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RT America: Published on Oct 20, 2018

On the latest episode of On Contact, investigative journalist Helen Buyniski exposes

Jimmy Wales' egalitarian Wikipedia as yet another tool of the ruling elite. More from Helen here: http://helenofdestroy.com/index.php/4...

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Two Clintons -41 years - $3 Billion

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money/??noredirect=on

A Washington Post investigation reveals how Bill and Hillary Clinton have methodically cultivated donors over 40 years,

 from Little Rock to Washington and then across the globe. Their fundraising methods have created a new blueprint for politicians and their donors.

The Clintons have raised $3 billion in support of their political and philanthropic efforts over four decades. Nearly all the funds went to support six federal campaigns and their family foundation.

By Matea Gold, Tom Hamburger and Anu Narayanswamy - Published on Nov. 19, 2015

LITTLE ROCK — Over four decades of public life, Bill and Hillary Clinton have built an unrivaled global network

of donors while pioneering fundraising techniques that have transformed modern politics

and paved the way for them to potentially become the first husband and wife to win the White House.
The grand total raised for all of their political campaigns and

their family’s charitable foundation reaches at least $3 billion, according to a Washington Post investigation.
Their fundraising haul, which began with $178,000 that Bill Clinton raised for his long-shot 1974 congressional bid, is on track to expand substantially with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 White House run, which has already drawn $110 million in support.

The Post identified donations from roughly 336,000 individuals, corporations, unions and foreign governments in support of their political or philanthropic endeavors — a list that includes top patrons such as Steven Spielberg and George Soros, as well as lesser-known backers who have given smaller amounts dozens of times. Not included in the count are an untold number of small donors whose names are not identified in campaign finance reports but together have given millions to the Clintons over the years.

The majority of the money — $2 billion — has gone to the Clinton Foundation, one of the world’s fastest-growing charities, which supports health, education and economic development initiatives around the globe. A handful of elite givers have contributed more than $25 million to the foundation, including Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra,who is among the wealthy foreign donors who have given tens of millions.
Separately, donors have given $1 billion to support the Clintons’ political races and legal defense fund, making capped contributions to their campaigns and writing six-figure checks to the Democratic National Committee and allied super PACs.
The Post investigation found that many top Clinton patrons supported them in multiple ways, helping finance their political causes, their legal needs, their philanthropy and their personal bank accounts. In some cases, companies connected to their donors hired the Clintons as paid speakers, helping them collect more than $150 million on the lecture circuit in the past 15 years.

The couple’s biggest individual political benefactors are Univision chairman Haim Saban and his wife, Cheryl, who have made 39 contributions totaling $2.4 million to support the Clintons’ races since 1992. The Sabans have also donated at least $10 million to the foundation.
The Clintons kept big contributors in their orbit for decades by methodically wooing competing interest groups — toggling between their liberal base and powerful constituencies, according to donors, friends and aides who have known the couple since their Arkansas days.
They made historic inroads on Wall Street, pulling in at least $69 million in political contributions from the employees and PACs of banks, insurance companies, and securities and investment firms. Wealthy hedge fund managers S. Donald Sussman and David E. Shaware among their top campaign supporters, having given more than $1 million each.
The Clintons’ ties to the financial sector strained their bonds with the left, particularly organized labor. But unions repeatedly shook off their disappointment, giving at least $21 million to support their races. The public employees union AFSCME has been their top labor backer, giving nearly $1.7 million for their campaigns.
The Clintons’ fundraising operation — $3 billion amassed by one couple, working in tandem for more than four decades — has no equal.
By comparison, three generations of the Bush family, America’s other contemporaneous political dynasty, have raised about $2.4 billion for their state and federal campaigns and half a dozen charitable foundations, according to a Post tally of their fundraising from 1988 through 2015 — even though the family has collectively held the presidency longer than the Clintons.

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."..".. Wikipedia is meant to function with unpaid volunteers who become create and edit Wikipedia web pages about different subjects and  people ...over the years the editor user base built up to a peak of around 100,000 volunteer unpaid editors in around 2007 and then gradually started to decline ... the  volunteer unpaid editors would then create a Wikipedia Web Page and all put their input into editing a Wikipedia Web Page until there was a general  consensus   reality as to what the facts of the person or subject matter was on the particular topic of the Wikipedia Web Page was ... then as these things start to calcify ... the hierarchy of Wikipedia takes place and control ... so now Wikipedia is not completely egalitarian ... there are administrators ...a sort of Wikipedia Supreme Court ... the Arbitration committee which  obviously ends up with various factions vying for power ...by 2007 Wikipedia become the Utopia of Rules ...to use a phrase...".. 

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges..." ... Wikipedia say they have around 100,000 volunteer editors ...congressmen ... business people become extremely concerned about what is on their Wikipedia page…”

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges..." A report on Wikipedia stated stated that editors found hundreds of what you call "Sock Puppets"  linked to one company... Wiki PR which explained that it employed not only of the garden variety by also professional administrative editors capable of deleting and freezing pages  .. Wiki PR claimed over 12,000 clients from household names Viocom to Priceline to minor firms .. whose pages were repeatedly deleted for not meeting Wikipedia's notability standards ... "

Sock Puppets

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.... " Sock Puppets are basically fake accounts that are all run by one person but pretend to be multiple people ... in Wikipedia if there is a disagreement you want to have other people to come in and take your side ... because in that way there is some sort of democratic element to it... but the Wiki Pr Scandal was because they were openly advertising there services on this website and finally it emerged that they were advertising on their website but they were not advertising who they were on Wikipedia ...so ... the fact that they had corralled admin people in Wikipedia to help them edit and delete websites ... the admin people in Wikipedia are meant to be more trust worthy ... these business es are concerned because when you Google their business name and their Wikipedia entry turns up and nobody wants to look bad.. "

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges..... "you were right about the USA Government interfered  in Wikipedia ...  a tracing program called Wiki Scanner discovered that computers at CIA headquarters did edits to entries on the US invasion of Iraq and the biographies on the former CIA Head William Colby and former US Presidents Ronald Regan and Richard Nixon .. also an FBI computer was also used the edit the Wikipedia page on Guantanamo Bay  Detention Facility....  e-voting machine-vendor Diebold deleted 15 paragraphs from a Wikipedia article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines....  while the Vatican and the British Labour Party were also prolific in editing Wikipedia pages ... since the intelligence agencies have had to try and  camouflage  their edits or outsource their edits or outsource them to third parties"...
 
Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.." it was pretty easy to do that ...just get some guy to front for them ... they were being so obvious about it.. well as its  anonymous   ... anyone can do it... lets just edit from our work computer .... that's like really bad upset  …”

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges..... "... so you have a huge network of entities outside Wikipedia ... constantly revising and editing Wikipedia and one of the things that you point out in your article is that often the prime target of these edits are those critical of capitalism, imperialism, such as George Galloway ...and there have been all sorts of fake entities as somebody presenting themselves as Philip Cross who made 14 edits to my own Wikipedia page ... but goes after figures such as George Galloway and Jeremy Corbyn ... if it is a single person ... who knows... made hundreds of thousands of edits ... 130,000 edits to more than 30,000 pages and all of them ... are about defaming critics ... "

George Galloway is a British politician, broadcaster and writer. Between 1987 and 2015, with a gap in 2010–12, he represented four constituencies as a Member of Parliament, elected as a candidate for the Labour Party and later the Respect Party. 

Jeremy Bernard Corbyn is a British politician serving as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition since 2015. Corbyn was first elected Member of Parliament for Islington North in 1983. Ideologically, he identifies himself as a democratic socialist. 


Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.." ... this is one of these obsessive types ... he will make a tiny little change and if it is left alone he will  edit it a little bit more ... this is obviously the sign on an extremely obsessive person ...or a team that is working in concern ... I mean .... if you look at the amount of time editing .. it is the equivalent of a full time job and then some ... so I find it difficult to believe it is a single person ... but there is definitely a political double standard ..I mean people like Philip Cross are allowed to go after the left wing... the progressives ... the anti capitalists ...anti imperialists ..."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. "... so as you point out while they are defaming those figures ... there's very clear intent ... on he part of the managers of Wikipedia to prop up other figures such as Hillary Clinton ... "

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.." ... yes Hillary Clinton was the beneficiary of the most obvious  Wikipedia PR Campaign that was coming straight from the top .. they hired the Clinton Foundation's PR Firm .. the Manasion Group ... yeh ... Wiki Media the non profit arm of the Wikipedia ... they made around $75 million last year on revenue .. in the form of donations .. it used to be donations form users ,.. now its donations from users and large corporations and governments ... like the government of Kasistan ... they'll take money form anybody ... you pay the money and you get the right desired coverage ... its no surprise if you look at the list of companies that have donated to Wikipedia ..they have pretty nice Wikipedia pages .. you are not going to find any Philip Cross us there mucking up their nice material up on their Wikipedia Pages .."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. "... what about the Hilary Clinton page compared with the Donald Trump page..."

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."...  well if you look at the Hillary Clinton Wikipedia Page compared to the Donald Trump Wikipedia Page .. there will be all sorts of unsighted and unsourced allegations against Donald Trump that he said something racist about this and that ... yo will see a whole page devoted to the Russiangate Conspiracy .... whereas with Hillary Clinton... her Wikipedia Page is so sanitised ... i think its much shorter ..."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. "... you as an outsider cannot make any changes..."

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."...  yes it is protected ... there are varying levels it is protected .. ... otherwise there would be users coming into regularly trying to set the record straight and  edit the Hillary Clinton Wikipedia Page ... there was definitely a user who regularly came in and changed any edits made on the Hillary Clinton Wikipedia Page .. such as edits stating that the Clinton Foundation had taken off with a lot of money from Haiti ... non of these edits were allowed to remain  on Wikipedia during election season ... nothing negative such as the emails scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton .... was allowed to remain during election season ... I don't know the full level of protection .... there seems to be varying levels of protection .... there are protected pages and ever more highly protected pages .. there is no doubt that Hillary Clinton has definitely got Secret Service Protection of her Wikipedia Page ..."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... "..The New York Police Department white wash dozens of Wikipedia entries in March 2015 when Wiki Scanner Technology linked hundreds of edits to computers at the NYPD... what were they doing?..."

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."...    oh they were all covering up all sorts of NYPD scandals ... of which there are many ..."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " .... including the death of Eric Garner .. the Satan Island man that was cocked to death.."


Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."...  yeh ... for supposedly selling untaxed cigarettes ... he wasn't even selling untaxed cigarettes ...which was left out of most accounts of the story ... that they they tried to make out other victims of the NYPD were much more threatening than they are ... "

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... "... Sean Bell ..."

Sean Bell was shot in the New York City borough of Queens, New York, United States, on November 25, 2006

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."...  yeh... they tried to remove the entry on Shawn Bell.. .. Paul Cello .. he's not notable ... it has to be noteable if is going to be in Wikipedia ...I think a guy leaving his bachelor party riddled with 50 bullets if pretty notable .. but ... I don;t know ... I'm not the NYPD .... they modified the entry to make it sound like a much more reasonable procedure than it really was ... the other ones are allowed ti make the changes until somebody catches them ... then there is a big scandal.."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges ... "... look at Jeremy Corbin... describe Jeremy Corbin's  and the Labour Party ..."


Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."..  this is one of the insidious ones ... it is not like they are outright lying about the guy ... but there is a question of the undue weight they give to different materials..... part is about his political party and his political achievements ..ans then the bottom half is all the allegations of his comments of anti-semitism and the labour party .. it just like making this guy out to be Adolf Hitler .... you know ... you guys need to write about something else .... "

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " from you conclusion Wikipedia is pretty amicable to these kinds of changes... "

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."...  oh yeh ... there is definitely a double standard ...   as you said ... they go after the anti capitalists ... the anti imperialist ones... 

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges ... "... I want to talk about Wales ... the head of Wikipedia .. tell me a little bit about him.."


Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."..   well Jimmy Wales got his start on the Internet running a Porn Search Engine...Bomis or Bommis? .. I'm not sure how to pronounce  it .. then there was this side project of an encyclopedia  .. but it was too expensive and took too long to create the information to put onto the website... as it was not making any money .. then they came up with the idea of outsourcing the edits... but then he realised that he could not run adds on it and thus did not want to work for him ...if he was going to put adds on there which was meant to be an depository of knowledge ...he quickly turned Wikipedia into a non profit ... and since found a way to cash in that way ...."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges ... ".. well the people writing the pages .... number one they are anonymous ...  number two ... they often have no background of the subjects they are writing about ... "

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski "..   there is actually an antipathy against experts ... which is one of the reasons why the two co-founders split ... Jimmy Wales tried to white wash the other co-founder out of history ..this guy Larry Sanger who ... Wikipedia really was his pet project ... who didn't like the whole anti-elitism of the thing ... he said the trolls came in and took over and this is what the story of Wikipedia has been ever since ...the trolls came in and took over ... so its like ..."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges .... " .. you quote ... is it ..'Kings Indian'..the user name  ... this person writes ... 'would anyone accept a newsroom where anonymous contributions with undisclosed conflicts of interest argue about things? Where expertise is irrelevant? Where contributors' work is unpaid? There is no editor or copy editor, and no one takes responsibility for the final product?'  ....   "

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."..  and that's what you've got with Wikipedia ...  it's treated with this sacred information source .. Google uses it as a fact check .. so does YouTube and ... FaceBook was going to use it for a while and know their using snopes.com (The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation) ... which is just as bad ... yeh its the first thing you see when you Google you're name ... if you're a notable person .. if you Google a company ... or you Google anything ...so ... Wikipedia are the Sacred arbiter of knowledge ... its terrifying when you look at who's doing the editing ... "

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " you argue that those who have close personal relationships with Jimmy Wales ... such as Tony Blair ... or one can assume Hillary Clinton ... from her Wikipedia Page ... are edited in such a way to take out anything that is remotely negative against them .... talk about Tony Blair for instance ... I didn't know this but Tony Blair's financial wealth is 37 homes, ten houses an 27 flats ... worth £27 million pound plus millions of pounds distributed through a network  ... I don't know this ... I suppose that is what you get for selling out the Labour Party ... and shoving the Iraq War down our throat ... working as public relations on behalf of dictators in Kuwait ... in Egypt and everywhere else ..."

 Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."..   yep .. and Jimmy Wales doesn't really want anybody to know about that ... so Jimmy Wales will through temper tantrums if someone mentions that when the Kazakhstan Scandal broke that Wikipedia had ..."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... "... please explain as this is a kind of window of how it works... "

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."... also Wiki Media ... the non profit arm of Wikipedia was funding someone affiliated with the government  of  Kazakhstan   to basically to basically beef up and expand the  Kazakhstan   the Wikipedia page ... because they have Wikipedia for most of the world's languages at this point .. and they tried to make out that this was an independent Wikipedia Organisation in  Kazakhstan   ... when the guy used to work for the  State TV Station ... the guy that runs  Kazakhstan   Wikipedia ... Wiki- Billiom ... I believe its called ... and its funded by the Kazakhstan Sovereign Wealth Fund ... so this guy is so tied in with the dictators of Kasistan ...its not even funny ... but Jimmy Wales goes ... 'no its independent ... I have nothing to do with  Kazakhstan   ... this is an outrage ... and of course this was the same time that Tony Blair was consulting .. made  $13 million dollars consulting PR for  Kazakhstan   and so its very incestuous ... and the fact that Jimmy Wales tries to pretend that this is not in any way objectionable morally is hard to swallow .."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " ... what do the pages look like? ..."
 .. investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."... its basically the official line of everything from the Government of  Kazakhstan and they basically took entries from the Kazakhstan  State Encyclopaedia  and put them into Wikipedia ... well why would you want people to write their own? ....."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " in 2011 ... this was the year that Wikipedia's founder was named Wikipedian of the Year ... being the same year 14 police massacred 14 protesters during an Oil Field Strike that turned into a riot ... and the government declares a state of emergency and restricts access to journalists ...."

 Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."...   yep... so the only information you are going to get out of Kazakhstan is by reading the Wikipedia page on Kazakhstan ... something tells me that this massace wasn't going to be on the Kazakhstan Wikipedia page ... "

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " ...what has this done to our system of information ... I'm surprised as somebody who has watched ... i do not go onto my Wikipedia site too much ... but when I go on there ... there are always trolls that have written in garbage ... often falsehoods ... or an you say ... it maybe nominally sourced falsehoods ...what is this doing to our system of information...?.."

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski  ..." well its just ...its the fact that people take this as value is really degrading the meaning of the concept of truth ... for one thing ... because it has become this  consensus   thing ... where anybody who has an axe to grind and get in there and ruin somebody's reputation .. and sometimes you try to fix that  lie they have told about you and it is impossible and you can't get your page taken down ... they pride themselves in not taking people's pages down ... "

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " also it is about which publications they consider credible and those which they don't...

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."...  that too ...."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " ... so Mother Jones of the Nation are not considered credible sources ... basically any source outside of the mainstream ... "

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."..  so any alternative media are not allowed ... so..." 

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " ... what about Fox News?.."

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."..   Fox News was only made 10 years ago  which is primarily  an advertising network... and now its pretending to be respectable...but this is now considered to be mainstream media  ...so..."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " ... how effective do you think its been in terms of altering public perception .."

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."..   I unfortunately think its been quite effective ... because if somebody isn't very well versed in this topic ... like say progressive and leftist politics ... and they go to Google somebody's name ...or they look them up on Wikipedia ... and that is what they will see .. and they don't really know ... because they are only interested in these things on a surface level ... they don't know to question .. I mean .."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... "... they also don't know the biases of the people editing the Wikipededia Page .... because they are anonymous ... we don't know who they are .... "

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."... you can see there is a page for edit history where you can at least see the editor's username and you can at least see the editor/user's other edits are but ... most people do not have time or the inclination to do that  ... there are obviously some ideology motivated actors ...  which only just work on a certain thing... which is supposed to be against the rules ... but one again the rules only apply to some people ... "

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " you say there is not way to tell whether the editor is an editor or malicious actor ... in 2007 a prolific Wikipedia editor who claimed to be a graduate professor with degrees in theology and in Canon Law ... is revealed to be a 24 year old college drop out ... Ryan Jordan who contributed 16,000 Wikipedia  entries during his time on the site rose to become a member of the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee ... Wikipedia's Supreme Court before he was unmasked .... it is a simple matter for powerful groups like pharmaceutical Industry and the CIA to infiltrate Wikipedia and liable their enemies ... people like Gary Null, John Pilger ... Seymour Hersh and Glen Greenwald who have a history of shinning the spotlight on the corruption and criminality of our institutions ... how better to silence them than to assassinate their Character ..."

Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American attorney, journalist, and author, best known for his role in a series of reports published by The Guardian newspaper beginning in June 2013, detailing the United States and British global surveillance programs, and based on classified documents disclosed 

https://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwald/

Glenn Greenwald is one of three co-founding editors of The Intercept. He is a journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four New York Times best-selling books on politics and law. His most recent book, “No Place to Hide,” is about the U.S. surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. Prior to co-founding The Intercept, Glenn’s column was featured in the Guardian and Salon. He was the debut winner, along with Amy Goodman, of the Park Center I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism in 2008, and also received the 2010 Online Journalism Award for his investigative work on the abusive detention conditions of Chelsea Manning. For his 2013 NSA reporting, he received the George Polk Award for National Security Reporting; the Gannett Foundation Award for investigative journalism and the Gannett Foundation Watchdog Journalism Award; the Esso Premio for Excellence in Investigative Reporting in Brazil (he was the first non-Brazilian to win), and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award. Along with Laura Poitras, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013. The NSA reporting he led for the Guardian was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service.

Gary Michael Null (born 1945) is an American talk radio host and author who advocates for alternative medicine and naturopathy..Gary takes on the real issues that the mainstream media is afraid to tackle. Tune in to find out the latest about health news, healing, politics, and the economy.

https://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."...  yep .. just try and get your page taken down ..  there's a function so you can have an alert set ..so that even if they do succeed in sending in other editors to change their pages or try to remove their pages to eradicate the libels against them on Wikipedia .. they can just have their Ruling Class representatives come right back in and change it back .. so its a losing game until it becomes much more obvious to the world at large that Wikipedia is a website that should have any credibility at all ... then ... I mean ... it would be one thing if Wikipedia was just considered to be a bias source ... like sort of a trash rag ... like the bathroom wall .... I like to call it ... but Wikipedia is not ... Wikipedia is considered the holy oracle of truth, and its really anything but ... "

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " ... well ... as many writers will tell you ... I do events where people get up and read to my horror... will just get up as an introduction and read a section of my Wikipedia Page ... "

Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."... .. its intellectual laziness basically ... well you don't want to dig to find the real information so you just go to this sort of feeding trowel of lazy trolls ... and dreg up what you get there and then I mean..."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " ... well its part of the whole salt on scholarship ... on research ... on verifiable fact ... its just one more mechanism by which ... public discourse is contaminated ..."


Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."..  very much so ...  there's the whole thing about if  you're not paying for something in the Internet ... then your the product ... so this just creates this replicable sort of brainwashed entity ... its not even brainwash .. there is not even that much work that goes into it ... but its just like empty ... your need for a higher level of knowledge is not there ..."

RT America’s Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges.. ... " ... well this is what happens when society severs itself from a print based culture ..."


 .Investigative journalist Helen Buyniski.."...  unfortunately that's true .."

That was an interview with  investigative journalist Helen Buyniski ... her work can be found on

www.helenofdestroy.com

Helen of desTroy live on INN World Report w/Tom Kiely - 2 Apr 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiqg2ZCORyQ

Helen of Destroy: Published on Apr 15, 2019

Talking with INN World Report's Tom Kiely about the future (or lack thereof) of the free internet post-Article 13, the ignominious demise of Russiagate, the weaponization of climate change, & the perils of attempting to defy the Second Law of Thermodynamics. (go to www.helenofdestroy.com for more)
 

PRISM has been largely forgotten in the wake of more recent NSA/CIA scandals


PRISM has been largely forgotten in the wake of more recent NSA/CIA scandals, but at the time of its exposure, Facebook and Google were in the process of creating secure portals to allow the NSA to more easily access their data, and it’s absurd to think they halted that project because of a silly leak. The Snowden revelations managed to change precisely nothing about how Americans interact with the security state, except to erode the expectation of privacy we once had. A browser plugin, back doored to the NSA, tracking one’s un-American activities, is the setup for the worst kind of Minority-Report-esque pre-crime detention. And thanks to the same National Defense Authorization Act that allowed the Pentagon to turn its venerable propaganda apparatus on American citizens, the security state can detain us indefinitely without a warrant should the mood strike - even mow us down like dogs in our homes if it doesn’t like our web history.
NewsGuard itself is supposedly staffed by “real journalists” as opposed to the algorithm that protects us from conspiracy theories on YouTube, and it has already been exposed as hopelessly corrupt. Those in the mainstream media who’ve heard of NewsGuard were perplexed by its rating of Fox News as “trustworthy,” believing a right-leaning network could not possibly rate the coveted green checkmark. All was made clear when Fox broadcast a puff piece hailing NewsGuard as the “killer app” that would save journalism - a clip NewsGuard immediately added to the list of "endorsements" on their website. You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.
This corruption became even clearer when NewsGuard was persuaded to change its “untrustworthy” rating of the Daily Mail, the British tabloid which was also the first mainstream news source to be declared untrustworthy by just a handful of editors on Wikipedia. The Mail, for all its flaws - and there are many - has more traffic than any other online news outlet (not counting aggregators like Drudge). When an anonymous Mail editor wrote a polite point by point refutation and sent it to NewsGuard, their rating was changed to green, ensuring the Mail would not publish a scathing attack on the noble censor - which could have smothered it in its cradle - while also making the plugin look eminently reasonable (see, they do change their ratings if they’re wrong!). Everybody wins! MintPress, of course, tried the same thing months ago, only to be ignored and vilified.
Breitbart, miffed after being slighted by the NewsGuard team despite their diligent cheerleading for every neocon regime-change operation, compiled a telling list of proven hoaxes the extension has approved. More than anything else, the list highlights the obvious perils of a blacklist - scare stories like the Washington Post’s infamous “Russia hacked Vermont utilities” are never properly retracted because they’re designed to percolate in the reader’s subconscious so the next time they read about Russian malfeasance they’re more favorably inclined toward the idea. Facts are stupid things that merely get in the way of a good narrative. In the same way, a story published on Breitbart or RT - even if it came from ur-Reliable Source the Associated Press - gets the scarlet shield of shame through guilt by association. NewsGuard is laughably, irredeemably flawed, and no intelligent person would ever download it.
 
Helen of desTroy live on INN World Report w/Tom Kiely - 2 Apr 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiqg2ZCORyQ

Helen of Destroy: Published on Apr 15, 2019

 Talking with INN World Report's Tom Kiely about the future (or lack thereof) of the free internet post-Article 13, the ignominious demise of Russiagate, the weaponization of climate change, & the perils of attempting to defy the Second Law of Thermodynamics. (go to helenofdestroy.com for more)

Category: People & Blogs
Keith Duran
The UK has passed a law giving up to 15 year jail sentence for viewing "terrorist" websites. Next they will declare Wikileaks a "terrorist" organization. Happy (belated) 70th Birthday to NATO! Now Go Home, You've Outlived Your Purpose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUSA2mGJLRU


Helen of Destroy: Published on Apr 9, 2019

NATO was founded 70 years ago to "contain" communism as embodied in the Soviet Union. This means it has lived nearly 30 years past its expiration date. Without an enemy to keep it in check, NATO has metastasized in a way that would turn any cancerous tumor green with envy, growing with leaps and bounds even as its raison d'être faded into memory. It now contains more than twice as many countries as it did when formed, some of which abut Russia's borders, and seems to exist for the sole purpose of provoking Russia - and extorting tribute payments from its component countries, with a hint that something nasty could befall them should they fail to cough up 2% of GDP. Anyone who smirks at this suggestion need only research Operation Gladio - the real mission NATO covered for, which continues to this day. Any countries that got out of line - leaning a little too far to the left, say, or (in more recent years) calling out the war crimes of one particular non-NATO US ally - might suddenly find themselves victim of a terror attack (spoiler alert: there's no "might" here - it never fails). "That's a nice country you got dere - would be a shame if anything happened to it..." related: https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-its-... if you like this video, please SHARE it & SUBSCRIBE. YouTube is actively suppressing this channel - watch view counts go backwards before your very eyes - & if we leave it up to them no one will ever see this material. wouldn't want that on your conscience, would you?! at least share it to jab a pointy stick in the Polyphemus-eye of Google. because if they hate me enough to sit on my channel i'm clearly doing something right. also subscribe on bitchute for the inevitable day this channel is memory-holed: helenofdestroy. & for MOAR, MOAR, ALWAYS MOAR go to helenofdestroy.com

Category: People & Blogs

False Flag Weekly News 8 March 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUzCcMy3AnA

Helen of Destroy: Published on Mar 31, 2019

(this is a mirror of my first guest appearance on Kevin Barrett's False Flag Weekly News. NoLiesRadio lost its YouTube channel after telling too much truth, so the only place their videos are currently available is Vimeo, which no one uses. original description follows:) False Flag Weekly News is a weekly investigative news program that covers extremely controversial subjects. We want to remind our viewers that “Questioning” of Official Government or Mainstream Media Stories Is Not Hate Speech, nor is it Fake News, it is Free Speech that is protected by the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution. Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms: There is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/06/19/supreme-court-unanimously-reaffirms-there-is-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/ The False Flag Weekly News anchored by Dr. Kevin Barrett and Prof. Tony Hall looks behind the headlines and main stream media stories to get at what’s really going on in the world. From violations of international law to initiating WWIII, you don’t want to miss what they and their guests have to say about the stories behind the stories. Today's Guest Host: Helen Buyniski Click here for today's news story links: noliesradio.org/archives/163051

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Julian Assange has information that could 'destroy Russian hoax': 

Jerome Corsi

Fox Business

Published on Apr 12, 2019

Conservative author Jerome Corsi reacts to the arrest of Julian Assange saying the Wikileaks founder is being unjustly prosecuted.

Assange arrest shows Moreno is ‘CIA asset,’

turning Ecuador into ‘vassal’ – former FM

21 Apr, 2019

https://www.rt.com/news/457170-patino-ecuador-moreno-vassal-cia/



Julian Assange and Ricardo Patino meet at Ecuador's embassy in central London on June 16, 2013.

 

Ecuador turns to Interpol to arrest former foreign minister & Assange supporter Patino

The decision of Ecuador’s government to terminate Julian Assange’s asylum is “savagery” and has heavily damaged the dignity of the county, which caved in to the US as if it was its “vassal,” former FM Ricardo Patino told RT.

The former official, who is a vocal supporter of the WikiLeaks co-founder, believes the arrest of Assange has greatly damaged the image of Ecuador, its constitution, as well as the international law as a whole.

“This is an insult to the dignity of our country, it is lawlessness – to allow the British police to enter our embassy and pull out the person we gave asylum to. And according to our constitution and international agreements it is forbidden to extradite him, this is called the principle of non-refoulement,” Patino told RT Spanish in an exclusive interview.

Aside from that, he said Assange still holds Ecuadorian citizenship (currently “suspended” by the government). The country’s laws explicitly prohibit handing over its citizens to be persecuted under foreign laws, Patino noted. The amount of violations is “savagery from a legal point of view,” and Patino says it has clearly shown the country’s president – Lenin Moreno – surrendered to the US “as a vassal.”

Patino then accused the incumbent president of being a puppet of the CIA, tasked with destroying the legacy of his socialist predecessors.

“All that Moreno does is an attempt to completely destroy what we have built. Undoubtedly, it was planned and it was planned with the CIA involvement. He is not smart enough to come up with something like this, so it is staged by the US Embassy,”  Patino claimed, adding that a CIA representative frequents presidential and government meetings, telling Ecuadorian leadership what to do.

 

Ecuador Detains a Friend of Assange. Critics Say It’s Guilt by Association.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/world/americas/ecuador-ola-bini-assange.html



An anti-government protest in Quito that was prompted in part by 

Ecuador’s decision to no longer protect the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange


By José María León Cabrera

April 21, 2019
Leer en español

QUITO, Ecuador — Just hours after the British police dragged the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, the police in Ecuador made an arrest they suggested was related and involved the nation’s security.

But in the days since, the arrest has drawn a wave of protest from human rights activists and digital security advocates who say there is no evidence yet of a crime — only that of guilt by association.

The man arrested, Ola Bini, a Swedish cybersecurity expert and digital privacy advocate, was detained April 11 on charges that he had attacked computer systems in the country.

As evidence, prosecutors pointed to the laptops, iPads, iPods, encrypted USB sticks and credit cards they found when they searched Mr. Bini’s home and possessions. They noted that Mr. Bini traveled often and had spent more than $230,000 in internet services over the past five years.


Ecuador’s officials particularly cited Mr. Bini’s contacts with Mr. Assange, who faces extradition to the United States on charges of conspiring to hack an American government computer to obtain national security information.

Last week, President Lenin Moreno of Ecuador said that Mr. Bini was one of “many hackers” who had visited Mr. Assange at the country’s embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder had sought refuge. “Probably to receive instructions,” Mr. Moreno added.

But as news of the detention has spread, human rights and digital security advocates have begun to question the grounds for the detention, arguing that Mr. Bini, 36, worked to prevent illegal access to private information.

Ola Bini, right, a Swedish programmer and digital privacy advocate, with his father last year in Brazil.CreditGörel Bini Gustafsson 


Amnesty International and Article 19, an organization that defends free speech, have raised concerns about the arrest.

Mr. Bini “is a highly respected expert in digital security and cryptography and is recognized for major contributions in the field,” Article 19 said in a statement. David Kaye, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, said that nothing revealed so far connects Mr. Bini to any crime.

Danny O’Brien, the international director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said Mr. Bini’s work had helped build a safer internet. The evidence that Ecuadorean authorities presented was simply “the sort of equipment you have when you work in those sort of projects,” he said.

“People contributing their free time to protect internet users have their skills and their lifestyle used against them,” Mr. O’Brien said, a point of recurring concern among human rights advocates.

Mr. Bini was arrested at the international airport in Quito, Ecuador’s capital, on his way to Japan to take part in a martial arts program, said his girlfriend, Sofia Celi. Later, government officials went on television to applaud the arrest — and mention his visits to Mr. Assange.

The minister of interior, María Paula Romo, said the government was trying to prevent Ecuador from turning into a center for digital “espionage and piracy.” Ms. Romo said she could not comment on the evidence against Mr. Bini, but she, too, noted that he had visited Mr. Assange at the Ecuadorean Embassy “at least a dozen times.”

Mr. Bini’s lawyers say the detention is unlawful. They say he was denied access to lawyers for 17 hours, was not informed of the charges against him, and was not offered a translator, as required by local laws. His lawyers said they have been harassed and threatened by the police.

Mr. Bini, who was not granted bail, will remain in custody for 90 days while Ecuadorean prosecutors build a case against him.



Mr. Bini’s father, Dag Gustafsson, and his lawyer, Carlos Soria, during a news conference in Quito.

Mr. Bini moved to Ecuador in 2013, when he was working as a consultant for ThoughtWorks, a technology company based in Chicago. The Ecuadorean government had contracted with the company to consult on a new law governing software development.

He had joined the company around 2008, and when ThoughtWorks started offering cybersecurity consultancies, Mr. Bini focused on that area, said Ronaldo Ferraz, who was ThoughtWorks’ manager for Latin America and Africa at the time and oversaw Mr. Bini’s work.

He said that Mr. Bini was being accused of doing “the very same things he protected people against” and that the idea of Mr. Bini’s illegally accessing private information “runs contrary to everything he believes.”

Two weeks after Mr. Bini’s arrival in Ecuador, he gave an address titled “Ecuador as a Privacy Paradise” at a technology event hosted by a state university, during which he expressed concern about governments’ use of technology to monitor citizens.

After his arrest, Mr. Bini’s parents flew to Ecuador and gave a news conference denying their son was involved in wrongdoing and saying that his friendship with Mr. Assange was not enough to incriminate him.

Mr. Bini’s girlfriend, Ms. Celi, is a coder herself and has written academic papers with him on cryptography. She said there seemed to be a lack of understanding about the work Mr. Bini did, and what “cryptographic and privacy-preserving tools actually mean.”





Correa on Assange:

'You don't grant asylum to someone because he's nice'


FRANCE 24 English

Published on Apr 12, 2019


Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador





Julian Paul Assange

Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador states that ..." during a meeting  Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort ..... had with Lenin Moreno the new president of Ecuador  after a week of taking office of the president of Ecuador ...

Lenin Moreno offered to hand over Julian Assange to the United States, in exchange for financial support from the United States .. “ that was something incredable ..” Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador went onto state … “ last year Mike Pence the vice president of the United States visited m country and again Lenin Moreno the new president of Ecuador offered to give Julian Assange to the United States in exchange of receiving financial support from the United States…


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Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador states that during a meeting  Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafor..... had with Lenin Moreno the new president of Ecuador  after a week of taking office of the president of Ecuador ... offered to hand over Julian Assange to the United States, in exchange for financial support from the United States .. “ that was something incredable ..” Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador went onto state … “ last year Mike Pence the vice president of the United States visited m country and again Lenin Moreno the new president of Ecuador offered to give Julian Assange to the United States in exchange of receiving financial support from the United States…  by you want the main factor .. the final factor as behind the expelling of Julian Assange from the Ecuador Embassy .. is that during the election WikiLeaks published a very serious .. a very huge corruption scandal involving the Moreno Family … the new Ecuador president’s family of a secret bank account in in a bank in Panama .. a secret account of the Moreno Family …WikiLeaks published this .. and because of these things …. Moreno took the decision to expel Julian Assange from the Ecuador Foreign Embassy …

Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador was then asked … “…if it had been in your tenure as president of Ecuador … that this kind of allegation had been published … while your hosting Julian Assange .. would have you reacted the same way …

Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador then replied… “not at all .. we had problems with Julian Assange .., during the last presidential election in the United States I was president of Ecuador …”

The reporter then asked… “you cut off his internet access in October 2016 for a short while …?”

Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador then replied … “.. yes … yes … we cut of Julian Assange’s Internet Access for as short time we believed Julian Assange was interfering with the US Presidential Election … we didn’t agree with that … but after that Julian Assange still continued living in the Ecuador Embassy … you can punish .. you can limit the activities of the refugee … but you can not expel Julian Assange, the refugee from the embassy … “..

The reporter then asked… “… from the reports provided Julian Assange was not the easiest guest to deal with and have living in the Ecuador Embassy for many stated reasons ..”.

 Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador then replied … “.. well we have to see .. these seem to be lies … but this is irrelevant … you do not grant asylum to someone who is a human being … he’s nice… or he’s disgusting …. because he’s handsome … he’s fat … no … we granted asylum to Julian Assange’s because his human rights were in danger …  and these conditions continue until now … and the fundamental basement principle of the institution of Asylum …. is not to return the refugee to people requiring his … yet … that is exactly what the Ecuadorian Government has now done …. so … it is something incredable .. it is not possible to justify something lake this …”

The reporter then asked… “ the Foreign Policy Magazine in 2016 stated that WikiLeaks had sat on documents published in relation to Russia’s role in the Ukraine …. do you think that WikiLeaks is one sided?..”

Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador then replied … “.. perhaps .. I do not care about that … we did not grant Asylum to Julian Assange because WikiLeaks and Julian Assange is doing a good job … he is doing a bad job … or because we like Julian Assange … I don’t know Assange … I have never met Assange … we decided to grant political asylum to Julian Assange inside the international legal framework … because we observed and we realised that Julian Assange’s human rights were in danger … because Julian Assange did not have the opportunity for a fair process in the United States … some people in the United States wanted to pursuit him … to judge him with a law including a penalty … that penalty is against human rights … its against the international convention of human rights …it is for these reasons that we decided to grant Julian Assange political asylum … not because he liked Julian Assange .. not because we agree with him … there are a lot of things that I do not agree with Julian Assange over what Julian Assange used to do … but the main point … the important point was that the Julian Assange’s human rights were in danger …  Julian Assange was condemed from the beginning of the government of Lenin Moreno ….”..

The reporter then asked… “ … WikiLeaks data dumps helped sway an American Election on way ….is it something that you think about …?”

Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador then replied … “.. yes… yes … of course … for that reason we warned Julian Assange … and he didn’t pay attention and we cut the Internet Service until the US Election had already taken place … and after that we returned the Internet Service to Julian Assange …. you want to punish Julian Assange for that … no no … Julian Assange was under the protection of the Ecuador State …. it was our duty to protect Julian Assange’s basic rights … if you want to punish WikiLeaks … you can sue Wikileaks … you can start some type of legal process against Wikileaks … but I do not know how to relate that to the political asylum of Julian Assange …. what do you mean? …. because of the actions of WikiLeaks you have to expel Julian Assange from the Ecuador Embassy … that doesn’t make sense …”

The reporter then asked… “ .. you don’t think that you were being manipulated by Russia in this case…?”

Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador then replied … “..I don’t know … if you know something let me know please ….”..

The reporter then asked… “ … what is your reaction to what Donald Trump said about WikiLeaks and the arrest of Julian Assange….?!”

Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador then replied … “… I did not listed to what Donald Trump said about WikiLeaks and the arrest of Julian Assange..”

The reporter then said … “..Donald Trump said WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are not really his thing…”

Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador then replied … “.. what reaction can I have … I do not care what Donald Trump  says of what he doesn’t say ....”

The reporter then asked … “… where is going to go in Ecuador now with this investigation …. the INA Papers Leak ..?”

Rafael Correa the former president of Ecuador then replied … “..this is a huge scandal … there is no escape for Moreno … he’s gonna be in jail soon … and because of that … and because of revenge … Moreno wanted to crush Julian Assange … Moreno wants to crush me …  he wants to crush everybody that he hates ….  but this is too big a scandal … we discovered his secret bank account … in a tax haven … where Moreno has money laundering … so you should be very worried about that … be very concerned about that … the whole planet must request to open this bank account ….” ..




     Edward Snowden:

     Assange’s Arrest and the Mueller Report Show a ‘Two-Tiered System of Justice’

      In this week's CYBER podcast, we sat down with Edward Snowden to talk about his life in Russia, Julian Assange, and press freedom.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/597pvk/edward-snowden-assange-arrest-mueller-report

    
        
     
 Edward Snowden

When Edward Snowden was stranded in a Russian airport, before the government of Vladimir Putin granted him asylum, he turned to WikiLeaks and their lawyers for help. Since then, Snowden has inevitably been linked to WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.

Naturally, when Snowden sat down with CYBER host Ben Makuch, we asked him what he thought about Assange’s case. For Snowden, the story about Assange’s arrest should focus more on Ecuador’s motivations, and the fact that Assange is being held to a different standard than president Donald Trump. The former NSA analyst mentioned the fact that Ecuador got $4.2 billion in funds from the International Monetary Fund in early March as a sign the country was getting closer to the West, and in turn more inclined to give up Assange.

“Journalists who have been covering the story haven’t really been looking at that, because Julian as an individual is such a tragically flawed figure,” Snowden said.

Snowden also criticized people who changed their minds about Assange after the 2016 election.

“A lot of Americans now hate Julian,” he said. “Even though the sort of people who are on the center to the left part of the spectrum had been singing his praises during the Bush administration, now they’re on the other side because of his unfortunate political choices in the 2016 elections.”

Yet, Snowden defended Assange’s journalism work in the lead up to the 2016 elections, arguing the leaked emails, which major media companies covered, showed that the Democratic Party tried to favor Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. That, Snowden said, “had profound public interest.”

As Motherboard reported last week, the Department of Justice says that it isn’t positive that Assange helped whistleblower Chelsea Manning crack a password hash in order to obtain cables related to the Iraq War, but that he’s being charged with that crime anyway. Snowden juxtaposed his treatment with that of Trump’s treatment in Robert Mueller’s report.

“Mueller says it didn’t actually result in obstruction because the people that Trump ordered to do this simply ignored him,” Snowden said. “The DOJ’s defense of not charging Trump is look he tried to commit a crime but he failed to actually do this. And at the same time they’re charging Julian Assange under precisely the opposite theory. Where they say ‘Look, Julian may not have actually cracked a password—we don’t have any evidence that he did, we’re not even going to try to prove that he did, we’re going to say that the agreement to try is enough.”

“So this is a real question of a two-tiered system of justice. Where if you’re the president and you try to commit a crime, you can skate,” he added. “Why is it that journalists are being held to a higher standard of behavior than the president of the United States?”

Finally, Snowden attacked the Department of Justice for charging Assange with conspiracy to crack a password, “a pretty low level infraction relative to the things Assange has been accused of in his life.”

Listen to CYBER, Motherboard’s new weekly podcast about hacking and cybersecurity

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA

 Alexandria Division

United States of America

V.

Julian Paul Assange

Defendant

Under Seal

Criminal No. 1:18cr///

Count 1: Conspiracy to Commit Computer Intrusion (18 U.S.C. ** 371, 1030(a)(1), 1030(a), 1030(2)(B)(ii)

Filed in Open Court March 6th 2018

March 2018 Term - at Alexandria, Virginia

Indictment

THE GRAND JURU CHARGES THAT:

GENERAL ALLEGATIONS

At times to this Indictment:

1, Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, was an intelligence analyst in the United States Army, who was deployed to Forward Operating base Hammer in Iraq.

2. Manning held a “Top Secret” security clearance, and signed a classified information nondisclosure, acknowledging that the unauthorized disclosure or retention or negligent handling of classified information could cause irreparable injury to the United States or be used to the advantage of a foreign nation.

3. Executive Order No. 13526 and its predecessor order define the classification levels assigned to classified information. Under the Executive Order, information may be classified as “Secret” if its unauthorized disclosure reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security. Further, under the Executive Order, classified information can generally only be disclosed to persons who have been granted an appropriate level of United States government security clearance and posses a need to know the classified information in connection to their official duties.

4. Julian Assange was the funder and leader of the WikiLeaks website. The WikiLeaks website publicly solicited submissions of classified, censored, and other restricted information.

5. Assange, who did not possess a security clearance or need to know, was not authorized to receive classified information of the United States.

6. Between in or around January 2010 and May 2010, Manning downloaded four, nearly complete databases from departments and agencies of the United States. These databases contained approximately 900,000 Afghanistan war-related significant activity reports, 400,000 Iraq war-related significant activities reports, 800 Guantanamo Bay Detainee assessment briefs, and 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables. Many of these records were classified pursuant to Executive Order No. 13526 or its predecessor orders. Manning provided the records to agents of WikiLeaks so that WikiLeaks could publicly disclose them on its website. WikiLeaks publicly released the vast majority of the classified records on its website in 2010 and 2011.

7. On or about March 8, 2010, Assange agreed to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on United States Department of Defence computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network, a United States Government Network used for classified documents and communications, as designated according to Executive Order No. 13526 or its predecessor.

8. Manning, who had access to the computers in connection with her duties as am intelligence analyst, was also using the computers to download classified records to transmit to WikiLeaks. ARmy regulations prohibited Manning from attempting to bypass or circumvent security mechanisms on Government-provided information systems and from sharing personal accounts and authenticators, such as passwords.

9. The portion of the password manning gave to Assange to crack was stored as a “hash value” in a computer file that was accessible only by users with administrative-level privileges. Manning did not have administrative-level privileges, and used special software, namely a Linux operating system, to access the computer file and obtain the portion of the password provided to Assange.

10. Cracking the password would have allowed Manning to log onto computers under a username that did not belong to her. Such a measure would have made it more difficult for investigators to identify Manning as the source of disclosure of classified information.

11. Prior to the formation of the password-cracking agreement, manning had already provided WikiLeaks with hubndreds of thousands of classified records that she downloaded from departments and agencies of the United States, including the Afghanistan war-related significant activity reports and Iraq war-related significant activities reports.

12. At the time he entered into this agreement, Assange knew that Manning was providing WikiLeaks with classified records containing national defense information of the United States, Assange was knowingly receiving such classified records from Manning for the purpose of publicly disclosing them on the WikiLeaks website.

13. For example, on March 7, 2010, manning and Assange discussed the value of the Guantanamo Bay detainee briefs, and on March 8, 2010, before entering the password cracking-agreement, Manning told Assange that share was “throwing everything (she had) on JTF GTMO at (Assange) now.” Manning also said “after this upload, that’s all I really have got left”. To which Assange replied, “curious eyes never run dry in my experience.” Following this, between march 28, 2019, and April 9, 2010, manning used a United States Department of Defense computer to download the U.S. Department of State cabled that WikiLeaks later released publicly.

14. The general allegations set forth in paragraph 1 through 13 are re-alleged and incorporated into this Count as though fully set forth therein.

15. Beginning on or about March 2, 2010, and continuing thereafter until on or aboutr March 10, 2010, that exact date being unknown to the Grand Jury, both dates being approximate and inclusive, in an offense begun and committed outside of the jurisdiction of any particular State or district of the United States, the defendant, JULIAN PAUL ASSANGE< who will be first brought to the Eastern District of Virginia, did knowingly and internationally combine, conspire, an offense against the United States, to wit:

(A) to knowingly access a computer, without authorization and exceeding authorized access, to obtain information that has been determined by the United States Government pursuant to an Executive order and statute to require protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national defence and foreign relations, namely, documents relating to the national defense classified up to the “Secret” level, reason to believe that such information so obtained could be used to the injury of the United States and the advantage of any foreign nation, and to willfully communicate, deliver, transmit, and cause to be communicated, delivered, or transmitted the same, to any person not entitled to receive it, and willfully retain the same and fail to delivery it to the officer or employee entitled to receive it; and

(B) To internationally access a computer, without authorization and exceeding authorized access, to obtain information from a department and agency of the United States in furtherance of a criminal act in violation of the laws of the United States, that is, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371, 1030(a)(1), 1030(a)(2), 10330(c) (2) (B) (ii).

PURPOSE AND OBJECT OF THE CONSPIRACY

16. The primary purpose of the conspiracy was to facilitate Manning’s acquisition and transmission of classified information related to the national defense of the United States so that WikiLeaks could publicly disseminate the information on its website.#

MANNERS AND MEANS OF THE CONSPIRACY

17. Assange and his co-conspirators used the following ways, manner and means, among others, to carry out this purpose:

18. It was part of the conspiracy that Assange and Manning used the “Jabber” online chat service to collaborate on acquisition and dissemination of the classified records, and to enter into the agreement to crack the password stored on United State Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network.

19.  It was part of the conspiracy that Assange and Manning took measures to conceal Manning as the source of the disclosure of classified records to WikiLeaks, including by removing usernames from the disclosed information and deleting chat logs between Assange and Manning.

20. It was part of the conspiracy that Assange encouraged Manning to provide information and records from departments and agencies of the United States.

21. It was part of the conspiracy that Assange and Manning used a special folder on a cloud drop box of WikiLeaks to transmit classified records containing information related to the national defense of the United States.

ACTS IN FURTHERANCE OF THE CONSPIRACY

22. In order to further the goals and purposes of the conspiracy, Assange and his co-conspirators committed overt acts, including, but not limited to, the following:

23. On or about March2, 2010, manning copied a Linux operating system to a CD, to allow Manning to access a United State Department of Defense computer file that was accessible only to users with administrative-level privileges.

24. On or about March 8, 2010, manning provided Assange with part of a password stored on United States Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network.

25.  Pm or about march 10, 2010, Assange requested more information from Manning related to the password. Assange indicated that he had been trying to crack the password by stating that he had “no luck so far.”

3/6/18

Date

A TRUE BILL

FOREPERSON

Tracy Doherty-McCormick

Acting United States Attorney

 



The Threat to the media posed by Trump's prosecution of Julian Assange


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The business of pain relief 

 DW Documentary

 (Pharma documentary)

DW Documentary

Published on Nov 2, 2018

Pain relief medication is easily available over the counter in many countries.

Our documentary investigates the big business of painkillers. [Online until: 02.12.2018]

Millions of consumers in Germany and France are well provided for with cheap, fast-acting, over the counter painkillers without any significant side effects -- diclofenac, ibuprofen, aspirin and paracetamol. At least, that’s how it looks. But the pharmaceutical industry influences politicians and doctors and cover up fatal risks, as this investigative documentary shows.

More than 150 million packs of over-the-counter painkillers are sold in Germany and France every year.

But patients are rarely given enough information about what they are taking. Over the counter pain relief worth more than half a billion euros are sold annually. The investigative journalists behind the US website "Dollars for Docs" are following the money.

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Jerome Corsi

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Published on Apr 12, 2019

Conservative author Jerome Corsi reacts to the arrest of Julian Assange saying the Wikileaks founder is being unjustly prosecuted.



Julian Assange says he could be killed in US jail




Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilen

* Anna Ardin (the official complainant) is often described by the media as a “leftist”. She has ties to the US-financed anti-Castro and anti-communist groups. She published her anti-Castro diatribes (see here and here) in the Swedish-language publication Revista de Asignaturas Cubanas put out by Misceláneas de Cuba. From Oslo, Professor Michael Seltzer points out that this periodical is the product of a well-financed anti-Castro organization in Sweden. He further notes that the group is connected with Union Liberal Cubana led by Carlos Alberto Montaner whose CIA ties were exposed here. Note that Ardin was deported from Cuba for subversive activities. In Cuba she interacted with the feminist anti-Castro group Las damas de blanco (the Ladies in White). This group receives US government funds and the convicted anti-communist terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is a friend and supporter. Wikipedia quotes Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Argentine Madres de Plaza de Mayo as saying that “the so-called Ladies in White defend the terrorism of the United States.”

However we do not have to accept the single-bullet theory. Life is more complicated than that. In addition to her anti-Castro, pro-CIA streak, Anna Ardin apparently indulges in her favorite sport of male-bashing. A Swedish forum reports that she is an expert on sexual harassment and the male “master suppression techniques”. Once, as she was lecturing, a male student in the audience looked at his notes instead of staring at her. Anna Ardin reported him for sexual harassment because he discriminated against her for being a woman and because she claimed he made use of the male “master suppression technique” in trying to make her feel invisible. As soon as the student learned about her complaint, he contacted her to apologize and explain himself. Anna Ardin’s response was to once again report him for sexual harassment, again because he was using the “master suppression technique”, this time to belittle her feelings.

Ardin is apparently involved with a “Christian” Social-Democrat group. The Swedish church has a precious few male priests: what was once the struggle for female equality has ended up with men being effectively removed from service. Nowadays very few Swedish male-female couples marry in the church, or get married at all; most Swedish gay couples, however, are proud to become “man and wife” in the church. This is all good news for wealthy Swedes: deserted churches sell their properties (once enjoyed by the community) to be fenced off by the nouveau riche created by the latest privatization wave. So much for Swedish social democracy!

The second accuser, Sofia Wilen, 26, is Anna’ friend. Here is a video of an Assange press conference where one can see the girls together. Those present at the conference marveled at her groupie-like behavior. Though rock stars are used to girls dying to have sex with them, it is much less common in the harsh field of political journalism. Sofia worked hard to bed Assange, according to her own confession; she was also the first to complain to police. She is little known and her motives are vague. Why might a young woman (who shares her life with American artist Seth Benson) pursue such a sordid political adventure?//

//Santa is a bad example to the children... so fat
he can't get down chimneys any more
he is a reindeer abuser
and won't allow the elves to unionize // sb11

Note to self: If you go after a fly, sooner or later, you will land on a pile of shit

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Rape accuser took "trophy photo", says Assange

 December 27th 2010

   
   

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange

Of Course .....

Australia won’t intervene in Julian Assange's extradition
Julian Assange Arrest At Ecuador Embassy- 

"Australia won’t intervene in Julian Assange's extradition... because since the MI6 controlled CIA has effectively been controlling state and federal politics and the Australian Main Stream Media since the 1970's ....."... Simon Walters ... a senior AWN.bz, NYT.bz and INLNews.com political investigator ...
".... I was told in the 1970's by one for the people that helped start the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and the Commonwealth Police of Australia (now known as the Australian Federal Police - AFP) after the Second World War ended ... that he was asked by the MI6 controlled CIA and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to come out of retirement and help plot to have Gouth Whitlam, the then Labour Prime Minister of Australia in 1975 sacked as the Prime Minister of Australia, through the power of the the Queen and England's appointed 18th Governor General of Australia Sir John  Robert Kerr ....." Simon Walters .. a senior AWN.bz, NYT.bz and INL News.com political investigator...

The British-American coup that ended Australian independence John Pilger ….  Latin Americans will recognise the audacity and danger of this “breaking free” in a country whose establishment was welded to great, external power. Australians had served every British imperial adventure since the Boxer rebellion was crushed in China. In the 1960s, Australia pleaded to join the US in its invasion of Vietnam, then provided “black teams” to be run by the CIA. US diplomatic cables published last year by WikiLeaks disclose the names of leading figures in both main parties, including a future prime minister and foreign minister, as Washington’s informants during the Whitlam years.

Whitlam knew the risk he was taking. The day after his election, he ordered that his staff should not be “vetted or harassed” by the Australian security organisation, Asio – then, as now, tied to Anglo-American intelligence. When his ministers publicly condemned the US bombing of Vietnam as “corrupt and barbaric”, a CIA station officer in Saigon said: “We were told the Australians might as well be regarded as North Vietnamese collaborators.”…”… John Pilger …

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO /ˈeɪzioʊ/) is Australia's national security agency responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionagesabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically motivated violence, attacks on the Australian defence system, and terrorism.

ASIO is comparable with the British Security Service (MI5) and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

ASIO is part of the Australian Intelligence Community.

ASIO has a wide range of surveillance powers to collect human and signals intelligence. Generally, ASIO operations requiring police powers of arrest and detention under warrant are co-ordinated with the Australian Federal Police and/or with state and territory police forces.

ASIO Central Office is in Canberra, with a local office being located in each mainland state and territory capital.

A new A$630 million Central Office, Ben Chifley Building, named after Ben Chifley, prime minister when ASIO was created, was officially opened by then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 23 July 2013

The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, has been described as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in Australian history.

 It culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, who then commissioned the Leader of the OppositionMalcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, as caretaker Prime Minister.

Whitlam's Labor government had been elected in 1972 with a small majority in the House of Representatives, but with the Opposition controlling the Senate. Another election in 1974 resulted in little change. While the Whitlam Government introduced many new policies and programs, it was also rocked by scandals and political miscalculations.

 In October 1975, the Opposition used its control of the Senate to defer passage of appropriation bills (needed to finance government expenditure), that had been passed by the House of Representatives. The Opposition stated that they would continue their stance unless Whitlam called an election for the House of Representatives, and urged Kerr to dismiss Whitlam unless he agreed to their demand. Whitlam believed that Kerr would not dismiss him, and Kerr did nothing to disabuse Whitlam of this notion.

On 11 November 1975, Whitlam intended to call a half-Senate election in an attempt to break the deadlock. When he went to seek Kerr's approval of the election, Kerr instead dismissed him as Prime Minister and shortly thereafter installed Fraser in his place. Acting quickly before all ALP parliamentarians became aware of the change of government, Fraser and his allies were able to secure passage of the appropriation bills, and Kerr dissolved Parliament for a double dissolutionelection. Fraser and his government were returned with a massive majority in the election held the following month.

The events of the Dismissal led to only minor constitutional change. The Senate retained its power to block supply, and the Governor-General the power to dismiss government ministers. However, these powers have not since been used to force a government from office. Kerr was widely criticised by ALP supporters for his actions, resigned early as Governor-General, and lived much of his remaining life abroad.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-latest-ecuador-withdraws-assange-asylum-status/2019/04/11/2c3ea0ac-5c42-11e9-98d4-844088d135f2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.755aa2b0efcb

 

  
Former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Brussels, Thursday, April 11, 2019. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forcibly bundled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and into a waiting British police van on Thursday, setting up a potential court battle over attempts to extradite him to the U.S. to face charges related to the publication of tens of thousands of secret government documents. 

 
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with Former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa

 


WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forcibly bundled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and into a waiting British police van on Thursday the 11th April, 2019.


"... at our new look and run MI6 and CIA Run Corporation of Australia and 

Australian Main Stream Media ..

we offer the same service as large firms, but our overheads are lower..."

