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Author: AngelFox
I am a writer. I love to write and keep it simple. Who needs big words? I support Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Catch me on twitter @AngelFoxToday71 .
Unity Is Absolutely Necessary In The Fight to Free Assange
On July 8, 2019 July 8, 2019 By AngelFoxLeave a comment
Over and over again I see so much division among Assange supporters. Whether it is politically motivated, a simple misunderstanding or whatever the reason is, it has to stop.
Julian Assange himself stated the following in regards to freeing him:
"There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination in the response."
We have to put aside our disagreements, our differing views and stop allowing ourselves to fall for the divide and conquer strategy of the government operatives. Whether they are part of us or not does not matter.
This image was originally tweeted by Assange himself when he was still online. The Twitter account was turned over to the Defend Assange legal campaign after he was silenced.
Even if you suspect someone is a government operative, let them be. As Assange stated above, they are still putting light on his plight. Blocking someone who is doing a good job supporting Assange but may be doing it for the wrong reasons is another No No. If they are avidly supporting him, it doesn't matter what their reasons are, they are aiding in our campaign. If they are drawing attention to the persecution, don't distract them with divisiveness. It is a good way to drive them away from the cause. Julian needs all of us.
We need a mass movement to see him free. We need every single person we can get to call for his freedom and to fight his extradition. We cannot afford to lose a single person. We are fighting a super power for a man's life. We are fighting against possibly the strongest nation in the world and yet we take the time out to fight with one another over small idiosyncrasies. We attack one another without thinking about the consequences. We blacklist supporters, we block them and by doing so, we are only hurting Assange. If we care about Julian, this must end now.
We do not have the time or resources to let this continue! Assange is deterioriating quickly in prison. We must raise the sword of truth and free him now before it is too late.
"Divide and Conquer" has a long history of destroying movements.
From my article why Unity is Necessary to Free Assange
"This is also working in the movement to Free Julian Assange. Government Operatives posing as activists start with dropping seeds of doubt and pushing an agenda against what they call the "opposition." The opposition being people from what they call the "other side" or different political parties. They use familiar terms to put them down which causes a break in forces. Suddenly the movement is divided in half and its strength is half of what it once was. Remember the old adage "There is strength in numbers." In this battle against the powers that be, it is more than true."
The point is by arguing and fighting, we lose sight of our goal. It creates a distraction from the real work we are doing and need to get done. We must unite to win this fight! We must free Assange! Together! United!
Update: Swedish Prosecutors on Assange
On July 7, 2019 July 7, 2019 By AngelFox1 Comment
Swedish prosecutors announced this week, "it is currently not on the cards to issue a European investigation order…" after nearly 9 years. Just a few months ago, they were calling for extradition to "question" him about the sexual allegations. For now, they will be analyzing evidence. The real question here is how can you analyse evidence when it was destroyed by Ny in May of 2017 after Sweden had questioned Assange a 2nd time in this case and dropped allegations?
Is this how justice is served in Sweden?
In several tweets by @BellaMagnani on Twitter the following points are also raised.
Nothing about the sexual allegation case against Assange has been done properly from the get go. From Ny reopening the case after the first prosecutor closed it due to lack of evidence, to the fake torn condom submitted by Anna Ardin with no DNA whatsover, to the recent reopening of the case, it has been a circus show. I wonder what the U.S. used to coerce Sweden to do so?
In Newsweek's op-ed by Nils Melzer, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, he states:
But how do you break a political dissident, a promoter of truth and transparency? Well, first you attack his reputation and credibility, and destroy his human dignity. You maintain a constant trickle of poisonous rumors, first half-truths and then increasingly bold lies. You keep him suspected of rape without trial, of hacking and spying, and of smearing feces on Embassy walls. You portray him as an ungrateful narcissist with a cat and a skateboard, whose only aim is self-glorifying exceptionalism.
By making him unlikeable in the eyes of the world, you ensure no one will feel any empathy, so once his voice is muzzled and his isolation complete, he can be burned at the stake with impunity. Most importantly, having degraded him to a clown for the entertainment of all, you will have diverted attention from his spotlight on your own crimes. Next, you make sure that any attempt of his to expose your lies comes at the cost of extradition to a hanging judge in a land bent to see his head on a stick, where torturers enjoy impunity. You then pressure his country of refuge into submission – military and economic leverage never fail – and you turn his protectors into enemies, and his daily existence into attritive hell.
The method is deliberate, concerted, and sustained, and employs isolation, hostility, and shame. Whether you call it "bullying," "mobbing," or "persecution" – in essence it is all the same. It purposefully inflicts severe mental suffering and aims to coerce, punish, and intimidate. It is thus, under international law, nothing else than full-fledged psychological torture. Mind you, psychological torture is neither 'soft' nor 'light'. It aims straight at the destruction of your innermost self, albeit without leaving a physical trace. It targets your emotions, your mind and your dignity, and instills chronic shame and anxiety. Through relentless over-stimulation, confusion and stress, it eventually causes total exhaustion, cardiovascular failure and nervous collapse.
I highly recommend reading this incredibly written article by Melzer on the persecution and derailment of Assange.
Nils Melzer also tweeted about this case and stated the following:
As a Swiss/Swedish national, I would never claim that Sweden is a "lawless society", but I have concluded that, in this case, the responsible authorities have deliberately abused Swedish law, procedures & institutions for the purpose of persecuting #Assange. @Klamberg @AjVBlog
Whatever legal system you apply, it gravely violates human rights to publicly portray #Assange as a rape suspect for 9yrs without formal indictment despite questioning him twice & having full access to all evidence, none of which supports the State's suspicion. @Klamberg @AjVBlog
Has there ever been such a case? The Sweden judicial system set a dangerous precedent by opening and reopening this case, not once but three times. Not to mention, a huge media conference stating they wanted to again extradite after closing it and destroying the case material, to simply question Assange for a third time.
Was this just another effort to be able to extradite Assange to the U.S. and let the U.K. off the hook if they deny extradition?
According to 21stcenturywire.com:
Swedish prosecutors have this week announcedthat for the time being they will not be issuing a European Investigation Order (EIO) to interview Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks. According to Sweden's Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson,"…it is currently not on the cards to issue a European investigation order…" For now, they will be analysing evidence before making a decision regarding procedure. So, how is it possible she is now not in a position to interview him – yet two months ago she requested his detention so that she could issue a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) against him and start an extradition process?
If Swedish prosecutors are to follow through with this latest investigation attempt, it will have been the third time that Assange will have been interviewed by Swedish authorities for what is essentially the same inquiry. If Persson is not in a position to proceed with an EIO, how can it have been practical or proportionate for her in May to have pursued his detention for the purpose of extraditing him to Sweden from the UK? According to the 2014 legislation by the European Court of Justice, authorities not in a position to prosecute do not require an EAW, but should carry out investigation through an investigation order. In fact, a Swedish court called the Swedish prosecutor's request for Assange's detention disproportionate and refused to grant it on June 3rd, suggesting that at least some judges and authorities are deferring to the European Court regarding EAW issuance and proportionality.
The sexual allegations case is simply meant to destroy Assange in the eyes of the average Joe to make it easier for the U.S. to legally prosecute and destroy him without backlash from the public. However, they are assuming we are fools and don't see through their attempts to violate the very Constitution our country was founded on. The world knows this is an attempt to silence a journalist who exposed the criminal behavior of the U.S. military complex.
Don't shoot the messenger!
Supporting Assange is Supporting Free Speech
I know I preach Assange day in and day out but his freedom is important. Do you know why? His persecution is our rights being violated. Every right we have as humans have been violated in this case or at least damn close to it. The worst though is our right to speak out against oppression and war crimes. Our free speech is at stake while he languishes in Belmarsh prison. His freedom is literally our freedom.
