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Medical Doctors Protest Failure of UK Home Secretary to Act on Mr Julian Assange – Global Research

05-12-19 08:24:00,

Medical doctors who wrote to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel last month calling for urgent action to protect the life of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have today issued a further urgent appeal.

Despite worldwide media coverage of their open letter, more than 80 medical doctors have received no response from the UK government. Their letter was sent on November 22. The doctors are now calling on the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice to intervene.

“We reiterate our grave concern that Mr Assange could die of deliberate medical negligence in a British prison and demand an urgent response from the UK Government”, the doctors write.

Their second open letter has been sent to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice the Rt Hon Robert Buckland QC.

“In our open letter, we urged the UK Government to change course immediately and transfer Mr Assange from Belmarsh Prison to a university teaching hospital for appropriate expert medical assessment and care. So far, we have received no substantive reply from the UK Government, nor has receipt of our letter been acknowledged.

“In our opinion, the UK Government’s conduct in this matter is irresponsible, incompatible with medical ethics and unworthy of a democratic society bound by the rule of law.”

The full text of the doctors’ open letter to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice is HERE. The letter was also sent to the Home Secretary.

Dr Bob Gill General Medical Practitioner MBChB MRCGP (UK)

“The continued detention of Julian Assange in his reported physical and psychological state is inhumane and a flagrant neglect of his right to access essential medical care. These shameful actions are those of a repressive dictatorship not a democracy and must be reversed.”

Dr Sue Wareham OAM MBBS General Medical Practitioner (retired) (Australia)

“The Australian government’s failure to speak out to protect an Australian citizen whose life is at risk is utterly shameful, as is the UK government’s failure to respond to the recent urgent open letter regarding Julian Assange’s health. Nations that call themselves civilised are keeping a man incarcerated, deprived of adequate health care, at risk of death,

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Crimes against Humanity: US Sanctions Harm One Third of World’s People – Global Research

Posted by EN-AB in Crimes, Humanity

05-12-19 08:24:00,

The most insidious and pervasive form of modern warfare by Wall Street and the Pentagon, acting in coordination, is passing largely unnoticed and unchallenged. This calculated attack is rolling back decades of progress in health care, sanitation, housing, essential infrastructure and industrial development all around the world.

Almost every developing country attempting any level of social programs for its population is being targeted.

U.S. imperialism and its junior partners have refined economic strangulation into a devastating weapon. Sanctions in the hands of the dominant military and economic powers now cause more deaths than bombs or guns. This weapon is stunting the growth of millions of youth and driving desperate migrations, dislocating tens of millions.

‘A crime against humanity’

Sanctions and economic blockades against Venezuela, Cuba and Iran are well known. But the devastating impacts of U.S. sanctions on occupied Palestine — or on already impoverished countries such as Mali, Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Kyrgyzstan, Fiji, Nicaragua and Laos — are not even on the radar screen of human rights groups.

Most sanctions are intentionally hidden; they don’t generate even a line of news. Some sanctions are quickly passed after a sudden news article about an alleged atrocity. The civilians who will suffer have nothing to do with whatever crime the corporate media use as an excuse. What are never mentioned are the economic or political concessions the U.S. government or corporations are seeking.

Sanctions cannot be posed as an alternative to war. They are in fact the most brutal form of warfare, deliberately targeting the most defenseless civilians — youth, the elderly, sick and disabled people. In a period of human history when hunger and disease are scientifically solvable, depriving hundreds of millions from getting basic necessities is a crime against humanity.

International law and conventions, including the Geneva and Nuremberg Conventions, United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, explicitly prohibit the targeting of defenseless civilians, especially in times of war.

Sanctions draw condemnation

Modern industrial society is built on a fragile web of essential technology. If pumps and sewage lines, elevators and generators can’t function due to lack of simple spare parts, entire cities can be overwhelmed by swamps.

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UN’s Agenda 2030 Translator: How To Read The UN’s New Sustainable Development Goals

Posted by EN-AB in Algemeen

05-12-19 08:18:00,

Via Truthstream Media,

It’s that time again: the United Nations is officially releasing the all new Agenda 2030 sustainable development plan, or what some have hailed as “the new Agenda 21 on steroids,” at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit kicking off today in New York City.

Since these supposedly non-binding international agreements can sometimes be a bit tricky to decode, what with all the weaponized buzz terms and semantics games, we’ve prepared a handy dandy translator on the 17 new Agenda 2030 goals below.

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Translation: Centralized banks, IMF, World Bank, Fed to control all finances, digital one world currency in a cashless society

Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Translation: GMO

Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Translation: Mass vaccination, Codex Alimentarius

Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Translation: UN propaganda, brainwashing through compulsory education from cradle to grave

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Translation: Population control through forced “Family Planning”

Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Translation: Privatize all water sources, don’t forget to add fluoride

Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Translation: Smart grid with smart meters on everything, peak pricing

Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Translation: TPP, free trade zones that favor megacorporate interests

Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Translation: Toll roads, push public transit, remove free travel, environmental restrictions

Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

Translation: Even more regional government bureaucracy like a mutant octopus

Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Translation: Big brother big data surveillance state

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Translation: Forced austerity

Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

Translation: Cap and Trade,

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Julian Assange: An Appeal From International Lawyers – Global Research

Posted by EN-AB in Assange, Julian

04-12-19 11:56:00,

The ongoing proceedings against Australian citizen Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, presently held in Belmarsh Prison near London, display a grave erosion of time-honoured principles of human rights, the rule of law, and the democratic freedom to gather and share information. We would like to join the extraordinary line of earlier protests in the case.

