British Court Orders Leader of WikiLeaks Freed on Bail

By RAVI SOMAIYA and Alan Cowell from Berlin

LONDON — After a week in detention facing possible extradition, Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks antisecrecy group, was ordered released on $310,000 bail by a court on Tuesday as he challenges a Swedish prosecutor’s demand that he return to Stockholm for questioning about alleged sex offenses.

However, Mr. Assange remained in custody pending a hearing on an appeal by the prosecutor, which would take place within the next 48 hours.

In granting bail, Judge Howard Riddle ordered that Mr. Assange appear again in court on Jan. 11. He also said that between then and now he must reside at Ellingham Hall, a Georgian mansion in Bungay, in eastern England, owned by Vaughan Smith, the founder of a club for journalists. Mr. Assange must spend every night at the mansion and will be electronically tagged so the police can track his movements, the judge said.

Additionally, Mr. Assange will be under curfew every day from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will be required to report daily to the police from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. His passport is already with the police and, under the terms of his bail, he is not permitted to travel abroad.

Judge Riddle said he granted bail on Tuesday, after denying it a week ago, because Mr. Assange was now able to provide an address where he would be staying. The judge described his earlier decision as “marginal” and said that Mr. Assange had now met that condition of his bail “handsomely.”

Mr. Assange was wearing a dark blue suit and a white shirt open at the collar. Reporters said he seemed paler and more fatigued than at the first hearing on Dec. 7 when bail was denied. When the judge announced that bail would be granted on Tuesday, Mr. Assange gave a thumbs-up sign to the packed courthouse.

The case has generated enormous international interest, with figures in the Obama administration weighing whether to prosecute him, critics vilifying him and supporters depicting him as a hero and martyr. Crowds of media crews and reporters built up around the court near Parliament early on Tuesday, mingling with Mr. Assange’s followers.

An Australian newspaper, the Sunshine Coast News, reported on Tuesday that his mother, Christine Assange, had flown to London to be with him.

In a 10-minute telephone conversation with his mother, the newspaper said, Mr. Assange declared: “My convictions are unfaltering. I remain true to the ideals I have always expressed. These circumstances shall not shake them. If anything, this process has increased my determination that they are true and correct.”

Mrs. Assange was among around 100 people — mainly lawyers and journalists — crammed into Court No. 1 at City of Westminster Magistrates Court for her son’s arrival. Mr. Assange arrived in the court building several hours before the afternoon hearing, according to reporters at the court house.

The legal wrangle over Mr. Assange’s future erupted after WikiLeaks posted troves of classified American documents on the Internet, the most recent of them drawn from some 250,000 diplomatic cables between the State Department in Washington and American missions abroad.

While Mr. Assange has ascribed the sex offense charges — which he denies — to “dirty tricks” related to his antisecrecy operations, Swedish prosecutors insist there is no link. A week ago, Mr. Assange surrendered to British authorities and was jailed after a judge reviewing the extradition request found him to be a flight risk and denied bail.

Despite his release Tuesday, a final decision on whether he is to be extradited could take weeks or longer.

Speaking about the case in recent weeks, Mr. Assange has said that he had consensual relations with two young Swedish women. He said he met them during a trip to Sweden in August that he made in a bid to establish a haven for himself and WikiLeaks under Sweden’s broad laws protecting press freedoms.

The charges relate to the question of whether these encounters ceased to be consensual when a condom was no longer being used. Sweden’s request for extradition is designed to enable prosecutors to question Mr. Assange about charges of “rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.”

The latest twist in the drama began a week ago when officers from Scotland Yard arrested Mr. Assange after he went to a central London police station by agreement with the authorities.

In a packed courtroom hearing lasting nearly an hour a week ago, Gemma Lindfield, a lawyer acting for the Swedish government, outlined some of the detailed allegations against Mr. Assange made by the Swedish women, both WikiLeaks volunteers. They involved three incidents, including one in which Mr. Assange was alleged to have had unprotected sex with one of his accusers while she was asleep.

In court last week, Mr. Assange refused to give a current address, giving first a post office box, then an address in Parkville in the Australian state of Victoria, where he lived before adopting a peripatetic lifestyle since founding WikiLeaks in 2006.

