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The true allies that are calling for Assange's immediate release: Lula, Rousseff, Morales, Zapatero, Corbyn, Correa, Paul, Galloway, Gravel, Varoufakis...


Consortium News
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 17:15 UTC
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Heads of state, prime ministers, parliamentarians, members of Congress, ministers and other politicians demand Assange be set free.

Thirteen Former Presidents Urge United Kingdom Government to Immediately Free Julian Assange

Lawyers for Assange

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As Julian Assange fights U.S. extradition at the Old Bailey in London, over one hundred eminent political figures, including 13 past and present heads of state, numerous ministers, members of parliament and diplomats, have today denounced the illegality of the proceedings and appealed for Assange's immediate release.

The politicians from 27 different countries and from across the political spectrum have joined 189 independent international lawyers, judges, legal academics and lawyers' associations by endorsing their open letter to the UK Government warning that the U.S. extradition request and extradition proceedings violate national and international law, breach fair trial rights and other human rights, and threaten press freedom and democracy.
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Bullseye

New video compilation and analysis reveals the truth about Kyle Rittenhouse's fateful night in Kenosha

Mia Cathell
The Post Millennial
Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:34 UTC
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© Brendan Gutenschwager/via REUTERSA man with a firearm raises his hands up as he walks towards vehicles during a protest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S., August 25, 2020, in this still image obtained from a social media video.
An organization raising funds for Kyle Rittenhouse's legal defense published a viral video that tells the truth about the 17-year-old accused of fatally shooting two men during the Jacob Blake riots in Kenosha.

#FightBack Foundation, a free speech group that has raised nearly $2 million in funding for Rittenhouse's legal fees, posted the 11-minute footage to several alternative, anti-Big Tech video sharing platforms. A downloadable version is available on the association's website.

"Every decade or so, a legal matter arises that holds the power to negatively affect our lives for generations to come," the video is prefaced. "Regardless of what side of the political spectrum you identify with, this is about you."

Scenes of the Kenosha riots overlayed the violent introduction, depicting arson, commercial grade fireworks used as projectiles in public streets, and trash receptacles pushed as barricades and igniters.

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Bizarro Earth

Caving: Wells Fargo CEO promises more 'diversity' after woke backlash over 'limited pool of black talent' remark


RT
Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:24 UTC
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© REUTERS/Nicholas PfosiA burned-out Wells Fargo branch in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after protests over the death of George Floyd, May 31, 2020.
The CEO of Wells Fargo offered a groveling apology for his "unconscious bias" and promised more diversity at one of the largest US banks, after a quote from an internal memo caused outrage; even some members of Congress joined in.

"I apologize for making an insensitive comment reflecting my own unconscious bias," Charlie Scharf said in a statement released on Wednesday. "There are many talented diverse individuals working at Wells Fargo and throughout the financial services industry and I never meant to imply otherwise."

The San Francisco-based Wells Fargo is now "requiring diverse candidate slates for key roles with compensation of more than $100,000 and increasing business with diverse suppliers," the statement said. Moreover, year-end bonuses for executives will be tied to "progress in improving diverse representation and inclusion in their area of responsibility."

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Bad Guys

The only good "white ally" is a dead white ally

David Cole
Taki's Magazine
Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:48 UTC
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Welcome to Amy Biehl Nation.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that it's getting harder and harder to be a "white ally" in the service of racial justice. And yet sometimes it actually does take a rocket scientist. U.K. native Nick Berry has lived in Seattle for the past quarter century. Berry is a rocket scientist, like, fer real, man (his degree is in aeronautical and astronautical engineering). Berry's your standard Seattle white male...Trump bad, masks good, Trump hates science, STEM needs diversity, etc. He's even done a TEDx talk (a rite of passage in that tribe). In his spare time, he runs a neat little science blog that's actually quite worth a visit.

Nick Berry is dying of stage IV cancer, and he's using what little time he has left to give free science lectures at colleges and universities. His politics aside, he seems like a decent enough guy who's handling his bum deal with humor and dignity.

Last week, Berry was sitting in Seattle's Ravenna Park minding his own business when a large, "muscular" black man started beating the living crap out of him. No provocation, no reason at all. White man sitting quietly in park = "that ofay devil be needin' a beatdown." Berry had to be rushed to the ER.
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Propaganda

'CNN badly misreported this': Edward Snowden debunks news story reporting he 'agreed' to give money from his book to US government


RT
Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:48 UTC
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© The Guardian via Getty Images; (insert) screenshot from CNN politicsEdward Snowden
Edward Snowden has accused CNN of twisting facts by claiming that he was willing to forfeit book proceeds in favor of the US government. He even offered a "better" headline for the contested piece.

Citing US court documents, CNN reported that Snowden "agreed" to forfeit more than $5 million he had allegedly earned from his book and speaking fees to the US government. The whistleblower reacted by saying that the news outlet has "badly misreported this."

"A) This is not a settlement; I didn't agree to it. B) The judgement from this censorship case is not enforceable while I am in exile, but I've never had that much money anyway," Snowden wrote on Twitter.

Comment: What, CNN bungle a story and present fake news to the public? Impossible [/sarcasm].

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Snowflake

Best of the Web: "Do you remember a winter without a cold?"

