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    KAILASHWikileaks - Assange - Revolution now! + Anonymous + Bradley Manning a Snowden
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    On Jan 7 DoJ issued letters rogatory to interrogate six former diplomats & staff at Ecuador's London embassy following Guardian's fabricated story of Assange-Manafort meetings. Ecuador scheduled all to be interrogated tomorrow in Quito

    The move comes after six Democrats, citing the Assange-Manafort story in the Guardian, wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to demand that the U.S. request that Ecuador supply such information: https://t.co/uFolQaNSKt

    An intentionally planted front page false story in the Guardian has now led to statements in Congress, the activation of the U.S. Secretary of State, the DoJ, Ecuador's DoJ, and Ecuador's astonishing agreement to formally let a foreign power interrogate its diplomatic staff.

    src: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1085942846048350213
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    Treatment of Assange debated in Germany's Bundestag yesterday https://t.co/GBRiVNohXC

    video: https://twitter.com/zoolooy/status/1085931841272598528?s=09

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    Rosenstein, DOJ exploring ways to more easily spy on journalists | TheHill
    https://thehill.com/...iciary/425189-rosenstein-doj-exploring-ways-to-more-easily-spy-on-journalists

    For months now, the Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly has been working on a revision to its guidelines governing how, when and why prosecutors can obtain the records of journalists, particularly in leak cases.

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    In layman’s terms, the current system requires prosecutors in most cases to exhaust all obvious investigative methods for identifying leaks before seeking to intrude on a journalist’s free-speech rights.

    In addition, the rules generally have required DOJ to alert news organizations in advance of a possible subpoena, giving both sides a chance to negotiate before the subpoena — viewed as a nuclear button by most journalists — gets pushed.

    Multiple sources familiar with the ongoing DOJ review tell me that it has two main goals. The first is to lower the threshold that prosecutors must meet before requesting subpoenas for journalists’ records; the second is to eliminate the need to alert a media organization that Justice intends to issue a subpoena.

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    the arguments for changing the rules emanate from the stresses that a massive increase in criminal leak investigations have placed on the DOJ.

    Sessions disclosed more than a year ago that there has been a threefold increase in criminal leak probes, which have ensnared everyone from fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe to a senior Senate staffer who handled classified documents.

    Advocates for the change argue that prosecutors have spent inordinate time and resources trying to find leakers that could be more easily detected via the reporting news organization’s subpoenaed records. The savings in resources could be deployed to other criminal enforcement endeavors, advocates argue.
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    WikiLeaks takes on The Guardian for alleging ties to Paul Manafort: 'Legal action will now commence' - Washington Times
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/...s/2019/jan/15/wikileaks-takes-guardian-alleging-ties-paul-manafo/
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    Michel Midi Special Assange avec Viktor Dedaj
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0HOaywufE
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    The U.S. Government Has Amassed Terabytes of Internal WikiLeaks Data
    https://gizmodo.com/the-u-s-government-has-amassed-terabytes-of-internal-w-1831640212
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    Julian Assange 'is living in conditions akin to a Stasi-era dissident' at Ecuadorian embassy
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/...ge-living-conditions-akin-Stasi-era-dissident-Ecuadorian-embassy.html

    American friend and political commentator Cassandra Fairbanks said going to the embassy was 'more invasive than visiting someone in a federal penitentiary'.

    She said the pair were forced to 'pass notes' amid fears that their conversations were being taped by the Ecuadorians 'under pressure from the US'.

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    After saying hello, we tried to go to another room with less surveillance so we could speak more openly.

    'Within minutes, a member of the staff at the embassy came knocking on the door and demanded that we go back.
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    An Extended Interview With John Pilger – KPFA
    https://kpfa.org/episode/flashpoints-january-3-2019/

    Veteran Australian journalist John Pilger visited Julian #Assange on New Years Eve: "It was a surreal occasion. The sense of isolation was very strong. There is a new regime in Ecuador... making life difficult for him."

    Pilger on #ASSANGE: "Julian's struggle has now taken on another dimension. When I saw him there was just himself and a security guard. He is watched constantly in a surveillance system which has been upgraded. It is a kind of solitary confinement."

    "Close friends & lawyers put in an application 3 days ahead of when they want to see him. It's all become very controlled & unpleasant. I left before the New Year came in [at insistence of guard] not that there's a lot to celebrate at the moment."

