The following press release is from the Oxford Union:
The Oxford Union will be hosting the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence award presentation on 23 January 2013. The ceremony will feature several individuals well known in intelligence and related fields, including, via video-stream, remarks by Julian Assange, winner of the Sam Adams award in 2010.
The annual award presentation provides a rare occasion for accolades to “whistleblowers” — conscience-driven women and men willing to take risks to honor the public’s need to know.
This year’s Sam Adams recipient is Professor Thomas Fingar, who is now teaching at Stanford University. Dr. Fingar served from 2005 to 2008 as Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis and Chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
In that role, Dr. Fingar oversaw preparation of the landmark 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, in which all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies concluded with “high confidence” that Iran had halted its nuclear weapon design and weaponization work in 2003. The Estimate’s key judgments were declassified and made public, and have been revalidated every year since.
Those pressing for an attack on Iran in 2008 found themselves fighting uphill. This time, thanks largely to Dr. Fingar and the professional intelligence analysts he led in 2007, intelligence analysis on Iran was fearlessly honest. A consummate intelligence professional, Fingar would not allow the NIE to be “fixed around the policy,” the damning phrase used in the famous “Downing St. Memo” of July 23, 2002 to describe the unconscionable process that served up fraudulent intelligence to “justify” war with Iraq.
We are delighted to be welcoming several previous Sam Adams awardees, including Coleen Rowley, Katharine Gun, Craig Murray, Thomas Drake, and Julian Assange (by video-stream) — as well as other Sam Adams associates from both sides of the Atlantic, including Ray McGovern, Brady Kiesling, Davdi McMichael, Elizabeth Murray, Todd Pierce and Ann Wright.
We feel that the Oxford Union, dedicated to upholding freedom of speech and providing a platform for all points of view, is a fitting venue. The traditional acceptance speech by Dr. Fingar will be followed by briefer remarks by a few previous Sam Adams awardees. They will be followed by Julian Assange who will speak for 20 minutes immediately before the Q&A, during which the audience will be invited to put questions on any topic to any of the presenters.
Assange is clearly a figure who generates controversy for reasons ranging from the allegations made against him in Sweden, to the perceived recklessness of some WikiLeaks activities. We would therefore encourage those who disagree with him, or with any of our other speakers, to participate in the Q&A session.
Last but not least, we are happy to note that Dr. Fingar, will be with us for the entire term. Professor Fingar has just begun teaching a course at the University of Oxford on global trends and transnational issues, as part of Stanford’s Bing Overseas Studies Program. He will also give guest lectures and public talks while here at Oxford (January-March 2013).
Professor Fingar holds a PhD in political science from Stanford. His most recent book is Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence Analysis and National Security (Stanford University Press, 2011).
Kempe, no it was this one, which opens for me.
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I wish I could hire @DavidAllenGreen to just…explain Assange stuff to people on facebook. *sighs*
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@santaevita I have served my turn in the Assange wars. Happy now to leave it to others. All power to you 🙂
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@DavidAllenGreen I’m spending quite a lot of time on facebook linking people to your articles on Assange.
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@DavidAllenGreen and saying “for god’s sake, READ THIS BEFORE YOU EXPRESS AN OPINION”.
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You see, he does not want Jan Simone Webb keep spreading his misinformation knowing it to be wrong. Perhaps he would be happy if you stopped bigging him up too! He does not answer uncomfortable tweets!
The other link.
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/kltfq2
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“You were quoted in an article published in an anti-Wikileaks British paper penned by fellow Oxford PPE student @AlexJ_Rankine
You state in your facebook event that “Assange is refusing to face the Swedish legal system with respect to rape allegations”. This is false. You show a complete disregard for the presumption of innocence or the fair trial rights of a persecuted journalist, a recognised political refugee.
