You idiot.Baggy Green wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2019 3:20 pmMaybe it's because the whistle-blower often becomes the vilified, or maybe because no-one likes a coward.
Whistle-blowing takes balls, selling out just takes greed.
Post by vladimir » Sun Sep 01, 2019 5:48 pm
You idiot.Baggy Green wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2019 3:20 pmMaybe it's because the whistle-blower often becomes the vilified, or maybe because no-one likes a coward.
Post by McPhisto » Sun Sep 01, 2019 9:44 pm
This statement coming from the total fuckhead who praises China for locking up one million Uyghurs in concentration camps for being Muslim, disappears and tortures book sellers from Hong Kong who sold books deemed insulting and embarrassing to CCP leaders, and harvests the organs from living political prisoners to sell.
Post by Baggy Green » Mon Sep 02, 2019 4:19 pm
If that is so, I am in good company.vladimir wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2019 5:48 pmYou idiot.Baggy Green wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2019 3:20 pmMaybe it's because the whistle-blower often becomes the vilified, or maybe because no-one likes a coward.
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Post by newnewnewbie » Mon Sep 02, 2019 5:15 pm
Post by Alex » Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:17 am
The tired old book seller myth, not again. They were caught smuggling books into China, caught in (mainland) China that is for a crime committed there. They were from Hong Kong alright, but they weren't disappeared from Hong Kong to the mainland as often claimed.McPhisto wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2019 9:44 pmThis statement coming from the total fuckhead who praises China for locking up one million Uyghurs in concentration camps for being Muslim, disappears and tortures book sellers from Hong Kong who sold books deemed insulting and embarrassing to CCP leaders, and harvests the organs from living political prisoners to sell.
Post by McPhisto » Tue Sep 03, 2019 2:31 am
A documentary from Al Jazeera, hardly a pro-western or anti-Chinese media outlet, disagrees with you on one of the five disappeared managers of the Causeway Bay bookstore in Hong Kong, Lee Bor, a British citizen. Go to the 2:50 mark.Alex wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:17 amThe tired old book seller myth, not again. They were caught smuggling books into China, caught in (mainland) China that is for a crime committed there. They were from Hong Kong alright, but they weren't disappeared from Hong Kong to the mainland as often claimed.McPhisto wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2019 9:44 pmThis statement coming from the total fuckhead who praises China for locking up one million Uyghurs in concentration camps for being Muslim, disappears and tortures book sellers from Hong Kong who sold books deemed insulting and embarrassing to CCP leaders, and harvests the organs from living political prisoners to sell.
Post by Hot_Pink_Urinal_Mint » Thu Sep 19, 2019 1:57 pm
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/0 ... a-s14.htmlIn a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning, British District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange will remain in prison, despite the fact that his custodial sentence for “absconding” bail expires on September 22.
The ruling is the latest in a series of attacks on Assange’s legal and democratic rights by the British judiciary. It means that the publisher and journalist will be detained until court proceedings next February for his extradition to the US, where he faces 175 years imprisonment for exposing American war crimes.
Given that the extradition proceedings will likely involve a protracted legal battle, Baraitser’s decision potentially confines Assange to the maximum-security Belmarsh Prison for years to come.
The court case was widely presented in the corporate media as a bail hearing for Assange. A statement posted by the official WikiLeaks Twitter account this morning rejected these claims, explaining: “This morning’s hearing was not a bail hearing, it was a technical hearing. Despite this, the magistrate preemptively refused bail before the defence requested it.”
WikiLeaks stated: “Magistrate says Assange to remain in prison indefinitely. He has been in increasing forms of deprivation of liberty since his arrest 9 years ago, one week after he started publishing Cablegate.”
“Cablegate” refers to WikiLeaks’ 2010 publication of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables, exposing the sordid intrigues of the American government and its allies around the world.
Post by Lucky Lucan » Thu Sep 19, 2019 8:15 pm
No need to apologize, you're now on my blocked list you communist liberal baby-killer. You lot are worse than Pol Pot.Hot_Pink_Urinal_Mint wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 1:57 pmApologies for the link to the World Socialist Website but the write-up is good.
Post by Hot_Pink_Urinal_Mint » Wed Oct 30, 2019 6:41 pm
snipI was badly shocked by just how much weight my friend has lost, by the speed his hair has receded and by the appearance of premature and vastly accelerated ageing. He has a pronounced limp I have never seen before.
Since his arrest he has lost over 15 kg in weight.
But his physical appearance was not as shocking as his mental deterioration. When asked to give his name and date of birth, he struggled visibly over several seconds to recall both.
I will come to the important content of his statement at the end of proceedings in due course, but his difficulty in making it was very evident; it was a real struggle for him to articulate the words and focus his train of thought.
Until yesterday I had always been quietly sceptical of those who claimed that Julian’s treatment amounted to torture – even of Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture – and sceptical of those who suggested he may be subject to debilitating drug treatments.
But having attended the trials in Uzbekistan of several victims of extreme torture, and having worked with survivors from Sierra Leone and elsewhere, I can tell you that yesterday changed my mind entirely and Julian exhibited exactly the symptoms of a torture victim brought blinking into the light, particularly in terms of disorientation, confusion, and the real struggle to assert free will through the fog of learned helplessness.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives ... /#commentsFurthermore, the defence argued, they were in touch with the Spanish courts about a very important and relevant legal case in Madrid which would provide vital evidence. It showed that the CIA had been directly ordering spying on Julian in the Embassy through a Spanish company, UC Global, contracted to provide security there.
Crucially this included spying on privileged conversations between Assange and his lawyers discussing his defence against these extradition proceedings, which had been in train in the USA since 2010.
In any normal process, that fact would in itself be sufficient to have the extradition proceedings dismissed. Incidentally I learnt on Sunday that the Spanish material produced in court, which had been commissioned by the CIA, specifically includes high resolution video coverage of Julian and I discussing various matters.
The evidence to the Spanish court also included a CIA plot to kidnap Assange, which went to the US authorities’ attitude to lawfulness in his case and the treatment he might expect in the United States.
Julian’s team explained that the Spanish legal process was happening now and the evidence from it would be extremely important, but it might not be finished and thus the evidence not fully validated and available in time for the current proposed timetable for the Assange extradition hearings.
Post by Hot_Pink_Urinal_Mint » Wed Oct 30, 2019 10:45 pm
A Ruptly videographer managed to capture exclusive footage of a clean-shaven Julian Assange being transported through the streets of London following his court hearing on Monday.
Post by Hot_Pink_Urinal_Mint » Tue Feb 18, 2020 6:19 pm
Full piece:WikiLeaks has informed us how illegal wars are fabricated, how governments are overthrown and violence is used in our name, how we are spied upon through our phones and screens.
The true lies of presidents, ambassadors, political candidates, generals, proxies, political fraudsters have been exposed. One by one, these would-be emperors have realised they have no clothes.
It has been an unprecedented public service; above all, it is authentic journalism, whose value can be judged by the degree of apoplexy of the corrupt and their apologists.
On 24 February, when Julian Assange steps into Woolwich Crown Court, true journalism will be the only crime on trial.
I am sometimes asked why I have championed Assange. For one thing, I like and I admire him. He is a friend with astonishing courage; and he has a finely honed, wicked sense of humour. He is the diametric opposite of the character invented then assassinated by his enemies.