WATCH: Crucifying Julian Assange
In his RT “On Contact” show, Chris Hedges interviews Joe Lauria, Consortium News editor, about the efforts to force Julian Assange out of his refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London so as to prosecute him using the Espionage Act; and the media’s unconscionable participation in this endeavour.
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There is a journalist Julian from Wikileaks,
Who for humanity great freedom he seeks,
He was falsely accused of rape,
His intentions were merely agape,
Yet Neocons will imprison him in a few weeks…
Assange is not stupid & I’ll bet he has a ‘Silver Bullet’ in his possession & it could be the murder of Seth Rich by HRC?
Considering that Assange has not seen daylight for 6 years and is whiter than milk it might take a silver bullet to kill him, as he’s clearly a vampire.
Maybe I should not joke about this because the powers that be would certainly not stop at taking his life.
Not even one hair will fall from his head
the other clown too
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/snowden-on-9-11-268996163613?v=railb&
take care of the real victims of the empire as dr. David Kelly
Craig Murray: “What do you expect? The leak is being managed by the grandly but laughably named International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which is funded and organised entirely by the USA Center for Public Integrity. Their funders include:
Ford Foundation
Carnegie Endowment
Rockefeller Family Fund
W K Kellogg Foundation
Open Society Foundation (Soros)”
The Carnegie Endowment? When that sort of outfit gets into bed with the likes of the Kellog Foundation, which grew out of an obsessive urge to prevent masturbation by inventing cornflakes for breakfast, what indeed can one expect?
Wow, that’s quite the bad photoshop job.
(Original: https://hooktube.com/watch?v=fpwGMdJdyl0)
And here we go again with the 9/11 argument, as usual. That’s all you got?
The real stooge is Glenn Greenwald, that’s why the Snowden leaks were mismanaged. Snowden was the victim actually.
See the @mark entry below or wait for a messiah or superhero like everyone commenting this entry on the Consortium News. But how many of you can afford to boycott the system? How many of you work for this system and its corporations? In the USA, 60% (maybe more) of people are working on a war machine. They can be saved only by messiah or superhero because they will not abandon their work. They will continue to carry out orders and commands dreaming in front of the TV about superhero who will do all the work for them. The herd needs a superhero. For some sheep it’s Trump or Putin for other Mossange or Snowden. Someone must tell them what to do and what not to do. For example, you must believe in the official version 911 because your superheroes told you so. You believe? Why? What’s the difference between… Read more »
I don’t consider Assange to be a messiah or superhero. He’s a publisher who exposed government wrongdoings. (And has subsequently been persecuted for it.)
And I don’t believe something because some authority said so. I believe in something based on information, facts, evidence, logical argument etc.
“And here we go again with the 9/11 argument, as usual. That’s all you got?”
nothing else is needed. frankly. 9/11 is the litmus test.
for him to be annoyed by 9/11 truth, shows which side of truth he sits on. fact is, the amount of publicity given to him by MSM is also a blindingly obvious sign that he is not on the side of truth
Too many armchair supporters, counting all of us here. Why aren’t people thronging to the Ecuadorean embassies in support of Assange on a regular basis? Why aren’t we all calling them to ask about him as the recent OG article suggested? We are largely complicit in allowing the totalitarian takeover of our democracies and freedoms.
