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New sighting of ghostly legend reported at Staffordshire beauty spot
A leading paranormal investigator has scoured a Staffordshire beauty spot following chilling sightings of a spectre known locally as The Black Eyed Child.
Lee Brickley launched an in-depth investigation of Cannock Chase after reports that the ghoulish apparition has returned to the sprawling heathland. The child was last spotted 30 years ago, sparking worldwide interest – and is today a cult internet sensation. Latest descriptions of the girl, who has coal-black pits for eye sockets, are identical to those chronicled in the early 1980s. Lee, author of books about the paranormal, was stunned recently when he received a new eye-witness account of the Black Eyed Child. Alerted by what sounded like screams, a shocked woman came across the wandering, sightless spectre while walking Birches Valley. “We instantly started running towards the noise,” she said. “We couldn’t find the child anywhere and so stopped to catch our breath. “That’s when I turned round and saw a girl stood behind me, no more than 10 years old, with her hands over her eyes. “It was as if she was waiting for a birthday cake. “I asked if she was OK and if she had been the one screaming. She put her arms down by her side and opened her eyes. “That’s when I saw they were completely black, no iris, no white, nothing. “I jumped back and grabbed my daughter. When I looked again, the child was gone. It was so strange.” On his paranormal website, Lee, 28 and himself from Cannock, said the woman’s experience mirrors the earlier sighting. Lee Brickley on Cannock Chase with his book about paranormal sightings in the area “In the summer of 1982, my aunt was 18 years old, and she and her friends would often meet on Cannock Chase in the evening time, probably in much the same way many teenagers still do today. “One evening, just before dark, she heard a little girl frantically shouting for help. Rushing to locate the sound, she stumbled upon a dirt track and caught sight of the girl, about six years old running in the opposite direction. “When my aunt caught up, the girl turned around and looked her in the eyes, and then ran off into the dark woodland. Her eyes had been completely black with no trace of white. “There was a police search but to no avail. At the time, no-one had any reason to believe anything paranormal was going on. The girl certainly appeared to be of flesh and blood.” There have been similar sightings of Black Eyed Children around the world. “Some people believe them to be extra-terrestrials, vampires or ghosts,” said Lee. “But there is one big difference between the sightings around the world and the stories coming out of Cannock Chase. “Only on Cannock Chase do the sightings consistently happen during the daytime. “In the US many reports suggest that black-eyed children often appear in groups, regularly knocking at the door of unknowing victims and asking quietly if they may come inside.”
After receiving complaints from a mother about the chilling sight of the Black Eyed Child at Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, paranormalinvestigator Lee Brickley has launched a detailed investigation into the case.
The unsettling sighting of the ghostly image has been reported ahead of Halloween which is just a month away generating fear among the locals, Paranormalcannock reported.
"Around 2 months ago my daughter and I were walking through Birches Valley (an area well known for it's spectral sightings) when we heard the screams of a young child. I couldn't tell if it was a boy or a girl, but they definitely seemed in distress and sounded very close to us, so we instantly started running towards the noise," the mother with the pseudo name Mrs Kelly wrote in her email to Brickley.
"We couldn't find the child anywhere and so stopped to catch our breath, that's when I turned round and saw a girl stood behind me, no more than 10 years old, with her hands over her eyes," continued.
"She then put her arms down by her side and opened her eyes, which is when I saw they were completely black, no iris, no white, nothing. I jumped back and grabbed my daughter, when I looked again, the child was gone," her mail concluded.
Brickley, who runs a website for paranormal investigations, has claimed that nearly 30 years ago the scary child was spotted by one of his relatives at the same spot.
"In the summer of 1982, my auntie was 18 years old. She and her friends would often meet and "chill" (her word, not mine) on Cannock Chase in the evening time" the paranormal investigator wrote in his blog.
According to one of Brickley's Demonic Black-Eyed Children blog, demonic children are the brood of the upper-level evil forces.
Though they appear as normal humans, they are actually the purest forms of evil and extremely dangerous for humans as their power grows stronger when they appear tender aged, the paranormal investigator claims.
Meanwhile, Staffordshire locals have shared their feelings about the news on Twitter. Here are some reactions.
