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@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz 1/ John Pilger: Julian is confined to a glass corridor. "For Julian to talk to his lawyer, he must get on his knees & try to make a sign to people who have their backs to him."

@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz 2/ John Pilger: He can send it [a note] through a chain of 4 people to the barristers arguing his case at the front. He must speak through a slit in the glass. "His knees must be quite abraised at the end of it [the day in court]."

@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz 3/ John Pilger (paraphrased): He [Assange] is stripped naked, strip searched, x-rayed, shackled - goes through at least three checks at least as draconian as this ...

@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz 4/ John Pilger (paraphrased): ... and then as @StellaMoris1 says, he [Assange] is moved in what looks like a large refrigerator van for 1 1/2 hours to the court...

"I'm always astonished at the man's resilience."

@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz @StellaMoris1 5/ John Pilger: "Throughout the day, he's [Assange] forever taking notes, trying to pass these notes to the barristers."

@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz @StellaMoris1 6/ John Pilger: "This is a show trial of the worse kind. Due process has been replaced by due revenge."

@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz @StellaMoris1 7/ John Pilger: It's a capricious, it's a cruel occasion ... In so many ways, Julian Assange is now [our] collective conscience.
"People like Dan [Ellsberg], people like Julian are critical to society's sense of decency."

@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz @StellaMoris1 8/ John Pilger (paraphrased): The court is using those issues [argued now] to conceal war crimes. Cablegate showed the British army ... exposed what was happening in Sweden ...

@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz @StellaMoris1 9/ John Pilger (paraphrased): [Cablegate exposed] that Hillary Clinton had ordered diplomats to steal information, DNA...from other U.N. diplomats; that Britain's Iraq inquiry was fixed "to protect U.S. interests."

@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz @StellaMoris1 10/ John Pilger: All of it [documents released by WikiLeaks] was authentic. It's 100 percent authentic ... including 800,000 files from Russia.

@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz @StellaMoris1 11/ @johnpilger : "This [#AssangeTrial ] is a case that should have been thrown out long ago. It demeans the law."

@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz @StellaMoris1 12/ @johnpilger ~36:28: "This prosecution has been left with redaction as an issue. Redaction isn't an issue."

Brig. Gen. Carr spent a year with a team that investigated if anyone had come into harms way. He said, "There are no specific examples..."

@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz @StellaMoris1 13/@johnpilger ~min 37: Set in the context of what WikiLeaks revealed ... a recent study by Brown U ... 37 million people have been displaced by the war on terror with 12 million deaths. "That's what @wikileaks was giving us true evidence of."

@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz @StellaMoris1 @wikileaks 14/ @DanielEllsberg ~min 44: "When they [the U.S.] were offered the chance to redact ... when they were asked to give those names so they could be redacted, they refused to do that."
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@Consortiumnews @DanielEllsberg @johnpilger @AMercouris @KimDotcom @unjoe @ElizabethleaVos @DEAcampaign @couragefound @CathyVoganSPK @caitoz @StellaMoris1 @wikileaks 15/ @DanielEllsberg ~min 45: Ellsberg ironically compares the movie,The Man in the Glass Box (about the war criminal Eichman's trial) to Assange's trial.

"It's as if the one who EXPOSED the holocaust [Assange] is sitting in a glass cage."
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