Julian Assange is no mealy-mouthed, genteel saint who never bites back. He's scrappy, he describes himself as "contentious by nature", and he really is. He pushes limits of FreeSpeech. For this, his tongue has been cut out, his freedom corralled. Still not a Criminal. He never will be. He's certainly not perfect or close to it. He's not a machine or a politician. He's not an elite or a rich man. He is a gentle intellect who stood up to possibly the biggest bully in history.
The current persecution of Assange is a prime example of the abuse of power used by the U.S. empire to destroy and belittle those who dare question it's actions. It is setting a legal precedent to take on anyone who exposes it or it's military actions, regardless of how illegal it may be. The U.S. empire has now become the "Dark Side," ruled by a deep state oligarchy and driven by greed and the power hungry.
If they destroy Assange, they are shattering our ability to hold them accountable. They are removing our right to speak up when we see something wrong and therefore we are no longer free. We then become ruled by a tyrannical government that is no longer for the people but for those who choose to run it.
Once this precedent is set we don't stand a chance in hell to regain the freedom it will destroy. We'd have better luck resurrecting the founding fathers or Napoleon.
This isn't just about the U.S. either. This enables other countries to extradite journalists for espionage because they released information that shows criminal activity. No one will be safe from prosecution worldwide. Be very, very scared folks.
As I said earlier, Assange's freedom is your freedom. Assange's destruction is yours.
Why Bullying Is A Form of Torture
I never really thought about bullying being torture when I was younger. I knew that what was done to me and others was certainly cruel and mean but not torture by any means. I mean, these were young teenagers, how could bullying be torture? It is though in a lot of cases. Let me show why.
From Wikipedia on Bullying
Bullying is the use of coercion, force, or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception (by the bully or by others) of an imbalance of physical or social power. This imbalance distinguishes bullying from conflict.[1] There is no universal definition of bullying. It is widely agreed upon that bullying is a subcategory of aggressive behavior characterized by the following three minimum criteria: (1) hostile intent, (2) imbalance of power, and (3) repetition over a period of time.[2] Bullying may thus be defined as the activity of repeated, aggressive behavior intended to hurt another individual, physically, mentally, or emotionally.
Bullying ranges from one-on-one, individual bullying through to group bullying called mobbing, in which the bully may have one or more "lieutenants" who may seem to be willing to assist the primary bully in their bullying activities. Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as "peer abuse".
[3]Robert W. Fuller has analyzed bullying in the context of rankism.The Norwegian researcher Dan Olweus[4] says bullying occurs when a person is "exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other persons". He says negative actions occur "when a person intentionally inflicts injury or discomfort upon another person, through physical contact, through words or in other ways."[4] Individual bullying is usually characterized by a person behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person.[5]
Bullying is divided into four basic types of abuse – emotional (sometimes called relational), verbal, physical, and cyber.
According to apt, the legal definition of torture is very similar to that of bullying.
Article 1 of the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is the internationally agreed legal definition of torture:
"Torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions."
I can tell you from personal experience that bullying leaves a permanent scar in your mind psychologically. From being mobbed by ten girls and finally kicked and spit on, to the group of boys calling after me down the hall to humiliate me, or the boys coming up behind me acting like they were humping me, or the rape I endured at 14, it all still haunts me to this day. It is always in the back of my mind that I am no good, a scumbag, or various names used to belittle me. I knew others who had much worse done to them. From the boy who was beaten up every day just because he looked differently or the guy they put upside down in the trash can full of gum and it was in his hair. The gay guy they orally raped in the gym shower room. What about the guy in my class they kicked in the crotch so many times they gave him a rupture? The stories are endless.
Even though I was treated as I was, I always stuck up for others. I knew what it felt like to be put through that hell. To have days that you were threatened in letters from fellow classmates wondering when they were going to hunt you down to hurt you or face the boys every day, endlessly, who held you down and raped you . There was no way I could stand to watch others suffer. It changed how I looked at myself and others. In some ways, it influenced who I am today. It certainly is part of the reason I am a human rights advocate and want to make a difference in society.
However, no matter how bad it got for us in our little community no one ever shot up the school. We had a lot of suicide attempts but no one took it out on innocent people.
The fact is bullying is torture. There is no doubt about it. It may only be psychological for some but for others, it is physical as well. It destroys you inside. It destroys your self-confidence, your outlook on life, the way you feel, the way you think and it psychologically scars you. No one should ever be bullied. I wish I would have stood up more often but how can you when sometimes even the teachers participated?
Bullying doesn't just take place at school, it can happen anywhere there is a group of people. It is a form of power for some. For others, it is a transfer of some form of abuse they receive at home.
From the Wikipedia site:
Behaviors used to assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets. Rationalizations of such behavior sometimes include differences of social class, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, appearance, behavior, body language, personality, reputation, lineage, strength, size, or ability.[12][13][14] If bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing.[15
If you have been bullied or are being bullied, there is help. You can reach out to someone here. Please do it. You are important and you are valuable.
bullying help site
Just A Message On Freedom and Assange
I woke up to the words I never wanted to hear. "Julian Assange was arrested today." I thought I was speechless but I could hear someone painfully crying out "No!No!No!"
Was that me? I thought as tears began sliding down my face. Pain. Shock. Despair. Then anger. Then back to grief. It was like I'd lost a loved one the pain was so sharp.
I felt defeated. All the hard work his supporters including Unity4J seemed to have been useless. Assange was in U.K. custody after we fought so hard. It is still devastating to me to watch them carry his frail body out of the embassy. In fact, it is so unbearable I refuse to look.
He now faces 175 years or possibly the death penalty if the U.S. succeeds in extraditing him. Many officials would like to see him tried as a terrorist. Can you imagine the precedent it will set if they do try a journalist as a terrorist? Who said America is free? Free of what? Compassion and dignity? Justice?
On this 4th of July I want to remind Americans who celebrate their freedom that the arrest and extradition of Assange is the beginning of the end of your so called freedom.you are not in the least but free. They enslaved us with taxes and corporate tyranny a long time ago. Our freedom was taken away slowly while you sat in your arm chairs and clapped for war and regime changes.
For me, to watch another person like Assange suffer is heartbreaking. We sit passively while our country destroys our heroes and salutes our criminals. We are happy to make it through the day, to compete with the Jones's and to buy, buy, buy. The very moral fabric of this country is being shredded and all we care about is lining the corporations pockets with our hard earned money to buy the latest high tech gizmo that spies on us.
While we celebrate our freedom ( what is left of it), a man languishes in prison that told us the truth. He warned us we are the last free generation, but Americans don't seem to care about future generations. They are more concerned with whether their house is as nice as their neighbors.
Meanwhile, the corrupt officials we elected screw us out of our wages, enslave us and line their pockets. The greedy bastards are destroying our rights and we fight with eachother over left and right, when they are the same damn bird.
They propagandize us in order to keep us divided so they can kill our Constitution and brainwash us into believing it is for our own good.
So go ahead and stay complacent. Don't fight for free speech and free press. Watch your fireworks and eat your hot dogs. Go on with your life. You were warned!
In the mean time, those of us who are awake and calling for the freedom of Assange will continue our fight and some may even be arrested. We prefer the truth over the lies.
Free Assange.
Today is Julian Assange's 48th Birthday
Julian Assange turns 48 today. For most it would be a happy birthday but for the truthteller it is just another day of being incarcerated. There will be no cake or gifts for this hero. No party or celebration. Not even greeting cards because Belmarsh doesn't allow them.Just the usual day, 23 hours in his cell and an hour out of it.
Assange has been illegally detained for 9 years despite 2 U.N. rulings calling for his freedom and countless human rights organizations supporting him. Numerous people advocate for his freedom. There are protests worldwide and yet the U.K. and U.S. governments refuse to listen. We need a mass movement to free him before his health deteriorates any further. Doctors have already stated some of his conditions are irreversible.
