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Mythopoeika said:
Assange is stuffed now.
7 years in the embassy - that could almost be considered a prison sentence in itself.
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I've been reading up on this latest development and a couple of different commentators--the more 'independent' types--have been speculating that Assange might have gone a bit doolally and his rather recklessly awkward behaviour within the embassy is one product of this.

Hard to know at this stage whether it's a smear or the wisp of a nascent defence.
 
I expect that Assange was tossed out brcause someone paid off Ecuador, there may be a been a waiting line, but if you've read anything about him, there's more than one disturbed narcissist in the world news these days.
 
Yithian said:
I've been reading up on this latest development and a couple of different commentators--the more 'independent' types--have been speculating that Assange might have gone a bit doolally and his rather recklessly awkward behaviour within the embassy is one product of this.

Hard to know at this stage whether it's a smear or the wisp of a nascent defence.
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I can believe it. He seems to have aged beyond his years.
Maybe they'll sort out his health issues in jail.
 
"The Embassy of Ecuador in central London is breathing a sigh of relief today after what it described as a seven year Airbnb nightmare. “You just don’t know who you’re going to get.”

Staff listed a spare room in the Embassy figuring it would be easy money given the desirable central London location, though they only intended to rent it on weekends during the summer.

“Instead this guy arrives and refuses to ever leave.”

The troublesome guest also violated a number of rules, including bringing a cat when the listing clearly said no pets.
“Though to be fair we quite liked the cat. It was the owner that was the problem.”

The Embassy is still waiting for payment, though they don’t have high hopes. “Frankly we’re just happy to be rid of him, especially as we think he might be in some kind of trouble.”

Airbnb dismissed the complaints, saying compared to the average Airbnb guest, this one was not bad at all."

http://www.breakingburgh.com/ecuadorian-embassy-vows-never-to-list-room-on-airbnb-again/

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
"The Embassy of Ecuador in central London is breathing a sigh of relief today after what it described as a seven year Airbnb nightmare. “You just don’t know who you’re going to get.”

Staff listed a spare room in the Embassy figuring it would be easy money given the desirable central London location, though they only intended to rent it on weekends during the summer.

“Instead this guy arrives and refuses to ever leave.”

The troublesome guest also violated a number of rules, including bringing a cat when the listing clearly said no pets.
“Though to be fair we quite liked the cat. It was the owner that was the problem.”

The Embassy is still waiting for payment, though they don’t have high hopes. “Frankly we’re just happy to be rid of him, especially as we think he might be in some kind of trouble.”

Airbnb dismissed the complaints, saying compared to the average Airbnb guest, this one was not bad at all."

http://www.breakingburgh.com/ecuadorian-embassy-vows-never-to-list-room-on-airbnb-again/

maximus otter
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He'd probably still be there if he hadn't been playing the bongos so loud and all those boulder burns in the carpet.
 
While I no longer look upon Assange with starry-eyed wonder and accept that he leaked some materiel unnecessarily there are broader issues to be considered.

U.S. prosecutors’ indictment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could trigger a protracted fight over press freedom in the United States, warn First Amendment experts.

The Department of Justice is preparing to extradite Assange, whom British authorities arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Thursday, to the U.S. to face a charge of criminal computer hacking conspiracy. In a seven-page indictment unsealed Thursday, federal prosecutors allege that Assange assisted former Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning in cracking a password on U.S. Department of Defense computers in order to obtain classified documents WikiLeaks later published.

Although the indictment, filed in a U.S. District Court in Virginia, focuses on Assange and computer hacking, the bigger issue is that his case raises fundamental questions about press freedom. If Assange is convicted based on what is shown in the indictment, it could give the government a dangerous precedent to use against journalists in the future, First Amendment experts say.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/juli...cid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__041219
 
ramonmercado said:
While I no longer look upon Assange with starry-eyed wonder and accept that he leaked some materiel unnecessarily there are broader issues to be considered.

U.S. prosecutors’ indictment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could trigger a protracted fight over press freedom in the United States, warn First Amendment experts.

The Department of Justice is preparing to extradite Assange, whom British authorities arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Thursday, to the U.S. to face a charge of criminal computer hacking conspiracy. In a seven-page indictment unsealed Thursday, federal prosecutors allege that Assange assisted former Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning in cracking a password on U.S. Department of Defense computers in order to obtain classified documents WikiLeaks later published.

