THE ASSANGE ARREST IS A WARNING FROM HISTORY ...
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Amid the attempted prosecution of Julian Assange, the world is in a surreal moment where the truth has been turned on its head. A groupthink has emerged which collectively rejects history and facts so it can stick with the narrative that Assange deserves his persecution. As always, it’s ambiguous whether all the propagandists believe their own lies, and it doesn’t matter whether they do; they’re doing what the centers of power require of them, which is to reinforce the official story.
The same goes for regular people. When they tell us that Russia hacked the DNC and gave emails to WikiLeaks, we’re supposed to go along with this consensus within our political circles, whether or not we know this claim has long been disproven by forensic evidence. When they say Assange should be prosecuted for “conspiracy to commit computer intrusion,” we shouldn’t object, even if we remember that Obama’s DOJ found this very same charge against Assange was not a legitimate reason for prosecution.
Since 2013, when the U.S. government implemented the negation of a 1948 law which banned the use of government psyops on American citizens, these operations for deceiving the American public about Assange and WikiLeaks have thoroughly permeated the media environment both in the U.S. and abroad. (With the media’s eager collaboration.)
These and the other aspects of the corporate media’s mythology around WikiLeaks, from the claim that they’ve “doctored” emails to the claim that their founder is a rapist, are simply part of what we need to accept in order to be part of the establishment’s clique. As C.J. Hopkins has written about the media’s war against Assange, “The demonization of the empire’s enemies is not a deception … it is a loyalty test. It is a ritual in which the masses (who, let’s face it, are de facto slaves) are ordered to display their fealty to their masters, and their hatred of their masters’ enemies.”
So many people numbly absorb this propaganda because they’re not aware of the vast and sophisticated machine which seeks to mold their minds. The smear campaign against Assange has been filled with psychological tricks that are reminiscent of CIA public opinion influence operations. It’s likely no coincidence that Assange has been slandered with accusations of pedophelia when the “pedophile” smear is a known CIA character assassination tactic that’s been used to undermine numerous activists. Neither has it been a chance occurrence for Assange and WikiLeaks to be frequently characterized as Russian assets at a moment when the CIA and other facets of the deep state seek to reignite anti-Russian hysteria.
The U.S. government’s role in the effort to destroy Assange’s reputation is made even more obvious from the fact that in 2008, central actors within the intelligence community outright promised to carry out a character assassination campaign against him. In 2008, the Cyber Counter-intelligence Assessment Branch of the US Defense Department created a secret document which explained their plan to destroy both WikiLeaks and Julian. This plan-which has no doubt been shared by the CIA-is summarized by John Pilger as follows:
They described in detail how important it was to destroy, and I quote, “the feeling of trust that is Wikileaks’ centre of gravity”. This would be achieved, they wrote, with threats of exposure and criminal prosecution and an unrelenting assault on reputation.
Since 2013, when the U.S. government implemented the negation of a 1948 law which banned the use of government psyops on American citizens, these operations for deceiving the American public about Assange and WikiLeaks have thoroughly permeated the media environment both in the U.S. and abroad. The relentless and sometimes almost identical hit pieces from The Guardian, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and other major publications throughout the West hint at a coordinated effort behind the scenes to drive popular sentiment against the favor of WikiLeaks and Assange.
The often grotesque nature of the attacks against Assange-like the slander that he smeared feces on the walls of the Ecuadorian embassy or the unsubstantiated claim that he often smells bad-also show the carefully considered lies that go into the attacks against Assange. These attempts to make people see the man as physically repulsive serve the function of making people unwilling to listen to the logical arguments for why they should oppose his prosecution. They’re textbook pieces of psychological manipulation, ones which could easily originate from the CIA psychologists who study how to mold people’s perceptions.
This all makes it logical that at this moment, at a time when the U.S. government is close to prosecuting Assange for practicing journalism, the Western media’s years-long practice of lying about Assange is being ramped up. For example, when I do a search for Assange’s name, the very first thing that comes up is a hit piece from The Guardian titled: “I love stories of badly-behaved houseguests — and Julian Assange has raised the bar.” There are also articles accusing Assange of lying about Seth Rich being the source of the DNC emails because Mueller’s new report claims-despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary-that Russia hacked the DNC. The empire’s propagandists need to find a way to get people not to worry about the dangerous implications for press freedom that Assange’s prosecution would entail, and continuing to destroy Assange’s character is the route they’ve taken.
The campaign against Assange has ironically revealed the most about the character of the people who’ve been behind it. From studying the lies that top government and media figures tell about Assange, and from noticing the emotional tricks that they strategically put into their lies, we’ve learned that these people collectively behave as a sociopath. To serve their cause of advancing the agenda of the U.S./NATO empire, they lie routinely and without remorse. The only thing that matters to them is protecting power. This fact makes it clear how to defeat them: treat them as the professional manipulators that they are, and resist their manipulations in the same way one would resist the manipulations of an abusive partner.