He is looking at 175 years in prison if extradited to the United States where he will be tried by the infamous espionage judge who has never found a person "Not guilty." In all likelihood, he faces more violations of his human rights. The U.N. special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, has stated he has all the signs of prolonged psychological torture. He was even put on Belmarsh's hospital ward for 3 weeks, yet the U.K. continues it's persecution of this innocent journalist.
I will wish Assange a happy birthday, but the best gift we can give him is to continue to write and call our elected officials, protest, and educate the public. Please consider donating to his defense fund at
defend.wikileaks.org
In Defense of Nils Melzer
As a rape survivor at the age of 14, I can tell you the supposed women attacking Nils Melzer are not truly rape survior supporters as they attacked many of us who pointed out facts on the Assange rape allegations. Their open letter is nothing more than an attack on a man's career full of disinformaton and smears. Had any of these ladies had the class to actually read up on the Assange case and educated themselves, perhaps this travesty would not have occurred. Instead, they attack a man who had the class to thank them twice in a show of total respect.
Nils Melzer has been nothing but respectful in his correspondence with myself and shows an impeccable sense of loyalty and duty to his title. He is dedicated to his job, yet takes time out of his busy life to address the concerns of others. This is unusual in this day and age.
Had these women investigated the Assange case further they would realize that Melzer was simply stating the facts on the case. Their statements in the open letter only exposes their ignorance at best.
As a rape survivor myself, i find it disgusting and feel appalled by their disrespect to other survivors in the thread. Instead of compassion, they whine like sick puppies that they are being attacked. From my point of view on consensual sex regarding a condom, it is not just the man's position to ensure it is used properly but also a female's. In the case of Assange, the women were just as responsible for the proper use of the condom as was Assange. Sofia Wilen was aware the condom had fallen off and yet continued to have sex and consented to it.
When women use sexual harassment and rape to destroy a man's career when neither took place they make me sick. For those of us who were victims, they make us look like fools. It becomes much harder to prove our own victimization.
The women attacking Nils are neither respectable for their attempt at smearing him and attempting to destroy his career nor should their concerns be heard on the basis that they treated him and those who spoke up with such blatant disregard. They are apparently writing their malarkey with little to no understanding of the real issues here.
I would also like to state that those who allege rape when it did not take place should be prosecuted. They are not only smearing a man and destroying his career but it leaves a scar for life. No one should be put through the horror of false allegations. In the case of Assange, this in fact was another way they tortured him. What about the survivors of false allegations?
U.N. Special Rapporteur Nils Melzer's Statement on Assange
When Nils Melzer a professional speaks about someone being tortured he knows what he's talking about. According to wikipedia:
Nils Melzer is a Swiss academic, author and practitioner in the field of international law. Since 1 November 2016, Melzer has been serving as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. He is Professor of International Law at the University of Glasgow, and also holds the Human Rights Chair at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Switzerland, where he has been teaching since 2009, including as the Swiss Chair of International Humanitarian Law (2011–2013). Melzer has previously served for 12 years with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as Delegate, Deputy Head of Delegation and Legal Adviser in various zones of conflict and violence. After leaving the ICRC, Melzer held academic positions as Research Director of the Swiss Competence Centre on Human Rights (University of Zürich), as Senior Fellow and Senior Advisor on Emerging Security Challenges (Geneva Centre for Security Policy) and at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He has also served as Senior Adviser for Security Policy at the Political Directorate of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Melzer has written several books, including: Targeted Killing in International Law(Oxford University Press, 2008), the ICRC's Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities (ICRC, 2009) and the ICRC's Handbook International Humanitarian Law – a Comprehensive Introduction (ICRC, 2016). He is also a co-author of the NATO CCDCOE Tallinn Manual on the International Law applicable to Cyber Warfare (Cambridge, 2013), and of the NATO MCDC Policy Guidance: Autonomy in Defence Systems, (NATO ACT, 2014).
When Nils Melzer reported on the torture of Assange, the media didn't want to know. Only a few smaller sites picked up on his article and mostly only independent journalists reported on it. This article is to once again remind all of us exactly what he told us.
In an article by goachronicle.com, Melzer stated the following:
"I took with me a psychiatrist and a forensic expert, both of them have decades of experience of working with torture victims. And they compiled a medical protocol, which is designed and recognized internationally for the identification and documentation of signs of torture, both psychological and physical … What we found … [is] that Julian Assange shows signs that are typical for persons who have been exposed to a psychological torture for a prolonged period of time – severe anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, cognitive weaknesses and distortions," Melzer said.
The rapporteur noted he could not reveal all the medical diagnosis due to the patient's confidentiality, adding that the symptoms were very severe.
A very important point is that Assange had been isolated from outside influence for almost six years, Melzer stressed.
"He has been exposed to consistent public mobbing, intimidation, calls for assassination, insults, ridicule. We know from school that mobbing is extremely destructive and can lead people to suicide … Here we have someone who has been mobbed by the world. No state has ever stepped in and at least tried to prevent it," he said.
In his article, Demasking the Torture of Assange, seen here by special permission:
"For once telling the truth has become a crime, while the powerful enjoy impunity, it will be too late to correct the course.
We will have surrendered our voice to censorship & our fate to unrestrained tyranny."
"Once JulianAssange had been dehumanized through isolation, ridicule & shame, just like the witches we used to burn at the stake, it was easy to deprive him of his most fundamental rights without provoking public outrage."
"This is not only about protecting #Assange, but preventing a precedent likely to seal the fate of Western democracy. Once telling the truth has become a crime, we will have surrendered our fate to unrestrained tyranny."
He also stated in a tweet:
Any bail condition entailing (in-)direct refoulement contrary to Art 3 UNCAT breaches peremptory international law and, therefore, is null & void (ab initio), as is any related conviction. Hence the inherent arbitrariness of #Assange's current imprisonment for bail violation.@FT
And from medialens.com:
I've worked in many areas of war in my life, in situations of violence, and I've talked to victims of persecution around the world and I've seen very serious atrocities.
'But [what] I have never seen is that a single person has been deliberately isolated and, I would say, persecuted – not prosecuted, but persecuted – by several democratic states in a concerted effort to eventually break his will.'
We could see that Assange showed all the symptoms that are typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture.'
The evidence made available to me strongly suggests that the primary responsibility for the sustained and concerted abuse inflicted on Mr Assange falls on the governments of the United Kingdom, Sweden, the United States and, more recently, also Ecuador…
'The consistent and repeated failure of all involved states to protect Mr Assange's fundamental right to fair judicial proceedings and due process makes the hypothesis of mere coincidence extremely unrealistic and gives a strong impression of bias and arbitrary manipulation. This starts with the secretive grand jury indictment in the United States, continues with the abusive manner in which Swedish prosecutors disseminated, re-cycled and perpetuated their "preliminary investigation" into alleged sexual offences, exacerbates with the termination by Ecuador of Mr Assange's asylum status and citizenship without any form of due process, and culminates in overt bias against Mr Assange being shown by British judges since his arrest.
'The only realistic explanation for this sustained systemic failure of the judiciary is that the United States, and probably also the other involved states, are trying to make an example of Mr Assange before the eyes of the world, not as much as a punishment for whatever real or perceived harm he is alleged to have caused, but as a measure of deterrence for others who might be tempted to imitate Wikileaks and Mr Assange in the future. In these circumstances, Mr Assange has absolutely no chance to get a fair judicial proceeding in any of these jurisdictions.'
'[I] had been affected by the prejudice that I had absorbed through… public… narratives spread in the media over the years. And only when I scratched the surface a little bit, I saw how little foundation there was to back this up and how much fabrication and manipulation there is in this case.
The U.K. judiciary system seems to have ignored international law and the call to free Assange by the U.N. If this trial were about justice and not vengeance, the ruling to release him would have been adhered to. However as per usual the U.K. once again submits to U.S. authority in a cowardly manner.
The people of the world, including Amnesty International, need to listen to what U.N. Special Rapporteur Nils Melzer has to say about this case. Where is the outrage?
