Insight Beyond Today's News: Julian Assange

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Sunday, October 20, 2024

Begging the Attention of a Distracted People

"… I founded WikiLeaks… driven by a simple dream: to educate people about how the world works so that, through understanding, we might bring about something better.”

NEVER FORGET

Never forget the nature, implications, far-reaching consequences of IMPUNITY. Unchecked lawlessness, Abuse of human rights across the board, abuse of power, depravity—accepting the unacceptable is complicity often in barbarism, always in regress.

One nation’s influencers and entities presuming to apply domestic law across national borders (even as it is not applied or applied capriciously within that nation), “extraterritorially,” outside recognized legal jurisdiction, against foreign nationals and nations are engaged in extremism, imperialism (itself a crime). Other nations’ leaders, law enforcement and judiciary agencies, complicit by their silence or kowtowing, aid in compounding lawlessness and impunity: over and over again, literally or figuratively getting away with murder.

Critical Early October Happening Begging Attention

Here are excerpts from a transcript of Julian Assange’s testimony before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) meeting in Strasbourg, France.

Crossroads follows Crossed Rubicon

“… When powerful nations feel entitled to target individuals beyond their borders, those individuals do not stand a chance unless there are strong safeguards in place and a state willing to enforce them. Without them, no individual has a hope of defending themselves against the vast resources that a state aggressor can deploy.”

“I was formally convicted—by a foreign power—for asking for, receiving, and publishing truthful information about that power while I was in Europe. …

“Transnational repression cannot become the norm…. Journalists should not be prosecuted for doing their jobs.… Journalism is not a crime; it is a pillar of a free and informed society.… The criminalization of newsgathering activities is a threat to investigative journalism everywhere.” … “Freedom of expression and all that flows from it is at a dark crossroad.…”

Since emerging from “the dungeon of Belmarsh (Britain’s high-security prison) …, I see more impunity, more secrecy, more retaliation for telling the truth and more self-censorship. It is hard not to draw a line from the US government’s prosecution of me—their crossing the Rubicon [a limiting line once crossed commits for all time] by internationally criminalizing journalism—to the chilled climate for freedom of expression now.…

“I regret how much ground has been lost during that time period when expressing the truth has been undermined, attacked, weakened, and diminished.”

“[T]he freedom to speak and the freedom to publish the truth are not [should not be] privileges enjoyed by a few; but, rather, rights guaranteed to all.” To ensure these universal rights, “guaranteed to all,” institutions, great organizations and individuals — “conservatives, social democrats, liberals, leftists, greens, independents…,” the vast array of individuals who relentlessly supported and advocated tirelessly for his release — must keep watch, remain vigilant, and take appropriate action to ensure that “what has happened (to Assange) NEVER HAPPENS to anyone else.”

“Let us all commit to doing our part to ensure that the light of freedom never dims, that the pursuit of truth will live on, and that the voices of the many are not silenced by the interests of the few”

—Julian Assange—

“Julian Assange at PACE hearing, ahead of a plenary debate on his case: ‘I pleaded guilty to journalism’” 01/10/2024 Legal Affairs and Human Rights https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9600/julian-assange-at-pace-hearing-ahead-of-a-plenary-debate-on-his-case-i-pleaded-guilty-to-journalism-

SEPTEMBER 2024

Motion for a resolution Doc. 15777 23/05/2023
Report Doc. 16040 13/09/2024
“The detention and conviction of Julian Assange and their chilling effects on human rights”

September 2024 “Committee expresses deep concern at harsh treatment of Julian Assange, warns of its chilling effect for the press” 12/09/2024 Legal Affairs and Human Rights “PACE’s Legal Affairs Committee has warmly welcomed the release of Julian Assange but expressed deep concern at ‘the disproportionately harsh treatment’ he faced, and called on the US to investigate the alleged war crimes and human rights violations disclosed by him and Wikileaks. Approving a draft resolution based on a report by Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), the committee said the failure of the competent US authorities to prosecute the alleged perpetrators of war crimes and human rights violations committed by US state agents, combined with the harsh treatment of Mr Assange and Ms Manning, ‘creates a perception that the United States government’s purpose in prosecuting Mr Assange was to hide the wrongdoing of state agents rather than to protect national security’.”