The exchange appeared to have weighed against his request for bail, which was supported by financial guarantees of more than $150,000 from a cast of well-known supporters present in court, including the filmmaker Ken Loach and Jemima Khan, a socialite and political activist.

The judge, Howard Riddle, agreed with Ms. Lindfield that there were “significant grounds” for thinking Mr. Assange posed a flight risk, because of his “nomadic lifestyle,” his lack of ties in Britain, his network of international contacts and his access to substantial sums donated by WikiLeaks supporters.

His week of imprisonment has had little evident impact on the flow of leaked documents from an archive that was made available to five news organizations, including The New York Times. In the telephone conversation with his mother, Mr. Assange said: “I am calling on the world to protect my work and my people from these illegal and immoral acts.”

Many of the communications between the State Department and 274 overseas embassies and missions remain to be released.

According to WikiLeaks, only 1,344 of a total 251,287 documents have so far been published on its Web site since it began releasing the latest batch of documents on Nov. 28. Previously the organization had publicized confidential material about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Founder Of WTB+TS Charles Taze Russell

A Mason?

• Pyramidology. Following views first taught by Christian writers such as John Taylor, Charles Piazzi Smyth and Joseph Seiss, he believed the Great Pyramid of Giza was built by the Hebrews (associated to the Hyksos) under God’s direction, but to be understood only in our day. He adopted and used Seiss's phrase referring to it as "the Bible in stone". He believed that certain biblical texts, including Isaiah 19:19–20 and others, prophesied a future understanding of the Great Pyramid and adopted the view that the various ascending and descending passages represented the fall of man, the provision of the Mosaic Law, the death of Christ, the exultation of the saints in heaven, etc. Calculations were made using the pattern of an inch per year. Dates such as 1874, 1914, and 1948 were purported to have been found through the study of this monument.^[43]

And this Source website states:

The newspaper and magazine industry has always been a cutthroat business – even in the world of Jehovah’s Witness publications. Charles Taze Russell began what is now known as The Watchtower publication in 1879 for use in the door-to-door ministry by the Jehovah’s Witnesses. They were unchallenged until 1889 when a new, radical door-to-door publication entered the marketplace.

A young journalist named David McStevens founded “The Loincloth: Exposing Christianity” in 1889 and immediately threatened the Watchtower’s door-to-door dominance. Within the first year, Watchtower’s circulation dipped down by 35 percent. Readership for the Loincloth increased even more when they began to give away tickets for the 144,000 available seats in heaven with crossword puzzle contests.

McStevens and Russell became embroiled in a heated battle; McStevens claimed Russell was buying some of the tickets to heaven and not coming by them the honest way – earning them or winning them. Russell did not deny the charges and then scalped 100 heaven seating tickets for a total of $2.3 million dollars.

With a little extra cash on hand, Russell increased the production and dissemination of his Watchtower literature. By 1910 McStevens had all but disappeared from the big picture. According to Witness Micah Onas’s annual list in 1911, the Fortunate 144,000, David McStevens had slipped in the rankings all the way from #58 to #143, 820 - putting his eternal existence in jeopardy. Charles Russell held steady at #3 behind Jesus and Booker T. Washington. Source

When a Jehovah's Witness comes to your door, answer it!
But don't let them in your house!

2 John 1:10-11, If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. 11Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.

Its always interesting when JW's come knocking with their current edition of the Watchtower and Awake magazine. They like to throw a softball article at unsuspecting home dweller.

The insidious wolf in sheeps clothing slowly maneuvers to control the flow of the conversation to their presentation and the goal of selling literature (they refer to placing literature) and logging hours of field service for their monthly time report.
The ultimate goal is to find a warm house to secure a bible study every week, that gets them off the street corner and off the frozen front porches during the winter. To proselytize in a 1 to 1 study of their version of bible truth.

The overall objective? To witness to the world about their organization which they claim is the only way to gain the salvation of God. They do not lead to Christ Jesus.

And to recruit more Watchtower slaves to the cause. Without work they have no salvation. You see one cannot be a JW without the door to door ministry.

The truth is they are not connected to God thru Christ, they have an Organization to follow rather then following Jesus Christ. Salvation is NOT available with out works for JW's.

