Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Bradley Manning needs consular visit, mother tells William Hague

Bradley Manning needs consular visit, mother tells William Hague

Susan Manning calls on British foreign secretary to check her son's physical and mental health in maximum security custody
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    Bradley Manning is held alone in a maximum security cell 23 hours a day. Photograph: AP
    The mother of Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking data to WikiLeaks, has written to William Hague asking for British consular officials to visit him in military prison to check on his physical and mental health, which she said was deteriorating.
    Manning, 23, has been in custody since last May in conditions that have provoked widespread criticism of the US military and government. He is held alone in a maximum security cell for 23 hours a day and stripped naked each night apart from a smock.
    Manning does not have a British passport or consider himself British, his lawyer has said, but because his mother, Susan, is Welsh, the soldier is "British by descent", the Foreign Office confirmed this month.
    In her letter, Susan Manning wrote that she visited her son in Quantico marine base in Virginia in February, travelling with her sister, Bradley's aunt and his uncle, "but they were not allowed to see Bradley.
    "I was very distressed by seeing Bradley. Being in prison, and being held in the conditions which he is, is having a damaging effect on him physically and mentally. I am worried that his condition is getting worse. I would like someone to visit him who can check on his conditions. If Bradley's being a British national means that someone from the British embassy can visit him, then I would like to ask if you can make that happen. I do not believe that Bradley is in a position to be able to request this himself, so I am asking as his mother on his behalf."
    Susan Manning, who divorced Bradley's American father, Brian, when her son was a teenager, also asked Hague for consular support on her own behalf. "If I try [to] visit Bradley again, can someone from the British embassy help me and other members of Bradley's family to deal with the US marine authorities and help with any other arrangements we have to make?"
    The UN special rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez, issued a rare reprimand to the US government this week for failing to allow him private access to the soldier. Manning can meet Mendez only in the presence of a guard, where the soldier's comments could be used against him in future court martial proceedings.
    Mendez said he was acting on a complaint "that the regimen of this detainee amounts to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or torture. Until I have all the evidence in front of me, I cannot say whether he has been treated inhumanely". The Pentagon denied this week he was kept in solitary confinement.
    Manning is accused of leaking confidential data, including more than 250,000 diplomatic cables, to WikiLeaks, on charges that include "aiding the enemy", a capital crime.
    On 4 April the Foreign Office minister Henry Bellingham said the British embassy in Washington had expressed MPs' concerns about the soldier's treatment to the Obama administration and would do so again. "All people who are detained in custody deserve to be treated in detention according to the highest international standards, and we certainly expect nothing less from the United States." With relation to Manning's nationality, he said: "We must respect his wishes on the matter and recognise the limitations on UK involvement," while noting that the government had not at that point had any requests for help from the British side of his family.
    The Foreign Office confirmed the foreign secretary's office had received the letter, and said: "We will carefully consider Mrs Manning's letter and will reply to her shortly."
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China accuses US of human rights double standards

China accuses US of human rights double standards

Beijing report says Washington demands internet freedom overseas while imposing harsh restrictions at home

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    China has accused the US of human rights double standards – retaliation, perhaps, for Hillary Clinton's recent criticism of the country's 'worsening' record. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty
     
