after WikiLeaks published a third batch of OPCW leaked documents...

Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 5:02pm

the reports, crickets, disappearances, and of course...cover-ups (by Tweet).

Another dastardly Phillip Cross Affair!

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Also, a Spanish judge will interview Julian Assange on Dec. 20 by video link from Belmarsh Maximum Security Prison about the Spanish ‘security’ firm UC Global’s egregious spying on him, his attorneys and other visitors in the Ecudorian Embassy. Philip Giraldi has a lot of the grisly backstory, as well as questions in his Dec. 11, 2019 ‘Who Spied on Julian Assange?’

Some supporters believe that given an earlier precedent (spying on Daniel Ellsberg) it has the potential to be a game-changer for Julian.

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Submitted by Tall Bald and Ugly on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 7:57pm

he’ll either die in Belmarshe or be driven insane.
Either way, They win.

Thanks Wendy, I show these posts to ‘friends’ and I am constantly being told we’re full of shit.
The Stupid, it burns so.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 8:32pm
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imagine that he can testify on his own behalf on the 20th, isn't it? he's so ill, so far from being close to compos mentis when he tried to speak, from all accounts. and yet...? at least this spanish judge... i confess i was a bit confused by philip giraldi's confusion as per the NY/CIA times.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 8:38pm
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but how long has this been going on?

the dictator butcher assad gassed hundreds of thousands of his people? so...a couple more additions:

yanno, the US hegemon supports 'the moderate rebels'.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 9:48pm
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and my day was cheered by watching a fluffy young red fox eating sunflower seeds that had been pushed out of the bird feeder by some rambunctious magpies. it was warmer by ten degrees here this morning, almost 10 degrees.

and yet, given so many compromised NGOs claiming to 'bring the news' that end in wars, and julian still dying in prison, chelsea manning under the gun as well, i figure we can all use a lift from the playing for change (world peace thru music around the world) house band.

live from australia april 2014, and i hope this travels thru the noosphere so julian can hear it: Yahamba! go one; play it on high volume, boogie in your chair!

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5HfGrTUvz4]

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Submitted by dystopian on Thu, 12/19/2019 - 4:30pm
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The media blackout on anything that does not fit the narrative is astounding. This OPCW Syria BS is quintessential example of it. Not one major media outlet questions the narrative, presstitutes is exactly right. It has been as obvious as Russiagate and Novichok as a scam from the second it got out of the gate. No dissenting voice shall be heard on MSM.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Thu, 12/19/2019 - 4:54pm
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@dystopian

tweet had noted: his former employer, Newsweek, believed bellingcat rather than his (Tareq Haddad) exhaustive inquiries.

and few ever dare to challenge the idiotic drivel of amnesty international, human rights watch, and syrian human rights watch, which consists of first one, now apparently two, dudes in the UK who've never been on the ground in syria. bet that organization's wiki entry has been carefully orchestrated.

thanks, pretty bird dystopian.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Thu, 12/19/2019 - 5:04pm
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and one outtake from article 19:

“Assange will appear by video link for a case management hearing at Westminster Magistrate’s Court on Thursday December 19, 2019.

On Friday December 20, Assange will be interviewed by Spanish Judge, José de la Mata, as a witness in the prosecution of David Morales, owner of Spanish security firm UC Global. The company are accused of secretly recording Assange’s while he was living in the Ecuadorian embassy. In June 2019, Spanish newspaper El Pais revealed evidence of secret recordings, which included conversations between Assange and his lawyers. It is believed that the recordings were passed to the US authorities.

The full extradition hearing will begin on Monday February 24, 2020 at Belmarsh Magistrates’ Court.”

i reckon wsws will have journalists there...

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Submitted by wendy davis on Thu, 12/19/2019 - 5:14pm
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@Tim_Hayward_ · Dec 15
Tim Hayward Retweeted stefania maurizi

"Italy’s leading daily paper, and the only broadsheet so far worldwide to cover OPCW scandal, has received no reply to repeated requests for a response - Stefania Maurizi for La Repubblica"

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Submitted by wendy davis on Fri, 12/20/2019 - 7:56am
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a few outtakes from ‘Medical observers blocked from attending Assange hearing’, Laura Tiernan, 20 December 2019, wsws.org

“A delegation of two medical observers was prevented from entering the public gallery at yesterday’s case management hearing for Julian Assange.

