The Guardian has today published a whole series of attack piece articles on Julian Assange which plainly exult in the fact he has now been silenced by the cutting of his communication with the outside world. They also include outright lies such as this one by Dan Collyns:
In fact Julian Assange was questioned for two days solid in the Embassy by Swedish procurators and police in November 2016. The statement he gave to them at that time I published in full. Following that questioning it was plain that there was no hope of a successful prosecution, particularly as the only physical evidence Swedish Police had was a condom Anna Ardin claimed he had worn but which had no trace of his DNA – a physical impossibility.
Dan Collyns is a freelance based in Peru, but the Guardian’s editors certainly know it is blatantly untrue that the investigation into Assange was dropped because he could not be questioned. They have knowingly published a lie. “Facts are sacred” there, apparently.
The Guardian article gives another complete lie, this time in the Harding penned section, where it says that “sources” reveal that Assange had hacked into the Embassy’s communications. That is completely untrue as are the “facts” given about Julian’s relationship with the Embassy staff, whom I know well. It is plain that these “sources” are separate from the Ecuadorean security dossier published in Focus Ecuador by the CIA. I would bet any money that these anonymous “sources” are as always Harding’s mates in the UK security services. That the Guardian should allow itself to be used in a security service disinformation campaign designed to provoke distrust between Assange and Embassy staff, is appalling.
I had a front row seat in 2010 when the Guardian suddenly switched from championing Assange to attacking him, in a deeply unedifying row about the rights and money from a projected autobiography. But they have sunk to a new low today in a collaboration between long term MI6 mouthpiece Luke Harding and the CIA financed neo-con propagandists of Focus Ecuador.
The Guardian pieces are full of truly startling revelations. Would you ever have guessed, for example, that Julian Assange was visited by his Wikileaks colleague Sarah Harrison, his friends Vaughn Smith and, err, me, and his lawyer Gareth Peirce?! This great scandal, Harding states in an assertion as evidence-free as his entire “Russia hacked the elections” book, “will interest Mueller”. Despite the fact none of these visits was secret and mine was broadcast live to the world by Wikileaks on Brexit referendum night.
The aim of the “Guardian” piece is of course to help urge Ecuador to expel Julian from the Embassy. There is no doubt that the actions of Lenin Moreno, under extreme pressure from the USA, have been severely disappointing, though I am more inclined to praise Ecuador for its courageous defiance of the US than blame it for eventually caving in to the vast resources the CIA is spending on undermining it. It is also worth noting that, post the Francoist human rights abuses in Catalonia, it was Spain and the EU joining in US pressure which tipped the balance.
Julian’s principled refusal to abandon the Catalan cause, against direct Ecuadorean threats to do precisely what they have now done, has not received the credit it deserves.
The same Blairites who supported the latest Israeli massacre will this morning be revelling in the Guardian’s celebration of the silencing of a key dissident voice. I have no wish to try and understand these people.
If outsourcing is over, so is railway privatisation.
The East Coast Line has been taken back under ‘state control’. The joint venture between Souter and Branson (Stagecoach and Virgin) is finished. They were awarded the contract in 2014 for EIGHT YEARS. LOL.
The words for Mr Grayling’s song. ‘Here’s the contract. I’m taking it back. Here it is again. Taking it back again.’ What next Gray Ling? Any financial penalties for Souter and Branson? Probably not.
> What next Gray Ling?
Resignation in any normal Government.
His position is completely untenable.
Not exactly accurate. The private operators had a break clause allowing them to back out if revenues did not justify the license fee. Grayling has agreed that both civil servants and the franchisees made inaccurate forecasts (video interview with Laura Kuennsberg on BBC website). Grayling has suggested any future PPP deal will focus on service quality (claiming revenues will be driven by this, which may be true on IC services, certainly not true on commuter lines). The line is still run profitably, contributing net to Exchequer, although whether it covers Network Rail’s costs was not discussed. Apparently, next deal will be operator responsible for both track and trains.
I am ambiguous on the best ownership model for railways. I remember disgusting old trains, endless delays and not even knowing a train was delayed until 15 minutes after due arrival time, back in the 1970s. I have no dewy eyes per se about nationalisation. I am attached to the concept, if it can be made to work. But not at any price. I do not see why EU State Railways are considered ‘private operators’, that really is a joke…..
Thanks, Craig, for your important expose here. It leaves me with contempt for role of UK Huardian. Tony Kevin
I think the time has more than come for liberals to let the listing wreck of this once great newspaper drift off into the darkness. All its compartments are flooding, the last working pump has stopped and its back is broken; it is beyond salvage. Any further effort is a waste of time.
