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If we exclude farm animals and any animals that humans use for sport or eating this is most likely true.

I don’t have any statistics, I can’t prove it, but most people who get a pet probably want it. This is not necessarily the case with children. It is possible many people who get pets become bored with them but even if that happens it is not that likely they would actually go out of their way to make their pet’s life unpleasant. And although there are also those people who mistreat their pets out of neglect I suspect there are probably more who do that with their children.

For one thing pets just don’t live as long nor are they as demanding. And owners don’t have as high expectations of pets as they do children. Your pet doesn’t have to learn to play the piano, go to school or participate in sports or any other thing. Your pet is unlikely to be daily educated or have chores or have any real sort of expectation except just live.

Some parents are great with their children. But even these are torn by a society that expects them to work 40, 60 even 80 hours a week to get ahead. For these parents even if they want to treat their children well it is difficult.

Of course that is not really abuse but it is still a problem.

The type of abuse I am mostly speaking of is physcial and psychological. Physical abuse can be hidden, jsut as wives are beaten and the world mostly does not know. Spousal abuse is very high, likewise children. The difference is both parents can abuse the children. If the parents are “disturbed”, and there are so many disturbed people nowadays, why wouldn’t they treat their children in a disturbed way?

I was born August 1952, after according to my mother, 30 plus hours of labor. When I was about to be born the doctor wasn’t there so they had her close her legs and try to keep the baby, me in.

My mother was later outraged by this because she learned that either preventing the baby from coming out, or protracted delivery of 30+ hours, can cause brain damage. What was the combined effect of both?

My mother was worried for me. And I am sure there may be siblings or acquaintances that believe the worry was justified, but however that may be her fears proved ungrounded because I turned out to be the brightest in the family, and one of the brightest amongst most my acquaintances as well.

Whether this is because I was actually more intelligent, I doubt, or because I was better educated and had a keener interest in, and appetite for learning – this is possibly the truth – it is difficult to conclusively know.

I nowadays believe most children are considerably brighter than we give them credit for. I dare say all of them, or most of them are near geniuses. Our society I believe is at fault here. For it somehow manages to dissuade, to discourage all or most natural tendencies towards intelligence, and turn them off like switches one by one until what is left is a very dull ordinary individual.

We celebrate the genius, the intelligent at all odds, while deliberately mass-producing the plodding mediocrity and wonder why it could not be different.

We don’t need, as in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”, to add chemicals to the egg or fetus, or the newly fertilized embryo to suppress intelligence; we systematically do this within our culture and education system within the first five years.

In one summer I went from fighting off a Giant Alaskan Malemute, trained to kill in Viet Nam, to fighting for my life against my mother and father. The abuse had been ongoing, for almost 15 years. But in that era – it all happened behind closed doors – unless you could see the physical marks, which my mother went to great efforts to conceal, no one was going to interfere with how parents disciplined their own children. It was still the time of “Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child.” Of course, even in that model I don’t think it was ever intended that the parent abuse the child every single day. That was my mother’s special template, reserved only for me and my one year younger brother. My four younger siblings escaped it entirely.

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On the occasion of the British King Charles III’s coronation political prisoner, Australian citizen of the British Commonwealth, Julian Assange has composed and sent a letter to his King. The founder of Wikileaks has been branded a political outlaw ever since he released documents showing the dangerously evil decisions made, and actions taken by our global US misleaders. We think Julian Assange is a man who is guilty of nothing more than courageously speaking truth to power. You may read for yourself the words of a man who has been imprisoned in a British prison for six years, without being charged, shunned by his journalist peers.

To His Majesty King Charles III,

On the coronation of my liege, I thought it only fitting to extend a heartfelt invitation to you to commemorate this momentous occasion by visiting your very own kingdom within a kingdom: His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh.

You will no doubt recall the wise words of a renowned playwright: “The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.”

Ah, but what would that bard know of mercy faced with the reckoning at the dawn of your historic reign? After all, one can truly know the measure of a society by how it treats its prisoners, and your kingdom has surely excelled in that regard.

