View this email in your browser Forward to friends! Note: Click on the small text under the title of this posting, Vaccinations (incl corruption of science & govt) to generate a list of other postings in the same category. March 13, 2018 Congress Receives Vaccine Safety Project Details Including Actions Needed for Sound Science and […]
(This comes after Avaaz’s successes in challenging Monsanto, especially over re-licensing of Roundup in the EU. In response, Monsanto uses the Justice system as a tool for tying up the time, energy and money of a target. Civilians fund the Justice system. California and Ontario are two jurisdictions that have enacted anti-SLAPP legislation. I wonder […]
Hugh Grant has been the CEO of Monsanto since 2003. He should receive an achievement award – – for the most people in the world rallied against one company! I had to laugh when I heard (Feb 15) Monsanto, 168-page subpoena served on Avaaz demands names and addresses of Avaazers who have signed Monsanto campaigns […]
Ricken Patel, “the man behind Avaaz”, is extraordinary. He was still a “kid” – – 30 years old – – when he brought Avaaz into being (2007). He is driven by altruism, and it works. In the time span of ten years, the number of “Avaazers” has grown from zero to 46 million. Their accomplishments […]
See also: The man behind Avaaz, Ricken Patel, Canadian (Interview, CNN, plus article, The Economist) From: Ricken Patel – Avaaz Subject: You won’t BELIEVE what happened at Avaaz this week… Dear Avaaz, It really is unbelievable what this movement gets done, in an *ordinary* week!! Just try scrolling down to get a […]
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43179279# Ecuador says the country’s latest efforts to negotiate the departure of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from its London embassy have failed. Foreign minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa said the UK was unwilling to take part in talks about his release. A UK Foreign Office spokesman said Mr Assange should “leave the embassy to face justice”. […]
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/feb/11/sweden-tried-to-drop-assange-extradition-in-2013-cps-emails-show UK prosecutors tried to dissuade Swedish counterparts from dropping the charges, exchange shows Owen Bowcott and Ewen MacAskill Julian Assange on the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA Swedish prosecutors attempted to drop extradition proceedings against Julian Assange as early as 2013, according to a confidential exchange of emails […]
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/02/06/uk-arrest-warrant-for-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-upheld.html By Jill Lawless The Associated PressGregory Katz LONDON—A British judge on Tuesday upheld a U.K. arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, leaving him still a wanted man in the country where he has spent more than five years inside the Ecuadorean Embassy. Judge Emma Arbuthnot rejected a call from Assange’s lawyers for the […]
– – – Unusual for the UK Establishment to rule against the US Establishment. Are the times a-changin’? https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/feb/05/hacking-suspect-lauri-love-wins-appeal-against-extradition-to-us By Owen Bowcott, Legal affairs correspondent. Extradition. Rights groups and lawyers for 33-year-old welcome landmark judgment against extradition to US 0:39 A high court ruling blocking extradition to the US of Lauri Love, a student […]
The Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Julian Assange has been staying since 2012 [Photo/Peter Nicholls/Reuters] Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno has described WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as an “inherited problem” that has created “more than a nuisance” for his government. Earlier this month, Ecuador announced it had granted citizenship to Assange, in an unsuccessful attempt to […]