Julian Assange, creator of Wikileaks, is an activist who has dedicated his life to exposing the lies and corruption of some of the most powerful governments on earth. He’s been honored with countless prestigious journalism awards, yet he languishes in prison under horrendous conditions, vilified as an enemy of the state. It’s hard for the average person to know what to think about Assange, because for over a decade his actions have been shrouded in a fog of conflicting narratives and media portrayals -- That is by design.
In this video we’ll expose 6 lies about Assange that have been deliberately used to distract us from what is one of the most important precedent-setting cases for freedom of speech of our generation. If there’s one thing you should take away from this, it’s that most of what you think you know about Assange is false.
This case represents a critical juncture for the future of press freedom. It doesn’t matter whether you like Assange or not, or whether you’ve bought into the mainstream narratives against him. You should be very worried about the fate of journalism around the world.
It is time to recognize the stakes at hand and demand an end to this ordeal. Free Assange, and in doing so, protect the future of press freedom.
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Special thanks to Assange's Father and Brother, John and Gabriel Shipton, for their fight.
Its almost as if YouTube doesn’t want the public to know that Julian Assange is a political prisoner for the crime of journalism. I am happy that you didn’t back down from this, Naomi. This is why you are the Queen!
Subject: Re: RE: Iceland and Bankers etc I must ask the obvious
question. Why have you people ignored me for three years?
To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Dear David Amos
Unfortunately there has been a considerable delay in responding to
incoming letters due to heavy workload and many inquiries to our office.
We appreciate the issue raised in your letter. We have set up a web site
www.iceland.org where we have gathered various practical information
regarding the economic crisis in Iceland.
Greetings from the Ministry of Finance.
Tilvísun í mál: FJR08100024
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:57:55 -0300
Subject: Re: Regarding your enquiry to the Prime Ministry of Iceland
To: postur@for.stjr.is
Thanx
On 10/8/08, postur@for.stjr.is postur@for.stjr.is wrote:
David Raymond Amos
Your enquiry has been received by the Prime Ministry of Iceland and waits attendance.
Thank you.
From: Birgitta Jonsdottir birgittajoy@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 07:14:02 +0000
Subject: Re: Bon Soir Birgitta according to my records this is the
first email I ever sent you
To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
dear Dave
i have got your email and will read through the links as soon as i
find some time keep up the good fight in the meantime
thank you for bearing with me
i am literary drowning in requests to look into all sorts of matters
and at the same time working 150% work at the parliament and
the creation of a political movement and being a responsible parent:)
plus all the matters in relation to immi
with oceans of joy
birgitta
http://qslspolitics.blogspot.ca/2009/...
From: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:34:40 -0300
Subject: Fwd: USANYS-MADOFF AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM US ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SDNY
I know that the Yankee law enforcement people are either as dumb as posts or pure evil. There appears to be few exceptions. The ethical Ms. Olson is my favourite klady today. Does anyone speaking or acting in the best interests of the decent folks in Iceland understand my sincerity and her Integrity YET?
Public
Safety Minister Marco Mendicino and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
Alejandro Mayorkas shake hands after signing an agreement following the
conclusion of the 2023 Canada-United States Cross-Border Crime Forum,
Friday, April 28, 2023 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
Canada
and the United States have agreed to share more information about the
smuggling of guns and drugs across their shared border.
Public
Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said Ottawa has signed four new or
updated agreements with Washington that allow the RCMP and Canada Border
Services Agency to exchange more data with partners south of the
border.
"It means more joint investigations into gun smuggling and
trafficking. It means even more exchanging of intelligence and
information between our law enforcement agencies," Mendicino told
reporters Friday afternoon in Ottawa.
He said the agreements under
a rebooted Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Crime Forum will allow more
information-sharing with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, such as the
role of cryptocurrency in money laundering.
Mendicino
made the announcement alongside Justice Minister David Lametti and
their American counterparts, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The agreements also
aim to help stem the flow of opioids such as fentanyl, with Garland
saying they will track the ingredients used to create the deadly drug
and the flow of its components from China.
A joint statement
commits both countries to "build a global coalition against synthetic
drugs" that can help counter transnational organized crime and to
identify and target shippers and receivers of firearms.
Drugs
and firearms are presented at a news conference at the RCMP
headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on April 25, 2018. The RCMP, along with
the U.S. Coast Guard, Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border
Protection, conducted the raid which also seized a large sum of cash and
high-speed boats. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian PRess)
Mendicino
said the four agreements "will allow us to leverage new technology that
has recently emerged that will allow us to go after ghost guns in
particular," referring to untracked, privately manufactured firearms
used by gangs.
The four have pledged to review recent incidents of
migrants dying along the border, pledging to hold smugglers accountable
and crack down on irregular migration using sensors, personnel and
timely information.