Your Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh is located at the prestigious address of One Western Way, London, just a short foxhunt from the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. How delightful it must be to have such an esteemed establishment bear your name.

It is here that 687 of your loyal subjects are held, supporting the United Kingdom’s record as the nation with the largest prison population in Western Europe. As your noble government has recently declared, your kingdom is currently undergoing “the biggest expansion of prison places in over a century”, with its ambitious projections showing an increase of the prison population from 82,000 to 106,000 within the next four years. Quite the legacy, indeed.

As a political prisoner, held at Your Majesty’s pleasure on behalf of an embarrassed foreign sovereign, I am honoured to reside within the walls of this world-class institution. Truly, your kingdom knows no bounds.

During your visit, you will have the opportunity to feast upon the culinary delights prepared for your loyal subjects on a generous budget of two pounds per day. Savour the blended tuna heads and the ubiquitous reconstituted forms that are purportedly made from chicken. And worry not, for unlike lesser institutions such as Alcatraz or San Quentin, there is no communal dining in a mess hall. At Belmarsh, prisoners dine alone in their cells, ensuring the utmost intimacy with their meal.

Beyond the gustatory pleasures, I can assure you that Belmarsh provides ample educational opportunities for your subjects. As Proverbs 22:6 has it: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Observe the shuffling queues at the medicine hatch, where inmates gather their prescriptions, not for daily use, but for the horizon-expanding experience of a “big day out”—all at once.

You will also have the opportunity to pay your respects to my late friend Manoel Santos, a gay man facing deportation to Bolsonaro’s Brazil, who took his own life just eight yards from my cell using a crude rope fashioned from his bedsheets. His exquisite tenor voice now silenced forever.

Venture further into the depths of Belmarsh and you will find the most isolated place within its walls: Healthcare, or “Hellcare” as its inhabitants lovingly call it. Here, you will marvel at sensible rules designed for everyone’s safety, such as the prohibition of chess, whilst permitting the far less dangerous game of checkers.

Deep within Hellcare lies the most gloriously uplifting place in all of Belmarsh, nay, the whole of the United Kingdom: the sublimely named Belmarsh End of Life Suite. Listen closely, and you may hear the prisoners’ cries of “Brother, I’m going to die in here”, a testament to the quality of both life and death within your prison.

But fear not, for there is beauty to be found within these walls. Feast your eyes upon the picturesque crows nesting in the razor wire and the hundreds of hungry rats that call Belmarsh home. And if you come in the spring, you may even catch a glimpse of the ducklings laid by wayward mallards within the prison grounds. But don’t delay, for the ravenous rats ensure their lives are fleeting.

I implore you, King Charles, to visit His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh, for it is an honour befitting a king. As you embark upon your reign, may you always remember the words of the King James Bible: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy” (Matthew 5:7). And may mercy be the guiding light of your kingdom, both within and without the walls of Belmarsh.

Your most devoted subject,

Julian Assange
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At the end of last month Jonathan Cook , an award-winning British journalist, spoke before a group  gathered to hear speeches about Secret Power, Media Freedom and Democracy, held at St Pancras Church, London, on Saturday 28 January 2023. Other speakers were former British ambassador Craig Murray and Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi, author of the recent Secret Power: Wikileaks and its Enemies.

Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of the British Labour Party, presented the Gavin MacFayden award, the only media prize voted on by whistleblowers, to Julian Assange for being “the journalist whose work most exemplifies the importance of a free press”. Craig Murray accepted the award on Assange’s behalf. Murray is a close personal friend of Assange, his wife, and his family.

“What drives a paper like the Guardian or New York Times is not their inner moral values. It is simply that they have a market. In the UK, there is a market called “educated liberals”. Educated liberals want to buy a newspaper like the Guardian, and therefore an institution arises to fulfil that market. … What is in the newspaper is not a reflection of the values of the people in that institution, it is a reflection of the market demand.” Julian Assange

In his Substack account Jonathan Cook memorialized his remarks presented as he advocates for a fellow journalist as well as for all the journalists who are affected by this incident.