It is admitted in the United Kingdom Supreme Court by the prosecution that neither of the women intended to file a complaint against Mr. Assange. Neither woman has ever alleged rape. In the official police documentation, Woman B states that she was “railroaded” by police and others around her to make a statement, which she refused to sign. There are not two allegations of rape, but one allegation by the Swedish state of what Swedish law calls ‘minor rape’. According to an analysis by a professor of English law at Oxford University, Prof. Andrew Ashworth, the conduct described in the allegations would not be criminal in the United Kingdom.
Swedish lawyers who have read the police report (which clearly those supporting your campaign have not), argue that even in Sweden the conduct alleged does not constitute a crime. A fact that senior prosecutor Eva Finne relied on when she dropped the ‘rape’ investigation, before it was resurrected by a prosecutor who is close to the women’s politician-lawyer, Borgstrom.
Mr. Assange has be granted asylum because he is the subject of a political persecution. The Ecuadorian Government has found that his fears of persecution and torture are justified and that Sweden will not protect him from persecution by the United States. Amnesty International has made a statement calling on Sweden to guarantee that Mr. Assange will not be sent to a political persecution designed to silence whistleblowing and undermining freedom of the press in the West.
Mr. Assange has asked to give his side of the story for two years. It is the Swedish prosecutor who is fleeing Mr. Assange’s cooperation. The prosecutor refuses to abide by standard Swedish and European mechanisms which mandate the prosecutor to interview Mr. Assange in London. The prosecutor refuses to give any reasonable explanation for this refusal. The prosecutor is under a legal obligation to advance the investigation. Misinformed misinformation campaigns such as yours are not benefiting the two women. Even Swedish lawyers and media commentators are critical of the Swedish prosecutor’s untenable position, which is harming Sweden’s international reputation.
The presumption of innocence is a basic principle of law. The abuse of process involved in this case is flagrant. Your campaign propagates smears and is imbued by ignorance to further the political aims of powerful actors. It is specially interesting that you are taking this position in connection with a speech at a whistleblower event.
Please correct the falsehoods you have publicised. Propagating these with the knowledge that they are false is malicious and defamatory. More importantly, your position reinforces the political persecution of Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks, and actively undermines the important work that whistleblowers do to protect your civil liberties. Julian Assange has taken risks and you have an obligation to, at the very least, not mislead your audience in relation to the facts of this spurious case.
Of course your campaign is not about women’s rights, or about the rights of these two women (whose interests you clearly have not seriously considered). This is not even about Assange.
If I were you I would be thinking about how this will look when this investigation is dropped. I would take a long hard look at the arguments you are making against free speech in connection with a whistleblowing event. And I would think twice about actively undermining the presumption of innocence and the right to due process. That’s what your future employers will see when they search your names on the internet. But perhaps the type of employers you will be applying to will like your politics.
http://justice4assange.com“
Kempe, I stick by my original statement about David Allen Green being a nasty piece of work. Because when I write something I try to base it on truth. Assange is not wanted for rape. He’s wanted for Wikileaks releases of the truth which our governments do not want in the public domain. Read this:
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2012/12/19/how-sweden-collaborated-with-cia-on-renditions-and-framing-of-assange/
Four press links from Keep Our National Health Service Public (KONP) and those from previous dates.
http://www.keepournhspublic.com/newsroundup.php
Tuesday 15th January 2013
Scotsman
Nurses’ fury at overtime wages veto.
Guardian
What will we tell our grandchildren about the sell-off of the NHS?
Bromsgrove Standard
Health group vows to protect NHS from privatisation.
New Statesman
The NHS: even more cherished than the monarchy and the army.
Mali is in a strategically very important position. From Mali you have access to Mauretania, Algeria, Senegal, equatorial Guinea, Burkina Faso,Niger, Togo and with a little leap, to Ghana and the Sudan. Anybody who establishes military bases in Mali, trying to get established on the back of this nefarious war on terrorism, can claim to be controlling the heart of Africa.
Mali’s manifold riches are their downfall. France, upping a spineless Hollande’s image and their own vested interest, is bolstering a flaky and unaccountable Government, by killing civilians, three kids already are dead from their assault, the same despicable tactic as is used by Israel against its Semite Palestinian neighbours.
