This is a diary I never really wanted to write, because the thoughts in it are almost suicidally depressing.
In H. Beam Piper's Paratime Patrol stories, he posits three outcomes for the human race. The one in which his stories are set is a low-probability lucky accident in which paratime travel is discovered just in time to salvage humanity from one of the other two fates.
…by fact, speculation, disinformation, psyop lies, and investigative journalism. Let’s start with his hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court in London.
(Attorney Jen Robinson and Kristinn Hrafnsson outside Westminster Magistrates Court)
A lot (maybe most?) of the people in the rabid mob raging against Julian Assange are self-proclaimed "liberals". They're people who have been angry and frustrated during the past few years, ever since Trump became POTUS.
At various times, the anger has been aimed at Bernie and his supporters, not to mention Comey, Russia, Putin, Jill Stein, and so on.
Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ~ Albert Einstein
The extradition of Julian Assange to the US for exposing evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan should be opposed by the British government.pic.twitter.com/CxTUrOfkHt
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 11, 2019
Ola Bini, a Swedish software developer, was arrested while trying to board a plane in Ecuador yesterday. Why is that relevant?
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every shining flower!
- Isaac Watts -
I have nothing to say about Assange that hasn't already been said. Reaction to the passive coverage is really just noise that a fake democracy makes when the topic is not permitted in the first place.
On anotther note, I did notice that domestic media is pinging a topic today that has been forbidden by the monopolies in recent years:
