Harsh Breaking News for Juian Assange

RT.com's coverage is here.

WTH is 'limited permission'? We al shudder to contemplate the meaning.... Are they still trying to turn alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker Joshua Schulte states evidence?

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My disappointment and anger towards the "justice" systems of the US and GB is unbounded.
I got this news from you first. I appreciate you passing it along to us.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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@on the cusp

mr. wd had been online before i was and had advised me of the RT and sputnik news coverage, hoping it might soften the shock ahead of time.

australian doughty street assange attorney jennifer robinson had retwteetd this:

oddly, oscar grenfell at wsws.org doesn't have it yet, but consortium news does, and explains the 'limited permission' this way:

According to WikiLeaks, the court agreed to list the U.S. appeal for a hearing, but permission to appeal was granted only on “narrow, technical grounds.” WikiLeaks said the U.S. cannot appeal Baraitser’s factual findings in regard to Assange’s health, the only reason given by her to deny his extradition. Baraitser agreed with the U.S. on every other point in her judgement.

Though Baraitser said she was discharging Assange she then denied him bail and threw him back into Belmarsh Prison where he has languished since April 2019. He will remain there until the appeal is heard. No date for a hearing has yet been set.

The U.S. Department of Justice has not yet commented on the matter. The High Court has not posted its decision on its website.

Speechless.

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earthling1's picture

in order to send a strong message to all news personalities, worldwide. STFU or suffer the same fate.
The Empire will not be exposed by anyone, for any reason, in any venue.
It also means us.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

@earthling1 earthling.

No dissent ever. anyplace. violators will be fired. executed. whatever it takes.

The NYC so-called "press corps" has been hollowed out by newsrooms closing and their staffs fired or offered buyouts. That describes the NY Daily News. The WSJ has simply eliminated their NYC political coverage. If you scan the web page of the NY Times you will see opinion writers galore, all from the RINO and DINO camps but little to no verified or verifiable political news coverage. The opinion pages are even worse with nitwits writing long winded paragraghs about nothing.

That is why I have ceased my efforts to inform here or elsewhere. What honest reporting generally gets back as dialog, is quotes from the NY Times as arguments or disingenuous questions from trolls. Or indifference. The die has been long cast.

It took several weeks for the NYCBOE to get the results they intended. After months of propaganda. Next time, the PTB will have streamlined the process and nobody will even recall that voting and democracy were once considered to be actual things.

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wendy davis's picture

@earthling1

by now that he won't die in belmarsh gitmo, but it seems it more than a case of 'We must make an example of his publishing the truth'.

Blinken: 'the case must proceed before i can comment on it'. fuck him; fuck biden; the new boss is the same as the old boss.

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@earthling1 If all they've got is death-threats, it's over. They've got nothing to offer, no moral high ground, no logical reason we should defer to them (their contempt for reason - remember, it's well-known that psychopaths aren't interested in abstract ideas - is what got us here; THE ENLIGHTENMENT WAS RIGHT, PERIOD).

The writing is on the wall: They're The Bad Guys. They're not even The Evil Galactic Empire, they're just a handful of terrorists taking hostages. A few people are still fooled, still more are discombobulated and/or distracted and/or misdirected, but you cannot change the truth no matter how many times you repeat a lie - basically, if belief can change reality, then whatever you're talking about was never "reality" in the first place; such is true with nearly ALL politics, save for anything revolving around hard-science issues (which is why politics and science mix so horribly, and most people good at one field SUCK at the other). As Philip K. Dick (a man who would understand such things) said, "reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

Like Boris Balkan in The 9th Gate, they've been futzing around with powers beyond their comprehension, believing themselves to be The Chosen Ones for all the wrong reasons, while they unwittingly jeer and sneer at the REAL god-heroes, who have a ruinous propensity toward Jonah Complexes (perhaps because they live in a world dominated by Imperial Abrahamism and its misguided 'Cult of Humility'); they've been increasingly playing at - and thoroughly ruining - the Jospeph Campbell/Oliver Sachs/Terry Pratchett tradition of "The Power of NarrativeTM", but of course, they couldn't be bothered to actually read what Pratchett said about EXACTLY this sort of thing:

