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MSM Journos Inadvertently Reveal Shocking Truth About Global Warming
Zero Hedge
In recent years, particularly around mid-July (the peak of the Northern Hemisphere summer), there has been a noticeable surge in headlines featuring the “hottest day” ever on record in corporate media outlets – which is of course pushed by climate alarmist journalists citing questionable studies. This timing coincides with hot weather, so naturally, it’s quite convincing to persuade readers that the world’s oceans are boiling and planet Earth will ignite into a fireball unless drastic actions are taken – such as more climate taxes, ‘carbon credits,’ banning cow farts, prohibiting new petrol-powered vehicle sales by X date, and pushing spending bills to procure more solar panels from China, to save the planet.
The problem is that corporate media only focuses on recent history – and not “in context” (as they love to say). Context is particularly important when it comes to climate change – as their narrative collapses when looking at a long enough timeline.
To wit… a funny thing happened when the Washington Post tried to map out half a billion years of global temperatures and the “disaster of global warming” …
WaPo journalists cited a new study about Earth’s global surface temperatures over the last 485 million years. In 2023, Earth’s average temperature reached 58.96 F (14.98 C), well below the average 96.8 degrees F (36 degrees Celsius) the study showed around 100 million years ago. The trend shows Earth’s temperatures have been sliding for 50 million years.
Of course, all they can focus on is the most recent blip (supported, as astute readers know, by faulty data).
[A] growing chorus of climate scientists are saying the temperature readings are faulty and that the trillions of dollars pouring in are based on a problem that doesn’t exist.
More than 90 percent of NOAA’s temperature monitoring stations have a heat bias, according to Anthony Watts, a meteorologist, senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute, author of climate website Watts Up With That, and director of a study that examined NOAA’s climate stations.
“And with that large of a number, over 90 percent, the methods that NOAA employs to try to reduce this don’t work because the bias is so overwhelming,” Mr. Watts told The Epoch Times.
“The few stations that are left that are not biased because they are, for example, outside of town in a field and are an agricultural research station that’s been around for 100 years … their data gets completely swamped by the much larger set of biased data. There’s no way you can adjust that out.” -Epoch Times
Maybe, just maybe, the level of human-caused global warming doom porn pushed by the government, corporate media outlets, global NGOs, and far-left billionaires is not as apocalyptic as they make it sound.
Which of course means (and as we knew), all those idiot kids running around the West, throwing paint on private jets and artwork, and gluing their hands to highways, are doing it for nothing – and are indeed in a cult.
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Panic Buying has Already Started with First Day of Dockworkers Strike Closing Down Half of US Ports
by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
With the United States already suffering major loss of lives and farmland due to Hurricane Helene, and as the war in the Middle East now escalates with Iran starting to bomb Israel today, perhaps the most significant news that affects you RIGHT NOW, is the first day, today, of the dockworkers strike in the eastern and southern United States that has now closed down HALF of the ports in the U.S.
Massive port strike begins across America’s East Coast, threatening shortages and rising prices
New York CNN — Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports, choking off the flow of many of America’s imports and exports in what could become the country’s most disruptive work stoppage in decades.
The strike, which began at midnight, will stop the flow of a wide variety of goods over the docks of almost all cargo ports from Maine to Texas.
This includes bananas, European beer, wine and liquor, along with furniture, clothing, household goods and European autos, as well as parts needed to keep US factories operating and American workers in those plants on the job, among many other goods.
It could also stop US exports now flowing through those ports, hurting sales for American companies.
A wide gap remained between the union’s demands and the contract offer from the United States Maritime Alliance, which uses the acronym USMX. The maritime alliance represents the major shipping lines, all of which are foreign owned; as well as terminal operators and port authorities.
“If we have to be out here a month or two months, this world will collapse,” said ILA President Harold Daggett in an interview with CNN Tuesday morning.
“Go blame them. Don’t blame me, blame them.”
The strike at half of the nation’s ports that started today will cost the U.S. economy about $5 billion a day.