A cartoonist description and and vision of  the way the Corporation of Australian and the Australian main Street media is  now run since the 1970's by the MI6 controlled CIA and ASIO plotted to have Gouth Whitlam the Australian Labour Prime Minister in 1975, sacked by the 18th Governor General of Australia, Sir John Robert Kerr who is appointed by the Queen of England, with the power at anytime to sack the Prime Minister of the Corporation of Australia.... 

"... similar to the Corporation of the USA run from Washington, ...Australia is not run as an independent free government and country ..

 but a Corporation .. and .. as with any corporation the major shareholders of Australia ... being the trillionaires  ...

who own and control the MI6 controlled CIA and ASIO .. have the right to sack the president/prime minister/managing director/ and any of the directors running a corporation ..

 if the major shareholders are not happy as to how they are running the corporation ..."....  Simon Walters .. a senior AWN.bz, NYT.bz and INL News.com political investigator...

".. In 1975 prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died this week, dared to try to assert his country’s autonomy. 

The CIA and MI6 made sure he paid the price "  John Pilger …

 




 

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Halcyon Daze popular Irish Happy Funk Bank in 2011 with their manager and film producer the late Thomas Graham Allwood and film directors David Granato and Cloudye Carew-Reid at the Edinburgh Castle, where they were involved in filming the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV show which will showcase talented fringe performers who are discovered by the Fringe Shows Have Talent Team, performing at one the over 300 fringe performance festivals and/or busking on the on the streets around around the world  .. such as Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Dublin Fringe Festival, the New York Fringe Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Melbourne Fringe Festival, the Camden Fringe Festival, the Brighton Fringe Festival, the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the Praque Fringe Festival, the Bangkok Fringe Festival ....
 
The Late Thomas Graham Allwood

The Late Thomas Graham Allwood was murdered in Broxburn, Scotland on the 21st June, 2012, 

by a clandestine MI5/MI6/Freemason Operation because he was dared to be involved with  exposing and suing in the High Court of the UK  .... 

David Cameron, the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,  George Osborne the then Chancellor of the United Kingdom, UK Border Agency Officers, the UK Home Office, 

the Home Office Treasury Solicitors, powerful solicitors and other members of the Haywicks Farm Fraud and Murder Gang for:

(a)  criminal contempt by creating and lodging a

 false fraudulent UK Border Agency Document to Master Price of the High Court in London attached to a letter prepared and signed by the UK Home Office Treasury Solicitors
demanding that the High Court Damages Claim for £500 million pounds sterling be struck out by Master Price of the High Court in London without any court hearing .. 
which was issued by Thomas Graham Allwood, his INL/AWN News media company and his partners for 

wrongfully and illegally detaining the extremely talented and funny Ronney Prouty, their USA Character Comedian, at London's Heathrow International Airport for 24 hours, 

then putting Ronney Prouty in hand cuffs and flying Ronney Prouty back to Los Angelos on his own return American Airlines air ticket... this help sabotage the filming of the 

Ronnie Prouty .... who is the grand son of the late Leroy Flecture Prouty, who wrote the controversial book called "The Secret Team" which exposed the wrongful way the CIA

 is run, and openly accused the CIA as being involved with the assassination of JFK, the then President of the USA .. had agreed without payment, to fly from Los Angeles to London, 
then to Edinburgh for five days to help host the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show....

and

 (b) for fraud and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice .....

for producing a false and fraudulent will of the late Henry Herbert Bulter, so the conspirators could fraudulently end up with the title deed of the valuable Haywicks Farm...

through corrupt  and illegal ways to help Freemason brothers Peter Urquhart and is Freemason legal and investment partners end up with the title of Haywicks Farm
into the name of Peter Leslie and Jacqeline Ann Urquhart by fraudulent, wrongful, illegal, immoral and corrupt means....
It is also interesting to note that Thomas Graham Allwood overheard a conversation between two MI5/MI6/CIA people talking about a clandestine operation to murder Thomas Graham Allwood's business partner,
who was involve in the INL/News Group in exposing corrupt activities of the CIA,  MI5/MI6, ASIO, Mossad, politicians, magistrates, judges, police, bankers, solicitors, barristers, business people, main stream media journalists and networks ..
Thomas Graham Allwood rang his business partner who was in London attending court hearings, from a the house in Broxburn, Scotland, where he and his business partner had been staying .. to warn his business partner  what he had overheard ... 
a conversation between two MI5/MI6/CIA people talking about a clandestine operation to murder Thomas Graham Allwood's business partner ...
What Thomas Graham Allwood did not know is that the phone he rang his business partner was tapped by MI5/MI6/CIA .. and that they became extremely worried about the telephone message Thomas Graham Allwood had left on his business partner's mobile phone..
warning his business partner of a conversation between two MI5/MI6/CIA people talking about a clandestine operation to murder Thomas Graham Allwood's business partner ...
So MI5/MI6/CIA quickly arranged of their operatives the next day to steal the mobile phone belonging to Mr Allwood's business partner ... so they could destroy the telephone message..
unfortunately for MI5/MI6/CIA Mr Allwood's business partner had already down loaded the message of the MI5/MI6/CIA people talking about a clandestine operation to murder Thomas Graham Allwood's business partner ...
and saved the message on a hard drive and emailed a copy of the message to a trusted group of friends.
So this was another reason why MI5/MI6/CIA  to organise some of their operatives to murder Thomas Graham Allwood on the 21st June, 2012 in Broxburn, Scotland,
by a professional six inch knife wound to the heart, after drugging Thomas Graham Allwood  and knocking him out at John Montgomery's home in Broxburn Scotland...
The late Thomas Graham Allwood was the only witness to the conversation of MI5/MI6/CIA people talking about a clandestine operation to murder Thomas Graham Allwood's business partner ...
Kyle Montgomery,. John Montgomery's son ..was charged with the murder of the late Thomas Graham Allwood ... however .. the INL/AWN News Investigation team provided a 300 page investigative report that took six months to investigate and prepare ..
to the legal team of Kyle Montgomery and the head Scotland's Prosecution called the procurator fiscal and the Scottish Police .. that proves conclusively that Kyle Montgomery could not have murdered or killed the Late Thomas Allwood,
and requested that the 300 page investigation report be carefully read and analysed by the head  procurator fiscal, and that an appointment with the head procurator fiscal be given with the INL/AWN News Investigation Team do discuss the report..
a month later the INL/AWN News Investigation Team received a two line letter back from  the head  Procurator Fiscal of Scotland, based in Edinburgh .. stating that  the procurator fiscal of Scotland are not interested in reading the INL/AWN News Investigation Report 
into the murder of the Late Thomas Graham Allwood, and would not grant an interview to discuss what was in the INL/AWN News Investigation Report into the murder of the Late Thomas Graham Allwood,  

would not order that the body of the late Thomas Graham Allwood to be re examined before being cremated .. and that the Scottish Police and the Scottish Procurator Fiscal

 had done and excellent job in solving the crime of the murder of the Late Thomas Graham Allwood ... and that the case and file was completely closed and sealed and will never be reopened again..
What the INL/AWN News investigation team did not know and understand before this .. was that there is is right for an independent Coroner's Inquest in Scotland... so is was impossible to force and independent coroner to re-investigate the death of #
the late Thomas Graham Allwood ..

The INL/AWN News Investigation Team in their research ... found out that Kyle Montgomery at the time of the murder of Thomas Graham Allwood, on the 121st June, 2012, already had an official diagnosis of schizophrenia, being a person has to show at least two of the following symptoms most of the time for a monthThe INL/AWN News Investigation Team in their research ... found out that Kyle Montgomery was already had an official diagnosis of schizophrenia, being a person has to show at least two of the following symptoms most of the time for a month, For a diagnosis of schizophrenia, some of the following symptoms are present in the context of reduced functioning for a least 6 months: Hallucinations. These include a person hearing voices, seeing things, or smelling things others can't perceive.
Thus Kyle Montgomery would not have spent a day or night in prison of his 9 year prison sentence .. Kyle Montgomery would have been taken straight to a Scottish Mental Hospital and then be released at a convenient time..
Except for many limited articles in the Scottish Press, which appeared only because an independent freelance reporter based in Edinburgh, Scotland took it upon to take himself to the murder trial of Kyle Montgomery held in the Livingston Courts,
and reported on the trial... because the late Thomas Graham Allwood was the first Australian to be murdered in Scotland .. and was also an undercover reporter for an non main stream alternative media group .. the INL/AWN News Group which tries to compete with the multi-billion dollar Rupert Murdoch News Corporation Limited, which is financially backed by the powerful Zionists .. the Rothschilds .. etc ... all there was not one main stream journalist that worked for a main stream media group that attended Kyle Montgomery's murder trial ... 
this was because the security agencies  such as MI5/MI6/CIA who were involved in arranging the murder of the late Thomas Allwood .. for reason set out above... had issued what is called "A D Notice" to all the main stream media to go out of their way not to cover or  attend Kyle Montgomery's murder trial in Livingstone, Scotland .. if it was not for a lone freelance journalist operating in Edinburgh Scotland attending Kyle Montgomery's murder trial ...  and the INL/AWN News Group putting up stories on their hundreds of sponsored news and information websites ... the world would know very little about the murder of the INL/AWN News undercover journalist, poet, bank manager and film producer ...

The evidence produced at Kyle Montgorey's murder trial states that they found blood on a knife in the draw at the home of John Montgomery .... that appeared to match the DNA of the late Thomas Allwood ... this does no in any way prove beyond reasonable doubt that Kyle Montgomery stabbed and murdered the later Thomas Graham Allwood ... the questions remain:

Who actually stabbed the late Thomas Graham Allwood with a clean six inch stab wound to exactly the right place in the heart to cause the most damage?
When and were was this stab would made?
Was Thomas Graham Allwood slipped a seditive drug at the home of John Montgomery .. at around 12 pm to 1 pm?
Was Thomas Graham Allwood knocked out with a massive king hit punch in the lounge room of John Montgomery at around 3.15 am  ... as evidenced by the next door neighbours .....
with the then dead weight body of the late Thomas Graham Allwood being quietly carried out of the back door of the home of John Montgomery ... by around 4 or more people ...
then ..
Was the late Thomas Allwood's dead weight body them laid down in the side of the street .. where he was stabbed with a clean six inch stab wound in the right place in the heart to cause the maximum damage..
and being already unconscious was left on the side of the street at about 3.30 am to bead to death..
One thins that is for sure and certain ... Kyle Montgomery for many different reasons could not have and was not capable of stabbing the late Thomas Graham Allwood with one only clean six inch stab wound to the heart..
Kyle Montgomery has been drinking heavily as since around 12 am at his father's home, the home of John Montgomery .. as evidenced by the local liquor shop staff and others... 
and would have been  absolutely 'paraletic' drunk ... can't walk, can't talk properly and in the case of my experience being utterly unable to carry out normal actions... after drink heavily for around 14 to 15 hours
from 12 am to 2-3 am the next morning .... while the evidence was that the late Thomas Graham Allwood had not been drinking at all that evening and early morning....
the late Thomas Graham Allwood, who was a well built and strong  man who was also a trained and licensed security guard.. 
not having been drinking ...  could have knocked the absolutely 'paraletic' drunk  Kyle Montgomery over with his  index finger./.

also Kyle Montgomery gave evidence at his murder trial that the late Thomas Graham Allwood was armed in the street with an iron bar .... and claims that he already had a fight with the late Thomas Allwood in the home of John Montgomery..  ..
and so the late Thomas Graham Allwood would have been ready to defend himself against Kyle Montgomery if things happened the way the prosecution claim at Kyle Montgomery's murder trial ... 
so how is the Kyle Montgomery .. singled handed ... going to get one clean six inch stab wound to the heart of the Late Thomas Graham Allwood ....?


DNA of Australian journalist murder victim ‘found on dad’s knife’

Saturday 24 November 2012

https://www.scotsman.com/news/dna-of-australian-journalist-murder-victim-found-on-dad-s-knife-1-2658179

THE DNA of a murder victim and the man accused of killing him was found on a kitchen knife in the accused’s father’s kitchen, a court has heard.

THE DNA of a murder victim and the man accused of killing him was found on a kitchen knife in the accused’s father’s kitchen, a court has heard.

A jury was told that the odds of DNA taken from the sharp edge of the 152mm blade matching anyone other than the deceased, Australian journalist Thomas Graham Allwood, were 28.6 million to one, and that blood samples lifted from the handle and side of the blade were a billion-to-one match for 24-year-old Kyle Montgomery.

Montgomery, from Winchburgh, West Lothian, denies murdering Mr Allwood by stabbing him in the chest in Broxburn on June 21 this year.

Forensic scientist Kirsty McTurk, 33, yesterday told the High Court in Livingston that she had analysed blood spots taken from the murder scene and from the knife, which was in a drawer in Robert Montgomery’s home.

Ms McTurk said: “In our opinion, this is consistent with Kyle Montgomery having handled the knife, Thomas Allwood having been injured with the knife and the knife belonging to Robert Montgomery.”

The trial was adjourned until Monday.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/man-charged-over-broxburn-murder-1-2375840

Man charged over Broxburn murder

https://www.scotsman.com/news/man-charged-over-broxburn-murder-1-2375840

Tuesday 26 June 2012

A 24-YEAR-OLD man has appeared at Livingston Sheriff Court charged with the murder of a man who was found dead in a street.

Thomas Graham Allwood, 55, was discovered lying in Pyothall Road in Broxburn, West Lothian, at around 4.45am on Thursday. Kyle Montgomery, from Winchburgh in Edinburgh, made no plea or declaration when he appeared at the hearing yesterday and was remanded in custody.

Mr Montgomery is due to make his next appearance at the West Lothian court on Tuesday, July 3.

http://www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk/8/964/HMA-v-KYLE-MONTGOMERY

HMA v KYLE MONTGOMERY

http://www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk/8/964/HMA-v-KYLE-MONTGOMERY

At the High Court in Edinburgh Lord Doherty sentenced Kyle Montgomery to nine years imprisonment after he was found guilty of the culpable homicide of Thomas Graham Allwood in Broxburn on 21 June 2012.

On sentencing Lord Doherty made the following statement in court:

“You have been convicted of culpable homicide. The jury determined that you assaulted Mr Allwood, pursued him whilst in possession of a knife, struck him on the body with a knife, and killed him.

You were involved in an altercation with the deceased on the evening of the killing. The deceased initiated that altercation. I take full account of that fact, the fact that the first person to use physical violence that night was the deceased, and that he had to be ejected twice from your father’s home. I also take account of the fact that the cause of death was a single blow with the knife. These were doubtless factors which weighed with the jury in deciding to return a verdict of culpable homicide rather than murder. I have regard to your previous good record.

I do not regard the fact that you were intoxicated at the time as being a mitigatory factor. I do not attach much weight to the fact that only mild force would have been required to inflict the injury which was inflicted. Sharp weapons of the sort you used are capable of inflicting grievous injury using only mild force. That is part of the reason they are so deadly. The message must go out loud and clear that those who arm themselves with such weapons, and even more so, those who go on to use them, must expect the courts to deal with them severely.

The inescapable facts are that after the deceased was ejected from your father’s home you decided to go out too. You returned a short time later. You armed yourself with a lethal weapon.You resisted your father’s attempts to disarm you. You went back outside. You stabbed the deceased in the left side of his chest with the knife, cutting through his lung and making two slits in the left side of his ascending thoracic aorta. The jury rejected your account of accidental stabbing. The stabbing was deliberate. You were not acting in self defence. The stabbing was not done under provocation. After you had stabbed him you made no attempt to obtain assistance for your victim. He bled to death from his injuries within a very short time.

I would be failing in my duty if I did not treat this as a grave case of culpable homicide. I regard your culpability for the killing as being high. The sentence which I impose is one of 9 years imprisonment. That sentence will run from 25 June 2012.”

 

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staring:

against Owen Rhys Actions as Adjudicator to HM Land Registry, High Court Master Teverson, High Court Judge Mann, High Court Judge David Richards, Master Price,HM Land Registry, Treasury Solicitors, Attorney Marie Clair Bleasdale, HM Land Registry lawyer Katharine Brothers, Gloucester Land Registrar Julie Jenkins, HM Land Registrar clerk Sarah Canipel, HM Land Registrar clerk Claire Francis, HM Land Registrar clerk David Hodges, Peter Leslie Urquhart, Jaqueline Ann Urquhart, Attorneys Madge Lloyd Gibson, Attorneys Langley Wellington, Julie Williams, and others for being involved with a conspiracy to defraud the property known as Haywicks Farm, Haywicks Lane, Hardwicke, Gloucester, GL2 3QE and well as being involved with a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, malfeasance, collusion and dereliction of duty of public officers and Attorney Marie Clair Bleasdale breaching her sworn duties and obligations as an attorney and for serious criminal contempts of court for knowingly presenting false and misleading facts, information and law to the High Court of Justice.

The concept of the names used in the film is based on the way the series of books the Triumph of Truth (Who is watching The Watchers?) written by Stephen Carew-Reid and published by the Australian Weekend News a subsidiary of the INL News Group, have been written in that the real name of those mentioned in the books are used to expose the guilty. So the real names of those involved of the fraud and murder of the Late Herbert Henry Butler and the conspiracy to defraud his only child Valerie Ann Butler of her lawful rights to Haywicks Farm will be used in the film to expose the guilty. The film as the books are based on the truth so any attempt to sue for civil or criminal defamation will be vigorously defended by the INL News Group based on the fact the information is the truth and it is in the public interest to show the world of the wrongful actions of those involved in the fraud and murder of the Late Herbert Henry Butler and the conspiracy to defraud his only child Valerie Ann Butler of her lawful rights to Haywicks Far, which includes the wrongful way the High Court of Justice and the office of the Adjudicator to HM Land Registry and the masters, clerks, adjudicators, judges  and the staff at Treasury Solicitors and HM Land Registry involved have operated in a wrongful, illegal, immoral and corrupt way to help their Freemason brothers Peter Urquhart and is Freemason legal and investment partners end up with the title of Haywicks Farm
into the name of Peter Leslie and Jacqeline Ann Urquhart by fraudulent, wrongful, illegal, immoral and corrupt means.


Assistant to Gloucester HM Land Registrar, Katharine Brothers, HM Land Regsitrar Julie Jenkins and top property dispute London Barrister Marie Clair Bleasdale join Haywicks Farm Fraud Gang .........................................
that started in 1983 with the Murder of the Late Henry Herbert Butler and the forging of his will by well known Freemason solicitor Simon James Fisher at the time working for Freemason Eggleton Solicitors who were struck off from being solicitors by the Legal Complaints Tribunal, who then handed their legal files to Madge Lloyd Gibson, who knowing the will was a forgery presented the false will to the Probate Office for as fraudulent Grant of Probate to be issued, all with the long term aim of defrauding the Later Herbert Henry Butler and his only child, Valerie Ann Butler of their legal right to ownership of their 25 acres and farm house known as Haywicks Farm, Haywicks Lane, Gloucester, GL2 3QE and have Haywicks farm fraudulently transferred into two of the fraud conspirators names Peter Leslie Urquhart and his wife Jacqueline Ann Urquhart, who had been legal clients of Eggletons solicitors and Madge Lloyd Gibson for over 30 years, who planned to hold the property as a front for all the other Freemason solicitors and ex-solicitors who are based in the Gloucester area including the Eccleton Family and their family development company Egdon Estates and Madge Lloyd Gibson and Langley Wellington solicitors who are commonly known as Gloucestershire's Legal Mafia (GLM). 



Julian Assange has information that could 'destroy Russian hoax': 

Jerome Corsi

Fox Business

Published on Apr 12, 2019

Conservative author Jerome Corsi reacts to the arrest of Julian Assange saying the Wikileaks founder is being unjustly prosecuted.



Julian Assange says he could be killed in US jail




Anna Ardin and Sofia Wilen

* Anna Ardin (the official complainant) is often described by the media as a “leftist”. She has ties to the US-financed anti-Castro and anti-communist groups. She published her anti-Castro diatribes (see here and here) in the Swedish-language publication Revista de Asignaturas Cubanas put out by Misceláneas de Cuba. From Oslo, Professor Michael Seltzer points out that this periodical is the product of a well-financed anti-Castro organization in Sweden. He further notes that the group is connected with Union Liberal Cubana led by Carlos Alberto Montaner whose CIA ties were exposed here. Note that Ardin was deported from Cuba for subversive activities. In Cuba she interacted with the feminist anti-Castro group Las damas de blanco (the Ladies in White). This group receives US government funds and the convicted anti-communist terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is a friend and supporter. Wikipedia quotes Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Argentine Madres de Plaza de Mayo as saying that “the so-called Ladies in White defend the terrorism of the United States.”

However we do not have to accept the single-bullet theory. Life is more complicated than that. In addition to her anti-Castro, pro-CIA streak, Anna Ardin apparently indulges in her favorite sport of male-bashing. A Swedish forum reports that she is an expert on sexual harassment and the male “master suppression techniques”. Once, as she was lecturing, a male student in the audience looked at his notes instead of staring at her. Anna Ardin reported him for sexual harassment because he discriminated against her for being a woman and because she claimed he made use of the male “master suppression technique” in trying to make her feel invisible. As soon as the student learned about her complaint, he contacted her to apologize and explain himself. Anna Ardin’s response was to once again report him for sexual harassment, again because he was using the “master suppression technique”, this time to belittle her feelings.

Ardin is apparently involved with a “Christian” Social-Democrat group. The Swedish church has a precious few male priests: what was once the struggle for female equality has ended up with men being effectively removed from service. Nowadays very few Swedish male-female couples marry in the church, or get married at all; most Swedish gay couples, however, are proud to become “man and wife” in the church. This is all good news for wealthy Swedes: deserted churches sell their properties (once enjoyed by the community) to be fenced off by the nouveau riche created by the latest privatization wave. So much for Swedish social democracy!

The second accuser, Sofia Wilen, 26, is Anna’ friend. Here is a video of an Assange press conference where one can see the girls together. Those present at the conference marveled at her groupie-like behavior. Though rock stars are used to girls dying to have sex with them, it is much less common in the harsh field of political journalism. Sofia worked hard to bed Assange, according to her own confession; she was also the first to complain to police. She is little known and her motives are vague. Why might a young woman (who shares her life with American artist Seth Benson) pursue such a sordid political adventure?//

//Santa is a bad example to the children... so fat
he can't get down chimneys any more
he is a reindeer abuser
and won't allow the elves to unionize // sb11

Note to self: If you go after a fly, sooner or later, you will land on a pile of shit

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Rape accuser took "trophy photo", says Assange

 December 27th 2010

   
   

WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange







Of Course .....

Australia won’t intervene in Julian Assange's extradition
Julian Assange Arrest At Ecuador Embassy- 

"Australia won’t intervene in Julian Assange's extradition... because since the MI6 controlled CIA has effectively been controlling state and federal politics and the Australian Main Stream Media since the 1970's ....."... Simon Walters ... a senior AWN.bz, NYT.bz and INLNews.com political investigator ...
".... I was told in the 1970's by one for the people that helped start the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and the Commonwealth Police of Australia (now known as the Australian Federal Police - AFP) after the Second World War ended ... that he was asked by the MI6 controlled CIA and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to come out of retirement and help plot to have Gouth Whitlam, the then Labour Prime Minister of Australia in 1975 sacked as the Prime Minister of Australia, through the power of the the Queen and England's appointed 18th Governor General of Australia Sir John  Robert Kerr ....." Simon Walters .. a senior AWN.bz, NYT.bz and INL News.com political investigator...

The British-American coup that ended Australian independence John Pilger ….  Latin Americans will recognise the audacity and danger of this “breaking free” in a country whose establishment was welded to great, external power. Australians had served every British imperial adventure since the Boxer rebellion was crushed in China. In the 1960s, Australia pleaded to join the US in its invasion of Vietnam, then provided “black teams” to be run by the CIA. US diplomatic cables published last year by WikiLeaks disclose the names of leading figures in both main parties, including a future prime minister and foreign minister, as Washington’s informants during the Whitlam years.

Whitlam knew the risk he was taking. The day after his election, he ordered that his staff should not be “vetted or harassed” by the Australian security organisation, Asio – then, as now, tied to Anglo-American intelligence. When his ministers publicly condemned the US bombing of Vietnam as “corrupt and barbaric”, a CIA station officer in Saigon said: “We were told the Australians might as well be regarded as North Vietnamese collaborators.”…”… John Pilger …

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO /ˈeɪzioʊ/) is Australia's national security agency responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionagesabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically motivated violence, attacks on the Australian defence system, and terrorism.

ASIO is comparable with the British Security Service (MI5) and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

ASIO is part of the Australian Intelligence Community.

ASIO has a wide range of surveillance powers to collect human and signals intelligence. Generally, ASIO operations requiring police powers of arrest and detention under warrant are co-ordinated with the Australian Federal Police and/or with state and territory police forces.

ASIO Central Office is in Canberra, with a local office being located in each mainland state and territory capital.

A new A$630 million Central Office, Ben Chifley Building, named after Ben Chifley, prime minister when ASIO was created, was officially opened by then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 23 July 2013

The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, has been described as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in Australian history.

 It culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, who then commissioned the Leader of the OppositionMalcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, as caretaker Prime Minister.

Whitlam's Labor government had been elected in 1972 with a small majority in the House of Representatives, but with the Opposition controlling the Senate. Another election in 1974 resulted in little change. While the Whitlam Government introduced many new policies and programs, it was also rocked by scandals and political miscalculations.

 In October 1975, the Opposition used its control of the Senate to defer passage of appropriation bills (needed to finance government expenditure), that had been passed by the House of Representatives. The Opposition stated that they would continue their stance unless Whitlam called an election for the House of Representatives, and urged Kerr to dismiss Whitlam unless he agreed to their demand. Whitlam believed that Kerr would not dismiss him, and Kerr did nothing to disabuse Whitlam of this notion.

On 11 November 1975, Whitlam intended to call a half-Senate election in an attempt to break the deadlock. When he went to seek Kerr's approval of the election, Kerr instead dismissed him as Prime Minister and shortly thereafter installed Fraser in his place. Acting quickly before all ALP parliamentarians became aware of the change of government, Fraser and his allies were able to secure passage of the appropriation bills, and Kerr dissolved Parliament for a double dissolutionelection. Fraser and his government were returned with a massive majority in the election held the following month.

The events of the Dismissal led to only minor constitutional change. The Senate retained its power to block supply, and the Governor-General the power to dismiss government ministers. However, these powers have not since been used to force a government from office. Kerr was widely criticised by ALP supporters for his actions, resigned early as Governor-General, and lived much of his remaining life abroad.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/the-latest-ecuador-withdraws-assange-asylum-status/2019/04/11/2c3ea0ac-5c42-11e9-98d4-844088d135f2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.755aa2b0efcb

 

  
Former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Brussels, Thursday, April 11, 2019. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forcibly bundled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and into a waiting British police van on Thursday, setting up a potential court battle over attempts to extradite him to the U.S. to face charges related to the publication of tens of thousands of secret government documents. 

 
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with Former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa

 


WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forcibly bundled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and into a waiting British police van on Thursday the 11th April, 2019.


"... at our new look and run MI6 and CIA Run Corporation of Australia and 

Australian Main Stream Media ..

we offer the same service as large firms, but our overheads are lower..."

A cartoonist description and and vision of  the way the Corporation of Australian and the Australian main Street media is  now run since the 1970's by the MI6 controlled CIA and ASIO plotted to have Gouth Whitlam the Australian Labour Prime Minister in 1975, sacked by the 18th Governor General of Australia, Sir John Robert Kerr who is appointed by the Queen of England, with the power at anytime to sack the Prime Minister of the Corporation of Australia.... 

"... similar to the Corporation of the USA run from Washington, ...Australia is not run as an independent free government and country ..

 but a Corporation .. and .. as with any corporation the major shareholders of Australia ... being the trillionaires  ...

who own and control the MI6 controlled CIA and ASIO .. have the right to sack the president/prime minister/managing director/ and any of the directors running a corporation ..

 if the major shareholders are not happy as to how they are running the corporation ..."....  Simon Walters .. a senior AWN.bz, NYT.bz and INL News.com political investigator...

".. In 1975 prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died this week, dared to try to assert his country’s autonomy. 

The CIA and MI6 made sure he paid the price "  John Pilger …

 




 

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Halcyon Daze popular Irish Happy Funk Bank in 2011 with their manager and film producer the late Thomas Graham Allwood and film directors David Granato and Cloudye Carew-Reid at the Edinburgh Castle, where they were involved in filming the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV show which will showcase talented fringe performers who are discovered by the Fringe Shows Have Talent Team, performing at one the over 300 fringe performance festivals and/or busking on the on the streets around around the world  .. such as Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Dublin Fringe Festival, the New York Fringe Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Melbourne Fringe Festival, the Camden Fringe Festival, the Brighton Fringe Festival, the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the Praque Fringe Festival, the Bangkok Fringe Festival ....
 
The Late Thomas Graham Allwood

The Late Thomas Graham Allwood was murdered in Broxburn, Scotland on the 21st June, 2012, 

by a clandestine MI5/MI6/Freemason Operation because he was dared to be involved with  exposing and suing in the High Court of the UK  .... 

David Cameron, the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,  George Osborne the then Chancellor of the United Kingdom, UK Border Agency Officers, the UK Home Office, 

the Home Office Treasury Solicitors, powerful solicitors and other members of the Haywicks Farm Fraud and Murder Gang for:

(a)  criminal contempt by creating and lodging a

 false fraudulent UK Border Agency Document to Master Price of the High Court in London attached to a letter prepared and signed by the UK Home Office Treasury Solicitors
demanding that the High Court Damages Claim for £500 million pounds sterling be struck out by Master Price of the High Court in London without any court hearing .. 
which was issued by Thomas Graham Allwood, his INL/AWN News media company and his partners for 

wrongfully and illegally detaining the extremely talented and funny Ronney Prouty, their USA Character Comedian, at London's Heathrow International Airport for 24 hours, 

then putting Ronney Prouty in hand cuffs and flying Ronney Prouty back to Los Angelos on his own return American Airlines air ticket... this help sabotage the filming of the 

Ronnie Prouty .... who is the grand son of the late Leroy Flecture Prouty, who wrote the controversial book called "The Secret Team" which exposed the wrongful way the CIA

 is run, and openly accused the CIA as being involved with the assassination of JFK, the then President of the USA .. had agreed without payment, to fly from Los Angeles to London, 
then to Edinburgh for five days to help host the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show....

and

 (b) for fraud and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice .....

for producing a false and fraudulent will of the late Henry Herbert Bulter, so the conspirators could fraudulently end up with the title deed of the valuable Haywicks Farm...

through corrupt  and illegal ways to help Freemason brothers Peter Urquhart and is Freemason legal and investment partners end up with the title of Haywicks Farm
into the name of Peter Leslie and Jacqeline Ann Urquhart by fraudulent, wrongful, illegal, immoral and corrupt means....
It is also interesting to note that Thomas Graham Allwood overheard a conversation between two MI5/MI6/CIA people talking about a clandestine operation to murder Thomas Graham Allwood's business partner,
who was involve in the INL/News Group in exposing corrupt activities of the CIA,  MI5/MI6, ASIO, Mossad, politicians, magistrates, judges, police, bankers, solicitors, barristers, business people, main stream media journalists and networks ..
Thomas Graham Allwood rang his business partner who was in London attending court hearings, from a the house in Broxburn, Scotland, where he and his business partner had been staying .. to warn his business partner  what he had overheard ... 
a conversation between two MI5/MI6/CIA people talking about a clandestine operation to murder Thomas Graham Allwood's business partner ...
What Thomas Graham Allwood did not know is that the phone he rang his business partner was tapped by MI5/MI6/CIA .. and that they became extremely worried about the telephone message Thomas Graham Allwood had left on his business partner's mobile phone..
warning his business partner of a conversation between two MI5/MI6/CIA people talking about a clandestine operation to murder Thomas Graham Allwood's business partner ...
So MI5/MI6/CIA quickly arranged of their operatives the next day to steal the mobile phone belonging to Mr Allwood's business partner ... so they could destroy the telephone message..
unfortunately for MI5/MI6/CIA Mr Allwood's business partner had already down loaded the message of the MI5/MI6/CIA people talking about a clandestine operation to murder Thomas Graham Allwood's business partner ...
and saved the message on a hard drive and emailed a copy of the message to a trusted group of friends.
So this was another reason why MI5/MI6/CIA  to organise some of their operatives to murder Thomas Graham Allwood on the 21st June, 2012 in Broxburn, Scotland,
by a professional six inch knife wound to the heart, after drugging Thomas Graham Allwood  and knocking him out at John Montgomery's home in Broxburn Scotland...
The late Thomas Graham Allwood was the only witness to the conversation of MI5/MI6/CIA people talking about a clandestine operation to murder Thomas Graham Allwood's business partner ...
Kyle Montgomery,. John Montgomery's son ..was charged with the murder of the late Thomas Graham Allwood ... however .. the INL/AWN News Investigation team provided a 300 page investigative report that took six months to investigate and prepare ..
to the legal team of Kyle Montgomery and the head Scotland's Prosecution called the procurator fiscal and the Scottish Police .. that proves conclusively that Kyle Montgomery could not have murdered or killed the Late Thomas Allwood,
and requested that the 300 page investigation report be carefully read and analysed by the head  procurator fiscal, and that an appointment with the head procurator fiscal be given with the INL/AWN News Investigation Team do discuss the report..
a month later the INL/AWN News Investigation Team received a two line letter back from  the head  Procurator Fiscal of Scotland, based in Edinburgh .. stating that  the procurator fiscal of Scotland are not interested in reading the INL/AWN News Investigation Report 
into the murder of the Late Thomas Graham Allwood, and would not grant an interview to discuss what was in the INL/AWN News Investigation Report into the murder of the Late Thomas Graham Allwood,  

would not order that the body of the late Thomas Graham Allwood to be re examined before being cremated .. and that the Scottish Police and the Scottish Procurator Fiscal

 had done and excellent job in solving the crime of the murder of the Late Thomas Graham Allwood ... and that the case and file was completely closed and sealed and will never be reopened again..
What the INL/AWN News investigation team did not know and understand before this .. was that there is is right for an independent Coroner's Inquest in Scotland... so is was impossible to force and independent coroner to re-investigate the death of #
the late Thomas Graham Allwood ..

The INL/AWN News Investigation Team in their research ... found out that Kyle Montgomery at the time of the murder of Thomas Graham Allwood, on the 121st June, 2012, already had an official diagnosis of schizophrenia, being a person has to show at least two of the following symptoms most of the time for a monthThe INL/AWN News Investigation Team in their research ... found out that Kyle Montgomery was already had an official diagnosis of schizophrenia, being a person has to show at least two of the following symptoms most of the time for a month, For a diagnosis of schizophrenia, some of the following symptoms are present in the context of reduced functioning for a least 6 months: Hallucinations. These include a person hearing voices, seeing things, or smelling things others can't perceive.
Thus Kyle Montgomery would not have spent a day or night in prison of his 9 year prison sentence .. Kyle Montgomery would have been taken straight to a Scottish Mental Hospital and then be released at a convenient time..
Except for many limited articles in the Scottish Press, which appeared only because an independent freelance reporter based in Edinburgh, Scotland took it upon to take himself to the murder trial of Kyle Montgomery held in the Livingston Courts,
and reported on the trial... because the late Thomas Graham Allwood was the first Australian to be murdered in Scotland .. and was also an undercover reporter for an non main stream alternative media group .. the INL/AWN News Group which tries to compete with the multi-billion dollar Rupert Murdoch News Corporation Limited, which is financially backed by the powerful Zionists .. the Rothschilds .. etc ... all there was not one main stream journalist that worked for a main stream media group that attended Kyle Montgomery's murder trial ... 
this was because the security agencies  such as MI5/MI6/CIA who were involved in arranging the murder of the late Thomas Allwood .. for reason set out above... had issued what is called "A D Notice" to all the main stream media to go out of their way not to cover or  attend Kyle Montgomery's murder trial in Livingstone, Scotland .. if it was not for a lone freelance journalist operating in Edinburgh Scotland attending Kyle Montgomery's murder trial ...  and the INL/AWN News Group putting up stories on their hundreds of sponsored news and information websites ... the world would know very little about the murder of the INL/AWN News undercover journalist, poet, bank manager and film producer ...

The evidence produced at Kyle Montgorey's murder trial states that they found blood on a knife in the draw at the home of John Montgomery .... that appeared to match the DNA of the late Thomas Allwood ... this does no in any way prove beyond reasonable doubt that Kyle Montgomery stabbed and murdered the later Thomas Graham Allwood ... the questions remain:

Who actually stabbed the late Thomas Graham Allwood with a clean six inch stab wound to exactly the right place in the heart to cause the most damage?
When and were was this stab would made?
Was Thomas Graham Allwood slipped a seditive drug at the home of John Montgomery .. at around 12 pm to 1 pm?
Was Thomas Graham Allwood knocked out with a massive king hit punch in the lounge room of John Montgomery at around 3.15 am  ... as evidenced by the next door neighbours .....
with the then dead weight body of the late Thomas Graham Allwood being quietly carried out of the back door of the home of John Montgomery ... by around 4 or more people ...
then ..
Was the late Thomas Allwood's dead weight body them laid down in the side of the street .. where he was stabbed with a clean six inch stab wound in the right place in the heart to cause the maximum damage..
and being already unconscious was left on the side of the street at about 3.30 am to bead to death..
One thins that is for sure and certain ... Kyle Montgomery for many different reasons could not have and was not capable of stabbing the late Thomas Graham Allwood with one only clean six inch stab wound to the heart..
Kyle Montgomery has been drinking heavily as since around 12 am at his father's home, the home of John Montgomery .. as evidenced by the local liquor shop staff and others... 
and would have been  absolutely 'paraletic' drunk ... can't walk, can't talk properly and in the case of my experience being utterly unable to carry out normal actions... after drink heavily for around 14 to 15 hours
from 12 am to 2-3 am the next morning .... while the evidence was that the late Thomas Graham Allwood had not been drinking at all that evening and early morning....
the late Thomas Graham Allwood, who was a well built and strong  man who was also a trained and licensed security guard.. 
not having been drinking ...  could have knocked the absolutely 'paraletic' drunk  Kyle Montgomery over with his  index finger./.

also Kyle Montgomery gave evidence at his murder trial that the late Thomas Graham Allwood was armed in the street with an iron bar .... and claims that he already had a fight with the late Thomas Allwood in the home of John Montgomery..  ..
and so the late Thomas Graham Allwood would have been ready to defend himself against Kyle Montgomery if things happened the way the prosecution claim at Kyle Montgomery's murder trial ... 
so how is the Kyle Montgomery .. singled handed ... going to get one clean six inch stab wound to the heart of the Late Thomas Graham Allwood ....?


DNA of Australian journalist murder victim ‘found on dad’s knife’

Saturday 24 November 2012

https://www.scotsman.com/news/dna-of-australian-journalist-murder-victim-found-on-dad-s-knife-1-2658179

THE DNA of a murder victim and the man accused of killing him was found on a kitchen knife in the accused’s father’s kitchen, a court has heard.

THE DNA of a murder victim and the man accused of killing him was found on a kitchen knife in the accused’s father’s kitchen, a court has heard.

A jury was told that the odds of DNA taken from the sharp edge of the 152mm blade matching anyone other than the deceased, Australian journalist Thomas Graham Allwood, were 28.6 million to one, and that blood samples lifted from the handle and side of the blade were a billion-to-one match for 24-year-old Kyle Montgomery.

Montgomery, from Winchburgh, West Lothian, denies murdering Mr Allwood by stabbing him in the chest in Broxburn on June 21 this year.

Forensic scientist Kirsty McTurk, 33, yesterday told the High Court in Livingston that she had analysed blood spots taken from the murder scene and from the knife, which was in a drawer in Robert Montgomery’s home.

Ms McTurk said: “In our opinion, this is consistent with Kyle Montgomery having handled the knife, Thomas Allwood having been injured with the knife and the knife belonging to Robert Montgomery.”

The trial was adjourned until Monday.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/man-charged-over-broxburn-murder-1-2375840

Man charged over Broxburn murder

https://www.scotsman.com/news/man-charged-over-broxburn-murder-1-2375840

Tuesday 26 June 2012

A 24-YEAR-OLD man has appeared at Livingston Sheriff Court charged with the murder of a man who was found dead in a street.

Thomas Graham Allwood, 55, was discovered lying in Pyothall Road in Broxburn, West Lothian, at around 4.45am on Thursday. Kyle Montgomery, from Winchburgh in Edinburgh, made no plea or declaration when he appeared at the hearing yesterday and was remanded in custody.

Mr Montgomery is due to make his next appearance at the West Lothian court on Tuesday, July 3.

http://www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk/8/964/HMA-v-KYLE-MONTGOMERY

HMA v KYLE MONTGOMERY

http://www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk/8/964/HMA-v-KYLE-MONTGOMERY

At the High Court in Edinburgh Lord Doherty sentenced Kyle Montgomery to nine years imprisonment after he was found guilty of the culpable homicide of Thomas Graham Allwood in Broxburn on 21 June 2012.

On sentencing Lord Doherty made the following statement in court:

“You have been convicted of culpable homicide. The jury determined that you assaulted Mr Allwood, pursued him whilst in possession of a knife, struck him on the body with a knife, and killed him.

You were involved in an altercation with the deceased on the evening of the killing. The deceased initiated that altercation. I take full account of that fact, the fact that the first person to use physical violence that night was the deceased, and that he had to be ejected twice from your father’s home. I also take account of the fact that the cause of death was a single blow with the knife. These were doubtless factors which weighed with the jury in deciding to return a verdict of culpable homicide rather than murder. I have regard to your previous good record.

I do not regard the fact that you were intoxicated at the time as being a mitigatory factor. I do not attach much weight to the fact that only mild force would have been required to inflict the injury which was inflicted. Sharp weapons of the sort you used are capable of inflicting grievous injury using only mild force. That is part of the reason they are so deadly. The message must go out loud and clear that those who arm themselves with such weapons, and even more so, those who go on to use them, must expect the courts to deal with them severely.

The inescapable facts are that after the deceased was ejected from your father’s home you decided to go out too. You returned a short time later. You armed yourself with a lethal weapon.You resisted your father’s attempts to disarm you. You went back outside. You stabbed the deceased in the left side of his chest with the knife, cutting through his lung and making two slits in the left side of his ascending thoracic aorta. The jury rejected your account of accidental stabbing. The stabbing was deliberate. You were not acting in self defence. The stabbing was not done under provocation. After you had stabbed him you made no attempt to obtain assistance for your victim. He bled to death from his injuries within a very short time.

I would be failing in my duty if I did not treat this as a grave case of culpable homicide. I regard your culpability for the killing as being high. The sentence which I impose is one of 9 years imprisonment. That sentence will run from 25 June 2012.”

 

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MI5 and MI6 issued what is called a “D Notice” to all major news groups around ... 

them from publicizing the murder of the Late Thomas Graham Allwood in Broxburn ... 

Who really organized the murder of Thomas Graham Allwood and why?; 3. ..... 

when he sold the operation to the paper's former compositor Edmund Stirling.

Haywicks Farm was to be used as a film set for a new film 
that is being written by the INL News Screen Play writer called

 "Fraud and Murder in Haywicks Lane"

staring:

against Owen Rhys Actions as Adjudicator to HM Land Registry, High Court Master Teverson, High Court Judge Mann, High Court Judge David Richards, Master Price,HM Land Registry, Treasury Solicitors, Attorney Marie Clair Bleasdale, HM Land Registry lawyer Katharine Brothers, Gloucester Land Registrar Julie Jenkins, HM Land Registrar clerk Sarah Canipel, HM Land Registrar clerk Claire Francis, HM Land Registrar clerk David Hodges, Peter Leslie Urquhart, Jaqueline Ann Urquhart, Attorneys Madge Lloyd Gibson, Attorneys Langley Wellington, Julie Williams, and others for being involved with a conspiracy to defraud the property known as Haywicks Farm, Haywicks Lane, Hardwicke, Gloucester, GL2 3QE and well as being involved with a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, malfeasance, collusion and dereliction of duty of public officers and Attorney Marie Clair Bleasdale breaching her sworn duties and obligations as an attorney and for serious criminal contempts of court for knowingly presenting false and misleading facts, information and law to the High Court of Justice.

The concept of the names used in the film is based on the way the series of books the Triumph of Truth (Who is watching The Watchers?) written by Stephen Carew-Reid and published by the Australian Weekend News a subsidiary of the INL News Group, have been written in that the real name of those mentioned in the books are used to expose the guilty. So the real names of those involved of the fraud and murder of the Late Herbert Henry Butler and the conspiracy to defraud his only child Valerie Ann Butler of her lawful rights to Haywicks Farm will be used in the film to expose the guilty. The film as the books are based on the truth so any attempt to sue for civil or criminal defamation will be vigorously defended by the INL News Group based on the fact the information is the truth and it is in the public interest to show the world of the wrongful actions of those involved in the fraud and murder of the Late Herbert Henry Butler and the conspiracy to defraud his only child Valerie Ann Butler of her lawful rights to Haywicks Far, which includes the wrongful way the High Court of Justice and the office of the Adjudicator to HM Land Registry and the masters, clerks, adjudicators, judges  and the staff at Treasury Solicitors and HM Land Registry involved have operated in a wrongful, illegal, immoral and corrupt way to help their Freemason brothers Peter Urquhart and is Freemason legal and investment partners end up with the title of Haywicks Farm
into the name of Peter Leslie and Jacqeline Ann Urquhart by fraudulent, wrongful, illegal, immoral and corrupt means.


Assistant to Gloucester HM Land Registrar, Katharine Brothers, HM Land Regsitrar Julie Jenkins and top property dispute London Barrister Marie Clair Bleasdale join Haywicks Farm Fraud Gang .........................................
that started in 1983 with the Murder of the Late Henry Herbert Butler and the forging of his will by well known Freemason solicitor Simon James Fisher at the time working for Freemason Eggleton Solicitors who were struck off from being solicitors by the Legal Complaints Tribunal, who then handed their legal files to Madge Lloyd Gibson, who knowing the will was a forgery presented the false will to the Probate Office for as fraudulent Grant of Probate to be issued, all with the long term aim of defrauding the Later Herbert Henry Butler and his only child, Valerie Ann Butler of their legal right to ownership of their 25 acres and farm house known as Haywicks Farm, Haywicks Lane, Gloucester, GL2 3QE and have Haywicks farm fraudulently transferred into two of the fraud conspirators names Peter Leslie Urquhart and his wife Jacqueline Ann Urquhart, who had been legal clients of Eggletons solicitors and Madge Lloyd Gibson for over 30 years, who planned to hold the property as a front for all the other Freemason solicitors and ex-solicitors who are based in the Gloucester area including the Eccleton Family and their family development company Egdon Estates and Madge Lloyd Gibson and Langley Wellington solicitors who are commonly known as Gloucestershire's Legal Mafia (GLM). 



Money, happiness and eternal life

Greed (director's cut)

DW Documentary


DW Documentary

Published on Jun 23, 2017

Can money and power ever make us happy? How much is enough? Our constant desire for more is part of our human nature. 

Some call it a useful dowry of evolution, others a fault in the human genetic make-up:

The old mortal sin Greed seems to be more ubiquitous than ever.

Why can't people ever get enough, where is this self-indulgence leading - and are there any ways out of this vicious circle of gratification?

"People like to have a lot of stuff because it makes them the feeling of living forever,"

says American social psychologist Sheldon Solomon, who believes today's materialism and consumerism

will have disastrous consequences. Anyone who fails to satisfy his or her desires in this age of the Ego is deemed a loser.

But with more than 7 billion people on the Earth, the ramifications of this excessive consumption of resources are already clear.

 Isn’t the deplorable state of our planet proof enough that "The Greed Program,"

which has made us crave possessions, status and power, is coming to an end?

Or is the frenzied search for more and more still an indispensable part of our nature?

We set off to look for the essence of greed. And we tell the stories of people who -

whether as perpetrators or victims or even just as willing consumers - have become accomplices in a sea change in values.

Check out our web special: http://www.dw.com/en/tv/greed/s-32898 _______

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Julian Assange performs a bizarre Kung Fu work out while locked away in London's Ecuadorean embassy in newly-emerged CCTV

Assange is seen in videos frantically boxing with an imaginary sparring partner

47-year-old then paces around a tiny kitchen as he guzzles from a drink carton 

48-WikiLeaks co-founder also waves both his arms as if he is conducting orchestra

Assange was dragged unceremoniously out of Ecuador's embassy on April 11

By VIVEK CHAUDHARY IN ALICANTE FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 12:17, 19 April 2019

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6939635/Julian-Assange-performs-bizarre-Kung-Fu-work-Ecuadorean-embassy.html

The erratic behaviour of Julian Assange during his self-imposed exile has been dramatically captured in videos and documents obtained by MailOnline.

Assange's seven-year stay in Ecuador's embassy in central London resulted in a bizarre existence, making him an eccentric Robinson Crusoe type figure who resorted to desperate means to keep himself occupied.

The newly-emerged videos show Assange, 47, with fists clenched and his arms pumped as he frantically boxes with an imaginary sparring partner.


Julian Assange has his fists clenched and his arms pumped as he frantically boxes with an imaginary sparring partner at the Ecuadorian embassy in London

He then paces around a tiny kitchen as he guzzles from a drink carton and walks in and out of an adjoining larder.

In another video, the WikiLeaks co-founder vehemently waves both his arms as if he is conducting a symphony orchestra in his spartan kitchen, walks aimlessly into an adjoining larder and then reappears only to turn around and return once again.

Assange's shabby appearance and peculiar conduct is a far cry from the fresh faced, energetic man who defied some of the world´s most powerful nations through his controversial WikiLeaks work.

He first took refuge and claimed asylum in Ecuador´s London embassy in June 2012 to escape Swedish authorities from extraditing him for a case of rape and sexual assault. 




Julian Assange  then paces around a tiny kitchen as he guzzles from a drink carton and walks in and out of an adjoining larder



Assange resorted to desperate means to keep himself occupied inside the London embassy

He feared that once in Sweden, America would eventually extradite and prosecute him for a series of high profile Pentagon leaks, which the country claimed threatened its national security.

Another video graphically underlines the high price Assange has paid for his solitary defiance.

He slept in a small bedroom, that was once an office and had use of a narrow, austere kitchen.

The images show Assange standing beside a decrepit mini electric stove, preparing to cook something while bouncing up and down on the spot, his trousers falling below his waist, revealing the top of his backside.

Documents obtained by MailOnline also show that Ecuadorian officials vehemently complained about his personal etiquette during his stay in their embassy.

One document accuses Assange of smearing excrement around the light switch on the wall of the men's toilet and the edge of the toilet seat. 


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A document addressed directly to Assange and dated March 30, 2015 refers to a complaint that he had left bottles filled with urine in the embassy's communal kitchen after the country´s ambassador was alerted by staff



Assange is pictured being arrested and led out of the Ecuadorian Embassy on April 11

Written in Spanish by one of the embassy's security officials and accompanied by photographs, it notes: 'I am reporting that on the night of Friday September 28, when the security guard went to use the men's toilet he was shocked to find stains on the toilet seat and the light switch smeared with excrement.

'It should be indicated that apart from the security guard there were no other visitors and the only person who used the toilet was Mr Asange. The security guard had to clean the dirty area before he could use the toilet.'

Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno and other officials from the South American country have accused Assange of smearing excrement on the walls of the embassy and of maintaining poor hygiene, which they insist contributed to their decision to withdraw his asylum status earlier this month.

When Ecuador announced its decision, Mr Moreno tweeted that it was because Assange 'repeated violations to international conventions and daily-life protocols.' 

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This letter states in Spanish: 'Dear Ambassador, I am reporting that on the night of Friday 28 September, when the security guard went to use the men's toilet he was shocked to find stains on the toilet seat and the light swtich smeared with excrement. It should be indicated that apart from the security guard there were no other visitors and the only person who used the toilet was Mr Asange. The security guard had to clean the dirty areas before he could use the toilet'

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Assange gives a thumbs up as he arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court on April 11

Another document, addressed directly to Assange and dated March 30, 2015 refers to a complaint that he had left bottles filled with urine in the embassy´s communal kitchen after the country´s ambassador was alerted by staff.

It warns: 'As per his (the ambassador's) instructions I am writing you a letter to state that this constitutes an inappropriate behaviour that has generated a sanitation and hygiene risk for all Embassy Staff, and that it must not be repeated.'

The country´s Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo also claimed that Assange´s mental and physical health had deteriorated during his stay in the embassy and the he also began acting aggressively towards his hosts.

She added that he had been 'allowed to do things like put faeces on the walls of the embassy and other behaviours of that nature.'

Assange's lawyer Jenifer Robinson has accused Ecuador of making up the allegations about his personal behaviour and that he was also spying on the country. 

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The Ecuadorian Embassy in London is pictured on April 11 after Assange was arrested by police

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1Assange is pictured making a statement from the Ecuadorian embassy on May 19, 2017

She said: 'I think the first thing to say is Ecuador has been making some pretty outrageous allegations over the past few days to justify what was an unlawful and extraordinary act in allowing British police to come inside an embassy.'

Following Ecuador's withdrawal of asylum status, a disheveled Assange, supporting a fuzzy, unruly beard and unkempt hair, was dragged unceremoniously out of the nation's embassy by eight policemen to a waiting police van as he ranted about Donald Trump and screamed 'the UK has no civility.'

He appeared before Westminster Magistrate's Court where he was found guilty of failing to surrender to the court and now faces a possible 12 month prison sentence.

Assange is also preparing to battle extradition to the United States over an allegation that he had conspired with former army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to break into a classified government computer.

If he is sent to the US, it will disappoint his celebrity supporters such as Pamela Anderson and Yoko Ono who have visited him and campaigned on his behalf.  


BBC

Masters of Money

Karl Marx HD

 

DarthMarston

Published on Jan 30, 2016

Stephanie Flanders examines one of the most revolutionary and controversial thinkers of all.

Karl Marx's ideas left an indelible stamp on the lives of billions of people and the world we live in today.

As the global financial crisis continues on its destructive path, some are starting to wonder if he was right.

Marx argued that capitalism is inherently unfair and therefore doomed to collapse, so it should be got rid of altogether.

Today as the gap between rich and poor continues to cause tension,

his ideas are once again being taken seriously at the heart of global business.

Stephanie travels from Marx's birthplace to a former communist regime detention centre in Berlin and separates his economic analysis from what was carried out in his name. She asks what answers does Marx provide to the mess we are all in today.

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Entertainment



September 8th, 2010

AUSTRALIA: BIKIES, TRIADS, OFFICIALS LINKED IN DRUG SMUGGLING RING

by ABC News

 

http://www.flarenetwork.org/learn/asia_and_pacific/article/australia_bikies_triads_officials_linked_in_drug_smuggling_ring.htm

One of the nation's biggest investigations into organised crime has exposed an international drug importation syndicate with links to the Comancheros outlaw bikie gang, Chinese triads and corrupt Australian officials

The two-year Operation Hoffman has uncovered how multi-million-dollar crime syndicates are operating like multinational enterprises, evading police by drawing on local and overseas resources and the latest technology.

It has led to major ecstasy, heroin and crystal methamphetamine drug busts across Australia, the biggest-ever drug bust on the Pacific island group of Tonga, and the discovery in May last year of a bikie armoury in Sydney - including automatic weapons and imitation police equipment.

Those arrested include alleged drug runners with links to Chinese triads and the Perth president of the Comancheros, Steven Milenkovski.

Despite Hoffman severely damaging the bikie group, the Comancheros have continued establishing a foothold in Melbourne under the control of local club controller Amad 'Jay' Malkhoun, a convicted heroin trafficker with interests in several Melbourne strip clubs

Operation Hoffman, a landmark multi-agency investigation led by the Australian Crime Commission, has also revealed the deep links between drug importers and rogue Australian maritime workers.

A joint ABC Four Corners and The Age investigation into organised crime can also reveal that:

  • In Victoria, authorities have uncovered links between corrupt Melbourne port workers, the Hells Angels and prominent Italian criminals
  • NSW police have identified a group of drug-importing Sydney port workers with government maritime security cards who have been active since 2004
  • Law enforcement agencies in Sydney recently updated a list of 150 organised crime targets in NSW alone

The two-year Operation Hoffman has uncovered how multi-million-dollar crime syndicates are operating like multinational enterprises, evading police by drawing on local and overseas resources and the latest technology.

It has led to major ecstasy, heroin and crystal methamphetamine drug busts across Australia, the biggest-ever drug bust on the Pacific island group of Tonga, and the discovery in May last year of a bikie armoury in Sydney - including automatic weapons and imitation police equipment.

Those arrested include alleged drug runners with links to Chinese triads and the Perth president of the Comancheros, Steven Milenkovski.

Despite Hoffman severely damaging the bikie group, the Comancheros have continued establishing a foothold in Melbourne under the control of local club controller Amad 'Jay' Malkhoun, a convicted heroin trafficker with interests in several Melbourne strip clubs.

One of Hoffman's key targets is Hakan Ayik, 32, from Sydney, who is understood to have worked as the local manager of an international drug syndicate with strong links to the triads and which used domestic criminal networks, including outlaw bikie clubs, as distributors and to provide muscle.

NSW police intelligence describes Ayik as a ''very serious money maker'' who ''generates a lot of money'' for the Comancheros and has multiple links to waterfront workers. Operation Hoffman ended earlier this month after NSW police issued an arrest warrant for Ayik for drug trafficking. It is believed he is now on the run.

The crime syndicate targeted by Hoffman also has links to allegedly corrupt NSW police analyst Terry Gregoriou, who was charged last December for allegedly leaking police files to the Comancheros via an intermediary.

The syndicate has also cultivated contacts with figures with access to the NSW prison system - including a serving prison officer - to pass money and messages to jailed crime figures.

Operation Hoffman's success lies in the cooperative efforts of traditionally mistrustful state and federal policing agencies, including NSW police, the NSW Crime Commission, the Australian Federal Police and anti-money laundering agency Austrac.

However, a senior law enforcement insider has revealed to Four Corners that despite its success, inadequate resourcing meant Operation Hoffman was unable to reach its full potential.