Yet the four leaders gave few details as to what had materially changed as a result of Friday's agreements.
"As
the threat landscape proves so dynamic and complex, as changes in that
landscape occur, we identify ways in which we can strengthen that
partnership and take action," Mayorkas said.
"It's all about
meeting the moment, meeting the changes that occur and addressing them
in real time — sharing actionable, relevant information in real time."
The
statement adds that law enforcement on both sides of the border will
also be trained to have a shared understanding of privacy laws.
The
American officials said the group also spoke about Haiti, where brazen
gangs have filled a political power vacuum and have Washington worried
about the spread of guns, drugs and gangs across the region.
Mayorkas
and Garland did not dwell on Washington's request months ago to have
Canada lead a military intervention, which Haiti's unelected government
says would help stabilize the country.
Instead, they noted the importance of legal pathways for migration and helping Haiti have a functional police force.
"Both countries remain committed to exploring joint law enforcement actions in Haiti," reads the joint statement.
Methinks Mendicino and Mayorkas have puzzled about what to do about me for quite some time N'esy Pas?
Bob Wilson
The more I listen to Mendicino talk the more I’m sure he has no idea what he’s talking about.
David Amos
Reply to Bob Wilson
Finally somebody noticed
Dottie Prentice
Reply to Bob Wilson
He's a clown
Dottie Prentice
Stories of great Liberal achievement are dropping-off the front page faster than Trudeau's approval rating!
Bill Gender
Reply to Dottie Prentice
Another day another scandal
David Amos
Reply to Dottie Prentice
Mais Oui
David Amos
Reply to Bill Gender
C'est Vrai
dawn mills
Not great, not all. Rcmp currently are allowing
our security to be colonized by the US. They basically wait for someone
internationally to complain before making arrests. This dosent improve
our abilities and interferes with Canadians privacy, and this guy
shaking hands has provided extremely poor performance with the Mexican
boarder. Total fail. This is nothing more than intelligence gathering
by the US on Canadians and will open the doors for cartels. Not new
policies or anything that assists and reaffirms our police, it simply is
a commercial endeavor.
James Robson
Reply to dawn mills
Dawn--be aware that the Toronto Star exposed
the existence of an FBI office in the City in 2007 and that the BATF
around then was involved in observing a Hamilton area native peoples
protest blockade. It seems as if our sovereignty has been compromised by
our Lib-Con governments for a long time. And our so-called "Free Trade"
treaties with the US have been part of this, as the late former PM John
Turner warned to no avail.
Bill Gender
Reply to dawn mills
But you no issues with the Chinese government
colonizing our security with the full support of this current minority
leader and government with the full backing of Singh and the NDP ?
James Robson
Reply to Bill Gender
Bill I too have some serious concerns about
this--and that our msm have decided to drop any focus on the
authoritative views of former senior career officer Michel
Juneau-Katsuya, since he dropped his bombshell information in public six
weeks ago. But, do note that both the Trudeau and Harper regimes as
well as their predecessors, have been playing footsie with
ever-dangerous Beijing for over 50 years. Even Australia's
whistleblowers and former PM Malcolm Turnbull have been warning us for
five years about our vulnerability to insidious Chinese secret police
infiltration and intimidation.
David Amos
Reply to James Robson
I butted heads with the all knowing Michel Juneau-Katsuya in 2004
James Robson
Canadians need essential information about the major
differences in law between the US and Canada with regard to firearms
ownership. Canada has had mandatory RCMP registration of all handguns
here since 1932--with Criminal Code penalties for anyone who is in
possession without. And for about 30 years we have also had universal
national licensing of all Canadian owners of handguns, shotguns and
rifles. There is a very sharp licensing demarcation in the US where 26
of 50 states lack any gun owner licensing and an adult may well be able
to purchase any firearm legal to own in that state--possibly without
limit. This is another US states-rights fiasco that prevents US federal
gun owner licensing in the public interest.
This inability to prevent dangerous criminals, political
extremists, the mentally deranged and religious zealots from arming
themselves and harming perceived enemies, has created a continuing
public safety nightmare across America. But, contrary to some political
and media messaging, Canada does not face such threats to the public
peace and good order. However, on December 7th, 2018, a senior but
anonymous LPC official told the Toronto Star's Tonda MacCharles in a
front-page interview titled, "Why No handgun Ban?" that, "The government
of Canada accepts that there are at least TWICE(sic) as many smuggled
handguns in Canada as those legally owned by Canadians". We should be
asking our MPs pointed questions.
David Amos
Reply to James Robson
I have been stress testing them since the gun registry nonsense in 2004
Having just lost his father, Doug Scammell, 84, unexpectedly in November, he thought, "'Wow, that's a very good idea.'"
