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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange to Receive UK Supreme Court Decision on Extradition to Sweden


Herald Sun
Mon, 28 May 2012 12:33 UTC
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out on Wednesday whether he can be extradited from Britain to Sweden, as the Supreme Court hands down its judgment at the end of a marathon legal battle.

Britain's highest court is the 40-year-old Australian's final avenue of appeal under UK law, having been detained in December 2010 on a European arrest warrant. He is wanted in Sweden for questioning over allegations of rape and sexual assault.

Since then he has been through round upon round of legal battles, culminating in what will be a short ruling at the Supreme Court in central London.

The judgment, expected to take around 10 minutes, will be handed down at 9:15am (1815 AEST) on Wednesday, streamed on the Sky News website and published online once delivered.

Assange will have been living under restrictions on his movement for 540 days when the verdict is handed down.

Assange's case rests on a single point -- that the Swedish prosecutor who issued a warrant for his arrest was not a valid judicial authority.
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Eagle

Bradley Manning Lawyers Charge Army with Withholding Evidence


Press TV
Tue, 29 May 2012 00:48 UTC
Bradley Manning
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Pfc. Bradley Manning
Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of being behind the biggest leak of state secrets in U.S. history, is being denied a fair trial because the army is withholding from him crucial information that might prove his innocence or reduce his sentence, his defense team is arguing.

With Manning's court-martial approaching in September, his legal team has released details of what they claim is a shocking lack of diligence on the part of the military prosecutors in affording him his basic constitutional rights.

The stakes are high, with Manning facing possible life imprisonment for a raft of charges that include "aiding the enemy."

Manning's main civilian lawyer, David Coombs, has filed a motion with the military court in Fort Meade, Maryland, that sets out a catalogue of delays and inconsistencies in the army's handling of the case.

In particular, he claims the government has failed to disclose key evidence that could help Manning defend himself against the charges.

Source: Raw Story

Comment: Bradley Manning's treatment was cruel and inhuman, UN torture chief rules
Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2012

Hasn't Manning already served a life sentence, hasn't some part of him already been killed? Perhaps a photo will give us a clue.
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UK Arms Afghan Suicide Bombers?

Karine Ter-Sahakian
PanArmenian
Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00 UTC
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On March 11, 2012 a U.S. officer left his military unit and shot 16 civilians in the Panjwai district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province. Among the dead were 8 children, 4 women and 4 elderly men. The youngest victim of the night slaughter was only two years old.

U.S. authorities blamed U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, 38, for this assault saying he might have some mental disorder.

Affront to Afghan bodies, disrespect to their religious feelings and shooting of civilians will indeed strengthen the Taliban positions that saw only decreasing public popularity over the past years.

However, the British appeared to be far worse. Afghanistan's national police officer claimed that a representative of the British intelligence brought at least 15 suicide bomber "belts" to Kabul.

Comment: To learn about the origins of "suicide bombings", read this:
The British Empire - A Lesson In State Terrorism
Additional information:
The US Military Turns Out to Fund Taliban

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Light Sabers

Anarchy vs. London Olympics: Radicals Prepare War on 'Police State'


Russia Today
Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00 UTC
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Anarchists in Britain "don't want rich tourists," they want "civil war." As the London Olympics draw nearer, those flying the black flag are going for gold in sabotage.

On the eve of the Olympic Games, the Federazione Anarchica Informale (FAI) seems fired up by unprecedented security measures being taken by British police. The British cell of the Italian anarchist group finds the "escalating police state frankly offensive."

In line with their ideological convictions, the Games set for July are viewed as a rightful cause to act.

"We have no inhibition to use guerrilla activity to hurt the national image and paralyze the economy however we can. Because simply, we don't want rich tourists - we want civil war," reads a statement on their website.

The same very statement has been used to justify a rash of recent offences currently being investigated by UK police.
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Vader

Blair to Explain Murdoch Ties at British Press Inquiry

Alan Cowell
The New York Times
Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00 UTC
Tony Blair
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London - The judicial inquiry into Britain's phone hacking scandal was set to hear testimony on Monday from Tony Blair, a former prime minister who sought the endorsement of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers but once described the press as "feral."

Mr. Blair's appearance may, paradoxically, offer welcome relief for Prime Minister David Cameron, switching attention from the close relationship between Mr. Murdoch and the current government to the tycoon's ties to its Labour Party predecessor.

For much of last week, the judicial inquiry headed by Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson sought to probe what seemed a cozy relationship between the Murdoch empire and the office of Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt at a time when Mr. Murdoch's News Corporation was seeking to acquire full ownership of BSkyB, Britain's biggest satellite broadcaster.

