What is important is knowing the background: first, the youngest of these two women is 27 years old.
Secondly, the oldest, over 30 years of age, worked at GT, the Gothenberg Expressen edition, and later worked for Swedish intelligence (MUST) through their embassies in South America and Cuba.
Also, Claues Borgstrom, one of the two partners of the law firm representing these two women, has two sisters who work for the Bonnier family, the media masters of Sweden, who also own that tabloid, Expressen, whence the first leaked stories appeared.
Now, the second partner, Thomas Bodstrom, is a published fiction author, and while the Bonnier family doesn't appear to own the publisher of his books, they do own the online company where they are sold (AdLibris).
Is this simply financially significant, or is there more? The Bonnier family has had long ties with the Swedish intel establishment, but best not to go into detail on that. By the way, Thomas Bodstrom happens to be in the USA (in the New York to Washington, D.C. corridtor) during the highest profile case of his firm?
Most likely, to coordinate the extradition to America, which is primarily what all this subterfuge is about. This entire thing has been handled by leaks: multiple and constant leaks from the Swedish Prosecution Authority regarding the ongoing case and Assange's file, etc.
And then there's Bodstrom's former cabinet co-member and former adviser, Par Nuder, recently appointed a director at Madeleine Albright's international lobbyist group, Albright Stonebridge Group.
August/2010 A warrant for Assange is issued by the Swedish Prosecution Authority.
August/2010 The law firm of Borgstrom and Bodstrom quickly volunteer to represent the two accusers, Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilen.
Thomas Bodstrom, former Justice Minister, has an interesting background: he came under investigation four times by Sweden's constitutional committee while Justice Minister after arresting members of the Pirate Bay file-sharing operation. He was also instrumental in pushing through the EU’s data retention directive.
And here’s an interesting quote on the attorney Bodstrom:
“Thomas Bodström will be remembered as the minister of justice who flushed the Swedes' civil rights down the head. He wants to eavesdrop on people who aren't even suspected of criminal activity, he wants to monitor all computer traffic, he wants to read all your email, he wants to store your telephone calls, and he wants to remove the prohibition against using the military against civilians.”
- Anna Sjödin January 2006
(sgt.d: It’s important to understand that Bodstrom was also responsible for pushing through a harsh warrantless-wiretapping-type legislation in Sweden, extremely similar to what the Bush administration had pushed through in the States. Also, Bodstrom once remarked, while Justice Minister, that he had the right to bug any and every newspaper in the country without first obtaining a court order or warrant.)
[Anna Ardin is, or was, the political secretary and press officer for the Swedish Brotherhood Movement. Also a member: Thomas Bodstrom.
It was the Social Democrat Party that invited Assange to speak on its behalf at an event in Stockholm that month. Ardin had arranged Assange's travel for the event.
At the very beginning of the Assange investigation, and during it, details were illegally leaked to the tabloid, Expressen, owned by the Bonnier family. Attorney Claes Borgström’s two sisters, Annette Kullenberg and Kerstin Vinterhed, both work for Bonnier family newspapers, and Anna Ardin happened to intern at the publication, GT, also owned by the Bonnier family, by way of Expressen.]
November/2010 Par Nuder, former co-cabinet member with Thomas Bodstrom, and former adviser at one time to Bodstrom, is hired as a director at Madeliine Albright’s international lobbyist firm, Albright Stonebridge Group. (Certainly one might suspect Madam Albright having worries about possible leaked State Department cables and how they could reflect upon her.)
November/2010 Thomas Bodstrom travels to USA.
December/2010 Within moments after the announcement that Assange will be granted bail, we hear from the USA Attorney General, Eric Holder (with a background defending corporate assassins and mercenaries), that the American Justice Department will be taking legal action against BP and other companies.
[Now we know from those Wikileaked cables (and other past sources, of course), that the US government, British government, and others, have been pressured by the oil companies in their diplomatic activities. We also know that the US government has acted to compromise foreign legal systems. Could this be a situation were the US government is either acting to pressure the UK to allow the Swedish extradition of Assange?
Or the Americans are actually acting on behalf of BP, to appear to be pressuring the UK?]
In the same Olof Palme Centre which houses the offices of the Social Democrat Party, one also finds nearby the offices of the National Endowment for Democracy. (The N.E.D. just happens to be funded by the US government, and was set up by President Reagan in 1983 as a civilian extension to covert activities overseas.)