Although the indictment, filed in a U.S. District Court in Virginia, focuses on Assange and computer hacking, the bigger issue is that his case raises fundamental questions about press freedom. If Assange is convicted based on what is shown in the indictment, it could give the government a dangerous precedent to use against journalists in the future, First Amendment experts say.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/juli...cid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__041219
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For once I find myself agreeing with Diane Abbot over Assange's current situation ..

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...extradition/ar-BBVROh9?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=TSHDHP
 
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Julian assange’s arrest is meant to send a message to the American people , especially journalists , “ to toe the line “ or “ pay the price “ .
 
I somehow feel for that guy.
Love reading his Wikipedias.

People used to laugh at these things many years ago and never took any of this serious.

The Internet was a joke together with passwords ect.

If anyone broke through, it was hard luck and who was the daft b*gger who allowed his stuff to roam?
 
This is masterful (click for larger version):
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And from my Twitter feed, also ironic:

[B]furrygirl[/B]‏ @[B]furrygirl[/B]

Imagine being a megalomaniac who’s been arrested after a decade at the center of multiple world-shaping international political scandals and legal cases and discovering all people actually care about is who will feed your cat and how your cat is doing. Absolute legend, that cat.
 
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That's not really skateboarding. That's faffing around with a friend.
 
John Pilger writes about Assange's travails.

... Imagine Tony Blair dragged from his multi-million pound Georgian home in Connaught Square, London, in handcuffs, for onward dispatch to the dock in The Hague. By the standard of Nuremberg, Blair’s “paramount crime” is the deaths of a million Iraqis. Assange’s crime is journalism: holding the rapacious to account, exposing their lies and empowering people all over the world with truth.

The shocking arrest of Assange carries a warning for all who, as Oscar Wilde wrote, “sew the seeds of discontent [without which] there would be no advance towards civilisation”. The warning is explicit towards journalists. What happened to the founder and editor of WikiLeaks can happen to you on a newspaper, you in a TV studio, you on radio, you running a podcast.

Assange’s principal media tormentor, the Guardian, a collaborator with the secret state, displayed its nervousness this week with an editorial that scaled new weasel heights. The Guardian has exploited the work of Assange and WikiLeaks in what its previous editor called “the greatest scoop of the last 30 years”. The paper creamed off WikiLeaks’ revelations and claimed the accolades and riches that came with them.
With not a penny going to Julian Assange or to WikiLeaks, a hyped Guardian book led to a lucrative Hollywood movie. The book’s authors, Luke Harding and David Leigh, turned on their source, abused him and disclosed the secret password Assange had given the paper in confidence, which was designed to protect a digital file containing leaked US embassy cables.

With Assange now trapped in the Ecuadorean embassy, Harding joined the police outside and gloated on his blog that “Scotland Yard may get the last laugh”. The Guardian has since published a series of falsehoods about Assange, not least a discredited claim that a group of Russians and Trump’s man, Paul Manafort, had visited Assange in the embassy. The meetings never happened; it was fake. ...

https://countercurrents.org/2019/04/13/john-pilger-the-assange-arrest-is-a-warning-from-history/
 
BBC at it again.

The BBC has broadcast seven apparent fabrications about Julian Assange in less than three minutes. In an interview, BBC North America editor Jon Sopel failed to meaningfully challenge Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno on any of his accusations against the former WikiLeaks editor. That’s despite Moreno having a track record as a bullshit artist to the point where he U-turned on the central thrust of his entire governmental programme.

1) ‘WikiLeaks hasn’t published on Russia’
In the interview, the Ecuadorian president alleged that WikiLeaks has never released “information about [Russia]”. And Sopel didn’t remotely challenge the claim. Yet a casual search on the WikiLeaks website reveals dozens of pages revealing negative information about the Kremlin. For example, in 2017, WikiLeaks published documents exposing Russian surveillance companies. And in 2015, WikiLeaks released emails claiming to show “Russia’s Master Plan to Break the Trans-Atlantic Alliance”, which US outlet the Wall Street Journal picked up. ...

https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/20...n-apparent-fabrications-about-julian-assange/
 
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