Monthly Archives: May 2019

30 May 2019

JULIAN ASSANGE FOUND UNRESPONSIVE IN BELMARSH PRISON

JULIAN ASSANGE FOUND UNRESPONSIVE IN BELMARSH PRISON A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a U.K. court Thursday that he was too ill to appear via video link at an extradition hearing about possible transfer to the United States. Lawyer Gareth Peirce told Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London that Assange was “not very well.” The United States is pursuing a range of criminal charges against Assange, including a violation of the Espionage Act. WikiLeaks said in a statement that […]

30 May 2019

Wal Thornhill: Black Hole or Plasmoid?

The Black Hole at the Heart of Astronomy “Astronomical fads have always involved miracle working to some degree, and their discussion in so-called workshops and in the streams of papers that pour into the journals have affinities to the incantations of Macbeth’s witches on the blasted heath.” —Fred Hoyle, Home is where the wind blows. The so-called “queen” of the sciences, cosmology, is founded upon the myth that the weakest force in the universe—gravity—is responsible for forming and shaping galaxies, […]