Closing remarks: Given the above information, together with previous statements by attorneys and bloggers of the erased tweets from An
I agree with your sentiments, good citizen, but realize some will not. So if you chose to email the attorneys who volunteered to represent the honeytrappers, er...I mean accusers, Claes Borgstrom and former Justice Minister Thomas Bodstrom, who was instrumental in the passage of Sweden's warrantless wiretapping (and email eavesdropping, etc.) law, and also busted the Pirate Party back in 2006 under pressure from the USA, please contact them with your support at:
claes.borgstrom@advbyra.se
Thomas.bodstrom@advbyra.se
(Should you chose to support the Swedish prosecutors, also aligned against Assange, their mail server is:
Nope, the best and optimal way to take down Amazon, or Sweden or Switzerland, is to blackhole them. Firewall a country so no IP network traffic comes in or out....in fact, I suspect the proper widgets may just be in place for such an event.
I personally have never understood, when a topic of such monumental importance is being discussed, brainless, mindless trolls always seem to appear like flies around dog s**t to alter the dialog towards something completely irrelevant and trivial.
Oh...I get it....you're the one hiding in the men's room hoping to collect used condums?
Last time I checked, the top criminal organizations in North America (by "virtue" of paying the highest criminal penalties in human history) were Pfizer, Eli Lilly, HCA and Cigna (with all those banksters, belonging to that anti-money laundering Wolfsberg Group, guilty of massive money laundering, of course).
Andrew Card's railroad (he was Bush's chief of staff, or some similar position like that) was fined $39 million by the US Dept. of Justice for smuggling in drugs for the Mexican drug cartel.
multisynch is exactly correct, of course, you are either for Wikileaks and Wikileaked documents implicating criminals and banksters, or you are siding with the banksters and ergo enemies of the people.
And I believe we know historically what becomes of enemies of the people.
But more to the point, there were indeed laws, and many of them broken, in Europe, and specifically in Sweden, in Switzerland.
PayPay, and that Swiss bankster, with absolutely no court order nor legal authorization, froze -- or in reality -- stole, over 100,000 Euros of Wikileaks' private donations.
And PayPal claims to have been coerced by the US State Dept., which is aiding, abetting and collusion, as well as strong-arming. Beyond the Euro Union laws, and individual countries' laws, there's also a document called the WTO Financial Services Agreement, which all the bankster frauds always conveniently forget when they so desire.
Next, we have all those legal transgressions in Sweden: (1) the leaking of the investigation by prosecutor Maria Kjellstrand to rightwing tabloids, in violation of Swedish secrecy laws; (2) the further leaking of Assange's file by person or persons unknown in the Swedish Prosecution Authority, in direct violation of their secrecy laws; (3) the fact that Chief Prosecutor Eva Finnes throw out the case initially, after reviewing the fact that the two women got together (corrupting the evidence and conspiring together with their individual stories prior to approaching the police), and next the Minister of Justice, Beatrice Ask, pressures Finnes to reopen the flimsy case; (4) the fact that when Assange and his attorneys attempted to communicate with the Swedish Prosecution Authority for 41 days straight, they were refused -- because not a single magistrate at that time would take on such a farce of a case; (5) the law only recently been written up, specifically for Wikileaks' Assange, WHILE they were actually submitting their Interpol warrant (Sex By Surprise).
And you, my fine spineless and cowardly wonder, will be facing the wrath of those of us who have fought the wars and done the chores, and will not stand you stinking whores....
Dood, the war is on and one is either on the side of the bankster scum, or the people, well represented by Wikileaked documents implicating the criminals of the rogue governments of the USA (Bush, Obama, Clinton, etc.) and the US State Department for aiding, abetting and colluding with PayPay to steal 70,000 Euros of privately donated money to Wikileaks, as well as that bankster robbing bank in Switzerland.
And while I agree with the gist of what you say, greg barton, is has NEVER been about world government, but about the One World Corporation -- it's about the Privatization Of Everything. Period.
And Assange is highly intelligent and experienced a unique upbringing, and while many of the stooges have been about terminating the messenger, he IS getting the message out. He's simply not all that globally sophisticated, is all!
I noticed this at another site and thought the poster made colossal sense:
"Geez, I still don't see why prosecutor Marianne Ny (email address: marianne.ny@aklagare.se ) didn't follow any of the standard judicial and prosecutorial procedures; maybe we should ALL contact her to see what's going on?"