OCTOBER 2024

Julian Assange “took part in a parliamentary hearing on his detention and conviction—and their chilling effect on human rights—ahead of a full plenary debate on this topic by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)” scheduled for Wednesday October 2, 2024. “The hearing was organized by the Assembly’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights in the framework of a report on this topic by Thorhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC).”

01/10/2024 Legal Affairs and Human Rights
https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9600/julian-assange-at-pace-hearing-ahead-of-a-plenary-debate-on-his-case-i-pleaded-guilty-to-journalism-
https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1841064879819555221

Doc. 16040 01/10/2024
Resolution Res. 2571 02/10/2024
“The detention and conviction of Julian Assange and their chilling effects on human rights”
Parliamentary Assembly, Session 2024 - Fourth part-session; Voting results: 88 in favor, 13 against, 20 abstentions https://pace.coe.int/en/files/33826#trace-4
https://pace.coe.int/en/files/33734

2020

Resolution 2317 (2020)
“Threats to media freedom and journalists’ security in Europe”
Author(s): Parliamentary Assembly
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/julian-assange-should-not-be-extradited-due-to-potential-impact-on-press-freedom-and-concerns-about-ill-treatment
https://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/XRef/Xref-XML2HTML-en.asp?fileid=28508

2022

LETTER “Commissioner calls on UK government not to extradite Julian Assange” STRASBOURG 18/05/2022 https://rm.coe.int/letter-to-priti-patel-secretary-of-state-for-the-home-department-of-th/1680a67bc0

Dunja Mijatović (Bosnia and Herzegovina) was Commissioner for Human Rights from 1st April 2018 to 31 March 2024. Before her appointment, she was Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media (2010-2017); Director of Broadcasting at the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001-2010); Chair of the European Platform of Regulatory Agencies (2007-2010) and of the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Freedom of Expression and Information in Times of Crisis (2005-2007).

2024

News 2024 after Assange’s testimony “Parliamentary Assembly recognizes Julian Assange as a ‘political prisoner’ and warns against the chilling effect of his harsh treatment” Parliamentary Assembly Strasbourg 2 October 2024 https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/pace-recognises-julian-assange-as-a-political-prisoner-and-warns-against-the-chilling-effect-of-his-harsh-treatment

Ageless
Value and Significance of
Vigilance

PHILLIPS

“Only by (continuous) agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.” “[P]ower is ever stealing from the many for the few…. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

New England abolitionist, orator, crusader, pamphleteer, suffragist, lawyer Wendell Phillips 1811- 1884

SELASSIE

“The preservation of peace and the guarantee of (humankind’s) basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance…, eternal vigilance that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and un-remedied.”

Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974) who worked to modernize his country, brought Ethiopia into the League of Nations and the United Nations, made Addis Ababa the major centre for the Organization of African Unity— Haile Selassie I (also known as Ras Tafari, Tafari Makonnen) 1892-1975.

BUCK

“When good people … cease their vigilance and struggle—evil (people) prevail.”

North American author raised in eastern China, educated by her mother and a Chinese tutor, graduated from a women’s college in Lynchburg, Virginia—Pearl S. Buck (also known as John Sedges, Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker) 1892 – 1973

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Saturday, November 18, 2023

Appealing for Justice for Assange Appeals for the Strength of America

Upholding Her Principles, Proving Her Integrity

The Mission of the Press is “to serve the governed, not the governors”—Justice Hugo Black.

Seven months ago, seven Members of the United States Congress penned a letter to the Attorney General of the United States in which they appealed for justice and keeping the sword duty of public office to uphold the Constitution of the United States in particular its First Amendment guaranteeing press freedom— “by dropping the criminal charges against Australian publisher Julian Assange and withdrawing the American extradition request currently pending with the British government.”