Daniel Jeanmonod MD
OffGuardian
Tue, 22 Sep 2020 05:24 UTC
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In the context of the current overwhelming worldwide COVID-19 panic wave, this text has as goal to provide, on a differentiated scientific basis, a different view of the corona crisis than the one still dominantly presented in the mainstream media and used by many governments and their experts to maintain protection measures imposed on whole populations.

Scientific data as well as propositions based on them will be presented, bringing together what many scientists, medical doctors, economists and lawyers have already claimed in the past months. The panic wave and the subsequent scaremongering have not allowed until today that these voices be heard sufficiently. The present specific contribution will concern the potentially deleterious and even fatal role of emotions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Joel Kettner, professor of Community Health Science at Manitoba University and Medical Director of the International Centre for Infectious Diseases declared in March 2020:
"I have never seen anything like this... I am not talking about the pandemic, because I have seen 30 of them, one every year... But I have never seen this reaction, and I am trying to understand why..."
Dr. David Jones declared recently, concerning the corona crisis, in the New England Journal of Medicine:
"History suggests that we are actually at much greater risk of exaggerated fears and misplaced priorities".
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Is evidence masks don't work being purged from the internet?

Kit Knightly
OffGuardian
Wed, 23 Sep 2020 04:28 UTC
censorship
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The dentistry journal Oral Health Group has removed a research paper from its website which found masks do not work to halt the spread of disease. They claim the paper is "no longer relevant in the current climate".

The article - "Why Face Masks Don't Work: A Revealing Review" - has been used as a source before by us before (see here), and was a great collation of all the research studies done on the effectiveness of masks as a disease prevention tool. In general it found the evidence suggested masks have little to no value as infection preventatives.

The author, John Hardie (BDS, MSc, PhD, FRCDC), is a 30-year veteran of dental practice, specialising in infection control. The paper had over 30 references and sources from academic journals and peer-reviewed studies.

It's hard to say exactly when the article was taken down, but the Wayback Machine shows it to be intact on 25th of June, simply missing from July 2nd-9th, and replaced with the current statement on July 10th.

Comment: Good resource with many studies and information on masks can be found here: The Science of Masks

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Red Flag

Flashback Black Lives Matter organizer charged with human trafficking and prostitution

Stephen Ganey
Fox4
Sat, 21 May 2016 21:26 UTC
Charles Wade
© Miami-Dade Department of CorrectionsCharles Wade
Charles Wade, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist and co-founder of Operation Help or Hush, a group that helps organize protests and social movements, has been charged in his arrest last month for human trafficking and prostitution.

Wade was arrested at a Howard Johnson Inn in Maryland on April 25. Police said he was staying in a motel room where he was allegedly pimping a 17-year-old girl, the Daily Caller reported.

His arrest was part of a sting operation in which an undercover officer responded to an ad for an encounter with a 23-year-old woman allegedly placed by Wade in an online forum frequently used by sex traffickers and prostitutes.

"Holla at me. Quick stay specials tonight and tomorrow. Independent. Fun and sexy. Text me to set up an appointment???????" the ad reads.

Comment: According to an article carried at earnthenecklace.com, it's is not clear whether Wade was convicted or sentenced. The case was closed in 2016:
Wade posted bail of $25,000 two days after his arrest. His trial was expected to begin in June 2016. It's unclear whether Charles Wade was convicted or sentenced. Maryland court records reveal that the case was closed in 2016. The exact details are not known.

Charles Wade court record
© District Court of Maryland
Charles Wade court record
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Family

Letters from the politically homeless

Bridget Phetasy
Spectator
Mon, 21 Sep 2020 20:57 UTC
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Americans aren't just fleeing liberal strongholds like California, Chicago and New York in droves. We are moving politically, too. As I often find myself caught in the crossfire of the culture wars, I also find myself at the crossroads of this migration.

Since my last column, headlined 'Why I won't vote', I've received hundreds of emails from others who feel politically homeless. I've also heard from many who have voted Democrat or Republican their entire lives and, for the first time, in 2020 will vote for the opposite party. Lifetime conservatives are voting for Biden. Independents are being radicalized to vote red or blue. People who didn't vote for Donald Trump in 2016 are enthusiastically voting for him now.

I even heard from a guy who hasn't voted since Nader but is coming out to support Trump. Many who identify as 'politically homeless' are opting to vote third party or, like me, not to vote in the presidential category at all. (Allow me to clarify something I should have made clear in my previous column: I will be voting down ballot.)
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People 2

Flashback South Korean national and hundreds charged worldwide in takedown of largest darknet child pornography website, funded by bitcoin


ice.gov
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
Site seizure notice
© USDOJ
Dozens of minor victims who were being actively abused by site users rescued

Jong Woo Son, 23, a South Korean national, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for his operation of Welcome To Video, the largest child sexual exploitation market by volume of content. The nine-count indictment was unsealed today along with a parallel civil forfeiture action. Son has also been charged and convicted in South Korea and is currently in custody serving his sentence in South Korea. An additional 337 site users residing in
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington State and Washington, D.C. as well as the United Kingdom, South Korea, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Brazil and Australia
have been arrested and charged.
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