How would a strike affect businesses and consumers?
A strike could cost the economy $5 billion a day, or about 6 percent of gross domestic product, JPMorgan analysts said. More than 68 percent of all U.S. container exports and more than 56 percent of container imports flow through East and Gulf Coast ports, according to the National Association of Manufacturers.
Many businesses would be hurt by a walkout because lots of raw materials — wood and cotton, for example — pass through these ports. Most imports of pharmaceutical products carried in containers flow through the affected ports. And a wide variety of food shipments pass through the East and Gulf Coast ports. (Source: NYT)
With stores and gas stations still closed in North Carolina and Tennessee due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene, it is being reported that panic buying is now beginning in stores in other parts of the U.S. today.
Panic-buying already spreading as ILA dockworker strike gets underway
As union dockworkers began striking against employers at East and Gulf Coast ports early Tuesday morning, reports of panic-buying at supermarkets almost immediately started spreading across social media.
Video clips posted by social media users on X and Facebook showed people rushing to buy water, toilet paper, paper towels and other items at supermarkets and retailers across the U.S.
“Are people already panic buying because of the Port Strike? Here are the grocery shelves in the water section at my local Kroger this morning. I realize that we are probably also low on water due to the Helene aftermath in East Tennessee, but still not great to see this already,” photographer and author Denise Van Patten posted in a social media video clip on X.
Micheal Coker posted on X, “Well the panic buying is in full swing in my little town in South carolina. Sam’s at 8:30 a.m., no water. Same at Walmart and grocery stores. Next will be toilet paper.”
A prolonged strike could cause major disruption to the domestic supply chain, according to American Farm Bureau Federation Economist Daniel Munch.
“For international destinations, waterborne exports are vital to us farmers,” Munch said in a podcast on Thursday.
“They make up over 75% of total U.S. agricultural export volume. The potential strike that we’re looking at would mainly disrupt containerized agricultural exports, which account for 30% of U.S. waterborne agriculture exports by volume. The remaining 70%, often grains and oil seeds, are shipped via bulk carriers, which are usually managed by independent workforces and will not be affected by the strike.”
He said U.S. farmers could be particularly vulnerable to a strike that lasts a week or more.
“The strike could have disastrous impacts on U.S. agriculture, depending on how long it lasts,” Munch said.
“The disruption to overall agricultural trade is expected to be about $1.4 billion each week that a strike is in place. When we think about what commodities are at risk, nearly 80% of waterborne exports of poultry leave East Coast ports, 56% of raw cotton, 36% of red meat, 30% of dairy products and even 6% of soybeans all go through those ports, through containerized exports. Not having an outlet to move those goods will create supply surpluses domestically and reduce prices for farmers.”
The top retailers that could be affected by the work stoppage at the ports are Walmart, Ikea, Samsung and Home Depot, according to data from ImportGenius and Arbor Data Science. (Full article.)
Went to Costco to get a few things at 10:30. We were low on paper towels and TP. Noticed parking lot was full. Saw people walking out with carts full of paper goods.
I went in with the intent of getting one pack of towels and one of TP. Nay nay Nasty Butt! The aisle was empty. Associate told me people were waiting in line when they opened.
She said some people had 10 packs of TP! Costco sized packs!!!!!
All because of a strike that started at midnight. (Source.)
This is also going to affect my own store, Healthy Traditions, as we have two containers scheduled to arrive from Chile within the next 30 days, our world-class raw Andes Mountain honeys, and our Chilean Extra Virgin Olive oil, which we bring through the Port of Houston from Chile, in route to our warehouse in Texas.
With more bad weather on the way that could affect the same areas still searching for survivors in the Appalachians, and with the war escalating not only in the Middle East, but also in Ukraine and potentially soon in the Pacific, with the very real possibility that there could be attacks on U.S. soil, you don’t need me to warn you that NOW is the time to stock up on water and food and try to have an alternative energy source.
Even if we don’t see major food shortages, the prices are absolutely going to start climbing at some point, from their already high pricing currently.
