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SEP US presidential candidate Joseph Kishore: Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning! – World Socialist Web Site

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SEP US presidential candidate Joseph Kishore: Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning! By Joseph Kishore - Socialist Equality Party US presidential candidate 26 February 2020

Joseph Kishore for US president: "Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!"

As the Socialist Equality Partys candidate for US president, I condemn the torture and persecution of WikiLeaks publisher and journalist Julian Assange.

The SEP opposes Assanges extradition to the United States. We demand immediate freedom for Assange and for whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who remains in jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury convened to file additional charges against Assange.

The extradition hearings that begin formally on Monday are a legal travesty. Throughout his incarceration in the UKs Belmarsh prison, Assange has been denied the most basic requirements for his legal case.

The United Nations Nils Melzer has said that the conditions in which he has been held amount to torture. This by itself nullifies any legal proceedings and requires his immediate freedom.

Assange is a political prisoner. He has been targeted because he has exposed the truth. He exposed the crimes of American imperialism and the ruling class. He did what journalists should do, inform the population about what is really going on.

For this he has been hounded by Swedish prosecutors, forced to seek refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, spied on by American intelligence agencies, dragged from his only place of security by British police, imprisoned in a maximum security prison, and targeted for rendition to the United States, where he would face life in prison or worse.

Those responsible for the international witch-hunt against Assange include the governments of the United States, Britain, Sweden, and Australia. They include the media, which has shamelessly and relentlessly slandered Assange. They also include the pseudo-left organizations that have spread lies to justify his persecution.

All those who have actively or tacitly supported this pseudo-legal abomination have upon them a black mark that can never be washed clean.

Here in the United States, the entire political establishment has participated in the persecution of Assange. The Trump administration is continuing the vendetta against him initiated by the Obama administration, as part of its wholesale assault on democratic rights.

Trump leads a government of the far-right, with distinctly authoritarian characteristics. He is sending Swat teams into cities throughout the country to terrorize immigrant communities and carry out mass round-ups. He has threatened to unleash the military against countries throughout the world. He displays complete contempt for basic democratic rights.

However, it is the Democratic Party that has played the leading role in targeting WikiLeaks.

From the beginning of the Trump administration, there were mass protests against his fascistic policies. The Democrats worked to smother these protests and channel them behind their own reactionary, pro-war agenda.

What is the central issue upon which the Democrats have waged their supposed opposition to Trump? That he is an agent of Vladimir Putin, that he has failed to pursue an aggressive enough policy against Russia.

A central aim of the anti-Russia campaign, which has assumed levels that can only be compared to the McCarthyite witch-hunts of the 1950s, has been to fight out foreign policy differences within the ruling class.

An additional motivation, by no means secondary, has been to criminalize domestic opposition. The targeting of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange is part of an effort to tar all opposition to the American imperialism and the policies of the ruling class as the operations of a foreign power.

This is now being revived in the 2020 elections, in the form of unsubstantiated claims, originating from US intelligence agencies, that Putin is intervening in order to bolster the campaign of Bernie Sanders.

To further this reactionary narrative, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other corporate outlets relentlessly smeared Assange as a Russian agent and depicted him as the linchpin of a conspiracy hatched in Moscow to deprive Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton of the presidency in the 2016 US elections.

This is and has always been a lie. It is a lie used to justify the torture of Assange. It is a lie used as a pretext for internet censorship. It is a lie used to suppress free speech and a free press.

In the 2020 elections, the extradition of Assange is not a subject for discussion or debate. None of the major Democratic Party candidates have even spoken about the extradition hearings, let alone opposed them. They support what is being done to Assange because they support American imperialism.

This includes the supposed socialist Bernie Sanders. Sanders has won widespread support in the Democratic Party primaries from workers and young people because of his calls for a political revolution against the billionaire class and his appeal to anti-war sentiment.

However, Sanders main role has been to try to keep mass social opposition within the framework of the right-wing Democratic Party, to promote the fiction that anything can be done through this instrument of the military-intelligence agencies and Wall Street.

In a recent interview given to the New York Times, Sanders declared that he would consider military force to preempt an Iranian or North Korean nuclear or missile test. He also declared that the United States should consider Russia an adversary or even an enemy.

The Democrats and Sanders are also silent on the continued incarceration of Chelsea Manning, who has stood as a model of courage in her refusal to testify before the grand jury against Assange. For this, she has been imprisoned for nearly a year for contempt of court.

Just this past week, Manning filed another motion for her release. I have been separated from my loved ones, deprived of sunlight, and could not even attend my mothers funeral, she wrote. It is easier to endure these hardships now than to cooperate to win back some comfort, and live the rest of my life knowing that I acted out of self-interest and not principle.

Manning has been fined nearly half a million dollars, and she could face hundreds of thousands more in fines and another seven months in jail if her appeal for release is not granted.

The fight to free Assange and Manning, and to defend democratic rights, must be connected to the fight against imperialist war and the capitalist system.

Their persecution takes place under conditions of growing class conflict and social unrest throughout the world. The capitalist oligarchs and war criminals are well aware that their policies are encountering mass resistance.

By making an example of Assange, they are seeking to silence all opposition. If Assange is extradited to the US, the same can be done to any journalist, publisher or activist who falls foul of the American government.

The greatest mistake would be to harbor illusions that Assange will be freed through the actions of any faction of the state. Fruitless appeals directed toward Sanders in the US or Corbyn in the UK are worse than useless. They can only serve to strengthen the political institutions and parties responsible for Assanges persecution.

The working class must fight to free Assange and Manning and to defend democratic rights through its independent organization.

The past year has seen the eruption of major demonstrations and strikes throughout the world. In the United States, strike action is at its highest levels in three decades. There is growing support for socialism and opposition to capitalism among workers and youth.

In these elections, the Socialist Equality Party pledges to connect the fight to free Assange and Manning with the independent political mobilization of the working class against war, fascism, authoritarianism, inequality and the capitalist system.

