Israel’s Assault on US Freedom of Speech Struck Down by Court

Federal court says Georgia BDS law violates First Amendment

Westworld Season Three

Anyone interested in hard scifi has to watch Westworld. It’s the biggest production that exists, as far as I know. They have now spanned the world and brought the future, and it’s one of the few actual mind-blowing projects.

The theme is freedom, what it means, what it doesn’t mean, and the struggle that is both real and vividly imagined, how they cross over. The term they used was “algorithmic determinism.”

My love has been professed for Evan Rachel Wood, and I just learned she’s a black belt in tae kwon do. Of course she is.

The show shot in Singapore, Spain, the west, and thirty years in the future. It’s bigger than life, and the story crackles because of Jonathan Nolan, Christopher’s brother who obsesses over the Inception mutli-threaded strings of plots. It quickly grows more complicated. It’s not like easy to follow linear stories. They are constantly asking the big questions.

It starts off slow-burn and building in complexity. By the end of the season, it’s massive in scale. I really don’t think that anyone who ended up here needs any more convincing.

Fascism USA: Trump DOJ to Suspend Constitution

One of the requests to Congress would allow the department to petition a judge to indefinitely detain someone during an emergency.

DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic

The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies — part of a push for new powers that comes as the coronavirus spreads through the United States.

 

Judge Tossed Frivolous DNC Suit Against Wikileaks

 

Judge rips DNC repeatedly for having no evidence!

Judge’s ruling throws huge spanner into US extradition proceedings against Assange

• Wikileaks has every right to publish stolen documents.
• Wikileaks/Assange is a publisher.
• DNC has no evidence of any Russian involvement at all.

ALERT: Senate Creating Crackdown on Internet / Copyright w Lawsuits

 

Life-Altering Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law Moving in the Senate

 

This bill creates a situation where Internet users could easily be on the hook for multiple $5,000 copyright infringement judgments without many of the traditional legal safeguards or rights of appeal our justice system provides.

Gaza Fights For Freedom – #Trailer

 

Abby Martin has a new investigation into the uprising in Gaza.

Film Website

Fascist War on Journalism

 

Even the Washington Post (which I do not generally trust) is starting to shit itself in the face of blatant fascism.

The indictment of Assange is a blueprint for making journalists into felons

Greenwald:

The First Amendment is meaningless if it only protects people the government recognizes as journalists

 

 

The Indictment Against Assange

 

This thread discusses what the government’s case is. It centers on allegedly trying to help Manning crack a password.

WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange was indicted on March 6, 2018, for "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion." Notably, not charge under Espionage Act. But doesn't mean political case isn't attack on journalist or media organization.

I'll go through rest of indictment. pic.twitter.com/j1ubNR69ge

— Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola) April 11, 2019

The End of the Free Press | #JulianAssange

 

Journalism has been officially outlawed.

Julian Assange Arrested in London After Ecuador Withdraws Asylum; U.S. Requests Extradition

 

 

The weakness of the US charge against Assange is shocking. The allegation he tried (and failed?) to help crack a password during their world-famous reporting has been public for nearly a decade: it is the count Obama's DOJ refused to charge, saying it endangered journalism. https://t.co/xdTQ8xauB0

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 11, 2019

 

Why the world needs Wikileaks

 

The extradition of Julian Assange to the US for exposing evidence of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan should be opposed by the British government.pic.twitter.com/CxTUrOfkHt

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 11, 2019

 

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: Assange Arrest Sets Dangerous Precedent, Threatens Freedom of the Press

 

Julian Assange's lawyer: "This precedent means that any journalist can be extradited for prosecution in the United States for having published truthful information about the United States"

This is an attack on all of us. If you're silent, you're complicit pic.twitter.com/ScV9SJoWsf

— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) April 11, 2019

China’s Totalitarianism

 

China blacklists millions of people from booking flights as ‘social credit’ system introduced

 

Press Lawsuit Against Trump Junta

 

WHITE HOUSE’S WITHDRAWAL OF JIM ACOSTA’S PRESS CREDENTIALS FURTHER EVIDENCE OF REPRISALS THAT VIOLATE THE FIRST AMENDMENT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW YORK—In response to the White House’s withdrawal of CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s press credentials following a dramatic confrontation, PEN America Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Nossel released the following statement:

“In late October PEN America filed suit against President Donald Trump arguing that his threats and use of the machinery of government to exact reprisals against journalists and media organizations violate the First Amendment. We specifically cited his threats to withdraw press credentials from reporters based on critical questions and stories as a prime example of this behavior. Regrettably, last night yet again the White House demonstrated precisely the pattern our lawsuit documents. The White House’s withdrawal of the press credentials of CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta was in clear retaliation for Acosta’s persistent questioning of the President on topics he did not wish to address during a press conference yesterday afternoon. The rescission of Acosta’s credentials, accompanied by a demonstrably false account by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders of the actions that led to the withdrawal, are yet more evidence that the President and the administration feel no compunction about exacting punishment on journalists for hard-hitting coverage. The First Amendment protects our press from having to operate under the cloud of such intimidation and threatened reprisal. Our lawsuit is an effort to affirm that fundamental principle, and ensure that no one—not even the President of the United States—is given free rein to violate the Constitution.”

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PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Our mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible. pen.org

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