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Thanks to CoCoLuv9491 for recommending this article... Julian Assange Loses Appeal: British High Court Accepts U.S. Request to Extradite Him for Trial Press freedom groups have warned Assange's prosecution is a grave threat. The Biden DOJ ignored them, and today won a major victory toward permanently silencing the pioneering transparency activist. Glenn Greenwald 10 hr ago 382 456 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks to the media outside the High Court in London on December 5, 2011 where he attended a ruling in his long-running fight against extradition to Sweden (Photo by GEOFF CADDICK/AFP via Getty Images) In a London courtroom on Friday morning,  Julian Assange suffered a devastating blow to his quest for freedom. A two-judge appellate panel of the United Kingdom's High Court ruled that the U.S.'s request to extradite Assange to the U.S. to stand trial on espionage charges is legally valid. As a result, that extradition request will now be sent to British Home Secreta

All freedom will be lost when the war is won War in Ukraine (or anywhere else) will usher in the digital Dark Ages Edward Slavsquat If war comes you can bet your Ugg boots that your “temporary” QR code will remain with you forever Recently there has been much hand-wringing over the possibility of a major military escalation in Ukraine. Many respected thinkers and analysts are warning that the unresolved conflict in Donbass could spark full-scale war—perhaps even a direct confrontation between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Even the truly unthinkable—American and Russian soldiers blowing each other up—now seems vaguely possible. Crazier things have happened. Your humble Moscow correspondent is not a military analyst. We visited Donetsk twice and saw many terrible things but we do not pretend to have a deep understanding of what is happening there right now. Your correspondent at an East Ukraine kindergarten, circa April 2015 But here’s what we can say with near 100% certainty: If t

You're not alone. The World is rising up. The media won't cover it but the first week of December has seen hundreds of protest across the world. Justin Hart I woke up at 4AM sick to my stomach — and not with COVID. It was March 2020 and I had really put my neck out on this one. What if I was wrong? What if this really was the apocalyptic pandemic they predicted? What if my “in-caution” put lives at risk? The very next day John Ioannidis came out with his now infamous STATNews article and I  set myself on a trajectory to do everything I could  to stop the insanity. Today, people are waking up. The excitement we felt over the weekend, meeting people who viewed the world like we did was palpable.  Download our recap of yesterday’s podcast ! But it doesn’t stop there… the mainstream media won’t cover it but there are HUNDREDS of protests going on across the world pushing back on vaccine mandates and Covid policies. My co-founder of Rational Ground Aaron Ginn has done a masterful jo