Fifteen years ago, the world was shocked by serious circumventions of the right to due process and fair trial when, as part of the U.S. war on terror, the CIA ignored local authority to abduct people in secret flights from European jurisdictions to third countries where they were subjected to torture and violent interrogation. Among those voicing protests was the London-based International Bar Association; see its report, Extraordinary Renditions, January 2009 (www.ibanet.org). The world should stand firm against such attempts to exercise superior, worldwide jurisdiction and to interfere in, influence or undermine the protection of human rights in other countries.

However, since WikiLeaks released evidence of U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US has for nine years punished Julian Assange and deprived him of his freedom. To avoid extradition to the United States, Assange was compelled to seek asylum in the London embassy of Ecuador in August 2012. In April 2019, Ecuador — in violation of international asylum laws — handed Assange over to British police, and his private legal defence documents over to U.S. agents.

After exposing extensive U.S. abuse and power projection as a threat to international law and order, Assange himself experienced the full thrust of the same forces. Extortion of other countries to make them and their judicial systems bend the law is to undermine and violate human rights treaties. Countries must not allow the diplomacy and intelligence power culture to contaminate and corrupt the fair administration of justice in accordance with law.

Great nations like Sweden, Ecuador, and Britain have servilely complied with U.S. wishes, as documented in two 2019 reports by Nils Meltzer, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Among other things, Melzer concludes that,

“In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up to deliberately isolate,

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Ole Dammegard on the London attack and Stockholm Arlanda False Flag | Light On Conspiracies – Revealing the Agenda

Posted by EN-AB in Dammegard, London

04-12-19 11:49:00,

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Ole Dammegard was born in Denmark and raised in Sweden, grew up believing he lived in a free and democratic society. As he started to investigate the political assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, he noticed there were some very strange and glaring similarities in these two cases. Since that time, Ole has investigated many other political assassinations, deaths of musicians and false flag events, and has shown the common thread behind them all: the New World Order Agenda. Ole’s aim is to spread this information and to promote a stance of “no-fear”, of peace and recovery from the atrocities and trauma that we have been subjected to for so many years. We are many, they are SO few. Shine the light on these conspiracies, get involved and transcend this evil agenda so we can get on with this amazing and beautiful life.

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Peter Schiff: This House of Cards Will Come Crashing Down On Consumers

Posted by EN-AB in Peter, Schiff

04-12-19 11:49:00,

Via SchiffGold.com,

Stocks closed out November on a high note with the hope of a trade deal fueling Wall Street. But is this warranted? And are consumers really doing as well as the mainstream would have us believe? Peter Schiff appeared on RT Boom Bust last week to talk about it. He said it’s all a house of cards and it’s going to come crashing down on American consumers.

Peter started out the interview talking about Hong Kong. The territory became a focal point in trade talks between the US and China after President Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act supporting pro-democracy protestors. Peter said US criticism is a bit hypocritical.

If you look at the index of economic freedom that the Heritage Foundation puts out every year, Hong Kong ranks number one. Today, it’s the freest economy in the world. The United States ranks 12th on that list. So, I’m more concerned about the freedom of our own people. So, rather than worrying about the freest people in the world, how about if our leaders try to find a way to make Americans more free?”

One of the Boom Bust hosts pointed out that President Trump has said he is trying to broker a deal where America does much better than the Chinese. She asked how we can expect to get a deal done when the president doesn’t seem to be interested in a “fair” deal. Peter said pushing for an advantage is just the nature of negotiating. But he said he doesn’t really think Trump is trying to get a deal done.

Trump just wants the stock market to go up. And as long as the stock market is going up, he couldn’t care less about a deal with China. Maybe if the stock market really started to tank, then he might feel some type of pressure to actually deliver a deal. But as long as he can make the market go up by talking about the prospects of a deal, then that’s all Trump wants.”

As far as the US stock markets go, Peter said there are a lot of things that should be causing them to go down,

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The one insurmountable obstacle to peace in Syria

Posted by EN-AB in Algemeen

04-12-19 09:17:00,

The Turkish army did not invade Syria to attack the Kurds. That’s simply not true. The actual target of the Turkish operation (Peace Spring) was a group of separatist militants (The YPG) who have waged a bloody 30 year-long terrorist war on the Turkish state killing upwards of 40,000 people. With the assistance of US Special Forces, the YPG has seized most of the territory east of the Euphrates River including the area along Turkey’s southern border. Turkey could not allow a hostile militia to occupy towns and cities along its border any more than the United States could allow members of al Qaida to occupy bases along the Mexican border. It’s a matter of national security. The YPG was given the choice to either voluntarily withdraw or be removed by force. The United States would not have acted any differently.

The media would like people to believe that the Turkish incursion was driven by a pathological hatred of ethnic Kurds, but this isn’t true either. Keep in mind that 18 percent of Turkey’s population, roughly 14 million people, is Kurdish. If Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wanted to launch a war on Kurds, he didn’t have to go through the trouble of crossing the border to do so. He could have attacked them in his own country and been done with it. But that is not what Erdogan is doing. The Turkish operation is focused on one particular group, the People’s Protection Units or YPG, who rebranded themselves as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to conceal the fact that they are the Syrian affiliate of the notorious PKK, the Marxist-Leninist group that is on the US State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. Washington formed an alliance with this sketchy group to achieve its strategic objectives in Syria while avoiding US casualties. The obvious downside of the arrangement is that, in exchange for their assistance, the US has helped to create an autonomous Kurdish statelet at the center of the Arab world that is vehemently opposed by every other country in the region. As you can see, the strategy was poorly-thought out from the beginning which is why it nearly exploded into a full-blown crisis.