But why has this happened?
People will have noticed that the Guardian is always asking for money these days. Is it not unreasonable to suppose that a few years ago some money was, in fact, found to prevent bankruptcy, but that this had certain strings attached?
This should go part way toward an answer: http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2015/788-a-conspiracy-of-silence-hsbc-the-guardian-and-the-defrauded-british-public.html
Indeed it does, J.
“A private company, The Scott Trust Limited, replaced the much-vaunted Scott Trust in 2008. The paper, therefore, might not at first sight appear to be a corporate institution. But it is now owned by the Guardian Media Group which is run by a high-powered Board comprising elite, well-connected people from the worlds of banking, insurance, advertising… and other sectors of big business, finance and industry.’
Article goes on to detail highly compromising links with companies like HSBC, which help explain why big fraud stories, etc, have been ignored by the Guardian.
@Craig – Why did Julian Assange help Donald Trump?
1. Read my comment above and substitute ‘Donald Trump’ for ‘Brexit’.
2. Watch the relevant interviews between JA and RT (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rt+interviews+with+julian+assange&t=ffab&iar=videos&iax=videos&ia=videos) and JA and Sean Hannity (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sean+hannity+interviews+with+julian+assange&t=ffab&iar=videos&iax=videos&ia=videos).
Is asking why Assange & wikileaks didn’t publish material damaging to Trump the same question as ‘why did Julian Assange help Donald Trump?’ While the former can be answered, the latter appears to be a statement of assumption not a question.
An answer to the former question might be: There were no available leaks or they were unverified leaks. On that basis alone, why would Assange damage wikileaks 100% record of authenticity to air stories about Trump at a time (2016 presidential election) of total media saturation of stories about Trump and relatively fewer about Clinton?
He did not. What he did is published leaked emails of Hillary Clinton, en masse. People made up their own minds. If he had been given leaked emails f Donald Trump, he would have published those, but he wasn’t.
Personally I still have no idea whether Trump or Hillary would have been the greater evil, so I am not fretting about consequences. Hopefully what it has done is make the illegitimate sabotage of Bernie Sanders that was revealed, difficult to do again.
The timing is remarkable though, wouldn’t you say? Trump’s ‘Access Hollywood’ tape emerges, and about half an hour later, out come the Podesta emails courtesy of Wikileaks. Wikileaks had these emails and waited for a convenient moment, they got them and released them almost immediately, or this is a most remarkable coincidence.
I think you’ve got the order of those events the wrong way round, Glenn. As I recall it, that years-old tape of Trump bragging about grabbing pussy conveniently surfaced at precisely the moment wikileaks released the Hillary emails.
There was virtually no discussion of the content of Hillary’s emails. Instead MSM went into 24/7 overdrive on the Trump tape. Any discussion of the wikileaks exposure focused not on content but on the ‘fact’ that it proved ‘Trump is Putin’s puppet’. That is still the case.
The idea that the content of the leaked emails was (or is) widely known, and tgat this influenced the outcome of the election, is one of many false narratives that have been circulated since.
Dom – I don’t think I’ve got it the wrong way around, take a look:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/dec/18/john-podesta/its-true-wikileaks-dumped-podesta-emails-hour-afte/
Don’t underestimate the “Clinton, Clinton, Emails, Emails, Emails” narrative. It went on a tape-loop on the likes of Fox (which is broadcast pretty much everywhere in the US these days – truck stops, bars, reception areas, waiting rooms), and drowned out the “locker-room” talk, as Trump dismissed the Hollywood Access tape.
The fact that Comey took to the stage to denounce Clinton over the emails, and said they would be looking into it further just days before the election (in clear breach of FBI guidelines) swung things in Trump’s direction too.
glenn_nl, I think you’re reading too much into the timing. It was mid-campaign, things were happening thick and fast. If that release hadn’t been just after one thing, it would have been after another.
Assange tried to get Trump’s son to leak Trump’s tax return, and that has been spun as Assange collaborating with the Trump campaign. So Assange was damned if he did, and damned if he didn’t – which typifies the story of the campaign against Assange throughout.
I don’t think there was any secret to that, You have to keep in mind that Obama spent the previous 7 years trying to extradite him and charge him with the Espionage act, they were openly touting the death penalty at one point. Bringing down Clinton and the wholy corrupt Democracts was completely understandable, but the fact is that Every awful thing in those email Clinton and podesta did or said, really. I’m a lefty but I’m sick of hearing, “oh if pooey old Julian hadn’t link those nastywasty emails we wouldn’t have Twump” the Dems lost cause they were shit and you should be angry with them that they took your vote for granted.