Frankly Speaking – go right ahead! What is stopping you? Or indeed are your truly moved to do this? If you aren’t then why expect others to – and then judge them as failing? If you blame ‘everyone else’ for not doing what in fact you are not doing – is that because you assign yourself a sin of omission? How to interpret or discern what is true here? Then acting and living in the light of what is revealed. When I saw ‘free Nelson Mandela’ badges, I extended freedom to him – not captivity. I did what it said on the tin! But only because it came naturally from a deep sense of what freedom is. I might wonder how many truly pause from mind-reaction to feel into the nature of what their relationship really is here. But I would not add guilt to such a deeply learned habit.… Read more »
I don’t have time or eneregy to philisophise today. I’m essentially raising the real and general point that in our modern world we are generally happy to complain and protest online, launch change.org campaigns, tweet, etc It now takes the national disaster of handing the UK over to the US neoliberals, or thousands of people dying needlessly in our failed NHS, before people get up off their backsides and get mobilised. Less obvious issues such as the despicable situation of Assange seem to have no chance of firing enough people up off their backsides. It’s not just our corrupt media that have misrepresented Assange, it’s also our current lack of desire to go out and be counted. Thuggish and kettling police have a lot to do with it too, scaring protesters away. Maybe that IS the answer, the UK has become a police state? I don’t pretend to have answers… Read more »
I find it ironic that the tools for the escape or transcendence of conflict and suffering are those that are belittled by sufferers. Do people WANT to moan and complain MORE than they want to escape or undo tyranny? Is giving the impression of joining in identity set against the ‘hate criminal’ not an attempt to escape such a role oneself? Opinions are indeed the stuff of mutual self-reinforcement – in alliance or opposition. A world of opinions is a market of invested consumer unconsciousness. The ratcheting up of powerlessness in the population is a broad spectrum ‘capture’ of what once were social or cultural functions. The idea of people ‘mobilising’ or organising resistance is stifled at the outset by a lack of ability to discern the exact nature of the ‘enemy’. And so opinions coagulate to focus on various ‘enemies’ that then become weaponisable and marketisable to manipulators who… Read more »
Amen Binra, “The ratcheting up of powerlessness in the population is a broad spectrum ‘capture’ of what once were social or cultural functions. The idea of people ‘mobilising’ or organising resistance is stifled at the outset by a lack of ability to discern the exact nature of the ‘enemy’. And so opinions coagulate to focus on various ‘enemies’ that then become weaponisable and marketisable to manipulators who seek to extend their impact and influence by using others to serve a hidden agenda” Here are a couple of examples of ‘capture’ going on from todays Groaniad: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/27/david-icke-unite-labours-factions-conspiracists – this says that if you are a labour supporter, you have a commonality with alt-rightists and the lizard man! So you must be wrong and mad. And, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/live/2018/nov/27/fake-news-inquiry-facebook-to-face-mps-from-around-the-world-mark-zuckerberg-live-updates – This allows FarceBook to answe only questions that are not relevant. – the committee hasn’t asked how many uk users were involved in their… Read more »
No, we are not complicit.
We are hindered at every single turn by perfectly-honed, consummate wickedness, greed and corruption.
I don’t even live in Britain, but my turning up at the Ecuadorean embassy in London – and thence to jail, along with a hefty fine for obstruction of Her Majesty’s pavement, would not achieve anything at all. The media most certainly would show absolutely no interest either.
If we knew how to keep a large-scale sense of justice alive in our current western world, the Occupy Movement would still be going strong, and Wall Street would be on its knees. We have to face the fact that, confronted by the forces of relentless, billionaire-backed opposition, we are going to need a very clever mind to come up with a way of seriously ending this brave man’s terrible persecution.
What if ‘very clever minds’ tricked us into this situation? Do we then seek more of the same to escape it? Generally – yes that is what happens. The worship of the clever mind is the capacity to make freedom out of slavery and induce people to struggle and suffer to get it. If a silk purse is in FACT a pig’s ear – then we don’t have to mobilise against the silk purse because it doesn’t exist. But growing a cultural expression of worth uncovered in what DOES exist is an exercise OF freedom. Use it or lose it. And with respect to deceit – stop using it to lose it. The problem is not solvable in the terms of its own expression. And in re-evaluating the true nature of the problem, it shows us the answer – if we are investing in the answer rather than protecting investment… Read more »
The average German was complicit in the Holocaust by knowing about, yet ignoring, what was happening in their country. In a similar way we are complicit because at least some of us know what’s happening now with the rollout of totalitarianism, yet all we do is to academically, remotely, tap on keyboards. It’s nice, but it’s not enough. If you feel relaxed about it well good for you, but personally I don’t feel I’m doing enough.
Frankly Speaking: I hear you. I’ve been involved in different solidarity groups in the past, as well as taken part in anti war protests, protests against welfare cuts as well as protests in support of Julian Assange and also Wikileaks. And here I am tapping a reply to you on my phone. I too, feel a deep sense of frustration and like you see what’s happening. And its pretty bloody surreal. You go on protests, and the media ignores it. In my experience, the big majority of passersby ignore you, and don’t want to know, even when you’re trying to hand them a leaflet. Do peaceful protests; marching on a predetermined route from A to B, watched over by cops, then politely clapping various speakers change anything? No. How do we overcome the apathy and indifference – and dare I say, fear, of the large majority of people out there?… Read more »
You have a point. 36 million people demonstrating against the Iraq war in 2003, 2 million of them in this country, changed nothing. They went ahead and did it anyway. But there are more positive straws in the wind. Partly as a result of that, and so many other factors, general support and acquiescence for the elites and the systems that sustain them are dwindling and ebbing away rapidly. The world is becoming increasingly turbulent and unstable, and those elites have been forced to take off the mask to cling on to power, through shredding civil liberties and stringent censorship. One of the results of the Iraq war was that no one believes anything the MSM says any more. Trump (for all his faults) shredded what little remained of its authority and credibility. What is it, 9% ? still believe the US media? Assange and Snowden shone a spotlight on… Read more »
Mark: appreciate your reply, aye. Agree with you that the World is becoming increasingly turbulent and unstable, agree with you that the elites have had to remove their masks, agree with you about non participation in elections (different faces, different party, the status quo remains; same shit) agree with you about not reading their newspapers or watching their BBC (ABC here in Aussie) agree with you about the system starting to collapse, but the ‘Do Precisely Nothing’ part got me annoyed. Apathy dosn’t change anything in my opinion. And further, what happens After the system collapses if we do Precisely Nothing now to prepare for that collapse?
