Who will reveal the secrets of governments and Google real agenda now ? What a loss. Google are happy for sure.
Julian Assange arrested in London
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#202> URGENT: Ecuador has illegally terminated Assange political asylum in violation of international law. He was arrested by the British police inside the Ecuadorian embassy minutes ago. Source: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1116273826621480960 Holy moly, this will be interesting! EDIT: If you're interested, here's a video of him being escorted out of the embassy -- https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/111628109…
Of course Ecuador can revoke asylum. It's very common practice around the world if a person's circumstances change and their original country is now safe. Likewise if Ecuador believes that there is no longer a threat to Assange they can revoke it.
He has been a citizen of Ecuador since 2017. That's quite different to only having asylum status.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The governments of half of Europe fold like a cheap suit to the interests of the US intelligence services The governments of most of Western Europe have geopolitical interests strongly allied to the US. > Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian So, all members of SIGINT Seniors Europe except Portugal.
Is it in the interests of European governments for the US government to spy on European governments and citizens? Cool-cool-cool.
I mean, I don't want to go all _Tu quoque_ here, but if you think that's a one-way street then I think you're being a little naive. Examples (in English) from two German news sources:
https://www.dw.com/en/austria-angry-at-germany-over-enormous... https://www.thelocal.de/20170622/germany-spied-on-the-white-...
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd massively disagree with the statement "You don't need to know more than that.", and I'd love to see some sources to back this up. Randomly spewing "facts" with no evidence to back up your claim can be quite damaging.
This was widely reported back when the case was hot. It’s not exactly news. https://www.rawstory.com/2010/12/assange-rape-accuser-cia-ti...
Seriously?
Quote: "While in Cuba, Ardin worked with the Las damas de blanco (the Ladies in White), a feminist anti-Castro group.
Professor Michael Seltzer pointed out that the group is led by Carlos Alberto Montaner who is reportedly connected to the CIA."
That's like five degrees of Kevin Bacon...
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
America could have just as easily extradited him from the UK as from Sweden.
More easily. The UK has extradited people to the US on questionable grounds before. I don't think Sweden has.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Ahmed_Agiza_an...
and as context, albeit very long ago, I might aswell mention the most known case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_extradition_of_Baltic_...
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#206The comments here disgust me. People here used to have some principles, now there's so many people just repeating establishment talking points.
You should assume by now that agenda pushers are covering most places on the internet that have some influence over the public. I truly hope somewhere in the future people will look on these people as heroes of journalism and protectors of public knowledge. "He skipped bail so he should be arrested". No one can seriously be this dead in the brain... Staying in the UK which is a bitch state of the US who wants him gon…
Assange is what actual journalist looks like. Mass media are there just to repeat the "intelligence community consensus", not to tell people the truth.
After Lusitania, Gulf of Tonkin, babies out of incubators, WMDs, Russiagate, they still wonder why no one takes them seriously, and why are people looking for alternatives.
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#207Why nobody demand YouTube facebook or twitter to be censored ? There is so much sex and violence ?
Why every other social media loose they domains ..
Sounds like Google Facebook and Twitter is working with governments and sing like a rat in cheese.
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What crimes did he commit? Honest question. I heard that someone accused him of being a rapist but then dropped the charges so I guess it was false. What else is there?
What you've heard is false. The investigation was dropped simply because there was no way to proceed with the investigation with him still hiding away in the embassy. The investigation will be reopened if he returns to Sweden before August 2020 when the statute of limitations expires for the minor rape allegation. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39973864
That's ridiculous reasoning, if there was evidence he could be convicted without ever being interviewed or being present.
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At this point, his "crime" is simply evading arrest. It will be interesting to see what they charge him with to justify a seven year siege.
> It will be interesting to see what they charge him with to justify a seven year siege. I think only Assange and Ecuador really had it in their power to alter the length of the "siege", I don't think the Met Police were going to simply say "whatevs" once he had skipped bail.
You think wrong. The police decides all the time to call off operations. There is a difference between dropping the charges (that one they probably wouldn't do) and stopping the 24/7 patrolling of the embassy.
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#210It will be interesting to see if the US tries to extradite him. It's actually not 100% clear that he's broken any US laws in any ways that they aren't also routinely broken by newspapers. There's a few avenues: 1) Publishing classified information. Easy to show that he did this but a very difficult path to go down when American newspapers do this all the time. 2) Conspiracy to commit espionage. Probably the most like…
I wish Australia would step up and actually defend one of their citizens.