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Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment

A maj­or wit­n­ess in the United States’ Depart­ment of Justice ca­se against Ju­li­an Assange has admitted to fabricat­ing key accusati­ons in the indict­ment against the Wiki­leaks found­er.

A major witness in the United States’ Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy and has received several convictions for sexual abuse of minors and wide-ranging financial fraud, made the admission in a newly published interview in Stundin where he also confessed to having continued his crime spree whilst working with the Department of Justice and FBI and receiving a promise of immunity from prosecution.

The man in question, Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, was recruited by US authorities to build a case against Assange after misleading them to believe he was previously a close associate of his. In fact he had volunteered on a limited basis to raise money for Wikileaks in 2010 but was found to have used that opportunity to embezzle more than $50,000 from the organization. Julian Assange was visiting Thordarson’s home country of Iceland around this time due to his work with Icelandic media and members of parliament in preparing the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, a press freedom project that produced a parliamentary resolution supporting whistleblowers and investigative journalism.

The United States is currently seeking Assange’s extradition from the United Kingdom in order to try him for espionage relating to the release of leaked classified documents. If convicted, he could face up to 175 years in prison. The indictment has sparked fears for press freedoms in the United States and beyond and prompted strong statements in support of Assange from Amnesty International, Reporters without borders, the editorial staff of the Washington Post and many others.

US officials presented an updated version of an indictment against him to a Magistrate court in London last summer. The veracity of the information contained therein is now directly contradicted by the main witness, whose testimony it is based on.

https://stundin.is/grein/13627/key-witness-in-assange-case-admits-to-lies-in-indictment/

Darwin to go into 48-hour lockdown after recording four new cases

The Darwin, Palmerston, and Darwin rural areas will enter full lockdown for 48 hours. That means the local government areas of the city of Darwin, the city of Palmerston, and Litchfield. This is what a lockdown will mean. If you live in these areas, you must at home. And you are only permitted to leave your home for the following five reasons.

First, medical treatment, including COVID-19 testing of vaccination. Two, four essential goods and services like groceries. Three, four work that is considered essential. Four, one hour of exercise a day with one other person or the people you live with, no further than 5km from your home. Finally, to provide care or support to a family member who cannot provide support for themselves.

As I said yesterday, this is now critical for everybody that is here to understand why these controls are in place. I started by saying, apologies for the impact on people but it is for initially 48 hours and this period of time is essential because now that we have a number of cases and, yes, we know who they are and there will be contact tracing of those individuals which does take some time to determine where those persons have been positive, where they were, whether it be on aircraft or gone out and about in the community.

So this is really important that they will potentially be exposure site that implicate others in the territory, particularly in Darwin but also Alice Springs so you need to monitor our website.

It provides other information and the Chief Minister has given the phone number that can give guidance about what people can do and also what our essential services are. This is not meant to provide hardship to others.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-27/covid-live-updates-june-27-exposure-sites-sydney-lockdown/100247216

This is where the US Marines are stationed i believe

US Threatens Sanctions On Gulf Allies If They Normalize Relations With Assad

For the past couple months there's been persisting reports and rumors that Saudi Arabia is preparing to restore diplomatic ties and normalized relations with the Syrian government under Bashar al-Assad, coming off a decade of war in which the Saudis spearheaded efforts alongside the US and other allies to topple him.

As we detailed in early May the first major step toward detente came when Saudi Arabia's powerful intelligence chief, Gen Khalid Humaidan, traveled to Damascus to meet with his Syrian counterpart. The two sides broke off relations since near the start of the war in 2011, especially as it became clear the Saudis were a key part of the Western allied push for regime change, through covert support to anti-Assad insurgents and jihadists which included regular weapons shipments.

Starting in 2018, other Arab capitals had begun seeking to mend relations with Assad, especially after the United Arab Emirates reopened its long shuttered embassy in the Syrian capital at the end of that year. There's even been talk of late of Assad being invited back into the Arab League.

Essentially America's Gulf allies are fast coming to the conclusion that Assad is here to stay, and that pragmatism means opening up relations; however, Washington doesn't see it that way - as its prior long-running covert war has turned to an economic war of economic strangulation and choking off national resources by occupying the oil and gas rich northeast.

On Friday, a top US official threatened regional allies with sanctions should they get too friendly with Assad. The Middle East Eye details the warning as follows:

On a call to reporters on Friday, Joey Hood, acting assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs, said Washington's opposition to the Syrian government would not change unless there was a "major change in behavior" in Damascus.

"With regard to others, who may be considering making moves, we are asking them to consider very carefully the atrocities committed by the regime on the Syrian people over the last decade, as well as the regime's continuing efforts to deny much of the country access to humanitarian aid and security," Hood said.

Hood brought up America's Caesar Act sanctions, which are geared toward thwarting reconstruction of the country under Assad.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-threatens-sanctions-gulf-allies-if-they-normalize-relations-assad

Remember this:

Biden Covertly Meets With Mossad Director In White House To Discuss Iran

Meeting was also attended by members of the National Security Council

https://nationalfile.com/biden-covertly-meets-with-mossad-director-in-white-house-to-discuss-iran/

Ivermectin: Can a Drug Be "Right-Wing"?

On December 31st of last year, an 80 year-old Buffalo-area woman named Judith Smentkiewicz fell ill with Covid-19. She was rushed by ambulance to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Williamsville, New York, where she was put on a ventilator. Her son Michael and his wife flew up from Georgia, and were given grim news. Judith, doctors said, had a 20% chance at survival, and even if she made it, she’d be on a ventilator for a month.

As December passed into the New Year, Judith’s health declined. Her family members, increasingly desperate, had been doing what people in the Internet age do, Googling in search of potential treatments. They saw stories about the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, learning among other things that a pulmonologist named Pierre Kory had just testified before the Senate that the drug had a “miraculous” impact on Covid-19 patients. The family pressured doctors at the hospital to give Judith the drug. The hospital initially complied, administering one dose on January 2nd. According to her family’s court testimony, a dramatic change in her condition ensued.

“In less than 48 hours, my mother was taken off the ventilator, transferred out of the Intensive Care Unit, sitting up on her own and communicating,” the patient’s daughter Michelle Kulbacki told a court.

After the reported change in Judith’s condition, the hospital backtracked and refused to administer more. Frustrated, the family turned on January 7th to a local lawyer named Ralph Lorigo. A commercial litigator and head of what he calls a “typical suburban practice,” with seven lawyers engaged in everything from matrimonial to estate work, Lorigo assigned one of his attorneys to review materials given to them by the family, which included Kory’s Senate testimony. The associate showed Lorigo himself the the material next morning.

“I was so convinced by what Dr. Kory was saying,” Lorigo says. “I saw the passion and the belief.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/ivermectin-can-drug-be-right-wing