Brolleurs!
For the US and Britain to offer their sickening, calamitous and murderous help, sorry gotta throw up, is the hight of self serving neo-fascist colonialism.
Mali is the kingpin and we should expect
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‘should expect a long and arduous campaign, not to speak of unlimited US/French contracts for military bases signed by these undemocratic putschniks.
” when I write something I try to base it on truth. ”
I hadn’t noticed.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2012/08/five-legal-myths-about-assange-extradition
Kempe, first of all you might have thanked me for posting the contents of the link you were unable to access. But I realise you have a job to do and hope they are paying you well.
I read David Allen Green’s piece you’ve just posted months back. It was one of the pieces that made me conclude he is a legal stooge. You should have read my blog on Judge John Deed which mentions Justice Stephen Phillips who presided over the Supreme Court extradition appeal. But as you clearly did not read my co-authored piece about Sven Olof-Petersson and the legal firm in Sweden and then claimed that it was not based on truth, you are unlikely to read this either.
http://johngossip.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/judge-john-deed-and-other-old-retiring.html
Former colonial power France declares that French troops will remain in the former French colony of Mali until a government with legitimate authority is put in place. Reported on the MSM without any irony, smirking or sniggering. How do they do it?
All that personal data is now being mined.
Facebook takes on Google with new search engine that can scan a BILLION profiles to find everything from users’ favourite restaurants to their embarrassing photos
Firm claims new service is ‘privacy aware’, and will only search for content that has already been shared by users
Graph Search set to be made available to some users from today in test form
Facebook signs up Microsoft for search results as announcement intensifies battle with Google+ service
Firms boasts its network includes ‘a billion people, more than 240 billion photos and more than a trillion connections’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2262906/Facebook-takes-search-New-service-lets-user-search-photos-people-connections–web.html#ixzz2I4wSzBxz
Good work Mr Zuckerberg!
Kempe, first of all you might have thanked me for posting the contents of the link you were unable to access. But I realise you have a job to do and I hope they are paying you well. When you advance you will be asked to write why you criticise people’s comments. Have a word with your superior.
I read David Allen Green’s piece you’ve just posted months back. It was one of the pieces that made me conclude he is a legal stooge. You should have read my blog on Judge John Deed which mentions Justice Stephen Phillips who presided over the Supreme Court extradition appeal. But as you clearly did not read my co-authored piece about Sven Olof-Petersson and the legal firm in Sweden prosecuting Assange, yet had the audacity to claim that a wwell-researched article was not based on truth, you are unlikely to read this either.
http://johngossip.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/judge-john-deed-and-other-old-retiring.html
But others will.
Kempe, what of the Statesman’s journalistic endeavours of Jimmy Savilles real rapes?
Allegations that have been batted off by the BBC, the police, child line, many victims who spoke out and where frustrated, for decades. Did allegations make any difference in this country?
What is its fascination with J.Assange, journalistic jealousy is one explanation, but its not enough. The Statesman guilt by association in the J Saville grooming era is as much part of the cover up as those who are trying to avert focus away from the other rapist and paedophiles still walking free.
Why are they not looking at the nations pit, the paedophiles official office, or orifice, our beloved BBC? would that be too close to home?
Why is the Statesman, nothing new about it, why this one eyed, blind focus on the alleged crime, without looking at all the facts.
Where are these two victims? kept incommunicado by those info-mongers the Statesman protects and helps, have they joined Adam Werritty?
What of the incomprehensible behaviour of Ms. Nye, the Swedish police, the evidence or the lack of it. Its not acceptable to dismiss the lack of evidence and the police victim and lawyers cosiness in this trumped up case. So David Allen Green is pretending to be holier than though, he’s a bought soul who’s been told what to write.
Sir Gerald Howarth no less would like the broadcast of this Tony Harrison poem banned. He does not like the Anglo Saxon within it would seem. It resonated with me and I found it rather moving.
