this tyranny themselves, that is unless they eventually give up any pretense of actually being liberals and actually being progressives.
Asked about what would happen if Assange is ultimately extradited, Galloway said that the consequences for allowing such an injustice would be devastating.
“Every truth seeker will go down if Julian goes down.”
Assange faces a litany of charges in the US, including one count of conspiring with Chelsea Manning, the former intelligence analyst and whistleblower, to gain access to the US Pentagon network. The Australian journalist is currently serving a 50-week prison sentence in the UK for jumping bail.
Journalists silent on Assange’s plight are complicit in his torture and imprisonment https://www.rt.com/op-ed/461509-journalists-media-assange-wikileaks/
On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 11:38:14AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
The wheels of "democracy" when it works, when someone with heart, patience, tenacity and a strong sense of justice (a mighty lot to ask, so we can be very grateful for this man of principal) such as George Galloway, is an event worth witnessing, given how rare such events are.
George Galloway you have been vindicated. Thank you for speaking so clearly.
"Mr Blair: This Is For Iraq (Video)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVNmy5-2va8
(Youtube link also here: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/mr-blair-iraq/ri15485 )
Assange in limbo still. To cheer us up, George Galloway in reasonably audible, and even subtitled, English :) George Galloway _ Another 5 years of majority Tory govt led by BoJo not going to be nice to look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EorWLykgxo ~1:27 "The Russians are coming!" ... On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:19:25PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
An open request to the Queen of England and Great Britain:
If you, our Queen of England and Great Britain and its dominions, have any power left within your authority as Queen, please do exercise such power as is required to right this great injustice summarized below, this blight of such clear and self evident conflicts of interest and of injustice under the auspices of your authority, exercised against Julian Assange.
Humbly, Those who seek the upholding of justice and righteousness in this, our shared world
… This statement by [Judge Emma Arbuthnot] captures the Alice-in-Wonderland quality of the judicial persecution of Assange. She dismisses as unreasonable Assange’s fears that if he voluntarily left the Ecuadorian Embassy he would be arrested by British police and extradited to the United States because he did not appear in court to express them. And yet, [Judge Emma Arbuthnot] is now presiding over [Julian Assange's] extradition trial. …
The Coming Show Trial Of Julian Assange https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-22/coming-show-trial-julian-assange
Authored by Chris Hedges via Truthdig, https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-coming-show-trial-of-julian-assange/
... The judge, Emma Arbuthnot, cut him off, saying “this is not the time to go into this.”
Commenting in 2018 when Assange’s lawyers requested that the warrant for his arrest be dropped, Arbuthnot said, “I accept that Mr. Assange had expressed fears of being returned to the United States from a very early stage in the Swedish extradition proceedings but, absent any evidence from Mr. Assange on oath, I do not find that Mr. Assange’s fears were reasonable,”
This statement by the judge captures the Alice-in-Wonderland quality of the judicial persecution of Assange. She dismisses as unreasonable Assange’s fears that if he voluntarily left the Ecuadorian Embassy he would be arrested by British police and extradited to the United States because he did not appear in court to express them. And yet, she is now presiding over his extradition trial.
This circular logic is not the only disturbing aspect of Judge Arbuthnot’s overseeing of the Assange case. She is married to James Arbuthnot, who sits in the House of Lords, is a British Conservative Party politician, was the minister of state at the Ministry of Defense and for nine years was the chairman of the Defense Select Committee in the House of Commons, a committee that oversees the operation of the Ministry of Defense and the armed forces. Arbuthnot, who was reprimanded while a member of Parliament for diverting public funds to maintain his two homes, is a director at SC Strategy, established by John Scarlett, the former head of the British foreign intelligence service MI6. The politician also is on the advisory board of Thales UK, a huge arms manufacturer whose corrupt business practices, which included massive bribes to heads of state in exchange for arms contracts, were exposed when some of its internal documents were published by WikiLeaks.
The judge “has a strong conflict of interest,” Melzer said from Vienna when I interviewed him by video link for my television show, “On Contact.” “Her husband had been exposed by WikiLeaks.”
Assange’s lawyers have asked the judge to recuse herself. She has refused. ...