Mongol Conquests from China to Russia
Episode 12 Mongol Conquests from China to Russia
The Middle Ages Around the World
Dr Joyce E Salisbury
Film Review
Dr Salisbury starts her lecture with a brief history of Temugen (the future Genghis Khan), whose family was expelled by their tribe following his father’s assassination (when he was 8). Miraculously, owing to their mother’s amazing hunting skills and ingenuity, they survived. Determined to seek revenge for his father’s assassination, Temugen had already amassed a major army by the time he was 18.
By the time Genghis Khan died in 1227, the Mongols controlled an immense swath of land from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific.
His successors all followed the Genghis Khan’s example in appointing women to manage their fortunes and empire while they were away at war. The Mongols also enacted firm laws against trading or raping women or treating them as spoils of war. Salisbury also credits their religious tolerance (in contrast to Europe’s Catholic intolerance) as a major factor in their successful conquest of most of Asia and much of eastern Europe.
Under Genghis Khan’s successors, the Mongol empire was split into four khanates: the Chagatai Khanate, the Golden Horde, the Ilkhanate and the Yuan Empire (China).
Chagatai Khanate
Chagatai (second son of Genghis Khan) and his successors focused mainly on repeated invasions of northern India and the eventual formation of the Delhi Sultanate. His son Tolui left his wife Sorghaghtani to rule in his place while he drank and went to war. She continued to rule the Chatagai Khanate for another 20 years following his death.
Golden Horde
The Mongols first crossed the Caucasus mountains onto the Russian steppes four years before the death of Genghis Khan (in 1227). Under Ogedei’s rule, 130,000 Mongol warriors pushed further west and in 1238-1239 laid waste to every major Russian. Moscow’s Grand Prince Ivan I (1328-40) entered into a trade alliance with the Mongols appointing him to collect (and receive a kickback) the tribute the other Russian princes owed them. This would greatly expand the wealth and prominence of Moscow. Under Batu (grandson of Genghis Khan), most Golden Horde leaders converted to Islam.
Ilkhanate
Encompassing the former Persian empire and the Abbasid Caliphate, most Ilkhanate Mongols converted to Islam. During the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1258, the Mongols allowed the Muslim scholars associated with the Wisdom Schools to leave the city before decimating it. Following the Mongol conquest of Baghdad, most Ilkhanate Mongols convert to Islam and Persian historians began writing in Persian rather than Arabic.
Yuan Dynasty
As Great Khan, Ogedei dispatched Kublai (son of Toluti and Sorghaghtani) to make war against the Song empire in southern China. He employed gunpowder he obtained from Jin engineers (Genghis Khan had conquered the Jin empire in 1211) and siege engines provided by both Jin and Persian engineers. On becoming emperor of the Yuan dynasty, Kublai allowed the Han gentry to keep their estates, converted to Buddhism and married a Christian woman (like his mother). While Mongol women who settled in in China refused to bind their feet, Han women continued to do so.
Kublai’s main achievements were stockpiling grain to avert a great famine and expanding the Great Canal to facilitate shipping grain, mainly grown in southern China, to the north The Yuan Dynasty played a critical role in enuring security for Silk Road travel, greatly increasing prosperity in the Middle East, Central and South East Asia, as well as religious ideas and scientific transfer. Under their rule, the Chinese collaborated with Muslim scholars on advancing mathematics, geography and map making.
Prior to his death in 1294, Kublai nearly bankrupted the empire with two failed invasions of Japan. The pain of his tax increases fell heaviest on Chinese peasants, leading to extreme civil unrest and the eventual overthrow of the Yuan dynasty in 1368.
Film can be viewed free with a library card on Kanopy.
https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/13172786/13172817
City of Abilene stops adding fluoride to water, citing recent court decision
ABILENE, Texas — During a media briefing Monday morning, the City of Abilene announced they will no longer add fluoride in the water.
City Manager Robert Hanna said they will immediately stop adding fluoride in the water as an abundance of caution.