Mr. Hunt, who was the minister overseeing the bid, has been depicted as favorable to the takeover at a time when his role required impartiality. He is to testify before the Leveson inquiry on Thursday.
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Attention

Allies Quit Government as Nepal Crisis Deepens

Gopal Sharma
Reuters
Mon, 28 May 2012 01:57 UTC
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Nepalese Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai addresses the nation from his official residence to declare fresh elections for November 22, 2012 for the Himalayan republic after political parties failed to finalize the new constitution, in Kathmandu May 28, 2012.
Three parties quit Nepal's Maoist-led government on Monday as the Himalayan republic slipped deeper into crisis after the prime minister called elections following the failure to agree on a new constitution aimed at ending years of instability.

Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has called for Nov 22 elections to resolve the constitutional impasse, sparking a backlash from politicians and Nepalis who have seen the country lurch from one crisis to the next after a civil war ended in 2006.

With political rivals calling for the prime minister's resignation, the desertion of three parties from his coalition may force Bhattarai to step down, but it is not likely to derail fresh elections.

However, the political row could trigger months of street protests and violence in one of the world's poorest countries, wedged between India and China.
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Blackbox

North Korean Officials Involved in South Talks die 'in traffic accidents'

Julian Ryall
The Telegraph
Fri, 25 May 2012 05:10 UTC
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Shin Dong-hyuk poses with book Escape from Camp 14: In 2005, Shin escaped North Korea's Camp 14, a prison holding political enemies of the state
Thirty officials of the North Korean regime who were involved in talks with South Korea have been executed or died in "staged traffic accidents," according to a human rights report.

In its annual study, Amnesty International claimed that in addition to the 30 who died in purges last year, a further 200 were rounded up in January this year by the State Security Agency as Pyongyang carried out the transfer of power from Kim Jong-il, who died of an apparent heart attack in December, and his 29-year-old son, Kim Jong-un.

Of those 200, Amnesty said, some were apparently executed and the remainder were sent to political prison camps. The gulag system presently contains an estimated 200,000 people in "horrific conditions," the group said.
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Chess

Rise of the Right: Is Europe Already Falling Apart?

Elizabeth Grice
The Telegraph
Mon, 28 May 2012 01:00 UTC
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'I feel uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does,’ says Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor, chronicler of European history, has chilling warnings about the current rise in militant nationalism.

Nothing I've heard from politicians or economists on the world crisis has shivered my spine like an hour spent with the gentle‑mannered historian Antony Beevor, whose mighty new book on the Second World War is making him the pundit of the moment. He does not mean to be alarmist, and that is why the soft warnings in his sunlit garden are chilling.

Of course the rise of the Right in Europe is not the same as the rise of the Right in the Thirties, he soothes. But isn't it terrifying the way the Greeks are portraying the Germans as Nazis in their popular press, with Angela Merkel in Nazi uniform? There are "far too many jibes" about a Fourth Reich. The weedlike eruption of extremist parties makes him "uneasy" - and if Beevor is uneasy, it probably means the rest of us should be scared witless.

"The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism," he says. "We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have. We are already seeing political disintegration in Europe."
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Cult

John Stockwell - CIA's War on Humans


YouTube
Mon, 28 May 2012 18:07 UTC
John R. Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tours of duty. After managing U.S. involvement in the Angolan Civil War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote In Search of Enemies, a book which remains the only detailed, insider's account of a major CIA "covert action."


Comment: 6 million deaths by the time of this talk in the early 1990s. 3,000 major operations and 10,000 minor operations by the early 1990s.

To that list we can now add the Global War on Terror (Iraq, Afghanistan - again, Yemen, Honduras - again, Syria, Iran, Pakistan... and so on).

Ever since they got to Kennedy first before he could carry out his intention to "break the CIA into a thousand pieces", this diabolical organization, in partnership with fellow psychopaths in the Mossad, has started just about every war and fomented every coup d'état in its megalomaniacal quest to rule the world.

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USA

Syrian government: al-Houla Massacre carried out by terrorists

R. Raslan & M. Ismael/Ghossoun
SANA
Sun, 27 May 2012 17:56 UTC
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Spokesman for the Syrian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry, Jihad Makdissi. Syria has been hit by a tsunami of Western media lies as a result of the massacre of children by foreign mercenaries
Spokesman for the Syrian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry, Jihad Makdissi, has categorically denied responsibility of the Syrian forces for the massacre that took place in al-Houla area in Homs Province.

In a press conference on Sunday, Makdissi condemned in strongest terms this terrorist massacre against the Syrian civilians as he condemned accusing the Syrian forces of doing that.

Makdissi stressed that no tanks or artillery entered al-Houla town, adding that hundreds of gunmen, armed with various kinds of heavy weapons, attacked al-Houla area in Homs countryside after they assembled in various areas in a deliberate and planned manner, indicating that "The law-enforcement members never left their positions and were in a state of self-defense."

Makdissi said that Syria also condemns the ''tsunami'' of lies against the Syrian government in the past couple of days and the ease in leveling accusations against the Syrian government by some foreign ministers and media.

''We've talked to the Defense Ministry, the Interior Ministry and the authorities concerned to put us in the picture of what happened in Houla,'' said Makdissi.
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