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Supporters of arrested Sea Shepherd founder say parallels with Julian Assange are ‘disturbing’ | Whaling

Supporters of arrested Sea Shepherd founder say parallels with Julian Assange are ‘disturbing’ | Whaling

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The arrest of the anti-whaling activist Paul Watson in Greenland – where he could face extradition to Japan – has been condemned as “politically motivated” by supporters, who compared the case to the detention of the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. “The parallels are disturbing,” said Omar Todd, chief executive and co-founder of the Captain Paul Watson Foundation (CPWF). “We have our own extradition drama going on,” Todd said. “Governments don’t like people to tell the truth or do the right thing. “Assange’s case was political and Paul’s case is the same. If Julian had been extradited to the US, he knew he was going there to die. If it comes to it and Paul gets extradited to Japan, he could get 15 years in prison … it’s like a life sentence.” The office of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said he was pressing Danish authorities not to extradite Watson to Japan. Macron is “following the situation closely” and “intervening with the Danish authorities”, his Élysée Palace office said. Brigitte Bardot, the former actor and French …

Julian Nagelsmann Is the Most Important Man in Germany This Month

Julian Nagelsmann Is the Most Important Man in Germany This Month

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The rise of the far right, though, is not the only crisis facing Germany. The economy is in the doldrums: Only 28 percent of businesses say things are going well, according to a recent survey, and trust in Mr. Scholz’s government has slumped. Southern Germany is reeling from flooding that killed six people in June, while the major transportation waterways of the Rhine and the Danube dry up so frequently that shipping regularly has to be suspended. “There is the economy, a lack of innovation, problems with infrastructure, inflation, sluggish bureaucracy,” Dr. Echterhoff, the psychology professor, said, ticking off Germany’s woes like a grocery list. “And that is before we come to multiple international crises, like Russia’s war in Ukraine. All of it together has put German self-esteem under real threat.” It is little wonder, then, that the buildup to the European Championship has been relatively muted. “The thing about the mood, especially the mood in the country, is that you can’t really measure it,” Dirk Peitz, a columnist for the newspaper Die Zeit, wrote …

How Julian Clary and Barb Jungr met: ‘We both follow our hearts – and we both have psychic skills’ | Life and style

How Julian Clary and Barb Jungr met: ‘We both follow our hearts – and we both have psychic skills’ | Life and style

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The first encounter between comedian Julian Clary and singer-songwriter Barb Jungr did not go well. It was 1985 and Julian admits he was in typical tease-the-punter mode as he worked the audience at the Bush Fires cabaret club in Shepherd’s Bush, London. He approached Barb, who was wearing a bandana, and inquired if her head was hurting her, much to everyone’s amusement. “It was a very chic orange-and-white bandana,” Barb huffs in mock outrage. She had been waiting to go on after Julian, and sat in the audience to watch, as performers on the same bill often do. Having started out in a new-wave gospel band called the Three Courgettes, Barb and guitarist Michael Parker were performing as the alternative cabaret duo Jungr and Parker, while Julian was doing standup as the Joan Collins Fan Club with whippet crossbreed, Fanny. Backstage later that night, they clicked instantly after Julian apologised, saying he would never have cracked that joke had he known Barb was also a performer. Keen to expand his act with music, he and …

A Curious Temperament | Julian Bell

A Curious Temperament | Julian Bell

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The British painter and art historian Julian Bell is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books. In our May 9, 2024, issue—the Art Issue—he writes about the American painter Nicole Eisenman’s first major museum exhibition, which surveys nearly four decades of work and which traveled from London to Munich before landing stateside, where it will be up through September at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. “Her force of mind, both aesthetic and political, is magnetic,” Bell writes, “although all I know of history tells me that even now, a young artist will somewhere be plotting a pushback against her warmhearted humanism.” A living painter is an unusual subject for Bell, who has written for the Review about, among many other artists, Francis Bacon, Vermeer, Goya, Poussin, and, most recently, Rubens. He is the author of six books about art. The latest, Natural Light—which was excerpted in our pages—is a study of the early-seventeenth-century painter Adam Elsheimer, known for his Flight into Egypt (1609), painted just a year before he died at …

The Must-Also-Haves | Julian Bell

The Must-Also-Haves | Julian Bell

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Mugshots of late capitalism, I caught my tongue murmuring: in these galleries you face an era’s ID. I was wandering through “What Happened,” an exhibition in London of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures created over the past three decades by Nicole Eisenman. What prompted my resort to that loose period label? Since her graduation from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987, the imagined publics toward which Eisenman has directed her copious, convivial energies have grown in scale. Her notional constituency, cartooning and muraling in 1990s Manhattan, was fiercely local, an East Village queer scene. The canvases and sculptures of the middle-aged artist, however, have at times amounted to satirical State of the Union addresses. The Triumph of Poverty (2009; see illustration on page 8) led the way, painted after the subprime mortgage scandal and the financial crisis it catalyzed: a composition nearly seven feet wide presenting a motley march of the repossessed—some pitiable, others grotesque—stalled on the edge of town in front of a clapboard bungalow on the point of being arsoned. Presiding, …