For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
http://bible.cc/1_timothy/2-5.htm

They pay lip service to this bible verse, but do not believe it...

Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:
http://bible.cc/ephesians/2-8.htm


Over the last 46 years I have studied every part of the beliefs of JW's,
I was brainwashed and baptised in 1964 at the age of 10.
I was trapped in this cult for 30 years and I finally cut the ties it took me until 1995, powerful guilt/fear mind contolling sect/cult.

I started having doubts back in the early 1980's. The threat that was held over my head was that I would be disfellowshipped if I read any information that was contrary the the written books and magazines and beliefs of WTB+TS

Reading contrary material on the internet is considered apostate and punishable by disfellowshiping and shunning.

Fortunately my eyes begun to be open when I read the book published by Raymond Franz .

Raymond Victor Franz (May 8, 1922 – June 2, 2010) was a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses from 20 October 1971 until 22 May 1980,^[1][2] and served at the organization's world headquarters for fifteen years, from 1965 until 1980. Franz claimed the request for his resignation and his subsequent disfellowshipping resulted from allegations of his apostasy from the faith.^[3] Franz wrote two books that related his personal experiences with the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and his views on Jehovah's Witnesses teachings.

Franz wrote two books—Crisis of Conscience (1983) and In Search of Christian Freedom (1991)—presenting detailed accounts of his experiences as a Jehovah's Witness, a Governing Body member, and his experiences throughout various levels of the organization

The Internet has opened the door to mounds of information on the checkered past of the Presidents of the International Bible Students, Watchtower Bible+Track Society and since 1931 called Jehovah's Witnesesses . The majority of JW's will not want to discuss the failed prophesyies of their founder and the President (leaders) that followed CT Russell.

Over the last 20 years I have come to the conclusion that they are a man made sect with no connection to the truth. "The Truth" as they refer to their cult religion, bears no resemblance to the Good News of Jesus Christ.



Today 2 men came knocking witholding the Truth and hiding the 135 year history about the Truth!


The internet is filled with information that was not available to researchers prior to the 1996 world wide web being opened to the world.


For example:

In the 1 November 1995 Watchtower magazine, the Jehovah's Witnesses made a major doctrinal change concerning the "Generation of 1914." To better understand the significance of this change it is crucial to understand the importance they place on the year 1914 and how their beliefs concerning that year have radically changed throughout their history.
he denighed that 1975 was a a failed prophesy of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and he degned that a change in the Generation 1914 date. Source

For example:

In the Awake! magazine of November 8the 1995 the masthead of the magazine was significantly changed. This single change is perhaps the most significant and obvious. They have now totally rejected the original 1914 generation doctrine. Of course, most witnesses on the street, are not even aware of this yet because they are forbidden to read "apostate" material. What is apostate about this material? Did it not reveal truth to YOU??? Had you noticed the masthead change below in the Awake magazine? Source



This time I again ...I heard the same twisted lies from the elder slave that claimed 45-50 years in the Cult. They do NOT want the world where they preach to know the truth about Jehovah's Winessess.

So with the Watchtower slaves on my doorstep Saturday morning,
I decided to take control of the the direction of the conversation.
and I told them I didn't want their magazines, but I did have some questions...

Jehovah's witnesses never listen...but they love to talk, so by framing my inquiry as noted above, my questions would allow me to direct the conversation to the holes in their religious beliefs and the lies in their time table and bible chronology which is the crux of their message at the deeper levels of brainwashing. hence I can bring to the Knockers attention , the huge mounds of information, facts , inconsistencies false prophesy as well as outright bold face lies .


This preacher told me that NO WTBS ARTICLE HAD EVER CLAIMED that 1914 generation was going to see the end of the world. And the failed prophesy of 1975 was blamed on the over enthusiasm of the flock of Jw's and that the writers and Governing bidy of JW's NEVER made those claims.

The Big Lie

The Big Lie was Hitlers masterpiece... The Big Lie so too with the Witnesses, who have re-wriiten, buried their history because they have run out of time , ALL their significant time prophecy's have failed.

They are governed NOT by the Holy Spirit , I suspect they are controlled by a different spirit one that is determined to mislead the entire inhabitant earth.