The decision was made based on a recent federal court ruling in California that may result in changes to the Environmental Protection Agency’srecommendations regarding fluoride levels in drinking water.
The court ruling was based on findings from theNational Toxicology Program’s “systematic review of the published scientific literature on the association between fluoride exposure and neurodevelopment and cognition.”
In a press release, the city stated it follows federal standards and theAmerican Dental Association’s recommendation of maintaining fluoride levels at 0.7 parts per million. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention water fluoridation keeps teeth strong and reduces cavities by about 25 percent.
Out of an abundance of caution, the City said it is pausing fluoridation because of the potential changes to the EPA’s regulations of fluoride levels or introduction of warning labels.
Carol Crockett agrees with the city’s decision.
“I know a lot of people don’t drink tap water,” Crockett said. “They buy a lot of their water. The young are the future. They’re dealing with a lot of things now as it is. I think it’s a great idea to be focused on the young children.”
Mayor Weldon Hurt and City Manager Robert Hanna discussed these changes over the weekend and agreed a temporary suspension would do no harm and provide an opportunity for the City Council to provide further direction in light of recent court rulings regarding fluoride.
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Britain Creates Mandatory Chicken Register
Breitbart
“Do you keep chickens in your back garden? Register them now or break the law”, Britons are warned by state media as new rules pulling back yard flocks into industrial bureaucracy that takes force today.
As difficult as it is to believe a Western government would use a flu-like virus to crack down on freedoms, the British government is nevertheless at it, and from today anyone harbouring unlicensed chickens on their property will be breaking the law.
People who have chickens in their garden and don’t comply with the mandatory register, the purpose of which is to allow “more effective surveillance”, risks “being fined or even imprisoned”.
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Announced in the Spring, the rule change removes the old exemption for back yard flocks and smallholdings, which meant anyone keeping less than 50 birds — including chickens and ducks — would not need to note the government and could continue the ages-old practice of raising their own food unmolested.
But government concern over avian flu, even despite as the state broadcaster the BBC notes “a lack of recent reported cases in captive birds”, has pushed it to reduce the notifiable number of birds down to one.
The deadline to register with the Animal Plant Health Agency in England and Wales is October 1st, and December 1st in Scotland, and chicken keepers had been encouraged to get signed up early. As explained by the NFU, “Bird keepers will need to provide information, including their contact details, the location where birds are kept and details of the birds (species, number and what they are kept for).”
There are exemptions for birds like parrots, as long as they are never allowed outside.
It is stated that: “The register will also be used to identify all bird keepers in disease control zones, allowing for more effective surveillance.”
The BBC, Britain’s state broadcaster, warned the public through its Countryfile publication: “Do you keep chickens in your back garden? Register them now or break the law… failure to register your birds puts you at risk of a hefty fine – as much £2,500 – or even a short jail sentence.”
Public responses to the poultry crackdown have been mixed. The poultry industry is in favour of bringing backyard egg producers onto the national register, while some small keepers speaking to the British media have decried being put on a government list.
Some on social media have taken a sardonic view of proceedings, questioning whether the government would end up with a better picture of how many chickens there are in the country than they do undocumented migrants in the black economy.
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The weakness of Zionist air power
Robert Daly
What we have seen in the Zionist conduct of war since October 7, 2023, is a flashy, noisy exhibition but no seizure and holding of territory.
The murder of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and the destruction of six high-rise apartment buildings with multiple airstrikes make Zionist air power appear triumphant over Hezbollah. But nothing could be further from the truth. It is not air power that defeats enemies in war. Rather, it is infantry—conquering, seizing, and holding territory that defeats an enemy. The Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany not through air power but through the ground battles of Stalingrad and Kursk and then by pushing the Nazi troops back into Germany as the Soviets liberated one occupied state after another from Ukraine and Belarus to Hungary and Czechoslovakia. The West at the time bombed Dresden and other cities, but that effort had little effect in defeating the Nazis. So, Zionist bombings of Lebanon’s cities kill citizens and wreck their homes but do not occupy territory or defeat Hezbollah.
