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The story of press ethics, however, runs deeper, begets indictments against adversarial outlets across the opinion spectrum, incriminating the whole industry: publishers are not interested in public interest value but the vacuous flux of the \"newsworthy.\" Since income streams from ad revenue dwarves budgets managed publically it is the vested interests of corporate benefactors that triumphs in the boardrooms, op-eds, opinion, features and news. A disgrace for a fourth estate founded as a check and balance against corruption and no doubt a source of global shame.\n   \nThe barons of spin are experiencing unprecedented power of persuasion. Internet echo chambers which serve a tension between empowering lively exchange of diverse ideas and reinforcing dogma are serviceable for the self promotion of elite propaganda. For example the liberal Guardian and radical Intercept too frequently abscond from dispassionate appraisals of public interest stories and spoon feed ideological sermons, joining their tabloid adversaries in giving the megaphone to ideology over ideas incorruptible by agendas. The fourth estate idea against institutional corruption caught on in part because it prevented the powerful from abusing the public in impunity which is, now, systemic in the media itself, simultaneously a setter of hidden agendas alloyed to wealthy interests.\n  \n This scandal runs deeper. It asks fundamental questions firstly of the purpose of the media as a functionary of free speech and constitutional integrity, but also about the validity of defunct news institutions. Are they hand in hand with power, doing more harm than good? Are they corrupt? Are they hurting a lively exchange of diverse ideas? 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Mueller's disclosures have only partly indicted Russia. Thirteen alleged agents are a symptom of Russia's powerlessness: Western news, its management, its dissemination, its hidden hand, is deliberately, or under duress, inflating the threat of Facebook advertisements published only after the election.\n  \n  Far away from the op-ed in a radical corner of the Internet is a website marking the spot where a cryptographer and team of researchers communed to found Wikileaks. Their aim was to empower, protect whistleblowers shining a bright light on corruption caused largely by deregulated neoliberal governance exported globally through hyper interventionist military adventurism, the playtime of venture capital. After Iraq, through Libya, Syria, Wikileaks flooded the data commons with robust documentary evidence from the epicentres of global injustice. Along with Snowden, Manning, Ellsberg and a legion of socially conscientious citizens Wikileaks never doubted that sabotage is solidarity where telling the truth is treason.\n   \nYet along the way from the Glasnost moment when they arrested international attention, attitudes changed. After the chase for Assange was enacted and long after Sweden dropped its charges outlets in both the liberal and radical media had to revise their belief that his organisation could prevent abuse and malpractice in states under the totalitarian spell. The left expanded its personal fallacious attacks more comprehensively than the right; The Guardian content to speculate about about personal hygiene. Ironically its pledge \"Facts are free/sacred\" was bastardised in an endgame to write the obituary the CIA always wanted.\n  \n \"The (CIA) mission was to destroy the \"trust\" that was Wikileaks' \"centre of gravity\" with threats of \"exposure [and] criminal prosecution\" says veteran dissident John Pilger, who has served speaking truth to power in dozens of conflict zones. The Iraq War of 2003, waged by US-UK led NATO forces, between them, Sadaam's Baathist regime, and insurgent separatists triggered bloodshed from a moral abyss. Evidence of US forces opening fire in a premeditated attack on innocent, unarmed, peaceable journalists in a leaked video was a turning point not only for Pilger and Assange but the whole international community. It was televised warfare only unredacted, and seemed to start a new era of dissent: 20 years after the Samizdat press was successful, a new mood for Glasnost from inside the American empire swept across the world.\n  \n \"Wikileaks has exposed the way America dominates much of human affairs, including its epic crimes\" says Pilger. By the time the \"wholesale\" murder of civilians became public, Assange was a senior threat to the war cartel. Their operations were riskier, no longer securely secret. So they turned their siege on him. Rape, so often a weapon of war, was cynically and reprehensibly weaponised as propaganda. And when the UN motioned his persecution illegal and of high humanitarian concern much of the media joined the UK state in disregarding its expertise, judgement and auditing role, a common trait of states that abuse human rights. His crime was to rehabilitate the media's role of telling the truth. 