Seven United States Members of Congress for Assange

April 11, 2023 Alphabetically by surname

1. Jamaal Anthony BOWMAN-New York-2 U.S. Congresses 117th – 118th (2021 – present)

2. Cori Anika BUSH-Missouri- 2 U.S. Congresses 117th – 118th (2021 – Present)

3. Gregorio Eduardo CASAR-Texas - 1 current U.S. Congress 118th (2023 – Present). Previously Austin City Council Member

4. Alexandria OCASIO-Cortez-New York-1 current U.S. Congress 118th (2023 – Present)

5. Ilhan Abdullahi OMAR-Minnesota- 3 U.S. Congresses 116th – 118th (2019 – present). Previously State of Minnesota House of Representatives

6. Ayanna Soyini PRESSLEY-Massachusetts-3 U.S. Congresses 116th – 118th (2019 – present). Previously Boston City Council Member

7. Rashida Harbi TLAIB-Michigan- 3 U.S. Congresses ((116th-118th Congresses) 2019-present). Previously State of Michigan House of Representatives

At the time that letter was published, the Defending Rights & Dissent organization in a press release recalled some of the history of the persecution and prosecution of Julian Assange.

On April 11, 2019, after seven years of what was effectively incarceration in the Ecuadoran embassy in London, a change of government in Ecuador rescinded the WikiLeaks publisher/journalist’s citizenship; and turned him over to British authorities. This action “followed years of (USA) CIA plotting against Assange that included “drawing up ‘options’” for assassinating the journalist, “contracting with the security company charged with surveilling the Ecuadorian embassy.”

When the changed government of Ecuador betrayed Assange and turned him over to British agents, men arrived at the embassy (usually an place of protection) and dragged Julian Assange out of the Ecuadoran embassy in London and threw him into a vehicle that curried him to Britain’s maximum-security-made-for-murders Belmarsh Prison to languish while “fighting” (via representatives, supporters, family) extradition demanded by powerful U.S. interests, agents, entities and individuals.

The signatories to the April U.S. Congressional letter said, “The prosecution of Julian Assange for carrying out journalistic activities” weakens the credibility of the United States “as a defender of these values.”

The action undermines the moral standing of United States on the world stage, and effectively grants cover to authoritarianism—rejecting valid, evidence-based human rights conventions; and supplanting rule of law and human rights conventions with precedent that “justifies the criminalization of journalistic reporting.”

UK/USA combined government complicity and powerful impunity holds Assange suspended in one tortuous condition awaiting (and fearing) transfer to another even worse USA Guantanamo Bay-like eventuality.

The Congressional signatories conclude their appeal to the AG by suggesting the obvious. “At any moment…, by simply dropping the U.S. charges” against Assange, “the U.S. Department of Justice can halt the harmful proceedings (against Assange) ….”

“Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government,” attributed to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black.

his week a few more Members of the U.S. Congress and one Member of the Senate followed the example of their colleagues, this time addressed to the Forty-sixth President of the United States of America.

“We have deep concerns about the (USA vs.) Assange case,” wrote one Member of Congress in a press release at his official website, as it reflects “an alarming global trend” happening in countries around the world (including the United States)”: “… attacks against the freedom of the press.”

“Journalism is not a crime,” Congressman James McGovern declares. “The work reporters do is about transparency, trust, and speaking truth to power. When they are unjustly targeted, all of us suffer the consequences.

“The stakes are too high for us to remain silent.”

Sixteen United States Lawmakers for Assange

November 2023 Alphabetically by surname

1. Jamaal Anthony BOWMAN-New York - 2 U.S. Congresses (House) 117th – 118th (2021 – present)

2. Eric Wayne BURLISON-Missouri - 1 current U.S. Congress (House) 118th (2023 – Present). Previously Member of State of Missouri House and Senate (successively)

3. Cori Anika BUSH-Missouri - 2 U.S Congresses (House) 117th – 118th (2021 – Present)

4. Gregorio Eduardo CASAR-Texas - 1 current U.S. Congress (House) 118th (2023 – Present). Previously Austin City Council Member

5. Jesús G. “Chuy” GARCÍA-Illinois -1 current U.S. Congress (House) 118th (2023 – Present). Previously Member of Chicago City Council, Member of State of Illinois Senate, Board of Commissioners of Cook County (successively)

6. Paul Anthony GOSAR-Arizona - 7 U.S. Congresses (House) 112th – 118th (2011 – Present)

7. Marjorie Taylor GREENE-Georgia - 2 U.S. Congresses (House) 117th – 118th (2021 – Present)

8. Pramila JAYAPAL-State of Washington - 4 U.S. Congresses (House) 115th-118th (2015 - Present). Previously Member of the State of Washington Senate

