October 08, 2011 journal, time for a turn around on Wall Street to put the people in charge. We are a wicked nation judging from what is done in our name all over the world but we are occupied by the Antichrist and our people are in total slavery and even then they are not going to feed us. Many millions of American people are caged like animals desperate. The island Manhattan has been a refuge for the occupying force from Khazarland Russia. The Church, the Republican Party & the beast of burden Wall Street Fed in bed together. Christianity is being made a mockery of as American people are all traded down the drain. Here is the situation of anybody that betrays the Armageddon beast by revealing the truth. Occupy Wall Street does not need a leader, let nature and history take its course always. The Antichrist people that occupy and rule this country will not tolerate truth telling. "The "Getting" of Assange and the Smearing of a Revolution by John Pilger of Truthout! The High Court in London will soon decide whether Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct. At the appeal hearing in July, Ben Em-merson, Queen's counsel for the defense, described the whole saga as "crazy." Sweden's chief prosecutor had dismissed the original arrest warrant, saying there was no case for Assange to answer. Both the women involved said they had consented to have sex. On the facts alleged, no crime would have been committed in Britain. However, it is not the Swedish judicial system that presents a "grave danger" to Assange, say his lawyers, but a legal device known as a Temporary Surrender, under which he can be sent on from Sweden to the United States secretly and quickly. The founder and editor of WikiLeaks, who published the greatest leak of official documents in history, providing a unique insight into rapacious wars and the lies told by governments, is likely to find himself in a hell hole not dissimilar to the "torturous" dungeon that held Pvt. Bradley Manning, the alleged whistleblower. Manning has not been tried, let alone convicted, yet on 21 April, President Barack Obama declared him guilty with a dismissive, "He broke the law ..." A politician can promise any thing to get elected but the Zionists still rule. This Kafka-style justice awaits Assange whether or not Sweden decides to prosecute him. Last December, the Independent disclosed that the US and Sweden had already started talks on Assange's extradition. At the same time, a secret grand jury - a relic of the 18th century long abandoned in this country - has convened just across the river from Washington, in a corner of Virginia that is home to the CIA and most of America's national security establishment. The grand jury is a "fix," a leading legal expert told me: reminiscent of the all-white juries in the South that convicted blacks by rote. A sealed indictment is believed to exist. Under the US Constitution, which guarantees free speech, Assange should be protected, in theory. When he was running for president, Obama, himself a constitutional lawyer, said, "Whistleblowers are part of a healthy democracy and must be protected from reprisal." His embrace of George W. Bush's "war on terror" has changed all that. Obama has pursued more whistleblowers than any US president. The problem for his administration in "getting" Assange and crushing WikiLeaks is that military investigators have found no collusion or contact between him and Manning, reports NBC. There is no crime, so one has to be concocted, probably in line with Vice President Joe Biden's absurd description of Assange as a "hi-tech terrorist." Should Assange win his High Court appeal in London, he could face extradition direct to the United States. In the past, US officials have synchronized extradition warrants with the conclusion of a pending case. Like its predatory military, American jurisdiction recognizes few boundaries. As the suffering of Bradley Manning demonstrates, together with the recently executed Troy Davis and the forgotten inmates of Guantanamo, much of the US criminal justice system is corrupt if not lawless. In a letter addressed to the Australian government, Britain's most distinguished human rights lawyer, Gareth Peirce, who now acts for Assange, wrote, "Given the extent of the public discussion, frequently on the basis of entirely false assumptions ... it is very hard to attempt to preserve for him any presumption of innocence. Mr. Assange has now hanging over him not one but two Damocles swords, of potential extradition to two different jurisdictions in turn for two different alleged crimes, neither of which are crimes in his own country and that his personal safety has become at risk in circumstances that are highly politically charged." These facts and the prospect of a grotesque miscarriage of justice have been drowned in a vituperative campaign against the WikiLeaks founder. Deeply personal, petty, perfidious and inhuman attacks have been aimed at a man not charged with any crime, yet held isolated, tagged and under house arrest - conditions not even meted out