Indeed – it was a terrible campaign, and the central message seemed to be “Jobs ain’t coming back, boys – suck it up”, whereas Trump told them every lie likely to generate votes.
It wouldn’t be surprising if Assange had a few screws loosened by being under such threat and effective house arrest for years, with Senators vying for the honour of making the most ridiculous threat to him.
But I am interested in whether he worked with the Trump administration, particularly since the likes of Farage were hanging out with him, and he is a major Trump champion who was in close contact.
There’s a significant difference between simply being a conduit of leaked info, and being an active stooge of the Trump campaign and/or the Russians.
You keep repeating the claim about Farage, but you’ve no idea what happened there and the story as reported was very dodgy, as we’ve discussed before.
This is why H.R.C. ‘lost’?
“And it’s deadly. Doubtless, Crosscheck delivered Michigan to Trump who supposedly “won” the state by 10,700 votes. The Secretary of State’s office proudly told me that they were “very aggressive” in removing listed voters before the 2016 election. Kobach, who created the lists for his fellow GOP officials, tagged a whopping 417,147 in Michigan as potential double voters.”
http://www.gregpalast.com/trump-picks-al-capone-vote-rigging-investigate-federal-voter-fraud/
Glenn – Nigel Farage has made only ONE visit to the Ecuadorian embassy and that was in February 2017. He went with the producer of his LBC radio show and the discussion was about the possibility of Assange doing an interview on that show. This date also rules Farage out as a conduit for WikiLeaks US election-related releases eight and five months previously.
I thought Farage claimed he couldn’t remember why he was there, upon being questioned by Buzzfeed when exiting the embassy? But I take your comments about the timing as very fair, and I withdraw any inference about Farage, Assange and Trump working together based on the apparent evidence.
most likely the emails were hacked by an intelligence organisation and passed on via proxies to Assange, who, must have his doubts
about veracity. The truth is often in what is not said. This way lies madness , after all “He who says doesn’t know and he who knows doesn’t say”
The e-mails were leaked, not hacked:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/cias-absence-conviction/
– “I know who leaked them,” Murray said. “I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things
Yes, I’m pretty convinced of that as well.
See this important document (memo) from the VIPS (a.o. John Kiriakou and William Binney, former NSA Technical Director for World Geopolitical & Military Analysis; Co-founder of NSA’s Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center), Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence:
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/?print=pdf
I wonder how different things would be right now if Bernie Sanders had beaten Trump and become President?!
He believes in Russian meddling, for starters. He has been co-opted by the DNC.
So it’s easily inferred he would have been co-opted by the Intel Community (which runs the show) rather fast. Sorry, Bernie.
“Personally I still have no idea whether Trump or Hillary would have been the greater evil”
Past: Hillary had blood on her hands. Future: She was very vocal to propose action that would in all likelihood mean more blood.
Past: Trump had no blood on his hands. Future: Proposed to retreat from contentious areas, and better relations with Russia.
By any rationality, Trump should have been elected. He was.
Any former Secretary of State would have more blood on their hands than a very successful career-seasoned serial killer, please get real.
That does not mean that some ignorant savage with Nazi sympathies, racist and bigoted inclinations with zero respect for women and minorities is therefore better qualified, just because he’d never held office before. Just look at what happened in Palestine in the past few days, if you want an example of this. See what ICE are doing if you’re really interested in what’s going on.
Trump was not elected, he lost by several million votes.
Apart from all that, great points there BJ – keep up this remarkably astute analysis,
So what happened in Palestine these past few days was known and could be blamed on Trump come election time 2016?
Get real.
Trump was a known entity before the election. Very little has emerged since the election that wasn’t in the public domain. As far as mass media promulgation, John Oliver amongst others did an excellent job of airing the skeletons from his cupboard. The American people voted for him knowing he was a crook. That is more a reflection on an appalling campaign run by the Democrats than anything else.
I am not about to pass judgement on their choice. The people of Atlantic City regularly returned the candidates that fronted for Nucky Johnson in the 1920’s, knowing that he ran the town as a gigantic criminal enterprise. Nucky ran it better than anyone else would and did a more equitable job of sharing the spoils.
Tatyana
Of course people like yourself would never dream of distracting anyone from the slightest criticism of Archangel Putin and his regime. It could never happen as there is nothing whatsoever worthy of any criticism.