Fortunately, President Trump was smart enough to respect Turkey’s legitimate security concerns and withdraw US troops from the conflict zone 20 miles deep into Syria.

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The one insurmountable obstacle to peace in Syria

Posted by EN-AB in insurmountable, obstacle

04-12-19 09:17:00,

Fortunately, President Trump was smart enough to respect Turkey’s legitimate security concerns and withdraw US troops from the conflict zone 20 miles deep into Syria.

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2nd Largest Insurance Firm, Swiss Re, Classifies 5G as a “High Impact” Liability Risk in Annual Risk Report – Activist Post

Posted by EN-AB in Insurance, Largest

04-12-19 09:10:00,

By B.N. Frank

In February, telecom executives gave congressional testimony that they had NO scientific evidence that 5G is safe. Many doctors and scientists say it isn’t. People and pets have already become sick where it’s been installed (see 1, 2, 3). Despite increasing worldwide opposition, warnings, and lawsuits (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) companies are still installing it anyway. Most would consider that to be very risky especially considering that

Insurance companies tend to NOT do business with telecom companies anymore (see 1, 2).
Telecom companies have been warning investors for many years that they may eventually be held liable for harm caused by their devices and transmitters. In fact, there’s currently a Smart Phone Class Action lawsuit due to phones exceeding federal RF safety levels.

So it’s really not surprising that Swiss Re has classified 5G as a “High Impact” Risk.

The top five emerging risks in our SONAR 2019 report are digital technology’s clash with legacy hardware, potential threats from the spread of 5G mobile networks, increasingly limited fiscal and monetary flexibility by central banks, genetic testing’s implications on life insurers, and the impact of climate change on the life and health sector.

SONAR examines new and “slow-burner” emerging risks and their potential effects on the re/insurance industry. This year’s report features 15 emerging risk themes and five trend spotlights as well as an overview of global macro trends. Among the topics are the rising vaccine hesitancy, hazards of cosmetic surgery tourism, artificial intelligence and healthcare, concussion injuries in sports, the warehouse of the future, and the baby boomers’ skills gap.

Ever noticed how 5G rhymes with “insanity”?

Activist Post reports regularly about 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other sources of unsafe technology. For more information visit our archives and the following websites.

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A Surefire Cure For Despair

Posted by EN-AB in Algemeen

04-12-19 09:04:00,

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A Surefire Cure For Despair

Posted by EN-AB in Algemeen

04-12-19 09:04:00,

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LETTER ON HOW TO ADVISE A TEENAGE DAUGHTER ON ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ | Armstrong Economics

Posted by EN-AB in ADVISE, Letter

03-12-19 09:40:00,

A LETTER FROM A CONSTITUENT ABOUT HOW HE ADVISED HIS TEENAGE DAUGHTER ON ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’:

After our daughter of fifteen years of age was moved to tears by the speech of Greta Thunberg at the UN the other day, she became angry with our generation “who had been doing nothing for thirty years.”

So, we decided to help her prevent what the girl on TV announced of “massive eradication and the disappearance of entire ecosystems.”

We are now committed to give our daughter a future again, by doing our part to help cool the planet four degrees.

From now on she will go to school on a bicycle, because driving her by car costs fuel, and fuel puts emissions into the atmosphere. Of course it will be winter soon and then she will want to go by bus, but cycling through the freezing builds resilience.

Of course, she is now asking for an electric bicycle, but we have shown her the devastation caused to the areas of the planet as a result of mining for the extraction of Lithium and other minerals used to make batteries for electric bicycles, so she will be pedaling, or walking.

Which will not harm her, or the planet. We used to cycle and walk to school too.

Since the girl on TV demanded “we need to get rid of our dependency on fossil fuels” and our daughter agreed with her, we have disconnected the heat vent in her room. The temperature is now dropping to twelve degrees in the evening, and will drop below freezing in the winter, we have promised to buy her an extra sweater, hat, tights, gloves and a blanket.

For the same reason we have decided that from now on she only takes a cold shower. She will wash her clothes by hand, with a wooden washboard, because the washing machine is simply a power consumer and since the dryer uses natural gas, she will hang her clothes on the clothes line to dry, just like my parents and grandparents used to do.

Speaking of clothes, the ones that she currently has are all synthetic, so made from petroleum. Therefore on Monday,

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‘Dangerous’: UK’s six richest people have as much wealth as poorest 13m, study shows, prompting outrage online

Posted by EN-AB in Dangerous, Richest

03-12-19 05:34:00,

New research showing that the six richest people in the UK control as much wealth as the poorest 13 million has prompted anger online, with the authors of the study branding the massive gap in fortunes as “dangerous.”

The study, conducted by the Equality Trust, reveals that the nation’s six billionaires who sit at the top of the wealth league have hoarded a combined fortune of £39.4 billion which is equal to the assets of around 13.2 million people in the UK.

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Dr Wanda Wyporska, the executive director of the Equality Trust claimed the report should “shock anyone who cares about the state of the UK,” and that such a huge gap between the very rich and the rest of the country is “dangerous.”

The UK’s extreme inequality is the story of Ferraris and food banks.

Some of those super rich include Indian brothers Gopichand and Srichand Hinduja who own a multitude of businesses including car firms and banks, and top the table with an estimated net worth of £12.8bn. Second on the list is Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the chairman and chief executive of the chemicals company Ineos, who has amassed £9.2bn.

At the other end of the scale, the Equality Trust estimate that some 4m people in the UK live in poverty. Four million of these are said to be over 50 percent below the poverty line.

