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Julian Assange Launches Legal Challenge Against Trump Administration (theguardian.com)
SonicSpike shares a report from The Guardian: Julian Assange, the fugitive WikiLeaks founder whose diplomatic sanctuary in the Ecuadorian embassy appears increasingly precarious, is launching a legal challenge against the Trump administration. Lawyers for the Australian activist have filed an urgent application to the Washington-based Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) aimed at forcing the hand of U.S. prosecutors, requiring them to "unseal" any secret charges against him. The legal move is an attempt to prevent Assange's extradition to the U.S. at a time that a new Ecuadorian government has been making his stay in the central London apartment increasingly inhospitable.
The 1,172-page submission by Assange's lawyers calls on the U.S. to unseal any secret charges against him and urges Ecuador to cease its "espionage activities" against him. Baltasar Garzon, the prominent Spanish judge who has pursued dictators, terrorists and drug barons, is the international coordinator of Assange's legal team. He has said the case involves "the right to access and impart information freely" that has been put in "jeopardy." The Trump administration is refusing to reveal details of charges against Assange despite the fact that sources in the U.S. Department of Justice have confirmed to the media that they exist under seal. The application alleges that U.S. prosecutors have begun approaching people in the U.S., Germany and Iceland and pressed them to testify against Assange in return for immunity from prosecution. Those approached, it is said, include people associated with WikiLeaks' joint publications with other media about U.S. diplomacy, Guantanamo Bay and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 1,172-page submission by Assange's lawyers calls on the U.S. to unseal any secret charges against him and urges Ecuador to cease its "espionage activities" against him. Baltasar Garzon, the prominent Spanish judge who has pursued dictators, terrorists and drug barons, is the international coordinator of Assange's legal team. He has said the case involves "the right to access and impart information freely" that has been put in "jeopardy." The Trump administration is refusing to reveal details of charges against Assange despite the fact that sources in the U.S. Department of Justice have confirmed to the media that they exist under seal. The application alleges that U.S. prosecutors have begun approaching people in the U.S., Germany and Iceland and pressed them to testify against Assange in return for immunity from prosecution. Those approached, it is said, include people associated with WikiLeaks' joint publications with other media about U.S. diplomacy, Guantanamo Bay and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Everyone on Slashdot has assured me repeatedly over the years that neither the UK nor Sweden has any intention of ever extraditing him to the U.S.
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He probably thought that by helping Donald Trump win with well timed leaks, he'd be able to avoid US prosecution. Julian didn't realize Trump doesn't repay favors (or debts.)
That was before interfering with US election process was on the table.
And before that, Hillary asked her staff for ways to kill him - and was taken serious enough that a couple of aides took it at face value and researched ways to do it.
So your statement could be expanded as:
That was before tanking Hillary's election because she threatened to kill him.
But of course he did that, and now America wants revenge.
And all of this, originally, over making public the "collateral murder" videos (and a bunch of other stuff). America talks big about whistleblowers, but when it comes right down to it, our government is just as petty and vindictive as any dictatorship.
Don't worry, the secret charges will be for breaking secret laws and will be tried in a secret court so that you will be full protected and have all of the recourse the Government chooses to allow you. Sounds just like Stalin, Hitler, Xi Jinping, and every other dictator out there.
How dare him wish to actually find out about the charges and evidence against him? Kind of like exercising his right of discovery is something he lost because the Government is afraid of the truth.
'Ecuador to cease its "espionage activities" against him'
Bitch, you're in their their embassy, as a guest. Yes they're going to know what you're doing in their F-ing embassy.
It will be funny after he's extradited and the US unseals the charges they have him nailed on - jaywalking. Put his butt in jail six years so far by holding their cards close to their chest.
When he was leaking things that made Bush look bad you loved Julian Assange so hard that Benedict Cumberbatch played him in the movie.
""First Facebook and now Wikileaks as the Guardian reports that studio executives have picked up the screen rights to the forthcoming Julian Assange biography 'The Most Dangerous Man in the World' by award-winning Australian writer Andrew Fowler. The book details Assange's life from his childhood on Magnetic Island in Queensland, Australia, all the way through to his founding of the whistleblower website in 2006 to publish classified material. Producers Barry Josephson and Michelle Krumm, who have optioned The Most Dangerous Man in the World, say they are planning a 'suspenseful drama' in the vein of All the President's Men and with the thrill of a Tom Clancy novel. 'As soon as I met Andrew and read a few chapters of his profound book, I knew that â" with his incredibly extensive depth of knowledge â" it would enable us to bring a thought-provoking thriller to the screen,' says Krumm."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/21/wikileaks-movie-biography-julian-assange
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
These your bros yo.
At the start, Assange had this idea of Wikileaks being a truly neutral repository of information. That idea had real merit, and still does. It went to crap from there. Badly. The US hasn't exactly been honorable in how they've dealt with him, but it's obvious that Assange decided to start playing with the big boys - geopolitics, espionage, that sort of thing.
.... it's been pretty well documented. At this point, he's basically a self-declared enemy of the state.