2019 has been a year of mass social upheaval. We need you to help the WSWS and ICFI make 2020 the year of international socialist revival. We must expand our work and our influence in the international working class. If you agree, donate today. Thank you.

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Bid to free Manning launched as explosive new evidence threatens to end Assange extradition – The Canary

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Lawyers acting on behalf of imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning have lodged a motion, arguing for her release. This comes as WikiLeaks tweeted that Julian Assanges lawyers intend to produce bombshell evidence at next weeks extradition hearing.

Meanwhile, more evidence has emerged to further the argument that the extradition hearings should end on the grounds of extreme prejudice by UK authorities.

In 2013, former US army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning was convicted of violating Americas Espionage Act along with other offences and sentenced to 35 years imprisonment.

Manning was responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents relating to the invasion of Iraq and the Afghanistan conflict. These were subsequently published by WikiLeaks,

Perhaps Mannings most infamous war crime expos was the video of a US Army helicopter in Baghdad firing on civilians, including a Reuters photographer and his driver. The crew also fired on a van that stopped to rescue one of the wounded men.

One report by Huffington Post stated:

Reporters working for WikiLeaks determined that the driver of the van was a good Samaritan on his way to take his small children to a tutoring session. He was killed and his two children were badly injured

Here is the full version of what happened in that killing spree:

In January 2017, former US president Barack Obama commuted Mannings sentence to end in May 2017.

In March 2019, Manning was compelled to testify to the WikiLeaks grand jury. But she refused to do so or, as she later explained, to any grand jury as a matter of principle. Consequently, she was imprisoned. She was released in May, but later re-arrested and returned to jail. She has since accrued daily fines amountingto at least $230,000.

Manning commented:

I have been separated from my loved ones, deprived of sunlight, and could not even attend my mothers funeral. It is easier to endure these hardships now than to cooperate to win back some comfort, and live the rest of my life knowing that I acted out of self-interest and not principle.

Now Mannings lawyers have issued a motion, arguing that their client is incoercible and so should be released.

It concludes:

Chelsea Manning has shown unwavering resolve consistently throughout her life, even in the face of excruciating consequences. Her declaration (Exhibit A) articulates her perceptions and the moral basis for her recalcitrance. Her solemn patience during eleven months in jail without having been accused, let alone convicted of a crime, speaks for itself. The report of Dr. Sara Boyd (Exhibit B [under seal]) identifies and explains the characterological attributes from which Ms. Mannings persistence and morals spring, and those attributes that function to entrench and fortify those morals. The letter of Nils Melzer (Exhibit C) not only casts serious doubt on the permissibility of coercive sanctions, but provides profound moral support for Ms. Mannings self-perception. The petition signed by 60,000 people (Exhibit D) is compelling evidence of Ms. Mannings wide social support, and the kind of impact the withdrawal of that support would have on Ms. Manning, were she to change her position. No realistic possibility remains that continued confinement or other sanctions will bring about Ms. Mannings testimony. Further confinement cannot attain its stated coercive purpose, and therefore will be not simply futile, but impermissibly punitive.

It adds:

Ms. Mannings recalcitrance and fortitude have only solidified with each new challenge and each passing day. Her incarceration is not serving its only permissible purpose. For that reason, the motion should be granted in its entirety.

Mannings lawyer Moira Meltzer-Cohen further stated:

The key issue before Judge Trenga is whether continued incarceration could persuade Chelsea to testify. Judges have complained of the perversity of this law: that a witness may win their freedom by persisting in their contempt of court. However, should Judge Trenga agree that Chelsea will never agree to testify, he will be compelled by the law to order her release.

In a memorandum accompanying the motion its argued why the continued imprisonment of Manning is not lawful:

the inquiry must be into whether her current confinement is likely ever to lead Ms. Manning to testify before the Grand JuryIf the witness can show by a preponderance of the evidence that there is no reasonable possibility that she will testify, then continued confinement is unconstitutional, and contrary to the mandate of 28 U.S.C. 1826.

It concludes:

As Ms. Mannings resolve not to testify has been unwavering, and as her moral conviction, for which she is deservedly renowned, has become only more developed since her confinement, her incarceration is no longer serving its coercive purpose. For that reason, the motion should be granted in its entirety.

Coercive confinement is considered a violation of international law.

Should the motion succeed, there are arguably implications for Assange given the US authorities may have hoped Manning could be compelled to testify against the WikiLeaks founder. This is in regard to the initial charge of Conspiracy to Commit Computer Intrusion.

A chat log between Manning and Nathaniel Frank (alleged by US authorities to be Assange) was presented at Mannings court-martial (a fuller, un-redacted version of the chat logs is available here). But there are problems with that evidence.

On page 21 of an FBI affidavit, reference is made to a question to Frank about LM [LAN Manager] hash cracking (breaking a password in the network Manning had access to). Frank responded by saying Yes we have rainbow tables for [LM]. Two days later, Manning asked if there were any more hints about this [LM] hash? Frank stated, no luck so far.

Crucially, the affidavit adds:

Investigators have not recovered a response by Manning to Assanges question, and there is no other evidence as to what Assange did, if anything, with respect to the password.

In other words, the affidavit indicates that successful prosecution of Assange on the critical password cracking charge and perhaps on other charges too would rely on Mannings full co-operation.

Meanwhile, Assanges lawyer Jennifer Robinson has now claimed her client was approached by then US Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher with an offer of a pardon from US president Trump. It would be conditional on Assange providing proof that the DNC emails were not hacked by Russia.

Rohrabacher denies this version. However, another of Assanges lawyers, Baltasar Garzn, clarified that his client was:

pressured by the Trump administration but resisted and the order was given to demand the extradition of Julian Assange

Crucially:

both testimony and documentary proof of the claim will be offered to the court at the full hearing that opens Monday [24 February].

In a tweet, WikiLeaks confirmed this version of events and added that more bombshells are to follow:

Separately, an investigation by journalists Mark Curtis and Matt Kennard has revealed extensive links between former home secretary Sajid Javid, who signed the US extradition request, and leading US political figures who called for the murder of Assange.