    "I'm not saying there isn't movement in various places but the situation now really calls out for popular support, it needs people who care about this kind of injustice & what it represents: an attempt to crush free speech as well as the man himself."

    "There are so many lies. I think we're not prepared for that scale of lying in order to project an extreme ideology... There are now no red lines. We don't seem to be opposing the lies."

    https://kpfa.org/episode/flashpoints-january-3-2019/
    https://t.co/tVGbySRuV6
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    Police Broke Into Chelsea Manning’s Home With Guns Drawn
    https://theintercept.com/2018/06/05/chelsea-manning-video-twitter-police-mental-health/
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    Watch New Julian Assange Vigil Featuring Whistleblower Dan Ellsberg and Former US Senator Mike Gravel – Consortiumnews
    https://consortiumnews.com/...featuring-whistleblower-dan-ellsber-and-former-us-senator-mike-gravel/

    #Unity4J Online Vigil in support of Julian Assange 8.0
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2083s-sMtaQ
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    Pentagon Papers whistleblower wins Swedish rights prize - FRANCE 24
    https://amp.france24.com/en/20190109-pentagon-papers-whistleblower-wins-swedish-rights-prize

    Ellsberg, 87, was honoured for his "profound humanism and exceptional moral courage," the jury said in a statement.

    He famously leaked thousands of documents nearly half a century ago revealing that successive US administrations had lied to the public about the Vietnam war.

    "He was well aware of risking a long time in prison and a spoiled career," the jury said.

    "Regardless of such consequences, his decision led to the removal of a mendacious government, a shortening of an illegal war, and an untold number of saved lives."

    His actions have been featured in several Hollywood films, including "The Pentagon Papers" in 2003 in which he was played by James Spader, and 2017's "The Post" featuring Matthew Rhys.

    The Olof Palme Prize is an annual prize worth $75,000 (65,500 euros) awarded by the Swedish labour movement.

    It commemorates the memory of Sweden's Social Democratic prime minister Olof Palme, an outspoken international human rights advocate -- and vehement opponent of US involvement in the Vietnam War -- who was assassinated in Stockholm in 1986.
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    Law Versus Power: Our Global Fight for Human Rights | Wolfgang Kaleck
    https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/law-versus-power/

    Wolfgang Kaleck, best known as Edward Snowden’s lawyer, is a human rights activist extraordinaire. For more than two decades, he has travelled the world to fight alongside those suffering injustice at the hands of powerful players, people who, prior to the arrival of Kaleck and his colleagues, often enjoyed impunity.

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    In recounting his involvement in such cases, Kaleck gives full voice to those he is representing, emphasizing the courage and persistence they bring to the global search for justice. The result is a book crammed with compelling and vivid stories, underscoring the notion that, while the world is often a terrible place, universal standards of human rights can prevail when people are willing to struggle for them.
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    That sophisticated, specific Russian 2016 voter targeting effort doesn’t seem to exist
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/...ticated-specific-russian-voter-targeting-effort-doesnt-seem-exist/
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    Ecuadorian ministry of foreign affairs releases new statement on Assange: "The situation currently has two options for Mr. Assange, to stay indefinitely, or to surrender [to arrest and extradition the US] and we believe the latter (surrender) is the most positive for him" https://t.co/MxacaIepiQ
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    Endspiel für Assange – der Freitag digital
    https://digital.freitag.de/0119/endspiel-fuer-assange/

    Endgame for Assange

    Kaltgestellt Director Angela Richter visited the Wikileaks founder in Ecuador's embassy in London. For the last time, she fears

    Julian Assange looks very pale. "Pale" is not really true, his skin looks parchment, almost translucent. He has not seen any sun for nearly seven years. He sits opposite me in the so-called Meeting Room of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, his snow-white hair, his trademark, is shoulder-length and he wears a long beard. We joke that he looks like Santa Claus. He wears a thick down jacket and eats a piece of the sushi I brought for lunch. It is cold in the room and I regret having left my winter coat at the reception.

    It's just before Christmas, and Julian Assange has just about the worst time of his stay at the embassy. Since March 2018, he has been in isolation, no telephone, no internet and no visits. Above all, the Internet ban must be difficult for him, it was not only his field of work, but his only access to the world.

