[Peace] Recommended NFN/AOTA videos, notes

[J.B. Nicholson]

Here's what I recommended for playing during the News from Neptune/AWARE on the Air 
timeslots with corrections for Sacoolas' name & details of her killing 19-year-old 
Harry Dunn in the UK last year, and expansion of a point oft-repeated about Assange 
and the 1st Amendment. UPTV's Jason Liggett said that the first 3 listed will run 
during tonight's AWARE timeslot and the last 4 for this Friday's News From Neptune 
timeslot.



Afghan war: Russiagate lives on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvEpHCOrnRc (25m 55s for the whole segment but the 
first 14m 16s is this story)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGY7J0eOVKA (3m 22s focusing on the NY Times portion) 
-- NY Times criticized over anonymous sources who claim Russia pays bounties in 
Afghanistan to kill Americans. George Galloway reminds us (in the longer version 
above) that this NY Times/Permanent Government claim is projection: this is what the 
US did in the 1980s to kill Russians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3LFbOSPfrE -- (36m 7s) "Afghan War Exposed: An 
Imperial Conspiracy", Abby Martin's latest Empire Files segment on the history of the 
ongoing war in Afghanistan and our chances for ending that war (spoiler: it will 
never end).



Assange extradition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMCi-7K-xCo -- (28m 8s) "Ramifications for press 
freedom in Julian Assange extradition"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OICpoYkO78 -- (5m 2s) Are the newest allegations 
against Assange merely smear tactics? Also covered is Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US 
intelligence officer. Sacoolas killed 19-year-old UK resident Harry Dunn with her car 
outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in August 2019. Sacoolas fled to the US for 
cover trying to avoid extradition to the UK to face murder charges. This brings up a 
double-standard for the US: the US won't extradite a CIA agent's wife but it wants a 
non-American (Assange) who published from outside the US (WikiLeaks is not an 
American-based organization) to face American interpretation of American law.

Related: https://www.rt.com/usa/493394-soros-ngos-blocked-supreme-court/ -- RT's 
article about a recent SCOTUS ruling denying "federal funding to billionaire 
financier George Soros’ international anti-AIDS organizations, ruling that in order 
to access the federal cash, the groups must explicitly oppose prostitution". An 
interesting point which caught my attention appeared to me to connect this to 
Assange's case by way of Justice Kavanaugh's majority opinion which said "foreign 
affiliates possess no First Amendment rights":

> Because plaintiffs’ foreign affiliates possess no First Amendment rights, applying
> the Policy Requirement to them is not  unconstitutional. Two bedrock legal
> principles lead to this conclusion. As a matter of American constitutional law,
> foreign citizens outside U. S. territory do not possess rights under the U. S.
> Constitution.

and

> In sum, plaintiffs’ foreign affiliates are foreign organizations, and foreign 
> organizations  operating abroad possess no rights under the U. S. Constitution.
Julian Assange is an Australian national, and WikiLeaks is a foreign organization 
operating abroad (outside the US and its territories). So it seems to me that there 
is disagreement between those who hold that the 1st Amendment (which allowed the New 
York Times & Washington Post to publish the Pentagon Papers) also allows WikiLeaks to 
publish the Iraq & Afghan war logs (the publications at issue in Assange's case).





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KKq4pPiVkI -- (14m 42s) Elwood has a different take 
on the recent Assange allegations from the US government: USG is trying to tie 
together Anonymous (which recently released information about who has connections to 
Jeffrey Epstein) with Assange hoping that any ill will you feel for Assange will 
carry over to Anonymous and thus discourage you from finding or believing any 
information Anonymous publishes.



Economy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDf2SktV8NM -- (2m 33s) Millions of gallons of milk 
are thrown away while dairy products are in high demands in stores because the US 
government won't reorganize how we handle such products to deliver direct to the 
consumer (or give the soon-to-spoil product away gratis) during relatively low-demand 
times while schools and restaurants close for pandemic lockdown.

-J