EXCLUSIVE: Julian Assange Clashes With Ecuadorian Officials After Embassy Locks US Journalist in a Surveilled Room

It was meant to be a routine visit by a journalist to another journalist. Instead, I found myself locked in a cold, surveilled room for over an hour by Ecuadorian officials, as a furious argument raged between the country’s ambassador and Julian Assange.

The room was inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where 2019 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Julian Assange currently lives under the ostensible protection of political asylum. Yet the WikiLeaks publisher was barred from entering the room, where he was supposed to join me for a pre-approved meeting, because he refused to submit to a full-body search and continuous surveillance.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/breaking-ecuadorian-embassy-officials-locked-me-in-a-room-ambassador-clashed-with-julian-assange-as-he-attempted-to-surveil-our-meeting/

'Dark day for internet freedom': EU lawmakers approve controversial copyright reform

The European Parliament has voted to adopt the highly controversial Article 13 provision which would govern the production and distribution of content online under the auspices of increasing copyright protections.

Tuesday's move will update the EU's 20-year-old copyright rules and will govern everything from audiovisual content to memes, much to the dismay of many social media users who have already begun outpouring their grief online.

MEPs passed the legislation by 348 votes to 274 Tuesday. Opponents had hoped for last-minute amendments to be made but their efforts were in vain.

Dark day for internet freedom: The @Europarl_EN has rubber-stamped copyright reform including #Article13 and #Article11. MEPs refused to even consider amendments. The results of the final vote: 348 in favor, 274 against #SaveYourInternetpic.twitter.com/8bHaPEEUk3

— Julia Reda (@Senficon) March 26, 2019

https://www.rt.com/news/454782-eu-lawmakers-approve-controversial-copyright/

https://netblocks.org/reports/new-nationwide-power-outage-detected-across-venezuela-OxAGaDyz

The NetBlocks internet observatory has identified a new widespread power outage across Venezuela starting shortly after 5:00 PM UTC (1:00 PM VET) Monday 25 March 2019, cover most states and covering capital Caracas, sending 57% of the country’s telecommunications infrastructure offline.

Venezuela has been recovering from a series of outages of unprecedented magnitude since 7 March knocked out Venezuela’s internet connectivity utilities offline. The new disruption is on a similar scale to the first two disruptions earlier in the month.

Confirmed: New national power outage detected across #Venezuela starting 5:00 PM UTC (1 PM VET); network data shows 57% of country now offline; incident ongoing #SinLuz #Apagon #25Mar ⬇️https://t.co/7nhWVW9v7a pic.twitter.com/dQNWefe6h6

— NetBlocks.org (@netblocks) March 25, 2019

https://netblocks.org/reports/new-nationwide-power-outage-detected-across-venezuela-OxAGaDyz

Supreme Court turns down Mueller mystery appeal

The Supreme Court denied an appeal Monday from an unknown foreign entity disputing a grand jury subpoena issued in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, which is now complete.

Little is known of the case, which is under seal — the identity of the foreign corporation, the country in which it is based, and the nature of the subpoena are all unknown.

HERE’S WHAT YOU’RE MISSING …

The entity, which is a foreign financial institution, contested the subpoena under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and the laws of its own country. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected those arguments, prompting an appeal to the Supreme Court.

The entity warned of far-reaching effects on U.S. foreign policy were the D.C. Circuit’s ruling allowed to stand.

“The D.C. Circuit broke from the FSIA’s text, this Court’s precedents, other circuits’ holdings, and the longstanding rule in America and abroad that one sovereign may not exercise criminal jurisdiction over another,” the company wrote in its petition to the high court. “If left to stand, the ruling would wreak havoc on American foreign policy — possibly alienating U.S. allies, undermining diplomatic efforts, and inviting reciprocal treatment abroad for American agencies and instrumentalities.”

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/03/25/supreme-court-turns-down-mueller-mystery-appeal-737170

Bannon says Trump will ‘go full animal’ against enemies with Mueller probe over … and it looks like he started Tuesday morning!