He said the criminal network it targeted "will reform very, very quickly". The insider said the ACC needed far more investigators to run major inquiries targeting the movement of illicit funds offshore, crucial to Operation Hoffman.

Under-resourced

The consensus among senior police is that the ACC is badly under-resourced given the size and reach, here and abroad, of Australia's new breed of technologically savvy and well-resourced underworld figures.

Federal Labor Senator Steve Hutchins, who is briefed by senior police as chairman of the ACC parliamentary committee, told Four Corners that major drug seizures had not affected the supply or price of drugs, which indicated Australia was clearly "not winning that war [against drug trafficking]".

Victorian Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland said that drug data supported the view that policing agencies were only "making a small number of seizures in the total volume of drugs'' that enter the country.

This view is backed by former NSW police assistant commissioner Clive Small and the former head of Victoria's Purana gangland murder taskforce, Jim O'Brien.

"You'd have to be kidding yourself if you thought you were getting any more than probably 10 or 15 per cent off the street," Mr O'Brien said.

Senator Hutchins also called for reforms to combat organised crime on the waterfront because corruption in the sector was aiding the importation of drugs.

"The law enforcement agencies have been exposing what's been going on [on the waterfront] ... it's whether or not we as politicians are prepared to give them the weapons ... they need to combat it," he said.

Senior police sources have said the Federal Government's wharf security regime is a failure. The launching of a state and federal policing taskforce to combat organised crime on the wharves in NSW has been slowed due to inter-agency talks. It is set to be fully operational in the next fortnight.

The other frightening thing is that there believed form research undertaken that there is a strong link between Freemasonry and the Triads, and that Freemasons who want a murder carried out, who do not want to get their hands dirty, will use the Triads to do this work. After all, many senior Freemasons are senior judges, magistrates, barristers, police, politicians and so-called respectable businessmen who would never want to risk their reputations and/or the reputation of Freemasonry being links to a murder investigation, so their Triad connection is ideal. The Triads are already report in WikiPedia and other major reliable news and information organizations as being involved with illegal activities such as illegal gambling, loan sharking, money laundering, murder, heroin and opium, arms trafficking, prostitution, people smuggling, extortion, counterfeiting and, to a lesser extent, home invasion robberies.. etc, so another murder allegation against the Triads would bee seen as the Triads just going about their normal business activities.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/racing-watchdog-investigates-asian-crime-gang/story-fni0fee2-1226808017606

 

Racing watchdog investigates Asian crime gang

CARLY CRAWFORD- HERALD SUN-JANUARY 22, 2014

AN Asian triad is moving to infiltrate Australian horse racing, sparking an unprecedented investigation by racing authorities.

The Herald Sun can reveal a suspected senior figure, active within Hong Kong's notoriously violent crime gangs, has invested heavily in thoroughbred racing in Australia.

He owns a local horse stud and has connections to some of the biggest-name horses in Australian racing, including a Melbourne Cup runner.

Law enforcement and integrity figures believe the crime boss is a triad money launderer. Racing Integrity Commissioner Sal Perna confirmed he would investigate the man's activities with assistance from the Australian Crime Commission.

"We have received information about this matter and disclosed it to the ACC for assessment," Mr Perna said.

The Herald Sun cannot identify the figure or his assets for legal reasons.

The suspected triad figure is known to global integrity authorities as a key player in a powerful Hong Kong triad.

Hong Kong's dominant triads are the Sun Yee On and 14K.

A wealthy and apparently legitimate businessman, the figure heads a global manufacturing empire.

His business interests span a range of other fields, including mining, property, resources and horse racing.

He heads an international organisation that has secured ownership of a horse stud in Australia and has purchased a number of horses, according to industry figures. The stud acquired by his firm is home to some of the finest thoroughbred bloodlines in Australia. In a statement to the Herald Sun, Hong Kong police declined to publicly identify any triad members, but said: "Some individual members or persons claiming to have triad affiliations are occasionally found involving in criminal activities overseas or cross-boundary."

Triad-related crime accounts for about three per cent of all crime in Hong Kong, police said. The alleged triad figure heads a big investment firm that is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Its business interests extend to Macau, the United Kingdom, China and Australia.

It does business out of a tropical tax haven.

The triad figure is listed as a director of a public company in Australia whose business relates to thoroughbreds. The Sun Yee On is Hong Kong's biggest, richest and best organised triad. It has tens of thousands of members and deals in nightclub standover, illegal gambling, drugs and extortion. According to officials from the Hong Kong Police Organised Crime and Triad Bureau, the Sun Yee On remains ¬active. Some of its members are alleged to have Communist Party links and dozens have been arrested for slashing to death members of rival gangs. Triad 14K is known for loansharking, illegal gambling and the brutal public executions of its rivals.

 

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/australia/docs/ncaaoc2.html

 

PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

ASIAN ORGANISED CRIME IN AUSTRALIA

A Discussion Paper by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime Authority
February 1995

(return to table of contents)

3. Asian Organised Crime - Definitions

3.1 The words 'Asian', 'organised' and 'crime' each require a brief comment in order to explain the scope of the remainder of this discussion paper.

3.2 The discussion paper deals with the three ethnically-based groupings commonly regarded as making up the 'Asian' organised crime of interest to Australian law enforcement agencies:

  • the various Chinese groups, sometimes referred to as the triads;
  • the Vietnamese groups;
  • and the Japanese groups, generally referred to as the yakuza or boryokudan.

3.3 The Report of the Review of Commonwealth Law Enforcement Arrangements recommended that the NCA have 'a strategic and/or coordination role' in respect of eleven matters, three of which were 'Chinese Triad Societies', 'Vietnamese organised crime groups', and 'Yakuza groups' (para. 7.50(4)). The Government has accepted this recommendation.

3.4 The Committee recognises that the vast majority of the ethnic communities referred to are not involved in organised, or indeed any, criminal activity. In using ethnicity as a defining factor, the Committee is following the well-established practice of law enforcement agencies both in Australia and overseas. In the view of these agencies, the particular criminal organisations use membership of the relevant ethnic group as a key factor in determining who is allowed to participate, especially at the more senior levels or in taking the major roles in particular crimes. Ethnic group membership is sometimes seen as a key factor enabling ethnic-group organised crime to be more successful than other groups. note#4 It is a matter for debate, however, whether the ethnic factor is sometimes overstated in the context of 'Asian organised crime' in Australia.

3.5 Russian organised crime has attracted a great deal of media interest since the break-up of the Soviet Union. However, it is not covered in this discussion paper, mainly because it is not conventionally considered as 'Asian'. Moreover, there is, it seems, little evidence that it has established any Australian presence so far. Only one significant case appears to have been reported, the one in 1993 by the Australian Federal Police (AFP): note#5

In January 1993, the AFP provided ACS [Australian Customs Service] with information which led to the targeting of Russian ships visiting Melbourne. As a result, a Russian seaman was arrested as he left the dock area in possession of 5.5kg of heroin and l50g of cannabis resin. Further inquiries resulted in the arrest of two alleged principals in Melbourne. This operation was the culmination of several years investigation and resulted in the identification of alleged syndicate members in the former Soviet Union and Australia. AFP members have travelled to Russia and as a result liaison has been established with the Russian police authorities.

3.6 However, by omitting consideration of Russian organised crime from this discussion paper, the Committee is not taking issue with the view that Australian agencies must remain alert to the real possibility that Russian-based criminal groups may target Australia. The Committee notes that the Report of the Review of Commonwealth Law Enforcement Arrangements recommended that the NCA have 'a strategic and/or coordination role' in respect of, amongst other groups, 'Eastern Block Organised Crime Groups', and that the Government has accepted this recommendation

3.7 Although geographically part of Asia, the Lebanon is not normally considered 'Asian' in the context of discussion of Asian organised crime. Hence, the Committee's discussion paper does not cover the activities of organised Lebanese criminal groups in Australia, although the Committee notes that such groups have for many years been involved in drug trafficking into Australia. note#6

3.8 Organised crime groups of ethnic Koreans reportedly exist in the United States, note#7 but there is nothing that the Committee is aware of to suggest they have established any presence in Australia.

3.9 The question of how best to define the term 'organised crime' has caused much debate over the years. note#8 For the purposes of this discussion paper, the Committee does not consider it necessary to enter into this debate or to define organised crime in any rigorous way. The following definition used by the NCA will serve: 'For the purpose of describing the broader criminal environment, the NCA defines organised crime as a systematic and continuing conspiracy to commit serious offences'. note#9

3.10 The Committee recognises, however, that an important issue in assessing the threat from, and the impact of, Asian organised crime in Australia is the degree to which it is organised. One of the suggestions made in this discussion paper is that Asian organised crime, as it impacts on Australia at least, is considerably less organised than might be thought from an uncritical reading of media reports. The Committee considers that the following observation made in 1989 by Dr Grant Wardlaw is pertinent in this context:

It seems that one problem we have is that we may often confuse criminal organisation or sophistication with organised crime. As society becomes more complex and as technologies open the way to new crimes or more sophisticated or larger scale ways of committing old ones, so the nature of crime is changing with the result that it is, almost by definition, becoming more organised. Looked at this way, most major crime will eventually become organised crime. Surely this is not what we mean when we speak of organised crime though, and use its existence to justify the creation of new investigative agencies and the legislating of new powers? Nevertheless, it seems to me that many of the cases, particularly in the drug trafficking field, which are cited as evidence of the grip of organised crime are evidence of nothing more than organisation and (rarely) sophistication. To be sure, this constitutes a serious law enforcement problem, but one which does not carry the sinister implications of being 'organised crime'. note#10

4. Chinese Organised Crime in Australia

Scope of Criminal Activity

4.1 The attention of Australian law enforcement agencies has focused on Chinese organised criminal activity in relation to a wide range of matters, including drug importation and distribution, illegal gambling, illegal prostitution, extortion, immigration malpractice and money laundering. A relatively new area in which organised ethnic-Chinese are believed to be prominent is sophisticated credit card fraud. note#11 There appears to be no solid evidence of significant organised, ethnic-Chinese, street gang activity, although it is difficult to be sure as there are many media reports that refer simply to 'Asian' gangs. note#12

4.2 The priority interest of Australian agencies has been in relation to organised, ethnic-Chinese, involvement in heroin trafficking into Australia from south-east Asia.

Drug Trafficking Activities

4.3 A 1991 assessment for the Commonwealth Government stated:

In terms of what might be termed 'mainstream' importation of heroin to meet Australian market demand, the principal source region (in terms of regularity of supply) is South-East Asia. This statement is not intended to diminish the importance and threat from other regions; a significant amount of heroin is known to be sourced from South-West Asia and the Middle East (even though seizure results indicate that these areas are responsible for 5 to 10 per cent of overall supply, some enforcement authorities estimate that the real order of magnitude is much higher than this). The assertion concerning South-East Asia as the principal source of heroin supply is persuasively based on both the consistent intelligence reporting on criminal activities and in the investigative outcomes of successful seizures of heroin. note#13

4.4 Others agree on the importance of south-east Asia as a source of the heroin arriving in Australia. The Report of the New South Wales Crime Commission for the year ended 30 June 1993, for example, stated on page 16 that 'the large importations mainly originate in China and South East Asia'. More recently, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) stated: 'Some 80% of the heroin seized in Australia can be sourced to the Golden Triangle' note#14 - that is, to the area in south-east Asia where Burma, Thailand and Laos meet.

4.5 Australian law enforcement agencies believe that ethnic Chinese have been for many years, and still are, the major organisers of heroin imports into Australia. A 1988 media report cited the National Crime Authority's Chinese liaison officer as saying that the Chinese had been linked to every major seizure of heroin in the previous two financial years, totalling 63 kg, and that an estimated 96 per cent of those cargoes seized had been triad-related. note#15

4.6 A 1991 assessment stated: 'The AFP and others estimate that Chinese crime groups are responsible for the importation of perhaps 80 per cent of all heroin being imported into Australia'. note#16 According to a media report based on a leaked 1992 national intelligence assessment, 85 to 90 per cent of heroin imports into Australia were organised by Chinese organised crime groups. note#17 The NSW Crime Commission reported in 1993: 'Essentially, heroin importation is largely controlled by persons of Chinese origin in Australia and overseas'. note#18 The AFP said in 1994 that:

Stability in the price of heroin and its quality in Australia indicate the importation of heroin into Australia is well organised and dominated by Chinese Organised Crime groups. Heroin is routed through Bangkok, the Malay Peninsula, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China. note#19

4.7 Ethnic-Chinese are much less dominant in the distribution of heroin once it has been imported. The NSW Crime Commission reported in 1992 on organised heroin trafficking:

Some groups are concentrated at certain levels. Thus it has been observed that the highest stratum is often occupied by persons of Chinese origin who tend to be responsible for the introduction of much heroin to Australia and conduct the largest bulk transactions. It is unusual to find persons of Chinese origin in a supply stratum involving small quantities. The pattern is less consistent with other groups which will buy bulk locally and also engage in importation. Their associates within a group may occupy a range of levels in the supply chain and they will deal with groups which dominate particular levels such as the Chinese groups. note#20

4.8 A 1991 intelligence assessment stated:

One feature of heroin trafficking arrangements in Australia that reinforces the notion of an accommodation between operators, is that the majority of the importation efforts of the Chinese criminal groups is geared towards supplying other, non-Chinese, groups for their own distribution networks. The Chinese operate what is largely a heroin wholesale business, with little evidence of their further involvement downstream into retail distribution. note#21

Triad Societies and Chinese Organised Crime

4.9 In much popular discussion, Chinese organised crime is treated as synonymous with the triad societies, although the importance of the connection between the two is a matter for some debate. The following description of the triads is taken in edited form from a 1992 report of a United States Senate subcommittee: note#22

Modern triads trace their history to secret political societies formed in China during the 17th Century to overthrow the Ching Dynasty and to restore the Ming Dynasty to power. The term 'triad', later coined by British authorities in Hong Kong, is based on the triangular symbol found on flags and banners of the early secret societies. The symbol represents the three essential elements of heaven, earth, and man.

Because the early triads were attempting to topple the ruling elements of the day, and had, in fact, been persecuted in the past they developed secret forms of identification and communication. Triads today remain obsessively secretive and closed criminal fraternities. The triads also developed highly ritualized initiation ceremonies meant to instill a strong sense of secrecy, and more importantly, loyalty to other triad members. ...

The existence of triads is most extensively documented in Hong Kong, where the number of triad members is estimated to be in the tens of thousands, and to a lesser extent in Taiwan. ...

Triad societies all display some degree of hierarchy, and a typical triad has members organized by rank. Each rank carries a title and a numerical value, based on triad ritual. The leader of a triad is known as the 'Dragon Head,' and carries the rank '489'. Other 'office bearer' positions also exist, including '438', which is the second highest rank in a triad, and may be held by several different officials. ... other triad members are known as ordinary members or soldiers, and hold the rank of '49'. The relationships among individual triad members are based on ties between 'Dai-Lo's' (big brothers) and 'Sai-Lo's' (little brothers), where the Sai-Lo's give loyalty, support and sometimes money to their Dai-Lo, in exchange for protection and advice.

Although hierarchical in nature, triads tend not to be strictly controlled from the top, in contrast to more familiar crime groups such as La Cosa Nostra. Instead, triad members frequently branch out into their own criminal enterprises. While the triad leadership does not always initiate and direct the activities of all the triad members, triads clearly serve as international networking associations that facilitate such activity. Moreover, monetary profits from criminal activity of triad members often flow to the top in indirect ways, such as through gifts. ...

As one member of the Hong Kong-based 14K triad testified:

"I was not required to pay any percentage of profits to the 14K leadership. Triads do not work that way. Triad members do favors for each other, provide introductions and assistance to each other, engage in criminal schemes with one another, but triads generally do not have the kind of strictly disciplined organizational structure that other criminal groups like the Italian mafia have. For example, a triad member would not necessarily be required to get permission from the dragonhead of his particular triad in order to engage in a particular criminal undertaking - even if the particular deal involved an outsider or even a member of another triad. On the other hand, on the occasion of traditional Chinese holidays such as Chinese New Year, triad members traditionally give gifts to their 'big brother' or 'uncles' who often are office bearers in the triads."

Further testimony regarding relationships among Chinese crime groups came from Johnny Kon, a convicted heroin smuggler and triad member. He noted the importance of the Chinese concept of 'Guan Shi' in facilitating criminal relationships:

"Members of the Big Circle get power from 'Guan Shi' which is a relationship among people. Through such relationships, Big Circle members can call on triad members or other Big Circle members for help."

Triad membership is thus a valuable asset to the new international criminal. Triad membership facilitates criminal activities in a manner similar to the way membership in business associations facilitates the activities of a legitimate businessman. Thus, even though triads, as organizations, may not control a wide range of criminal activity, it is important for law enforcement officials to understand, investigate, and develop intelligence about triad organizations, because individual triad members are invariably involved in a wide range of criminal activity.

Although the criminal activities of triad members can be thought of as constituting both domestic and international activities, even domestic activities such as illegal gambling, extortion, and prostitution often have an international element. For example, prostitutes are imported or smuggled, sometimes against their will, over national borders, while proceeds from illegal domestic activities such as gambling are often laundered internationally. International activities include narcotics trafficking, money laundering, counterfeiting currency and credit cards, and alien smuggling. ...

The RHKP [Royal Hong Kong Police] estimate that there are currently about 50 triad societies in Hong Kong, with about 15 of those being very active. While it is very difficult to determine the exact number of triad members in Hong Kong, most authorities agree that there are at least 80,000. Some triads are thought to have as little as 100 members while Hong Kong's largest triad, the Sun Yee On, is believed to have at least 25,000 members.

After the Sun Yee On, the next largest triads are the Wo Group, including the Wo Hop To and at least nine other subgroups, which have over 20,000 Hong Kong members. The 14K Triad, including over 30 subgroups, is also believed to have over 20,000 Hong Kong members. The fourth largest group is the Luen Group with approximately 8,000 Hong Kong members. The Tung Group is thought to have approximately 3,000 Hong Kong members. All of these groups also have substantial overseas membership. Other triads exist with smaller membership. ...

The Big Circle Gang, which is sometimes referred to as a 'Mainland-based triad' is a relatively new group. This group initially consisted primarily of former Red Army Guards who left China for Hong Kong. Big Circle Gang members are particularly violent, specializing in armed robberies of jewelry stores in Hong Kong as well as in heroin trafficking. The Big Circle Gang is not technically a triad, but most Big Circle Gang members are also members of various triad societies. Johnny Kon, a former Big Circle associate and convicted heroin smuggler, testified that he helped organize a group of Big Circle Gang members into a tightly organized and disciplined group known as the Flaming Eagles which expanded from jewelry store robberies in Hong Kong to a world wide heroin distribution network. All of Kon's Big Circle associates were also members of other triads. ...

The main law enforcement body in Taiwan, the National Police Administration (NPA), recognizes two major Taiwan-based triads. The best known and largest of the two is the United Bamboo Gang, also known as the Chu Lien Pang. The second group is the Four Seas Gang, also known as Sei Hoi.

The United Bamboo Gang has an estimated membership of over 20,000. ... The Four Seas Gang has an estimated membership of over 5,000.

4.10 The Director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency told a United States Senate committee in April 1994:

These triads are fluid associations of criminals and quasi-legitimate businessmen based on contact networks and cultural, geographic and linguistic ties. ... The triads play an important role in worldwide heroin trafficking by facilitating transport and by providing a network of contacts for triad affiliated smugglers. They play a particularly important role in moving heroin through transshipment hubs, such as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, due to their influence over transportation unions and over shipping companies. note#23

4.11 Criminal triad societies of a sort are said to exist in Australia, even if they lack some of the characteristics of the traditional Hong Kong triad societies. The National Crime Authority's then Chairperson, Justice Stewart, said in 1988:

Broadly speaking, the Authority's investigations confirm earlier assessments that Chinese criminal elements in Australia have formed criminal associations, modelled to some extent on the traditional Chinese Triad secret societies such as exist in Hong Kong, Taiwan and elsewhere in Asia. These groups involve themselves in a wide range of criminal activities such as drug importation and distribution, extortion, fraud and money laundering.

There is no real evidence that these associations follow Triad initiation ceremonies or other rituals, or adopt a strict internal hierarchy. There is evidence however that members of well known Triad societies are resident in Australia and overseas members visit here from time to time for illegal purposes.

The power of individuals in these Australian Triad groups seems to be based on accumulated wealth, connections or demonstrated capacity for criminal enterprise rather than on traditional Triad power bases. Many of these people move with comparative ease between Australia, Hong Kong and elsewhere in South East Asia. note#24

4.12 In 1988, Mr Peter Lamb, at the time an AFP Assistant Commissioner, said that there were 'between three and ten' triad societies then operating in Australia.note#25 Media reports in 1988 claimed that Australian triad societies had perhaps 2,000 members. note#26 A 1989 report claimed that the 14K triad 'is well organised and well entrenched in Sydney, with offshoots in Melbourne'. note#27 In June 1991 a former NCA officer, Mr Carmel Chow, said: 'We are looking at maybe half a dozen triad groups in Sydney. We are talking about the Sun Yee On, the 14K, the Wo Yee Tong, the Big Circle. So really, we have half a dozen gangs now operating in Sydney.' note#28

4.13 The buyer of a 1988 importation into Sydney of 31 kg of heroin was (John) Chai Nam Yung, who was sentenced in March 1991 to 24 years' imprisonment for his part in the deal. He was described as the head of the Australian branch of the Wo Yee Tong triad, as well as being the owner of an illegal Sydney gambling club.note#29 A media follow-up story on the case said that 'Police sources here estimate that no more than half-a-dozen of these triad cells are operating in Australia, with an estimated membership of between 2000 and 3000' and that 'the majority of triad activity is centred on Sydney'. note#30 A 1992 internal report by the Asian division of the Victoria Police reportedly stated that there were known to be triads based in Melbourne and referred to members from triad groups such as the 14K, Sun Yee On, Wo Yee Tong and Wo Shing Wo. note#31

4.14 A 1992 United States report stated that the Sun Yee On triad has 'a presence' in several countries including Australia, the Wo Hop To triad 'has been tied to criminal activity' in Australia, and the Big Circle Gang 'has gained a foothold' in Australia. note#32 More recent reports from United States sources state that the 14K triad group and the Sun Yee On triad have a foothold in Australia. note#33 In September 1994, a member of the Victoria Police Asian crime squad told a court that the Sun Yee On triad had become more active in Melbourne in the previous year. note#34

4.15 The February 1994 Report of the Review of Commonwealth Law Enforcement Arrangements stated (para. 4.49):

Within Australia, it is apparent that several Triad societies do exist. As in Hong Kong, they provide a local pool of contacts for criminal ventures. Moreover, Australian residents who were Triad members in Hong Kong or other foreign countries have immediate access to a range of colleagues overseas who may be prepared to assist with criminal activities. There have been claims that certain Triad groups in Australia have operated as organisations when establishing gambling and protection rackets, but it is also possible that the criminals concerned were using a Triad's name for their own benefit and were acting outside the organisation.

4.16 As noted in paragraph 2.8 above, as long as people believe in the existence of powerful triad groups, they will be reluctant to resist the demands of those claiming to be triad members, or to inform police of their activities. This provides an incentive for ethnic-Chinese criminals to claim triad membership, however spurious the claim may be or however powerless and unorganised the triad in question may really be. note#35 Thus claims by criminals to be triad members cannot be taken at face value. Equally, assertions that criminal triads exist in Australia as powerful, well-organised, functioning entities must be treated sceptically insofar as the assertions are based on statements from criminals claiming membership in such organisations.

4.17 In 1988, the leaders of a non-criminal triad, the Melbourne-based Mun Ji Dong (MJD), which began life on the Victorian goldfields in the middle of the last century, presented their view on possible criminal triad presence in Australia. note#36

MJD members said law enforcement agencies were on the wrong track if they were working on the 'Chinese Mafia network' theory that international criminal Triads had established themselves in Australia and controlled a comprehensive range of criminal activities.

The MJD said there appeared little evidence that these crime Triads had established themselves here. A more realistic scenario was that some Chinese crime syndicates had individuals on the fringes of the Australian Chinese community, working as contacts for the importation of illicit narcotics and Asian prostitutes.

However, these people appeared to be low-profile operators without established criminal Triad power bases. 'I think we'd have spotted them (established Triad crime gangs) if they were around, but we haven't seen anything to suggest they've established themselves here,' said Mr Edmond Louey, a vice-secretary of the MJD.

Mr Louey said there were indications that some petty Asian criminals claimed 'heavy' Triad affiliations to intimidate victims.

MJD members dismissed suggestions that criminal Triads controlled illegal gambling: Chinese casinos in Melbourne and Sydney were operated by individuals.

4.18 There has in recent years apparently been some difference of opinion among law enforcement agencies in Australia and overseas about how important triads are to understanding and tackling Chinese organised criminal activity. The Chairperson of the National Crime Authority, Mr Tom Sherman told the Committee in 1992:

You get your two schools of thought, really. There is one school of thought that says the Triads are very important, and there is another school of thought that seems to be equally well informed that says that they are not so important. I suspect that, like all things, the truth lies somewhere in between.note#37

4.19 The National Crime Authority's General Manager, Operations, Mr Peter Lamb, made a similar point in a media interview in 1993: note#38

Asked if there was an organised Asian crime system in Australia, Mr Lamb said: 'I don't think anyone who has worked against organised crime would deny that.' But Mr Lamb said that was not to say groups like the Yakuza and Triads had cemented an illegal operation in Australia. The NCA's intelligence shows that some criminal groups in Australia have Triad members. But as Mr Lamb said: 'Whether that equates to the Triads being the real force behind the crime is another matter.'

4.20 As far as the Committee can discern, there is an increasing tendency to play down the relevance of triad links. It is not clear from the material available to the Committee to what extent this tendency is due to a better understanding of Chinese organised criminal activity, and to what extent it might reflect a shift in the way that activity is being conducted. There are suggestions that the more traditional, triad-oriented, way in which those criminal activities were once organised is increasingly being replaced by a more entrepreneurial, ad hoc, and multi-ethnic approach.

4.21 From a United States' perspective, the 1992 United States Senate subcommittee report previously referred to stated:

... neither triads, tongs nor gangs appear to be currently involved, as organizations, in heroin trafficking. While members of these groups frequently utilize their membership to benefit their heroin trafficking enterprises, the groups themselves are not typically part of the heroin smuggling.

... In fact, it is relatively easy for triad members to form criminal associations with members of other triads or with outsiders. note#39

4.22 An overview of the south-east Asian heroin trade was given to that subcommittee by a witness from the Central Intelligence Agency. He also stressed the fragmented, ad hoc organisation that was involved.

The main point is that Southeast Asian heroin trade is highly segmented with many independent organizations conspiring to supply the United States and other consuming countries. As heroin moves through the trafficking chain, control of the shipment is transferred several times:

In the initial phase, producers and refiners in Burma, Thailand and Laos obtain raw opium from farmers and refine it into heroin. Some three-quarters of the region's heroin refining capacity is concentrated just inside Burma.

In the second stage, international brokers in the region arrange the sale, consolidation and movement of large heroin shipments from refineries in Burma through Thailand to transshipment points elsewhere in Asia. note#40

Next, wholesale buyers, in places like Hong Kong and Singapore, purchase heroin from the brokers and move shipments to the United States for resale. The buyers are frequently connected with Chinese or other international organized crime groups.

Finally, retail distribution networks in the United States and Western Europe sell the product on the streets. They often have business connections with the Asian organized crime groups who dominate the wholesale business.

We believe that each heroin shipment has unique features. Processing, financing and transport operations are tailored according to the resources and requirements of the producers and the wholesale buyers. A single heroin shipment may involve multiple transactions between different brokers. note#41

4.23 A 1991 internal review of the NCA's Chinese organised crime reference (Iliad) stated:

Investigations under the Iliad Reference have, however, provided significant collateral for the proposition that Triad organisations in Australia are not central to the heroin trade, but are one element of the Chinese criminal environment in which criminal entrepreneurs undertake a variety of activities, including heroin importation. note#42

4.24 The Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence provided a 'national strategic assessment' in May 1992 called Chinese Organised Crime in Australia. The NCA informed the Committee that:

The ABCI Report considered a range of criminal activities including heroin importation and distribution, prostitution, illegal gambling, violence and money laundering. It also discussed Triad activities and questioned the importance of Triads to an understanding of COC [Chinese Organised Crime] activities in Australia. note#43

4.25 A 1993 paper by two Australian criminologists argued: 'Our ethnically Chinese criminals are just ethnic Chinese criminals; they can be organised in the corporate or enterprise sense but Triad membership or otherwise appears something of an irrelevance'. note#44 Another criminologist, Ian Dobinson, offered a similar view of the role of the triads in ethnic-Chinese organised heroin trafficking. He noted that '...law enforcement in Hong Kong appears to hold the view that small groups are involved and that there are no significant triad links'. note#45 He also argued that:

This is not to suggest that Chinese heroin groups are not 'organized'. Rather, it is to argue that they are not organized in the sense of large hierarchical syndicates inexorably linked to various triads. The significance of these groups in relation to their contribution to heroin availability cannot be denied, but Chinese involvement may be simply a reflection of a criminal counterpart to the legitimate economic dominance of ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia.note#46

4.26 The prevalent view, therefore, appears to the Committee to be that whatever criminal triads exist in Australia do not operate as branches that are subject to control from some overseas headquarters. Indeed, it may be overstating things to regard them as enduring entities at all. In recent years in Australia, loosely-organised, syndicates appear to have been the predominant form in which Chinese organised crime has manifested itself. Some syndicate members may belong to a particular triad, others may belong to different triads, and some syndicate members may not have any triad connections.

4.27 The impetus for engaging in a particular criminal activity seems to come from the individuals rather than a triad. Syndicates form for particular purposes in very flexible ways and may dissolve once the immediate purpose, such as a major heroin importation, has been achieved. Alternatively they may re-form with altered membership for another purpose. Individuals may claim to be members of one triad at one time, and a different triad on a later occasion. The strength of a particular triad may be perceived to increase as particular successful criminals use it to facilitate their activities, and may rapidly decline if these criminals are arrested, retire or shift to another triad. In other words, this view suggests that Australian triads have little enduring strength, continuity of power, or inherent organisation.

Approach of the Law Enforcement Review Report

4.28 In describing the role of Chinese in 'major and organised crime in Australia', the February 1994 Report of the Review of Commonwealth Law Enforcement Arrangements, focused on the triads, note#47 although it did note that not all organised criminal activity undertaken by people from Chinese backgrounds could be attributed to the triad societies. note#48 In listing the criminal groups and activities upon which it thought the National Crime Authority should focus, the Review Report listed 'Chinese Triad Societies' rather than using an expression such as 'Chinese organised crime groups'. note#49

4.29 Too much, perhaps, should not be read into the expression used. Nonetheless, the Committee found this approach by the Review somewhat puzzling, given the preponderant view (set out above) that concentration on triad societies and membership in them is of only limited value in understand and tackling ethnic-Chinese organised criminal activity. It is interesting to contrast the Review's approach with an April 1994 statement by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation setting out the main international organised crime/drug enterprises that it regards as a major threat to United States society. On Asian organised crime, the statement does not refer to triad societies at all, but defines the groups as follows:

Asian Criminal Enterprises - the groups which pose the greatest threats are:
- Chinese criminal enterprises, such as criminally-influenced Tongs and their affiliated street gangs, which control illegal gambling, loansharking, and extortion activities in many Asian communities.
- Multi-ethnic Asian drug trafficking groups which smuggle Southeast·Asian heroin into the United States.
- Independent Asian gangs with international, national, or regional influence, including violent Chinese and Vietnamese gangs that are transient in nature.note#50

Geographic Spread within Australia

4.30 Justice Stewart told the Committee in 1988 that the NCA had not been able, due to lack of resources, to look at Chinese organised crime in any depth outside Sydney. However, it had evidence which strongly supported the conclusion that Chinese organised crime was just as entrenched in Melbourne as it was in Sydney, and that there was a strong Western Australian connection too. He suggested that wherever there was a Chinese community there would be some organised extortion. note#51

4.31 The South Australian Police Commissioner, Mr David Hunt, said in September 1994 that there was no direct evidence of triad activity in South Australia, although the number of Chinese prostitutes in Chinese-owned massage parlours had increased. note#52

4.32 In relation to the geographical scope of drug trafficking, an intelligence assessment in 1991 stated that:

Intelligence reports suggest strongly that, for most consignments of heroin, Sydney is the main destination point, with importation taking place either in Sydney itself or, on occasion, in other gateway airports for subsequent movement within the domestic transportation system across the country to Sydney. Border interdiction results from law enforcement operations show, likewise, a higher level of detections in Sydney than at any other port in Australia. note#53

4.33 Of the 33.667 kg of heroin seized at the Customs barrier in 1993, just over half (17.576 kg) was seized in NSW. note#54 Data for total seizures (ie. at the barrier and elsewhere in Australia) for 1993 also show the dominance of Sydney: of the 115.8 kg of heroin seized, 90 kg was seized in New South Wales. note#55To the extent that ethnic-Chinese groups dominate the import of heroin, this gives some measure of the distribution of their activities, although the figures fluctuate from year to year. Thus a single seizure of 71.6 kg in Sydney in 1993 accounts for nearly 80 per cent of the total seized in NSW during 1993. A single importation of over 120 kg that was seized in Darwin in September 1994 will similarly have a distorting effect on the 1994 figures.

4.34 In addition, point of seizure is, of course, not necessarily a reliable guide to where the importer is based. In September 1994 an operation involving the AFP and other agencies resulted in the seizure of 37.5 kg of heroin in Perth and another 11 kg in Adelaide. note#56 According to media reports, police believed the heroin originated in the Golden Triangle. It had been imported into Australia on a bulk-carrier through the port of Geraldton by Chinese seamen recruited in southern China and Hong Kong. Police thought that the entire shipment was destined for Sydney and was organised by a Sydney-based group with links to Hong Kong and Canada. Those arrested included Chinese nationals resident in Australia, Hong Kong nationals and Chinese-Canadians.

Cooperation with Other Criminal Groups

4.35 The observation was made above (para. 4.7) that much of the heroin importation by Chinese criminal groups is directed towards supplying other, non-Chinese, groups for their own distribution networks. As an illustration, a former Queensland Criminal Justice Commission officer was reported in February 1994 as having said that Chinese heroin importers were the source for an ethnic-Romanian drug distribution network on Australia's eastern seaboard. note#57

4.36 The Western Australia Police Deputy Commissioner, Mr Les Ayton, was recently reported as saying: 'An emerging threat is the cooperation that is developing between Chinese and Italian organised groups (that are) complementing each other with their knowledge of importation practices and distribution networks'. note#58However, the Committee is not aware of other evidence for the emergence of this threat.

4.37 The extent of organised criminal connections between Vietnamese, Vietnamese-born Chinese (Sino-Vietnamese) and other Chinese is unclear. In 1988, Justice Stewart told the Committee that there was some evidence that Chinese organised criminals were using ethnic-Vietnamese as 'foot-soldiers'. note#59 There is more recent evidence that suggests that the Vietnamese are no longer so ready to adopt subordinate roles.

4.38 Deputy Commissioner Ayton recently said: 'Vietnamese criminals, initially, were used by Chinese organised crime for use as couriers and as part of the distribution network. There is good intelligence and anecdotal evidence that the Vietnamese (criminals) are now emerging as major importers of heroin.' note#60 Mr Ayton also said that Vietnamese criminals were acting in concert with Chinese criminals in serious and widespread credit card fraud. He said counterfeit credit cards were being manufactured in Hong Kong and were readily available in Australia to organised crime groups.

4.39 The Australian Federal Police Annual Report 1992-93, p. 57 noted: 'A national intelligence project into Chinese organised crime continued. Research in Sydney has been widened to focus on the Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese gangs engaged in heroin trafficking and money laundering.' The NCA's most recent annual report states that NCA investigations in Melbourne had 'identified a Sino-Vietnamese group involved in heroin importation, distribution and other offences'.note#61

4.40 A January 1994 media report referred to the activities of the Criminal Justice Commission and stated:

It is suspected that members of the Vietnamese community may have criminal links to members of the Chinese community in Brisbane. Because of the increasingly noticeable criminal activities of the ethnic Chinese from Vietnam as well as native Vietnamese, a CJC intelligence project has been launched to embrace total Asian crime in Queensland ... note#62

4.41 On the other hand, another recent media report cited an unnamed 'senior Perth academic' as saying that the Vietnamese and Chinese had been fighting for dominance in the Perth heroin market. note#63 The report said in the previous two years the wholesale price of heroin in Perth had dropped from $15,000 an ounce to about $8,000 while the strength (purity) on offer had doubled. Police considered it was plausible to attribute this to the effect of the competition.

4.42 Law enforcement agencies have a legitimate concern that their task will be made more difficult if different groups of organised criminals work together - if for example, the triads form alliances with Italian or Vietnamese organised crime groups. The inconclusive reports that this may be occurring are, however, open to more than one interpretation. They may be no more than a reflection of the view set out above - that much that might be attributed to triad activity is more accurately seen as the work of temporary syndicates and networking by individuals. In the context of this view, alliances with non-triad groups are just further evidence of the opportunistic and ad hoc nature of those who use the triad label.

Hong Kong's Reversion to Chinese Rule in 1997

4.43 Some years ago concerns began to be expressed that the return of Hong Kong to the control of the People's Republic of China in 1997 would lead to an exodus of triad members. It was feared that those leaving would try to establish themselves in criminal activities in countries such as Australia, note#64 although this view was not unanimous. note#65 However, the February 1994 Report of the Review of Commonwealth Law Enforcement Arrangements (para. 4.50) presented a different view:

While there had been concern that there would be an exodus of Triad members from Hong Kong to Australia in the lead up to 1997, it now seems probable that the Triads have already established themselves in southern China and that they are mostly unconcerned about the return to PRC rule.

4.44 It seems that the economic boom in China, especially the part nearest Hong Kong, combined with greater economic freedom in China, have presented attractive opportunities for Hong Kong-based organised criminals. There are media reports of increased triad activity in China, especially in the coastal areas, and in November 1994 China's Justice Minister said that the re-emergence of the triads in China was posing a serious threat to its social stability. note#66

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ENDNOTES

4. See for example United States Senate, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Recent Developments in Transnational Crime Affecting U.S. Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy, Hearings, 21 April 1994 (US Gov. Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994), p. 123 where Bill Olson, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Narcotics and a Fellow at the National Strategy Centre set out what he regarded as five major characteristics of international organised crime:

... Fifth, such groups are generally ethnically based. This is a particular advantage when groups begin to operate beyond their original homes or in multi-ethnic societies. By relying on a closed community of people who speak the same language and have cultural clues about identity that outsiders cannot penetrate easily, such groups developed added protection against penetration by law enforcement.

5. Australian Federal Police, Annual Report 1992-93, p. 58. See also "Police follow drug trail to Russia", Canberra Times, 24 July 1993, p. 16.

6. See Review of Commonwealth Law Enforcement Arrangements, February 1994, AGPS, Canberra, paras. 4.56 - 4.59 for a brief description. See also "Australia the main target for Lebanese drug exports", Australian, 29 March 1994 (reporting claim by Lebanese Interior Ministry referring to cannabis and cocaine, as well as heroin).

7. See for example the evidence of the United States Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Robert S. Mueller, before the US Senate, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, Asian Organized Crime, Hearing, 6 November 1991 (US Gov. Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992), p. 167:

Let me speak for a moment about the Asian organized crime problem in this country. It, in essence, consists of 4 major groups: first, Chinese organized crime, including triads, criminally-influenced tongs, and street gangs; second, the Japanese criminal society known as the Boryokudan, or "Yakuza"; third, Vietnamese organized crime, which largely consists of street gangs; and, lastly, Korean gangs, some of which are closely associated with the Boryokudan.

8. For two recent contributions see: P. Dickie and P. Wilson, "Defining Organised Crime: An Operational Perspective", Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol. 4, no. 3, March 1993, p. 215; and D. Greaves and S. Pinto, "Redefining Organised Crime: Commentary on a Recent Paper by Phil Dickie and Paul Wilson", Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol. 5, no. 2, November 1993, p. 218.

9. National Crime Authority, Corporate Plan July 1993 - June 1996, AGPS, Canberra, 1993, p. 22.

10. G. Wardlaw, "Conceptual Frameworks of Organised Crime Useful Tools or Academic Irrelevancies?", paper delivered at the Australian Institute of Criminology's Organised Crime Conference, Canberra, 5-7 September 1989, p. 4.

11. See for example, para. 4.38 below and "Triads strike on gold cards", Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 23 October 1994, p. 34. See also United States Senate, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, The New International Criminal and Asian Organized Crime, Report, December 1992 (US Gov. Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993), pp. 44-45 (footnote omitted):

Losses resulting from counterfeit credit card activity have risen dramatically over the past few years. Technological innovations during the mid-1980's managed to stem a previous spurt of counterfeiting, but the criminal sophistication of Chinese criminal groups based in Hong Kong has led to a notable resurgence of credit card counterfeiting in the past few years. Hong Kong-based counterfeiting rings were responsible for as much as 40 percent of the total worldwide counterfeit credit card losses of about $200 million in 1991. While much of the actual counterfeiting is done in such locales as Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia, the counterfeit cards are now being used in Europe, Australia, and North America as well.

12. See para. 5.12 below in the context of discussion of Vietnamese street gangs.

13. G. Wardlaw, D. McDowell and J. Schmidt, Australia's Illegal Drug Problem: A Strategic Intelligence Assessment, (A paper prepared by The Criminal Environment Assessment Unit), April 1991, Attorney-General's Department, Canberra, para. 5.11.

14. Australian Federal Police, "Australia's Relations with Thailand: An AFP Perspective", September 1994 (a submission from the AFP to the Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade), p. 4.

15. "Chinese Triads behind '86 pc of heroin seized'", Australian, 13 July 1988, p. 3. Note that the headline uses the figure 86% while the body of the story uses 96%.

16. G. Wardlaw, D. McDowell and J. Schmidt, Australia's Illegal Drug Problem: A Strategic Intelligence Assessment, (A paper prepared by The Criminal Environment Assessment Unit), April 1991, Attorney-General's Department, Canberra, para. 5.35.

17. "Asian crime gangs lead heroin imports", The Weekend Australian, 20-21 November 1993, p. 3

18. New South Wales, Report of the New South Wales Crime Commission for the year ended 30 June 1993, p. 16.

19. Australian Federal Police, "Australia's Relations with Thailand: An AFP Perspective", September 1994 (a submission from the AFP to the Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade), p. 4.

20. New South Wales, Report of the Crime Commission for the year ended 30 June 1992, para. 2.76.

21. G. Wardlaw, D. McDowell and J. Schmidt, Australia's Illegal Drug Problem: A Strategic Intelligence Assessment, (A paper prepared by The Criminal Environment Assessment Unit), April 1991, Attorney-General's Department, Canberra, para. 5.40.

22. United States Senate, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, The New International Criminal and Asian Organized Crime, Report, December 1992 (US Gov. Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993), pp. 3-6, 10-11.

23. United States Senate, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Recent Developments in Transnational Crime Affecting U.S. Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy, Hearings, 20 April 1994 (US Gov. Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994), p. 7.

24. Text of a public statement, 22 June 1988, reproduced in the NCA's Annual Report 1987-88, p. 66.

25. ABC TV, 7.30 Report, 24 October 1988 (transcript, p. 5).

26. For example, see "Chinese Triads behind '86 pc of heroin seized'", Australian, 13 July 1988, p. 3; "The story of a Chinese mafia", Melbourne Herald, 23 August 1988, p. 13; "The day of the Triads: Hong Kong's gangs move in on Australia", Newsweek, 8 November 1988.

27. "Big Circle Gang a maverick group", The Age, 13 May 1989, p. 4.

28. Channel Nine, Sixty Minutes, 23 June 1991 (transcript, p. 2).

29. "How Australian cops snared the triad's diplomat couriers", Sydney Morning Herald, 11 May 1991, p. 45; "The Asian Connection" The Bulletin, 2 April 1991, p. 86.

30. "The Asian Connection" The Bulletin, 2 April 1991, pp. 86, 87.

31. "Police report predicts rise in Asian crime", The Age, 10 August 1992, p. 1.

32. United States Senate, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, The New International Criminal and Asian Organized Crime, Report, December 1992 (US Gov. Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993), pp. 9, 10, 11.

33. "Triads linked to Australia", West Australian, 7 September 1994, p. 7 citing "FBI documents".

34. "Police tell of triad push", Herald Sun, 14 September 1994, p. 10.

35. See for example R.J. Kelly, Ko-Lin Chin and J.A. Fagan, "The dragon breathes fire: Chinese organized crime in New York City", Crime, Law and Social Change, vol. 19, 1993, p. 258: "By emulating Triad initiation rites and internalizing Triad norms and values, they [gang members] can claim a certain traditional legitimacy within their communities. This folkloric benediction elevates them above the kind of simple street thug and enables them to instill a level of fear that no other ethnic gangs can match."

36. "Cut out the theatrics, 'good' Triad tells police", Australian, 19 November 1988, p. 4.

37. Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime Authority, in camera Hansard, 27 November 1992, p. 87.

38. "Terror as Asian gangs rule the streets", Sun-Herald, 30 May 1993, pp. 12-13.

39. United States Senate, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, The New International Criminal and Asian Organized Crime, Report, December 1992 (US Gov. Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993), p. 29.

40. More recent reports suggest that there has been a significant shift in the trafficking route, with only about half the heroin traffic passing through Thailand, with a significant proportion now going through China: "Pusher With A Cause", Far Eastern Economic Review, 20 January 1994, p. 26.

41. United States Senate, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, Asian Organized Crime: The New International Criminal, Hearing, 4 August 1992 (US Gov. Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992), pp. 67-68 (Evidence of D. Cohen, Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency).

42. NCA, Shamrock Report, April 1991 quoted in a paper by the NCA Intelligence Branch, Progress Report to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime Authority on the Chinese Organised Crime National Initiative, December 1992, para. 11.

43. ibid., para. 16.

44. P. Dickie and P. Wilson, "Defining Organised Crime: An Operational Perspective", Current Issues in Criminal Justice, vol. 4, no. 3, March 1993, p. 222.

45. I. Dobinson, "Pinning a Tail on the Dragon: The Chinese and the International Heroin Trade", Crime & Delinquency, vol. 39, no. 3, July 1993, p. 374.

46. ibid.

47. paras. 4.48 to 4.50.

48. para. 4.37.

49. para. 7.50(4).

50. United States Senate, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Relations, Recent Developments in Transnational Crime Affecting U.S. Law Enforcement and Foreign Relations, Hearings, 20 April 1994 (US Gov. Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994), p. 81 (prepared statement, incorporated in the transcript, of James Frier, Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal Division, FBI). The statement also lists yakuza gangs and eurasian gangs (ie. from the former Soviet Union). Later in the statement (p. 83) the term "multi-ethnic Asian drug trafficking organizations" is expanded:

These groups are often comprised of Chinese, Thai and other Asian criminals, who frequently use their current or past membership in Triads, criminally-influenced Tongs, or gangs to facilitate their activities. These loosely organized groups are global in nature and scope, and are involved in the production, transportation, distribution, and money laundering aspects of international heroin trafficking.

51. Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime Authority, in camera Hansard, 3 June 1988, p. 578.

52. "Fear of gang ties to prostitution", Advertiser, 22 September 1994, p. 9.

53. G. Wardlaw, D. McDowell and J. Schmidt, Australia's Illegal Drug Problem: A Strategic Intelligence Assessment, (A paper prepared by The Criminal Environment Assessment Unit), April 1991, Attorney-General's Department, Canberra, para. 5.27.

54. See Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence, Australian Drug Intelligence Assessment 1993, p. 35.

55. ibid., p. 38.

56. See "Arrests, drug seizure have hurt gang: police", West Australian, 24 September 1994, p. 31; "WA gateway for heroin", Sunday Times, 25 September 1994, pp. 1, 2; and "Massive hauls of high-grade heroin", Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 25 September 1994, pp. 12-13. A report subsequent to completion of this discussion paper indicated that the heroin was originally destined for Canada, and a last-minute change of destination by the ship resulted in the heroin coming to Australia: "Heroin trio face life in jail", West Australian, 10 December 1994, p. 6.

57. "Chinese import drug, Romanians control it", Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 13 February 1994, p. 13.

58. "Triads linked to Australia", West Australian, 7 September 1994, p. 4.

59. Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime Authority, in camera Hansard, 3 June 1988, p. 578.

60. "Triads linked to Australia", West Australian, 7 September 1994, p. 4.

61. NCA, Annual Report 1993-94, p. 30.

62. "CJC probes ethnic links to cocaine, heroin", The Weekend Australian, 1-2 January 1994, p. 3.

63. "Cheap Asian heroin blamed for deaths", West Australian, 8 September 1994, p. 10.

64. See for example, NCA, Annual Report 1987-88, p. 66 (report of 22 June 1988 public statement by the NCA's Chairperson, Justice D. Stewart); M. Booth,The Triads, Grafton Books, London, 1990, pp. 137-38, 148-49; "Police report predicts rise in Asian crime", The Age, 10 August 1992, p. 1.

65. See for example, United States Senate, Committee on the Judiciary and the Caucus on International Narcotics Control, U.S. International Drug Policy - Asian Gangs, Heroin and the Drug Trade, Joint Hearing, 21 August 1990, p. 16 (statement of R.M. Bryant, FBI):

One theory puts forth the idea that the triads will basically leave Hong Kong and come to other countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, whatever. The second theory held by the Royal Hong Kong Police is that they will remain in Hong Kong and exist under the People's Republic of China.

66. "Crackdown urged on rising organised crime", South China Morning Post 29 November 1994, p. 16. See also "Criminals know no boundaries", Sydney Morning Herald, 15 September 1994, p. 15:

Senior criminal intelligence officers in the Hong Kong police believe that the biggest of the Triad gangs, the Sun Yee On, which is thought to have more than 30,000 members in the British colony, now has a stranglehold on the government of Guangdong Province [in mainland China] which boasts one of the world's fastest growing economies.

 

 



Julian Assange on Sweden, Persecution of WikiLeaks & Decay of Rule of Law




http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/08/31/julian-assange-on-the-persecution-of-wikileaks-sweden-decay-of-rule-of-law/

David Cameron the Prime Minster of the United Kingdom, and George Osborne the Chancellor of the United Kingdom,
who are the people in charge of running the United Kingdom have forgotten about the Rule of Law and allow the UK Authorities
which they control, to make up their own  rule of law when ever it suits them and their paymasters such as the US Government .....
..


David Cameron the Prime Minster of the United Kingdom, 


George Osborne the Chancellor of the United Kingdom,


By: Kevin Gosztola Friday August 31, 2012
Ecuador granted diplomatic asylum to WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange around two weeks ago. He remains in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been living for over two months. He delivered a speech expressing gratitude to Ecuador, Latin America and his supporters days after the decision was announced by Ecuador. Assange also highlighted the United States’ war on whistleblowers and dissidents and urged the country to dissolve its investigation into WikiLeaks.

Now, in an interview by Jorge Gestoso for Telesur, a pan-Latin American news station based in Venezuela, Assange addresses the political persecution he faces from the United States, why Ecuador was right to grant asylum, the Swedish case against him and the efforts to marginalize the WikiLeaks organization by refusing to consider it a journalistic organization or by accusing it of having “blood on its hands” for releasing documents.

“I am a person that it has been established is under a political persecution by the United States and its allies,” Assange declares. “That’s a fact. That fact was recognized, though we had to put a lot of work into giving the Ecuador government evidence about that fact.”
He goes on to express his belief that Ecuador “has been right to demonstrate its values in this case” and contends they went the “extra mile” in defending his rights because they correlate with Ecuador’s values. He knew Latin America supported WikiLeaks, but he was pleasantly surprised with the solidarity the region has shown recently.
In regards to the case in Sweden, Assange says he is going through the formal methods of cooperation. He noted the country’s prosecution authority had “refused to accept a written sworn statement.”
When Gestoso uses the words rape, sexual molestation, etc, to describe the allegations he faces, he dismisses the use of such language and told Gestoso it had been the police in Sweden that ultimately chose to bring this case, not any women. And, he expresses anxiety and frustration over trying to respond to allegations that are discussed in the media:
…It’s like to wrestle with a pig. You get mud all over yourself and it just suits the people who are throwing mud. If you respond, you bring yourself into the situation. You legitimize the scurrilous allegations that are being made against you. This sort of situation—People care about women. They care about children. And they don’t like to see bad things happen to them so when you make such an accusation against someone the instinct is to fight for the alleged victims. I have this instinct…
He acknowledges why people would be upset with the thought that he committed these allegations, but nonetheless, urges those viewing to read original police reports posted online that show what people involved in this have actually said. He recounted how he had stayed in Sweden five weeks then in the middle of the release of US diplomatic cables an Interpol red notice was put out, which was “not right” for someone who had been “completely cooperative in trying to assist an investigation.”

Prompted by Gestoso, he shares his view on Sweden’s neutrality or ability to act independent from the United States’ agenda:
Sweden’s a very interesting country. There’s historically a lot of good things about Sweden. There’s important advances of some kinds that were made in the ’70s, but it’s changed in a very sad way and most Swedes—Swedes who are old enough see what has happened and they see the change. And they see a state that has said it was proud of its neutrality. There’s been questions, even in the ’70s, about how neutral it was. [It's] to a position now where Sweden is on over 100 NATO committees, where its forces under US command in Afghanistan,
where it’s the fifth in to Libya with planes. It was the first to have its parliament to vote to send planes into Libya. It’s the number one
per capita arms manufacturer in the world, nearly double that of Israel. It was number one supplier of arms to the United States during the Iraq War in absolute terms. And it is now currently the third largest arms supplier to the United States.
Assange references a cable from a US ambassador to Sweden sent in 2009that was sent under the heading, “New Swedish Defense Priorities: Sweden Puts Neutrality In The Dustbin Of History.”
The founder takes on the notion that WikiLeaks is not engaged in investigative journalism. Particularly insightful is Assange’s explanation of how the word “journalist” has been turned against the
organization by media and political elites:
This particular word, journalist, has never had such power as in relation to the assault on WikiLeaks—the concern as to the definition of this word. Now, when a cameraman goes to war and he photographs something and comes back, we all acknowledge he’s a war journalist, even though he is not writing an opinion piece.

He adds:
It is simply not physically possible to write individual news stories about one million documents. That is not possible. We work at a higher level, which is that we create the structure of analysis. So that is,after all verification and publication is done, to, for example, with the Afghan war logs, to show exactly where on maps people were killed, how many by the size of the circle on the map…

…US involvement in Afghanistan, State Department, Syria government—these are big organizations. These organizations have to be understood by understanding their many millions of pieces all at once and that’s what we do. I don’t care whether people call this journalism or not. That’s completely irrelevant. This is more important than that. It’s about adding to our shared intellectual
record, documenting what is actually going on, producing just change as a result of our documentation.

To a key allegation against the WikiLeaks that the organization has “blood on its hands” after the release of US documents, he illuminates the “rhetorical trick” to shift attention from the bloodshed caused by the US to WikiLeaks. He notes there has been no claim by the US government that the organization has been directly responsible for any
deaths but mentions how the Afghanistan War Logs showed several thousand people had been directly killed in Afghanistan by US forces.
Twenty thousand people had been indirectly killed. They’re a “machine to put blood all over Afghanistan.” The US military was shown to be spreading blood all over—the blood of children, the blood of women, the blood of men and the blood of its own soldiers. But it turned the facts around and pointed at WikiLeaks and said, no, that organization has blood on its hands.

Media corruption only contributed to cementing this perception. There are more results on Google when one searches for “WikiLeaks” and “blood on hands” than when one searches for “Pentagon” and “blood on hands,” despite all the wars fought including the most recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gestoso asks Assange about the Internet, social media and social movements. He outlines how Western powers had the globe on a trajectory toward “pending transnational totalitarianism” because of the total surveillance that now exists.

This exchange occurs:
GESTOSO: So, it’s almost like something perverse if you want. The official line is we’re promoting or we are living in states that are democratic. We’re talking about some Western countries. When in reality….

ASSANGE: It’s completely perverse. It’s completely perverse. It’s in such runaway accelarating decay, the rule of law in the west. We saw this with Guantanamo Bay. That’s where it first—detention without trial in Guantanamo. You now have a case I worked on, the Omar Khadr case, young man, fifteen years-old, detained, from Afghanistan. He has been kept in Guantanamo for ten years now. He’s gone from being a boy to be a man in Guantanamo. The only life he knows now is Guantanamo.
Over 80 people there, cleared for release. Even the US government says they were never terrorists. Still there after years. The most grievous offense against the rule of law to deliberately and intentionally order the murder of your own citizens outside of any judicial process, where there is no possibility to review…

Finally, as is being widely reported in the media, Assange says he thinks he could be in the embassy for six months to a year. What is likely to precipitate an end to the standoff, he hopes, is the dropping of the case in Sweden by the authorities. (He did not mention going before the International Court of Justice to argue for “safe passage” to Ecuador.)
“I must continue the fight. The fight is not just about me,” he concludes.
It is not just about me. I have an organization of people and supporters and others who are close allies who have also been attacked and targeted. This is not just a persecution of an individual. This is a persecution of an organization. This is a persecution of a group. This is persecution of people, who believe in something, who believe in human rights, who actually believe in this, who are not just using it for propaganda purposes to bash the Soviet Union or to bash China or something but who actually believe that it is important because we want a civilization that is civilized…

When there’s arbitrary law, when the rule of law is in collapse, there’s no safe place you can go. You can’t decide that, well, if I pal up to this bit of the establishment here or there and if I keep my head down, I’ll be okay because it is arbitrary. It’s unpredictable. It doesn’t matter if you do something that is perceived to be wrong or perceived to be right because it is arbitrary. So, it is necessary for us, for me, for everyone to continue that fight because otherwise we are all moving toward an international system of arbitrary rule by complex groups that are connected to each other. It’s not about the electoral system. It’s non-democratic rule of these people for their own interests. I mean, they need to understand by supporting such actions they are moving their societies into a regime where even they
won’t like the outcome.