This follows earlier revelations by The Canary. Meanwhile, aninvestigation and other pieces by Curtis and Kennard exposed the intelligence and related links of the family of judge Emma Arbuthnot, who has overseen the extradition hearings.

The above revelations may provide further reasons why the extradition should be denied and the proceedings declared void on grounds of extreme prejudice by US and UK authorities.

Meanwhile, on 22 February, over 40 legal professionals signed a letter to UK prime minister Boris Johnson, demanding the US extradition request be denied and Assange released. Assange has also received a surge in support from within the journalist fraternity. And there are moves to provide him with a Swiss visa.

As for Manning a recipient of many awards, including the Guardians Person of the Year and the Sean MacBride Peace Prize it is time she is given her freedom too.

The coming days or weeks may prove decisive.

Featured image via Time Travers Hawkins Wikipedia/ Cancilleria del Ecuador Flickr

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Dyer: The perils of whistle-blowing in the 21st century – Kamloops This Week

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The cost of being a whistle-blower is going up.

When Daniel Ellsberg stole and published the Pentagon Papers in 1971, revealing the monstrous lies the U.S. government was telling the American public about the Vietnam War, he was arrested and tried, but the court set him free.

When Edward Snowden released a vast trove of documents in 2013 about the global electronic surveillance activities of U.S. intelligence agencies, he was already abroad, knowing civil liberties had taken a turn for the worse in the United States since 1971.

Snowden is still abroad seven years later, living in Moscow, because hardly anywhere else would be safe.

And Julian Assange, whose court hearing on a U.S. extradition request began this past Monday at Woolwich crown court in east London, is facing 175 years in jail if Britain delivers him into American hands.

The American authorities are really cross about his WikiLeaks dump of confidential material in 2010 that detailed U.S. misbehaviour in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Everybody knew or at least suspected that terrible things were happening there, but without documentation, there was really nothing they could do about it.

What Assange did was give them the evidence.

The most striking piece of evidence was a video and audio clip from an Apache helicopter gunship attacking civilians in Baghdad in 2007.

The crew sprays its targets with machine-gun fire, making comments like, Its their fault for bringing their kids into battle and Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards. They even target people in a vehicle that stops to help the wounded.

As for the claims of the U.S. authorities that Assange has blood on his hands, that his 2010 data dump endangered the lives of some of those who were mentioned in the documents, there is not a shred of evidence that is so.

If anyone had come to harm over the past nine years as a result of his actions, dont you think the U.S. government would have trumpeted it to the skies?

The whistle-blowers are among our last remaining checks on the contemptuous ease with which those who control the information seek to manipulate the rest of us.

We dont always respond to the whistle-blowers revelations as fast and as strongly as they would hope, but they are indispensable in keeping a check on the lying.

They should be praised, not punished.

So, what are the chances that Assange will escape extradition to the United States and a lifetime in prison?

His lawyers will doubtless argue nobody was harmed as a result of his revelations (except, perhaps, in their reputations for truthfulness) and that nobody profited by them.

A British court might look unfavourably on an extradition request that is brought out of sheer vindictiveness.

The story that U.S. President Donald Trump contacted Assange through an intermediary, former congressman Dana Rohrabacher, might also help.

Trump was allegedly offering to pardon Assange if the Australian would confirm it wasnt the Russians who gave him the Hilary Clinton campaign emails he released during the 2016 election campaign.

This has all been denied by both Rohrabacher and the Trump White House, but in carefully phrased ways that leave room for suspicion.

Trumps recent denial that he doesnt know Rohrabacher and never spoke to him is especially suspect, since he invited the man to the White House for a one-on-one meeting in April 2017. British courts will not extradite if the request is politically motivated.

But Assanges best chance probably lies elsewhere.

During the seven years that he lived in Ecuadors embassy in London as a political asylum-seeker, a Spanish security company called UC Global installed cameras in every corner of Assanges space in the embassy and live-streamed every contact and conversation he had, including with his lawyers, directly to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

I dont know how a British court will respond to that information, but I think I know how an American court would respond.

Thats how Ellsberg got off in 1971 the government tapped his phone conversations and sent burglars to break into his psychiatrists office and steal his file, so the judge dismissed the case because the governments behaviour was outrageous and a fair trial was not possible.

There will be many appeals, both in the United Kingdom and perhaps later in the United States, and Assange will not draw a free breath for a long time, if ever.

But in the meantime, heres one happy ending: Snowden couldnt tell his girlfriend his plans before he left the U.S. and released his documents because that would have made her his accomplice.

She was angry at first, but she forgave him, married him in 2017 and lives with him today in Russia.

Gwynne Dyer will be speaking in Kamloops on Thursday, March 12, as part of Thompson Rivers Universitys International Days. He will be speaking in the Grand Hall in the Campus Activity Centre at 7 p.m. Admission is free, but those attending are asked to register online at eventbrite.com.

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Football Leaks’ Rui Pinto in prison with hard-drive passwords in his head – The Guardian

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Lisbons Judiciary Police prison is situated just down the road from Eduardo VII Park, one of the Portuguese capitals most popular tourist attractions that is famed for its spectacular views of the city and the River Tagus. With only around 25 tiny cells and based in the depths of the giant white building which is the headquarters of the countrys antiterrorist and serious crime authorities, the high-security facility is usually reserved for only the most dangerous criminals. For almost the past year, however, it has also been home to Rui Pinto.

The 31-year-old, who created the Football Leaks website which provided some of the evidence that led to Manchester Citys Champions League ban and numerous other investigations into tax evasion and corruption in football and beyond, is still awaiting trial for alleged extortion, violation of secrecy and illegally accessing information despite being extradited to his homeland from Hungary in March 2019. Last week, his lawyers filed a complaint to the European Commission over inconsistencies in the original arrest warrant that accused Pinto of only six offences before that was increased to 147 while he was in custody.

That was reduced to 90 at the start of February, meaning Pinto still faces the prospect of up to 30 years in prison if found guilty. Yet rather than contemplating spending most of his life behind bars, the former student who dropped out of his history degree is determined not to give up hope.