You’re wrong about me 🙂 I will not go again through disclosing my personal info and trying to convince you I’m not a ‘kremlin puppet’ or similar. Let’s put away any discussion of myself.
The point is – if a person in Russia intends to reveal some unpleasant facts about russian government or intelligence, this person is pretty aware of possibility to fall out of the window or to be imprisoned. Forewarned is forearmed, it is honest, at least, though the whole case is regrettable.
But surprisingly, a person naive enough to do the same in a ‘western democracy’ finds himself sheltering in a foreign embassy, incommunicado and blamed of sexual abuse. This is no less regrettable.
I conclude, if government has power to silence you – they will silence you, whether the government proclaim ‘freedom of speech’ or not.
Looks like you’ve just defused all his ammo there.
The dissident is in fact just a heckler, as such, of course he does serve a purpose.
“I’m Russian and my outmost fear is Russians can hide Assad’s use of chemical weapons. I wish I had the same trust in my government as some British people do in their” – Tatyana quote
She’s also criticised local Russian authorities, calling them “Greedy corrupt people” – “Oh, My God! they seem to steal every tiny bit they can put their hands on”
She’s also gone a long way to proving she is not a Russian bot on this thread:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/05/the-incredible-bias-of-the-bbc/comment-page-6/#comments
She even offered to go as far as, but not including, picturing her ‘naked breast’. I’m not sure how that would have identified her as a Russian NotBot, but I was intrigued so have researched Russian breasts intensely. I’m still none the wiser but I now have a wrist like Popeye’s.
Your posts do seem very bot like though and make me wonder how many aliases you have on here.
We seem to be in an era of Project Projection by the West. The West has been caught red handed using such tactics and so of course here you are projecting.
“She’s also criticised local Russian authorities, calling them “Greedy corrupt people” – “Oh, My God! they seem to steal every tiny bit they can put their hands on””
That’s quite a common complaint.
““I’m Russian and my outmost fear is Russians can hide Assad’s use of chemical weapons. I wish I had the same trust in my government as some British people do in their” – Tatyana quote”
That’s bullshit, for so many obvious reasons. Remember, it’s because that isn’t true that the West spends most of its time faking the crimes of others.
The “naked breast” thing looks like some sort of Masonic reference. A bit curious.
Yeah I didn’t agree that Russia would hide the use of CW or use them itself, for many tactical reasons if nothing else.
Don’t get too curious about the breast thing. Or if you do, make sure to use both hands because my one Popeye arm just looks ridiculous now 🙁
Masons; the left breast was exposed during initiation ritual to prove he was a man. Right, back to the porn.
Not so fast.
Up there in the alcove, there be Gnostic symbolism.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Second_inauguration_of_Vladimir_Putin_2004.jpg
I’m not worried. A Freemason shook my hand once. I realised it was a Mason handshake years later. I’m quick see. Anyway, he was a very nice bloke, so by my exquisite logic, they are all cool, even if their ceremonies are a bit silly.
So if Putin is a Freemason, and Cameron put his knob in pig’s mouth. Could we be witnessing a war between two ancient organisations? Don’t know what the other organisation is, but it seems to make you adopt a power stance that resembles a 3 year old boy standing with a look that says, “look at me, I just did a big poo poo and I’m a big boy!”
https://i1.wp.com/order-order.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DcBqCoTWkAE6nRu.jpg?resize=540%2C293&ssl=1
It could be the Illuminati. I of course know all there is to know because I read Dan Brown before it was cool, and then not cool.
I was just wondering why during those long Communist years they didn’t remove this anti-Communist symbolism.
And then it crossed my mind that now they’re Christian you’d expect they’d be removing anti-Christian symbolism.
But no.
Seem happy enough with it.
“So if Putin is a Freemason, and Cameron put his knob in pig’s mouth. Could we be witnessing a war between two ancient organisations?”
In those circumstances it’d be much more likely they’re crafting a narrative for our entertainment.
@ 15.20 above,
This piece below is excised.
“““I’m Russian and my outmost fear is Russians can hide Assad’s use of chemical weapons. I wish I had the same trust in my government as some British people do in their” – Tatyana quote”
That’s bullshit, for so many obvious reasons. Remember, it’s because that isn’t true that the West spends most of its time faking the crimes of others.”
I misunderstood what Tatyana was saying.
A comparison.
I agree.
I can find nothing to suggest that the nakedness of the left breast is to prove that the candidate is a man: and I think that if that were the purpose of the ritual it would say so. J
I see it needs explanation 🙂 What I was referring to is a popular internet meme ‘show your naked breast’
Imagine a woman entering a car-repair forum on the web with a question like “Any suggestions on how to clean the spark plugs?”
