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Wikileaks issues statement of 'grave concern' for Julian Assange's health: Can barely talk, moved to prison hospital


RT
Thu, 30 May 2019 14:05 UTC
Belmarsh prison Julian Assange Wikileaks
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HMP Belmarsh, London
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been moved to the hospital wing of the Belmarsh prison in the UK, prompting concerns about his health pending the hearing on his extradition to the US.

Assange's health had already "significantly deteriorated" during the nearly seven years he spent inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and has continued to get worse over the seven weeks he has spent in Belmarsh, WikiLeaks said in a statement on Wednesday.

"The decision of prison authorities to move him to the health ward speaks for itself," said WikiLeaks, adding that Assange has lost a lot of weight and was barely able to speak to his Swedish lawyer last week.

Comment: An ex-inmate of Belmarsh prison details how Julian Assange will likely be treated in Britain's 'Gitmo':
Julian Assange is likely the focus of unwanted attention from both prison officers and his fellow cellmates at HMP Belmarsh, according to a former inmate of the infamous prison.

belmarsh Assange former inmate
© RT; Julian Assange; Reuters/Henry Nicholls
Pepsi Watson, a former inmate speaking outside HM Prison Belmarsh.
The WikiLeaks founder was sentenced to 50 weeks incarceration at the high-security London facility following his dramatic arrest at the Ecuadorian embassy last month.

Former prisoner Pepsi Watson says that Assange's profile will mean he will be the source of immense curiosity amongst the prison's inmates.

"Julian Assange in HMP Belmarsh is extremely high profile, he will have a massive aura about him within HMP Belmarsh, people will just want to get a look at him through the gate or you know he'll be spoken about, news about him will spread like wildfire around the prison," he told RT.

Watson believes the whistleblower is likely being extremely closely monitored by prison officers, with his phone calls listened to and restricted and potentially even his cell fitted with listening devices.

"Due to his high profile nature, it's highly probable in my opinion that he will be monitored closer than normal, all his phone calls will be listened to, he will only get 10 minute phone calls, he will be lucky to get one phone call a day, that will be monitored everyday," he said.
Every single one of his incoming and outgoing letters will be very closely monitored and read by the security department here, he will be observed on visits, his visit lists and visitors who come to apply to visit him will be thoroughly checked out.
"He'll have the privacy in his own cell, in his prison cell but in these Category A high-security prisons like Belmarsh, the prison officers here and the security departments have got the resources to bug Assange's cell if they feel that they need to do that," he added.

Assange awaits extradition to the US where he faces 17 charges, including violation of the Espionage Act, for his role in publishing US war logs, government cables and other documents.
Such conditions will make it almost impossible for Assange's lawyers to mount any kind of defense against the bogus charges being laid against him. Couple that with The US stealing (there is no other word for it) his personal records and effects, and he has almost no hope.

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Briefcase

White female executives of New York Education Department file $90M lawsuit for being demoted under 'racial equity' plan

Connor Boyd
Daily Mail
Wed, 29 May 2019 15:19 UTC
Anti-White lawsuit New York, Bill de Blasio, Richard Carranza

The suit says Richard Carranza (pictured with Mayor Bill de Blasio) instituted an anti-white regime when became chancellor of public schools in March of 2018
Three white female executives in the New York Education Department were demoted in favor of less-qualified people of color, a $90million suit launched by the women claims.

The longtime officials say they were unfairly targeted as part of the department's crusade against 'toxic whiteness' through its controversial racial equity plan.

Lois Herrera started at the DOE in 1986 as a guidance counselor and worked her way up to lead its Office of Safety and Youth Development.

In the suit filed Tuesday, she claims she saw the culture shift when Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed Richard Carranza as the chancellor of NYC's public schools in April 2018.

By June the Harvard graduate - who was recognized in 2017 for contributing to the 'safest year on record' in city schools - was abruptly removed from her position and demoted three levels.

Comment: With the near-constant propaganda droning 'diversity and inclusion' and 'white-privilege' this was bound to happen - and there will likely be numerous other suits to follow. The idea that skin color or gender should supersede experience and competence is irrational and puts such organizations at risk of ultimate failure.

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Bizarro Earth

16 charged in Bangladesh for burning school girl alive for reporting sexual harassment

Mir Sabbir
BBC
Wed, 29 May 2019 12:00 UTC
Nusrat

Nusrat was doused with kerosene and set on fire on a rooftop
Sixteen people have been charged in Bangladesh over the shocking murder of a teenager who was burned to death after reporting sexual harassment.

Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, was doused with kerosene and set on fire on the roof of her Islamic school on 6 April, days after filing a complaint.

Headmaster Siraj Ud Doula, targeted in the complaint, is among those charged.

Police say he ordered her murder from prison when she refused to withdraw her accusations against him.

Comment: See also:

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Pirates

Western Ukraine unveils monument to Nazi collaborator accused of mass murder


RT
Wed, 29 May 2019 21:16 UTC
Ukrainian nationalist rally
© Reuters / Valentyn Ogirenko 11701
A Ukrainian nationalist rally in Kiev
A monument to Roman Shukhevych, a Nazi collaborator accused of mass murder of Poles and Jews, has been erected in the Western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankovsk.

"Roman Shukhevych needs no introduction in Ivano-Frankovsk," the city's mayor said, according to local media. "All the more strange that we didn't have a proper monument to him until now."


Shukhevych was one of the leaders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), an extremist 'revolutionary' organization that employed terrorism to advance its ideology (which included totalitarianism and anti-Semitism). During World War II, he became a commander in the Nachtigall Battalion and later in the 201st Schutzmannschaft Battalion - Nazi military formations made up of Ukrainians including OUN militants.
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For second month running, man sets himself on fire near White House


TMZ
Wed, 29 May 2019 20:49 UTC
man fire white house
A man set himself ablaze in a park near the White House and was only saved -- for the moment -- by cops who quickly surrounded and extinguished him.

The unidentified suspect was taken down by cops Wednesday afternoon in D.C. and he was fully engulfed in flames. It appears he might have had some sort of protective suit on because he was not collapsing as he strolled across the lawn with the Washington Monument in the background ... and less than a mile from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

You can see cops rushed in with extinguishers, and law enforcement tells us he was immediately taken into custody and rushed to a hospital. More than 70 officers swarmed the area from multiple agencies. Although several tourists were in the area ... no one else was injured.

The Secret Service is aware of the incident, saying some of their personnel are on the scene.

It is unclear what the man's condition is right now.

WARNING: Graphic Footage




Comment: In a similar incident in April, a man using a motorized wheelchair attempted to light himself on fire outside the White House, before being detained by the Secret Service.

According to this list on Wikipedia, 7 Americans have self-immolated during this decade, 8 if we include anti-war protester Malachi Ritscher in 2006...

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Hero, journalist and human rights advocate: Facts about Assange you might not know

Angel Fox
Angel Fox Media
Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00 UTC
Julian Assange
Julian Assange is well known for his Wikileaks work, his notorious exposure of war crimes by the U.S. military and his 8 year stint in the Ecuadorian Embassy but there is a lot of information you may not know. I am going to a comprehensive list I have found to be interesting for your consumption.

According to Wikipedia:
In 1993, Assange gave technical advice to the Victoria Police Child Exploitation Unit and assisted with prosecutions.[59]In the same year, he was involved in starting one of the first public Internet service providers in Australia, Suburbia Public Access Network.[32][60] He began programming in 1994, authoring or co-authoring the TCP port scanner Strobe (1995),[61][62] patches to the open-source database PostgreSQL (1996),[63][64] the Usenet caching software NNTPCache (1996),[65] the Rubberhosedeniable encryption system (1997)[66][67] (which reflected his growing interest in cryptography),[68] and Surfraw, a command-line interface for web-based search engines (2000).[69] During this period, he also moderated the AUCRYPTO forum,[68]r an Best of Security, a website "giving advice on computer security" that had 5,000 subscribers in 1996,[70] and contributed research to Suelette Dreyfus's Underground (1997), a book about Australian hackers, including the International Subversives.[49][71] In 1998, he co-founded the company Earthmen Technology.[57]

Assange stated that he registered the domain leaks.org in 1999, but "didn't do anything with it".[57] He did, however, publicise a patent granted to the National Security Agency in August 1999, for voice-data harvesting technology: "This patent should worry people. Everyone's overseas phone calls are or may soon be tapped, transcribed and archived in the bowels of an unaccountable foreign spy agency."[68] Systematic abuse of technology by governments against fundamental freedoms of world citizens remained an abiding concern-more than a decade later, in the introduction to Cypherpunks (2012), Assange summarised: "the Internet, our greatest tool for emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen".[72]
During all of this Assange was basically raising his son Daniel alone.

Comment: 18 Ways Julian Assange Changed the World
Nothing published on WikiLeaks has ever been proven untrue. Compare that record to CNN, MSNBC, Fox News or any mainstream outlet. Assange has been nominated for multiple Nobel Peace Prizes, and nearly every respected media outlet has used source material from WikiLeaks in their reporting. Yet after all this and after seven years in captivity, the man who laid bare our criminal leaders and showed each one of us our chains is not receiving parades and accolades. He and those who helped him reveal the truth are the only ones endlessly punished.

