UPDATE Tuesday 18th of October- Julian Assange is still alive and well in the Embassy, after hours of speculation, it seems John Kerry though was definately threatening the Ecuador Embassy because Assange was releasing damaging documents about Hillary Clinton and this is possibly why Assanges Internet was cut off, Kerry had a meeting with Ecuador while he was in London, putting a great deal of pressure on the Embassy for Assanges arrest, despite this Ecuador stated “Facing the speculations in recent hours, the government of Ecuador reaffirms the validity of the asylum granted to Julian Assange four years ago. We confirm that the protection of the Ecuadorian state will continue as long as the circumstances that motivated the permission of such asylum remain.”
UPDATE - It is rumoured that Julian Assange has just been arrested by the U.K and taken out of the Ecuadorian embassy. A special team stormed the building according to one source. This article will be updating, as at the time I wrote this, the only news source which is in Spanish was published on Friday, the Ecuadorian Newspaper ''El Universo'' announced that Sweden had a warrant for Assanges arrest on the 17th of October, (the link is below this article), this is a viable mainstream news source and since Ecuador is under a great deal of pressure and threats from the American government it makes sense that Ecuador would be the first to receive news that its Embassy in London would have its Embassy status revoked temporarily, so that the police could enter to arrest Assange. Roger Stone, best selling political author and host of Stone Cold Truth released this tweet on Saturday evening, the 16th of October. It has been announced by CNN that John Kerry has been in London over the last few days to discuss Sanctions on Syria and Russia, this connects to Kerry threatening the Ecuadorian government and his pressure to oust Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy.
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Please check for updates as this has not hit mainstream English media and we are waiting for solid sources while London Police still refuse to comment, Embassy still refuses to confirm if Julian Assange is on the property. Wikileaks Communications channels are completely silent. https://wikileaks.org Wikileaks Website is still intermittent and it is possible according to a tweet that Wikileaks Work Force staff have been compromised. Much courage for what Julian Assange has risked to expose the corruption in government.
According to a page on Facebook Page called ''Citizens for Trump'' . The US government cut off Assanges internet access after he started dumping large amounts of data.
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Meanwhile, NatWest Bank in the UK has just announced today that it has expunged all of their Russian clients including the Russian News Channel RT, a popular News Channel that provides Russia’s perspective on World News which many people refer to. However, NatWest Bank announced it can no longer provide a service to RT News for banking and that all Russian bank accounts at NatWest will be terminated. The British government said this is an issue exclusively with the banks.
Many are puzzled by this, though it is not public knowledge that international banks risk fines in the billions of dollars if they ignore international trading sanctions and are at risk of conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA) when international banks engage in trade and business transactions through the U.S. financial system on behalf of Russia, Syria and Sudanese, Iranian, and any other country subject to U.S. economic sanctions. What this does is force every country to partake in repressing countries that the United States is against, even if other countries do not agree with these sanctions.
RT News also had adverts around London banned because they were considered too political, when the irony is, these adverts were in fact encouraging the public to think about non-biased journalism.
This coincides with three strange encrypted codes released under one of Julian Assange's Wikileaks tweet accounts, this alarmed Wikileaks and Assange supporters as this is only supposed to happen if Julian Assange’s safety is compromised, it recently transpires that he is still alive and well in the Ecuadorian Embassy amidst rumours he may have been arrested, after John Kerry was pressuring the Ecuadorian Embassy, some rumours broke out on twitter that the Embassy had its status revoked so that the police could enter arrest Julian Assange. Assanges Internet access still remains cut off after Hilary Clinton was due to give a speech about Goldman Sachs. John Kerry was in London having meetings and he met with the Embassy and threatened the Ecuadorian government if nothing was done to remove Assange from the Embassy.
Statue of Liberty, pixabay image by Pete Linforth for the public domain.
This news comes within days of two female American journalists, Deia Schlosberg, a documentary film maker and Amy Goodman, an award winning journalist and 'Democracy Now' host, who have both been arrested on separate occasions for reporting from the field in the North Dakota Pipeline Protest. Each journalist is facing 40 years imprisonment in a country that once prided itself on Free Speech "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The First Amendment is supposed to safeguard human rights to guarantee not only press freedom but freedom of religion as well as the right to assemble and to "petition the government for a redress of grievances."
It is clear that the US government interests and police are now violating a journalists right to the First Amendment in order to protect the interests of corporations and political stakeholders invested in the North Dakota pipeline, instead the interests of the Native American People whose sacred land that pipeline threatens.
Why is this connected with the The Smith-Mundt Act? The modernization of the Smith-Mundt Act was implimented on July the 2nd, 2013, the United States Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) redacted the ban on the manufacture of propaganda news, which means from that date, it was legally reinstated for the US broadcasting news companies to fabricate news for propaganda and entertainment purposes to an international audience.
