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Another innocent man like he J6 protesters. They ruined his life for telling the truth.

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I should shut up now!

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There’s more like 400 years of Killing that the USA has been committing acts against people All over the World just because they think that, what they think should happen should happen around the world and if You don’t Agree with them then they Kill Your Family and Friends and that’s it literally sweep under the rug

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And also because they committed those crimes over in the Other Country they Can’t be Tried here in America because the crime Never Happened and America soil get it

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Who sent him all the info in the first place?

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The documents that form the basis for 1917 Espionage Act charges was Pvt Manning who was tried, court martialed & had the 35 year sentence commuted by Obama.

During Manning's military trial the US government conceded no sources were harmed as a result of any WikiLeaks publication. Lesser known side note Manning did NOT leak highly classified documents nothing was above SECRET all available as part of daily work files for analysts in the war theater.

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JOURNALIST KILLINGS

More than 75% of the 99 journalists and media workers killed worldwide in 2023 died in the Israel-Hamas war, according to a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists. CPJ counted 77 journalists and media workers killed over the first 10 weeks of the war — including 72 Palestinians, three Lebanese and two Israelis — more than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year.

ICIJ's digital editor

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Ditto

Knowledge is power.

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Thx!

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Always my pleasure, knowledge is power that multiplies when we pass it on. WikiLeaks and prosecution of it's sources and Julian has been dear to my heart and tracked closely from the outset so details are fairly handy memories & happy when it's helpful. :~)

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Perhaps you'd care to read & comment on what appears below here. There's a very dissenting, anti-Assange comment here. You sound better qualified to comment than I am! Thanks!

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Thanks for the heads up.. so much swill only the most egregious were addressed but surely enough to show the comment is riddled w easily verified factual errors & venom there's no factual basis to support any of the nasty jabs. My reply is in the thread! :~)

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/the-outrageous-persecution-of-julian/comment/50070260

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Jesus, Our Divine Lord and Saviour, was crucified for telling the truth! He suffered and died for us! See www.vaticancatholic.com also known as mostholyfamilymonastery.com

Prayers and blessings from Ireland! 🌹 🇮🇪 ❤️

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I’m a Truth Walker and Teller my woodpecker bothers me too much

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Scum

Evil

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Despicable and callous. You'd think Julian had suffered enough and the Australian Govt should be demanding his release and absolution and encourage his return to Australia.., the fact that they are not shows how callous they are too.

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Feb 21·edited Feb 21

The Aussie politicians that funded their own trip to visit him are to be commended...that's what mates do for mates. Cunts? Well ...cunts are exactly that

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No. It shows how global the conspiracy of the elites reaches.

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The Australian govt./politicians do not want to upset their friend and ally in Washington.

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We need to protect truth tellers rather than persecute them. Truth tellers are on the list of species that are becoming extinct. Pray for them.

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Praying won't help. Stand up.

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Shameful. Assange is an innocent man who told the truth

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It is amazing to me that the public stand by while people like Assange and the J6 protesters are imprisoned without trial - purely on the basis of allegations by their powerful opponents. Is justice dead?

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The ‘public’ ‘stands by’ because they know if they speak up they themselves will be shoved into a cell for possibly a lifetime. What a sorry world this has become where the few corrupt elites have horrendous power over the powerless many. Justice has become a joke.

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There always has been a two-tiered justice system.

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No. The justice system is now completely compromised for the one world order cabal.

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Still two tiered, separate laws for the cabal.

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Injustice is controlled.

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Thank you for posting this article. I'm not finding many in the U.S. that is covering his plight. In my opinion, the U.S, and UK governments/judges are in a no win position. If they extradite Assange to the U.S. and or if anything happens to him, Assange will be a martyr. If Assange is released, he is a hero. Praying for his safety and release.

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If Assange is extradited for a political case of publishing the Free Press will be over. Just like the Alex Jones Twitter ban it's the first that opens the door for everyone to be a target. Here's the only place the Covidian mantra does apply and nobody is safe unless everyone is safe to expose the crimes of the powerful.

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They don't understand it's about justice. Not "winning."

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They are super duper busy trying to "save democracy." Come on, man! 🤡

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(Those corrupt bastards!)

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😃😂

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FREE JULIAN!

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God, as you did with Peter in the Bible, we pray you will send an Angel from heaven to open up the door and let this man go free to come home to his family and be in peace for the remainder of his days on this earth. Jesus help him and give him miracles.

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The Assange story is the story of the pandemic. It carried forward. Including many of the same exact actors. Who after their betrayal of Julian Assange went on to their next propaganda assignment. And the next. And the next. And the next. Until 2020 created a lot of job openings for a lot of professional propagandists.