We met him for the first time in about seven or eight months in December, says Rafael Buschmann, a reporter for the German magazine Der Spiegel who co-authored the book Football Leaks having worked closely with Pinto for more than four years. He had just finished six months in isolation and I expected to find someone who was in a very bad mental situation but he wasnt at all. Rui was very focused and said it was important for him not to lose his mind because all of the passwords for the hard drives are in his head. He knows all of the authorities in Portugal are afraid because he is still in a position to release whatever other evidence he has.

Pinto has already supplied around 70 million documents and 3.4 terabytes of information including tax returns and personal emails from some of the sports most influential figures to Der Spiegel and other members of the media network known as the European Investigative Collaborators (EIC group) and was recently unveiled as the source of the Luanda Leaks, which exposed the inner workings of the business empire of Africas richest woman, Isabel dos Santos.

It was from this original cache during an intense seven-month investigation that the Der Spiegel reporter Christoph Winterbach first discovered the emails that appeared to indicate Manchester City were flouting Uefas financial fair play rules, not to mention the infamous 1 down, 6 to go message allegedly sent by the City lawyer Simon Cliff after he was informed that one of Uefas seven investigators, Jean-Luc Dehaene, had died.

I talked with Ruis family a few days ago after City were banned and they told me that the first thing he said was: Why only two years? says Buschmann. The second question he had was: Why didnt Uefa call me? It seems strange that they wouldnt make some contact with the person who provided their strongest evidence.

Theres a clear correlation between the publication of our article and the investigation, adds Winterbach. Three weeks later, they wrote the first letter to City asking about our revelations and they started the formal investigation when we published another piece online which showed excerpts from the emails. I dont think that would have happened without Ruis evidence.

Ever since the first of four articles about City appeared in Der Spiegel in November 2018, the Premier League champions have denied wrongdoing and denounced their coverage as based on hacked or stolen materials that have been taken out of context despite Pintos insistence that he never hacked computers to gain access to the emails.

City are set to appeal to the court of arbitration of sport but even if Cas rule the emails were obtained illegally, there have been precedents where crucial evidence has been permitted despite it being illicitly acquired, including one case involving the infringement of the code of ethics by a Fifa official who was implicated by a secret recording.

A few weeks after the articles on City were published and two months before his extradition, Pinto was heard as a witness by the Parquet National Financier (PNF) which is responsible for law enforcement against serious financial crime in France as part of its investigation into tax evasion and money laundering. He handed over 26 terabytes of new data around nine times bigger than the original cache provided to the EIC group which is still under evaluation, while Pinto has also been contacted by German and Belgian tax authorities keen to access the encrypted information.

It remains to be seen what emerges from those investigations, although the revelations from Pintos first round of data have continued to send shockwaves through the world of football. On 6 February two days before Portos top of the table showdown with Benfica the Portuguese magazine Sabado claimed that authorities were investigating the Porto president, Jorge Nuno de Lima Pinto da Costa, and the club for alleged tax fraud and money laundering relating to the transfers of players including Radamel Falcao, James Rodrguez and Iker Casillas.

The presidents of Benfica and Braga and the agent Jorge Mendes were also said to be part of the investigation which has reportedly relied heavily on evidence provided by Football Leaks. Porto said in a statement: Neither FC Porto nor its president have been questioned about any judicial investigation.

Meanwhile, the offices of the Albania-born agent Fali Ramadani whose Lian Sports company represents Real Madrids Luka Jovic, Citys Leroy San and Napolis Kalidou Koulibaly among several other high-profile clients were searched by tax authorities in Mallorca last week in connection with a 100m money-laundering investigation.

Details of Ramadanis alleged misconduct was first exposed by Buschmann and Winterbachs second book, Football Leaks 2, which was published in Germany last year but has yet to be translated into English due to the number of delicate legal issues raised by their allegations.

Its crazy in the football industry, every week you have some more news about authorities investigations that are based on Football Leaks but Rui is the only one in front of a judge, says Buschmann. When I met him for the first time at the start of 2016 he told me that he wanted to work as a whistleblower for Uefa and show them documents which would show the accounts clubs are hiding from FFP. Its a shame that they never made contact with him, even after his public unveiling.

Pintos lawyer, William Bourdon, said last week that he is planning to call his former client Edward Snowden as an endorsement witness via videolink from Russia where he has been granted asylum when the trial finally begins. That is expected to be next month, although Pinto is prepared to wait as long as it takes.

There is a huge discrepancy between the way he is treated by the authorities and those he sees every day in the prison, says Winterbach. The guards were all very friendly with him and he told us they were all getting along just fine. Yet throughout this whole process, the attitude of the prosecutors and the judge has been almost hostile. He is being treated like he is a danger to society when he is actually a hero.

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Free Julian Assange! – The Nation

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A supporter protests against the US extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (Matt Dunham / AP Photo)

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When a 35-year-old Australian named Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks with a few like-minded friends in 2006, he little knew what exposing malfeasance would cost him. The WikiLeaks model was simple: provide a safe repository for documents showing state and corporate wrongdoing while guaranteeing anonymity for the leaker. Newspapers were not necessarily safe for whistle-blowers, as British civil servant Sarah Tisdall discovered in 1983 when Londons The Guardian caved in to a court order and handed over documents that identified her as the source for its story on US cruise missile deployment in the UK. She went to prison for four months and lost her job.

Conscientious employees in government and the private sector trusted WikiLeaks enough to send damning papers that WikiLeaks published and made available to international media. WikiLeaks became a vital source of information for journalists and not, as then CIA director Mike Pompeo would call it in 2017 a non-state hostile intelligence service. It was providing information not to spy agencies and departments of defense but to you and me. Without it, we would not have known what happened when an Apache helicopter shot and killed seven civilians, including two Reuters journalists, in Baghdad in 2007.