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US pig snout even in Baltic states: Nearly 600 U.S. soldiers with tanks to arrive in Poland, Baltics 26 Sept 2014 Nearly 600 U.S. soldiers accompanied by tanks and other vehicles will arrive in Poland and the Baltic states at the weekend for military exercises, the Polish defence ministry said on Friday. The U.S. soldiers will replace a more lightly armed force of paratroopers and will take part in rotational exercises meant to show the United States' commitment to NATO's eastern allies, it said in a statement. "The Americans are training for the deployment of forces and for cooperation with allies," Artur Golawski, a spokesman for Poland's armed forces, told Reuters.
US-led coalition hits Islamic State group in 4 provinces across northern and eastern Syria 29 Sept 2014 Activists say the U.S.-led coalition has carried out several airstrikes targeting Islamic State group positions in northern and eastern Syria. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the air raids overnight took place in four provinces: Aleppo, Raqqa, Hassakeh and Deir el-Zour. The entrance to Syria's largest gas plant, Conoco in Deir el-Zour, was among the targets. The Observatory says there were casualties in the airstrikes, but that it has no concrete figures.
Retaliation for US-led airstrikes in Syria will follow, Al-Qaeda offshoot vows 28 Sept 2014 The US-led air campaign against terrorists in Syria amounts to a war against Islam, Al-Qaeda[al-CIAduh]-linked Nusra Front group has claimed, promising retaliation against those states involved in the bombing of the 'caliphate' instead of targeting Assad forces. "We are in a long war. This war will not end in months nor years," group spokesman Abu Firas al-Suri said as cited by Reuters. Dozens of Al-Nusra Front fighters were reportedly killed after the anti-ISIS coalition launched the first round of its airstrikes on Tuesday, and the audio message released on Saturday is the group's first reaction to attacks.
13,000 US troops to be deployed to Iraq: Officials 25 Sept 2014 Iraqi officials say that the United States is due to send 13,000 soldiers to Iraq, despite its claims of complete military withdrawal from the country. The vice president of the local council of Iraq's Saladin Province made the announcement on Thursday, adding that the troops, along with their vehicles, would be stationed at the Speicher airfield in the city of Tikrit, located 140 kilometers (87 miles) northwest of the capital, Baghdad. Washington has already sent 1,600 troops to Iraq, most recently on September 10, when an additional 475 soldiers were deployed to the country.
Australian forces prepare for military action in Iraq 29 Sept 2014 Australia's mission in Iraq is ramping up with cabinet expected to sign off on deploying troops and give the go-ahead for air strikes within days. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says mentoring Iraqi and Kurdish forces remains the focus, but she hasn't ruled out Australian military or humanitarian involvement in Syria. The federal government national security committee and cabinet will meet early this week to discuss Australia's role in the conflict in Iraq, with the timing of a decision to go forward just a 'question of days', Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said.
Britain is at war: RAF Tornados in the air over Iraq with orders to strike ISIS as SAS teams on the ground prepare to guide arsenal of smart bombs to terrorists' lairs --Two armed RAF Tornados took off from their base in Cyprus today --They were armed with 500lb Paveway IV laser guided bombs 27 Sept 2014 RAF warplanes have completed their first mission over Iraq since Parliament gave the go-ahead for air strikes against Islamic State militants. Two Tornado GR4 fighter bombers were seen returning to their base at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus seven hours after they took off supported by a Voyager air-to-air refuelling aircraft. Neither plane deployed any of their weapons, but were ready to strike should the order have been given.
UK Airstrikes Could Begin in Hours After Yes Vote 26 Sept 2014 MPs have overwhelmingly backed airstrikes against Islamic State fighters in Iraq - meaning RAF bombing raids could take place in hours. Parliament gave approval by 524 votes to 43 (a massive majority of 481) for Britain to join the US-led coalition in the Middle East after the Prime Minister said IS forces are "psychopathic terrorists trying to kill us". Labour MP Rushanara Ali immediately resigned from the party's front bench after the result was announced.
MPs approve air strikes against 'Islamic State' in Iraq 26 Sept 2014 The Commons votes to join air strikes against the 'Islamic State' group after David Cameron says it poses a threat to Britain and is determined to "attack our country and our people". With the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats united on the need to take military action in Iraq, MPs voted by 524 to 43 in favour, a majority of 481. The debate prompted Bethanl Green and Bow MP Rushanara Ali to resign from Labour's frontbench because she was unwilling to vote for the government's motion.