Revelation 12:6-12

12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
12:8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.


So I told the 2 men that came to my door that I wondered how many times the Holy Spirit could be wrong?

The holy spirit was wrong when picking CT Russell and his 2 dates 1874 and 1914.

And the holy spirit was wrong when Rutherford took over the WTB+TS and he picked 1925 as the date when the end would come.

Then when Frederick Franz used the chronology based on CT Russells dates with his copycat chronology from The 7th Day Adventists, Millerites, Barbour , this date also failed.

Every President from CT Russell to the present day has changed the believes as their prophecy's fail. The web has captured 135 years of JW's written history on the Internet.

Today I challenged them on CT Russell claim about 1914 being the date when they would go to heaven, when the claim was made to ALL Jw's that the generation people that were of an age of understanding in 1914 would see the end conclusion of the system of things. These people are now those people would be 96 years of age. and Jw's were taught that the Remnant of Christs brothers on the earth would never die and be transformed in the twinkling of an eye and go to heaven before Armageddon.

"Likewise today, most of the generation of 1914 has passed away. However, there are still millions on earth who were born in that year or prior to it." (Watchtower April 8, 1988 p14) Another example of the "Generation" doctrine change

"When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him" (Deuteronomy 18:22).

Each President picked wrong dates...this is JR Rutherfords Book where he stated the year 1925 would be the critical date...later calling himself an ass for picking a date that came and went.

Millions Now Living Will Never Die! By J. F. Rutherford

Leo- Friday, December 10, 2010

Leo- Sunday, December 5, 2010

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1960 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

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Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.

1960 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.

2006 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money because Jeffrey has a disability.

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Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping.

1960 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2006 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

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Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant.

1960 - 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her Grade 12 year at a special school for expectant mothers.

2006 - School Counsellor calls Planned Parenthood. Mary is driven to the next province and gets an abortion without her parents' consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.

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Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from Halloween, puts them in a bottle, blows up a red ant hill.

1960- Ants die.

2006 - Fire Department and RCMP called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, Provincial Government investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list.

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Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him

1960 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2006 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in prison.

Researchers on Thursday said they had bred microbes that absorb the notorious poison arsenic into their DNA, in an experiment that could rewrite the rules of life.

Until now, all organisms were thought to have six essential elements in common: oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur, carbon and phosphorus. The researchers say the bacteria they grew in the lab now "very likely" use arsenic instead of phosphorus in critical parts of their working biology, including their spiral backbone of DNA. If the new findings hold up, scientists will have to add noxious element 33 to the construction kit for existence.

Moreover, by depending on an element so toxic to normal life, the microbes are a living demonstration of the exotic substances that biochemistry might, at least in theory, use in other worlds.

"It is building itself out of arsenic," said geo-microbiologist Felisa Wolfe-Simon at NASA's Astrobiology Institute and the U.S. Geological Survey, who led researchers from eight federal and university laboratories conducting the experiment. "All life we know is the same biochemically, and this is a little different. It is suggesting there is another way to be alive."

The researchers conceded that the odd microbes, in and of themselves, don't prove yet that there is a fundamentally different basis for life on Earth. "It is beginning to open the door a crack to possibilities," Ms. Wolfe-Simon said.

Several independent experts were convinced that these unusual organisms weren't so far out of the ordinary. "This is an interesting curiosity, a novel discovery but not a paradigm-breaking one," said New York University chemist Robert Shapiro, an authority on DNA and the origin of life who was not involved in the project. "It is a cousin of known living things that has some peculiar habits."

To be sure, life on Earth knows few bounds. Microbes can be found in rocks a mile underground and in clouds overhead. Some bacteria thrive in toxic waste or survive in brine five times as salty as the sea. Many species of single-cell creatures readily grow in the absence of oxygen, warmth and light.

Until now, however, they were all thought to share the same biochemistry, based on the Big Six, to build proteins, fats and DNA. Even the synthetic cells made in the laboratory, as announced earlier this year, rely on the same six elements. Phosphate is an essential building block for various macromolecules present in all cells, including nucleic acids, lipids and proteins.

