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This Assange “Trial” Is A Self-Contradictory Kafkaesque Nightmare

"So Assange may only speak through his lawyers, but also he’s been presented with many obstacles to speaking with his lawyers. Perfectly normal stuff in a perfectly normal trial"
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Caitlin Johnstone ⏳
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Bring back those cute adorable Obama-Biden memes from 2016
#bromance
"Where are we off to now boss?"
"To arm and train violent jihadists in Syria, Joe"
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Caitlin Johnstone ⏳
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Debunking All The Assange Smears

Added a bunch of new links and updates to this resource for the #AssangeTrial to help people debate the smears. There are now 30 smears debunked. Use it, share it, and let me know if anything needs to be changed or added.
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This is an ongoing mega-article with each of the most common smears broken up into 30 separate categories, Each section hyperlinks to its own individual article for easy shareability if you just want to throw a URL at someone. The hyperlinks are at the beginning of the article:
Use this resource if you're ever unsure how to debate an Assange smearer. They typically have very little creativity and individuality so they mostly fall into one of these categories. Hell, you can go back to people you didn't know how to respond to days ago and have at 'em now.
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Caitlin Johnstone ⏳
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Fairbanks blowing the whistle on Trump's acting DNI negotiating a deal with Ecuador based on lies about WikiLeaks is infinitely more interesting and important than the stupid Dem debate. Watch and share. #Assange #FreeAssange
It's broken up into two parts: #Assange #AssangeTrial #FreeAssange
Just scroll through @CassandraRules' timeline for more background and information after watching.
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Tareq Haddad
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Update from #Assange hearings: after District Judge Vanessa Baraitser asked Assange’s lawyers to check on him as her seemed tired. He then stood up to address the court: “I’m as much a participant in these proceedings as I am a spectator in Wimbledon.
“I’m having enough difficulty concentrating as it is. I can’t speak to my lawyers with any confidentiality. There is no point in participating in these proceedings if I can’t communicate with my lawyers without any privacy.
“The other side must have something like 100 contact hours. There is already enough spying on my lawyers as it is. There are a number of unnamed embassy officials here. There are two microphones in here. What’s the point of asking if I can concentrate if I can’t participate?”
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M. A. E.
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#ASSANGE HEARING DAY 3

Legal arguments will focus on whether the charges levied ahainst #JulianAssange by the US government are "political offences". If so, the WikiLeaks founder can't be extradited to the US, under the Anglo-US extradition treaty

via @SputnikInt
Edward Fitzgerald QC (#Assange defence barrister)

If you are detained in plain violation of the Treaty, then on that autonomous test under Article 5 (UK HRA 1998), then you are not detained in a manner prescribed by law, you are detained in a manner which is arbitrary.
Also check @kgosztola's #Assange hearing Day 3 thread here as there will be extended pauses in tweets while I write up reports on the hearings hearings.
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Kevin Gosztola
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At Woolwich courthouse in London for Day 2 of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s week-long extradition hearing

This will be thread for today’s proceedings.
Court begins with Edward Lewis, prosecutor, objecting to defense arranging through court a transcript of proceedings without notifying prosecution. #Assange
Prosecutor says everyone should be on “same playing field and at the moment we’re not.” Because defense has a transcript and prosecutor has not worked out process for paying and obtaining transcript #Assange
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Naomi Colvin
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Coppel explaining the importance of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruling, made after CPS decision about this FOIA request in late 2015, which found the UK and Sweden in breach of their international obligations. #Assange
Coppel: it is argued that the UNWGAD decision would have made no difference if it had been taken into account... "that is simply incorrect... the stance taken by the tribunal was of fundamental importance to the outcome of the appeal" #Assange
Coppel: "in August 2017 there had been a disclosure by the CPS... that had been catalysed by the willingness of the Swedish Prosecution Authority for that material to be disclosed. With that, the public interest consideration fundamentally shifted." #Assange
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Tim Hogan
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Link to OCR’d copy of #Assange Superseding Indictment. I think Manning finally relented and testified to the Grand Jury. @maddow @Lawrence timinhonolulu.com/2019/05/23/lin…
The charges are all under 18 USC 793. There is no death penalty under that statute unlike 794 that involves espionage for a foreign power IMO he could be charged under either statute. But this keeps the extradition in play. law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
I looked at the Assange docket. There are two missing documents. Dkt 32 and 33. Just like in many Mueller dockets. If the US is limited in the extradition to the first indictment this may be just the setup for charging other co-conspirators. Also, it clearly opens up FISA.
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MrK001
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Equador: Swedish national #OlaBini arrested for connections to #wikileaks.

Johannes Wahlström:

#JulianAssange's "human rights are violated on a daily basis"

"#JulianAssange is imprisoned for #journalism."

#MikePompeo on lying:

"When I was a cadet, what was the cadet motto at West Point? 'You will not lie, cheat or steal, or tolerate those who do'? I was the CIA Director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It was like - we had entire training courses!"
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