It is beyond the capability of air power to seize enemy territory and hold it. Air power is only a form of contemporary artillery. In the past 100 years, humankind has ‘progressed’ from mere cannons and tanks delivering artillery shells onto an enemy’s positions to warplanes dropping them from above. What we have seen in the Zionist conduct of war since October 7, 2023, is a flashy, noisy exhibition but no seizure and holding of territory. Today, Hamas has retaken all of Gaza and continues to manage the territory as the Zionists have admitted in press briefings though they attacked Gaza by air. The Zionists responded to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack by bombing and destroying civilian residential buildings, but that did not destroy Hamas, which took advantage of the situation and the changed terrain to prepare positions from behind wrecked buildings to attack Zionist tanks and armored personnel carriers, which they have destroyed by the dozen. In this way, we have seen the contrast between ground fighters and air power in Gaza, where the Zionists are effective at killing women and children from the sky above with bombs, but cannot occupy and hold the territory that that population lived in.
If air power is an effective way to defeat one’s enemy and win a war, why is Hamas still ruling Gaza? Yedioth Ahronoth, a leading ‘Israeli’ newspaper, citing Israeli\ security sources wrote this past week that
- Hamas is working to consolidate its authority again in the areas of Gaza that the IOF left.
- No one in Gaza stands against Hamas, and no one challenges its rule.
This is not new. In June, after eight months of Zionist bombing, The Guardian wrote “Hamas still strong in areas ‘cleared’ by Israel in northern Gaza.” How is that possible? Zionist warplanes far above do not provide much competition with Palestinian freedom fighters on the ground. Zionist armored vehicles full of scared reservists are easy targets for Gazan patriots who destroy those vehicles one after another. The Guardian concludes, “Hamas’s ability to return to areas from which it was earlier forced to retreat threatens ‘forever war’.” The paper explains, “There may be more Hamas militants in the north of Gaza, supposedly cleared by Israeli forces months ago, than in Rafah, the southern city in the territory described by Israeli officials as the extremist Islamist organization’s “last stronghold”. “We do have to remember there are more Hamas armed people in the north of Gaza in the places that the IDF has already moved out of than … in Rafah … Those are the IDF’s numbers. This is why the IDF had to go back into Jabaliya and … Zeitoun. Hamas is controlling all those areas,” Eyal Hulata, the head of “Israel’s” “national security council” from 2021 to last year, told reporters last May. Zionist air power and fragile armor have failed to conquer Gaza. They only wrecked it.
One can expect an even better outcome for the domestic national liberation army in Lebanon, where Hezbollah has the advantage of better and more artillery and soldiers experienced in fighting ISIS and Al-Qaeda on the ground in Syria.
One of the most disgusting Zionist air war practices is their cowardly war by assassination. Zionists will swoop down in aircraft of various sorts to kill someone on a motorcycle, a family in a car, or a leader of the national liberation movement in a building. To do that, they do not hesitate to murder hundreds of others in the area, as when the fascists murdered Sayyed Hassan. For if the Nazi abandoned his air vehicle and fought a fair fight on the ground, he would surely lose.
Moreover, it is an embarrassment to an American with a memory to hear Hezbollah or Hamas referred to as “terrorists” for defending their own land from Zionist invaders. Does not anyone remember Washington’s crossing of the Delaware on Christmas 1776, when they and their makeshift army slaughtered British-hired Hessian mercenaries drunk from celebrating the holiday? If Hamas is “terrorist”, then why isn’t George Washington?
So, we have it: “Israel” has not won in Lebanon. Rather, “the enemy must wait for us by air, land, and sea. We repeat: If war is imposed on Lebanon, the Resistance will fight without rules, controls, or ceilings,” Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah once said. “Storming the Galilee is a possibility that remains present within the framework of any war that the occupation may launch against Lebanon,” he added, referencing his 12-year-old promise that Hezbollah will invade “Israel’s” north if Tel Aviv chooses to attack.