Patrick Cockburn of Londons The Independent was in Baghdad at the time. The Pentagon had rejected FOIA requests for the Apache video documenting the event. The military conducted an internal investigation thatlike all internal investigations, whether by Enron, the Israeli Defense Forces, or the CIAshowed no wrongdoing. The mediaand thus the publichad no alternative to official whitewash. Then in 2010 WikiLeaks placed the video, along with government documents, in the public domain. Cockburn writes:

We could not prove anything until WikiLeaks made public the film from the Apache. Viewing it still has the power to shock: the pilots are cock-a-hoop as they hunt their prey, including people in a vehicle who stop to help the wounded, saying, Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards, and, Ha, ha, I hit them. Anybody interested in why the US failed in Iraq should have a look.

The soldier who leaked the video and thousands of other documents that contradicted Pentagon versions of the war, Chelsea Manning, went to prison. It was not WikiLeaks but a friend of Mannings who tipped off the government. Manning was eventually pardoned by Barack Obama, but she is back in prison for refusing to cooperate with a secret federal grand jury investigating Assange. Thanks to her efforts and those of dozens of others, the public has access to important documents including Iraq Rules of Engagement 2007-2009, The Afghan War Diaries, Iraq War Logs, Cablegate, and Gitmo Files. WikiLeaks did not confine its exposures to the United States. A recent WikiLeaks press release reminded the media:

WikiLeaks has published leaks from many other countries including Kenya, Peru, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Namibia, Norway and Iceland. For example:

I declare an interest: Julian Assange is my friend. But I do not defend him because he is a friend. He is a friend because he is worth defending, because he disclosed vital information to the public on actions taken in our name and because he has sacrificed his freedom to do it. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, has visited Assange in Britains high security Belmarsh prison and concluded that he is suffering full-fledged psychological torture. In addition, Spanish contractors working for the CIA have monitored privileged lawyer-client discussions with his defense team. Assange is not receiving a fair hearing in Britain. He is unlikely to receive a fair trial in the United States, when the prosecution knows all about his legal strategy while he knows nothing of theirs.

The criminals who perpetrated war crimes revealed in their own communications documented and made public by WikiLeaks did not want you to know about them. Nor do they want you to know about those they commit in the future. To conceal the truth, they will put the truth-teller in an oubliette where he will never again discover and reveal anything. By depriving Julian Assange of his freedom and thus intimidating his journalistic colleagues, US and UK prosecutors are abetting criminality by spies, secret policemen, torturers, and kleptocrats everywhere. If they succeed in putting Julian Assange in a concrete cell for the rest of his life, it will give them a long breathing space to commit more crimes and amass illegal wealth in secret.

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The only questions that should matter in the Assange extradition battle – The Sydney Morning Herald

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Everyone has a view on Assange. But, frankly, our views should be irrelevant. We, the public, are not in the know. Were easily manipulated. We can be wrong.

Assange is on trial in Belmarsh Magistrates Court, London. In theory, its just an extradition hearing, tasked with deciding whether the Brits will extradite Assange to the US. Although Britains extradition treaty with the US specifically excludes extradition for political offences, politics is everywhere.

Its there in the intention to try Assange on 18 espionage charges relating to the 2010 leaks (for which Chelsea Manning, who supplied the documents, has already been pardoned).

Julian Assange being taken from court last year.Credit:AP

Its there in the Obama administrations decision (says Assanges defence) not to prosecute Assange for the Manning leaks, and in Trumps reversal of that decision. Its there in Trumps alleged offer of a pardon if Assange agreed to forswear Russian influence. And in Britain's efforts to pretend that this is a standard crime, not a political one.

Its there, too, in our own governments cowardly refusal to help Assange despite the AFPs 2010 finding that he has broken no Australian law and a Department of Defence finding that he did not damage Australias security interests.

This is no simple hearing. Everything about these proceedings, from the choice of courthouse to the conduct of the case itself, seems to confirm that. Like the hounding of poor Jewell, this is trial by intimidation and that fine instrument of justice, public opinion.

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Britain has a long and noble tradition of law courts. The Fleet Street law courts in particular properly known as the Royal Courts of Justice, designed by GE Street in the 1870s imply in their very conformation the true and impartial rule of law. Deep in our child-hearts, most of us still believe this about Britain.

But Belmarsh Magistrates Court says the opposite. An extradition hearing would normally be held at Westminster Magistrates Court, to symbolise links to high justice. Not this one. Belmarsh Magistrates Court, set within Woolwich Crown Court, sits on a windswept marsh within a three-prison complex, girdled by motorways and a high steel palisade.

A grim contemporary building built for terrorism offences, it is as far from any symbolic representation of democracy as can be imagined. Assange is manhandled into court from the adjacent prison via a secure tunnel. Here, says Murray, far from any attempt to represent the presumption of innocence, "you are already considered guilty and in jail on arrival".

The courtroom offers only 16 public seats. To get one, you must queue in the miserable cold and dark for two hours before court opens at eight. Murray a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan (2002-2004) who was himself hounded as a whistleblower after revealing mass political imprisonment and torture there has done just that, in order to deliver a blow-by-blow eyewitness account of the hearing.

Assange, who has been strip-searched and repeatedly handcuffed like some violent criminal, is not expected to speak during the four-week hearing. He sits alone at the back, quarantined inside a bulletproof glass case that impedes his view and hearing of proceedings and prevents any communication with his legal team. His private documents are confiscated, including privileged communications with his lawyer.

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Murrays accounts contains some astonishing observations. On day one, he says, the US prosecutor, James Lewis QC, explicitly addressed his opening remarks "not to the court but to the media". This is unprecedented. In this address, says Murray, Lewis explicitly denied that the espionage charges against Assange also threatened mainstream media like The Guardian and The New York Times. Later under questioning from the magistrate, Murray says, Lewis changed his mind and admitted that yes, they would be affected, but this part of his remarks was not offered to the media (who might well find such assertions alarming).

On day two, Assanges defence, Edward Fitzgerald QC, said the prosecution must prove three things: that Assange had helped Manning decode a hash key necessary to hack classified material, that Assange had solicited the material from Manning and that he had knowingly put lives at risk. There is, said Fitzgerald, no evidence on any of these counts, some of which were disproved in Mannings court-martial. And the prosecution has admitted it cannot prove harm.