9. James Patrick McGOVERN-Massachusetts -14 U.S. Congresses (House) 105th – 118th (1997 – Present)

10. Thomas Harold MASSIE-Kentucky - 7 U.S. Congresses (House) 112th – 118th (2012 – Present). Previously Judge/Executive (U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky head of executive branch of Lewis County government)

11. Alexandria OCASIO-Cortez-New York -1 current U.S. Congress (House) 118th (2023 – Present)

12. Ilhan Abdullahi OMAR-Minnesota 3 U.S. Congresses (House) 116th – 118th (2019 – present). Previously State of Minnesota House of Representatives

13. Randal Howard PAUL-Kentucky 7 U.S. Congresses (Senate) 112th – 118th (2011 – Present)

14. Ayanna Soyini PRESSLEY-Massachusetts 3 U.S. Congresses (House) 116th – 118th (2019 – present). Previously Boston City Council Member

15. Matthew Martin ROSENDALE Sr.-Montana - 2 U.S. Congresses (House) 117th – 118th (2021 – Present). Previously Member of State of Montana House and Senate and Auditor (successively)

16. Rashida Harbi TLAIB-Michigan - 3 U.S. Congresses (House) (116th-118th Congresses) 2019-present). Previously State of Michigan House of Representatives

Governance by Caprice, Pandering and Self Interest

Governments, Leadership, Public officials Upholding Law, Justice under Law, International Conventions, Universal Human Rights

In distinguishing U.S. law and the intentions of law from self-interest or capriciousness, the November letter writers note that the “Espionage Act” of 1917 “was ostensibly intended to punish and imprison government employees and contractors for providing or selling state secrets to enemy governments.”

The “Espionage Act” was “not intended to punish journalists and whistleblowers for attempting to inform the public about serious issues—that some U.S. government officials might prefer to keep secret.” An essential code allied with the institution of a free press must be upheld:

“It is the duty of journalists to seek out sources, including documentary evidence, in order to report to the public on the activities of government.”

Government must refrain from pursuing “unnecessary prosecution that risks criminalizing common journalistic practices and thus chilling the work of the free press.”

Final Note from Black and UDHR

“Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.”

— Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States August 17, 1937- September 17, 1971 HUGO L. BLACK born in Harlan, Alabama (February 27, 1886)—

More generally the Universal Declaration of Human Rights notes among its articles

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Other Sources

Official U.S. House website of Congresswoman Tlaib “Tlaib Leads Letter to DOJ to Drop Charges against Julian Assange; Defends Freedom of Press,” April 11, 2023 https://tlaib.house.gov/posts/tlaib-leads-letter-to-doj-to-drop-charges-against-julian-assange-defends-freedom-of-press

PDF https://d12t4t5x3vyizu.cloudfront.net/tlaib.house.gov/uploads/2023/04/Congressional-Letter-to-DOJ-on-Julian-Assange-Indictment_Final.pdf

General reference and Congressional sources
https://bioguide.congress.gov/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Congresses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/118th_United_States_Congress

Official U.S. House website of Congressman McGovern November 14, 2023, “McGovern, Massie Issue Bipartisan, Bicameral Call for U.S. to Drop Charges against Julian Assange,”
https://mcgovern.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=400050
https://mcgovern.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20231107_assangecase_presbiden.pdf

Hugo Black https://supremecourthistory.org/associate-justices/hugo-black-1937-1971/
https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment1/first-amendment-freedom-of-the-press.html
https://www.azquotes.com/author/1445-Hugo_Black

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Sunday, June 11, 2023

RW Reagan to JR Biden Era Americans abstracted, careless of smoke and mirrors

Bamboozled, hoodwinked, duped, swindled!

At least two contemporary-era U.S. presidents, Ronald Wilson Reagan (40th) and Donald John Trump (45th), were actors involved in large and small screen film; and thus, would be (or would have been) intimately familiar, in more than one sense, with act and concept of smoke and mirrors.

Image examined closely proves illusion

Washington and Co Powers That Be (pageantries of puppet and puppeteers) in perpetual disguise (hiding their true face, covering their unspeakable acts) draw public attention away from hard facts, unpleasant reality; high crimes and consequences; deliberate causation of social, economic, political, governmental, health and educational, human and interpersonal, global crises.

One writer reflected on the current headline-grabbing, social and traditional media madmen (madwomen) promoting spectacle of indicters and indicted (accusers and accused, proponents and opponents).

