Liberties
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What’s Really at Stake with Vaccine Passports
In May 2020, Elizabeth M. Renieris, an adviser to the ID2020 Alliance, which aims to bring digital identities to billions of people, resigned over the organization’s direction on digital immunity passes and COVID-19. In her resignation Renieris cited ID2020’s opacity, “techno-solutionism” and corporate influence along with the risks of applying blockchain to immunity passes. Continue reading
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Covid passports – illiberal, intrusive, and counterproductive
We consider that the ‘Plan B’ outline of Covid-status certification removes fundamental liberties, while having no justification in public health. Continue reading
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EXPLAINER: what are the government’s latest proposals for punishing protesters?
On Sunday at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Home Secretary Priti Patel announced the latest punitive proposals for new police powers in her ongoing vendetta against political and social movements the government refuses to engage with. Continue reading
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URGENT ACTION ALERT: STOP COVID ID
The fight against Covid IDs is at a critical juncture. We need you to take action now – whether you are in England, Wales or Scotland. Here are some vital action updates: Continue reading
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Guidance for responding (in 2 minutes!) to the Government’s new consultation on Covid passports
This week, the Government released another consultation into Covid passports – this time, on how a mandatory Covid passport scheme should work. This comes despite the Government’s claims that they are not going to impose Covid IDs and they are merely a ‘Plan B’ reserve policy. Continue reading
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Report On CIA Plans To Kidnap Assange Shows Clearest Evidence Yet Of Improper Pressure On Prosecutors
Though District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled against the United States’ extradition request, she rejected the argument from the legal team for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that hostility within U.S. intelligence agencies “translated into improper pressure on federal prosecutors to bring charges.” Continue reading
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CIA & White House Sketched Plans to Kidnap or Kill Julian Assange!
Julian Assange is trending again, and this time it’s because a major media outlet has exposed the CIA’s shocking ideas for how to silence him. Continue reading
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Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale In Carceral Limbo While US Generals Shirk Responsibility For Deadly Strikes
Around two months ago, drone whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in prison after he stood before a federal judge and delivered a statement that demonstrated he was a person of conscience. Continue reading
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Draconian new legislation set to shut down protest at Scottish Parliament ahead of COP26
Campaigners have condemned controversial new legislation designed to shut down protests outside the Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh, warning new police powers will have a “chilling effect” on the right to protest. The timing of this new legislation – just months before COP26 arrives in Scotland – is significant. Continue reading
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Vaccine passports – we’re on the front foot..
“It is not something that we are implementing… The evidence [for vaccine passports] is not there and I hope it will never be” – Sajid Javid Continue reading
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The United Nations and Western Governments Endorse Shocking Vaccine Mandates, Violating Human Bodily Integrity and Autonomy
The latest official figures (August 30, 2021) point to approximately: 38,488 mRNA vaccine reported and registered deaths in the EU, UK and US (combined) and 6.3 million reported “adverse events”. Continue reading
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Government’s Online Safety Bill “poses greatest threat to UK free speech in living memory”, say campaigners
Big Brother Watch has launched a new report warning against the “censorious” Online Safety Bill, and sounding the alarm on the rise of Big Tech speech police. Continue reading
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XR: Oppressive policing = costly challenges
As we enter week 2 of the Impossible Rebellion the police continue to act as private security for the government, protecting the interests of wealthy industry over the safety of its citizens. The Met have done their best to shut down each and every demonstration during the Impossible Rebellion, sometimes before rebels have had any opportunity… Continue reading
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Assange: the most important press freedom case of the 21st century
Assange is now in his third year of detention in Belmarsh High Security prison. He has not been convicted of anything. His case has not yet staggered from the Magistrate’s Court, the lowest court in the land, to the Appeal Court. It has never and will never appear before a jury. Continue reading
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A Letter to the Unvaccinated
OCLA researcher Dr. Denis Rancourt and several fellow Canadian academics penned an open letter to support those who have decided not to accept the COVID-19 vaccine. Continue reading
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The Houses of Dead and Crooked Souls
Houses stand before us like books on a shelf waiting to be read, and when the books are missing, as they are for a vast and growing multitude of the homeless exiled wandering ones and those imprisoned, their absence serves to indict the mansion-dwelling wealthy and to a lesser extent those whose homes serve to… Continue reading
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Israeli cities impose beach apartheid on Palestinians
Three Israeli coastal cities are being slammed by a civil rights group for effectively banning Palestinians from their beaches. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 12-13 August 2021
13 August 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Targeting the Medical Evidence: The US Challenge on Assange’s Health A Day in the Death of British Justice https://williambowles.info/2021/08/13/a-day-in-the-death-of-british-justice/ Continue reading
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A Day in the Death of British Justice
I sat in Court 4 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London yesterday with Stella Moris, Julian Assange’s partner. I have known Stella for as long as I have known Julian. She, too, is a voice of freedom, coming from a family that fought the fascism of Apartheid. Today, her name was uttered in… Continue reading
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