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"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Assange faces arrest for breaching bail conditions - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Ecuador’s government has told the ABC that it will make a decision on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s asylum application within the next 24 hours.

Mr Assange is preparing to spend a second night inside Ecuador’s London embassy, while British police wait outside to arrest for him for breaching his bail conditions.

Ecuador’s deputy foreign minister Marco Albuja says a decision on Mr Assange’s fate will be made soon.

Audio: Assange remains in limbo (AM)

“We still can’t make a final decision public yet until tomorrow,” he said.

“The national government is considering its position and the president will give us his instructions tomorrow.”

Mr Assange went to the embassy in central London on Tuesday, saying he wanted to claim diplomatic immunity and political asylum.

But he now faces arrest for breaching the conditions of his bail, which stipulates that he must stay at his bail address between 10:00pm and 8:00am.

The 40-year-old Australian is fighting extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual assault.

His supporters say the charges are politically motivated and say he believes he could be extradited to the US to face espionage charges if Swedish authorities get their hands on him.

Assange faces arrest for breaching bail conditions - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

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