But even that is not the point. No one should be arguing the substantive case here. For now, the questions are; is this a political crime? Should Assange receive a fair trial? Does anyone believe hell get one in Trumps America? And do we really think, given his poor health, he would survive prison there? The answers have to be yes, yes, no and, resoundingly, no.

Elizabeth Farrelly is a Sydney-based columnist and author who holds a PhD in architecture and several international writing awards. She is a former editor and Sydney City Councilor. Her books include 'Glenn Murcutt: Three Houses, 'Blubberland; the dangers of happiness and Caro Was Here, crime fiction for children (2014).

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Why Is This Peter Thiel-Backed Startup Mining Bitcoin In West Texas? – Forbes

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Cattle graze at the Buffalo Gap Wind Power project near Abilene, Texas.

To make money mining cryptocurrencies you need fast microprocessors and cheap electricity to run them. It also helps to be in a cold climate, because a roomful of computers puts out a lot of heat, which slows them down. Thats why the worlds biggest miners tend to set up shop in places like Iceland, with its plentiful geothermal power, or Washington state and upstate New York, which enjoy cheap hydropower.

Thats why it seemed odd that a crypto-mining startup called Layer1 Technologies chose as its center of operations an empty part of west Texas, which suffers through 90-degree-plus days for nearly half the year. Even in February it can get hot. I was shvitzing, says Alex Liegl, CEO of Layer1, who was out there recently 100 miles west of Midland setting up the companys first two bitcoin factories 20-by-8 shipping containers chock full of bitcoin miners. If they were air-cooled, the processors would burn up, he says. But theyre not. Instead, the mining machines are immersed in vats of liquid a non-conductive solution that keeps them cool.

Why go to the trouble? Because the real draw of west Texas is its cheap power. Were not talking about the Texas mainstays of oil and gas, but rather wind. Texas is by far the biggest wind power generator in the United States, with 29,000 megawatts installed and 7,600 mw under construction. If the Lone Star state were its own country it would rank fifth in wind power worldwide. When the gusts come at night the power generated is often so plentiful that grid operators have to pay customers to use it.

This gets crypto miners excited. Its the cheapest power in the world, at scale, says Liegl, 27, who co-founded Layer1 in 2017 years ago alongside Jakov Dolic, who previously cofounded whats said to be the worlds biggest bitcoin cloud mining service provider, called Genesis Mining.

Last year Layer1 received a $50 million cash infusion from its v.c. investors led by billionaire Peter Thiel, alongside Shasta Ventures and Digital Currency Group. That raise valued Layer1 at $200 million, and gave Liegl the capital he needed to acquire an entire electric substation capable of handling 100 megawatts, and 30 acres of land on which they aim to install a village consisting of dozens of their container-based bitcoin factories, each of which draws 2.5 mw (enough to power more than 1,000 homes).

Liegls strategy is to make Layer1 independent of any third-party suppliers or service providers. That way he can be certain that even when bitcoin prices surge and suppliers hike their prices, Layer1s economics will be insulated. Thats why the company is manufacturing its own processors and outfitting its own containers in factories in China and Croatia. We want to avoid all edge risks and be at the point where no one can take away our advantage.

Another startup: Peter Thiel and Elon Musk at the launch of PayPal, 2000.

Theres a power arbitrage opportunity as well. In the summertime when air conditioners in Dallas, Houston and Austin are going full tilt, Texas electricity prices sometimes surge to nosebleed levels. When that happens, Layer1 will be able to make more money by shutting off its mining machines and allowing the power to flow through its substation to the grid. We can stabilize the grid by selling capacity for curtailment at the push of a button, says Liegl.

Liegl grew up in Germany then studied math and philosophy at Stanford. He was first exposed to bitcoin during a stint working on the special investments desk at the Stanford Management Company (which boasts a $27 billion endowment). He describes Peter Thiel as an invigorating conversationalist, who traces the logic tree then proceeds and who sees bitcoin as a useful hedge against central bank policy missteps. Liegl credits Thiels investment as enabling Layer1 to gain a first mover advantage on their liquid cooled mining machines. Its easier to keep liquid chilled than air, and Liegl claims that Layer1 is able to overclock its processors, essentially running them at twice the rate they would be able to in an air-conditioned space. Whats more, the liquid keeps away the dust, which along with tumbleweeds is in no short supply.

Liegl is convinced that his machines will avoid obsolescence for at least 5 years because chip cycles have lengthened. Chips have little differentiation now; cheaper electricity and more efficient cooling is most important.

Layer1 wont say how many bitcoin it expects to mine in Texas this year. Liegl says theyre profitable enough that hes already thinking about pursuing an IPO in order to scale nonlinearly and potentially fill the vacant position of being the bitcoin mining company. He envisions in time having enough machines to consume 1 gigawatt of power.

And what happens if they run out of cheap wind? My personal dream is to own a nuclear plant in the future.

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Research by Jesus Rodriguez and Lucas Outumuro ofIntoTheBlock

Derivatives are becoming an important element of the crypto markets. With more exchanges introducing products such as futures, perpetual swaps or options, the influence of derivatives in crypto markets has been increasing linearly. With the increase in derivative trading comes more data and with more data the opportunity of producing richer analytics that evaluates derivative products to extrapolate insights about the behavior of crypto assets.

From an analytical standpoint, derivatives are an incredible source of intelligence in capital markets and crypto is not an exception. For starters, derivatives are a clear indicator of the market sentiment in crypto assets as well as an accurate descriptor of behaviors such as hedging and speculation.

Additionally, derivatives are one of the elements that can contribute to the eventual rationality of crypto markets and become a key indicator for important aspects such as risk monitoring and portfolio management. In the current, still immature, state of the crypto markets, derivatives can have a disproportionate effect in price fluctuations which make it an even more interesting aspect to consider when studying crypto assets. If we look at this weeks movements in the Bitcoin price through the lens of derivative contracts, we can extrapolate some very interesting insights.

