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13 years ago this week Julian Assange published the Collateral Murder video showing the killing over a dozen people in Iraq, including 2 @Reuters journalists, seriously wounding 2 children He faces a 175 year sentence if extradited for truthful publishing https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org
Video Transcript AI Summary
Engagement complete: "We just engaged all eight individuals." About eight targets remain; "one guy crawling around down there," and "one individual, appears to be wounded, trying to crawl away." Cease fire was declared: "We won't shoot anymore." Coordinated movement: "Pushmaster two things. Pushmaster two things. We need to move time now." A vehicle pickup: "a black SUV or bongo truck picking up the body"—permission to engage granted; "Right through the windshield." Intelligence notes a van in the middle of the road with "about 12 to 15 bodies." Evacuation denied: "negative on evac" and "IPs will take them up to a local hospital over." "Push Master CrazyHorse18. We're taking him." Movement: "moving south by the moss dome on that road." Final visual: "Oh, yeah. Look at those dead bastards."
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Speaker 0: Once you get on, just open up.
Speaker 1: Roger, I see your element. Got about 400. You're clear.
Speaker 2: Alright. Fire it.
Speaker 1: Line up. Let me know when you get in. Force you.
Speaker 0: Light them all up.
Speaker 3: 02 traffic 260
Speaker 2: Come on. Fire.
Speaker 1: Roger.
Speaker 2: Keep Keep
Speaker 0: Keep shoot.
Speaker 4: Pushmaster two things. Pushmaster two things. We need to move time now.
Speaker 0: Alright. We just engaged all eight individuals. Now we got a few of our
Speaker 5: super still firing. Roger. We got him.
Speaker 4: 26. This is 26. We're moving. We got this.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry. I'm
Speaker 0: hit him by heck. Alright. You're clear. Alright. I'm just trying to find targets again.
Speaker 4: 26.
Speaker 2: Got a bunch of bodies laying there.
Speaker 5: Alright. We got about eight individuals. Yeah.
Speaker 2: We got one guy crawling around down there, but, you know, we could definitely go down.
Speaker 0: Or shoot some more. Roger.
Speaker 5: Hey. You shoot. I'll talk.
Speaker 0: 2618. 2618.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. That goes dead bastards.
Speaker 0: Nice. 2618. Thank you, Andrea. Spears zero two in flight. Three change zone four at this time.
Speaker 3: Spears zero two, three change
Speaker 4: zone. Nice.
Speaker 0: Good shoot. Thank you.
Speaker 2: One guy moving down there, but he's in one
Speaker 4: to south.
Speaker 2: Alright. We'll let him know so they can hurry up in over here.
Speaker 0: It's 18. We also have one individual, appears to be wounded, trying to crawl away.
Speaker 4: Roger. We're gonna move down there.
Speaker 0: Roger. We'll cease fire.
Speaker 2: And we won't shoot anymore.
Speaker 0: He's getting up. Have you had a weapon on his hand?
Speaker 2: No. No. I haven't seen one yet. You guys got that guy crawling right now on the curb? Yeah.
I got him. I put two rounds in here, and you guys are shooting over there too. So we'll see. Air rocket.
Speaker 6: Any push master 36 l
Speaker 1: on this Hotel27 over.
Speaker 4: Hotel27, FlightMaster7. Go ahead.
Speaker 7: Roger, I'm just trying to make sure that you guys have my turf over.
Speaker 4: Roger, we got the turn.
Speaker 5: Come on, buddy. I
Speaker 2: got you to pick up a weapon. Yeah. We're trying to get permission to engage.
Speaker 4: Come on. Let us shoot.
Speaker 0: A push master CrazyHorse18. You're taking him. Push master CrazyHorse18.
Speaker 4: It's Bushmaster seven, go ahead.
Speaker 0: Roger, we have a black SUV or bongo truck picking up the body. Request permission to engage.
Speaker 4: Bookmaster seven, roger. This is bookmaster seven, roger. Engage.
Speaker 0: 18, engage. Clear. Come on. Clear. Clear.
Morning. Coming around clear. Roger. Trying to Clear. I hear him.
I I lost him. Got him.
Speaker 2: I'm firing.
Speaker 4: George, you push back to four. Do you got any BDA on that truck over?
Speaker 0: You're clear. Is a crazy horse standby.
Speaker 1: Should have a van in the middle
Speaker 0: of the road with about 12 to 15 bodies.
Speaker 2: Oh, Look at that. Right through the windshield.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Hyper five two zero four, free change zone four. Aggressive 20 command to 8 is active.
Speaker 0: Port arrival 311.
Speaker 3: 20.
Speaker 5: Magnetic radio aggressive 34 zone zone two zero eight four zone four. Call for exchange.
Speaker 3: Aggressive four three, zone correction. Aggressive three four, zone three zero is closed before exchange zone one.
Speaker 5: Aggressive three four, welcome. Roger.
Speaker 1: Roger, that's negative on evac and the two green kids to Rusty. They're gonna have the IPs up link up with
Speaker 5: us over here, Brake. No.
Speaker 1: IPs will take them up to a local hospital over.
Speaker 5: Copy over.
Speaker 0: Roger, stop break. Crazy horse one eight, request permission to engage. I'm picking up the wounding.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm returning information to engage.
Speaker 4: Come on. Let us shoot.
Speaker 0: A push MasterCrazyHorse18. We're taking him. PushMasterCrazyHorse18.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 6: Last call, station. Hotel two six.
Speaker 0: Moving south by the moss dome on that road.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Look at those dead bastards.
Collateral Murder
collateralmurder.wikileaks.org
reSee.it AI Summary
I believe that the general population opposes wars, often being misled into conflict by the military-industrial complex and corrupt media. The ongoing support for Ukraine, which has cost taxpayers billions, highlights this issue. I see a pattern where wars are based on lies, leading to devastating consequences, yet the same political figures remain unaccountable. The push for military spending continues, while calls for peace are ignored. It's frustrating to witness politicians prioritize war over the needs of their own citizens.
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
Population as a whole don’t like wars. They don’t want to go into wars. They have to be fooled to reluctantly go into wars based on lies and misinformation. #MilitaryIndustrialComplex combined with corrupt #media push nations into wars. A 🧵👇 https://t.co/KMNiCiekO8
Video Transcript AI Summary
"One of the hopeful things that I have discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past fifty years has been a result of media lives."
"The media could have stopped it if they had searched deep enough."
"If they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could have stopped it."
"Populations don't like wars and populations have to be fooled into wars."
"Populations don't willingly and with open eyes go into a war."
"But our number one enemy is ignorance and I believe that is the number one enemy that everyone is not understanding what is actually going on in the world."
"Now, the question is who is promoting ignorance?"
"In this latter category, it is bad media."
"The result is we see wars and we see corrupt governance continue."
Full Transcript
Speaker 0: One of the hopeful things that I have discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past fifty years has been a result of media lives. The media could have stopped it if they had searched deep enough. If they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could have stopped it. But what does that mean? Well that means basically populations don't like wars and populations have to be fooled into wars.
Populations don't willingly and with open eyes go into a war. So if we have a good media environment then we will also have a peaceful environment. But our number one enemy is ignorance and I believe that is the number one enemy that everyone is not understanding what is actually going on in the world. It's only when you start to understand that you can make effective decisions and effective plans. Now, the question is who is promoting ignorance?
Well, organisations that try to keep them secret, and those organisations which distort true information to make them false, misrepresented. In this latter category, it is bad media. It really is my opinion that the media in general are so bad, we have to question whether the world wouldn't be better off without them altogether. There's some very, very fine journalists and we work with many of them and some fine media organizations, but the vast majority are awful and are so distorted to how the world actually is. The result is we see wars and we see corrupt governance continue.
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
A prev thread on wars
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
Just looking at this ridiculous amount of money #MilitaryIndustrialComplex is wasting on Ukraine makes my blood boil with hate for our politicians and bureaucrats pushing for these regime changes and wars
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
AS LONG AS JULIAN ASSANGE IS IN PRISON, WE ARE ALL IN PRISON. WHEN THE GOVERNMENT HAS THE POWER TO TELL US WHAT WE ARE ALLOWED TO SEE, HEAR AND KNOW, WE NO LONGER LIVE IN A FREE SOCIETY #FreeAssange #FreeAssangeNOW https://t.co/lmQDwfpQqb
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
Your government is least interested in stopping to lie, instead they’re terribly upset at those who expose their lies. https://t.co/Mt7FD1Nkmi
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
The #MilitaryIndustrialComplex doesn’t want peace, they’re war mongers EU wants war NATO wants war America wants war You’ll never have peace if one side never wants peace. Simple.
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
PRAGUE - Tens of thousands of people are protesting against the government, for spending too much money and energy on Ukraine and ignoring the needs of their own people. Inflation now at 15% the people call for the globalist government to resign. #MilitaryIndustrialComplex doesn’t want the wars to end, it wants an endless war.
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
Independent Texas needs American democracy then… right? https://t.co/dcwiwajd2K
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
As if America doesn’t threaten other countries already with endless wars and sanctions, this lunatic CEO is asking for more with AI for his personal gains… what could go wrong https://t.co/Ccc96Y7agU
@brandongorrell - bsg
"We need to spend at least 5% of our budget on capabilities that will terrify our adversaries" — Palantir CTO @ssankar on how the DoD should leverage AI in the Senate Committee hearing on AI this morning.🤘🤘🤘 https://t.co/7cqRa4eK7Q
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
10 wars, millions dead, 1 Nobel peace prize and 0 indictments, 0 ICC hearings https://t.co/rOgvoNALZF
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
What’s the weekly consignment to Ukraine these days $10 billion? https://t.co/MfNz1Mm6j3
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
All wars are based on lies. Wars are old men lying, young men dying. Stop enlisting and dying for their lies. https://t.co/oUlf9bTnVi
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
The Ukraine war and the Iraq war are the same thing. They both wanted regime change, except Putin is considered a war criminal, Bush not https://t.co/gvGVh9TYkK
Video Transcript AI Summary
"Please explain to me the difference between Putin's invasion of Ukraine and our invasion of Iraq."
"Somebody tell me what was different."
"Why was ours considered okay and Russia's not?"
"The only they're for the same thing, regime change."
"Same thing."
"We wanna change who is governing Iraq."
"Putin wanted to change who is governing Ukraine."
"Now don't get me wrong."
"I didn't support either war."
"They both suck."
"But everybody you notice our national media doesn't bring that up at all, do they?"
"And you notice they brought up now the Fed or the international courts have made it so Putin can't travel now because he's considered a war criminal."
"Let's not forget the international courts did the same thing with Bush and Cheney after the invasion of Iraq."
"Why do you think George Bush can't leave The US?"
Full Transcript
Speaker 0: You don't like the questions I ask, so I'll ask you one today. Please explain to me the difference between Putin's invasion of Ukraine and our invasion of Iraq. Somebody tell me what was different. Why was ours considered okay and Russia's not? The only they're for the same thing, regime change.
Same thing. We wanna change who is governing Iraq. Putin wanted to change who is governing Ukraine. Now don't get me wrong. I didn't support either war.
They both suck. But everybody you notice our national media doesn't bring that up at all, do they? And you notice they brought up now the Fed or the international courts have made it so Putin can't travel now because he's considered a war criminal. Let's not forget the international courts did the same thing with Bush and Cheney after the invasion of Iraq. Why do you think George Bush can't leave The US?
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
Of course Victoria Nuland from America discussed democracy with Sudan 🇸🇩… no wonder it’s doing great https://t.co/P8syVnnh22
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
Highest military spending since the end of cold war. Ukraine is pushing us slowly towards WW3 unless some sanity prevails and negotiations happen between NATO & Russia. https://t.co/YvgHxItoGF
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
Truth about what’s going on in Sudan 🇸🇩. Russia wants to establish a naval base on the coast of Sudan in the Red Sea and America is opposing this deal. Stop your proxy wars in Africa now and get out America and Russia. https://t.co/daPS65uwuM
Video Transcript AI Summary
America and Russia are at it again, as in the Cold War they fought proxy wars in Africa, leading to the death of thousands of Africans. They are at it again in Sudan, fighting a proxy war. Two factions of the Sudanese military are fighting: one led by lieutenant general Mohammed Hamdan, head of the Rapid Support Forces; the other by army chief Abdel Fattah al Burhan. Russia has finalized a deal with Sudan to establish Russia's naval base in Sudan's Red Sea coast, and America is furious; 'America's ambassador to Sudan, John Godfrey, expressly wants Sudan not to seal that deal with Russia.' The fighting wasn't happening in a vacuum. Africa must learn to speak its truth; truth will set you free. The Cold War days are over; they cannot fight proxy wars in Africa at the expense of African lives. The fighting in Sudan must stop.
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Speaker 0: What's happening there is more than meets the eye, and it's time for the world to discuss the actual truth of what is going on there. America and Russia are at it again, just as they did sixty years ago during the Cold War when they fought proxy wars right in Africa, leading to the death of thousands of innocent Africans. They are at it again in Sudan, fighting a proxy war. Let me explain. Two factions of the Sudanese military are fighting each other.
One of them is led by lieutenant general Mohammed Hamdan, head of the paramilitary group known as Rapid Support Forces. The other faction is led by the Sudanese army chief, general Abdel Fattah al Burhan. So why are they fighting? This is where Russia and USA come into the picture. You see, in the last couple of months, Russia has finalized a deal with Sudan to establish Russia's naval base in Sudan's Red Sea coast.
America is not too happy with that. Actually, they're furious. America's ambassador to Sudan, John Godfrey, expressly wants Sudan not to seal that deal with Russia, but they're going ahead and doing just that. And so when the paramilitary unit began fighting the other faction of the army, that wasn't happening in a vacuum. The big problem is that you're not going to hear this in the mainstream media, neither are you going to hear a lot of African governments voicing this, which is very unfortunate because Africa must learn to speak its truth and stand on this truth because truth will set you free.
So it is left to the African people, we, the African people, to speak this truth and tell America and Russia to get off Africa, to get their hands off Africa. The days of the Cold War, the days of the shenanigans of the Cold War are completely over, and they cannot fight proxy wars in Africa at the expense of innocent African lives. That has to stop. The fighting in Sudan must stop. The puppet masters must stop their evil, diabolic games.
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
US military spending trumps other major powers combined by a mile. Cut military spending, close the bases and recall troops as RFK suggests. https://t.co/QMiNZ1CKDJ
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
Every military conflict was a lie. Iraq was a lie and it destabilized the Middle East and spilled refugees into Syria etc. Afghanistan was a lie and the country literally fell back into the hands of Taliban. Ukraine Wasa lie and they keep lying.