Former White House adviser Steve Bannon believes the end of Robert Mueller’s investigation means President Trump will soon “go full animal” against his political enemies.

The president will “come off the chains,” Bannon told Yahoo! News over the weekend, following the special counsel’s submission of his final report to Attorney General William Barr, who announced in a summary letter that Trump and his campaign had not colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

“When I saw no new indictments — I thought, Oh my God! They didn’t indict anybody regarding the Flynn investigation, they didn’t indict Don, Jr.! Maybe [Mueller] could have details about obstruction of justice that are not indictable, but are meaningful,” Bannon said.

“But right now, it looks like they have nothing,” he added, predicting that the president will use Mueller’s report findings against his critics.

“He will use it to bludgeon them,” he said. Bannon himself was interviewed twice by the special counsel’s team.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/03/26/bannon-says-trump-will-go-full-animal-against-enemies-with-mueller-probe-over-and-it-looks-like-he-started-tuesday-morning-737394

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Devin Nunes: No ‘Republicans Or Any American Should Be Celebrating’ Until ‘Bad Cops’ Get Punished

Nunes warns conservatives not to be complacent as the individuals who perpetrated the conspiracy against President Trump must be put to justice.

While most conservatives are jumping for joy following the end of FBI spook Robert Mueller’s Russian collusion investigation which cleared President Trump of any wrongdoing, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) remains focused on making sure “bad cops” within the deep state are brought to justice after perpetrating this costly fraud on the American public.

Nunes said on Friday that the official end of Mueller’s special investigation marks “the unraveling of the biggest scandal in American history, the biggest political scandal in American history.” Much more work needs to be done before this dark, embarrassing chapter of US history can come to a close.

He spoke to Fox News on Saturday evening to explain to conservatives why they must not take their eye off the ball. There are still many questions that need to be answered before the rule of law can be fully restored.

“I don’t think Republicans or any American should be celebrating anything to do with Mueller. Okay? It’s fine. He’s not going to indict anymore people. There are a whole bunch of indictments that are awful. What happened to these people is terrible. We need to see the origins of this investigation. We don’t even know what Robert Mueller was supposed to be looking at,” Nunes told Fox News.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/devin-nunes-no-republicans-or-any-american-should-be-celebrating-until-bad-cops-get-punished/

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US starts small with ‘smart walls’ to protect Mexican border

Deep in the Otay Mountain Wilderness, there is no wall.

The only boundary between the U.S. and Mexico is a section of barbed-wire fence in a pastoral valley. And miles and miles of treacherous terrain.

It’s a territory crisscrossed with steep trails that disappear into tunnels of thick brush, a place looped by violently rutted roads that Border Patrol agents drive daily.

Land like this is not a likely candidate for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful wall.”

But it is fertile for an invisible kind of fence, one built of artificial intelligence, radar, drones, sensors, motion-activated cameras and even lidar, the technology used in self-driving vehicles.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/03/us-starts-small-with-smart-walls-to-protect-mexican-border/

>>5901111

Are you.. seems you have a fetish with thinking about it.. then using the word of God as tool.. what kinda FKing dummy are you .. wait don't answer that we know

Trump administration warns Russia against troop buildup in Venezuela

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the Russian foreign minister on Monday to tell him the United States won’t “stand idly by” as Russia sends military forces to Venezuela.

Pompeo warned Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that Russia was exacerbating tensions in Venezuela and undermining efforts to restore democracy in the South American nation, said Robert Palladino, a State Department spokesman.

“The continued insertion of Russian military personnel to support the illegitimate regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela risks prolonging the suffering of the Venezuelan people who overwhelmingly support interim President Juan Guaido,” Palladino said.

The United States and regional allies became concerned this weekend when Russian planes landed in Caracas. Venezuelan journalists reported that about 100 Russian soldiers arrived on the planes. The Russian personnel were involved in training and military cooperation with their Venezuelan counterparts.

