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❗️ UK upholds Julian Assange's extradition to US
⚡️ WikiLeaks reaction to the UK Home Office's decision to uphold Julian Assange's extradition to US
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❗️ UK upholds Julian Assange's extradition to US
🗯 Edward Snowden reacts to the UK Home Office's decision to uphold Julian Assange's extradition to US
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🤭 Former US President Donald Trump had repeatedly berated Mike Pence after the latter refused to block the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election in Congress, in what was followed by the 6 January 2021 Capitol breach. The issue was high on the agenda of the latest third hearing of the House Select Committee.
▪️ During a phone call on 6 January 2021, then-President Donald Trump called his Vice President Mike Pence a “wimp” and the “p-word,” witnesses attending the House Select Committee’s third hearing have testified.
▪️ They asserted on Thursday that the subject of the call was Pence’s reluctance to stick to Trump’s plan to turn the Electoral College results back to the states when Congress was scheduled to meet later on 6 January last year.
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▪️ During a phone call on 6 January 2021, then-President Donald Trump called his Vice President Mike Pence a “wimp” and the “p-word,” witnesses attending the House Select Committee’s third hearing have testified.
▪️ They asserted on Thursday that the subject of the call was Pence’s reluctance to stick to Trump’s plan to turn the Electoral College results back to the states when Congress was scheduled to meet later on 6 January last year.
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📌 Julian Assange is an Australian citizen being prosecuted by the United States government for publishing classified information about US conduct in the country’s illegal wars, including direct evidence of US war crimes and previously unreported civilian deaths.
So, what did Julian reveal to the world?
▪️ One of the first big releases Assange and WikiLeaks posted was of a 238-page Army manual from 2003 on "standard operating procedures" for the Camp Delta prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
➡️ The manual showed the Army had a policy of keeping some prisoners from Red Cross inspectors and holding new prisoners in isolation for two weeks to make them more compliant for interrogators.
▪️ WikiLeaks published more than half a million pager messages sent within a 24-hour period at the time of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
➡️ The messages included exchanges from "Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department" officials. "We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war," WikiLeaks said of the release.
▪️ WikiLeaks published video footage from a 2007 US Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad, Iraq, that left at least nine men dead, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver.
➡️ Army soldier Bradley Manning, a transgender woman who later became known as Chelsea Manning, was later arrested for the release of the video and other classified material about the conduct of the war and civilian deaths.
▪️ In 2010, WikiLeaks published a trove of classified documents about U.S. military action. It released more than 90,000 documents related to Afghanistan and later published more than 400,000 documents from the war in Iraq.
➡️ The documents included information about civilian deaths, the hunt for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and Iran's backing of militants in Iraq.
▪️ More than 250,000 unredacted US diplomatic cables dating from December 1966 to February 2010 were released in the what was referred to as "Cablegate".
➡️ Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the release "an attack on the international community". The documents included verification that the US had conducted secret drone strikes in Yemen, details of US efforts to get information on United Nations representatives, a push by Saudi Arabia's royal family to have the US strike Iran and a denoscription of Russia under Vladimir Putin as a "virtual mafia state".
▪️ On 22 July 2016, WikiLeaks released nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee emails and on 7 October 2016, it released another 2,000 emails from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta.
➡️ The emails, which US intelligence later alleged had been stolen by hackers working for the Russian government, appeared to show that the DNC had favoured Clinton over her rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Among the damaging information in Podesta's emails was the news that then-acting DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile had given the Clinton campaign debate questions in advance.
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So, what did Julian reveal to the world?
▪️ One of the first big releases Assange and WikiLeaks posted was of a 238-page Army manual from 2003 on "standard operating procedures" for the Camp Delta prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
➡️ The manual showed the Army had a policy of keeping some prisoners from Red Cross inspectors and holding new prisoners in isolation for two weeks to make them more compliant for interrogators.
▪️ WikiLeaks published more than half a million pager messages sent within a 24-hour period at the time of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
➡️ The messages included exchanges from "Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department" officials. "We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war," WikiLeaks said of the release.
▪️ WikiLeaks published video footage from a 2007 US Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad, Iraq, that left at least nine men dead, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver.
➡️ Army soldier Bradley Manning, a transgender woman who later became known as Chelsea Manning, was later arrested for the release of the video and other classified material about the conduct of the war and civilian deaths.
▪️ In 2010, WikiLeaks published a trove of classified documents about U.S. military action. It released more than 90,000 documents related to Afghanistan and later published more than 400,000 documents from the war in Iraq.
➡️ The documents included information about civilian deaths, the hunt for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and Iran's backing of militants in Iraq.
▪️ More than 250,000 unredacted US diplomatic cables dating from December 1966 to February 2010 were released in the what was referred to as "Cablegate".