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
Victoria Nuland the undersecretary of state a Bush era neocon - instead of promoting diplomacy, she lights matches wherever she meddles, agitating for endless wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and now in Ukraine. @codepink petition for awareness https://www.codepink.org/bidenfirenuland https://t.co/mb2wvCFL11
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
@sahouraxo is right - wherever Victoria Nuland goes, death and destruction follows https://t.co/qoBhOMaZMn
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
Military spending, 2022. China🇨🇳: $291 billion India🇮🇳: $66 billion Russia🇷🇺: $61 billion UK🇬🇧: $55 billion France🇫🇷: $51 billion Japan🇯🇵: $48 billion Germany🇩🇪: $46 billion Italy🇮🇹: $33 billion Brazil🇧🇷: $20 billion Iran🇮🇷: $6 billion Total: $677 billion US🇺🇸 military spending, 2022: $877 billion Yet in Western media, it’s China and Russia that seek world domination and are the biggest threat to world peace, not the United States.
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
Who cares if other people in other countries die… we are safe… right? https://t.co/KJ4E8IOarU
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
Hey American politicians and #DeepState Here’s an idea - stop wasting trillions of dollars on unnecessary wars & regime changes, take care of your own people, cities, borders, crimes and drug addiction issues https://t.co/IPy16Qoimk
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
Both Republicans & Democrats are part of #MilitaryIndustrialComplex https://t.co/HML8c6HaJK
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
No wonder USA and NATO nations don’t want an independent investigation on #Nordstream pipelines https://t.co/IznKfKpQAA
@DeepBlueCrypto - 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋
The War Department posted a reward for the capture of John Wilkes Booth, John Surrat, and David Harold, who murdered president Abraham Lincoln, April 20, 1865. https://t.co/8Ti3ha2Et9
@KimDotcom - Kim Dotcom
To understand the evil character of the US Govt just watch what they have done to Julian Assange. https://t.co/jFLKWVWT2R
Video Transcript AI Summary
Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, is facing extradition to the US and potentially 175 years in prison for publishing classified documents exposing US war crimes. The case has raised concerns about press freedom and the treatment of whistleblowers. Assange has been subjected to illegal surveillance, mistreatment, and a lack of access to his lawyers. The extradition proceedings have been marred by irregularities, including conflicts of interest and a biased judiciary. The US government's relentless pursuit of Assange is seen as an attack on journalism and the public's right to know. The case has far-reaching implications for freedom of speech and the ability of journalists to hold the powerful accountable.
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Speaker 0: Press. Press. I'm press.
Speaker 1: I don't care. Get down.
Speaker 0: I am press.
Speaker 1: I don't care. Get down. Okay.
Speaker 0: I'm down. I'm down.
Speaker 2: I'm press.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 4: We are at an extremely dangerous moment in the history of this country. Donald Trump wants to jail journalists who publish stories he doesn't like. Do you mind telling me why I'm under arrester? Why why am I under arrester? And he's wielding the espionage act like a chainsaw against journalistic sources.
Speaker 0: We're gonna find the Lakers. We're gonna find the Lakers. They're gonna pay a big price for the leaking.
Speaker 3: Let us think in for a second. At the same time that the US government is chasing journalist all over the world, they have decided that all foreign journalists Have no protection under the first amendment in the United States. So that goes to to to show the gravity of this case.
Speaker 1: What it looks like. Exactly what it looks like. We're at the same
Speaker 0: off? Amelia, you like Kai? And I'll ask
Speaker 5: the same question. You commit to not putting reporters in jail for doing their jobs?
Speaker 0: Well, I don't know that I can make a blanket commitment to that effect. We will, utilize the authorities that we have legally and constitutionally, if we have
Speaker 6: It's another attack on free press. Just like Julian Assange, after publishing information that exposed government corruption, Glenn Greenwald from the intercept has been charged.
Speaker 7: The claim the Brazilian government used against me was one modeled after the Assange indictment.
Speaker 0: It's a war on freedom of speech, and it's a war on journalists.
Speaker 7: The US government is ex asserting Universal jurisdiction to reach over to any journalist anywhere in the world that reports on it in a way that it doesn't like and prosecute them.
Speaker 8: Mister Assange was arrested
Speaker 9: this morning at about 10 o'clock
Speaker 8: at the Ecuadorian Embassy. This precedent means that any journalist
Speaker 9: can be Extradited for prosecution in the United States for having published truthful information about the United States.
Speaker 4: Come on. Fire.
Speaker 10: 1st, they came for Julian.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 11: They will come
Speaker 10: for everybody else, our children, our friends.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 12: There is a war on journalism, and Julian is at the center of that. But the point is that what happens to him can happen to any journalist who does his or her job.
Speaker 1: How did we get here? The case against Julian Assange started a decade ago, but today it is the case that will define press freedom And by consequence, your freedom of speech.
Speaker 13: This is my philosophical background, how I see this work that we're doing, and Maybe one other component is that while we can all write about our own political issues, we can all push for Particular things we can believe in, we can all have particular brands of politics, but I say, it's actually, it's all bankrupt. And the reason it's all bankrupt and all current political theories are bankrupt in particular lines of political thought is because actually we don't know what the hell is going on. And until we know the basic structures of our institutions, how they operate in practice, these Titanic organizations, how they behave inside, not just through stories but through vast amounts of internal documentation, Until we know that, how can we possibly make a diagnosis? How can we set the direction to go until we know where we are? We don't even have a map of where we are.
So our our first task is to build up the, sort of, the intellectual heritage that describes where we are. And once we know where we are, then we have a hope of setting course for a different direction. Until then, I think All political theories, to greater and lesser extents, of course, are bankrupt.
Speaker 1: In 2011, a secret grand jury was meeting in Alexandria, Virginia to consider indicting Julian Assange Under the Espionage Act.
Speaker 14: This isn't about who Julian Assange is because that's been used so much as a distraction And I think so much of the negative press about about Assange has been exactly about that. Has been exactly about, we'll get people to ignore what the issues are because we'll get them to to be distracted that this is not an issue about Press freedom is actually about an individual. It's not, it's about press freedom. You know, it doesn't matter who the individual was in that Position, that position needs to be defended. In this case, it is Julian, But the role that he undertook is one that absolutely needs defending by the rest of the media.
Speaker 1: The Obama administration concluded that there was no way to charge Assange without endangering press freedom. However, in 2019, the Trump administration Took a different approach. In an unprecedented move, the Justice Department has indicted WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange for his role in publishing US military and diplomatic documents exposing US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. But Assange faces up to a 170 years in prison under the new charges. 10 years for each count of
Speaker 9: Also received and published that information, but that's true of journalists around the world all the time receiving information from government, including from the United States government. It does not make them spies, and it does not make it espionage.
Speaker 15: Assange is charged with soliciting and receiving classified information. What I do for a living. I solicit and I receive information. I ask questions and I hope to obtain answers. And, where there's evidence available, I I try to get the evidence.
Speaker 12: Journalists in the so called mainstream in its various forms are now realizing that it concerns them. They come for Julian Assange. They'll come for you.
Speaker 5: All these Practices of encryption, helping your sources, provide information legally are important for letting citizens and the world know what's going on. Otherwise, we're dependent on our government to tell us what's up, and I don't think That's a dependable way to get information out to citizens. They won't do that.
Speaker 16: Welcome to the State Department. I think we have some interns in the back. Welcome. Good to see you in this, exercise in transparency and democracy.
Speaker 0: Is that what it is?
Speaker 12: WikiLeaks is the most extraordinary development in journalism in my lifetime. WikiLeaks meant that everything you read was authentic, was accurate. You could judge it on its face value. There's no journalism. Even the best could never be a 100 percent authentic and accurate.
Speaker 1: In 2010, WikiLeaks started publishing the largest collection of US military and diplomatic secret documents in history. WikiLeaks first published a video of 2 American Apache helicopters murdering 11 people in Baghdad, among them, 2 Reuters journalists.
Speaker 17: This video alongside Maybe the images from Apo Ghraib are in a sense what the the Nepal Girl photo Tells us about the Vietnam War. So it captures so many elements of the Callousness, the, the bloodlust, and the the horror of the Iraq War.
Speaker 4: Item all up. Zero two traffic two sixties. Come on. Fire.
Speaker 12: If you watch it through, there's nowhere to go after it. You Can't be rationalized. It can't be excused.
Speaker 2: You don't need to be a specialist To see that US soldiers have been intentionally massacring people.
Speaker 18: Come on, buddy. My god. Just pick up a weapon.
Speaker 2: Even if they had some of them have carried Once they're wounded and out of combat, targeting them becomes a warcraft. So it's obvious.
Speaker 0: It's Bushmaster 7. Go ahead.
Speaker 18: Roger, we have a Black.
Speaker 4: That's shoot with our bongo truck picking up the body.
Speaker 19: Request permission to engage.
Speaker 0: Bookmaster 7, Roger. This is Bookmaster 7, Roger. Engage.
Speaker 4: 1 8 k.
Speaker 18: Clear. Come on. Claire. Claire.
Speaker 12: It was murder. 360 degree killing. That was the so called philosophy of the war. In other words, you killed everything within 360 degrees.
Speaker 1: The collateral murder video wasn't an isolated incident. WikiLeaks then published the Afghan and Iraq war logs, nearly half a 1000000 documents of detailed Incident reports conducted by the US that depicted the true cost of those wars.
Speaker 20: I'm not surprised by the data. What I am is deeply upset by the data. It's impossible to read the data. When you read about a 6 year old being tortured to death with a drill, when you read about an entire family being wiped out in a split second because Some 18 year old American soldier has decided that the car was going too fast and just opened fire. When you hear about, people being locked in a prison for 2 months and suspended from the ceiling by the Iraqi military.
When you read stories about Entire towns being decimated, or children being killed by hellfire missiles fired from US Apache helicopters Because they were gathering firewood. All these stories are horrific. They're, It's it's it's painful.
Speaker 11: It is Up to a court to decide clearly whether something is in the end of crime. That said, prima facie, there does appear to be evidence of war crimes in this material. Example is the Task Force 373 High Mars Missile Strike, On a house which killed 7 children. All we would like to see this material, the revelations that This material gives be taken seriously. Investigated, by governments and New policies put in place as a result, if not, prosecutions, of those people who have committed abuses.
Speaker 2: No one has been prosecuted for this. We have clear evidence for systematic torture. Again, the whistleblower the one who's being prosecuted, but not the perpetrators.
Speaker 21: For just the 3rd time since he was arrested over 2 years ago, alleged army whistleblower Bradley Manning was seen by the public this week. His 3 day pretrial hearing wraps up today before a military court at Fort Meade in Maryland. Manning faces 22 charges, including the capital offense of aiding the enemy as well as violating the Espionage Act, Computer fraud and theft of records. The 24 year old private is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to the whistle blowing website, WikiLeaks, Including secret files on the Iraq and Afghan wars. Manning's attorneys are seeking the dismissal of 10 of the counts.
Speaker 1: A few months after, WikiLeaks released Cablegate.
Speaker 22: That's the scale of it. A vast leak of thousands of documents From US embassies and other diplomatic outposts across the globe in all those countries, there are stories from every country involved that will embarrass, intrigue, and potentially complicate international relations.
Speaker 23: Among the specifics, worries about security at a Pakistan nuclear facility, Concern about alleged links between the Russian government and the mafia, plus allegations and examples of corruption within the Afghan government.
Speaker 4: Britain's Guardian newspaper said some cable showed Saudi King Abdullah repeatedly urging the US to attack Iran to destroy the program, And that leaders of other Arab nations referred to Tehran as an existential threat. Those documents
Speaker 12: I think for the general public, It was it was quite a revelation that people who have all the privileges of diplomats Actually, we're behaving like thugs.
Speaker 4: Italy's foreign minister calls the document release the September 11th of world diplomacy, In that everything once accepted as normal has now changed. But while the rep
Speaker 12: It was truth telling of the most powerful kind, most fearsome kind, almost. And, of course, there was a reaction.
Speaker 24: United States Strongly condemns the illegal disclosure.
Speaker 25: I think the man is a hot tech terrorist. He's done an Enormous. Yeah. The man's done Enormous damage, to our country. And I think he needs to be prosecuted to the fully fullest extent of the law.
And if that becomes a problem, we need to change The law,
Speaker 0: the way to deal with this is pretty simple. We got special ops forces. I mean, a dead man can't leak stuff. This guy is a traitor, a treasonous, and and And he has broken every law in the United States. The guy ought to be and I'm not for the death penalty.
So if I'm not for the death penalty and wanna do it, illegally shoot the son of
Speaker 12: a He's
Speaker 0: gonna talk about leaking had nothing to do with the leaking of those things. That was disgraceful. They don't think it's disgraceful. This should be like death penalty or something.
Speaker 12: That reaction we now see, Encapsulated in the almost Desperate bid by the United States to put Julian in a black hole and throw away the key. That's what they're talking about if he's extradited.
Speaker 11: There is an attempt now, a very worrying attempt in the United States to erect a new precedent, which is that in the national security sector, That any journalist that corresponds with a source is committing espionage if At some time, a classified communication is made. If if I am a conspirator to commit espionage, then all these other media organizations and the principal journalists in them are also conspirators, to commit espionage.
Speaker 26: That's absolutely true. Yes. That's absolutely true. I hadn't responded that. I was so excited about This conceals the fact they called it an escort.
There's a reaper UAV which proceeded to, loose off a hill by this which most probably means that her 2 children is traveling the sun the next day.
Speaker 1: With increasing pressure due to the publications, Julian Assange feared an imminent extradition to the US, and in 2012, was forced to seek asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy.
Speaker 10: I ask president Obama to do the right thing. The United States must renounce
Speaker 13: its witch hunt against WikiLeaks.
Speaker 10: The United States must dissolve its FBI investigation. The United States must vow that it will not seek to prosecute our staff or our supporters. The United States must pledge before the world that it will not pursue journalists for shining shining a light on the Secret crimes of the powerful. There must be no more foolish talk about prosecuting any media organization, Be it WikiLeaks or be it the New York Times.
Speaker 1: And so began Julian Assange's 7 year long stay inside the Tiny Ecuadorian embassy in Central London.
Speaker 13: Can everyone hear me? Hello, Cambridge. Can you hear me? I can hear you, Andrew. I can see a room.
Speaker 11: Hi. Hi, everyone. Just
Speaker 3: my
Speaker 27: name is Ed Snowden. I'm, 29 years old. I Worked for Booz Allen Hamilton as an infrastructure analyst for NSA, in Hawaii.
Speaker 11: 29 year old young man In a foreign jurisdiction that he had no experience with, the subject of the largest intelligence manhunt the world has ever seen. And the realities were, Edward Snowden knew he was going to be smashed. And at that moment, he reached out and asked us for help. We managed to get him out of Hong Kong, but when he landed in the Moscow airport, the, American government had canceled, if possible.
Speaker 27: While all of these news organizations stations around the world. All of these publishers were trying to get a piece of the story. And there was only 1 publisher It actually said, we wanna help the source. We wanna make sure he's okay. We wanna make sure that no matter what happens, know, he has somebody on his side, and that was WikiLeaks.
Speaker 1: Assange was aware of the possible consequences of helping Snowden.
Speaker 13: I I think that
Speaker 11: is a important lesson that, Actually, an organization that specializes in defeating surveillance for national security cases Was the organization that was able to do this? Yes. We had some diplomatic contacts, and and we certainly had the will, and the desire to not See another, Chelsea Manning. But I think a lot of it we couldn't have done that if, we hadn't specialized in these Secure communications techniques.
