I never ever ever thought I could see anything about Nixon in a positive light.
But not even he would have been this Gestapo about Assange.
Nixon was a left wing liberal next to our Gov,.on this behavior.

...what their governments do.

Slide Show: 18 Disturbing Things We Wouldn't Know Without WikiLeaks

EXCERPT...

The Saudis, our allies, are among the leading funders of international terrorism.

CONTINUED...

link:http://www.thenation.com/slideshow/157778/slide-show-18-disturbing-things-we-wouldnt-know-without-wikileaks#

Sid

You kick some of the best posts, and that pic of you, which some might even think is cute, sums up well your existence.

The full on attack on Assange is a true travesty of justice. It is of course meant also to send a message to others who might try to bring the Truth to the world, that they too will be viciously hunted.

Like you did.

Sid

PRISM and the Rise of a New Fascism (John Pilger)

We Are All Witnesses Now

by JOHN PILGER
CounterPunch WEEKEND EDITION JUNE 21-23, 2013

EXCERPT...

Snowden’s revelation that Washington has used Google, Facebook, Apple and other giants of consumer technology to spy on almost everyone is further evidence of a modern form of fascism. Having nurtured oldfashioned fascists around the world – from Latin America to Africa and Indonesia – the genie has risen at home. Understanding this is as important as understanding the criminal abuse of technology.

Fred Branfman, who exposed the “secret” destruction of tiny Laos by the US air force in the 1960s and 1970s, provides an answer to those who still wonder how a liberal African-American president, a professor of constitutional law, can command such lawlessness. “Under Mr Obama, America is still far from being a classic police-state . . .” he wrote. “But no president has done more to create the infrastructure for a possible future police state.” Why? Because Obama understands that his role is not to indulge those who voted for him but to expand “the most powerful institution in the history of the world, one that has killed, wounded or made homeless well over 20 million human beings, mostly civilians, since 1962”.

In the new American cyberpower, only the revolving doors have changed. The director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, was an adviser to Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state in the Bush administration who lied that Saddam Hussein could attack the US with nuclear weapons. Cohen and Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt – they met in the ruins of Iraq – have co-authored a book, The New Digital Age, endorsed as visionary by the former CIA director Michael Hayden and the war criminals Henry Kissinger and Tony Blair. The authors make no mention of the Prism spying programme, revealed by Snowden, that provides the NSA with access to all of us who use Google.

Control and dominance are the two words that make sense of this. These are exercised by political, economic and military design, of which mass surveillance is an essential part, but also by insinuating propaganda into the public consciousness. This was Edward Bernays’s point. His two most successful PR campaigns convinced Americans that they should go to war in 1917 and persuaded women to smoke in public; cigarettes were “torches of freedom” that would hasten women’s liberation.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/21/prism-and-the-rise-of-a-new-fascism/

I don't think there's anything funny about fascism.

Sid

Like writing someone is a "drinker" doesn't have to be true to diminish that person's integrity.

Something to consider: Assange's accusers have CIA ties.

Did Assange know if the MIC, Saudi Arabia, and Mossad are funding ISIS/ISIL?

Wikileaks has revealed criminality on the part of the US Goverment, too.

War is big business. It's an insider's game. It's why we have so much secret government.

The last remaining enormous wads of cash in the Treasury are to be had for purchasing today's modern military industrial intel complex.



There's more than a trillion to be grabbed -- just for the Lockheed-Martin F-35.

Now keeping tabs on us -- people interested in using some of the nation's treasure for more peaceful purposes -- are for-hire spies. How do I know this? Julian Assange and Anonymous:

If it weren't for Anonymous and WikiLeaks, we probably wouldn't know about any of that.

It's no joke. It's no unimportant story. It's no boring history. Run by insiders, the secret government is key to making the system run on behalf of the few -- the 1-percent of 1-percent. Central to that is intelligence -- economically, politically and military useful information.

Which brings up the nation's purported free press, the only business mentioned by name in the entire United States Constitution, and how the organizations therein have miserably failed to feature prominently the sundry and myriad ways the insiders on Wall Street and their toadies in Washington do the work for Them.

The problem is systemic. The corruption is systemic.

Because it involves oversight of secret organizations -- the Pentagon, Homeland Security, CIA, etc -- Congress and the Administration often have no clue, let alone oversight, to what is happening because the corruption is marked "Top Secret."

Secret government also means We the People can't do our job as citizens, which is to hold them accountable and find the ones responsible in order to vote the crooks out and, it is hoped, the honest ones in.

With no citizen oversight, anything goes. And it doesn't stop.

Remember this fine fellow, US Navy fighter ace Randy "Duke" Cunningham?

Later a member of the United States Congress, he used his position to feather his nest, Big Time.



In his political career, Cunningham was a member of the Appropriations and Intelligence committees, and chaired the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Human Intelligence Analysis and Counterintelligence during the 109th Congress. He was considered a leading Republican expert on national security issues.

Currently, he's in USP Tuscon or another fine facility where he gets three squares, medical and dental.
He's due for release in a year or so. He'll be able to pick up his pension.

"The Duke Cunningham Act, also known as the Federal Pension Forfeiture Act, was introduced by U.S. Senator John F. Kerry in 2006. The bill would have denied pension benefits to any members of Congress convicted of bribery, conspiracy or perjury. The bill died in committee. (Source: The Press Enterprise)

Duke wasn't alone. He really was just one snake in a long line of snakes. Remember Dusty Foggo, Number 3 at CIA and close associate of CIA Director and former Congressman Porter Goss? Swells sitting atop the peak of political and military secrecy and power.

Unfortunately, when it comes to modern governance, no oversight means means the insiders are getting away with murder, and warmongering and treason and all the power that they bring. Appointed pretzeldent George W Bush on Valentine's Day 2007 put it in words: "Money trumps peace."