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/5618/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21015301
This is Howarth. http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/02/defence-minister-arms-howarth Now s Knight of the Realm.
and the fuss http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21024372
Radio 4 23.00 Friday 18 January 2013
Mary;
“All that personal data is now being mined.”
Fecebook, I think as John Goss once called it!
Arbed, no I don’t know John. But if Clark is coming with his placard, that could be a way. Or if he or Jon can give you my email, that would be good.
Thanks for all the info and your perseverance.
Mary, I quite like Tony Harrison, his politics in particular. I remember him reading at Birmingham University in the early eighties. I also watched the programme in which he recited V. What I found a bit monotonous was that everything he wrote was, at least up to V, in iambic pentameter. I’ve not read anything of his for years. I do hope he’s extended his range.
Sir Gerald Howarth is the pits.
Thanks Villager and John for responses. Yes Fecebook. I also see that Adobe arer pushing this tool. This ad was on one of the newspapers online today.
http://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/digital-marketing.html?tb=so&b1=banner&s_cid=701a0000000lOboAAE&s_iid=701a0000000lOaIAAU&sdid=KCHLD
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Agree John, rather long but he obviously had many memories and thoughts to convey and aome personal stuff to deal with in this way.
Clarks offline and busy with life, I’m not speaking for him but see this as a positive aspect.
He might come to the 23 meeting, or not. I would like to make the meet as I have some admiration, steady on, for Arbed’s excellent sleuthing and work, here and in Sweden, thank you Arbed.
But if I’m not there in person, pretend I’m with you. I think the Oxford debate is crucial for the wider understanding of the facts, a public deficit sofar.
Those ‘connected and engaged’ students, no doubt, some already in Government pay, have to be put on the rostrum and challenged.
Love to meet you.
Fingar has just been made aware that you run a site friendly to 911 truthers and other disturbed conspiracy fanatics. Good luck with the meeting!
..Oxford union dedicated to freedom of speech…
and teaching offspring of dictators, like uzbeki henchman karimov’s grandson who is enrolled at Brookes college now.
Assange is clearly the greatest threat to humanity since time began, and to women in particular.
He has slaughtered millions across the planet, innocent men, women and children. We’ve all seen the disgusting pictures of his deeds.
He is obviously Public enemy No 1.
The much lesser crimes of the US, France, Belgium, UK, Australia, Canada etc will be forgiven for they are ignorant and know not what they do.
No one knows what they do…
The OPC has released a document that is supposed to show the full extent of the Royal veto over Parliamentary Bills. Jeez! the document is spectacularly misleading about what bills, if any, the royals have actually attempted to block. Symbolic consent and then giving it are of course different.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/14/secret-papers-royals-veto-bills
Instead of legal documents the Queens subjects get a hastily written piece of crap called a pamphlet to fob us off.
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/QC_PC_pamphlet_191212.pdf
Clips from the Pamphlet:-
Queen’s consent was given for the bill for the Animal Welfare Act 2006, largely because
of the powers of inspectors to enter onto land owned by the Crown Estate and the Duchies;
there is an exemption for land forming part of the Queen’s private estate
Queen’s consent was needed for the Identity Cards Bills 2004-06.
Queens consent was required for giving the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission power
to disqualify a person who had failed to pay child support maintenance from holding a UK
passport.
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The British government will go to court against confidential letters written by Prince Charles to government ministers being made public, reflecting his intervention on legislative and other matters.
Kempe devilish downgrade spin on Assange quoted below, exclamation marks added.
“It ought to be pointed out that Assange is not the whistleblower, Bradley Manning is the whistelblower, Assange is only (!!!!!!) the publisher. It’s also telling that anybody is even contemplating an anti-Assange rally, such a thing would’ve been inconceivable two years ago”
Bwahahahahahaha – it ought to be pointed out I was only the cattle cart driver, it was Hitler wot done it !
To Craig – this devil has a very low opinion of our goyim intelligence, is he a relative of “sid”? Should you be giving him a forum for such devilishly cunning hasbara crap !
“Why are they not looking at the nations pit, the paedophiles official office, or orifice, our beloved BBC? would that be too close to home?”