Speaker 1: Despite the increasing threats And deteriorating conditions in the embassy, WikiLeaks continued to publish.
Speaker 28: Some of the CIA's most sophisticated and effective spying tools. Apparently, pride opened tonight with the help of WikiLeaks. The anti secrecy group says it's obtained thousands of files.
Speaker 5: The CIA is equipped with a variety of hacking tools to crack into phones, cars, computers, even smart TVs.
Speaker 1: As a result of these publications, in 2017, the newly appointed director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, in an unprecedented manner, dedicated his first public address to a publisher.
Speaker 29: Julian Assange and his kind are not the slightest bit interested in improving civil liberties or enhancing personal freedom. They have pretended America's First Amendment freedoms shield them from justice. They may have believed that, but they're wrong. WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service.
Speaker 1: The private security company, UC Global, hired by Ecuador to protect Assange, cut a deal with the CIA To spy on Assange and the Ecuadorian diplomats.
Speaker 9: Together with these is the immediate accessibility to the newest major exposition, convention, and meeting facility In the city of Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: In 2016, the owner of UC Global, David Morales, Flew to Las Vegas to attend a security fair.
Speaker 30: As soon as Morales returned from this fateful trip to Las Vegas, He began bragging to his employees back in southern Spain that we will from now on be playing in the first division using a, You know, soccer metaphor, football metaphor. But the they were violating their contract with Ecuador and secretly working for the Americans via Sheldon Adelson.
Speaker 1: The CIA laundered payments to UC Global through Las Vegas Sands, a company owned by Trump mega donor Sheldon Adelson.
Speaker 12: An
Speaker 1: An elaborate plan was set up between Morales and the CIA to install surveillance cameras with audio capabilities and implant covert microphones in strategic places such as below this fire extinguisher in the embassy's meeting room and behind this box in the Toilet. Assange held meetings in this toilet for fear of being spied on.
Speaker 3: Press.
Speaker 1: The CIA's increasing obsession to entrap Assange alarmed a UC Global Staffer who blew the whistle when asked to target Assange's family and even plot an attempt against his life.
Speaker 24: They came forward, And they spoke to our lawyers, and they exposed what had been going on there, because they had played a part in it. And they said that what their boss had been telling them is that they were working for the CIA and that those instructions about getting Gabriel's DNA that was coming from the other side of the Atlantic, these instructions were coming from the United States.
Speaker 31: It reads like some really terrible spy novel. Plots to kidnap, plots to possibly poison Julian Assange while he was in the embassy. I mean, it's almost too crazy to be real.
Speaker 24: And it is real. It's hard for people to understand that such lawlessness is possible. So there's Credible criminality that has been going on in order to gather information about out Julian's lawyers and his family and journalists who were visiting him. I mean, it's shocking, And I'm very fearful. I've been in a permanent state of fear for years.
Speaker 1: UC Global sent video, Audio and other information about Assange, WikiLeaks staff, his visitors, and the Ecuadorian diplomats to a CIA server. They also recorded Assange's medical consultations and went as far as recording Assange's privileged legal Conversations with his lawyers.
Speaker 32: When Daniel Ellsberg was, on trial for the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, his case was thrown out because it came out that Nixon had ordered a rage on his psychologist's office to try and get information which was embarrassing to. So, of course, that should have happened, and that was right that it happened. Assange has been surveilled by the CIA. That by itself should mean the case is thrown out. There's no chance you can have a fair trial if the people who are prosecuting have been surveying the defendant as he's been Having privileged conversations with his lawyers, it's completely irregular that it hasn't been thrown out on those grounds already.
I mean, really is outrageous.
Speaker 2: I didn't expect to find torture, to be honest, I heard, well, this is, you know, the UK. They've arrested him. They they'll treat him well, you know. Maybe there's some issues, procedural issues, but, I was I was genuinely shocked then that we found all the symptoms that you would find typically in a person who has been exposed to psychological Torture. And in that context, I have to stress that psychological torture is by no means Torture lite.
It is very serious. In fact, psychological torture was initially Systematically developed by the Nazis. When they were not able to break resistance fighters with physical means, They developed psychological torture because it was even worse.
Speaker 12: He he was arrested in In April 2019, within a couple of months, probably less, he'd lost up to 15 kilos in weight And his brother Gabriel, who I went in to see him with once, was shocked when he held his arm and realized how thin he was. He was subjected to A psyops operation, I would think. It certainly had it had its effect on him Physically and no doubt mentally.
Speaker 2: Torture is being used against Julian Assange to intimidate the world, to show them If ever you get the idea to disclose our secrets and to wash our expose our dirty laundry to the world, this is what's gonna happen to
Speaker 24: I feel like Julian's life might be coming to an end. It's been 10 years, 9 years, no, 10 years of Breaking someone down, trying to destroy his life, and it's a well known pattern, You know, whistleblowers, people who expose the powerful. Okay. They destroy them.
Speaker 1: Throughout the 10 years that the Assange case has been ongoing. There have been a number of irregularities, the destruction of evidence by prosecutors, detention, lack of access to his lawyers, judges with alleged conflicts of interest, mistreatment, illegal espionage and the political nature of the charges themselves. All this is reason enough to shut the extradition proceedings and the prosecution down, but Assange still faces a 175 years in prison.
Speaker 9: Join Assange is now in a high security prison in conditions which are quite close to solitary confinement where he is at Serious risk of contracting COVID simply because of an indictment from the Trump administration in respect of publications for has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, publications for which he won the Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism. That's how stark This situation is
Speaker 10: Come on, buddy.
Speaker 18: I gotta do is pick up a weapon.
Speaker 32: We started by looking at the husband of the chief magistrate, Lady Abathinot, who's made a number of rulings on, on on Assange case. We Found that her her husband was a a conservative defense minister. He financially benefited corporations that had been exposed by WikiLeaks. We then did an investigation of her son, who is a cybersecurity expert and vice president of a private equity group, and we found that this private equity group was heavily invested in a firm called Darktrace, which was set up by the British in intelligence establishment. So huge conflicts of interest.
She has never recused herself in the case, which is irregular in itself Because I've talked to lawyers who have said if there's any hint of conflict of interest, judges will recuse themselves very early on, she never has.
Speaker 9: This is Constance. It's Constance. Yeah. Apparently, they they didn't know about the booth. So this is a constant problem, whether I'll turn up for a prison visit with him down at the and they won't have brought him out, which means I sit there on my own for an hour while he's coming in.
Or while we're coming into the prison, there's delays him because his huge queues and security is not working properly. So I don't actually get him to see him until half an hour after the actual visit time Started, and he's sitting there on his own wondering whether anyone's turning up, and it just means that a 2 hour visit ends up being only an hour or less, and we lose time. And so when we turn up to court being told that we'll have the whole day with him, and, instead, when then when we get there, we're told, no action. There's no facilities. You can only have an hour with him.
And this this has been constant for months months months on end, which has really limited our ability to get through any of the evidence. Okay. But she's a complicated place. Amount of evidence
Speaker 33: Assange is a symbol, really, of, of American the American state's affront of having his secrets put out in the public domain. You know, that's that's that's what it comes down to. And it's why I think of it as a political case. He's been blamed for a whole series of things, untrue. But the impetus behind the extradition request has has not stopped, which tells you it wasn't to do with those things.
It's The world will see it, legitimate journalists.
Speaker 2: Now what makes you think Julian Assange is going to get justice in the United States? In a court in East Virginia where the jury is selected from a population Where 85% are employed by CIA, NSA, DOD, or DOS.
Speaker 34: I hired OJ Simpson's jury consultant In my case, he has never lost a case. He represented OJ Simpson and William Kennedy Smith and George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin, case, he's a winner. And we got him a security clearance. He came to Washington, and he reviewed all the documents. And at the end of it, he said to me, if we were in any other district in America besides the eastern district of Virginia, I would say, let's go for it.
We're gonna win. But the Eastern District of Virginia, he said your jury would be made up of people From the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security, and intelligence community tractors or their family members. He said, you don't stand a chance in the Eastern District of Virginia. That's why they charged you there. I fear the same thing for Julian, that they charged him in the Eastern District of Virginia because it's called the espionage court, Because no no national security defendant has ever won a case there.
Speaker 2: And then we see now how the British judiciary Who has a long tradition of rule of law. A proud tradition of that Has delivered a complete travesty of a trial where the defendant has not had the right to to Prepare his defense where he has not had access to his own lawyers. Where we have court judges refusing to consider objections for conflicts of interest. Even in the UK, he's not gonna get a fair extradition trial. So this is no longer in the hands of the judiciary.
The judiciary is unwilling or unable to deal with this according to the rule of law. This is now in the hands of the public and in the hands of the media inform the public about what is going on. We do the science.
Speaker 1: On February 24, 2020, the first Part of Julian Assange's extradition hearing took place.
Speaker 35: I'm here from Reporters Without Borders. We've been monitoring all week. Today, We were again concerned about mister Assange's well-being, and frankly, the treatment is dehumanizing. The fact that he is an afterthought almost twice now this week, proceedings have started without a realization that he was not even yet present.
Speaker 3: Julian is not receiving a fair hearing. To start with, he can hardly and barely hear what's Going on at the courtroom, he cannot communicate with his lawyers without being observed and overheard by officials from the state department, from the embassy and from the eastern district court of Virginia. So how can he actually have a fair opportunity? And he as he said, when he was communicating attempted to communicate with the judge, there's been enough spying on the communication
Speaker 1: Due to COVID restrictions, Assange has not been allowed to see his lawyers in over 6 months. On June 24th, the US Department of Justice published a replacement superseding indictment on its website. But it was only delivered to the court three and a half weeks before the hearing and after the deadline to present new evidence had come and gone. This left Assange and his Defence team with little time to adequately prepare a defence. Facing 175 years in prison, Julian Assange will likely Please not see his lawyers until the day of the hearing.
Speaker 3: This is not about left or right in politics. We can unite on this. Please tell everybody that you know that they have to side with us and fight against the extradition. If they tell you I would rather fight for the environment or than animal cruelty or gender equality tell them they are about to take every right away from you you will not be able to Fight for any other cause. We are talking about the fundamentals here.
We have must fight against the resolution. We must save junior
@JamesMelville - James Melville
Julian Assange hasn’t been imprisoned for his own crimes, but for exposing the crimes of others. #FreeAssangeNOW
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The speaker criticizes the priorities of society, highlighting how Tony Blair and George Bush profited from the Iraq war while Julian Assange remains imprisoned for telling the truth. The speaker also mentions the mistreatment of the Muslim community and the lack of consequences for those responsible for the war. They discuss the increase in global military spending, the rise of proxy wars, and the growing possibility of conflict with China. The speaker emphasizes that the world has become more dangerous, with Iraq being a prime example. They condemn the media's lack of integrity and the role it played in promoting the war. The speaker concludes by stating that war is embedded in our imperialist society, driven by the pursuit of wealth and power. They call for independent media to provide alternative perspectives.
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Speaker 0: 20 years ago, the US and UK invaded Iraq. Today, Tony Blair is free to go on television, has made a huge amount of money, the same with George Bush. At the same time, Julian Assange languishes in Belmarsh prison because he told the truth about this war. There is something deeply wrong with the society with those kind of priorities. When you look at the people who brought us the war in Iraq, the people who used everything at their disposal, the state machine, parliament, the media, when you look at what all those people did, nobody has faced any of the consequences.
Even when the Chilcot report reported, Tony Blair sat up his own press conference, paid for by the immense wealth which which he now has, the many houses that he has. He was made envoy for peace in the Middle East. He was given a night it was last year. Whereas all the people who told the truth about the war, the people who marched. What happened to them?
The Muslim community penalized by the Prevent system for telling the truth and for standing up for their rights. The people like Julian Sanj, imprisoning Belmarsh for all these years for telling the truth. I remember Tony Blair the day of February 15th when we had so many people marching in London, he said even if a 1000000 people march in London that's not as many as Saddam Hussein killed, well the war in Iraq ended up killing more people, he talked about human rights. This is about democracy. It's about getting rid of the dictatorship.
After he stopped being prime minister, what did he spend his time doing? Advising dictators. With us. The truth is all of these were lies. All of them were things where they said we are going to make things better and actually they made it worse and not just in Iraq.
Mark. In the last 20 years, armament worldwide amount of money spent on military has doubled nearly $2,000,000,000,000 are now spent went on arms every year, making the world a much more dangerous place. We've now got conflict not just between dictator in the Middle East with and the biggest imperial power in the world, the United States. We've now got effectively a proxy war in Ukraine between 2 major imperial powers, and both of them with nuclear arms. We've got much more real possibility of war with China.
Again, this will be a nuclear war and therefore the devastation of humanity. So exactly the opposite of what we were told 20 years ago has turned out to be the case. It's a more dangerous world. Iraq's a much more dangerous place. We have far more refugees than we had then.
The Taliban in Afghanistan, back in control. Terrorism has grown. And, indeed, where did ISIS and Al Qaeda come from? Well, in Iraq, they came from British occupied Basra province, where they were formed in prisons where many Iraqis were in prisons and the shameful thing is that the people who created the war is still being given awards, are still making huge amounts of money and in the case of Tony Blair, is still being invited on to the BBC to give his views on absolutely everything instead of being in the dock at absolutely everything instead of being in the dock at The Hague which is where I think most people in Britain would like him to be. From the very beginning, from the time he went to Bush's ranch in the spring of 2002, Tony Blair was absolutely fully committed to every aspect of the war in Iraq.
He lied about the existence of weapons of mass destruction, which had never been found because they didn't exist and there were all sorts of people who said so at the time, including the UN weapons inspectors who you might think would be people who did have some particular knowledge about this. This was all dismissed by Blair, by Alastair Campbell when they devised a dossier, and this is the man who promoted the dossier. Over the evening standard that day, Iraq can attack Britain in 45 minutes. I think a period of silence from Alastair Campbell would be welcomed by everybody instead of which he seems to be in podcasts and on couches all over the TV studios. This tells you something thing, about the lack of integrity and the lack of morals of so much of our media coverage.
I think the media role was very, very important. And again, that hasn't really been help to account at all. If you look at the broadcast media, particularly the BBC, it was an absolute disgrace. I remember Andrew Marr, who was the political correspondent who, just after the war started, said Tony Blair had won this argument.
Speaker 1: He said that they would be able to take Baghdad without a bloodbath And that in the end, the Iraqis would be celebrating. And on both of those points, he has been proved conclusively right, and it'd be entirely ungracious, even for his critics not to acknowledge that, tonight, he stands as a larger man and a stronger prime minister as a result.
Speaker 0: 20 years on, this is so important because it's not just about the past, it's not just about the present, it's also about the future. And this question of war is going to become a bigger and bigger question, over the next 2 or 3 years. The project for a new American Century was essentially about trying to redraw brought the world on pro US lines. American hegemony had to be maintained and had to be ended. Many of Bush's key advisers were people who were part of that project.