In the last seven days, Bitcoin has experienced a strong bearish momentum dropping over $10,000. The market behavior is attributed to macro-factors such as the impact of the coronavirus and its negative impact in global capital markets. However, crypto derivative contracts such as futures and perpetual swaps help paint a more complete narrative of the current market turmoil. Specifically, the indicators of volume, open interest, turnover ratio and basis are incredibly useful tools to comprehend Bitcoins recent price drop and what may follow.

Perpetual swaps, which essentially function as futures contracts without an expiration date, have quickly been adopted as the crypto space go-to derivative contract. During the recent price drop, Bitcoin perpetual swaps volume reached a yearly high on February 26, surpassing $14 billion traded within 24 hours. Although this is a very large number, it is important to take into account that volumes are a function of leverage. With the option to select leverage of 100x (and sometimes even higher) in popular derivatives exchanges, perpetual swaps volumes have quickly surpassed spot volumes for several exchanges like Binance and Huobi.

While price and volume are the two main metrics of which indicators are derived for traditional technical analysis, derivatives trading introduces a third elemental factor: open interest. Open interest is the total amount of outstanding investor positions, usually measured as the dollar amount of open contracts in the case of cryptocurrency derivatives. In other words, open interest reflects the cumulative amount of open positions, regardless of the direction of the trades (includes both long and short data).

For example, lets say a $100 million long contract is opened at a price of $10,000 with a liquidation price of $9,000 at this moment both volume and open interest would increase by $100 million. (To clarify the liquidation price is the level at which a leveraged position is closed due to unrealized losses reaching the level of initial capital used to fund the position.) Lets then say that the price reaches $9,000 this effectively closes this position, therefore reducing open interest by $100 million, while volume still increases reaching a total of $200 million.

Open interest for perpetual swaps so far this year peaked on February 18 at $2.26B, right when Bitcoin registered a lower high. In the last week, open interest fell to a low of $1.9B on February 27 as prices dropped, indicating that several long positions were either closed or, perhaps more likely, liquidated. Additionally, we can see a spike in open interest in February 24 and 25 preceding the large price decline on February 26 hinting to an increase in the amount of investor short trades at that moment.

Afterward, though, open interest dropped 12 percent pointing to some of these positions being closed, a sign of weakening bearish momentum.

Another helpful metric introduced in derivatives trading is the turnover ratio, which is the 24-hour volume for a contract over its open interest. In a nutshell, this represents the ratio of short-term speculation and hedging in a contract relative to its longer-term open positions. As one may expect, the turnover ratio tends to increase in volatile days as traders intend to profit from quick price movements. While volatility attracts trading volume, it usually also leads to decreases in open interest as a significant amount of positions get liquidated. Because of these relationships, the turnover ratio provides interesting insights on the expectations and reactions derivatives traders have towards volatility

This pattern can be seen on two of the most volatile days in the recent Bitcoin retracement, February 19 and February 26. As Bitcoin dropped over $700 on February 26 from its high point to its low, turnover quickly spiked to a monthly high. While the turnover ratio varies across exchanges it does tend to move in tandem, averaging around 5x for top exchanges versus a weekly average of 3.51. Following this drop, the turnover ratio stabilized but at a slightly higher average level indicating that Bitcoins recent relative volatility may resume.

A natural complement to the turnover ratio is the basis indicator. While the turnover ratio can offer insights into volatility, the basis provides a better understanding of price movements. Basis is the premium (or discount) between the spot price and the futures contract price.

Over time, this premium or discount decreases as futures price converge towards spot prices approaching the expiration date. In traditional markets, this concept is often tied with the concepts of contango and backwardation. In essence, a futures contract is considered to be in contango when its priced at a premium relative to current prices and in backwardation when its at a discount. Since basis is the index price minus the futures price, premiums are shown as negative values for basis and discounts as positive.

Going back to Bitcoins recent drop, basis increased significantly meaning that the premium decreased. However, futures contracts settling on March 27 still remain in contango, as seen in the graph below, which is a sign that expectations remain positive among derivatives traders.

While it may come as no surprise that the recent price decline is reflected on a decrease on the contract premium, it is worth noting out that the basis also appears to have a strong correlation with the price movement the day after. Throughout the month of February, the basis has had a remarkable 0.7 r-squared versus price movements on the following day, indicating the strong relationship between futures market activity and changes in spot prices.

Overall, these indicators demonstrate the prominence that derivatives markets are having in the crypto space. Analyzing the volume and open interest in the recent Bitcoin price drop point to the fact that several long positions got liquidated in the past few days, but is also showing a decrease in the bearish momentum. The subsequent spike in the turnover ratio demonstrates how derivatives traders looked for short-term hedging and speculating opportunities to take advantage of the recent volatility.

Lastly, changes in futures contracts premium, which can be seen in the basis, indicate how derivatives traders positioning end up reflecting in spot prices. Ultimately, these examples confirm the importance of derivatives indicators as effective complements to traditional technical analysis and blockchain-specific metrics.

Jesus Rodriguezis the CEO-CTO of IntoTheBlock, a market intelligence platform for crypto assets. He is a computer scientist, a speaker, and author on topics related to crypto and artificial intelligence.

Lucas Outumurois a Sr. Researcher at IntoTheBlock, a market intelligence platform for crypto assets. His areas of focus include crypto derivatives, DeFi and web 3.0 in general.

Bitcoin, currently ranked #1 by market cap, is down 0.8% over the past 24 hours. BTC has a market cap of $159B with a 24 hour volume of $44.59B.

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Bitcoin is down 0.8% over the past 24 hours.

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Bitcoin braced for brutal weekend as fear sets in – Yahoo Finance

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Bitcoin is on the brink of a major correction this weekend after suffering an 18% slide over the past 15 days.

With it now trading below the daily 200 moving average downside price targets at both $8,450 and $7,830 have emerged.

The $7,830 level of support is intriguing as it is in confluence with the diagonal trendline dating back to the start of 2019 when Bitcoin was worth just $3,350.

A potential breakdown from that level would see Bitcoin trade outside the trendline for the first time in more than a year a clear indicator of a bear market.

