Betrayal Of Julian Assange

Julian Assange extradition hearing: 

New Articles were realized just hours ago since the start of the extradition hearing.

Assange's attorney made many claims stating The US plotted to kidnap and possibly kill Julian Assange as he hid out at the Ecuadorian embassy in London — aiming to make it look like an accident.

Not only was this claim made against the U.S. but also that the was secret surveillance on Assange in his bedroom, to the point that he slept in a tent inside his room as well as being filmed meeting with his legal team

The court was then told; It was part of an alleged plot that contemplated a sinister ending for the hacker accused of putting lives at risk with his massive dump of top-secret US documents and diplomatic cables.

Witness Two then revealed "the Americans were desperate and had even suggested more extreme measures could be applied against the guest to put an end to the situation,” told the court. 

Witness Two was also allegedly working with “the dark side" aka the US intelligence agencies,” Not only were all these claims made against the U.S. but also there was a claim that Julian Assange attempted to warn the U.S. Government, however, he was told to call back.

Assange personally warned the State Department that an encrypted database of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables was about to be leaked in 2011, claims Assange's lawyer, Mark Summers.

Assange personally warned: "I don't understand why you're not seeing the urgency in this... people's lives are at risk," according to Summers.

However, again was told to call back a few hours later.

The hearing is still currently underway.

Sources: http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/february/24/trump-s-betrayal-of-julian-assange/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8041597/US-plotted-kill-Julian-Assange-make-look-like-accident.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus&__twitter_impression=true

Ida Tarbell

History: 

Ida Minerva Tarbell is one of the most famous investigate journalist women in history. Ida was born on November 5, 1857, in Erie County, Pennsylvania. Her father was an oil producer and her family's lives were affected by the price-fixing scheme of the Standard Oil Company. She attended Allegheny College, graduating as the only woman in her class in 1880. After graduation, she did many things such as teaching for a short period. But, while living in Paris, where she wrote her autobiography, she worked for McClure’s Magazine, which gave her great exposure. However, she decided to go on her own and write for American Magazine, of which she was also a co-owner and co-editor. She wrote many controversial pieces about gender roles including The Business of Being a Woman (1912) and The Ways of Women (1915) She died on January 6, 1944.

Impact: 

Tarbell had a huge impact on the oil company, she untimely exposed unfair practices of the Standard Oil Company which, leading to a U.S. Supreme Court decision to break its monopoly. She did this by writing. The History of the Standard Oil Company the first installment was published by McClure’s in 1902. Tarbell's father warned against writing the series as he feared Rockefeller would attack the magazine but she had the determination and personal experience that drove her to write the series anyway. In the series, she exposed questionable practices, including those surrounding the events that had so greatly impacted her family such as having employees to outmaneuver and rollover whoever got in their way. The History of the Standard Oil Company also helped to grow the trend of investigation, exposé, and lead liberal journals of the day, a technique that in 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt would label muckraking. Not only did she play a big role in the U.S. Supreme Court decision to break its monopoly of the Standard Oil Company. She also lectured for a time on the chautauqua circuit and wrote several popular biographies, which included eight books on Abraham Lincoln. She then served as a member of various government conferences and committees concerned with defense, industry, unemployment, and other issues. After her death, Tarbell was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame and two years later she was featured as part of a United States Postal Service stamp series commemorating women journalists. Her History of the Standard Oil Company stands as one of the most important works of journalism in the 20th century.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ida-Tarbell

Assange and Wikileaks

Introduction:

Julian Assange was sentenced 50 weeks in the HM Prison Belmarsh, Assange was guilty of breaching the terms of his bail or supposed this is why he was in prison. But there is so much more to this story. In 2004 Julian Assange founded a website for video footage called Wikileaks, having their main goal to be bringing important news and information to the public. However, the image of Wikileaks changed forever in 2010. 

Background:

On October 22nd, the famous website Wikileaks released video footage of the Iraq War from the United States of the Iraq War from 2004 to 2009. In 2012 Julian Assange fled to the Embassy of Ecuador and in August of 2012 Assange was granted asylum by Ecuador due to possible extradition to the United States. In January 2018, he was granted Ecuadorian citizenship; however, it was suspended in April 2019. Assange remained in the Embassy of Ecuador in London for almost seven years. Until arrested in April of 2019 with rape charges and skipping bail. 

Present: 

Today Assange is kept in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day, while in prison with some of the topmost dangerous rapists and murders. Not to mention he has limited assess to speak with his lawyers and is not allowed to see evidence from his court case against him. 

Over 60 doctors have written letters stating they fear Julian Assange’s health and if he does not seek the medical treatment needed he could die inside the British jail. Currently, there is a petition signed by 130 prominent Germans to release Julian as well as Sweden dropping the rape case due to the difficulty of the investigation. 

Conclusion: 

Assange is being treated unfairly, not being able to get access to medical treatment, speak too lawyers, or in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours, a day is not treating him like the human he is. Also, the United States is who is holding him in prison with these charges wherefore the United States in getting involved in foreign legal action, which is illegal in the United States part. So, I understand Assange being held in prison if he is guilty of the Rape charges, however, the United States should let the current country he was living in to deal with that legal issue. I feel as if the United States is trying to charge Julian Assange unfairly because he released the Iraq War Logs, showing the United States committed illegal war crimes. These war crimes killed an average of 10,000 Iraqi citizens, therefore the United States does not need to punish Assange when killing so many innocent citizens is bad enough. Also, as the investigation and story progress more and more countries are wanting to release Julian Assange, therefore the United States does not need to have all the power in order to keep him in jail. The only reason the United States has not attempted to get  Julian Assange out of jail is that he released to the public the crimes the U.S. committed.  Julian Assange was not attempting to do anything wrong, he just wanted the public to know the facts about the Iraq War.


Sources: https://www.rcfp.org/category/protecting-sources-and-materials/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_documents_leak
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