Male participants would troll her with answers like “Advise is available on receiving the picture of your NB” or “Women get answers here only after showing their NB”
The purpose of such trolling is distracting from the question itself, shifting onto personal discussion, putting the victim into defending position, having fun at victim’s embarrassment, playing ‘brutal macho’ and so on. The main idea is “you’re not a person to ask questions, know your place, behave”
JSD
“I can find nothing to suggest that the nakedness of the left breast is to prove that the candidate is a man: and I think that if that were the purpose of the ritual it would say so. J”
The tradition in ritual and scripture is surely that there are layers of meaning. It’s not made as explicit as you suggest, is it.
Anyway, what do you think about that French sun god away up there in the sky looking down on Tsars, Communists and now Christians.
An ominous continuity, no.
What does the book say about that.
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Tatyana
When you place it in a male/female setting, it contradicts “mansplaining”. Male delight in responding to a female question.
More generally you’re talking about personalising an issue, which is an accurate account of what happened.
Herbie,
here in Russia ‘male delight in responding to a female question’ supposed in case she is young and pretty 🙂
Otherwise a woman can get all that misogynistic stuff you can imagine.
Sounds very juvenile.
The anonymous internet. Probably 14 year olds acting up.
Do you get this in the street?
Herbie, you are right, anonynous internet. You can meet it on-line only. Never in the streets.
there is good reason why i don’t read mainstream press or watch the bbc/sky cabal …. i don’t miss the lies and propaganda
Heaven forfend that the media you do follow should ever lie or pump out propaganda.
By the way Charlie
Did you apologise to Tatyana?
Yes, I missed that too.
Good morning chaps! I’m afraid you’ve lost me – what is it you think I should apologise for?
Charly
In another post you accused Tattana of being a bot and not what she says she is, a real person from Krasnodar in Russia. She produced proof of what she really is. A gentleman should apologise in such cases when they get it so wrong.
Maybe Bostik is more than one person. Legion perhaps.
Charles, the point is that firstly, it is more objective than the MSM and the bbc/SKY cabal and it is based on some good investigative journalism which is sadly lacking in the MSM, BBC and SKY – whether you agree with what is written or not – at least it covers an issue in a broader, more impartial and open manner than our MSM does. It does also ask legitimate questions which the MSM do not.
O/T but angry
Deputy governor sorry for calling economy ‘menopausal’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44138229
I should think so too. He should try it.
Oh yes.. The usual. Time at Goldman Sachs like the Governor, Carney. A good training ground for the bankers’ depredations yes..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Broadbent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carney
The BBC news radio announcer helpfully clarified that he was comparing the current economy with past periods.
LOL.
Perhaps we need to start making stuff others want, rather than relying on nicking their stuff through bullying and financial alchemy.
Yes, the Guardian completely sucks. Try posting a comment there that they don’t agree with and the moderators will take it down so fast, you’ll think you were hit by a train. Don’t you just hate people who do that, Craig?
See no mention of Assange giving the underrated Afghan File to The Guardian for publication which helped promote the murders of GCHQ hacker Gareth Williams, his follow hacker Gudrun Loftus and interested astophyscist Steve Rawlings.
The newspaper just wants to put all the consequences on Julian.
The Prisoner of Knightsbridge should have walked the walk and gone out in a blaze of glory, long ago.
To linger too long like a rat in a trap, wan and cold and unattended, is to welcome the coup de grace, when it comes.
Sheer poetry! 🙂
Hmmm, as usual.
There’s freedom of information, as practised by Wikileaks – and freedom of information, as practised on Wikileaks.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/wikileaks-vows-to-sue-after-assange-s-colossal-protection-cost-revealed
Releasing information someone doesn’t want you to see? Oh, terrible.
Ba’al, your link sources back to “MI6’s most important media conduit” Luke Harding, no less!
Wikileaks are suing for libel, and I don’t blame them.
BEELZEBUB is one of those cringing ‘lefties’ that for some reason are very cross with Julian Assange,
and feel emboldened as long as he is incapacitated.
And you are? pro Trump, pro Russia?
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/23/trump-roger-stone-and-wikileaks-call-dnc-lawsuit-an-opportunity.html
Whether Assache is incapacitated or not is of no concern to me. He just strikes me as a complete tosser who will do anything rather than take responsibility for his own actions. Which are insufficiently considered or targeted to qualify as any kind of defence of liberty or anything else. Et si lefty requiris, circumspice…
Now, do you have an opinion on the topic rather than the commentator?