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The story of press ethics, however, runs deeper, begets indictments against adversarial outlets across the opinion spectrum, incriminating the whole industry: publishers are not interested in public interest value but the vacuous flux of the \"newsworthy.\" Since income streams from ad revenue dwarves budgets managed publically it is the vested interests of corporate benefactors that triumphs in the boardrooms, op-eds, opinion, features and news. A disgrace for a fourth estate founded as a check and balance against corruption and no doubt a source of global shame.\n   The barons of spin are experiencing unprecedented power of persuasion. Internet echo chambers which serve a tension between empowering lively exchange of diverse ideas and reinforcing dogma are serviceable for the self promotion of elite propaganda. For example the liberal Guardian and radical Intercept too frequently abscond from dispassionate appraisals of public interest stories and spoon feed ideological sermons, joining their tabloid adversaries in giving the megaphone to ideology over ideas incorruptible by agendas. The fourth estate idea against institutional corruption caught on in part because it prevented the powerful from abusing the public in impunity which is, now, systemic in the media itself, simultaneously a setter of hidden agendas alloyed to wealthy interests.\n   This scandal runs deeper. It asks fundamental questions firstly of the purpose of the media as a functionary of free speech and constitutional integrity, but also about the validity of defunct news institutions. Are they hand in hand with power, doing more harm than good? Are they corrupt? Are they hurting a lively exchange of diverse ideas? There are plenty of independent minded commentators like John Pilger who argue that corrupt power and its propaganda is enhanced by large amounts of obscure capital flowing in to authoritarian boardrooms. Concurrently, dependence on corporations for their existence reduces their effectiveness speaking truth to power of a corporate state, in the interests of citizens. \n   That is precisely what happened after the post-2016 election Russiagate scandal. The rumours flew in and took over the discourse, with vague conspiracies bypassing critique of the real collusion between the CIA and Russian agents, atop the intervention of UK spies in foreign elections. The Russia conspiracy industry created a vacuum that led to a diversion from the truth shadow fronts operate globally and not on simple national polarities, abusing and undermining the public's intelligence. They were there to save us from Russian malpractice, they told us, while they guilty of gross misspeaking. Mueller's disclosures have only partly indicted Russia. Thirteen alleged agents are a symptom of Russia's powerlessness: Western news, its management, its dissemination, its hidden hand, is deliberately, or under duress, inflating the threat of Facebook advertisements published only after the election.\n    Far away from the op-ed in a radical corner of the Internet is a website marking the spot where a cryptographer and team of researchers communed to found Wikileaks. Their aim was to empower, protect whistleblowers shining a bright light on corruption caused largely by deregulated neoliberal governance exported globally through hyper interventionist military adventurism, the playtime of venture capital. After Iraq, through Libya, Syria, Wikileaks flooded the data commons with robust documentary evidence from the epicentres of global injustice. Along with Snowden, Manning, Ellsberg and a legion of socially conscientious citizens Wikileaks never doubted the sabotage is solidarity where telling the truth is treason.\n   Yet along the way from the Glasnost moment when they arrested international attention, attitudes changed. After the chase for Assange was enacted and long after Sweden dropped its charges outlets in both the liberal and radical media had to revise their belief that his organisation could prevent abuse and malpractice in states under the totalitarian spell. The left expanded its personal fallacious attacks more comprehensively than the right; The Guardian content to speculate about about personal hygiene. Ironically its pledge \"Facts are free/sacred\" was bastardised in an endgame to write the obituary the CIA always wanted.\n   \"The (CIA) mission was to destroy the \"trust\" that was Wikileaks' \"centre of gravity\" with threats of \"exposure [and] criminal prosecution\" says veteran dissident John Pilger, who has served speaking truth to power in dozens of conflict zones. The Iraq War of 2003, waged by US-UK led NATO forces, between them, Sadaam's Baathist regime, and insurgent separatists triggered bloodshed from a moral abyss. Evidence of US forces opening fire in a premeditated attack on innocent, unarmed, peaceable journalists in a leaked video was a turning point not only for Pilger and Assange but the whole international community. It was televised warfare only unredacted, and seemed to start a new era of dissent: 20 years after the Samizdat press was successful, a new mood for Glasnost from inside the American empire swept across the world.