    The mood in the embassy is tense, the new ambassador is expected. Assange has turned off the heating and taken the bed, sleeping on a yoga mat. I can not help but feel that everything is done to complicate his stay so much that he finally defeats himself and leaves the embassy voluntarily. But what awaits him then?

    For the first time since I've known him, he's really taken aback, his once boyish face, always peculiar to his silvery white hair, has adapted to his age. The nine months of isolation have visibly weakened him, he has become thinner, but in conversation he is mentally very clear and determined as ever.

    Surrounded by microphones
    When I ask him how he endured the isolation for so long, he replies that he was almost pleased with it at first. He had been sure that such a blatant violation of his human rights would cause great public outrage and that even European politicians would press him for pressure from the media. But nothing like that happened, and as the months went by, he lost his faith in it.

    In the meantime, it had even come to the public that the US authorities filed criminal charges against Julian Assange. Accusations allegedly kept under wraps until Assange could no longer escape arrest. They confirm what Assange fears for years and for which he has often been declared paranoid in the press. But even after this revelation, the indignation remains.

    His stay at the Embassy in 2012 as a political asylum is now more and more akin to imprisonment with sometimes severe punishment. The isolation is still not completely lifted, from Friday evening to Monday morning is still the contact ban, and who wants to visit him, must make a formal request to the embassy. There were probably rejections, he tells me. I was lucky and got two of the four hours I had applied for.

    I visited Julian Assange 30 times between 2012 and 2017 in the embassy of Ecuador. This resulted in three plays and a friendship with one of the most controversial people of our time. It has not always been easy to defend him, especially since Donald Trump's election as US President, for which many journalists, former supporters and friends of mine have shared his responsibility. Moreover, most journalists seem to have agreed that there is an insane conspiracy between Trump and Putin, with Assange as liaison and helper. In late November, the Guardian claimed'Paul Manafort, head of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, met Assange three times in London in 2013, 2015 and 2016. Fidel Narváez, the then Ecuadorian consul in London, formally denied it. Wikileaks initiated a lawsuit against the Guardian , Manafort denied the meetings in public. His name does not appear in the guestbook of the Ecuadorian embassy and there are no pictures of him entering or leaving one of the best-guarded buildings in the world.

    Of course, Assange followed all that; When I ask him about it, all he says is that the story was fictitious in the Guardian . As he asks about my family and we eat sushi, we try to ignore the fact that we are surrounded by cameras and microphones. Even in the small kitchen in the hallway, there is now a camera installed, which used to be the only non-surveillance corner we sometimes retreated to. Lately, the staff has been replaced gradually, the new staff know Assange not good, only the cleaning lady is the same. The diplomats who sympathized with him are no longer there.

    For distraction, I unpack a few presents for him, German whole grain bread he loves, fresh fruit, Ovaltine, a letter with a child's drawing that my eldest son sends him, and a Ukrainian sausage specialty from the Crimea, a friend and a former Dramaturg by Frank Castorf has given. I try again to direct the conversation to him and his precarious situation, but that proves to be difficult. I hardly know anyone who is so reluctant to say "me" as Julian Assange, which is amazing, considering how often he is described as narcissistic and egomaniacal.

    Blueprint for us all
    It's hard to describe the complex character of Assange. But one thing has become clear to me in recent years, it is simply not communicable to the average intellectual. He is a meticulous archivist, a courageous reveler and uncompromising iconoclast, highly emotional and at the same time matter-of-fact, besides most of the artists and intellectuals I know, who act like devotees who profitably sell their personal wealth novelties.

    But if Assange is not the nefarious Unsympath who caused his situation through his egomania, what does that mean in reverse? Is not he a blueprint for us all? What has happened to him in the middle of Europe for years shows what could happen to anyone who dares to raise his voice and reveal the truth about the powerful. And not in Russia or China, but in the free West.

    His motto "Let's make trouble" has never given up on Assange. He tells me he was hoping during the isolation that he can do some "holidays of Wikileaks". But then everything fell asleep, nobody was tempted to take the helm, which is not surprising, if you see the consequences. He says he thinks his isolation was a test run for what would happen if he ever went to jail: Wikileaks would probably dissolve slowly.