Only We Can Save Assange
The MSM is on the government payroll and will continue to be silent on the plight of Assange. The only media outlets truly covering his story are low budget with independent journalists like Cassandra Fairbanks, Elizabeth Vos and Caitlin Johnstone at the helm. There is only one way we can free Julian. We have to take it to the streets. Only we can save him from a future of torture and death.
We have to educate others. We need to tell his story far and wide. If we don't, he will die in prison. The U.S. and U.K. governments both refuse to abide by international law and U.N. rulings in this case. The U.N. has repeatedly called for the release of Assange to no avail. Only the people have the power to change the outcome.
We need a mass movement and show of hands. We need to stand up and say, "No more!"
Julian Assange's fight has to be our fight. If we allow this injustice to continue, we are giving up not only our rights but our very freedom. He represents so much more than just a journalist. What happens to Assange happens to us all. There are no excuses for inaction.
Please put aside your fears and tell his story and recruit more advocates to help free Assange.
Nils Melzer's Article: Demasking The Torture of Julian Assange
On June 30, 2019 June 30, 2019 By AngelFox1 Comment
With permission this article is being reposted on my blog. Special thanks to Nils Melzer.
Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange
By Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Torture Victims, 26 June 2019
I know, you may think I am deluded. How could life in an Embassy with a cat and a skateboard ever amount to torture? That's exactly what I thought, too, when Assange first appealed to my office for protection. Like most of the public, I had been subconsciously poisoned by the relentless smear campaign, which had been disseminated over the years. So it took a second knock on my door to get my reluctant attention. But once I looked into the facts of this case, what I found filled me with repulsion and disbelief.
Surely, I thought, Assange must be a rapist! But what I found is that he has never been charged with a sexual offence. True, soon after the US had encouraged allies to find reasons to prosecute Assange, two women made the headlines in Sweden. One of them claimed he had ripped a condom, and the other that he had failed to wear one, in both cases during consensual intercourse — not exactly scenarios that have the ring of 'rape' in any language other than Swedish. Mind you, each woman even submitted a condom as evidence. The first one, supposedly worn and torn by Assange, revealed no DNA whatsoever — neither his, nor hers, nor anybody else's. Go figure. The second one, used but intact, supposedly proved 'unprotected' intercourse. Go figure, again. The women even texted that they never intended to report a crime but were 'railroaded' into doing so by zealous Swedish police. Go figure, once more. Ever since, both Sweden and Britain have done everything to prevent Assange from confronting these allegations without simultaneously having to expose himself to US extradition and, thus, to a show-trial followed by life in jail. His last refuge had been the Ecuadorian Embassy.
Alright, I thought, but surely Assange must be a hacker! But what I found is that all his disclosures had been freely leaked to him, and that no one accuses him of having hacked a single computer. In fact, the only arguable hacking-charge against him relates to his alleged unsuccessful attempt to help breaking a password which, had it been successful, might have helped his source to cover her tracks. In short: a rather isolated, speculative, and inconsequential chain of events; a bit like trying to prosecute a driver who unsuccessfully attempted to exceed the speed-limit, but failed because their car was too weak.
Professor Nils Melzer
Well then, I thought, at least we know for sure that Assange is a Russian spy, has interfered with US elections, and negligently caused people's deaths! But all I found is that he consistently published true information of inherent public interest without any breach of trust, duty or allegiance. Yes, he exposed war crimes, corruption and abuse, but let's not confuse national security with governmental impunity. Yes, the facts he disclosed empowered US voters to take more informed decisions, but isn't that simply democracy? Yes, there are ethical discussions to be had regarding the legitimacy of unredacted disclosures. But if actual harm had really been caused, how come neither Assange nor Wikileaks ever faced related criminal charges or civil lawsuits for just compensation?
But surely, I found myself pleading, Assange must be a selfish narcissist, skateboarding through the Ecuadorian Embassy and smearing feces on the walls? Well, all I heard from Embassy staff is that the inevitable inconveniences of his accommodation at their offices were handled with mutual respect and consideration. This changed only after the election of President Moreno, when they were suddenly instructed to find smears against Assange and, when they didn't, they were soon replaced. The President even took it upon himself to bless the world with his gossip, and to personally strip Assange of his asylum and citizenship without any due process of law.
In the end it finally dawned on me that I had been blinded by propaganda, and that Assange had been systematically slandered to divert attention from the crimes he exposed. Once he had been dehumanized through isolation, ridicule and shame, just like the witches we used to burn at the stake, it was easy to deprive him of his most fundamental rights without provoking public outrage worldwide. And thus, a legal precedent is being set, through the backdoor of our own complacency, which in the future can and will be applied just as well to disclosures by The Guardian, the New York Times and ABC News.
Very well, you may say, but what does slander have to do with torture? Well, this is a slippery slope. What may look like mere «mudslinging» in public debate, quickly becomes "mobbing" when used against the defenseless, and even "persecution" once the State is involved. Now just add purposefulness and severe suffering, and what you get is full-fledged psychological torture.
Yes, living in an Embassy with a cat and a skateboard may seem like a sweet deal when you believe the rest of the lies. But when no one remembers the reason for the hate you endure, when no one even wants to hear the truth, when neither the courts nor the media hold the powerful to account, then your refuge really is but a rubber boat in a shark-pool, and neither your cat nor your skateboard will save your life.
Even so, you may say, why spend so much breath on Assange, when countless others are tortured worldwide? Because this is not only about protecting Assange, but about preventing a precedent likely to seal the fate of Western democracy. For once telling the truth has become a crime, while the powerful enjoy impunity, it will be too late to correct the course. We will have surrendered our voice to censorship and our fate to unrestrained tyranny.
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Damiano Caruso wins stage 2 of Il Giro di Sicilia and becomes the new leader of the general classification
Damiano Caruso (Nazionale Italiana) has won Stage 2 of Il Giro di Sicilia Eolo, the 152km route from Palma di Montechiaro to Caltanissetta. Vincenzo Nibali (Astana Qazaqstan Team) and Domenico Pozzovivo (Intermarchè-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux) finished second and third respectively.
Damiano Caruso (Nazionale Italiana) is the new Maglia Giallo Rossa and leads the General Classification.
1 – Damiano Caruso (Nazionale Italiana) – 152km in 3h45'18", average speed 40.479 km/h
2 – Vincenzo Nibali (Astana Qazaqstan Team) s.t.
3 – Domenico Pozzovivo (Intermarchè – Wanty – Gobert Matériaux) s.t.
1 – Damiano Caruso (Nazionale Italiana)
2 – Vincenzo Nibali (Astana Qazaqstan Team) at 4″
3 – Domenico Pozzovivo (Intermarchè-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux) at 6″.
THE LEADERS' JERSEYS
The leader jerseys of the Il Giro di Sicilia EOLO are produced with SITIP garments and designed by GOBIK.
Maglia Giallo Rossa (Yellow/Red), leader of the General Classification, sponsored by Regione Siciliana – Damiano Caruso (Nazionale Italiana)
Maglia Ciclamino (Cyclamen), leader of the Points Classification, sponsor dedicated to Made in Italy – Damiano Caruso (Nazionale Italiana)
Maglia Verde Pistacchio (Green), leader of the Gran Premio della Montagna (KOM), sponsored by Enel Green Power – Stefano Gandin (Team Corratec)
Maglia Bianca (White), leader of the Young Riders Classification, born after 01/01/1997, sponsored by ENIT – Agenzia Nazionale del Turismo – Nicola Conci (Nazionale Italiana)
Speaking seconds after the stage finish, the stage winner, and new Maglia Giallo Rossa, Damiano Caruso (Nazionale Italiana) said: "This is an amazing feeling. I am from Sicily and this is the first time I win here. The National team did a great job, all day in front of the group, and this was the best way to thank them. It's great to be the new GC leader, we will try to keep the jersey till the end."