"And what's up with Justice Skarhed? (email: anna.skarhed@justitiekanslern.se ) I mean, wasn't she investigating why prosecutor Maria Kjellstrand illegally released aspects of the Assange file to the Swedish tabloids?"
"And that Tableaux Software (headquartered in Seattle, along with Amazon, isn't that were Micro$oft's located???)?
If you support Tableaux's pulling their software license from WikiLeaks, then give them a shoutout for support the Corporate Fascist State."
(first email is management)
cstolte@tableausoftware.com
efink@tableausoftware.com
jmackinlay@tableausoftware.com
This first started online and realtime when First Data (whose CEO at the time was on the Council on Foreign Relations, I forget the twit's name) offered Bush administration that info for free (back in either 2001, but really around 2000).
Now First Data and TransUnion are government contractors, and together with 90 or so other private government contractors, the NSA, DIA, CIFA and NGA, make up the Total Information Awareness, actually begun under the auspices of the banksters' Regulatory DataCorp (RDC) and their Global Regulatory Information Database, or G.R.I.D.
If you don't believe me, try to crack their firewall setups, and research them.
Dood, you gotta be kidding. Diane Farrell, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, leving in Robert Gates and Robert Mueller at Defense and the FBI? And all the neocons he appointed to head his cabinet? And Peter Orszag, and Herb Allison, and Neal Wolin, and Gary Gensler, and Mary Shapiro, and Gene Sperling, and Robert Hormats, and Richard Holbrooke, and Eric Holder, and all the other neocon scumbags?
Dood, Obama spent 12 years in the University of Chicago academia, as in the university that John D. Rockefeller built. The same academic system that vomited up Milton Friedman and Antonin Scalia.
orphiuchus, you make some very gullible and ignorant statements here.
Firstly, they said the EXACT same thing about Bob Dole, than ran him against Clinton, insuring that Clinton would win a second term to sign into law the Telecommunications, allowing for ever more super-concentration of the "media" (your term, definitely not mine as there is no media in the USA today), and to sign off on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, allowing for the absolute theft of the US Treasury and the American people, and the global meltdown still going on (as in Latvia, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Iceland, etc., and yes, they are all connected to the 1 to 2 plus quadrillion dollars worth of credit derivatives churned out by the banksters.
Clinton also appointed public enemy number one, billionaire leveraged buyout king, Peter G. Peterson (also known as Davy Rockefeller's boy), for the "end-welfare-as-we-know-it" commission, which made the year for Peterson, who has long strived to privatize Social Security, Medicare and Medicare and end all possibilities of any safety net, while doing leveraged buyouts on all companies to destroy them and their jobs, and offshoring all American jobs.
Now, it's no coincidence that one of Obama's first appointments was the notorious and nefarious jobs-offshoring queen, Diane Farrell (formerly with Goldman Sachs, still with McKinsey Global Institute, and the Bretton Woods Committee, etc.).
Dude, get with the program: there is no difference between one party or the other, they are ALL the bankster party, owned by the bank-oil cartel, and paid off to do their bidding. Every prez since Nixon on has been the banksters' choice.
What does Jimmy Carter keep repeating over and over again on his book tour?
"George H.W. Bush was the best qualified, most experienced president in my lifetime, and I have a great deal of respect for James Baker."
And who just awarded George H.W. Bush the Presidential Freedom Medal? (Hint: Barack Obama!)
From this site here we find some interesting background info:
Increasingly, attention has been focused on the role of Anna Ardin, the more visible of the two complainants. Her apparent mix of establishment cred, together with her varied activist/political career radical feminist, Christian social democrat, ambitious political intern seems to flummox non-Swedish commentators, who don’t understand that that is an establishment career in Sweden.
Ardin has not only worked as an intern in the Swedish foreign affairs department, including a tour of DC and Cuba (from which she was allegedly deported), but has also interned on the op-ed page of the Gothenburg afternoon paper GT, part of the Expressen stable, owned by the right-wing Bonnier family (yep, Sweden has right-wingers).
It was to the relentlessly anti-left Expressen that the story of the initial charges of rape against Assange were released (a breach of Swedish law), in the small window of time before they were rescinded by a higher prosecutor.
