@Dawn's Meta

and add criminal slow-mo murderous. not in my name, nor yours, nor in the name of countless
good and brave people (including journalists) around the world.

thanks for asking, i'm not doing so well, but i do hope you are doing well in france (judy collins: my father always promised us that we would live in france...'). we spent the a.m. putting up some christmas decorations, but not even our oil-based tree. although john shipton, setlla an the boys put one in hopes that julian might be home by christmas

i may have read biden's 2022 military budget is $788 billion, but that's simply the publicly stated one, the actual one is buried in other related programs. but biden's selling weapon to the saudis, hoping to recoup some losses?/s fuck him, and i say that in the most polite way i can.

depth; no objective too wide. In our names?

Bigger and bigger Pentagon budget, with less and less for the people who fund it.

I don't know how the most powerful think they will survive if the rest of us can't afford the things they have. Maybe that's the key: they don't care if we are there anymore. Not much to take out of our pockets.

Hope you are doing well.

@zed2

'they are angry with him'. read the post: it's about publishing vault 7, and that's why pompeo the stink-bomb wants to prosecute those:

Based on the anonymous statements of more than thirty former US officials, the article made clear the murderous plans were hatched in retaliation for Assange’s exposure of mass CIA spying and hacking operations. [Vault 7 and part of Vault 8] Officials explained that the US Justice Department cobbled together its indictment of Assange, over separate WikiLeaks publications, so that there would be a pseudo-legal cover if the CIA proceeded with its kidnap plan.

who'd spoken to michael isikoff. please reread the diary, watch the brief videos in the tweets.

They want to make an example out of this nice guy who was never even remotely close to what they are making him out to be. Who never even was part of their secrecy establishment. zmy gut feelig is that they are angry at him for bringing people's attention to TISA which is a plan to steal all the unenumerated shared property of all the people on the world and make everything including all policy space for future changes formally the property of corporations, not people. Locking in everything thatcan be done so that it requires corporations be compensated for the costs to them of any changes, which is calculated by lost potential future values. So doing something that could decrease potential profits in the future, calculated in the most generous manner, even if that actually happening is literally impossible because the cost is unbearable is mandated to happen in that situation, setting countries up to be pinned down under unpayable debts in a framework that also sets them up to have their natural resources stolen even if they are needed for life. Eventually, it leads to everything, even perhaps air and water being taken, costing money and being owned by the powerful. Imagine a "Brazil"-like world where even the most mundane necessities must be paid for. Even if that was regulating some important thing, the governments are regulated so they cannot do what most of us consider their jobs. (Thats the point to prevent democracy from being there for people.)

For the concept in depth look up the meaning of the term "indirect expropriation"

This is not our America any more (literally) if this vindictive thing is what our once great country and ideals has sunk to.

Edit: changed the assertion to be more specific to what I felt

@snoopydawg

with metaphorical smoke coming out of my ears.

i'll add some bits from chris marsden at wsws.org:

Lord Burnett, sitting with Lord Justice Holroyde, did his duty to US and British imperialism, declaring Friday that there was no risk of suicide as the US had given “assurances” that Assange would not be held under highly oppressive prison conditions.

Assange is being sent to the country whose government and security services have been plotting to murder him.

US diplomatic reassurances cited by the Justices in their ruling today are a cynical fraud. Their very wording offered the caveat that if Assange does something, at some future point, warranting solitary confinement in a maximum security facility, then all bets will be off.

Four assurances sent in a Diplomatic Note dated February 5, 2021, claimed that Assange would not be submitted to special administrative measures (SAMs) and detained at the ADX Florence Supermax jail, that while in custody in the US he would receive “appropriate clinical and psychological treatment,” and that the US would consent to Assange being transferred to Australia to serve any prison sentence he may be given.

Against all medical evidence, the US also insisted that Assange’s mental illness “does not even come close” to being severe enough to rule out extradition.

To this pack of lies, Burnett just as solemnly intoned, “That risk [of suicide] is in our judgment excluded by the assurances which are offered. It follows that we are satisfied that, if the assurances had been before the judge [Baraitser], she would have answered the relevant question differently.”

Assange’s lawyers accurately described the US assurances as “meaningless” and “vague”, explaining they did not remove the risk of “conditions of administrative isolation”. His lawyers insisted Baraitser had acted in accordance with expert medical evidence regarding Assange’s mental state when she ruled that the “special administrative measures” in which Assange would most likely be held would have a severe negative impact on his mental health.

The two senior judges ordered the case should be returned to Westminster Magistrates’ Court, with a pro-forma direction that a district judge send the case to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, a vicious right-winger who will deliver the coup de grace against Assange’s head.

It is as yet unclear whether Assange’s likely appeal to the Supreme Court will be allowed, but it is more than doubtful.

This was the intended outcome of Baraitser’s earlier ruling, which upheld the US case for extradition in its entirety, while accepting a “real” risk of suicide and blocking extradition solely on medical grounds.

Holroyde even rapped Baraitser across the knuckles for not notifying the US authorities of her “provisional” decision, thereby hampering their ability to give the assurances now provided.

Gawd damn the United States! Anyone who still supports this country’s values is complicit in its actions.