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Julian Assange breaks silence, slams Mike Pompeo for wanting to assassinate him
From LifeSiteNews
By Stephen Kokx
The WikiLeaks founder told the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe that ‘the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and assassinate me within the Ecuadorian embassy in London and authorized going after my European colleagues.’
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is standing by his assertion that the U.S. Deep State sought to assassinate him while he was detained.
🇪🇺JULIAN ASSANGE: THE CIA TARGETED MY WIFE AND SON
"By March 2017, WikiLeaks had exposed the CIA's infiltration of French political parties; its spying on French and German leaders.
CIA director Pompeo launched a campaign of retribution.
It is now a matter of public record… https://t.co/0GB83xT1JO pic.twitter.com/CEezku6ZKI
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 1, 2024
Assange, 53, was in Strasbourg, France today making his first public appearance after being released in June from London’s high-security Belmarsh Prison, where he had been confined for five years.
Speaking to representatives of 46 countries at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the Australian journalist reiterated that Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump’s CIA director, planned on killing him.
“It is now a matter of public record that under Pompeo’s explicit direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and assassinate me within the Ecuadorian embassy in London and authorized going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks, and the planting of false information,” Assange said.
“My wife and my infant son were also targeted,” he continued. “A CIA asset was permanently assigned to track my wife, and instructions were given to obtain DNA from my 6-month-old son’s nappy. This is the testimony of more than 30 current and former U.S intelligence officials speaking to the U.S. press, which has been additionally corroborated by records seized in a prosecution brought against some of the CIA agents involved.”
After founding WikiLeaks in the mid 2000s, Assange came under intense scrutiny from Western governments after he helped expose war crimes committed in Afghanistan and Iraq. He sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in the U.K. beginning in 2012.
In total, Assange spent 14 years of his life as a political prisoner until he struck a plea deal this summer with the U.S. government, which had charged him with 18 counts of violating the Espionage Act. He says that he chose to make the deal as the likelihood he would ever receive justice was nearly impossible.
“The CIA’s targeting of myself, my family, and my associates through aggressive, extrajudicial, and extraterritorial means provides a rare insight into how powerful intelligence organizations engage in transnational repression,” Assange said Tuesday. “I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pleaded guilty to journalism.”
Reports of the CIA’s plan to take Assange out surfaced in 2021, when Yahoo News revealed that intelligence agents had stated that Pompeo had been looking into possible methods of assassinating Assange following his release of “Vault 7” in 2017, which the agency described as “the largest data loss in CIA history.”
Last year, an uncomfortable Pompeo told libertarian journalist John Stossel that it “would have been illegal” for him to draw up plans to kill Assange, who he said is simply “trying to save his tuchus.”
In November 2023, Tucker Carlson announced on X that he had visited Assange at Belmarsh. A photo he posted to the platform showed Carlson walking with Assange’s wife Stella, who was at the event in Strasbourg today.
Visiting Julian Assange at Belmarsh Prison this morning pic.twitter.com/5XR51QTZgy
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 2, 2023
Among other notable moments in WikiLeaks history is its releasing of emails from high-ranking American political actors, including longtime Clinton associate John Podesta. Podesta’s bizarrely worded emails about “President Obama,” “hot dogs,” and “cheese pizza” are believed by some to be coded messages about Washington elites engaging in pedophilia and human trafficking. Other Podesta emails indicate he had an extensive plan to liberalize core teachings of the Catholic Church under the auspices of a “Catholic Spring.”
In August 2016, Assange implied that one of his sources was slain Democratic Party staffer Seth Rich, who was found dead on the streets of Washington, D.C. in 2016 at 4:20 a.m. after being shot in the back. Some contend that the 27-year-old Rich, who was a Bernie Sanders supporter, was murdered for leaking emails about how the party rigged the presidential primary in favor of Hillary Clinton. Rich’s family – perhaps under pressure from clandestine forces to remain quiet – have stated that such accusations are untrue.
Assange and his supporters have repeatedly maintained he has done nothing wrong, stating that he is a journalist and that the public has a right to know what their corrupt leaders are doing. Governments have maintained that the data he published is top secret and that his actions did and does endanger lives.
Censorship Industrial Complex
John Kerry tells WEF panel that First Amendment is ‘major block’ to pushing leftist climate agenda
From LifeSiteNews
By Stephen Kokx
John Kerry complained to a World Economic Forum meeting that the First Amendment ‘stands as a major block’ that prevents the government from being able to ‘hammer’ disfavored opinions ‘out of existence.’