The once mighty oil-rich nation of Venezuela is mired in an economic and humanitarian crisis that has led to hyperinflation and widespread shortages of food and medicine. More than 3 million people have fled the country.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/03/trump-administration-warns-russia-against-troop-buildup-in-venezuela/

Rand Paul: Time to Investigate Obama Officials Who Spread Russia Hoax

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Monday called for an investigation into Obama administration officials for their alleged roles in concocting and spreading the idea that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia.

“Time to investigate the Obama officials who concocted and spread the Russian conspiracy hoax!” Paul tweeted.

Time to investigate the Obama officials who concocted and spread the Russian conspiracy hoax!

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 25, 2019

Paul became the second senator, after Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, to call for an investigation into Obama officials who were responsible for pushing the Russia narrative.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/25/rand-paul-time-to-investigate-obama-officials-who-spread-russia-hoax/

Closer Everyday

The end of school: AI ‘Google brain’ implants to REPLACE education and ‘supercharge IQ’

ARTIFICIAL "brain implants" could replace education and "supercharge" our IQs, an AI expert has claimed.

Top AI expert Nikolas Kairinos believes artificial intelligence will improve people’s lives on a mass scale and dramatically transform the way we learn.

The CEO and Founder of Fountech.ai exclusively told Daily Star Online he is working on a revolutionary AI to “personalise education”.

“The current area of focus is personalised education - trying to demarketise and de monetise learning so that anyone can learn almost anything using AI,” he told Daily Star Online.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/765961/tech-news-ai-robot-brain-implants-google-education-IQ-learning

8 Historic Cases That Show the FBI and CIA Were Out of Control Long Before Russiagate

Conservatives tend to have two bad habits. First, they’re prone to viewing the past through a nostalgic lens. Second, they tend to instinctively give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt.

These tendencies help explain why conservatives for decades have been able to overlook the many abuses—constitutional, legal, and moral—of US intelligence agencies.

Unlike some more seasoned media, conservatives have appeared genuinely shocked by revelations of the Trump-Russia saga: abuse of FISA warrants, classified leaks from top FBI brass, corruption, campaign moles, and an apparent plot to remove an elected president through undemocratic (and likely extra-constitutional) means.

These revelations are unique in that they have become highly public and involve a sitting president. However, an examination of the history of US intelligence agencies reveals government bureaucrats were out of control long before the 2016 presidential election.

1. That Time the CIA Considered Bombing Miami and Blaming It on Castro

1. In 2014 the CIA Was Caught Red-Handed Spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee

1. The FBI’s “Suicide Letter” to MLK and His Wife

1. The CIA Forced Prisoners to Participate in Mind Control Experiments in the 1950s

1. The FBI’s Systemic Forensic Fraud in Crime Labs

In the early 1990s, Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, an attorney and chemist who worked at the FBI as a Supervisory Special Agent, noticed troubling practices in the in the bureau’s Investigation Laboratory.

There were “alterations of reports, alterations of evidence, folks testifying outside their areas of expertise in courts of law,” said Whitehurst. “[Really] what was going on was human rights violations. We have a right to fair trials in this country… And that’s not what was going on at the FBI lab.”

In 1994, he blew the whistle on the “systemic forensic fraud” he witnessed. Nothing happened. So he took his case to the Department of Justice. The FBI didn’t like that. Whitehurst was eventually chased out of the Bureau, but not before winning a $1.16 million settlement.

Unfortunately, however, the wheels of justice turn slowly at the Bureau.

“It wasn’t until ten years later that Whitehurst was finally vindicated,” notes the National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund note, “when a scathing 500+ page study of the lab by the Justice Department Inspector General, Michael Bromwich, concluded major reforms were required in the lab.”

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/03/8-historic-cases-that-show-the-fbi-and-cia-were-out-of-control-long-before-russiagate.html

>>5901356

Faces-Stay With Me

>>5901392

KEK that actually gave me a chuckle.. ok you win

>>5901427

Remember all the Dems supported a wall… just not a physical one