"Even
if you were there at the end and you said what you wanted to say …
there will always be more that you might want to say to them, or things
that you missed," said Scammell, who lost his mother Zoe Porter, 71, and
younger sister Hayley Peterson, 42, just months apart in 2008.
"Maybe
you didn't say, 'I love you,' and you wish you did. So maybe this will
help, because sometimes people have regrets, things 'I wish I did or I
wish I said' and, you know, maybe this will help ease their mind."
Originated in Japan 13 years ago
The
concept originated in northeastern Japan in 2010. Itaru Sasaki, who was
mourning the loss of his cousin to cancer, set up an old-fashioned
phone booth in his garden with an unconnected rotary-dial phone inside,
and named it kaze no denwa, the Telephone of the Wind.
"Because
my thoughts could not be relayed over a regular phone line, I wanted
them to be carried on the wind," he said in a documentary by Japan's
public broadcaster, NHK.
A year later, when
a 9.1-magnitude earthquake and tsunami with 30-foot waves hit the area,
killing some 20,000 people, Sasaki relocated his phone booth to a windy
hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean and opened it up to the public.
Since
then, more than 30,000 people have reportedly used the phone, and it
has inspired numerous others popping up around the world. More than 100
are currently registered on mywindphone.com, including seven in Canada — in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Alberta, two in B.C., and now, in New Brunswick.
'Labour of love'
Scammell
said he took the idea to New Maryland council and said, "'I think we
should do this,' and they said, 'Yeah, absolutely.'"
He was teamed
up with Rockland Miller, the village's public works supervisor,
whose mother Shirley Miller, 74, had died suddenly during surgery in
December.
"Between us it was definitely a labour of love," said Scammell.
The wind phone has a six-foot cable and a bench beside it, so people can have lots of room and be comfortable, said Scammell. (Tim Scammell)
Miller says he was "inspired by the project and the whole premise behind it.
"I was very willing to help out in any way that I could."
He
created what Scammell envisioned. The phone is mounted on a
walnut-stained wooden box, reminiscent of a pay phone, and hangs from a
cedar along the Fletcher's Walk loop.
It's a quiet area that will
provide privacy for people to talk, he said, and it's beside a wooden
bench so they can sit and stay as long as they like.
Miller also
drilled an extra hole in the phone's receiver, which allows the breeze
to blow through, creating soothing sounds, much like putting your ear to
a seashell. So even if people aren't ready to talk, they can listen.
A
plaque reads, in part: "This Wind Phone is for all who grieve. You are
welcome to find solace here. Please use it to connect with those you
have lost. To feel the comfort of their memory. May you hear their
voices in the wind. May you be at peace with your losses."
The
wind phone project cost about $100 for the wood and stain, said
Scammell. Bell donated the phone and Mike Hay of Traffic Depot Signs
& Safety donated the plaque. (Rockland Miller)
'Beautiful idea' could help 'normalize grief'
"We
use the phone all the time and the idea that you could pick up the
phone and call someone who you're missing is a beautiful idea,"
said Albert Banerjee, an assistant professor of gerontology at St.
Thomas University in Fredericton, who has worked in hospice, palliative
care and long-term care, and also has degrees in psychology and
sociology.
Banerjee, who has a special interest in mortality and
how society deals with "finitude and impermanence," has talked about
wind phones in his classes and is happy to see one in the province.
"Anything
that can normalize grief and give people a place to grieve and make it
public and visible and allow people to be comfortable with it, I think
it's wonderful," said Banerjee, the New Brunswick Health Research
Foundation's research chair in community health and aging.
Scammell,
second from left, recently used the wind phone to update his late
father Doug, on his twin sons, Braydon and Tyler, who celebrated their
25th birthday last week. Tyler decided to study civil engineering to
follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and is very sad he will not get to
see him graduate, he said. (Submitted by Tim Scammell)
Grief
is something most people will experience in their lifetime — "if
they're lucky," he noted, referring to having formed close
relationships.
And he believes there's "quite a bit of
unprocessed grief" right now, due in part to the isolation the COVID-19
pandemic created.
It's important to deal with grief, stressed
Banerjee. Otherwise, it can result in fear or avoidance, or cause people
to "act out."
"It can hold us back from life," he said.
'The Leafs are still in there, Dad'
Scammell
has already used the phone a few times to talk to his dad, who died
after a suspected fall. "We believe he hit his head, and that was it."
They
always had a close relationship, he said. Growing up, his father was
his Scouts leader and coached his hockey and baseball teams. Later, they
both worked in the construction business in Toronto.
"I've strived to be as much like him as possible and often sought guidance from him," he said.
Scammell lost his mother Zoe and sister Hayley just months apart nearly 15 years ago. (Submitted by Tim Scammell)
They kept in touch and Scammell says he ended every conversation with, "I love you."