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 04:54:58PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Extradition order to send Assange to US poses existential threat to all truth seekers – Galloway https://www.rt.com/news/461759-assange-galloway-extradition-uk-us/
Julian Assange’s extradition to the US would be a deathblow for all truth seekers, George Galloway told RT, warning that anyone who fails to support Assange will one day share the same fate as the persecuted Wikileaks co-founder.
Britain’s Home Secretary Sajid Javid revealed on Thursday that he had signed a request for the extradition of Assange to the US, where he is accused of violating the Espionage Act. The order will go before the UK courts on Friday.
Galloway, a former MP who has campaigned tirelessly for Assange’s freedom, quipped that the “dark” episode shows that Theresa May’s “zombie” government was “not content with all the other disasters for which it’s responsible.”
He insisted that Assange’s supporters would “never give up” the fight to stop his extradition to the US and secure his safe release from UK custody.
Failing to support Assange now will have disastrous consequences for journalism and all who profess to hold progressive values, Galloway warned. He expressed particular discontent with those who would have ordinarily protested Assange’s treatment at the hands of the UK authorities, but remained silent because the Wikileaks co-founder was accused of sexual misconduct – what Galloway decried as a politically-motivated smear.
The liberals and the progressives, as they describe themselves, they will one day be a victim of this tyranny themselves, that is unless they eventually give up any pretense of actually being liberals and actually being progressives.
Asked about what would happen if Assange is ultimately extradited, Galloway said that the consequences for allowing such an injustice would be devastating.
“Every truth seeker will go down if Julian goes down.”
Assange faces a litany of charges in the US, including one count of conspiring with Chelsea Manning, the former intelligence analyst and whistleblower, to gain access to the US Pentagon network. The Australian journalist is currently serving a 50-week prison sentence in the UK for jumping bail.
Journalists silent on Assange’s plight are complicit in his torture and imprisonment https://www.rt.com/op-ed/461509-journalists-media-assange-wikileaks/
On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 11:38:14AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
The wheels of "democracy" when it works, when someone with heart, patience, tenacity and a strong sense of justice (a mighty lot to ask, so we can be very grateful for this man of principal) such as George Galloway, is an event worth witnessing, given how rare such events are.
George Galloway you have been vindicated. Thank you for speaking so clearly.
"Mr Blair: This Is For Iraq (Video)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVNmy5-2va8
(Youtube link also here: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/mr-blair-iraq/ri15485 )
I wonder if the judge refusing to recuse herself has anything to do with the two agents, allegedly carrying automatic weapons illegally in the courtroom, addressing her while closely standing before her bench. On Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 2:20 PM Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
An open request to the Queen of England and Great Britain:
If you, our Queen of England and Great Britain and its dominions, have any power left within your authority as Queen, please do exercise such power as is required to right this great injustice summarized below, this blight of such clear and self evident conflicts of interest and of injustice under the auspices of your authority, exercised against Julian Assange.
Humbly, Those who seek the upholding of justice and righteousness in this, our shared world
… This statement by [Judge Emma Arbuthnot] captures the Alice-in-Wonderland quality of the judicial persecution of Assange. She dismisses as unreasonable Assange’s fears that if he voluntarily left the Ecuadorian Embassy he would be arrested by British police and extradited to the United States because he did not appear in court to express them. And yet, [Judge Emma Arbuthnot] is now presiding over [Julian Assange's] extradition trial. …
The Coming Show Trial Of Julian Assange https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-22/coming-show-trial-julian-assange
Authored by Chris Hedges via Truthdig,
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-coming-show-trial-of-julian-assange/
... The judge, Emma Arbuthnot, cut him off, saying “this is not the time to go into this.”
Commenting in 2018 when Assange’s lawyers requested that the warrant for his arrest be dropped, Arbuthnot said, “I accept that Mr. Assange had expressed fears of being returned to the United States from a very early stage in the Swedish extradition proceedings but, absent any evidence from Mr. Assange on oath, I do not find that Mr. Assange’s fears were reasonable,”
This statement by the judge captures the Alice-in-Wonderland quality of the judicial persecution of Assange. She dismisses as unreasonable Assange’s fears that if he voluntarily left the Ecuadorian Embassy he would be arrested by British police and extradited to the United States because he did not appear in court to express them. And yet, she is now presiding over his extradition trial.