And in the case of both personal relationships and politics, the biggest rule for breaking free from a sociopathic manipulator can be summarized as: don’t let yourself be gaslighted. The people driving Assange’s persecution want you to disregard what you know to be true so that you’ll conform to their narratives. If we take this psychological power away from them and determinedly speak out against their smears against Assange, they won’t be able to control the narrative about Assange any longer.
The same goes for regular people. When they tell us that Russia hacked the DNC and gave emails to WikiLeaks, we’re supposed to go along with this consensus within our political circles, whether or not we know this claim has long been disproven by forensic evidence. When they say Assange should be prosecuted for “conspiracy to commit computer intrusion,” we shouldn’t object, even if we remember that Obama’s DOJ found this very same charge against Assange was not a legitimate reason for prosecution.
Since 2013, when the U.S. government implemented the negation of a 1948 law which banned the use of government psyops on American citizens, these operations for deceiving the American public about Assange and WikiLeaks have thoroughly permeated the media environment both in the U.S. and abroad. (With the media’s eager collaboration.)
These and the other aspects of the corporate media’s mythology around WikiLeaks, from the claim that they’ve “doctored” emails to the claim that their founder is a rapist, are simply part of what we need to accept in order to be part of the establishment’s clique. As C.J. Hopkins has written about the media’s war against Assange, “The demonization of the empire’s enemies is not a deception … it is a loyalty test. It is a ritual in which the masses (who, let’s face it, are de facto slaves) are ordered to display their fealty to their masters, and their hatred of their masters’ enemies.”
So many people numbly absorb this propaganda because they’re not aware of the vast and sophisticated machine which seeks to mold their minds. The smear campaign against Assange has been filled with psychological tricks that are reminiscent of CIA public opinion influence operations. It’s likely no coincidence that Assange has been slandered with accusations of pedophelia when the “pedophile” smear is a known CIA character assassination tactic that’s been used to undermine numerous activists. Neither has it been a chance occurrence for Assange and WikiLeaks to be frequently characterized as Russian assets at a moment when the CIA and other facets of the deep state seek to reignite anti-Russian hysteria.
The U.S. government’s role in the effort to destroy Assange’s reputation is made even more obvious from the fact that in 2008, central actors within the intelligence community outright promised to carry out a character assassination campaign against him. In 2008, the Cyber Counter-intelligence Assessment Branch of the US Defense Department created a secret document which explained their plan to destroy both WikiLeaks and Julian. This plan-which has no doubt been shared by the CIA-is summarized by John Pilger as follows:
They described in detail how important it was to destroy, and I quote, “the feeling of trust that is Wikileaks’ centre of gravity”. This would be achieved, they wrote, with threats of exposure and criminal prosecution and an unrelenting assault on reputation.
Since 2013, when the U.S. government implemented the negation of a 1948 law which banned the use of government psyops on American citizens, these operations for deceiving the American public about Assange and WikiLeaks have thoroughly permeated the media environment both in the U.S. and abroad. The relentless and sometimes almost identical hit pieces from The Guardian, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and other major publications throughout the West hint at a coordinated effort behind the scenes to drive popular sentiment against the favor of WikiLeaks and Assange.
The often grotesque nature of the attacks against Assange-like the slander that he smeared feces on the walls of the Ecuadorian embassy or the unsubstantiated claim that he often smells bad-also show the carefully considered lies that go into the attacks against Assange. These attempts to make people see the man as physically repulsive serve the function of making people unwilling to listen to the logical arguments for why they should oppose his prosecution. They’re textbook pieces of psychological manipulation, ones which could easily originate from the CIA psychologists who study how to mold people’s perceptions.
This all makes it logical that at this moment, at a time when the U.S. government is close to prosecuting Assange for practicing journalism, the Western media’s years-long practice of lying about Assange is being ramped up. For example, when I do a search for Assange’s name, the very first thing that comes up is a hit piece from The Guardian titled: “I love stories of badly-behaved houseguests — and Julian Assange has raised the bar.” There are also articles accusing Assange of lying about Seth Rich being the source of the DNC emails because Mueller’s new report claims-despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary-that Russia hacked the DNC. The empire’s propagandists need to find a way to get people not to worry about the dangerous implications for press freedom that Assange’s prosecution would entail, and continuing to destroy Assange’s character is the route they’ve taken.
The campaign against Assange has ironically revealed the most about the character of the people who’ve been behind it. From studying the lies that top government and media figures tell about Assange, and from noticing the emotional tricks that they strategically put into their lies, we’ve learned that these people collectively behave as a sociopath. To serve their cause of advancing the agenda of the U.S./NATO empire, they lie routinely and without remorse. The only thing that matters to them is protecting power. This fact makes it clear how to defeat them: treat them as the professional manipulators that they are, and resist their manipulations in the same way one would resist the manipulations of an abusive partner.