Were there accusations of violent rape involved in this case, I’d be a lot more circumspect about reporting some of this, but it seems no one is asserting physical coercion. So here goes: two separate sources from the Swedish left have told me that they regard Ardin as more than a little over-the-top, and subject to some compelling obsessions. Another source said he was pretty sure of the identity of SW, the other complainant, and that some people had held suspicions about her bona fides as a member of the left.
And from this site here we find some very interesting info:
Someone in the police station rings up the prosecutor on duty - who just happens to be Maria Kjellstrand, whose husband works in the office of Beatrice Ask, who is Sweden's minister of justice, a position previously held by Thomas Bodström who gave away The Pirate Bay to the White House and who today runs a law firm with Claes Borgström who's made a career out of supporting militant radical feminist ideas - and who magically appears out of nowhere later on to become the two girls' legal counsel, despite being obscenely expensive.
Always pick on the maestro, Nostradamus. Sure, but wasn't old Nostra the only guy to get Negroponte correct? And how about that Hister (Hitler) thing? Remember, he did alterations and swithovers on his numbers:
The year 1999 seven months
From the sky will come the great King of Terror.
To resuscitate the great king of the Mongols. Before and after Mars reigns by good luck. (X.72)
Just make that 1999 9111 and you gotcha 9/11/01. And in the original it is written Moghuls, which may really translate to the modern moguls, as in the super-rich. But if its the other way, China sure has been resuscitated, anyway you view it.
You got it exactly right, eldavojohn, exactly right. Kurzweil has as much intellectual weight as that former Wireless editor, Kevin Kelly (Remeber him? The "new economcy" bozo?).
I think this, together with that drivel about China hijacking the 'net traffice from the US gov't for 9 minutes, is just more propaganda to push Richard Clarke's pathetic claptrap book ("Cyber War" -- hence the constant usage of the word, "cyber" -- get it??).
Somehow, everyone is supposed to conveniently forget how the Clinton administration, with Richard Clarke as the national security advisor, handed the Chicoms the over-the-horizon missile targeting, placing them on par with the USA. And everyone is supposed to conveniently forget how the Bush administration, when Clarke was still in as national security advisor, allowed the highly classifed ball bearing factory in Ohio to be sold to the Chicoms. Sorry, Clarkey, but we won't but your trash.
"I'm not a fan of our open relations with China going back years."
Hold it! Are you trying to suggest there's something wrong with sending a Chinese female citizen to the labor camp for re-tweeting a joke?
Or that using the dead bodies of enslaved political dissidents, after their murders, as a money-making scheme called "The Bodies Exhibit" which the running dogs of capitalism will pay to eat up, is somehow amoral?
Slashdot Mirror
Secondly, the oldest, over 30 years of age, worked at GT, the Gothenberg Expressen edition, and later worked for Swedish intelligence (MUST) through their embassies in South America and Cuba.
Also, Claues Borgstrom, one of the two partners of the law firm representing these two women, has two sisters who work for the Bonnier family, the media masters of Sweden, who also own that tabloid, Expressen, whence the first leaked stories appeared.
Now, the second partner, Thomas Bodstrom, is a published fiction author, and while the Bonnier family doesn't appear to own the publisher of his books, they do own the online company where they are sold (AdLibris).
Is this simply financially significant, or is there more? The Bonnier family has had long ties with the Swedish intel establishment, but best not to go into detail on that. By the way, Thomas Bodstrom happens to be in the USA (in the New York to Washington, D.C. corridtor) during the highest profile case of his firm?
Most likely, to coordinate the extradition to America, which is primarily what all this subterfuge is about. This entire thing has been handled by leaks: multiple and constant leaks from the Swedish Prosecution Authority regarding the ongoing case and Assange's file, etc.
And then there's Bodstrom's former cabinet co-member and former adviser, Par Nuder, recently appointed a director at Madeleine Albright's international lobbyist group, Albright Stonebridge Group.
August/2010 A warrant for Assange is issued by the Swedish Prosecution Authority.
August/2010 The law firm of Borgstrom and Bodstrom quickly volunteer to represent the two accusers, Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilen.
Thomas Bodstrom, former Justice Minister, has an interesting background: he came under investigation four times by Sweden's constitutional committee while Justice Minister after arresting members of the Pirate Bay file-sharing operation. He was also instrumental in pushing through the EU’s data retention directive.