Britain set to join third Gulf war 26 Sept 2014 French fighter jets hit Islamic State targets in Iraq and the US strikes in Syria, as British MPs debate joining a military coalition against the jihadi group. David Cameron will open a debate on joining the US-led campaign in Iraq at 10:30am -- but meanwhile the international action against the Islamic State group continues. US strikes were reported to have hit Islamic State targets in Syria's Deir al-Zor region, near the city al-Mayadin. French strikes in Iraq followed the beheading of a French tourist by militants in Algeria -- an act that it was claimed was retaliation for France joining the US-led campaign against Islamic State.
Ontario police urged to be vigilant following threats by Islamic State extremist group 27 Sept 2014 At least one Canadian law enforcement agency is urging its officers to be extra vigilant in the wake of the release of a speech from the Islamic State extremist group earlier this week urging attacks on Canada and other western countries, including their police forces. A security bulletin titled "Officer Safety: Jihadists Threats to Police" obtained by Postmedia News was sent to members of the Ontario Provincial Police on Wednesday. OPP spokesman Sgt. Peter Leon confirmed Friday that the bulletin was issued this week for reasons of officer safety.
California protesters block Israeli-owned ship 28 Sept 2014 Officials say a group of pro-Palestinian protesters are again blocking an Israeli-owned ship from unloading its cargo at a port in California. International Longshore and Warehouse Union spokesman Craig Merrilees says dockworkers at the Port of Oakland did not unload cargo from the ZIM Shanghai on Saturday because of safety concerns raised by the presence of police and protesters. He said the protesters blocked workers from driving into the terminal during their morning and evening shifts.
California governor vetoes drone warrant bill 29 Sept 2014 The measure, which passed the state's Senate and Assembly with broad support, would have required law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant before using an unmanned aircraft, or drone, except in emergencies such as a fire or a hostage-taking. California Governor Jerry Brown [another useless DemocRAT] vetoed a bill that would have placed strict regulations on how law enforcement and other government agencies can use drones, his office said on Sunday.
Japan's Fukushima Prefecture Stricken by 5.0-M Earthquake 25 Sept 20145 Japan's Fukushima Prefecture has been jolted by a pair of moderate earthquakes on Wednesday. The first temblor with a magnitude of 5.0 struck at 9:45 pm JST (8:45 am EDT in the U.S.), according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The second struck 46 minutes later at a slightly stronger 5.2 magnitude. JMA said the epicentres of the two earthquakes registered just off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, where the Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushimi Daini reactors were located.
Volcano Erupts in Japan - 7 Rescued, 32 Missing 28 Sept 2014 Military helicopters plucked seven people from a Japanese mountainside Sunday after a spectacular volcanic eruption sent officials scrambling to reach many more injured and stranded on the mountain. Mount Ontake in central Japan erupted shortly before noon Saturday, spewing large white plumes of gas and ash high into the sky and blanketing the surrounding area in ash. At least 34 climbers have been injured, including 12 seriously, according to Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
American Doctor Exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone Admitted to NIH --Patient to be treated in a 'high-level isolation' unit 27 Sept 2014 An American doctor exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone will be admitted to a National Institutes of Health hospital in Maryland for care, the agency said Saturday. The unnamed physician will be observed and enrolled in a clinical study in the coming days. His admission to the Bethesda center is a precaution, and doesn't mean the physician was infected with the deadly virus while volunteering in West Africa, officials added.
Wisconsin's new voter ID law could keep me from voting at age 87 --I've been registered to vote since 1948. But once Republicans passed the law, I was asked to prove I'm not an 'illegal alien' By Ruthelle Frank --Ruthelle Frank is a plaintiff in the ACLU's federal lawsuit against the state of Wisconsin over its voter identification law [which the Koch suckers on the Supreme Court will eventually overturn]. 24 Sept 2014 In October 2011, an article appeared in my local paper reporting that, in order to vote in the next election, everyone was going to need a state-issued identity card for the first time. At 85 years old, I didn't have one, because I'm handicapped and so I never drove a car or needed an ID. The newspaper said that I'd have to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and register for a card, and it had a list of the documents that I needed to bring. I had everything -- except for the legal birth certificate. I'm not sure my parents ever gave that to me. [The petitions--and lawsuits--aren't working. Only open revolt can save us now.]