Wikipedia’s definition of the Smith-Mundt Act- ´´The US Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Public Law 80-402), popularly referred to as the Smith–Mundt Act, specifies the terms in which the United States government can engage global audiences, also known as propaganda. The act was first introduced as the Bloom Bill in December 1945 in the 79th Congress and subsequently passed by the 80th Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on January 27, 1948.’’
These events that have unfolded over the last few weeks indicate a clear attack on non-biased independent journalism, objectivity in journalism, investigative journalism. The only kind of journalism we will see in newspapers is manufactured propaganda, while the real investigative journalists face longterm sentences or even death for risking to deliver truth to the general public.
The same assault on our right to Free Speech and access to unbiased information is being enforced on the internet and websites are being systematically shut down and blocked for exposing truth under the pretext of copyright infringement laws or conspiracy to incite terrorism. Google’s algorithms have already changed so that we only see a quarter of the information available compared to other servers that do not filter out information. We will eventually be joining the level of news propaganda and control that exist in China and North Korea if we stand aside and do nothing about our fast eroding rights to freedom of expression.
The only conclusion one can make from this, is that those at the top of the pyramid, don't like corruption being exposed, they are trying to obliterate investigative journalism, so that people no longer know what is going on, same reason they want to reduce the potency of the internet by doing their sweeping shut down of websites as well as shutting people down, before our very eyes we are witnessing the end of Free Speech in addition to an erosion of valuable information through the internet.
Last week the British education establishment announced it was axing 29 ‘A’ Level subjects, including ''Critical Thinking'' ''Creative Thinking'' and ''World Development'' . Is this part of the dumbing down of education and knowledge commencing, as outlined in George Orwell’s book '1984'? Make a note of this, because where we're heading, perhaps there will be no more development or critical and creative thinking, more like a rapid regression into something far more sinister.
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The Fabian Society is a British secret society that publically claims to be an organisation working for democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, but infact, it is a secret think tank whose goal is to socially engineer society several hundred years in advance, its coat of arms is an aptly depicted wolf in sheep’s clothing. George Orwell whose real name was Eric Blair and Aldous Huxley, (author of Brave New World) were members of the Fabian Sociery, Huxley taught French at Eton College and introduced George Orwell to the Fabian Society, both authors were encouraged to write for the Society, it is doubtful at the time they were involved that they were aware of the true purpose of the Fabian society as it has many levels of secrecy and has manipulated people for its sole purpose which is to move towards a global fascist agenda, it is fascinating to learn that Orwell’s famous book 1984 is under copyrighted control by the Fabian Society until 2025.
Independent journalism is a valuable contributor to pushing the boundaries of human justice, morals and ethics in society, making and recording history, it is at the forefront of what keeps our freedoms alive, the pen is mightier than the sword and has been a valuable weapon in human rights. Everyone has the right to express their opinions and perspectives, we should support those investigative journalists that have done their best to represent the people’s interests in truth and justice especially in humanitarian and environmental issues, where it has become a human necessity.
In the spirit of Voltaire’s words ''I disapprove of what you say but I defend to the death of your right to say it''. This is one interest that unites and affects the whole of humanity, what ever else we disagree or agree upon.
It is ironic that while we drown in the age of information, we need to make sure we step up our fight for our dwindling freedom and do what we can to preserve, define and separate authentic information from propaganda and disinformation. Each of us holds this responsibility more now than ever before, we no longer live in a democracy, what we are seeing is a mockery made of our human rights and freedom of expression while law enforcements are now exclusively protecting the interests of corporations and their political pimps.
PLEASE READ AS THIS ARTICLE IS SUBJECT TO UPDATES
It is rumoured that Assange has been arrested -
New Update this time from -Nation on News - ''Wikileaks has not addressed the Court Decision ending Julian Assange’s Appeal against his Warrant in Sweden. No proof of life given since the claim of a raid on the Embassy. Only a tweet.'' https://nationonenews.com/2016/10/17/wikileaks-just-dumped-everything-this-is-huge-historic-activity-by-wikileaks-read-and-share-before-it-is-taken-down/
Here is a news article from Ecuador in Spanish that says Sweden has a Warrant for his arrest due the 17th of October, at the time I wrote this, the only news article confirming Julian Assanges due arrest is this Ecuadorian Newspaper, which makes sense since Ecuador would have received notice since it has been under immense pressure from the US government, having its Embassy rights revoked in London is a threat to Ecuador's peace and government. Much courage to Julian Assange and all he has risked to get the truth about the government out http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2016/09/16/nota/5803504/corte-apelacion-sueca-ratifica-orden-detencion-julian-assange
Just in - a North Dakota judge today, dismissed the criminal charges that had been filed against Amy Goodman, over her reporting on a controversial oil pipeline project. "No journalist should ever be charged with a crime for doing their job," said Tom Dickson, Goodman's attorney. "We were vindicated today."
News still awaits on Deia Schlosberg's case as she faces 45 years prison sentence.
by Carlita Shaw
Author of The Silent Ecocide- a crisis of human consciousness
https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Ecocide-Environmental-Crisis-Consciousness/dp/1512365718