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Bookmobiles Retired @ the Fond du Lac Public Library
Commentary: FdL library's Bookmobile retired, (Fond du Lac Reporter, 8/29/2011)
Excerpt: But the bus was showing its age. With no indoor plumbing and rust holes, visitors froze in winter and baked in summer. Even a lively paint job in 2010 by the kids from the Boys and Girls Club couldn't mask a struggling enterprise. As well, a failing economy was making it tough to continue the program.
Use of the facility wasn't high enough to sustain library funding; city taxpayers were paying too much for a non-city service. Rosendale village leaders couldn't guarantee funding to move the satellite indoors. So we made the tough decision to close the old bookmobile forever; its last day was Aug. 19.
At the other end of town, the parked bookmobile in front of Festival Foods serves folks in the growing northeast Fond du Lac and the Holyland. But it too will be going away; it will be replaced by the FDPL Express, the library's first branch, located in the same shopping center.
Express will be kind of like the bookmobile, only much bigger with more selection, comfy chairs, reliable heating and cooling, and indoor plumbing. It will have the books, videos and recordings most in demand. Material reserved from the big library downtown can be picked up at Express. High traffic from the shopping center makes us believe we'll have the level of use to justify this expansion.
Selling off the bookmobiles is not just about the end of an era; it's the beginning of a new phase.
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Demarcus Cousins / Nerlens Noel / Russell Westbrook
Lakers News Surge Forum/Message Board » Lakers General Discussions
Calikings 07/25/2016 - 01:05 AM PST
Who should the Lakers trade for before next season? Or should they stay Pat?
I think we should sign Cousins. Trade Clarkson or Russell plus Lou, Nance and one of the 2nd round picks we acquired.
I would love to see
Russell, Ingram, Deng, Randle, Cousins...
What u think ?
I vote stay pat. I think you have a nearly full team the next few years with:
Russell, Williams, Clarkson, Ingram, Brown, Randle, Nance & Zubac.
And don't be surprised if we have another top 3 pick next offseason. THAT I might look to trade.
Apollon 07/25/2016 - 05:19 AM PST
I'd do Russell + Randle and fillers for Cousins, if Lakers can secure a promise from Westbrook to come next summer. Kings wouldn't take just Clarkson and fillers for Cousins. They'd want the farm - probably Russell, Ingram and Nace or Zubac.
TimmyDoe 07/25/2016 - 07:59 AM PST
Apollon wrote:
I'd do Russell + Randle and fillers for Cousins...
Yikes...
Yeah I'm with you, I'd go after him with top 3 in better draft, if we keep it, plus fillers.
lakers52761 07/25/2016 - 12:58 PM PST
Cousins, Mclemore to lakers
Russell, Randle, Nick young and lou williams to kings
Well if we had to do a trade, then my pick would to go for Cousins but only if the deal made sense. Not something that would keep us back. Don't want to give up D-Lo. Clarkson and Randle I wouldn't have a problem with. Other than that, stay with what we got. We need to be in the driver's seat regarding any trade.
IhatetheCeltics 07/25/2016 - 01:35 PM PST
Cousins sounds like a cancer. At what point do people stop blaming the coach, and say "dude, it is you." The guy sounds like he's had everyone kissing his *** for years. They have a terrible FO in Sacramento, but the guy also sounds like a pain the butt. Lakers don't need that with a first year head coach.
jseltzer 07/25/2016 - 02:00 PM PST
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Russel looks like a stud. I'd love Cousins, but not if we have to give up Russel. I'd include anyone else though. Let's sweeten the deal, and include Slava Medvedenko as a bonus.
IhatetheCeltics wrote:
Same could be said of Kobe. He wasn't exactly a saint but every one turns a blind eye because of championships.
If the Lakers land Westbrook, it's the end of Russell, Randle or Ingram. One of them will be packaged for Cousins. It's the way this FO operates.
WatchTheSkyFall24 07/25/2016 - 03:24 PM PST
I wouldn't do anything until next off-season. If we can land Westbrook, I would trade Russell and Randle for Cousins as well.
Yeah. But he also wasn't coached by a first time head coach as Cousins would be here. Really, they should take Luke's opinion into this. If he says he thinks he could make it work, go for it. But if he's strongly against it, they should hold off. Considering that you know, Luke actually has to coach these guys. GS called off the Kevin Love trade after Kerr and West were strongly against it. Lakers need to do the same instead of making decisions in a vacuum. Sometimes it seems like Kupchak and Buss are up locked in a room like a bunch of mad scientists scheming what they are going to do next.....
Yes...and how many Championships has Cousins won? Last I heard he has the same number as I do -- NONE.
He is a pain no matter who he plays with. I vote NO!
How many championships did Kobe win with out a hall of fame big man on the roster? NONE.
Who exactly has Cousins had to play with? We really going to consider Rudy Gay or Jimmer Fredette as players that can help him get to that championship level?
Cousins has had problems, but the Lakers did with Kobe, let's not pretend HE DIDN'T contribute to losing Shaq, along with other problems.
Cousins is a talented player, do I want to give up a lot for him? No. Not in the slightest, but this talk that he can't get the Kings to a championship is absurd. Kobe needed help, LBJ needed help, MJ needed help, every darn championship that has ever been won was not solely because of one player.
I'm not advocating that they trade for Cousins. I completely agree that Luke should be part of the process. But Mitch and Jim have their own agenda. Go back through the PJ days and look at the amount of players signed that were useless within the triangle.
All I'm saying is that the problems up in sac town are not solely down to Cousins. It has been a troubled franchise for a very long time. Is Cousins absolved of all blame? Absolutely not but to say he should never be signed because he is a cancer is a big stretch.
JChrist101 07/25/2016 - 09:03 PM PST
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What is it with you guys, and your infatuation with these big names? Are you in that much of a rush to be mediocre? We have a good young core with the potential to be great with TIME, but every time I come on this board there's a new person creating a thread for trading them. It's a new day and age, trading your young assets for one piece isn't the way to a championship, or at least long lasting championship title contenders.
Russell is Kobe 2.0, no thanks, the ballhog thing doesn't work anymore, Cousins is a cancer for any team or coach, and Nerlens Noel is an average player. All defense, and no offense, and you know what, we have Larry Nance Jr. who's becoming a pretty good defender, and would you look at that, he also has some offensive game. I'm sure the 76ers would love to get Clarkson and Nance for Noel. No, just stop these threads and let the young guys grow.
Seeing these threads is getting so irritating.
Maybe but I don't think Westbrook is going anywhere IMO. He still has a good enough team to make some noise in OKC.
JChrist101 wrote:
How is cousins a cancer? Because he is sick of losing and speaks out about it? He is sick of bad coaches being appointed? Anything here ring a bell? LOL
I agree that the FO should be patient, but they should also not hang up the phone if calls come in for any of the young core.
Sorry bro. We can't help ourselves. We need the quick fix!!!!!!!!!!!....lol. J/K.....lol. I think at the end of the day we should just raise the pups up and ride it out.
GhostNugget 07/25/2016 - 10:32 PM PST
I'd include Randle and Clarkson in any Cousins or Westbrook trade. Other than that I like the other young guys.
Word! I completely agree. And who knows, we might look at Russell, Clarkson, Ingram, Randle and Zubac at this point next year and think we don't even need a big name free agent or trade.
gemfow 07/26/2016 - 06:19 AM PST
You make some of the most sensible posts. I'm so tired of the trade for Cousins talk. Why trade for a guy who seems to have a problem every year when things aren't going right? So, Cousins only needs to be in purple and gold during a rebuild to act okay? Nope, Cousins as talented as he is will only be okay if he's on a team that's winning and he must receive the ball enough times. Pass. REPPED for stating what others keep glancing over about Cousins.
Another good post. This whole thing of trading a young guy is becoming ridiculous. This type of thinking is what has landed Guys like Nash and Howard on LA. Both guys had bad backs and one guy didn't want to come to LA. This big name chasing has to stop.