Wisconsin voter ID law ruling threatens chaos on election day 23 Sept 2014 Election officials and civil liberties advocates are predicting that a surprise court ruling that lifted a stay on Wisconsin's controversial voter-ID suppression law will produce chaos on election day, as estimates suggest that up to 300,000 eligible voters may not have the documentation now required to vote. With only six weeks to go before the general election - including a hotly contested gubernatorial campaign - activists say there is little chance that identification papers can be issued in time to all those who lack them. Thousands of absentee ballots had already been mailed before the ruling on September 12, without any reference to the voter ID requirement.
West Hollywood water main break sends torrents of water down Sunset Strip --The pipe with the break was installed in 1916. [Right, there's billions to fund al-CIAduh and I-CIA-SIS, so US corpora-terrorists can pave the way to steal all the oil in the Middle East - but there's not one cent available to fix hundred year-old pipes. Start reading.] 26 Sept 2014 A water main break on a 36-inch pipe in West Hollywood on Friday afternoon sent torrents of muddy water down Sunset Strip, prompting a series of street closures as crews respond to the mess. The break near Sunset Boulevard and North Olive Drive occurred at 2:18 p.m., and authorities are still trying determine the extent of damage...The pipe with the break was installed in 1916, then cement-lined in 1957, according to the LADWP.
Censorship of books in US prisons and schools 'widespread' - report to UN --Free-speech organisations find US government is 'failing to protect the rights of its most vulnerable citizens' as popular books -- including Shakespeare -- are banned from institutions 26 Sept 2014 There is "widespread censorship" of books in US prisons, according to a report submitted to a UN human rights review, which details the banning of works about artists from Botticelli to Van Gogh from Texan state prisons for containing "sexually explicit images". The report from two free-speech organisations, the New York-based National Coalition Against Censorship and the Copenhagen-based Freemuse, to the United Nation's (UN) Universal Periodic Review states that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) lists 11,851 titles banned from its facilities...Prisoners in Texas are entitled to be mailed books and magazines, but the titles are checked on arrival against a "master list" of acceptable works. If they do not appear on the list, then it is the decision of the post-room officer as to whether they are objectionable.
Police Behavior in Ferguson Draws Attention of Justice Department 26 Sept 2014 Ferguson Police Department to stop its officers from wearing bracelets stamped with the message "I am Darren Wilson," in solidarity with the police officer who is being investigated for shooting an unarmed black 18-year-old, and from covering up their name plates with tape. The bracelets, dark blue with white lettering, were photographed on the wrists of several Ferguson police officers who were interacting with demonstrators this week as protests flared up once again in this small city in the suburbs of St. Louis...In a stern letter to Chief Thomas Jackson, Christy E. Lopez, deputy chief of the special litigation section of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said that the bracelets "upset and agitated people."
Ferguson, Missouri, Police Officer Shot Saturday Evening 27 Sept 2014 A Ferguson police officer was shot Saturday night, a senior local police source with official knowledge of the situation tells NBC News. The officer was shot close to the area impacted by protests last month in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, according to the source. Tim Zoll with the Ferguson Police Department told NBC affiliate NewsChannel 5 in St. Louis that the officer was shot in the arm.
James A. Traficant Jr., colorful Ohio congressman expelled by House, dies at 73 27 Sept 2014 James A. Traficant Jr., an iconoclastic nine-term Ohio populist in the House of Representatives who was convicted on corruption charges in 2002, becoming the second member of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War, died Sept. 27 at a hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. He was 73. The former congressman was injured in a tractor accident on his farm near Greenford, Ohio, on Tuesday...A fiery advocate for the disenfranchised, Mr. Traficant (D) became a local folk hero when he went to jail for three days rather than obey a court order to foreclose on the homes of unemployed mill workers.
Sen. Durbin calls for inquiry into fire at Aurora air-traffic center 28 Sept 2014 As federal officials declared it will be at least two more weeks until the Chicago Center air-traffic facility in Aurora is back at full capacity, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D) said Sunday he wants the Federal Aviation Administration's inspector general to scrutinize the circumstances surrounding the sabotage that grounded and delayed hundreds of flights since Friday. Authorities say a contract employee, 36-year-old Naperville resident Brian Howard, set a fire in the basement of the facility as part of a suicide attempt.