Indeed, then there’s William Hague. He is guilty of at least preventing the detection of a crime in relation to the Wrexham paedophile ring. A decent prosecution could go for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. And then there are the decades old ‘Westminster village’ rumours – the whole lot of them are guilty of a cover up to some degree or other.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224167/Former-Minister-says-Thatcher-aide-paedophile-preyed-boys-home–Hague-known.html
What people are too stupid to work out is that people like Hague occupy the positions they do precisely because this dirt exists on them. It also sends a clear message to other politicians that they are ‘allowed’ power and influence and can never attain it through their own efforts or simple human decency. The example of Hague couldn’t be clearer – do what your told, when your told and you’ll be looked after.
The puzzle of Hague’s political success, despite being totally detached from reality and clearly incompetent on all levels, can be easily answered by the fact that he was groomed as a very young boy by senior Tory party apparatchiks – the same ones who’s names regularly get banded about – at least the dead ones, it seems only dead people can be called paedophiles in the UK.
The helicopter that has crashed in Vauxhall Circus hit a crane on a tower block building site. One report is saying that it is the site of the new American embassy. Surely helicopters and all these high rise buildings are not a good mix. I think a greater tragedy has been averted.
http://news.sky.com/story/1038710/helicopter-crashes-into-crane-in-london
The manufacturers of the horseburgers.
A bit of a mix up in the supply chain??
http://www.abpfoodgroup.com/about-us/our-company/
Big this and Big that. Big Pharma. Now Big Meat.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0730/1224321086035.html
Mo wonder people are becoming vegetarian.
I did not know that they had vultures in Ireland.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/1208/1224327655698.html
http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/050511/ireland___larry_goodman_quota_lion_amongst_menquot__the_king_of_the_european_beef_industry.aspx
http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/beef-baron-larry-goodman-is-generating-over-1000-jobs-with-northern-ireland-property-development/
“it seems only dead people can be called paedophiles in the UK.”
Yes, dead people and poor people, the others the law protects.
One small advance against the propsganda for war in the US.
http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2013/01/09/suzanne-nossel-resigns-amnesty-international-usa-executive-director/
I’ve long been a vegetarian. I was brought up on stories like this.
During the depression of the thirties all the unemployed men stood or sat outside the pit doffing their caps to the bosses ‘Have you got a job Sir?” They were emaciated and living off whatever they could garner from an impoverished world. Most of the men, if they were lucky, sustained themselves on dripping sandwiches. Except for George. George had meat almost everyday.
Fred asked George how his wife could afford to pack him meat sandwiches and he was advised to get his wife to talk to George’s wife. They shared the same butchers and the two women went together to do their shopping. In the butchers Fred’s wife asked for some of the much cheaper meat that George’s wife bought. The butcher brought his special meat from out of the larder. “I have to explain that it’s hoss meat”. She bought some anyway thinking Fred would not know the difference. And sure enough he didn’t.
After a while Fred noticed that his nose and chin were getting longer and he asked his wife he she could see any difference. “Now that you mention it I can. I can.” She thought she had better explain what the meat was. Times were so hard Fred kept eating the horse-meat to keep up his strength. But his chin and nose were getting longer and longer until they almost met, and his nostrils were getting bigger, so he thought he had better visit the doctor’s.
He explained everything to the doctor, who, as doctors sometimes do appeared not to be listening, but was taking notes all the while Fred was telling him his story. After a while the doctor peeled a sheet of paper from a pad and wrote upon it. “Is that a prescription you’re writing me there, Doctor?” “No it’s a permit to shit in the road.” Sorry about that.
Is it really one of the reasons I don’t eat meat? No, it’s mostly on moral grounds. To my mind eating horses is no different from eating cows. Or dogs. All animals are sentient beings that feel pain when you hurt them. They have no voice in parliament. Barnes Wallis said that the reason he could not eat meat was because he could not bring himself to kill an animal and should not ask somebody else to do it on his behalf. I guess I am the same.