I lost the last shred of any sympathy for him when it became obvious that he actively colluded with Russia to screw with US election integrity. Sorry MAGA-types that are gonna bristle at that
You step into the ring with the heavyweights, you better be ready to get knocked around. Asange's chances of avoiding extradition are growing vanishingly small. He'll be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life.
fuck if I was Ecuador I would throw his ungrateful arse out the door and lock the gate behind him.
IMHO, he's a Trump proxy. People would like to prosecute Trump, but him controlling the Dept of Justice, and being protected by Mitch McConnell makes that hard. So they want to prosecute Assange as a proxy.
He's a bit part player, if the Russians hadn't laundered the data through him, they'd have laundered it a different way.
The real person to blame here is Mitch McConnell.
Trump is an Elop figure clearly, he's supposed to dismember the US, hand it over to Putin friendly control, and receive $130 million for licensing the name "Trump" for the Trump Tower Moscow project. And Trump was clearly lying about that project during the election, and now claims he was open about it. That the deal wasn't signed, and then that the fact it was signed doesn't matter. That it was funded by some obscure Russian bank, and then that it was VTB Bank, a sanction Russian bank after running a spy ring from its NY office. Etc. etc. etc.
Trump is very very obviously an Elop figure.
*But*, the Senate is the protection against Elop figures, it's Mitch McConnell that's blocking that protection. He's only there to schedule votes, not block Republicans from voting. He's ramped it up a notch now, before he only block the majority votes of the Senate if the Republicans didn't also have a majority. Now he's full on blocking all voting, even from his own party.
McConnell is to blame here.
All the evidence coming out, they already knew, McConnell would have known he was dealing with a Russian asset, he's the one cooperating with the dismemberment of the US.
Elop wouldn't have been able to destroy Nokia and sell its assets cheap to Microsoft for a $20 million bonus, if the board at Nokia had done its job. McConnell is the one not doing his job here.
If ZeroHedge says the sky is blue, it is almost certainly some other colour.
The covert passing of non-public information about misdeeds (whether legal or illegal, unethical, or just plain embarrassing) to a publishing party for widespread dissemination is exactly what WikiLeaks was founded for, the support of whistle-blowing. It plays a very important part in preserving freedom and democracy, as without it unethical governments descend into tyranny behind closed doors.
The fact that you don't like this just shows the intolerance that you have for freedom and ethics in government. Snowden demonstrated the importance of whistle-blowing, to immense world-wide acclaim. He legitimized it in the public eye, so trying to paint the role of WikiLeaks as something different to whistle-blowing is attempting to sweep back the tide. It's too late for that, the horse has found freedom and the barn door is wide open.
You're missing the bigger picture. The Russians are not left or right. Their goal is instability in the US. That means making partisan differences worse. Getting the people to vote for governments that cannot function. Divide and conquer is the name of the game. In that respect they will 'support' any side if they know they can use it to stir up trouble. They want Americans to turn on each other.
In name only. In case you didn't know, their current president was an KGB agent. Those people are still there and they have even more power than they did before.
Nature is a bitch. *normal* people are either of two sex : female or male. There is none other. And you cannot change. You can try to surgically "make it look" like you are the other , but this is a make believe, and from what I can see reported, not quite there technologically for a perfect, or even good make believe. That is the unfortunate plain truth for those seeking to switch sex. The other unfortunate truth is that most people do not view intersex as valid dating partner. e.g. if you are male, switch to female, you will msotly not be viewed as female as plain as truth. Most people will be willing to view you as woman , for social purpose, but most would feel attacked in their intimacy if they found out they were cheated on what they expect as sex of their partner (both male and female - male are just more likely to resort to violence). ALl the condition people pretend to bring up as non binary sex are screw up no normal condition. I don't count losing a leg and being one legged as being unipedial new species or unipedial new "Genre" of locomotion. Do you ? Zwitter and other condition are not a third sex, they are malformation. CAIS is OTOH much different. When the Y is deactivated or cells do not respond to testosterone due to receptor being too mutated, the embryo only "sees" the X and thus take the default route of growing a female body. But as meiosis does not work that well for ovaries for a X and Y the ovaries are not only inactive but also in risk of cancer (thus we remove them). But the bottom line is that the thus created female are non differentiable from other female they are basically of the female sex and there is no "photo finish" on that : they are not intersex.
Gender OTOH is much more fluid and not-so-binary, and gender dysphoria is quite well recognized. It is just that for most people they want to date a female woman or a male man.
TLR;DR : CAIS are female because the embryo does not see the Y , they are as female as a Xx (broken x), there is only 2 sex in homo sapiens specie but a variety of malformation, gender is fluid but the majority people want to date people with the same sex as their gender.
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visit randi.org
There are many, many problems with Zerohedge, but the fact that they are Bulgarian isn't one of them.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Get in line, Julian.
Well the democrats have been doing a great job of that. Remember the riots after the election? And then the anti free speech riot at Berkeley? Just the other day they demonized a bunch of children for crimes they imagined. It's Otherization and they're doing the job Russia wants.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
So the secret to beating Trump in 2020 is to just look even dumber and more incompetent, so that the Russians boost your campaign.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
They want Americans to turn on each other.
Sadly, it doesn't take much either.