Former Biden climate czar John Kerry told a World Economic Forum meeting this week that free speech is an obstacle to forcing green ideology onto the world’s population.
Kerry, 80, was speaking about energy on Wednesday when he expressed a desire to “curb” the flow of information about environmentalism in order to “have some accountability” for persons he believes are not promoting the facts.
“If people only go to one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda, and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence,” Kerry said.
Kerry has been one of the loudest voices in the Western world to push the green agenda in recent years. During his many public appearances, he has promoted the “Great Reset,” advocated for people receiving the experimental COVID-19 shot, warned about the so-called dangers of overpopulation, and has claimed that 15 million people are dying every year because of greenhouse gas emissions.
In further disturbing comments on Wednesday, Kerry lamented that there is not a centralized authority that can determine truth from fiction.
“Democracies around the world now are struggling with the absence of a sort of truth arbiter, and there’s no one who defines what facts really are,” he said. “So what we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern, by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change.”
Kerry provided additional remarks about this year’s presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
“I think democracies are very challenged right now and have not proven they can move fast enough of big enough to deal with the challenges they are facing, and to me, that is part of what this election is all about. Will we break the fever in the United States?”
Kerry has been widely criticized on social media by an array of public figures for his comments, which betray an autocratic mindset.
Kerry is “correct” in that the First Amendment “does stand as a major roadblock to them right now,” former presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. noted.
John Kerry is correct. The 1st Amendment DOES stand as a major roadblock to them right now. https://t.co/1QJX2fbw3B
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) September 30, 2024
“John Kerry is saying he wants to violate the Constitution,” X owner Elon Musk recalled.
John Kerry is saying he wants to violate the Constitution https://t.co/im1BJNlfNI
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 30, 2024
“John Kerry says the quiet part out loud,” Townhall columnist Phil Holloway observed. “The [First Amendment] and the entire Bill of Rights was designed as a ‘roadblock’ against a tyrannical government. It’s a feature, not a bug.”
Kerry was succeeded in his role as special presidential envoy for climate by former Clinton adviser John Podesta in March 2024. He was previously a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts and secretary of state under Barack Obama. During his lengthy career in public life, Kerry has worked to expand pro-abortion and pro-LGBT policies in opposition to his self-professed Catholic faith.
conflict
Iran Fires Roughly 100 Missiles At Israel As Middle East Reaches Boiling Point
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By Jake Smith
Iran fired ballistic missiles into Israel on Tuesday, according to multiple reports.
At least 100 missiles were fired in what is likely the first wave of the attack; the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had been expecting a significant strike from Iran, according to Reuters and Axios’ Barak Ravid. Iran has vowed for months to retaliate against Israel for multiple assassinations against the country’s terror proxy leaders, including Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
This is bad — multiple huge ballistic missile impacts around #TelAviv tonight. #Israel will respond hard, that seems inevitable.
Far more than was seen in April. pic.twitter.com/ULopkh0Dhu
— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) October 1, 2024
More crazy footage from Israel amid a massive missile attack from Iran pic.twitter.com/CmyThV7ERb
— Faytuks News (@Faytuks) October 1, 2024
“All Israeli civilians are in bomb shelters as rockets from Iran are fired at Israel,” the IDF said in statements on Tuesday. “Approx. 10 million civilians are the targets of Iranian projectiles.”
Footage from Israel as Iranian ballistic missiles fly overheard pic.twitter.com/3icXBfk387
— Faytuks News (@Faytuks) October 1, 2024
Reported footage showing the launch of multiple ballistic missiles from Iran earlier this evening. pic.twitter.com/YszCVIXRBq
— Aurora Intel (@AuroraIntel) October 1, 2024
Another wave of attacks is expected, and Israel and other surrounding Arab states have shut down their airspace, according to multiple reports. The Israeli security cabinet is convening for an emergency meeting in a bunker near Jerusalem, Israeli officials told Ravid.
WATCH: More footage from the Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel.pic.twitter.com/9jHaxIGZSZ
— AZ Intel (@AZ_Intel_) October 1, 2024
Multiple air raid alerts went off throughout Israel at the time of the attack, according to reports. Hezbollah had earlier in the day been firing scores of rockets at Israel. Israel typically intercepts drone and missile attacks through its Iron Dome air defense system, but it wasn’t immediately clear if any Iranian missiles were able to evade interception.
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