I found that I wasn’t the first to use the phrase “Don’t just do something, stand there!” – when I read it recently in Ivan Illich’s work. But it has a profound meaning to the willingness to listen – and there’s the rub. Reaction of an emotionally charged state indicates a personal investment resonating in the situation and without owning that investment, the personal need fulfilment mechanism operates the mask of sympathy or concern. That’s your need and no blame – but know what you do. This can be called ‘getting in our own way’ – and so don’t DO anything from a conflicted sense of self or you ‘do’ conflict as if a peacemaker – just like those you judge against. Not doing – in the sense I suggest – is ONLY doing what truly moves you – as a result of owning or knowing yourself. That does not… Read more »
Binra: I hear you mate, and appreciate the feedback, tho find some of your comments pretty deep and challenging. Perhaps that’s due to my ‘clouded mind’? Just out of curiosity, are you are a Taoist or Zen Buddhist? Do you have a personal philosophy?
If philo-sophy is ‘love of truth’ – then that is where I align my personal sense. It takes one to know one. Science was once (and its truth still is) the ‘natural philosophy’ of enquiry into the revealing of the already true nature of the world. Religion was once (and in truth still is) the love that is revealed as the basis and nature of all relationship. The personal mind is something we each and collectively have learned to develop for our own reasons and along the lines of our own themes. Yet while identified in its thinking, we assume to look out on the world as if what we see is true – or as we must have believed true – because our actions and emotional reactions belie the fact of such an acceptance. I don’t have the sense that the forms that work for me should apply to… Read more »
Binra: thank you😊
Yes, I know it can sound a bit pathetic but I genuinely believe it isn’t. It’s more a form of passive sabotage. Refusing to participate. Imagine if a large majority decided to save on the shoe leather and just didn’t bother turning out for their meaningless elections. This worries the powers that be more than any number of pointless demonstrations. It would cut them down to size and deflate their self importance. I have spoken to a lot of people from eastern Europe, Rumania, Bulgaria, Slovakia etc. They just automatically assume from their experience pre and post communism that all politicians are corrupt, self serving, lying criminal low life who aren’t worth giving the time of day to. But they do so without a trace of anger or frustration – to them it’s like saying that hot air rises or river water flows downstream. They seem genuinely puzzled that anyone… Read more »
Not so sure Mark. The fewer people that turn out to vote, the higher that those who have been manipulated represent of the total. It’s easier to push them over the FPTP winning line.
Mark, that’s very sad. Reminds me of a wallcard in a dispirited workshop in London, just before Heath switched off the lights on the Xmas tree and Snatcher finished off Society:
“I spend 8 hours a day here. Do you expect me to work as well?”.
Gezzah, it’s bloody tough, and I understand where you are coming from. I’m a Yorkshireman born and bred, yet these days due to work I am living and working in Europe, rarely come back to Britain, let alone being in a postion where I can join locally with others, and get out on to the streets. All I can do at the moment is to sympatise, support, and send some donations to what I think are well deserved causes.