They could see that China was a rising power, Lee. It was also becoming a major military power. China is today the 2nd biggest military power in the world. It has long been with a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and it has long been a nuclear power. So the project saw the threat of China as a very real one.
They wanted to change the politics of the Far East of the Pacific in terms of the rise of China and to strengthen the United States leads in that region. They also wanted to redraw the politics of the Middle East and that particularly meant boosting Saudi Arabia and Israel, as their 2 closest allies in the region against Iraq and against Iran. And that's a policy that's continued. The Middle East itself, there are very few democratic governments. And that is to democratic government.
And that is to do with the way in which imperial powers decided on a particular form of government which really didn't care about democracy. They were concerned with having regimes which were closely connected to them politically, economically with Lee, and militarily. And that's what's been created. Yes, Saddam Hussein was a dictator. He was a dictator who was put into power through the acts of the United States, but he was by no means unique in that region.
Saudi Arabia, for example, has been engaged in a war against Yemen for 7 years. No question about regime change. The murder of a journalist carried out at the behest of members of the Saudi Royal Family. Nothing is done. We're talking here about extremely undemocratic states.
The British government, United States governments are perfectly happy to work with those people, as long as they keep the area secure for oil profits. That's the bottom line. We had many, many Iraqis in this country who campaigned with us against the war in Iraq. Not because they liked Saddam, actually they had suffered, they'd been put in prison, they'd suffered terrible all trades up and all sorts of things at his hands. So they knew exactly what was going on, but they also knew that the war was not going to make it better for ordinary Iraqis, actually, would mean, as it has meant, a breakup of the country, a complete destruction of lives, of livelihoods, of huge numbers of refugees who are treated appallingly when they get to any of the countries that were involved in the war, the impact of things like depleted limited uranium, all sorts of terrible things that the Iraqi people have suffered.
Perhaps the most shocking one was the revelation of what happened in the Iraqi prison of Abu Ghraib where American troops were torturing people, were photographing them in the most degrading way. We're treating them like animals. We're doing all these sorts of things. This is not only in contravention of every international legal agreement about the way in which prisoners of war, or indeed any prisoners, should be treated. It also told you exactly what the occupation was about.
The occupation was about repression and cruelty and putting down the people who dared to stand up against the American invasion and Abu Ghraib showed that in the most terrific terms. But you know, you can't separate a brutal with war, shock and awe, the bombing of cities which took place, the invasion, the cruelty, the siege of the luge, all these things that went on, you can't separate that from the repression that followed. They're very much part of the same thing. And if you're invading a country and occupying a country, one of the things you have to do is to dehumanize the population that you're occupying because you have to justify what you're doing and that's what they did. War is embedded in the kind of society we live in.
We live in a society which is imperialist, which is about conquering other countries reason extracting money from other countries. We live in a society where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, so they don't care about whether your hospital is crumbling. They don't care if the roof of your children's school is leaking. They don't care if you can't afford to heat or eat, and you have to choose. Or maybe these days, you can't even afford boats.
They really don't care about those things. What they do care about is preserving their wealth and power and their ability to spread that wealth and power, and war and weapons are absolutely central to their ability need to do so. This is locked into their system and that's why they do it, and that's why we have to fight against it. We've got a mainstream media which is really not open to any views which don't coincide with a very, very narrow consensus. We need independent media so much.
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reSee.it AI Summary
In 2006, Julian Assange founded WikiLeaks. Today, at 52, he remains a controversial figure. One of WikiLeaks' notable releases was "Collateral Murder," a video showing the US army killing civilians and Reuters employees. Despite Pentagon's refusal, the evidence reached WikiLeaks through whistleblower Chelsea Manning. This leak had a profound impact, exposing a war crime that couldn't be unseen. #FreeAssangeNOW
@Stella_Assange - Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW
On this day in 2006 Julian #Assange created @wikileaks. Julian is 52 now. He was 38 when WikiLeaks published Collateral Murder and was last free. The video shows the US army killing a dozen civilians, including two Reuters employees on assignment and the rescuers who stopped to help the wounded. Reuters formally attempted to obtain the video but the Pentagon refused to hand it over. The evidence of what had happened remained on US military servers until intelligence whistleblower Chelsea Manning sent it to WikiLeaks. Collateral Murder had a massive impact. The millions of dollars that had been poured into Pentagon PR messaging couldn’t make the public unsee the war crime. #FreeAssangeNOW
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The speakers are engaged in a military operation. They mention firing, traffic, and engaging individuals. They discuss targets and mention bodies on the ground. They communicate with each other using code names and numbers. They mention RPGs and AK 47s. They talk about moving to a location and taking pictures. They mention flight and chase. The conversation ends with a request for Bushmaster 7 to go ahead.
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Speaker 0: Alright. Firing. Your Wednesday line. Let me know when you'd be
Speaker 1: having before shoot. Line them all up. 202 traffic, 26
Speaker 0: Come on. Fire. Arrived it. Thank you.
Speaker 1: 6. 2 6. We need to move time now.
Speaker 0: Alright. We just engaged all 8 individuals.
Speaker 1: Alright. You're clear.
Speaker 0: Alright. I'm just trying to find targets again.
Speaker 1: Commander 6. Is it both after 26?
Speaker 0: 6. Got a bunch of bodies laying there. Alright. We got about, 8 individuals. Yeah.
We got 1 guy crawling around down there, but, you know, we could definitely
Speaker 1: 4, shoot. 1.
Speaker 0: Better. Hey. You shoot. I'll talk. Hotel 26 crazy horse 18.
Speaker 1: Hey, George. 18. This is hotel two six seven.
Speaker 0: Roger, currently engaging approximately 8 individuals, AIA, RPGs and AK 47.
Speaker 1: Cell 26, you need to move to that location once crazy off the sun And get pictures over. Hey,
Speaker 0: The hotel 26 crazy horse 18. I gotta go dead fasteners. 9. 26, crazy horse 18.
Speaker 1: Back into your spear zone 2 flight. 3 chase on 4 at this time.
Speaker 0: Hotel 26. Hotel 26, crazy horse 18.
Speaker 1: 2 c. Crazy horse, 18 Bushmaster 7. Go ahead.
reSee.it AI Summary
Disclosing private crimes is protected, but revealing government crimes can be criminal. #Assange exposed wrongdoings, but who to prosecute when we have a decentralized WikiLeaks? Important voices: @ggreenwald @mtaibbi @RobertKennedyJr @Cobratate @TuckerCarlson @BoringSleuth @_whitneywebb @naomibrockwell @Snowden. Is he a traitor or patriot?
@StevenNerayoff - Steven Nerayoff
Disclosing crimes by private parties is protected, rewarded & made public. But disclosing crimes by the government against its people can be a crime. #Assange clearly disclosed crimes of the wrong side. But who do you prosecute when we have a truly Decentralized WikiLeaks? @ggreenwald @mtaibbi @RobertKennedyJr @Cobratate @TuckerCarlson @BoringSleuth @_whitneywebb @naomibrockwell @Snowden #Traitor or #Patriot?
@wikileaks - WikiLeaks
This week (4 Oct) marks 17 years since Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks; Its mission: To bring truth to the public For his publishing work which revealed war crimes, corruption and abuses, its founder now battles against a 175 year sentence if extradited to the US #FreeAssange
reSee.it AI Summary
Julian Assange, imprisoned in the UK, faces persecution for releasing the Collateral Murder video. It exposed the killing of Reuters journalists by a US Apache helicopter, while pilots laughed. The US seeks to extradite and imprison Assange for 175 years.
@GUnderground_TV - Going Underground
As Julian Assange continues to remain imprisoned in the UK, a reminder of one of the reasons he is being persecuted: Wikileaks under Assange released the Collateral Murder video shows Reuters journalists, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen being gunned down by a US Apache helicopter. Several others were killed while the US pilots laughed. The US wants to extradite and imprison Julian Assange for 175 years.
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Speaker 0: We engaged 8 individuals, got 2, still firing. Moving now. We got damaged. Clear. Trying to find targets. Hotel 26, Crazy Horse 18, we have 8 individuals with RPGs and AK 47. Move to location once Crazy Horse is done. Shoot. Thank you.
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Speaker 0: Alright. Claring. Here. Wednesday line. Let me know when you'd gathered for 2.
Line them all up. 202 traffic, 260. Zone. Come on. Fire.
I ride in. Thank you. 60. We need to move time now. Alright.
We just engaged all 8 individuals. And we got 2, where we're still firing. Got them. 26. This is 26.
We're moving. We got this. Oh, fuck. Sorry. I lost it.
Bypassing? Got damaged, Kyle. Alright. Alright. Alright.
You're clear. Alright. I'm just trying to find targets again. Master 6. Is it best Master 26?
Got a bunch of bodies laying there. Sorry. We got about 8 individuals. Yeah. We got 1 guy crawling around down 2, you know, we could definitely Hey.
You shoot. I'll talk. Hotel 26 crazy horse 18. Crazy horse 18. This is hotel 26, Owen.
Roger, currently Gauging approximately 8 individuals, AIA, RPGs, and AK 47. Cell two sixty, you need to move to that location once the crazy office is done and get pictures over. Two. Search on 20 and the location. 2 6 crazy horse 18.
Oh, yeah. That goes dead bastard. Nice. 26, crazy horse 18. Yes.
2, 3, change on 4 at this time. 0 2, 3, change on 4. Nice. Let's shoot. Thank you.
Hotel 26, crazy horse 18. Crazy.
@Stella_Assange - Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW
It’s actually very simple. Julian Assange started @WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks published information that those in power were suppressing. The West tried to kill him because of it. #FreeAssangeNOW #JournalismIsNotACrime https://t.co/hn9u5N7xIz
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Learn how the world works, challenge those who control us, unite in purpose, and take action.
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Speaker 0: People often ask, what can I do? The answer is not so difficult. Learn how the world works. Challenge the statements and intentions of those who seek to control us behind a facade of democracy and monarchy. Unite in common purpose and common principle To design, build, document, finance and defend, learn, challenge, act Now.
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Julian Assange faces a 175-year sentence if extradited to the US for publishing. His reporting exposed the infamous Collateral Murder release, revealing the killing of over a dozen people, including journalists, by US forces in Iraq. This crucial information came to light thanks to Assange. #FreeAssange
@wikileaks - WikiLeaks
Julian Assange faces a 175 year sentence if extradited to the US for his publishing WikiLeaks infamous Collateral Murder release shows the killing over a dozen people in Iraq by US forces, including two Reuters journalists; seriously wounding two children - which only came to light due to Assange's reporting #FreeAssange https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/
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Speaker 0 instructs the team to gather for item 2. Speaker 1 reports traffic. Speaker 0 acknowledges and thanks them. Speaker 2 urgently tells Bushmaster 26 to move. Speaker 0 confirms engagement of 8 individuals and ongoing firing. Speaker 1 apologizes for damage. Speaker 0 grants clearance. Speaker 1 and Speaker 0 discuss targets. Speaker 2 communicates with Hotel 26 and Crazy Horse 18 about engaging 8 individuals with RPGs and AK 47s. Speaker 0 gives instructions to move to the location for pictures. Speaker 1 confirms. Speaker 0 expresses satisfaction with the engagement. Speaker 2 communicates with Bushmaster 7.
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Speaker 0: Alright. Fire. Here Wednesday line. Let me know when you've gathered for 2. Item all up.
Speaker 1: 2 zero two traffic, 2 60.
Speaker 0: Come on. Fire. Horizon. Thank
Speaker 1: you.
Speaker 0: Six. 2.
Speaker 2: Bushmaster 26. Bushmaster 26. We need to move time now.
Speaker 0: Seven. Alright. We just engaged all 8 individuals. And we got 2. We're we're still firing.
Got it. Got it.
Speaker 1: Six. This is 26. We're moving. We got this. Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 0: I was bypassing. Got damaged, Kyle. Sorry. Alright. You're clear.
Alright. I'm just trying to find targets again.
Speaker 1: Six. Master 6. This is Bushmaster 26.
Speaker 0: Got a bunch of bodies laying there. Alright. We got about 8 individuals. Yeah. We got 1 guy 2 around down there, but, you know, we could definitely get a jump or shoot some more.
Got it. 6. Hey. You shoot. I'll talk.
Hotel 26 crazy horse 18.
Speaker 2: Crazy horse 18, This is hotel 26
Speaker 0: over. Roger, currently engaging approximately 8 individuals, AIA, RPGs and AK 47.
Speaker 2: Cell 2 6, you need to move to that location once crazy one is done and get pictures over.
Speaker 0: 2 20 and the location. The hotel 26 crazy horse 18. Oh, yeah. There goes dead bastards. Nice.
Nice. 26. Crazy horse 18. 6.
Speaker 1: 2
Speaker 0: 2 Hotel 26, crazy horse 18.
Speaker 2: Crazy. You're towards 18 Bushmaster 7. Go ahead.
Collateral Murder
collateralmurder.wikileaks.org
@BasedMikeLee - Mike Lee
The UN perpetuates child rape. #DefundTheUN. Make it trend. https://t.co/39REzToZzy
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Julian Assange is not charged with treason and the claim that he is being charged as a hacker is a lie. He is charged with publishing classified information, not for being a traitor. The idea of committing treason against a country you've barely visited is absurd. Exposing government crimes is not the same as sharing government secrets. #JulianAssange #FreeJulianAssange
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
Ryan Grim from The Belmarsh Tribunal D.C. - "Free the Truth" - The Case of Julian Assange Julian Assange Is NOT Charged With Treason, “If what he did is illegal, then everything that every investigative journalist does when they're doing investigative journalism is illegal.” A myth out there that that he's being charged as a hacker and not for publishing. If you do a control f in the indictment for publishing, you will find it multiple times. That's just it's just simply a lie. He is charged with publishing classified information. You often hear him described as a a traitor, that there was some treason involved, I can't think of anything more absurd to charge somebody with who isn't an American citizen. The time he was here in this room, may be the only time he's been to the United States? If he's been here more than that, it's it's not much. So if you've barely ever even visited a country, how can you commit treason against it? The idea that's let's say, I have committed treason against Saudi Arabia for reporting on them or the UAE is just as absurd, and they would love nothing more than to be able to make that the bar so that if you're traveling anywhere around the world, you say, well, here are our, uh, here are laws around press freedom. He violated them. We're extraditing him to our country. So he asked, you know, Chelsea Manning to go ahead and get information for him. For 1, investigative journalists do this all the time. Like, we we are constantly getting leaks from sources, and then we'll say, what else do you have that can confirm this? What else do you have that can contextualize this? If what he did is illegal, then everything that every investigative journalist does when they're doing investigative journalism is illegal.” Exposing Government crimes is not the same thing as sharing government secrets. Free Julian Assange. #JulianAssange #FreeJulianAssange
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The speaker addresses the misconception that Julian Assange is being charged as a hacker rather than for publishing classified information. They argue that the accusation of treason is absurd since Assange is not an American citizen and has barely visited the United States. They highlight the danger of setting a precedent where any country can claim treason for reporting on them. The speaker also points out that investigative journalists often rely on leaks and seek further evidence to support their findings. They conclude that if Assange's actions are deemed illegal, then all investigative journalism would be considered illegal.