Something that these big name groupies keep looking past is that our group of guys can be attractive to other players who who are similar in age. Suppose Ben Simmons wants to play with the nucleus that we have? How about Joel Embiid if he's healthy? There will be other fee agents or obtainable players after we see what we have first. REPPED
lepcitylakers 07/26/2016 - 10:29 AM PST
How about we aren't winning anything the next 3 years anyway. Get another top 3 pick this year then sign cousins in free agency because I doubt he signs an extension with the great organization of Sacramento lol
Luke... 07/26/2016 - 11:12 AM PST
I agree with the previous few posts and the sentiment of not trading our young guys away. also especially not for Cousins, a guy who is def a coach killer. Walton doesn't need that sort of headache, and it'll be hard to gain his respect and keep him in line. Cousins needs like a Popavich, PJ, or Riley to get him on board, and another star vet (who has patience) to keep him in check on the court. We don't have any of those things right now.. .so NO to Cousins.
I also say NO to trading for Westbrook... if he wants to sign with us next year, well, then maybe. He is great point guard... in his prime... trading for him would take away too much of what we have, leaving him with less around him. Not totally sold on singing him in FA next year either... He is great, but will he fit in with the team that Walton is trying to craft? There will be other stars, they are just emerging now? young guys in their 2nd or 3rd years that are showing signs of all-star caliber play. Those are the guys we should be targeting in the next couple years. Lakers would just waste his prime years.
Lakers need to be patient, we won back to back titles just 6 years ago, sure the fall off was too harsh, but they have a good thing starting, stick to it.
MAGICLAKEZ 07/26/2016 - 11:16 AM PST
Umm...Cousins, Westbrook..Noel......no thank you.
Look at the big picture:
One thing I can vouch for, he's been having his but kissed since he was in High School in Mobile,AL. He's exactly the same person now he was back then. Use to watch him play.
gemfow wrote:
Following what happened with Durant, expect the CBA to be changed quite radically so that the small market teams rarely lose their talent. Presti was the one who rounded up all the small market teams and fought against changes to the draft and succeeded.
I also expect the wage structure to change, so that those that do change teams to create a superteam are losing a lot more money than they currently do.
For the Lakers to sign Simmons, he would have to refuse his rookie extension and play a season for the qualifying offer. Between $9 and $10 million. Sacrificing around $16 million to become unrestricted at seasons end. This very rarely happens. Not only that, by the time Simmons could become unrestricted, Russell, Randle and Ingram will all be off their rookie contracts. Ditto for Nance, Zubac. Clarkson will also be up for a new contract.
At current numbers, albeit that will change with the next CBA, I just don't see how Simmons or any star like that can be signed via free agency. The cap is projected to stabilize and only go up a few million per year if that for the foreseeable future.
Signing Russell, Randle and Ingram to contract extensions is going to take 25% of the cap X 3. So 75% of the cap, this is without re-signing Clarkson, Nance and Zubac.(also doesn't factor in the changes to the next CBA). Which is another reason why I'm not high on the Mozgov and Deng signings. They absolutely need to be traded for something of value in the last year of their deals. That is not very easy to do.
Those complaining about this thread, what's the problem with pursuing Cousins or Westbrook? Both bring championship level skills. The question is whether either can be had without gutting the young core which most likely is no. The Lakers screwed up with the Mozgov signing given that Cousins remains an option and Philly has three bigs. Had they seen the performance of Zubac prior, by being patient, I suspect they might not have signed Mozgov and not because Zu is gonna be a starter, but the dynamic changes with him in the mix. He's also a potential trade piece now given his upside. I personally am not interested in Westbrook and do not expect that he will ever leave OKC. He demands too much control and a team would have to adjust their entire approach to bring him in. Despite his super duper talent, he's likely the reason they could not win because his M.O. is a vacuum and compromises a team approach. Perhaps that's why K.D. Left too? If he becomes a free agent you do it, but as a trade, no way. Cousins though is another story given the imminent divorce with the Kings in the very near future. He's emotional and feisty and gets technical so what. He's the best center in the NBA. It the Kings would take Randle, Clarkson and Zubac, I personally would do it because we have Nance and Ingram, Clarkson is replaceable and despite Zu's potential, it's a no brainer if Cousins is on the table. With Mozgov though, the Lakers don't have the money so moving right along.... Mitch's greatest accomplishments are accidents and second round surprises. Zubac is yet another example... Do not expect him to be deliberate and make a....
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Tempy 07/27/2016 - 01:22 AM PST
Those complaining about this thread, what's the problem with pursuing Cousins or Westbrook? Both bring championship level skills. question is whether either can be had without gutting the young core which most likely is no.
The Lakers screwed up with the Mozgov signing given that Cousins remains an option and Philly has three bigs. Had they seen the performance of Zubac prior, by being patient, I suspect they might not have signed Mozgov and not because Zu is gonna be a starter, but the dynamic changes with him in the mix. He's also a potential trade piece now given his upside.
Cousins though is another story given the imminent divorce with the Kings in the very near future. He's emotional and feisty and gets technical so what. He's the best center in the NBA. It the Kings would take Randle, Clarkson and Zubac, I personally would do it because we have Nance and Ingram, Clarkson is replaceable and despite Zu's potential, it's a no brainer if Cousins is on the table.
Mitch's greatest accomplishments are accidents and second round surprises. Zubac is yet another example... Do not expect him to be deliberate and make a trade anytime soon even if it were laid on a silver platter. He cannot even answer a basic question regarding his existing personnel. "They are young," he will say, "And we are lucky to have them." "Next year they will be better." "We are thinking about what's best for the organization." What do you think about Russell's performance at the USA practices? What about Ingram and Randle? "It's an honor to be selected for USA basketball." He simply WILL NOT commit to a public opinion about his sports family. What a shmuck. Time to move on from the Mitchster... Can teams trade General Managers?
I never thought teams could trade head coaches so I don't see why it's not possible lol.
On a more serious note, I don't get the hate on Cousins. People loved metta when he elbowed Harden yet hate on Cousins and call him a cancer. Quite bizarre.
If he was available and the Lakers didn't have to give up much, the FO have to be interested. The young core are not or at least should not be untouchable in trade conversations. I'm not advocating that they be traded either.
As for Westbrook, he is supremely gifted, very similar to Kobe. Regardless of coach or style of play. If he is available and wants to come, again I think the FO have to listen. I don't think they should trade for him though. I'd take Westbrook over Clarkson each and every time. Signing Westbrook and then trading Clarkson and fillers for Cousins while maintaining the majority of the core gets the Lakers back in contention.
Sounds great, except I don't think you're getting Cousins for Clarkson and fillers.
AChad92 07/27/2016 - 09:02 AM PST
Cousins is nice, but he needs to show better decision making, better shot taking, better defense and an improved attitude/ maturity.
We all loved MWP because he knew his role and he was one of the best defenders in LA History. If Cousins was 75% as good on defense as he is on offense, they'd be a playoff team every year and I'd welcome him here with no questions asked.
Probably not but they could do a 3 team trade and get picks from someone else who is willing to give up picks.
Would need West to pull of a heist like that....lol.
They got Gasol without West's help.
Michael Heisley, the owner of the Grizzlies at the time claims West didn't know about the trade til after it happened. Yet West was instrumental in recruiting his own replacement in Memphis and still had a close relationship with Heisley at the time. So that on top of his bond with Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak and Kobe Bryant, who knows. But that's neither here nor there. It happened and we got 2 rings out of it. I choose to believe West had something to do with that. But that's just me.
Yeah, but will still end up having to trade more than one of the core. Think I'd wait and see if we get top 3 pick and package that with one of the core and fillers. Or depending on how good next year's class looks, you might just have to give up pick and fillers.
I don't want any trades. I think we have 5 future starters and a couple future young productive backups.