Don’t be fooled.

Essayist Eric London warns the working class about taking sides “in the conflict within the ruling elite.” It is necessary, he advises, “that the working class elaborates a clear and independent position by refusing to take sides in this crisis between two reactionary factions of US imperialism.”

The 38-count federal criminal indictment against the forty-fifth President of the United States neither references nor upholds “democratic rights” or laws enshrined in the Constitution of the United States (or focuses on the violation of these).

This latest indictment of convenience (lodged not many years ago against U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning and Australian journalist Julian Assange, also the same section used against a U.S. National Guard intelligence officer “for disclosing classified documents related to US involvement in preparing and prosecuting [undeclared] war in Ukraine”) is harnessed to “US imperialism’s most powerful statutory tool for guarding high-level secrets”: the 1917 Espionage Act.

In its original definition, dating at least a century (long before Woodrow Wilson or World War I), Espionage meant spying: “the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government.”

Espionage Act 1917

Rooted in paranoia and exploited fear of “internal threats” (left-right / red-blue / difference-dissent in today's but not only today's terms) — “posed especially by foreign-born Americans,” the 28th U.S. President more than a year before the U.S. entry into World War I pressured the Congress to pass the “Espionage Act” whose enactment in 1917 became governmental entities and individuals’ catchall for targeting almost anyone (“including pacifists, neutralists, communists, anarchists, and socialists”) “who opposed war.”

Setting aside paranoia for the moment, it would appear that the Espionage Act, in its original intent, was to be used in a time of declared war, which means a formal document (a “formal declaration” catalogued by the federal register, congressional record, national archives and other official libraries) had been issued by the Government of the United States comprised of three branches documented and including the Executive signature and advice and consent of the Legislative Branch, stating outright that a state of war exists between the USA and some other nation.

The truth is the United States has not declared war in more than 80 years (the last time in 1942 war was declared against Axis-allied Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania).

This means that for all the years after 1942, United States entities and individuals have commanded, committed and acquiesced to criminal (extra judicial) acts of aggression against nations.

Not only that. They have done so wantonly, recklessly and with impunity against nations, leaders, peoples, various individuals who have never (not ever) in any way shape or form attacked or threatened the United States of America or its people.

Espionage Act (Silencer) 1918-2013 Debs to Snowden

World War I ended in 1918 and prominent labor leader, five-time Socialist Party of America presidential candidate, and staunch critic of U.S. involvement in the war (including speaking out against registration for military draft) Eugene V. Debs was charged and convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act.

1973 RAND Corporation think tank employee and military analyst Daniel Ellsberg (who exposed to the press the 37th President’s “decision-making process in conducting and continuing the U.S. participation in the Vietnam War”) was charged under the Act.

2010 U.S. Army Private First Class (born Bradley Edward Manning) Chelsea Manning (concerning disclosure to the press of “classified or sensitive military documents” regarding U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) was charged and (2013) convicted by a military tribunal under the Act.

2013(June) Former CIA employee and U.S. government contractor Edward Snowden (involving leaks to journalists of “classified National Security Agency (NSA) documents dealing with U.S. global surveillance programs”) was charged under the Act.

Espionage Act Today

Today, the Espionage Act of 1917 continues to be used to criminalize “spying” or other acts interpreted as “aiding an enemy of the United States.” In what seems to be an acceleration of serial carelessness or individual convenience, the Act is being used against people “who, for any reason, divulge or share classified government information without permission.”

The current indictment barrage “is based entirely on defending the prerogatives of the military-intelligence apparatus…,” London writes. The cast of performers—promoters and detractors (left-right-center, indicted and indicters)—are equally “ruthless imperialist politicians” differing only in their choice of “tactics.”

Exposed in the prosecutorial charging narrative—heretofore hidden from the body politic, the people of the United States, the populace, the public and deliberately ignored by complicit media and press— is “advanced-stage planning for world war, including war involving strategic nuclear weapons.”

London explains:

“Behind the backs of the population—in rooms to which the public is barred from entering and without any serious inquiry from the corporate media—leading military and intelligence officials are gaming the impact of nuclear exchanges and tallying the cost to human life of various military options being planned in American imperialism’s desperate struggle for world domination.”

The problem (or rather part of a multifaceted problem) we have in the United States is this.