Ba’al, Assange’s development is being stunted by being stuck in that embassy. Freedom of information was “practised” on Assange the day “Double Rapist” was leaked from the Swedish police to Swedish tabloids.
I await developments. If I am demonstrably wrong, I’ll say so. But, in passing, I get the impression that some of the knights for truth and justice round here aren’t too keen on contrary opinions being expressed, either.
… that was @ Clark…
Ba’al, I agree about “some of the knights for truth and justice round here”, but, (1) to be expected when the number of visitors increases by an order of magnitude, and (2) heh, that’s polarisation for you.
You see, “some of the knights for truth and justice round here” gives you away. You must be hurting from something, somehow.
Don’t be hard on Ba’al. I rarely agree with him but nevertheless find what he has to say always interesting. You do need contrary arguments to test your own beliefs.
bj, Ba’al’s not what you seem to think. You should see him laying into Blair 🙂
…but I’ll let Ba’al link that work for himself, if he so wishes.
Yes i agree with Clarke. Ba’al is a great source of for Blair’s various machinations in Africa and elsewhere.
What I would like to know is: Why can’t Julian use an internet USB dongle on a laptop, or even a smart phone with data enabled to communicate?
The Ecuadorian Embassy let him stay, and have they taken his phone and laptop too?
yes, they have taken his phone and jammed the phone signal.
“… At the moment I do not wish to avail myself of their services…”
George Galloway on Philip Cross:
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201805161064505256-cross-galloway-wikipedia-obsession/
Omitted in the transcript but spoken by George Galloway: “I have engaged (in the Antipodes) a gentleman who is an expert at analysing other people’s writings, and he has narrowed down the likely real identity of Mr Philip Cross in a very dangerous way for Mr Cross.”
“I can’t say right now for legal reasons exactly who we think this is, but we do think it’s a person for whom consequences will be severe.”
I do hope there’s more on this.
I have received private information which suggests that the truth is rather less glamorous than George Galloway is suggesting. There may actually be nothing to see here. But I’m not certain about it. Incidentally, if Craig’s reading please dm me on twitter. J
Haven’t a clue what that means.
There’s certainly something to see where Phil Cross is concerned.
There is considerable speculation that “Philip Cross” is a cover for the identity of a prominent journalist, or alternatively a group of spooks, etc etc. Someone has communicated information to me that Cross is a real person writing under his own name, who he is, and where he lives. I am not going to release that information because: (a) I don’t want privacy and legal problems; (b) I might be being mugged off; (c) I haven’t the capability at the moment to check the information for myself.
If Cross is a real person, then it’s quite possible, of course, that he might be a conduit for other people. But how could one possibly prove that? All I am saying is: don’t get your hopes up: there could be a prosaic ending to this. J
“I can tell you that this man has made an average of 175 edits every day for the last 15 years”
Looks more like a group than an individual.
In which case handwriting experts may not be of much use.
What does Jimbo have to say.
Anyway, they’re Winston in “1984”.
Cutting out bits of history here and there and replacing those with the latest authorised version.
Sentences, paragraphs.
Sometimes just adjectives and adverbs.
Cut ‘n paste.
It’s all there in the book.
No need to keep reinventing the wheel for each subsequent generation.
Why don’t you edit back the wiki pages you saw changed.
I can’t find the comment here about the creation of a wikipedia page on Philip Cross, which was summarily removed.
Do you have it?
I was alerted to your site by my old friend Dr Walt King, as we had both (this morning) expressed our growing frustration with the increasingly wishy-washy GDN.
[Walt and I balled away together on radicalising our university newspaper c. ’67-68 and have not n much changed our stance.]
So your pice is most welcome to an ageing leftie like me.
Thanks
Stuart Booth
If I was Trump, looking at the wierdo catfish like Obama and Hillary who have now stopped even twitching in the cracked mud of the swamp, I would see in Assange a soul companion and fellow campaigner against MSM appalling lies. I think I would get him out of the rogue clutches of MI6 and put him to work in my own private back office to dig dirt on the cat-fish who are embedded in the mud hoping to outlive Trump’s tenure in the White House.
I don’t know why Craig is hedging his bets between swampers and drainers. At least Trump seems to know the US support for jihadism is a busted flush, which I don’t think the catfish know yet. Maybe having connections to a country which was forced to fight for its life with Obama’s Islamic State helps me to decide.