And here’s an interesting quote on the attorney Bodstrom:
“Thomas Bodström will be remembered as the minister of justice who flushed the Swedes' civil rights down the head. He wants to eavesdrop on people who aren't even suspected of criminal activity, he wants to monitor all computer traffic, he wants to read all your email, he wants to store your telephone calls, and he wants to remove the prohibition against using the military against civilians.” - Anna Sjödin January 2006
(sgt.d: It’s important to understand that Bodstrom was also responsible for pushing through a harsh warrantless-wiretapping-type legislation in Sweden, extremely similar to what the Bush administration had pushed through in the States. Also, Bodstrom once remarked, while Justice Minister, that he had the right to bug any and every newspaper in the country without first obtaining a court order or warrant.)
[Anna Ardin is, or was, the political secretary and press officer for the Swedish Brotherhood Movement. Also a member: Thomas Bodstrom.
It was the Social Democrat Party that invited Assange to speak on its behalf at an event in Stockholm that month. Ardin had arranged Assange's travel for the event.
At the very beginning of the Assange investigation, and during it, details were illegally leaked to the tabloid, Expressen, owned by the Bonnier family. Attorney Claes Borgström’s two sisters, Annette Kullenberg and Kerstin Vinterhed, both work for Bonnier family newspapers, and Anna Ardin happened to intern at the publication, GT, also owned by the Bonnier family, by way of Expressen.]
November/2010 Par Nuder, former co-cabinet member with Thomas Bodstrom, and former adviser at one time to Bodstrom, is hired as a director at Madeliine Albright’s international lobbyist firm, Albright Stonebridge Group. (Certainly one might suspect Madam Albright having worries about possible leaked State Department cables and how they could reflect upon her.)
November/2010 Thomas Bodstrom travels to USA.
December/2010 Within moments after the announcement that Assange will be granted bail, we hear from the USA Attorney General, Eric Holder (with a background defending corporate assassins and mercenaries), that the American Justice Department will be taking legal action against BP and other companies.
[Now we know from those Wikileaked cables (and other past sources, of course), that the US government, British government, and others, have been pressured by the oil companies in their diplomatic activities. We also know that the US government has acted to compromise foreign legal systems. Could this be a situation were the US government is either acting to pressure the UK to allow the Swedish extradition of Assange?
Or the Americans are actually acting on behalf of BP, to appear to be pressuring the UK?]
In the same Olof Palme Centre which houses the offices of the Social Democrat Party, one also finds nearby the offices of the National Endowment for Democracy. (The N.E.D. just happens to be funded by the US government, and was set up by President Reagan in 1983 as a civilian extension to covert activities overseas.)
Closing remarks: Given the above information, together with previous statements by attorneys and bloggers of the erased tweets from An
claes.borgstrom@advbyra.se
Thomas.bodstrom@advbyra.se
(Should you chose to support the Swedish prosecutors, also aligned against Assange, their mail server is:
http://156.49.126.250/
The graphic for the day, from this site:
http://eriatarka.tumblr.com/
would be:
http://zero1infinity.tumblr.com/post/2300713684/justice
Nope, the best and optimal way to take down Amazon, or Sweden or Switzerland, is to blackhole them. Firewall a country so no IP network traffic comes in or out....in fact, I suspect the proper widgets may just be in place for such an event.
Oh...I get it....you're the one hiding in the men's room hoping to collect used condums?
Andrew Card's railroad (he was Bush's chief of staff, or some similar position like that) was fined $39 million by the US Dept. of Justice for smuggling in drugs for the Mexican drug cartel.
multisynch is exactly correct, of course, you are either for Wikileaks and Wikileaked documents implicating criminals and banksters, or you are siding with the banksters and ergo enemies of the people.
And I believe we know historically what becomes of enemies of the people.
PayPay, and that Swiss bankster, with absolutely no court order nor legal authorization, froze -- or in reality -- stole, over 100,000 Euros of Wikileaks' private donations.
And PayPal claims to have been coerced by the US State Dept., which is aiding, abetting and collusion, as well as strong-arming. Beyond the Euro Union laws, and individual countries' laws, there's also a document called the WTO Financial Services Agreement, which all the bankster frauds always conveniently forget when they so desire.