The author of this UK Guardian piece link below, James Ball, is the same author who penetrated WikiLeaks and helped bring it down, betrayals of Assange:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/02/everything-youve-been-told-is-a-lie-inside-the-wellness-to-facism-pipeline

It's a broadbrush smear of all who research and share the truths of the pandemic, our medical system, vaccines, lockdowns, the malevolent agendas of the powerful. So I did some digging on him. I spent a few minutes poking around in the writer's bio in internet searches. Very strange, a lot doesn't add up.

Supposedly James Ball went to Oxford but his family didn't have the money to continue his studies so he dropped out. That story doesn't smell right. Then he went to a sort of degree mill and got a journalism certificate of study. Weird.

Then he got a job with Julian Assange at WikiLeaks...became uncomfortable with how WikiLeaks was operating, quit, and a few months later WikiLeaks is shut down and Assange went into hiding. Ok, now that's disturbing.

Parlays that into a journalist job at the Guardian. He writes some pieces that make you think he's a bit of a rebel, taking the side of the little guy. But there's pieces like his Guardian Fascist health freedom hit job. Very inconsistent values. Oh, and he looks like the biggest stereotypical "incel" there could possibly be, the pics of him besides the one accompanying the article scream incel.

The UK Guardian piece is poorly written, like a guy who flunked out of Oxford journalism school and then bought a journalism certificate online. Redundant, said the same thing using slightly different words over and over and over, three-four times longer copy than it needed to be. If he's getting paid by the word like many writers do these days that was really milking it, meaning the editors simply didn't care, he could free form it.

But that background of his is very sketchy. I'd want to think he's a spook, but he comes across like a complete idiot. Heckofa cover if he is. Maybe that's what got him past Assange's gate, underestimated him? Was he the intelligence mole who took out WikiLeaks? That guy?!?!? All I know is he ain't right.

Soooo...I found more about James Ball on a fascinating WikiLeaks page. The Gibney Transcript:

https://wikileaks.org/IMG/html/gibney-transcript.html

It's long, very, very long. But filled with information that one could spend months going down all of the rabbit holes it leads to. I used my browser's Find keyword search to focus on James Ball, but you'll find a lot of curious actors.

So let's review. The Guardian. Breaks the Snowden story. Then behind the attacks on Assange. Slipped a spy who claims MI5 connections into WikiLeaks, James Ball. Who now writes propaganda stories telling readers that working out and choosing healthy lifestyles is the pipeline to Fascism. If you're into wellness and question western medicine, Big Pharma you'll be led to question everything and discover everything you've been told by government and media is a lie. Which is Fascism, of course.

From the Gibney Transcripts:

"WikiLeaks staff suspected Ball was passing information from WikiLeaks onto others: rival media organisations or government agencies. WikiLeaks discovered that Ball had told a colleague he had a job interview with the UK intelligence service MI5 and had interned at the UK Home Office. WikiLeaks also discovered Ball was attending secret meetings with the Guardian journalist David Leigh - his former college professor at City University, and a vocal opponent of WikiLeaks.

While Assange was in prison it was discovered that someone had accessed the Sunshine Press press contacts account using an email client, and had mirrored its archive. Ball had briefly been given access to the account. Documents from the account subsequently appeared in the Guardian. Physical documents went missing, and Ball's behaviour became erratic.

Therefore a second, special non-disclosure agreement was devised for Ball, to test his reaction. After being asked to sign it at WikiLeaks' Norfolk office, Ball became anxious and asked to postpone signing it while he considered it. He then left for London.

It later became obvious to WikiLeaks staff that, showing malicious forethought, Ball had stolen what he thought was WikiLeaks' copy of his original NDA (which would have given him both copies). However the document that James Ball stole was not WikiLeaks' copy of the agreement. Ball had left his NDA out on a desk and it had been filed for security reasons. He had stolen his own copy of the NDA. The other copy had already been removed to a secure location, and is still in WikiLeaks' possession.

Ball became unavailable for work, and stopped returning calls. He lied about his whereabouts, and invented reasons why he could not return, which were confirmed to be untrue by a mutual third party. After several weeks, it became clear that he had cashed in his favours to David Leigh, in return for which he was given a post at the Guardian and the first credit in David Leigh's book.

Ball pursued career advancement at the Guardian by placing himself at the service of The Guardian's institutional vendetta against WikiLeaks, publishing numerous deceitful attacks on WikiLeaks over the last two and a half years, all of which rely on heavily embellishing his role as a freelancer working as a junior intern at WikiLeaks.

During the short time he worked for WikiLeaks he insisted on being called "a journalist working with WikiLeaks" or "a freelancer working for them". Some time after leaving, Ball reimagined his role at WikiLeaks for career advantage, changing his title in order to misrepresent himself to others as a "former spokesperson." James Ball was never a spokesperson for WikiLeaks. Alex Gibney did not secure an interview with WikiLeaks' actual spokesperson, Kristinn Hrafnsson.