We are trying to run (stand tall and run) with one leg amputated sans prosthesis or crutch and one arm tied behind our back. We are hampered in being Americans, in performing (and taking pride in performing) our civic duties as citizens of the United States of America Americans because of the ideology, actions, the unprincipled and indeed anti-American nature an inbred gerontocratic, kleptocratic uniparty (and friends).

Younger Americans never having been taught the meaning of citizenship give no thought to their citizenry duty.

Older Americans are bitter, cynical, submissive; or all three.

Incestuous anachronistic leadership and dominating noise in various media have sucked the life blood out of otherwise able-bodied citizens.

Narcissistic actors and dreamers of world domination show themselves to be equally contemptuous and uncaring of America and Americans as they are of other nations and peoples.

London is right. Americans must not be fooled by the pageantry. Do not succumb to smoke and mirrors. Do not take sides with the destroyers.

Instead, work out in detail and with other workers “a clear and independent position, refusing to take sides in the crisis between two reactionary factions of US imperialism.”

Sources

London, Eric, “Justice Department indicts Trump for retaining top secret military plans.” June 10, 2023, https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/10/pxrz-j10.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/authors/Eric-London

Longley, Robert. “The Espionage Act of 1917: Definition, Summary, and History.” ThoughtCo, December 6, 2021, thoughtco.com/1917-espionage-act-4177012 https://www.thoughtco.com/1917-espionage-act-4177012

Related
Kishore, Joseph (perspective). “The indictment of Donald Trump: A politically bankrupt diversion.” March 31, 2023, https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/01/pers-a01.html
Martin, Patrick. “Trump indicted on seven federal charges in documents case.” June 9, 2023
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/09/gnso-j09.html

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Saturday, October 8, 2022

Nobel Con sits atop the Stack of Speakers in Opposites

Humanitarianism means robbing, bombing, massacring, maiming, starving, and displacing people. Peace means unending global aggression and lauding the same. Nobel Peace means Nobel War Prize

One writer, putting it mildly, says the Nobel Prize for Peace “has of late been losing its shine.” A little stronger, though indirectly, the writer continues:“When globally recognized awards are seen to be handed out on political considerations, they raise a good number of legitimate questions.”

And “the respect associated with such awards takes a slide downward to a point where” (like beauty contests and other nonsensical exercises) “they are no longer taken seriously.”

The writer notes some of the Nobel Cons’ Admissions and Prohibitions.

P

rohibited Individuals and Leaders of Peace and Progress

Four statesmen of Asia, Africa, Southeastern Europe “who developed the theory of non-alignment” originating in conference in 1961 at Belgrade, Yugoslavia (the Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries). Remember: America’s 42nd President, William Jefferson Blythe III (aka William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton) of the later Haiti "humanitarian relief" ("do-gooding") notorious Clinton Foundation, destroyed Yugoslavia.

Nehru (Jawaharlal Nehru, India)
Sukarno (b. Koesno Sosrodihardjo, Indonesia)
Nasser (Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, Egypt)
Tito (Josip Broz known as Tito, Yugoslavia)

Asia
Mao Zedong and Zhou En-lai
Chinese statesmen and leaders who “went forth in inaugurating a brave new enterprise with the United States in 1972”

Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani leaders who worked to build “a structure of peace in South Asia through the tripartite agreement of April 1974” (Bangladesh-India-Pakistan Agreement signed in New Delhi April 9, 1974; and Agreement on the Repatriation of Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees, at New Delhi, April 9, 1974)

Caribbean
(Cuban) leader Fidel Castro (Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz)

For more than sixty years until Castro’s death (and continuing), governments (leaders, politicians, allies) of the United States tried, repeatedly, to assassinate Cuba’s leader; and they “have invaded, sanctioned, and embargoed the island country of some 11 million people.

Yet under Castro’s leadership, “Cuba has demonstrated that a poor country can dramatically improve the health of its population through long-term, consistent investments in primary care and public health.”