to a defendant presently facing extradition on a charge of murdering his wife. Books have been publish-ed, movie deals struck and media careers launched or kick-started on the assumption that he is fair game and too poor to sue. People have made money, often big money, while WikiLeaks has struggled to survive. On 16 June, the publisher of Canongate Books, Jamie Byng, when asked by Assange for an assurance that the rumored unauthorized publication of his autobiography was not true, said, "No, absolutely not. That is not the position ... Julian, do not worry. My absolute number one desire is to publish a great book which you are happy with." On 22 September, Canongate released what it called Assange's "unauthorized autobiography" without the author's permission or knowledge. It was a first draft of an incomplete, uncorrected manuscript. "They thought I was going to prison and that would have inconvenienced them," he told me. "It's as if I am now a commodity that presents an incentive to any opportunist." The editor of The Guardian UK, Alan Rusbridger, has called the WikiLeaks disclosures "one of the greatest journalistic scoops of the last 30 years": indeed, this is part of his current marketing promotion to justify raising The Guardian UK's cover price. But the scoop belongs to Assange not The Guardian UK. Compare the paper's attitude toward Assange with its bold support for the reporter threatened with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act for revealing the iniquities of Hackgate. Editorials and front pages have carried stirring messages of solidarity from even Murdoch's Sunday Times. On 29 September, Carl Bernstein was flown to London to compare all this with his Watergate triumph. Alas, the iconic fellow was not entirely on message. "It's important not to be unfair to Murdoch," he said, because "he's the most far seeing media entrepreneur of our time" who "put The Simpsons on air" and thereby "showed he could understand the information consumer." The contrast with the treatment of a genuine pioneer of a revolution in journalism, who dared take on rampant America, providing truth about how great power works, is telling. A drip feed of hostility runs through The Guardian UK, making it difficult for readers to interpret the WikiLeaks phenomenon and to assume other than the worst about its founder. David Leigh, The Guardian UK's "investigations editor," told journalism students at City University that Assange was a "Frankenstein monster" who "didn't use to wash very often" and was "quite deranged." When a puzzled student asked why he said that, Leigh replied, "Because he doesn't understand the parameters of conventional journalism. He and his circle have a profound contempt for what they call the mainstream media." According to Leigh, these "parameters" were exemplified by Bill Keller when, as editor of The New York Times, he co-published the WikiLeaks disclosures with The Guardian UK. Keller, said Leigh, was "a seriously thoughtful person in journalism" who had to deal with "some sort of dirty, flaky hacker from Melbourne." Last November, the "seriously thoughtful" Keller boasted to the BBC that he had taken all WikiLeaks' war logs to the White House so the government could approve and edit them. In the run-up to the Iraq war, The New York Times published a series of now notorious CIA-inspired claims that weapons of mass destruction existed. Such are the "parameters" that have made so many people cynical about the so-called mainstream media. Leigh went as far as to mock the danger that, once extradited to America, Assange would end up wearing "an orange jump suit." These were things "he and his lawyer are saying in order to feed his paranoia." The "paranoia" is shared by the European Court of Human Rights which has frozen "national security" extraditions from the UK to the US because the extreme isolation and long sentences defendants can expect amounts to torture and inhuman treatment. I asked Leigh why he and The Guardian UK had adopted a consistently hostile attitude toward Assange since they had parted company. He replied, "Where you, tendentiously, claim to detect a 'hostile tone,' others might merely see well-informed objectivity." It is difficult to find well-informed objectivity in The Guardian UK's book on Assange, sold lucratively to Hollywood, in which Assange is described gratuitously as a "damaged personality" and "callous." In the book, Leigh revealed the secret password Assange had given the paper. Designed to protect a digital file containing the US embassy cables, its disclosure set off a chain of events that led to the release of all the files. The Guardian UK denies "utterly" it was responsible for the release. What, then, was the point of publishing the password? The Guardian UK's Hackgate exposures were a journalistic tour de force; the Murdoch empire may disintegrate as a result. But with or without Murdoch, a media consensus that echoes, from the BBC to the Sun, a corrupt political, war-mongering establishment. Assange's crime has been to threaten this