Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Sexual Intrigues, CIA Spies and Fake Leftists: the plot against Wikileaks

It seems that the most twisted part of the story of the illegal persecution against Wikileaks involves the sexual allegations angle: one of the accusers against Julian Assange has obvious connections to the CIA and threw a party to honour the Wikileaks celebrity she had just bedded in Sweden. While the other accuser boasted of her conquest on sms text messages. Even advertised it online, on the Twiter website, as was reported. If it were a rape why would a woman throw a party to celebrate the event and show off to her friends the lovely "catch" who had been in her bed?

These facts and concerns are documented by some prominent and well-respected writers in the following articles:

Alexander Cockburn, said that the "prime accuser, Anna Ardin has, according to Israel Shamir, writing on this CounterPunch site 'ties to the US-financed anti-Castro and anti-communist groups.' ":
Julian Assange: Wanted by the Empire, Dead or Alive
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn12032010.html

The CIA connections are examined in more depth and presented by Israel Shamir, in his article titled "Assange Beseiged - Making a Mockery of the Real Crime of Rape".
http://www.counterpunch.org/shamir09142010.html

For a most interesting "executive summary" of the explorations in this twisted realm of sexual intrigues and spy-movie stuff, please see an excellent short article by Kirk James Murphy, M.D, an activist psychiatrist who collected many of the bizzarre elements of this case from various disparate sources. His article includes quotes and references from other authors, journalists, legal and political sources creating a well-rounded composition. And he adds some of his own thoughts and argumentation that sheds more light on the case.

Please read his article titled
"Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group", here:
http://my.firedoglake.com/kirkmurphy/2010/12/04/assanges-chief-accuser-has-her-own-history-with-us-funded-anti-castro-groups-one-of-which-has-cia-ties/
and here:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Assange-Accuser-Worked-wit-by-Kirk-James-Murphy_-101205-824.html

Some background information on Kirk James Murphy:
http://www.opednews.com/author/author56819.html

Like many of us who work with rape survivors, I'm horrified at how the crime of degenerate power and perverted violence that constitutes rape is now being twisted out shape, made light, trivialized and turned into soap-opera fluff in order to be utilized by the global intelligence elite working with fake feminists and fake leftists just to silence Wikileaks. How will real rape survivors be understood, acknowledged, protected and be served with justice after such a devastating blow to the definition and concept of rape construed by media, imperialist agents and fake-leftist activists?

Will the progressive community continue to be open to providing support, be accepting and receptive to the next young attractive woman who cries "rape"? How about the radical community, within which things are often harsher, and take on a crude edge? Every woman, man and child rape survivor will have to struggle even harder now to achieve credibility. Who will have the patience and care to hear out real rape survivors after these two fakes in Sweden conspired with the world's most repressive regime to gag Wikileaks?

On the tiny island of Cyprus we have plenty of experience with fake leftists who work with dedication day and night to further the cause of Imperialism. We know them well from the very top, from our Government and the ruling party's fake socialist leadership who are working to install a racist Apartheid Bizonal regime in Cyprus replete with Race Laws, all the way down to small and petty professors, union bosses, "activists", and non governmental organizations (NGOs) who dress up their authoritarian agendas in the service of Imperialism with pretty talk: feminist, ecologist and socialist slogans are constantly being used to promote their opposite, the most disgusting sort of unfreedom, slavery and exploitation possible.

We've been publishing exposes and the dirty laundry of these people for a long time, especially those who have been receiving funds from the US /CIA /USAID and other "charitable" warmongers ; still, the damage they continue to do through fake-leftist posturing and sloganeering is considerable. Some of us are used to it; some of us keep falling for the trap; and many people have become anti-leftist because of it. Whenever Leftist ideologies are used to promote oppression, the population moves to what appears to be "right wing" politics. All sorts of national-chauvinist, pro-Capitalist, anti-environment, anti-gay, and male-chauvinist sexist politics start becoming more popular when the Left appears to support oppression.

That same kind of right wing swing-back will very probably now cause new forms of harm to real rape survivors after this Wikileaks fake rape debacle. Especially if the next rape perpetrator is a well-known persona within the progressive community. It's more likely now that real rape survivors will be targeted with new forms of disbelief and with uncaring, callous treatment, or even be accused of lying, making it up, or staging the rape, as seems to have been the case in the effort to shut down Wikileaks.

Always, wherever fake-leftists are involved in political campaigns and operations, the effects on the real victims of this perversion are devastating.

Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net
Volunteer, Cyprus IndyMedia Collective
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More Sources and Further Readings

From the Daily Mail, by By Richard Pendlebury
"A few hours after that party, [she] apparently Tweeted: ‘Sitting outside ... nearly freezing, with the world’s coolest people. It’s pretty amazing!’ She was later to try to erase this message.
During the party, Assange apparently phoned [her] and a few hours later she was boasting to friends about her flirtation with him. At that point, according to police reports, her friends advised her ‘the ball is in your court’."
Read more:
The Wikileaks sex files: How two one-night stands sparked a worldwide hunt for Julian Assange
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336291/Wikileaks-Julian-Assanges-2-night-stands-spark-worldwide-hunt.html#ixzz17b9ELVu3

A pointed, humorous piece by Naomi Wolf, revealing the ridiculousness of it all
Naomi Wolf is the author of "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot"
Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/interpol-the-worlds-datin_b_793033.html

Unconfirmed: allegedly these are the photos of Sofia Wilen and Anna Ardin
http://gossip.whyfame.com/sofia-wilen-and-anna-ardin-accusing-julian-assange-of-rape-8461

Anna Ardin
http://annaardin.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/anna_ardin.jpg

Anna Ardin's thesis against Fidel Castro
http://annaardin.wordpress.com/thesis/

Governments and Corporations Attempt to Repress Wikileaks: Holding Up Mirrors
http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2010/12/943949.shtml

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Saturday, 14 August 2010

PKK: A Ceasefire for Ramadan and the Referendum

Forty Days of Peace with Conditions that May Lead to a Truce



The revolutionary armed forces of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that are active in all regions of Kurdistan and primarily in the regions occupied by Turkey and Iraq, have announced a unilateral ceasefire on the occasion of the First Day of Ramadan - the Islamic holy month - and have extended it to September 20, several days past the popular Constitutional Referendum in Turkey that is scheduled for September 12.

The PKK announced the ceasefire during a press conference somewhere in the mountains of Qandil, on August 13.

Among other things the announcement said: "From August 13 to September 20, our forces will not undertake any action, but will use their right to defend themselves in case of any attack against them or the people."

It also contained conditions that, if accepted by the Government of Turkey, can quickly lead to a more lasting Peace. Some of those conditions include:

o- making the ceasefire bilateral and comprehensive;
o- a release of about 1.700 political prisoners;
o- opening up of a formal negotiation process along political lines that have been published in the recent past by PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan and the creation of conditions for Ocalan to participate actively in the peace process.

In the announcement PKK also said that this conditional ceasefire was initiated by a message from Abdulla Ocalan, who is still imprisoned under "special conditions" in Turkey.

Abdulla Ocalan's and PKK's conception of how this ceasefire can be turned into a lasting Peace is presented in an article from the FIRAT News Agency that we reproduce in its entirety below, titled
"Will the Turkish government be up to the challenge of peace?"
Below it, please see links to related news, and information on the photographs in this article.

The conditions for Peace that are explored in the article include changes in the electoral laws; the formation of a Truth and Reconciliation process (like the one that helped re-unite South Africa after the revolution against Apartheid); and a safe return home of all the guerillas.

The upcoming Constitutional Referendum in Turkey that is scheduled for September 12 might help to democratize some of Turkey's institutions. Turkey's fifty million voters will decide on new Constitutional provisions that would make the military more accountable to civilian courts, as well as give parliament a say in appointing judges. It would also allow public servants the right to collective agreement and the right to strike, and end immunity from prosecution for the military coup leaders of 1980.

We hope the Government of Turkey will accept this initiative and take the opportunity to work together with the PKK for a lasting Peace.

Cyprus IndyMedia Editorial Collective

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Will the Turkish government be up to the challenge of peace?
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=77014 August 2010

The PKK unilateral ceasefire gives the Turkish government a strong opportunity to engage genuinely in building a just peace process Once again it is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) who took the first step. Yesterday's declaration of yet another unilateral ceasefire shows that the PKK is in a position of strength. Political strength, that is. Indeed, important decision needs (and can only be made) a strong internal support and consensus. This the PKK has shown to have. Not the same can be said for the Turkish government which indeed has demonstrated in this past couple of years (just to keep it close) to be hostage in turns of the army, its internal fundamentalist and sciovinist front, the opposition parties with their blind nationalism and racism.

The PKK has proved once again to be in control which ultimately means it showed to have a vision for the future. And it is a shared vision. Shared and common, which ultimately means it is a vision on which the Kurdish people agree. And again the Kurdish people in all of its shades and organisation, i.e. in all of its reach and diverse core of activities, whether it is the municipalities work, the grassroots work, the cultural work, the social work, the women work. What the Kurdish liberation movement has proved all these years is its incredible ability to face up to the challenges in all of the areas in which people's life is divided. There is a cohesion and consistency which is what has brought the municipalities and the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party), and before that the DTP (Democratic Society Party) to work on the building of the so called 'democratic autonomy', a viable (and so far the only proposal on the table) proposal, model to run a state (the Turkish state) which is not (and sooner or later both the kemalists and the ultra nationalists, as well as the army, will have to come to terms with that) the 1923 Turkish Republic as Kemal Ataturk proclaimed it to be. Indeed it never was, because, for its own composition, the Turkish Republic could never be the territory of solely the Turks, with Turkish as their sole language. But this is another story.