The infant mortality rate, since Cuba’s 1959 revolution, fell from “37.3 to 4.3 per 1000 live births.” The rate is lower than the USA’s 5.8 rate; Cuba’s literacy rate is 99.8 percent. (Source: The Commonwealth Fund, November 28, 2016, “Fidel Castro’s Health Care Legacy, To the Point”

By contrast the literacy rate in the United States is 2022 was reported at a level more than 20 points lower: 43.0 million United States adults suffer “low literacy”: one in five U.S. adults (21 percent) have low literacy skills; 79 percent “have medium to high English literacy skills.” (Source: World Population Review)

“Cuba has trained a surplus of physicians in its 13 medical schools; and, annually, sends 50,000 health professionals (among them “25,000 physicians”) to other countries “to provide care in developing countries.”

The Nobel Committee failed to consider Fidel Castro’s achievements “in building a strong health system in Cuba” and helping Cubans reestablish their self-confidence

Africa (South Central), Asia

Hakainde Hichilema (politician, farmer, businessman, head of state (2011- ))
President of Zambia “who has inaugurated a fresh new beginning in ensuring democracy and human rights in his country”

Atal Behari Vajpayee
In the 1990s, undertook “bus diplomacy in his search for peace with Pakistan

[“Atal Bihari Vajpayee was one of the most respected politicians in India,” credited as an “excellent administrator” and for “good governance.” He was India’s Prime Minister in 1996, and from 1998 to 2004.]

Organizations, Consortiums, Governments

Edhi Foundation of Pakistan
Founded by legendary Pakistani philanthropist and humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi, the foundation operates hospitals, orphanages, homeless shelters and rehab centers throughout Pakistan; and has for decades brought “relief assistance to millions of people in distress”

Governments of Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia in recent times have been working to establish programs focused on ending poverty and creating welfare-oriented societies.

The Andean Community (Spanish: Comunidad Andina, CAN) made up of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru “is a leading international organization in integration within the continent that works to improve the quality of life of 111 million Andean citizens.” It promotes “the balanced and harmonious development of the Member Countries in conditions of equity, through integration and economic and social cooperation.” Consortium: Member Countries Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru; Partner Countries Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; Observer Countries Spain, Morocco, Türkiye.

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dmitted Russiaphobes

War-Propaganda Nobel Peace Prize 2022: Politically-Motivated Nobel Committee

Awarded to Belarusian Ales Bialiatski

Belarus is one of nine core members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a regional intergovernmental organization in Eastern Europe and Asia. The core members are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan

The recipient of the “peace” award is a Russian born of Belarusian parents who, in recent times, became a felon jailed in 2021 for tax evasion, and is still serving a seven-year prison sentence. In their anti-Slav politics, the prize awarders lauded (or used) Ales Viktaravich Bialiatski as their tireless champion of the West’s favorite delusional and contradictory, misused and abused mantras “democracy” and “human rights.”

Awarded to anti Russia Ukrainian, and Interloper

Kyiv (US-conveniently allied) Ukraine-founded (2007) Center for Civil Liberties (enough said)

An Anti-Russian (Memorial) group lauded for being “against” Russian “militarism” (while applauding US militarism); lauded for promoting the International Criminal Court while applauding U.S. officials’ repeated, unbridled attacks on the ICC (of which the US is not a member), including issuing threats against the lead prosecutor of the Court. So much for protectors and advocates of “human rights”, “the rule of law,” and in particular “international law.”

It is an open secret that organizations masquerading as nongovernmental organizations are often destabilizing cells that burrow into countries (like the Soros cell in the United States and Central Europe, and CIA pawns everywhere) to indoctrinate and radicalize the young, undermine seated officials, overthrow governments, and generally violate the sovereignty of sovereign nations.

The Nobel awarded Memorial organization is a group long situated in Moscow and supported by the Collective West. It was charged by the Russian justice system with violating the Russian “foreign agent law,” a charge often made by US officials against “foreigners.”
At court, the Prosecution accused the group of “creating an image of the Soviet Union as a ‘terrorist’ state” and making contemporary Russians “repent for the Soviet past….” The Supreme Court of Russia on December 28, 2021 “ordered the International Memorial Society and its regional branches to close (for having) violated the 2012 foreign agent law.”

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ainfully Ignored by Nobel is WikiLeaks founder and journalist Julian Assange who committed no crime, no injustice, not abuse of human rights; but who languishes (by US command) in her or his majesty’s hardened criminals container at Belmarsh.

Silent is the almighty Nobel Committee and friends about scores of individuals tormented in countless and unspeakable ways by US and US-allied officials and governments.