Frankly Speaking: thanx for that, appreciate. I live in Australia, tho am a New Zealand citizen, and had a factory job here that got shipped off to China, so now sell The Big Issue mag to survive. Thats my only income as not entitled to any welfare from Aussie Govt. Its tough, but get too meet people from all walks of life, go to a different suburb every day, have no time clock or supervisor hovering over me barking orders, have some semblance of freedom, and get all my needs met. I get to see Society in action first hand – right at the coalface. I genuinely believe we are in for a very rocky, perilous, and nerve wracking journey. I believe the Anglo Zionist Empire has begun its collapse, and those who rule will mindlessly lash out in anger and fear as their power crumbles. All the provocations, the… Read more »
When does a tyrannous intent achieve a tyranny? When fear gives power to it – in place of the true power and thus as an experience of capture or powerlessness. What is the nature of the fear but self-interest served at the sacrifice of others? After being made an ‘offer’ that ‘cannot be refused’? Or shown examples of what happens to those who refuse? What is the nature of the fear that is held over journalists and anyone else in the public arena? Is it an actual power to cause pain and loss to one’s life?, or the belief that such a power is overwhelming, and thus futile and foolish to contest? Personally I feel that resorting to moral guilting – or shaming – journalists into ‘coming out’ is itself a fear and hate driven act and not a compassionate witness and support for the willingness to relate, to listen… Read more »
Binra, you are well-meaning.
However, with the utmost respect, this is not the place to post reams of your philosophical thoughts. It’s intended that posters here make, brief, pertinent posts.
If you are not able to do so then you really need to have your own blog / website and here merely post links to it.
Namaste.
Your freedom is mine Frankly. If you seek to censor perspectives intended to the core themes of which the social political are symptoms – then go right ahead. You are quite right that I could post a smaller part and link to a blog and sometimes I have done so. I suggest you ignore me or take a random paragraph as a brief pertinent hologram of the whole – because they generally are so. It wouldn’t make any difference to the ability to follow. If peace is not in your active desire then for you it is simply unreal. Not peace as a relative state to war – but an unconflicted awareness beneath or inside the screen of thinking. While you may think only perspectives that extend the current model have validity, I suggest they merely persist the problem – perhaps in different forms. The nature of our times is… Read more »
And not just the unconscionable behaviour of the gutterslime presstitutes in the media who claim to be journalists, but the many progressives and socialists who have completely turned their backs on Assange and act like he dosn’t exist. Several of these ‘socialist’ groups have not published one word about Assange since 2012. Six years plus. Why? Because they’re completely drunk on the kool aid of Identity Politics, and anyone who defends Assange is denounced by them as a ‘rape apologist’. I know people who were told by members of a well known ‘socialist group’ in Australia that those members were ‘instructed’ not too discuss Assange in any way, and that “they don’t defend rapists”. I believe the people that told me that. So, after everything Wikileaks exposed about the war crimes and corruption of the Anglo Zionist Empire, just this shameful silence by the very people who should be standing… Read more »
The real reason the state controlled BBC and the corporate MSM vilify and denigrate JA (and Edward Snowden) is that they show them up for what they are – corrupt, servile, toadying, lickspittle, establishment courtiers. JA and ES area the real journalists, shining a spotlight on government crimes, abuses and mendacity. They do the work that the MSM should be doing but never do.
I remember one article sneering and slagging off JA because he was wearing a pink shirt. I think it was the Independent, saying he didn’t have a very good image consultant. Another article on ES was slagging him off for having a “wispy” sparse beard, he didn’t have a very “manly” beard apparently. I don’t know if these were meant to be homophobic dog whistles. Maybe a bit ironic in view of the CIA smearing JA as some kind of rape fiend.
Six years plus. Why? Because they’re completely drunk on the kool aid of Identity Politics, and anyone who defends Assange is denounced by them as a ‘rape apologist’
Exactly that!
Yes, the international deep state has done its propaganda work very well. If you defend Assange you are
a) a rape apologist
b) a Putin stooge
c) a Trump supporter
d) all of the above.
Cases like that of Julian Assange typify the near complete absence of moral authority across our institutions and political class. Blair has never been punished – in fact he has only ever been rewarded with huge sums of money for his ‘peace’ work in the Middle East, not to mention regular columns in our enfeebled, identity politics obsessed media. Bush (or those around him) engineered then implemented a program of destabalisation and bloodhsed in the Middle East (on the back of mass murder of thousands of US citizens) – he was punished with re-election in 2004. Barak ‘drone’ Obama signed up to exactly the same foreign policies as the neocons failing to shut down Guitmo, while triggering cholera and nationwide starvation in the Yemen. Hillary ‘we came, we saw, he died’ Clinton is deeply implicated in the arming ISIS, an ideology said to be linked to 9/11 for those too… Read more »
Indeed. I will never forget Nancy Pelosi’s dismissive statement that the impeachment of Bush was “off the table”.
She serves the same master as the whole of Washington today.
“You know who”…
Assange was regarded as a mere nuisance/troublemaker by the ruling psychopaths until he announced that Wikileaks was gonna expose the malfeasance and dirty deeds of multi national corporations.
That’s when they began salivating over his blood.