I was trumped by BBC's 'This week' show a day ago.You know how the righteous world has just taken a kick at China,
while still doing business with them
and using their ships, and their 'rare earth'?
Ya, the hypocritical world. You know that one, right?
Well, I thought of the best comeback for China,
but they published their riposte before I got the chance.
See below.
[the prize-winning chair]
I was thinking that for everywhile still doing business with them
and using their ships, and their 'rare earth'?
Ya, the hypocritical world. You know that one, right?
Well, I thought of the best comeback for China,
but they published their riposte before I got the chance.
See below.
[the prize-winning chair]empty chair that wins a Nobel
( i.e. Liu Xiaobo)
there’s a Guantanamo cage
(i.e. Julian Assange).
( i.e. Liu Xiaobo)
there’s a Guantanamo cage
(i.e. Julian Assange).
Since the US UK and Sweden are trying to shut Assange in,
Russia and China had already made a go of equating them, officially.
They made an application in Oslo.
I can just picture the tearful speech next year
in a Nordic accent:
"Assange has opened a new chapter in openness.
With this kind of openness, the West loses.
Quoting Consort Camilla 'there's a first time for everything'
He's shown the little guy that all you need
in order to tell the Man to shove it...
(sobbing) is a computer and a soul, and
a love of Guantanamo jail food.
(Waaaaaahh)
He's gonna get a strict regime of waterboarding
for all his treasonous behaviour
because Mr Murdoch said so."
[the king of tearful speech- Glenn Adolfus Beck]
Russia and China had already made a go of equating them, officially.
They made an application in Oslo.
I can just picture the tearful speech next year
in a Nordic accent:
"Assange has opened a new chapter in openness.
With this kind of openness, the West loses.
Quoting Consort Camilla 'there's a first time for everything'
He's shown the little guy that all you need
in order to tell the Man to shove it...
(sobbing) is a computer and a soul, and
a love of Guantanamo jail food.
(Waaaaaahh)
He's gonna get a strict regime of waterboarding
for all his treasonous behaviour
because Mr Murdoch said so."
[the king of tearful speech- Glenn Adolfus Beck]
[they seem to have the upper hand, these days]I'm no fan of China's government because it's teaching the world how to run a capitalist system with no freedoms, 24-hour surveillance and firing squads.
I just love a good super-power fight, and I especially enjoy piercing the West's holier-than-thou view of the world, within which only their sh*t doesn't stink.
-Costick67 ~(8^P
checkitout:
2 stories: China and Russia on Assange & Assange and Guantanamo
1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/09/julian-assange-nobel-peace-prize
Julian Assange should be awarded Nobel peace prize, suggests Russia
Russia urges Assange nomination in calculated dig at the US
over WikiLeaks founder's detention
* Luke Harding
* guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 December 2010 14.15 GMT
Russia has suggested that Julian Assange should be awarded the Nobel peace prize, in an unexpected show of support from Moscow for the jailed WikiLeaks founder.
In what appears to be a calculated dig at the US, the Kremlin urged non-governmental organisations to think seriously about "nominating Assange as a Nobel Prize laureate".
"Public and non-governmental organisations should think of how to help him," the source from inside president Dmitry Medvedev's office told Russian news agencies. Speaking in Brussels, where Medvedev was attending a Russia-EU summit yesterday , the source went on: "Maybe, nominate him as a Nobel Prize laureate."
Russia's reflexively suspicious leadership appears to have come round to WikiLeaks, having decided that the ongoing torrent of disclosures are ultimately far more damaging and disastrous to America's long-term geopolitical interests than they are to Russia's.
The Kremlin's initial reaction to stories dubbing Russia a corrupt "mafia state" and kleptocracy was, predictably, negative. Last week Medvedev's spokesman dubbed the revelations "not worthy of comment" while Putin raged that a US diplomatic cable comparing him to Batman and Medvedev to Robin was "arrogant" and "unethical". State TV ignored the claims.
Subsequent disclosures, however, that Nato had secretly prepared a plan in case Russia invaded its Baltic neighbours have left the Kremlin smarting. Today Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Nato had to explain why it privately considered Russia an enemy while publicly describing it warmly as a "strategic partner" and ally.
Nato should make clear its position on WikiLeaks cables published by the Guardian alleging that the alliance had devised plans to defend Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia against Russia, Lavrov said.
"With one hand, Nato seeks agreement with us on joint partnership, and with the other, it makes a decision that it needs to defend. So when is Nato more sincere?" Lavrov asked today. "We have asked these questions and are expecting answers to them. We think we are entitled to that."
....
In London, meanwhile, Russia's chargé d'affaires and acting ambassador in the UK, Alexander Sternik, said relations with Britain had improved since the coalition came to power. He complained, however, about the hostile reaction in the British media after Fifa's executive committee voted that Russia – and not England – should host the 2018 World Cup.
....and the story continues
2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2011/jan/11/wikileaks-latest-developments?INTCMP=SRCH
WikiLeaks: Julian Assange returns to court and the latest developments
...[after explaining how the Swedish case is a fraud, Assange's lawyers mention Guantanamo as a possible permanent vacation place for their client.]
"• The offences are not extradition offences
• Abuses of process by the Swedish prosecutor. The document says that she has sought Assange's extradition when she has not yet decided to prosecute him and is seeking extradition for questioning him in order to further her investigation. It repeats that arrest for the purpose of questioning is unnecessary since Assange has already offered to be questioned. The defence states that the "proper, proportionate and legal means of requesting a person's questioning in the UK in these circumstances is through Mutual Legal Assistance."
• Evidence from "distinguished Swedish legal authorities" that will show Assange is a "victim of a pattern of illegal or corrupt behaviour" by the Swedish prosecuting authorities. In summary, releasing Assange's name to the press as the suspect in a rape inquiry, the refusal of the prosecutor to interview him on the dates offered and a refusal of all requests to make the evidence against him available in English (a right under the European convention on human rights).
• Human rights - this is the part where the defence claims a risk that Assange will be extradited from Sweden to the US, which it says would be in violation of article three of the European convention on human rights.
It is submitted that there is a real risk that, if extradited to Sweden, the US will seek his extradition and/or illegal rendition to the USA, where there will be a real risk of him being detained at Guantanamo Bay or elsewhere, in conditions which would breach Article 3 of the ECHR. Indeed, if Mr. Assange were rendered to the USA, without assurances that the death penalty would not be carried out, there is a real risk that he could be made subject to the death penalty. It is well-known that prominent figures have implied, if not stated outright, that Mr. Assange should be executed"...[and so on]
