Assange’s father claims Ecuadorian protection was traded in for a US bank loan

The father of controversial Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has spoken out in a world exclusive interview, claiming his son was traded by the Ecuadorian embassy for a US bank loan.

“Ecuador doesn’t have its own currency,” John Shipton explained.

“It uses the United States dollar… You can’t get an IMF loan unless the United States approves it - upon agreement to remove Julian from the Embassy.”

Speaking with 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown, Shipton was eager to defend his son following his very public arrest and eviction from the Ecuadorian embassy in London just two weeks ago.

The world’s most famous fugitive appeared almost unrecognisable as police dragged him from what had been his safe haven for the last seven years, chanting “the UK must resist.”

It was a move that shocked Assange’s most dedicated supporters, and unrelenting critics.

The self-proclaimed journalist had been granted protection by the embassy after outplaying authorities and winning asylum while wanted for alleged sexual assault charges and suspected espionage for releasing millions of highly classified US defence documents and video on his website Wikileaks.

But it all came crashing down spectacularly in front of the world’s media, after the Ecuadorians called in the police to remove Assange.

They claimed he had become increasingly erratic, outstaying his welcome with bad behaviour which included skateboarding through the embassy corridors, wiping fecal matter on the walls and dumping soiled clothes in the bathroom.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/60-minutes-julian-assange-father-john-shipton-ecuador-us-bank-loan/d8c1aa9f-56fa-417d-9984-42529b51dcb6

Libyan GNA Claims Foreign-Owned Warplanes Behind Strikes on Tripoli

On 4 April, General Khalifa Haftar, whose forces control Eastern Libya, announced the first phase of an offensive intended to gain control of forces loyal to Tripoli, prompting the mobilisation of the defense. In response, armed forces loyal to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) launched a military op against the LNA.

According to the Tripoli-based Libyan government, cited by Libya Observer, the country’s Presidential Council has evidence that foreign aircraft were involved in a drone attack on Tripoli that took place on Saturday evening, noting that an investigation is underway in coordination with the United Nations.

Addressing a news conference in Tunis with his counterpart, Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha noted that the accuracy of the airstrikes on Tripoli points to the warplanes being part of an arsenal belonging to only two Arab countries, allegedly referring to either the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia. Separately, Bashagha called out France for backing General Khalifa Haftar, urging the European country to stand with the democratic values it claims to prioritize.

"The war in Tripoli now was not started by our government but we found ourselves in a position where we must defend democracy and civil state", Bashagha added.

He said that the forces of "warlord Khalifa Haftar" have revived the terrorist groups, adding that "no party can brag about fighting terrorism to us, we know all about it and we did it numerous times".

"Haftar is from the school of Gaddafi regime and has the same mentality. He is the only one who doesn't want to end Libya's crises", he added.

The official made derogatory remarks over the silence of the international community on the Tripoli airstrikes, specifying that there would not be dialogue with Haftar, but with the eastern population, forecasting a new roadmap for a resolution of the crisis in the country.

Libyan National Army spokesman Ahmed Mismari is reported to have claimed that Haftar had announced the start of the second stage of the offensive on Tripoli after the completion of the first, launched 4 April in a bid to drive out of the city what the former referred to as terrorist forces. In response, armed forces loyal to the Tripoli-based GNA kicked off a military op to counter the LNAefforts.

The longstanding civil conflict in the country has led to the absence of a central government, with the country’s eastern and western parts governed by two separate groups. The Tobruk-based parliament, elected in 2014 and backed by the Libyan National Army, exerts control over the east of Libya, while the Government of National Accord, established in 2015, controls parts that lie west of Tripoli.

https://sputniknews.com/africa/201904281074539147-libyan-gna-warplanes-strikes-tripoli/

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with a side of MOS

Milan Kundera Warned Us About Historical Amnesia. Now It’s Happening Again

The Power of Forgetting, or historical amnesia—could not be more relevant. Kundera’s great theme emerged from his experience of the annexation of his former homeland Czechoslovakia by the Soviets in 1948 and the process of deliberate historical erasure imposed by the communist regime on the Czechs.

As Kundera said:

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.

I first read Kundera’s Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979) back in 1987, when I was a member of the British Communist Party. The book shook my beliefs and Kundera’s writing became a part of a process of truth-speaking that shook the USSR to the ground in 1989.

In the 90s we believed we were living in a “post-mortem” era in which all the hidden graves of the 20th century would be exposed, the atrocities analyzed, the lessons learned. Lest we forget. We also thought we’d entered a time in which the Silicon Valley dream of digitizing all knowledge from the entire history of the printed and spoken word would lead us towards the infinite free library, the glass house of truth and the global village of free information flow. The future would be a time of endless remembrance and of great learning.

How wrong we were. The metaphor of the glass house has turned into that of the mirrored cube. The global village has collapsed into tribal info-warfare and the infinite library is now a war zone of battling conspiracy theories. The internet has become a tool of forgetting, not remembrance and the greatest area of amnesia is the subject that Milan Kundera spent his entire life trying to preserve, namely the horrors of communism.

This theme is set out on the very first page of the Book of Laughter and Forgetting in which Kundera describes a moment in Prague in 1948 amidst heavy snow in which the bareheaded Communist leader Klement Gottwald, while giving a speech in Wenceslas Square, was given a hat by his comrade Clemetis: Four years later Clemetis was charged with treason and hanged. The Propaganda section immediately airbrushed him out of the history and obviously the photographs as well. Ever since Gottwald has stood on that balcony alone. Where Clemetis once stood, there is only bare wall. All that remains of Clemetis is the cap on Gottwald’s head.

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/04/28/milan-kundera-warned-us-about-historical-amnesia-now-its-happening-again/

Big pharma war: India slams US for crusading against cheap generics

Washington’s push for intellectual property rights in the pharma industry is an attack on India’s generic drug trade, New Delhi says as a US government report accuses India of distributing counterfeit drugs worldwide.

Authorities in New Delhi were appalled as the “Special 301 report” published by the United States Trade Representative (USTR) on Saturday pinpointed India – alongside China – as the leading global sources of counterfeit medicines. The document, which reviews the state of intellectual property protection around the world, also alleges that up to 20 percent of drugs sold on the Indian market are fake and represent a danger to public health and safety.

Meanwhile, the Indian health care official slammed the findings of the report asserting that the accusations are meant to put pressure on affordable generic drugs. “We strongly disagree with the observations made by USTR. We do not know the genesis and methodology of their findings. Instead, we view this as opposition to low-cost generics and the thriving Indian drug manufacturing industry,” health secretary Preeti Sudan told local media.

https://www.rt.com/news/457757-india-generics-us-counterfeit/

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yep

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kek nice touch…..kek