Secret government warmongering and war profiteering are systemic. Secret government is rotten to the core. What's more, in a democracy that once really was land of the free and home of the brave, secret government poses the greatest threat to true national security.

Recent revelations that China hacked into and stole F-35 systems plans and now is building their own, means it was either bait or that there will be
twice as many of the jets ..."mis-flying".

Tis the only explanation I have for us continuing all these years to throw money into a proven dud.

is directly proportional to the viciousness of the government smear and propaganda campaigns and attempts to persecute those who exposed them.

Wikileaks Reveals Super Injunction Blocking Reporting On Massive Australian Corruption Case Involving Leaders Of Malaysia, Indonesia & Vietnam

Tech Dirt, July 30, 2014
from the no-free-press-for-you dept

We've written about the problems of so-called super injunctions in the past (though mainly in the UK). This legal process not only keeps certain details under wraps concerning a lawsuit, but actually forbids the media from reporting on anything related to the case at all. Such a thing would be clear prior restraint and not allowed in the US, but apparently is considered legal in other parts of the world. However, Wikileaks has now revealed what appears to be a super injunction against reporting on a massive corruption case in Australia, involving the leaders of Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, along with people at Australia's central bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia:

The super-injunction invokes “national security” grounds to prevent reporting about the case, by anyone, in order to “prevent damage to Australia's international relations”. The court-issued gag order follows the secret 19 June 2014 indictment of seven senior executives from subsidiaries of Australia's central bank, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). The case concerns allegations of multi-million dollar inducements made by agents of the RBA subsidiaries Securency and Note Printing Australia in order to secure contracts for the supply of Australian-style polymer bank notes to the governments of Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and other countries.

The suppression order lists 17 individuals, including "any current or former Prime Minister of Malaysia", “Truong Tan San, currently President of Vietnam", "Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (also known as SBY), currently President of Indonesia (since 2004)", "Megawati Sukarnoputri (also known as Mega), a former President of Indonesia (2001–2004) and current leader of the PDI-P political party" and 14 other senior officials and relatives from those countries, who specifically may not be named in connection with the corruption investigation.

The document also specifically bans the publication of the order itself as well as an affidavit affirmed last month by Australia's representative to ASEAN Gillian Bird, who has just been appointed as Australia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. The gag order effectively blacks out the largest high-level corruption case in Australia and the region.

It's the reasoning given that's most troubling:

The purpose of these orders is to prevent damage to Australia's international relations that may be caused by the publication of material that may damage the reputations of specified individuals who are not the subject of charges in these proceedings.

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140729/17501228048/wikileaks-reveals-super-injunuction-blocking-reporting-massive-australian-corruption-case-involving-leaders-malaysia-indonesia.shtml

UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada have this keeping a lid on Truth. The only one of the Five Eyes without such a clamp on freedom of the press is the United States and that, thanks to the USA PATRIOT Act, we don't really know as that's Top Secret, may already be history.

There is an arrest warrant out for him.

The reason the prosecutor will not go to London is well known. She has stated her intention to arrest him as soon as the interview is concluded. She will not interview him unless he agrees to be taken into custody.

The reason the government will not guarantee no extradition to the US is that Sweden has an independent judiciary- judges will decide on extradition not the government.

Sid

Instead, kick posts with specious arguments…

Like you do.

Sid

he should be above the law in his own view and that of his supporters.

From what I've seen, the US Government is cracking down on Assange because he published documents leaked to his organization that demostrate criminality on the part of officers of the US Government.

For instance:

[font size="6"][font color="red"]The Obama administration worked with Republicans to protect Bush officials who faced a criminal investigation in Spain for alleged torture.[/font color][/font size]

SOURCE: http://www.thenation.com/slideshow/157778/slide-show-18-disturbing-things-we-wouldnt-know-without-wikileaks#

The US government has nothing to do with it and still has not pressed charges. We've been over the Swedish procedure again and again.

The US soldier accused of giving large numbers of secret documents to Wikileaks has admitted he is guilty to 10 of the 22 charges against him. But he denied a more serious charge of aiding the enemy.

Steve Kingstone
BBC News, 1 March 2013

We now have a first-hand account of what compelled Bradley Manning to carry out the biggest leak of government secrets in American history.

He told the military court he'd been appalled by the "bloodlust" of a helicopter mission in Iraq - video of which he passed on to Wikileaks. He said that while serving in Iraq, he'd become depressed at what he called America's "obsession" with capturing and killing human targets. And that the American people should know the "true costs of war".

As for the leaked State Department cables, Private Manning said they [font color="red"]"documented backdoor deals and criminality" [/font color="red"] unbecoming of a superpower, and insisted his conscience was clear.

The military judge accepted the defendant's plea of guilty to 10 of the 22 counts. But Bradley Manning denies the most serious charge of aiding America's enemies - a charge which potentially carries a life sentence. Prosecutors have indicated that they plan to push ahead with a full court martial in the summer.

SOURCE w/audio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2013/03/130301_witn_wikileaks.shtml

So, still no link to support your contention, right, treestar?

I can't imagine the Swedes are in a generous mood after him fleeing the country to avoid arrest and then giving them the middle finger for four years. I think they want their pound of flesh. That and they don't want to explain to the public why their sexual assault laws don't apply to Assange.

I don't know if they do things like plea bargaining there, and maybe they would not be easy on him there. Given his attitude he would never plead anyway. He's just above the law, and should not have to answer to the Swedish courts in his opinion. If convicted after trial, he'd still be finding some way to claim the US is the real culprit!

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/9/sweden_ranks_second_in_the_world

What has that got to do with it?

(hint: look up red herring vs straw man then try using the correct term next time)