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Speaker 0: The myth out there that that he's being charged as as a hacker and not not for publishing. If you do a control f in the indictment for publishing, you will find it multiple times. That's just it's just simply a lie. He is charged with publishing classified information. You often hear him described as a a traitor, that there was some treason involved.
I can't think of anything more absurd to charge somebody with who isn't an American citizen. The time that he was here or in this room may he be the only time he's been to the United States if he's been here more than that it's it's not much. So if you barely ever even visited a country how can you commit treason against it? The idea that's that say, I have committed treason against Saudi Arabia for reporting bring on them or the UAE, is just as absurd. And they would love nothing more than to be able to make that the bar.
So that if you're traveling anywhere around the world you say, well, here are our here are laws around press freedom. He violated them. We're extraditing him to our country So he asked, you know, Chelsea Manning to go ahead and get information for him for 1, investigative journalists do this all the time. But we we are constantly getting leaks from sources and then we'll say, what else do you have that can confirm this? What else do you have that can contextualize this?
If what he did is illegal than everything that every investigative journalist does, when they're doing investigative journalism is illegal
@Stella_Assange - Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW
Julian Assange is still trending! Be his voice as he spends his fifth Christmas in Belmarsh high security prison. #JournalismIsNotACrime #FreeAssangeNOW https://t.co/VdclMf4ctl
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In 2012, Wikileaks exposed 5 million emails revealing US intelligence's prior knowledge of Julian's indictment and plans to silence Wikileaks. Join us on 20th-21st February 2024 for #DayX, a rally for Julian's freedom. Donations are appreciated at https://freeassange.org/donate/. Full calendar at https://freeassange.org/.
@FreeAssangeNews - Don't Extradite Assange - #FreeAssange
In 2012, Wikileaks revealed 5 million emails sent between US intelligence and private intelligence company Stratfor. These include emails which show prior knowledge of Julian’s indictment as well as strategies to silence Wikileaks, including the torture of Assange. #25DaysOfTruth #Day24 @horvatsrecko - Philosopher, co-founder of @DIEM_25 and @progintl Council Member The dates for #DayX have been announced. 20th-21st February 2024. We will be rallying for Julian's freedom and we need you to stand with us! Stay tuned for more information. Your donations are greatly appreciated as we prepare for Day X. Click here to donate to the cause: https://freeassange.org/donate/ You can view our full interactive calendar over on our website: https://freeassange.org/
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WikiLeaks published over 5 million confidential emails from intelligence company Stratfor, revealing their surveillance of Occupy Wall Street and protesters of the Bhopal disaster. The emails also showed that Stratfor had knowledge of Julian Assange's secret indictment by the US government in 2011 and suggested strategies for dealing with WikiLeaks. Despite attempts to silence him, Assange is seen as a courageous publisher who provided valuable services to the US and humanity. The message to the intelligence services and future US administrations is to drop the charges against Assange.
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Speaker 0: I want to remind of the so called global intelligence files, that were published by WikiLeaks in 2012, So, almost 12 years ago. It was over 5,000,000, emails, from the intelligence company called Stratfor, who on the one hand provide services for the private sector, on the other hand for government agencies, including Homeland Security.
Speaker 1: The whistle blowing website, WikiLeaks, has started publishing more than 5,000,000 confidential emails from the US based intelligence Firm Stratfor.
Speaker 0: So they succeeded to reveal many interesting things. For instance, that Stratfor was active in surveilling Occupy Wall Street at that time. That was 2011. You remember those times probably when Zuccotti Park was occupied, when Occupy Wall Street was growing that much that It became influential also in other parts of the world. And it also shows these Global Intelligence files, in which way this company, Stratford, was Surveiling, for instance, or targeting protesters of the Bhopal disaster.
An explosion at a pesticide factory in the Indian city of Bhopal sent a cloud of Precisely the context of Julian Assange, being imprisoned and under threat of being isolated with the United States is what the global intelligence files reveal about WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. So if you would search them, you would find more than 4,000 mentions of WikiLeaks and Asana. And you will find also not just analysis, but actually suggestions from the private intelligence service to the public intelligence service, public under quotation marks of the United States governments. So, you could find in these emails that, Stratford So already had information about Julian Assange being secretly indicted by the United States government already in 2011. And they suggested a strategy for dealing with WikiLeaks.
In the meantime, for more than 4 years, they succeeded to silence him. One of the chief security officers even said, Assange is going to make a nice bride in prison. Screw the terrorist. He'll be eating cat food forever. Now, there is also an email in which one of the analysts warns, but, quote, but But the act of publishing leaked information has been the bedrock of American investigative journalism.
So this is a message to you in the intelligence service, The Biden's administration's in the future US admin administration, whoever that will be. Julian Assange is a courageous publisher who provided services Not only to the United States, but it provided services to humanity. But it is precisely you In the Secret Services, in the Intelligence Sector, in Biden administration and the future administration, who have to do the right step. Who have to do the right step and drop the charges before it's
@VKs_Host - Z®
.#FreeJulianAssangeNOW https://t.co/XlrK3LiAGY
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There is no society anymore. Instead, a transnational security elite is using taxpayer money to carve up the world. To combat this, we must not just petition, but take over. We need to build our own networks of strength and mutual value to challenge the warmongers in our country and others. They have formed an alliance to take money from the United States, NATO countries, Australia, and launder it through Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, and wash that money in people's blood.
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Speaker 0: There is no society anymore. What there is is a transnational security elite that is busy carving up the world using your tax money. To combat that elite, We must not petition. We must take it over. We must form our own networks of strength and mutual value, which can challenge those strengths and self interested values of the warmongers in this country and in others that have formed hand in hand, an alliance to take money from the United States, from every NATO country, from Australia, and launder it through Afghanistan.
Launder it through Iraq. Launder it through Somalia, wander it through Yemen, wander it through Pakistan, and wash that money in people's blood.
@Judgenap - Judge Napolitano
The clock is ticking! My friend @MearsheimerJ on #FreeAssange #FreeAssangeNOW #FreeAssange2024 PLEASE repost. Use Hashtags. Together, we will get this message to the #HighCourt to #SETHIMFREE https://t.co/mMMqUUURhY
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Julian Assange, a journalist, should not be extradited to the US for publishing classified documents leaked by Chelsea Manning. Governments hide actions from public view, so journalists play a crucial role in exposing misguided policies. Assange, like the New York Times with the Pentagon Papers, serves the public interest. No harm resulted from his leaks, and he has already suffered greatly. Extraditing him would be excessive punishment. The British high court should set him free.
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Speaker 0: My name is John Meersheimer, and I teach at the University of Chicago. My area of expertise is international relations. I'd like to say a few words today about the Julian Assange case. A determination will soon be made by the British high court on whether to extradite Assange to the United States where he has been indicted by the American government and will be put on trial. I am asking the court not to extradite him and instead to set him free.
I believe this is a straightforward case. Let me explain. For starters, the case involves a wide variety of classified documents that Chelsea Manning, who was a government employee, leaked to Julian Assange, a journalist who ran WikiLeaks, a famous website that publishes classified and private documents that were not supposed to see the light of day. Manning was caught and punished because she was a government employee, and she broke the law by leaking material that was classified to Assange. But Assange is a journalist, and he did not break the law, as it is commonplace for journalists to publish classified information that is passed on to them by government insiders.
If journalists in the United States were sent to jail for publishing classified material, the jails would be filled with many of America's most famous reporters from newspapers like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. But of course, that hardly ever happens. Simply put, newspapers publish classified material and hardly anybody ever goes to jail. Why is this the case? What is the reason for this situation?
Governments of every type, and this includes liberal democracies like the United States and Britain, sometimes go to great lengths to hide their actions or their policies from public view, which makes it almost impossible for the public to evaluate and criticize their behavior. Given that governments sometimes act foolishly, even recklessly, this is not a good situation. Thus, a rich tradition has developed over time in the United States where insiders leak information about classified policies to journalists who publicize the information so that the public can evaluate it and push back hard against misguided policies. The most famous case that illustrates this phenomenon involves the famous Pentagon Papers, which were a multi volume study of the American decision to enter the war in Vietnam in the 1964, 65 period, and then escalate it in subsequent years. Daniel Ellsberg, who was an insider and had access to classified material, leaked the papers in 1971 to the New York Times, which subsequently published them.
The story in those documents was starkly at odds with what the Johnson administration had been telling the American people about US policy in Vietnam. By most accounts at the time and certainly since then, both Ellsberg and the New York Times performed an important public service. They exposed a bankrupt policy that underpinned a war that the US could not win. Ellsberg did not go to jail despite leaking classified information, although it did appear at the time that he might be sent to jail. Certainly, nobody at the New York Times went to jail because, again, journalists don't go to jail for publishing classified information in the United States.
It is very important to remember that in the case of Julian Assange, he is not the equivalent of Ellsberg because he was not an insider who leaked the information. Chelsea Manning was the insider. Assange was the equivalent of the New York Times, and thus he should not be extradited so he can be put on trial in the United States. Unsurprisingly, government leaders do not like leaks unless they do the leaking, which they frequently do. Thus, they are powerfully inclined to punish those who do leak, and they even try on occasion to publish the to punish the journalists who publish the leaked material as is the case with Assange.
It is fair game for governments to go after leakers, but it is not acceptable for governments to go after journalists. Indeed, it would directly undermine freedom of the press, which is essential for monitoring governments and holding them accountable when they pursue misguided policies. In fact, one of the main reasons that the US government is so determined to put Assange behind bars is that he is exposed malfeasance by US policy makers. In my opinion, that is all for the good and essential for making a liberal democracy like the United States work as efficiently and wisely as possible. Two final points, First, it is important to emphasize that nobody was hurt because of the documents that Assange published.
Nobody's life was put in danger because of what he posted on WikiLeaks, and certainly, nobody was killed. For sure, the misguided actions of many US policy makers were exposed because of what Assange did. But that, in my opinion, is all for the good. 2nd, Assange has already paid a huge price for his actions. He has effectively been in prison for years.
Sending him to the United States where he is likely to be convicted and sentenced to a long jail term would be a case of cruel and unusual punishment. For all these reasons, I respectfully ask the British high court not to extradite Assange to the United States. In my opinion, that would clearly be the right decision. Thank you.
@DavidSacks - David Sacks
Julian Assange should be freed. Here’s why: #FreeAssange https://t.co/BSLv9OEhvY
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Julian Assange, a journalist, should not be extradited to the US for publishing classified documents leaked by Chelsea Manning. Governments hide actions, but journalists expose them for public scrutiny. Punishing Assange would undermine press freedom. Leaks are necessary for holding governments accountable. Assange's actions did not harm anyone, and he has already suffered greatly. Extraditing him would be excessive. The British high court should not send him to the US.
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Speaker 0: My name is John Meersheimer, and I teach at the University of Chicago. My area of expertise is international relations. I'd like to say a few words today about the Julian Assange case. A determination will soon be made by the British high court on whether to extradite Assange to the United States where he has been indicted by the American government and will be put on trial. I am asking the court not to extradite him and instead to set him free.
I believe this is a straightforward case. Let me explain. For starters, the case involves a wide variety of classified documents that Chelsea Manning, who was a government employee, leaked to Julian Assange, a journalist who ran WikiLeaks, a famous website that publishes classified and private documents that were not supposed to see the light of day. Manning was caught and punished because she was a government employee, and she broke the law by leaking material that was classified to Assange. But Assange is a journalist, and he did not break the law, as it is commonplace for journalists to publish classified information that is passed on to them by government insiders.
If journalists in the United States were sent to jail for publishing classified material, the jails would be filled with many of America's most famous reporters from newspapers like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. But of course, that hardly ever happens. Simply put, newspapers publish classified material and hardly anybody ever goes to jail. Why is this the case? What is the reason for this situation?
Governments of every type, and this includes liberal democracies like the United States and Britain, sometimes go to great lengths to hide their actions or their policies from public view, which makes it almost impossible for the public to evaluate and criticize their behavior. Given that governments sometimes act foolishly, even recklessly, this is not a good situation. Thus, a rich tradition has developed over time in the United States where insiders leak information about classified policies to journalists who publicize the information so that the public can evaluate it and push back hard against misguided policies. The most famous case that illustrates this phenomenon involves the famous Pentagon Papers, which were a multi volume study of the American decision to enter the war in Vietnam in the 1964, 65 period, and then escalate it in subsequent years. Daniel Ellsberg, who was an insider and had access to classified material, leaked the papers in 1971 to the New York Times, which subsequently published them.
The story in those documents was starkly at odds with what the Johnson administration had been telling the American people about US policy in Vietnam. By most accounts at the time and certainly since then, both Ellsberg and the New York Times performed an important public service. They exposed a bankrupt policy that underpinned a war that the US could not win. Ellsberg did not go to jail despite leaking classified information, although it did appear at the time that he might be sent to jail. Certainly, nobody at the New York Times went to jail because, again, journalists don't go to jail for publishing classified information in the United States.
It is very important to remember that in the case of Julian Assange, he is not the equivalent of Ellsberg because he was not an insider who leaked the information. Chelsea Manning was the insider. Assange was the equivalent of the New York Times, and thus he should not be extradited so he can be put on trial in the United States. Unsurprisingly, government leaders do not like leaks unless they do the leaking, which they frequently do. Thus, they are powerfully inclined to punish those who do leak, and they even try on occasion to publish the to punish the journalists who publish the leaked material as is the case with Assange.
It is fair game for governments to go after leakers, but it is not acceptable for governments to go after journalists. Indeed, it would directly undermine freedom of the press, which is essential for monitoring governments and holding them accountable when they pursue misguided policies. In fact, one of the main reasons that the US government is so determined to put Assange behind bars is that he is exposed malfeasance by US policy makers. In my opinion, that is all for the good and essential for making a liberal democracy like the United States work as efficiently and wisely as possible. Two final points, First, it is important to emphasize that nobody was hurt because of the documents that Assange published.
Nobody's life was put in danger because of what he posted on WikiLeaks, and certainly, nobody was killed. For sure, the misguided actions of many US policy makers were exposed because of what Assange did. But that, in my opinion, is all for the good. 2nd, Assange has already paid a huge price for his actions. He has effectively been in prison for years.
Sending him to the United States where he is likely to be convicted and sentenced to a long jail term would be a case of cruel and unusual punishment. For all these reasons, I respectfully ask the British high court not to extradite Assange to the United States. In my opinion, that would clearly be the right decision. Thank you.
@RealPatrickWebb - Patrick Webb
BREAKING: Over 35 law professors have contacted the Department of Justice in a letter requesting the release of Julian Assange, warning that Espionage Act charges against Julian Assange 'pose an existential threat to the First Amendment.' https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24427303-letter-from-law-professors-re-assange-prosecution
Letter from law professors re Assange prosecution
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@RSF_inter - RSF
🔴 “We call for the release of Julian Assange, for journalism, for press freedom, and for our right to know,” says @rebeccajvincent, present in court to monitor #DayX. The UK High Court is considering Assange’s final application to appeal. #FreeAssange ⬇️ https://t.co/bADaEFfH3K
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We are outside the UK high court for Julian Assange's extradition hearing. If his appeal is rejected, his last chance is the European Court of Human Rights. If any grounds are accepted, more UK hearings may follow. Assange's health is at risk in prison, and extradition could be fatal. We urge the Biden administration to drop the charges and release him for press freedom and our right to know.