    The Chinese government has attacked the US for targeting WikiLeaks while campaigning for internet freedom overseas.
    Beijing has a doctrine of non-interference in other countries' internal affairs, but the State Council Information Office releases an annual report on the US human rights record as a riposte to Washington's criticisms. The document says it underlines the hypocrisy of the US and "its malicious design to pursue hegemony under the pretext of human rights".
    Last week the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, criticised China's "worsening" record – citing the detention of artist Ai Weiwei and others – as she released the annual state department survey of the human rights situation around the world. An introduction to the Chinese document, by the state news agency Xinhua, said the report was "full of distortions" and the US "turned a blind eye to its own terrible human rights situation".
    Much of the document focuses on social and economic issues such as poverty, crime and racism. It attacks the US for the large number of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan and the prisoner abuse scandals that have dogged counterterrorism initiatives. It adds: "The violation of [US] citizens' civil and political rights by the government is severe … the United States applies double standards … by requesting unrestricted 'internet freedom' in other countries, which becomes an important diplomatic tool for the United States to impose pressure and seek hegemony, and imposing strict restriction within its territory.
    "An article on [the] BBC … noted the US government wants to boost internet freedom to give voices to citizens living in societies regarded as 'closed' and questions those governments' control over information flow, although within its borders the US government tries to create a legal frame to fight the challenge posed by WikiLeaks."
    While some of the data cited in the report is derived from official or authoritative sources, other sections are composed from a mishmash of online material. One figure on crime rates is attributed to "10 Facts About Crime in the United States that Will Blow Your Mind, Beforitsnews.com".
    The report also refers to evidence from groups such as Human Rights Watch. The organisation has repeatedly criticised abuses in China and its website is blocked in the country.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

On the Earth Allies of the Galactics



On the Earth Allies of the Galactics

2011 April 11
by Steve Beckow
 
It might be a safe bet to say that this man is an Earth ally.

It might be a safe bet to say that this man is an Earth ally. No secret there.



A question was asked on Share11 about the Earth allies. Here is a repost of an article written perhaps a year ago on them.  We cannot expect the galactics to name them. To do so would be to invite them or their loved ones or friends being assassinated. 

You remember how some time ago the wife of a White House aide was killed in her car? If the dark ones could not get at the Earth ally, they might attack someone related to them whom they could get to. So no identification of who the Earth allies are for now. For sure later.

The team on the ground pushing against the cabal is known to SaLuSa and his group simply and cryptically as “our allies” and to Sheldan Nidle’s Spiritual Hierarchy and Galactic Federation (SHGF) as “our Earth allies.”
They are undoubtedly the same group described in other contexts as the “white knights.”

A veil of secrecy surrounds them. Diane of Sirius says that “we talk of the importance of our allies and you ask who are they, but we are not at liberty to give names.” (1) Their operations are similarly secret. Says Diane: “We cannot let out details, as the dark forces will seek ways of foiling the introduction of new policies.” (2)

Atmos of Sirius explains that “secrecy … is an important part of our strategy to keep ahead of the dark forces. It becomes vital that most of our plans and support from our allies are covert operations, as our progress may be deliberately delayed.” (3)

The danger is real, as SaLuSa explains: “The dark Ones know we give our protection to those who are our allies, but they still try to ‘kill off’ those who are brave enough to openly walk their truth.” (4)
We heard Matthew Ward confirm this risk in the last chapter:
“[The dark] have been successful thus far in achieving delays by many means: assassinations of influential people who favor initiating the provisions without delay as well as others actively working toward this end…” (5)
The Earth allies are those who are “actively working towards this end.”

Speaking particularly of NESARA, the SHGF informs us that the “new monetary and financial system … lies at the heart of the Earth allies’ mission. A broad-based, international alliance has formed, which is helping our Earth allies to edge forward against the last cabal.” (6)

They are guided in their struggle by the ascended masters and galactics. They block the Illuminati at every step. One of the actions the galactics will mention is that the Earth allies retrieve what the SHGF call “the illegal ‘swag’ [the dark] absconds with,” which pays for Illuminati black operations. (7)

“Our liaisons are quick to reveal where the money went and how to grab it back again. These games … give the dark time to keep its global tyranny going and to find a possible way out of its overwhelming dilemma: us!” (8)

The galactics give no thought to failure. While the Illuminati “want to crush our Earth allies and force us to abandon [our] mission … this objective is a pipe dream! The momentum of the divine plan in this realm forever negates any possibility of these dark dreams coming to fruition!” (9)

The SHGF calls the allies “the special way-showers to a new reality” (10) and “the main agent[s] of change.” (11) They are carrying out “an all-encompassing, global ‘house-cleaning’ of the dark and its myriad cronies.” They are the “new ‘brooms’ of the Light” who will sweep out the cabal and disinfect the house. “What is left is to arrest [the cabal] openly and distribute to the worthy the vast prosperity long promised to them by the Light.” (12)

To develop NESARA and all the arrangements that support and extend it, the Earth allies had to come up with radically-new formulations. Little or nothing from the past could be brought forward. Says Sheldan Nidle:

“They had to move well beyond the cutting-edge thinking that was being brought to bear on your now distressed legal, financial, and political systems.