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16 August 2012 Julian Assange: UK 'threat' to arrest Wikileaks founder
Ecuador has accused the UK of making a "threat" to enter its embassy in London to arrest Wikileaks' Julian Assange.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-19259623

The BBC's Nick Childs: "The diplomatic temperature has been rising"

Mr Assange took refuge at the embassy in June to avoid extradition to 
Sweden, where he faces questioning over assault and rape claims, which
he denies. Ecuador says a decision on his claim for political asylum will come later.
The UK Foreign Office says it can lift the embassy's diplomatic status to fulfil a "legal obligation" to extradite the 41-year-old.
In an official note to the Ecuadoreans it said it was "surprised" by media reports that "Ecuador is about to take a decision and proposes
to grant asylum to Mr Assange".
The BBC's Tim Reid, outside the embassy, said Ecuador had accused the UK of "intimidating" behaviour and that it was "surprised and disappointed" by what had gone on.
In June, the UK's Supreme Court dismissed Mr Assange's bid to reopen his appeal against extradition and gave him a two-week grace period before extradition proceedings could start.
It was during that fortnight, while on bail, that he sought refuge.
The Wikileaks website he founded published a mass of leaked diplomatic cables that embarrassed several governments, particularly the US's, in 2010.
Mr Assange says he fears that if extradited to Sweden, he will then be passed on to the American authorities.
A number of police officers are outside the Ecuadorean embassy, in Knightsbridge, where some of Mr Assange's supporters have also gathered.
Three protesters have been arrested outside the embassy after minor scuffles.
The BBC's Stuart Hughes says some of the demonstrators have been chanting: "Julian Assange, freedom fighter."
Protests have also been held outside the British embassy in Ecuador's capital.

Images from Quito showed protesters holding signs saying: "We are sovereign, not colonies" and a union jack being stepped on.
'Improper' threat
At a news conference in Quito on Wednesday, Ecuador's Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patino, said a letter from the UK government had been delivered through a British embassy official.
"Today we received from the United Kingdom an express threat, in writing, that they might storm our embassy in London if we don't hand over Julian Assange," he said.
"Ecuador rejects in the most emphatic terms the explicit threat of the British official communication."
He said such a threat was "improper of a democratic, civilised and rule-abiding country".

He added: "If the measure announced in the British official communication is enacted, it will be interpreted by Ecuador as an unacceptable, unfriendly and hostile act and as an attempt against our sovereignty. It would force us to respond.

"We are not a British colony."

A Foreign Office spokesman said the UK remained "determined" to fulfil its obligation to extradite Mr Assange.

"Throughout this process we have drawn the Ecuadoreans' attention to relevant provisions of our law, whether, for example, the extensive human rights safeguards in our extradition procedures, or to the legal status of diplomatic premises in the UK," the spokesman said.
"We are still committed to reaching a mutually acceptable solution."
The law the UK has informed Ecuador it could use in the case is the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987.
It allows the UK to revoke the diplomatic status of an embassy on UK soil, which in this case would potentially allow police to enter the building to arrest Mr Assange for breaching the terms of his bail.
The act was introduced after PC Yvonne Fletcher was shot outside the Libyan Embassy in London in 1984.

'Legal obligations'
The Foreign Office note to Ecuador stated: "We very much hope not to get this point [revoking diplomatic status], but if you cannot resolve the issue of Mr Assange's presence on your premises, this route is open to us."
It also said that it must meet its legal obligations to arrest Mr Assange and extradite him to Sweden.

The note went on: "We remain committed to working with you amicably to resolve this matter. But we must be absolutely clear this means that should we receive a request for safe passage for Mr Assange, after granting asylum, this would be refused, in line with our legal obligations."
The Ecuadorean foreign minister told reporters an announcement on Mr Assange's bid for political asylum would be issued on Thursday at 07:00 local time (13:00 BST).
The BBC's Bridget Kendall said she believed it was "quite likely" that Ecuador would grant Mr Assange asylum because it had reacted strongly to the UK and may not want to be perceived to be buckling under pressure
However, he could still be arrested if he left the embassy, she said. Our correspondent could not recall a precedent in which the Diplomatic
and Consular Premises Act 1987 had been used in this way.
And former government lawyer Carl Gardner told BBC Radio 4's Today programme legal advisers would be "urging the most extreme caution".
In 2010, two female ex-Wikileaks volunteers accused Mr Assange, an Australian citizen, of committing sexual offences against them while he was in Stockholm to give a lecture.
Mr Assange claims the sex was consensual and the allegations are politically motivated.
In June, judges at the UK's Supreme Court dismissed his final appeal against extradition to Sweden.
An offer by Ecuador to allow Swedish investigators to interview Mr Assange inside the embassy was rejected.

 Supporters of Mr Assange have been gathering outside the embassy

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Michael Moore: People Should Start to Practice the Words ‘President Romney’


Posted on Aug 30, 2012 HuffPost Live

The Academy Award-winning director is among those predicting a Romney victory in November. Why? Because the right is outstripping the left in money and motivation. And because Obama’s performance over the last
four years has discouraged the liberal public.

“What is being done to inspire the base?” Moore asked. “I don’t think ads are gonna do it. I think he’s gotta act. He should have started acting four years ago. This is what’s so upsetting to me. ... He should not have compromised with Congress. ... He hasn’t followed through on the things he said he was going to do. ... Young people who voted for him four years ago are not that enthused and are not out there working right now like they were four years ago. And I think the Democrats are depending on our fear of going back to Republicans running the show—that that’s what’s going to motivate enough of our people to get out. I don’t know.”

—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly. Follow him on Twitter: @areedkelly.

HuffPost Live:

Are Liberals Too Eager to Believe Sex Charges Against Julian Assange?


Posted on Aug 31, 2012

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What happens when the predatory interests of a national security state and those of women’s rights advocates seem to coincide, as in the case of WikiLeaks publisher and accused rapist Julian Assange? A murky witch hunt, in which some liberals forget that suspects are innocent until proven guilty, JoAnn Wypijewski writes in The Nation.

Wypijewski reminds us that Swedish police were unusually quick to initiate the process of arrest when one of the women now involved in the charges against Assange asked authorities to require that he take an STD test after the two had unprotected sex. Upon seeing the authorities’ eagerness to arraign Assange, that woman refused to give
further testimony. Not long after, the Swedish prosecutor’s office withdrew the arrest warrant for rape and molestation on the grounds
that the charges were not appropriate to the women’s claims. For some reason, that decision was overturned a week later, after the Swedish authorities allowed Assange to leave the country. (A detailed account of this sequence of events, with statements from the women that seem to exonerate Assange, can be read here.)

The dubious circumstances surrounding Sweden’s sexual misconduct charges—taken with Assange’s status as public enemy No. 1 in the West—suggest that the public’s legitimate desire to see officials investigate suspects of rape and violence against women is being exploited by governments looking to protect their own
interests—namely, their ability to continue committing illegal acts in secret worldwide. In their eagerness to defend the rights of women, Wypijewski argues, some writers and activists, however just their cause in general, may have become unwitting supporters of a government’s malicious attempt to silence one of its ablest critics.

—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly. Follow him on Twitter: @areedkelly.

JoAnn Wypijewski in The Nation:

If the Swedish claims against Assange had involved anything but sex, it’s unlikely that liberals, and even some self-described radicals,
would be tiptoeing around this part of the story, either by asking “So I guess he’s a bad guy?” or by arguing “Of course he needs to answer
for his crimes.” If it were anything but sex, we would insist on the presumption of innocence. We have instead gotten comfortable with presuming guilt and trusting in the dignified processes of law to guarantee fairness.
“Believe the victim” entered the lexicon decades ago for historically understandable reasons. Women had been denied their own due process, in a sense—their right to make a complaint and expect justice, not vilification or worse. They are still being denied and derided, as the idiot spewings of Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin illustrate.
The mutation of basic rights into an imperative for belief, and of full citizens into victims, has not made women any safer, but its cultural manipulation—particularly in high-profile cases—has struck at the foundations of civil liberty in a way that may not have been anticipated. 


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Ancestors of Thomas Allwood

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Airlie Beach and Conway Beach in the heart of the Witsundaysnever to be replaced 80 acres of ocean front with hills views over looking the pacific ocean, suilable for health retreat and private home on each 40 acres....... The idealistic life style land has 10,000 acres of rain forrest bordering the side and back with the ocean on the front with your own glorious beach and privacy that simply can not be found anywhere else, yet a hop skip and jump from the world wide famous tourist destination of Airlie Beach.... the Gateway to the glorious Witsunday Islands where you can spend your days sailing and swimming amoungst the tropical fish at the Great Barrier Reef...
$Aust 100 million for 80 acres

for this once in a life time 80 acres with absolute ocean front in the Witsundays Queensland Australia
or
$Aust 50 million  for 40 acres





which has 10,000 acres of national forrest bordering the property on the side and back, with the road on the other other side of the property that give easy access from the road to the two house blocks already ready for a new mansion on one, and a health retreat on the other, both with different, but absolutely unreplaceable views of both the Pacific Ocean and the Conway National Park......The vendor will consider a part or full trade for a business and/or house and motel, hotel, office block anywhere in the world.
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Beautiful Airlie and Palm Beach in 
sunny Queensland Australia

Once in a life time opportunity 
to purchase an absolute Beach Frontage Luxury Two Bed Room Unit on the ocean at Palm Beach Gold Coast Australia Queensland for a bargain price of

  295,000
 UK Pounds..
or rent this unit for a once in a life time holiday at Palm Beach near the Gold Coast
Queensland Australia fora bargain price of 
£130 a day.
After you have lived it this absolute beach front unit for two weeks you will not want to leave and will end up wanting to buy the unit to use as a holiday each year and collect the £130  a day for the rest of the year in rent.


 


Sell your 500,000 pound home in the in the UK convert you pounds to nearly three times in Australian dollars buy this two beroom luxury unit in the Gold Coast of sunny Queensland where the sun shines all year round, which has absolute beach frontage, no roads between the unit and the ocean....
 you just walk straight onto the ocean from your unit and into the waves of the ocean 12 months a year and 

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DUMBs - Deep Underground Military Bases built for the Elite from Taxation collected from hard working Americans, when things get hard to survive on the Earths surface through a nuclear blast, earthquakes, floods etc



Ex-CIA Agent and preffessor exposes how and why the elite control the World Part One





Ex-CIA Agent and preffessor exposes how and why the elite control the World Part Two




Ex-CIA Agent and preffessor exposes how and why the elite control the World Part Three




Ex-CIA Agent and preffessor exposes how and why the elite control the World Part Four





Ex-CIA Agent and preffessor exposes how and why the elite control the World Part Five




Greg Hallett & the Spymaster

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Aldios Hitler- Father of Adolph Hitler and Son of a Rothschild

                                    
                               New Zealand -Greg Hallett Author of the following books

HITLER WAS A BRITISH AGENT,

                                                                                         

How to Take Over the World, 


                                                                                            
                                                                                               How To Taker Over The World
                                                                                              
                                                                         

New Zealand- A Backmailers guide, 

                                                                 

Gifting The United Nations to Stalin

                                                                                                                                                          

Stalins British Training,

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
The authors' wake up each morning quite surprised they are still breathing.

The Spymaster has worked in a background of undeclared hostilities over many years. He has gone undercover amongst Nazis, Communists, Marxists and some of the most vicious gangs of criminals in New Zealand. Several times other people have been killed in his place in cases of mistaken identity. The Spymaster has been arrested more times than he can remember and by more outfits than he can remember. He has been on both sides of enforcement operations. He has an in-depth knowledge of offenders in New Zealand and is often sought out by people in high places. Former Prime Minister Rob Muldoon once said of him: "If St Peter ever made a mistake and let you into heaven, there'd be a fistfight in the first five minutes".

Greg Hallett trained in various psychological models in parallel with his architecture degree and training. He travelled widely behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, hitchhiking on planes, making bunks out of airmail bags, to party and report between cities. His contacts in Eastern Europe led to deep penetration of the Soviet State, how it functioned and how it was to colonise the West. It was these qualifications that led him to buy buildings in Moscow immediately after the Berlin Wall fell. This led to interviews with the KGB and their revelations about the planned sex-communism and deconstruction of Westerners. What they had planned for the West happened in the West. Equally all modern history can be dated back to 1945. What Hitler planned for the world happened to the world over the next sixty years.

When Hallett teamed up with the Spymaster they found they had many of the insights and historical answers to many of the controversies of Europe from WWII to the Cold War and the present . . . not completely disregarding aspects of the future.

In listening to each other's stories they noticed a lot of common ground and have attempted to lay this bare.

"Take of it what you will. We don't expect you to reject sixty years of official history overnight, but we do expect you to view it with new-found suspicion."

"Any serious attempt at the truth creates controversy and we expect Hitler Was A British Agent 
to be considered as the most expedient option of creating war."

The Spymaster says that he will often go on operations and end up in entirely the wrong place with the wrong people at the wrong time, but always much wiser. Through such coincidences, history is often more explicable to the ordinary man than a lot of complicated analysis. We found "filling-in-the-gaps analysis" to be a primary cause of ill-informed history. As such, Hallett and the Spymaster have teamed up to give you riveting insights into how the enemies of war are created and how enemies work together to prolong and expand wars.

The authoritative and unique insider's look at Hitler outlines his missing year, his British psychological training and financial support, his British-linked minders, and the British sabotage of the Hitler assassination attempts. It outlines in great detail, Operation WINNIE THE POOH, Hitler's escape out of Berlin on 2 May 1945, who he flew with, what planes he caught, their serial numbers, where he flew to, who greeted him, where he spent the remainder of his life and what he eventually died of.

WWII has passed its 60-year suppression rule.

Despite this, information coming out about WWII is still controlled as it reflects on how the current wars are carried out.

File theft is such common practise it is a forerunner to any elevation.

Two Intelligence agencies have regularly stolen Hitler was a British Agent and "it has been read at the highest levels" during the final phases of writing. As quickly as it was written it was stolen, and in August 2005 word got back that they would let it out. This came with further inside information and at least one historical act.


STOMPING ON OLD CHESTNUTS
This is a whole new and unique look at all the old chestnuts surrounding Adolf Hitler's rise to power. The author uses the personal assistance of a Spymaster in marshalling much new material surrounding Hitler's origins, his sexuality, and his British Training, long hidden by a conspiracy of British and American political leaders. He takes an in depth look at the British Royal Family and finds them wanting, full of spies, perverts, and morons, with the morons being the least dangerous.
He delves into the James Bond myths and finds the true James Bond was a lot younger and more homicidal than anyone had previously thought. He interview James Bond III on one of the last 'hits' on Adolf Hitler, well after his official death.
He also provides a new take on the mystery surrounding Rudolph Hess. An amazing thought-provoking study from the already detail history of Hess. State secrets abound on nearly every page.

Greg Hallett: "I interviewed the KGB in Moscow in December 1989 at a point when they were open, due to lack of pay. At the time you could buy information for the price of a meal. This led to some psychological information being supplied which led to international contacts and meeting with a Spymaster. The Spymaster and other intelligence operatives have been briefing me for the past three years resulting in ten books. This is book five of ten (and just to confuse you) there are four books in this immediate series."

Hitler was a British Agent covers Hitler's incestuous parentage, his training in Britain, his sex with men, his bizarre sexual habits with women, including fake suicides and murders made to look like suicides. It delves into Hitler's psychiatric condition and how, during his missing year, he was manipulated by 'deconstruction' to perform as a British Agent, that is, an agent for the British war machine.
The book covers Hess and doppelgänger Hess' simultaneous flight to Britain, Anthony Blunt's conception by a royal, Wallis Simpson's sexual practises with King Edward VIII and how she leaked British secrets to Hitler. 
Hitler was a British Agent covers Operation JAMES BOND to remove Martin Bormann out of Berlin and exposes for the first time Operation WINNIE THE POOH to remove Hitler out of Berlin. It reveals that the origins of the Cold War were in the hunt for the missing Hitler from 1 May 1945 and this became the excuse for surveillance in virtually every country in the world. Hitler was a British Agent leaves an air that everything that happens now, happens because of 1945. 
In the 18 chapters it covers the masterful deceptions of war, the creation of war, the training of top level double agents, the repeated faking of their deaths and their escapes, making this book something of an illusion-buster with applications to the analysis of war now and formulas for the time in between wars. The book explains how the 'real' history applies to the 'real' present. 
Many intelligence officers were interviewed in writing this book and they have given the low-down on what really happened in the many wars from 1936. In some cases, they, or their fathers, were the main players in the vignettes. These personal histories date back to the Spanish Civil War with George Orwell and redefine the origins of Animal Farm.

Hitler Was A British Agent is full of Intelligence jokes.

On 2 July 2008 Greg Hallett lodged a Notice of General Appeal citing Helen Clark's attempted murders and murder.

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Greg Hallet New Zealand Author exposes how New Zealand political, police and court system is run by a mafia operation which is headed by security organisations such as the CIA, the KGB, ASIO and Mossad who sell drugs, commit murder and run peodofile rings Part One



Greg Hallet New Zealand Author exposes how New Zealand political, police and court system is run by a mafia operation which is headed by security organisations such as the CIA, the KGB, ASIO and Mossad who sell drugs, commit murder and run peodofile rings Part Two




Greg Hallet New Zealand Author interview with Dr James Fetzer exposes how New Zealand political, police and court system is run by a mafia operation which is headed by security organisations such as the CIA, the KGB, ASIO and Mossad who sell drugs, commit murder and run peodofile rings
Greg Hallet also talks about his books which include Hitler was a British Agent, How to Control The World Part One of 12



Greg Hallet New Zealand Author interview with Dr James Fetzer exposes how New Zealand political, police and court system is run by a mafia operation which is headed by security organisations such as the CIA, the KGB, ASIO and Mossad who sell drugs, commit murder and run peodofile rings Part one of 12
Greag Hallet also talks about his books which include Hitler was a British Agent, How to Control The World Part Two



Greg Hallet New Zealand Author interview with Dr James Fetzer exposes how New Zealand political, police and court system is run by a mafia operation which is headed by security organisations such as the CIA, the KGB, ASIO and Mossad who sell drugs, commit murder and run peodofile rings 
Greag Hallet also talks about his books which include Hitler was a British Agent, How to Control The World Part Three 



Greg Hallet New Zealand Author interview with Dr James Fetzer exposes how New Zealand political, police and court system is run by a mafia operation which is headed by security organisations such as the CIA, the KGB, ASIO and Mossad who sell drugs, commit murder and run peodofile rings
Greag Hallet also talks about his books which include Hitler was a British Agent, How to Control The World Part Four out of 12



Greg Hallet New Zealand Author interview with Dr James Fetzer exposes how New Zealand political, police and court system is run by a mafia operation which is headed by security organisations such as the CIA, the KGB, ASIO and Mossad who sell drugs, commit murder and run peodofile rings 
Greag Hallet also talks about his books which include Hitler was a British Agent, How to Control The World Part Five out of 12




Greg Hallet New Zealand Author interview with Dr James Fetzer exposes how New Zealand political, police and court system is run by a mafia operation which is headed by security organisations such as the CIA, the KGB, ASIO and Mossad who sell drugs, commit murder and run peodofile rings 
Greag Hallet also talks about his books which include Hitler was a British Agent, How to Control The World Part Seven of 12



Greg Hallet New Zealand Author interview with Dr James Fetzer exposes how New Zealand political, police and court system is run by a mafia operation which is headed by security organisations such as the CIA, the KGB, ASIO and Mossad who sell drugs, commit murder and run peodofile rings 
Greag Hallet also talks about his books which include Hitler was a British Agent, How to Control The World Part Eight of 12







Greg Hallett talks about his book Hitler was a British Agent with Sweedish Radio Part One


Greg Hallett talks about his book Hitler was a British Agent with Sweedish Radio Part Two


Greg Hallett talks about his book Hitler was a British Agent with Sweedish Radio Part Three


Greg Hallett talks about his book Hitler was a British Agent with Sweedish Radio Part Four



Greg Hallett talks about his book Hitler was a British Agent with Sweedish Radio Part Five



Greg Hallett talks about his book Hitler was a British Agent with Sweedish Radio Part Six







Michael Rupert Ex Police Officer for the LA Police Departments exposes CIA selling Drugs








Michael Rupert Ex Police Officer for the LA Police Departments exposes CIA selling Drugs Part One




Michael Rupert Ex Police Officer for the LA Police Departments exposes CIA selling Drugs Part Two






Michael Rupert Ex Police Officer for the LA Police Departments exposes CIA selling Drugs Part Three





Michael Rupert Ex Police Officer for the LA Police Departments exposes CIA selling Drugs Part Four




Michael Rupert Ex Police Officer for the LA Police Departments exposes CIA selling Drugs Part Five




Michael Rupert Ex Police Officer for the LA Police Departments exposes CIA selling Drugs Part Six





Michael Rupert Ex Police Officer for the LA Police Departments exposes CIA selling Drugs Part Seven




Michael Rupert Ex Police Officer for the LA Police Departments exposes CIA selling Drugs Part Eight




Michael Rupert Ex Police Officer for the LA Police Departments exposes CIA selling Drugs Part Nine





Michael Rupert Ex Police Officer for the LA Police Departments exposes CIA selling Drugs Part Ten





Michael Rupert Ex Police Officer for the LA Police Departments exposes CIA selling Drugs Part Eleven


Polidics.com

“C.I.A. Selling Drugs” Says Ex-Agent






http://polidics.com/911/cia-exposed.html

Ex C.I.A. agent breaks it down for american media and public on CNN. Shows documentation on drug dealing money laundering C.I.A.

 Shane Stafford  12.25.07

This man, Michael Ruppert is telling the truth!!! I have done some more research on the topics he speaks of and our nation will be in peril if we do not elect Ron Paul. Ron Paul will lead this country to success and offer our citizens more freedom.

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The CIA selling drugs 

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Make some popcorn and watch this vid. http://getcnn.com/2008/07/the-cia-selling-drugs-must-watch/

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JOHN STOCKWELL EX CIA AGENT TALKING ABOUT THE INFLUENCE THE CIA 
HAVE ON THE WORLD MEDIA IN PROVIDING FALSE NEWS FOR TO ACHIVE CERTAIN AIMS 
OF THE CIA AND THOSE THAT FUND AND CONTROL THE CIA Part One




JOHN STOCKWELL EX CIA AGENT TALKING ABOUT THE INFLUENCE THE CIA 
HAVE ON THE WORLD MEDIA IN PROVIDING FALSE NEWS FOR TO ACHIVE CERTAIN AIMS 
OF THE CIA AND THOSE THAT FUND AND CONTROL THE CIA Part Two




JOHN STOCKWELL EX CIA AGENT TALKING ABOUT THE INFLUENCE THE CIA 
HAVE ON THE WORLD MEDIA IN PROVIDING FALSE NEWS FOR TO ACHIVE CERTAIN AIMS 
OF THE CIA AND THOSE THAT FUND AND CONTROL THE CIA Part Three



DUMBS (Deep Underground military Bases) in the USA, built for the elite...
 not for ordinary people....
they have Fema Camps for ordinary people....whne the works has physical problems like a worls nuclear war... 
earth changing in a major way...




C
IA Agents...Cointelpro...Provacateurs...




The real question is: 
Who really controls the world security organisation such as 
CIA (USA), 
KGB(Russia), 
MI5(UK), 
MI6(UK), 
Mossad(Israel), 
ASIO(Australia).... etc
Part answer: Certainly not the governments of these countries.......
So who does really control these security organisations that create wars, 
supply illegal drugs, 
murder people that are not liked by those who control these security agencies
support terrorists activity etc


 
John Stockwell ex CIA Agent speaks out about CIA Involvment in 
manipulating the world media with false information,
suplying Drugs
 to American people and other around the world 
to make money to buy arms to create wars, 
to create confusion and dramas, 
to control people
and the general immorality of the CIA operations and aims_ Part One




John Stockwell ex CIA Agent speaks out about CIA Involvment in 
manipulating the world media with false information,
suplying Drugs
 to American people and other around the world 
to make money to buy arms to create wars, 
to create confusion and dramas, 
to control people
and the general immorality of the CIA operations and aims
_ Part Two


Watch this space ......more to come on this interesting subject....



Central Intelligence Agency of the United States

CIA drug trafficking


Several sources indicate the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) may have been involved in several drug traffickingoperations. Often, they claimed, the CIA worked with groups which it knew were involved in drug trafficking, so that these groups would provide them with useful intelligence and material support, in exchange for allowing their criminal activities to continue[1], and impeding or preventing their arrest, indictment, and imprisonment by U.S. law enforcement agencies.[2]
The CIA supported various Afghan rebel commanders, such as Mujahideen leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who were fighting against the government of Afghanistan and the forces of the Soviet Union which were its supporters.[5] Historian Alfred W. McCoy stated that:[6]
CIAQ and Kuomintang opium smuggling operations 
"In most cases, the CIA's role involved various forms of complicity, tolerance or studied ignorance about the trade, not any direct culpability in the actual trafficking ... [t]he CIA did not handle heroin, but it did provide its drug-lord allies with transport, arms, and political protection. In sum, the CIA's role in the Southeast Asian heroin trade involved indirect complicity rather than direct culpability."

Mexico

According to Peter Dale Scott, the Dirección Federal de Seguridad was in part a CIA creation, and "the CIA's closest government allies were for years in the DFS". DFS badges, "handed out to top-level Mexican drug-traffickers, have been labelled by DEA agents a virtual 'license to traffic.'"[7] Scott says that "The Guadalajara Cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug-trafficking network in the early 1980s, prospered largely because it enjoyed the protection of the DFS, under its chief Miguel Nassar (or Nazar) Haro, a CIA asset."[7]

Iran Contra Affair

Released on April 13, 1989, the Kerry Committee report concluded that members of the U.S. State Department "who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking... and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers."
In 1996 Gary Webb wrote a series of articles published in the San Jose Mercury News, which investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had smuggled cocaine into the U.S. which was then distributed as crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the Contras. The CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions and the large shipments of drugs into the U.S. by the Contra personnel and directly aided drug dealers to raise money for the Contras.
In 1996 CIA Director John M. Deutch went to Los Angeles to attempt to refute the allegations raised by the Gary Webb articles, and was famously confronted by former Los Angeles Police Department officer Michael Ruppert, who testified that he had witnessed it occurring.[8]

Venezuelan National Guard Affair

The CIA - in spite of objections from the Drug Enforcement Administration, allowed at least one ton of nearly pure cocaine to be shipped intoMiami International Airport. The CIA claimed to have done this as a way of gathering information about Colombian drug cartels. But the cocaine ended up being sold on the street.[9]
In November 1996 a Miami jury indicted former Venezuelan anti-narcotics chief and longtime CIA asset, General Ramon Guillen Davila, who was smuggling many tons of cocaine into the United States from a Venezuelan warehouse owned by the CIA. In his trial defense, Guillen claimed that all of his drug smuggling operations were approved by the CIA.[10]

Haiti

According to unnamed sources in the mid 1980s, the CIA created a unit in Haiti, whose purported purpose was anti-drug activity, but was in reality "used as an instrument of political terror", and was heavily involved in drug trafficking. The members of the unit were known to torture supporters of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and threatened to kill the local head of the DEA. According to one U.S. official, the unit was trafficking drugs and never produced any useful drug intelligence.[11]

Panama

The U.S. military invasion of Panama after which dictator Manuel Noriega was captured.

See also: Illegal drug trade in Panama
In 1989, the United States invaded Panama as part of Operation Just Cause, which involved 25,000 American troops. Gen. Manuel Noriega, head of government of Panama, had been giving military assistance to Contra groups in Nicaragua at the request of the U.S.—which, in exchange, allowed him to continue his drug-trafficking activities—which they had known about since the 1960s.[12][13] When the DEA tried to indict Noriega in 1971, the CIA prevented them from doing so.[12] The CIA, which was then directed by future president George H. W. Bush, provided Noriega with hundreds of thousands of dollars per year as payment for his work in Latin America.[12] However, when CIA pilot Eugene Hasenfus was shot down over Nicaragua by the Sandinistas, documents aboard the plane revealed many of the CIA's activities in Latin America, and the CIA's connections with Noriega became a public relations "liability" for the U.S. government, which finally allowed the DEA to indict him for drug trafficking, after decades of allowing his drug operations to proceed unchecked.[12] Operation Just Cause, whose ostensible purpose was to capture Noriega, pushed the former Panamanian leader into thePapal Nuncio where he surrendered to U.S. authorities. His trial took place in Miami, where he was sentenced to 45 years in prison.[12]
Noriega's prison sentence was reduced from 30 years to 17 years for good behavior.[14] After serving 17 years in detention and imprisonment, his prison sentence ended on September 9, 2007.[15] He was held under U.S. custody before being extradited to French custody where he was sentenced to 7 years for laundering money from Colombian drug cartels.[16]

See also




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Post-Mortem Confirms Gaddafi Shot In Head


Colonel Gaddafi / Reuters

Post-mortem as man claims reponsibility

The post-mortem on the body of ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has been carried out. 'Multiple wounds'

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Vehicles belonging to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi explode after an air strike by coalition forces, along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah March 20, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

The hunt for Gaddafi in 60 seconds

After eight months of war, wild celebrations broke out in Libya as National Transitional Council leaders declared they had killed Muammar Gaddafi. "Impact" music composed by Jason Livesay. (Warning: graphic content)  Video 

Colonel Gaddafi (PA)

Desperate Gaddafi 'offered money, gold'

A witness has claimed that Muammar Gaddafi bargained for his life with riches before he was killed. 'In a bad way'

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Post-Mortem Confirms Gaddafi Shot In Head

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By Emma Hurd, Sky correspondent, Tripoli |

A post-mortem examination has confirmed Colonel Muammar Gaddafi died of a shot to the head, according to Libya's chief forensic pathologist.
Dr Othman al Zintani said doctors had completed the examination of the Libyan leader's body, but would not reveal further details.
A medical source said Col Gaddafi's body also had a bullet in the abdomen, Reuters reported.
There has been international alarm that the deposed dictator was apparently shot by his captors in a frenzied attack after he was seized alive near Sirte.
A video circulating on the internet shows a crowd gathering around a man who claimed to have fired the fatal bullet.
This contradicts the claims of the National Transitional Council (NTC) interim leadership that Col Gaddafi was fatally wounded in crossfire while being transported to hospital.
The country's prime minister Mahmoud Jibril said the bullet to the head may have been fired by one of his own guards during a shootout with NTC forces.
Mr Jibril said a medical report showed Col Gaddafi was already wounded when he was found in a drainage tube.
He said: "He was taken out, put in that truck and on their way to the field hospital they got crossfire on both sides and they didn't know if the bullet in the head was coming from his own security brigades or from the revolutionary people."
Meanwhile, thousands of Libyans have queued to view his bloodied corpse at a commercial freezer in a shopping centre in the city of Misratah.
It is a macabre tourist attraction, with people filing past the body filming it on their mobile phones.
The corpse was reportedly returned to public view after the post-mortem examination was carried out.
Meanwhile, Sky News has learned the interim government had reached a deal with Col Gaddafi's extended family to hand over his body.
NTC foreign affairs spokesman Ahmed Jibreel said the transfer may be imminent.
But he admitted it had not yet been decided where the tyrant will be buried.
In Benghazi, the interim leadership is preparing for a mass celebration to formally mark the "liberation" of Libya.
The declaration of the end of the eight-month-long war will signal the start of the transition to democracy in Libya, with elections promised by June next year.
The NTC chose to stage the event in the eastern city because the people there led February's uprising against Col Gaddafi's rule.
But the choice of Benghazi also indicates the challenges that still lie ahead in uniting the country.
There have been some misgivings in both the capital Tripoli and Misratah about the people of Benghazi claiming "the glory" for the liberation of the country.
The NTC is still working to establish an effective base in Tripoli, several months after the city was freed from Gaddafi's control.
Disarming the fighting militias, who have local and tribal loyalties, will also be a test of the authority of the NTC.
But overall, the mood in Libya is one of relief and celebration.
In Martyrs' Square in Tripoli - formerly Green Square - crowds are proclaiming the start of a new era in the country.

Syria-based TV to air Gaddafi speech on Thursday

INL News  By Ahmed Tolba | Reuters –  Thu, Oct 6, 2011

CAIRO (Reuters) - A Syria-based television channel said it would broadcast a speech by deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday.
The last time the outside world heard from Gaddafi was in a broadcast on September 20 on Arrai TV, the same channel that will broadcast Thursday's speech.
(Reporting By Ahmed Tolba)


Libyan PM says wishes Gaddafi had not been killed

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By Andrew Roche | Reuters 

LONDON (Reuters) - Libya's Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said in an interview with the BBC on Saturday he wished former dictator Muammar Gaddafi had not been killed and instead had been put on trial for his crimes.
Gaddafi's body remained on public display in Libya on Saturday, bearing wounds assumed to have been inflicted by fighters who hauled him from a drain in his hometown Sirte.
"To be honest with you at the personal level I wish he was alive. I want to know why he did this to the Libyan people," the BBC quoted Jibril as saying in remarks made available ahead of broadcast early on Sunday.
"I wish I were his prosecutor in his trial, you know," he added. "Because this is the question which is in everybody's mind: Why? Did the Libyan people deserve what he did throughout 42 years of oppression, of killing, of everything?"
UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has called for an investigation of the killing. Asked whether he would conduct a full investigation and allow an international team to monitor it, Jibril said:
"Yes, that would be absolutely okay with us you know, but for the body when it's buried, you know, according to Islamic rule ... when it's buried, it's buried.
"We got the coroner's report, I saw the body myself. I can testify that there were no bruises on his face or on his body."
Jibril acknowledged there had been "some limited violations of human rights" in Libya's revolution.
He also suggested Libya's interim authorities might welcome continued support from NATO beyond the end of October, when it plans to conclude its air campaign.
"I don't think there will be a need for that, but just in case," he said.
(Writing by Andrew Roche; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)


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INL News By Rania El Gamal | Reuters –
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan forensic doctors carried out an autopsy overnight on the body of Muammar Gaddafi, the former Libyan leader killed last week, one of the people involved in the autopsy told Reuters on Sunday.
"We worked all through the night. We just got done," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He did not reveal any of the autopsy's findings.
The autopsy was carried out at a morgue in the city of Misrata, about 200 km (130 miles) east of Tripoli. Local officials said Gaddafi's body would now be brought back to the cold store at an old market in Misrata where it has been on public display.
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                                                                                                                         WhyWasNickClayMurderedP1

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1500522/pg1

< Rik Clay exposes 2012, then mysteriously dies.. >, Anonymous Coward, User ID: 1355436 United States 05/21/2011 09:22 PM

Re: >>><<<< Rik Clay exposes 2012, then mysteriously dies.. >>><<<<
nwo murder is NOT mysterious
Anonymous Coward, User ID: 1370832, United States, 06/07/2011 08:05 PM
Re: >>><<<< Rik Clay exposes 2012, then mysteriously dies.. >>><<<<
Google Rik Clay Red Ice and listen to all 4 hours of the groundbreaking interviews. It is a MUST. He exposes prisonplanet.com, 9/11 truth, etc. Classic researcher with work as pertinent as ever.
CaladoriCooperSimmonsClaySchafer
mafia have paid murderers for "hits"
nwo mafia have paid murderers who wear pentagrams on their devil "uni-form"
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1370832 United States 06/07/2011 08:08 PM
Re: >>><<<< Rik Clay exposes 2012, then mysteriously dies.. >>><<<<
and don't forget Jim Keith. Add him to the above list of folks taken out for not being controlled opposition.
nothing mysterious about RIK CLAYs murder, tragic, horrible, disgusting, shameful, but not mysterious
RIP Rik Clay
Silenced by liars for telling the truth.





Nik Clay

"......Many observers believe that if Rik was murdered, then somewhere in his  work, he must have hit a central nerve......"
Reece Woodstock
Chief Editor, Vision Report Watch






Above: London 2012 Olympic Games Logos....


".......Why was Nik Clay murdered?
Why Murdered Nik Clay?
These questions need to be answered by someone....."
stated by Michael McMannus .... Head of The AWN News Investigation Team appointed into finding out why and how and whom murdered Nick Clay just after
Rik Clay went public with his work about  into conspiracy, symbolism and  synchromysticism (his blog was named The Cosmic Mind)  on the popular Red Ice  Creations Radio show in 2008,



 Its because of a specific set of circumstances that occurred in  2008 involving someone called Rik Clay.

Many of you may not be aware of the case surrounding Rik Clay. Rik  Clay was  a young researcher into conspiracy, symbolism and  synchromysticism (his blog was named The Cosmic Mind) who apparently took his own life after an adrenal breakdown.
After Rik Clay went public with his work on the popular Red Ice  Creations Radio show in 2008, he went missing a few days later. 
Everything connected to Rik’s work was removed and a few weeks  later Rik Clay was found dead. 
Rik’s friends who had published back up’s of his blog took them down  and refused to discuss it any further stating they were scared.

Many 
observers believe that if Rik was murdered, then somewhere in his  work, he must have hit a central nerve.



http://www.jdtippit.com/

J.D. TIPPIT
Credit: Dale K. Myers/Tippit Family Collection 
(1924-1963)

In Dallas, Texas there is a city memorial honoring the dedicated men and women of law enforcement who have given their lives in the line of duty. They are Dallas heroes - men and women whose strength of character endured the ultimate test. They leave family and friends who will forever wonder what might have been.

One of those so honored is J.D. Tippit, the 39-year-old father of three who was gunned down on an Oak Cliff side-street on November 22, 1963 - forty-five minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The man arrested for Tippit�s murder was Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old employee of the Texas School Book Depository who was later accused of assassinating the President. The world press declared Tippit a hero for trying to stop Oswald�s escape. Sympathy and thousands of dollars in donations poured in from the heart of a grieving nation.

Two days later, in a dizzying culmination of violence, Oswald himself was murdered by nightclub owner, Jack Ruby. On Monday the twenty-fifth, amid rumors of conspiracy, the President, his accused assassin, and Dallas� faithful public servant were laid to rest.

Four decades of official investigations into the events of November 22nd have not squelched the curiosity of an increasingly distrustful nation. Conspiracy theorists have demonized all of the major players in this tragic drama - including the Dallas cop who was once called a hero. In the cynical world of conspiracy, Tippit is instead a cop on the take, paid to kill Oswald as part of an elaborate plot to overthrow the government.

To others, J.D. Tippit was just an ordinary man who through a chance encounter stumbled into history. But to those who knew him, J.D. Tippit embodied the essential ingredients of the American hero.

This website is lovingly dedicated to his memory.


http://www.erichufschmid.net/JFK/Toronto-connection.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Tippit

J. D. Tippit


Dallas Police Department photo of Tippit in 1952
J. D. Tippit (September 18, 1924 – November 22, 1963) was a police officer with the Dallas Police Department who, according to two government investigations including the Warren Commission, was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald after Tippit stopped Oswald following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Oswald's initial arrest was for Tippit's murder, not Kennedy's.

Tippit was born in Clarksville, Red River County, Texas, to Edgar Lee Tippit, a farmer, and Lizzie Mae Rush. The Tippit and Rush families were of Englishancestry, their ancestors having immigrated to Virginia from England by 1635.[1] It is sometimes reported that J.D. stood for "Jefferson Davis", but in fact, the letters did not stand for anything in particular.[2] Tippit attended public schools through the tenth grade and was raised as a Baptist. He entered the United States Army on July 21, 1944, and was assigned to the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the US 17th Airborne Division. He saw combat in Operation Varsity, the airborne crossing of the Rhine River in March 1945, earning a Bronze Star, and remained on active duty until June 20, 1946.
Tippit was married to Marie Frances Gasway on December 26, 1946, and the couple had three children (whose ages were 14, 10, and 5 at the time of his death[3]). That same year, he went to work for the Dearborn Stove Company. He next worked for Sears, Roebuck and Company in the installation department from March 1948 to September 1949, when he moved to Lone Star, Texas, and attempted cattle raising.
Allegiance United States
Service/branch United States Army
Years of service 1944 – 1946
Unit 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division
Battles/wars World War II
*Battle of the Bulge
*Operation Varsity
Awards Bronze Star
World War II Victory Medal
Tippit attended a Veterans Administration vocational training school at Bogata, Texas, from January 1950 until June 1952. He was then hired by the Dallas Police Department as a patrolman on July 28, 1952. Officer Tippit served capably and was cited for bravery in 1956 for his role in disarming a fugitive.
At the time of his death, Tippit was assigned to Dallas Police vehicle #10, had badge #848 and was earning a salary of $5,880 a year as a Dallas police officer. He was also working two other part-time jobs.


Tippit's squad car on E. 10th Street in Dallas shortly after his shooting.

Murder

On November 22, 1963, J.D. Tippit was working beat number 78, his normal patrol area in south Oak Cliff, a residential area of Dallas.[4] At 12:45 p.m., 15 minutes after the President's assassination, Tippit received a radio order to move to the central Oak Cliff area as part of a concentration of police around the center of the city. At 12:54 Tippit radioed that he had moved as directed. By then several messages had been broadcast describing a suspect in the Kennedy assassination[5] as a slender white male, about 30 years old, 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall, and weighing about 165 pounds (75 kg).
According to the Warren Commission, at approximately 1:11–1:14 p.m.,[6] Tippit was driving slowly eastward on East 10th Street when — about 100 feet (30 m) past the intersection of 10th Street and Patton Avenue — he pulled alongside a man who resembled the broadcast description of Lee Harvey Oswald.[7][8] The man walked over to Tippit's car and apparently exchanged words with him through an open vent window.[9] Tippit opened his car door and as he walked toward the front of the car, the man drew a handgun and fired three shots in rapid succession, hitting Tippit three times in the chest. The man then walked up to Tippit's fallen body and fired a fourth shot directly into his head, fatally wounding him.[10]
The Warren Commission identified twelve people who witnessed the shooting,[11] or its aftermath.[12] Domingo Benavides saw Tippit standing by the left door of his parked police car, and a man standing on the right side of the car. He then heard shots and saw Tippit fall to the ground. Benavides stopped his pickup truck on the opposite side of the street from Tippit's car. He observed the shooter fleeing the scene and removing spent cartridge cases from his gun as he left. Benavides waited in his truck until the gunman disappeared before assisting Tippit. He then reported the shooting to police headquarters, using the radio in Tippit's car.[13] Helen Markham witnessed the shooting and then saw a man with a gun in his hand leave the scene.[14] Markham identified Lee Harvey Oswald as Tippit’s killer in a police lineup she viewed that evening.[15] Barbara Davis and her sister-in-law Virginia Davis heard the shots and saw a man crossing their lawn, shaking his revolver, as if he were emptying it of cartridge cases. Later, the women found two cartridge cases near the crime scene and handed the cases over to police. That evening, Barbara Davis and Virginia Davis were taken to a lineup and both Davises picked out Oswald as the man whom they had seen.[16]
Taxicab driver William Scoggins testified that he saw Tippit's police car pull up alongside a man on the sidewalk, as he his sat in his taxicab nearby. Scoggins heard three or four shots and then saw Tippit fall to the ground. As Scoggins crouched behind his cab, the man passed within twelve feet of him, pistol in hand, muttering what sounded to him like, "poor dumb cop" or "poor damn cop."[17] The next day, Scoggins viewed a police lineup and identified Oswald as the man whom he had seen with the pistol.[citation needed]
The Commission also named several other witnesses[18] who were not at the scene of the murder, but who claimed to have seen a man they later identified as Oswald running between the murder scene and the Texas Theater, where Oswald was subsequently arrested.[19]
Four cartridge cases were found at the scene by eyewitnesses. It was the unanimous testimony of expert witnesses before the Warren Commission that these spent cartridge cases were fired from the revolver in Oswald's possession to the exclusion of all other weapons.[20]

Criticism of the case against Oswald

Since the Warren Commission Report was published in 1964, some researchers have alleged discrepancies in witness testimony and physical evidence which they believe calls into question the Commission's conclusions regarding the murder of Tippit. These critics cite evidence indicating that Oswald may have had an accomplice in the killing, or that possibly Tippit was killed by an assailant (or assailants) other than Oswald. According to Warren Commission criticJim Marrs, Oswald's guilt in the assassination of Kennedy is placed in question by the presence of "a growing body of evidence to suggest that [he] did not kill Tippit".[21] Others say that multiple men were directly involved in Tippit's killing. Conspiracy researcher Kenn Thomas has alleged that the Warren Commission omitted testimony and evidence that two men shot Tippit and that one left the scene in a car.[22]
William Alexander, the Dallas assistant district attorney who had recommended that Oswald be charged with the Kennedy and Tippit murders, has also been critical of the Commission's version of the murder, stating that its conclusions on Oswald's movements "did not add up", and that "certainly, he may have had accomplices."[23]

Allegations regarding timeline

Some researchers, including Anthony Summers and Robert Groden, point to evidence that Tippit's murder may have taken place earlier than the time given in the Warren Report.[24][25][26] The Warren Commission concluded that the shooting occurred at 1:16 p.m. from the police tapes that logged Domingo Benavides' use of the radio in Tippit's car. However, Benavides testified that he did not approach the car until "a few minutes" after the shooting, because he was afraid that the gunman might return.[27] He was assisted in using the radio by witness T.F. Bowley, who testified to Dallas police that he arrived at the scene after the murder, and that the time was 1:10 p.m.[28]
Some critics of the Warren Commission version believe that Oswald did not have sufficient time to travel the nine-tenths of a mile from his house to the scene where Tippit was killed.[29] The timing is of critical importance because, according to the Warren Commission, Oswald arrived at his rooming house at around 1:00 p.m.,[30] then left "3 or 4 minutes" later,[31] and was last seen by his housekeeper a moment later standing at the corner bus stop.[32] The Commission’s own test[33] and estimation of Oswald’s walking speed[34] demonstrated that one of the longer routes to the Tippit shooting scene took 17 minutes and 45 seconds to walk.[35] Additionally, no witness ever surfaced who saw Oswald walk from his rooming house to the murder scene.[36]
Witness Helen Markham initially told the FBI that the shooting occurred "possibly around 1:30 p.m.,"[37] but she later told the Warren Commission: "I wouldn't be afraid to bet it wasn't 6 or 7 minutes after 1."[38][39] Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig stated that when he heard the news that Tippit had been shot, he looked at his watch and noted that the time was 1:06 p.m. However, in a later statement to the press, Craig seemed unsure about the time of the shooting.[40]
Warren "Butch" Burroughs, who ran the concession stand at the Texas Theater where Oswald was arrested, told author James Douglass in 2007 that Oswald came into the theater between 1:00 and 1:07 p.m., which if true would make Oswald's alleged 1:16 shooting of Officer J.D. Tippit impossible.[41] This was a claim that Burroughs had made earlier in the documentary, The Men Who Killed Kennedy.[42]

Allegations regarding witness testimony and physical evidence

Only two Commission witnesses were identified as actually having seen the shooting, Helen Markham and Domingo Benavides. Joseph Ball, senior counsel to the Commission, has referred to Markham's testimony as "full of mistakes," and characterized her as an "utter screwball."[43]
Domingo Benavides initially said that he did not think he could identify the assailant and was never asked to view a police lineup,[44] even though he was the person closest to the killing.[45] Benavides later testified that that the killer resembled pictures he had seen of Oswald.[46] Other witnesses were taken to police lineups. However, these lineups have been criticized as flawed in that they consisted of people who looked very different from Oswald. In one case, the lineup was composed of five "young teenagers" and Oswald.[47][48]
Additionally, certain witnesses who did not appear before the Commission identified an assailant who was not Oswald. Both Acquilla Clemons and Frank Wright witnessed the scene from their respective homes, within one block of the murder. Clemons saw two men near Tippit’s car just before the shooting.[49]After the shooting, she ran outside and saw a man with a gun whom she described as "kind of heavy." He waved to the second man, urging him to "go on".[50] Frank Wright also emerged from his home and observed the scene seconds after the shooting. He described a man standing by Tippit’s body who had on a long coat, and who quickly ran to a car parked nearby and drove away.[51][52][53] There have also been concerns about ballistic evidence and finger print evidence on the police car that seemed to make it less likely that Oswald was the killer.
Some researchers have questioned whether the cartridge cases recovered from the scene were the same as those that were subsequently entered into evidence. Two of the cases were recovered by witness Domingo Benavides and turned over to police officer J.M. Poe. Poe told the FBI that he marked the shells with his own initials, "J.M.P." to identify them.[54] Sergeant Gerald Hill later testified to the Warren Commission that it was he who had ordered police officer Poe to mark the shells.[55] However, Poe's initials were not found on the shells produced by the FBI six months later.[54][56][57] Testifying before the Warren Commission, Poe said that although he recalled marking the cases, he "couldn’t swear to it."[58][59] Poe later told researchers that he was absolutely certain that he had marked the shells.[60] The identification of the cartridge cases at the crime scene raises more questions. Sergeant Gerald Hill examined one of the shells and radioed the police dispatcher, saying: "The shell at the scene indicates that the suspect is armed with an automatic .38 rather than a pistol."[61] However, Oswald was reportedly arrested carrying a non-automatic .38 Special revolver.[62][63] The number of cartridge shells found at the crime scene raises further questions for some. Sergeant Gerald Hill, who took possession of Oswald's revolver upon his arrest, reported that the gun's six chambers were fully loaded with unspent cartridges and that Oswald had no ammunition on his person.[64]

Aftermath

On the evening of the assassination, both Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the new President, Lyndon B. Johnson, called Tippit's widow to express their sympathies.[65] Jacqueline Kennedy wrote a letter expressing sorrow for the bond they shared. The plight of Tippit's family also moved much of the nation and a total of $647,579 ($4.5 million in 2009) was donated to them following the assassination. One of the largest individual gifts was the $25,000 ($176,600 in 2009) that Abraham Zapruder donated after selling his film of the assassination.
A funeral service for J.D. Tippit was held on November 25, 1963, at the Beckley Hills Baptist Church, with the burial following at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Dallas.[65] His funeral occurred on the same day as those of both Kennedy and Oswald.[66][67]
In January 1964, Tippit was posthumously awarded the Medal of Valor from the American Police Hall of Fame, and he also received the Police Medal of Honor, the Police Cross, and the Citizens Traffic Commission Award of Heroism.
Tippit's widow married Dallas police lieutenant Harry Dean Thomas in January 1967.
In movies, Tippit has been portrayed by Price Carson in 1991's JFK, and David Duchovny in 1992's Ruby.

References

Compiled From Records of Land Patents, 1633–1680, in The Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland, 1968, Genealogical Publishing Co., p.465 ^ Dale K. Myers, "Biography: A Boy Named J.D.", J.D. Tippit Official Home Page. ^ Congressional Record of the 88th Congress, 1963: House of Representatives. p. 23471. ^ Warren Commission Report, Chapter 4 — The Assassin, The Killing of Patrolman J. D. Tippit, p. 165. ^ Warren Commission Report, page 5. ^ Thefirst report of Tippit's shooting was transmitted over Police Channel 1 some time between 1:16 and 1:19 p.m., as indicated by verbal time stamps made periodically by the dispatcher. Specifically, the first report began 1 minute 41 seconds after the 1:16 time stamp. Before that, witness Domingo Benavides could be heard unsuccessfully trying to use Tippit's police radio microphone, beginning at 1:16. Dale K. Myers, With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit, 1998, p. 384. ISBN 0-9662709-7-5. ^ Oswald was 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) tall and weighed 150 pounds (68 kg). Warren Commission Hearings Vol. XXVI, p. 521. ^ Warren Commission Report, page 7. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 19, p. 113, Barnes Exhibit A, Right side of Tippit squad car, showing open wing vent window. Mrs. Markham was on the opposite side of the street and a half block back. ^ Groden, Robert. The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald, (New York: Penguin Group, 1995), p. 129. ISBN 0-670-85867-6 ^ Warren Commission Report, page 166 ^ By the evening of November 22, five of them (Helen Markham, Barbara Davis, Virginia Davis, Ted Callaway, Sam Guinyard) had identified Lee Harvey Oswald in police lineups as the man they saw. A sixth (William Scoggins) did so the next day. Three others (Harold Russell, Pat Patterson, Warren Reynolds) subsequently identified Oswald from a photograph. Two witnesses (Domingo Benavides, William Smith) testified that Oswald resembled the man they had seen. One witness (L.J. Lewis) felt he was too distant from the gunman to make a positive identification. Warren Commission Hearings, CE 1968, Location of Eyewitnesses to the Movements of Lee Harvey Oswald in the Vicinity of the Tippit Killing. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, Testimony of Domingo Benavides. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 3, p. 305, Testimony of Mrs. Helen Markham. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 3, p. 318, Testimony of Helen Markham. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 3, p. 342, Testimony of Mrs. Barbara Jeanette Davis. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, p. 454, Testimony of Mrs. Charlie Virginia Davis. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 3, pp. 322-27, Testimony of William W. Scoggins. ^ Warren Commission Report, pp. 166–169. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 23, p. 817, CE 1968, Location of eyewitnesses to the movements of Lee Harvey Oswald in the vicinity of the Tippit killing. ^Warren Commission Report, page 8. ^ Warren Commission Report, Appendix 10: Expert Testimony, Revolver Cartridges and Cartridge Cases. ^ Marrs, Jim.Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 340. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Thomas, Kenn, ed. (2000). "The Tippit Connection".Cyberculture Counterconspiracy: A Steamshovel Web Reader. 2. Escondido, California: The Book Tree. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-58509-126-3. ^ Summers, Anthony,Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, p. 75. ^ Summers, Anthony, Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, p. 72. ^ Groden, Robert. The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald, (New York: Penguin Group, 1995), pp. 134-137. ISBN 0-670-85867-6 ^ The Killing of Patrolman J.D. Tippit, Warren Commission Report, Chapter 4, The Assassin, p. 165. ^ Testimony of Domingo Benavides, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, p. 448. ^Commission Exhibit No. 2003, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 24, p. 202. ^ Perry 2003, p. 391. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, p. 440, Testimony of Earlene Roberts. His housekeeper testified that "it must have been around 1 o'clock, or maybe a little after," but then concluded, "what time I wouldn't want to say." The Warren Commission estimated that Oswald arrived at his rooming house "about 12:59 to 1 p.m." (Warren Commission Report, Chapter 4: The Assassin, p. 163). The HSCA, in its reconstruction of the event, concluded Oswald arrived at “approximately 12:55 P.M.” (HSCA Record 180-10115-10004, September 19, 1977, p. 2). ^ Testimony of Earlene Roberts, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, p. 440. ^ Affidavit of Earlene Roberts, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 7, p. 439, December 5, 1963. ^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, p.434, Testimony of William W. Whaley. The route Commission investigators walked "at an average walking pace" to the Tippit shooting site in 17 minutes 45 seconds was described in testimony as the "long way around route", and "not the most direct route". ^ calculated from the time of events given in the Warren Report by researcher Sylvia Meagher, see Accessories After the Fact, Vintage Books, ISBN 0-679-74315-4, p. 255 ^ Other researchers disagree. The Warren Commission measured the distance from Oswald's rooming house to the site of Tippit's shooting as nine-tenths of a mile (1.4 km). A person walking at a pace of 4 miles (6.4 km) per hour would take 12 minutes 45 seconds to make the journey. A filmed reenactment traveled the distance in 11 minutes 10 seconds. ^ Hurt, Henry, Reasonable Doubt, Henry Holt & Co., 1988. ISBN 0-03-004059-0 p.145 ^ FBI report of interview with Helen Markham on November 22, 1963, Warren Commission Document 5, FBI Gemberling Report, p. 79. ^ Testimony of Mrs. Helen Markham, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 3, p. 306. ^ Groden, Robert. The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald, (New York: Penguin Group, 1995), p. 136. ISBN 0-670-85867-6 ^ Craig, Roger, When They Kill a President, 1971, ASIN: B00072DT18. Yet Craig wrote in that same account,
At that exact moment [of the discovery of Oswald's rifle in the Texas School Book Depository] an unknown Dallas police officer came running up the stairs and advised Capt. Fritz that a Dallas policeman had been shot in the Oak Cliff area. I instinctively looked at my watch. The time was 1:06 p.m. A token force of uniformed officers was left to keep the sixth floor secure and Fritz, Day, Boone, Mooney, Weitzman and I left the building.
However, witness Seymour Weitzman testified to the Warren Commission that Oswald's rifle was not discovered until about 1:22 p.m. (Testimony of Seymour Weitzman, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 7, p. 109) Craig gave an even later time for the Tippit shooting — 1:40 p.m. — in an interview with Penn Jones published in the Los Angeles Free Press in March 1968. He accepted Jones' correction that it was "a little before 1:15." ^ Douglass, James. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, (New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2008), pp. 290, 466. ISBN 978-1-4391-9388-4 ^ Turner, Nigel. The Men Who Killed Kennedy, Part 4, "The Patsy", 1991. ^ Summers, Anthony, Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, p. 68. ^ Testimony of Domingo Benavides, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, pp. 451-52. ^ Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 341. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Testimony of Domingo Benavides, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 6, p. 452. ^ Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 341. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Turner, Nigel. The Men Who Killed Kennedy, Part 5, "The Witnesses", 1991. ^Turner, Nigel. The Men Who Killed Kennedy, Part 4, "The Patsy", 1991. ^ Summers, Anthony, Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, pp. 70-71. Two eyewitnesses to the aftermath, Sam Guinyard and Ted Callaway, ran to 10th and Patton and found Tippit lying in the street beside his car. Callaway picked up Tippit's gun, which lay beneath him outside of the holster. He and Scoggins attempted to chase down the gunman in Scoggin's taxicab.Warren Commission Report, p. 169. ^ Interview November 12, 1964 by George and Patricia Nash for The New Leader. Wright claimed that the killer escaped the crime scene in a gray automobile; he later altered his story, claiming that it was another man who drove off in the gray coupe, while the killer ran alongside, yelling back and forth with the driver. Myers, pp. 76–78. ^ Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 342. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Summers, Anthony, Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, p. 71. ^ a b Commission Exhibit No. 2011, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 24, p. 415. ^ Testimony of Gerald Lynn Hill, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 7, p. 49. ^ Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 343. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Summers, Anthony, Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, p. 69. ^ Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 343. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Testimony of J.M. Poe, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 7, p. 69. ^ Hurt, Henry, Reasonable Doubt, Henry Holt & Co., 1988. ISBN 0-03-004059-0 p.153 ^ Commission Exhibit No. 1974, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 23, p. 870. ^ Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 342. ISBN 0-88184-648-1 ^ Summers, Anthony, Not in Your Lifetime, Warner Books, 1998, ISBN 0-7515-1840-9, p. 70. ^ Groden, Robert, "The Killing of a President," Penguin Books, 1993 ISBN 0-670-85267-8 pp. 97–100. ^ a b Herbers, John (November 26, 1963). "Slain Policeman Is Honored by Dallas". The New York Times: p. 15. ^ Associated Press (November 26, 1963). "Bells Toll for Officer Tippit". The Boston Globe: p. 10. ^ Janson, Donald (November 26, 1963). "Oswald Is Buried in Texas in a Wooden Coffin". The New York Times: p. 14.  