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The study has provoked impassioned responses on social media with many condemning the vast wealth inequality gap between a small collection of well-off families and the large number of the poorest in UK society.

One person tweeted that “It’s disgusting… Enterprise and wealth shouldn’t leave such a wretched underclass. It shames us all.” While another suggested that individuals that hoard such “absurd wealth while millions struggle, starve and die in poverty,” should be treated as criminals.

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The Oligarch Takeover of US Pharma and Healthcare – And the Resulting Human Crisis | The Vineyard of the Saker

Posted by EN-AB in Oligarch, Takeover

03-12-19 04:28:00,

by Jon Hellevig for The Saker Blog

Introduction and Executive Summary

The United States runs the by far biggest and most bloated healthcare sector in the world when measured as a share of the total economy. Its annual value was $3.7 trillion, amounting to 17.9% of GDP (2018). That is nearly double the average of developed Western countries (as a share of GDP). The enormous expense does not buy Americans any better health than the Europeans get for half the price, in fact the health outcomes are far inferior in the US. In life expectancy, the US has fallen down to 33rd place, even overtaken by Cuba.

Exorbitant prices on drugs, medical treatment and health insurances are crushing consumers. Half of working age American adults have either no insurance at all or only an inadequate insurance and therefore risk being financially ruined for any kind of medical treatment – even just checking in at a hospital and leaving the same day could land you with a five-figure bill. Studies have shown that two-thirds of Americans are not able to afford a $500 unexpected cost for medical emergency, a sum which will not get you even past reception at an American hospital. According to the American Cancer Society, 137 million Americans suffered medical financial hardship in 2018. They then had to resort to borrow a total of $88 billion only to cover their necessary medical expenses. Medical bills are now the primary factor in two-thirds of all personal bankruptcies in the United States.

In a unique study covering the entire US healthcare sector, Awara Accounting https://www.awaragroup.com/ has dug into the problems of the US pharma and healthcare industries, and the findings are shocking. The Awara study shows https://www.awaragroup.com/blog/us-healthcare-system-in-crisis/ that in addition to the original sin of corporate greed, the exorbitant costs of the US healthcare system stem from layers upon layers of distortions with which the system is infested. Each part of the healthcare industry contributes to what is a giant monopoly scam: the pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment manufacturers, drug wholesalers, drug stores, group purchasing organizations, health insurance companies, doctors, clinics and hospitals, and even what should be impartial university research. And on top of that, there’s the government as a giant enabler of monopolized corporations running roughshod over the American consumer and patient.

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More Governments Employ Artificial Intelligence in Government and Law Enforcement – Activist Post

Posted by EN-AB in Algemeen

03-12-19 04:20:00,

By Subverse News

Artificial intelligence is developing at a rapid rate and is already changing the way businesses and governments run, but how the algorithms they use work isn’t clear.

More governments are implementing machine learning and artificial intelligence to increase efficiency, cut costs, enforce laws, and combat the spread of fake news.

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More Governments Employ Artificial Intelligence in Government and Law Enforcement – Activist Post

Posted by EN-AB in Employ, Governments

03-12-19 04:20:00,

By Subverse News

Artificial intelligence is developing at a rapid rate and is already changing the way businesses and governments run, but how the algorithms they use work isn’t clear.

More governments are implementing machine learning and artificial intelligence to increase efficiency, cut costs, enforce laws, and combat the spread of fake news.

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The International Zionist Conspiracy

Posted by EN-AB in International, Zionist

03-12-19 09:21:00,

A recent article by Philip Weiss on the Mondoweiss website lays out an argument that most liberal Jews, like Weiss, are hesitant to support, namely that Jewish power, and more to the point its money, as exercised through the so-called Israel Lobby in the United States and elsewhere, has been the principal enabling force behind the international pariah that the state of Israel has become.

Weiss notes how “most observers accept the antisemitism redlines echoed lately by Bernie Sanders: you are not to speak of an outsize Jewish role in politics. So few write about the Israel lobby, though they know it to be a significant force…” In other words, Sanders, liberal to the core and ostensibly supportive of Palestinian rights, draws a line that forbids any real discussion of Jewish power in the United States even though everyone who has not been asleep is more than aware of just how powerful American Jews, and by extension Israel, are.

Weiss details how the vast sums of money raised by both Democratic and Republican Jews has distorted American politics since the time of President Harry S. Truman. He describes how president after president has backed down versus Israel when confronted by Jewish power and observes that “This is not just a domestic political question, it’s a foreign policy problem. The Israel lobby is the root cause of the Israel Palestine conflict. Consider the two…main causes of the conflict. 1, Israeli settlement/colonialism (or in Zionist terms, the effort to liberate European Jewry from persecution by establishing a Jewish homeland in historical Palestine). 2, Palestinian resistance to 1. Neither of these historical forces would still be a source of serious conflict 71 years after Israel’s establishment were it not for the lobby. Without the blind support of the United States, Israel would have made a deal a long time ago. The country would have followed through on the historic Palestinian concession of 1988 followed by the Arab Peace Initiative of 2001, and accepted partition of the land on highly favorable terms (Israel gets 78 percent). Without U.S. support, Israel would have been internationally isolated and would have grabbed the deal. The Israelis have been able to continue to devour the land only because the United States supports the occupation in international fora,

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The Fate of Journalism and Julian Assange – Defend WikiLeaks

Posted by EN-AB in Algemeen

03-12-19 09:05:00,

The Fate of Journalism & Julian Assange

Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-In-Chief of WikiLeaks
Australian National Press Club, 3 December 2019

It is a great pleasure to be with you at Australia’s National Press Club on Ngunnawal land. I pay my respect to Ngunnawal elders past, present and emerging.