“They knew they had to think well outside the conventional ‘box’ in order to come up with something befitting the new context. They threw out the economic philosophies which created the ‘crimes’ that left the majority of your global populace prey to the excesses of your rich and powerful.

“They needed to come up with systems that not only reformed your world’s institutions but that offered an entirely different way of moving your global society out of the social control mechanisms that cripple your lives. Many of their proposals have since become sequestered laws that now await unveiling.” (13)

Echoing Einstein, the SHGF explained that “the thinking required for repairing this level of damage cannot stem from the discredited philosophies which got you into this mess in the first place; wholly novel approaches must not only mend the damage but also allow the emergence of a very different worldview.

“It is this that our Earth allies courageously champion. …

“At present, all this is just below the radar, waiting to come into view. Those in charge swamp your world with corruption, deceit, and betrayal that is frightful to watch. This all needs to be expunged, followed by a new direction kick-started by Heaven’s abundance.” (14)

The SHGF reminds us that NESARA itself contains only part of the allies’ ideas. “The ‘total package’ of the allies goes far beyond the provisions of that most commendable document.” (15)

Who stands behind them? Who gives them their power?

SaLuSa says that the allies “are working directly with the Galactic Federation.” (16) The galactics “can and will overshadow our allies if necessary, to direct the outcome in a beneficial way to you all. This is vital where your military are concerned. … Our presence is the controlling force that operates from a distance to keep you heading towards Ascension.” (17)

Undoubtedly the Earth allies could not have won the victory without the galactics’ help: “It will take our presence to support those dear souls that will lead the way, as the opposition to change will be strong.” (18) Total victory awaits the galactics’ arrival in First Contact: “Once we arrive [the allies] will come to the forefront and a … movement will be started … that will gradually cover the whole world.” (19)

In April of 2009, Diane of Sirius predicted that the chaos on Earth “will continue … for many months. … It may seem that all attempts to overcome the problems are doomed to fail, but that is because there is no real appreciation of what is to take its place. We have that within our hands and our allies will manoeuvre themselves into such positions that their influence is felt.” (20)

When the main events begin to occur, “be assured that many lighted souls … wait their opportunity to move out of the shadows and support those Dear Ones who have taken up the responsibility for world-shaking changes [i.e., the allies].” These lighted ones are rumored to include the wise sages who began all the world’s religions. “Behind them are our own personnel who will protect them in their time of [emergency].” (21)

This is as much as we are told of the noble army of men and women who have risked their lives to stop the dark cabal. It is they who are fighting on our behalf, protected by the galactics and the ascended masters, championing the plan known as NESARA.

Footnotes

(2) Diane, Apr. 10, 2009, ibid. On this subject, see also Spiritual Hierarchy and Galactic Federation (SHGF), Sept. 16, 2008, through Sheldan Nidle, at http://www.paoweb.com/sn091608.htm.
(3) Atmos of Sirius, Dec. 17, 2008, at http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm.
(5) Matthew’s Message, Aug. 7, 2003, at http://www.matthewbooks.com/mattsmessage.htm.
(6) SHGF, Aug. 19, 2008, ibid.
(7) SHGF, Sept. 16, 2008, ibid.
(8) Ibid.
(9) SHGF, Aug. 19, 2008, ibid.
(10) SHGF, Dec. 16, 2008, ibid.
(11) SHGF, Sept. 9, 2008, ibid.
(12) SHGF, Dec. 23, 2008, ibid.
(13) SHGF, Jan. 27, 2009, ibid.
(14) SHGF, Feb. 10, 2009, ibid.
(15) SHGF, Jan. 27, 2009, ibid.
(16) SaLuSa, Feb. 20, 2009, ibid.
(17) SaLuSa, March 20, 2009, ibid.