Chicago-area air traffic center fire grounds nearly 1,500 flights, disrupts travel 26 Sept 2014 A fire set by an employee at a Chicago-area air traffic control center led to the cancellation of nearly 1,500 flights at the city's two major airports, snarling air traffic across the nation and globally. Flights resumed after a delay of about four hours, but there were bottlenecks across the air system. The blaze at the facility in Aurora, outside of Chicago, apparently was set by a man who suffered self-inflicted wounds, Aurora police said.
'Bear at Door' Is a Solid Reason to Not Deliver a Package 25 Sept 2014 "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Bears do, though. We don't mess with bears." -- Unofficial motto of the Canada Post. On Sept. 23, a postal worker left a note on Matthew Fane's Vancouver-area mailbox stating that they were unable to deliver a package to his door due to a "bear at door." According to Canada.com, the bear was likely a grizzly or black bear, which are frequently spotted around Fane's home in British Columbia.
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Julian Assange speaking to members of the public and media outlets during a book launch party in New York City on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. He's promoting his new book, "When Google Met WikiLeaks." (Photo credit: OR Books/Tumblr)
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke with journalists and supporters via Skype Wednesday at a book launch event in Manhattan for his latest When Google Met Wikileaks, an edited transcript of a June 2011 encounter with Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. Appearing from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he’s been holed up since seeking diplomatic asylum there on June 19, 2012, the thinly bearded 43-year-old spoke for roughly an hour and a half about his book, the man at the top of the world’s most popular search engine, and its revolving door with the U.S. government. He talked about Bitcoin—the online-based currency—the Obama administration’s ongoing war against whistleblowers and Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army private who supplied WikiLeaks with more than 750,000 diplomatic cables and Army reports regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with two cockpit videos documenting U.S. air strikes massacring civilians in those conflicts. Assange repeatedly warned of the dangers posed by the mass surveillance of tech giants Google and Facebook, assailing Schmidt and the omnipresent search engine he oversees as worse than the National Security Agency (NSA) in terms of privacy concerns and the sheer, unregulated power it wields via the mass personal data voluntarily handed over by users.
Perhaps one of the most wanted men in the world—there has been a longstanding European Union-wide warrant requested by Sweden in effect for his extradition to that country to face questioning for allegations he raped one woman and molested another during a 2010 visit to Stockholm, thus, his exile at the embassy—Assange also shed light on the whereabouts of perhaps one of the United States’ most sensitive wartime footage to date: the Granai Airstrike Video, documenting the killing of up to 150 Afghan civilians, purportedly mostly children, by a US Air Force bomber in Farah Province in May 2009. Projected on the second-floor wall of art space/collective/indie arcade Babycastles at 137 W. 14th Street via Skype and superimposed before the cover art of When Google Met WikiLeaks—the book’s title entered within the search box on Google’s homepage with the added option “I’m feeling evil” as opposed to it’s typical “I’m feeling lucky”—he sat alongside singer/rapper Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam aka M.I.A., though she only popped into the broadcast briefly. Daniel Stuckey of Motherboard moderated. Assange, the hacker-turned-publisher of the world’s governments’ most damning secrets-turned-captive began the evening by reciting lyrics from M.I.A.’s song “The Message,” which he also quoted in his book: “Headbone connected to the headphones / Headphones connected to the iPhone / iPhone connected to the Internet / Connected to the Google/ Connected to the government,” he read, quoting a passage from his book. Essentially, he explained throughout the course of the launch—first during a discussion and then a brief Q&A with the public and media outlets—there is no difference or separation between Google or the United States government. Rather, they are, in fact, one in the same. “Google has become an invasive organization that wants to have a business model of formulating every single person it can on the Earth, collecting their private information, storing it, indexing it, and producing profiles of individuals so they can sell those profiles to better target ads on them and also sell its other services to the National Security Agency, and the US military, and enter into strategic relationships with the US state department,” he told reporters from The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, New York Post (who sent several, organizers told the Press, among them its Page Six photographer, who snapped away as we all drank $5 bottles of warm beer and cups of wine, conversing among arcade games, paintings and stacks of other titles published by OR Books, the publisher of When Google Met WikiLeaks and Assange’s Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet). Co-publisher Colin Robinson announced to everyone there’d be a 20-percent discount for any Google employees in attendance. “What is happening to Google is the most important thing that is happening to the Internet,” continued Assange. “And what happens to the Internet happens to all of us, because society, not just American society, but the global society, has merged with the Internet. The Internet has become the backbone of international civilization…. That is a new form of colonialism. It is digital colonialism. Breeding the values of high-tech American exceptionalism to the rest of the world. And that is then also being reflected domestically within the United States. “Now no one thought of Google this way,” he added. “I didn’t think of Google this way, initially. I had this very interesting and unusual meeting…in 2011 with Eric Schmidt and three other people, a secret meeting, which ended up turning into Google’s book for its vision for the future of the world, The New Digital Age. And this book [When Google Met WikiLeaks] is largely a reply to that vision. No one else it seems took that vision seriously. And that’s something that’s quite interesting.”