And in the case of both personal relationships and politics, the biggest rule for breaking free from a sociopathic manipulator can be summarized as: don’t let yourself be gaslighted. The people driving Assange’s persecution want you to disregard what you know to be true so that you’ll conform to their narratives. If we take this psychological power away from them and determinedly speak out against their smears against Assange, they won’t be able to control the narrative about Assange any longer.
Ritafee
Is Being Human
Julian Assange refused to surrender to a US extradition request during a hearing in London on Thursday.
"I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many, many awards and protected many people," Assange told the judge. The court has now adjourned until May 30, when a procedural hearing will take place, with a more substantive hearing scheduled for June 12.
The extradition hearing took place just one day after Assange was sentenced in Southwark Crown Court to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail in 2012.
The WIkiLeaks founder has vowed to fight extradition to the US.
Supporters of Assange protested outside the court with banners, while others attempted to get into the courtroom to support the WikiLeaks founder. Seating in the court was ticketed, but tickets were only allocated to a handful of members of the press. Outside the courtroom, members of the public shouted "shame," as well as "this is a disgrace," and "this is illegal."
Representatives from WikiLeaks and supporters had called in advance to check whether they would be allowed in, but after going through court security, they found the small courtroom chosen for the hearing didn't have the capacity to accommodate them.
"This is a British court that has lied to the public and has denied them access to a case which is highly controversial, they knew was going to have a lot of public support and what's more there's no one supporting the actual defendant," added supporter Karen Meidl. "We were told by the guards at the door that this order not to let anyone in other than the press came from the Ministry of Justice."
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice declined to comment on the accusation, but reiterated that the hearing had allocated seating.
"I do not wish to surrender myself for extradition for doing journalism that has won many, many awards and protected many people," Assange told the judge. The court has now adjourned until May 30, when a procedural hearing will take place, with a more substantive hearing scheduled for June 12.
The extradition hearing took place just one day after Assange was sentenced in Southwark Crown Court to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail in 2012.
The WIkiLeaks founder has vowed to fight extradition to the US.
Supporters of Assange protested outside the court with banners, while others attempted to get into the courtroom to support the WikiLeaks founder. Seating in the court was ticketed, but tickets were only allocated to a handful of members of the press. Outside the courtroom, members of the public shouted "shame," as well as "this is a disgrace," and "this is illegal."
Representatives from WikiLeaks and supporters had called in advance to check whether they would be allowed in, but after going through court security, they found the small courtroom chosen for the hearing didn't have the capacity to accommodate them.
"This is a British court that has lied to the public and has denied them access to a case which is highly controversial, they knew was going to have a lot of public support and what's more there's no one supporting the actual defendant," added supporter Karen Meidl. "We were told by the guards at the door that this order not to let anyone in other than the press came from the Ministry of Justice."
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice declined to comment on the accusation, but reiterated that the hearing had allocated seating.
Wow.
Dana Rohrabacher denies offering Assange a pardon from Trump
Dana Rohrabacher denies a claim he offered a White House clemency deal to the Wikileaks founder.
www.bbc.com
...but the article says... Assange's lawyer is saying Assange is now claiming the opposite, and that the reason he said he didn't know about hacked emails from Russia, was because Trump's high level representative (who is said to think highly of Putin) bribed him with the promise of a pardon.
Who lied? Who's lying now?
Who lied? Who's lying now?
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Proof? This from BBS (British Broadcasting Service, that is). Where's yours from, "Conspiracy Now"?
And these; a whole range:
www.theguardian.com
www.vice.com
Donald Trump 'offered Julian Assange a pardon if he denied Russia link to hack'
Ex-congressman denies being middleman for US president after WikiLeaks published emails damaging to Hillary Clinton in 2016
www.theguardian.com
Julian Assange Claims Trump Offered a Pardon for Help Covering Up Russia’s 2016 Hacking
Assange’s attorney said former U.S. Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher delivered the message to Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in August 2017.
www.vice.com
Julian Assange says he was promised a Trump pardon if he would lie about Russia's DNC hacking
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told a British court on Tuesday that he had been promised a pardon by people close to President Donald Trump.Assange made the remarks while appearing at a pretrial hearing via teleconference.Courtroom reporter James Doleman broke the news on Twitter. According to...
www.rawstory.com
Trump offered Assange a pardon if he denied Russia gave him emails, lawyer says
In London court, attorney claims that congressman's visits were to broker deal.
arstechnica.com
And at least 10 others.
In the great fabric of lies ... what do we really know?
Practically ... nothing! My grandfather was fascinated with the concept of nother and how difficult it is to get thoughts out of mind! Emotional fits written off as opinions in lack (abstract incarnations) ... they do appear!
Circumstantial evidence concerns that which is missing in the smaller points ... everything else? Difficult to encompass the larger points ...
Practically ... nothing! My grandfather was fascinated with the concept of nother and how difficult it is to get thoughts out of mind! Emotional fits written off as opinions in lack (abstract incarnations) ... they do appear!
Circumstantial evidence concerns that which is missing in the smaller points ... everything else? Difficult to encompass the larger points ...