... always got short changed

Country by country, region by region, media by media, they will find ways to fleece us

I have nothing but utmost respect for those who shed their blood for freedom, unfortunately human history is such that those who died for the cause almost always died in vain

Not because they didn't win the battle - they did

But because whatever victory they have achieved would, one way or another, be completely eroded by politicians

No matter which culture - no matter which era

No matter if the battle took place 2000 years ago or 2000 years in the future, politicians will always be the ultimate victor

You should read the judgements handed down by the extradition court judges in their rulings - they assert that all the allegations against Assange in the European Arrest Warrant and extradition request does indeed qualify as rape under UK law. That Telegraph story is based on what Assanges lawyers said, not what is actual fact.

Read the original ruling here: http://www.theguardian.com/media/interactive/2011/nov/02/julian-assange-extradition-full-judgment

In all the challenges made under "dual criminality" (ie, the fact that the offences must be comparable offences under the executing member state as well as the requesting member state), the judges ruled that "dual criminality" was satisfied under UK law and Assanges challenges were dismissed. The rulings in this regard runs from page 15 to page 32 in the rulings PDF.

Anything that does not fit the pattern is essentially forbidden, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Phage therapy is an alternative to antibiotics, has no side effects and is dirt-cheap. (Literally: Phages can be grown by using local sewage-water, because that water contains exactly those bacteria you want to fight) The problem is that they only work for a very specific strain of bacteria, therefore the phages have to be grown to match the patient's infection and some phages may work only for a few dozen patients. - Far too few to justify making the huge testing necessary for medication.

So phages are de-facto illegal, even though they are risk-free and there is a huge problem with antibiotics and they are the only chance against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

To be fair, this overregulation was imported from the East (think Byzantine Empire, Chinese Empire, etc.) and is not really a Western idea. Nevertheless it is today a feature of Western medicine.

Those main reason 'natives' objected to the construction of the telescope not because of the sacredness of the mount Kea but the lack of a certain incentive --- namely, $$$

Money can move mountains if needed be ... and in this case, as long as someone can pay those 'concerned natives' there will no longer be any objection, nor any protests over 'trampling of sacred ground'

Instead of Viagra, rhino horn's main function in traditional Chinese medicine is much more closer to Tylenol

Rhino horn has never been used as aphrodisiacs in Chinese medicine

As there are hundreds of other ingredients, vast majority of them plant based, such as barley or chrysanthemum, which work much better as fever reducer in traditional Chinese medicine, rhino horns are actually not needed at all

The commercialization of 'health' is no difference from the commercialization of anything else

Just like there are people willing to pay top dollar for Armani suits there are people happy to part their money to purchase things that they think are 'healthy'

Saudi Arabia exploits the situation whereby most of the moslems in many islamic countries are poor

For example - in Pakistan more than 80% of the children can't go to school because their parents simply can't afford to pay their school fees

In order to get their children to study, the poor parents in Pakistan enroll their children in madrassa - Islamic Religious School - financed largely by Saudi oil money

And in the madrassas the children from the age of 5 are inculcated with extremist islamic teachings. By the time they reach their teen years they have had more than 12 years of intensive brainwash, so much so that they are more than willing to die for the 'cause'

And Pakistan is not the only place in the world in which Saudi Arabia is sponsoring the brainwashing campaign for the next generation of islamic terrorists --- countries spanning the world, from Morocco to Nigeria to Kenya to Afghanistan to India to Yemen to Somalia to South Africa to Mali to Indonesia to the Philippines to even the Western nations, the fingerprints of Saudi Arab are everywhere

Talking about typewriters ... China recently executed a typist who leaked sensitive information to foreign spy (or spies)

That only goes to show that there always exist the possibilities of leakage no matter which route it takes