External links

    J.D. Tippit website by Dale Myers.
    "Pain lingers for Tippit's widow," Dallas Morning News, January 27, 2004.
    Entry on J.D. Tippit
    J.D. Tippit at Find-A-Grave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Tippit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Tippit



JFK  A Toronto connection? 18 April 2007
Is this one of the assassins?
Were the Bronfmans involved?




Two important lessons to learn from the 9/11 attack:
1) The 9/11 "truth seekers" who get publicity or promotion are protecting the Zionists; they are trying to deceive, control, and manipulate.
2) The Zionists played a major role in the 9/11 attack. The other people are only in a supporting role, and may even have been duped into joining. 
 

The JFK assassination seems to be exactly the same. Virtually all of the JFK "researchers" who get publicity are Zionist Deniers. 
 
Ignore the primary JFK investigators
If there are any honest researchers in the JFK assassination, they are certainly in the same situation as Bollyn and Hufschmid; namely, they are ignored by most of the JFK investigators.
Mark Lane, a Jewish lawyer who works with the American Free Press, has written books about the Kennedy assassination, and he was involved in the legal cases of other suspicious events.
However, the evidence suggests that Mark Lane is actually a Zionist who pretends to protect the Goyim: 
 Bollyn-MarkLane.html 
 AmericanDeceptionPress.html
“Trust me! 
I love Goyim”
Who might have been shooting at JFK?
Mary Moorman took a photograph of Kennedy as he drove by. A news reporter named Featherstone was extremely concerned about this photograph, and he took it from her. (If you have my book, Painful Questions, an Analysis of the September 11 Attack, you can find a description of this on page 143 under the title America's Free Press is a Disgrace)
If you realize that the Zionists are dominating the media, you must consider that Featherstone realized that Mary Moorman was in a location to get a photo of very critical evidence that would expose the Kennedy assassination as a scam. Apparently, it did not contain any damaging evidence, so he eventually returned it to her.
The photograph does not have much detail. The center portion of her photo is below, and a higher resolution, full size version is here.
In the upper right corner of the Moorman photo, standing on the light-colored concrete wall, are Abraham Zapruder and a woman who is holding him steady as he films the assassination.
As I imply in my book, Zapruder wanted the woman to hold him steady because he was concerned that the numerous loud gunshots would cause him to tremble.
A PDF file of the 2 chapters on Kennedy are here: 
Hufschmid-Kennedy-chapters-only.pdf 
(these chapters are actually my initial reaction to the Warren report, not an analysis of the JFK killing):
The Americans consider that day to be a tragedy, but to the Zionists it was just another successful event in the development of Israel and their takeover of the USA.
They wanted it documented for their historical records. Zapruder was equivalent to those five dancing Israelis who were documenting the event of September 11. 
Info about the dancing Israelis: 
Bollyn-dancing-Israelis.html 
 
A higher quality photograph of the same scene taken by a different photographer a few seconds earlier than the Mary Moormon photo is in a book by Robert Groden: 
www.jfkmurder.com/home.html
The important section of his photo is below: 
Zapruder and the women are in the upper right corner, but in this photograph are two figures which appear to be men wearing hats standing behind the concrete wall.
Robert Groden's book has a photo (below) of a man reenacting the scene to show how the men would stand behind the concrete wall. This also shows that they had a nice view of the street.
Zapruder was standing close to these two men, and as he moved the camera to follow Kennedy down the street, it appears that one of the men can be seen in some of the frames.
At the bottom of frame # 413 of Zapruder's film, there appears to be a man with a hat among the vegetation (green arrow):
Robert Groden's book has a photo taken from Zapruder's position to help us understand frame # 413. By comparing the light poles and the signs on the light poles, you can see that the vegetation has been trimmed. Below is a close-up, and below that is a wide shot.
 


The witnesses to the assassination describe lots of gunshots, which implies there was more than one shooter.
Also, in my chapters on Kennedy in my book, I point out that most of the witnesses were certain that the shots were coming from this area, and that the witnesses said police were looking for bullet shells in that area.
It would appear that one or both of the two men behind the concrete wall may have been shooters. But who were they?
I cannot verify the following speculations. I put them out in the hope so that other people will come forward with information to verify or disprove them. 
 
Was Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico?
The official story says that Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.
This man is supposed to be Oswald at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico.
Either people are getting photographs mixed up, or this person was pretending to be Oswald.
Some people think he might be a Russian; some people think he was one of the shooters; and some people think his name is Jack (Forshaw?), from Toronto, Canada.
Robert Groden's book about Oswald has the photograph below of Jack Ruby's Carousel Club.
On the right side -- a close-up is below -- some people think the man #1 is Clyde Forshaw, the nephew of Jack Forshaw, and that he is worried about the photographer taking his photo.
Man #2 is Jack Ruby (yellow box shows Ruby in a similar position for comparison), and #3 is the Oswald double, not the Oswald who was arrested for the killing.
If the accusations are true that these two men are Clyde and Jack Forshaw from Toronto, that means some of the main assassins were brought in from Toronto, not France, Russia, or the CIA.
By the way, some people think Clyde was the man who shot officer Tippit.
Furthermore, since the Forshaws supposedly work for organized crime, not government agencies, then everybody who blames the assassination on the American government is either mistaken or deliberately lying.
Photos of Oswald and/or the double: 
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/LHO.htm
Which of the many thousands of theories on JFK are correct? We may never know, but learn from 9/11: be suspicious of the people who are getting promotion as JFK investigators. 

 
The mysterious plane crash of JFK Jr.
If the Toronto connection is correct, then we may have an explanation of what happened to JFK Jr.'s airplane.
On July 12, JFK Jr. flew his private plane to the small Buttonville Airport outside of Toronto to meet with officials of Magna International Inc., including vice-president Keith Stein and Belinda Stronach, daughter of the company's founder, Frank Stronach. 
www.cbc.ca/world/story/1999/07/19/pilot990719.html
Frank Stronach supposedly arrived in America with no money. Today he is a billionaire in auto parts and horseracing. 
www.cbc.ca/lifeandtimes/stronach.html
Some newspapers were wondering about the relationship between Bill Clinton and Frank Stronach's daughter Belinda, such as this. She also denied other relationships, such as thiswith hockey player Tie Domi.
Why would an American president associate with billionaire families who have such suspicious friends and behavior?
The gambling businesses have always attracted organized crime, so we should consider the possibility that Stronach is involved in a crime network.
If Stronach's company is involved in organized crime, why would Kennedy fly to Toronto to meet with them? The official story is that Stronach was considering investing in Kennedy's magazine, which was not profitable.
Four days later, as he was flying his little airplane from the Essex County Airport in Fairfield, New Jersey back to his home city, the airplane crashed into the ocean. There are accusations that the tail of the plane broke off, although the official story is that Kennedy was a lousy pilot, at least compared to the pros, such as Hani Hanjour, who crashed into the Pentagon.
Here is the speculation I need help verifying:
• Frank Stronach and Keith Stein are involved in organized crime, and at a very high level.
• Stronach tricked Kennedy into visiting by pretending that he might invest in Kennedy's newspaper. He may have also have offered information about the JFK assassination. He insisted that Kennedy come up for a meeting because he didn't want to discuss it over the telephone.
• Stronach wanted Kennedy to fly into the small Buttonville airport outside of Toronto because there is very little security at small airports.
• Somebody put an explosive device in the airplane that would be activated by radio control. They waited until Kennedy was over the ocean, and then they set off the explosives and blew the tail off the airplane.
• If the photo of the man at the Mexican Embassy is Jack Forshaw from Toronto, and if the man in the other photo is his nephew, Clyde, then we should consider the possibility that the same Zionist gang that killed JFK also killed JFK Jr., and the Forshaw family are their hired assassins. 
 

If this scenario is true, who would have hired the Forshaws? We many never know, but we should consider that the Bronfmans are one of the key decision makers.
The Bronfman family is from Canada, and they initially became rich from their Seagram Company, which sells liquor. 
The Bronfmans worked with Meyer Lansky and lots of other Jewish criminals, such as Arnold Rothstein, who owned gambling casinos in New York.
By the way, some people believe Rothstein has a relative, Murray, who changed his name to "Sumner Redstone" to hide the connection. We are foolishly allowing a member of this criminal gang to influence our view of the world.
Joe Kennedy was also involved in the sale of alcohol, but he was a rival with the Bronfman and Lansky gang. 
 
Now consider that the rumors are true that John and Robert Kennedy:
• did not want to be part of organized crime; actually, they wanted to arrest the criminals.
• wanted to get the Rothschilds and other families out of the American monetary system.
• wanted to stop Israel from developing nuclear weapons
• were standing up to Henry Kissinger and Walt Whitman Rostow, who wanted the Vietnam War
• were forcing J. Edgar Hoover -- of the Federal Bureau of Israel -- to clamp down on organized crime rather than continue to pretend that there is no such thing as organized crime
• did not want to fake the Apollo moon landing 
 

Even if only some of these rumors are true, you can see that there would be thousands of Zionists and other criminals who would want to kill the Kennedys.
The Bronfman family rules over a large Zionist criminal enterprise. Toronto seems to be a center for organized crime, and not just Jewish gangs, but Italian, Vietnamese, and who knows how many others.
The Bronfmans have had decades of experience with crime, so they are easily capable of arranging complex murders. They also control a lot of politicians, such as the McCain family, and their Zionist friends in the media will help cover up their crimes. 
  
 
John McCain and other officials should dress in the appropriate manner so that we don't mistake them for independent humans.

  
 
They always “Blame the Gooooys!”
Most of the 9/11 truth seekers and Kennedy investigators blame the Goyim.... the Goy in the CIA, the Goy in the Pentagon, the Goy in the New World Order. 
Over and over and over, it's always the same story. “The Goy did it!
But the evidence shows that it's the Zionists in the Pentagon, the Zionists in the FBI, the Zionists in the media, the Zionists in the government.
We are suckers, fools, jerks, and losers if we continue to allow these Zionists to instigate wars, blow up levees in New Orleans, and fabricate Holocaust stories. Are the police or citizens ever going to get fed up with organized crime?
If the citizens would stop going to horse races, strip clubs, and movie theaters, and if they would stop buying newspapers, magazines, and drugs, they could drive these criminal gangs into financial difficulty, and then maybe the hired assassins would turn on their masters. 
  
  
 
Investigate Toronto's crime network
Toronto has a lot of wealth




Nik Clay

"......Many observers believe that if Rik was murdered, then somewhere in his  work, he must have hit a central nerve......"
Reece Woodstock
Chief Editor, Vision Report Watch



".......Why was Nik Clay murdered?
Why Murdered Nik Clay?
These questions need to be answered by someone....."
stated by Michael McMannus .... Head of The AWN News Investigation Team appointed into finding out why and how and whom murdered Nick Clay just after
Rik Clay went public with his work about  into conspiracy, symbolism and  synchromysticism (his blog was named The Cosmic Mind)  on the popular Red Ice  Creations Radio show in 2008,



 Its because of a specific set of circumstances that occurred in  2008 involving someone called Rik Clay.

Many of you may not be aware of the case surrounding Rik Clay. Rik  Clay was  a young researcher into conspiracy, symbolism and  synchromysticism (his blog was named The Cosmic Mind) who apparently took his own life after an adrenal breakdown.
After Rik Clay went public with his work on the popular Red Ice  Creations Radio show in 2008, he went missing a few days later. 
Everything connected to Rik’s work was removed and a few weeks  later Rik Clay was found dead. 
Rik’s friends who had published back up’s of his blog took them down  and refused to discuss it any further stating they were scared.

Many 
observers believe that if Rik was murdered, then somewhere in his  work, he must have hit a central nerve.










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Above: London 2012 Olympic Games Logos....


London Olympics 2012 and ZYON


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Welcome to the Vision Report Watch
The 2012 London Summer Olympics marks the first time a city has hosted the coveted spectacle on  three different occasions. The first was in 1908 and the second in 1948 after a delay owing to World War  II. Then, like now, the event was mired in controversy before it had even begun. The bid process for the  2012 Olympics got off to an inauspicious start when London unveiled its Olympic logo on 4 June 2007. 
Those who did not ridicule it expressed their bemusement at its amateurish design, despite the fact that  it cost £400,000.
Then came the controversy over its overtly, some would say brazen,  depiction of the word 'Zion' in the numbers 2012,complete with a dot  over the 'i'. Proponents of the logo's hidden associations believe the  emotive word signals the start of a New World Order, and the London  Olympics will be its stage.
Further suspicion was raised in what amounted to a surprise selection  of London as the 2012 Summer Olympic host city. Paris had been the  heavy favourite, but on 6 July 2005 the International Olympic  Committee  announced that London had won. 
The face of the former Olympic champion and London 2012 bid Chairman, Lord Coe, said it all. He  appeared stunned. Coe and his team not only jumped for joy, but were also startled by the news. It was  later revealed that some of the votes may have been placed 'in error'.
Tragically, London's celebration was abruptly curtailed the very next day, 7 July, when a series of alleged  suicide attacks occurred on three London underground trains and one bus during the morning rush hour. 
Four UK resident Islamists were identified as the guilty terrorists. Each was killed in the blasts, along with  48 other commuters, and more than 700 others were injured. 
Disturbingly, survivors commented on how the explosions came from under the seats of the trains. 
Inexplicably, no formal inquest was held, due to the fact that an investigation would, in the words of  Prime Minister, Tony Blair, “undermine support” for the British Intelligence Agency MI5. 
Were the bombings a form of retaliation for the IOC’s selection, or was there another motive? Many  believe they were an inside job and that we should expect another ‘False Flag’ at the 2012 London  Summer Olympic Games.
London’s 2012 Olympic odyssey continued on 19 May 2010, when the Games’ official mascots were  introduced. two peculiar looking metallic figures by the names of Wenlock and Mandeville. One is blue  and the other orange, and each has one eye. Curiously, each looks more like an alien caricature from a  1950s B-movie than a collection of molten steel consumed during the construction of the Olympic  stadium that they are supposed to represent.

So with  this month heralding the beginning of the London 2012 Olympics why  has the Vision Report  Watch decided to focus on this subject?

 Its because of a specific set of circumstances that occurred in  
2008 involving someone called Rik Clay.

Many of you may not be aware of the case surrounding Rik Clay. Rik  Clay was  a young researcher into conspiracy, symbolism and  synchromysticism (his blog was named The Cosmic Mind) who apparently took his own life after an adrenal breakdown.
After Rik Clay went public with his work on the popular Red Ice  Creations Radio show in 2008, he went missing a few days later. 
Everything connected to Rik’s work was removed and a few weeks  later Rik Clay was found dead. 
Rik’s friends who had published back up’s of his blog took them down  and refused to discuss it any further stating they were scared.

Many 
observers believe that if Rik was murdered, then somewhere in his  work, he must have hit a central nerve.

One of Clay’s most provocative conclusions was his suggestion that the 2012 Olympic site in the United  Kingdom was being prepared as the New Jerusalem by the New World Order. Clay along with others  such as Ian Crane believed it was highly probable that the 2012 London Olympics would be meant to be  the stage for a false-flag terror attack, a UFO/alien type event, or some other such large scale  manipulation
Clays work was documented in a report known as “London, Olympics 2012: Zion” which we will present  in its entirety for you to review. We may not entirely agree with everything that Clay states or represents,  for instance his theology of the universe is bizarre which he has written about elsewhere is certainly at  odds with the biblical world view of life and the universe. However it his views on the London 2012  Olympics which catch our interest as there is certainly some material which makes a good starting point 
for further research on whether there is a underlining masonic influence behind the worlds greatest  sporting event.
All the best
Reece Woodstock
Chief Editor, Vision Report Watch





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1. LONDON OLYMPICS 2012: ZION (THE NEW JERUSALEM)
When the logo for the London Olympics was unveiled in June 2007 at the cost of £400,000 there was 
significant public uproar due to both the cost and how terrible it  looked. Despite public pressure, the 
International Olympic Committee stood fast on keeping the logo, with no flexibility. In other words, this 
particular logo was very important. Why?
            
There are many interpretations spread about the net, all intended to dissolve the true symbolic meaning 
behind the logo. It has been claimed to look like a swastika, a runner and even Lisa Simpson but these 
are all ridiculous diversions.
On first glance you can easily make out the numbers 2012, but why the random 'dot'? Here's why. Are 
we to believe that the London 2012 Olympics are going to facilitate the implementation of Zion - the 'New 
Jerusalem'?
To recite William Blake's poem 'Jerusalem':
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On 
England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.
I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's 
green and pleasant land.
An 18th century writer, artist and esotericist, William Blake had connections with Freemasonry. Was this 
early work a declaration of the esoteric agenda, for all to see? After all he was 'involved'.
1.1.  LONDON OLYMPICS 2012: ZION: STREET PLAN
I shall start by stating my intentions. With my research, I do not intend to cause panic or fear, or to create 
a platform for prejudice and hate. I publish these views in order to simply raise awareness. To raise 
awareness on the grounds, that if indeed something does transpire during the London Olympics 2012, 
you can observe the event with a critical eye. It is my intention to ensure we shall not be duped!             
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Following my two previous articles concerning the Olympics 2012, I decided to cast my eyes into the air 
and look down again. You guessed it, out came Google Maps.
Here's a map and satellite view of the Olympics 2012 Site. Zoom in and take a look:
      
Stratford in London, is to become host to the Olympic village, which is undergoing massive regeneration 
due to the project. The site was claimed to be the last area of suitable waste land in London. Pretty lucky 
eh? Or maybe it was left alone for years for this very reason! I choose the latter. And so... to the point. 
Take a look at the Olympic site with the Google Maps road view. On a first glance it looks like any other 
map view, but persevere... take a closer look at the road names.
You will find that the entire site of the Olympic Village is surrounded by somewhat biblical and mystical 
road names. The New Jerusalem you ask? 1.2. THE ROADS
1. East Cross Route (actually the A12 or A'20'12) : ref. "The Eastern Cross"
The Eastern Orthodox cross (also known as Crux Orthodoxa, the Byzantine cross, the Eastern cross, 
and the "Russian" cross) can be considered a modified version of the Patriarchal cross, having two 
smaller crossbeams, one at the top and one near the bottom, in addition to the longer crossbeam.
Notice how the East Cross Route is also an A road - numbered A12.
Given the UK has hundreds of A roads, what's the likelihood that of all roads, the
A'20'12 intersects the Olympic site?
Pause for a second and think about the shape of the letter A... yes it's a pyramid with a capstone. So 
symbolically the only major road which 'crosses' the Olympic site, is the A(Pyramid) (20)12. 
2. Carpenter's Road: ref. "Joseph"
Joseph's profession is described in the Gospels as a τεκτων, a Greek word for a variety of skilled 
craftsmen, but Christian tradition has him as a "carpenter".
3. Great Eastern Road: ref. Eastern Star
The Order of the Eastern Star is the largest fraternal organization in the world that both men and women 
can join. It was established in 1850 by Rob Morris, a lawyer and educator who had been an official with 
the Freemasons.
Logo Of The Order Of The Eastern Star
As you can see the emblem for the "Order Of The Eastern Star" is a pentagram - similar to that found on 
the UK Passport. An acknowledgement of the pagan deity Satan / Saturn.
4. Angel Lane: ref. Angel Gabriel / The Holy Spirit
Angels visit Joseph and Mary. Angels announced Christ's birth to Mary and Joseph. The angel Gabriel 
visited Mary in Nazareth. She was engaged to Joseph. Gabriel told Mary she would give birth to the Son 
of God. Mary was a virgin. Gabriel told her God's power would make the conception possible. Gabriel 
said, "Nothing will be impossible with God".             
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5. Temple Mills Lane
Temple Mills were water mills belonging to the Knights Templar - "The Poor Fellow- Soldiers of Christ 
and of the Temple of Solomon".
6. Church Road (Update)
Although not shown on the above map (but please do look in Google), the road on the north east 
perimeter of the complex takes it's name from the Christian place of worship, a church. 
1.3. THE LOCATION - LEY LINES
The Olympics 2012 site is situated between Leyton and Leytonestone. The "Ley" found in their names 
originates from the term 'Ley lines'. For those who are in the dark:
Ley lines, or Leys, are alignments of ancient sites stretching across the landscape. Ancient sites or holy 
places may be situated in a straight line ranging from one or two to several miles in length. A ley may be 
identified simply by an aligned placing of marker sites, or it might be visible on the ground for all or part 
of its length by the remnants of an old straight track.
Our ancestors knew that ley lines, earth grids and vortexes were energy sources and centers that were 
to be considered holy.
A "Ley Line" is one a number of lines which form part of an energy grid which cross the Earth. The 
energy - metaphysical in nature.
So is there any documentary proof that 'Ley lines' cross near Leyton and Leytonestone? You bet there 
is... The bender site, and the old yew tree in it, were the short-lived heart of Leytonstonia, decorated with a 
kerb-henge, a replica of Stonehenge made with kerbstones. (Some talked of the significance of the 
names Leyton and Leytonstone, of their relation to ley lines more generally, as though this might explain 
the energy of the protest sites. A brickhenge was made at Clarement Road, halfway between Leyton and 
Leytonstone.)
The Olympics site lies in an area synonymous with mystical - metaphysical - earth energy. Is this yet  another coincidence or part of a plan for the 2012 Olympics which was put into motion way before the  event was officially finalised?
1.4. LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 : THE LOGO'S CREATOR





Above: London 2012 Olympic Games Logos....


To further my coverage of the Olympics 2012 and the plans for a 'false flag' / fake alien invasion (or an  event on the scale of biblical second coming), we have to go back to the very roots of the Olympics 2012  brand and logo.
The brand was designed by Wolff Olins - a brand  consultancy based in London and New York. They ] have been responsible for the brand design work behind GE Capital, Sony Ericsson, Unilever and 
(RED). The company was founded in Camden Town, London, in 1965 by designer Michael Wolff and  advertising executive Wally Olins. Wolff left the business in 1983, and Olins in 2001, though both are still  active in the field of branding.                                                                  
      
From 1965 to the early 1990s, Wolff Olins played a central part in  developing the craft of corporate  identity in Europe and working with over 500 organizations worldwide. Among his clients were Audi, 
Apple records, P&O, Renault, 3i, Pilkington and Volkswagen. The current designs for Shell and BP are  also some of Wolff Olins work.  Is it a coincidence that the Olympics logo can resemble the word 'Zion', and that, on the website of the  agency who created the logo, you can find the word 'Sion'? No. This can't happen by chance.
Zion (Hebrew: ציון%, tziyyon; Tiberian vocalization: tsiyyôn;) transliterated Zion or Sion
Of the two founders, Wally Olins became the real success story. Wally Olins is generally recognised to  be the world’s most experienced practitioner of corporate identity and branding. Given this, I felt a few  Googles were required to see what else could be found on Wally Olins .Take a trip to the British Library 
Archival Sound Recordings, and you will find an audio interview with the man himself.
Wally Olins born London 19 December 1930. Father Alfred Olins; Mother Rachel Muskowicz, both born  in London in 1896 into Jewish immigrant families escaping pogroms in Eastern Europe in the 1880's and  90's.  Talks about parents' European origins. Briefly describes mother's family background through  memories of grandmother living with them. Father second son of large family who developed a road  transport business. Wally Olins talks of mother having mental health problems and the impact this had  on his parents' marriage and the family in general as well as on himself. Describes his father's  successful role in family business. Talks about father persuading him to become a Freemason and its  triggering a recognition of insider/outsider issues and their relationship to his drives and ambitions.
It just so turns out that Wally's father was a Freemason and, more than likely, he's one too. And you  wonder why it is, that many of the corporate logos you see plastered around our cities, contain the 'All  Seeing Eye' and hidden occult symbology  - well here is your answer. Everything is connected so to  speak.
The designers behind some of Europe's major corporate brands have been and still are, educated in  esoteric and occult philosophies. Wally Olins may have left the Wolff Olins brand consultancy in 2001,  ruling him out as the designer of the 2012 logo, but ask yourself this - would he leave the company which  bears his name in such un-educated hands? Or is it more than likely that he found the perfect  replacements to continue his legacy?
So to summarise, the man behind the company responsible for the Olympics 2012 logo was involved in  Freemasonry.
Do you believe that the logo for the 2012 Olympics Games is still so innocent? 1.5. THE 2012 STADIUM DESIGN VIDEO
Hypothetically speaking, if 2012 is to see London established as the 'New Jerusalem' for a New World  Order (a global government under a one world religion)... how could this be achieved?
We can safely assume that a stereotypical terrorist attack is no longer sufficient to implement a global  unification strategy. In essence an event is required with the magnitude of a biblical second coming, a  threat from outer-space - or even both? An event with the capacity to create all as 'one'.
In the film Fight Club, a scene depicts Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) inserting a frame of pornography into a  movie whilst the audience in the cinema watch. Most of them don't notice it on a conscious level, but  they did see it and it did enter their brains. This demonstrates how subliminal programming works on the  subconscious, and it happens to all of us - everyday.
A video released by the 2012 Olympic Committee depicts the construction phases of the new Olympic  stadium. (Do a search on Youtube on “London 2012 Olympic Stadium Insight Promo” to see the video) Since when was the London Olympics  affiliated with small flying saucers, projected "blue energy"  beams, a big 'Independence Day' style mothership and huge robotic street walkers? Who came up with  this concept?
Time stamps of note in the 4:52 youtube video.
0.40 minutes = 11:11 symbology with the 4 chimneys
1.00 minutes = UFO's flying around the London "All Seeing Eye"
1.40 minutes = Independence Day style mothership
2.00 minutes = Robotic street walkers in the streets of London
3.51 minutes = Three flashes of an Athletes head with sunglasses. At first glance it looks like an Alien 
face! and played at normal speed acts as a blatant subliminal.
This video serves one purpose - to plant a seed in your mind! and adds more fuel to the fire for the 
proposed "Project Bluebeam"
1.6. THE 1972 MUNICH OLYMPICS CONNECTION
The Wikipedia page for the 2012 London Olympics draws a strange comparison between the 2012 logo 
and the logo used for the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany.
"BBC Sport acknowledged that 'London 2012’s new logo has got the country talking', and compared the 
innovative design to that of the logos of Mexico 1968 and Munich 1972"
The 1972 Munich Olympics were host to the first 'official' global terrorist attack, in which 11 Israelis were 
killed by Black September (the 9th month - 9/11), a group with ties to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization. 
The Olympics were host to 121 countries.  Returning to pyramid numerology and the significance of the number 11:
1234321 = 11:11 x 11:11
121 countries = 11:11
11 fatalities             
                        
In essence, the 1972  Munich Olympics provided the first world stage for global terrorism and the  inclusion of the significant number '11' was anything but a coincidence.
1.7. THE 1984 LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS VIDEO
The year '1984' has become synonymous with the George Orwell  book of the same name. "1984 is  about life in a dictatorship as lived by Winston Smith, an intellectual worker at
the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation when he runs afoul of the totalitarian government of Oceania."
This famous novel introduced the concept of 'Big Brother', symbolised by an "All Seeing Eye", and in  recent years has been the basis for the reality TV show. At its core, '1984' represented life under the  New World Order:
1.8. WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH\
'1984' has become a talisman of fear for the people of England, Europe and the rest of the world. It makes sense that, today, those deliberately disseminating fear around the globe would use that talisman  against us.
The '1984' Los Angeles Olympics marked an opportunity for such a symbolic event. The closing  ceremony for the 1984 Olympics involved a UFO flying over the Olympic
stadium and communicating with the audience. The UFO eventually lands, amid smoke and lights, at  which point an alien steps out and greets the public.
Considering the 1984 Olympics had no other connections to UFO and alien phenomena, the only logical  reasoning as to why this happened was again to plant a seed in the publics mind and to judge our  reaction.
1.9. THE OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY & THE RELIGION OF THE NWO
With the recent commotion over the torch relay for the 2008 Beijing Olympics you'd be forgiven for asking why we even bother with it? Any responsible committee would have halted the parade after it 
became obvious it was being followed by violent protests. But no, we had to remain 'in the Olympic spirit'  and presume that the keeping of a long- running tradition was so important that a little police brutality  and a few hundred arrests were mere necessities.
Tibet's been in an international dilemma for nearly 60 years since China sent in thousands of troops in  1950. Over the decades, several uprisings have been violently quashed by Chinese authorities, with  many monks arrested or killed. The latest of these was in March 2008 and the outcome was once again predictable. China accused Tibet's exiled "spiritual leader" the  Dalai Lama of masterminding the violence – an accusation that should sound ludicrous for anyone who  knows who the Dalai Lama is. The press then used the violence to aggravate global disapproval of 
China.
Conveniently the torch relay followed in the same month, and we were shown daily footage of "Free  Tibet" supporters being rugby-tackled and beaten, all around the world, and this time none of us could  avoid feelings of empathy and outrage.
Like with any clear theme in the media, questions must be asked as to the agenda - to whose advantage  is a world of powerless pro-Tibetans? My alarm bells started ringing when I heard George W. Bush make  comments in support of the movement. With this political support, and apparent propaganda campaigns 
 benefiting from global compassion for "Free Tibet"?
like the US-backed pro-Tibet radio station Radio Free Asia, and calls for a boycott of the 2008 Olympics  from celebrity actor- turned-activist Richard Gere, I started wondering how might our governments be  Historically, Tibet has long captured the West's imagination as the site of a mystical Utopia. This is 
fundamentally due to the Tibetan Monks' practice of Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism is both non-violent  and non-dogmatic and uses meditation as a means to attaining a higher spiritual understanding. 
Buddhism is different to Christianity in that it is not centred on a 'God' and is aimed at gaining insight into  life's true nature. The Buddhist believes there are 7 chakras in the human body of which four are of  particular importance.
Hearing of the Tibetan plight on the news every day for a month, I couldn't help but think that there in  itself lies an agenda. Western news channels successfully manage to feed the population's 
consciousness with fear and negativity in an effort to distort the reality around us. They are used as  emotional tools providing the 'elite' with a powerful method of control. I have learnt they are not to be  trusted, but there is a great deal to be learned from them.

1.10. THE RELIGION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
First and foremost, I would like you to consider the Tibetan flag. Symbolically you could say that Tibet 
became the blueprint for a religion based on 'spiritual sun  worship'. Given that the 14th Dalai Lama 
predominantly takes refuge in Western countries, you could assume that he is in 'the inner circle of those 
in the know', given the 'sun' symbolism attributed to him.
Like any country, Tibet still has a class hierarchy and its religious leaders. With rumours abound that 
those on the bottom rungs still suffer in tremendous poverty, it becomes apparent that the last 'spiritual' 
hope in the world, still abides to a pyramidal power structure.
As I explained in my other  post : Beijing Olympics 2008 : Zion & The Fifth World : BeiBei, the blue 
mascot for the Olympics 2008, represents spirit and is the only one to have a spiritual third eye. This 
correlates with the blue Olympic Ring, which represents the new cycle of time of which we are moving 
into.
One of my very first posts, involved the discovery of a spiritual chakra system in the UK Passport (sealed 
with inverted pentagrams). Who is responsible for this if not our own government or royal figures?
To take this one step further, you can look to the Bible (a road map depicting the plan for a 'New Order 
Of The Ages') for answers. The Book of Revelations makes numerous references to the 'seven seals'. 
This is again symbolic for the seven chakras.
You could even look to the Mayan prophecies for more clues... In a prophecy written in 1560, a Mayan 
high priest wrote:   "There 'the masters of our souls' arrived... there the counties were distributed to their chiefs. There we 
began to learn the holy faith. There water began to enter our heads. There were laid the foundations of 
the high church. The palace of God, the virtuous open house of God. There the principle of the seven 
sacraments was founded."
Simply replace sacraments with chakras.
And this is where I propose that the religion of the New World Order, is indeed that of spirituality, but 
spirituality based on a power pyramid of oppression, based on the ascendancy of a 'false messiah' who 
is going to be declared the 'Son of God', the 'Return of the King'!   piritual hierarchy. With our current capitalist society on the edge of collapsing under its own weight, it 
becomes clear that civilisation founded upon the principles of spirituality - not greed - is crucial for the 
survival of our home planet.
You may be aware of the Georgia Guidestones. Known as A Guide stone For The Future of Humanity 
these stones were erected by an elusive character called RC Christian (with clear  links to Christian 
Rosencrantz - founder of the Rosicrucians). Take note of the 3rd commandment for a new age which is 
found on the stones: Found in the UK Passport issued in 1998, on a page entitled  "This page is reserved for official 
observations, if any" followed by the French equivalent and "(11)".  This image means nothing to joe 
public, but the designers surely meant something by this. Now for the interesting part... I'm sure you're all 
familiar with the spiritual chakra system:
Look at the descending order of the chakras  (image above to the right) and remember the specific 
locations of the heart chakra and the solar plexus chakra. Observe this:
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
How do you propose, with our multi-lingual planet, that we could phase out all but one language, unless 
indeed this refers not to a spoken language, but to telepathy?
1.11. CHAKRAS IN THE UK PASSPORT - SEALED WITH PENTAGRAMS
NOTE. This blog does not insinuate the spiritual chakra system is Satanic, but it does reveal that the 
chakra system hidden from view in the UK passport is sealed with the sign of Satan.
To further my investigation into British Royalty and the symbolism of the New World Order, I would like to 
draw your attention to this image. (Below left found on all British Passports issued since 1998)    shape and a bright star, as are the remaining 5 chakra's of the 
body.
Remember that 11:11x11:11 = 1234321. Why is there a random 
number 11 on this page?
And to complete the design, we have not one, but two 5 sided 
pentagonal flowers. In between the flower petals are 5 angular 
points... join the dots and you have two pentagrams - the seal of 
Satan!
So as a full image interpretation, you have a human chakra 
system on an observations page in the UK Passport containing 
the number 11, sealed by two pentagrams, the sign of Satan. 
This design can also be found on the passport photo, as the 
hologram, where the seal of Satan sits appropriately on your third 
eye chakra.
If you have read my previous post deciphering the British Coat Of Arms (found on the front of the UK 
Passport) you may be starting to wake up! Since when did the UK Government and Monarchy 
acknowledge the chakra system in the first place? Never...
CONCLUSION
It seems the Olympics 2012 site was picked for reasons which go far beyond that of 'spare waste land'. 
The roads which encompass the site, contain biblical and Masonic references, lying dormant for years, 
as if to become part of some majestic ritual.
And if that wasn't enough, a new construction intersecting 'Angel Lane' looks to be forming a grand 
procession. In the BBC interview "It will be a lasting legacy" with Jean Pickering, the former Olympic 
bronze medallist was quoted as saying:
I remember running along Angel Lane to get the train to work and hearing all the market stall holders 
cheering me on. That's true East End spirit. 
References to 'lasting legacy', 'Angel Lane', and 'true spirit' sound ominous to me, given our 'Zion' street 
map.
Britain's spiritual landmarks - Stonehenge, Glastonbury Tor and Avebury, all rest upon 'ley lines' (areas 
of intense earth energy). Could it be any more bewildering that they have chosen such a site for our 
Olympic games? And that it just so happened to be vacant for the occasion?     LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 & ZION
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2. BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008: ZION & THE FIFTH WORLD
• On 5th May 2005, Tony Blair held a UK general election, which secured him another 3 years in 
power. (555)
• On 6th June 2006, everyone expected a day of the devil. Nothing happened. (666)
• On 7th July 2007, Al Gore organised a series of concerts around the world, initiating a 3 year 
campaign to combat climate change. (777)
At Live Earth, not only did the audience take part in a 'sun worship' ritual during the opening number to 
'Genesis' (credits to Matthew Delooze for his brilliant work on 'Breaking The Serpent Spell'):
We were also treated to a fantastic finale by our lady 'Madonna' (unfortunately she didn't perform her 
crucifixion act):  Are you starting to see a pattern here? It appears that numerologically significant days of the year 
entertain events controlled by 'the governing powers'. With all the commotion surrounding the Beijing 
Olympics, it's hard to remember why we actually do these events... maybe it's because of what they 
symbolically represent.   "There are many myths surrounding the origin of the ancient Olympic Games. The most popular legend describes 
that Heracles was the creator of the Olympic Games, and built the Olympic stadium and surrounding buildings as 
an honor to his father Zeus, after completing his 12 labours. The Olympics were of fundamental religious 
importance, contests alternating with sacrifices and ceremonies honouring both Zeus (whose colossal statue stood 
at Olympia), and Pelops, divine hero and mythical king of Olympia."
So you could say that the Olympic Games, at the very least, are a pagan event honouring Zeus 'King Of 
The Gods' or the 'creator' if you like. Makes you wonder what his '20'12 labours were?
Moving swiftly on to Beijing 2008, let's take a look at the logo  With a little 'cut and paste' (taking elements from the suprisingly 'unathletic' figure for an Olympic logo), 
this can be written as:
Isn't that what the 2012 London Olympics logo says too?             
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You bet it is! What are the chances? Two Olympic games in succession where the logo contains the 
word 'Zion'. Is it me or is this something that just doesn't happen by chance? Here lies every insinuation 
that, between the years of 2008 and 2012, there is a 4-year plan for the creation of 'Zion', a 'New 
Jerusalem'.
Let's delve deeper... You may recall that sometime last year the Beijing Olympic Committee unveiled the 
5 mascots for the Olympics. The date for this was, are you ready?
11th November 2007. Yes... 11th of the 11th, or 11:11.
"A set of five doll mascots for the 2008 Olympic Games were unveiled in Beijing on  November 11, 
exactly 1,000 days before the event's opening ceremony."  xin_4411031616391521020167
Here's the little critters... all 5 of them, coloured just like the Olympic rings. Ignore their pyramidal hats for 
a moment because there's something much weirder going on here...
You may recall my interpretation of the Olympic rings a month or two back, but to repeat - symbolically 
each of the rings represents one of the 5 cycles of time which the Mayan calendar comprises. Each ring 
connects to one other... giving the impression that a new cycle starts before the end of an old... a 
transition period so to speak - a bit like the one we're in now (1992-2012), the 'time of no-time', according 
to the Mayans.
Without further ado, here's the official stance on the Beijing 2008 mascots:
Nini (green): Wind. Every spring and summer, the children of Beijing have flown beautiful kites on the 
currents of wind that blow through the capital.     YingYing (orange): Animal. Like all antelopes, Yingying is fast and agile and can swiftly cover great 
stretches of land as he races across the earth.
Huanhuan (red): Fire. He is the "big brother". He is a child of fire, symbolizing the Olympic
Flame.
Jingjing (black): Nature. Symbolizing the lush forest and the harmonious relationship between man and 
nature.
BeiBei (blue): Water. Strong in water sports, she reflects the blue Olympic ring. Take note of BeiBei, the 
blue mascot representing water:
What's that on BeiBei's forehead? A 'spiritual' third eye?
If you order the mascots, just like the Olympic rings - red (fire), green (wind), black (nature), orange 
(animal), blue (spirit), a pattern emerges describing what could be seen as the evolution of  consciousness as taught in esoteric circles.
Mineral / Element > Plant > Animal > Human > ... (into spirit?)
Coma > Deep Sleep > Dreaming > Waking > ...  If the Olympic mascots and official logo do indeed correlate with the five 5125 year cycles of the Mayan 
Calendar and the evolution of consciousness, does the arrival of 2012 bring about the transition into the  spiritual consciousness of the 'blue' Olympic ring, leaving the 'orange' ring of animal consciousness  behind?

To further correlate the significance behind the 'blue' ring, and to draw a link to the London Olympics  2012:
"In the past few weeks an 11-mile  blue fence has sprung up around the 2012 Olympics site in east  London. Is it a necessary security measure - or a reminder of how divisive the games are?" Please read  to see how significant the 'blue' fence is!   

With the ritual use of the number 11, and the colour blue... it appears the Olympic Games is the perfect  demonstration of how our governments can get things right if they really want to!
How does this all tie in? As Rik Clay and Justin Stephens have announced, it is their belief that come the  Olympics 2012, we are going to see one of the largest hoaxes ever perpetrated on man. With the rife  symbolism in the promotional material, it can be assumed that people at the very top have an acute  understanding of what is about to happen to our planet.

The Beijing Olympics slogan: "ONE WORLD ONE DREAM"
The premise of spiritual ascension, the opening of our third eyes and telepathic powers all sound  exhilarating and beyond belief, but what if this is real and our impending reality is everything we've 
dreamed of?
Do you suppose that the ruling powers who have domineered over us for eternity are likely to let that one  slip, or is it more than likely they are going to try and hijack it and dupe the public into believing that it is  they who are responsible? A biblical, angelic event powered by a 'Project Blue Beam' anyone? The  scene is set... it just depends on what their dream is. 

2.1. THE 2008 BEIJING OLYMPICS TORCH RELAY
The Dalai Lama's recent actions, involving China and the Olympic Games, are all part of an intended 
plan to bring 'sun worship' and 'spirituality' to the forefront of everyone's mind. There are numbers and 
dates surrounding the Olympic Torch relay and the foreign relations between the Dalai Lama and China, 
which insinuate a much greater plan is
taking place! But first, the Olympic flame...
THE ORIGINS OF THE OLYMPIC FLAME
The Olympic Torch today is ignited several months before the opening celebration of the Olympic 
Games at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece. Eleven women, representing the roles of 
priestesses, perform a ceremony in which the torch is kindled by the light of the Sun, its rays 
concentrated by a parabolic mirror.
THE MODERN DAY TORCH RELAY
The 1936 Games were the first to employ the torch run. This was the 11th modern day Olympiad. The 
games were opened by Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Nazi Germany. Incidentally, Adolf Hitler came to power in 
1933 (33 degrees of Freemasonry anyone?).
The Flame Passes Through Lhasa, Tibet 2008
"The Olympic torch is set to pass through the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, on June 20-21. Chinese government officials 
have confirmed their plans to continue despite the ongoing protests and crackdown across ethnic Tibetan areas."
Yes that's right, the Olympic Flame which is lit by the 'sun' passes through Lhasa in Tibet on the Summer 
Solstice - the sun of most high! The Dalai Lama's Visit To The UK in 2008
The Dalai Lama began an 11-day visit to Britain Tuesday, including talks with Prime Minister Gordon 
Brown who faces a delicate balancing act of supporting Tibetan rights while not offending China. Source  So as you can see here, the history of the Olympic Torch relay and the Dalai Lama's recent actions are 
compounded with number 11 - sun worshipping symbolism...
Oh and we mustn't forget that the Olympic Torch symbolises our 'veiled' moon Goddess -  Isis (as seen 
here, 'starring' as the Statue Of Liberty in Escape From New York and holding the flame which 
represents the Sun God 'Nimrod' also known as 'Baal' - more info here):
This also relates to the origins of the Christian/Pagan celebration of 'Easter'- (info here) which derives
from Babylonian/Sumerian times, thousands of years before the so called birth of Christ!
2.2. 'XXX' EXPLAINED - OLYMPICS, PORN AND THE PROOF
Today a new realisation hit me, with regard to the significance and true meaning behind the sequence of 
letters 'XXX'.
As most will be aware, 'XXX' permeates our lives in a multitude of ways:
* The London 2012 Olympic Games (XXX Olympiad)
* Pornography
* Kisses on a letter, e-mail or greetings card
* 'Britain's Got Talent' or 'America's Got Talent' TV Show (for the few who still watch TV!)
* In the cinema (xXx with Vin Diesel)
* A certain someone's birthday in 2012
Imagine for a moment, that when you've been showing respect, releasing emotion and energy to any of 
the above 'XXX' sequences, you have been feeding the biggest occult agenda known to man. An 
agenda which will bring about the spiritual ascen'sion' of the world under a 'false messiah' known as the 
'Son Of God'.
Now imagine for a moment, it's all true...
THE 'X' OLYMPICS
It is my belief that the 2012 London Olympic Games (XXX Olympiad) are going to witness a pre-planned 
'alien visitation' alongside the anointment of an 'end times' messiah.
Our focus here is the letter 'X', so let's take a look at two previous Olympic games:  XX Olympiad - The Munich Summer Olympics of 1972             
                   LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 & ZION
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To quote an earlier article of mine:
The 1972 Munich Olympics were host to the first 'official' global terrorist attack, in which 11 Israelis were 
killed by Black September (the 9th month - 9/11), a group with ties to Yasser
Arafat’s Fatah organization. The Olympics were host to 121 countries:
1234321 = 11:11 x 11:11
121 countries = 11:11
11 fatalities
The emblem of the games was a blue solar logo (the "Bright Sun"). I will be covering the significance of 
the colour blue shortly.
X OLYMPIAD - THE LOS ANGELES (THE ANGELS) SUMMER OLYMPICS OF 1932
The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were celebrated in 1932 
in Los Angeles, California, United States. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Held during 
the worldwide Great Depression, many nations and athletes were unable to pay for the trip to Los 
Angeles. Fewer than half the number of participants from the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam 
competed in 1932.  The Games of the X Olympiad were also the first to use the victory podium (that's right, a pyramid):
2.3. WHAT DOES ALL OF THIS MEAN?
As you can see, the X and XX Olympiads both witnessed remarkable world events, unrivalled by any 
other Olympic Games.
The 1932 games were held in the midst of the worldwide 'Great Depression', whilst the  1972 games 
gave a stage for the world's first dose of 'global terror'.
Does it seem so unrealistic, that the XXX Olympiad may have a surprise in store?
XXX - UNVEILED
The letter X is more significant than you think.
First of all, you need to understand that the characters of the English alphabet are more than just letters. 
They are symbols with meaning, sometimes multiple meanings - much like the Egyptian hieroglyphs. 
They are talismans.             

X is the 24th letter of the English alphabet. 2+4/2+4/2+4 = 666. XXX can be seen to represent the 
number of the beast.
The letter X originated from a letter in the Greek alphabet known as 'Chi'
'Chi' is the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet - that's 11:11 for any of you who've been following.
The Spirit Of X or 'Chi'
'Chi' or 'X' were the origins of the Chinese word 'Qi' meaning 'life force' or 'energy flow'. 'Chi' was also the 
origins of the Japanese word 'Ki', as in 'Reiki'. 'Chi' also features in 'Tai Chi'.
As you can see, the letter X or 'Chi' is very much about 'spirit'.
X - THE MOTHER GODDESS, ISIS
"In Plato's Timaeus, it is explained that the two bands which form the soul of the world cross each other 
like the letter Χ."
Plato, an ancient Greek esoteric philosopher (important to remember, considering who we're dealing 
with) associates the letter X with the 'soul of the world'. 'Soul of the world' in Latin becomes 'Anima 
mundi'. Both of these terms are identified with 'Gaia'.
Gaia can be defined as:
"A complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting 
a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on 
this planet."
Gaia is the 'Mother Goddess', who can be identified as Isis - the mother figure of the Egyptian trinity.
X - THE 'SON OF GOD', HORUS
"Chi or X is often used to abbreviate the name Christ, as in the holiday Christmas (Xmas)."
Jesus Christ, the 'Son Of God' can be attributed to the sun, much like Horus - the son figure of the 
Egyptian trinity.
X - THE FATHER
"A person normally has one pair of sex chromosomes in each cell. Females have two X chromosomes, 
while males have one X and one Y chromosome."  
The Spirit Of X or 'Chi'    A father has one X chromosome. The father can be identified with 'Our father who art in heaven' or 
Osiris - the father figure in the Egyptian trinity.
XXX - The Trinity
As you may have realised, this becomes all too easy now. XXX simply means the father, the son and the 
mother or should we say the trinity!
If you've listened to Rik Clays recent Red Ice Creations Radio interview, you'll already know  that he 
believes the 2012 Olympic Games are going to witness the implementation of the 'trinity for a new age', 
and here you have it - encoded in the very letters of the games themselves.
To reiterate, X is far more than just a letter... home
XXX AND THE OCCULT
Imagine your body is a biological computer, and that your 5 senses are filters. If you were to remove 
these filters, you would be bombarded by an all engrossing white light  - a whole array of different 
energies, which you cannot perceive under normal conditions.
When you show emotion to a symbol, an object, a person, your lover - you are generating frequencies of 
energy which cannot be perceived through your 5 senses.
Now imagine, that an 'intelligence' which resides outside of your 5 senses, in  another dimension of 
reality perhaps, is capturing that energy for itself - for its own personal gain.
The occult operates in co-ordinance with this 'intelligence'.
The letters 'XXX' have been empowered as an occult symbol representing the trinity. If you have no 
awareness of the occult meaning behind 'XXX', and you go on to show it emotion, you are feeding this 
symbol with the energy (from outside of your 5 sense reality) that it desires.
You are feeding the trinity, or even closer - a trinity event, at the 2012 London
Olympics.
'The truth is always hidden in plain sight'
XXX PORNOGRAPHY 
(single men around the world, giving away their every energy to the computer screen, the most potent 
energy of all!)
Here's Amsterdam's Coat Of Arms (a city founded upon its red light district) for good measure:  XXX the movie (shown in cinemas around the globe, designed to excite the audience.)
Britain's (America's) Got Talent - 3 judges (2 men, 1 woman - father, son and mother - the trinity) sat in 
front of a live TV audience, beaming into homes around the world via the televi'sion' set. Laughter, tears, 
panic, applause... a range of emotions feeding yet more energy unto the symbol 'XXX'.
And finally... something that we're all guilty of doing. We don't even know why we do it, only that it's 
drilled into us from a young age:
We all sign our greetings cards and emails with 'kiss kiss kiss'  - 'XXX'. As previously mentioned, X 
originates from the Greek letter, 'Chi' which in Japanese is 'Ki'. The word 'Ki'ss can be broken down into 
'Ki' or 'spirit' accompanied by SS. You could view this as two snakes, much like the structure of our DNA. 
home
2.4. 4 MORE YEARS AND COUNTING...
'XXX' symbolises the trinity, much like the early Egyptian creation trinity of Osiris, Isis and Horus.
We, the world, 'consciousness', have been feeding a 'trinity event', blissfully unaware for over a hundred 
years. I believe that this event is going to take place at the 2012 London Olympics, the XXX Olympiad.
So this leads to the question... who are the members of this 'new trinity'? Who plays Osiris, the role of 
'Father'? Who plays Isis, the role of 'Mother'?
Who plays Horus, the 'Son', the 'end game' messiah for a 'New World Order Of The Ages'? His birthday 
is on the 21st June, the summer solstice - the sun of the most high. In the year 2012, he will be 30 years 
old = 'XXX'.
His name is Prince William....
The 2012 Olympic Games
Without doubt there is imagery and word play at work connecting a significant event to the
2012 Olympics:
* The 2012 logo which spells 'Zion'
* A movie which could insinuate an alien visitation (here)
* A 1984 Olympics ceremony which stages an alien visitation (here)
* A slogan which spells out the plans for a 'New World Order'
* The Olympic Rings and their connotations of cyclical time   3. SYMBOLOGY OF THE NUMBER 11 (11:11)
With the number 11 appearing frequently throughout my studies, I felt the following introduction / 
summary may eliminate the need to repeat myself thus allowing new-comers and regular readers alike to 
quickly be brought up to speed.
The facts:
11: IN THE UNIVERSE
* On 11th August 1999 at 11:11am there was a total solar eclipse observed throughout
Europe
* 21st December 2012 at 11:11am is the winter solstice of the final day of the Mayan calendar
* The current astrological sign of the zodiac is Pisces, we are currently moving into
Aquarius - the 11th sign of the zodiac
* 21st December 2012 = 21/12/2012 = 2+1+1+2+2+0+1+2 = 11
* The sunspot cycle lasts 11 years - the next one peaking in 2012.
11: PYRAMID NUMEROLOGY
* 11:11 x 11:11 = 1234321 (Numerical sequence ascending and descending in the fashion of a pyramid)
* 111 x 111 = 12321 (Pyramid number)
* 11 x 11 = 121 (Another pyramid number)
* 11 = 3 in binary arithmetic. 3 makes the cornerstones of the Trinity or pyramid
11: 9/11
* The World Trade Centre stood like an '11'
* 9 + 1 + 1 = 11
* September 11th is the 254th day of the year. 2+5+4 = 11
* September 11th was 111 days until the end of the year
* The 1st plane to hit the World Trade Centre was 'Flight 11'
* Total crew on Flight 11 was '11'
* New York is the 11th state of the US Constitution
* September 11th 2001 stands '11' years from 2012 (Note that in the Mayan calendar, it was said that 
there would be 20 years of 'no-time'. A period of unrest where the planet is making a transition from one 
age to another. 9/11 stood 9 years from the start of this 'no- time' and 11 years from the end.)
* The World Trade Centre was built between 1966 to 1977... taking 11 years  11: SEPTEMBER 11TH IN HISTORY
* On September 11th 1990 at 9.09PM, 11 years prior to September 11th 2001, George
Bush Senior made a speech to Congress entitled "Toward A New World Order":
Just google george bush senior new world order and you should find it. 
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nrP1VJ9hd0
"A new partnership of nations has begun, and we stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. 
The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic 
period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective—a new world order—can emerge."             

* On September 11th 1941, 60 years prior to September 11th 2001, the soil was broken and the 
foundations set for "The Pentagon" in Washington DC
* A book written in 1981, 20 years prior to the 2001 attacks, called "The Birth of Christ Recalculated". 
The author, Dr. Ernest L. Martin, claims to have calculated the exact date of Jesus Christ's birth based 
on the celestial charts for that era. The date of Christ's birth, based on the famous Star of Bethlehem, is 
calculated to be September 11, 3 B.C.
* According to Hebrew Scriptures September 11, 1999 was the 6,000th anniversary of
Adam's creation, and year 1 on the Hebrew calendar
11: SIGNIFICANT DAYS
* Remembrance Day - Two minutes of silence at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh 
month (11:00 am, 11 November), supposedly marking the time (in the United Kingdom) when armistice 
became effective.
11: SIGNIFICANT EVENTS
* The first NASA space mission to successful land two men on the moon was Apollo 11
* Hurricane Katrina was recorded as "Storm #11". Hurricane
Katrina's wikipedia page states:
On August 28, 11 counties and eleven cities issued evacuation orders, a number which increased to 41 
counties and 61 cities by the following morning
To coincide, NASA's Hurricane Katrina page states:  "The storm formed late on August 23 and developed quickly into a tropical storm by 11 a.m. the next 
morning."
* Uri Geller stopped Big Ben at 11.11 AM GMT 30th April 1997 (a hoax in my opinion, but feel free to 
research)
11: ROYALTY
* A google search into the etymology of the word "crown" establishes it was derived from the AngloFrench word "coroune" in the year 1111.  "1111, from Anglo-Fr. coroune, from O.Fr.  corone, from L. 
corona "crown""
11: RELIGION
* Jesus Christ = 11 letters
11: SPORT
* There are 11 players in a football team. A football game becomes 11:11.
* There are 11 players in a cricket team. Again, 11:11.
11: A SUMMARY 
The number 11 finds itself embedded in the very fabric of existence. Observed in both the heavens and 
in the workings of shadowy world rulers, there are three schools of thought as to how this could be:             

* The first points towards a series of 'inevitable events' deep rooted in the fabric of material existence. 
Fate so to speak and that the universe is playing out its script.
* The second speculates that 'the powers that be' have realised the significance of the number 11 in our 
ancient past and hijacked it for their own gain.
* The third leads to an assumption that the pyramid builders, are the same people in control today, and 
have used the number 11 symbolically throughout recorded history. Could it be that this 'intelligence' at 
work, created the solar system (so as to explain the connections between the number 11 and the 
universe) or is it simply working to a universal numerical code?  The above information is all based on published fact, without even going into my own experiences with 
the numbers 11:11.
At first I held my own reservations about the significance of the number 11, until I found it work itself into 
my life.
Most, if not all of my knowledge and research in this blog, found its way into my life through moments 
where I've see an 11:11 on a digital clock, on the microwave or on the TV. Of late, these have taken a 
new form, including full blown audible 11:11's from random members of the general public and 
arrangements of seemingly random objects forming something greater than just coincidence.
11:11 has come to signify a change in consciousness or at least the exposure of a new reality. Puzzling 
to say the least, but exciting - definitely! 

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World Clock

Vote now: No FlyZone over Palestine!

Another peace-loving yiddish fruitcake...


"If we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day. If we don't kill we will cease to exist."
 -Israeli Prof. Arnon Sofer of Haifa University, Jerusalem Post


TER-ROR-ISM: noun 1 The Act of terrorising. 2 A system of government that seeks to rule by intimidation. Funk and Wagnall’s New Practical Standard Dictionary (1946)


“Those who beat their swords into ploughshares shall plough for those who don’t!”
Anon.


“The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.”
Dante’s Devine Comedy

Stand up and shout it out, because...


Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

by Henry David Thoreau


Independent thinking...


Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker.
Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy.
Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
And on issues that seem important to you:
Stand up and be counted at any cost.

~ Thomas J Watson (1874-1956)

Murderous Psycho Pig! Protect and serve whom?

Murderous Psycho Pig! Protect and serve whom? 
"Democracy, too, is a religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses." - H.L. Mencken

Click on pic: "Snippits & Snappits" excellent Post on yiddish khazar control of Sex Slavery!

Click on pic: "Snippits & Snappits" excellent Post on yiddish khazar control of Sex Slavery! 
Sex Slavery is a Global business controlled by the "Chosen".
“Mes chers frères, n'oubliez jamais, quand vous entendrez vanter le progrès des lumières, que la plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas!”
This line was written by the French poet Baudelaire, in a short story about meeting the Devil. The story is called “Le Joueur Généreux” and was published Feb. 7, 1864.
“My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!”
"When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb."

