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Julian Assange News Links 25 January 2022
Tuesday, 25 January 2022 — The New Dark Age Assange Hearing Day https://popularresistance.org/assange-hearing-day/ British High Court Opens Door For Assange To Appeal To Supreme Court https://popularresistance.org/british-high-court-opens-door-for-assange-to-appeal-to-supreme-court/ Julian Assange can ask Supreme Court to consider extradition casea https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60108379 Continue reading
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UK can join EU surveillance schemes with no parliamentary scrutiny, warns new report
The UK can join intrusive EU surveillance schemes including a pan-European network of police facial recognition databases with no need for parliamentary debate or scrutiny, says a new report published last week by Statewatch. Continue reading
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Clearing House: Government Information Suppression Continues
By Jenna Corderoy: The UK government has admitted it still hasn’t appointed anyone to review its controversial ‘Clearing House’ – nine months after a judge slammed the shadowy information unit for a “profound lack of transparency”. Continue reading
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day Oh God It Never Ends
It feels like a recurring nightmare. On the sadly misnamed sleeper train once again, down to London and a dash to the Royal Courts of Justice to hear yet another judgement intoned. Julian not in court again and not in good health; Stella battling on but fighting to keep her health as well; Gareth Peirce… Continue reading
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Beware the Cult of Cadwalladr
The most important piece of information to come out of Carole Cadwalladr’s current libel trial is perhaps the least reported – that she received material alleging links between Arron Banks, Vote Leave and Russia from “a contractor to the UK security services”. The information came to light because under discovery rules she had to disclose… Continue reading
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Neo Hindus – Ain’t No Black In The Union Jack
This term, Neo Hindus, is a very recent phenomenon, perhaps in the last twenty-five years or so. It was always sort of hanging around amongt us; like an optical illusion, lurking like a thief who is unable to make that final reach to grab the handbag, (so near; yet so far). It may have been… Continue reading
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No 10 lockdown parties: Why the media are complicit
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s head is on the chopping block. Each day, the media digs up more embarrassing details of parties hosted at his No 10 residence or other government buildings, in flagrant violation of strict lockdown rules enforced on the rest of the country. Continue reading
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UK: Big Brother has a little sister
Friday, 21 January 2022 — The New Dark Age Priti Patel, the UK Home secretary Continue reading
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Human Rights as Privileges
Thursday, 20 January 2022 — Institute of Race Relations This week, a beleaguered Boris Johnson administration reacted to calls for his resignation by announcing it will defund Britain’s public broadcaster and further militarise the Franco-British border. With many speculating it is a matter of when, not if, Johnson falls, it is important to recognise that such populist… Continue reading
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Save The BBC? In Whose Interests?
There has been much gnashing of ‘liberal’ teeth and pulling out of ‘centrist’ hair following the Tory government’s announcement that the BBC licence fee will be abolished in 2027. Continue reading
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Big Brother Watch issues legal claim against Welsh Ministers over “unevidenced” Covid Pass scheme
Civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch has issued a legal claim against Welsh Ministers over mandatory Covid Passes, arguing that the scheme is unlawful as it is disproportionate and unevidenced. Continue reading
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Big Brother Watch responds to new government anti-encryption campaign
“The Home Office’s bizarre attack on end-to-end encryption is an attack on a technology that Government ministers use for communication every day. It’s disturbing to see such a cynical campaign launched in attempt to justify yet wider and deeper state surveillance of everyday, private conversations. Continue reading
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Sir Tony Blair: Bloody Knight of the Realm
Awards and honours bestowed by States or private committees, republican or monarchical, are bound to be corrupted by considerations of hypocrisy, racketeering and general, chummy disposition. From the Nobel Peace Prize to the range of eccentric and esoteric orders bestowed each year in Britain by Her Majesty, diddling and manipulating is never far behind. You… Continue reading
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British Intelligence Intensifies its Struggle against Russia and China in Central Asia
In a recent interview for the The Telegraph Damian Hinds, the British Minister of State for Security and Borders, named the most threatening states with which British politicians and secret service agents must contend. According to him, clear dangers are posed by Russia, China, and Iran. Continue reading
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Viral Video Circulates as Julian Spends 1,000th Day in Belmarsh
We’re making noise and calling out the hypocrisy of the U.S. government. They condemn China and other nations for infringing on “press freedom,” but we know the sad truth: the U.S. government’s commitment to press freedom is shaky, at best. Continue reading
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Skyborg: AI control of military drones begins to take off
The influential State of AI Report 2021, published in October, makes the alarming observation that the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) for military purposes is now moving from research into the production phase. The report highlights three indicators which it argues shows this development, one of which is the progress that the US Air Force Research… Continue reading
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Chris Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Nils Melzer, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, is one of the very few establishment figures to denounce the judicial lynching of Julian Assange. Melzer’s integrity and courage, for which he has been mercilessly attacked, stand in stark contrast to the widespread complicity of many human rights and press organizations, including PEN America, which… Continue reading
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Leaked files expose Syria psyops veteran astroturfing BreadTube star to counter Covid restriction critics
By covertly recruiting popular YouTube influencer Abigail Thorn to counter growing opposition to UK gov’t Covid restrictions, psy-ops pros are bringing home the tactics they honed in the Syrian dirty war. Continue reading
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BREAKING: We’ve launched a legal challenge against Johnson’s Covid IDs
We’ve just started a legal challenge against Boris Johnson’s mandatory Covid passport scheme for England. Johnson’s draconian, discriminatory and pointless Covid IDs breach privacy rights and equality law, and must be stopped, now. Continue reading
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