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Via https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-weakness-of-zionist-air-power
Assange: ‘I’m Free Because I Pled Guilty to Journalism’
Assange addressing committee of the Council of Europe Tuesday (PACE)
Julian Assange
Ladies and gentlemen, the transition from years of confinement in a maximum security prison to being here before the representatives of 46 nations and 700 million people is a profound and a surreal shift. The experience of isolation for years in a small cell is difficult to convey. It strips away one sense of self, leaving only the raw essence of existence.
I’m yet not fully equipped to speak about what I have endured. The relentless struggle to stay alive, both physically and mentally. Nor can I speak yet about the death by hanging, murder and medical neglect of my fellow prisoners.
I apologize in advance if my words falter, or if my presentation lacks the polish you might expect from such a distinguished forum. Isolation has taken its toll. Which I am trying to unwind. And expressing myself in this setting is a challenge. However, the gravity of this occasion and the weight of the issues at hand compel me to set aside my reservations and speak to you directly.
I have traveled a long way, literally and figuratively, to be before you today. Before our discussion or answering any questions you might have. I wish to thank PACE for its 2020 resolution, which stated that my imprisonment set a dangerous precedent for journalists. I noted that the U.N. Special Rapporteur on torture called for my release. I’m also grateful for Pace’s 2021 statement, expressing concern over credible reports that U.S. officials discussed my assassination again, calling for my prompt release, and I commend the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee for commissioning a renowned rapporteur.
Sooner I will start to investigate the circumstance surrounding my detention and conviction, and the consequent implications for human rights. However, like so many of the efforts made in my case, whether they were from parliamentarians, presidents, prime ministers, the pope, U.N. officials and diplomats, unions, legal and medical professionals, academics, activists or citizens, none of them should have been necessary.
None of the statements, resolutions, reports, films, articles, events, fundraisers, protests and letters over the last 14 years should have been necessary. But all of them were necessary because without them, I never would have seen the light of day. This unprecedented global effort was needed because the legal protections of the legal protections that did exist, many existed only on paper when not effective in any remotely reasonable time.
On the Plea Deal
I eventually chose freedom over and realizable justice. After being detained for years and facing 175 year sentence with no effective remedy. Justice for me is now precluded, as the U.S. government insisted in writing into its plea agreement that I cannot filed a case at the European Court of Human Rights or even the Freedom of Information Act request over what it did to me as a result of its extradition request.
I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism. I pled guilty to seeking information from a source. I pled guilty to obtaining information from a source. And I pled guilty to informing the public what that information was. I did not plead guilty to anything else.
I hope my testimony today can serve to highlight the weakness, the weaknesses of the existing safeguards and to help those whose cases are less visible but who are equally vulnerable. As I emerge from the dungeon of Belmarsh, the truth now seems less discernible, and I regret how much ground has been lost during that time period. How expressing the truth has been undermined, attacked, weakened and diminished.
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 U.S. government’s prosecution of me. It’s crossing. Crossing the Rubicon by internationally criminalizing journalism to the true climate for freedom of expression that exists now.
On WikiLeaks’ Work
Assange testifying in Strasbourg Tuesday. (Barnaby Nerberka)
When I founded WikiLeaks, it was driven by a simple dream to educate people about how the world works, so that through understanding, we might bring about something better. Having a map of where we are lets us understand where we might go. Knowledge empowers us to hold power to account and to demand justice where there is none. We obtained and published truth about tens of thousands of hidden casualties of war and other unseen horrors about programs of assassination, rendition, torture and mass surveillance.
We revealed not just when and where these things happened, but frequently the policies, the agreements and the structures behind them. When we published Collateral Murder, the infamous gotten camera footage of a U.S. Apache helicopter crew eagerly blowing to pieces Iraqi journalists and their rescuers. The visual reality of modern warfare shocked the world, so we also used interest in this video to direct people to the classified policies for when the U.S. military could deploy lethal force in Iraq.
How many civilians could be and how many civilians could be killed before gaining higher approval? In fact, 40 years of my potential 175 year sentence was for obtaining and releasing those policies.