\n   \"Wikileaks has exposed the way America dominates much of human affairs, including its epic crimes\" says Pilger. By the time the \"wholesale\" murder of civilians became public, Assange was a senior threat to the war cartel. Their operations were riskier, no longer securely secret. So they turned their siege on him. Rape, so often a weapon of war, was cynically and reprehensibly weaponised as propaganda. And when the UN motioned his persecution illegal and of high humanitarian concern much of the media joined the UK state in disregarding its expertise, judgement and auditing role, a common trait of states that abuse human rights. His crime was to rehabilitate the media's role of telling the truth. He uncovered the effacement of democracy and human rights at western hands in cahoots with murderous cartels and guerillas. When he submitted his evidence to the media, he was fired.\n   Political lying is the world's worst kept secret. Since Orwell standards have not improved. The scale of abuse has only worsened. Citizen journalism is present with the overwhelming task of undercutting old privilege network discourses, but with technology in our hands, we can confine them to, back then in to their castles, and release truth from the trebuchet. Where media fails its duty to report responsibly, we must write and research for ourselves.",
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      "body": "Introduction:\n\nThe world is not noisy, but cacophonous with human voices, given a megaphone by revolutions in media. The significance of this development is yet not realised by most the public. A phenomenal power has been, throughout history, cloaked by the guardians of ideas wont to turn our volume down. The freedom press, society's greatest engine of revolution, has yet thrived in every era and on every continent uniting the conscious, wilful sensibilities of freedom; we hold it in heart like our ancestors. The freedom press is an offensive against the machine.\n\nThese junctures in history, where by invention or ingeniuity people have proclaimed ownership of print and ideas, at first come about silent in the underground, because if power knew about them it could easily, effortlessly, brutally repress them, so free speech pioneers hide as conformists till at least they reach critical mass enough to displace control. Left free to realise its own telos, the discursive demos will transform global society in to a radical information utopia, but the potential is stunted by the skilled struggle of power to suppress it. In all truth, the Internet, that liberator of humanity's best and worst, may have brought us to the climax of this dialectical struggle between the imperative demands of powerful morality and the people's parapet.\n\nFor many writers who have considered it the Internet is a glorious panacea, because it decidedly confers control to the public, being too ubiquitous to be isolated and dominated by a single government, and, its architecture seamless as a human heart, it envelops a global zone of communication, containing the DNA of a free state. This is not necessarily wrong in some conditions, but an idealised view because of the perspective of American hegemony. No online communication survives its grasp. The underbelly of public control is the shadow issue of private property. Internet data is easily isolated and stored permanently by deregulated government intelligence agencies. By instituting a vast global architecture of data retention, unconstitutional and deregulated, our lives on the web become the property of Google and, by proxy, government.\n\nSince the inception of the web government has had ever more conflicts with every powerful sabouteur it can identify. They (sabs) know the mind of the new digital fascism better than itself, because they have mined it, and fought it. They know it from a scientific perspective because they are often well versed in the theory and practice of radical encryption. They know it from the vantage point of an insurgency, because they are socially conscientious fighters seeing a better world spin in to view with every hack and every leak. The mind of the new digital fascism is a viral contagion thriving off the decomposing body politic of post-democratic statecraft, which aims to merge society with technological control. The tyranny has trundled past a sleeping congress out in to the day, gathering steam, infecting every society with an Internet infrastructure.\n\nIn a bygone, mythicised golden era that stood astride religious tradition and rhetorical revolution, publishers, the makers of ideas and citizens of an international community of scholarship unite by its Latin dialect - dangerously - discussed the future of their world.