Interview J Assange and John Humphreys, ...... awful

Radio 4 Today programme sank to a new low this morning. John Humphreys interview with Julian Assange was outrageous! It was conducted in a prurient and intrusive manner. It was aggressive and suggestive, and not in the least balanced. Why doesn't John Humphreys take on a real villain? Tony Blair for instance, who has been responsible for the deaths of thousands, and I can think of many other criminals in public life who could be given a good grilling. Good old BBC, go for the soft sensationalist target! The guy is doing us all a service by lifting up stones so we can see what's underneath. If governments had nothing to hide (that's what the powers that be are always telling us when they want to bring in more authoritarian surveillance), then why should they worry? 'They do not like it up 'em,' do they? Sarah Montague sounds more like a cackling hyaena every day, is she on drugs?

Julian almost out.......abortion nearly in, a modicum of Winter cheer!

Julian Assange is ALMOST out on bail! fingers up to Sweden. His supporters are now planning a low tech onslaught of leaflets and posters for the streets on the 18th December - 'Project Paperstorm'. Trust it will be a great success.
The European Court of Justice has set the wheels turning, and after nearly 20 years of resistance to allowing abortions in Ireland, the Catholic Church may have to change its ways. Primitive Catholic laws prevent women from having abortions even if their lives might be put in danger from not having one. These laws were put in place by men -Priests, but many women have gladly supported them, such is the high standard of brain washing in the Catholic Church! Let's hope that this EU ruling will act as the foot in the door, the thin end of the wedge. The hypocrisy of the Catholic Church is mind blowing.

Sweden, Ikea, and Julian Assange

In Johann Stenebo's newly translated book 'The Truth about Ikea' the huge Swedish furniture store Ikea is rumbled, and dragged through the mud. Some of our worst fears are realised. When something is too good to be true like Ikea it IS too good to be true. Sweden's reputation takes a double whammy this week because of the strong suspicion that they have used a trumped up charge (on behalf of others unknown?!) to take Julian Assange into custody.
Sweden, that 'wonderful land' of tall healthy blond people, the land of the Nobel peace prize, of the goodness of socialism etc, has had its almost impeccable image besmirched.
British customers were so mad about Ikea in the 1990s, so in love with their yellow bags (that you feel desperate to fill up), their yellow arrows (that control one's every move herding you around like penned sheep), that their management decided to charge Brits more for their goods than other countries, and use the extra profits to expand and build up their network of branches. More fool us.
Cheap raw materials are the key to Ikea's low prices, 'instead of using the best, they use the cheapest' says Stenebo in his book. During the year a mere 13.1% tax was paid, and their green credentials are minimal despite their exaggerated claims.
All in all this has been a bad week for Sweden, let's hope they will take some positive steps to improve their image, drop the charges against Julian Assange, and make sure Ikea cleans up its act, and we should all make a New Years resolution to be more sceptical.

Corruption rules, ok?! They don't like it up 'em!

Wikileaks prises open the stinking world of so called diplomacy. They don't like it up 'em do they? Governments rush to hide their misdemeanours, explain their lies, cover up their corruption.
We have the unedifying spectacle of an expensive triumvirate including that vacuous darling of the football pitch David Beckham, David Cameron - old enough to know better, and the overgrown schoolboy Prince Wills sucking up to the FIFA, and the less said about them the better!
Russia is, apparently, a cesspool of evil, but governments gaily go about doing their business with them. Russia was probably better off with the Tsar!
Prince Andrew, a prominent member of the Royal household has close connections with the Kazakhstan elite, and apparently criticised the serious fraud squad for mounting anti-corruption inquiries.
It is revealed that David Miliband kowtowed to and colluded with the US by allowing them to keep banned cluster bombs in its bases in Diego Garcia. Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, but he deceived parliament. His protestations of innocence will be loud and clear! We learn from Ipsa that mps are still claiming for items banned in the wake of last year's expenses crisis. They have also submitted duplicate claims, and are exploiting another loophole to profit from second homes! Students would do better to get out on the streets and demonstrate for Wikileaks and against the hideous corruption that will, in the end, engulf us all.

Julian takes on the U S of A

It takes some guts to take on an entire nation single handedly, the most powerful nation in the world!
Julian Assange, an Australian, launched his not -for - profit whistle blowing media organisation Wikileaks in 2006 to bring important information to the public. Wikileaks slogan is, "We open Governments". He has no home, he stays with friends around the world, dyes his hair, always pays by cash, lives in airports, constantly on the alert, he moves in the shadows. He has received several awards notably The International Award for exposing extra judicial assassinations in Kenya. The Americans label him an anti -American agitator of the worst kind, and suggest he endangers the lives of countless individuals. they would wouldn't they? Assange offered the White House and Pentagon an opportunity to redact material to protect innocent lives , but this was rebuffed at every stage, thus Wikileaks has chosen to pursue its own redactions. Governments are afraid. They prefer to live under a stone where they can hide their worst excesses. Comments about Putin, Merkel, Sarkozy, etc, may be embarrassing, but are to be expected, don't we all harbor variations on these thoughts? It's the larger cover ups, the corruption, the cruelty, the criminality that should be exposed, dragging this into the light is what Julian Assange and Wikileaks is all about. "You're a greater man than I am Gunga Din". Rudyard Kipling 1892.