However, its worth noting that Bitcoin has enjoyed a fruitful year to date with it still being 27% up since January 1.

As a result, several analysts remain bullish on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies especially in light of recent turmoil in traditional markets.

Bitcoin is often described as digital gold, with gold being a common hedge to global equity markets.

As coronavirus sweeps across the globe at an alarming rate, economic instability is to be expected, and could well drive the price of Bitcoin to the upside.

Another point from a bullish perspective is that Bitcoin will undergo a block reward halving in May an event that has historically been kind to cryptocurrency due to a reduction in supply.

Both bullish scenarios are based on macro time-frames, whereas immediate price action is signalling a move to the downside.

As previously noted, the key levels of support to monitor are $8,450 and $7,830, while a break above $8,830 would indicate a move back into the $9,000 region.

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In August 2008, the domain name bitcoin.orgwas registered. On 31st October 2008, a paper was published called Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. This was authored by Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. To date, no one knows who this person, or people, are.

The paper outlined a method of using a P2P network for electronic transactions without relying on trust. On January 3 2009, the Bitcoin network came into existence. Nakamoto mined block number 0 (or the genesis block), which had a reward of 50 Bitcoins.

If you want to find out more information about Bitcoin orcryptocurrenciesin general, then use the search box at the top of this page.Heres an article to get you started.

As with any investment, it pays to do some homework before you part with your money. The prices of cryptocurrencies are volatile and go up and down quickly. This page is not recommending a particular currency or whether you should invest or not.

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Millennials to Drive Bitcoin Higher: 4 Stocks to Watch – Zacks.com

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U.S. stock markets fell for the sixth straight day on Thursday after the coronavirus epidemic sparked fears of a slowdown in the major economies of the world. Following this, investors rotated out of stocks to safer haven assets such as gold and U.S. Treasury bonds.

Bitcoin prices rose 1.4% to $8,902. The worlds favorite cryptocurrency rose along with other popular cryptocurrencies such as ether. While some might argue, like they have in the past, that Bitcoin is all but a fad, millennials have a different take on it when it comes to investing.

Approximately one-third of all the millennials in the country prefer to hold Bitcoin over shares. Further, a staggering 43% of U.S. millennials stated that they trusted cryptocurrency exchanges more than Americas stock exchanges.

A report by Edelman stated that approximately 25% if the countrys millennials who earn at least $100,000 in individual or joint income or own $50,000 worth of investable assets, admitted to either holding or using cryptocurrencies. Further, the report also stated that another 31% expressed their interest in using them.

Quite unsurprisingly, a shift toward alternative banking options such as PayPal (PYPL - Free Report) and Square Cash have also popularized Bitcoins. Tech-savvy millennials who find the digital way of doing business efficient and normal choose to take this route.

Bitcoin or Digital Gold?

It is a norm to save up for the future by investing in gold and bonds, a lesson that has been passed down through generations. However, technology and money have revolutionized the way investing is done in todays age. Millennials, who vouch for bitcoin democratization, also prefer the worlds numero uno cryptocurrency as a form of investment to save for the future.

A survey revealed that millennials are five times more likely than baby boomers to say that Bitcoin is the best way to save for the future. Such sentiments have only cemented the cryptocurrencys place as the digital gold of the modern world.

Transfer of Wealth from Baby Boomers to Millennials

Now that it has more or less been established that millennials prefer Bitcoins for long-term savings, an increase in millennials wealth should only prove to be a boon for Bitcoin. A generational shift of wealth from the baby boomers, currently the richest generation in Americas history, is set to take place through the 2020s.

After living the American dream and enjoying a long period of economic prosperity, baby boomers are all set to pass on the baton of wealth to the largest generational cohort currently in America, the millennials. It is estimated that millennials would collectively receive approximately $7 trillion from their elders till 2030. This is going to shape up the cryptocurrency space over the next decade, not to mention technology.

4 Stocks to Watch Out For

As with any revolutionary technology, the Lindy effect applies to Bitcoin as well. The Lindy effect is a theory, which states that the future life expectancy of certain non-perishable things such as technology or an idea is proportional to their current age. This means that for every additional period that the technology survives, it ensures a longer life expectancy. This only strengthens the argument that Bitcoins are the future.

In this context, we have selected four stocks that are expected to gain from these factors.

Microsoft Corporation(MSFT - Free Report) became the first major cloud hosting provider to integrate blockchain into its Azure cloud last year. Furthermore, the companys affinity for Bitcoin is a known fact. The tech giant, has in the past, also launched the decentralized identity system on Bitcoin.

The company carries a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and is based out of Redmond, WA. It has an expected earnings growth rate of 18.72% for the current year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the current year has improved 5.4% over the past 60 days.

You can seethe complete list of todays Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM - Free Report) has been one of the early providers of the blockchain technology. Broad-based availability of the IBM Blockchain World Wire a blockchain driven global payments network has driven the companys performance in the past.

The company carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) and is based out of Armonk, NY. It has an expected earnings growth rate of 4.30% for the current year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the current year has improved 1.2% over the past 60 days.

PayPal Holdings, Inc.is another bitcoin-related stock that you must watch. The leader in digital payment process has done well recently to strike a deal with three major bitcoin payment processors, BitPay, GoCoin and Coinbase, to help PayPal merchants accept Bitcoin as a mode of payment.

The company carries a Zacks Rank #3 and is based out of San Jose, CA. It has an expected earnings growth rate of 11.35% for the current year. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the current year has improved 1.4% over the past 60 days.

Social media giant Facebook Inc. (FB - Free Report) is another stock worth taking note of. Facebook currently has a Zacks Rank #3. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for its current-quarter earnings has increased 2.7% over the past 60 days. It has an expected earnings growth rate of 44.79% for the current year.

5 Stocks Set to Double

Each was hand-picked by a Zacks expert as the #1 favorite stock to gain +100% or more in 2020. Each comes from a different sector and has unique qualities and catalysts that could fuel exceptional growth.

Most of the stocks in this report are flying under Wall Street radar, which provides a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor.

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