\n\nThe radical among them saw that all that was thought was all that was taught, and because all that was taught was taught by the Catholic Church such a society would continue in steady equilibrium, unless there were an invention to give people power to define ideas themselves, exchange them easily, and persuade instead of coerce.\n\nThey realised that the monopoly of religion over print media in the empire created no openings for meaningful control of what is thought.\n\nRemember ideas are a narrative on reality in which power flows. Differences between ideas wrestle for currency, conjuring a surface illusion of a spectrum of choice, but the ultimate form of ideas are ariatocratic archetypes enforced on the public consciousness through overt, covert, latent, patent, implicit or explicit violence.\n\nMostly we sleep ignorant in an illusion of free will, because a mind unstretched by dimensions beyond the matrix cannot go anywhere else. Like Cubs raised in a zoo we cannot contemplate anything beyond the confines of our domestication.\n\nIn the language of ideas what would mediate freedom?\n\nDespite the fatalistic tone I have adopted it makes sense to ask this because language, the code of ideas, is changed, given life by the imagination of individuals. In this conquered, mapped reality, this dark stone castle upon a cliff, could there be cause for freedom? A freedom that could tear down the turrets, rescue prisoners in the basement, bring the people together, and invade the court of the King?\n\nThe pure, dreamy quality of incorruptible ideas is dignified by their compulsion to, in the end, break free from chains. Their foundations are hopes and aspirations tying individuals to bespoke dreams of the future, observations and perceptions of the world which is ever spinning in our minds, loves and devotions to which we abide. As the 70's poet and balladeer captured the idea that he did not dream alone, Imagined the communist manifesto - a heresy - in America, so too can the masses dream in solidarity for a realm in which they're free to think.\n\nThe old world of rule and rite by rote, far removed from the action of its underbelly, undulating with subversion, was drifting in to a setting sun. Whilst power and its friends perpetrated grave violence to control a nascent new world,  acquiring patents, establishing biased methodologies, and inventing intellectual property law, it failed. The church, like a cat too old for the chase, would soon learn it may have been outsmarted by the same mouse that beat the elephant at chess. It could not prevent independence in publishing, despite stealing and breaking the Gutenberg machines. The church - much like terrorists today - ultimately displayed their fall from power in a spectacle of violence designed to intimidate people in to thinking they were still in control. It would go on to enact a gruesome inquisition against scientific beneficiaries of the printing press, who were a selfless collective, persecuting the eccentric to keep the balance of power in service of their staid orthodoxies. Yet the riot of ideas would reflect that awful experience back in to society, to talk louder, more boldly, with less care than before.\n\nWe woke up. We saw a cleft path leading to a sublime destiny in freedom heaven dare not forfend, and to total domination. A sublime destiny that with courage and obligation to treating people as ends not means we could rouse to wake. A tapestry of time where the conquerors are finally vanquished and freedom spills. \n\nTime is the trajectory of liberation.\n\nIt is harder to suppress an exponentially and erratically booming critical mass of gradually waking minds than to keep them repressed forever.\n\nRevolutionaries believed in, saw they could use, this motion of freedom to create a better society. To take momentum off the elites in their incessant quest for control. To fortify a set of values for a new civic order based on common liberty degraded by duplicitous trials and torture. To create a new future in which those who seek to roll back the cause of humanity follow a path in to the setting sun, the twilight of their power, because to follow that path is to live in true darkness.\n\nIt's a myth the exemplars of independence were four solitary American prophets. Scientists, writers, workers, politicians from across the spectrum, the world around, bore aloft the beacon of independence. The anarchy of revolution does not permit for idols. Independence was a forgone conclusion only because the zeitgeist had currency in the hearts of the people. Perhaps independence was not in the divine plan after all, but a footnote to the chaos of history. Yet the trajectory of time fortifies liberty's cause. Its phenomenon has intensified in response to the degradations of modern society and galvanised ever inspiring humanitarian agendas to lift us from that condition.\n\nIndependence from authority is the maximum dignification of humanity.