And they like to brag about it on Facebook all damn day long too.
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Swedish Court Rules Not to Extradite Assange for Rape Probe
AP:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to Sweden for a revived rape investigation, but should still be questioned in the case while he is imprisoned in Britain, a Swedish court ruled Monday.
The ruling by the Uppsala District Court doesn’t mean the preliminary investigation must be abandoned, only that Assange doesn’t face extradition to Sweden any time soon.
Eva-Marie Persson, Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, said she has not decided whether to appeal.
More.
Pompeo, Trump Throw Jared Peace Plan Under the Bus
Pompeo trashed it in a maybe-secretly recorded meeting with a Jewish group.
Trump then also cast doubt.
This goes with what Phil Weiss said the other day. It’s dead, not because it was horrible, but because of Netanyahu’s failure to form a government, which means it can’t be debuted before Israel can hold new elections in September, but then after that will be the U.S. campaign season so they can’t do it then either.
The whole point was just a PR stunt anyway. It was another Camp David II: give the Palestinians an offer they cannot possibly accept and then pretend they’re the unreasonable ones when they don’t.
As Pompeo admitted:
“I get why people think this is going to be a deal that only the Israelis could love. I understand the perception of that.”
18 ways Julian Assange changed the world (by Lee Camp)
Comedian Lee Camp reminds us that for all the evil Wikileaks exposed the only one in jail is the person that exposed it – Julian Assange.
Nearly every government on our third rock from the sun despises the man for bringing transparency to the process of ruling the unwashed masses.
Year Zero: Policing the World to Safety
- In Episode 44 Tommy addresses a common position in modern America. Should Team America police the world? And if they do what is the result?
“I believe in police the world… i do.” ~ Dana Perino
For decades the US has adhered to this policy of policing the world. In doing so they have convinced their citizens that they reign with benevolent authority over other sovereign nations, and that the sins of these nations are greater than the casualties that will occur due to intervention.
10 of the 15 most dangerous countries in the world have fallen victim to the policy of American benevolence. More chilling still is that every nation listed in the top 7 have undoubtedly been directly related to the policies of policing the world since 9/11/2001.
I’m not suggesting that Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, South Sudan, Iraq, and Yemen are peaceful utopian tourist destinations if not for the US. I am simply pointing out that organizing coups, bombing nations, inflicting crippling blockades, and destabilizing regions do not ever make a nation safer. In fact, as the military has grown – perpetually intervening in other countries – life in America has also become less safe, climbing to the 43rd most dangerous nation in the world.
Listen to Year Zero Here
Israel Will Stay Forever in Areas They Stole in 1967 War
Not that you were so foolish as to believe the Israeli government would ever allow Palestinian independence.
But for the record, again: Israel has already de facto annexed the last of Palestine 52 years ago. It is an apartheid state, not a democracy, and is certainly no ally of the USA:
Israel liberated Jerusalem, Hebron, Judea and Samaria and the Golan Heights 52 years ago and will stay there forever, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday night at the traditional Jerusalem Day Celebration at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in the capital.
Netanyahu, who began his speech to the cheering students at the yeshiva by saying he felt among “family,” said that politics and life demands compromises, but that “there are times when it is forbidden to compromise, not to bow our head.“
Leaders, Netanyahu said, need to know when to compromise, and when to be stubborn and stand upright against the whole world when needed.
Six Years Later, Intercept Starts Reporting Snowden Docs Again
I never understood why Greenwald chose to let the leak happen this way, dragged out over so long that it never had any real affect.
But anyway, here now finally is some more shit about Israel using the NSA to kill people.
The Free Thought Project
Every single day over there are stories of cops raping, torturing and murdering Americans with impunity. Every day. It seems like maybe something’s wrong.
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