In the video Cook provides a breakdown of what journalism is, how Julian Assange, and Wikileaks changed the industry.

We’re posting to keep you in the know about this important matter.

An Announcement from Progressive International

“Julian Assange, the Australian publisher who founded WikiLeaks, now faces 175 years in prison if extradited from the Belmarsh Prison where he is currently held in the United Kingdom. Assange’s case is the first time in history that a publisher has been indicted under the US Espionage Act.

Inspired by the Russell-Sartre Tribunals of the Vietnam War, the Belmarsh Tribunal brings together a range of expert witnesses — from lawyers to journalists to parliamentarians, union officials, whistleblowers and human rights defenders — to present evidence of this attack on publishers, to seek justice for the crimes they expose, and to demand the Biden Administration cease this prosecution.

Since its launch in 2020, the Progressive International has hosted four Belmarsh Tribunals, convening parliamentarians and public figures in a virtual tribunal (2020), at Church House at Westminster (2021), at the People’s Forum in New York City (2022) and at the National Press Club in Washington DC (2023).”

Recorded remarks made by human rights attorney Steven Donziger at the January 2023 gathering of the Belmarsh Tribunal.

We were very excited, pumped up, and over the moon about the Philadelphia Eagles meeting the Kansas City Chiefs in Glendale, Arizona on Sunday, February 12, 2023. It was Super Bowl LVII,  Fifty-seven, (57) for those who are deficient in Roman numeral literacy.

Our hopes were dashed and decimated when something happened in the 3rd quarter, followed by a real bad call in the 4th quarter…with the result our team lost!

Have heart. All is not lost…just the NFL’s annual biggest game of the season. Do not despair.
The Philly Iggles have set a kind of a dubious Super Bowl record. Continue reading…

Nick Brana, is a founder of the People’s Party, and one of the organizers of the planned rally to take place on on Sunday, @12:30 PM EST, February 19, 2023 in Washington, D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial.
In this video Brana provides a succinct explanation for why this dangerous war must end.

You won’t want to miss this historic event.
Sunday, @12:30 PM EST, February 19, 2023 in Washington, D.C.
at the Lincoln Memorial.

Join the rally at the Lincoln Memorial at 12:30 pm on Sunday, February 19th,
on the anniversary of the Ukraine War and President’s Day Weekend.
Rage Against the War Machine! Veterans! Speakers! Rock Musicians! Comedians!
Go here for Program details.

After the rally, a march to the White House to deliver our demands to senile
Warmonger-in-Chief Joe Biden.

OUR DEMANDS

*Not One More Penny for War in Ukraine

*Negotiate Peace

*Stop the War Inflation

*Disband NATO

*Global Nuclear De-Escalation

*Slash the Pentagon Budget

*Abolish the CIA and Military-Industrial Deep State

*Abolish War and Empire

*Restore Civil Liberties

 *Free Julian Assange*

Many in the media consider the sponsors of this event a “right-left” Coalition. The alliance is made up of  various groups we hope they can actually bring an end to the proxy war in Ukraine. The organizers are calling the protest “Rage Against the War Machine.” Organizers/sponsors of this event are a myriad of activist groups such as:
Action 4 Assange
Libertarian Party
The People’s Party
TNT Radio
Food Forest Abundance
Mises Caucus
Occupy Peace
Libertarian Party of Maryland
Liberty Speaks
Theo and Sons
Center for Political Innovation
American Student Union
Free & Equal Elections
Bring Our Troops Home
The Coalition Talk Radio

Be There!
Lincoln Memorial at 12:30 pm on Sunday, February 19th

Stefania Maurizi as she spoke on  Saturday, January 28, 2023 in London at #FreeTheTruth: Secret Power, Media Freedom and Democracy, held at St Pancras Church. This is Part II of her remarks.
The purpose of the meeting was to bring public awareness to the the cruel treatment of a reporter. Part I may be found here.
YTW’s previous article about Julian Assange can be found here.