\n\nWhile treacherous tyranny enacts its purges upon isolated, and then millions, of people, a shared valuation of independence means that power, even in its spectacles of control, cannot dictate the way individuals relate to their world.\n\nStaunch defense of independence is a formidable countervailing wind against the dogmas of orthodoxy. No dogma, moral excoriation or threat of violence can kill the thrill of having read a freedom pamphlet.\n\nAs globalisation and communications make societies in to a grid which determine thought and behaviour and induce a state of docile passivity and the future is once again tipped in favour of those who own the technics of religion, the web, we must become fluent in its mysteries and use our knowledge to ensure we relate freely when communicating through it.\n\nIf we do not, the civilisational telephone will be hijacked by big brother.\n\nWhere truth is treason, sabotage is solidarity. We must riot illustrious.",
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      "body": "The latest twist in his longstanding, ongoing litigation is a duplicitous knot for Julian Assange, after his legitimate grievances, worthy of being heard in court with the fullness of time for facts to mature were swiftly debunked by a feat of rancid rhetorics.\n\nBehind the scenes, the universe may be conspiring to help Julian, and the shadowy forces feared to be behind the scenes by his contingent of supporters are not as sharp, haven't got the shop shut up so well as they affect. Much like terrorists their wanton force, violence, coercion is a signal they are drifting in to a setting sun with spectacles of violence to try and scare us in to thinking they're still at the helm. \n\nTo my mind the brilliant comedy of Arbuthnot's scandal is how she sews seeds of her own rebuttal, not because I am vindictive but because court has been vindictive to justice and it is rewarding to see them fail to carry their authority on logic. What could the error be? I might be to do with a fallacy in a context specific scenario.\n\n1)Claims about sunlight and health based on counterfactual indicators I.e. \"Health could be worse\"\n2)Counterfactual indicators are being discouraged for use in habeus corpus cases\n\nIn the last two terms the Supreme Court has made reasonable adjustments to accommodate for the inviolate nature of human rights, making a normative judgement they ought not to be violated by any reframing of fact or event that trivialises the liberties enshrined in habeus corpus statute. \n\nIf we are in cahoots with the US we might as well start doing it properly.",
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      "body": "Introduction:\n\nThe world is not noisy, but cacophonous with human voices, given a megaphone by revolutions in media. The significance of this development is yet not realised by most the public. A phenomenal power has been, throughout history, cloaked by the guardians of ideas wont to turn our volume down. The freedom press, society's greatest engine of revolution, has yet thrived in every era and on every continent uniting the conscious, wilful sensibilities of freedom; we hold it in heart like our ancestors. The freedom press is an offensive against the machine.\n\nThese junctures in history, where by invention or ingeniuity people have proclaimed ownership of print and ideas, at first come about silent in the underground, because if power knew about them it could easily, effortlessly brutally repress them, so free speech pioneers hide a conformists till at least they reach critical mass enough to displace control. Left free to realise its own telos, the discursive demos will transform global society in to a radical information utopia, but which is stunted by the skilled struggle by power to suppress it. In all truth, the Internet, that liberator of humanity's best and worst, may have brought us to the climax of this dialectical struggle between the imperative demands of powerful morality and the people's parapet.\n\nTBC",
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They worked together towards laying the foundations of a qualitatively different and unique society, one which transvaluated - transformed the values of - the corrupt civic order they lived in.\n\nThe counterculture, and the tide of protest movements which succeeded it, were passionately abloom with a protest against imperialism, a movement to: transcend its conditions of alienation which cuts to the roots of its existence, which argued vehemently against its henchmen in the third world, and despised, mocked its culture, its morality of nihilism and wastefulness.\n\nBy this point it had become clear to protestors that the growth and success of the imperial state was an expression of a project at the centre of which is the experience, transformation and organisation of life and people as the mere subjects of domination. Civilisation entrenched tyranny, subjugation, exploitation and alienation of the masses and nature. 