This circular logic is not the only disturbing aspect of Judge Arbuthnot’s overseeing of the Assange case. She is married to James Arbuthnot, who sits in the House of Lords, is a British Conservative Party politician, was the minister of state at the Ministry of Defense and for nine years was the chairman of the Defense Select Committee in the House of Commons, a committee that oversees the operation of the Ministry of Defense and the armed forces. Arbuthnot, who was reprimanded while a member of Parliament for diverting public funds to maintain his two homes, is a director at SC Strategy, established by John Scarlett, the former head of the British foreign intelligence service MI6. The politician also is on the advisory board of Thales UK, a huge arms manufacturer whose corrupt business practices, which included massive bribes to heads of state in exchange for arms contracts, were exposed when some of its internal documents were published by WikiLeaks.
The judge “has a strong conflict of interest,” Melzer said from Vienna when I interviewed him by video link for my television show, “On Contact.” “Her husband had been exposed by WikiLeaks.”
Assange’s lawyers have asked the judge to recuse herself. She has refused. ...
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 04:54:58PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Extradition order to send Assange to US poses existential threat to all truth seekers – Galloway https://www.rt.com/news/461759-assange-galloway-extradition-uk-us/
Julian Assange’s extradition to the US would be a deathblow for all truth seekers, George Galloway told RT, warning that anyone who fails to support Assange will one day share the same fate as the persecuted Wikileaks co-founder.
Britain’s Home Secretary Sajid Javid revealed on Thursday that he had signed a request for the extradition of Assange to the US, where he is accused of violating the Espionage Act. The order will go before the UK courts on Friday.
Galloway, a former MP who has campaigned tirelessly for Assange’s freedom, quipped that the “dark” episode shows that Theresa May’s “zombie” government was “not content with all the other disasters for which it’s responsible.”
He insisted that Assange’s supporters would “never give up” the fight to stop his extradition to the US and secure his safe release from UK custody.
Failing to support Assange now will have disastrous consequences for journalism and all who profess to hold progressive values, Galloway warned. He expressed particular discontent with those who would have ordinarily protested Assange’s treatment at the hands of the UK authorities, but remained silent because the Wikileaks co-founder was accused of sexual misconduct – what Galloway decried as a politically-motivated smear.
The liberals and the progressives, as they describe themselves, they will one day be a victim of this tyranny themselves, that is unless they eventually give up any pretense of actually being liberals and actually being progressives.
Asked about what would happen if Assange is ultimately extradited, Galloway said that the consequences for allowing such an injustice would be devastating.
“Every truth seeker will go down if Julian goes down.”
Assange faces a litany of charges in the US, including one count of conspiring with Chelsea Manning, the former intelligence analyst and whistleblower, to gain access to the US Pentagon network. The Australian journalist is currently serving a 50-week prison sentence in the UK for jumping bail.
Journalists silent on Assange’s plight are complicit in his torture and imprisonment https://www.rt.com/op-ed/461509-journalists-media-assange-wikileaks/
On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 11:38:14AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
The wheels of "democracy" when it works, when someone with heart, patience, tenacity and a strong sense of justice (a mighty lot to ask, so we can be very grateful for this man of principal) such as George Galloway, is an event worth witnessing, given how rare such events are.
George Galloway you have been vindicated. Thank you for speaking so clearly.
"Mr Blair: This Is For Iraq (Video)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVNmy5-2va8
(Youtube link also here: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/mr-blair-iraq/ri15485 )
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 08:30:06PM +0000, Steven Schear wrote:
I wonder if the judge refusing to recuse herself has anything to do with the two agents, allegedly carrying automatic weapons illegally in the courtroom, addressing her while closely standing before her bench.
Firstly I don't believe that to be true, any security guards would have been to protect her because of her evil ruling, not to enforce someone else's will upon her. But, and most fundamentally -- there is -always- the space to do something other than evil - she could have sat silent for example, might have looked weird and may not have been good for her promotion prospects, but what she did, and her failure to recuse herself, ESPECIALLY in the face of Assange asking "how is this fair, I've not even got access to my own paperwork" (soemthing like that), is not only injustice, its an evil against a man who continues for many years to suffer the "example setting" required by an evil empire - we'd be hard pressed to ever be presented with another such perfect example of that which the courts are supposed to exist for.
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