Paraphrasing Winston Churchill: “You can always trust the Americans to do the right thing, after having exhausted all other options.”
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Why did they laugh? They drone kill plenty of people.
Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
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Re: Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
#492Earlier quoted context omitted.
IANAL but the judge can't both reject the plea deal and sentence him, since rejecting the plea deal invalidates the guilty plea. Rejecting it and remanding him to custody would cause a diplomatic incident. He's not out of the woods yet by any means, but if they reached a deal his lawyers are confident in, I wouldn't be worried about the judge. They are supposed to deffer to international law if US is a party to the t…
I don't think law, justice or even diplomacy are very relevant for most of this case. 1900 days in isolation (human rights violation), falsly accused of rape with the goal to extradite to the US, jailed outside of the US on behalf of the US (but not officially), and just the simple fact that a journalist gets jail time for exposing war crimes. Yeah, this has nothing to do with law or justice. This is about a handful…
> falsly accused of rape with the goal to extradite to the US,
Where’s the evidence that he was falsely accused?
Re: Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
#493Earlier quoted context omitted.
> At least the current Labour leader strikes me as a decent man with some actual principles and backbone and this would fundamentally be a decent thing to do. (massive sidetrack, but I can't let this sentence go unpunished) The current labour leader is the lamest duck in a group of wet blankets. His policies revolve around not being as corrupt as the Tories whilst doing virtually nothing else to better his constituen…
The question is whether his backbone will grow back once he's in power. I'm in two minds. In our house I'm of the opinion that Labour should go "Full Left" and be strong and confident about it; my wife thinks they should get in using whatever means possible (including the slightly pathetic not-very-left agenda they're currently sporting) and then hope they'll make proper changes once in. Let's see what 4th July bring…
Going 'full left' is the exact reason Labour hasn't been in power for 14 years.
You are describing the recipe for a one-term government IMO - Elections are won from the center, and moving Left will open a center gap for someone else to claim.
The last time a 'full left' Labour government ruled was probably just after the war (i.e. Clement Attlee).
Re: Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
#494Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can say "rape". It's not a dirty word.
So many people are trained nowadays to self-censor certain words so that "the algorithm" won't shadowban their comment. Thankfully, HN is one of the few websites on the modern internet to not have such censorship algorithm.
Some things have become pretty dystopian these days.
Re: Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
#495Amazing news.
#FREEDASSANGE
Re: Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
#496Can someone who has an accurate source post when Wikileaks cryptographic canary expired? I'm unable to find a source and it's important to know they shouldn't be trusted. Here's when their key expired in 2007: https://wikileaks.org/wiki/WikiLeaks_talk:PGP_Keys From another below: vikingerik A canary goes something like "This website has not received or acted on any government orders to disclose or modify or remove ma…
> This website has not received or acted on any government orders to disclose or modify or remove material. Never understood why gag orders don't just say "You can't say you received this order. Oh and by the way if we find you removed a canary, we'll just write that up as you having said you received this order". Because the point of a canary is for it to be known beforehand. So the government surely knows about any…
The typical canary contains a signed timestamp. Generally, the US does differentiate between forbidding an action (“do not remove your canary”) and compelling an action (“update your canary with a new timestamp” or “disclose the pass phrase for the signing key”).
I’m no expert, and I’m sure there are nuances, but the broad strokes behind the design of these canaries are that it’s harder for the government to compel an action than to forbid one.
Re: Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
#497Earlier quoted context omitted.
> At least the current Labour leader strikes me as a decent man with some actual principles and backbone and this would fundamentally be a decent thing to do. (massive sidetrack, but I can't let this sentence go unpunished) The current labour leader is the lamest duck in a group of wet blankets. His policies revolve around not being as corrupt as the Tories whilst doing virtually nothing else to better his constituen…
The question is whether his backbone will grow back once he's in power. I'm in two minds. In our house I'm of the opinion that Labour should go "Full Left" and be strong and confident about it; my wife thinks they should get in using whatever means possible (including the slightly pathetic not-very-left agenda they're currently sporting) and then hope they'll make proper changes once in. Let's see what 4th July bring…
> In our house I'm of the opinion that Labour should go "Full Left" and be strong and confident about it
Unfortunately the UK public doesn't seem to buy into that sort of thing. Sure, a large, vocal minority does, but enough to win an election against the hoards of basically-tory-supporting middle-englanders?
Not as far as I can see. Labour has to claim the middle ground to win, at least if it wants to win more than once. The next session is probably in the bag either way.
Re: Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
#498JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stanstead airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK. This is the result of a global campaign that spanned grass-roots organisers, press freedom campaigners, legislators…
i love just your last line.
Re: Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
#499I'm happy that he's been freed from Belmarsh because being locked up for 5 years without a conviction is madness. However, I won't cheer for Assange, the person. He's using the guise of impartial journalism to be anything but impartial. His selective disclosure of leaks, with a heavy bias towards NOT disclosing Russian caches, is pretty damning. Assange was shouting from the rooftops that WikiLeaks "doesn't have targ…
Couldn't have said it better
Re: Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
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Sweden does as the US tells.
The people downvoting your comment are ignorant on reality. It is common knowledge that Sweden has been used by the CIA as a black site. Sweden has been a satellite state to the US for a long time, just as other countries are or have been satellites of Russia. Edit: Your down votes do not change reality. More important countries than Sweden have been satellites, such as East and West Germany.
Sweden was not used as a black site.
The US promised to not torture three guys who were handed over to them, and then started torturing them, illegally at Bromma airport, but this was restricted to things that they did not regard as torture, such as drugging people, putting things into their colons, use of 'restraints', etc.
There were no black sites in Sweden. There was torture here, but only for one afternoon, on an airplane that soon left our territory.