consensus: those who fix the "parameters" of news and political ideas and whose authority as media commissars is challenged by the revolution of the internet. The prize-winning former Guardian UK journalist Jonathan Cook has experience in both worlds. "The media, at least the supposedly left-wing component of it," he writes, "should be cheering on this revolution ... And yet, mostly they are trying to co-opt, tame or subvert it [even] to discredit and ridicule the harbingers of the new age. ... Some of [the campaign against Assange] clearly reflects a clash of personalities and egos, but it also looks suspiciously like the feud derives from a more profound ideological struggle [about] how information should be controlled a generation hence [and] the gatekeepers maintaining their control." This work by Truthout is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. John Pilger, Australian-born, London-based journalist, film-maker and author. For his foreign and war reporting, ranging from Vietnam and Cambodia to the Middle East, he has twice won Britain's highest award for journalism. For his documentary films, he won a British Academy Award and an American Emmy. In 2009, he was awarded Australia's human rights prize, the Sydney Peace Prize. His latest film is "The War on Democracy." Phytopagan-The hypocrisy of Obama is once again on display, as in the cases of both Manning and Assange he cites their "breaking the law." Obama breaks the laws of the U. S., including treaties, constitutional violations, and betrayals of long-held moral standards, every day, as did his contemptible predecessors. When will the Congress have the courage and demonstrate the patriotism to bring the charlatan and criminal Obama to justice? Well, likely never, thereby rendering the entire Congress guilty of complicity in Obam0a's crimes. What we need is to assert laws of the people, and bring these corporate-owned hoodlums who pose as representative of the people to justice, even if that means eliminating their bulwarks against being held accountable first -- such as the traitorous gestapo in the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, their hired corporate thugs (Xe et al.). I think, given the current defiance of the rule of law, that the only laws that matter are those that provide the underpinning for democracy and justice. The totalitarians who hold themselves unaccountable to anyone, and would destroy the nation for the pursuit of their own greed and avarice, must be brought to justice by whatever means necessary, for the good of the nation and the rest of the world. Let them consider their impunity from legal responsibility as their heads roll. Step us to the platform, Obama! ChrisInTennessee-I pray the Europeans don't send Assange to the US and Gitmo... Clbeat-I used to admire the work of the GUARDIAN. What happened? And where is Ausralia in all this? They should be protecting the rights of one of their citizens against false imprisonment, and quite possibly, death. If the US can murder one of its own citizens without trial, what might be the fate of a foreign whistleblower. MAX GRANDE-Australia is currently run by Julia Gillard, a lady as much in the thrall of the Obamites as is that neocon/neoliberal thug to the North, Stephen Harper. The Aussie government also hates Mr. Assange for exposing many of their own corrupt practices. No hope for relief there. CharlesDecelles-Australia is a US client state that pretty much bolsters anything that the US does. Clayfimm-Australia under its current form of government will take its lead from Washington. It is very rare indeed when our leaders have the fortitude to stand up on their own. Franyaya-It's impossible to ignore the sad revelation that the rampant and systematic violation of fundamental rights and freedoms from the highest offices on down is aided and abetted by our most trusted journalists and their newspapers. The NYT's all too happily assumed role in fabricating reasons to invade Iraq has yet to be properly denounced (if not punished); all the more disturbing that The Guardian turns out to be guarding something other than the truth. Sharon Spilman-Any newspaper or channel that is owned by a corporation is suspect. Bring you camera/cellphone and remember YOU are the people's media. Katy Sharpe-Interesting correlation: Nazi Germany talked about wanting peace, all the while building up huge armies and weapons stashes, and suppressing any opposition of any kind... Is that what is happening here? I believe the Bush administration was totally corrupt, in the manner of the Nazis. But Obama??? ericalbert-When all three branches of government, BECOME CORRUPT, AND LAWLESS, we must confront the dangerous historical moment, that Liberalism has once again, like the Weimar Republic DEGENERATED INTO A POLICE STATE, embracing class tyranny for Capitalism, since Liberalism believes its lies, class myths, class dogmas, like the Nazis who inverted Slavery with Freedom, or Obama Freedom with Fascism, ITSELF A REFLECTION OF INVERTED SOCIAL POWER INTO INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM/FASCISM. joe plmber-GREAT ARTICLE!!! Herein is exposed a new subtle tool for the demonic elite which we have probably perceived but been unable to put into words till now. This is a valuable truth and one that we have to continually be on the alert for henceforth because the demonic elite and their whores - intelligence agencies, police forces, FBI, etc. ad nauseum will not stop at anything to ensure that the truth about their demonic character does not emerge. They have enslaved the world by perverting, soiling, hiding, smearing and otherwise masking the truth about themselves and what they do and if the Truth comes out it will set us free. (Name them by them by their native country) They are the principal demons on the planet because they lie more and better than anyone else and that is something we have to consider ALL THE TIME when we receive any news from the mass media whores about them or when we are encouraged to think that they are just another political party or opinion - they are not!! They are evil and the veritable enemy of all humanity! The fabrication of this lie is important to spread and neutralize because the Wikileaks will continue to be one of the foundations of this and all future revolutions and revelations - we are being governed and enslaved by demonic fascist-racist filth that we should scrape off our shoes and burn. S. Wolf Britain, Equal, Human, Civil, Legal, and Liberty Rights Advocate; Independent Legal Assistant, Troubleshooter and/or Whistleblower; Personal Computer Specialist; Blogger / Blogmaster; Webmaster; Writer; Poet; and bonafide member in good standing of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) [as a fully physically disabled former legal worker], of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and of Amnesty International (AI). This is what fascist authoritarian, fast becoming totalitarian, governments have to do. They have to "get" the whistleblowers and destroy, even murder, them and make it look "just". We now live in a very sick, evil world where things are getting worse and worse every day; but, because most people, or at least most so-called "Americans", are brainwashed by the propaganda of the corporate-fascists, including the "lamestream" media; are enamored of mega-media giants and their endless propagation of not only propaganda, but "sex, lies and videotape (cd's, dvd's)" encouraging more and more narcissism, self-centeredness and selfishness; and/or because they don't listen to or take responsibility for anything [except to vote corporate-fascists like BushCON and ObamaCON into office, actually believing that's supposedly where their "patriotic duty". It's all a sign of the times that evil is taking over almost completely, and that most people are following the Pied Pipers of Evil, like good little, washed-of-brains lemmings right over the edge of the cliff to their own demise. And one of the most sick and mass-insane things about it is, that most "Americans" at least are cheering it on from their blind seats in the bleachers of the "bread and circuses", while all around them is crumbling to dust right in front of their noses, and only the relative minority is "occupying Wall Street" and braving police brutality to fulfill their duty(ies) to decry the takeover of evil at the expense of the majority. The juggernaut of evil is steamrolling and crushing the majority but they, by very successful design and social engineering, are mostly blind to what's really going on, and/or refuse to do anything about it but continue to narcissistically consume at the expense of everyone else. After all, they've had, even if not outright, drummed into them since they were old enough to speak, to "look out for number one" first and foremost; and, so, most "Americans" and most people in the Western world have little or no concept or understanding of their responsibility(ies) to the greater good, and that they must be willing to sacrifice themselves, and even, very possibly their lives, when and where that greater good is truly at stake as it is now, particularly to the great and grave extent that it is now. But there's little understanding anymore of sacrifice and the shedding of blood for liberty and freedom, and thus the masses perish for lack of truth; and, in most cases, any real caring about truth. No, they don't want to know. They just want to "have fun", at the expense of saving ourselves from destruction, until they die. The heck with everyone else. And the worse thing about that is, that being that way is all supposedly "okay" with most people, especially "Americans". Sharon Spilman-Reality check: It's NOT 'ok' with the American People-(and remember, corporations are NOT people, in spite of what the bought SCOTUS decided last year) - Take a look at OWS, and you'll see that it's NOT ok with the American people, anymore than Mubarak's thuggish regime was OK with the Egyptians. I support Julian Assange, and Bradley Manning, and hope that we can raise enough ruckus to get our country back from the slimebags