Perhaps the Nobel Peace fraudsters prefer

handing out tosh to tormenters.

Sources

General Reference

Article: “Devaluing the Nobel Prize for Peace,” The Business Standard, https://www.tbsnews.net/analysis/devaluing-nobel-prize-peace-509958

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Sunday, April 28, 2019

Refusing to stop crimes against humanity connotes complicity in crimes against humanity

Jacob Appelbaum and his words

“I believe we are complicit in crimes against humanity when we know about them and when we don’t stop them. … It is quite clear that every single person in this room has in some way contributed to the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan

“…I wonder how you all feel about knowing that you were the ones, I am the one who has funded every bullet that has shot a child and every woman who has to come home to a family that has been decimated by troops…

“Where there is no justice

“Where people don’t have recourse of any kind whatsoever where the standard operating procedure is for someone to take a 50 caliber machine gun and shoot across the engine block and kill the driver.”

“… When you are talking about how some information might be worth hiding and maybe there are some times when some secrets should be kept—

Remember, what you’re saying is that someone else is more qualified to make a decision than you are—

This is an extremely anti-democratic thought process and

You should reject it.”

io briefly

American independent journalist, computer security researcher, artist, and hacker, Jacob Appelbaum “has displayed his art in a number of institutions across the world and has collaborated with artists such as Laura Poitras, Trevor Paglen, and Ai Weiwei.”

He is “known for representing WikiLeaks”; has been “employed by the University of Washington”; “was a core member of the Tor project, a free software network designed to provide online anonymity”; and has had his “journalistic work published in many news sources including Der Spiegel, its online sibling “Spiegel Online, “known in German-speaking countries mostly for its investigative journalism.”

alient events

2005: Appelbaum speaks “at the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress” on “Bringing Technology and New Media to Disaster Areas” and “Modern Disk Encryption Systems”

2010: Appelbaum represents “Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a keynote address at the HOPE conference. FBI agents were planning to detain him after his talk, but organizers disguised him and slipped him out through an alternative exit.”

2012: Appelbaum is a contributor (with Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann) to Julian Assange’s published work Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet

2013: Applebaum gives keynote speech on “Data Protection and Cyber-Security in India at ‘Consilience 2013’ organized by National Law School of India University, Bengaluru,” capital city of the Indian state of Karnataka.

2013: Appelbaum is among several people to gain access to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s top secret documents released in 2013”; and, as a journalist, Appelbaum “has contributed extensively to the publication of those documents.”

August 2013: Appelbaum delivers “Edward Snowden’s acceptance speech after he (Snowden) was awarded the biannual Whistleblower Prize by a group of NGOs at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.”

October 23, 2013: Appelbaum and other writers and editors at Der Spiegel report that “their investigations had led German Chancellor Angela Merkel to confront the U.S. government over evidence that it was monitoring her personal cell phone.” US President Barack Obama issues “an ambiguously worded denial and apology.”

December 28 2013: at the Chaos Communication Congress, Appelbaum presents documents showing that the NSA can turn iPhones into eavesdropping tools and (NSA) has developed devices to harvest electronic information from a computer even if the computer is not online.” A Der Spiegel investigative team, including Appelbaum, publishes simultaneously “findings (and) a descriptive list of the surveillance devices making up the NSA ANT catalog.”

[NSA ANT catalog: “a 50-page classified document listing technology available to the United States National Security Agency (NSA) Tailored Access Operations (TAO) by the Advanced Network Technology (ANT) Division to aid in cyber surveillance.”]

July 3, 2014: German broadcaster NDR/ARD carries disclosures by Appelbaum and others about the operation of NSA’s top-secret XKeyscore surveillance software, including source code proving that one of Appelbaum’s computers had been targeted.[

U.S. law enforcement agencies have repeatedly targeted Appelbaum.

hange of Domicile

2012: Appelbaum changes his residency and works under a freelance visa in Berlin, Germany, because he “does not feel safe” in the United States, preferring Germany’s “strong German privacy protections.”

September 2015: Appelbaum since this date reportedly has been studying in a doctoral program “under Tanja Lange and Daniel J. Bernstein at the Eindhoven University of Technology,” a technical university in the Netherlands, operating in English; regarded “a leading European university in engineering and technology and a world’s top university in terms of research cooperation with industry.”