Last night I dreamt I was sitting in a garden with my family alongside the POTUS and he was playing with the two-year-olds, getting them to run after a football. If I had had a nightmare about vampire Hillary sweeping in on her broomstick and the kids screaming at her bloody vampire teeth, I think I would have dismissed it as a piece of undigested cheese. I am very grateful to Mr Trump for allowing the USUKIS ghoul of Islamic State to be removed form Mosul, and my sub-conscious mind expressed its relief in dream-form.
We at last have a US president that takes responsibility for his actions. He knows now not to interfere again in Israel. Nikki Haley looking like an idiot in front of the whole world. Netanyahoo pretending that school massacres were cool.
Giyane, I don’t follow your argument here. Hilary is not in power Trump is – so it is not known what she would be doing if she were POTUS now – it’s all speculation. Trump is a megalomaniac who takes no responsibility for anything. What do you mean he knows now not to interfere with Israel again. He has, he does and will continue to do so in order to further destabilise the Middle East. The fact that opening the US Embassy in Jersualem on the very day the Palestinians were dispossed of their land was a calculated action and he knew exactly what would happen. It was worse to see Netanyahoo there laughing at the Palestinians, enjoying the whole charade whilst unarmed Palestinians were being massacred – at his instruction i hasten to add. Trump poses the biggest threat to this world at the present time. He has created a monster in Israel which he will find it very difficult to control as they are his puppeteers and, as such, control him. Trump blamed the whole thing on Hamas which is a lie and disingenuous. He has taken no responsibility whatsoever himself. Nikki Haley looks like a fool anywhere – but she still vetoed the UN Resolution that demanded an independent investigation into the massacre on Monday. No responsibility taken there is there?
Perhaps Assange should leave now under Trump? There might be a democratic president next time, and they will renew the witch hunt against him, def.extradition and so forth?
Thankyou Craig Murray
Thanks for info Craig.
Just one other thing: Why have they not just chucked Julian out of the Embassy then?
I suppose Julian has the exclusive key to some very interesting and damaging information.
All parties –except in all likelihood Julian Assange himself– are probably best served by the status quo.
For a Pole / Kashubian, Donald Tusk has a really neat turn of phrase in English.
Nice Trump burn.
https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-tusk-eu-us-foreign-policy-france-germany-iran-trade-6a62cb7a-7847-4ce9-b758-2eaec13649c0.html
It is unfair to criticise Equador when of all the countries with Embassies in London it was the one to help. Shame on Britain for it’s disgraceful acquiescence to US power, and particularly people like Ian Hislop at Private Eye who pretend to challenge the government.
The whole thing is shaming for Britain, but at least one hopes the people will realise who runs the country. Yes folks, it’s the ones with their military bases all over the place… Alconbury, Barford St John, Croughton, Fairford, Feltwell, lakenheath, menwith Hill, Mildenhall, Molesworth, Welford.
If they were Roman fortresses you would know, wouldn’t you – who is in charge?
@ Steve May 16, 2018 at 17:07
It is not Ecuador that is at fault, but the snake Moreno who got into office under the auspices of Correa’s Alianza Pais, then moved rapidly to the right.
“Christopher R. Hill, who negotiated with North Korea during the George W. Bush administration, said it was possible that the threat (to call off the Kim-Trump Singapore summit) was serious. The North, he noted, has a history of insulting the South.”
🙂 The Guardian expects its readers to have almost as little knowledge as its writers. The two Korean regimes have a long history of insulting each other, which only recently has to some extent abated. There is such an enormous disconnect with knowledge and reality in the MSM’s reporting of Korea, and such a colonial attitude. What happens next is likely to surprise the kind of twits that get their brainfood from day to day, from the MSM, whatever it serves up.
I think the Koreas and China were doing very well on their own. The US should just leave them all to get on with it and then comply with whatever they decide.
No doubt the choreographers thought this a very boring drama. Need a few difficulties, reversals and so on before that final embrace.
But yeah, Western media is braindead.
All this is such pointed political persecution against Assange.
Tell me what is important! Did or has Assange published anything that has been proven wrong afterward? What is his track record of accuracy?
If it beats the Guardian and other MSM Establishment propaganda mouthpieces, well, there you have your answer as to why Assange must be silenced.
The elites in almost all European capital cities outside of Russia and the Russian sphere of influence – the few dozen families with their big houses in the poshest part of town – remain revoltingly pro the United States. Don’t expect the EU to stand up to Burger Muncher power (or its organ grinder) any time soon.