We are all Julian Assange. As long as he's imprisoned, we can never be free.


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IDF suspends soldier who was filmed setting Palestinian field ablaze

Jacob Magid
The Times of Israel
Sun, 26 May 2019 23:06 UTC
IDF soldier setting Palestinian field ablaze
© YouTube
Screen capture from video allegedly showing an off-duty Israeli army soldier setting fire to a Palestinian farmer's field, in the northern West Bank, on May 17, 2019.
An Israeli settler filmed earlier this month setting a Palestinian field on fire in the northern West Bank was an off-duty soldier on weekend leave from the army, the IDF confirmed Sunday.

The IDF has suspended the soldier from his combat unit and the police have opened an investigation into the incident.

"The incident happened when the soldier was on leave, and therefore the matter was passed on to the Israel Police," the IDF said in a statement. "At the same time, the soldier has been suspended from his duties."

According to the Kan public broadcaster, the soldier, who lives in the northern West Bank, had been arrested before joining the army, on charges of firing an air pistol at a Palestinian taxi.

Comment: Disciplining a soldier for an act of violence against the Palestinians is a rare occurrence for Israel. More typically they are given a slap on the wrist and often are actually lauded for their service to the psychopathic state:

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Attention

Crop catastrophe hits US Midwest: Latest USDA report outlines nightmare food production scenario

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Sun, 26 May 2019 00:00 UTC
fooding nebraska crops
© Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Biblical flooding this spring has wiped out crops and cattle in the US Midwest
The last 12 months have been the wettest in all of U.S. history, and this has created absolutely horrific conditions for U.S. farmers. Thanks to endless rain and historic flooding that has stretched on for months, many farmers have not been able to plant crops at all, and a lot of the crops that have actually been planted are deeply struggling. What this means is that U.S. agricultural production is going to be way, way down this year. The numbers that I am about to share with you are deeply alarming, and they should serve as a wake up call for all of us. The food that each one of us eats every day is produced by our farmers, and right now our farmers are truly facing a nightmare scenario.

You can view the latest USDA crop progress report right here. According to that report, corn and soybean production is way behind expectations.

Last year, 78 percent of all corn acreage had been planted by now. This year, that number is sitting at just 49 percent.

And the percentage of corn that has emerged from the ground is at a paltry 19 percent compared to 47 percent at this time last year.

Comment: See also: Worst downturn since 1980s wreaking havoc on American farmers' mental health

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Info

With Planned Parenthood license in jeopardy, Missouri may become the only state with no abortion clinics

Gabriella Borter
Yahoo News
Tue, 28 May 2019 16:42 UTC
abortion protest
© Reuters / Lawrence Bryant
Hundreds of women protest on the steps of the Old Courthouse during a Stop the Abortion Ban Bill Day of Action in St. Louis on May 21, 2019.
Missouri is poised this week to become the only U.S. state without access to legal abortions as public health officials may refuse to renew the license of the last clinic in Missouri to perform the procedure, Planned Parenthood said on Tuesday.

The state's Department of Health and Senior Services director Randall Williams told the St. Louis Post Dispatch that the state will make a decision by Friday on whether to renew the license of Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, the only clinic in the state that performs abortions.

Missouri Governor Mike Parson on Friday signed a bill banning abortion beginning in the eighth week of pregnancy, making Missouri one of eight states that have passed anti-abortion legislation this year.


Comment: Missouri governor signs pro-life bill banning abortions at 8 weeks


Missouri is one of a handful of states to have passed restrictive abortion laws in recent months as anti-abortion activists say they aim to prompt the newly installed conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy by enacting these laws that are virtually assured of facing court challenges.

Comment: See also: Objective: Health - Law or Flaw? Let's Talk About Abortion

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USA

Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers lose it over Navy airmen with MAGA morale patches


RT
Tue, 28 May 2019 16:33 UTC
Trump with troops
© Reuters / Jonathan Ernst
Critics of US President Donald Trump were enraged after American Navy airmen appeared in photos wearing 'morale patches' featuring a spinoff of Trump's campaign slogan, and his cartoon likeness.

Navy airmen from the USS Wasp donned the patches, which read "Make Aircrew Great Again," in preparation for a visit from President Trump, who delivered a speech for Memorial Day while aboard. The ship is docked in Japan.

Though the photos depict a group of grinning soldiers displaying the insignia, the reaction was not all smiles.
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