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

April 6 - Julian Assange given extradition appeal hearing date

Julian Assange given extradition appeal hearing date

WikiLeaks founder says being forced to go to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations would breach his human rights

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    Julian Assange has been accused of sexual assaulting two WikiLeaks volunteers. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA
    Julian Assange has been given a date for his appeal against extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual assault.
    A two-day hearing has been listed at the high court in London beginning on 12 July, it was announced on Wednesday.
    The WikiLeaks founder is appealing against a ruling by Judge Howard Riddle at Belmarsh magistrates' court in south London that extradition would not breach his human rights.
    The 39-year-old Assange, described the ruling as "rubber stamping" and the result of a "European arrest warrant system run amok".
    He denies the allegations against him and believes they were politically motivated, particularly after WikiLeaks' publication of leaked American diplomatic cables that rocked the US government.
    The Australian national faces three allegations of sexual assault and one of rape in Stockholm in August last year, made by two female WikiLeaks volunteers.
    His lawyers accused the Swedish prime minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, of creating a "toxic atmosphere" in Sweden and damaging his chances of a fair trial by portraying him as "public enemy No 1".
    At a hearing in February, Riddle dismissed all of Assange's arguments that he could not get a fair trial and rejected his claim that extradition to Sweden would violate his human rights.
    Assange has said he fears extradition to Sweden could be a stepping stone to him being sent to the US to stand trial on fresh charges relating to WikiLeaks, and that he could even face the death penalty.
    About a dozen supporters demonstrated outside the Belmarsh courthouse wearing masks, costumes and Guantánamo Bay-style orange boiler suits.
    If his appeal is unsuccessful, Assange could take his case to the supreme court, the UK's highest court.

What Would Await Assange in Sweden

What Would Await Assange in Sweden

2011 March 13
by Steve Beckow
Folks, we need to keep our eye both on Japan and on the rest of the world. The Illuminati have used the HAARPquake in Japan to divert our attention and bad things can happen while we are distracted. One bad thing that could happen is that Julian Assange could be sent to Sweden and from there to anywhere the CIA desires. So, while keeping our hearts open to Japan, let’s not forget Assange, Libya, and Wisconsin. Thanks to Jean H.

How the So-Called Guardians of Free Speech Are Silencing the Messenger

Saturday 12 March 2011

How the So-Called Guardians of Free Speech Are Silencing the Messenger

Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy group, speaks to the press. (Photo: Andrew Testa / The New York Times)

As the United States and Britain look for an excuse to invade another oil-rich Arab country, the hypocrisy is familiar. Colonel Gaddafi is “delusional” and “blood-drenched” while the authors of an invasion that killed a million Iraqis, who have kidnapped and tortured in our name, are entirely sane, never blood-drenched and once again the arbiters of “stability.”

But something has changed. Reality is no longer what the powerful say it is. Of all the spectacular revolts across the world, the most exciting is the insurrection of knowledge sparked by WikiLeaks. This is not a new idea.

In 1792, the revolutionary Tom Paine warned his readers in England that their government believed that “people must be hoodwinked and held in superstitious ignorance by some bugbear or other.” Paine’s “The Rights of Man” was considered such a threat to elite control that a secret grand jury was ordered to charge him with “a dangerous and treasonable conspiracy.” Wisely, he sought refuge in France.

The ordeal and courage of Paine is cited by the Sydney Peace Foundation in its award of Australia’s human rights gold medal to Julian Assange. Like Paine, Assange is a maverick who serves no system and is threatened by a secret grand jury, a malicious device long abandoned in England, but not in the United States. If extradited to the US, he is likely to disappear into the Kafkaesque world that produced the Guantanamo Bay nightmare and now accuses Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks’ alleged whistleblower, of a capital crime.