    I think he is right. Since I met Assange, I realized that his organization can exist only through his immense perseverance. He often cheered me up with the sentence "Courage is contagious", courage is contagious. I can confirm that for me, it has this effect that encourages you to risk more. Fame and glory have not brought him his insistence on the truth of documented facts. On the contrary. And yet he has never resigned, I have experienced some ups and downs in recent years, I talked to him and his team at the Embassy for hours, sometimes for nights, but also quarreled, laughed, eaten, drunk, sung and scared.

    Three ambassadors were replaced during that time, on the day of my visit, the fourth has just arrived in London, and his main task will probably be to get rid of Assange as quickly as possible, with the least possible political damage to Ecuador's image. The New York Timesrecently reported that in 2017 there were several talks between Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno and now notorious Paul Manafort. Manafort had traveled to Quito to boost China's investment in Ecuador. Allegedly, the meeting with Moreno also talked about Assange, about a deal to deliver Assange to the US, in exchange for which Ecuador debt would be waived. Assange quips as to whether it would not be ironic that the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, will decide on its fate. He laughs tormented, in the end, always decide the big money. We realize that there is no secret anymore about his persecution by the US, everything is open and it happens - nothing. It is to despair.

    In the end, it's four hours that I'm there. As I say goodbye, we embrace each other, it may be the last time we see each other. Outside, I talk to some supporters who camp with self-painted banners and lighted candles in front of the embassy, ​​they hold for years through what I find admirable.

    On December 21st, three days after my visit to the embassy, ​​Wikileaks publishes a shopping list: 16,000 procurement orders from US embassies around the world, including for espionage equipment. Julian Assange is online again. On the same day, the UN Human Rights Experts of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) reiterated their demand of 2015 that Britain comply with its international obligations and immediately release the Wikileaks founder from the Ecuadorian Embassy to freedom. This would be possible by guaranteeing his safe conduct, or at least by not being extradited to the United States after a possible brief detention in the UK.

    Assange's fate is in the hands of the United Kingdom, it could easily put an end to this blatant situation, which it refuses to do so far. And Europe is silent. What else has to happen to change that?

    Angela Richter is a theater director and met Julian Assange in 2011, when she made a play about Wikileaks
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    Ecuador unveils “special examination” of Julian Assange’s asylum - World Socialist Web Site
    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/05/assa-j05.html
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    Ecuador has initiated a formal "Special Examination" of Julian Assange's asylum and nationality (nationals cannot be extradited) as it seeks a $10billion+ IMF bailout for which the US government demanded handing over Assange and dropping environmental claims against Chevron. https://t.co/utZe5Wjer4

    https://twitter.com/MashiRafael/status/1080503452747341830?s=19
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    Don't extradite Assange! (petition)
    https://internal.diem25.org/petitions/1

    Assange's persecution, the persecution of a publisher for publishing information [2] that was truthful and clearly in the interest of the public - and which has been republished in major newspapers around the world - is a danger to freedom of the press everywhere, especially as the USA is asserting a right to arrest and try a non-American who neither is nor was then on American soil. The sentence is already clear: if not the death penalty then life in a supermax prison and ill treatment like Chelsea Manning. The very extradition of Julian Assange to the United States would at the same time mean the final death of freedom of the press in the West.

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    They have already curtailed his internet and his visitors and turned the heating off, leaving him freezing in a desolate state for the past few months and leading to the rapid decline of his health, breaching UK obligations under the European Convention of Human Rights. Therefore, our demand both to the government of Ecuador and the government of the UK is: don't extradite Assange to the US! Guarantee his human rights, make his stay at the embassy as bearable as possible and enable him to leave the embassy towards a secure country as soon as there are guarantees not to arrest and extradite him. Furthermore, we, as EU voters, encourage European nations to take proactive steps to protect a journalist in danger.
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    The Guardian‘s fabrication has consequences in Congress

    Six members of Congress have signed a letter to Sec. of State Mike Pompeo, demanding information about his recent discussions with Ecuadorian officials regarding Julian Assange’s status in the Embassy. In a tweet announcing the letter, Sen. Dianne Feinstein explicitly referenced “reports of Paul Manafort visiting Julian Assange”

    https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/status/1072977963421978625?s=19
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    Giuliani Says Assange Should Not Be Prosecuted – Consortiumnews
    https://consortiumnews.com/2018/12/31/giuliani-says-assange-should-not-be-prosecuted/
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