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NOVANEWS December 8, 2010 by Gordon Duff    I PITY THE FOOL...DUPED BY WIKILEAKS AND ISRAEL ASSANGE ACCUSED:  “TOOK MONEY FROM ISRAEL”   Reports have come in today, tying Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, directly to Israeli intelligence and “Israel friendly” media outlets.  We are told Assange, while at a Geneva meeting, agreed to allow Israel to select or censor all Wikileak output. Despite the dramatic arrest of Julian Assange for rape, a story long hyped by the media, Assange “the martyr” now appears to be Assange “the Israeli spy.”  Reports from inside Wikileaks differ greatly from the image presented by the press, an Assange tied to ultra-nationalist Israeli groups, an Assange with an extremist agenda, an Assange who sees himself as a geopolitical player, willing to censor, willi...

NOVANEWS December 7, 2010 by Gordon Duff TIMING OF THE “YO-YO” RAPE CHARGES SUSPECT   Julian Assange, of Wikileaks fame, was arrested today in Britain.  He faces extradition to Sweden for charges of sexual assault.  Assange has indicated he will fight extradition. On a more curious and conspiratorial note, the Assange arrest is in the middle of the “news cycle downswing” of the Wikileak which has divided the journalist community.  The third “dump” has received considerable attention for what was not “dumped,” and brought even more light on earlier Wikileaks which have now become suspect.  Journalists either love Assange or believe he is a spy, part of a “psy-op” that is manipulating the press, partially through the convenient timing, not just of this arrest but earlier threats as well. ...

NOVANEWS Make sure Avaaz alerts reach your inbox: click "Add to Contacts" to add avaaz@avaaz.org to your address book, and click the "Not Spam" button if you found this email in your spam folder. If you prefer to leave the Avaaz list, just click here to unsubscribe. Incredible - nearly 400,000 signatures in one day for press freedom! Join the massive outcry and forward the email below - Dear friends,  The chilling intimidation campaign against WikiLeaks (when they have broken no laws) is an attack on freedom of the press and democracy. We urgently need a massive public outcry to stop the crackdown -- let's get to 1 million voices and take out full page ads in US newspapers this week!  The massive campaign of intimidation against WikiLeaks is sending a chill through free press a...

NOVANEWS    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-cables-trident-nuclear-us WikiLeaks cables:   Top civil servants are quoted as telling Washington that UK would renew nuclear deterrent, contradicting Gordon Brown www.guardian.co.uk   8 December 2010             Two senior Whitehall officials assured US diplomats that the renewal of Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent would go ahead, apparently contradicting then prime minister Gordon Brown's public statements proposing some disarmament by the UK, according to leaked US embassy cables. The London embassy sent a secret cable back to Washington last autumn reporting conversations with the two civil servants, Richard Freer and Judith Gough, in which they cast doubt on the significance of Brown's announcement at the UN general as...

NOVANEWS Don’t Visit WikiLeaks Website if You Want a Government Job December 7, 2010 by Dr. Ashraf Ezzat  The Public has the Right to Know What’s Going On…   “Saudi Arabia is funding terrorism …China blocking Google…Pakistan is backing up Taliban …The American military is keeping Saddam’s legacy of brutality alive in Iraq”…. ….  This is some of the tidal wave of secret documents unleashed by the whistleblower site WikiLeaks … they even got Sarah Palin`s email account content.  Julian Assange, the founder of the website and the man responsible for all the disclosures is now hiding in undisclosed location in England awaiting an arrest warrant. Although WikiLeaks has managed to hit the mainstream, still, something remains odd about it, something doesn’t feel right.  I personally believe tha...

NOVANEWS December 7, 2010 by Michael Leon   It’s common knowledge just about everyone has an angle or tool in the Wikileaks exercise, but the manipulation by the usual players—with two casualties being Julian Assange and the truth—is taking off as Assange’s arrest is portrayed as though Assange is “Osama bin Laden or something” by the American media.   Militaristic Israel-firsters find numerous ways to lie. By Glenn Greenwald in Salon 1) In The New Republic today, Todd Gitlin writes an entire anti-WikiLeaks column that is based on an absolute factual falsehood.  Anyone listening to most media accounts would believe that WikiLeaks has indiscriminately published all 250,000 of the diplomatic cables it possesses, and Gitlin — in the course of denouncing Julian Assange — bolsters this false...

NOVANEWS December 7, 2010 by Paul J. Balles   That Afghanistan is Corrupt is NOT News. Just How Corrupt is News!   Paul Balles According to a report by Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti and Dexter Filkins of the New York Times, WikiLeaks exposes how, “From hundreds of diplomatic cables, Afghanistan emerges as a looking-glass land where bribery, extortion and embezzlement are the norm and the honest man is a distinct outlier.” The New York Times report reveals how “…the collection of confidential diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to a number of publications, offers a fresh sense of its pervasive nature, its overwhelming scale and the dispiriting challenge it poses to American officials who have made shoring up support for the Afghan government a cornerstone of America’s...

NOVANEWS December 6, 2010 by Gordon Duff  MORE RIGHT THAN EVEN THEY KNEW   Forever, Israel told us that the Arab nations couldn’t be trusted, that they were ruled by duplicitous back stabbers.  Now, Wikileaks has proven that right beyond question.  It turns out, the Arab world, all those nations that we thought were preparing to attack Israel, you know, the ones whose tanks were getting ready to close in on Tel Aviv, were actually on Israel’s side.  Wikileaks tells us that, since 1979, the countries the US has given Israel more than a hundred billion dollars to protect themselves from where actually working with Israel all along. Boy, that must be egg on America’s face. Not only that, Israel had been telling us all along that these countries were petty dictatorships, run by liars and foo...

NOVANEWS 8 December 2010   CWP Update: New Report “All-Out War: Israel Against Democracy”    1. Comprehensive Report on Intensifying Political Persecution in Israel     CWP published a new report today, titled “All-Out War: Israel Against Democracy.” This comprehensive report documents the increasing political persecution of peace and human rights organizations and activists, and describes the connections between the assaults led by Israeli government officials, security forces, courts, journalists, and extreme-right organizations in this well-orchestrated offensive on democracy.     The report was published in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and English.     To download the full report (in English):     http://coalitionofwomen.org/home/english/articles/Political_Persecution_Report/AllOutWar-int...

NOVANEWS modernityblog    07/12/2010     Tags: Barbra Streisand effect, Censorship, Charges, Diplomatic Papers, Internet Censorship,Julian Assange, Obama administration, Wikileaks | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/p4XPG-2yh   A reader of mine has suggested that I am trivialising the rape charges against Julian Assange. So I wanted to deal with this issue head-on. I am not trivialising those charges, rather I am aware of how governments and secret services act, and unless we see these unfolding events in a wider context then I am afraid we will get lost. Firstly, we need to remember that governments have for many centuries used indirect means to get at their enemies. Secondly, Assange has seriously annoyed some very powerful people and it is highly likely that t...