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Speaker 0: Our main call remains on the Biden administration to drop the charges, close this case, and allow for Assange's release without further delay. We're here from reporters without borders outside the UK high court in London for the 2 day day x hearing, which represents the beginning of the end of the extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. If this court rejects the grounds of his appeal, the only further recourse that Julian Assange will have will be with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. If any grounds are accepted, however, we could see further hearings in the UK. While we hope that this court will deliver some form of justice this week, we remind the world that actually this case is political.
The power lies with the US government to bring this to a close at any time. Our main call remains on the Biden Julian Assange is sitting in a high security UK prison some miles from where we are now where his mental health and physical health remain at risk, but his situation would be far exacerbated in conditions of extradition which he may not survive. We call again for the release of Julian Assange for journalism, for press freedom, and for all of our right to know.
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Julian Assange has spent over 13 years detained and 1771 days in a UK prison for publishing information exposing war crimes. If extradited to the US, he faces a 175-year sentence in conditions deemed as torture. There is evidence of a CIA plot to kidnap or assassinate him. Major media, human rights organizations, and politicians worldwide have called for his release, citing the threat to press freedom and the right to know. Amnesty warns that extraditing Assange would set a dangerous precedent. #FreeAssange #JournalismIsNotACrime
@wikileaks - WikiLeaks
To date Julian Assange has spent 1771 days in a UK prison for publishing which revealed war crimes and human rights abuses Assange has spent more than 13 years detained in one form or another If extradited to the US he faces a 175 year sentence in conditions the UN's torture expert this month said would amount to torture @DrAliceJEdwards Earlier this week the publishers' wife, @Stella_Assange told assembled journalists that if Julian were extradited, "he will die" During the first day of the two day hearing on Tuesday the court was told of 'compelling evidence' of a CIA plot to kidnap or assassinate Mr. Assange, meaning that should extradition be allowed he would be sent to the very country that plotted to assassinate him Major media, free speech and human rights organisations have urged the immediate release of the WikiLeaks publisher including Amnesty, Reporters Without Borders, ACLU, PEN, HRW, The International Federation of Journalists, NUJ, The New York Times, The Guardian, El Pais, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, as well as politicians and leaders across the globe Amnesty: "Extraditing Julian Assange would set a dangerous precedent, threaten press freedom and undermine our right to know" #FreeAssange #FreeAssangeNOW #JournalismIsNotACrime
@wikileaks - WikiLeaks
Stella Assange: "This case is about whether state crimes can continue unpunished, unscrutinized - Julian's freedom is the only antidote. Julian Assange is the worlds most famous political prisoner...and the world is watching" @Stella_Assange #FreeAssange #FreeAssangeNOW https://t.co/jlgbu3QPsr
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The speaker expresses gratitude for the support at Downing Street, highlighting the importance of Julian Assange's case in defending journalism and truth. They condemn the attempt to silence Assange and emphasize the need for his freedom to protect democracy and human rights. The speaker criticizes those in power for their actions against Assange and calls for his release to prevent further injustice. They stress the significance of holding governments accountable and ensuring transparency in society. The speaker urges for solidarity in the fight for Assange's freedom.
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Speaker 0: Wow. You guys are amazing. Not just the turnout this evening coming here to Downing Street, but also over the past 48 hours. It's been incredible. Every time I got to court, I was greeted by this incredible supportive crowd that was cheering us on.
And, I I told Julian all about how much support he has and also how much attention the media has given this case this time around. The world is watching. And finally, there's a realization about what this is really about, which is an attack on the truth, an attack on the public's right to know, and, a country's attempt to further their impunity and their cover ups and continue, to kill, with impunity without the threat of a media that will scrutinize them, of a public that will demand change. That cannot stand. Everything turns on the outcome of this case.
Whether states can criminalize journalism and put journalists in prison like they've been doing in the UK with an Australian citizen, a publisher who's won many, many awards for his journalism, and they've stuck him in the deepest, darkest hole of the UK prison system and threatened and the US threatens to put him in the deepest, darkest hole of the US prison system for a 175 years. Shame. Shame. Julian's imprisonment is a result of people with too much power who lost the plot, who got power thirsty, and are guilty. They know they're guilty, and they want to continue to live their their lives without any consequences for the crimes they've committed.
This case is about whether state crimes can continue unpunished, unscrutinized. Julian's freedom is the only antidote. We don't have a a decision today. Julian's life is at severe risk. Every single day he is in prison, he's a political prisoner.
He is the world's most famous political prisoner. We know what happened to the other most famous political prisoner last week. That cannot happen to Julian. It cannot be allowed to happen. The world is watching.
Julian has to be freed. Yes. Now whatever happens in the coming days, we can't know, but we can know that we will be there for Julian and be there for for our own democracy, our own future, our own ability to change policy, to change decisions, to change governments. Because if there's no scrutiny, we can't we can't be informed. We can't be able to change, make an informed decision about who we elect.
Our rights are at stake, but Julian's life is at stake. If he is extradited, he will lose his life. He will be killed. He will be killed by the country that has been plotting his assassination. And the court heard how the United States, under the previous administration, which maybe the next administration, had plotted to assassinate him, who had plotted to poison him, who had plotted to kidnap him, who had plotted to rendition him.
Shame. Shame on those who put journalists in prison. Shame on those who murder journalists. Shame on those who are afraid of the truth. That's not a society I wanna live in.
We're better than that. The UK courts are also under scrutiny. They have heard about the murder plots against my husband. They are on notice that the country that is trying to extradite him has planned to murder him. They don't deny it.
They just change the subject. The whole time we were in court, the other side somehow avoided to talk about what the what the documents Julian published revealed. They didn't talk about the war crimes. They didn't talk about the 15,000 civilian killings in Iraq that were revealed. They didn't talk about their torture and rendition fraud program.
They didn't talk about, Guantanamo Bay. They simply changed the subject. Shame. This case is brought by criminals who want to maintain their impunity, who want to avoid the courts. They are the fugitives from justice, not Julian.
Julian is justice. He is transparency. Yes. He is us. He is the public.
And as long as Julian remains in prison, we are all in prison. Yeah. And they are free. It cannot be. Free Assange.
Free Assange. Free Assange. Be there for Julian. He would be there for you. He is there for you.
He needs to be free. Free Assange.
@wikileaks - WikiLeaks
Friday 5 April marks 14th years since the WikiLeaks 'Collateral Murder' release by Julian Assange showing the gunning down of civilians in Iraq Assange faces a 175 year sentence if extradited to the US for his publishing in the public interest #FreeAssangeNOW #CollateralMurder https://t.co/WCCn8XIsd5
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We engaged 8 individuals, losing 2. Moving to engage more. Identified RPGs and AK-47s. Requesting pictures. Confirming location. Engaging targets. Hotel 26 reports 18 dead. Continuing fire. Bushmaster 7, please respond.
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Speaker 0: Alright, fire. Here Wednesday, line. Let me know when you've gathered for 2. Light them all up. 2 traffic, 2 60.
Come on. Fire. Hey, Roger. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. We need to move time now. Alright. We just engaged all 8 individuals. And we got 2 of ours.
We're still firing. Got it. Got it. 2 6. The 2 6 will move, but we got this.
Oh, I'm sorry. I was bypassing. Got damaged, Kyle. Sorry. Okay.
Hit him. I hit him. Alright. You're clear. Alright.
I'm just trying to find targets again. Master 6. Is it best mounted for 2 6? Got a bunch of bodies laying there. Alright.
We got about, 8 individuals. Yeah. We got 1 guy crawling around down there, but, you know, we could definitely get a count or shoot some more. Got it. Hey.
You shoot. I'll talk. Hotel 26 crazy horse 18. Crazy horse 18. This is hotel 26 over.
Roger currently engaged in approximately 8 individuals, AIA, RPGs and AK 47. Cell 2, 6, you need to move to that location once crazy work is done and get pictures over. Try Ryan. We're 20 as a location. On the other.
The hotel 26 crazy horse 18. Oh, yeah. There goes dead bastards. Nice one. Nice.
26 crazy horse 18. Megan, Spears zero two is flight 3 chains on 4 this time. Spears zero two three chains. Nice. Let's shoot.
Thank you. Hotel 2 Hotel 26, crazy horse 18. Crazy horse 18, Bushmaster 7. Go ahead.
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Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has spent more time in jail than Epstein's clients combined. He exposed war crimes and government corruption, including the "Collateral Murder" video. Assange has agreed to plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act in exchange for release. The media underreported the Podesta emails and Assange warned about endless wars. Populations are fooled into going to war. Assange's release raises concerns for the Clintons and exposes Israel. The media is criticized for its bias.
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🧵Thread 🧵Post # 1 ▪️JULIAN ASSANGE▪️ The truth is always imprisoned. A short thread to honor a hero…. Scroll for Post 2 👇🏽 https://t.co/lRkFVpP1pv
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🧵THREAD 🧵Post #2 He was 38 when WikiLeaks published “Collateral Murder” and was last a free man. He is now 52 yrs old. The video shows the US army killing civilians, including 2 Reuters employees on assignment and the rescuers who were assisting the wounded. Reuters attempted to get the video but the Pentagon refused to hand it over. The evidence of what had happened remained on US 🇺🇸military servers until intelligence whistleblower Chelsea Manning sent it to WikiLeaks.
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Speaker 0 directs to line up for 2 targets. They engage 8 individuals, with 2 remaining. A bypass is hit, but they continue firing. They spot 8 individuals, including one crawling. Speaker 1 communicates with Hotel 26 and Crazy Horse 18 about engaging targets. Hotel 26 reports engaging 8 individuals with RPGs and AK 47s. They plan to move to the location after completing the mission. Hotel 26 praises Crazy Horse 18's actions. Bushmaster 7 communicates with Crazy Horse 18.
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Speaker 0: Alright. Sorry. Your Wednesday line. Let me know when you've gathered for 2. Line them all up.
Speaker 1: 2 traffic 260
Speaker 0: Come on. Fire. Alright. Houston. Houston.
Houston. Houston. Houston.
Speaker 1: Houston. Houston. Houston. Houston. We need to move time now.
Speaker 0: Alright. We just engaged all 8 individuals. And now we got 2. We're we're still firing. Got it.
26.
Speaker 1: Is the 26? We're moving. We got this.
Speaker 0: Oh, fuck. Sorry. Bypass? Got damaged, Kyle. Alright.
I hit a bypass. Alright. You're clear. Alright. I'm just trying to find targets again.
Speaker 1: Master 6. Is it base master 2 secs?
Speaker 0: Got a bunch of bodies laying there. Alright. We got about, 8 individuals. Yeah. We got 1 guy crawling around down there, but, you know, we could definitely get down or shoot some more.
Got it. Hey. You shoot. I'll talk. Hotel 26 crazy horse 18.
Speaker 1: Crazy horse 18. This is hotel 26, Hillary.
Speaker 0: Roger, currently engaging approximately 8 individuals, KIA, RPGs and AK 47.
Speaker 1: Cell 26, you need to move to that location once crazy work is done and get pictures over. Thanks, Ryan.
Speaker 0: So we're just wanting to 6 will be on the other. The hotel 26 crazy horse 18. Oh, yeah. That goes dead bastard. Nice one.
26 crazy horse 18. Megan, your spear zone 2 is flying. 3 chains on 4 at this time.
Speaker 1: Hotel 26.
Speaker 0: Hotel 26, Crazy Horse 18.
Speaker 1: Crazy Horse 18, Bushmaster 7. Go ahead.
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He spent more time in jail than all of the Epstein clients combined…. I wonder why that is….🤔 https://t.co/fbgL8VI2S1
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The video discusses the connection between WikiLeaks, John Podesta's emails, and alleged pedophile symbols in Washington DC. It questions the involvement of Comet Ping Pong Pizza and Besta Pizza in child sex trafficking, pointing out symbols and suspicious behavior. The owner of Comet Ping Pong, James Alefantis, is scrutinized for his associations and questionable artwork in the restaurant. The transcript raises concerns about the authenticity of the information presented and calls for further investigation into the matter.
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Speaker 0: Warning to viewers, the following images are disturbing. This all began after WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, released 100 of thousands of secret documents detailing a backstabbing Clinton Foundation, but it now appears the real truth Assange was leading us to was hidden between the blurred lines of Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta's released emails. Fast forward past John Podesta's brother, Tony's casual email exchange with Thelemic spirit cooking adherent Marina Abramovic. Rosetta Stone was needed next, a verification that high level Washington DC predatory pedophiles were using a code to communicate child sex trafficking as casually as ordering a pizza. An FBI unclassified document from WikiLeaks revealed symbols and logos used by pedophiles to identify sexual preferences to include those who sexually abuse children as well as those who produce, distribute, and trade child pornography are using various types of identification logos or symbols to recognize one another and distinguish their sexual preferences.
Investigators should also be attentive to pedophilia symbols advertised on websites. During examinations of computer files, investigators should be conscious of subjects who try to conceal child pornography by labeling them with symbols instead of typical suggestive explicit names, thus, the interest in code words. Now clues, the menu from Comet Ping Pong. Notice the symbol of the ping pong paddles and its clever resemblance to the FBI documents symbol for child love. Alright.
Hang on, New York Times. Before you declare this fake news from your ivory tower, now look at the symbol for best of pizza, just two doors down from Comet Ping Pong Pizza, boldly using the symbol for boy lover as was recorded on the unclassified FBI document. The evidence begins to reveal that best of pizza and comet ping pong pizza may be competing for the lucrative Washington DC pedophile market right out in the open. Comet Ping Pong owner James Alephantis needs to explain himself, and so he did via the Hillary Clinton colluding New York Times. But so many questions remain unanswered.
Why was this said by the band heavy breathing performing in Comet Ping Pong? He likes the world sounds, tamales. And with the boys. And children. I think I was his manager.
Yeah. We all have preferences. Why is the artwork adorning comet ping pong's walls at the very least so insanely creepy, especially for a family restaurant? Why is aliphantus so close to Tony Podesta as revealed in the WikiLeaks emails? And why does mister Podesta collect
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🧵THREAD 🧵Post #4 In October of 2016, Julian Assange passed a message to Mark Halperin for Showtime’s The Circus stating the US media is underreporting “everything” about John Podesta e-mails released by Wikileaks. Halperin passed a note to Assange, who was taking refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London at the time, asking what aspect of the Podesta E-mails is the US media underreporting. “Everything,” Assange wrote back.
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My family and I have been dealing with Pizzagate rumors for a year. It started with John Podesta's leaked emails in 2016, leading to suspicions of child sex trafficking. Tony Podesta's friendship with a convicted pedophile and their taste in art, including pieces depicting child abuse, added fuel to the fire. The podestas' collection includes works by artists like Maria Marshall and Kim Noble, known for controversial themes. The presence of such art in their home and campaign office raised eyebrows. The investigation into Pizzagate continues.