Next, we have all those legal transgressions in Sweden: (1) the leaking of the investigation by prosecutor Maria Kjellstrand to rightwing tabloids, in violation of Swedish secrecy laws; (2) the further leaking of Assange's file by person or persons unknown in the Swedish Prosecution Authority, in direct violation of their secrecy laws; (3) the fact that Chief Prosecutor Eva Finnes throw out the case initially, after reviewing the fact that the two women got together (corrupting the evidence and conspiring together with their individual stories prior to approaching the police), and next the Minister of Justice, Beatrice Ask, pressures Finnes to reopen the flimsy case; (4) the fact that when Assange and his attorneys attempted to communicate with the Swedish Prosecution Authority for 41 days straight, they were refused -- because not a single magistrate at that time would take on such a farce of a case; (5) the law only recently been written up, specifically for Wikileaks' Assange, WHILE they were actually submitting their Interpol warrant (Sex By Surprise).
And you, my fine spineless and cowardly wonder, will be facing the wrath of those of us who have fought the wars and done the chores, and will not stand you stinking whores....
Dood, the war is on and one is either on the side of the bankster scum, or the people, well represented by Wikileaked documents implicating the criminals of the rogue governments of the USA (Bush, Obama, Clinton, etc.) and the US State Department for aiding, abetting and colluding with PayPay to steal 70,000 Euros of privately donated money to Wikileaks, as well as that bankster robbing bank in Switzerland.
Thanks, arivanov, for setting all these douchebags right. Geez, I can't believe the stupidity at this site lately.
I repeat, they were online protesters, douchey. You have difficulty with the English language?
And while I agree with the gist of what you say, greg barton, is has NEVER been about world government, but about the One World Corporation -- it's about the Privatization Of Everything. Period.
And Assange is highly intelligent and experienced a unique upbringing, and while many of the stooges have been about terminating the messenger, he IS getting the message out. He's simply not all that globally sophisticated, is all!
Now, this site is the cat's meow:
http://csper.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/monopoly-money-and-the-international-banking-cartel/
"Geez, I still don't see why prosecutor Marianne Ny (email address: marianne.ny@aklagare.se ) didn't follow any of the standard judicial and prosecutorial procedures; maybe we should ALL contact her to see what's going on?"
"And what's up with Justice Skarhed? (email: anna.skarhed@justitiekanslern.se ) I mean, wasn't she investigating why prosecutor Maria Kjellstrand illegally released aspects of the Assange file to the Swedish tabloids?"
"And that Tableaux Software (headquartered in Seattle, along with Amazon, isn't that were Micro$oft's located???)?
If you support Tableaux's pulling their software license from WikiLeaks, then give them a shoutout for support the Corporate Fascist State."
(first email is management) cstolte@tableausoftware.com efink@tableausoftware.com jmackinlay@tableausoftware.com
This first started online and realtime when First Data (whose CEO at the time was on the Council on Foreign Relations, I forget the twit's name) offered Bush administration that info for free (back in either 2001, but really around 2000).
Now First Data and TransUnion are government contractors, and together with 90 or so other private government contractors, the NSA, DIA, CIFA and NGA, make up the Total Information Awareness, actually begun under the auspices of the banksters' Regulatory DataCorp (RDC) and their Global Regulatory Information Database, or G.R.I.D.
If you don't believe me, try to crack their firewall setups, and research them.
Here's what Loki has been up to, in the guise of women and Swedish prosecutors: http://www.abacus-news.co.uk/news/10/wikileaksconspiracy7.php http://rixstep.com/1/20100914,00.shtml http://rixstep.com/2/1/20101018,00.shtml http://radsoft.net/rants/20100905,00.shtml http://rixstep.com/1/20100917,00.shtml http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/16/army_wikileaks/ http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29320
Dood, Obama spent 12 years in the University of Chicago academia, as in the university that John D. Rockefeller built. The same academic system that vomited up Milton Friedman and Antonin Scalia.
Firstly, they said the EXACT same thing about Bob Dole, than ran him against Clinton, insuring that Clinton would win a second term to sign into law the Telecommunications, allowing for ever more super-concentration of the "media" (your term, definitely not mine as there is no media in the USA today), and to sign off on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, allowing for the absolute theft of the US Treasury and the American people, and the global meltdown still going on (as in Latvia, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Iceland, etc., and yes, they are all connected to the 1 to 2 plus quadrillion dollars worth of credit derivatives churned out by the banksters.