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Whilst the historical trend had been towards the continuation of war and aggression as a policy of the dominant powers on the world stage, Julian nevertheless remains committed to the project of global peace and peaceful enlightenment, in which he sees the potential to manifest a rational and moral utopia banished of social ills and wants such as war, pollution and greed.\n\nHe believes in this project presumably because the conquest of the war machine over the natural instincts of love and peace - symbolised most negatively by the atomic bomb - and the exponential development of the productive forces of the war machine in the advanced industrial states signified to him that the utopian designation for revolutionary ideas had ceased to be an operative truth, because the means really existed to rationally and creatively plan society in such a way as to create solidarity, abundance, happiness, and peace.\n\nIf that social vision is to be dismissed as utopian, then realism can be called into disrepute. 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Julian's message implicitly implored people to think about the terrifying truth of the world we currently live in by imagining one that was better.\n\nThe lively life of Assange places him as the crux of an opposition of youth and intellectuals and persecuted minorities against a corrupt authoritarian statist autocracy which engages in military warfare against its own citizens, insofar as it coldly perceived how powerfully they could subvert the continuum of repression perpetuated by the hegemonic and hawkish military-industrial complex.\n\nWhat makes Assange and his disciples so dangerous to the status quo was the way they acted beyond the continuum of repression, conscientious about liberating themselves from its demanding repressive imperatives, those of a society which they could see was constrained by a carefully managed ideological conformism. \n\nHis anger at social injustice and organised repression developed to focus on the ways in which war-makers and the political classes were tightening control of their societies not only through the rule of the iron fist, but also through new technologies like the web, the new religion, which integrated the working classes into regulated modes of thought and behaviour.\n\nMoreover, the doom cloud of the new Cold War looms large in our minds, the battle being, like in the mind of the sixties militants, as two systems equal in degrees of totalitarianism, transcending the Cold War demonology which cast communism as the oppressor against the liberal democratic state. \n\nWe see that, save for the nascent counterculture movement, liberal democracies are static societies in which there was a dearth of opposition to the status quo, in which people were integrated in to regulated systems of thought and behaviour.\n\nJulian aims to surprise and stimulate, and his existence helps give inspiration and joy to the parties and groupings that constituted the international solidarity movement, making stone hearts beat and bleed and people united. 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      "body": "February 11, 2018:\nDemocracy and sovereignty depend on us having sufficient time to mature facts on trial of @JulianAssange who revealed his custody case in active litigation via appeal to quash UK arrest warrant. Judicious verdict presupposes time, full info and its transparency to defense.\n\nNo stronger reason than need for discursive deliberation around issue of waiver of an arrest warrant whose mandate was recently nullified in themain jurisdiction which enacted the chase. A reason of high humanitarian concern, raising tension ‘twixt statutory rights to life and free movement/empire.\n\nIf you’d like permanent freedom, consistent application of statutory right to liberty (@libertyhq) vital. Quite possible a court might hold that @JulianAssange never needed an arrest warrant and that there is a barrier to his right to life and free movement by unconstitutional actors.\n\nInteresting issue is the secrecy of information as pertains to case prevents accumulation of evidence that may prove @JulianAssange innocent & stacking odds for a guilty verdict. Courts are for empowering facts. My theory lacks research, but it is informed by critical perspective.\n\nA court ruling on @JulianAssange would also do well to acknowledge the evaluation of @ecuador that he is eligible for diplomatic immunity enjoyed by persons outstanding in global citizenship and diplomacy. \n \n Because of exceptional ability in computing, cryptogram and publishing his freedom will no doubt substantially culturally benefit the United Kingdom and societies the world around. For @Number10gov to deny exceptional diplomatic ability would be prostration of legislature to DOJ. \n \n Denial of waiver is contrary to main purposes of custody statute, to empower an innocent suspect’s reunion with society as quick and smooth as possible and defend the impartiality of judiciary from political interference.",
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