I have come a long way, from Iceland’s wintery darkness, to be here in the homeland of Julian Assange on the anniversary of the Eureka Stockade. Today he’s about as far from the sunshine and beauty of this place as it is possible to be. I wish I didn’t have to convey to you what it’s like in Belmarsh prison. It is a brick and wire hell of sensory deprivation. It is no place for a journalist or a publisher, and it is no place for an Australian who comes from this bright and warm place. After just a few hours of visiting Julian in that place, I find myself very angry and almost stripped of hope.

Julian has been there for 6 months now, mostly alone in a cell for over 20 hours a day – virtually in solitary confinement. I don’t know how much longer he can last. He is a resilient and strong man – and I should know, I have worked with him closely for 10 years – but he is no longer the man I met back then. He has sacrificed everything to publish what whistleblowers have entrusted to WikiLeaks. And every release comes from leaks – WikiLeaks does not hack, it publishes what whistleblowers provide. And we keep on doing so because whistleblowers keep trusting WikiLeaks with material.

Recently whistleblowers entrusted WikiLeaks with documents about bribery, money laundering and corruption – the FishRot Files. Two ministers in Namibia have just been forced to resign because they were revealed to be corrupt and taking bribes.

Another whistleblower recently provided email communication to then Chief of Cabinet of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Bob Fairweather. The email was from someone who was in the inspection team that visited the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria, in April 2018. Remember, this is the alleged chemical weapons attack that saw Syria bombed by the US,

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The Fate of Journalism and Julian Assange – Defend WikiLeaks

Posted by EN-AB in Algemeen

03-12-19 09:05:00,

The Fate of Journalism & Julian Assange

Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-In-Chief of WikiLeaks
Australian National Press Club, 3 December 2019

It is a great pleasure to be with you at Australia’s National Press Club on Ngunnawal land. I pay my respect to Ngunnawal elders past, present and emerging.

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The Fate of Journalism and Julian Assange – Defend WikiLeaks

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03-12-19 09:05:00,

The Fate of Journalism & Julian Assange

Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-In-Chief of WikiLeaks
Australian National Press Club, 3 December 2019

It is a great pleasure to be with you at Australia’s National Press Club on Ngunnawal land. I pay my respect to Ngunnawal elders past, present and emerging.

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The Fate of Journalism and Julian Assange – Defend WikiLeaks

Posted by EN-AB in Algemeen

03-12-19 09:05:00,

The Fate of Journalism & Julian Assange

Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-In-Chief of WikiLeaks
Australian National Press Club, 3 December 2019

It is a great pleasure to be with you at Australia’s National Press Club on Ngunnawal land. I pay my respect to Ngunnawal elders past, present and emerging.

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The Fate of Journalism and Julian Assange – Defend WikiLeaks

Posted by EN-AB in Algemeen

03-12-19 09:05:00,

The Fate of Journalism & Julian Assange

Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-In-Chief of WikiLeaks
Australian National Press Club, 3 December 2019

It is a great pleasure to be with you at Australia’s National Press Club on Ngunnawal land. I pay my respect to Ngunnawal elders past, present and emerging.

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The Fate of Journalism and Julian Assange – Defend WikiLeaks

Posted by EN-AB in Algemeen

03-12-19 09:05:00,

The Fate of Journalism & Julian Assange

Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-In-Chief of WikiLeaks
Australian National Press Club, 3 December 2019

It is a great pleasure to be with you at Australia’s National Press Club on Ngunnawal land. I pay my respect to Ngunnawal elders past, present and emerging.

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Dylan Avery and Richard Gage on AE911Truth’s New Building 7 Documentary

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Hong Kong — Pure Western Insanity | New Eastern Outlook

Posted by EN-AB in Insanity, Western

02-12-19 09:17:00,

The impunity with which the US aggresses Hong Kong is insane. Equally or more insane is western media coverage of what is going on in Hong Kong. Not one word on how the incredible “pro-democracy” vote of the rather unimportant District Council Elections was achieved. Of the 18 District Councils, 452 of 479 seats (71%) went to “pro-democracy” candidates. Such an extreme anti-Beijing vote could only be obtained by massive western propaganda at the cost of millions of dollars, targeted with algorithms, developed on the principles of the now (apparently) defunct Cambridge Analytica. And this with 70% of eligible voters going to the polls.

None of this practically non-realistic result was analyzed by the west and reported on. In reality, the vast majority of Hong Kongers is sick and tired of the western inspired violence, but are very much proud of being Chinese citizens. They were told by the propagandists that voting for ‘democracy’ candidates was the way to bring peace. And Peace is what everyone wants. After all, integrated into China in 1997, they have enjoyed much more freedom than under British colonialism, where they were not even allowed to vote for their district councils.

The absurdity does not stop here. The US Congress has recently passed legislation that would allow the US monitoring ‘democracy’ and human rights in Hong Kong, the so called “Human Rights and Democracy Act”, with the caveat of imposing sanctions, if Beijing would transgress on the US imposed rules. Can you imagine? Can anyone imagine this all-overarching arrogance?

The US Congress passing legislation to control another foreign territory? And the west goes along with it. It may happen soon in Europe too that the US dictates what sovereign nations are allowed to do and not to do. It is already happening. The US prohibits Europe to do business with whom they want – i.e. Iran, if not, they are being punished. No comments. It’s just the new normal. In the case of Hong Kong, Beijing has protested, called the US Ambassador twice to discuss the matter – to no avail.