The practical political vision I was left with after being immersed in the world’s dirty wars and secret operations, is simple. Let us stop gagging, torturing, and killing each other for a change. Get these fundamentals right and other political, economic and scientific processes that have space to educate. We’ll have space to take care of the rest.
WikiLeaks work was deeply rooted in the principles that this Assembly stands for. Our journalism elevated freedom of information and the public’s right to know. It found its natural operational home in Europe. I lived in Paris and we had formal corporate registrations in France and in Iceland. A journalistic and technical staff was spread throughout Europe. We publish to the world from servers based in France, in Germany and in Norway.
Manning’s Arrests
But 14 years ago, the United States military arrested one of our lead whistleblowers, Private First Class Manning, a U.S. intelligence analyst based in Iraq. The U.S. government concurrently launched an investigation against me and my colleagues. The U.S. government illicitly sent planes of agents to Iceland, paid bribes to an informant to steal our legal and journalistic work product and without formal process, pressured banks and financial services to block our subscriptions and to freeze our accounts.
The U.K. government took part in some of this retribution. It admitted at the European Court of Human Rights that it had unlawfully spied on my U.K. lawyers during this time.
Ultimately, this harassment was legally groundless. President Obama’s Justice Department chose not to indict me. Recognizing that no crime had been committed, the United States had never before prosecuted a publisher for publishing or obtaining government information. To do so would require a radical and ominous reinterpretation of the U.S. Constitution. In January 2017, Obama also commuted the sentence of Manning, who had been convicted of being one of my sources.
CIA’s Retribution
However, in February 2017, the landscape changed dramatically. President Trump had been elected. He appointed two wolves in MAGA hats. Mike Pompeo, a Kansas congressman and former arms industry executive, as C.I.A. director, and William Barr, a former C.I.A. officer, as U.S. attorney general.
By March 2017, WikiLeaks had exposed the C.I.A.’s infiltration of fringe political parties. Its spying on French and German leaders, its spying on the European Central Bank, European economic ministries, and its standing orders to spy on French on the street as a whole. We revealed the C.I.A.’s vast production of malware and viruses, its subversion of supply chains. Its subversion of antivirus software, cars, smart TVs and iPhones.
C.I.A. Director Pompeo launched a campaign of retribution. It is now a matter of public record that under Pompeo’s explicit direction, the C.I.A. drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the Ecuadorean Embassy in London and authorize going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks and the planting of false information. My wife and my infant son were also targeted.
A C.I.A. asset was permanently assigned to track my wife. And instructions were given to obtain DNA from my six month old son’s nappy. This is the testimony of more than 30 current and former U.S. intelligence officials speaking to the U.S. press, which has been additionally corroborated by records seized and the prosecution brought against some of the C.I.A. agents involved.
The C.I.A. is targeting of myself, my family and my associates through aggressive, extrajudicial and extraterritorial means. Provides a rare insight into how powerful intelligence organizations engage in transnational repression. Such repressions are not unique. What is unique is that we know so much about this one. Due to numerous whistleblowers and to judicial investigations in Spain.
This assembly is no stranger to extraterritorial abuses by the C.I.A.. Pace’s groundbreaking report on C.I.A. renditions in Europe exposed how the C.I.A. operated secret detention centers and conducted unlawful renditions on European soil, violating human rights and international law. In February this year, the alleged source of some of our C.I.A. revelations, former C.I.A. officer Joshua Schulte, was sentenced to 40 years in prison under conditions of extreme isolation.
Council of Europe in Strasbourg. (Barnaby Nerberka)
His windows are blacked out and a white noise machine plays 24 hours a day over his door so that he cannot even shout through it. These conditions are more severe than those found in Guantanamo Bay.
But transnational repression is also conducted by abusing legal processes. The lack of effective safeguards against this means that Europe is vulnerable to having its mutual legal assistance and expedition treaties hijacked by foreign powers to go after dissenting voices in Europe. In Michael Pompeo’s memoirs, which I read in my prison cell, the former C.I.A. director bragged about how he pressured the U.S. attorney general to bring an extradition case against me in response to our publications about the C.I.A..
