Blog
Julian Assange ‘Arrested’ by UK, Extradition to US Imminent
Update: U.S. indictment here.
BREAK: Full @Ruptly video of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest by British police this morning pic.twitter.com/tdBw1Kbpxn
— Barnaby Nerberka (@barnabynerberka) April 11, 2019
Just confirmed: #Assange has been arrested not just for breach of bail conditions but also in relation to a US extradition request. @wikileaks @khrafnsson
— Jen Robinson (@suigenerisjen) April 11, 2019
From #Assange: The US warrant was issued in December 2017 and is for conspiracy with Chelsea Manning @xychelsea in early 2010.
— Jen Robinson (@suigenerisjen) April 11, 2019
Update: The DoJ press release makes it clear he’s only being accused of journalism. The NYT has no choice but to defend him now, the rat bastards.
What a Hollow Pretext For a Putsch
The FBI is trying to pretend they really believed Trump fired Comey on Russian orders rather than over Comey’s J. Edgar Hoover-type extortion scheme he pulled on Trump with the fake foreign dossier and launching this whole fake investigation of him in the first place.
Give me a break. These men knew they were lying. Their pretending to believe Trump did a single goddamn thing on behalf of Russia was and is nothing but a pretext to launch this criminal attempt to “rein in” the elected president of the United States.
This is nothing but some hasty CYA falling way too short.
The Decline Of The Family
Families aren’t in decline because some bars have opened “unisex” bathrooms, or because there are gay characters on tv now.
Families don’t work unless the household has some sort of anchor. I won’t say it’s the woman, I won’t say which chores this anchor is or isn’t responsible for. However, two full-time working, 40-60 hours per week, adults can’t effectively raise a family unless they have a ton of money for day care or nannies. Even then, you still have emotionally neglected children growing into the next generation of adults (while I have no issue with women entering the workforce, I can point to the decade when a minority of families had a stay at home parent for the first time as the 20-year precursor to the “millennial” generation and speculate as to the cause of all its obnoxious habits).
Good Rand Paul vs. Mike Pompeo on Iran and Al Qaeda
Senator Paul to Sec. Mike Pompeo: “Only Congress can declare war.” – April 10, 2019
Rand is absolutely right that Iran is opposed to al Qaeda and ISIS.
Bin Ladenite terrorists target Iran. The ones who lived there were in fact being held there as hostages, not allies of the Mullahs. The hawks would have you confuse these sides so it appears less obvious that they prefer al Qaeda to the Shi’ites because Israel’s grand strategy dictates so. The traitors.
He also needs to confront Pompeo on the outright lie that Iran killed 600 Americans in Iraq War II.
No Americans were killed by Iranians in Iraq War II. More than 4,000 were killed fighting the Sunni-based insurgency there on behalf of Iran and their friends in the Supreme Islamic Council and Da’wa Party.
Another 500 to 600 Americans were killed by Iraqi Arab Shi’ite militias, specifically the Mahdi Army of Moqtada al Sadr, the Iraqi nationalist, who has, since 2003 and to this day, insisted that America and Iran get out of Iraq.
The most-Iran-backed of the Shi’ite militias in Iraq during Iraq War II were America’s allies in the Badr Corps of the Supreme Islamic Council, not Sadr’s men.
Even if you take all of the fake propaganda for granted, and pretend to believe that all EFP bombs used by Shi’ite fighters against Americans in the war were produced in Iran, not Iraq, that is still nothing but “support.” And in the scheme of the Iraqi arms trade during that time, it doesn’t amount to shit. It sure doesn’t amount to “Iranians killed 600 Americans.”
(Here are some things to read about that last point.)
This is a huge lie. It must be stomped down.
USA: Quite Literally a Police State
Tennessee legislator says his colleagues are afraid to end the power of civil asset forfeiture in their state due to the backlash they will receive from the police who “enjoy” that power:
“Law enforcement likes to have this revenue, I would assume, because there’s not a lot of accountability and transparency. They can use this money to spend it any way they want to without the legislature’s or a county commission’s oversight,” Daniel said.
“They (law enforcement) make the case that this is essential for them to continue the losing war on drugs and to provide safety to the people of Tennessee they are charged with. Legislators buy into this, and the rhetoric is that ‘If you vote for civil asset forfeiture reform then you are against law enforcement,’ which is totally false. You can vote for reform and civil forfeiture and still support law enforcement, but they frame it that way. A lot of legislators are hesitant to go there.”
“Law enforcement says this is designed to prevent drug trafficking by the cartels and the mules that are carrying these drugs and this money,” Daniel said.
“Well, you take a close look at it, and you learn the average size of the seizure and forfeiture is only $2,200 – that is not cartel money.”
Step one: abolish all government employee unions. Step two: abolish government.
What Is Fascism? What Is State Socialism?
I was interviewed recently on how fascism differs from state socialism. The interview is based on my article, “Fascism,” in The Concise Encylopedia of Economics. Listen here.
The Impact of War
George O’Neill Jr. of the Committee for a Responsible Foreign Policy has been hosting antiwar events in Washington, D.C. for the past couple of years, including one last October when I gave a speech about the war on terrorism.
The transcripts of all these events are now featured in a new paperback and Kindle book, The Impact of War.
Other presenters include Larry Wilkerson, Kelley Vlahos, Louis Fisher, Doug Bandow, Bruce Fein, Robert Naiman and more…
Podcasts