Pink Floyd

Churchill quote:


"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack." 


-Winston Churchill
 (Jewish mother) 


The Reality of Corporate Government and hegemony for our kids...

The Reality of Corporate Government and hegemony for our kids... 

'Click' on picture to support the Palestinian Children

'Click' on picture to support the Palestinian Children 
Photo: http://suehepworth.com/

The spirit of 2006...

The spirit of 2006... 
Invincible Merkava "chariot of yahweh" needs work, some panel-damage due to cowardly scramble to avoid fighting armed men, rather than the usual unarmed women and children; drove in blind panic off the edge of a road cutting while being chased by the Lebanese Army, un-registered, un-insured; will consider any genuine offers.

Cutting edge Business reporting at Fox

Cutting edge Business reporting at Fox 
Business as usual for Murdoch's professional team of gifted journalists and titty girls.
 

Lest We forget the Christians that are being murdered by the satanic jews that control the jU.S.A

Lest We forget the Christians that are being murdered by the satanic jews that control the jU.S.A 
Palestine Blogs - The Gazette

"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are." 


H.L. Mencken, American author, critic, newspaper man and iconoclast. 


The end of the ashkenazim is nigh...


"I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Judahites, and are not, but are the synagogue of satan." - Revelation 2:9



 
 
 
UN is a muppet of israhell
 
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"

JOIN NOW!

JOIN NOW! 
Australians All let us rejoice, for we are young and FREE! Well, if that German jewess in London that changed her name to Windsor by Deed Poll and does impersonations of an English Queen didn't own our arses!
 
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crop circle image 2011

Check out Suzanne Toro's recent interview with Cliff High for some thought provoking speculations on sacred plants and crop circles.

Image credit goes to crop circle connector.com via the Half Past Human website.
Posted early Thursday morning, August 11th, 2011Tags: interview media podcast
Truth on a road sign in New Mexico

I've been a subscriber to Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country for a couple of weeks now and have been very much enjoying his huge archive of excellent interviews.

The monthly fee is half of what most places are charging and you get what in my opinion is over twice the dedication and attention to detail. Mr Stieber not only reads the books of the people he interviews but he really seems to comprehend the big picture in a way that draws on decades of experience in uncovering the layers of deception that guard some of the more esoteric truths that his DreamLand show explores.

He also has a talent for having experts interviewing experts. The show with Peter Levendainterviewing Joseph P Farrell about Nazi time travel technology was worth the subscription price alone.
Posted Tuesday afternoon, February 8th, 2011Tags: media podcast reviews time website
Whitley Strieber's Dreamland podcast

I had a strange reaction to Whitley Strieber's "true" account of his encounters with some sort of alien entity in his book "Communion" back in the late 1980's. Normally I would have been intrigued about any tale with such an unknown factor, but something about his story struck me as a bit too convenient and lucrative to get past my young and immature P.T. Barnum filter.

Fast forward over 20 years and Mr Strieber is still exploring the unkown with his excellent podcast called Dream Land

I'm still new to the Dream Land podcast, but I'm already impressed with his interview style that goes way beyond what other similar shows produce. I'm ready to admit I was wrong about him back in 1988 when I was a 19 year old sailor without enough data to give his information a fair shake. 

Add to that a weekly 30 minute show by William Henry and you've got something worth checking out in my opinion.
Posted Wednesday afternoon, January 26th, 2011Tags: abduction podcast reviews website
slackware ion guff style?

What do you get when you put the Prince of SlackDr Carolyn Dean, and a group consciousness from the Guf on James Martinez's radio show?

I'm not sure what to make of this weekly 3 hour long show, but it's made me laugh more than once and has a mood and frequency that is unlike anything else I've come across.
Posted late Thursday evening, January 6th, 2011Tags: media podcast review slack website
Freeman is fearless

Freeman is one of the most fascinating characters I've had the pleasure of listening to lately in this far out field of so called alternative research.

He actually predicted something fishy was going to happen concerning the government on September 11th 2001 by extrapolating all his previous findings along with a refined sense of instinct.

Check out his new show on American Freedom Radio for in depth interviews that in my opinion take these subjects to some new heights with his impressive attention to detail. I especially liked his talk with Kerry Cassidy from Project Camelot where they talked about her recent trip to see the great pyramid and why Egyptian guards will not let you meditate at any of the sacred sites in that region.
Posted Wednesday afternoon, December 1st, 2010Tags: interviews media podcast radio sacred sites website
James Corbett independent and alternative with integrity
new world order V old world order
In my opinion the process of unplugging from the control system is a slow and gradual ordeal. Eventually you get to a point where you realize just how corrupt our current state of journalism and news reporting is and you just give up on it all together.

This has been a healthy move for me. I cut mainstream news and talk radio out of my media diet and slowly began to feel some of my creativity and critical thinking skills coming back to life.

These days I get informed of daily events from the wikipedia home page, and when I feel like expanding on that I seek out an independent, alternative source. My current favorite is The Corbett Report by James Corbett. He lives in Japan and does a great job at connecting dots and reading between the lines.

It feels like he's keeping up to date on what little bit of real information is leaking out so you don't have to.

Comic credit goes to notsylvia.wordpress.com for the cool Icelandic humor.
Posted Tuesday evening, October 12th, 2010Tags: media podcast review website
matrix red/blue pill close up
Sofia red ice collageRed Ice Creations did an interesting interview recently with Sophia Stewart: The true mother of the Matrix.

She makes the claim that Hollywood has not denied the accusation and once the F.B.I. got involved she says it was revealed that the Terminator movies were also stolen from her1981 novel titled "The Third Eye".

My instincts are telling me this story goes beyond common greed, which is why I'll be keeping a close eye on Sophia Stewart's case.
Posted late Wednesday evening, October 6th, 2010Tags: book myth podcast reviews
check out check the evidence

I'm often surprised at how spot on Mel Fabregas is with his guest selection and how the people he interviews that I've not heard of always seem to be of a frequency that resonates with my Cosmic Cookout direction.

The Veritas interview with Andrew Johnson was another great discusion that connected some interesting dots concerning anti-gravity technolgy and the events of September 11th 2001. Mr Johnson is one of the first investigators to seriously look at the evidence of Dr Judy Wood and her directed energy beam hypothesis, which to me shows his level of openness.

Registering on his site is free and worth it due to the additional audio archive you get access to. It's safe and spam free with hours of intriguing interviews that I've found enlightening and educational.
Posted late Wednesday morning, September 29th, 2010Tags: media podcast reviews website
Jim Marrs and his hat gang

Chris Geo and Sheree from the Truth Frequency have done an excellent job interviewing one of my all time favorite researchers Jim Marrs.

This dynamic conversation is one of those gems worth listening to multiple times due to the complexity and level of detail they cover.

The first observation I had was when Jim Marrs was referring to the Old Testament story of Genesis and the apple from the tree of knowledge. I always thought this was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, occasionally called the Tree of Conscience, which I translate as a particular stage of development where "Self Awareness" kicks in.
Ancient Sumerian seal depicting Annunaki
I think Mr Marrs is being too general when he speaks of this knowledge given to theAnunnaki hybrid clones. Maybe before this Self Awareness upgrade we were more manageable like a mule or horse? Maybe a group within the Anunnaki decided it was ethically wrong to treat hybrid clones of themselves with such low regard? and the solution to the problem was this "Good and Evil Knowledge" upgrade?

Image credit goes to Micah A Hanks from the Gralien Report blog for the excellent picture of Jim Marrs with him and friends sharing a beverage. I think I'd gladly pay a couple hundred bucks to hear what Jim Marrs has to say after a few beers and off the record.
 
Maybe Jim Marrs should start his own secret society of truth seekers who also enjoy a good brew? That's just what a Cosmic Cookout would entail if I knew enough people in my neighborhood with open minds and a thirst for beer and the truth.
Posted Wednesday evening, August 11th, 2010Tags: media podcast
Infinity Hole Podcast secretI'm happy to report a fresh new podcast on the horizon that is shaping up to be something original and different.

Sam, Steve, and Miles make up theInfinity Hole podcast where they have already found a unique and balanced rhythm that is stimulating to follow.

Recent topics include some brief information on new digital drugs in the form of downloadable sound files, DMT and LSD experiences, and calling out dis-information agents like Andrew Basagio and Aaron McCollum.

I noticed in the 2nd hour of the Veritasinterview with Richard Hoagland that he also expressed doubts to the validity of Mr Basagio's quantum claims, pointing out how Mr Basagio has been employed by some key government agencies that cause me to be skeptic.

Is it possible Andrew Basagio is being played by certain intelligence agencies to be such a fine story teller? He does seem very lucid and articulate, but claims of time traveling with his father when he was a boy are just too much for even me to swallow without more data. The fact that his website has been so minimal speaks volumes to me about his intention.
Posted late Wednesday evening, August 4th, 2010Tags: media podcast review time
Gnostic Media MasterpieceJan Irvin at Gnostic Media has created another great show with hisrecent conversation/interview with psychedelic researcher and author Dr James Fadiman.

I was intrigued by Dr Fadiman's work with "enhanced problem solving" where he worked with industry scientists who had been trying to solve a problem for at least 3 months. He provided a safe space and a controlled dose of LSD and reports several positive situations where a viable solution was achieved.
Posted late Wednesday evening, July 21st, 2010Tags: media podcast
Cosmic Gnostic artwork by John Kale

John Kale at Cosmic Gnostic.com has a great interview with Red Ice Creations founder Henrik Palmgren.

Mr Kale has an impresive collection of podcast shows dating back to 2008.

It was really great hearing an interview where Henrik was answering questions instead of dishing them out. The two together make for a stimulating conversation that shines a little light on what drives Henrik Palmgren on his journey to uncover the protective layers which seem to be hiding what some would call the truth.
Posted Wednesday evening, July 14th, 2010Tags: interview media podcast
Free Energy montage of pioneers

There's been a growing wave of interest in the fringe field of Free Energy where independent inventors try to tap into a yet unidentified source of power. These inventions are generally considered perpetual motion machines and usually are followed by some sort of rolling of the eyes or a furrowing of the brow by those who hold any type of authority in these circles. Some say the energy comes from another dimension and is therefore not created out of thin air.
sailing beyond knowledge image
Thanks to a new addition at Neil Kramer's Cleaver blog link section I got turned on to a new podcast by the name of Sailing Beyond Knowledge.

The latest episode is a comprehensive summarization of the many Free Energy theories floating out there today. Patrick Kelly is the guest and he is clearly moved by a sincere passion to get this information out in the world so it can begin to take root.

Go to his excellent website where you can download a free E-book which will list individuals and their specific system they've been working with. 
John Bedini at work bench experimentingI've been drawn to the work of John Bedini and the amazing results he's achieved with magnetic pendulums and motors. With any luck I'll have some real world results to share in the coming months in my attempt to learn more about this mysterious power and how I can put it to use on our little farm here as an energy source for my new deer deterrent contraption.
Posted at midnight, June 11th, 2010Tags: energy invention podcast
Paratopia radio podcast

Jeff Ritzmann and Jeremy Vaeni have a lively show called Paratopia that is just over 60 episodes old.

They both have a skeptical perspective that bounces off each other in a natural fashion.

Flying saucer image credit goes to U.F.O. painter James Nichols.
Posted Monday evening, April 19th, 2010Tags: media podcast reviews
Tragedy and Hope

Sometimes a book has so much knowledge and perspective it can take on a life of its own. Tragedy and Hope seems to be one of those books.
John Taylor Gatto
The first I've heard of the story behind this book was a recent interview done by Gnostic Media with education reform expert John Taylor Gatto. He points out the connection between its author Carroll Quigley and former president Bill Clinton, but the part that caught my attention is the obvious suppression of this particular book and how Mr Gatto had to end up obtaining a pirated copy for 50 bucks. He goes on to illustrate how he has since surveyed several libraries in major cities only to discover that each branch is missing their copy of this book.

John Taylor Gatto speculates that this form of censorship happens with other books that get too close to the truth and are gradually removed from circulation. It's hard to dismiss such an outlandish theory when it comes from a respectable source such as Mr Gatto. 

Thanks to the internet you can download and read this book without paying 50 bucks. Check outTragedy and Hope.com for a free copy and decide for yourself if Carroll Quigley's version of history is worthy of such a high level of censorship.
Posted late Thursday morning, April 8th, 2010Tags: books podcast reviews
Veritas radio show photo montage

I've only been a subscriber to the Veritas show for two weeks now and I'm already wondering why it took me so long to discover this treasure trove of knowledge.

Mel Fabregas is the force behind this truth machine. His central motto, which he borrowed from Jordan Maxwell, should tell you everything you need to know.

 "I am an ordinary man pursuing extraordinary knowledge."

His three hour interview with trial lawyer and environmental scholar Andrew D. Basiago is in my opinion the best one out there with this guy. The story is nothing less than incredible and Mel asked some very astute questions which really helped to flesh this story out a bit more than other radio hosts have done in the past. Mr Basiago claims to have photographic evidence of life on Mars, but the real fantastic part of the story is his participation in a program called Project Pegasus along with the claim of making two separate trips to Mars using Tesla teleportation technology. I'm a bit skeptical of these claims and wonder why Mr Basiago didn't have the foresight to take some sort of camera with him when he "telelported" to Mars and back with his CIA escort.

At 8 dollars a month I call the Veritas show a solid value. Add to that his frequently updated blogand members forum and you've got yourself a better deal than most entertainment choices out there.
Posted late Monday morning, April 5th, 2010Tags: podcast reviews
truth frequency radio podcast

Truth Frequency Radio.com is hosted by a dynamic duo that bring a much needed balance of male and female energy to a table that in the past has too often been dominated by men.

Chris Geo and Sheree have an obvious chemistry that complements each other in just the right places for a tight and informative radio experience. 

I especially enjoyed their recent in depth conversation with the legendary Jordan Maxwell

What stands out most about these two is their level of passion and knowledge. They've done some serious research and it shows in the thoughtful and informative questions being presented to an impressive list of fascinating guests.

Truth Frequency Radio combines original music with fantastic ideas to form a special edge that can't be found anywhere else. I appreciate the chances they take and will be paying close attention to how this team progresses in the future.
Posted late Thursday morning, April 1st, 2010Tags: media podcast reviews
Zapruder Ruby Tippit connection photo montage

I heard a new twist on one of the JFK conspiracy wrinkles today that caused me to pause and ponder if it might be true.

The interview was between Mel Fabregas and Ralph Epperson on the Veritas radio show.

Mr Epperson briefly touches on some of the findings he presents in his video titled "The driver shot Kennedy!" The detail that caught my attention is the implication that somehow Abraham Zapruder, the man who captured the event on film, had previous knowledge of the assassination and was there that day to document it with his Bell and Howell 8 mm movie camera. Ralph goes on to point out how Mr Zapruder asked his secretary who was named Marilyn Sitzman to stand on a concrete pad with him to hold him from behind in case he got dizzy. 
Jack Ruby in background at Carousel strip club
Ralph Epperson speculates that Mr Zapruder was attempting to compensate for the anticipated gun shot and the jerking action it might cause by having Marilyn Sitzsman steady him from behind. A clear viewing of the film points out that Abraham Zapruder held the camera steady and true at the exact moment of the first gun shot and subsequent shots.

This does strike me as unusual, although I'm not sure what a normal reaction might be for such an event. What really caught my attention is the accusation that Abraham Zapruder was known to be in the company of Jack Ruby and Officer J.D. Tippit at Jack's Carousel Club strip joint.

Is it possible Officer Tippit was sent to take out Lee Harvey Oswald and instead was killed during the altercation? It's clear the facts around J.D. Tippit's death are fuzzy and eye witness accounts of the shooting have been called into question after the fact. Take that with the fact from Tippit's Wikipedia page that he was also working 2 part time jobs in addition to being a full time police officer at the time. His salary was $5,880 which compares to over $41,000 today. Although it's not uncommon for police officers to work other part time jobs it does beg the question as to why his middle class wage wasn't enough? Keep in mind that he grew up on a farm and according to the Tippit website he was known to say "working 2 or 3 jobs was nothing compared to walking behind a plow".

Photo credit goes to erichufschmid.net for the above image which is an actual shot from Jack Ruby's bar. You can go to his site to see an incredible blow up of the right hand corner that reveals Jack Ruby with a few other noteworthy characters which was taken jd tippitfrom Robert Groden's book about Oswald. 

The other photos are thanks to wikipedia and theofficial J.D. Tippit website which is a beautiful tribute to a man who was a war hero from World War 2 and a family man that left behind several who cared deeply for him. 

Rest in peace J.D. Tippit and everybody else known and unknown that got too close to this temporal distortion.
Posted late Thursday morning, March 25th, 2010Tags: JFK podcast reviews
 Lorenzo Hagerty with Bruce Damer and Acid Placid

The Pyschedelic Salon podcast hosted by Lorenzo Hagerty is probably the best place to get straight information on the early history and modern happenings of consciousness exploration.

Lorenzo is providing a valuable service by sorting through old lecture tapes of pioneers like Terrence McKenna, Timothy Leary, and Robert Anton Wilson to name a few. He's built an awesome archive of over 200 episodes where he presents a chunk of information from the past and introduces it in a way that calms and excites at the same time. 

The Salon is a great place to stay up to date on the latest developments in this community and hear from new voices and some of the places they've discovered.

Image credit goes to DJ Hitspinner for the incredible cyberdelic art.
Posted late Monday morning, March 15th, 2010Tags: media podcast reviews
  Doug Lain is the Diet Soap podcast

Douglas Lain is a fiction writer who has built an impressive collection of interviews at his Diet Soap podcast. I've watched the show grow from figuring out he needs a USB microphone back in episode number 6 to being what I consider a serious voice for the consciousness culture in just under a year's time.

I especially enjoyed his 3 part conversation with Neil Kramer where they brought up the concept of an artificial control network and freely came to the conclusion that they are both still plugged into this mysterious and ancient form of bondage.

In my opinion Douglas Lain is one of the more grounded personalities in this field and his curiosity and sense of humor makes the show a stimulating experience well worth downloading.
Posted at lunch time on Thursday, March 4th, 2010Tags: consciousness media podcast reviews
  5 MeO DMT Martin Ball

Martin Ball has proven how plant-based medicine can be used as a tool to help awaken a deeper connection with the non physical side of our personality. Yes...he uses the God word, but you'll never hear him pushing any kind of dogmatic belief. On the contrary, this guy uses Occam's razorto rip through any beliefs that get in his way in a lucid and composed manner.

The Entheogenic Evolution podcast is a place where Martin articulates his evolving view of consciousness and brings many esoteric concepts down to Earth without any extra mystery or fanfare. It's an impressive expression of Martin's genuine desire to distill down all the years he's spent researching and working on his Ph.D. in this fascinating field. I suggest you try at least one of his episodes and I'll bet you'll be hooked just as I was with his no nonsense approach and musical style.</span
Posted at noon on Monday, February 15th, 2010Tags: media podcast
 Alex at Skeptiko

Alex Tsakiris is a successful entrepreneur turned science philanthropist who hosts the Skeptiko podcast, which is a labor of love and an obvious passion. In 2007 Tsakiris foundedOpenSourceScience.net, a non-profit project that helps to fund controversial science experiments. 

I've only heard a few episodes of Skeptiko so far, but I really like where this guy is coming from. I think he did a great job at separating out some of the historical facts from fiction when heinterviewed Jon Ronson, the author of "The men who stare at goats" and then followed it up byinterviewing Paul Smith, the author of "Reading the Enemy's Mind". The comparison helps to show how one author was more concerned about weaving a funny Hollywood story for George Clooney and the other had a true desire to shed some light on a fascinating program that seems to have made some real breakthroughs in the field of remote viewing and psychic spying.
Posted at lunch time on Thursday, February 11th, 2010Tags: media podcast
 Joseph P Ferrell

If you like research heavy with documentation and technical schematics then you will love Joseph P Farrell. He's fast becoming one of my favorite personalities in the alternative research community, mainly because he's so darn thorough, which is a trait I appreciate when dealing with such far out speculations like the Great Pyramid of Giza being originally designed as a huge weapon or how post war Nazi scientists have been operating a secret space program that makes NASA look like childs play.

A great way to get introduced to Dr Ferrell's train of thought would be some of the free interviews available out there. Erskine Overnight has a good collection of Ferrell conversations on his 2009 archive page where he has graciously edited out the advertisements. The next place I would suggest is the Byte show, which is run by GeorgeAnn Hughes. This collection is a bit more personal and provides a deeper look into the mind and ideas of Dr Ferrell thanks to the friendly back and forth style of GeorgeAnn and the obvious history the two share. Red Ice Creations has an excellent collection of Ferrell interviews with information I have not heard anywhere else, but you'll have to be a member to get access, which I can honestly say is well worth the small fee.
Posted at noon on Monday, February 8th, 2010Tags: media physics podcast
popularC-Realm podcast with KMO

The C-Realm podcast represents a water shed moment in my personal search for a better way to explain time and its relation to consciousness. It was my first real dose of true independent media in this field and was instrumental in pointing out a whole host of personalities that were also on a path towards the same frequency of truth. KMO helped me to realize that I wasn't alone in this quest and his creative style serves as one of the major inspirations behind the Cosmic Cookout website.
Posted late Monday evening, January 25th, 2010Tags: media podcast research time
Jan Irvin and sacred mushroom

Jan Irvin of GnosticMedia.com is clearly one of the hardest working researchers in the expanding culture of consciousness. The Gnostic Media podcast brings together leading independent and academic scholars to focus in on subjects like shamanism, entheogens, religion, archaeoastronomy, fertility cults, and so much more.

I'm really excited about his most recent direction of focus towards the area of education. It's a complex subject, and he's taking the time to build a foundation of facts on how and why our current state of academic learning for the masses is in such poor condition. 

A good place to begin unraveling the mess of modern education is the Gene Odening interview that delves into some of the meat behind concepts like critical thinking and logic. The number 2 installment of Peace Revolution which Jan is hosting at his site and participating in does a great job at setting the ground work for a hypothesis that suggests how critical thinking is being hijacked by a small group of elite families to further their own agenda. This is one of the most lucid and grounded arguments I've heard to date concerning what some call a "hidden" course of action to dumb down America.
Posted Monday evening, January 25th, 2010Tags: media podcast research
Red Ice creations team photo

Red Ice Creations.com is the first alternative research website I'm reviewing here because they are in my opinion the best. I've been a subscriber for the past 5 months and can honestly say the monthly fee of about 7 bucks feels like one of the better education and entertainment values available in this field. It's really tough to sort through some of the piles of disinformation out there and when I first came upon Red Ice I was immediately skeptical when I saw the highly refined format the website is presented in. It seemed too good to be true and I wondered if some big corporation was behind all the style. They have the last year of first hour interviews available for free, and I started off by skimming through that section and listening to the interviews from researchers I was more familiar with. It hooked me right away.

Henrik Palmgren is the founder, editor, researcher, film maker, artist, musician, and voice behind the interviews and films available on the site. He's put together an impressive team that consists of his brother Fredrik, Lana Lokteff and Elizabeth Leafloor. What pushed me over the fence from being a casual free listener to a dues paying subscriber was the Rik ClayRik Clay story. This was an energetic and enthusiastic young man Henrik had interviewed relating to some fascinating insight he had concerning the upcoming London Olympics and its strange logo. The story ends with the tragedy of Rik's suicide, which was followed by reports that the conditions around his death were suspicious. It's the kind of situation a big corporation would have exploited by implying all sorts of unsavory speculation with the motivation being to entice the listener to subscribe to hear the whole story. Red Ice did nothing of the kind. They made the subscriber portion of Rik Clay's interview available for free, which was a move that won me over and proved from where I'm standing that their intentions are pure and their honor is intact. Rest in peace, Rik.

I could go on about how Henrik takes such good care of his guests and always seems to ask just the right questions while at the same time knowing when to get out of the way and let the information flow, but what would be more productive is for me to suggest a beginning so you can start getting turned on to research you never knew existed. The November 2009 interview withPeter Levenda would be my first choice because Henrik and Peter somehow manage to present some very outlandish material in a grounded fashion that I found stimulating and tasteful. Go next to the recent John Lash interview, which opened my eyes to his MetaHistory.org website where John presents a lifetime worth of research that directly challenges the building blocks of fundamental Christianity in a calm and collected manner.
Posted Wednesday afternoon, January 20th, 2010Tags: media podcast


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FRIAday 05 18 2012= 5 9 5 = 19 = 10
FREE us from the EARTH CHANGES, SOLAR ECLIPSES, POLE SHIFTS and incoming SPACE JUNKspacerock http://7thfire.biz/spacerock.htm

05 20 2012= 5 2 5 = 12 = 3= May 20 Solar Eclipse // NATO summit // 3 days of Darkness !!! 
Mother Sekhmet: 13th May 2012.  http://organiccosmos.ning.com/profiles/blogs/greetings-this-is-mother-sekhmet-reporting-from-niburu-happy-moth

Athabantian Caution- posted on May 17, 2012  - We believe that a major geological event for your planet may occur within thenext few days. It will be centered off the northwestern coast of the United States. It will affect the coast and somewhat further inland. We can not predict the full affects of this undersea movement.
Conditions appear to be such that a major disruption could occur along the
 edge of the Juan de Fuga Plate where it intersects the Pacific Plate, many miles off the coast. There are stresses building there that may cause an earthquake of some magnitude and a resulting tsunami — if they are released in a violent manner. There is the possibility that they may be released more gradually and little will be disrupted. It is not clear to us how things will proceed from this point forward.
It is a natural phenomenon that is part of Earth’s adjustment of her physical form. It involves no nuclear reactor such as was the case off Japan.
 
 

SUNday 05 13 2012- 5 U get WHAT U PRAY FORPURITY and TRUTH. (NARROW GATE 555or LILITH and LUST (WIDE ROAD 666).
Separation of WHEAT and TARES has begun! NO FENCE SITTING. narrow555 http://7thfire.biz/narrow555.htm
  
 
 
Illuminatreee.info Sept 2011 aka Sangrailian ( KEEP and EYE on LILITH cause ALTERNATIVE MEDIA is IGNORING THIS.)

HOMEWORK-PLANT SPUDs with BUDs CITY WIDE, while the PUPPETs pop PROZAC and FUND BOGUS PENSIONS PLANs!
I TOLD U SO... NOW U are ACCOUNTABLE!
ACCOUNTABLE WAGE SLAVES- APRIL EMAILMAYA EMAIL March- 2012

 
 

REPTOIDS and the GREYS feed on your FEAR. Square housestriangle roof tops, enable them to SUCK out your LIFE FORCE.
MOON MATRIX. WAKE UP! CN TOWER = PHALLUS ENERGY (-) DOMEZAPPERSOULUTION http://7thfire.biz/DOMEZAPPERSOULUTION.htm
PARASITES like mosquitoes die in high frequencies.
SOULution= GEODESIC GREEN HOME DOMES. NOW NOW NOW. More triangles, the higher the Frequency.
 
 

(WAR against the MACHINE) Accountability meter has EXPIREDTIME to get the PROBLEM FIXED with HUMAN HELP.
 
 

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FRIAday 05 11 2012 =12 = 3 = FREE US from the CLAWS and CROSSES of the VATICAN VAMPIRES and DRACO CANNIBALS rikclayrip http://www.7thfire.biz/rikclayrip.htm
Rik has suggested that the 2012 Olympic site is being prepared as the New Jerusalem by the New World Order and suggested it may be possible that a staged alien invasion will be used at that time to unite humanity under the new world order.
Why is it both the Beijing and London Olympic logos can be arranged to form the word "Zion"
Was 
Rik Clay murdered shortly after releasing all this explosive information about a possible royal family conspiracy to make Prince William the new messiah?
SUICIDE??? August the 28th. His ashes were scattered upon Ilkley Moor, overlooking the town above Rocky Valley, Thursday the 11th of September, 2008.
 
-BELLIAL LYING MEDIA still spinning the PsyWar - Wake UP! bellbullshit http://7thfire.biz/bellbullshit.htm
REMEMBER it is all PSYOPS MIND CONTROL PROGRAMMING on TEEVEE. WATCH ANALYTICALLY!
TREASONOUS INVADERS and DANGEROUS MURDERERS and RAPISTS...GET OFF OUR LAND!
PRINCE Charles and CAMILLA INVASION coming to CANADA CORPSE SOON ( Get out the ORGONE MASTERS!)
 
2012 - The Future of Mankind 3:24:48 - 3 years ago 
Michael Tsarion gives a talk at the Granada Forum in Los Angeles, 2006
Join us for an excellent three part live program with Michael Tsarion, author of The Irish Origins of  Civilization. We discuss the chronology of tyranny, timelines, the rise of empires around the world and we look back into history to discover the roots of tyranny and dictators. We begin the first segment to talk about the origins, the psychology of Akhenaton, the dragon court, Akhenaton as Moses, the origins of Monotheism, Freud, Solar Cultism, Amenism & Atenism, Egypt, the Bible, biblical characters as Pharaohs of Egypt, Sol Invictus, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism and much more. We begin the second segment to talk about the Exodus & the Hyksos. We then move on to discuss the Invasion of Atonism in Britain & Ireland. We talk about theKnights Templar and the Masons. We end the second segment to specifically look into the timelines, the dates of rise and fall of Empires, movements and invasions. In our final and third "bonus" segment we dive deeper into the Druidic and Irish symbolism that are prominent throughout the world today. We look at some of the symbols of Politics, Science, Christianity, Royalty, America, Nazi Germany, the UN and much more. Do not miss this program!
We are going to examine freemasonry, the roots, masonry and the connection to Judaism, symbolism, the Royal connections and the question of hierarchy. We'll look into: Catholic Orders and Fraternities, Holarchy versus Hierarchy, Imperialism Old and New, Colonization, The Rule of Psychopaths, Origin of the Jews, the Gaonim, the Sadducees, Zadokites, Essenes, Cistercians, Templars, Teutons, the etymology of the name David, the Dividers, Masonic Symbolism, the Twins, the Tree of Life Symbol. Further ahead in the series we'll discuss corruption and masonry and also the fascinating ripper case and the connection to masonry
This is part two of our series with Michael Tsarion on the Brotherhood of Death. Go to redicecreations.com to watch part one. In part two we look at the Question of Antiquity, The Catholic Fraternities, Alleged Rivalries, Knights Templar. We'll also look into: Masonic Symbolism, Catholic Fraternities, the Knights Templar, the Nazi Connection and much more.
 
 

MOONday 05 07 2012 =17=8 LONDON LIES, WASHINGTON WARS, ROMA's BLOOD SACRIFICES and ZIONs NEW WORLD ORDER
DON'T BLAME MOTHER EARTH for all this CRAZY WEATHERBLAME your GLOBAL GANGSTER godless GOVERNMENTS, who control your weather thru HAARP.
Dear WAGE SLAVEBlack OP's Projects were funded by YOU and are being used against YOU! You're NEXT- if you don'tWAKE UP!
HAARP is a weapon of mass destructionRadio Waves strong enough to cause earthquakes are controlled by the U.S. military.
HAARP can shift the NEW MADRID and San Andreas FAULTS, leaving aMERIca DISABLED. No coincidence.
HAARP stands for High Frequency Active Auroral Research  Program. It is funded by the US navy, US AirForce, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and our Govt.
- HAARP has be used for multiple purposes. Its basic concept is a giant antennautilize a large amount of power,and shooting beam powers into the upper atmosphere. Thus being able to change and manipulate weather through the ionosphere. How much power is needed to modify weather?  To say the least it can beam more then 1.7 gigawatts (billion watts) of radiation into the ionosphere. It is the opposite of a radio. It transmits the powers instead of recieving. It heats the upper atmosphere, after effecting the ionosphere, the radiations come back to earth and form long waves. The waves then enter the ground, the oceans, even our bodies. These people have the power to not only create but dismantle storms such as tornados, hurricanes, etc..
It is believed that HAARP is also:
An ionospheric heater / A research tool / A military test bed
A tax-subsidized boondoggle / A directed-energy weapon
A communication system for submarines / A source of field-aligned ionospheric VHF reflectors / A way to improve satellite links
A planetary x-ray machine / A plot to depopulate the Third World 
A means of creating power blackouts at will / Electronic warfare
Tesla's wireless power transmission /Tesla's secret death ray

Searching for space aliens / Killing space aliens / 
Killing off the militias / Keeping them awake at night (through RF head rectification) / Enforcing the New World Order / Creating nuclear-scale explosions // Weather modificationCIA mind control / Brain wave modification // The end of HF radio // The end of wildlife in Alaska // The end of atmospheric ozone // The end of the human race // The end of Earth itself
 

 
 
 Full 10 hour DVD Series available from: irishoriginsofcivilization.com In his companion DVD Series to The Irish Origins of Civilization (Volumes 1 and 2), Michael Tsarion discusses the historical significance of ancient Ireland and takes us on a truly fascinating journey through time, from the Emerald Isle to Egypt and back again full circle. Along the way we are introduced to the Druids and also to their destroyers, the Atonists. We discover the origins of the world's most powerful secret societies and the New World Order they labor to create. We discover secret facts about the royal dynasties of Britain and Europe, the Empire of Rome, and about Masonic influence in America. Featuring over 560 illustrations, and rare source material, this DVD series dramatically revolutionizes our view of history and explains what can be done to combat the tyrannical forces that have long conspired to undermine truth, freedom and justice. Also see http://www.michaeltsarion.com
Thank You Michael Tsarion for your TRUTH!
 
 
 
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SATURNday MAYDAY 05 05 2012 (5)= tonight. 555 SUPER MOON ! PRAY IT FORWARD
MAYDAY 05 01 2012 LIZARDO gives special permission for CONRAD BLACK SATANIST VAMPIRE LIZARD HYBRID to SUCK THE LOOSH off the RAINBOW ANGELS in CANADA AGAIN.
CONRAD BLACK to be released from USA PRISON to return to CANADA CORPSE to resume BOHEMIAN GROVE RITUALS / NEW WORLD ORDER PLANS at CANADA's SATANIST GROVEKING CITY ONTARIO. LIZARD CROWN INVASION. evitapendragon
CONRAD BLACK HANGS with PEDOPHILE SATANISTS in the BROTHERHOOD of DEATH! evitapendragon
ARE U THINKING that you will continue KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE in KING CITY, after CALIFORNIA goes under the OCEAN?
NOT!  (we have a HEMP PARACHUTE waiting for U when you return)
According to media magnate and permanent Bilderberg member Conrad Black, the ban on reporters "makes discussion more intimate and candid. There are no massive indiscretions, but the exchanges can be quite heated." This is a polite way of saying that members can secretly speak their minds about whatever grandiose schemes of world conquest they envision themselves as having the divine right to exec ute, without fearing that their words will ever be heard by the public. "It was from Bilderberg that our company's eventual vocation as an international newspaper organization arose." This tactic is very similar to the Non-Attribution Rule used at Council on Foreign Relations meetings, which prevents statements made by attendees from being reported in the media. Many media CEOs, news anchors and influential members of the press fill seats in the CFR
 
"Black Plays Host to World Leaders."- 1996 Bilderberg Conference - 30th May - 2nd June, CIBC Leadership Centre, Toronto, Canada http://www.bilderberg.org/bildlist.htm
- As far as global politics and finance go, the Bilderberg is the top of the pyramid, the all-seeing eye gazing upon the construction of a New World Order This one-world system of governance, lurking in the shadows cast by flowery language about our new “global village,” will transfer nearly all economic and political power into the hands of a small group of the world elite.
Bilderberg discussed global control of the air, water and public healthas well as the possible multi-billion dollar sale of the Canadian government-owned electric utility Ontario Hydro. http://www.bilderberg.org/bildlist.htm
Transatlantic power élite's secret Bilderberg conferences & state terror research http://www.bilderberg.org/
 
ELITE ETHNOGRPAHY- According to Conrad Black, the Bilderberg, "was set up in the mid-fifties by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.... [Meetings] normally include senior officials of the governments of all the countries represented, with a wide swath of enlightened business, academic, media and military leaders...http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_bilderberg_11.htm
 
The network today - After thousands of years of evolution, the reptilian network is now a vast and often unf athomable web of interconnecting secret societies, banks, businesses, political parties, secu rity agencies, media owners, and so on. But its basic structure and Agenda remains very simple.
The centre of the operational web is the City of London with interlocking leaderships in places like France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and the United States. These are the spiders in the web with the City of London, New Troy’, the most important. From this centre the Global Agenda and policies are administered and their ‘branch managers’ introduce those policies in each country. So if it suits the Global Agenda to crash the US dollar, the Mexican peso, the South African rand, or the Far East stock-markets, the branch managers in those areas will take the action necessary to do that. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biggestsecret/biggestsecretbook/biggestsecret13.htm

-ROTHCHILD, ROCKEFELLER, other 13 ILLUMINATI SATANIC BLOODLINES and the oil industry were well-represented at Bilderberg meetings.
http://prorev.com/elitethnog.htm // http://www.conspiracywatch.net/2011/01/bilderberg-group-conspiracy.html // http://www.serenitystreetnews.com/HERSTORY%20CRAMNOTES/audio%20urgent/ //http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Black // http://sinistar666.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/the-21-points-of-satanism/ /// http://goatofmendes.ning.com/group/themendeslibrary/forum/topics/the-black-book-of-satan //http://api.ning.com/files/y9tP2SFBIi9q*Fveg4MhNfA0XkfD2brYORS7kfG8H4TqKCQYu3BVbnUZfK1f6M8aPhB9EKoa4M0yKledPWX8kNo*zXSE34Mq/BlackBookofSatan.pdf // http://www.apfn.org/apfn/bilderberg.htm //http://www.true-facts.co.uk/articles/ddd-400.html // http://fakeapoc.blogspot.ca/2011/10/conrad-black-joins-satans-big-rear.html // http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/10/08/conrad-black-amanda-knox-and-the-slow-but-steady-wheels-of-italian-justice/ // http://fratres.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/the-satanic-bumblebee-conrad-black-on-the-church-and-her-enemies/ /// http://www.luckymojo.com/esoteric/religion/satanism/ona/onastnblkmgk.html //http://www.whale.to/m/media.html // http://dagobertobellucci.wordpress.com/2011/10/page/56/

2012 Predictions and future possible SUDDEN DEATHS - Death and Health Watch Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Swarzenhagger, Annette Funicello, Penny Marshall, Hillary Clinton, Doris  Day, Dario Franchaetti, Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Paul Tracey, Brittany Spears, Latoya Jackson, John Walsh, Steven Harper, Burt Reynolds, David Hasselhoff (The Hoff), Bernard Madoff, Ex-President Mubarak of Egypt, Rupert Murdoch, Mickey Rooney,  Phyllis Diller, Carol Channing, Lauren Bacall, Loretta Lynn, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Billy Graham, Jerry Lewis, Kirk Douglas, Joanne Woodward, Debbie Reynolds, Barak Obama, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dick Clark, Nelson Mandela, Larry King, Jimmy Carter, Barbara Bush, The Duke of Edinborough, Shirley Temple, Bob Barker, Keith Richards, Barry Manilow, Jackie Stallone, Charles Manson, Nancy Reagan, Ryan Seacrest, Leaders in Syria and Iran, Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, Bill Clinton, Howie Mandel, Hugh Hefner, Danny Glover, Betty White, Prime Minister of Australia, Woody Allen, Daniel Craig, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Osborne, Michelle Williams, Heidi Montague, Dick Cheney, John Travolta, George Bush Sr., Regis Philbin, Robin Williams, Natalie Portman, George Bush Jr., Taylor Swift, Tony Bennett, David Letterman, Justin Beiber, Ru Paul, Selina Gomez, Tippi Hendren, Melanie Griffith, Mick Jagger, Ed Asner, Sean Coombs (Puff Diddy), Karl Lagerfield, Michael Douglas, Kreskin, Donald Trump, Cloris Leachman, Queen Elizabeth, Chaz Bono, Madonna, Pink, Harry Belafonte, Mary Tyler Moore, Princess Fergie, Shia La Bouef, Alice Cooper, Carol Burnett, Steven Tyler, Mark Anthony, Gordon Lightfoot, Avril Lavigne, Prime Minister of England, Chris Angel (Mindfreak), Ronnie Hawkins, Alex Trebek, Jay Leno, Paul McCartney, Anderson Cooper, Robert Evans, Barbara Streisand, Sir Richard Branson, Prince William, Prince Harry, Nicole Richie, Simon Cowell, David Copperfield, Desi Arnaz Jr., Ralph Lauren, and Ernest Borgnine.
It does not mean the above mentioned will pass but they might have to watch their health and also watch for danger in their life. http://www.psychicnikki.com/predictions.html
 
 

SUNNY TIMES, HEAVEN is NORTH of 7, See U at the NEW YORK YORK REGION, OTTAWA KANATA KINAKWII NATION tworowwampum
 
SIOUX OTTAWA KANATA KINAKWII- be 50 feet above the lake level and 10 miles from shore for lake sloshing, and if you are not on rock then to add more elevation or milage for safety as soil can melt. As we mentioned when detailing changes for the Great Lakes, the area of Wisconsin and upper Michigan will be splitting open, which is the trend in place already. Sault Saint Marie is positioned where Lake Superior drains, and this of course is where a widening split can be expected. There can also be local tearing, as we have described for Wisconsin, which will be ripped down along the Green Bay peninsula. Stretch areas have silent quakes, as these crevasses just open up with little warning, as occurred recently on the Michigan peninsula. If anything, Lake Superior will ultimately be lower, due to the locks being broken, though the torrential rains following the pole shift will createtemporary flooding everywhere. The rise in sealevel elevation to 675 feet will of course not affect the lands around the Great Lakes, which are at a higher elevation. Thus,except for local sloshing and the tearing that can be expected from a widening Seaway, your area will have a relatively uneventful pole shift experiencehttp://www.zetatalk.com/info/tinfx038.htm

3rd HIDDEN PROPHECY of FATIMA= the Catholic people will WAKE UP, COME to THEIR SENSES and destroy the SATANIC ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH by ripping the PRIESTS APART LIMB BY LIMB on VATICAN HILL. ( Priests= POLITICIANS + PASTORS funded by $$$SIN and SATAN ) .
GATHERING of the BRIDE (DIVINE FEMININE= HEART) (CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS) IN CANADA, little ROMA will become NEW YORK, YORK REGION, OTTAWA KANATA KINAKWII NATION. NAMASTE and MEEGWETCH!
Goddess tradition ( EVE) vs evitapendragon ( LILITH)
Sophia /Magdalene / EVE /Tetragrammaton / LUNA
EMMANUEL/ ADAM / SOL (God with us)
written by (suppresssed ) ROBERT MORNINGSKY  and read by  Dana Horochowski  http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_20b.htm
 
 
 

SUNday 04 29 2012- 4/11/5= 9/11= 11 PATTERN of HORRIFIC VEHICLE CRASHES announced on BELIAL PROPAGANDA NEWS this weekend KILLING SEVEN.
Prince WILL I AM arthur Pendragon and his SCARLET COUSIN KATE celebrate HITLER's and THEIR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY 04 29 2011
HERE COMES the ANTICHRIST! RED DRAGON! Veil_of_Invisibility


   danahorochowski       resume


 

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     they have frozen the maps and crashed my servers many many many many many times but they are finished. bye ROMA- you are NOBODY!





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                                                                 Julian Assange says he could be killed in US jail

Julian Assange WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outside Beccles police station in Suffolk, which he has to visit every day as one of the terms of his bail. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters

The Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/23/julian-assa...


The Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/23/julian-assa...

Julian Assange: my fate will rest in Cameron's hands if US charges me

WikiLeaks founder says it would be 'politically impossible' for Britain to extradite him to the US

Luke Harding

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 23 December 2010

Article history

Julian Assange said today that it would be "politically impossible" for Britain to extradite him to the United States, and that the final word on his fate if he were charged with espionage would rest with David Cameron.

In an interview with the Guardian in Ellingham Hall, the Norfolk country mansion where he is living under virtual house arrest, the founder of WikiLeaks said it would be difficult for the prime minister to hand him over to the Americans if there was strong support for him from the British people.

"It's all a matter of politics. We can presume there will be an attempt to influence UK political opinion, and to influence the perception of our standing as a moral actor," he said.

Assange is currently fighting extradition to Sweden. He strongly denies allegations of sexual misconduct with two Swedish women. But he believes the biggest threat to his freedom and to WikiLeaks, his whistleblowing website, emanates from a wrathful United States.

There is no evidence of any imminent US move to indict him. But according to Assange, the Obama administration is "trying to strike a plea deal" with Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old intelligence officer and alleged source of the more than a quarter of a million US diplomatic cables embarrassingly leaked last month. The US attorney general, Eric Holder, wants to indict Assange as a co-conspirator and is also examining "computer hacking statutes and support for terrorism", Assange claims.

Sitting in front of a log fire, his Apple MacBook Pro perched on his lap, Assange said his recent nine-day spell in Wandsworth jail had prepared him for the possibility that he might spend a long period in prison if indicted by the US. He said the prospect of solitary confinement was no longer an "intellectual abstraction" but a reality. The high court bailed him to Norfolk last Thursday, with his extradition hearing scheduled for 6-7 February.

He said: "Solitary confinement is very difficult. But I know that provided there is some opportunity for correspondence I can withstand it. I'm mentally robust. Of course it would mean the end of my life in the conventional sense."

If the US succeeded in removing him from the UK or Sweden, Assange said there was a "high chance" of him being killed "Jack Ruby-style" in the US prison system.

Since moving to Ellingham Hall, a Georgian country house and organic farm owned by his friend and supporter Vaughan Smith, Assange has given numerous media interviews. But he said he was fed up with the press and described an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme – in which John Humphrys grilled him on how many people he had slept with – as "awful".

Assange also took issue with a lengthy report in Saturday's Guardian setting out the prosecution allegations against him in Sweden. Assange acknowledged that the Guardian had a right to publish the material, dealing with his alleged encounters with the women. But he said it had been "sub-selected" and not placed properly in context. Swedish prosecutors have demanded that he return to Sweden to face further questions about the allegations.

Assange also said WikiLeaks did not have enough money to pay its legal bills, even though "a lot of generous lawyers have donated their time to us". He said legal costs for WikiLeaks and his own defence were approaching £500,000. The decisions by Visa, MasterCard and PayPal to stop processing donations to WikiLeaks – apparently following US pressure – had robbed the website of a "war chest" of around €500,000, he complained. This would have been enough to fund WikiLeaks' publishing operations for six months. At its peak the organisation was receiving €100,000 a day, he said.

According to publishing sources, however, Assange can take cheer from the fact that he has secured a seven-figure advance for a book about WikiLeaks and his life story. The sources suggest he is likely to receive £250,000 himself, allowing him to pay off some of his debts and to settle his personal defence fund, currently "paralysed". The book is to be published in the spring by Knopf in the US and Canongate in the UK, the sources suggest.

Assange – who has to wear his electronic tag in the bath, and report every day to Beccles police station – confessed he has no idea where he will be in a year's time. He described the next chapter in his life as "not yet predictable.

"Legally the UK has the right to not extradite for political crimes. Espionage is the classic case of political crimes. It is at the discretion of the UK government as to whether to apply to that exception."

He argued that Cameron and Nick Clegg were in a stronger position than the previous, Labour government to resist his extradition by Washington. "There is a new government, which wants to show it hasn't yet been co-opted by the US," he said, claiming that the security services – British and Australian – had a history of spying on and unduly influencing Labour politicians.

Many WikiLeaks supporters have now gone home for Christmas, leaving Assange with a scaled-down team over the holiday period, on an estate where the pheasant and grouse greatly outnumber the humans.

His immediate plan, he said, was to rest after a gruelling couple of months and then to continue with the staged global release of redacted US state department cables in the new year. Physically, he appeared somewhat wrung out, although very much composed and in good spirits.

Assange defended one of WikiLeaks' collaborators, Israel Shamir, following claims Shamir passed sensitive cables to Belarus's dictator, Alexander Lukashenko. Lukashenko has arrested 600 opposition supporters and journalists since Sunday's presidential election. The whereabouts and fate of several of the president's high-profile opponents are unknown.

Of Shamir, Assange said: "WikiLeaks works with hundreds of journalists from different regions of the world. All are required to sign non-disclosure agreements and are generally only given limited review access to material relating to their region. We have no reason to believe these rumours in relation to Belarus are true."

Over the past month the Guardian has published more than 200 articles based on the trove of US diplomatic dispatches obtained by WikiLeaks, and 739 of the cables themselves. All cables published by the Guardian and the four other international news organisations who had exclusive early access to the material have been carefully redacted to protect sources who could be placed in danger, and the redacted versions have been passed to WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks now plans to begin sharing the cables with a wider group of regional news organisations. Julian Assange says all future cables released by WikiLeaks will either be redacted by other partner news organisations, or by WikiLeaks itself. The Guardian and its partners in the project, the New York Times, Der Spiegel, El Pais and Le Monde, will continue to share redactions with WikiLeaks for any cables they publish in future.



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Julian Assange says he could be killed in US jail

Edited on Thu Dec-23-10 10:24 PM by Turborama
Source: AFP

WIKILEAKS chief Julian Assange says there is a "high chance" he would be killed in a US jail if he were to be extradited from Britain on espionage charges.


The Australian is on bail in Britain fighting a bid by Sweden to extradite him over sex assault claims, but Washington is believed to be considering how to indict him over the leaking of thousands of US diplomatic cables.

Mr Assange told The Guardian it would be "politically impossible" for Britain to send him across the Atlantic, adding that the government of Prime Minister David Cameron would want to show it had not been "co-opted" by Washington. "Legally the UK has the right to not extradite for political crimes. Espionage is the classic case of political crimes. It is at the discretion of the UK government as to whether to apply to that exception," he said.

Mr Assange added that if the United States succeeded in getting him extradited from Britain or Sweden, then there was a "high chance" of him being killed "Jack Ruby-style" in an American prison.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/julian-assange-say...



The Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/23/julian-assa...

A historical refresher for anyone who might not know what Jack Ruby did...

On Sunday, November 24 Oswald was being led through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters preparatory to his transfer to the county jail when, at 11:21 a.m., Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby stepped from the crowd and shot Oswald in the abdomen. Oswald died at 1:07 p.m. at Parkland Memorial Hospital—the same hospital where Kennedy had died two days earlier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald#Death



WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says there is a "high chance" he would be killed in a US jail.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8188503/assange-says-he-could-be-killed-in-us-jail

Fri Dec 24 2010

Assange says he could be killed in jail

WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange says there is a "high chance" he would be killed in a US jail if he were to be extradited from Britain on espionage charges.

The Australian is on bail in Britain fighting a bid by Sweden to extradite him over sex assault claims, but Washington is believed to be considering how to indict him over the leaking of thousands of US diplomatic cables.

Assange told The Guardian it would be "politically impossible" for Britain to send him across the Atlantic, adding that the government of Prime Minister David Cameron would want to show it had not been "co-opted" by Washington.

"Legally the UK has the right to not extradite for political crimes. Espionage is the classic case of political crimes. It is at the discretion of the UK government as to whether to apply to that exception," he said.

He said US authorities were "trying to strike a plea deal" with Bradley Manning, the US army soldier suspected of providing WikiLeaks with the cables.

Assange added that if the United States succeeded in getting him extradited from Britain or Sweden, then there was a "high chance" of him being killed "Jack Ruby-style" in an American prison.

Ruby, a nightclub owner, shot dead Lee Harvey Oswald at a police station in Dallas, Texas days after Oswald was arrested for the assassination of US President John F Kennedy in 1963.

Ruby's alleged links to organised crime sparked conspiracy theories about his involvement in an overall plot surrounding the assassination of Kennedy.

Assange has previously said that he and other WikiLeaks staff have received death threats since the website began to release a cache of about 250,000 secret US State Department cables in November.

The 39-year-old has been staying at a friend's country mansion in eastern England since his release from jail last week on strict bail conditions that include reporting to police daily and wearing an electronic tag.

A court in London is due to hold a full hearing on the Swedish extradition request starting February 7.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/assange-says-he-could-be-killed-in-us-jail-20101224-196z2.html

AFP

WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange says there is a "high chance" he would be killed in a US jail if he were to be extradited from Britain on espionage charges.

The Australian is on bail in Britain fighting a bid by Sweden to extradite him over sex assault claims, but Washington is believed to be considering how to indict him over the leaking of thousands of US diplomatic cables.

Assange told The Guardian it would be "politically impossible" for Britain to send him across the Atlantic, adding that the government of Prime Minister David Cameron would want to show it had not been "co-opted" by Washington.

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"Legally the UK has the right to not extradite for political crimes. Espionage is the classic case of political crimes. It is at the discretion of the UK government as to whether to apply to that exception," he said.

He said US authorities were "trying to strike a plea deal" with Bradley Manning, the US army soldier suspected of providing WikiLeaks with the cables.

Assange added that if the United States succeeded in getting him extradited from Britain or Sweden, then there was a "high chance" of him being killed "Jack Ruby-style" in an American prison.

Ruby, a nightclub owner, shot dead Lee Harvey Oswald at a police station in Dallas, Texas days after Oswald was arrested for the assassination of US President John F Kennedy in 1963.

Ruby's alleged links to organised crime sparked conspiracy theories about his involvement in an overall plot surrounding the assassination of Kennedy.

Assange has previously said that he and other WikiLeaks staff have received death threats since the website began to release a cache of about 250,000 secret US State Department cables in November.

The 39-year-old has been staying at a friend's country mansion in eastern England since his release from jail last week on strict bail conditions that include reporting to police daily and wearing an electronic tag.

A court in London is due to hold a full hearing on the Swedish extradition request starting February 7.

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/assange-says-he-could-be-killed-in-us-jail-20101224-196z2.html

Assange says he could be killed in US jail

December 24, 2010

AFP

WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange says there is a "high chance" he would be killed in a US jail if he were to be extradited from Britain on espionage charges.

The Australian is on bail in Britain fighting a bid by Sweden to extradite him over sex assault claims, but Washington is believed to be considering how to indict him over the leaking of thousands of US diplomatic cables.

Assange told The Guardian it would be "politically impossible" for Britain to send him across the Atlantic, adding that the government of Prime Minister David Cameron would want to show it had not been "co-opted" by Washington.

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"Legally the UK has the right to not extradite for political crimes. Espionage is the classic case of political crimes. It is at the discretion of the UK government as to whether to apply to that exception," he said.

He said US authorities were "trying to strike a plea deal" with Bradley Manning, the US army soldier suspected of providing WikiLeaks with the cables.

Assange added that if the United States succeeded in getting him extradited from Britain or Sweden, then there was a "high chance" of him being killed "Jack Ruby-style" in an American prison.

Ruby, a nightclub owner, shot dead Lee Harvey Oswald at a police station in Dallas, Texas days after Oswald was arrested for the assassination of US President John F Kennedy in 1963.

Ruby's alleged links to organised crime sparked conspiracy theories about his involvement in an overall plot surrounding the assassination of Kennedy.

Assange has previously said that he and other WikiLeaks staff have received death threats since the website began to release a cache of about 250,000 secret US State Department cables in November.

The 39-year-old has been staying at a friend's country mansion in eastern England since his release from jail last week on strict bail conditions that include reporting to police daily and wearing an electronic tag.

A court in London is due to hold a full hearing on the Swedish extradition request starting February 7.


WikiLeaks

 is an international new media non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources andnews leaks. Its website, launched in 2006, is run by The Sunshine Press.[4] Within a year of its launch, the site claimed its database had grown to more than 1.2 million documents.[8] The organisation has described itself as having been founded by Chinesedissidents, as well as journalists, mathematicians, and start-up company technologists from the United States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa.[4] Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activist, is generally described as its director.[9]

WikiLeaks has received praise as well as criticism. The organization won a number of awards, including The Economist's 2008 New Media Award.[10] In June 2009, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange won Amnesty International's UK Media Award, in the category "New Media", for the 2008 publication of "Kenya: The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances",[11] a report by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights about police killings in Kenya.[12] In May 2010, New York City's Daily News listed WikiLeaks as first in a ranking of "websites that could totally change the news".[13] Julian Assange was named the Readers' Choice for TIME's Person of the Year for 2010.[14] Several U.S. government officials have criticized WikiLeaks for exposing state secrets, harming national security, and compromising international diplomacy.[15][16][17][18][19] Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International criticized WikiLeaks for not adequately redacting the names of civilians working with the U.S. military.[20] Some journalists have criticized the lack of editorial discretion when releasing thousands of documents at once and without sufficient analysis.[21] Negative public reactions in the United States have characterized the organization as irresponsible, immoral, and illegal.[22][23][24]

In April 2010, WikiLeaks posted video from a 2007 incident in which Iraqi civilians and journalists were killed by US forces, on a website called Collateral Murder. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available for public review.[25] In October 2010, the group released a package of almost 400,000 documents called the Iraq War Logs in coordination with major commercial media organisations. In November 2010, WikiLeaks began releasing U.S. State department diplomatic cables.

WikiLeaks was originally launched as a user-editable wiki site, but has progressively moved towards a more traditional publication model, and no longer accepts either user comments or edits. The site is available on multiple servers and different domain names following a number of denial-of-service attacks and its severance from different Domain Name System(DNS) providers.[26][27]\\

History

The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006.