The Guardian’s phony radicalism since day one was designed to defuse outrage at injustices perpetrated by our rulers and to undermine organised opposition to them.: http://www.medialens.org/23_fg_75_lc/viewtopic.php?t=3362&sid=a81b407ef65b8122bbfaddfefefa0f52
It’s bad here with The Guardian but there are worse countries set up to fail by the USA. One is Ukraine. Nobody can tell me that no checks were done on this fascist before he was posted to the Ukrainian embassy in Hamburg.
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/05/14/world/europe/14reuters-ukraine-germany-consul.html
I’m posting this link too because it contains a video which shows quite clearly that the accusations are true. There is a video at the end showing what a nasty piece of work Vasyl Marushchynets really is, not just a fascist but an out-an-out anti-Semite.
http://russiafeed.com/ukrainian-consul-suspended-in-germany-for-anti-semitic-posts-video/
John,
I can’t believe the NYT reported this news. (I’ve read today his father and his daughter are working at German embassies as well)
BTW, is it covered anywhere in western media about Kirill Vyshynsky, a journalist arrested in Ukraine?
https://www.rt.com/news/426928-ukraine-crackdown-russian-journalists/
Is it covered, they detained Linderman, though not a journalist, but activist protecting russian language for russian children in russian schools in Latvia?
Both men are blamed of undermining something about state souveregnity or sort of…
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Being a russian citizen I pay attention to minor details, such as – on our Victory Day, Putin said “I congratulate states of (…long listing of ex-USSR republics…) and PEOPLE of Ukraine and Georgia (intendedly omitting ‘government’) and totally omitted Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the sentence.
“BTW, is it covered anywhere in western media about Kirill Vyshynsky, a journalist arrested in Ukraine?”
Not that I have seen. I only came across this by chance.
http://freewestmedia.com/2018/03/20/ukrainian-pilot-suspected-of-shooting-down-mh17-found-dead/
Voloshin obviously had a soul. Whether he was killed by the state (suicided) or took his own life, he was according to all accounts a very troubled man at the end. And so young. If there was a note nobody will see it. We have been waiting for a proper inquiry into many false flags for years, some that cannot be mentioned here, but the inquiry into the shooting down of Malaysian MH17 has been hampered because Kiev, the main suspect in my book, is on the JIT (Joint Investigation Team) and has a secrecy clause written in enabling it to veto anything it does not agree with.
it is not Voloshyn, it is Vyshynsky
https://www.rt.com/news/426849-ria-ukraine-raid-reaction/
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I’ve read about Voloshyn, it is very sad, John.
“it is not Voloshyn, it is Vyshynsky”.
The point I was making was that Voloshin’s death got little coverage in the west as well as there being little coverage of Vyshynsky’s arrest by the fascists. Free speech is dead in Ukraine and the number of journalists killed in 2014/15 showed that they were deliberately targeted to prevent the truth being told..
Oh, now I got it, thank you!
I’ve noticed that people put more importance into frequently and massively covered news, than in what is really important.
That is why I stopped watching TV, I get all my news from internet. It is also easy to find missing information or to follow interesting topics.
Plenty of police on duty in Windsor, we hear, securing the route, sealing up inspection covers, and the like and on the look out for terrorists.
Fewer for the likes of the tax payers though. Recorded crimes have increased but charges are down. All thanks to Theresa’s police cuts when she was Home Secretary.
I hear that when you phone to report a burglary, or even something more serious, the police will not attend. You are even given a crime number.
Fewer crimes ending with charges – check your police area
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44044537
‘BBC analysis of Home Office data for Panorama shows 527,000 charges were brought in 2016-17 – a fall of 65,000 on 2014-15. Meanwhile, the number of crimes recorded rose by nearly 750,000.
Police say a squeeze on resources is making crime harder to investigate.
The Home Office says it is working with police to find a solution.’!
We know the solution.
Time for a period of reflection from yourself Craig.
Assange had played you like a complete fiddle.
“key dissident voice”
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I’ll have what you’re having! Hook, line and sinker.
i was raised as a child to never lie or cheat, i was told i would be rewarded for honesty and punished for dishonesty, i grew up to witness liars and cheats rise to the top and honest folk get trampled on. Whistleblowers and truth speakers pay a hefty price for speaking out and i applaud such people for their bravery, they receive no reward other than knowing they are morally superior to the scum that holds them down. I praise the likes of Julian Assange and others who could have had a far easier life if they had joined the low-life ranks of liars and cheats, but didn’t.
I witnessed UK academia trouncing undergraduates and young researchers for plagiarism, but Vice Chancellors and Senior Professors are fully networked into wholesale computer hacking and surveillance across whole institutions. If stealing information from computers is not plagiarism, what is?
You join the Deep State if you desire the title of Professor….