Since his death, there have been many times when he thought, "I gotta tell Dad about this," or "I gotta ask my dad about that.
"And then the realization hits."
As far as spirituality and stuff, I'm not sure how I am, but there's something going on in the universe.
- Tim Scammell, New Maryland deputy mayor
When
he first used the phone, he didn't know what to say at first. But his
dad was a "huge Blue Jays and Maple Leafs fan." So he told him, "The
Leafs are still in there, Dad."
He has also talked about what's
going on with the family, he said, noting his twin sons Tyler and
Braydon, who also had a close relationship with their grandfather, just
celebrated their 25th birthdays last week.
He even asked his father to say hi to his mother and sister for him.
"As
far as spirituality and stuff, I'm not sure how I am, but there's
something going on in the universe," he said of the wind phone.
'Haven't found the words'
Miller has visited the phone a couple of times but hasn't managed to talk to his mom yet.
"I still haven't found the words," he said.
He finds it difficult to even think about her death.
"You
always know that there's risks to surgeries, but I guess we were all
thinking that she would have the surgery and she would recover and we
move on from there."
Miller says his mother Shirley, who died in December, was one of nine children, a hard worker, and a giving person. (Rockland Miller)
"We just miss her," he said, his voice strained with emotion.
The
mother of four and grandmother of several, who served as a volunteer
firefighter for 40 years, and loved to knit and crochet, was a very
giving person, said Miller.
"She was forever doing stuff for somebody else. … She would do anything for anyone," he said.
"And
if I would have known that was, like, the last time I was going to
speak to her, I think there probably would have been more that I would
have said. More comforting thoughts, I guess."
Miller is still searching for the right words to say to his late mother over the wind phone. (Rockland Miller)
Miller does plan to have a "conversation" with his mother, he said.
For
now, he hopes she's proud of his role in this "worthwhile" project, and
he hopes many people in the community will benefit from it.
Information Morning - Fredericton9:56 Wind phone
If
you could speak to a loved one who has passed away, what would you say
to them? That's at the heart of Tim Scammell's latest project. The
deputy mayor of New Maryland just installed a "wind phone" in the woods
to help people grieve the loss of their loved ones.
Methinks folks should ask the Deputy Mayor what we
talked about about on a real telephone in 2008 before he was elected the
first time N'esy Pas?
Ed Wallis
Reply to David Amos
ne c'est pas...
Lou Bell
Reply to David Amos
You ? Probably , and he never got a word in !
David Amos
Reply to David Amos
Trust that he got lots of words in because he
didn't like the games being played against him as he tried to find a
seat on the council. However the following year after his position was
secure he called me Public Enemy #1
David Amos
Reply to Ed Wallis
Nope
Fred E. Turner
a good idea. hopefully, people who are alive will find peace and comfort
Les Cooper
To funny
G. Timothy Walton
What a great idea. The world could use more such sensitivity.
David Amos
Reply to G. Timothy Walton
and a lot more empathy
Ed Wallis
Gives a new meaning to the old Bell mantra..."Reach Out and Touch Someone"
David Amos
Content Deactivated
Reply to Ed Wallis
Say Hey to Ma Bell for me will ya?
Inger Nielsen
love the fact N.Bers are adopting the idea from Japan
David Amos
Reply to Inger Nielsen
At least they gave credit where credit was due
MICHAEL O'DELL
Great idea
David Amos
Content Deactivated
Reply to MICHAEL O'DELL
Whatever turns your crank
Margaret Wade
I think these phones are a wonderful way to connect to those who have moved on.
Drugs
and firearms are presented at a news conference at the RCMP
headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on April 25, 2018. The RCMP, along with
the U.S. Coast Guard, Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border
Protection, conducted the raid which also seized a large sum of cash and
high-speed boats. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian PRess)
The wind phone has a six-foot cable and a bench beside it, so people can have lots of room and be comfortable, said Scammell. (Tim Scammell)
The
wind phone project cost about $100 for the wood and stain, said
Scammell. Bell donated the phone and Mike Hay of Traffic Depot Signs
& Safety donated the plaque. (Rockland Miller)
Scammell,
second from left, recently used the wind phone to update his late
father Doug, on his twin sons, Braydon and Tyler, who celebrated their
25th birthday last week. Tyler decided to study civil engineering to
follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and is very sad he will not get to
see him graduate, he said. (Submitted by Tim Scammell)
Scammell lost his mother Zoe and sister Hayley just months apart nearly 15 years ago. (Submitted by Tim Scammell)
Miller says his mother Shirley, who died in December, was one of nine children, a hard worker, and a giving person. (Rockland Miller)
Miller is still searching for the right words to say to his late mother over the wind phone. (Rockland Miller)