[5] The website was unveiled, and published its first document in December 2006.[28][29] The site claims to have been "founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa".[4]

The creators of WikiLeaks have not been formally identified.[30] It has been represented in public since January 2007 by Julian Assangeand others. Assange describes himself as a member of WikiLeaks' advisory board.[31] News reports in The Australian have called Assange the "founder of WikiLeaks".[32] According to Wired magazine, a volunteer said that Assange described himself in a private conversation as "the heart and soul of this organisation, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organiser, financier, and all the rest".[33] As of June 2009, the site had over 1,200 registered volunteers[4] and listed an advisory board comprising Assange,Phillip Adams, Wang Dan, C. J. Hinke, Ben Laurie, Tashi Namgyal Khamsitsang, Xiao Qiang, Chico Whitaker and Wang Youcai.[34]Despite appearing on the list, when contacted by Mother Jones magazine in 2010, Khamsitsang said that while he received an e-mail from WikiLeaks, he had never agreed to be an advisor.[35]

WikiLeaks states that its "primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behaviour in their governments and corporations."[4][36]

In January 2007, the website stated that it had over 1.2 million leaked documents that it was preparing to publish.[37] An article in The New Yorker said:

One of the WikiLeaks activists owned a server that was being used as a node for the Tor network. Millions of secret transmissions passed through it. The activist noticed that hackers from China were using the network to gather foreign governments’ information, and began to record this traffic. Only a small fraction has ever been posted on WikiLeaks, but the initial tranche served as the site’s foundation, and Assange was able to say, "[w]e have received over one million documents from thirteen countries."[29][38]

Assange responded to the suggestion that eavesdropping on Chinese hackers played a crucial part in the early days of WikiLeaks by saying "the imputation is incorrect. The facts concern a 2006 investigation into Chinese espionage one of our contacts were involved in. Somewhere between none and handful of those documents were ever released on WikiLeaks. Non-government targets of the Chinese espionage, such as Tibetan associations were informed (by us)".[39] The group has subsequently released a number of other significant documents which have become front-page news items, ranging from documentation of equipment expenditures and holdings in theAfghanistan war to corruption in Kenya.[40]

The organisation's stated goal is to ensure that whistleblowers and journalists are not jailed for emailing sensitive or classified documents, as happened to Chinese journalist Shi Tao, who was sentenced to 10 years in 2005 after publicising an email from Chinese officials about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.[41]

The project has drawn comparisons to Daniel Ellsberg's leaking of the Pentagon Papers in 1971.[42] In the United States, the leaking of some documents may be legally protected. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Constitution guarantees anonymity, at least in the area of political discourse.[42] Author and journalist Whitley Strieber has spoken about the benefits of the WikiLeaks project, noting that "Leaking a government document can mean jail, but jail sentences for this can be fairly short. However, there are many places where it means long incarceration or even death, such as China and parts of Africa and the Middle East."[43]

On 24 December 2009, WikiLeaks announced that it was experiencing a shortage of funds[44] and suspended all access to its website except for a form to submit new material.[45] Material that was previously published was no longer available, although some could still be accessed on unofficial mirrors.[46][47] WikiLeaks stated on its website that it would resume full operation once the operational costs were covered.[45] WikiLeaks saw this as a kind of strike "to ensure that everyone who is involved stops normal work and actually spends time raising revenue".[48] While the organisation initially planned for funds to be secured by 6 January 2010,[49] it was not until 3 February 2010 that WikiLeaks announced that its minimum fundraising goal had been achieved.[50]

On 22 January 2010, PayPal suspended WikiLeaks' donation account and froze its assets. WikiLeaks said that this had happened before, and was done for "no obvious reason".[51] The account was restored on 25 January 2010.[52] On 18 May 2010, WikiLeaks announced that its website and archive were back up.[53]

As of June 2010, WikiLeaks was a finalist for a grant of more than half a million dollars from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation,[29] but did not make the cut.[54] WikiLeaks commented, "WikiLeaks was highest rated project in the Knight challenge, strongly recommended to the board but gets no funding. Go figure”. WikiLeaks said that the Knight foundation announced the award to "'12 Grantees who will impact future of news' – but not WikiLeaks" and questioned whether Knight foundation was "really looking for impact".[54] A spokesman of the Knight Foundation disputed parts of WikiLeaks' statement, saying "WikiLeaks was not recommended by Knight staff to the board."[55] However, he declined to say whether WikiLeaks was the project rated highest by the Knight advisory panel, which consists of non-staffers, among them journalist Jennifer 8. Lee, who has done PR work for WikiLeaks with the press and on social networking sites.[55]

On 17 July, Jacob Appelbaum spoke on behalf of WikiLeaks at the 2010 Hackers on Planet Earth conference in New York City, replacing Assange because of the presence of federal agents at the conference.[56][57] He announced that the WikiLeaks submission system was again up and running, after it had been temporarily suspended.[56][58] Assange was a surprise speaker at a TED conferenceon 19 July 2010 in Oxford, and confirmed that the site had begun accepting submissions again.[59]

Upon returning to the US from the Netherlands, on 29 July, Appelbaum was detained for three hours at the airport by US agents, according to anonymous sources.[60] The sources told Cnet that Appelbaum's bag was searched, receipts from his bag were photocopied, his laptop was inspected, although in what manner was unclear.[60] Appelbaum reportedly refused to answer questions without a lawyer present, and was not allowed to make a phone call. His three mobile phones were reportedly taken and not returned.[60]On 31 July, he spoke at a Defcon conference and mentioned his phone being "seized". After speaking, he was approached by two FBIagents and questioned.[60]

Assange is quoted as acknowledging that his practice of posting largely unfiltered classified information online could one day lead the Web site to have "blood on our hands."[61]

In 2010, at least a dozen key supporters of WikiLeaks have left the website.[62]

Administration

According to a January 2010 interview, the WikiLeaks team then consisted of five people working full-time and about 800 people who worked occasionally, none of whom were compensated.[48] WikiLeaks has no official headquarters. The expenses per year are about €200,000, mainly for servers and bureaucracy, but would reach €600,000 if work currently done by volunteers were paid for.[48]WikiLeaks does not pay for lawyers, as hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal support have been donated by media organisations such as the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, and the National Newspaper Publishers Association.[48] Its only revenue stream is donations, but WikiLeaks is planning to add an auction model to sell early access to documents.[48] According to the Wau Holland Foundation, WikiLeaks receives no money for personnel costs, only for hardware, travelling and bandwidth.[63] An article in TechEYE.net wrote

As a charity accountable under German law, donations for WikiLeaks can be made to the foundation. Funds are held in escrow and are given to WikiLeaks after the whistleblower website files an application containing a statement with proof of payment. The foundation does not pay any sort of salary nor give any renumeration [sic] to WikiLeaks' personnel, corroborating the statement of the site's former German representative Daniel Schmitt (real name Daniel Domscheit-Berg)[64] on national television that all personnel works voluntarily, even its speakers.[63]

Site management issues

Within WikiLeaks, there has been public disagreement between founder and spokesperson Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the site's former German representative who was suspended by Assange. Domscheit-Berg announced on 28 September 2010 that he was leaving the organisation due to internal conflicts over management of the site.[65][66][64]

Hosting

WikiLeaks describes itself as "an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking".[67] WikiLeaks is hosted by PRQ, a Sweden-based company providing "highly secure, no-questions-asked hosting services". PRQ is said to have "almost no information about its clientele and maintains few if any of its own logs".[68] The servers are spread around the world with the central server located in Sweden.[69] Julian Assange has said that the servers are located in Sweden (and the other countries) "specifically because those nations offer legal protection to the disclosures made on the site". He talks about the Swedish constitution, which gives the information providers total legal protection.[69] It is forbidden according to Swedish law for any administrative authority to make inquiries about the sources of any type of newspaper.[70] These laws, and the hosting by PRQ, make it difficult to take WikiLeaks offline. Furthermore, "Wikileaks maintains its own servers at undisclosed locations, keeps no logs and uses military-grade encryption to protect sources and other confidential information." Such arrangements have been called "bulletproof hosting."[68][71]

On 17 August 2010, it was announced that the Swedish Pirate Party will be hosting and managing many of WikiLeaks' new servers. The party donates servers and bandwidth to WikiLeaks without charge. Technicians of the party will make sure that the servers are maintained and working.[72][73]

Some servers are hosted in an underground nuclear bunker in Stockholm.[74][75]

After the site became the target of a denial-of-service attack from a hacker on its old servers, WikiLeaks moved its site to Amazon's servers.[76] Later, however, the website was "ousted"[76] from the Amazon servers, without a public statement from the company.[citation needed] WikiLeaks then decided to install itself on the servers of OVH in France.[77] After criticism from the French government, the company sought two court rulings about the legality of hosting WikiLeaks. While the court in Lille immediately declined to force OVH to shut down the WikiLeaks site, the court in Paris stated it would need more time to examine the highly technical issue.[76][78]

WikiLeaks is based on several software packages, including 

MediaWiki, Freenet, Tor, and PGP.[79] WikiLeaks strongly encouraged postings via Tor because of the strong privacy needs of its users.[80]

On 4 November 2010, Julian Assange told Swiss public television TSR that he is seriously considering seeking political asylum in neutral Switzerland and setting up a WikiLeaks foundation in the country to move the operation there.[81][82] According to Assange, Switzerland and Iceland are the only countries where WikiLeaks would feel safe to operate.[83][84]

Financing

WikiLeaks is dependent on public donations since it is a non-profit organisation. Its main financing methods include conventional bank transfers and online payment systems. Wau Holland Foundation, one of the WikiLeaks' main funding channels, stated that they have received more than €900,000 (US$1.2 million) in public donations between October 2009 and December 2010, out of which €370,000 has been passed on to WikiLeaks. Hendrik Fulda, vice president of the Wau Holland Foundation, mentioned that the donations throughPayPal was twice[vague] as through normal banks, before PayPal's decision to suspend WikiLeaks' account. He also noted that donations were never as strong as when WikiLeaks started publishing leaked diplomatic cables.[85][86]

Name servers

WikiLeaks had been using EveryDNS's services, which led to DDoS attacks on the host.[clarification needed] The attacks affected the quality of service at EveryDNS, so the company withdrew their service from WikiLeaks. Pro-WikiLeaks supporters retaliated by launching a DDoS attack against EveryDNS. Due to mistakes in the blogosphere, some supporters accidentally mistook EasyDNS for EveryDNS and attacked it. The attacks caused both EveryDNS and EasyDNS to experience outages. Afterwards EasyDNS decided to provide WikiLeaks its name server service.[87]

Name and policies

Despite using the name "WikiLeaks", the website is no longer wiki-based as of December 2010. Also, despite some popular confusion[88] due to both having the term "wiki" in their names, WikiLeaks and Wikipedia have no affiliation with each other;[89][90] i.e. "wiki" is not a brand name. Wikia, a for-profit corporation loosely affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation, did however purchase several Wikileaks-related domain names (including "wikileaks.com" and "wikileaks.net") as a "protective brand measure" in 2007.[91]

The "about" page originally read:[92]

To the user, WikiLeaks will look very much like Wikipedia. Anybody can post to it, anybody can edit it. No technical knowledge is required. Leakers can post documents anonymously and untraceably. Users can publicly discuss documents and analyze their credibility and veracity. Users can discuss interpretations and context and collaboratively formulate collective publications. Users can read and write explanatory articles on leaks along with background material and context. The political relevance of documents and their verisimilitude will be revealed by a cast of thousands.

However, WikiLeaks established an editorial policy that accepted only documents that were "of political, diplomatic, historical or ethical interest" (and excluded "material that is already publicly available").[93] This coincided with early criticism that having no editorial policy would drive out good material with spam and promote "automated or indiscriminate publication of confidential records."[94] It is no longer possible for anybody to post to it or edit it, as the original FAQ promised. Instead, submissions are regulated by an internal review process and some are published, while documents not fitting the editorial criteria are rejected by anonymous WikiLeaks reviewers. By 2008, the revised FAQ stated that "Anybody can post comments to it. [...] Users can publicly discuss documents and analyse their credibility and veracity."[95] After the 2010 relaunch, posting new comments to leaks was no longer possible.[96]

Verification of submissions

WikiLeaks states that it has never released a misattributed document. Documents are assessed before release. In response to concerns about the possibility of misleading or fraudulent leaks, WikiLeaks has stated that misleading leaks "are already well-placed in the mainstream media. WikiLeaks is of no additional assistance."[97] The FAQ states that: "The simplest and most effective countermeasure is a worldwide community of informed users and editors who can scrutinise and discuss leaked documents."[98]

According to statements by Assange in 2010, submitted documents are vetted by a group of five reviewers, with expertise in different fields such as language or programming, who also investigate the background of the leaker if his or her identity is known.[99] In that group, Assange has the final decision about the assessment of a document.[99]

Legal status

Legal background

The legal status of WikiLeaks is complex. Assange considers WikiLeaks a whistleblower protection intermediary. Rather than leaking directly to the press, and fearing exposure and retribution, whistleblowers can leak to WikiLeaks, which then leaks to the press for them.[100] Its servers are located throughout Europe and are accessible from any uncensored web connection. The group located its headquarters in Sweden because it has one of the world’s strongest shield laws to protect confidential source-journalist relationships.[101][102] WikiLeaks has stated that they "do not solicit any information".[101] However, Assange used his speech during the Hack In The Box conference in Malaysia to ask the crowd of hackers and security researchers to help find documents on its "Most Wanted Leaks of 2009" list.[103]

Potential criminal prosecution

The U.S. Justice Department opened a criminal probe of Wikileaks and founder Julian Assange shortly after the leak of diplomatic cables began.[104][105] Attorney General Eric Holder affirmed the probe was  not saber-rattling”, but was "an active, ongoing criminal investigation."[105] The The Washington Post reported that the department was considering charges under the Espionage Act, a move which former prosecutors characterised as "difficult" because of First Amendment protections for the press.[104][106] Several Supreme Court cases have previously established that the American constitution protects the re-publication of illegally gained information provided the publishers did not themselves break any laws in acquiring it.[107] Federal prosecutors have also considered prosecuting Assange for trafficking in stolen government property, but since the diplomatic cables are intellectual rather than physical property, that approach also faces hurdles.[108] Any prosecution of Assange would require extraditing him to the United States, a step made more complicated and potentially delayed by any preceding extradition to Sweden.[109] One of Assange's lawyers, however, says they are fighting extradition to Sweden because it might lead to his extradition to the United States.[110] Assange's attorney, Mark Stephens, has "heard from Swedish authorities there has been a secretly empaneled grand jury in Alexandria [Virginia]" meeting to consider criminal charges in the WikiLeaks case.[111]

In Australia, the government and the Australian Federal Police have not stated what Australian laws may have been broken by WikiLeaks, but Julia Gillard has stated that the foundation of Wikileaks and the stealing of classified documents from the US administration is illegal in foreign countries.[112] Gillard later clarified her statement as referring to "the original theft of the material by a junior US serviceman rather than any action by Mr Assange."[113] Spencer Zifcak, President of Liberty Victoria, an Australian civil liberties group, notes that with no charge, and no trial completed, it is inappropriate to state that WikiLeaks is guilty of illegal activities.[114]

On threats by various governments toward Assange, legal expert Ben Saul argues that founder Julian Assange is the target of a global smear campaign to demonise him as a criminal or as a terrorist, without any legal basis.[115]

Insurance file

On 29 July 2010, WikiLeaks added a 1.4 GB "Insurance File" to the Afghan War Diary page. The file is AES encrypted and has been speculated to serve as insurance in case the WikiLeaks website or its spokesman Julian Assange are incapacitated, upon which thepassphrase could be published, similar to the concept of a dead man's switch.[116][117] Following the first few days' release of the US diplomatic cables starting 28 November 2010, the US television broadcaster CBS predicted that "If anything happens to Assange or the website, a key will go out to unlock the files. There would then be no way to stop the information from spreading like wildfire because so many people already have copies."[118] CBS correspondent Declan McCullagh stated, "What most folks are speculating is that the insurance file contains unreleased information that would be especially embarrassing to the US government if it were released."[118]

Investigations, censorship, harassment, and surveillance

According to The Times, WikiLeaks and its members have complained about continuing harassment and surveillance by law enforcement and intelligence organisations, including extended detention, seizure of computers, veiled threats, “covert following and hidden photography.”[119] Two lawyers for Julian Assange in the United Kingdom told The Guardian that they believed they were being watched by the security services after the US cables leak.[120]

By governments

Police raid on German WikiLeaks domain holder's home

The home of Theodor Reppe, registrant of the German WikiLeaks domain name, wikileaks.de, was raided on 24 March 2009 after WikiLeaks released the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) censorship blacklist.[121] The site was not affected.[122][123]

P.R. China

Wikileaks's website claims that the government of the People's Republic of China has attempted to block all traffic to web sites with "wikileaks" in the URL since 2007, but that this can be bypassed through encrypted connections or by using one of Wikileaks's many covert URLs.[124]

Potential future Australian censorship

On 16 March 2009, the Australian Communications and Media Authority added WikiLeaks to their proposed blacklist of sites that will be blocked for all Australians if the mandatory internet filtering censorship scheme is implemented as planned.[125][126] The blacklisting was removed 30 November 2010.[127]

Thai censorship

The Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES) is currently censoring the website WikiLeaks in Thailand[128] and more than 40,000 other webpages[129] because of the emergency decree in Thailand imposed as a result of political instabilities (Emergency decree declared beginning of April 2010[130]).

United States

Access to WikiLeaks is currently blocked in the United States Library of Congress.[131] On 3 December 2010 the White House Office of Management and Budget sent a memo forbidding all unauthorised federal government employees and contractors from accessing classified documents publicly available on WikiLeaks and other websites.[132] The U.S. Army, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department are considering criminally prosecuting WikiLeaks and Assange "on grounds they encouraged the theft of government property",[133] although former prosecutors say doing so would be difficult.[106] According to a report on the Daily Beast website, the Obama administration asked Britain, Germany and Australia among others to also consider bringing criminal charges against Assange for the Afghan war leaks and to help limit Assange's travels across international borders.[134]

Iceland

After the release of the 2007 airstrikes video and as they prepared to release film of the Granai airstrike, Julian Assange has said that his group of volunteers came under intense surveillance. In an interview and Twitter posts he said that a restaurant in Reykjavík where his group of volunteers met came under surveillance in March; there was "covert following and hidden photography" by police and foreignintelligence services; that an apparent British intelligence agent made thinly veiled threats in a Luxembourg car park; and that one of the volunteers was detained by police for 21 hours. Another volunteer posted that computers were seized, saying "If anything happens to us, you know why ... and you know who is responsible."[119] According to the Columbia Journalism Review, "the Icelandic press took a look at Assange’s charges of being surveilled in Iceland [...] and, at best, have found nothing to substantiate them."[135]

In August 2009, Kaupthing Bank succeeded in obtaining a court order gagging Iceland’s national broadcaster, RÚV, from broadcasting a risk analysis report showing the bank's substantial exposure to debt default risk. This information had been leaked by a whistleblower to WikiLeaks and remained available on the WikiLeaks site; faced with an injunction minutes before broadcast the channel ran with a screen grab of the WikiLeaks site instead of the scheduled piece on the bank. Citizens of Iceland felt outraged that RÚV was prevented from broadcasting news of relevance.[136] Therefore, WikiLeaks has been credited with inspiring the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a bill meant to reclaim Iceland's 2007 Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) ranking as first in the world for free speech. It aims to enact a range of protections for sources, journalists, and publishers.[137][138] Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a former volunteer for WikiLeaks and member of the Icelandic parliament, is the chief sponsor of the proposal.

By organisations and companies

Facebook Inc.

WikiLeaks claimed in April 2010 that Facebook deleted their fan page, which had 30,000 fans.[139][140][141] However, as of 7 December 2010 the group's Facebook fan page was available and had grown by 100,000 fans daily since 1 December,[142] to more than 1,300,000 fans. It is also the largest growth of the week.[143] Regarding the presence of WikiLeaks on Facebook, Andrew Noyes, the company's D.C. based Manager of Public Policy Communications has stated "the Wikileaks Facebook Page does not violate our content standards nor have we encountered any material posted on the page that violates our policies."[144]

Moneybookers Ltd

In October 2010, it was reported that Moneybookers, which collected donations for WikiLeaks, had ended its relationship with the site. Moneybookers stated that its decision had been made "to comply with money laundering or other investigations conducted by government authorities, agencies or commissions."[145]

After the US diplomatic cables leak

Following the US diplomatic cables leak, which started on 28 November 2010, several companies severed ties with WikiLeaks. After providing 24-hour notification, American owned EveryDNS dropped WikiLeaks from its entries on 2 December 2010, citing DDoS attacks that "threatened the stability of its infrastructure".[26][146] The site's 'info' DNS lookup remained operational at alternative addresses for direct access respectively to the WikiLeaks and Cablegate websites.[147] On the same day, Amazon.com severed its ties with WikiLeaks, to which it was providing infrastructure services, after an intervention by an aide of U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman.[7][148][149]Amazon denied acting under political pressure citing a violation of its terms of service.[150] Citing indirect pressure from the U.S. Government, Tableau Software also dropped WikiLeaks' data from its site for people to use for data visualisation.[151][152]

In the days following, hundreds of (and eventually more than a thousand[153]) mirrors of the WikiLeaks site appeared and the Anonymousgroup of internet activists, called on supporters to attack the websites of companies which do not support WikiLeaks,[154] under the banner of Operation Payback, previously aimed at anti-piracy organisations.[155] AFP reported that attempts to shut down the wikileaks.org address had lead to the site surviving via the so-called Streisand effect, whereby attempts to censor information online leads to it being replicated in many places.[156]

On 3 December, PayPal, the payment processor owned by eBay, permanently cut off the account of the Wau Holland Foundation that had been redirecting donations to WikiLeaks. PayPal alleged that the account violated its "Acceptable Use Policy", specifically that it was used for "activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity."[157][158] The Vice President of PayPal later stated that they stopped accepting payments after the “State Department told us these were illegal activities. It was straightforward.” Later the same day, he said that his previous statement was incorrect, and that it was in fact based on a letter from the State Department to WikiLeaks.[159] On 8 December 2010, the Wau Holland Foundation released a press statement, saying it has filed a legal action against PayPal for blocking its account used for WikiLeaks payments and for libel due to PayPal's allegations of "illegal activity".[160]

On 6 December, the Swiss bank, PostFinance, announced that it had frozen the assets of Assange that it holds, totalling 31,000 euros. In a statement on their website, they stated that this was because Assange "provided false information regarding his place of residence" when opening the account.[161] WikiLeaks released a statement saying this was due to that Assange, "as a homeless refugee attempting to gain residency in Switzerland, had used his lawyer's address in Geneva for the bank's correspondence".[162] On the same day, MasterCard announced that it "is taking action to ensure that WikiLeaks can no longer accept MasterCard-branded products", adding "MasterCard rules prohibit customers from directly or indirectly engaging in or facilitating any action that is illegal."[163] The next day, Visa Inc. announced it was suspending payments to WikiLeaks, pending "further investigations".[164] In a move of support for WikiLeaks, XIPWIRE established a way to donate to WikiLeaks, and waived their fees.[165] Datacell, the Swiss-based IT company that enabled WikiLeaks to accept credit card donations, announced that it will take legal action against Visa Europe and Mastercard, in order to resume allowing payments to the website.[166]

On 7 December 2010, The Guardian stated that people can still donate to WikiLeaks via Commerzbank Kassel in Germany orLandsbanki in Iceland or by post to a post office box at the University of Melbourne or at the wikileaks.ch domain.[167]

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has highlighted that Visa, Mastercard and Amazon may be 'violating WikiLeaks' [e pluribus unum] right to freedom of expression' by withdrawing their services.[168]

Reception

Support

In July 2010 Veterans for Peace president Mike Ferner editorialised on the group's website "neither Wikileaks nor the soldier or soldiers who divulged the documents should be prosecuted for revealing this information. We should give them a medal."[171]

Documentary filmmaker John Pilger wrote an August 2010 editorial in the Australian publication Green Left titled "Wikileaks Must Be Defended." In it, Pilger said WikiLeaks represented the interests of "public accountability" and a new form of journalism at odds with "the dominant section ... devoted merely to taking down what cynical and malign power tells it."[172]

Daniel Ellsberg, the man who released the Pentagon Papers in 1971, has been a frequent defender of WikiLeaks. Following the November 2010 release of U.S. diplomatic cables, Ellsberg rejected criticism that the site was endangering the lives of U.S. military personnel and intelligence assets stating "not one single soldier or informant has been in danger from any of the WikiLeaks releases. That risk has been largely overblown."[169] Ellsberg went on to note that government claims to the contrary were "a script that they roll out every time there's a leak of any sort."[170] Following the US diplomatic cable release, which a number of media reports sought to differentiate from Ellsberg's whistleblowing,[173] Ellsberg claimed, "EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time."[174]

On 3 December 2010 Republican Congressman of Texas, Ron Paul, spoke out publicly during a Fox Business interview in support of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange; "In a free society we're supposed to know the truth," Paul said. "In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble." Paul went on to state, "Why don't we prosecute The New York Times or anybody that releases this?"[175] In another speech at US House of Representatives Paul again defended WikiLeaks against criticism for revealing the truth and warned the US administration that "lying is not patriotic".[176]

Fellow Republican congressman Connie Mack IV of Florida also praised WikiLeaks, stating that Americans have a right to know the contents of the leaks, “no matter how we acquire that knowledge.”[177]

Australia’s most senior and high-profile media professionals expressed their support for WikiLeaks in a letter to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.[178] The letter was initiated by the Walkley Foundation, who present the yearly Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The letter was signed by "the ten members of the Walkley Advisory Board as well as editors of major Australian newspapers and news websites and the news directors of the country’s three commercial TV networks and two public broadcasters." Their position (an extract from the letter) is summarized as follows:

“In essence, WikiLeaks, an organisation that aims to expose official secrets, is doing what the media have always done: bringing to light material that governments would prefer to keep secret. It is the media’s duty to responsibly report such material if it comes into their possession. To aggressively attempt to shut WikiLeaks down, to threaten to prosecute those who publish official leaks, and to pressure companies to cease doing commercial business with WikiLeaks, is a serious threat to democracy, which relies on a free and fearless press.”[179]

Following the November 2010 leak of United States diplomatic cables The Atlantic, in a staff editorial, opined "Wikileaks is a powerful new way for reporters and human rights advocates to leverage global information technology systems to break the heavy veil of government and corporate secrecy that is slowly suffocating the American press." Calling legal and physical threats against WikiLeaks volunteers "shameful" the magazine went on to state, "Not since President Richard Nixon directed his minions to go after Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg and New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan ... has a working journalist and his source been subjected to the kind of official intimidation and threats that have been directed at Assange and Manning by high-ranking members of the Obama Administration."[180]

On 4 December 2010, Reporters Without Borders condemned the "blocking, cyber-attacks and political pressure" being directed at WikiLeaks. The organisation is also concerned by some of the extreme comments made by American authorities concerning WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.[181]

In an article titled "Only WikiLeaks can save US policy" published on the online foreign affairs magazine The Diplomat, former long-time CIA counter-terrorism expert Michael Scheuer said the source of interest in WikiLeaks revelations was in the inherent dishonesty of recent U.S. administrations. "In recent years, the US public has had to hear its leaders repeatedly tell Americans that black was white," Scheuer wrote, referencing the presidencies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.[182]

Evan Hughes, editor-in-chief of wired.com published his support for WikiLeaks in an online editorial titled "Why WikiLeaks is Good for America." Despite an often contentious relationship between Wired and WikiLeaks, with the former having being accused by the latter of complicity in the identification and arrest of Bradley Manning, Hughes argued that "WikiLeaks stands to improve our democracy, not weaken it." He went on to note that "The greatest threat we face right now from WikiLeaks is not the information it has spilled and may spill in the future, but the reactionary response to it that’s building in the United States that promises to repudiate the rule of law and our free speech traditions, if left unchecked."[183]

The New York Times reported that over 200 WikiLeaks mirror sites sprang up after some hosting companies cut their services to the company.[184] On 5 December, a group of activists and hackers known as "Anonymous" called upon supporters to attack sites of companies that oppose WikiLeaks as part of Operation Avenge Assange.[185] Paypal has been targeted following their decision to stop processing donations for Wikileaks.[186][187]Gregg Housh, who previously worked on other projects with Anonymous, said that he had noticed an organised attempt taking place to attack companies that have not supported WikiLeaks. In reference to the support being shown for Wikileaks, Mr. Housh said; "The reason is amazingly simple, we all believe that information should be free, and the Internet should be free."[154] On 8 December 2010, Paypal website was victim of a Denial-of-service attack by Anonymous.[188][189][190] Later that day, Paypal announced in their blog that they will release all remaining funds in the account to the foundation that was raising funds for WikiLeaks.[191][192] On the same day, the websites of Visa and Mastercard were attacked by WikiLeaks supporters. By then over 1,200 mirror sites had been set up for hosting content no longer accessible at WikiLeaks.com. Anonymous also issued a fresh statement; "While we don't have much of an affiliation with WikiLeaks, we fight for the same reasons. We want transparency, and we counter censorship...This is why we intend to utilise our resources to raise awareness, attack those against, and support those who are helping lead our world to freedom and democracy."[193]

The Internet Society (ISOC) stated that despite the international concern about the content released by WikiLeaks, "we nevertheless believe it must be subject to the same laws and policies of availability as all Internet sites" and that “free expression should not be restricted by governmental or private controls over computer hardware or software, telecommunications infrastructure, or other essential components of the Internet”. ISOC also called for appropriate action to "pursue and prosecute entities (if any) that acted maliciously to take it [WikiLeaks] off the air” because suppressing communication would merely serve to “undermine the integrity of the global Internet and its operation”.[194]

On 8 December 2010 the international civic organisation Avaaz launched a petition in support of WikiLeaks, which was signed by over 250 thousand people within the first few hours, the total number went up to 600 thousand by 15 December 2010.[195][196][197]

In early December 2010, Noam Chomsky offered his support to protesters across Australia planning to take to the streets in defence of WikiLeaks.[198]

On 14 December 2010, Michael Moore offered $20,000 to help bail Assange out of jail.[199][200]

Awards received

In 2008, Index on Censorship presented WikiLeaks with their inaugural Economist New Media Award.

In 2009, Amnesty International awarded WikiLeaks their Media Award for exposing "extra judicial killings and disappearances" in Kenya.[201]

Praise by governments

 Brazil: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed his "solidarity" with Julian Assange following Assange's 2010 arrest in the United Kingdom. Lula went on to state—in reference to WikiLeaks disclosure of classified US diplomatic cables in November and December 2010—WikiLeaks had "exposed a diplomacy that had appeared unreachable."[202][203] He further criticised the arrest of Julian Assange as "an attack on freedom of expression".[204]

 Ecuador: In late November 2010 a representative of the government of Ecuador made what was, apparently, an unsolicited public offer to Julian Assange to establish residency in Ecuador. Deputy Foreign Minister Kinto Lucas stated "we are going to invite him to come to Ecuador so he can freely present the information he possesses and all the documentation, not just on the Internet, but in various public forums."[205] Lucas went on to state his praise for WikiLeaks and Assange calling them "[people] who are constantly investigating and trying to get light out of the dark corners of [state] information."[206] The following day, however, president Rafael Correadistanced his administration from the offer stating that Lucas had been speaking for himself and not on the government's behalf. Correa then criticised Assange for "breaking the laws of the United States and leaking this type of information."[207]

 Russia: In December 2010 the office of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev issued a statement calling on non-governmental organisations to consider "nominating [Julian] Assange as a Nobel Prize laureate." The announcement followed commentary by Russian ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin who stated that Julian Assange's earlier arrest on Swedish charges demonstrated that there was "no media freedom" in the west.[208]

 Venezuela: Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, stated his support for WikiLeaks following the release of US diplomatic cables in November 2010 that showed the United States had tried to rally support from regional governments to isolate Venezuela. "I have to congratulate the people of WikiLeaks for their bravery and courage," Chávez commented in televised remarks.[209]

 United Nations: In December 2010 United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression Frank LaRue stated he agreed with the idea that Julian Assange was a "martyr for free speech." LaRue went on to say Assange or other WikiLeaks staff should not face legal accountability for any information they disseminated, noting that, "if there is a responsibility by leaking information it is of, exclusively of the person that made the leak and not of the media that publish it. And this is the way that transparency works and that corruption has been confronted in many cases."[210] High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay subsequently voiced concern at the revelation that private companies were being pressured by states to sever their relationships with WikiLeaks.[211]

Criticism

WikiLeaks has attracted criticism from a variety of sources.[212]

In 2007 John Young, operator of Cryptome, left his position on the WikiLeaks Board of Directors accusing the group of being a "CIA conduit". Young subsequently retreated from his assertion but has continued to be critical of the site.[213] In a 2010 interview withCNET.com Young accused the group of a lack of transparency regarding their fundraising and financial management. He went on to state his belief that WikiLeaks could not guarantee whistleblowers the anonymity or confidentiality they claimed and that he "would not trust them with information if it had any value, or if it put me at risk or anyone that I cared about at risk."[214]

Citing the leaking of the sorority rituals of Alpha Sigma Tau, Steven Aftergood has opined that WikiLeaks "does not respect the rule of law nor does it honour the rights of individuals." Aftergood went on to state that WikiLeaks engages in unrestrained disclosure of non-governmental secrets without compelling public policy reasons and that many anti-corruption activists were opposed to the site's activities.[215]

In 2010, Amnesty International joined several other human rights groups criticising WikiLeaks for not adequately redacting the names of Afghan civilians working as U.S. military informants from files they had released. Julian Assange responded by offering Amnesty International staff the opportunity to assist in the document vetting process. When Amnesty International appeared to express reservations in accepting the offer, Assange dismissed the group as "people who prefer to do nothing but cover their asses." Other groups that joined Amnesty International in criticising WikiLeaks subsequently noted that, despite their displeasure over the issue of civilian name redaction, they generally appreciated WikiLeaks's work.[216]

In an August 2010 open letter, the non-governmental organisation Reporters Without Borders praised WikiLeaks' past usefulness in exposing "serious violations of human rights and civil liberties" but criticised the group over a perceived absence of editorial control, stating "indiscriminately publishing 92,000 classified reports reflects a real problem of methodology and, therefore, of credibility. Journalistic work involves the selection of information. The argument with which you defend yourself, namely that WikiLeaks is not made up of journalists, is not convincing."[217] The group subsequently clarified their statement as a criticism of WikiLeaks release procedure and not the organisation itself, stating "we reaffirm our support for Wikileaks, its work and its founding principles."[218]

On 30 November 2010, former Canadian government adviser Tom Flanagan, while appearing on the CBC television program "Power & Politics", called for Julian Assange to be killed. "I think Assange should be assassinated," Flanagan stated, before noting to host Evan Solomon, "I'm feeling pretty manly today." Flanagan subsequently retracted his call for the death of Assange while reiterating his opposition to WikiLeaks.[219] Dimitri Soudas, spokesman to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, decried Flanagan's comments and said the former Tory strategist's remarks are "simply not acceptable." Ralph Goodale, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons, called Flanagan's remarks "clearly contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms."[220]

Russian investigative reporter Andrei Soldatov has criticised WikiLeaks for disclosing documents "without checking of the facts, without putting them in context, and without analysing them.” Soldatov believes WikiLeaks is "filling the gap" left by the decline of investigative journalism with a sensationalist alternative while journalistic support of WikiLeaks is motivated by anger over declining funding and resources for investigative reporting.[221]

Contrary Views. A number of authors contend that Wikileaks, contrary to appearances, is actually a charade or intelligence agency disinformation ploy conducting psychological warfare. They point to the effects on mobilizing public opinion against freedom of information and to allegations in the purported leaks which incriminate targets of US foreign policy, such as Iran. Notable critics in this vein include Michel Chossudovsky[222] and F. William Engdahl.[223]

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has said: "Speaking as Wikipedia's co-founder, I consider you enemies of the U.S.—not just the government, but the people." [224]

According to a telephone survey of 1,029 US residents age 18 and older, conducted by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion in December 2010, Americans are overwhelmingly critical of WikiLeaks. The poll found that 70 percent of respondents – particularlyRepublicans and older people – think the leaks are doing more harm than good by allowing America's enemies to see confidential and secret information about U.S. foreign policy. Just 22 percent – especially young liberals – think the leaks are doing more good than harm by making the U.S. government more transparent and accountable. A majority of 59 percent also wants to see the people behind WikiLeaks prosecuted, while 31 percent said the publication of secrets is protected under the First Amendment guarantee of a free press.[225]

Criticism by governments

Most of the governments and organisations whose files have been leaked by WikiLeaks have been critical of the organisation.

  •  Australia: On 2 December 2010 Prime Minister Julia Gillard made a statement that she 'absolutely condemns' Wikileaks' actions and that the release of information on the site was 'grossly irresponsible' and 'illegal.'[226] Wikileaks founder Julian Assange isAustralian and he responded two days later by accusing his prime minister of betraying him as an Australian citizen.[227] However, on 8 December 2010—after WikiLeaks published U.S. diplomatic cables in which United States diplomats labelled him a "control freak", former Australian Prime Minister and current foreign minister Kevin Rudd said the leak of the US secret cables raised questions about US security. Rudd said, "The core responsibility, and therefore legal liability, goes to those individuals responsible for that initial unauthorised release."[228][229] In an article in The Australian, Assange claimed, "The Australian attorney-general is doing everything he can to help a US investigation clearly directed at framing Australian citizens and shipping them to the US."[230]However, Australian officials later said that Assange has done nothing illegal.[231]
  •  France: The French Industry Minister Éric Besson said in a letter to the CGIET technology agency, WikiLeaks "violates the secret of diplomatic relations and puts people protected by diplomatic secret in danger." Therefore it would be 'unacceptable' that the site was hosted on servers based in France. The minister asked for measures to bar WikiLeaks from France.[232]
  •  Iran: The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, also criticised WikiLeaks following the release of United States diplomatic cables. Ahmadinejad claimed that the release of cables purporting to show concern with Iran by Arab states was a planned leak by the United States to discredit his government, though he did not indicate whether he believed WikiLeaks was in collusion with the United States or was simply an unwitting facilitator.[233]
  •  Philippines: President Benigno Aquino III comdemned Wikileaks and leaked documents related to the country, saying that it can lead to massive cases of miscommunication.[234]
  •  United States: Following the November 2010 release of United States diplomatic cables, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clintondenounced the group saying, "this disclosure is not just an attack on America's foreign policy interests, it is an attack on the international community."[235] Peter King, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee of the United States House of Representatives has stated his support for listing Wikileaks as a "foreign terrorist organisation" explaining that "WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States."[236] In a contrary statement, secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said that concerns about the disclosures were "over-wrought" in terms of their likely adverse impact on ordinary diplomatic activities.[237] Philip J. Crowley, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, stated on 2 December 2010 that the US State Department does not regard WikiLeaks as a media organisation. "WikiLeaks is not a media organization. That is our view." Crowley said and with regard to Assange;"Well, his – I mean he could be considered a political actor. I think he’s an anarchist, but he’s not a journalist."[238]
    US Senator Joe Lieberman, who first called on Amazon to shut down WikiLeaks and then praised the company after doing so called for other companies to follow suit.[149] He also proposed new legislation targeting similar cases—Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Lawful Dissemination Act,[148] also known as the SHIELD Act,[239] not to be confused with a shield law. Lieberman later said that also The New York Times and other news organisations publishing the US embassy cables being released by WikiLeaks could be investigated for breaking US espionage laws.[240]

Spin offs

Following the initial releases of US diplomatic cables, a number of other sites based on the WikiLeaks model were borne.[241]

  • OpenLeaks was created by the former deputy to Assange. Daniel Domscheit-Berg said the intention was to be more transparent than WikiLeaks as "In these last months, the organisation has not been open any more. It lost its open-source promise." It planned to start in early 2011.
  • Brussels Leaks was focused on the European Union as a collaborative effort of media professionals and activists that sought to "pull the shady inner workings of the EU system out into the public domain. This is about getting important information out there, not about Brusselsleaks [or any other 'leaks' for that matter]."
  • TradeLeaks was created to "do to trade and commerce what WikiLeaks has done to politics." It was founded by Ruslan Kogan, a fellow Australian of Assange. Its goal is to ensure ""individuals and businesses should attain values from others through mutually beneficial and fully consensual trade, rather than force, fraud or deception."
  • Balkan Leaks was founded by Bulgarain Atanas Chobanov in order to make the Balkans more transparent and to fight corruption as "There are plenty of people out there that want to change the Balkans for good and are ready to take on the challenge. We're offering them a hand."
  • Indoleaks is an Indonesian that sought to publish classified documents of the Indonesian government, though the Jakarta Globe said "the [Indonesian] government claimed not to be concerned by the website."

Leaks

2006–08

WikiLeaks posted its first document in December 2006, a decision to assassinate government officials signed by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys."[29] In August 2007, The Guardian published a story about corruption by the family of the former Kenyan leader Daniel arap Moibased on information provided via WikiLeaks.[242] In November 2007, a March 2003 copy of Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta detailing the protocol of the U.S. Army at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp was released.[243] The document revealed that some prisoners were off-limits to the International Committee of the Red Cross, something that the U.S. military had in the past repeatedly denied.


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The Daily Mail2010-12-21
Around a third of young British Muslims favour killing in the name of Islam, according to a survey revealed by the WikiLeaks' publication of U.S diplomatic cables. A survey of 600 Muslim and 800 non-Muslim students at 30 universities throughout the UK conducted by the Centre for Social Cohesion found that 32 percent of Muslims on UK campuses believe killing in the name of religion is justified. A U.S. diplomatic cable from January 2009 quoted the same poll as saying 54 per cent wanted a Muslim party to represent their world view in Parliament and 40 per cent want Muslims in the UK to be under Sharia law. Radicalised: A cable released by

Common Ground2010-12-21
London - The last decade has been nothing less than challenging for Muslims in Britain. In the aftermath of the horrific attacks of 9/11 in New York and 7/7 in London, followers of the second largest faith group in the world were sharply thrust under the media spotlight. The situation seemed bleak, yet a glimmer of hope survived the storm. The focus for Muslim communities in the UK was on healing, building and engaging, more than ever before, as local community and grassroots projects sprung up

Wikileaks cables: US worry over UK homegrown extremism

BBC News2010-12-21
Continue reading the main story Wikileaks Revelations Q&A: Arrest of Wikileaks' founder Cables at a glance Wikileaks' struggle to stay online US hurdles to prosecuting Assange US concerns that the UK was struggling to cope with homegrown extremism have been revealed in new Wikileaks cables. One cable said the British government made "little progress" in engaging with the UK's Muslim community after the 7 July 2005 terror attacks in London.

WikiLeaks cables: Drive to tackle Islamists made 'little progress'
The Guardian2010-12-21
Critical verdict on efforts to engage with Muslim communities published as police investigate UK links of Stockholm bomber The release of the US embassy cables comes as police investigate Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly's connections with the UK. Photograph: Guardian Britain made "little progress" in reaching out to Muslim communities despite investing "considerable time and resources" after the 7/7 London bombings in 2005, US diplomats concluded in cables passed to the whistleblowing website

Mail's Wikileaks 'revelation' about Muslim students is their own 2008 story
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The Daily Mail's latest Wikileaks 'revelation' about British Muslims is actually a story they published in 2008, and it's as dodgy now as it was then. Spot the difference: Today's Daily Mail carries the headline "The latest WikiLeaks revelation: 1 in 3 British Muslim students back killing for Islam and 40% want Sharia law." If that sounds awfully familiar, it should: back in 2008 the paper revealed that "one third of British Muslim students say it's acceptable to kill for Islam," and that "40

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Washington, December 23: Around a third of young British Muslims favour killing in the name of Islam, according to a survey revealed by the WikiLeaks' publication of U.S. diplomatic cables. A survey of 600 Muslim students at 30 universities throughout Britain found that 32 per cent of Muslim respondents believed killing in the name of religion is justified. A U.S. diplomatic cable from January 2009 quoted a poll by the Centre for

The Daily Mail2010-12-21
Around a third of young British Muslims favour killing in the name of Islam, according to a survey revealed by the WikiLeaks' publication of U.S diplomatic cables. A survey of 600 Muslim and 800 non-Muslim students at 30 universities throughout the UK conducted by the Centre for Social Cohesion found that 32 percent of Muslims on UK campuses believe killing in the name of religion is justified. A U.S. diplomatic cable from January 2009 quoted the same poll as saying 54 per cent wanted a Muslim

British Muslims look to public relations to engage
Common Ground2010-12-21
London - The last decade has been nothing less than challenging for Muslims in Britain. In the aftermath of the horrific attacks of 9/11 in New York and 7/7 in London, followers of the second largest faith group in the world were sharply thrust under the media spotlight. The situation seemed bleak, yet a glimmer of hope survived the storm. The focus for Muslim communities in the UK was on healing, building and engaging, more than ever before, as local community and grassroots projects sprung up



Wikileaks cables: US worry over UK homegrown extremism
BBC News2010-12-21
Continue reading the main story Wikileaks Revelations Q&A: Arrest of Wikileaks' founder Cables at a glance Wikileaks' struggle to stay online US hurdles to prosecuting Assange US concerns that the UK was struggling to cope with homegrown extremism have been revealed in new Wikileaks cables. One cable said the British government made "little progress" in engaging with the UK's Muslim community after the 7 July 2005 terror attacks in London.

WikiLeaks cables: Drive to tackle Islamists made 'little progress'
The Guardian2010-12-21
Critical verdict on efforts to engage with Muslim communities published as police investigate UK links of Stockholm bomber The release of the US embassy cables comes as police investigate Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly's connections with the UK. Photograph: Guardian Britain made "little progress" in reaching out to Muslim communities despite investing "considerable time and resources" after the 7/7 London bombings in 2005, US diplomats concluded in cables passed to the whistleblowing website

1 in 3 Brit Muslims students back 'killing for Islam', 40 percent want Sharia law: Wikileaks
Newstrack India2010-12-21
London, Dec 22 (ANI): The whistleblower website 'Wikileaks' has revealed the outcome of a 2009 poll in the secret US diplomatic cables, saying that 32 percent of Muslim students in 30 universities across the UK

Pentagon ready to discuss Afghan files: WikiLeaks [
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STOCKHOLM: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday the Pentagon has expressed willingness to discuss the online whistleblower’s request for help in reviewing classified documents from the Afghan war and removing information that could harm civilians.

‘‘This week we received contact through our lawyers that the General Counsel’’ of the Pentagon ‘‘says now that they want to discuss the issue,’’ Assange told The Associated Press by telephone.

The Pentagon denied it was willing to collaborate with the group, but acknowledged that it had arranged for a phone call last Sunday between its general counsel and a person claiming to be a lawyer for WikiLeaks.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the lawyer, Timothy Matusheski, was a ‘‘no show’’ for the call.

The Pentagon followed up with a letter to Matusheski on Monday demanding that WikiLeaks return the war files.

‘‘The Defense Department will not negotiate some ‘minimized’ or ‘sanitized’ version of the release by WikiLeaks of additional US government classified documents,’’ wrote Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon’s top lawyer.

Whitman had initially told reporters there had been no ‘‘direct’’ contact between the Defense Department and WikiLeaks. He said he still stands by that assessment, because the phone call between Johnson and Matusheski never took place.

In an interview Wednesday, Matusheski told The Associated Press that he never had a scheduled phone call with Pentagon officials on Sunday. Instead, he said he has had several recent phone conversations with an agent from the US Army’s Criminal Investigation Command, which is investigating the document leak.

The agent, he said, also called him twice on Sunday morning, but never reached him.

Matusheski added that the agent has asked about setting up a meeting between Assange and Defense Department officials, but did not seek to set up a conversation between Matusheski and the Pentagon.

Matusheski said he provides free legal work for Assange as a way of supporting the whistleblower website.

Assange said Wednesday that ‘‘contact has been established’’ but added it was not clear whether and how the US military would assist WikiLeaks.

‘‘It is always positive for parties to talk to each other,’’ Assange said. ‘‘We welcome their engagement.’’

He reiterated that WikiLeaks plans to release its second batch of secret Afghan war documents within ‘‘two weeks to a month.’’

The first files in its ‘‘Afghan War Diary’’ laid bare classified military documents covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The release angered US officials, energized critics of the Nato-led campaign, and drew the attention of the Taliban, which has promised to use the material to track down people it considers traitors.

Non-governmental organizations, including the Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, have criticized WikiLeaks as being irresponsible.

WikiLeaks describes itself as a public service organization for whistleblowers, journalists and activists.

‘‘We encourage other media and human rights groups who have a genuine concern about reviewing the material to assist us with the difficult and very expensive task of getting a large historical archive into the public’s record,’’ Assange said.

The Australian was in Sweden in part to prepare an application for a publishing certificate that would allow WikiLeaks to take full advantage of the Scandinavian nation’s press freedom laws.

That also means WikiLeaks would have to appoint a publisher that could be held legally responsible for the material. Assange said that person would be ‘‘either me or one of our Swedish people.’’

WikiLeaks routes its material through Sweden and Belgium because of the whistleblower protection offered by laws in those countries. But it also has backup servers in other countries to make sure the site is not shut down, Assange said. —AP



Pak military and political set up shaken by WikiLeaks

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Islamabad: Pakistan`s political and military elite have been shaken by damaging disclosures about the country`s foreign policy and internal politics in hundreds of secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, with the media screaming "WikiWreaks havoc" and "WikiLeaks bombs rock Islamabad".

The media described the revelations as a cause for worry and introspection. Virtually all key political personalities, including President Asif Ali Zardari and his arch-rival PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, and all important institutions, including the powerful military, have been touched by the disclosures, which contain detailed readouts of meetings and conversations between US diplomats and Pakistani leaders.

Leaked cables are dominating all bulletins and talk shows on TV news channels, with viewers tuning in to lap up all the classified information about the tenuous relations between the government and the military as well as the divisions among the politicians.

"WikiWreaks havoc" was the headline in The Express Tribune while the headline on the front page of the Dawn read: "WikiLeaks bombs rock Islamabad".

The blunt headline in The News said: "WikiLeaks throws tons of dirt, shame on Pak players".

Most of the leading newspapers devoted several pages to extracts from the cables which provide an insight into the negotiations and meetings that have shaped Pakistan`s policies on key issues, including the war on terrorism and relations with India.

"Ever since WikiLeaks started releasing US diplomatic cables on Sunday, we continue to discover one thing or another every day. Some new revelations about the power equation in Pakistan are not just interesting but quite revealing," the Daily Times newspaper said in an editorial titled `Mirror, mirror on the wall..."

Referring to one cable that quoted Western leaders as saying that Zardari had expressed fears about a threat to his life, the editorial said: "These may be the personal views of President Zardari and cannot be substantiated without proof if plans to assassinate him are indeed afoot but when the President of a country fears for his life, it is time to get worried." Calling for introspection on the revelations made about the Pakistani military`s perceived double role in the war on terror and the fragile democracy in Pakistan, the editorial said army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is the "most powerful man in the country and has positioned himself as the sole person to negotiate with as far as our foreign interlocutors are concerned.

"But it is time that democracy is allowed to take root in the country so that the civil-military relations are put in a proper perspective”. Since WikiLeaks began releasing the cables over the week, information has come to light about hitherto unpublicised fears among the US and Western powers about materials from Pakistan’s nuclear programme falling into the hands of extremists.

Some cables show key leaders like Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in an unflattering light.

Gilani, who condemns US drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal belt almost daily, is quoted in one cable as saying that he has no problems with the attacks by unmanned spy planes "as long as they get the right people".

The debate on the WikiLeaks` disclosures extended to the internet, where Pakistani bloggers and users of social networking websites like Twitter shared information and views on the leaked cables.

Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, a close aide of President Zardari, was among those who joined the debate. "One thing is clear from Wikileaks that elected persons with people`s mandate don`t run Pakistan. Makes elections pointless," Taseer said in a message on Twitter.

In another message, he noted that the three traditional A`s of political success in Pakistan were "Allah, Army, America", while the "new 3 A`s of political success in the correct order of priority (are) 1.America 2. Arabs 3.Army".

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Sweden reflects on Anna Lindh's death


Published: 11 Sep 08 10:52 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation

On the fifth anniversary of the assassination of foreign minister Anna Lindh, Sweden is reflecting more on the legacy of her work in politics than the tragic circumstances surrounding her death.

Lindh’s name lives on in a number of foundations, research programmes, and awards.

“She’s very much alive in the party; at the same time there’s been a very long period of mourning,” Social Democratic Party Secretary Marita Ulvskog told the TT news agency.

“But we’re beginning to reach a point where what she said and did is being utilized.”

On the Social Democrats’ website it is possible to order the 'Palme-package', created in memory of assassinated Prime Minister Olof Palme. For the last year a Lindh-package has also been available.

The Lindh-package offers membership in the party, a book, a picture of Anna Lindh, a report from the annual Anna Lindh seminars, a newsletter, and the party’s international programme.

It’s meant to provide a portrait of the person and her career, tracking her development from the Social Democratic youth organization (SSU) in Enköping to the position of Deputy Mayor of Stockholm and high level ministerial posts. She was also regarded as an insprirational figure for younger politicians.

Neither Ulvskog nor the party's press secretary could say however whether there had been much demand for the package named after the woman who had been tipped to take over as party leader after Göran Persson.

Her memory is also carried on by the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund, which awards annual prizes for remarkable contributions to human rights. The Fund has also helped compile an archive of speeches and articles penned by the former foreign minister.

To coincide with the anniversary of her death, the Fund has organized a seminar focusing on the 2001 Macedonia crisis, where Lindh is considered to have played an important role in hindering the outbreak of a new Balkan War.

The politician's legacy is also evident in Alexandria in Egypt, where the Anna Lindh Foundation is based.

The foundation was set up after her death and has little to do with Lindh other than in name, according to retired ambassador Lars Bjarme.

"But the foundation works with something in which she was very interested: a dialogue between Europe and countries in the Middle East," he said.

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Anna Lindh's care to be reviewed: agency

Published: 20 Oct 10 13:48 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Updated: 20 Oct 10 17:30 CET

Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) will review the care former foreign minister Anna Lindh received after she was stabbed in central Stockholm in September 2003.

"The National Board of Health and Welfare will probe the care of former foreign minister Anna Lindh," the board said in a statement.

It pointed out that it did not normally re-examine cases older than two years, but that it would make an exception due to the huge public interest in the case.

"The case is of great public interest and has to do with how care worked in a situation where the foreign minister was the victim of an attack," board general director Lars-Erik Holm said in the statement.

"I have turned to the other general directors of corresponding authorities in the Nordic countries to get their help in appointing experts," he added.

Stockholm's Karolinska University Hospital last month requested that the board analyse Lindh's treatment, saying it wanted an independent review after commercial broadcast TV4 charged in a news programme that she may have been saved with better care.

Hospital spokesman Klas Österman insisted at the time, "We have not seen any signs, then or now, to indicate that we made any mistakes."

Lindh was stabbed repeatedly in the arms, chest and abdomen by a man with a history of psychiatric problems as she shopped at the upmarket NK department store in Stockholm without a bodyguard on September 10th, 2003. She died of massive internal bleeding some 13 hours later in the early hours of September 11th.

The board's decision comes three days after the broadcast of TV4's "Cold Facts" (Kalla Fakta) programme on Lindh's treatment.

The half-hour show featured a detailed presentation of the treatment she received from the moment she arrived at the hospital, through an eight-hour operation during which she received up to 50 litres of blood, until she was pronounced dead at 5.29am on September 11th.

An unnamed Swedish expert, whose face was blurred onscreen, said the hospital could have used better methods to stop the minister's bleeding from the abdomen, notably by using the so-called "damage control" operation method.

The programme also interviewed Dr. Donald Trunkey, an expert trauma surgeon at Oregon's Health and Science University, who described the rush to operate Lindh without first slowing the bleeding "futile."

"In the United States, if somebody did that in my hospital, I would call [such an eight-hour operation] foolhardy. I mean, you are not going to win," he said, adding the lengthy operation may have worsend her condition.

"I would have classified her as a preventable death," he said.

Eva Franchell, who was shopping with Lindh when she was attacked, said she was pleased an investigation would be launched.

"It opens up old wounds, of course, but I feel the rumours that have been spread around have been very unpleasant. That is why I think it is good that this can all be ended," she told the TT news agency.

Lindh's killer Mijailo Mijailovic, now 32, is serving a life sentence for the murder.

The killing of the 46-year-old mother of two young boys sent a shock wave around Sweden, bringing back painful memories of the still-unsolved 1986 assassination of prime minister Olof Palme.

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Hospital demands probe of Anna Lindh's care

Published: 29 Sep 10 12:39 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation

Karolinska University Hospital has requested an inquiry into the care it gave former foreign minister Anna Lindh after her fatal stabbing in September 2003.

The hospital wants Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) to review the treatment Lindh received at the hospital after she was stabbed in a Stockholm department store.

Lindh died on the operating table at Karolinska's facilities in Solna, north of Stockolm.

The hospital has reviewed charts detailing Lindh's treatment and doesn't believe that any mistakes were made, but nevertheless has requested that the health board conduct an independent investigation.

The reason behind the request is a forthcoming television broadcast produced by Sweden's TV4 which, according to Karolinska, asserts that Lindh didn't receive proper care at the hospital.

"Because the episode has such great national and historic significance, it's important to prevent the spread of rumours surrounding this matter. We believe it's appropriate that the National Board of Health and Welfare carry out an investigation into the care of Anna Lindh," wrote Karolinska University Hospital in its petition, which arrived on Wednesday at the agency's regional oversight division in Stockholm.

Lindh was attacked and stabbed while shopping in the upscale NK department store in central Stockholm around 4pm local time on September 10th, 2003.

She remained conscious following the attack, with initial reports indicating she had been cut in the arm and that she wasn't seriously injured.

She was taken to Karolinska, where she was placed on an operating table so doctors could attend to her wounds.

Lindh died at 5.29am the following morning following massive blood loss caused by internal bleeding.

The knife had sliced through a number of important blood vessels in her mid-section, including the portal vein and the aorta. Lindh's liver had also been damaged.

Two weeks later, on September 24th, 24-year-old Mijailo Mijailovic was arrested for the stabbing. The Supreme Court sentenced him to life in prison for Lindh's murder on December 2nd, 2004.

Among the evidence cited during the trial were images from surveillance cameras in NK, as well as his DNA.

Karolinska Chief Medical Officer Stefan Engqvist said that the information, which the hospital attributes to the TV4 investigative news programme Kalla Fakta, is hard to address publicly, in part because he doesn't really know what the criticism is based on and in part because the hospital doesn't release information from Lindh's file.

"Our position becomes a bit awkward in this situation. We have tough regulations about confidentiality and laws on secrecy that we can't break," he told the TT news agency.

He said that Sweden's emergency trauma care has evolved since 2003, but that according to procedures commonly used at the time, the hospital reacted in the best possible way in the operating room and that everyone involved did everything they could to save the foreign minister's life.

"We've gone through all the documentation ourselves and haven't found anything wrong and nothing that would warrant a report according to Lex Maria," said Engqvist, referencing Sweden's Lex Maria laws, the informal name used to refer to regulations governing the reporting of injuries or incidents in the Swedish health care system.

