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Posted: 10 Feb 2016 02:49 PM PST
 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spoken out against US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, calling her a “war hawk with bad judgment” who gets an “emotional rush out of killing people.” “A vote today for Hillary Clinton is a vote for endless, stupid war,” Assange wrote via the @wikileaks Twitter account on Tuesday. He added that he has “years of experience in dealing with Hillary Clinton and have read thousands of her cables. Hillary lacks judgment and will push the United States into endless wars which spread terrorism.” Assange also highlighted Clinton’s “poor policy decisions,” which he said have “directly contributed” to the rise of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). Stating that Clinton went above the heads of Pentagon generals when it came to Libya, he wrote: “Libya has been destroyed. It became a haven for ISIS. The Libyan national armory was looted and hundreds of tons of weapons were transferred to jihadists in Syria.” He went on to state that Clinton did not learn from her mistakes, and set out to repeat history in Syria. “Having learned nothing from the Libyan disaster Hillary then set about trying do the same in Syria. Hillary’s war has increased terrorism, killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians and has set back women’s rights in the Middle East by hundreds of years,” he wrote. Referring to a CBS interview with Clinton in 2011, Assange expressed his disgust with her after she became “wild-eyed” and “publicly took credit for the destruction of the Libyan state,” gloating that “We came, we saw, he (Muammar Gaddafi) died!” “In the momentary thrill of the kill, she had aped, of all people, Julius Caesar,” Assange wrote. He concluded by saying that Clinton “shouldn’t be let near a gun shop, let alone an army. And she certainly should not become president of the United States.” But despite Assange’s loathing for Clinton, she is still in contention to win the Democratic nomination for the presidential election in November. Assange wrote the memo from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has been holed up for over three years after being granted asylum in order to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces sexual assault allegations. From Sweden, the WikiLeaks founder fears he would be extradited to the US for publishing classified US military and diplomat documents in 2010 – a move which amounted to the largest information leak in United States history. Last week, a United Nations panel ruled that Assange has been “arbitrarily detained” in the embassy in London, and called on the UK and Sweden to end the deprivation of his liberty. Assange called the ruling “a victory that cannot be denied,” stating that the UK and Sweden had “lost at the highest level.” However, both the UK and Sweden rejected the UN panel’s ruling. A British government spokesman said it “changed nothing,” while Sweden questioned the UN’s legal competence when it comes to “issues related to fugitives’ self-confinement, such as asylum and extradition.” Source           |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2016 02:08 PM PST
 The leftist media reacted with vitriol to Donald Trump’s crushing victory in New Hampshire – stooping to a new low by labeling his supporters racist, sexist zombies. Trump trounced nearest contender John Kasich, taking 34 per cent of the vote, with establishment favorite Marco Rubio lagging behind in fifth place. The Huffington Post exploded with resentment, running with the headline ‘NH GOES RACIST SEXIST HOMOPHOBIC’ in huge red capital letters. A short time later, the headline was changed to ‘WTF GOP – Racist, Sexist, Demagogue WIns NH’.  This was just the latest salvo in the publication’s long running feud with Trump. It had previously relegated news stories about him to the ‘entertainment’ section, before Trump’s frontrunner status forced an embarrassing reversal of that policy. Last month, the Huffington Post took the unprecedented step of adding a note to the bottom of every article about Trump which described him as a “liar,” a “racist,” and a “xenophobe.” However, not to be outdone, the New York Daily News reacted to Trump’s win by portraying the business mogul as a clown next to the headline, ‘Dawn of the Brain Dead’. “Clown comes back to life with NH win as Mindless dummies come out in droves,” read the subheadline. Given such over the top treatment of Trump, one wonders how the leftist media will respond if he actually wins the Republican nomination, never mind the presidency itself. Liberal Media: Only the “Brain Dead” Support Trump Jewish democrat billionaire Mortimer Zuckerman’s Daily News headlines today with “Dawn of the Brain Dead: Clown comes back to life with N.H. Win as mindless zombies turn out in droves.” The “news” tabloid, replete with photos of scantily clad women, porn stars and celebrity gossip, features a number of past covers—self described as “hard-hitting, thought-provoking”— lambasting Trump as an insane clown. In other words, according to Zuckerman and crew, Americans fed up with an entrenched establishment that services multinational corporations and banking interests at their expense are akin to walking dead zombies enthralled by a clown. The publisher is an ardent supporter of establishment insider and Goldman Sachs favorite Hillary Clinton. Zukerman has donated handsomely to the Clinton Foundation political machine along with fellow media magnates Bloomberg, James Murdoch, Carlos Slim, HBO, Time Warner, The Washington Post and others. The foundation established by Bill Clinton is scandal wracked. It takes millions from foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates, countries not permitted to donate directly to presidential candidates. It is also lubricated by money from Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, ExxonMobil, General Electric, Monsanto, McDonald’s, Walmart and other corporate behemoths. While Republican establishment insiders have yet to stoop to the level of Zuckerman and the Democrats—caricaturizing Trump as a buffoon leading a pack of brain dead zombies—they are also desperately working behind the scene to undermine Trump’s campaign and install an insider in the White House. The neocons favored Marco Rubio, but due to his dismal showing on Tuesday they may need to look at the lackluster Ohio Governor John Kasich who placed second in New Hampshire. Source     |