Me neither. Would love to see the F.O. let these kids grow. I mean look at Lillard and McCollum. Portland stuck it out and they still have room to grow. Lets hope the F.O. follow suit.
I wouldn't say West was instrumental. He said he would advise Heisley on his replacement. But my point was that trades can be had where a team doesn't give up much to acquire talent. Gasol was just one of those trades that the Lakers actually participated in.
Agree we could have 5 future starters, but I don't know how many stars we have in those 5, if any. Stars win championships. If I can get Boogie for a pick and fillers or pick and one of the core, I'd do it. I don't see any one on current team turning out as good as him, but I'm not giving up the farm to get him either.
Plenty of stars don't win championships. In fact I'd say more don't than do. At this point it's all speculation, but if you look at the total picture to include not just talent but also coachability and winning, I see 3 guys that I think could be better than Cousins. Randle & Ingram and Russell if he can become a complete PG. Like I said it's all speculation though. Now to your point of trading for an Olympic level talent like Cousins, but not Cousins specifically for me, hell yeah I would trade for that player for a pick and fillers! Especially if it's a center. I like Zubac, but I'm not counting him as a for sure good starter yet!
LALA-LandShow24 07/28/2016 - 09:37 AM PST
If Cousins is available in a trade then the Lakers have to check in. Cousins is only 25. Same age as Randle but much more "polished/experienced".
I would trade Randle, Clarkson and the 2 CHI second round picks for Cousins.
D-Lo / Calderon/ Huertas
Ingram/ Williams
Deng / Brown
Cousins / Nance
Mozgov/ Zubac / Black
That Is a team with some pretty good defensive potential.
Because of how loaded next years draft is supposed to be, I would not trade the pick (if its kept as a top 3). I don't think the Lakers will keep their pick next year. I believe they will surprise people and not be one of the worst teams. They won't make playoffs but I don't think top 3 pick is in the cards.
Simmons was just an example. My main point is about the big name chasing and attracting free agents with our young guys could bring in someone around their own age group instead of going after guys who have been in the league seven years compared to our nucleus guys who are going on second and third years.
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Randle is only 21, not 25, with "officially 2 years of experience (really just 1), Cousins is 25 (about to be 26) has 6 years of experience. I'm not arguing that Cousins isn't a better player than Randle... maybe even better than the combination of Randle and Clarkson. But I just don't think Cousins is a wise choice for this team right now.
Walton has his hands full already just learning the job. He doesn't need a problem player. I want them to get rid of all problem players ahemcoughNickYoungcough and anybody else... I am looking squintey eyed at Lou Williams for some reason, not sure, but suspicious of his locker room presence with the rest of the guys. Don't sabotage Walton.
Cousins (minus Randle and Clarkson) ain't gunna make this a playoff team... since he hasn't done that in Sacramento in 6 years.
Yes we're all not too terribly enamored with the Mozgov signing, but we have to live with it now... and sooo we can't really play these guys on the floor at the same time, even if Cousins plays PF, which I don't really think he is.
Don't think we can afford to lose 2 or more potentially good players for one in his prime great players. It is just not our time yet. We have to be patient. No quick fixes. Trades will come down the road, but right now we don't have a structure to support a "in his prime" star. Maybe in a year or two (I suspect 2 years)
this year, show improvement, develop, gain talent and assets where we can, build team chemistry, create a healthy culture, and start something we can all enjoy for a good solid length of time.
Lol Randle is 4 years and 3 months younger.
Priester_bad_user 07/28/2016 - 11:53 AM PST
Luke... wrote:
Nice post. I really see 3 superstars in our young core. Our 3 lottery picks. If they develop the facets of their game that needs developing they'll be great ball players.
Randle=3pt&mid range shooting, defensive awareness
Russell=defensive awareness, turnovers, simple passes
Ingram = weight
I understand that, but getting someone the same age is going to be extremely difficult because of how difficult it is to steal away great young players. The days of the Lakers stealing a player like Shaq are long gone. Teams just match the big market teams offer. With the next CBA most likely being up for renegotiation next summer you can bet it's going to be harder still in the future.
There is talk that the cap on players salaries will be raised so those like Durant are sacrificing a lot more money to win. That's not good news for the Lakers who have 3 players coming off their rookie deals. The more Randle, Russell and Ingram get paid, the less $$ the Lakers have to attract other players.
Waltons job is to get the best out of his players no matter the personality. Is Cousins any more problematic than Draymond Green? How is getting rid of bad personalities going to prepare him for getting one in the future? It simply doesn't work like that.
Yes cousins hasn't made the playoffs, but you really expect him to get there in his first few years as a rookie? Really? There are more problems in Sacramento than just boogie.
www.sactownroyalty.com/platform/amp/2016/7/26/12283364/sacramento-king s-rudy-gay-frustration
I guess that makes Rudy Gay a cancer in the locker room too, because he is speaking out.
The FO still want to chase the big names. The only difference being that none wanted to take a meeting this summer. Getting Cousins and getting close to the playoffs gives them a better chance of attracting Westbrook in the summer. I strongly believe the FO will be chasing Westbrook hard next year.
I'm not saying that's the right thing to do but there is no guarantee any of these guys fulfill their potential either.
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For a while one of the Miko Gakkou games seemed to update every time I took my PSTV out of standby. It hasn't done it since I turned it completely off and turned it back on.
Just a thought; I'm sure a lot of people don't know who published the game they are looking for, so it's going to be hard for them to pinpoint the link they want. Keep in mind people will either be on their Vita or PSTV. You either have to be looking closely at a handheld, while you swipe, or deal with the slow PSTV scroll speed to find what you want.
You make a good point. I had been thinking that if someone wanted to find a specific game but didn't know the developer, they could always just text-search the page . . . but you can't do that on the PSV/PSTV, huh? Should I make a version of the list ordered by title, alphabetically? I don't think it would be that difficult. However, I'm kind of reluctant to completely do away with the grouped-by-developer version, because if you do like a game by a certain developer, you're more likely to be interested in other games by that developer. Do you think the post can handle two versions of the list? I can put a shortcut to the second list in the intro part of the post.
Was it actually doing any updating? I point out that MGM: Kaede Episode, the most recent one, actually did get at least two updates in the weeks after release, one of them being after the PSM Store had closed. The game just about doubled in size, too (at release, it wasn't complete--sort of like why Oh, Deer! Alpha is "alpha").
I've uploaded a new version of the PSM links file to my website, with a prototype of what we were discussing above. Just below the red "REMEMBER" text, there is now a paragraph with a hyperlink to the version of the PSM links list ordered alphabetically by game title. How does that look? Shall we do the same thing with our blog post? As always, watch out for pop-ups when clicking links on my website.
I found something weird "in" the PSM Store while going through my games list to retrieve the link for Beats Trellis (somehow skipped it earlier): Access Permission to Development Portal for PS Suite. I built this link by using the dev ID and game ID combo that came out of my games list entry for the PlayStation Mobile Development Assistant. If you open the link in the Store (via your PSV/PSTV browser), there's nothing to download; it's just a text title and description.
Thanks for the contributions, blackjack21, and welcome! I've added those four links into the blog post. This link for MUSYNC has also been added.
So, five new links added to the blog post (and they're also now in both lists at the staging page at my website--someone give me feedback already on whether we want to go ahead with that second, alphabetical-by-title list!).
Not sure if I did it right or not. I can't check right now.
Do you think the post can handle two versions of the list? I can put a shortcut to the second list in the intro part of the post.
Just put a shortcut. That way it won't be overwhelming with two lists.
I'm not sure what you thought I meant, but the shortcut I was talking about would be a shortcut into the middle of the blog post, where the second list would start. Well, I'll just do what I was talking about to the post, and if you think that's no good, we can always revert the change.
Not sure if I did it right or not.