"But we would also gladly have an independent investigation and for that we turn to the National Board of health and Welfare. We want to avoid the spreading of rumours."

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Security beefed up for Sahlin due to threats

Published: 16 Aug 10 15:53 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation

security" class="nodec">Security for Social Democratic leader Mona Sahlin has been tightened due to serious threats against her just over a month before elections, Swedish media reported on Monday.

According to the tabloid Expressen, security for the prime ministerial candidate has gradually increased after a "barrage of threatening emails and letters to Mona Sahlin's office in parliament."

"The threat level has changed," an unnamed police source told the paper.

When contacted by AFP, a spokesman for the Swedish security police, which handles security for high-profile politicians, refused to comment on the
information.

On Sunday, when Sahlin held a large campaign rally in Stockholm ahead of the upcoming September 19th election, four bodyguards wearing bulletproof vests were at her side the entire time, according to Expressen.

The 53-year-old career politician has received numerous threats in the past, the paper added. After a scandal dubbed the Toblerone Affair over her use of a party credit card to buy chocolate and other items in 1995, Sahlin was for a time forced to work in a bulletproof room.

In 2004, during a visit to the central Swedish town of Norrköping, a man walked up to her and asked if she was Mona Sahlin before punching her.

Sweden has been traumatised by two political assassinations in recent
decades. Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot on a Stockholm street in 1986, while foreign minister Anna Lindh was stabbed to death in an upscale department store in the heart of the capital in 2003.

Like Sahlin, both Palme and Lindh were Social Democrats. Neither of them had bodyguards with them at the time they were killed.

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US 'pressured' Sweden on Afghanistan

US 'pressured' Sweden on Afghanistan

Published: 21 Dec 10 10:53 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation

Sweden was pressured by the United States to increase its commitment in Afghanistan, documents released by WikiLeaks reveal.

The documents were sent from the US embassy in Stockholm, according to a report in the Dagens Nyheter (DN) daily.

The information was dated July 2009 and details that September was considered to be the best month to exercise pressure as the Swedish foreign and defence ministries would then be busy with bills to be submitted to parliament.

The documents detail the opinion that once the parliamentary bills were submitted it would be more difficult to influence the Swedish force in Afghanistan.

A further plan was for the Swedish defence minister Sten Tolgfors to be flattered and thanked for Sweden's growing commitment in Afghanistan during a meeting in Washington on July 20th 2009.

Furthermore the documents show that a senior official at the Sweden defence ministry has forwarded advice on how the United States could influence Sweden's power-brokers to deploy more resources to Afghanistan.

The official told DN that he discussed the matter at the US embassy in Stockholm.

In the months following the attempts to influence Sweden's Afghanistan commitment, the country has dramatically increased its expenditure.

The Swedish share of the cost for the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) will amount to more than 1.5 billion kronor ($220 million) in 2010, an increase of almost 50 percent on 2009.

Sweden first deployed troops in Afghanistan in the beginning of 2002 and now has around 500 troops based near the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

In December the parliament passed a government bill to extend the military mission in the war-torn country until the end of 2011, allowing for the deployment of up to 855 people.

The bill required a compromise between the governing minority centre-right Alliance and the opposition Social Democrats and Greens, and came barely a week after a suicide bomber cited Sweden's troop presence in Afghanistan in a message sent shortly before he blew himself up near a crowded pedestrian street in central Stockholm.

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Sweden's Alliance parties gain majority in new poll

Sweden's Alliance parties gain majority in new poll

Published: 20 Dec 10 16:23 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation

A new poll has revealed that if an election were held now, the ruling Alliance would gain a majority in Sweden's parliament, the Riksdag, while support for Sweden's Social Democratic Party continues to slide.

The latest opinion survey conducted by United Minds and Cints in collaboration with newspaper Aftonbladet shows that both the ruling Moderates and Liberal Party have increased their levels of support.

Separately, support for the Centre and Christian Democratic Parties has fallen below the levels they registered for the general election on September 19th. However, the Christian Democrats, the smallest party in the Riksdag, would clear the 4 percent threshhold to remain in parliament.

Meanwhile, the Social Democrats continue to lose support from voters.

"If it were close to an election, it would be more problematic, but I think people understand that there is not an election now and that much can happen," United Minds' opinion director Carl Melin told Aftonbladet.

While support for the Social Democrats and Left Party continue to fall, the Green Party continues to gain more support. Support for the far-right Sweden Democrats also outpaces the party's election result in the fall.

The Moderates currently have 31.7 percent support, up 0.7 percentage points from November. The Liberal Party stands at 7.5 percent, 0.5 percentage points ahead of last month.

However, the Centre Party and Christian Democrats are at 5.5 percent and 4.8 respectively, down 0.8 and 0.1 percentage points respectively.

Together, the Alliance has 49.5 percent, up 0.3 percentage points from November, compared with 42.2 percent for the Red-Green parties, whose support fell 1.2 percentage points.

Among then, support for the Social Democrats slipped 1.5 percentage points to 27.6 percent and 0.6 percentage points to 5.2 percent for the Left Party.

However, backing for the Green Party grew 0.9 percentage points in December to 9.4 percent from the previous month. Support for the Sweden Democrats also rose 0.9 percentage points to 6.9 percent this month.

Support for other parties increased 0.1 percentage points to 1.4 percent.

United Minds interviewed 1,148 respondents over the age of 18 from November 23rd to Sunday, asking them, "How would you vote if there were a Riksdag election today?"

Vivian Tse (news@thelocal.se)

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Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on a Kabul street

Sweden votes to extend Afghanistan mission

Published: 16 Dec 10 08:27 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation

Swedish lawmakers in the country's parliament, the Riksdag, voted on Wednesday to extend the country's military mission in Afghanistan until the end of 2011.

"Sweden will make an armed force of up to 855 people available to the international security force in Afghanistan until the end of 2011," they said in a statement, adding that the troop level would likely remain at the present level of 500 soldiers.

The vote came a month after Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose centre-right coalition came up two seats short of a house majority in general elections in September, secured a deal with the opposition Social Democrats and the Greens.

The Social Democrats and Greens, in a since-dissolved coalition with the formerly communist Left Party, had campaigned ahead of the elections on demanding a withdrawal of Swedish troops from Afghanistan.

However, the two left-wing parties shifted their position after the far-right Sweden Democrats were voted into parliament for the first time and handed the role of kingmaker.

The two parties agreed to a broad proposal, aiming to pull all Swedish combat troops out of Afghanistan between 2012 and 2014, while maintaining a largely civilian support presence after that.

The far-right Sweden Democrats and the Left Party, which have both want Swedish forces brought home sooner, opposed the motion to extend the mandate next year, but it passed easily nonetheless, with 290 votes in favour, 20 opposed and 19 abstaining.

Sweden is officially neutral and not a member of NATO and the question of how long its troops should take part in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan is a sensitive one.

In October, the Scandinavian country lost its fifth soldier since it first deployed troops in Afghanistan near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, at the beginning of 2002.

The parliament vote also came less than a week after a suicide bomber railed against Sweden's troop presence in Afghanistan in a message sent shortly before he blew himself up near a crowded pedestrian street in central Stockholm, narrowly missing wreaking carnage among Christmas shoppers.

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National: 20 Oct 10
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Anna Lindh memorial inaugurated in Stockholm

Politics: 5 May 10
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Anna Lindh widower Bo Holmberg dies

Politics: 12 Feb 10
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National: 5 Feb 10
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Society: 4 Feb 10
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National: 4 Feb 10
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National: 3 Feb 10
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National: 30 Dec 09
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Jul 09
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Call for probe into Sweden-CIA terror links

Politics: 8 May 09
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Bodström reported over CIA terror deportations

National: 19 Jan 09
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Sweden pressured in 2001 terror case: report

National: 19 Jan 09
Fresh details have surfaced about the deportation of two terror suspects from Sweden to Egypt in December 2001, including allegations of US pressure and the role of former foreign minister Anna Lindh, following the release a new book on Monday. READ »

Ex-policeman: Lindh murder investigation 'full of mistakes'

National: 10 Nov 08
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'Meat mountain' ex-minister slams Swedish security service

Politics: 22 Oct 08
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Sweden reflects on Anna Lindh's death

Politics: 11 Sep 08
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Getting away with murder? Papers debate Rödeby verdict

Analysis & Opinion: 9 May 08
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China, Reinfeldt, and the Olympics: a real mouthful

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Apr 08
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Karolinska Hospital slammed for lax patient secrecy

Society: 18 Nov 07
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Persson reflects on election defeat in new book

Politics: 23 Oct 07
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Knife man entered employment ministry

National: 29 Sep 07
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Expressen fights former Lindh murder suspect over libel claim

National: 27 Jul 07
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Mijailovic wants to stay in Sweden

National: 14 May 07
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Mijailovic must stay in Swedish jail

National: 6 Feb 07
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Lindh killer faces uncertain future

National: 20 Jan 07
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'Sahlin will lead Social Democrats'

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Freivalds cashes in on controversial flat

National: 3 Jan 07
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Tougher rules for criminal psychiatric patients

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Lindh killer 'should not go to Serbia'

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Lindh killer could serve sentence in Serbia

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Analysis: Why Freivalds had to go

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Bodström gets bodyguards after threat

National: 28 Jan 06
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Patient secrecy to be ignored for security police

Society: 19 Oct 05
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Back to prison for Lindh killer

National: 8 Oct 05
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Lindh killer attacks fellow patient

National: 21 Sep 05
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Mijailovic transferred to asylum

National: 11 Sep 05
SEE ALSO: SIX PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED FOR LINDH MURDER
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Six people were arrested for Lindh murder

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Comment: Swedish Television cheapens the feminism debate

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Egypt deportations: Säpo blames Lindh

National: 24 May 05
A government committee set up to investigate the controversial deportation of two Egyptians accused of terrorist offences is told by Säpo, Sweden's security police, that Anna Lindh gave them the go-ahead to use American help. READ »

Knifeman stabs three on Stockholm underground

National: 24 May 05
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Nuder accused of SSU membership fraud

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Life sentence for 1989 double murderer

National: 6 Apr 05
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Security police demand new stalker law

National: 15 Mar 05
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Psychiatric care: Milton slams government

Science & Technology: 14 Mar 05
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Reinfeldt most popular party leader

Politics: 20 Feb 05
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Increased security for Swedish foreign minister

Politics: 27 Jan 05
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Persson: Lindh didn?t know about CIA

Politics: 23 Dec 04
Anna Lindh had no idea about plans for American authorities to deport two Egyptians from Sweden, says the prime minister. READ »

Lindh "authorised Egyptians' deportation"

Politics: 14 Dec 04
A police officer tells a hearing that former foreign minister Anna Lindh approved an operation for the CIA to deport two Egyptians back to their homeland. The pair are alleged to have been tortured on their return. READ »

Swedish Supreme Court jails Mijailovic for life

National: 2 Dec 04
It's the end of the legal line for the man who killed foreign minister Anna Lindh in September 2003, as Sweden's top court reverses the Appeal Court's decision and puts Mijailo Mijailovic in prison for life. READ »

Anna Lindh murder: the definitive guide

National: 12 Nov 04
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Swedish army to ditch 1,000 officers

National: 11 Nov 04
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Mijailovic "could walk free"

National: 11 Nov 04
"Mijailo Mijailovic was psychologically ill when he killed Anna Lindh, therefore he can't be sentenced to prison. But now he's better, so he can't be given secure psychiatric treatment either." Hmmm. READ »

Open up mental health system to avert crisis

Science & Technology: 11 Nov 04
In the week that the Supreme Court reviews the sentence on Anna Lindh's killer, Lysanne Sizoo points out where the Swedish mental health system is breaking down - and offers a creative solution. READ »

Police hunt Linköping double killer

National: 20 Oct 04
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Knifeman gatecrashes Moderate party

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Mijailovic changes lawyer for appeal

National: 14 Oct 04
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"Suicidal" Mijailovic gives up Swedish passport

National: 21 Sep 04
Anna Lindh's murderer is no longer a Swedish citizen, it emerges after he is taken to hospital suffering from psychiatric problems. And now a move to Serbia could be on the cards, just as another notorious killer considers coming to Sweden. READ »

Supreme Court reopens Lindh murder case

National: 15 Sep 04
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Politics: 6 Aug 04
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Guantanamo Swede seeks damages

National: 23 Jul 04
Mehdi Ghezali speaks out against his American captors and the Swedish government, defends his actions in 2001 - and wants some cash. READ »

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National: 23 Jul 04
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Lindh killer escapes jail

National: 9 Jul 04
Mijail Mijailovic is judged by the appeal court to be "seriously disturbed" and will be held in a secure psychiatric hospital instead of prison. READ »

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National: 2 Jul 04
Doctors agree that Mijail Mijailovic is mentally disturbed - but the appeal court must decide if that means a secure hospital instead of prison. READ »

Knutby - from tragedy to comedy

National: 24 Jun 04
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Police caught in child porn bust

National: 28 May 04
Paedophilia, corruption, weapons and drugs smuggling - you just can't trust the police these days. READ »

Knutby goes public

National: 14 May 04
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Feminists crash May Day parties

Politics: 7 May 04
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Minister assaulted

Politics: 23 Apr 04
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Mijailovic appeals against life sentence

National: 16 Apr 04
Anna Lindh's murderer wants the verdict reduced to manslaughter while her family is seeking increased compensation. READ »





WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange's lawyer says he has seen police documents that prove the whistleblower is innocent of rape claims.

Bjrn Hurtig, who is representing Assange in Sweden, said the documents, which form part of the official Swedish investigation, revealed two women had lied about being coerced into having sex with Mr Assange, 39. Assange is being held in Wandsworth prison, London, while fighting extradition to Sweden.

Assange met both women at a seminar in Stockholm last August. After having intercourse with each, at different times, he faced sex charges, which he strenuously denies, that were withdrawn and then reinstated.

 

In an interview from his Stockholm office, Mr Hurtig said: "From what I have read, it is clear that the women are lying and that they had an agenda when they went to the police, which had nothing to do with a crime having taken place.

 

"It was, I believe, more about jealousy and disappointment on their part ...

"If I am able to reveal what I know, everyone will realise this is all a charade," he said. MAIL ON SUNDAY


WikiLeaks cable shed light on Singaporeans' view of Anwar

 2010-12-12 16:19

KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday 12 December 2010 (Bernama) -- Singapore's intelligence services as well as its senior minister Lee Kuan Yew believe that opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim "did indeed commit the acts for which he is currently indicted."

This was revealed by WikiLeaks through a release of a US State Department cable issued in November 2008.

The cable was exclusively released to the Australian tabloid, The Sun-Herald, and was widely reported by other Australian newspapers today.

WikiLeaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organisational, or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors.

The US State Department cable that dealt with Anwar's sodomy case, dated November 2008, and was released exclusively to The Sun-Herald by WikiLeaks, had stated:''The Australians said that Singapore's intelligence services and [Singaporean elder statesman] Lee Kuan Yew have told ONA in their exchanges that Opposition leader Anwar 'did indeed commit the acts for which he is currently indicted'.''

In the newspaper report, it said the document stated that the Singaporeans told ONA that they made this assessment on the basis of ''technical intelligence'', which was likely to relate to intercepted communications.

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange's lawyer says he has seen police documents that prove the whistleblower is innocent of rape claims.

MySinchew 2010.12.12

Martijn Gonlag


Second Dutch teenager arrested for WikiLeaks-related DDoS attacks



by Graham Cluley on December 12, 2010 | Comments (4)

FILED UNDER: FeaturedLaw & orderMalware

Police in the Netherlands have arrested a second teenager in relation to the pro-WikiLeaks distributed denial-of-service attacks seen earlier this week.

The arrest of the 19-year-old man follows Friday's attacks on websites belonging to Dutch Police and national prosecutor's office, which were themselves widely seen as retaliation against the apprehension the day before of a 16-year-old Dutch boy alleged to have participated in "Anonymous" pro-WikiLeaks attacks against a number of websites, including MasterCard and PayPal.

Prosecutors claim that the 19-year-old, from Hoogezand-Sappemeer, in the north east of the Netherlands, flooded the prosecutor's website with internet traffic:

"From behind his computer, the man used hacker software to flood the website of the prosecutor’s office with as much digital traffic as possible. Investigations by the National Police Services Agency showed that the man, who was active under the internet nickname Awinee, urged other internet users to participate in the attack."

However, it is reported that the DDoS attack software being used did not hide the IP address of the computer involved, making it easy for high-tech crime cops to identify where the attack was coming from.

That's a pretty silly mistake to make if you're going to attack the website of your country's national prosecutor.

Who is "Awinee"? Well, a quick search on Google found a gaming website of a guy who lives in Hoogezand-Sappemeer, is 19 years old, and uses the online nickname "Awinee", going by the real name of Martijn Gonlag:




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Protests expected outside court for WikiLeaks Julian Assange


Protests expected outside court  for WikiLeaks Julian Assange

Tuesday 14 December 2010
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will ask to be granted bail when he appears before City of Westminster Magistrates' Court for a second time today.
The former computer hacker was remanded in custody last week, despite the offer of surety from a number of high-profile backers, including journalist John Pilger, director Ken Loach, and charity fundraiser Jemima Khan.

If Julian Assange is denied bail, he is expected to appeal at the High Court.

The Australian, 39, turned himself into police after an international warrant was issued accusing him of sex offences in Sweden. Charges are thought to include rape and molestation in one case, and molestation and unlawful coercion in a second. Assange has denied the allegations, which he has claimed stem from a dispute over "consensual but unprotected sex." He has vowed to fight extradition to Sweden.

According to Australian media reports, supporters of Assange and WikiLeaks are expected to protest outside the court.

Yesterday, around 15 supporters of the 'Justice for Assange' campaign gathered outside the Swedish Embassy in central London. They held banners saying "political prisoner" and "gagging the truth" and wore masks of Assange's face.
His court appearance comes as another cable released through the WikiLeaks site reveals the United States was concerned that the UK was struggling to cope with home-grown extremists in the year after the 7th July bombings in London.

In the cable, a diplomat noted that Tony Blair's embarked on a drive to isolate radicals from the mainstream Muslim community after the 2005 attacks.

The message from the US Embassy states: "Since 7/7, HMG [Her Majesty's Government] has invested considerable time and resources in engaging the British Muslim community. The current tensions demonstrate just how little progress has been made."

Another cable suggests British police helped 'develop' evidence against Madeleine McCann's parents as they were investigated by Portuguese authorities investigating the disappearance of their daughter.

Julian Assange
Enemy of the State Hero of the People
By Lucy Carne LONDON
SEEDS OF CHANGE: Julian Assange the boy and the thorn in the side of governments, and a rally by his Brisbane supporters this week
In front of an adoring crowd at the Frontline journalist’s club in London last month, Australia Julian Assange explained why he’s risking the wrath of the world’s most powerful governments.
In his face could still be seen traces of the sweet natured, sensitive little boy his Sunshine Coast-based mother has described and, smiling, the Queensland born 39 year old leaned into the microphone.
“They say I enjoy crushing bastards and. Yes, that’s part of my motivation,” Assange said.
“For some reason, the White House finds that offensive.”
Today, the founder if whistle blowing website WikiLeaks and the man on whom the world’s spotlight is focused, sits is a grey tracksuit in one of western Europe’s biggest prsions.
This week he was remanded in custody of rape, sexual assault and unlawful coercion stemming from alleged  non-consensual sex without a condom with two women in Sweden.
Assange’s imprisonment, after he handed himself in, was met with relief in the US, where authorities were angered by his website’s release of embarrassing diplomatic cables last week.
The man who kicked the hornets’ nest had been silences they thought.
“I hadn’t heard that but it sounds like good news to me,” US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on being told of Assange’s arrest.
But while Assange grows restless behind bars – he has already complained about the “boring” daytime television and his request to be reunited with his own laptop has been denied – a global groundswell of support has grown.
The strongest act of revenge is coming from a group of ”hacktivists”  known as Anomymous, which temporariiy shut down the websites of US and Swedish corporations this week.
The group also froze the websites of credit-card companies Visa and Mastercard,n which had cancelled financial donations to WikiLeaks.
Post Finance – the Swiss bank that froze Assange’s private account – was disabled too, as was the Swedish prosecution office and the Swedish lawyers representing the two  women who claim  to have been sexually assaulted by Assange.
The Anonymous group’s spokesman, known only as Coldblood, told reports they had not met Assange and were not connected to his organization but felt the need to defend him.
“If we let WikiLeaks fall without a fight then government will think they can just take down any sites they wish or disagree with,” Coldblood said.
In Brisbane on Thursday, some 300 protestors took to the streets in anger at Assange’s imprisonment.
Protests in London were due to be held today.
More than 35,000 people have joined a Facebook group to support Assange, with calls for all members to donate to his legal fund, while around 28,000 Australians have signed a letter to US President BARACK Obama supporting him.
In an open letter published yesterday, prominent supports, including Australia documentary film maker John Pilger, Minty Python member Terry Jones, English actress Miriam Margolyes and author Iain Banks, call for his immediate release from jail
Assange’s unusually harsh imprisonment for allegedly ignoring two women’s  requests to use contraception has caused this sudden swell of skepticism and fury.
Many believe it is a flimsy excuse to keep Assange, who was placed on Interpol’s most wanted list, within reach of the US Justice Department so it can prosecute him under the Espionage Act.
Even while he is hailed by the public as a champion of transparency, to the governments of Australia and the US he remains a menace. To them he is not an innocent messenger but an anti-government terrorist who wants to harm the US and governments across the world.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard labeled WikiLeaks’s activities illegal but, despite calls for her to do so, has failed to outline any Australian law that Assange has broken.
Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland also has stood by his condemnation of Assange, while arch-conservative US politician Sarah Palin called him an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.”
How did the tousled-haired boy in overalls grow up to become an Andy Warhol-esque hero of the people.
“Hr can seem – with his spectral white hair, pa8iled skin, cool eyes, and expansive forehead – like a rail thin being who has rocketed to Earth to deliver humanity some hidden truth,” The New Yorker wrote in June.
Born in Townsville in 1971, Assange has described his childhood as “pretty Tom Sawyer”’ filled with horseriding, building rafts and fishing.
I was, however, far from Idyllic. By the age od 14, his family had moved 37 times, living everywhere from Magnetic Island to Byron Bay. It set the scene for his future nomadic life.
The young boy was home schooled, sporadically educated by university professors and even taught himself in hours spent alone in council libraries.
But his life changed when his mother’s abusive boyfriend tried to gain custody of Assange’s half brother in order to submit him to religious sect The Family.
His mother and her young family “disappeared”, constantly moving, never leaving a trail.
But at the age of 16, in 1987, Assange got a computer and modem and his life was suddenly transformed.
He embraced the random problem-solving and solace if life as a computer hacker.
“We were bright sensitive kinds who didn’t fit the dominant subculture and fiercely castigated those who did as irredeemable boneheads,” he wrote of himself and a teenage friend.
He was arrested in the early 1990’sw for hacking into the computer system of a major Canadian telecommunications company, but avoided a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
A brief spell in hospital for depression soon followed, as well as time spent living rough in the Dandenong Ranges National Park in Victoria and a stint motorcycling across Vietnam.
While working towards a physics degree at the University of Melbourne in 2006, He founded WikiLeaks.
It was a site for anyone wishing to “reveal illegal or immoral behavior in their own governments and corporations” he wrote at the time of the site’s launch.
“ I am the one who9 takes that risk,” he said prophetically, explaining his role at WikiLeaks while addressing the Frontline club last monthly. “As a consequence, I also get a lot of undue credit. I also get all the criticism.”
His original WikiLeaks mandate was to9 “make the news, not be the news”.
But that seems to have backfired, with Assange now a household name around the world.
“Is is weird?” an audience member asked him of his new celebrity status.
“No,” Assange shrugged.” Actually, I find it quite boring.”
Lucy Marne is The Courier-Mail’s European correspondent

Dear Friend,

Sarah Palin wants Julian Assange hunted as a terrorist.1 She's among a swelling chorus of American politicians calling for the arrest - and even the death - of the Australian citizen who runs WikiLeaks. It's a shame that real terrorists, the kind we should be focusing our attention on, don't show up at British Police stations with their lawyers, as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange did yesterday.

Here in Australia, Prime Minister Gillard pre-emptively judged Mr. Assange "illegal," even as the Attorney General confirmed that no Australian nor international crime by WikiLeaks has been identified.2

The death penalty? Judgment before trial? This isn't the kind of justice system we have in Australia. If our Government won't stand up for the rights of Australian citizens, let's do it ourselves.

We're printing ads in The Washington Times and The New York Times with the statement our Government should have made, signed by as many Australians as possible. Will you add your name to the signatories, and invite your friends to join too?

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/Wikileaks

The statement:Dear President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder:

We, as Australians, condemn calls for violence, including assassination, against Australian citizen and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, or for him to be labeled a terrorist, enemy combatant or be treated outside the ordinary course of justice in any way.

As Thomas Jefferson said, "information is the currency of democracy."3 Publishing leaked information in collaboration with major news outlets, as Wikileaks and Mr. Assange have done, is not a terrorist act.

Australia and the United States are the strongest of allies. Our soldiers serve side by side and we've experienced, and condemned, the consequences of terrorism together. To label WikiLeaks a terrorist organisation is an insult to those Australians and Americans who have lost their lives to acts of terrorism and to terrorist forces.

If WikiLeaks or their staff have broken international or national laws, let that case be heard in a just and fair court of law. At the moment, no such charges have been brought.

We are writing as Australians to say what our Government should have said: that all Australian citizens deserve to be free from persecution, threats of violence and detention without charge, especially from our friend and ally, the United States.

We call upon you to stand up for our shared democratic principles of the presumption of innocence and freedom of information.We're printing this statement in The Washington Times and The New York Times early next week - and the more Australians sign, the more powerful the message will be. Please add your name by clicking below, and forward this message to friends and family:

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/WikiLeaks

What has started with WikiLeaks being branded as terrorists won't end there.

In fact, just yesterday U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, Chair of the Senate's Homeland Security Committee, said thatThe New York Times should also be investigated under the U.S. Espionage Act for publishing a number of the diplomatic cables leaked to WikiLeaks.4 We can help stop such plans in their tracks, by showing how they are affecting the image of the US in the eyes of their staunchest friends and allies.

Click here to sign the statement before it's published in The New York Times and Washington Times.

Thanks for being part of this,
The GetUp team

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1 Beckford, M., 'Sarah Palin: hunt WikiLeaks founder like al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders', The Telegraph, 30 November 2010.

2 Oakes, L., 'Oakes: Gillard gushes over US leaks', Perth Now, 4 December 2010.

3 The quote is widely attributed to Jefferson, but some now dispute whether he actually said it. We know, at least, that he said "knowledge is power," even if Francis Bacon did say it first.

4 Savage, C., 'U.S. prosecuters study WikiLeaks prosecution', The New York Times, 7 December 2010.



Julian Assange from Jail to Masion






Former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks. Photo: Jacky Ghossein

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Assange gets bail but still locked up (01:12)
British judge grants bail to WikiLeaks founder under strict monitoring conditions, but he remains in jail as Sweden appeals the ruling.

Assange will never receive a fair trial: Hicks
Cameron Atfield
December 15, 2010

Hicks answers the tough questions
Former terrorism suspect David Hicks has come out in support of jailed freedom-of-speech campaigner Julian Assange, saying he feared for Mr Assange's safety should he end up in American hands.
Mr Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, has been returned to London's notorious Wandsworth prison despite winning bail from a British Court.
He will be held there for another 48 hours while Swedish prosecutors, who want to extradite him to Sweden to face allegations of sex crimes, mount a High Court appeal against the decision.
Supporters of Mr Assange, including his lawyer, have claimed the charges are politically motivated after the release of thousands of secret diplomatic cables, causing embarrassment for several governments.
Yesterday, Mr Hicks told Fairfax Radio he was concerned about what might happen to Mr Assange if he was extradited to the United States.
"He will never receive a fair trial," he said.
"We have already established that it's a political decision rather than a legal one. It's important that our governments are held to account for any war crimes they may be involved in and that is why the work of WikiLeaks is so important."
Mr Hicks spent six years at Guantanamo Bay, the US-run prison camp in Cuba, before he returned home to Australia to serve nine months at Adelaide's Yatala jail.
He was convicted by a US military commission of "providing material support for terrorism".
Mr Hicks said he believed future WikiLeaks releases could contain information about his incarceration.
"I will watch with interest in more leaks released because I have heard that they might contain information about my treatment in Guantanamo and the political interference in my case," he said.
"I just hope the Australian government doesn't abandon him like they did to me."
WikiLeaks: Julian Assange sex assault court case branded a 'show trial'
The Swedish authorities are turning the sexual assault case against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, into a "show trial", his lawyers claimed.

Mark Stephens attacked the decision by the Swedish authorities to appeal against a judge's ruling to grant the 39 year-old Australian bail.
He said their decision was now a "'persecution" rather than a prosecution and was politically motivated.
He accused the authorities of stopping at nothing to have the Wikileaks founder behind bars, a claim they denied.

 

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is refused bail
15 Dec 2010
WikiLeaks: summary of the latest disclosures
15 Dec 2010
Julian Assange: is 'Wikileaker' on a crusade or an ego trip?
15 Dec 2010
Julian Assange: Jemima Khan comes to aid of Wikileaks founder in Swedish extradition fight
15 Dec 2010
Julian Assange: 'don't shoot the messenger'
15 Dec 2010

Julian Assange: 'don't shoot the messenger'
Governments around the world must not "shoot the messenger" by attacking disclosures by WikiLeaks, Julian Assange said on Tuesday.
Julian Assange says his whistle-blowing website deserves protection and has not cost a single life despite the claims of critics

The former computer hacker said his whistle-blowing website deserves protection and has not cost a single life despite the claims of critics.
Writing for The Australian newspaper, Mr Assange quoted its founder, Rupert Murdoch, as once saying the truth will inevitably win over secrecy.
He said: "Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public."
Mr Assange said WikiLeaks has coined "scientific journalism" that allows readers to study the original evidence for themselves.
He added: "Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media. The media helps keep government honest.
"WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars, and broken stories about corporate corruption."
The campaigner denied he is anti-war, but said Governments must tell the truth about their reasons for fighting.
He claimed the United States, supported by its "acolytes", has attacked WikiLeaks instead of other media groups because it is "young and small".
Branding the website "underdogs", he accused Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard of "disgraceful pandering" to the Americans.
He said: "The Gillard government is trying to shoot the messenger because it doesn't want the truth revealed, including information about its own diplomatic and political dealings."
Mr Assange highlighted some of the most high-profile revelations made by his website over the last week.
He added: "The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth."

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WikiLeaks 'will continue releasing documents'
15 Dec 2010

 
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is driven into Westminster Magistrates Court in London Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA
WikiLeaks 'will continue releasing documents'
WikiLeaks has pledged to continue releasing confidential documents after Julian Assange, the website's founder and chief, arrived at court for an extradition hearing.
Wednesday 15 December 2010

Richard Edwards and Nick Collins 2:53PM GMT 07 Dec 2010
Mr Assange handed himself over to police in central London on Tuesday morning after a warrant was issued for his arrest on rape charges.
But ahead of his first court appearance a spokesman for the website insisted the arrest would not prevent the planned release of further cables on Tuesday evening.
The spokesman wrote on Twitter: "Today's actions against our editor-in-chief Julian Assange won't affect our operations: we will release more cables tonight as normal."

The 39-year-old Australian was due to appear before a district judge at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday afternoon, where his lawyers were expected to fight extradition proceedings.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "Officers from the Metropolitan Police Extradition Unit have this morning arrested Julian Assange on behalf of the Swedish authorities on suspicion of rape.
"Assange is due to appear at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court today."
Supporters of Assange were told to protest against censorship outside the Horseferry Road court house on several websites.
His arrest came after an Australian newspaper published an editorial written by Assange, in which he urged governments around the world not to "shoot the messenger".
He wrote: "Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media. The media helps keep government honest."
He accused the Australian government and prime minister Julia Gillard of "disgraceful pandering" to the Americans, adding: "The Gillard government is trying to shoot the messenger because it doesn't want the truth revealed, including information about its own diplomatic and political dealings."
Mr Assange has not been seen publicly for 31 days, since an appearance in Geneva, and was believed to have been in hiding in the south-east of England as the latest tranche of WikiLeaks material was released.
A European Arrest Warrant was issued by the Swedish last month but could not be acted upon because it did not contain sufficient information for the British authorities. A spokesman for Marianne Ny, the Swedish prosecutor, said the extra details were sent last week.
Police processed the warrant yesterday and arrangements were made with Mark Stephens, Mr Assange’s British lawyer, for the Wikileaks founder to attend a central London police station.
Mr Stephens said his client was keen to discover what allegations he was facing so he could clear his name.
"It's about time we got to the end of the day and we got some truth, justice and rule of law," he said.
"Julian Assange has been the one in hot pursuit to vindicate himself to clear his good name.
"He has been trying to meet with her (the Swedish prosecutor) to find out what the allegations are he has to face and also the evidence against him, which he still hasn't seen."
The 39-year-old Australian has been under intense pressure since the release of thousands of secret documents in recent weeks.
Kristinn Hrafnsson, spokesman for WikiLeaks, said Mr Assange had been forced to keep a low profile after several threats on his life.
Sweden’s Supreme Court upheld a court order to detain Mr Assange for questioning on suspicion of “rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion” after he appealed against two lower court rulings. He denies the allegations.
His details were also added to Interpol’s most wanted website, alerting police forces around the world.
Mr Stephens said he would fight any bid to extradite his client. He added that Mr Assange “has been trying to meet with the Swedish prosecutor since August this year”.
Mr Assange’s troubles deepened when his Swiss bank account was shut down after it was found he had given a false address. Postfinance, the financial arm of Swiss Post, said: “The Australian citizen provided false information regarding his place of residence during the account opening process.”
Mr Assange had allegedly told Postfinance he lived in Geneva but could offer no proof that he was a Swiss resident.
News of his potential arrest came as WikiLeaks was criticised for publishing details of hundreds of sites around the world that could be targeted in terrorist attacks.
Among the British sites listed are a transatlantic undersea cable landing in Cornwall; naval and motoring engineering firm MacTaggart Scott, based in the small Scottish town of Loanhead; and BAE Systems sites, including one in Preston, Lancashire.
The revelations prompted Sir Peter Ricketts, David Cameron’s national security adviser, to order a review of computer security across all government departments.
Julian Assange: Jemima Khan comes to aid of Wikileaks founder in Swedish extradition fight
Jemima Khan appeared in court to lend her support to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as he was put behind bars over sexual allegations originating from Sweden.
By Andrew Hough, and Caroline Gammell  07 Dec 2010

Khan, the socialite and charity worker, offered to provide a £20,000 surety to prevent the 39-year-old Australian from being remanded in custody in Britain over the claims.
Swedish officials want him extradited to answer questions over the alleged rape of one woman and molestation of another while he was in Stockholm this summer.
Mr Assange, who was also supported in court by film director Ken Loach and four others, has repeatedly denied the claims.

The 36-year-old former wife of Imran Khan said she would pay “whatever sum was required” to ensure he was granted bail.
However, a district judge at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court decided he was too much of risk as it emerged that there was no record him ever arriving in Britain.
During Tuesday's hearing he was accompanied by officials from the Australian High Commission after asking for consular assistance.
Outside court, Khan said: “I am not here to make any kind of judgement on the Julian Assange as an individual as I do not know him and I have never met him.
“I am here because I believe in the principle of the human right to freedom of information and our right to be told the truth.”
Mr Assange’s supporters believe his arrest is a political stunt to detract from the revelations being made on a daily basis on the Wikileaks website.
Geoffrey Robertson QC, a prominent Australian human rights barrister who was a defending lawyer at the Brighton Bombing trial in the mid 1980s, has reportedly agreed to act for Mr Assange in future hearings.
The former computer hacker claims he had received several death threats since the secret documents were published and that someone had called for the kidnap of his 20-year-old son in Australia.

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07 Dec 2010

 

Julian Assange: is 'Wikileaker' on a crusade or an ego trip?
Julian Assange, the man who published the Afghan war files on his Wikileaks website, is unlikely to be chastened by Admiral Mike Mullen’s claims that he might now have “blood on his hands”.
Julian Assange outside court in Melbourne in 1995, where he was later convicted of hacking offences.

Julian Assange, pictured in London this week, relies on donations and the hospitality of wellwishers as he travels the globe.

WikiLeaks: summary of the latest disclosures
The latest round of WikiLeaks releases disclose more detail about the US's relationships with allies and foes across the globe. Here is a round-up of today’s headlines.

Britain
Prince Andrew criticised a variety of governments, including those of Britain and America, as corrupt, stupid and backward in a conversation with a US diplomat.
In his wave of “almost neuralgic patriotism”, the Duke also made the bizarre claim that British geography teachers are the best in the world.

Families of British servicemen killed in Sangin, Afghanistan have reacted furiously after it was claimed WikiLeaks would disclose dismissive remarks by US commanders on British efforts to secure the town.
The Welsh family of Bradley Manning, the US soldier suspected of handing the classified documents to WikiLeaks, have flown to America but been prevented from visiting him in prison.
The internet has been rife with speculation about which former Labour minister was labelled “a bit of a hound dog” with women by an American official.
David Cameron was seen as “lightweight” by Barack Obama after the first meeting between the two leaders, leaked files will show.
Prince Charles does not command the same respect as the Queen, according to a senior Commonwealth official.
International
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, dismissed claims that Arab countries had asked the US to attack his country as a deliberate attempt by the US to destabilise the Middle East.
Released Guantánamo Bay prisoners should have electronic tagging devices implanted so that they can be followed by security officials, the King of Saudi Arabia suggested to a White House official.
Silvio Berlusconi responded to leaked claims by American diplomats that he has a penchant for “wild parties” by claiming he only throws parties in a “proper, dignified and elegant way”.
One of the more unlikely stories to surface from the leaked documents was that of a 77-year-old American dentist who fled Iran on horseback after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
American officials suspect that North Korea has been secretly aiding Iran in its attempts to build nuclear weapons under the auspices of the Chinese government.
Colonel Gaddafi was believed to be very close to a “voluptuous” Ukrainian nurse who followed him everywhere he went, a US cable claimed.
An exile from Iran was living in London when he was targeted in an assassination plot by an Iranian agent, who was later arrested in America.
Hillary Clinton asked US diplomats in Argentina about the mental health of President Cristina Kirchner and questioned whether she was using medication to help her “calm down”.
The White House has told federal agencies to tighten security around the US military computer network following the leaking of classified information.
China would support a unified Korea controlled from Seoul because it believes the North is behaving like a “spoiled child”, documents show.
Sarah Palin has accused Barack Obama of taking insufficient action to prevent the release of the latest batch of WikiLeaks files.
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, could die within months from terminal cancer, an Iranian informant told American officials.
Angela Merkel is the only leader “man” enough to lead the European Union, according to American cables.
The United Nations has angrily hit back at American “interference” after learning that Hillary Clinton ordered what amounted to an espionage campaign on its senior officials.
Julian Assange
The WikiLeaks founder is in hiding after an international warrant was issued for his arrest on rape allegations.
Assange’s next target will be the banking sector, with one American bank in particular to suffer from his next revelations, which he compared to the Enron scandal.
Assange has accused Barack Obama of attempting to smother the freedom of the press.
A criminal investigation is underway into how the latest batch of documents was made public, and Barack Obama could take legal action against Mr Assange.

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Julian Assange's alleged dating profile surfaces

December 14, 2010

Julian Assange allegedly used dating website OkCupid, his supposed profile now becoming fodder for media scrutiny around the world.

Intrepid internet users tracked down the disused profile that existed around 2006, revealing insightful information into Assange's personality, if it is to be believed that the information was written by Assange himself.

The WikiLeaks founder reportedly describes himself on the website: "Passionate, and often pig headed activist intellectual seeks siren for love affair, children and occasional criminal conspiracy,"

Prefacing his profile with a "warning", Assange explains: "Want a regular down to earth guy? Keep moving. I am not the droid you are looking for. Save us both while you still can"

When asserting what he likes in a woman, Assange's alleged profile states a woman should be "spirited, erotic, non-conformist. Non-conformity is not the adoption of some pre-existing alternative subculture. I seek innate perceptiveness and spunk"

"I like women from countries that have sustained political turmoil. Western culture seems to forge women who are valueless and inane. OK. Not only women!" he continues.

When describing what he is doing with his life, the profile states "Directing a consuming, dangerous human rights project", not without giving reference to his background in mathematics, neuroscience and philosophy.

According to the profile, Assange would have last used it on New Year's Eve December 2006. It states that he has never used drugs and only drinks socially, and that he spends a lot of time thinking about "Changing the world through passion, inspiration and trickery."

Ellingham Hall near Bungay, Suffolk

Pheasant dinners, port and brisk walks may be just days away for Julian Assange, whose bail address is to be Ellingham Hall. Photograph: Alban Donohoe

Julian Assange offered bail haven at former soldier's Suffolk manor


guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 December 2010

Maverick libertarian Vaughan Smith rescued WikiLeaks founder from jail - but then came appeal


His supporters include teenage hackers, freedom of speech activists and a motley group of celebrities. But it was the maverick British establishment that rode to the rescue of Julian Assange, offering to whisk him from dull confinement in Wandsworth jail to a large and comfy manor house in Suffolk.

For once, Assange was not the star at the afternoon bail hearing at Westminster magistrates' court. Dressed in a white shirt and blue suit, he watched the proceedings impassively. Instead the hero was Vaughan Smith, a former army officer, journalist adventurer and rightwing libertarian. For much of the past five months, until his arrest last week, Assange has been living at Smith's Frontline Club in Paddington, west London.

Standing to address district judge Howard Riddle, Geoffrey Robertson QC announced that "Captain Smith" was now ready to put Assange up at his rambling country home, Ellingham Hall, near Bungay in Suffolk – that is, should he be granted bail. The WikiLeaks saga has so far been short of jokes. But Robertson had one ready-made.

It would not be so much "house arrest as manor arrest", he quipped. Not only that, but it was inconceivable Assange would attempt to escape "since darkness descends rather early in that part of Britain". Additionally, Assange was willing to give up his Australian passport and wear an electronic tag. Finally, he wasn't likely to get very far given that "media exposure" had made him "well-known around the world", Robertson said with understatement.

Last week Assange was refused bail after he unwisely gave an Australian postal address as his place of residence. This time his legal team would allow no such mistake.

Robertson, Assange's new barrister, asked Smith to give his own assessment of WikiLeaks' controversial founder, in the light of Sweden's attempts to have him extradited on sex allegations.

"He is a very honourable person, hugely clever, self-deprecatory and warm. Not the kind of things you read about," Smith said loyally. But the clincher came when Robertson asked Smith to explain what precisely Assange's new rustic home would look like. After establishing that Smith was a former Guards officer and one-time captain of the British army's shooting team, the QC asked for details of Smith's family home and organic farm. "It has 10 bedrooms and 600 acres," Smith replied. Better still, there was even a police station. "It's a short distance on a bicycle. I can cycle it in about 15 minutes," Smith explained. "It's about a mile. Perhaps a little bit more." Smith added helpfully: "It's an environment where he would be surrounded. We have members of staff. My parents live in proximity as well. My father was a Queen's Messenger and a colonel in the Grenadier Guards."

On the second floor of the court several celebrity supporters had gathered outside next to the coffee machine and green metal benches – John Pilger, Jemima Khan, Ken Loach, Bianca Jagger, and others. But it turned out they weren't really needed – though their money was. Outside on the pavement, a polyglot scrum of journalists waited impatiently for news.

Judging from his appearance, Assange appeared to be surviving his ordeal in Wandsworth prison pretty well. From inside a glass box for the defendant, he confirmed his identity and address. He also gave a cheery thumbs-up to his team.

Robertson, however, made clear that Assange was having a miserable time of it. His conditions inside Wandsworth were nothing short of living hell, he suggested. "He can't read any newspapers other than the Daily Express. This is the kind of Victorian situation he finds himself in," Robertson lamented. He went on: "Time magazine sent him a magazine with his picture on the cover but all the person would allow him to have was the envelope!"

To no one's great surprise, the judge announced that "bail was going to be granted under certain conditions". These turned out to be not overly onerous: an electronic tag, an afternoon and night curfew and a requirement to report to Bungay police station between 6-8pm every evening. Oh, and £200,000 in cash.

Assange's lawyers asked if it might be possible to hand cheques into the court instead? The magistrate was unimpressed, insisting in these financially troubled times it had to be money up front.

Outside, the tweeted news of Assange's bail brought a loud cheer from the 150 or so people who had gathered opposite the court to cheer on their hero and share their banners and placards with the world.

One read: "Sex crimes! My arse!" Another, "That's just what we need – another innocent man in jail", and a third: "Sweden: muppets of the US." Despite the indignant slogans, the judge's verdict plainly delighted the protesters. Three young activists were so thrilled, in fact, that they broke into an impromptu chorus of We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

Soon afterwards, however, there was confusion as news filtered through that the Swedish prosecutor was to appeal against the bail decision, meaning that Assange has to remain for the time being in jail. But his lawyers appear confident he will be out in time for Christmas.

Pheasant dinners, port and brisk walks around the estate may be only a matter of days away.

If he wins his next bail hearing in the high court, Julian Assange's new home will be a historic rural estate on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk. For more than three centuries Ellingham Hall, a sprawling and elegant Georgian manor house near the village of Bungay, has belonged to the Smith family.

Its owner today is Vaughan Smith, a friend of Assange, and a strong supporter. Smith has previously given the WikiLeaks founder a home at his Frontline club in Paddington, west London, which includes several flats.

Surrounded by 600 acres of woods and fields, the estate is the perfect retreat. It has 10 bedrooms, a large dining room with a convivial circular table, and portraits of Smith's ancestors hanging on the walls. There is a housekeeper who cooks meals. There is also a well-stocked cellar with wine and port – the decent Quinta Do Infantado.

The estate is usually home to Smith's wife and their two children.

Speaking to the Guardian before today's bail hearing, Smith made clear that Assange and his team will be expected to pay for food and accommodation. Other paying guests have included games sports enthusiasts – the hall boasts a pheasant shoot, with pheasants wandering freely over the grounds. The local Norfolk hunt sometimes clatters through the gardens.

"It's a Georgian house from the 18th century. It's been in my family as Smith for the past 225 years, but before that it belonged to the Johnsons, whom the Smiths married into.

"Some of the buildings are even older. On the walls are paintings of the people who bred me," Smith said. "My grandfather liked shooting and I'm partial to it myself."

The estate is exceptionally isolated. The nearest train station is Diss. From there it is a £27 ride in a taxi. It takes half an hour by car from the hall into Norwich, the nearest city.

The remoteness of the location is likely to afford Assange some privacy, since it is impossible to reach the manor house without trespassing on Smith's land.

According to friends, Assange shows little interest in food, and is invariably late for meals. But Ellingham Hall is also home to a large ecologically conscious organic farm. Smith looks after it himself together with two employees; the organic produce is served at his restaurant at the Frontline Club.






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Cablegate: 250,000 US Embassy Diplomatic Cables

2010-11-28

On Sunday 28th Novembre 2010, Wikileaks began publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into the US Government's foreign activities.

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2010-11-28

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2010-10-22

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Video: Collateral Murder

2010-04-05

WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.

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  • CACHE FOUND/CLEARED Other 2003-12-31 18:00:00
    AFG: Cache Found/Cleared, RC EAST, 0 casualties

    KAF-1BDE -S3 REPORTS: GERONIMO 11 SALUTE AS FOLLOWS: S - 1 CAVE, A CACHE, L - 42 SWB758 778, U UNK, T 0641, E - 1X UXO, 2000RDS 7.62MM....

  • IZ RUNS TCP BY /%%% IN ZONE %%%: NO INJURIES 2003-12-31 18:00:00
    iraq: Accident, MND-BAGHDAD, 0 casualties

    WHILE CONDUCTING A JOINT CHECKPOINT /%%% MP CO FIRED ON A VEHICLE WHEN THE DRIVER FAILED TO OBEY THE POSTED WARNINGS AND COMMANDS OF THE IPS WHO WERE MANNING THE CHECKPOINT. THE VEHICLE, A %%% SEDAN ...

  • CACHE FOUND/CLEARED Other 2003-12-31 18:00:00
    AFG: Cache Found/Cleared, RC EAST, 0 casualties

    USSF FINDS CACHE IN VILLAGE OF WALU TANGAY: USSF CONDUCTED A MEET AND GREET IN THE VILLAGE OF WALU TANGAY. USSF MEMBERS WERE APPROACHED BY A LOCAL BOY WHO SPOKE OF A CACHE IN A CAVE ON A NEARBY HILL....

  • PROPAGANDA Other 2003-12-31 18:00:00
    AFG: Propaganda, RC SOUTH, 0 casualties

    (M) NIGHT LETTERS DISTRIBUTED AROUND HAZARJUFT: THE FOLLOWING IS A TRANSLATED VERSION OF ONE LETTER: ISLAMIC IMARATS OF AFGHANISTAN. FOR THE BRAVE WARLORDS OF AFGHANISTAN, SALAM ALAIKOOM. AS YOU KNO...

  • DIRECT FIRE Other 2003-12-31 18:00:00
    AFG: Direct Fire, RC EAST, 3 casualties

    KAF-1BDE -S3 REPORTS: SUMMIT 09 B CO ELEMENT SALUTE REPORT AS FOLLOWS: S- 3-4 PAX, A- SMALL ARMS FIRE, L-IVO 42 SWB 3910 1617, U-UNK, T-0415Z, E-AK-47. 0448Z ENEMY ELEMENTS BROKEN CONTACT. 0442Z AIR Q...

  • DIRECT FIRE Other 2003-12-31 18:00:00
    AFG: Direct Fire, RC EAST, 8 casualties

    KAF-1BDE -S3: SUMMIT 6 REPORTS TIC SALUTE TO FOLLOW: S-18X ACM, A- SMALL ARMS FIRES, L-WB340120, T-1256Z. 1319Z: BDA UPDATE: REPORTING INDICATES POSSIBLY 8X SUSPECTED

  • ACM&apos;&apos;S WERE KIA....

  • A /%%% and local car have been involved in a RTA. No any CAS were reported. 2003-12-31 18:10:00
    iraq: Accident, MND-SE, 0 casualties

    A /%%% and local car have been involved in a RTA. No any CAS were reported. Imported MND-SE Report Event ID:%%% Number of Rounds: Number of Blinds: Number inside the Wire: : : %%%: ...

  • /%%% INVOLVED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT: NO INJURIES 2003-12-31 18:10:00
    iraq: Accident, MND-SE, 0 casualties

    DURING A ROUTINE PATROL A /%%% GOT INTO %%% TO A CIVILIAN CAR. NO ANY CAS WERE REPORTED....

  • SAF ATTACK ON CAMP %%% GUARD TOWER IN BAGHDAD (ZONE %%%) - NO BDA 2003-12-31 18:20:00
    iraq: Direct Fire, MND-BAGHDAD, 0 casualties

    RED SEDAN WITH A WHITE TOP WAS DRIVING NORTHWEST ON ROUTE %%%, AND ENGAGED ONE OF THE TOWER GUARDS AT CAMP %%% WITH SMALL ARMS FIRE. THERE WERE NO INJURIES TO US PERSONNEL OR DAMAGE TO ANY EQUIPMENT....

  • %%% CONDUCTS RAID VIC BALAD: %%% DETAINED 2003-12-31 20:00:00
    iraq: Raid, MND-N, 0 casualties

    %%% REPORTS THAT %%% CONDUCTED A RAID ON 2X %%% VIC %%% AND %%% (SOUTH OF BALAD) AT 0200C. THE INTENDED TARGETS WERE SUSPECTED IED ATTACKERS. %%%

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  • TF -%%% AR DISCOVERED A UXO VIC EAST OF AR RAMADI 2004-01-01 05:21:00
    iraq: IED Found/Cleared, MNF-W, 0 casualties

    AT %%% HOURS A/-%%% AR DISCOVERED %%% X 57MM ROUNDS AT %%%. THE UNIT SECURED THE SITE AND THE %%% BCT TOC NOTIFIED EOD AND DIRECTED -%%% CAV TO ESCORT EOD TO THE SITE. AT %%% HOURS, THE ROUND WERE R...

  • IED DISCOVERED BY %%% IN TIKRIT: NO BDA 2004-01-01 05:30:00
    iraq: Confiscation, MND-N, 0 casualties

    %%% REPORTS THAT THE %%% TRANSPORTATION COMPANY DISCOVERED AN IED VIC %%% (TIKRIT) AT 1130C. THE IED CONSISTED OF 60MM MORTAR ROUND. %%% WAS NOTIFIED AND SENT AN ELEMENT OUT TO SECURE THE SITE....

  • %%% ATTK ON -%%% VIC %%%: NO BDA 2004-01-01 06:00:00
    iraq: Indirect Fire, MND-N, 0 casualties

    %%% REPORTS THAT -%%% AT FOB -%%% WAS ATTACKED BY 3X MORTAR ROUNDS VIC %%% (WEST OF %%%) AT 1200C. THE POO WAS IVO %%% AND %%% COUNTER FIRED 6X 155MM ROUND AT 1207C. -%%% RESPONDED WITH A QRF. THERE...

  • A/-%%% CONDUCTS RAID IN EAST TIKRIT: 1X DETAINED 2004-01-01 06:00:00
    iraq: Raid, MND-N, 0 casualties

    %%% REPORTS THAT A/-%%% CAV WAS CONDUCTING AN AREA RECON AND CONDUCTED A HASTY RAID ON A HOUSE VIC %%% (EAST TIKRIT) AT 1200C. THE RAID RESULTED IN THE CONFISCATION OF 2X 130MM SHELL CASINGS, WIRES A...

  • /-%%% DISCOVERS CACHE VIC TIKRIT: 2X RPG'%%% 2004-01-01 06:00:00
    iraq: Cache Found/Cleared, MND-N, 0 casualties

    %%% REPORTS THAT /-%%% DISCOVERED A WEAPONS CACHE VIC %%% (NE OF TIKRIT) AT 1200C. THE CACHE CONSISTED OF TWO RPG ROUNDS AND TWO RPG LAUNCHERS....

  • %%% 2004-01-01 06:00:00
    iraq: Murder, MND-N, 1 casualties

    BCT REPORTED THE , %%% DEAD WITH A GUN SHOT WOUND TO THE %%% NEAR %%% POLICE STATION. %%% AT HIS HOUSE AT APPROXIMATELY 312100DEC03. IT WAS REPORTED THAT %%% PERSONNEL TRAVELING IN A BLUE %...

  • IED DISCOVERED BY -%%% SW OF FALLUJAH: NO BDA 2004-01-01 06:10:00
    iraq: IED Found/Cleared, MNF-W, 0 casualties

    AT %%% HRS, -%%% REPORTS IED DISCOVERED AT (%%% METERS FROM FOB %%%. MERE SOUTH GATE)(11KM SOUTH EAST OF FALLUJAH) , %%%-GAL %%% WITH A HAND GRENADE UNDERNEATH. ROUTE %%% FOB %%%. MERE IS BLOCKED. ...

  • IED ATTK ON A/%%% CONVOY %%% VIC %%%: 2X US WIA 2004-01-01 06:12:00
    iraq: IED Explosion, MND-BAGHDAD, 2 casualties

    %%% REPORTS THAT AN A/%%% EN CONVOY WAS ATTACKED BY AN IED VIC %%% (HWY , %%%) AT 1212C. THE LAST VEHICLE IN A %%% VEHICLE CONVOY EN ROUTE -%%% WAS HIT WITH THE IED. THE IED WAS PLACED IN THE MEDIA...

  • SAF WOUNDS %%% EMPLOYEE VIC CP %%% 2004-01-01 06:30:00
    iraq: Accident, MND-BAGHDAD, 1 casualties

    FEMALE %%% EMPLOYEE WAS HIT IN THE RIGHT CHEST BY %%% FIRE AT %%% HOURS OUTSIDE THE DINING FACILITY AT CAMP %%% (VIC %%%). SHE IS IN STABLE CONDITION AS WAS DUE TO BE EVACUATED BY %%% AT %%% HOURS FR...

  • %%% TENT FIRE AT FOB %%% VIC HABBANIYAH: 10X TENTS DESTROYED 2004-01-01 07:20:00
    iraq: Accident, MNF-W, 0 casualties

    AT %%% HRS, %%% REPORTED A TENT FIRE VIC %%% (4KM SOUTH OF HABBANIYAH). FOB %%% FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN DISPATCHED. AT %%% THE FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED AND 10X TENTS WERE DESTROYED. A DAMAGE ASSESSME...


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Collateral Murder

Overview

Update: On July 6, 2010, Private Bradley Manning, a 22 year old intelligence analyst with the United States Army in Baghdad, was charged with disclosing this video (after allegedly speaking to an unfaithful journalist). The whistleblower behind the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, has called Mr. Manning a 'hero'. He is currently imprisoned in Kuwait. The Apache crew and those behind the cover up depicted in the video have yet to be charged. To assist Private Manning, please see bradleymanning.org.

5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters

employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.

The military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how the children were injured.

After demands by Reuters, the incident was investigated and the U.S. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own "Rules of Engagement".

Consequently, WikiLeaks has released the classified Rules of Engagement for 2006, 2007 and 2008, revealing these rules before, during, and after the killings.

WikiLeaks has released both the original 38 minutes video and a shorter version with an initial analysis. Subtitles have been added to both versions from the radio transmissions.

WikiLeaks obtained this video as well as supporting documents from a number of military whistleblowers. WikiLeaks goes to great lengths to verify the authenticity of the information it receives. We have analyzed the information about this incident from a variety of source material. We have spoken to witnesses and journalists directly involved in the incident.

WikiLeaks wants to ensure that all the leaked information it receives gets the attention it deserves. In this particular case, some of the people killed were journalists that were simply doing their jobs: putting their lives at risk in order to report on war. Iraq is a very dangerous place for journalists: from 2003- 2009, 139 journalists were killed while doing their work.

See http://www.collateralmurder.com/ to view  video
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