The Automatic Earth

Lawlessness

Jun 012019

June 1, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:44 pm Primers Tagged with: Assange, Australia, Ecuador, law, lawlessness, Melzer, rogue state, Sweden, torture, UK, US 3 Responses »

Pablo Picasso Rest (Marie-Thérèse Walter) 1932 With the news that Julian Assange is “wasting away” in Belmarsh prison hospital, and with UN rapporteur Professor Nils Melzer’s report detailing how this happens, I’m once again drawn towards the lawlessness that all “authorities” involved in his case have been displaying, and with impunity. They all apparently think they are literally above the law. Their own laws. But they can’t be, nowhere, not above their respective national laws nor the international ones their

Debt Rattle June 1 2019

Jun 012019

June 1, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 8:30 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Galloway, Melzer, Mexico, rapporteur, Ron Paul, smear campaign, torture, trade war, Trump, UN 4 Responses »

• Relentless and Unrestrained Public Mobbing, Intimidation and Defamation (CN) • UN Special Rapporteur Calls for Julian Assange to Be Freed (DN) • Assange ‘Psychologically Tortured To Breaking Point By Democratic States’ (RT) • Are US/UK Trying To Kill Assange? – Ron Paul (DM) • Assange May Have To Die Before Journalists Realize Implications – Galloway (RT) • 36 Countries The US Has Bullied This Week (RT) • Prelude to a Fiasco (Jim Kunstler) • US Stock Market Forgoes

Debt Rattle May 31 2019

May 312019

May 31, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:01 am Finance Tagged with: AOC, Assange, Boeing, extradition, immigration, Mexico, MH17, Russiagate, tariffs, torture, Trump, yield curve 5 Responses »

• Julian Assange Shows Psychological Torture Symptoms – UN Expert (G.) • Julian Assange Must Never Be Extradited (Matt Taibbi) • The Unrelenting State (Craig Murray) • Trump Announces Tariffs On Mexico Until ‘Immigration Problem Remedied’ (G.) • Futures, Peso Tumble As Trump Unleashes Tariffs On Mexico (ZH) • GOP Senator Grassley Blasts Trump Over Mexico Tariff Threat (Hill) • Russiagate Is #1 Threat To US National Security – Stephen Cohen (RT) • Malaysia PM Wants Evidence To Show

War and Young Americans

May 262019

May 26, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 7:47 pm Primers Tagged with: Bolton, Caitlin, Eisenhower, Gabbard, military industrial complex, Pelosi, Pence, Pompeo, Schumer, Springsteen, Trump, Vietnam, war 41 Responses »

Joseph Mallord William Turner Teasing the Donkey 1827 So we’re going to do this all over again? Well, not if I can help it. Not that I have much hope that I can, mind you. As the bastions of war chime on, my voice, like so many others, will be drowned out. The military industrial complex knows how to do propaganda, better than anyone. But I’ll try. Vietnam gave the US its biggest ever defeat, both militarily and morally,

Debt Rattle May 26 2019

May 262019

May 26, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:45 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, elections, glyphosate, GMO, journalism, media, Monsanto, Pence, Russia, Tesla, Trump, UK, West Point 6 Responses »

• Pence To West Point Grads: You Will Fight On a Battlefield for America (Taer) • Global Elites Started The Russia Nonsense (Farnan) • Indictment of Julian Assange is a Clear and Present Danger to Journalism (EFF) • The US Media Is in the Crosshairs of the New Assange Indictment (Lawfare) • The World: What is Really Happening (Murray) • Europeans Vote, With EU Future In Balance (R.) • Who Gets To Choose The UK’s Next Prime Minister? (BBC)

Debt Rattle May 25 2019

May 252019

May 25, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:24 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Australia, Avenatti, Chelsea Manning, civilization, Espionage Act, Farage, hucksters, Trump 11 Responses »

• What Assange Charges Could Mean For Press Freedom (Jonathan Turley) • A Threat to the Press and the American People (IC) • Professional #Assange Smearers Finally Realize His Fate Is Tied To Theirs (CJ) • The Belligerence of Empire (Orphan) • Australian Government Urged To Intervene In Assange Case (G.) • Trump Wants Investigation Into Australia’s Role In ‘Russian Hoax’ (G.) • The Golem Strikes Back (Kunstler) • Political Media Is a Hucksters’ Paradise (Taibbi) • Trump Declares

Debt Rattle May 24 2019

May 242019

May 24, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:14 am Finance Tagged with: Amnesty, Assange, Bill Barr, ChelseaManning, CIA, coward, Espionage Act, FBI, Trump 8 Responses »

• Either You Are A Worthless Coward Or You Defend Assange (CJ) • Trump Orders FBI, CIA To “Fully Cooperate” With Barr (ZH) • Lone US Senator Decries Use Of Espionage Act Against Assange (RT) • Chelsea Manning and Her Lawyer On Today’s Superseding Indictment (SpM) • Amnesty International: Julian Assange “Not A Prisoner Of Conscience” (Wsws) • Theresa May Announces June 7 Resignation (G.) • A “European Empire” Won’t Make Europe Richer (Azihari) • Humans Causing Shrinking

Debt Rattle May 18 2019

May 182019

May 18, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:55 am Finance Tagged with: art sales, Assange, Boris, Brexit, bubble, cultural schizophrenia, doom, Douma, Greece, OPCW, paycheck, Ronaldo, Trump, Vague 9 Responses »

Edouard Manet Gypsy with a cigarette 1862 • Half Of Americans Are Just One Paycheck Away From ‘Financial Disaster’ (MW) • Record-Setting Art Sales Confirm Global Liquidity Bubble (Colombo) • A Greek Canary in a Global Goldmine (Varoufakis) • US Media No Longer Reports Facts, But Appeals To Emotions (SHTF) • OPCW Expert Contradicts Official Douma Attack Analysis (CJ) • Free For All (Jim Kunstler) • May And Corbyn Blame Each Other As Brexit Talks Collapse (G.) • Tory

Julian Assange Is Today’s Martin Luther King

May 172019

May 17, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 1:31 pm Primers Tagged with: Assange, Bobby Kennedy, Chelsea Manning, Comey, courage, Gandhi, Jesus, justice, Martin Luther King, Mueller, Reagan, sacrifice, sex smears, Snowden, truth 6 Responses »

Caravaggio The seven works of mercy (Sette opere di Misericordia) 1607 “Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop… And I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.” – Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, one day

Debt Rattle May 17 2019

May 172019

May 17, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:47 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Boeing, Brennan, Brexit, Chelsea Manning, CIA, Comey, Facebook, FBI, Huawei, Iran, raven, Wikileaks 6 Responses »

Carl Bloch The transfiguration c1865 • Chelsea Manning Jailed Again For Refusing To Testify Against WikiLeaks (RT) • The Revelations of WikiLeaks: No. 3—The Most Extensive Classified Leak Ever • The Liberal Embrace of War (Matt Taibbi) • UK-US Row Over Iran Intel Unleashes Storm Of Behind The Scenes Infighting (ZH) • FBI-CIA Dispute Erupts Over Whether Comey Or Brennan Pushed Steele Dossier (ZH) • A World Aching For Peace & Stability Can No Longer Afford NATO (Wight) •

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