Translation: My family and I have been dealing with Pizzagate rumors for a year. It started with John Podesta's leaked emails in 2016, leading to suspicions of child sex trafficking. Tony Podesta's friendship with a convicted pedophile and their taste in art, including pieces depicting child abuse, added fuel to the fire. The podestas' collection includes works by artists like Maria Marshall and Kim Noble, known for controversial themes. The presence of such art in their home and campaign office raised eyebrows. The investigation into Pizzagate continues.
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Speaker 0: My my family and I have been put through this Pizzagate bullshit, for from for now for a year. This Pizzagate bullshit. This Pizzagate bullshit.
Speaker 1: Oh, John. John. John. John. You didn't really think you were off the hook, did you?
I made an entire hour and a half documentary on Pizzagate. And it's only now, in part 2, that I'm finally discussing the people who are the epicenter of the Pizzagate scandal. It all started in 2016 when WikiLeaks released the emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta. When digging through the emails, Internet sleuths found words like pizza, pasta, and hot dog appearing in seemingly bizarre contexts, leading them to suspect that they were acting as placeholders to camouflage the discussion of child sex trafficking. This marked the start of the citizen investigation that would come to be known as Pizzagate.
Now in part 1, I talked about the emails and how they don't present any strong evidence of criminal activity. However, this does not mean that there isn't a good reason to be suspicious of the Podesta's. John's brother, Tony Podesta, is close friends with none other than convicted pedophile Dennis Haster, who once served as the speaker of the house. Podesta and Haster knew each other all the way back in the 19 sixties when they attended Camp Nose in Japan. Since then, the 2 of them have remained lifelong friends.
Another revealing detail about Podesta is his taste in art. Tony and his wife, Heather, are well known to be avid art collectors. Their collection is often featured at high profile artistic venues. These are the types of artists and works that the podestas are into. Margie Gierlings.
Maria Marshall. Justine Kirlin, Helen Van Mee, Bivana Jurdevich, Kim Noble. Julie Robbins. Now the purpose is not to attack any of these artists. The children in Maria Marshall's films were her own.
And Kim Noble is a woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder and is most likely a survivor of childhood trauma, but the artists themselves in the context of their works are wholly irrelevant. This is not about them. It's about the man who's into their works. It's clear that Tony Podesta has a taste for art that depicts child abuse and children in sexually suggestive positions. And not only do they exhibit this kind of art, but they hang it up in their home as well.
In a 2004 Washington Post article titled Married with Art, one section described houseguests of the podestas seeing the works of Katie Granite, a photographer known for her documentary style pictures of naked teenagers. They were horrified, Heather recalls, a grin spreading across her face, But you don't have to visit their house to get a taste of their disturbing art. In John Podesta's campaign office, there was a painting of 2 men with eating utensils hunched over a third man laid out on a table. Podesta said that it's better to be the guy with the fork than the guy on the table.
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🧵THREAD🧵 Post #5 Listen to these words spoken by Julian Assange: ……the goal is to have an endless war, not a successful war.” Now look at Ukraine, the Middle East, https://t.co/62plkrYt3Y
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The goal is to use Afghanistan to launder money from the US and European tax bases through a transnational security army, rather than to conquer the country. This creates an ongoing war, not a victorious one.
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Speaker 0: Because the goal is not to completely subjugate Afghanistan. The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the United States, out of the tax bases of European countries, countries through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security army. That is the goal. IE, the goal is to have an endless war, not a successful war.
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🧵THREAD🧵 Post #6 Populations don’t like to go to war…and populations have to be fooled into going to wars.” -Iraq -Afghanistan -Ukraine/Russia -Israel/Hamas Does this make sense now? https://t.co/zYFgoSrYnm
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Wars in the past 50 years were often caused by media lies spreading government propaganda. Populations must be deceived into supporting wars because they don't willingly choose conflict. A strong media environment can lead to peace.
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Speaker 0: Nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lives. And the media could have stopped it if they had searched these enough. If they hadn't reprinted government propaganda, they could have stopped it. But what does that mean? Well, that means basically, populations don't like wars, and populations have to be fooled into wars.
Populations don't willingly and with open eyes go into a war. So if we have a good media environment, then we will also have a peaceful environment.
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🧵 THREAD🧵 Post #7 Julian Assange Famously Exposed War Crimes & Warned The World Of The Elite & NATO. He Exposed The Massive Tax Payer Money Laundering Being Done Globally By Warmongers In Government. https://t.co/eVKPlKx15z
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There is a transnational security elite using tax money to carve up the world. To combat them, we must not petition but take over. We need to build our own networks to challenge warmongers in the US and other countries who are allied to profit from wars in places like Yemen and Pakistan, where money and lives are at stake.
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Speaker 0: No society anymore. What there is is a transnational security elite that is busy carving up the world using your tax money. To combat that elite, we must not petition. We must take it over. We must form our own networks of strength and mutual value, which can challenge those strengths and self interested values of the warmongers in this country and in others that have formed hand in hand an alliance to take money from the United States, every NATO country, from Australia, and the it through Yemen.
Wander it through Pakistan, and watch that money in people's blood.
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🧵THREAD🧵 Post #8 Remember Just ONE MONTH Ago Tucker Carlson Said The US Government Is STILL Trying To Murder Edward Snowden. Just Before That Tucker Said The CIA Wanted To Murder Julian Assange… https://t.co/BjPxWi6GD4
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A person accuses Mike Pompeo of covering up the US government's role in a president's murder. Pompeo allegedly pushed Trump to keep documents secret and was accused of plotting to kill Julian Assange. The speaker believes Pompeo is a criminal for his actions.
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Speaker 0: Committed a crime. He's threatening me. He's in my car. I'll never with my dog sitting next, I'll never forget this. And I said, are you really saying that to reveal that the US government had a role in the murder of a democratically elected president to say that out loud, that's the crime?
What about the actual crime, which is murdering a president? Like, you're covering up for that, Mike Pompeo. He had no no response at all. And so Mike Pompeo is the one who pressed Trump to keep those documents secret. And so it's like, what's crazy to me is not just that Pompeo did that.
I think Pompeo is a really sinister person and a and a criminal. I think that I think that because the facts suggest that he was caught. Yahoo News, Mike Isikoff wrote a long piece on this several years ago. His employees went to Mike Isikoff and said, hey. Mike Pompeo was plotting to murder Julian Assange, who's never even been charged with a crime in the United States as CIA director.
That's illegal. You're not allowed. Federal employees are not allowed to just kill people they don't like. Okay? Just just set the baseline here.
So that's who Mike Pompeo is. But he somehow intimidated Trump into not releasing this. Well, okay. That's all bad. Right?
I think it's criminal behavior.
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🧵THREAD🧵 Post #9 After 5 years in jail, Julian Assange has finally walked free. Julian Assange wasn’t imprisoned for his own crimes, but for exposing the crimes of others….. Twenty years ago, George Bush and Tony Blair brazenly launched an illegal war in Iraq, leading to the senseless slaughter of a million innocent lives.
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20 years after the US and UK invaded Iraq, Tony Blair and George Bush thrive while Julian Assange remains in prison for revealing truths about the war. The war's architects face no consequences, with Blair even being appointed as a peace envoy. The aftermath of the war has led to increased global militarization, conflicts, and terrorism. The media played a crucial role in promoting the war, and the lack of accountability persists. The push for war was driven by imperialist motives and the desire to maintain power and profit. Independent media is essential to challenge mainstream narratives.
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Speaker 0: 20 years ago, the US and UK invaded Iraq. Today, Tony Blair is free to go on television, has made a huge amount of money, the same with George Bush. At the same time, Julian Assange languishes in Belmarsh prison because he told the truth about this war. There is something deeply wrong with the society with those kind of priorities. When you look at the people who brought us the war in Iraq, the people who used everything at their disposal, the state machine, parliament, the media, when you look at what all those people did, nobody has faced any of the consequences.
Even when the Chilcot report reported, Tony Blair set up his own press conference paid for by the immense wealth which he now has, the many houses that he has. He was made envoy for peace in the Middle East. He was given a night with last year. Whereas all the people who told the truth about the war, the people who marched, what happened to them? The Muslim community penalized by the Prevent system for telling the truth and for standing up for their rights.
The people like Julian Assange, imprisoned in Belmarsh for all these years for telling the truth. I remember Tony Blair the day of February 15th when we had so many people marching in London. He said, even if a 1000000 people march in London, that's not as many as Saddam Hussein killed. Well, the war in Iraq ended up killing more people. He talked about human rights.
This is about democracy. It's about getting rid of a dictatorship. After he stopped being prime minister, what did he spend his time doing? Advising dictators. The truth is all of these were lies.
All of them were things where they said, we are going to make things better, and actually they made it worse. And not just in Iraq. In the last 20 years, armament worldwide, amount of money spent on military has doubled. Nearly $2,000,000,000,000 are now spent on arms every year, making the world a much more dangerous place. We've now got conflict, not just between dictator in the Middle East and the biggest imperial power in the world, the United States.
We've now got effectively a proxy war in Ukraine between 2 major imperial powers and both of them with nuclear arms. We've got much more real possibility of war with China. Again, this will be a nuclear war and therefore, the devastation of humanity. So exactly the opposite of what we were told 20 years ago has turned out to be the case. It's a more dangerous refugees than we had then.
Taliban in Afghanistan back in control. Terrorism has grown. And, indeed, where did ISIS and Al Qaeda come from? Well, in Iraq, they came from British occupied Basra province where they were formed in prison where many Iraqis were in prison. And the shameful thing is that the people who created the war are still being given awards, are still making huge amounts of money, and in the case of Tony Blair, is still being invited on to the BBC to give his views on absolutely everything instead of being in the dock at The Hague, which is where I think most people in Britain would like him to be.
From the very beginning, from the time he went to Bush's Ranch in the spring of 2002, Tony Blair was absolutely fully committed to every aspect of the war in Iraq. He lied about the existence of weapons of mass destruction, which had never been found because they didn't exist, and there were all sorts of people who said so at the time, including the UN weapons inspectors who you might think would be people who did have some particular knowledge about this. This was all dismissed by Blair, by Alastair Campbell when they devised a dossier. And this is the man who promoted the dossier. It was over the evening standard that day.
Iraq can attack Britain in 45 minutes. I think a period of silence from Alastair Campbell would be welcomed by everybody instead of which he seems to be in podcasts and on couches all over the TV studios. This tells you something about the lack of integrity and the lack of morals of so much of our media coverage. I think the media role was very, very important. And again, that hasn't really been held to account at all.
If you look at the broadcast media, particularly the BBC, it was an absolute disgrace. I remember Andrew Marr, who was the political correspondent, who just after the war started, said Tony Blair had won this argument.
Speaker 1: He said that they would be able to take Baghdad without a bloodbath, and that in the end, the Iraqis would be celebrating. And on both of those points, he has been proved conclusively right, and it'd be entirely ungracious, even for his critics not to acknowledge that tonight he stands as a larger man and a stronger prime minister as a result.
Speaker 0: 20 years on, this is so important because it's not just about the past. It's not just about the present. It's also about the future. And this question of war is gonna become a bigger and bigger question over the next 2 or 3 years. The project for a new American century was essentially about trying to redraw the world on pro US lines.
American hegemony had to be maintained and had to be extended. Many of Bush's key advisers were people who were part of that project. They could see that China was a rising power. It's a rising power economically. It was also becoming a major military power.
China is today the 2nd biggest military power in the world. It has long been a permanent member of the UN Security Council, and it has long been a nuclear power. So the project saw the threat of China as a very real one. They wanted to change the politics of the Far East of the Pacific in terms of the rise of China and to strengthen the United States in that region. They also wanted to redraw the politics of the Middle East, and that particularly meant boosting Saudi Arabia and Israel as their 2 closest allies in the region against Iraq and against Iran, and that's a policy that's continued.
The Middle East itself, there are very few democratic governments, and that is to do with the way in which imperial powers decided on a particular form of government, which really didn't care about democracy. They were concerned with having regimes which were closely connected to them politically, economically, acts of the the acts of the United States, but he was by no means unique in that region. Saudi Arabia, for example, has been engaged in a war against Yemen for 7 years. No question about regime change. The murder of a journalist carried out at the behest of members of the Saudi Royal Family.
Nothing is done. You know, we're talking here about extremely undemocratic states. The British government, United States governments are perfectly happy to work with those people as long as they keep the area secure for oil profits. That's the bottom line. We had many, many Iraqis in this country who campaigned with us against the war in Iraq.
Not because they liked Saddam, actually they had suffered. They'd been put in prison. They'd suffered torture. They'd suffered all sorts of things at his hands. So they knew exactly what was going on, but they also knew that the war was not going to make it better for ordinary Iraqis.
Actually, it would mean, as it has meant, a breakup of the country, a complete destruction of lives, of livelihoods, of huge numbers of refugees who are treated appallingly when they get to any of the countries that were involved in the war, the impact of things like depleted uranium, all sorts of terrible things that the Iraqi people have suffered. Perhaps the most shocking one was the revelation of what happened in the Iraqi prison of Abu Ghraib, where American troops were torturing people, were photographing them in the most degrading way, were treating them like animals, were doing all these sorts of things. This is not only in contravention of every international legal agreement about the way in which prisoners of war, or indeed any prisoners, should be treated. It also told you exactly what the occupation was about. The occupation was about repression and cruelty, and putting down the people who dared to stand up against the American invasion.
And Abu Ghraib showed that in the most terrific terms. But, you know, you can't separate a brutal war, shock and awe, the bombing of cities which took place, the invasion, the cruelty, the siege of Fallujah, all these things that went on. You can't separate that from the repression that followed. They're very much part of the same thing. And if you're invading a country and occupying a country, occupying a country, one of the things you have to do is to dehumanize the population that you're occupying because you have to justify what you're doing, And that's what they did.
War is embedded in the kind of society we live in. We live in a society which is imperialist, which is about conquering other countries and extracting money from other countries. We live in a society where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. So they don't care about whether your hospital is crumbling. They don't care if the roof of your children's school is leaking.
They don't care if you can't afford to heat or eat and you have to choose or maybe these days you can't even afford both. They really don't care about those things. What they do care about is preserving their wealth and power and their ability to spread that wealth and power. And war and weapons are absolutely central to their ability to do so. This is locked into their system, and that's why they do it.
And that's why we have to fight against it. We've got a mainstream media which is really not open to any views which don't coincide with a very, very narrow consensus. We need independent media so much. It's so important that we can get alternative views out. That's why it's important to subscribe to Double Down News on Patreon.