It gets even more ludicrous. Madame Michelle Bachelet, High Commissioner of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, has published in the Saturday issue of the South China Morning Post an article seeking full and “independent and impartial judge-led investigation” into police conduct at protests as part of confidence-building measures.

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The Pentagon’s “Mother of All Bombs” (MOAB) Dropped on Afghanistan (2017): Devastating Health Impacts, Ruined Farmland – Global Research

Posted by EN-AB in Mother, Pentagon's

02-12-19 04:30:00,

Almost two and a half years after the United States dropped the “mother of all bombs” onto a Daesh hideout in eastern Afghanistan, locals say they have been afflicted by “many diseases” and agricultural lands are not yielding crops.

TOLOnews reporter Abdulhaq Omeri interviewed residents of Mohmand Dara village, in the Achin district in the eastern province of Nangarhar.

Omeri witnessed many children and teenagers suffering from skin problems and listened to many residents speak of the bomb’s lasting effects.

In April 2017, US Forces dropped a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) on a Daesh stronghold of caves and tunnels in eastern Nangarhar province.

The bomb, nicknamed the “mother of all bombs” is one of the most powerful conventional (non-nuclear) weapons in the US arsenal, according to the US Department of Defense.

MOAB is a concussive bomb, meaning it detonates above ground rather than penetrating hardened defenses.

Anyone within 300 meters will be vaporized, experts say, while those in a one kilometer radius outside ground zero will be left deaf.

Nangarhar residents said the bomb has had a lasting effect on the area.

“The ‘mother of all bombs’ was dropped here,” said Pacha Shinwari, a local resident. “You can see that the stones can be broken easily, the plants are dry, the trees are dry, the nearby houses are all destroyed–40 or 50 of them.”

“The government evacuated the people (before the bomb was dropped), but when we came back, we saw that the houses were destroyed,” local resident Mohammadullah said.

Some teenagers are suffering from skin problems following the bomb explosion.

“Many diseases have emerged in this area after the bomb was used. Most of them have skin problems such as acne and skin irritations,” local resident Jam Roz said.

“The agricultural yields are not the same as in the past. The harvests are lesser than in the past,” said Aminullah, another resident.

Medical doctors and analysts interviewed by TOLOnews said the use of such bombs leaves an impact on areas where it is dropped.

“There are some concerns about the emergence of diseases after the use of the mother of all bombs in Achin,

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The Spanish Case Takes a Turn, Activities of Security Outfit Aimed at Wikileaks. Julian Assange in Video Conference? – Global Research

Posted by EN-AB in Spanish, Takes

02-12-19 04:23:00,

Judge José de la Mata of Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, had been facing a good deal of stonewalling on the part of his British colleagues. He is overseeing an investigation into the surveillance activities of a Spanish security firm aimed at WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, during his stay at the Ecuadorean embassy in London.

De la Mata had issued a European Investigation Order (EIO) in September seeking the assistance of British authorities in trying to interview Assange on the matter. This involved allegations that David Morales, owner of the security outfit UC Global SL, “invaded the privacy of Assange and his lawyers by placing microphones inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London without consent from the affected parties.” Morales, for his part, was indicted in October on privacy violations, bribery and money laundering.

While EIO requests are generally regarded as mundane and automatic, the United Kingdom Central Authority was not so sure. De la Mata’s requests, specifically to interviewing Assange by videoconference, were initially blocked. The initial response, signed by Rashid Begun, claimed that “these types of interview are only done by the police”. The justice, Begun stated curtly, had also lacked clarity in his description of events, and the appropriate elaboration on what jurisdiction was being invoked.

It took an irritated De la Mata to retort in a subsequent letter that, “In this case, Julian Assange is a witness, not an accused party”, a point that enabled him to be interviewed by videoconference. He also reiterated that “all the events and crimes under investigation” had been clearly stated.

The question of jurisdictional bar was also given short shrift. As the alleged crimes by UC Global had taken place on Spanish territory; given that the microphones deployed against Assange had been purchased in Spain; and given that information obtained in London was uploaded to servers in UC Global SL’s headquarters in Jerez de la Frontera, a clear nexus was established.

The UK Central Authority has had a change of heart. On December 20, Assange is set to be transferred from his current maximum security abode, Belmarsh, to Westminster Magistrates Court to answer questions that will be posed by De la Mata.

To date, the evidence on Morales and the conduct of his organisation is bulking and burgeoning.

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Video: The Perils of Fifth Generation (5G) Wireless – Global Research

Posted by EN-AB in Algemeen

02-12-19 04:22:00,

The new generation of wireless technology, 5G, is fraught with controversy. Researchers and scientists worldwide are deeply concerned. Beverly Rubik, a renowned expert in biophysics, will discuss the issues and how we can protect ourselves.

5G is Federally Mandated but its health impacts are untested. Fortunately, a Federal Court has vacated portions of the FCC order that attempt to circumvent environmental review. As of August 9, 2019, all applications to install and operate 4G and 5G systems NATIONWIDE are INCOMPLETE and must include this review.

