Jan 082019
 

Amazon is the world’s biggest cloud provider. Someone (Apple?) tries to force me onto the cloud. I use an iPad (Apple) mostly for its camera capability; the settings are set to prohibit transfer of information off my iPad.  Nonetheless, information (photos) were appropriated and transferred “up there”.  For some time (? two years, ?more) I […]

Dec 302018
 
2018-12-31    JUSTICE FOR ASSANGE,   Test of western democracy,  from NewAge

NOTE:  The first part of the article will be a “review” for many.   You may wish to start reading at the heading: Contagious act of resistance Opinion by Nozomi Hayase — Counter Currents THIS has been the seventh year that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spent Christmas in confinement inside Ecuador’s London embassy. For nearly a […]

Dec 222018
 

US Embassy Shopping List,  from Wikileaks Website 21 December 2018 Today, 21 December 2018, WikiLeaks publishes a searchable database of more than 16,000 procurement requests posted by United States embassies around the world. All US embassies post requests for quotations and job listings on their websites when they need to purchase goods or services. In […]

Dec 192018
 

From: Dianne I am needing extra information on Ecuador and more info on Correa and of course the Assange case and I know that you were working in that direction a while back.  I see the attached article is blaming Correa for taking big loans from China. Indigenous peoples denounce ongoing land rights violations in Ecuador mongabay.com […]

Dec 062018
 

 RELATED:   2018-12-06 NYT: Paul Manafort Discussed Deal to Seize Julian Assange   Julian Assange’s lawyer has rejected an agreement announced by Ecuador’s president to see him leave the Ecuadorean embassy in London, after six years inside. Lenin Moreno, the president of Ecuador, has made no secret of his wish to be rid of the WikiLeaks […]

Dec 062018
 
2018-12-03   NYT: Paul Manafort Discussed Deal with Ecuador to hand over Julian Assange to the US

ImageA rally in Quito, Ecuador, in support of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the country’s embassy in London since 2012.CreditCreditJose Jacome/EPA, via Shutterstock RELATED:    2018-12-06 Julian Assange rejects UK-Ecuador deal for him to leave the embassy, The Telegraph The New York Times is reporting that President Trump’s former campaign […]

Dec 052018
 

By Andrew Blake Attorneys seeking details about the U.S. government’s investigation into WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange argued Monday that the Department of Justice lacks justification for continuing to keep its case completely sealed. Lawyers for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a nonprofit organization representing journalists’ interests, raised the claim throughout a 12-page […]

Dec 032018
 

Rusbridger is a special person.  “Search” his name, using the upper right-hand corner search button on this blog, for postings related to him. = = = = = = = = Vrinda Sood Alan Rusbridger, former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian, stressed the fundamental role of reporters in today’s world to a crowded Yale Law School […]

Dec 012018
 

My view of Hillary Clinton says nothing about my view of Trump, or of the Russians – – just want to make that clear.   Those are totally separate conversations. – – – – – – RE:  why it  is necessary to convince people that Hillary is the enemy  in order to (protect whistleblowers)?   – – […]

Nov 302018
 
2018-11-29  Guardian Escalates Its Vilification of Julian Assange,  Common Dreams, Jonathan Cook

The Guardian did not make a mistake in vilifying Assange without a shred of evidence. It did what it is designed to do. by  Jonathan Cook With this story, it has done what it regularly does when supposedly vital western foreign policy interests are at stake – it simply regurgitates an elite-serving, western narrative. (Photo: […]