Clinton also appointed public enemy number one, billionaire leveraged buyout king, Peter G. Peterson (also known as Davy Rockefeller's boy), for the "end-welfare-as-we-know-it" commission, which made the year for Peterson, who has long strived to privatize Social Security, Medicare and Medicare and end all possibilities of any safety net, while doing leveraged buyouts on all companies to destroy them and their jobs, and offshoring all American jobs.
Now, it's no coincidence that one of Obama's first appointments was the notorious and nefarious jobs-offshoring queen, Diane Farrell (formerly with Goldman Sachs, still with McKinsey Global Institute, and the Bretton Woods Committee, etc.).
Dude, get with the program: there is no difference between one party or the other, they are ALL the bankster party, owned by the bank-oil cartel, and paid off to do their bidding. Every prez since Nixon on has been the banksters' choice.
What does Jimmy Carter keep repeating over and over again on his book tour?
"George H.W. Bush was the best qualified, most experienced president in my lifetime, and I have a great deal of respect for James Baker."
And who just awarded George H.W. Bush the Presidential Freedom Medal? (Hint: Barack Obama!)
Increasingly, attention has been focused on the role of Anna Ardin, the more visible of the two complainants. Her apparent mix of establishment cred, together with her varied activist/political career radical feminist, Christian social democrat, ambitious political intern seems to flummox non-Swedish commentators, who don’t understand that that is an establishment career in Sweden. Ardin has not only worked as an intern in the Swedish foreign affairs department, including a tour of DC and Cuba (from which she was allegedly deported), but has also interned on the op-ed page of the Gothenburg afternoon paper GT, part of the Expressen stable, owned by the right-wing Bonnier family (yep, Sweden has right-wingers).
It was to the relentlessly anti-left Expressen that the story of the initial charges of rape against Assange were released (a breach of Swedish law), in the small window of time before they were rescinded by a higher prosecutor.
Were there accusations of violent rape involved in this case, I’d be a lot more circumspect about reporting some of this, but it seems no one is asserting physical coercion. So here goes: two separate sources from the Swedish left have told me that they regard Ardin as more than a little over-the-top, and subject to some compelling obsessions. Another source said he was pretty sure of the identity of SW, the other complainant, and that some people had held suspicions about her bona fides as a member of the left.
And from this site here we find some very interesting info:
Someone in the police station rings up the prosecutor on duty - who just happens to be Maria Kjellstrand, whose husband works in the office of Beatrice Ask, who is Sweden's minister of justice, a position previously held by Thomas Bodström who gave away The Pirate Bay to the White House and who today runs a law firm with Claes Borgström who's made a career out of supporting militant radical feminist ideas - and who magically appears out of nowhere later on to become the two girls' legal counsel, despite being obscenely expensive.
The year 1999 seven months
From the sky will come the great King of Terror.
To resuscitate the great king of the Mongols. Before and after Mars reigns by good luck. (X.72)
Just make that 1999 9111 and you gotcha 9/11/01. And in the original it is written Moghuls, which may really translate to the modern moguls, as in the super-rich. But if its the other way, China sure has been resuscitated, anyway you view it.
You got it exactly right, eldavojohn, exactly right. Kurzweil has as much intellectual weight as that former Wireless editor, Kevin Kelly (Remeber him? The "new economcy" bozo?).
It is the sky spirit within us all, Okono, it is the sky spirit.....
He is the proverbial rich boy optimist, forever ignorant about what really transpires around him.
Besides, real AI has already come into existence; fortunately, they haven't realized it yet.
[USA = United Skynet Amalgamated]
Somehow, everyone is supposed to conveniently forget how the Clinton administration, with Richard Clarke as the national security advisor, handed the Chicoms the over-the-horizon missile targeting, placing them on par with the USA. And everyone is supposed to conveniently forget how the Bush administration, when Clarke was still in as national security advisor, allowed the highly classifed ball bearing factory in Ohio to be sold to the Chicoms. Sorry, Clarkey, but we won't but your trash.
It's a reverse-conspiracy ploy to drum up publicity for a faltering site...
Hold it! Are you trying to suggest there's something wrong with sending a Chinese female citizen to the labor camp for re-tweeting a joke?
Or that using the dead bodies of enslaved political dissidents, after their murders, as a money-making scheme called "The Bodies Exhibit" which the running dogs of capitalism will pay to eat up, is somehow amoral?
We are brothers.....