Trump is also for legalizing marijuana. It's his drug czar that's against it. It's not like Trump has the authority to replace officials that disagree with his policies or the power to strongly encourage current officials to follow his policies. Okay, maybe the sarcasm was a bit heavy-handed there. I doubt many sitting presidents have dealt with as much resistance to his policies from other departments as he has. Then again, he makes some pretty outrageous requests.
Very little, the disinformation comes from Mr. Putin and Russian taxpayers, and from gullible Americans at sources like Breitfart and Faux News.
The poor guy, six years holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, is probably losing it. In the last couple of years he's been creating enemies for himself needlessly, and this is certainly not going to endear him to Uncle Sam.
Seriously, a boi that lives on collecting and publishing secret data and is the embodiment of espionage, suing for both of these things is simply delicious.
Sorry, boi, you lived by espionage - you of all people should cherish Equador's activity. I'm looking forward to your uncovered activities to be published - something you should approve of, amirite?
Meanwhile enjoy life in the embassy building.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
No you're missing the big picture.
You're operating on some kind of flawed vision of U.S. politics where partisanship did not exist in the past. The U.S. is no more divided now than it has ever been.
If your view of U.S. history goes no deeper than the highly filtered version taught in the public school system, then you are operating on flawed data. There was a time that things were so contentious in Congress that Preston Smith Brooks of South Carolina beat Charles Sumner of Massachusetts nearly to death on the floor of the senate over a speech he gave. The countries intervention in WWI was controversial, and only draconian and constitutionally illegal activities by the Progressive administration in power at that time prevented greater kickback. It took a direct attack on a U.S. territory to drag the U.S. into WWII, because so many people against the U.S becoming involved. There were literal riots in the streets over policy as short a time as fifty years ago. Twenty years ago a highly partisan congress impeached the president over what was effectively an extramarital affair between consenting adults, no matter how it might have been colored as something else.
The intention of the founding fathers was that the federal government be mostly dysfunctional. It was to only be highly functional in the areas of national defense and international treaty, and both those functions were intended to require cooperation between two of the three branches, with on eye to limited U.S. involvement in foreign wars and international disputes.
We actually would have even more partisanship if we had more than two political parties, since in most cases no one agrees 100% with either party, even their most partisan supporters.
Any real democracy, even a republic, will always have partisanship and disagreement. Only in dictator ships do elected leaders get 90% of the vote.
rather he was an active conduit between hackers and Trump campaign in the Hacker to Assange to Corsi to Roger Stone chain
That's some stunning schizophrenically delusional conspiracy theorizing, right there!
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Thank you for a beautiful summation, I am sorry I cannot offer you a mod point.
Hmmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
The Russians have been at this for a long time. And for the most part have succeeded.
You're missing the bigger picture. The Russians are not left or right. Their goal is instability in the US. That means making partisan differences worse. Getting the people to vote for governments that cannot function. Divide and conquer is the name of the game. In that respect they will 'support' any side if they know they can use it to stir up trouble. They want Americans to turn on each other.
While you are correct, I think it is much more reasonable to fear the CIA and friends. They are allowed to operate on US soil now and they have been. With a vengeance. The CIA is responsible for more fake news than Russia, Iran, North Korea, and all of the multinational corps combined. But the law that prevented the CIA from acting domestically was removed, with no fanfair. Nobody noticed or thought anything about it. Well, I am sure some noticed, but media-inspired line is: It was a non-event back in 2010 and it is still a non-event. lol, very few people "noticed" the absurd rise in Fake News with the change in directive at the CIA. I am sure there is no causation, but the correlation is very very interesting. :)
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People born with *malformation* do not form a *third* sex. They have either neither, both, or a malformation of both or one. e.g. P.A.I.S. can have part teste. But those do not form a new *sex* by definition. It is very binary. They are malformation. Just like having a condition of having surnumerary leg do not make you a different quadrupedal form of human, it makes you a malformed human. THAT is the difference that people which keep bringing up birth malformation don't get. As for red head being a mutation and a mutation of normal hair color, in a way they are. Just like blue eye is a mutation which make the pigment inactive. There is a difference though everybody won't care they are mutation. (well except some : too many urban legend about red head being evil , for some reason I don't get some people hate/fear red head go figure).
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
visit randi.org
(most) People on the other hand DO care about getting a gender identical to the sex for dating. Are you trying to tell they are wrong and their taste in sex and dating is wrong ? Funnily that's what conservative says about homosexual - that their sexual preference are disgusting and counter nature. Personally I say as long as it is legal and consenting adult nobody has a right to tell other their belief on who they want to date is wrong. Apparently you think differently ? What do you want to do ? Conversion therapy for all those who see trans-sexual or trans-gender as not their taste ? Because ultimately this is what it boils to. No matter the railing and mockery that some do about not wanting to date a trans person, it all boil down to imposing a sexual preference on others.
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
visit randi.org
Actually, I've loved him all along. Both Republican and Democratic leaders need a gadfly who speaks truth to power. Engaging in corrupt, slimy shit that politicians want to keep secret is one of the few bi-partisan activities that everyone participates in in D.C., and guys like Assange should be there to call them on it.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.