➡️ Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the release "an attack on the international community". The documents included verification that the US had conducted secret drone strikes in Yemen, details of US efforts to get information on United Nations representatives, a push by Saudi Arabia's royal family to have the US strike Iran and a denoscription of Russia under Vladimir Putin as a "virtual mafia state".
▪️ On 22 July 2016, WikiLeaks released nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee emails and on 7 October 2016, it released another 2,000 emails from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta.
➡️ The emails, which US intelligence later alleged had been stolen by hackers working for the Russian government, appeared to show that the DNC had favoured Clinton over her rival, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Among the damaging information in Podesta's emails was the news that then-acting DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile had given the Clinton campaign debate questions in advance.
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❗️ European Commission recommends giving Ukraine EU candidate status
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📹 A local resident tells how the Armed Forces of Ukraine once again shelled a suburb of Kherson. Two people were killed, five more were injured.
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⚡️ Eurovision organizers decide that Ukraine will not be able to host contest in 2023 due to current situation in country - statement
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❗️ Zelensky's representative for Crimea Tasheva said that Kiev's approach to the return of Crimea after February 24 has changed - now they want to achieve this militarily
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⚡️ Amnesty International: Home Office decision to extradite Assange to the US puts him in danger
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⚡️ Peskov: Massive DDOS attacks have begun on SPIEF systems
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❗️Belarus President Lukashenko said that Poland has plans for western Ukraine, and that they have to react to them
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🤭 Kim Kardashian sparked fresh controversy after she was accused of damaging the iconic gown of the late Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe, which she wore at the 2022 Met Gala in May. However, the latest reports claimed that Kardashian didn't cause any damage to the gown.
📸 Before and after pictures of the dress, allegedly showing the damage, went viral on social media, prompting a representative of Ripley's 'Believe It or Not!', who bought the dress for $4.8 million in 2016, to come out and defend Kardashian.
🤔 "A report written on the dress's condition in early 2017 states, 'a number of the seams are pulled and worn. This is not surprising given how delicate the material is. There is puckering at the back by the hooks and eyes,' among other instances of damage," a representative of the Ripley Museum told TMZ.
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📸 Before and after pictures of the dress, allegedly showing the damage, went viral on social media, prompting a representative of Ripley's 'Believe It or Not!', who bought the dress for $4.8 million in 2016, to come out and defend Kardashian.
🤔 "A report written on the dress's condition in early 2017 states, 'a number of the seams are pulled and worn. This is not surprising given how delicate the material is. There is puckering at the back by the hooks and eyes,' among other instances of damage," a representative of the Ripley Museum told TMZ.
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❗️Belarus President Lukashenko said that Minsk does not plan to go to war with Ukraine, but "if they attack Mazyr, we will attack Kiev without entering Ukraine"
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😟 Sandra Garza, partner of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who died soon after 6 January events, has criticised Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for failing to act in attempt to prevent protesters from breaching the Capitol building. She argued that the two "could have done something" that would help avoid "bloodshed" that took place on 6 January 2021.
▪️ Garza went on to lambast Jared Kushner's statements during his deposition by the 6 January House committee as "absolutely despicable" in her interview with CNN. She namely targeted Kushner for dismissing the threats to resign by the White House lawyers in the days preceding the events at the Capitol as "whining".
▪️ The woman earlier claimed that she and her partner were both Trump supporters, but after the events at the Capitol on 6 January 2021, she blames the former for what happened, even though the outgoing president was among the first to condemn the actions of protesters that breached the US Congress building.
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▪️ Garza went on to lambast Jared Kushner's statements during his deposition by the 6 January House committee as "absolutely despicable" in her interview with CNN. She namely targeted Kushner for dismissing the threats to resign by the White House lawyers in the days preceding the events at the Capitol as "whining".
▪️ The woman earlier claimed that she and her partner were both Trump supporters, but after the events at the Capitol on 6 January 2021, she blames the former for what happened, even though the outgoing president was among the first to condemn the actions of protesters that breached the US Congress building.
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❗️Denmark's Ministry of Defence has alleged that a Russian ship entered the Kingdom's waters in the Baltic Sea
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❗️ Putin: Our partners in the West have deliberately undermined international foundations due to their geopolitical illusions
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❗️ Putin: Business reputation and trust in currencies have been thoroughly undermined; this was done intentionally
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⚡️ Putin: Era of unipolar world has ended despite attempts to preserve it at any cost
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❗️ Putin: The current SPIEF is taking place at a difficult time, when even the basic economic principles are under attack
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🇺🇸📉 For the first time since the incumbent US president took office, more registered voters say they would vote for Donald Trump (44%) than for Biden (42%), a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows.
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