Assange attributed Google’s successful invasion and pillaging of the global public’s most personal data to that of a cyber-Trojan Horse whose PR, marketing and packaging cloaks its sinisterism, enabling it to infiltrate more covertly than even the largest defense contractors and spy agencies, with users being none the wiser—even with that stated mission being published in black and white, available and accessible for anyone to read, from the shelves of local bookstores. “If Chevron or Lockheed Martin had written down what its vision for the future of the world is, and how it’s going to bring it about and how it was shaping up and the nature of its, some of the nature of its relationships, a book that has on the back of it pre-publication endorsements by Henry Kissinger, Madeline Albright, Tony Blair and the former head of the National Security Agency and CIA [General Michael] Hayden, we would be quite concerned and there would be political scholars, like Noam Chomsky, trying to understand what that meant,” explained Assange. “But because Google has successfully—up until about a year ago—successfully positioned itself as a playful thing, their colored logo presenting itself under the eyeballs of people around the world more than a billion times a day, a playful thing, like it is a playroom, with soft, curved [thoughts] and soft toys, a place where we can go to look at things, a place that provides information for free, we have come to think of it as something that is helpful, or an assistant, a tap, a magical angel that disgorges helpful and useful information and not an organization like every other organization,” he continued. “Not an organization which spends now more money lobbying with Washington, DC than Lockheed Martin. Not an organization which has engaged in contracts with the National Security Agency since 2003…. And not an organization with a revolving door between the US State Department and Google and between the White House and Google.”
Julian Assange spoke to the audience via Skype from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. (Christopher Twarowski/Long Island Press)
Assange said Google’s Android mobile operating system gains 1.5 million new user subscriptions each day, consistently providing Google with their location “whether they know that they’re doing it or not, location, their contacts, their emails.” “That’s the basic business model: to look like you’re a soft, playful organization, to collect the world’s information or index it and then of course, the National Security Agency and other actors with the United States feed off what Google is doing,” he stated, matter-of-factly. “Ultimately, even if Google reacts and tries to distance itself, as it has done a little bit in response to being called out by Edward Snowden revelations, ultimately it is…susceptible to coercive power in the United States.” “Its audience isn’t designed to be common readers, its audience is designed to be Washington,” the WikiLeaks founder said of Schmidt’s New Digital Age, foretelling of an even grimmer, even more Orwellian future if all continues the way it’s been. “What Lockheed Martin was to the 20th century, high-tech companies will be to the 21st century.” If Assange’s dire description is correct—and his new book boasts voluminous citations directing readers to scores of documents purporting to prove it is—then why isn’t this incestuous Big Brother love fest on the cover of every major newspaper across the globe, you might ask? Banal tech-gadget reporters are the only ones reporting on Schmidt and Cohen’s view of the future, he explained, “because there’s this absurd blind aspect to humanities in most universities and it seems [among] political commentators where they just don’t get Google, they don’t get the Internet…. Once upon a time we didn’t get nuclear weapons, either.” Over time, the public came to understand that those weapons “shape geopolitics, shape societies, shape the balance of power,” he explained. “And what Google has become and what the Internet has become is just as important, perhaps even more important in a sense that it’s penetrating every single society at once.” Just as Assange has taken to the airwaves (and art gallery walls) recently to promote the message within When Google Met WikiLeaks, so too has Schmidt to debunk both it and its author. The Google executive chairman is also stumping for his own latest book, How Google Works, released the day before Assange’s launch party at Babycastles. “Well, he’s, of course, writing from the, shall we say, luxury lodgings of the local embassy in London,” Schmidt told ABC News of Assange on Sept. 23. “The fact of the matter is Julian is very paranoid about things and it’s true that the NSA did things that they shouldn’t have done, but Google has done none of those things. Google never collaborated with NSA and in fact, we’ve fought very hard against what they did and since what the NSA did which we do not like, we have taken all of our data, all of our exchanges, and we fully encrypted them so no one can get them, especially the