Should Assange’s current British appeal fail against his extradition to Sweden, he will probably, once charged, be denied bail and held incommunicado until his trial in secret. The case against him has already been dismissed by a senior prosecutor in Stockholm and given new life only when a right-wing politician, Claes Borgstrom, intervened and made public statements about Assange’s “guilt.” Borgstrom, a lawyer, now represents the two women involved. His law partner is Thomas Bodstrom, who, as Sweden’s minister for justice in 2001, was implicated in the handover of two innocent Egyptian refugees to a CIA kidnap squad at Stockholm airport. Sweden later awarded them damages for their torture.

These facts were documented in an Australian parliamentary briefing in Canberra on 2 March. Outlining an epic miscarriage of justice threatening Assange, the enquiry heard expert evidence that, under international standards of justice, the behavior of certain officials in Sweden would be considered “highly improper and reprehensible [and] preclude a fair trial.”

A former senior Australian diplomat, Tony Kevin, described the close ties between the Swedish Prime Minister Frederic Reinfeldt and the Republican right in the US. “Reinfeldt and [George W] Bush are friends,” he said. Reinfeldt has attacked Assange publicly and hired Karl Rove, the former Bush crony, to advise him. The implications for Assange’s extradition to the US from Sweden are dire.

The Australian enquiry was ignored in the UK, where black farce is currently preferred. On 3 March, The Guardian UK announced that Stephen Spielberg’s Dream Works was to make “an investigative thriller in the mould of All the President’s Men” out of the book “WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy.”
I asked David Leigh, who wrote the book with Luke Harding, how much Spielberg had paid The Guardian UK for the screen rights and what he expected to make personally. “No idea,” was the puzzling reply of The Guardian UK’s “investigations editor.” The Guardian UK paid WikiLeaks nothing for its treasure trove of leaks. Assange and WikiLeaks – not Leigh or Harding – are responsible for what The Guardian UK’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, calls “one of the greatest journalistic scoops of the last 30 years.”

The Guardian UK has made clear it has no further use for Assange. He is a loose cannon who does not fit Guardian-world, who proved a tough, unclubbable negotiator. And brave. In The Guardian UK’s self-regarding book, Assange’s extraordinary bravery is excised. He becomes a figure of petty bemusement, an “unusual Australian” with a “frizzy-haired” mother, gratuitously abused as “callous” and a “damaged personality” that was “on the autistic spectrum.” How will Spielberg deal with this childish character assassination?

On the BBC’s “Panorama,” Leigh indulged hearsay about Assange not caring about the lives of those named in the leaks. As for the claim that Assange had complained of a “Jewish conspiracy,” which follows a torrent of Internet nonsense that he is an evil agent of Mossad, Assange rejected this as “completely false, in spirit and word.”

It is difficult to describe, let alone imagine, the sense of isolation and state of siege of Assange, who, in one form or another, is paying for tearing aside the façade of rapacious power. The canker here is not the far right, but the paper-thin liberalism of those who guard the limits of free speech.

The New York Times has distinguished itself by spinning and censoring the WikiLeaks material. “We are taking all [the] cables to the administration,” said Bill Keller, the editor, “They’ve convinced us that redacting certain information would be wise.” In an article by Keller, Assange is personally abused. At the Columbia School of Journalism on 3 February, Keller said, in effect, that the public could not be trusted with the release of further cables. This might cause a “cacophony.” The gatekeeper has spoken.

The heroic Manning is kept naked under lights and cameras 24 hours a day. Greg Barns, director of the Australian Lawyers Alliance, says the fears that Assange will “end up being tortured in a high security American prison” are justified.


Who will share responsibility for such a crime?

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At midday on Friday 5 February, 2016 Julian Assange, John Jones QC, Melinda Taylor, Jennifer Robinson and Baltasar Garzon will be speaking at a press conference at the Frontline Club on the decision made by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on the Assange case.