Psychiatrist Marco Chiesa and psychologist David Morgan attended the hearing on behalf of Doctors4Assange. They hoped to observe Julian’s condition after warnings by UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer that Assange’s health has deteriorated dangerously due to prolonged psychological torture by the US, UK, Ecuadorian and Swedish states for nearly a decade.

Dr. Chiesa and Dr. Morgan are among more than 100 doctors from around the world who have issued three open letters to the UK and Australian governments since November 25, protesting Assange’s brutal persecution and garnering worldwide media attention and public support. The doctors have acted on their duty to report torture and have called for Assange’s urgent transfer from Belmarsh Prison to a proper hospital setting.
On the eve of yesterday’s hearing, Dr. Stephen Frost, a lead signatory for Doctors4Assange, issued the following statement:

“That it is deemed necessary for senior medical experts to attend today’s hearing to observe Julian Assange from the public gallery via video link points to the extreme recklessness of the UK government’s continued arbitrary detention of Julian Assange and the psychological torture which results from that, as stated by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer. We repeat that it is impossible to assess adequately let alone treat Mr Assange in Belmarsh prison and that he must as a matter of urgency be moved to a university teaching hospital. When will the UK government listen to us?”

Speaking outside Westminster Magistrates Court after the hearing, Dr. Morgan explained his own concerns following Assange’s in-person appearance at Westminster Magistrates Court on October 21: “His last appearance was hugely alarming. I have met Julian Assange in person previously and the deterioration was marked. He is a political prisoner, not a criminal.

Even criminals deserve good treatment and good medical health care, but Julian Assange isn’t a criminal, he hasn’t hurt anybody. Why is he being treated in this way? I do wonder why organisations such as Amnesty International who are usually very good about these sorts of things—when people are being tortured about their political opinions—why they haven’t got involved and I think that it is time that they did.”

Tiernan is also reporting this today: Judge says Assange extradition hearing will take “three to four weeks” as political opposition mounts, 20 December 2019

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Submitted by mimi on Fri, 12/20/2019 - 9:03am
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[video:https://youtu.be/8o6RA6C2WDM]

Newsweek reporter quits after editors block coverage of OPCW Syria scandal •Dec 19, 2019

Pushback with Aaron Maté

Journalist Tareq Haddad explains his decision to resign from Newsweek over its refusal to cover the OPCW's unfolding Syria scandal. According to whistleblower testimony and leaked documents, OPCW officials raised alarm about the suppression of critical findings that undermine the allegation that the Syrian government committed a chemical weapons attack in the city of Douma in April 2018. Haddad's editors at Newsweek rejected his attempts to cover the story.

"If I don’t find another position in journalism because of this, I’m perfectly happy to accept that consequence," Haddad says. "It’s not desirable. But there is no way I could have continued in that job knowing that I couldn’t report something like this."

Shame, shame, shame ...
I admit that I have lots of difficulties to read through the comments and threads, it is too much for me, so if this comment shows that I haven't understood what was already posted here, I apologize.

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Submitted by wendy davis on Fri, 12/20/2019 - 10:47am
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@mimi

with tareq haddad, but two tweets: one in the OP wikileaks had tweeted (a longish read):
Lies, Newsweek and Control of the Media Narrative: Tareq Haddad's First-Hand Account, December 14 ,2019, Tareq Haddad

and tim anderson's Tweet of an interview RT had done with him that i'd added in the comments.
wish i thought i'd have the 25 minutes for aaron's interview, but it's rather unlikely. but i sure thank you for bringing it, mimi.

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Submitted by mimi on Fri, 12/20/2019 - 10:58am
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@wendy davis
Thank you for clarifying. As I said the material offered on C99p is getting beyond my capabiities to read and absorb. The more I admire and respect those who can.

Have a nice holiday with your family. Kids are missing in my home over here. Enjoy the youngsters, they make the world go around.

Bye

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Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 12/21/2019 - 2:47pm
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@mimi

i get so distracated by online life and a very slow-mo RL. good holidays to you s well, but our chirren won't be here, either. or maybe our son for one night (he lives over 7 mountain passes and 400 miles away, snow predicted.)

we just adapt as well as we're able...to what we must, yes?

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