Thanks, by the way. You wouldn't happen to have Tuffy the Corgi or Boot Hill Heroes, would you? I'd thought we had those already in the list, but apparently not. If anyone else reading this has them--or any PSM games not in the list, really--please feel free to beat Ofaliss. To the punch, I mean. Of course.
Wow, that's kind of, uh, crazy of you. Thanks! I did something similar to gather up all the Hamster releases, but that was just a single company.
We've broken the 300 mark! I'll update the blog post with all the new additions shortly.
Here's another that went up in the last update.
Also, the "van der Brink" in the previous post should have been "van den Brink."
I'll add these to the blog post later.
I recently analyzed the game IDs we've collected and noticed some interesting attributes.
- Each territory's numberings are independent of other territories' (e.g., NPNA00103, NPOA00103, NPPA00103, and NPQA00103 all exist and are different games from different publishers).
- There seem to be two distinct numbering groups: those whose numbers are (significantly) below 100 and those whose numbers are above; the highest number below 100 which we have is 34, while the lowest number above 100 which we have is 102. I surmise that the former group is made up of games made by devs directly approached by Sony, prior to the public release of the SDK, while the latter group is everything built with the SDK public.
- NPNA in our list: only 1 under-100 number; max number is 292. As our list does include North American-made PSM releases from within the last month of new content, it appears there was, overall, a total of under 200 North American-made PSM titles.
- NPOA in our list: highest under-100 number is 34; max number is 285. As our list does include European-made PSM releases from within the last month of new content, it appears there was, overall, a total of under 225 European-made PSM titles.
- NPPA in our list: highest under-100 number is 19; max number is 345. As our list includes numerous Japan-made PSM releases from within the last month of new content, it appears there was, overall, a total of under 275 Japan-made PSM titles.
- NPQA in our list: 4 titles in all. The total NPQA contribution is probably covered by my rounding-up of the other territories' putative numbers.
- Most likely, then, there were (under) 200 + 225 + 275 = 700 PSM titles in all. Since this count includes the 9 re-skinned PSM demos by banned developer Denysoft (I seriously doubt Sony reassigned those game IDs afterward), I guess you could comfortably say there were (under) 690 real PSM titles in all. Thus, with our list currently at 374 links, we definitely have more than half of the entire PSM library accounted for already.
Slowly closing in on 400 games.
With that many entries you'd think my entire PSM library was like this ... but it's not. Many of my other games give me no prompts whatsoever. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason as to what games are giving me this issue.
Well, all the games in that list which I own and which I have installed (there are 9) are at the same versions, so at least you really are up to date. Do all those games appear in your PSM download list? I'm wondering if maybe something weird is going on because part of the system thinks you don't own the games.
All of them show up in my PSM download history. That's how I grabbed them.
I registered for PSM Development and have both the Unity and regular SDK apps still installed on my Vita (despite them no longer working). I wonder if that's causing something funky.
I used to have the Development Assistant installed on my PSV, but then I needed the space for other things. And then it got blacklisted, so it's gone for good now.
And thus do we hit 400 titles in the list.
One more week until PSM closes for real. This will be one of the last batches, possibly the last one.
Well, well, I'm back with a few more.
I found the Chimpact link in an unusual way. I knew that NPOA00033 was probably Chimpact, because Chimpact was the only game 1) whose game ID hadn't yet been determined and 2) which was released between NPOA00032 (Gun Commando) and NPOA00034 (Switch Galaxy). However, to make a link, you need both game ID and dev ID, and we didn't have Yippee Entertainment's dev ID. What I did know, though, was that the European dev IDs from EM0020 to EM0041 were in alphabetical order by dev name. EM0041 was Vlambeer. Well, 'Y' comes after 'V,' so . . . I tried a link with EM0042 and NPOA00033, and voila! Chimpact's PSM Store entry opened up.
By the way, I'm amused that there's a PSM dev called "Henchman & Goon" and another PSM dev called "Henchmen Interactive."
I haven't actually checked whether this really is the link for YASHIKI because the game was a Japan-only release. However, the NPPA (i.e., Japan) game ID numbers immediately before and after 163 are all accounted for as games released immediately before and after YASHIKI's release date, so it seems very, very likely that this NPPA00163 link is correct. It would be possible to confirm this with a Japanese account on a PSV, if anyone wants to go through the account switch tediousness.
We have all the NPOA (i.e., Europe) numbers between 1 and 34 accounted for except NPOA00020 (I have to say, that's pretty impressive). Since we know that NPOA00019 was You Are The Ref, and we know that it and You Are The Umpire released simultaneously from the same publisher, there's a very high likelihood that Umpire is NPOA00020, attached to Four Door Lemon's publisher ID as above. We can't verify because none of Four Door Lemon's games are even in the Store anymore (we only found what their other games' IDs were thanks to either their being published online or our review accounts having them).
Just wanted to sincerely thank onmode-ky and the other members of this thread for finding this workaround. You're bloody brilliant! Proves once again as Ian Malcolm says, that life always finds a way.
I couldn't find any online presence at all for Pachytene Studio, the developer of Merry Christmas Lady Santa (and one other PSM game), much less a published link for the game. Ofaliss, do you have the time to check your resources?
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The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an educational breastfeeding intervention on initiation, continuation, and exclusivity of breastfeeding. In this experimental study 130 pregnant women who attended a primary health care center in Erbil city/Iraqi Kurdistan, between March 2018 and July 2018 were enrolled. They randomly allocated to either an experimental (n=65) or control (n=65) group. The participants assigned to the experimental group received two antenatal breastfeeding educational sessions. Outcome measurements (initiation, exclusivity, and continuation of breastfeeding) were assessed by a researcher, who was blind to groups' allocation.
The percentage of subjects in the experimental group who began breastfeeding within one hour after delivery was significantly higher in the experimental group (75.0% vs. 39.4%, in the control groups, P=.004). Two months after delivery, proportion of women who practiced exclusive breastfeeding were (67.7% in experimental group compared to 40.0% in the control groups, P=.082), and for continuity of breastfeeding the majority of the subjects in the control (86.7%) and the experimental group (93.5%) were still breastfeeders (P=.425). An educational nursing intervention during the third trimester of pregnancy is an effective technique for increasing breastfeeding initiation, while it is less effective for breastfeeding exclusivity and continuation.
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After this mourning mom sold her dead son's crib at a yard sale, she was surprised when the buyer returned it a week later.
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Expecting a baby has to be one of the best feelings in the world. Just thinking of the happy times that follow with the birth of that bundle of joy causes excitement at the parents-to-be.
A woman named Valerie Watts was looking forward to seeing her baby's face, but her happiness and heart were crushed when she gave birth to a stillborn baby boy.
Her pregnancy was developing great throughout the whole time, but then, all of a sudden, that changed.
"All week, I knew," Watts reflected. "He wasn't moving as much. I was very nervous."
Baby Noah's umbilical cord become pinched in the womb, and his life ended before it even started.
Watts couldn't get over the sadness. Although her baby didn't make it, she wasn't ready to part with the crib she bought for him, and keeping it home was a reminder of the tragedy that struck her.
She was kind of hesitant," Gerald Kumpula recalled. "I knew that maybe she didn't want to sell it, but yet, she did."
Kumpula lived a few miles away and had a workshop on the outskirt of Cokato. When he spotted the crib at the Watts family garage sale, he was interested in buying it although it wasn't on sale.
"When he asked me if I was selling that, that he made benches, I hesitated," Watts admitted.
Back then, Kumpulas didn't know the story behind that crib.
"His wife was there looking through my garage sale — at some of the baby clothes — and asked how old my son was since I don't use the crib anymore, and I told her that he had passed in July," Watts explained.
Kumpulas knew that crib belonged to the Watts family, so after he transformed it, he decided to return it back .
"I started crying instantly," Watts said.
The bench that Kumpulas made out of the crib is a reminder of the sad times, but it also stands as a symbol of comfort for the mourning parents.
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