Ball has consistently maintained that he never signed the WikiLeaks NDA, and has felt secure enough to lie in print and on camera because he believed he had destroyed the evidence, having stolen the NDA.

Although he lies straight to camera in "We Steal Secrets" about the NDA, in January 2013 Ball admitted that he did sign the WikiLeaks NDA, after having been challenged about it by WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson. In admitting this, he lied again, claiming that he had never denied signing a WikiLeaks NDA. The evidence to the contrary is in the film itself."

"James Ball" was fired from wikileaks:

https://contraspin.co.nz/another-day-another-two-bit-smear-on-julian-assange/

There's more rabbit holes in the Gibney Transcripts link. This is just a snippet about James Ball as he relates to Wikileaks and Assange. If you have the time I encourage you to explore more. You'll find more connections to the present, to the propagandists of the pandemic and many, many more of the assaults on our minds. And one thing propagandists really don't like is being exposed, getting "pantsed" in front of a large audience.:

https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20150408/getting_pantsed_00.jpg

Which is what Assange is guilty of. And why he is being persecuted. And what awaits the rest of us trying to expose the propagandists who get large audiences. About the pandemic, voting, climate, Ukraine, all of it. And why it must matter to all of us. Even if we think what Assange exposed was terrible and may have harmed national security. To ignore it and allow it is an even greater threat to our national security. As free people living in a constitutional republic.

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Excellent and incredibly revealing post! Many kudos due you

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Alex Gibney piece is pure propaganda & thinly veiled hit job smearing Julian & WikiLeaks.

2013 WikiLeaks published an annotated transcript of Gibney's version w corrections noted.

https://www.wikileaks.org/IMG/html/gibney-transcript.html

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Did you see that the link and the excerpt I quoted from in my comment is the same exact link you share? Yes, Gibney is what he is. Which is why I sourced the WikiLeaks.org version you did.

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The USA is just as Guilty of this crime to by spying on Its own citizens

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Thank-you, John Leake.

Always have the nose to the freshest trail with the scent of ink.

Great Job and looking forward to reading it.

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Dear Reuters, we killed two of your reporters. Too bad the world saw it, but you know the deal...

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Dean Yates was the Reuters editor who had tried to investigate the death of his staff.. he has a fab interview w Chris Hedges about the guilt he had w their deaths and horror to discover they were killed in cold blood by US helicopter gunners.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-show-with-811

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Well done journalist!

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Link?

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"The full episode is only available to paid subscribers of The Chris Hedges Report"

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Pretty sure Stela Assange Youtube has it too but keyword search is easy enough it never ceases to amaze me how few folks are proactive when a first source fails.

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/19/watch-facing-injustice/

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😂 ...you missed it?? Where were you 10+ years ago!?

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Incredibly vague.

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Google it

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Feb 21·edited Feb 21

Not 10 years ago: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/reuters-videographer-killed-southern-lebanon-2023-10-13/

Or do you mean Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh on12 July 2007? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/all-lies-how-the-us-military-covered-up-gunning-down-two-journalists-in-iraq See the Assange reference.

Why the stupid games?

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Save time, out

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​ Assange ‘too ill’ to attend last chance UK appeal against US extradition

Washington wants the WikiLeaks publisher on its soil where he could face a prison sentence of up to 175 years

​ “The outrageous part of the UK’s years-long ‘trial’ to condemn Julian Assange to die in an American dungeon is that the victim of his ‘crime’ (journalism) is a state rather than a person–the definition of a political offense, which the US-UK extradition treaty explicitly forbid,” NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said on X (formerly Twitter).

​ Activists outside the court chanted “US, UK, hands off Assange” and “There is only one decision – no extradition,” among other slogans.

​ This week’s hearing will decide whether Assange will be allowed to appeal the 2022 decision by the UK government to extradite him to the US. His attorneys have argued that the extradition would amount to punishment for political opinions and violate the European Convention on Human Rights.

https://swentr.site/news/592777-julian-assange-london-hearing/

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SNOWDEN & ASSANGE. Both are guilty of reporting ABSOLUTE & FACTUAL TRUTHS. Both had the intention to Bring Truth thru information, available for any/all interested parties. Whether Journalist or Whistleblower/US Citizen, these two persons will be remembered as Heroic unselfish individuals. Those, who could not UNSEE - UNKNOW -IGNORE facts that humanity NEEDS TO KNOW & perhaps, act on. Neither, Assange or Snowden had any idea's how their life would change for the worst. THE MOST SELFLESS & BRAVE act, one has ever chose to do !

Remember, this was ONE choice that changed their life Not for power, or money.

As Knowledge Is Power, information has empowered many of us, US & more.

Thank you- Julian & Ed

Praise & 🙏's

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