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🧵 THREAD🧵 POST #10 Now That Julian Assange Will Be Freed After Striking A Plea Deal, Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton Have A Lot To Worry About Julian Assange Exposed Hillary Clinton Was Taking Saudi Arabia Donations & Approving The Arms Sales Supplied To ISIS. https://t.co/uIzRUFrrXd
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In an early 2014 email, Hillary Clinton informed her campaign manager that ISIS is funded by the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. This revelation is significant as it contradicts the belief that only rogue individuals were supporting ISIS. The Clinton Foundation received donations from Saudi Arabia and Qatar while Clinton was Secretary of State, coinciding with massive arms sales to Saudi Arabia. This led to a doubling of total arms exports during her tenure, with some of that money potentially funding ISIS.
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Speaker 0: There's a early 2014 email from Hillary Clinton, so not so long after she left secretary of state, to her campaign manager, John Podesta. That email, it states, that ISOL, ISIS, is funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Now this is a I actually I think this is the most significant email in the whole collection. Mhmm. And perhaps because Saudi and Qatari money is spread all over the place, include including into many media institutions.
All serious analysts know, even the US government, has mentioned or or agreed with that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIS, funding ISIS. But the dodge has always been that's, what it's just some rogue princess using their cut of the oil money to do what they like, but actually the government disapproves. But that email says that, no, it is the governments of Saudi and the government, and Qatar, that have been funding ISIS.
Speaker 1: The Saudis, the Qataris, the Moroccans, the Bahrainis, particularly the Saudis and the Qataris, giving all this money to the Clinton Foundation, while Hillary Clinton is secretary of of state and the state department is approving massive arms sales, particularly to Saudi Arabia?
Speaker 0: Under Hillary Clinton, and Clinton emails reveal significant discussion about it, the largest ever arms deal in the world was made with Saudi Arabia, more than $80,000,000,000 In fact, during her tenure as secretary of state, total arms exports from United States in terms of the dollar value doubled.
Speaker 1: Doubled. And and, of course, the consequence of that is that this notorious terrorist Jihadist group called ISIL or ISIS, is created largely with money from the very people who are giving money to the Clinton Foundation.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 1: That's extraordinary.
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🧵THREAD🧵 Post #12 Exposing Israel 🇮🇱 They don’t like that very much now do they….? https://t.co/i1RsT7GVwF
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🧵THREAD🧵 Post #13 Julian Assange has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act, in exchange for release from prison. Just a reminder: "possessing or accessing" material related to the "national defense" of the USA is something that the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, CNN, etc. do every day
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🧵THREAD🧵 Post #14 A brief summary of what happened to Julian Assange…/ https://t.co/B0z3A3HIWA
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Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, faced threats from the US government and CIA for exposing classified information. The CIA considered kidnapping or assassinating him while he sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Assange's releases, like Vault 7, revealed CIA hacking tactics, leading to his arrest in 2019. Facing extradition and potential life imprisonment, Assange remains in Belmarsh prison. His fate remains uncertain.
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Speaker 0: This guy is a traitor, a treasonous, and and and he has broken every law of the United States, and I'm not for the death penalty. So if I'm not for the death penalty and wanna do it, illegally shoot the son of a
Speaker 1: Date, 2017. Target, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Location, the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Objective, killer capture. Origins of this order from, quote, the highest levels end quotes of the US government and CIA.
In the song of the of which leads to your restaurant. Thunderous. To be so. Normally, a target like Asajj would be easy. Grab him from his way home from work, or shoot him as he walks to get his morning coffee.
The only problem was Asajj did none of these things. He hadn't done any of those things in years. For 5 years, Julian Asajj had been hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Killing him there or sending in the police would go against international law and be a foreign relations disaster. So the CIA had to concoct another plan.
First, they discussed secretly kidnapping him from the embassy and bringing him back to America, but that would make it too obvious America broke the law, so they changed tactics. Kidnap him, turn him over to the British. That way, no one would know who was behind it then. Right? But then there was still the chance he wouldn't get extradited back to the US if the British police got him.
Eventually, they got so desperate that they had no choice. They discussed the unthinkable.
Speaker 2: Did the CIA plot and plan to kill Julian Assange?
Speaker 1: Well, unthinkable for everyone else, very thinkable for the CIA. Going against every international law, they contemplated assassinating Julian Assange in the embassy where he lives. Poisoned, snipers sending an assassins, nothing was off the table. Quote, it got to the point where every human being in a 3 block radius of the embassy in London was working for 1 of the intelligence services, whether they were street sweepers or police officers or security guards, end quote. It turns out that UC Global, the company the embassy paid to keep Assad safe, had been spying on him for US intelligence all along.
The same company that Embassy paid more than $5,000,000 to over the last 7 years. WikiLeaks changed the game. When it launched in 2006, it was like nothing the world had ever seen before. Anyone with any important information or proof of classified secrets could submit their data to WikiLeaks anonymously. Something that was not very common back then.
What made WikiLeaks different from other whistleblower organizations is that they can never really be charged with stealing information. They didn't do any of the hacking themselves. So to a certain extent, they were innocent, which led to one other major advantage WikiLeaks had. Since they weren't involved in stealing the information, the classified documents they published could be used in courts. This was a game changer and terrifying for powerful people with dark secrets to hide.
In April 2010, WikiLeaks releases this video. It's a simple low quality video from an Apache helicopter involved in a Baghdad airstrike on July 12, 2007. This video was an airstrike that killed 18 people, pretty center stuff to the US military. What was strange, however, was that for a group of armed insurgents, they seemed to be walking around rather calmly while a loud, heavily armed, unmistakably Western Apache helicopter was roaming above. But rest assured, the US military promised us that, quote, there is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force.
There's nothing to see here. These were not enemy insurgent hostile forces that the US military shot up, but 2 unarmed photographers for the news agency Reuters, Namir Nur Aldin and his driver Sahid Chamah. The pilots mistook their cameras for weapons and a myriad of other casualties that didn't have any weapons or seem to be hostile at all. The US military just tried to cover up friendly fire on journalists. And almost instantly, the video was spread to every newspaper and online publication around the world.
Speaker 3: Of course, our top story this morning, the White House blasting the release of over 90,000 US military records on the war in
Speaker 1: Afghanistan. On August 16, 2012, the foreign minister of Ecuador announced that Julian Assange had been given asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Speaker 2: We trust that the United Kingdom will offer as soon as possible the guarantee for the safe passage for this asylum of mister Assange and that they will respect those international agreements that they have signed in the past and that they have always respected.
Speaker 1: A tiny office in the embassy was converted into a studio with a bed, shower, treadmill, kitchenette, and computer. If he had guests, they'd visit him in his little studio. His lawyers, therapist, and even a personal trainer had to make do with the small space. If he ever stepped foot outside the embassy, British police officers were front and center ready to arrest him on the spot for skipping bail. And he would stay trapped in that embassy for 5 years before WikiLeaks released their most damaging data dump yet, all at the cost of the US government's dignity.
Julia Assange was a target for the US government under both president Obama and president Trump. He embarrassed the military, showed them how weak their security was, and on March 7, 2017, he released what they called Vault 7, arguably the most embarrassing data of the CIA and the US government. What was in Vault 7? All the internal documentation regarding the CIA's ultra secret hacking division and its tactics. The guys who were supposed to be the best hackers in the world had apparently been hacked.
This breach was not just embarrassing. It took away years of agency pride and dignity. The organization tasked with keeping America's secrets couldn't even stop a leak of their most classified information. Vault 7 had it all. Details on electronic surveillance equipment, cyber warfare weapons, and how they could break into almost every cell phone operating system on the planets, all out in the open for the world to see.
Agency officials used to, quote, laugh about WikiLeaks, end quotes, mocking the state department and the Pentagon for allowing so much material to escape their control. But now it was their turn. And for the CIA, revenge wasn't even a question. It was the only answer. Their blood was boiling and all they could see was red.
An example had to be made and the main targets? Of course, it was Julian Assange. WikiLeaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service. This new classification was bureaucratic speak that now justified the use of offensive measures against this non state hostile intelligence service. The fight was on and according to Mike Pompeo, there were no rules.
After his speech, he gave CIA officers the order to figure out the, quote, art of the possible, end quote. He said, quote, nothing's off limits. Don't self censor yourself. I need operational ideas from you. I'll worry about the lawyers in Washington, end quote.
On April 2, 2019, President Lenin Moreno announced Assange was no longer welcome at the embassy. Assange had very little time to prepare when 9 days later, the Ecuadorian government invited British police into the embassy to arrest Assange on the basis of skipping bail. That very same day, Assange was found guilty and sentenced 50 weeks in prison starting May 1st. The US's time had come. Asad had been secretly indicted over a year earlier in March 2018.
And on the same day he was arrested in London, the indictment was unsealed. He was charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. A month later, while serving his son in the Belle Marsh prison, the US added 17 charges to the list. The maximum sentence, a 170 years in prison. A 170 years for the leader of an organization that wasn't all that different from other news agencies that published leaks.
At his extradition hearing in May 2019, Assange said quote, I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many, many awards and protected many people. End quote. Julian Assange is currently still in Belmarsh prison at the time of recording this video. If he's extradited, he faces solitary confinement in a supermax prison, a 170 years in prison for someone who did the same job as most journalists out there. Where I wouldn't be surprised if he met the same fate as our friend whose first name starts with a j and last name starts with an e.
Time will tell what the future holds for the whistleblower pioneer.
@truthtroll_X - Truth Troll Official™️
🧵THREAD🧵Post #15 Fvck the media BULLSH!T MACHINE! https://t.co/1oVZReeTqJ
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Wars throughout history, especially those involving democracies, have been fueled by propaganda and lies. Journalists, failing to fulfill their duty of providing truth, have contributed to this by spreading misinformation. In the US, each journalist is responsible for an average of 130 deaths due to their lack of seriousness in reporting.
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Speaker 0: That has ever existed. It has led to nearly every war that we have had. Certainly, the wars by democracies. All the big wars that you can name at least in the post World War 2 period and to a degree, even in World War 2 were built up. Their populations were mobilized on the back of lives from the Gulf of Tonkin incident to the Iraq War to the Gulf War.
So the the average desk count per journalist, I did a calculation for US journalists recently. It's something like a 130 kills per journalist as a result of them not treating their function seriously or claim societal function seriously, which is provide the truth, and instead spreading propaganda and lies of the major power establishments in the countries that they're in.
@truthtroll_X - Truth Troll Official™️
🧵THREAD🧵Post #16 I pray 🙏🏽 things go well for Julian Assange….what a travesty of justice we have witnessed yet again… https://t.co/MlRuQ6ePrH
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Julian Assange's case is not black and white. While he revealed important information, he also made controversial claims and engaged in questionable actions. We tend to idolize persecuted individuals like Assange, but often end up disappointed when their true colors are revealed. Taking a plea deal may have granted Assange some freedom, but it also leaves the door open for targeted persecution. The release of Assange benefits the Democrats in an election year, and it's a personal victory for his friends and family, but it doesn't set a precedent for press freedom. Revealing classified information is still illegal, and journalists are still at risk. While many celebrate Assange's freedom, it continues the repression of others. We should not forget the thousands of journalists who will continue to face persecution for reporting the truth.
@JohnnyVedmore - Johnny Vedmore
There are plenty of things in relation to Julian Assange which are worth pointing out👇 Firstly, no one is simply a hero or a villain, and none of this is black or white. At the same time Assange revealed that the CIA created ISIS, he also claimed conspiracy theories concerning 9/11 were fake and not worth investigating. At the same time Assange is meant to represent freedom, Wikileaks sold branded face masks during the pandemic. We desire to worship heroes, and we are often quick to paint people who are persecuted as heroes, simply because they’re being persecuted. Just like with Aung San Suu Kyi. Remember how we were all up in arms about her house arrest, remember her being lauded as a Nobel Peace Laureate, remember celebrating her release, remember celebrating her election to office? Were you still celebrating when she helped target the Rohingya Muslims in an evil genocide? What happened to her after all the lauding ceased abruptly? Do you even know that she went back to prison and is still under house arrest again? I bet you don’t? We put these people on a pedestal, we hero worship them, and we are almost always left disappointed when we see their true faces. Did Julian Assange fight for freedom for journalists worldwide? Or did he accept a plea deal? And what precedent does that set for journalists? Nothing is clear cut when it comes to cases such as those of Suu Kyi or Assange. They surround themselves with members of the Establishment and deep state actors, and that is not normal. We can celebrate the freedom of a journalist, we can pretend that it’s a victory for freedom of the press, but taking a plea deal does not make the press any freer, it just leaves the option of sustained and targeted persecution on the table. It also means that he cannot continue exposing secrets without running off and hiding in the East to do so. He could be targeted and prosecuted again if he continued his previous mission. So what did he achieve? The only positives are that he will get to know his children, he’ll get to be with his family, he will get to taste freedom to some degree, but not to the fullest degree, because he submitted to the will of those in power. I probably would have done the same. After almost 15 years without freedom, I’m sure that most of us would have accepted defeat. But don’t be fooled, this result is: DEFEAT. The release of Julian Assange now benefits the Democrats, and the only reason this is happening now is because it’s an election year. No doubt they did the math and realised that Trump could promise to free Assange if he took office, and so the plea deal was put on the table. The only win for press freedom, would have been of Assange stood his ground and fought for a full pardon. So, now we’re back at square one. Loads of people will celebrate Assange being freed as a victory, but it is only a personal victory for his friends and family. For independent journalists such as myself, the precedent has been set, and will continue to be recognised in law. We are not allowed to do what Assange and Wikileaks did. It is still illegal to reveal information which proves that the CIA created ISIS, or that they targeted and murdered journalists in a war zone, and journalists are still not allowed to reveal information which is in the public interest. All of Assange’s protests, persecution, and loss of freedom has ended in a deep state victory. Yes he was persecuted, yes that’s bad, but now, after all that effort, nothing has been gained. Loads of people are automatically celebrating his freedom, and, this may be limited freedom for one person, but it is still a continuation of repression for everyone else. All my best regards to Julian Assange and his family, congratulations to you. But my real thoughts go to the thousands of journalists in the future who will continue to be targeted and persecuted for reporting the truth. My message to them: don’t give up at the final hurdle.
@JohnnyVedmore - Johnny Vedmore
Well worth a read 👇 Julian Assange - Do the trusting fall? by @FrancisxONeill https://francisoneill.substack.com/p/julian-assange
Julian Assange
Do the trusting fall?
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Four security guards confronted me at the World Health Organization in Geneva while I was taking pictures. They asked for my ID and wanted me to wait for the police, but since I wasn't being detained, I left. I’m Christopher Elston, campaigning against what I see as child abuse promoted by the organization, emphasizing that children cannot consent to puberty blockers. Shortly after, I have a meeting with the Vatican’s representative to the UN. Excited for what’s next!
@BillboardChris - Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Four security guards just showed up to stop me taking pictures at the World Health Organization in Geneva. They wanted my ID, and wanted me to wait for police. Am I being detained? No. Okay then, see you later. You can visit my @X account to find out who I am. My name is Christopher Elston and I campaign against the child abuse that your organization promotes. To the individual inside this monstrosity of a building who called the police, I have a message — Children Cannot Consent to Puberty Blockers!
@BillboardChris - Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸
I’m meeting the Vatican’s representative in Geneva in 30 minutes. The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations. Let’s go!
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
Defund the UN