who now think they "own" it." S. Wolf Britain, Equal, Human, Civil, Legal, and Liberty Rights Advocate; Independent Legal Assistant, Troubleshooter and/or Whistleblower; Personal Computer Specialist; Blogger / Blogmaster; Webmaster; Writer; Poet; and bonafide member in good standing of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) [as a fully physically disabled former legal worker], of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and of Amnesty International (AI). But are those Americans who it is not okay with, in the majority? I wish they were, and I hope they will become so, but they aren't now. So, what I said, unfortunately and very sadly, stands; at least until the Americans it is not okay with become the majority, as needs to and must happen to save the U.S. and its people, and by extension the entire world and its people, from their doom. Mary Saunders-The set of promises made to the banko/oilio/ag/pharma axis could not remain hidden. Maybe it seemed as if the 99% were so harmed and demoralized that they could not do anything about the broken promises. Having nothing left to lose can make people unpredictable. Siphoning so much to the oiligarchs left a huge cohort with time and motivation. The internet provides ways to rotate leadership so one head could not be cut off to end anything. It remains to be seen whether the powers that be will use Weapons of Mass Destruction against the people who voted for them. The current situation does not lend itself to provoking sufficient fear with selected assassinations. annamarina-By his pettiness (and his pathetic coquettishness), Mr. Leigh leaves an impression of a thoroughly inadequate man. Mr. Keller gained notoriety for being totally servile to WH administration, as if journalism was a tissue for the administration's behind. Both men lack any courage and principles. They are two self-castraties with the deep understanding of each other's motifs. Assange's courage is anathema for both Leigh and Keller because these two are sentimentally longing to be heroes, legends, but have neither guts nor smarts to be the Men. They are two little servants for the corporate takeover of democracy; they are the dream-boys for the media corporations serving the interests of the Military-Industrial-Financial complex. ericalbert-If you want a window of the inherent criminality, totalitarianism of Liberal class ideologies, liberal class elites, itself linked to other class deformed ideologies, ranging from Fascism to corrupt social democratic and labor parties, all one has to see WHY CLASS COMPROMISES, results in, first crippled class outcomes, degenerating into totalitarianism. The fact that Western class hierarchies through their coercive, fascist diplomacy act together, whether liberal or outright Nazis, is proof that the link to all criminal, totalitarian class/empire outcomes is their embrace of class ideologies and class deformed civil societies. Wiki Leaks has demonstrated GENERICALLY, that all class elites work collectively within the class state and between class states to promote their top down class despotism, criminality, shifting into FASCISM. When Liberals embrace totalitarianism, fascism, criminality, it is a HISTORICAL REFLECTION of their role as a class ideology, which came into existence, ORIGINALLY, through class compromise of SOCIAL PRINCIPLES, by deforming them into class principles serving class hierarchies and plutocracies. This explains why the Weimar Republic, like Obama have shifted, DEGENERATED, into ORWELLIAN, INVERTED social power , class power, decomposing into Fascism. Knowing that these liberals espouse, embrace fascism, totalitarianism, and carry out these OUTRAGEOUS policies , makes me wonder how anyone can call themselves A LIBERAL, CONSERVATIVE, OR VOTE FOR ANY CLASS POLITICIAN, OR CLASS PARTY. We essentially vote for our enslavement, for corruption, if we vote for this WESTERN CRIMINAL SYSTEM of empire, of fascist police laws, of corporate systems. IT IS APPARENT TO ALL THAT THE ENLIGHTENMENT FAILED as soon as it embraced the class hierarchies around since class history , and set up class laws that SELECTIVELY are enforced and in times of class crisis, slip into Fascism by SUBVERTING THE RULE OF LAW ITSELF. SAY SIEG HEIL to Obama, Liberals, conservatives, class politicians, class parties, Western class/military/empire, fascist relations, moving towards a GLOBAL FASCIST MATRIX.......using the law to promote tyranny, and plutocracy. DENY YOU ARE A LIBERAL, A CLASS IDEOLOGUE, because the inherent nature of liberalism is to slide towards fascism, in the name of class power, service of oligarchies. " A Plea Not to Let #OccupyWallStreet Be Co-opted - Feed the Protest " Congress Looks Abroad to Distract from Wall Street Protests - BuzzFlash " US Senator Dick Durbin Tells Americans to Boycott the Bank of America for Ripping Off Customers - BuzzFlash This monster government is a threat to world peace and they are proving it every day flying 7000 illegal Predator Drones, shooting killing innocent people without due process.