"They made their case, and it is quite remarkable," said geo-microbiologist Clara Chan at the University of Delaware, who has studied the findings. "But it remains to be seen how common it is."

The scientists published the research in the journal Science and discussed their work at a NASA news conference Thursday.

"This will fundamentally change our definition of life and how we look for it," said astrobiologist Pamela Conrad at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "This is a huge deal."

Their finding comes as the hunt for Earth-like planets accelerates. With 22 space-based observatories and 100 ground telescopes, researchers are scanning tens of thousands of stars for evidence of a planet that could support life like that on Earth.

Scientists have speculated that an alternative scheme of biochemistry could give rise to other kinds of life in the solar system or on one of the 504 planets astronomers have discovered so far around other stars. In forms too strange to readily recognize, exotic life might thrive in seas of liquid methane, in plumes of exotic gases or in caverns of nitrogen ice.

Indeed, rumors about the pending announcement this week fueled a fever of anticipation among space enthusiasts, with rounds of speculation about the discovery of life elsewhere in the solar system. But the researchers made it clear that their discovery was entirely down-to-earth.

The bacteria were dredged from the briny sludge of California's Mono Lake, where the water is richly laced with arsenic and with bacteria that can survive in it. In the lab, the researchers grew the bacteria in Petri dishes in which phosphate salt normally essential for life was gradually replaced by arsenic, until the bacteria could grow without needing phosphate. They confirmed their finding through a battery of tests with mass spectrometers, radioactive tracers, X-rays and conventional genetic screening.

The researchers weren't able to entirely eliminate all traces of phosphorus, leaving open the possibility that these bacteria were still eking out their existence in a normal way, the researchers said. "There does seem to be a low level of impurity," Dr. Wolfe-Simon said. But the traces of phosphorus were so minute, the researchers said, that no normal microbes could have survived.

The Lock it or Lose It campaign is urging people so lock their cars even if they’re dashing into the store.

Some statistics provided by the campaign:

•Auto theft costs Canadians more than $1 billion every year, which includes emergency response, court, policing, legal, and out-of-pocket costs, such as the deductible

•In 2009, 108,172 vehicles were stolen in Canada; of those, 27,175 were stolen in Ontario. This is a 13% reduction in Ontario compared to the previous year

•Auto theft is not a victimless crime — or just a property crime. Every year innocent people die or are seriously injured as a direct result of auto theft

•On average, auto theft costs every policyholder an additional $35 on his or her insurance premium

•Auto theft can mean a 10-year prison sentence, and a mandatory minimum sentence of six months in jail upon a third conviction

—Source: OACP, IBC

Bloomberg's Michele Steele reports on the U.S. Women's Water Polo Team and its recent bare-all cover for ESPN The Magazine. Bloomberg: source

Leo- Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Leslie William Nielsen, OC (February 11, 1926 – November 28, 2010)^[1] was a Canadian American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in over one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying over 220 characters.^[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Nielsen#

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Leo- Sunday, November 28, 2010

The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan is an 1899 book written by Winston Churchill while he was still an officer in the British army.

The book provides a history of the British involvement in the Sudan and the conflict between the British forces led by Lord Kitchener and Dervish forces led by Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, heir to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad who had embarked on a campaign to conquer Egypt, to drive out the non-Muslim infidels and make way for the second coming of the Islamic Mahdi.

The River War was Churchill's second published book after The Story of the Malakand Field Force, and originally filled two volumes with over 1000 pages in 1899. The River War was subsequently abridged to one volume in 1902.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_War

About Mohammedanism he wrote:

WASHINGTON—Sarah Palin is drawing criticism from around the world after declaring that the United States has to stand with “our North Korean allies.”

Palin’s gaffe, made Wednesday during an interview on Glenn Beck’s syndicated radio show, was quickly corrected by her host. But it drew immediate fire from liberal bloggers, who cited it as an example of the 2008 vice-presidential candidate’s lack of foreign policy expertise.

Newspapers in Asia and Europe are repeating the criticism. The Times of India says Palin “did it again,” while London’s Daily Mail says she “may want to brush up on her geography.”

The conservative U.S. website The Weekly Standard came to Palin’s defence, pointing out that “she correctly identified North Korea as our enemy literally eight seconds before the mix-up.”