Chris Hedges: The Crucifixion Of Julian Assange

Chris Hedges: The Crucifixion Of Julian Assange

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Authored by Chris Hedges via ScheerPost, The Crucifixion of Julian Assange – by Mr. Fish Prosecutors representing the United States, whether by design or incompetence, refused — in the two-day hearing I attended in London in February — to provide guarantees that Julian Assange would be afforded First Amendment rights and would be spared the death penalty if extradited to the U.S.  The inability to give these assurances all but guaranteed that the High Court — as it did on Tuesday — would allow Julian’s lawyers to appeal. Was this done to stall for time so that Julian would not be extradited until after the U.S. presidential election? Was it a delaying tactic to work out a plea deal? Julian’s lawyers and U.S. prosecutors are discussing this possibility. Was it careless legal work? Or was it to keep Julian locked in a high security prison until he collapses mentally and physically?  If Julian is extradited, he will stand trial for allegedly violating 17 counts of the 1917 Espionage Act, with a potential sentence of 170 years, along with another charge for …

Sweden’s Prince Julian wears cutest giraffe sweater to celebrate 3rd birthday – watch him blow out the candles

Sweden’s Prince Julian wears cutest giraffe sweater to celebrate 3rd birthday – watch him blow out the candles

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Prince Julian is three! The Swedish royal celebrated his third birthday on Tuesday and looked adorable as he was captured blowing out his birthday candles in a sweet video. The little Prince was adorably dressed for his big day, wearing a beige knitted jumper adorned with a giraffe, under which he wore a white collared shirt. His birthday cake was a beautiful spring yellow shade and was topped with pink and green decorations and a large number three candle. See Julian blow out his candles in the video below.  Watch King Julian blow out his birthday candles The official social media channels for the Swedish royal family shared a sweet photograph to mark the occasion. The image showed the Prince beaming from behind his birthday cake.  Alongside the clip, were the words: “Today we celebrate 3 years with you beloved Julian [red love heart and balloon emoji]” (translated into English). Prince Julian was born on March 26 2021 at Danderyd Hospital. Sharing news of his son’s birth, Prince Carl Philip said in an official statement: “We …

British judges were right to allow Julian Assange’s appeal. The next three weeks will show who cares about justice | Duncan Campbell

British judges were right to allow Julian Assange’s appeal. The next three weeks will show who cares about justice | Duncan Campbell

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For Julian Assange, the wait continues. The pause can be counted as a small victory in the long battle to fight his extradition to the United States. But it is one of the many shameful issues in this most shameful of sagas that his waiting room is a cell in a high security prison where he has been held for the past five years, despite having been convicted of nothing. The high court decision issued by Dame Victoria Sharp and Mr Justice Johnson means that the US has been given a short time to offer “assurances” as to how his trial would be conducted and that the death penalty would not be imposed. Astonishingly it has previously been unable to provide them. Assange’s defence team will then be allowed to challenge those “assurances” issued by a country with a long record of ignoring many of the basic rights of anyone deemed to be threatening the security of the state in any way. It is almost exactly a year since the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan …

Julian Assange Extradition On Hold Until U.S. Gives More Assurances

Julian Assange Extradition On Hold Until U.S. Gives More Assurances

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The High Court in London ruled on Tuesday that Julian Assange, the embattled WikiLeaks founder, cannot be immediately extradited to the United States, saying American authorities must offer assurances about his treatment first, including over his First Amendment rights and protection from the death penalty. The decision had been highly anticipated as the moment the court would decide if Mr. Assange had exhausted his challenges within British courts. Instead, in a nuanced ruling, two judges determined that clarity on his fate would again be on hold. The two High Court judges said that the court “will grant leave to appeal” on narrow grounds, “unless a satisfactory assurance is provided by the Government of the United States of America.” The court has given the United States three weeks “to give satisfactory assurances” that Mr. Assange “is permitted to rely on the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (which protects free speech), that he is not prejudiced at trial (including sentence) by reason of his nationality, that he is afforded the same First Amendment protections as …

UK court opens way for Assange to appeal US extradition | Julian Assange News

UK court opens way for Assange to appeal US extradition | Julian Assange News

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High Court gives the US additional time to give ‘satisfactory assurances’ that WikiLeaks founder will face a fair trial. A UK court has ruled that Julian Assange should have the chance to appeal an order to extradite him to the US. The High Court in London ruled on Tuesday that the WikiLeaks founder must have the right to challenge the British government’s June 2022 extradition order, unless the United States provides within three weeks assurances that he would receive a fair trial and would not face the death penalty. At the same time, the court rejected Assange’s bid for an appeal based on the claim that the case against him is politically motivated. The ruling suggests that the legal wrangling, which has been ongoing for more than a decade, will continue. Assange, who was not present in court to hear the ruling, has been detained in London’s Belmarsh Prison since he was arrested in 2019. US prosecutors are seeking to put the 52-year-old on trial on 18 counts, all bar one under the Espionage Act, …