Back to the present, the PKK with yesterday's ceasefire has offered once again to the (weak) Turkish government an opportunity. An opportunity to seriously go down to business, which means genuinely get involved in building a viable, democratic and egalitarian peace process.

Former president of human rights association and BDP MP, Akin Birdal, is right. "It is the Turkish government's turn to take a step", he said. It is indeed, and the PKK went even further as it spelled out four simple issues which must be addressed if there is a genuine commitment towards a lasting peace.

In its statement, the PKK says that "before anything else the continuous operations taken up against the military and political areas must be halted and a process of bilateral ceasefire must be developed". The second point is the request for the "immediate release of around 1700 Kurdish civilian politicians and members of the peace group who were arrested unjustly and unjustifiably". The third point underlines the need for the "commencement of a negotiation process based on the three-points resolution framework presented to the public by our leader Abdullah Ocalan and the creation of conditions for leader Ocalan to actively participate in the peace process". The last point asks for the "reduction of the 10 percent election threshold which does not exist in any democratic country". It is worth noting that Abdullah Ocalan underlined three conditions necessary to trigger a peace process: bilateral ceasefire, the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission similar to that established in South Africa after the abolition of apartheid and organising the return home of the PKK guerrillas (which would happened in different stages, beginning with the gathering of guerrillas in one place under the supervision of an international organisation and then, when conditions are suitable, with a return en masse).

Again in its statement the PKK underlines that "in order for this process to transform into a profound and permanent peace, the AKP government and the Turkish state must act accordingly. If the AKP government under various excuses fails to move forward and continues with its elimination process by imposing a deadlock, then it should be known by all that this process shall not proceed unilaterally. "

From:
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=770
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 Photos, Links, Sources  

PKK declares Ramadan ceasefire
http://www.holocaustmuseum.org.uk/politics/middle-east/357181-pkk-declares-ramadan-ceasefire

Kurdish rebels announce ceasefire to September 20
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCATRE67C43420100813

PKK's 40-Day Ceasefire Considers Barzani’s Call
http://rudaw.net/english/kurds/3104.html

PKK calls unilateral ceasefire
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=765

Photo at Top
From the Press Conference where the announcement was made, showing Bozan Tekin and an unidentified woman guerilla leader. It was published by the Rudaw Media Company based in Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region in the north of Iraq with the following caption:
"Having a photo of PKK leader Abdulla Ocelan behind, Bozan Tekin, deputy leader of the PKK (right) sits next to a female PKK leader talking to reporters to delcare a cesefire in the Qandil mountains, Aug 13,2010. - Photo by Hussein Himati for Rudaw."
http://rudaw.net/english/kurds/3104.html

Second Photo
PKK Women Guerillas.
From:
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=765
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Friday, 4 June 2010

Very Serious Men in Skirts. And dresses.

With heavy jewelry

And only THEY have the right to wear them.





Archbishop Chrysostomos II (L), and Pope Benedict XVI meet at the Vatican June 16, 2007.










o- "Arachno-Papa-Philia"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOx045-UlBc
and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Universal_Life_Church/message/2372

o- Church abuse scandal reaches the Pope's brother
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Universal_Life_Church/message/2429

o- Liberation Theology in Brazil, NYTimes Article
"In the early 1980s, when Pope John Paul II wanted to clamp down on what he considered a dangerous, Marxist-inspired movement in the Roman Catholic Church, liberation theology, he turned to a trusted aide: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
Now Cardinal Ratzinger is Pope Benedict XVI..."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Universal_Life_Church/message/2045

o- The Crusades, here and now
"Who can deny that we're living through the most fierce, shameless and
deadly Crusades?
...global reactions to the Pope's most recent racist and anti-Islamic remarks."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Universal_Life_Church/message/1887

o- "Drugs war" is in fact ethnic cleansing
"During the Inquisition cannabis was declared Illegal by pope Innocenty (I believe number IV) and anyone who practised the 'old ways' was murdered. For centuries the western European world was ruled by (Christian) Rome and during those times history has been re-written and most of the referrers to those Shamanic cultures usually contain a hint of "barbarism" as if those cultures had no moral values..."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Universal_Life_Church/message/1494

o- The Empire Never Ended
"You're so right when you say 'He walks lockstep with the Romans who rule this empire...'. It's true that the Empire never ended. Its capital city has moved a few times throughout our history and changed names, but it's the same Empire:
Roman -> Byzantine -> British -> US Empire.

You echo the brilliant analysis by Phillip K. Dick, author of "Radio Free Albemuth", and "The Divine Invasion": not only is it true that the Empire never ended, but also, the tragic and unbearable truth is that the subjugation of humanity under a planetary totalitarian regime has been accomplished "in the name of god". While at the same time, it has rendered every aspect of the Divine illegal, and every true Path of worship has been driven underground..."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Universal_Life_Church/message/1240

o- Arch-Conservative German Ratzinger Elected Pope
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Universal_Life_Church/message/1229

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