There was, there always was, at the start and the finish ... the Code. They lived by the Code. You followed the Code, and you became part of the Code for those who followed you. The Code was it. Without the Code, you weren't a hero. You were just a thug in a loincloth. (...) Forget the Code, dismiss the Code, deny the Code ... and the Code would take you. - "The Last Hero"

"Chaos" isn't the problem; it never was. Chaos has always been my...I don't know what to call it. My platonic fetish? My "thing"? My schtick? My Anti-Drug(TM)? "My bag, baybee?"
Even if you're not an It-Getter(TM), you might still say that, particularly the way it's been used, overused, and abused in recent years, it's just an older, more refined word for "the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth".

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

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@The Liberal Moonbat
They have more than death threats, they despense actual death to those who cross them.
Otherwise, thanks for the Phillip K. Dick quote.
Here's one for you: "In America, truth is foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security". Et tu

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

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@earthling1 If that's all they have left to get people to do what they want, it's over.
They're not a government, they're just gangsters.

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

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Don't Extradite Assange:

@benlewismedia
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Assange's team say it's not really a concession- given prisoners convicted in America can apply to serve their sentences in their home countries. Also note that he could very well be kept in solitary, even if not at ADX prison.

@benlewismedia • 1h

on edit: here it is, FWIW:

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earthling1's picture

@wendy davis
from this American regime.
Period.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

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now march wheeler hasn't reported on this breaking news, and i know snoopy dawg will appreciate this. iirc, someone had added glenn greenwald in agreement, but given that he, naomi klein, and four other 'fearless' intercept reporters had smeared julian with similar lies like emptywheel's::

WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden Champion Sociopathic Liars and Sloppy Thinking’, June 27, 2021, emptywheel (brief excerpts)

WikiLeaks boosters have embraced a really bizarre new entry in the propaganda case to support Julian Assange this weekend: An article by two Icelandic journalists that purports to prove that, “The veracity of the information contained [in the June 2020 superseding indictment against Julian Assange] is now directly contradicted by the main witness, whose testimony it is based on.” This is an article about Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, AKA Siggi, the sociopath that Assange chose to hang out with for a period in 2010 to 2011, who does have a role but by no means the “main” role in the case against Assange. The journalists who wrote the article present as credible Siggi’s claim, from someone that everyone agrees is a pathological liar, that he’s telling the truth now, rather than when he testified to US authorities in 2019.

The journalists who wrote the article and all the WikiLeaks boosters who have embraced it are arguing that the article somehow proves that an avowed liar is telling the truth now about lying in the past. Even as WikiLeaks boosters are pointing to the Icelandic legal judgment that Siggi is a sociopath, they are once again welcoming him into the WikiLeaks fold because the avowed liar claims to have lied.
This is what Assange’s boosters are now staking his defense on: convincing you to accept the words of liars as truth.

Except, Siggi retracts nothing substantive that is alleged in the indictment, so this drama is instead a demand that you accept the word of a liar rather than read the documents to show that the liar’s claims are irrelevant to the charges against Assange.

The article proves it doesn’t understand US law/blockquote>

she of course, explains at length.

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@wendy davis

elsewhere where someone was brave enough to write about the update to the case against him. I had to quit reading it because I was ready to do violence for their stupidity and closed minds. I can barely read anything on Julian because it breaks my heart with what we are doing to him with the consent of too gd many stupid people. And yes I find them stupid for not being able to see how they have been manipulated into throwing away everything they once stood for. Like rights, free speech and so much more. It’s not healthy for me to get that upset.

https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2021/07/07/assange-to-be-moved-aro...

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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@snoopydawg

but real life got busy last night, and in mostly pleasant ways.

yes, it's extremely aggravating and vexxing to read her shite mirror say, rachel madcow's. i hear you on extreme reactions, though, as i experience them myself. her commentariat still believes he raped the two women in sweden, and should be found guilty of it...and hung. a convenient lie/smear is hard to erase from a bigot's mind.

thanks for the mcgovern link, i'll need to try to understand all his metaphors and similes when i read it again later.

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No Free Speech. Period.

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