Indeed, acceding to Pompeo’s requests, the U.S. attorney general reopened the investigation against me that Obama had closed and re-arrested Manning, this time as a witness, and he was held in a prison for over a year, fined $1,000 a day. In a formal attempt to coerce her into providing secret testimony against me, she ended up attempting to take her own life.
We usually think of attempts to force journalists to testify against their sources. But Manning was now a source being forced to testify against the journalist.
By December 2017, C.I.A. Director Pompeo had got his way and the U.S. government issued a warrant to the U.K. for my extradition. The U.K. government kept the warrant secret from the public for two more years, while it, the U.S. government and the new president of Ecuador moved to shape the political, legal and the diplomatic grounds for my arrest.
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 this. No individual has a hope of defending themselves against the vast resources that a state aggressor can deploy.
If the situation were not already bad enough, in my case, the U.S. government asserted a dangerous, dangerous new global legal position. Only U.S. citizens have free speech rights. Europeans and other nationalities do not have free speech rights, but the U.S. claims its Espionage Act still applies to them, regardless of where they are. So Europeans in Europe must obey the U.S. secrecy law with no defenses at all.
As far as the U.S. government is concerned, an American in Paris can talk about what the U.S. government is up to. Perhaps, but for a Frenchman in Paris, to do so is a crime with no defense. And he may be extradited, just like me.
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Via https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/01/assange-im-free-because-i-pled-guilty-to-journalism/
100s Dead, 1000s Missing from Hurricane Helene While National Guard Deployed to Israel Instead
Comments by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
This report from Grace of ReallyGraceful, who lives in Georgia, shows how the media is not reporting on the severity of the devastation in the Appalachia Mountains from Hurricane Helene where over a hundred people are already confirmed dead, with thousands still missing.
The National Guard in these states have been massively deployed to Israel instead of serving their communities where devastation now reigns.
You’ll also hear how about how rumors about the death of cash are greatly exaggerated, as cash is still king during times of disaster.
Mirror video on Bitchute in case YouTube behaves badly.
Norway issues int’l warrant for man linked to Lebanon pager blasts
Daily Sabah
Authorities have issued an international arrest warrant for a Norwegian linked to the detonation of communication devices used by the Lebanese group Hezbollah, police said Thursday.
Rinson Jose, a Norwegian-Indian man linked to the sale of pagers to Hezbollah that exploded last week, has been reported missing.
Jose, 39, disappeared while on a work trip to the U.S. last week. He is a founder of a Bulgarian company that was reportedly part of the pager supply chain.
“Yesterday, Sept. 25, the Oslo police district received a missing person report in connection with the pager case,” Oslo police said in an email to Reuters
“A missing persons case has been opened, and we have sent out an international warrant for the person,” it added.
Hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies detonated across Lebanon last week, killing at least 37 people and wounding nearly 3,000 in an attack widely blamed on Israel, which has refused to comment.
Jose declined to comment on the pagers when reached by phone last Wednesday, Sept. 18, and hung up when asked about the Bulgarian business. He did not return repeated calls and text messages.
Jose’s Norwegian employer, DN Media Group, said he left for a conference in Boston on Sept. 17, and the company has not been able to reach him since Sept. 18. He works at the group’s sales department.
In 2022, Jose founded Sofia-based company Norta Global Ltd, Bulgaria’s corporate registry shows.
Bulgaria has investigated the company’s role in the supply of booby-trapped pagers but has found no evidence that they were made or exported from the country.
Hungarian website Telex reported that Norta Global had imported the devices and then delivered them to Hezbollah.
Bulgaria’s National Security Agency (SANS) later said the company had nothing to do with the delivery of the exploding devices, but Oslo police said they had opened a “preliminary investigation into the information that has emerged.”
Norta Global, founded in April 2022, last year declared revenue of 650,000 euros ($725,000) for consulting activities outside the European Union.
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