The 5th generation of wireless, with frequencies in the gigahertz range, is now being rolled out. 5G antennas will be installed every 200 to 1000 feet in our neighborhoods, and a total of 20,00 5G satelites will soon circle the glove in low orbit. This roll out is federally mandated, overriding local government jurisdiction. The perils of this technology include:

paucity of research on health impacts and inadequate safety standards.
5G’s threat to children, pregnant woman, and those with electrosensitivity
already existing evidence that wireless radiation is a causal factor in cancer

In this presentation, learn what 5G is and what you can do:

discover how 5G greatly differs from earlier generations of wireless
find out about the evidence for 5G’s health and environmental effects
get a comprehensive update on the political and regulatory issues
learn practical ways to protect yourself and your loved ones

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Beverly Rubik earned her Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of California in Berkeley, and has conducted research for nearly 40 years on the energy field of the life (the biofield). She is an internationally renowned expert on the biofield and energy medicine and the author of over 90 scientific papers and two books. She has conducted research on the effects of 4G on human exposure and the blood and was a featured expert interviewed in the recent 5G Crisis Summit (www.theSummit.com). Dr. Rubik is founder and president of the Institute for Frontier Science,

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Video: The Perils of Fifth Generation (5G) Wireless – Global Research

Posted by EN-AB in Perils, Video

02-12-19 04:22:00,

paucity of research on health impacts and inadequate safety standards.
5G’s threat to children, pregnant woman, and those with electrosensitivity
already existing evidence that wireless radiation is a causal factor in cancer

In this presentation, learn what 5G is and what you can do:

discover how 5G greatly differs from earlier generations of wireless
find out about the evidence for 5G’s health and environmental effects
get a comprehensive update on the political and regulatory issues
learn practical ways to protect yourself and your loved ones

Note to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc.

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The Truth Seeker – Article Series Part Two | Light On Conspiracies – Revealing the Agenda

Posted by EN-AB in Seeker, Truth

02-12-19 01:54:00,

Due to the sensitive nature of the content of this article, two men in black clothes wearing balaclavas attacked our English Editor at the office of Mena Tidningen late on the 29th of October, delivering the message: “Stop asking questions!” We have decided to publish the article despite of this traumatic event.

Ole Dammegård

A former journalist and investigator Ole Dammegård has dedicated the last 35 years of his life to researching many of the Global conspiracies. His main focus has been the truth behind the assassinations of JFK, the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, John Lennon and Lady Di. The terror attacks of 9/11, Norway, Oklahoma City and more. He is now considered a leading expert on false flag operations and is believed to have managed to expose and stop several planned massacres.

Ole has discovered links between all of these assassinations, which has led him to believe that the same people were involved in both the JFK and Olof Palme murders as well as many other major events. This Global Elite seem to have used identical skilled mechanics to do their dirty work for decades.

Ole has done 500-1000 International interviews, with several million views. He moved to Spain 20 years ago after his investigations about the Olof Palme Murder lead to mysterious deaths of two of his close investigator friends. Ole himself had a late-night visit threating him if he continued his research and speaking up about it. A multi-talent, he lives with his wife and kids by the Mediterranean Sea and he travels around the world lecturing about his research and findings.

Last week, Ole described False Flag operations as a means to maintain a state of fear in people across the World, so a few, the elite, keep control. This is done by creating anything from staging a bomb attack at a church, a school, a random act of violence, train stations, airports, preferably using women and children as the alleged victims, to achieve the ultimate emotional reaction from the intended receiver, us the people, by applying an old Roman strategy:

Problem – Attack. Reaction, one reacts so emotionally with fear of terror that you would agree to anything;

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Organizations Funded by the NED

Posted by EN-AB in Funded, Organizations

02-12-19 01:51:00,

The following exclusive list shows the more than 1600 NGOs that between 2016 and 2019 have received grants by the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The names of the NGOs have been extracted from the official NED grant database and have been grouped by region.

The NED was founded in 1983 by U.S. Congress as a “private nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.” With a budget of $160 million per year, the NED supports projects and NGOs in more than 90 countries.

Some of these NGOs may serve a dual purpose. As NED co-founder Allen Weinstein famously explained in 1991: “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.” Such activities may include information operations, subversion, and regime change campaigns.

General notes: The (sub-)regional grouping of NGOs has been done manually and hence is tentative. NGOs marked with an asterisk (*) have been drawn from official sources other than the NED grant database. NGOs marked with a bold (M) have attracted special media attention.

Acting as intermediaries, four US organizations receive about half of the annual NED funding:

NGOs in other Eastern European countries or NGOs not readily assignable.

Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran

Abjad Center for Studies and Development

Abnaa Al-Nazeheen Organization in Missan

Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research

Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in the Arab World (ANSA)

Afghan Institute for Research and Media Studies

Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies

Afghan Women Coordination and Promotion Organization

Afghan Women Unity Organization

Afghan Youth in New Era Organization (AYNEO)

Afghanistan Human Rights Organization

Afghanistan Organization Women Arise

Afghanistan Youth National and Social Organization

Afghans for Progressive Thinking

Akhiam Association for Economic and Social Development

Al Chabaka Al Arabia

Al Tahreer Association for Development

Al Tahreer Typical Society

Al-Amal Association for Protecting Mothers and Children

Al-Amal Network for Relief and Sustainable Development of Al-Hoceima

Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights

Aliq Media

Al-Jahedh Forum for Free Thought

Al-Mada Foundation for Human Rights

Al-Moshkhab Is My Identity Association

Al-Nahdah Social Association

Al-Najah Center for Training and Development

Al-Noor Universal Foundation

Al-Salam Media Center

Amarchi Center for Media Development

Arab Association for Constitutional Law

Arab Association of Enlightened Muslim Educators

Arab Center for Scientific Research and Humane Studies

Arab Human Rights Academy

Arab Network for Democratic Elections

Arab Region Parliamentarians Against Corruption

Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ)