government.” “He has a difficult job,” Assange responded to Schmidt’s jab on Wednesday when prompted by Stuckey. “Read the book, you’ll come to understand that Eric Schmidt’s job is to be Secretary of State to Google, essentially. To be the external relations [arm] for Google to meet presidents, including the United States, and to deal with all those people. “It’s sad that he has to resort to name calling,” he continued, adding that it was he who introduced Schmidt to Bitcoin, telling the Google billionaire back then that it was a good time to buy in. “Thank goodness he didn’t take that advice because his $8 billion now would be worth 8,000 times more than that,” Assange laughed on Wednesday. “He who controls the present controls the past, and he who controls the past controls the future,” warned Assange, quoting George Orwell, explaining, thus, whoever controls the present and historical archives and publications—then the past and the future doesn’t actually exist, just the present. “If you control the present, you can change what the records are… Then you control the future.” Assange said Schmidt’s The New Digital Age proposes “that whistleblower sites should be regulated by the government, there should be a single government body run by the state where prospective publications from those whistleblower publications go to that body—it is an absurd centralization that we see from Russia, that the press should have pre-publication submissions to some body [of government].”
After Julian Assange’s appearance, organizers beamed a photo of Assange’s book “When Google Met WikiLeaks” beside Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg’s new book, “How Google Works.”
He stated the ambition of Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page as to make Google “as big as possible, to suck everything into it, every aspect of people’s lives… You go to sleep and Google alarm wakes you up, you’re connected to Google Calendar and creating your own sleep-cycle states.” By harvesting and processing this data, Google knows their REM cycle states, and Google Watch knows when you go to your next appointment and whenever you wear Google Glass, he continued, equating cell phones, such as Google’s Android-operated smartphones, to “a tracking device that also makes calls.” To the common argument made in support of increased surveillance or by those who state they can tolerate it and have no qualms because they themselves have nothing to hide, Assange fired back: “When people say: ‘Why do I have to be concerned about this? I have done nothing wrong?’ Stop being so damn selfish, you’re not an island. Every time you go to a party and put on Facebook and take photographs of people at that party, you’re being a rat, you’re being a rat to your community, you’re being an informant, you’re being a narc to your community.” “It’s not just about you,” he insisted. “You are part of your community. If you’re community goes down the tubes then you’re going to go with it.” In response to an inquiry posed by the Press on the whereabouts of the Granai Airtrike Video, also known as the Garani Massacre Video, and whether it would ever see the light of day—Assange had said in published reports WikiLeaks had the video and was readying its release prior to it being taken by WikiLeaks former spokesperson Daniel Domscheit Berg and possibly destroyed—he replied: “The Garani airstrike video is said to be in the hands of someone in Germany, who won’t release it to the public. A very sad situation, the deaths of over 60 Afghan children or 100 Afghans in a single massacre of children in Afghanistan by the United States military, by a B-2 bomber. And it’s not been released. The United States government, interestingly, scheduled some of it for release, and then decided that no, actually, in hindsight, they don’t want that out there.” “Is that another flag for the list of flags to be captured for WikiLeaks?” asked Motherboard’s Dan Stuckey. “Yes,” said Assange. “Recaptured.”
When Google Met WikiLeaks’ co-publisher Colin Robinson told the Press afterward he hopes Assange will be present—in the flesh—for his next book launch gala and not between the walls of a room “half the size of this room.” “I go to London quite often and I always go to see him,” he said. “I always enjoy talking to him because he’s resolutely optimistic about his own personal situation and he’s also—we talk about politics, the politics of the Internet and it’s always very interesting. But when I leave and I pass that special branch officer who’s sitting at the entrance of the embassy checking everyone going in and out I sort of think ‘He should not be forced to be living [the way he is].’ “He’s been in there for over two years now,” lamented Robinson. “Whatever you think about these cases in Sweden, he basically did some very brave things this guy and he changed the world in very positive ways. It seems to be fundamentally wrong that people like him and Chelsea Manning are denied their freedom and George Bush is living on his ranch in Texas doing whatever the fuck he likes.