Arab Watch Coalition

Aran for Developing Civic Culture

Arbi Harnet

Association for Integrated Development Balochistan

Association of Middle East Studies

Association of the Lawyers of Pamir

Athar Center for Development

Attanweer Social Development Foundation

Baacha Khan Trust Educational Foundation

Babelyat Center For Woman Empowerment

Bacha Khan Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution

Badghis Social Journalism Association

Bahrain Press Association

Beirut Center for Middle East Studies

Bullah Shah Foundation

Center for Civic Education Pakistan

Chahed Observatory for Monitoring Elections and Supporting Democratic Reform

Chekad Television

College of Youth Activism and Development- Pakistan

Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies

Daraj Media

Darfat Organization

Development and Support of Afghan Women and Children Organization

Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)

Enab Baladi – Turkey

Enab Baladi – USA

Enab Baladi (Uzüm Dali Dernegi)

Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders

Fanni Raghman Anni Association

Fikrah Organization for Womens Rights and Media

Filastiniyat

Foundation to Restore Equality and Education in Syria

Free Syrian Lawyers Association

Gulf House for Studies and Publications

Hasht-e Subh Daily

Health and Rural Development (HARD) Balochistan

Herat Professionals Shura

Human Rights and Democracy Media Center (Shams)

International Forum for Democratic Islam (IFDI)

International Forum for Islamic Dialogue

Iraq Civic Action Network

Iraqi Al-Firdaws Society

Iraqi Institute for Civic Development

Iraqi Media House

Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights

Iraqi Women Journalists Forum

Islamic Renaissance Front Berhad

Jalalabad Regional Human Rights Organization Spravedlivost

Janawaboda Kendraya

Jordan Transparency Center

Kurdish Institute for Elections (KIE)

Kurdistan for Everyone for Developing Democracy

Lebanese Transparency Association – No Corruption

Legal Initiative Bishkek Public Foundation

Local Coordination Committees in Syria

Madar Daily

Media Matters for Democracy (Pakistan)

Mehergarh: A Centre of Learning

MENA Media Monitoring (M)

Nai Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan

National Association of TV and Radio Broadcasters of Kazakhstan

PAHEL Pakistan

Pahel Sindh

Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT)

Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution

Palestinian Initiative for Supporting Students (ESNAD)

PalThink for Strategic Studies

PAYK Investigative Journalism Center

Project On Middle East Democracy

Public Foundation Ar Rukh Khak

Public Foundation Kylym Shamy

Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (M)

Redsea Cultural Foundation

Redsea Online Cultural Foundation

Resonate Foundation Yemen

Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies

Shahr-ba-Shahr Radio

Shetab Afghanistan | Center for Social and Business Innovation

Shooun Janoubia

Society to Defend Press Freedom in Iraq

Supporting Organization for Afghanistan Civil Society

Syria Bright Future

Syrian Bright Future Association

Syrians for Truth and Justice

Tabanni Foundation for Active Youth

Tamdeen Youth Foundation

The Arab World Democracy and Electoral Monitor

The General Union of Cultural Centers-Gaza

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We Can’t Torture Animals, Only Humans – PaulCraigRoberts.org

Posted by EN-AB in Can't, Torture

02-12-19 01:35:00,

This site offers factual information and viewpoints that might be useful in arriving at an understanding of the events of our time. We believe that the information comes from reliable sources, but cannot guarantee the information to be free of mistakes and incorrect interpretations. IPE has no official position on any issue and does not necessarily endorse the statements of any contributor.

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Church of Sweden unveils altarpiece of paradise featuring gay couples and transgender serpent

Posted by EN-AB in Church, Sweden

02-12-19 08:55:00,

A church in Malmo has a new altarpiece meant to celebrate inclusivity by replacing Adam and Eve in paradise with gay couples in suggestive poses, while depicting the serpent tempting them as a transgender woman.

The controversial work of art is not new. Photographer and artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin painted it in 2012 and tried to donate it to the Skara Cathedral just before the church was preparing to conduct the first same-sex wedding in its 1,000-year history.

The openly lesbian artist, who has a history of blending religious imagery with pro-minority activism, said at the time that she wanted to test if the Church of Sweden was as gay-friendly as it claimed to be when it embraced same-sex marriage in 2009. The Skara Cathedral politely declined the gift, saying it was about political activism and not faith.

But over seven years have passed, and now Wallin has got her way, even if it isn’t in her home city. St. Paul’s Church in Malmo accepted the painting called “Paradise” as its new altarpiece and unveiled it on Sunday, the first day of Advent. Helena Myrstener, the pastor, said that “history was written” in the hanging of the “LGBT altarpiece” as she tweeted a photo of the painting.

På söndag skrivs historia. Sveriges enda hbtq-altartavla (Elisabeth Ohlsson Wallin) tas emot i S:t Pauli kyrka i M-ö. Självklart hänger den i koret, bredvid den ”gamla” altartavlan. Vi är så glada o stolta! pic.twitter.com/W5TBkL8osa

— helena myrstener 📎 (@helenamyrstener) November 27, 2019

Wallin’s reimagining of paradise was inspired by one of the works by Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder. The artist/activist said she wanted to show that, since the beginning of time, the place for gay people was in paradise rather than hell. The modern interpretation interestingly seems more prudish in terms of nudity than the 16th century originals as both “lesbian Eves” have their breasts covered by leaves rather than concealing only their genitals, as is traditional.

But it’s probably not because the artist has problems with nudity. After all, her most famous photo exhibition – the 2012 Bible-inspired “Ecce Homo” – featured an image portraying the baptism of Jesus with the model standing for Christ having his penis fully exposed.

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